Dogman · Outer Banks, North Carolina · 1997
NC-1997ID case-3c76f00a9bFirst-hand accountAdded to map Nov 10, 2026
- Creature
- Dogman
- When
- Jul 20, 1997to the day
- Where
- Outer Banks, North Carolinato approximate level
- Reports
- 1 document1 independent
The account
Witness reports that a dogman stepped out in front of their car and blocked the road while searching for a real estate office.
See the source ↓ one document so far, so there is no trail to follow yet
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Details
- Creature
- Dogman
- Where
- Outer Banks, Waves, Dare County, North Carolina, 27982, United States
mapped to approximate level · from the report's own words - When
- Jul 20, 1997
- Account
- First-hand (the witness telling it)
- Backed by
- 1 independent source
- Added to map
- Nov 10, 2026
- Case id
- case-3c76f00a9b
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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.
- Dare County, NC Encounter
dogman_encounters
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.