Bear-dog! Man-bear-wolf!

No, I'm serial guys.
About two weeks ago, there was this whole hubbub up in Washington County, Wisconsin, about a mysterious creature sighting.

Krueger estimates he looked at the creature for about five seconds before flooring the gas pedal. "It had pointy ears, triangular shaped," he said, "and they looked like big wolf ears standing up on end. That was the main feature that made me realize it was not a bear. It had a longer muzzle than a black bear, and its head was more like a wolf than a bear. It almost looked like a very large black bear standing on its feet, if you took a wolf's head and enlarged it and set it on the bear's body." Krueger guessed the creature's height at six to seven feet, but only was able to see it from the chest up. The fur was about two inches long, black, and fairly smooth, he said.

The story has updates all the way up until yesterday, which tells of a sighting two years ago of possibly the same creature:

"It started up over the top of the road, looked at me then kept running across the road in frontof me and into the brush. I see a lot of deer and it seemed the top of its back was as high as a deer's. I could see long tufts of hair coming off its chest and legs but not much of a tail. It had a short snout and pointy ears on top of a round head. The head was round like a pumpkin, but its ears were pointy like a dog's on top of its head pointing straight up. It had to weigh between 150 and 200 pounds."

Over on Scott Maruna's blog, he postulates the creature might be the same or similar to the Whoahaw, seen in Nevada all the way back in 1879. Of course, the Whoahaw is a bear-coyote, rather than a wolfbear.

The whole region round Deeth is dominated by a mysterious beast known locally as the Whoahaw, an animal supposed to be a cross between the grizzly bear and the coyote. As the mule combines the bad qualities of the horse and the ass, so does this hybrid display the courage and ferocity of the grizzly joined to the cunning and treachery of the coyote. The Whoahaw has never been seen by daylight. He roams and ravages only at night. The beast has been known to carry off a horse. Cattle and sheep are often borne away by the monster. Mules he never attacks, for some unexplained reason.

One of the possibilities that keeps getting mentioned as to what this animal might be is the Amphicyon, a prehistoric beardog that roamed North America 20-30 million years ago (or 6000 years ago if you're an IDer).