In October 2009, the History Channel aired a documentary called The Real Wolfman which argued that the beast was an exotic animal in the form of a striped hyena, a long-haired species of hyena now extinct in Europe.
En outubro de 2009, o canal History exhibiu un documental chamado A Real Wolfman, que argumentou que era un animal exótico da forma dunha hiena asiática, unha especie de peluda Hyaenidae agora extinta na Europa.