Jul 4

Lakewood Lycan Investigation

phantomsandmonsters.com posted this recent article and I wanted to give credit to JC Johnson. See link below.

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The details:
I was at a friend’s house in the Lakewood suburb of Denver on Saturday 3/14/15. This house is surrounded by typical Denver suburbs but does butt up right next to an area of open space. She lives on a very large lot (acre and a half possibly) with an 8 ft solid stone type fence along the back of the property and a shorter 5 ft iron fence that divides the front yard from the back. She had explained that she has coyote problems there so she’s very careful when letting her dog out at night. He’s a very old pug. A bit deaf and can’t see to well either. I can hear the coyotes when I’m there and there are rabbits everywhere. We regularly find evidence of rabbit kills around the yard. So when she takes her dog out at night she takes a very large flashlight (twice the size of a large maglite) and shines it around the yard first and then lets him out but stays right next to him the whole time with the flashlight on. She also insisted I do the same. I grew up in the desert and have seen plenty of coyotes and they are pretty small and typically cowards. I thought she was being overly paranoid about it but it may have saved my life on Saturday night.

The encounter:
I went out, explored the yard and shined the flashlight around the yard all over the area we would be. We don’t take them all that far from the back door to use the bathroom since her dog is fairly disabled these days. I saw nothing and let the dogs out with me. I kept very close to them because I promised I would. A small but important detail here and one that I feel may have saved me. Part of the iron fence between the front and back yard butts up to the driveway.

I was standing around 20 yards from the back door and around 10 yards from the iron fence. I had my back to the iron fence and the dogs close. This is where I feel like I sound weird but here goes. I heard what to me sounded like hoof beats running extremely fast up from behind me. In my head I had just enough time to think why am I hearing hooves??? I knew a horse made no sense but I know the sound of hooves. I knew an animal was coming straight at me. I turned expecting a coyote even though the sound made no sense. As I turned around to the fence, something I can hardly describe had just launched off the ground from the driveway. It was moving extremely fast and cleared the fence easily. I was more like it had jumped from farther back in the driveway so it’s trajectory would land it closer to us at that speed. As i said, we were only 10 yards from the fence but this thing was just moving so fast.

I would guess I had about 1 second tops to register the sound I heard (thanks to the concrete on the driveway) and realize something was happening. Since I expected a coyote as I turned around all I could think of was to stick out my arms and make myself look bigger as well as kind of shield the dogs near me. I screamed “NO” as loud as I could an caught this thing in the flashlight beam as I turned around. It was coming straight at me and I had a split second to step aside slightly as it landed just a few feet from me. It was still going full speed when it hit the ground. Like fast predator speed. It touched down quickly on all fours but immediately rose back up to two legs and continued running at full speed toward the back fence. My dog gave a very short chase (just a few steps really) but could never keep up at that speed. This thing continued running straight at the back stone fence very fast. The back fence is around 30 yards from where I was standing when this took place and 8 ft tall. I heard it’s steps moving away and followed it with the flashlight. I did not actually see it jump the back fence but I lost it in the confusion heading that direction almost too quickly to have stopped. Also, I didn’t hear any steps through the wide gravel border surrounding the fence. I can only assume it cleared the back fence as easily as it cleared the front even though it is much higher.

The creature:
I’ll start by saying that I have been into the outdoors all my life. I grew up in a smallish desert town and my family has 2 cabins in the mountains. Most of my free time revolves around the outdoors and I have seen all types of wildlife. Bears, cougars, wolves, coyote, etc.. I mention those because they are predators. This was a predator also but nothing like these animals. This was so unlike anything I have ever seen it’s actually very hard to describe but I’ll do my best.

I was expecting a coyote as I turned around. The combination of expecting a coyote but seeing something so completely alien, and the fact that it was moving so fast and coming straight at me made it very hard to take in as it flew towards me. It was very large and pitch black. It was not long haired but I would say a thin layer of hair over black skin or possibly a full layer of short black hair? I thought I heard hoof beats but I never did get a clear look at the feet. I would assume it was actually claws on concrete.

As it was coming over the fence it also seemed bigger than when it landed. I would not say it had wings but it felt like extra skin?

