Possible dog man encounter
So this took place back in 2023. I was visiting my family in Wisconsin, they live in a heavily wooded area. It was winter and there was snow on the ground.
I was sleeping in my cousins room on the floor. Everyone else was asleep except for my little cousin and I, we were playing Crash Bandicoot on the switch. (Such a fun game 😂) Anyways, it was about 2 am I think and we noticed a light had turned on outside. Their porch light had a motion sensor so we were obviously like woah what was that. We figured it was an animal of some kind so we ignored it. But then it happened again. We werent really scared because they had a raccoon who sometimes got into their cat food box so we assumed it was just that.
We turned off our game because we had to get up early anyways but when we looked out the window the light was still on. This meant something was still there. We walked to the window and didnt see anything at first but then my cousin hit me with his elbow and said holy shit. I looked further out and there was this animal looking thing that was tall and it had eyes that were really reflective. It almost looked like they were actually glowing orange. It looked like it could see us, like it was staring at us. And this thing was tall like almost the size of a person maybe bigger. We assumed it was a coyote but it was way bigger than that and didnt look like any coyote we had seen. The light shut off because it had been walking away long enough so we put a towel over the window (they dont have curtains in that room and we were a little uneasy) and went to bed.
In the morning we had brought it up to his parents (my aunt and uncle) and they said they had noticed the light but assumed it was either us or like we thought and had just been a raccoon or something. We told them what we saw and they said it was probably a coyote.
When we went outside we saw these huge footprints in the snow although it had been melting all night and morning so they werent super clear. My aunt and uncle werent sure what they were but didnt seem scared of them. Just thought they were weird.
Anyways I came across this subreddit and wanted to see what you guys thought.