Since the time of the Indians, the inhabitants of West Virginia (USA) from time to time met strange creatures in the local forests that did not even have a special name.
They were called either simply White creatures, or White wolves, and later White dogs.
The Cherokee associated them with a very ancient legend about the White Wolf - a mysterious and powerful creature endowed with great strength. Outwardly, this creature appeared to them in the form of a very large wolf, which was much more powerful and angrier than an ordinary animal.
Basically, it was a harbinger of death and to see a huge pale wolf silently sliding between the trees, for any Indian meant the quick death of himself or someone from his family.
But strange large white wolves or dogs were also seen by European settlers, for whom Indian myths were no more dangerous than the fairy tale about Little Red Riding Hood.
Sometimes people met a creature that looked more like a puma than a wolf or a dog, but also of incredible snow-white color and huge size. After this, there were rumors that White beings could take the form of any beast.
In her book The Monsters of West Virginia, writer Rosemary Ellen Guili describes them as follows:
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Often, according to eyewitnesses, these creatures run and simply move with incredible speed, as if they know how to teleport from place to place.
The Cryptoville website for cryptids like Yeti and Nessie has this story:
In the book "White Things - West Virginia's Weird White Monsters" by author Kurt McCoy, there are even more frightening stories.
So a hunter went to the woods in the west of the state with a group of friends, and when they were walking along the old trail, they suddenly saw a large shaggy white animal ahead, similar in appearance to a dog. And this dog rushed towards them with a heartbreaking cry.
People recoiled in different directions, and the dog followed one of the hunters and pounced on him. Then another hunter who ran up began to beat the creature with a gun and then threw it back with force so that it ran away with a loud whine.
The hunter who was attacked by this strange dog was lying on the ground with groans of pain and desperate cries of “It crippled me! It ripped out my guts!"
But when they began to examine the hunter, there was not a scratch on him! At the same time, the shocked man assured that the dog really gnawed at him and "tore out his guts."
At the same time, everyone understood that if this creature was seen by everyone in their group, then it was definitely not a hallucination. And everyone saw how it tormented the unfortunate before this dog was driven away. After this, at least bite marks on the skin should have remained. But they weren't there either!
Another unusual case was recorded in 1929. Miner Frank Kozul walked home in the evening after work through the woodland near Fairmont.
When he went straight through the thicket, he suddenly came across a whole group of "white dogs". They were very large creatures with fluffy and very clean white hair and a large head with large jaws.
Almost immediately after Frank stepped out on them, these creatures pounced on him and began to bite and grip his arms and legs with their teeth, as if intending to eat him alive.
But … their teeth did not leave any marks on the man's skin, as if the dogs were ethereal ghosts. Likewise, he did no harm to the dogs when he tried to brush them off or push them away. His hands passed through their bodies as if through fog. The creatures also did not utter a single sound during the entire skirmish.
In the end, the man managed to simply break free from the environment of dogs and retreat to the trees, after which he fled home.
Nowadays, stories of unusual white creatures are still coming from West Virginia, but now this creature is increasingly being described not as a white dog or wolf, but as a white yeti with horns on its head.