It hit he ground right behind us and exactly behind where I had just been. That’s where I got good light on it. It was still moving so fast. It touched down and immediately stood back up while running. It’s head was lower than mine but still quite tall. Over 5 feet. It was not standing totally erect like a person so it was probably even taller and it was also still running.I barely looked down on its face and I’m 5’10. It hit the ground with enough weight that I felt it’s weight vibrate through my feet as well as the first couple of heavy steps it took as it passed me. The extra skin (wings possible?) made it very hard to judge weight but the body was large.

It was almost coal black. To the point that the main body almost seemed to absorb my flashlight beam as it ran off. Like a matte black. As it stood up the legs seemed to be backwards jointed like a dog. Some of the only color I saw on it was a bit of brown running down the legs. Picture Doberman coloring.It was very very close (I’m still surprised we didn’t touch) and the legs seemed very strong. I could see muscle definition almost like a mans legs. The main body was thick but because of the skin thing which I’m still having hard time describing. A close comparison would be like a cape almost. There was very little definition around the front. I saw the arms sticking out but there was nowhere close to the definition in the legs.The arms were much smaller and again, I did not get a good look at the hands.

The back was broad but the anatomy was very hard to process with the skin.

The head looked like a combination of things. Much like a wolf but thicker and less elongated like a bear scull. Canine teeth were visible. It was already passing me as it continued running and was looking over at me. Teeth were definitely bared. It did seem to have a lighter (grey) colored streak along its jaw. Really the only other color I saw on its body. The eyes looked yellow in my flashlight. I don’t know if they were reflecting of if it was the true color since we were so close. I feel like they were reflecting but I can’t be positive.

I had a dog within a few feet on either side of me. It landed and ran between myself and one of the dogs but did not try at all to snatch it nor did it reach out to grab me. The dog would have been easy pickings at that speed. I have the distinct impression that it was coming for me and I just happened to move out of the way and it was already passing too fast to grab.

This thing made no sound at all except for the hoof type sound of feet on the concrete and the steps through the yard. On the grass it was almost silent except for the first few steps closest to me.

I called my parents in the morning and the best way I could describe it with normal animals was wolf, bear, bat, and possibly monkey but mostly monkey because it was on 2 legs.

This whole thing has me feeling pretty shaken. Once this thing disappeared, I was alone in the dark with just the flashlight but I had already lost site of it. I wasn’t sure if it had even left the yard and might be circling around. I have worked in clubs in my life and have been stabbed and also shot at but I have never been more scared in my life than in the silence after this thing passed me. I was absolutely terrified as I tried to wrangle the two dogs to the house. I slowly backed up and ran the flashlight all around me. I wanted to run but I couldn’t leave the dogs out there. I’m not a religious person and never have been but to be totally honest, as I backed towards the house that scared, the first thought that came to mind was that I had seen a demon. It sounded crazy to me but I just couldn’t process what had just happened on any rational level. I still can’t. I don’t believe in demons and I don’t think it was one, but a couple days ago I didn’t believe I might have an encounter with an unknown creature like this either.

It scared me so bad that I can’t even open a door at night without getting full body goosebumps and even looking out windows in the dark has me uncomfortable. It’s strange to say and irrational but I’m currently scared of the dark. My body is physically reacting uncontrollably.

I would appreciate a response from you ASAP. I really need to talk to somebody about this and I don’t know who to talk to without being judged as crazy. Also, this thing is still in Denver or possibly coming from the nearby foothills into town. That house is not all that far from open mountain terrain but still several miles. If nothing else, could you put me in touch with somebody local to speak with?

Thanks for any advice you may be able to give. I don’t know where to start here. Something like this is way out of my wheelhouse.

Sincere Regards, E

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Credit:

JC Johnson

http://www.phantomsandmonsters.com/2015/07/update-lakewood-lycan-investigation.html

36 Responses to “Lakewood Lycan Investigation”

  1. JOHN E

    O my God thats crazy stuff …so much out there whats going on why so many encounters and so weird its like number 8 kinds or types now….so there must be more RIGHT…

    • Patrick N

      I believe this persons account: there is way to much detail and emotion for it to be fake but……..
      wtf. I swear alians must be genetically engineering more and more of a variety of Hammer Horror monsters just to amuse themselves. I mean like six different kinds of squatches…several varieties of puckwudgie….several kinds of dogmen including apparently the flying squirrel dogman.Lizardman. etc etc I mean wtf??????

