Dogman · India · 1888
IND-1888ID case-2957374563First-hand accountFallback locationAdded to map Oct 8, 2026
- Creature
- Dogman
- When
- Aug 15, 1888to the day
- Where
- Indiafallback location
- Reports
- 8 documents1 independent
The account
Witness reports seeing a dark, hairy creature resembling a gorilla or man-wolf leap from the jungle, seize a child, kill it, and flee.
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
- India
mapped to country level · from the country named in the report (exact place not found)
Fallback location (drawn hollow on the map): this is the country named in the report (exact place not found). - When
- Aug 15, 1888
- Account
- First-hand (the witness telling it)
- Backed by
- 1 independent source (8 documents; copies and reprints are not confirmations)
- Added to map
- Oct 8, 2026
- Case id
- case-2957374563
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Source trail (3)
Down the rabbit hole → 8 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 1 of The Lambertville record (Lambertville, N.J.), August 15, 1888
Newspaper · 1888-08-15
Earliest found, not necessarily the original. - Image 2 of The Monmouth inquirer (Freehold, N.J.), August 30, 1888
Newspaper · 1888-08-30 - Image 4 of Tombstone epitaph (Tombstone, Ariz.), March 15, 1890
Newspaper · 1890-03-15
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.