Dogman · Atlanta, Georgia · 1938
GA-1938ID case-0059594c62Fallback locationAdded to map Oct 8, 2026
- Creature
- Dogman
- When
- Feb 1938to the month
- Where
- Atlanta, Georgiafallback location
- Reports
- 1 document1 independent
The account
Witnesses speculate that a creature in the swamps may be an escaped circus lion or the legendary loup garou.
See the source ↓ one document so far, so there is no trail to follow yet
We map claims, not creatures: this is what the sources say, not proof. How a case is built
Details
- Creature
- Dogman
- Where
- Atlanta, Fulton County, Georgia, United States
mapped to town level · from the newspaper's printing town, not where it was seen
Fallback location (drawn hollow on the map): this is the newspaper's printing town, not where it was seen. - When
- Feb 1938
- Account
- Not first-hand (retold or reported by someone else)
- Backed by
- 1 independent source
- Added to map
- Oct 8, 2026
- Case id
- case-0059594c62
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Source trail (1)
Every link goes to where we found the account. The earliest we found is marked; it is the earliest found, not necessarily the original.
- Image 4 of Atlanta daily world (Atlanta, Georgia), February 11, 1938, (City Edition)
Newspaper · 1938-02-11
Earliest found, not necessarily the original.
Further reading
- The Beast of Bray Road: Tailing Wisconsin's Werewolf, Linda S. Godfrey (2003)
Reporter's casebook on the Elkhorn, Wisconsin sightings.
Borrow on Internet Archive - The Michigan Dogman: Werewolves and Other Unknown Canines Across the USA, Linda S. Godfrey (2010)
Survey of dogman accounts, with the 1987 Michigan song origin.
Borrow on Internet Archive - On the Track of Unknown Animals, Bernard Heuvelmans (1959)
The founding work of cryptozoology.
Borrow on Internet Archive - Cryptozoology A to Z, Loren Coleman and Jerome Clark (1999)
Encyclopedia of reported creatures.
Borrow on Internet Archive
Books we have not reproduced: borrow them free at archive.org. Listing a book is not an endorsement of its claims.