Bad Dog! The Exorcism of Bill Ramsey- The Southend Werewolf | 537

What do you get when you mix a British carpenter, a police station, and Ed and Lorraine Warren? Apparently, a werewolf with a passport.

In 1987, Bill Ramsey became known as The Southend Werewolf after a bizarre incident involving growling, biting, alleged superhuman strength, and firefighters rescuing him from a police cell door. And you thought your last night out got weird.

Things only got stranger when legendary paranormal investigators Ed and Lorraine Warren flew Ramsey to America for an exorcism. Because apparently the cure for turning into a wolf is international travel and a priest yelling in Latin.

Was Ramsey demonically possessed, suffering from clinical lycanthropy, a real psychiatric phenomenon, or simply the victim of sensational British tabloids? We're digging into the police reports, medical mysteries, and one seriously hairy exorcism.

All that and more, including why werewolves should never be allowed near a doggy door, this week on Hysteria 51!

Sources:

• The Making of the Southend Werewolf | The History Alchemist (June 2026)
• https://www.thehistoryalchemist.com/blog/3249848_the-making-of-the-southend-werewolf
• The Southend Werewolf | New England Society for Psychic Research (The Warrens)
• https://warrens.net/werewolf/
• Werewolf: A True Story of Demonic Possession | Ed and Lorraine Warren, Bill Ramsey, and Robert David Chase (1991)
• https://iucat.iu.edu/iuk/236537
• The Southend Werewolf | Sightings Television Segment (1992)
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1bucFTvNglM
• 3 Investigations by Connecticut's Warrens Not in The Conjuring Movies | CT Insider
• https://www.ctinsider.com/living/article/ed-lorraine-warren-ct-paranormal-investigations-19854193.php
• William Ramsey Exorcism Photographs, July 28, 1989 | John Cleave / Mirrorpix / Getty Images
• https://www.gettyimages.ae/detail/news-photo/william-ramsey-from-southend-on-sea-in-the-uk-being-news-photo/637653066
• Werewolf: A True Story of Demonic Possession | Kirkus Reviews
• https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/ed-warren/werewolf-2/
• When Doctors Cry Wolf: A Systematic Review of the Literature on Clinical Lycanthropy | Jan Dirk Blom (2014)
• https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/24594823/
• A Systematic Review on Clinical Therianthropy and a Proposal to Conceptualize Zoomorphism as a Diagnostic Spectrum | Jan Dirk Blom and Brian A. Sharpless (2025)
• https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40350004/
• Clinical Lycanthropy: Delusional Misidentification of the Self | The Journal of Neuropsychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences
• https://psychiatryonline.org/doi/10.1176/appi.neuropsych.13030057

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