Dogman · Michigan · 1887
MI-1887ID case-59c314aa90Added to map Oct 18, 2026
- Creature
- Dogman
- When
- 1887to the year
- Where
- Michiganto state level
- Reports
- 2 documents1 independent
The account
Witness reports that two lumberjacks first spotted the creature in 1887.
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Details
- Creature
- Dogman
- Where
- Michigan, United States
mapped to state level · from the report's own words - When
- 1887
- 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 18, 2026
- Case id
- case-59c314aa90
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Source trail (1)
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.
- Sightings of humanoid with wolf-like head (cryptozoologynews)
Reddit · 2018-07-08
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.
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