Other Canine · Gloucester County, Virginia · 2020
VA-2020ID case-b6d1555979First-hand accountAdded to map Oct 24, 2026
- Creature
- Other Canine
- When
- Oct 3, 2020to the day
- Where
- Gloucester County, Virginiato county level
- Reports
- 2 documents1 independent
The account
A witness in Gloucester County, Virginia heard scratching and a loud screeching howl near her window while her dogs cowered.
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Details
- Creature
- Other Canine
- Where
- Gloucester County, Virginia, United States
mapped to county level · from the report's own words - When
- Oct 3, 2020
- Account
- First-hand (the witness telling it)
- Backed by
- 1 independent source (2 documents; copies and reprints are not confirmations)
- Added to map
- Oct 24, 2026
- Case id
- case-b6d1555979
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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.
- A RURAL SHERIFF'S VIOLENT DOGMAN ENCOUNTER W/ SUPPORT
YouTube · 2026-06-21
Earliest found, not necessarily the original. - DOGMAN & SHERIFF DEPUTY'S 100% REAL DOCUMENTED ENCOUNTER IN RURAL VIRGINIA
YouTube · 2026-08-19
Further reading
- 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 - Abominable Science!, Daniel Loxton and Donald Prothero (2013)
Skeptical history of the Yeti, Nessie and others.
Borrow on Internet Archive - In Search of Prehistoric Survivors, Karl Shuker (1995)
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