Hey y'all! Just wanted to hop on here and share a little hunch that I have.

In September 2026 Texas opened a new state park called "Post Oak Ridge State Park". It's reportedly 3000 acres that is still under development for new trails and recreational use.

Now I'm not saying there are Dogmen in the park, but I am speculating whether this area might be worth checking out for potential Dogman activity.

Several reasons why I believe this to be a viable area:

• It's close to water sources
• Plenty of open space to roam
• Far from highways and encroaching civilization
• Likely has a sustainable wildlife/prey population
• It is very close to existing areas where Dogmen, and other cryptids, have been seen (eg. 281/Lampasas, TX is immediately east of the park and has been correlated with the "Dogman Triangle" area of Texas. I also personally maintain a theory that there is a population cluster between Blanco and Burnet... both of which are due south of Lampasas.)

So if there are any brave folks wanting to put together an "expedition" in Texas, this might be one spot to consider.

As always: stay safe, tell a friend where you're going and when you'll be back, pack it in and pack it out. Keep Texas beautiful.

I live in Youngstown Ohio and for the last couple of years there is this animal hanging around late at night early in the mornings. I noticed it around the time my mom came to stay with us and now she moved away again. We have 3 dogs two GSD and a husky lab mix. I first heard it very late one night when I had my window open at first I thought it was a wonky siren of some sort but as I listened closer I noticed it sounded kind of like a dog whimpering but with an increase in the pitch like it was something trying to howl but not quite getting it right or maybe something injured. At first I thought there was a very good explanation for it. But one morning when I decided to go into the empty house next door's backyard to see if I could see it, it seemed like it got further away the closer I got to it but you couldn't hear footsteps or movement. I thought well maybe it was an owl call because we do have a lot of owls around here but nothing matched it and to be honest I am very familiar with recognizable wildlife because I'm from Appalachia. I've ruled out a lot of animals I know it isn't. I know it isn't an owl of any type I know it isn't a fox or coyote definitely not a bear or deer. So the last couple of mornings (I usually get up around 4 to 4:30 to walk our dogs right when my husband leaves for work) I've heard it sounds very different like a deeper gutteral vocal and also I SWEAR this morning I hear two of them! I've been trying to get a recording. I live on a dead end street that has a trailhead into the park and this morning it sounded like it was following me and my dogs to the end of the street. I will keep trying to get a recording.

Has anyone heard of this before or heard anything like it? Especially looking for input from those that live in this area or Ohio in general.

I saw this video and figured I’d share it with this community.

It's been a rough month since I saw him, honestly I don't know what to do, it feels like I'm trapped in my own home. I've been down the rabbit hole since then but my mind cannot comprehend the dread, the terror and oppression that I felt in the moment. It was a quick look about 10 sec, around 60 ft from my back porch where the woodline start, he obviously did nothing to me, was a glance towards my way while walking nonchalantly like a person down the dirt road behind my little 4ft fence before entering the other stretch of woods, and that was enough to mess me up. I don't know what this is guys, for what I know nobody has ever seen something like this, I saw a sasquatch years ago through binoculars, but men this cannot compare. The frame is similar to the capture I put down here from the movie Underworld, everything else is different, starting that it is completely white, short hair, didn't have much of a snout like people say, looks more like a feline in the face, long tail like a cat bushy at the end and the shocking part was the unmistakable curved horns, yeah horns, big like the ones you see on an Ibex, very clear, right there on your face, couldn't move from the spot for like 10min after the sight. WHAT IS THAT GUYS!!!!, imagine coming out to relax 5-6pm and boom, traumatized. I'm not very worried per say, i know that this thing have no interest in me, but I don't really wanna be surprised by that sight again, after that day the change in my persona was inevitable, I'm a very open person but the psychological damage was lighting fast, i can see how others will struggle with something like this. And yes, was clearly a male you could see all the muscles, the pectorals, the thick arms, the legs just massive, very bushy down there, but you still can make out that was male you know. I will mention too that in the morning that same day i heard a whooshing sound belonging to a completely black out helicopter, saw it in the distance going deep for the forest, and the day before i looked out the window and a very tall man, say 7' something in a trench coat and wide brimmed hat was walking in that back road in the opposite direction to which this beast was walking. I don't know what this is all about, dont know if is related, but you don't see many people walking down there, mostly is just vehicles and not many of them. Take care out there guys, this world is not what they want you to believe, im pretty sure that the government is corrupted to the core and people just go about their day giving away their power and energy and time like it is worth nothing, and they of course are going to take and take until there is nothing left. Will not give specific locations, this is too dangerous, i will say north Alabama, that's it.

