In the summer of 1972, something walked upright through Defiance, Ohio, wielding a two-by-four – and it was just the beginning of decades of encounters across northwest Ohio.
In the summer of 1972, The Toledo Blade reported a string of chilling encounters in Defiance, Ohio — where locals claimed a towering, fanged “werewolf” was stalking the railroad tracks under the full moon.
In the summer of 1972, railroad workers in Defiance, Ohio, reported being attacked and stalked by a towering, hairy creature that police and newspapers dubbed the “Werewolf of Defiance.”