In 1888, a reporter traveled to Russia and asked an official there about how many people were killed by wolves each year. The official replied, “Twenty thousand, perhaps, but what of it?”
Needless to say, wolf attacks were common in Russia, but they also happened in the United States. For example, in 1912, Thoma, a Wisconsin farmer, was attacked by a pack of wolves. He managed to kill seven of them with a knife, but then they attacked him in greater numbers and he succumbed.
Perhaps the most frightening wolf attack I read about happened in…
Transylvania, Of Course
It must have been an eery site when a husband’s wagon returned to his Transylvanian village in 1907 and he was nowhere to be found. His wife was in a panic, worried, and no doubt knew something terrible had happened. She sent out a search party for her husband and soon they discovered the head and leg of the missing man. A dead wolf lay near him.
After a thorough investigation of the area, the searchers concluded that the man met with the wolf and shot it. He then set his gun down, got off the wagon, and went to move the wolf’s body from the road. It was then that more wolves appeared. The horses panicked and took off as the wolves fell upon the husband and literally tore him to pieces. [1]
