Dogman · Monterey County, California · 1978
CA-1978ID case-b9d8cd1b62Added to map Oct 31, 2026
- Creature
- Dogman
- When
- 1978to the year
- Where
- Monterey County, Californiato county level
- Reports
- 1 document1 independent
The account
An 80-year-old man reports that his sister saw a big hairy dog-like creature standing up in 1978, and later he shot at a similar creature that stood on its hind legs.
See the source ↓ one document so far, so there is no trail to follow yet
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Details
- Creature
- Dogman
- Where
- Monterey County, California, United States
mapped to county level · from the report's own words, generalized to a larger area - When
- 1978
- Account
- Not first-hand (retold or reported by someone else)
- Backed by
- 1 independent source
- Added to map
- Oct 31, 2026
- Case id
- case-b9d8cd1b62
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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.
- Army Scouts Watched It Climb a Waterfall in 10 Seconds | Bigfoot Society 1230
YouTube · 2026-10-30
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.