Dogman · 2016
- Creature
- Dogman
- When
- Jul 6, 2016to the day
- Where
- Place unknownno dependable place
- Reports
- 2 documents1 independent
The account
Witness reports that while camping in southern New York, three men were attacked by large, bipedal, dog-faced creatures with dark gray and white hair after witnessing strange lights in the woods.
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Details
- Creature
- Dogman
- Where
- No dependable place
The account doesn't say where in words we can place, so it isn't drawn on the map; the map lists it under Cases with no resolvable place. Other Dogman reports with no place (1,391) - When
- Jul 6, 2016
- Account
- First-hand (the witness telling it)
- Backed by
- 1 independent source (2 documents; copies and reprints are not confirmations)
- Added to map
- Oct 18, 2026
- Case id
- case-0a56f29db2
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Source trail (2)
Down the rabbit hole → 2 documents, and how they connect
Every link goes to where we found the account. The earliest we found is marked; it is the earliest found, not necessarily the original.
- Dogman attacks campers !
Reddit · 2016-07-13
Earliest found, not necessarily the original. - Southern NY: Campers attacked by "dogmen"
Reddit · 2017-02-12
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.