Great new section!!!!

Right after I joined I posted a story about an encounter my brother's park-ranger friend had with Bigfoot. Since then I have been reading Linda Godfrey's two books on the Beast of Bray Road and other sightings of what she calls 'manwolves'. I always knew that Bigfoot sightings weren't unusual, but was suprised to learn that people I know personally have seen these manwolf creatures.

I would like to share one of those stories and ask if anyone else has seen one of these creatures or knows someone who has??

Here goes:

Around 1974 my co-worker and a few buddies drove out into the desert, near Farmington, New Mexico, and were hanging out on a small hill getting ready for a night of beer drinking. It wasn't yet dark and they had just cracked open their suds when they noticed a dog wondering around an abandoned adobe hut about a half-mile away. It started trotting towards them, on all fours like a normal dog. When it got closer one of the guys decided to be a smart-alek and yelled at it. It must not have liked that. It stood up on its hind legs and started running towards them on only two paws! My co-worker said he and his buddies ran for their cars and tore a** out of there! He said it stood over six feet tall and believes it was a skinwalker. This area does sit right in the middle of some Ute and Navajo reservations.

That makes for a good campfire story!

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This is a GREAT new section!
night-owl, Thanks for sharing you're tail! -It is creepy!!

Night-Owl, great story. can't wait to tell my wife, but I think I'll wait until april when we get to the campground. I live in Toledo,where in Ohio did you live? Rick

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My experience was very indirect. More a story of proximity than anything else. In northwestern Michigan, there is a legend of a dogman that shows up about every ten years on the 7th year (hey, that would be this summer). About 20 years ago, we were up at our family's place "up North" and heard "The Legend" on the radio. It was my brother, his girlfriend and I. I was in college and they were in high school, and all the parents were out, leaving us in the creepy house on the edge of the creepy woods. And we had to walk quite a distance to the creepy outhouse (always in pairs, at least). The Legend isn't quite so much a song as it is a story set to music, detailing all of the visits of the Dogman over the decades.

Yowza, that story freaked us out! And we found out soon after that there had been a sighting that summer, in our town, on the same road our house was on, maybe 3 miles away! (Kings Highway, Luther, MI)

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http://michigan-dogman.com/index.html

The link is the website of Steve Cook, who co-created the song with morning DJ Jack O'Malley at WTCM and the dogman story out of whole cloth in 1987. It explains when, how and why he wrote the song, played it on the station, and how it took off.

A quote from the front page:

"...Choosing characteristics of Bigfoot, the Boggy Creek monster from Arkansas, the Jersey Devil, and several other 'cryptids,' Cook created a mythical half-man, half-dog, and wrote several verses about appearances of the creature. He placed the events in Northern Michigan towns, and gave the dogman a mysterious chronological nature. Each sighting occurs in the seventh year of the decade.

“Everything in nature is cyclical,” states Cook, “bird migrations, the seasons, locusts; I picked the seventh year simply because it happened to be 1987.”

It then of course goes on to tell us that while they 'made it up', it then 'became real'(?!?)... but then, the front page is dominated by an ad for the 20th Anniversary Legend of the Dogman CD/DVD set for only $20.
Hhmm, couldn't really get $20 for that if they didn't let the story 'become real' I guess.

Mike C.

With so many actual sightings in the midwest (especially Wisconsin) I wonder why they decided to fabricate a 'creature'? According to Linda Godfrey, a man named Clarence Gillispie has collected stories of several dogman sightings from Manistee County, Michigan. I notice there is a 'sightings' link on the website.

Melissa: Linda says in one of her books that the attack on the cabin near Luther in '87 was investigated by the Department of Natural Resources. How did you learn of the incident- newspaper, word of mouth?

Found this on the site's message board. No opinion, just a cool-looking photo: http://www.haveyouseenthiscreature.com/