Dogman · Kentucky · 2012
KY-2012ID case-5a907e77fcAdded to map Oct 15, 2026
- Creature
- Dogman
- When
- 2012to the year
- Where
- Kentuckyto state level
- Reports
- 1 document1 independent
The account
A group of friends camping reported a wolf-man emerging from the trees, crouching close, and watching them silently before mimicking chuckling.
See the source ↓ one document so far, so there is no trail to follow yet
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Details
- Creature
- Dogman
- Where
- Kentucky, United States
mapped to state level · from the report's own words, generalized to a larger area - When
- 2012
- Account
- Not first-hand (retold or reported by someone else)
- Backed by
- 1 independent source
- Added to map
- Oct 15, 2026
- Case id
- case-5a907e77fc
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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.
- 4/20 Dogmen?? (Highly skeptical:)
Reddit · 2025-04-21
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.