Dogman · Central, West Virginia · 2026
WV-2026ID case-a044f49092First-hand accountAdded to map Oct 19, 2026
- Creature
- Dogman
- When
- May 25, 2026to the day
- Where
- Central, West Virginiato town level
- Reports
- 1 document1 independent
The account
Witness reports seeing a tall, hairy, dog-like humanoid standing in the woods near their yard and later observing it tapping on their window at night.
See the source ↓ one document so far, so there is no trail to follow yet
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Details
- Creature
- Dogman
- Where
- Central, Wood County, West Virginia, 26105, United States
mapped to town level · from the report's own words - When
- May 25, 2026
- Account
- First-hand (the witness telling it)
- Backed by
- 1 independent source
- Added to map
- Oct 19, 2026
- Case id
- case-a044f49092
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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.
- It Was Tapping My Window | 5 Terrifying Dogman and Cryptid Call-Ins That Will Change Your Reality
YouTube · 2026-06-20
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.