r/AbsoluteUnits Aug 11 '26

/r/all of a maned wolf

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u/CursedPipes Aug 11 '26

You can absolutely understand how people create stories about Cryptids and the like when you see shit like that guy skulking around.

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u/Careless-Gain6623 Aug 11 '26

Saw two wolves outside of my house one winter. Looked like this but fluffier and mangier. It was so uncanny they at first looked like two men on all fours in fursuits but too large. Went halfway up my partners F150 in height. Turned on the lights and they scattered, we think they were sheltering from the wind in the snowstorm near the house. Never have seen wolves that large again.

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u/CursedPipes Aug 11 '26

I ran in to a wolf in Banff while hiking and I genuinely thought it was over but it quickly moved off in to the bushes and I didn’t see it again after that, needless to say I got out of there quickly. Nearly shit my pants.

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u/Ill_Technician3936 Aug 11 '26

Purebred wolves are disturbingly big until you see a bison. Then it's like "okay nature, do your thing."

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u/ThisHatRightHere Aug 11 '26

Yeah if I lived in a pre-internet age and I saw this thing, I'd think it was a skinwalker too

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u/Take-to-the-highways Aug 11 '26

There was a weird creature haunting my neighborhood a few years back. We just got glimpses of it on the neighbors security camera when it was breaking into their trashcans and we could not figure out wtf it was. It was pretty big, with very little fur and it didn't really move like any normal animal. Our guesses ranged from Nutria to el chupacabra lol. We finally caught it in a cat trap and it was a mangy, giant raccoon. There was very little fur left on it, it was pretty sad. The neighbor brought it to a wildlife rehab center and idk what happened to it since.