What the is this is it real ?

The things that humans do (sigh)

Poor creature, thats just damn right sad

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originally posted by: Sakrateri
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Nice work can't believe the internet lol Multi sites with West Virginia and that doesn't look like a normal Brown Hyena the ears .

originally posted by: Ravenwatcher

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

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Was that sarcasm ?

originally posted by: solarone
The things that humans do (sigh)

Poor creature, thats just damn right sad

May just have put it out of it's misery .

Historically speaking , its a

"shunka warakin"

The Shunka Warakin (also shunka warak'in) is an American beast from cryptozoology and mythology that is said to resemble a wolf, a hyena or both.

In the language of the American Indian Ioway people, as discovered and collected by Loren Coleman, shunka warak'in means "carries off dogs."

It's one of those hell hounds the AIMS team was after .

That’s why Bigfeet and Aliens don’t show themselves, they’ll get shot dead.

originally posted by: Sakrateri
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Good find. Thanks. It was definitely hyena, but I figured it must have been an escape. Even better it is just taken in Africa so no explanation needed.

FYI, for anyone speculating, Hyenas are unrelated to canines and in no way could ever hybridize other than possibly between hyena species.

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

That looks like it alright!
"The global population of brown hyena is estimated by IUCN at a number between 4,000 and 10,000 and its conservation status is marked as near threatened in the IUCN Red List."

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Hyena .

Dead hyena. Lots of wasted tears over the thought of some mythical creature being killed, with zero actual thought actual put into their sympathy.

This thing could have shredded a child yet you all mourn the beast. Sign of the times I guess.

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Look's real to me but it would require genetic analysis to see what it really is, how many hikers go missing in those US national park's every year?.

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Interesting and even if it's just a mock up it's a really great looking one, something just says to my brain though that it is real but I am not zoologist so really am no one to venture an opinion here.




At a guess either the Hyaenodon was NOT extinct OR some mad scientist somewhere has managed to recreate it perhaps through genetic engineering which given all the nut job rewilders out there is not that far fetched.

My guess it's a real Hyaenodon and that may also explain why so many Hikers disappear in the us as well as the wolf man and the sasquatch.

Remember the mock ups in the video are based on Bones as nothing else survived or did it? (but the animal looks pretty close to the mock up).

Sneak attack's, stalks prey from hiding, is big fast and deadly.

To my mind this guy is lucky he did not become just another disappeared person and got the jump on this animal if it is a Hyaenodon (north American Hyaena supposedly extinct for a very long time but just perhaps not?).

originally posted by: Athetos
Dead hyena. Lots of wasted tears over the thought of some mythical creature being killed, with zero actual thought actual put into their sympathy.

This thing could have shredded a child yet you all mourn the beast. Sign of the times I guess.

Absolutely correct, in fact if it is a North American hyaenodon then I have no doubt they may have been snacking on people all along and that could explain why so many vanish in the US national park's and forests and in Canada as well (any shot were probably misidentified as wolves.

One of my favourite Cryptid images is this old thing that I don't know if it was ever disproved or not but it remains cool and also scary?.
Civil war soldiers standing on something that should not be there.
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To me it's head looks like a lion not anything like a hyena [

Strange noises during the watches of the night some that would make the toenails curl like a banshee missing the corner of a roof... but lost in electronics or sleep it's easy for such things to go unnoticed.

I know it's a real head slapper to say Asia has dragons... kinda like isn't that what they are famous for?
Dracovolans

a reply to: Ravenwatcher

Looks like a hyena and an aardwolf had a baby, and someone injected it with growth hormones.


hyena and aardwolf pics (google)

It clearly resembles a hyena but my question is where did it come from? Was it someone's exotic pet let loose? Could a hyena survive in WV? Aren't they from Africa? Is this a one off creature or could there be breeding pairs? So many questions and not enough answers. Hopefully he has it genetically tested and we get some answers.