Dogman · South Bend, Indiana · 1924
IN-1924ID case-7d41fa29ddFallback locationAdded to map Oct 8, 2026
- Creature
- Dogman
- When
- Feb 1924to the month
- Where
- South Bend, Indianafallback location
- Reports
- 1 document1 independent
The account
Witness reports that tales have spread about a huge phantom black dog leaping from rock to rock.
See the source ↓ one document so far, so there is no trail to follow yet
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Details
- Creature
- Dogman
- Where
- South Bend, Saint Joseph County, Indiana, United States
mapped to town level · from the newspaper's printing town, not where it was seen
Fallback location (drawn hollow on the map): this is the newspaper's printing town, not where it was seen. - When
- Feb 1924
- Account
- Not first-hand (retold or reported by someone else)
- Backed by
- 1 independent source
- Added to map
- Oct 8, 2026
- Case id
- case-7d41fa29dd
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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.
- Image 1 of South Bend news-times (South Bend, Ind.), February 22, 1924, (MORNING EDITION, PART ONE)
Newspaper · 1924-02-22
Earliest found, not necessarily the original.
Further reading
Books that mention this place
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- Cryptozoology A to Z, Loren Coleman and Jerome Clark (1999)
Encyclopedia of reported creatures.
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More on this creature
- 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 - Abominable Science!, Daniel Loxton and Donald Prothero (2013)
Skeptical history of the Yeti, Nessie and others.
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