Beast of Bramwell

**Habitat** | Varied

The **Beast of Bramwell**, also known as the **Bramwell Beast**, the **Monster of Bramwell**, the **Bramwell Monster**, the **Demon of Bramwell**, the **Bramwell Demon**, the **West Virginia Demon**, the **Bramwell Phantom**, the **West Virginia Phantom**, the **Phantom of Bramwell**, and the **Phantom of West Virginia**, is a purported humanoid demonic-looking creature, first allegedly witnessed in or near the rural community of Bramwell, West Virginia, although the creature has since been reported throughout North America as well. It has since become a part of West Virginia folklore and has been the subject of multiple books, documentaries and an adults cartoon series, Hazbin Hotel.

Named for the rural town in which it was first allegedly sighted, Bramwell, reports of the creature in the 1930s, 1940s, and 1950s prompted a local newspaper to assign reporter Wendy Phillips to cover the story. Phillips was initially skeptical, but later became convinced of the sincerity of the witnesses. Her series of articles later became a book titled The Beast of Bramwell: Tailing West Virginia's Demon.

## Description

The Beast of Bramwell is most often described by alleged witnesses as tall, between 7 to 8 feet (2.1-2.4 meters) tall (including its hair tufts), with a humanoid style body, being almost entirely hairless except on the head, which is reportedly long and red, with a pair of hair tufts resembling deer ears, and having tall, black deer-like antlers. The creature is also said to have yellow razor-sharp teeth resembling those of sharks and is reported to have a disturbing permanent grin on its face. It is reported to have large, soulless dark red eyes with ligher red irises and black pupils. It is most often reported to have clothing consisting of a dark red pinstriped coat with slightly ragged bottoms, a bright red dress shirt with a black cross on the chest underneath, long burgundy dress pants with matching bright red cuffs, a red-knotted bowtie, burgundy gloves, and black pointed-toe boots with red deer-like hoofprints emblazoned on the soles.

    The appearance of the creature, when calm and more refined, is said to have more human-like body, locomotion, and smaller, much less noticeable antlers, which only grows if the creature is in its monstrous form.

## Behavior

The creature is said to have two split personalities, one being a more refined gentleman-like personality with a deep, manly-sounding voice to match, and the other being a psychopathic, murderous creature with the taste for flesh and blood and having no compassion, behaving more like an actual monster than any known animal (native and nonnative to West Virginia). The Beast of Bramwell is said to be able to speak very similarly to a human, primarily English, although it is reported to growl, snarl, and hiss when in beast mode. The creature is said to behave very similarly to an every day gentleman from the city when calm, but acts like an aggressive monster in beast mode, capable of ripping people to shreds, summon a tentacled creature below with a snap of its fingers, and climbing vertically, far more capable of such acts than a normal human could.

## Explanations

* The Beast of Bramwell may be a type of demon and could prove the existence of heaven and hell, and may be the real life Alastor from Hazbin Hotel.
* The Beast of Bramwell may actually be a new species of humanoid yet to be discovered by science.
* The Beast of Bramwell may instead be just misidentified bobcats, lynxes, cougars, and/or bears with overexaggerated size, build, aggression, and characteristics, likely due to hallucinations brought on by fear and hysteria.
* The entire story of the Beast of Bramwell may just be hoaxes or fabrications just to get the rural town of Bramwell famous.