Wyoming Creatures: Man/bats and man/wolfs?

I was reading a bit about theutahbigfoothunter's trip to Skinwalker Ranch. I had never heard of this place, so I googled it. First on the list was a Wiki page:
Skinwalker Ranch - Wiki. I WANNA GO! lol... anyways, I got to the part about "Cattle Mutilations and Strange Creatures" and proceeded to tell my GF about a creature I'd seen about 16 years ago.

I was 16, cruising around at night in 'the blacks' (a small area where people used to go 4-wheeling, now developed area). This is in east Cheyenne, between the area known as Sun Valley, and Lincoln Valley Auto Salvage. I was driving in an easterly direction on a dirt road and saw some kind of wolf-like creature in my headlights approx. 60yds in front of me. First thought was "coyote", but it wasn't. It seriously looked like a werewolf from the movies. I only saw it for a couple seconds. The thing glanced halfway at me and my lights reflected on it's eyes, which were bright yellow glow, and it ran off over a hill, but it scared the crap outa me! I rolled up both windows and locked my doors, and started turning my truck (76 K5 Blazer) to see if I could catch it on the headlights again. Didn't see it again, and I wasn't about to go out any farther... like I said, I was scared s***less! I ended up turning around to the nearest neighborhood by a couple streetlamps, unlocked my door, and bailed out and immediatly scrambled to the ground to look under the truck, much like bailing off your bed as a kid, leaping halfway across the room and jumping down to look under the bed just to prove there is nothing really there. I still laugh about it... I had to look crazy to anyone in that neighborhood who saw me.

So, to best describe what I saw was like a wolf, but it was like a movie werewolf. If it had stood up straight, it would've been about 5 feet tall. It wasn't completely covered with hair, if any at all. I remember it had a doglike face with the cheek tufts and shorter pointy ears, as well as a snout like a dog. It's arms were like an urangatan, and it's hind legs were shorter than human... like I said, like the movie werewolfs, except it wasn't all huge in the shoulders and neck like you see in alot of the comic werewolves.

I grew up in Wyoming, and my mom and grandma never really talked about stuff like this much... if 'UFO' was mentioned, they would reply in casual manner. Ghosts were referred to in the same manner. It's just something that's normal, and until ya get to a site like ATS, you don't really think about how exciting it really is. This is why I kinda forgot about it until tonight.

Now, what was creepy is that I figured she (GF) would probably just find it as an interesting story... instead, she proceeds to tell me about 2 separate friends who didn't even know eachother telling her about a giant bat/man creature south of town. Needless to say, the hair on my arms were standing on end! That is exactly how this creature stood... like a giant bat! The creature I saw wasn't hairy all over (although I do remember it having hair on the outer portion of the arms and on it's cheeks). In my mind I remember it being kind of leathery.

So, we proceeded to look online to see if there's been other reports of such a creature in Wyoming. So far, really haven't turned up much, although Wyoming has some really odd cryptozoological stories, including Bigfoot. She found this link:

Wyoming Bigfoot Sightings

From various Indian ranch hands involved he received the following information: 1. The creature was a biped about 4 to 51/2 feet tall. 2. It was covered completely by long reddish orange hair. 3. It possessed very wide shoulders and exceptionally long arms. 4. The creature named the "Howler" by the Indian observers, reported that the creature emitted loud yowlings not unlike a wolf. 5. The creature possessed unbelievable speed and strength. It had out run a quarter horse while being chased by ranch hands, as it carried off a two year old heifer under its left arm. Due to the creatures small stature, this amazed the cowboys even more as the cow, being still alive, had fought and kicked, dragging its feet upon the ground during the chase. It was witnessed that the creature had killed the heifer with a single blow to the head as it ran off. 6. The Howler, seemed to kill wantonly and for pleasure without consuming the kills for the most part. The carcasses of cattle, horses, sheep, deer, antelope and numerous small animals had been found killed by crushing, blows to the head or broken necks, surrounded by the distinctive man like, barefoot prints. 7. The creature showed amazing intelligence at eluding traps, the disarming of such and the stealing of baits.

ALL bigfoot reports I've seen indicate 6'5" to an amazing 12' tall! My conviction is that some creatures are just being thrown into the Bigfoot category.

My first google search was for giant bats. I came across this:
Random Eruptions: Man Bat tale tops 2006 for weirdness[Wisconsin]
It is called the "Beast of Briggs Road".
Same story, a bit more info: Man Bat Sighted by LaCrosse Area Man and Son

Here's an article about the Orang Bati: The Orang Bati - Indonesia's Winged Man

I think I may have seen another one while on a hunting trip in the mountains. I saw something like a wolf run across the road ahead. Being in the woods, I only got a glimpse of it, so I cannot say for sure. At first I thought it was a small blackbear, or a wolf, but we don't have either of them in the area I was (just north of the Independence Canyon area). Besides, it's waist was way too small to be either, as well. However, being that it was night, I saw it in the headlights as it darted across the road, I cannot say for sure.

