The Boy Who Cried Werewolf (1973)

Plotzle Horror · Puzzle #27 · April 13, 2026 · Horror / Mystery

Six plot descriptions for The Boy Who Cried Werewolf (1973). One is the real plot. Five are convincing fakes. Read them and guess which is real.

1. An unreliable narrator recounts how his village ostracized him for false warnings as bodies begin appearing with savage wounds that forensics cannot explain through conventional animal attacks or human violence.
2. A folklore researcher interviews an elderly man about local legends when she notices his grandson exhibits strange behavior and the family's livestock keeps disappearing under increasingly disturbing circumstances each month.
3. A boy visits his father at a mountain cabin and witnesses him being attacked by a werewolf, then attempts to convince his mother and therapist that his father has become a werewolf.
4. Two teenagers discover their classmate's mutilated corpse in the woods while the boy who reported seeing a monster becomes the sheriff's primary suspect in the rural town's investigation.
5. A psychiatric patient insists his brother transforms into something monstrous at night but the therapist realizes the delusions might be covering memories of childhood abuse within their isolated family.
6. A grief-stricken pharmacist begins doctoring his own prescriptions after his son's death and hallucinates a lupine creature that mirrors his self-destructive descent into addiction and paranoia.