Dogman · Lamar, Colorado · 1910
CO-1910ID case-21869b58cfFallback locationAdded to map Oct 8, 2026
- Creature
- Dogman
- When
- Jun 1910to the month
- Where
- Lamar, Coloradofallback location
- Reports
- 23 documents1 independent
The account
The text describes the phantom dog specter as one of the hardiest of old English superstitions, with black dogs haunting lonely spots in almost every county.
Trace the source trail → every document, in time order, and how they connect
We map claims, not creatures: this is what the sources say, not proof. How a case is built
Details
- Creature
- Dogman
- Where
- Lamar, Prowers County, Colorado, 81052, 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
- Jun 1910
- Account
- Not first-hand (retold or reported by someone else)
- Backed by
- 1 independent source (23 documents; copies and reprints are not confirmations)
- Added to map
- Oct 8, 2026
- Case id
- case-21869b58cf
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Source trail (1)
Down the rabbit hole → 23 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.
- Image 7 of The Lamar register (Lamar, Colo.), June 29, 1910
Newspaper · 1910-06-29
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.