Trevor Collins

They fully, truly believe that they're becoming animalistic and in this case, a wolf.

So ultimately, as we kind of come to a close, werewolves have stood the test of time as far back as the epic of Gilgamesh to recent tellings like Underworld or Twilight or anything in pop culture.

I think we've seen it all over the place.

Yeah, I think the big thing for me as like why werewolves aren't real is because a lot of the tales talk about how they become these animalistic creatures, right?

With just raw instincts and no sense of what they're doing a lot of times.

And so we'd have a lot of reports of this stuff happening.

you know you can't say like these werewolves they're returning you turn to these animalistic things and you have no control of yourself and your terror you're causing terror and all that and then there's no reports of that stuff it contradicts itself truly and so i think that's the that's the big thing there that's a great point you know how many stories do we have of mothman bigfoot yeti any of the big cryptids

when they're just kind of going about it in the woods or just kind of living their life we're talking about a creature that would be seen in well broad moonlight attacking people it would be inextricably meshed with crime sure could you say well there's so many killings out there that haven't been solved and have no suspects could you say that that's a werewolf yeah totally but would the body tell a story yes probably very much so yes very much

So, you know, a fraction of me, that 0.01% will always believe that there's some sort of door that we can peek through and see the other side in some interesting ways.

Werewolves, though, I don't know.

I think after exploring the history and its evolution of how stories were based on real people and stories begot fear and then fear begot reality and reality got more stories and we watched this.

Yes.

i love you get to see this evolution of a cryptid of folklore yeah and it is incredible like how ancient it is that's what it is right like essentially a cryptid no yeah essentially yeah just the one the famous oldest ones i would suppose pretty much yeah dang let me think about it like that

I just feel like, yeah, Cryptid.

It almost feels like diminishing because, you know, Cryptid is always the, you know, your Sasquatches and things, but or Loch Ness Monster, your Jersey Devil, Chupacabra, which we've covered all of them, Task Force, if you're interested.

But no, this one, this one's just a famous one.

Still a Cryptid in a way.

But that wraps up our exploration of werewolves.

I'm glad we did this one.

You know, there's a lot of heaviness when it comes to discussing true crime.