Langrick Road

The haunting

According to the story, a young man was digging near Dogdyke on Langrick Fen when he uncovered something extraordinary. Beneath the ground he supposedly discovered the skeleton of a human being with the head of a wolf. Rather than leaving the remains where they had been found, he apparently took the strange skeleton home with him. That night, however, something terrifying happened. The creature supposedly returned to life. The beast appeared outside the man's house and smashed against a window. Terrified, he fled into another room and barricaded himself inside while the creature prowled around the rest of the house. Eventually, the creature disappeared. The man supposedly returned to the place where he had found the skeleton and reburied it, after which he never encountered the creature again.

Historical background

Langrick Fen lies in the Lincolnshire Fens, an area historically characterised by isolated farms, drainage channels, marshland and long stretches of sparsely populated countryside. The isolation of the Fen country has produced a particularly rich collection of strange tales and supernatural folklore. The Langrick Fen Werewolf, sometimes called the Dogdyke Werewolf, is one of the more unusual Lincolnshire legends. Unlike the familiar European werewolf story involving a person transforming into a wolf, this tale concerns the discovery of a bizarre human skeleton with a wolf-like head. The story was recorded by author Christopher Marlowe in The Fen Country, published in 1925. However, the Lincolnshire Folk Tales Project points out that there appears to be no earlier surviving source for the story and no contemporary newspaper evidence confirming the events

References & research

Sources & background

These sources document the location, story or claimed activity. They do not prove paranormal activity.

• Lincolnshire Folk Tales ProjectLocal history source · Lincolnshire Folk Tales Project

  The Langrick Fen Werewolf

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