The Devil Dog of Logan County WV

I have been watching this show on cable called Mountain Monsters. On one episode they went to West Virginia to find the Devil Dog of Logan County. West Virginia is supposedly a paranormal and cryptozoology Mecca. Anyway trappers and people in rural areas kept finding forest animals and livestock dead and drained of blood. They found alot of dead coyotes that were drained and had their livers torn out. The creature leaves huge tracks like a canine but with only three toes. Images caught on a trail camera set up by one hunter showed a huge wolf like creature. (The missing livers did sound quite Lycan in nature to me) They said from the images that this creature looked to be over waist tall to an average man and judging from the tracks weighed well over two hundred pounds. The guys on the show decided that there was more than one animal and when they set their traps they realized that it was one huge alpha running with a pack of smaller wild dogs. Two of the average size curs were found in the trap and surprisingly there were big footprints around the trap as if the alpha had been trying to free the smaller ones. This account brings to mind similar ones down through history of demon dogs, hell hounds, spectral black dogs, black shucks ect. Some are supposed to be harbingers of death when sighted. Valle Crucis near Boone NC.has its own hell hound for example. What do you think? Could they be spectral beings,hybrids or just some evolutional anomaly that we can neither understand nor capture.