Dogman · New York · 2016
- Creature
- Dogman
- When
- Jul 6, 2016to the day
- Where
- New Yorkfallback location
- Reports
- 4 documents1 independent
The account
Witnesses report that while camping in Southern New York, they were approached by multiple large, bipedal creatures resembling dogs that screamed and pulled on their tent before one was seen illuminated by headlights.
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Details
- Creature
- Dogman
- Where
- New York, United States
mapped to state level · from the state named in the report (exact place not found)
Fallback location (drawn hollow on the map): this is the state named in the report (exact place not found). - When
- Jul 6, 2016
- Account
- First-hand (the witness telling it)
- Backed by
- 1 independent source (4 documents; copies and reprints are not confirmations)
- Added to map
- Oct 18, 2026
- Case id
- case-0a56f29db2
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Source trail (3)
Down the rabbit hole → 4 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 - Dogmen from a UFO
Reddit · 2019-02-21
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.
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Books we have not reproduced: borrow them free at archive.org. Listing a book is not an endorsement of its claims.