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Dogman sightings map

"Dogman" is the label used for reports of an upright, dog- or wolf-headed figure, often described walking on two legs. It is a name for a kind of report, not a recognised animal, and the reports do not all describe the same thing.

Other names in the sources: Upright canine, Werewolf sightings, Beast of Bray Road.

Background reading on Wikipedia: Michigan Dogman Beast of Bray Road.

We map claims, not creatures. A case is what some source says someone saw or heard, with the link to that source. It is not proof that anything was there, and a retelling counts once, not as a second sighting.

See Dogman on the map All 2,478 cases

By the numbers

2,478 cases on the map, 1,546 of them first-hand (the witness telling it). A case may stand on several documents; copies and reprints are not confirmations.

Best-documented cases

Ranked by independent sources first, then documents, then first-hand accounts. This says how well a claim is documented, not whether it is true.

  1. Dogman · Lone Butte, British Columbia

    Lone Butte, British Columbia1 independent source

    Witness's brother reports waking up to see a very large wolf walking away from his window.

  2. Dogman · Caswell Gameland, North Carolina · 2021

    Caswell Gameland, North Carolina1 independent source

    Witness reports seeing a massive black German Shepherd-like creature about six feet tall that killed a lady's goats in Tazewell County, Virginia.

  3. Dogman · Lone Butte, British Columbia

    Lone Butte, British Columbia1 independent source

    Witness reports seeing a large wolf with silver coat and green eyes that transformed into a seven-foot-tall humanoid near their barn in Lone Butte.

  4. Dogman · 1967

    location unknown1 independent source

    Witness reports seeing a Dog Man running alongside their car in North Carolina and later communicating with it telepathically.

  5. Dogman

    location unknown1 independent source

    A 13-year-old witness reports seeing a large, skinny, grey-furred creature with wolf ears and pitch-black eyes eating a deer in a Latvian forest clearing.

  6. Dogman · India · 1888

    India1 independent source

    Witness reports seeing a dark, hairy creature resembling a gorilla or man-wolf leap from the jungle, seize a child, kill it, and flee.

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
  • 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)
    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.