Dogman · Weatherford, Texas · 1982
TX-1982ID case-4256d6e95eFirst-hand accountAdded to map Oct 7, 2026
- Creature
- Dogman
- When
- Dec 1982to the month
- Where
- Weatherford, Texasto town level
- Reports
- 2 documents1 independent
The account
Witness reports hearing footsteps and seeing a large bipedal creature with wide shoulders and no neck near a creek before it leaped over a hill.
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Details
- Creature
- Dogman
- Where
- Weatherford, Parker County, Texas, United States
mapped to town level · from the report's own words - When
- Dec 1982
- Account
- First-hand (the witness telling it)
- Backed by
- 1 independent source (2 documents; copies and reprints are not confirmations)
- Added to map
- Oct 7, 2026
- Case id
- case-4256d6e95e
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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.
- While parking near Sunshine Lake, teens have late night encounter
BFRO · 2004-11-20
Earliest found, not necessarily the original. - Couple has night time encounter while out parking.
NAWAC
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.
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