A WEREWOLF IN GERMANY?

Two hikers in Germany came across and photographed what they believed to be a werewolf in the fabled Harz mountains.

Looking more like the missing link rather than a lycanthrope, it stared them down for ten minutes while they looked on in a startling "confrontation". Is is just another staged cryptid shot -- a 60's throwback? Read on and you decide!

The existence of an apocryphal individual rumored to live in the forests of a German mountain range has seemingly been confirmed after a pair of hikers stumbled upon the so-called 'wolf man' and actually managed to photograph him. The remarkable picture (seen below) was reportedly taken this past Tuesday evening in the town of Blankenburg as Gina Weiss and a friend were en route to explore some popular sandstone caves on the country's Harz mountain range. The excursion took an astounding turn when the pair arrived at their destination and quickly realized that they were not alone. "When we reached the sand caves, we saw the wolf man," she later recalled, "he stood up high on one of the caves and held a long wooden stick like a lance in his arm."

According to Weiss, the ten-minute-long sighting saw the 'wolf man' and the hikers locked in an eerie stare down wherein "he wouldn't take his eyes off of us." She went on to note that the mysterious stranger "said nothing" and "looked dirty like a Stone Age man from a history book." Despite the undoubtedly unsettling circumstances, Weiss was quick-witted enough to snap two photographs of the individual who first popped up on the radar of local authorities around five years ago when bewildered residents began reporting a person dressed as a wolf roaming around the mountain range.

Something of an urban legend in the area, it is suspected that the peculiar figure has lived in the forests of the Harz mountains for at least the last five years as previous searches by authorities have yielded fairly well-crafted camps believed to have been created by the 'wolf man.' Be that as it may, the presence of the enigmatic individual has largely been a matter of conjecture since reports of the 'wolf man' were limited to only eyewitness accounts. However, thanks to Weiss' photos, it would appear that the tales are indeed true. To date, authorities have expressed little interest in forcing him out of his forest dwelling, though that may change now that there appears to be no doubt that he exists.

[SOURCE: Coast 2 Coast AM.]