Dogman · Varina, Virginia · 1903
- Creature
- Dogman
- When
- Apr 10, 1903to the day
- Where
- Varina, Virginiato town level
- Reports
- 2 documents1 independent
The account
Witness reports a farmer named [name] claimed to have been visited by a ghostly apparition of a dog with a woman's head that rattled doorknobs and made horrible noises.
Trace the source trail → every document, in time order, and how they connect · 1 cited source not found yet
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Details
- Creature
- Dogman
- Where
- Varina, Henrico County, Virginia, 23231, United States
mapped to town level · from the report's own words - When
- Apr 10, 1903
- Account
- Not first-hand (retold or reported by someone else)
- Backed by
- 1 independent source (2 documents; copies and reprints are not confirmations)
- Added to map
- Oct 24, 2026
- Case id
- case-38b4d65a38
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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.
- A RURAL SHERIFF'S VIOLENT DOGMAN ENCOUNTER W/ SUPPORT
YouTube · 2026-06-21
Earliest found, not necessarily the original. - DOGMAN & SHERIFF DEPUTY'S 100% REAL DOCUMENTED ENCOUNTER IN RURAL VIRGINIA
YouTube · 2026-08-19
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
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