Dogman · Pigg River, Virginia · 2019
VA-2019ID case-e465a9d6a9First-hand accountAdded to map Oct 25, 2026
- Creature
- Dogman
- When
- Jun 2019to the month
- Where
- Pigg River, Virginiato approximate level
- Reports
- 1 document1 independent
The account
Witness reports seeing a 7ft tall, thin-waisted male creature with dog-like legs and hands feasting on a deer, which then attacked them before being fought off by a rescued mountain lion named [name].
See the source ↓ one document so far, so there is no trail to follow yet
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Details
- Creature
- Dogman
- Where
- Pigg River, Franklin County, Virginia, 24137, United States
mapped to approximate level · from the report's own words, generalized to a larger area - When
- Jun 2019
- Account
- First-hand (the witness telling it)
- Backed by
- 1 independent source
- Added to map
- Oct 25, 2026
- Case id
- case-e465a9d6a9
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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.
- Jet vs The Dogman
Reddit · 2019-11-08
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.