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The Dogman of Michigan
- mysterious world
- Apr 28, 2022
- 2 min read
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History
The dogman of Michigan is an urban legend from wexford county, Michigan about a creature that is seven feet tall, has a head of a dog and torso of a man. It closely resembles a werewolf, however people who have seen the creature, labelled it as dogman because its face resembled more of a dog than a werewolf. The legend was not widely known except for isolated encounters. It became really famous after 1987 when Steve cook, made a song about the creature and sightings.
Although it is reported that he had no idea that it was such a famous folklore. He just took references from experiences of people outside the state and other cryptids like the bigfoot and jersey devil. After the song was released, cook recieved 100s of calls about the alleged encounters with a creature similar to dogman. The creature is said to live around the mainstream river since the days when odawa tribes were present there. The dogman has been sighted more times than the Bigfoot, but despite this there have been no reports of attacks by the dogman or maybe the attacks might have gone unreported. A website ‘Dogman encounters’ has been dedicated to the legend and lots of people share their experiences and evidence of the existence of the beast. Many photos and videos have been circulated at the site and some of these evidences looks legitimate. According to the site, the dogman has been sighted in every continent except Antarctica. The dogman apparently surfaces during the years ending with seven.
Sightings
It was first sighted in 1887 by two lumberjacks. They believed it to be a dog of some kind and started chasing it until it let out a human like shriek and they booked it away from there. It was said that it emerges from the woods every ten years.
So many people from Michigan have caught sight of the dogman that it is not even considered a myth by many people there.
A person was attacked by a pack of dogs in the woods, he claims that one of them was so big and when he fired shots in the air from his gun it stood on its hind legs and walked inside of the trees after giving him a cold stare.
Along with Michigan, Pennsylvania also has its fair share of sightings of the dogman. Although there it is known as the werewolf but the description and the legends dating back to as far as the 1700s are really close to those of Michigan. Many people driving across the state at night have witnessed the creature and many people have witnessed the creature in the recent past as well .
Beliefs
Steve Cook, spoke with an elder from the Ottawa-Chippewa tribe in the 1980s who believed dogmen were members of a shapeshifting skin-walker tribe who became stuck somewhere between their human and animal forms.
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