Also known as the Wolf Woman of Davis Avenue, on April 1, 1971, The Wolf Woman of Mobile made her debut. Calls began to roll into the Press-Register from citizens in the Mobile, Alabama suburbs reporting that they had spotted a creature with the head of a beautiful woman and the body of a wolf roaming on all fours around Davis Avenue in Port City, as well as the Plateau neighborhood.

We lived around the corner from my grandmother growing up off the Parkway and would often have to walk to her house to borrow something. When the Wolf Woman emerged, I didn’t want to walk in the dark

Perhaps, given the timeframe, this was all just a prank from Mobile locals to give their neighbors a fright, possibly affixing a wig to a stray German Shepherd or releasing a particularly well-coiffed Afghan hound.