What the is this is it real ?

I don't nave much information as I just came across it . What I found is this is about a week or so old I got no clue but it looks as real as it gets .

Billy Speck killed this Wolf? Hyena, In the mountain behind his house in Elkins West Virginia…

I googled it and can't really find anything you would think it would be major news . (it looks to be a female)

Don't know what that is. Some sort of Hyena hybrid?. Shame it's dead.
The nearest i can find is a Striped Hyena.

m.youtube.com...

Just spitballing here.

a reply to: Ravenwatcher

looks like a wolf with mange or some type of skin issue.

You have a link?

Not buying it.

It is huge ! it might have Hyperthyroidism which makes it so big. some people have it so it is quite possible anmals have it too. Surely it is scary seeing something out of the box and unusual.. but life is with multiple possibilities

a reply to: chiefsmom

Trying to find more info

100% looks like a brown hyena... look it up...Did he really shoot this behind his house in West VA?

What ever it is, it just met the hospitality of the common human.
Bless its soul poor thing

a reply to: Spacespider

Humans are just wrong " Oh thats been extinct for thousands of years lets kill it and study it .

Imagine Bigfoot no wonder it hides this is it's fate .

a reply to: Ravenwatcher

No linkydink?

a reply to: TheAlleghenyGentleman

No there was no information just pics , Hoping some of you Sleuths can track down info It's fairly fresh "resent"

a reply to: Ravenwatcher

I think those Mountain Monster guys have done shows about strange, 'out of place' wolf critters.
Some of their shows take place in the West Virginia wilderness.

Might have been on a game reserve hunt somewhere?............a Dingo ate yo baby!!

a reply to: ColoradoTemplar

To me I'm not buying the Hyena backs and face are totally different .

a reply to: Ravenwatcher

Could be a hybrid of some sort possibly?

originally posted by: Ravenwatcher
a reply to: Spacespider

Humans are just wrong " Oh thats been extinct for thousands of years lets kill it and study it .

Imagine Bigfoot no wonder it hides this is it's fate .

Like this?

Passenger pigeon, Ectopistes migratorius (Eastern North America, 1914)
The passenger pigeon was once among the most common birds in the world, a single flock numbering up to 2.2 billion birds. It was hunted close to extinction for food and sport in the late 19th century. The last individual, Martha, died in the Cincinnati Zoo in 1914.

It is supposed to be a giant short faced hyena.

(Still having trouble posting pics)

originally posted by: TheAlleghenyGentleman
It is supposed to be a giant short faced hyena.

(Still having trouble posting pics)

I had to search to upload here's the working upload It gave me a trust warning but I clicked advance and proceed

ATS Upload

a reply to: Ravenwatcher

Thanx.

Maybe also Chasmaporthetes, also known as the hunting or running hyena