I just went back and actually read the part about Skinwalker Ranch on the 'strange creatures'... not sure I'd wanna go there now, lol.

Numerous encounters with unidentified or strangely behaving creatures allegedly occurred on the ranch. In some tales, the creatures were reminiscent of dogs or hyenas. The first unusual encounter the Gormans had on the ranch involved what appeared to be a very large wolf on one of their first days after moving to the ranch. The animal was not aggressive towards the family, but when it attempted to capture a calf, Mr. Gorman shot at the creature. The shots had no noticeable effect and the creature eventually left the homestead. Gorman later found a hunk of flesh from the animal that smelled of burning sulfur or rotten meat.

That really freaks me out. There was an occassional whiff of rot out in the blacks. I remember that pretty clearly. I never thought about the creature I saw and the smell being related. Oddly, though, some have reported something similar to that concerning Bigfoot, but it's usually 'smells like a skunk', not rotting flesh, or sulphur.

I could keep looking stuff up from wyoming all night long, but instead I'll just ask if anyone else has heard of either a giant man/bat, or a wolf-like creature as I saw (Honestly, I could've seen a man/bat... it ran off on all fours like you would imagine a bat to if it chose not to fly, and I couldn't locate it with my headlights after I locked my doors...) Anyone? I know this wasn't a bigfoot, and, again, I think alot more of these have been sighted and just classified as 'another bigfoot sighting'.

I'll try to answer questions as I can. I think I got all the detail I can remember in here. I can tell you one thing for sure... thinking about the thing still scares me. Even some of the ghosts around here don't scare me that bad, and I know one that does it on purpose! (I think he's just a grumpy ghost, though.)

I have been watching the Gable video... it's scary. That thing moves kinda like what I saw, but what I saw just seemed to 'trot' out of sight compared to the way that 'dogman' charged... also, what I saw didn't seem to have nearly that amount of hair. What I saw was dark gray/black. That video did give me the creeps, though... same as when I saw what I did.

Also saw a mexican video with a Chupacabra corpse...
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Around 2010-2015 (I don't remember the exact year). I was traveling between Lusk and New Castle around 3:00am in the summer. I was just south of the lance creek turn off when I saw animale eyes on the right side of the road. it was dark, the moon was out and I had been watching for deer. As I slowed down I noticed the animal wasn't a deer. I slowed down from around 80 to 50 as I approached. The animal was next to a delineator pole, appearing to be hunched over. As I got closer I slowed more because it was so strange. As I passed it I yelled out loud 'that's #ing out here!" and hit the gas as hard as I could. I had to pee before I saw the creature, but when I got to the rest stop I was to scared to stop. I drove to new castle going about 90mph the whole way and even when I got to the loaf n jug in town, despite all the bright lights and people coming in I was still scared to get out of the vehicle. I don't scare easily. But seeing that animal, and looking in its eyes I was more scared then I have ever been.
This is what I saw:
The thing was hunched over by the delineator pole, sitting up on its hind legs leaning forward with its front arms (hands?) held hanging down. The section of arm from wrist area joint down was longer and larger then a humans with what looked like paws made of long finger claws. Its hind legs were notable larger then its front, with its knees/hips looking like a rabbits when it sits up. Its face had a long snout/nose and small pointed years on the back. It had long spikes on its body that were wider at its body and pointed downward- like thicky, spiky matted hair might be if you gelled it, but it didn't appear to be hair. If it stood up on its hind legs it would easily be over 8 feet tall. if it had sat up straight, it would have been taller then the pole, but because it was hunched it was as tall as the pole.
I've only told a few people about the thing, partially because it sounds crazy, and partially because I felt embarrassed for being absolute petrified with fear.
One person said it was a mangy coyote, but I've seen many mangy coyotes and there is no comparison.
One person told me that they had hit a similar cr3ature with driving at night between Guernsey and Fort Laramie at night. They reported similar physical traits and the size of creature to nearly span the distance of the lane they were driving in. They were to afraid to stop and see what it was/if it was okay/drag it off the road. What struck me about their account was the level of fear they felt.
One person told me it was a werewolf, and they had seen one while driving semi truck between Cheyenne and Denver.
Yours is the only other account of something like this in the area that I have been able find.
If you have found any other such occurrences or accounts would you please share them with me?
-Shea

Wyoming. I believe that their state animal is the Jackalope.

Your story and the stuff above is creepy. Thanks for the bump. a reply to: cheesefeet