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Dogman · Upper Hutt, Wellington · 2007

NEW-2007ID case-1e18c3de7aFirst-hand accountAdded to map Nov 10, 2026
Creature
Dogman
When
2007to the year
Where
Upper Hutt, Wellingtonto town level
Reports
1 document1 independent

The account

Witness reports seeing a seven-to-eight-foot tall, wolf-faced, shaggy-furred bipedal creature in their yard in the Akatarawa Hills.

See the source ↓ one document so far, so there is no trail to follow yet

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Details

Creature
Dogman
Where
Upper Hutt, Upper Hutt City, Wellington, 5218, New Zealand / Aotearoa
mapped to town level · from the report's own words, generalized to a larger area
When
2007
Account
First-hand (the witness telling it)
Backed by
1 independent source
Added to map
Nov 10, 2026
Case id
case-1e18c3de7a

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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.

  1. Upper Hutt, New Zealand Encounter
    dogman_encounters
    Earliest found, not necessarily the original.

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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.

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