[2] On 9 December 1904, a grey wolf that had just committed a "great slaughter of a flock of sheep" was tracked for miles but escaped; the next day, he returned to his kill, and a new search party went out to no avail.

A large meeting of farmers from the area was held on 20 December, chaired by the local MP Maj. Wentworth Henry Canning Beaumont and £5 reward was offered for the wolf's skin.

[2] By the end of January 1905, interest was waning in stories of the Hexham wolf, newspapers pushing it further back until it disappeared altogether.

[6] In 2014 the Allen Valleys Folk Festival was started and this features the burning of a wooden sculpture of the "Allendale Wolf".

[7] One year the wolf gained Dalek features[8] after a campaign to support the Museum of Classic Sci-Fi who were being threatened by the planning authorities.