Dogman · Beaver Lake, Arkansas · 1972
AR-1972ID case-a9b563096aFirst-hand accountAdded to map Nov 3, 2026
- Creature
- Dogman
- When
- Oct 1972to the month
- Where
- Beaver Lake, Arkansasto approximate level
- Reports
- 2 documents2 independent
The account
Witness reports seeing a large, dog-faced, hairy humanoid creature approaching their van at night near Beaver Lake.
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Details
- Creature
- Dogman
- Where
- Beaver Lake, Goshen, Benton County, Arkansas, United States
mapped to approximate level · from the report's own words - When
- Oct 1972
- Account
- First-hand (the witness telling it)
- Backed by
- 2 independent sources
- Added to map
- Nov 3, 2026
- Case id
- case-a9b563096a
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Source trail (2)
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.
- My Personal Encounters with Sasquatch (RELOADED) - Ep. 194 - June 20, 2026
YouTube · 2026-06-24
Earliest found, not necessarily the original. - Benton County, AR Encounter
dogman_encounters
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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Books we have not reproduced: borrow them free at archive.org. Listing a book is not an endorsement of its claims.