Other Canine · Illinois
IL-NDID case-0ca9f9bf6cFirst-hand accountFallback locationAdded to map Oct 14, 2026
- Creature
- Other Canine
- When
- Date unknownno date given
- Where
- Illinoisfallback location
- Reports
- 2 documents1 independent
The account
Witness reports a friend heard a loud, guttural scream and saw something following them from the distance while looking for his best friend.
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Details
- Creature
- Other Canine
- Where
- Illinois, United States
mapped to state level · from a place stated elsewhere in the same document, not in this account
Fallback location (drawn hollow on the map): this is a place stated elsewhere in the same document, not in this account. - When
- Date unknown
- Account
- First-hand (the witness telling it)
- Backed by
- 1 independent source (2 documents; copies and reprints are not confirmations)
- Added to map
- Oct 14, 2026
- Case id
- case-0ca9f9bf6c
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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 TERRORIZED A ILLINOIS FAMILY, SUB SHARES HER FAMILY'S HEART-STOPPING DOGMAN EXPERIENCES
YouTube · 2026-05-18
Earliest found, not necessarily the original. - DOGMAN TERRORIZED 2 FRIENDS AFTER THEY SAW BIGFOOT & DOGMAN HUNTING TOGETHER
YouTube · 2026-10-05
Further reading
- 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 - Abominable Science!, Daniel Loxton and Donald Prothero (2013)
Skeptical history of the Yeti, Nessie and others.
Borrow on Internet Archive - In Search of Prehistoric Survivors, Karl Shuker (1995)
Borrow on Internet Archive
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