  2. craig b

    Holy crap….lived in lakewood colorado for 10 years. i’m wondering where the heck this could have been. I lived in the condo’s on Alameda Blvd, the ones that are right at the trailhead for Green Mountain/Hayden open space. I’m thinking it was there or very close to the Bear Creek open space. Man that is a crazy story. There is a ton of room for very large critters to roam there. Just 250 yards from Green Mountain park I have often seen 10-30 head herds of Elk (right on Dakota Ridge part of Mathews Winters park)…and just another 2 miles away on Lookout Mountain I saw a massive mountain lion stalking a herd of Elk. I was stunned how large the lion was and how long its tail was. There is more than enough wildlife to support large predators.

    • Susan P

      Living in Denver now, lived up Bear Creek Canyon for 20 years. This is just about 5 miles from Bear Creek Lake which they talked about in the film. We had three Cougars that were tagged living in the peaks just behind the house and plenty of bears. Further up and over one canyon is Baily Co. Which has had many Bigfoot sightings. I could walk out of my home and know right off if it was safe to hike. I have never seen anything and I am happy about that. But could feel it in the air.

  3. Papa - Yeti

    Thank you for posting this encounter / attack; Wes, as I had mentioned this was an attack that’s over the top, I hope that all of our members here who are coping with PTSD, are doing ok after reading of this encounter / attack, and I am still hoping the young man of this attack does contact you here at Sasquatch chronicles and when he does if he does, all of us here can give him all of our support that we can. As Our member Tracy G knows and understands, as I understand, myself living / coping with PTSD for 52 years now, it is that survivors need all the blessing and support we can help them with. I also want us all to understand that like with survivors of tragic car wrecks or house fire, firefights and bombing in War, of where they’ve lost their families and loved one, these types of horrific event can leave then with PTSD, and what many do not understand of PTSD, is it can manifest in unbearable Severe body and mind pain, on an extreme pain level.

    -That’s hard to believe for some, but surviving these encounters is not just a matter of the hellish night mares alone, it’s unbearable. I myself and my family know, for I have been coping with living in severe physical pain in varying degrees of it daily for three decades now. No sympathy for myself needed please. But I believe without Sasquatch Chronicles, and everyone here that is Sasquatch Chronicles, we really needs to be here for survivors of all tragedies and encounters.

    -This is why I ask Wes to pressure this above Attack case, because the Young man really needs our help, and I do hope he come that contacts Wes and becomes a member. Tracy I am deeply sorry if this case triggers your PTSD. But I do hope you understand the need for us to help outers to cope, when there is very little outside support to cope outside the Sasquatch / Dogman community. Again Wes, thank you.

    • Dawn O

      I agree, this is the place to help others. This story sends shivers down my spine!!!! There is a case of a dogman at the Oologah Lake area that I read about a few months ago, and I never knew that something like that existed around me. I live only 4 miles west of the lake and go there a lot to take photos and just to relax. The incident that happened was closer to the east side of the lake, although, they won’t identify the exact location. We have a lot of trees, hills, river, streams, creeks, etc so it doesn’t surprise me too much. I urge this young man to contact Wes for sure. I felt better revealing my story because around my small town, no one hardly believes me. I’m glad there’s this support from this group!

  4. Papa - Yeti

    I do not yet on any of Davids’ (Paulides’s) books, if anyone does, can they state the number of missing within the Denver region? There has to one or more type of Predators taking so many humans. And how many humans, children, adults, in other countries go missing for which is blamed upon other people in the forests, deserts and swamps? With great speed and great stealth so come and so strike the Monsters of the light. Those whom are so very fortunate to have never encountered them may remain happy skeptics, but those who are survivors not only know as confirmed, but are so very lucky to live on an finish their life span with no further creature encounters / attacks. We all belief in God, for some it has always been and will always be so within their hearts and minds, for the others God is only a reality with their last moments of life, spoken, called upon with their final breaths.

  5. Debbie C

    Flying Squirrels, bats have that extra skin
    while reaching for the ground they seem to be flying.
    Special type of the furry membrane (called patagia), stretched between wrists and ankles, serves as a parachute which supports squirrel while jumping from tree to tree.
    Perhaps this is what the extra skin was she described on the creature?

    Folklore, religion, all describe these creatures as demons.
    Maybe these are not demons but some strange unknown animals?
    I know demons, ghosts, spirits are real, I have witness them.
    I have no religion I worship. Anything is possible.

