Dogman · Jerseyville, Illinois · 2009
IL-2009ID case-bca245318aFirst-hand accountAdded to map Nov 10, 2026
- Creature
- Dogman
- When
- Nov 28, 2009to the day
- Where
- Jerseyville, Illinoisto town level
- Reports
- 2 documents1 independent
The account
Witness reports seeing a large, hyena-like creature with long arms and massive canines near a cornfield, which then approached their camper and shook the door for two minutes.
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Details
- Creature
- Dogman
- Where
- Jerseyville, Jersey County, Illinois, 62052, United States
mapped to town level · from the report's own words - When
- Nov 28, 2009
- Account
- First-hand (the witness telling it)
- Backed by
- 1 independent source (2 documents; copies and reprints are not confirmations)
- Added to map
- Nov 10, 2026
- Case id
- case-bca245318a
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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.
- Scars From My Dogman Encounters (Part 1) - Dogman Encounters Episode 467
YouTube · 2023-07-05
Earliest found, not necessarily the original. - Most Frightening Dogman Encounters From 2023 - Dogman Encounters Episode 470
YouTube · 2023-07-22
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.