Dogman · Portage County, Ohio
OH-NDID case-de39e517a3Added to map Oct 10, 2026
- Creature
- Dogman
- When
- Date unknownno date given
- Where
- Portage County, Ohioto county level
- Reports
- 1 document1 independent
The account
Witness reports daughter showing footprints of a bipedal creature with toes and claw prints near a dog fence in Portage County, Ohio.
See the source ↓ one document so far, so there is no trail to follow yet
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Details
- Creature
- Dogman
- Where
- Portage County, Ohio, United States
mapped to county level · from the report's own words - When
- Date unknown
- Account
- Not first-hand (retold or reported by someone else)
- Backed by
- 1 independent source
- Added to map
- Oct 10, 2026
- Case id
- case-de39e517a3
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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.
- #DOGMAN, AIR NATIONAL GUARDS MEN STALKED & ATTACKED BY CREATURE & OTHER SHOCKING ENCOUNTERS
YouTube · 2026-05-26
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.