    I feel bad for this witness, I do believe what was witness to be real.
    If I came into contact with this thing I would relocate my location
    as soon as possible.

    • Terry W W

      That an interesting point. Remember the encounter where the lady went out to the truck to get something for her boyfriend and something was in the bed of the truck. She screamed very loud and whatever it was jumped out of the truck, but she kept saying it “flew” along distance before it landed. She kept saying it flew.

  6. Kenneth M

    Dogman! I suspect a baboon like primate. If you look up pictures of the variations of baboons you kind of think they resemble dogs p even when the walk and the legs. Can easily imagine an advanced variant of that primate being a dogman.

  7. Papa - Yeti

    we would all have to agree to respect his wished of non disclosure, he must remain anonymous perhaps even a altered voice but one super clear and void of any distortion so we could understand all he says. Old time Radio props worked well. such as pinching off the nose with swimmer nose clips.

  8. Papa - Yeti

    I was freaking out when I first read this attack, it set off my PTSD and my encounter happened 52 years ago. I am still freaked because there was so much well documented information. and this attack raise the bar to a much higher level. this creature to me is now far more frightening than the Sasquatch.

  9. Terry W W

    Like Michael K said, maybe it was a PigLizard. Lol! This was interesting. Big Time Dogman encounter. He had a lot of detail to share with us. He would be worth interviewing Wes.

  10. Papa - Yeti

    We cannot say that flight is impossible. Nature has proven it is for thousands of years. And although this creature did not show what its excessive flesh was about I am going with it guides verses that it flaps, as if it flaps like a bird or a bat then it must possess the Skeleton / bones within its wings to support the stresses to achieve lift. If skin stretches with arms out, or if the arms come out and swing up over its head, then it would like the flying lizard then thick flesh will support gluided flight if the aerodynamics are right. but then, it may just be excessive flesh and nothing more… Those legs have to very powerful to bond up like that. one thing id for sure, that creature can run very fast, and it attacks from behind with brute force. this attack raises the bar on the aggressive Predator level.

  11. Dovie D

    To me it sounds like a dogma . But wow that would put my stomach in my threat. I’m really surprised he or the dog wasn’t snatched up. Thank goodness he lived to tell.

  12. DONNA G

    When he said that as he turned around, he saw that this thing had already launched off the ground and was coming over the fence towards him, I got a bad case of chill bumps. I think if I lived near there or experience and encounter,I would buy an old bank vault and rehab it into a house. i could not feel safe living at that location again.Good one Wes. Thanks for the nightmares.

  13. Robert W

    I agree with Carol – sounds like a Dogman…would be great to have him on the show! I am always impressed with how much fear and anxiety are associated with these encounters. Folks seem to suffer from PTSD in a way – and I think Wes’s forum of having people talk about their encounters really seems to help. Many of the guests say that they appreciate talking about it – and “getting it off their chest.” Good job!

  14. Jan W

    I think Tracey’s is episode 76 toward the end. One of the most chilling encounters ever, one which would be very difficult to recover from, to say the least.

  15. Papa - Yeti

    Tracy G’s encounter is told in detail and in full, upon Episode 75 – just past the middle – But take the time to listen to and enjoy the entire Episode [75] I believe that there are two or three encounter upon Episode -75.

  16. Papa - Yeti

    I don’t care for the fact that this creature had a fast recovery and escape plan [its thinking processes are too damn close our own capabilities, and being that it’s a very intelligent apex predator scares me. All those dead bunny remains around the property, I don’t know when it planned its attack, but most likely it was premeditated. My thought {it perhaps saw the tree canopy illuminated from the flashlight below as it was hunting, (high lumens. ‘Dinner – Call’ ) [Question for victim – (did you at all point the flashlight upward into the trees prior to the attack and had the dogs barked?) either would have told the beats the dogs and [she? (‘home –owner’ ] was out in the yard.

    35 mph is fast. But they have been clocked running faster.
    Form reported Encounters: Two policemen [Texas Canine unit] upon a remote Texas highway paced a huge creature running quadrupedal – Paced lead of both canine unit full sized Chevy Tahoe at a speed of: “80 mph”

    A car full of teens had a bipedal running Dogman chase their speeding car at: 60 – 65 mph.

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