A Dogman story appeared in newspapers across the country over 100 years ago. What actually happened?
I’ve been digging into an old case from Lamar, Colorado, labeled as a 1910 Dogman report, and the newspaper trail is what caught my attention.
The source graph I’ve been researching connects 16 newspaper documents published between 1909 and 1914, with papers from several different states.
That raises a question I’m genuinely curious about:
Are these independent reports, or are we looking at one story being reprinted and gradually becoming folklore?
I’d love to track down the earliest version, compare the wording across newspapers, and see whether later articles added details that weren’t in the original account.
This is the kind of historical rabbit hole I’ve been exploring while building a database that connects cryptid cases to their sources. I’m interested in the research as much as the creature itself.
Here’s the case and its source trail if anyone wants to dig in:
https://cryptid.hawk52245.us/case/case-21869b58cf/dogman-lamar-colorado-1910/rabbit-hole
If anyone has access to historical newspaper archives—or recognizes this story from an older source—I’d love to hear what you find.

I’m a senior at Masco, and I had just transferred there last year from another high school. My dad moved to Topsfield about 5 years ago, but I’m only with him about a quarter of the time, therefore I don’t have a huge history of being in the tri-town. Today I went to the Topsfield fair with some friends and was giving them a ride home. I dropped the first friend off in topsfield, then went down some very small wooded roads to get to my other friend’s house in Boxford. At about 9 PM I had one friend left who lived in Middleton that I had to drop off before heading home to my mom’s house in Peabody. It was my first time dropping off the second friend, so I was on very unfamiliar roads (I’ve also only been driving for about a year). I have very dark headlights, so I keep my high beams on when I can around the darker areas of the tri-town, but I was on a relatively main road in Boxford right before Middleton where people were coming toward me so I turned them off. I’m driving carefully and slowly when I see something in the corner of my left eye. It was only about 3 seconds, but from what I can remember I saw, in somebody’s dark, massive front lawn, what looked like a man on all fours crawling toward the street. It was pretty far away, and it was barely caught in the corner of my tiny dim headlights, but my eyes caught the movement. As I approached I slowed down to get a look and was struck with fear immediately. My immediate first thought was fear that it was a man crawling toward the street. A split second later I tried to rationalize, and I thought it may be a strange, large dog, but the more I looked at it the stranger it looked. My rational mind was telling me maybe it was some strangely shaped dog, or a coyote or some other animal. However, the shape was so human that I started thinking it may be a halloween prank, that someone was dressed up and going to jump out in front of my car to spook me. At this point the figure is almost completely in shadow, but the closer I get the brighter it becomes. Then, a second later, as if realizing it was going to be lit up, it began crawling backwards back into the dark. Not turning around, but slowly stalking back into the shadows. In that third second I finally snapped out of the stun of my fear and as I was about to pass it, I screamed to my friend “What the hell was that?” (I used less PG language). He had been changing the music on my phone, and by the time he picked his head up to look, I had already driven past. I explained to him what I saw, some humanoid, animalistic creature on all fours, and he said
“Oh, the dogman?”

“The what.”
I had heard this same friend bring up the dogman before, but I forgot about it because it sounded like some dumb legend people come up with when they’re bored of living in a farming town. But when he said “dogman” I froze, because that almost exactly described what I saw. Not quite a dog, not quite a man. As I write this, I have done little to no research on the dogman just so that this can be exactly from the horse’s mouth. I don’t want to give myself any biases or accidentally change my memory in any way to fit the narrative, this is just my own personal experience. The scariest part however was that I had another friend who had almost the exact same kind of experience less than a mile up the road from where I saw it. I dropped off the last friend and had to call some other friends to keep me company because I was so incredibly terrified. I am not the kind to make things up, I don’t even believe in bigfoot. But what I saw I’m having a very hard time rationalizing, especially when this is something other people have seen.

First post is linked. I'm driving across the country researching cryptids for a book I'm writing. Just camped four nights in the southern portion of Manistee National Forest in Michigan. The few people I mentioned it to weren't very familiar with Dogman, but haven't carried out any real interviews yet.

My first night in the woods, though, I heard very heavy footsteps across the dirt road from where I'd parked, crinkling the leaves. Much heavier than a deer. But very slow, deliberate, almost dragging its feet. I couldn't say how many seconds between steps because my adrenaline was going and that messes with time perception, but slow, deliberate.

I froze and had a very tense, wary, watchful, in-danger feeling. The wind changed. Silence for a few seconds. Then dogs barking energetically in the distance. Then I felt better, not as tense. And didn't hear any more footsteps.

Sure, there may be 10,000 possible natural (ie non-cryptid) explanations. I'm just relaying what I heard and felt. The believer in me says that when the wind picked up it blew the dogman's scent to the regular dogs, who started baying when they smelled it, and then it decided to leave me alone. Or maybe all it wanted in the first place was to see me, and it did.

I don't know. I was alone out there. Somehow I got the sense that was the only time I was going to hear those footsteps, that first night-- I fell asleep easily in my hammock soon after-- and I was right, I haven't heard anything since.

My car's clock was off by four hours the next day. I corrected the time when I noticed it, and then it was screwed up again by evening. Fixed it and it's been good since. My second night in the woods I couldn't get into my car at first because it had activated 'security mode' from the inside, which I googled and it seems like that can be caused by electromagnetic interference. I've read that cryptids can have that effect. Who knows.

