S6 E9: The Southend Werewolf
From That Would Be Rad by Woody Brown and Tyler Bence
May 11, 2026 · 1h 15m · Season 6 · Episode 9
About this episode
This episode explores the unsettling true story of Bill Ramsey and the Southend Werewolf phenomenon.
In this episode of That Would Be Rad, we sink our teeth into one of the weirdest and most unsettling true stories we’ve ever covered: the Southend Werewolf. Picture this: a regular, easy-going guy from Essex named Bill Ramsey who spent almost forty years fighting something vicious that lived inside him. Out of nowhere he’d get hit with freezing cold chills, see a wolf staring back at him in the mirror, and then black out into these insane rages where he suddenly had crazy strength and acted like a straight-up animal. What began as a bizarre incident in his parents’ garden when he was just nine years old spiraled into full-blown tabloid madness and eventually pulled in Ed and Lorraine Warren. Is it old-school folklore, straight-up demonic possession, a serious mental health thing, or some unholy mix of all three? This one really doesn’t fit in any neat little box. What We Uncover in This Episode : Bill Ramsey’s full story — starting with that insane 1952 garden episode as a kid where he ripped a fence post (concrete and all) out of the ground and chewed through wire with his teeth, all the way through the escalating nightmare of the 1980s The notorious 1987 police station showdown…
People in this episode
Hosts: Woody Brown, Tyler Bence
Topics covered
- werewolf lore
- true crime
- mental health
- demonic possession
- folklore
- historical incidents
Keywords
- Southend Werewolf
- Bill Ramsey
- Ed and Lorraine Warren
- lycanthropy
- true stories
- folklore
- demonic possession
Mentioned in this episode
Books & works: Epic of Gilgamesh, King Lycaon, Beast of Gévaudan
Places: Southend, Essex
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