Dogman · 2020
XX-2020ID case-7649fa618cFirst-hand accountAdded to map Oct 29, 2026
- Creature
- Dogman
- When
- Apr 13, 2020to the day
- Where
- Place unknownno dependable place
- Reports
- 1 document1 independent
The account
The narrator reports hearing a large slam on their porch and finding single dog-like tracks leading up or down the ramp, which they attribute to the Michigan dog man.
See the source ↓ one document so far, so there is no trail to follow yet
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Details
- Creature
- Dogman
- Where
- No dependable place
The account doesn't say where in words we can place, so it isn't drawn on the map; the map lists it under Cases with no resolvable place. Other Dogman reports with no place (1,391) - When
- Apr 13, 2020
- Account
- First-hand (the witness telling it)
- Backed by
- 1 independent source
- Added to map
- Oct 29, 2026
- Case id
- case-7649fa618c
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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.
- I live in northern Michigan. Think I may have just had a Michigan dog man experience. Any advice or info would be appreciated long but please read if have any dogman experience in Michigan.
Reddit · 2020-04-13
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.