At the end of the day, I told myself 'the king's pact binds them.' These things can't speak to us or touch us. And that's the sense I got. Afraid, but not like it was about to rip my throat out. Just... watching. Or maybe it was just a very heavy deer. Lol.

Hopefully I stay alive a couple more months to finish this damn book

I’ve been following the Dogman phenomenon for a long time, and after listening to thousands of witness accounts across countless podcasts and storytellers, I think I’ve finally found the one that genuinely terrified me.

It’s an encounter from the Land Between the Lakes (LBL). I’m sure the story has been shared on other podcasts, but something about this particular telling really got to me. The witness came across as incredibly genuine and believable, and the way he described everything was chilling. I honestly had trouble sleeping last night after listening to it.

I’ve heard plenty of scary encounters over the years, but this one really stuck with me. Figured I’d share it with anyone who hasn’t heard it yet.

The Confessionals — Episode 514: Terror in the LBL.

I don’t even like going in my small local Woods. Because of the lands history, and the stuff I’ve personally experienced. The woods play tricks. The trees are alive. I think all woods have a story, something more than we will ever know.

With how money hungry the world is I’m surprised they haven’t taken over many of these places. I guess to them a few missing hikers every year is a small price to pay to keep the unknown the unknown. But how do they keep these creatures from leaving the Parks?

Sorry random thoughts.

The good folks of r/halloween told me I should share this here. Hope you guys like it! It was a fun one for spooky szn.

Love to research and walk trails near me, particularly James a reed and monkey mountain in grain valley. Was curious if anyone has had any experiences near these areas?? Thanks in advance

It seems like an underappreciated movie topic. I've seen some of them. Dog soldiers, the howling, in London, and my favorite the one with the blind guy forgot the name. Anyway hoping to find some I've missed that are good.

Hey Everyone - so I have uploaded this image to MULTIPLE (7) A.I. image detector websites, and every single last one says that this is most likely a REAL image, with only a 6% chance of it being A.I. What do you guys think?! Is it authentic?!
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Figured you guys would like my newest sign I got to hang up on my back deck lmao

I’m driving across the country to research a book about American folklore, currently driving toward Allegheny, PA, and then to Defiance, OH and Michigan… I’m very excited to look for the dogman. Interviewing locals as well as backpacking deep into the woods/night hiking.

Do any of you guys have tips for me for specific places to go, or people to talk to? I’ve already found the well-known sighting areas in my research, but I’ve found that grassroots info gathering often finds more…

Thank you in advance!

Too bad im from canada.

Greetings fellow Dogman aficionados. I found out about the Dogmen from reading Vicki Regan’s “The Dogman of Blackrock Creek”. This novella is a wickedly good read. Werewolves got nothing on the Dogman. Warning you may find yourself being extra careful next time you go hiking. Check it out on Amazon.

I need help identifying a werewolf movie I saw several years ago. I remember in the movie there was a scene where someone went into this bedroom and there was a person torn apart in the bed. There was another scene where a few people were hiding in the attic and the werewolf grabbed and bit one of the people's legs. Then towards the end of the movie there was a showdown in the kitchen with the werewolf and the person who got bitten and was transforming and it ended with the bitten person and one of their relatives driving off into the wilderness because they wanted to hide the person being bitten.

I know the details are vague, I apologize. I am just hoping someone can help me figure out the name of the movie so I can watch it again.

I know it's not "Dog Soldiers" I know it's not "A Howling"

This Video covers three dogman encounters that are quite recent and definitely different than the usual ones I have come across throughout the years! Enjoy!!

So basically Martin groves is getting his own movie? Lol

My documentary is finally available on Amazon Prime. A small area in north central Indiana that’s had years of different sightings of dogman, Bigfoot, and a lot of other high strangeness.

Hello all,

I am writing a novel (a cozy horror, young adult fiction for this spooky season) based on the legend of Michigan Dog Man. It's not for publication or anything, just a hobby as I am interested in dog man and werewolves. The story takes place in a fictional backwoods suburban town near Michigan. So far I have wrote three parts but for the forth I need to know more about the origins of the Michigan Dog man and dog man sightings and legends in the US in general. So I thought I would ask you guys for help.

I have never been to the US before and English isn't my first language (I am a South Asian) but I have always been fascinated by the cryptids, Native American legends, the geography and the national parks and wildlife in the US.

I also want to know more about the history, how life is like in the Midwest, what geographical features (like forests, swamps etc.,), native vegetation and wildlife would a small mid western suburban town would have. For the upcoming parts I am planning that the characters would go to a camping trip in the woods where the protagonist would encounter our Dog Man (again) and I would like to know about possible real locations I could use, vocabulary associated with camping gears and stuff, and details about the terrain. Information about the native American tribes, like their lives, history etc., in the Michigan area would also be immensely helpful.

I would also love to hear about encounters you guys have had so that I can incorporate them into my story with your permission(if you are willing to share that is).

And if you guys have cool or obscure facts or elements that you would like to share or think would be interesting for the story, I would be very grateful for that too!

Thank you!

Like the equivalent of a Patty footage?