r/dogman

I want to look for them, now I know that’s stupid but I want to know if they’re real and how they react to a non threatening situation if they’re an animal and have animal like behaviour, I also want to know how human they are as I’ve seen people say they have a human stare as if they’ve got a similar intelligence and also want to know if anyone knows of how the stories of werewolves came to be as I could imagine that these are what they’d call that back then, and where the shapeshifting thing came from, I’ve never experienced anything with them but I’m really interested and curious about them and I know my area in the uk could be considered a hotspot but I’ve only heard one story

If anyone can reach out and inform me on any new sitings or findings from them that would be great or even know areas of recent sitings in the uk

(edit: responses or explanations wanted)
this august coming will be three years since me, my cousin and some friends witnessed something pretty scary and to this day unexplained, we still think and talk about it a lot purely due to how eerie the instance was so i felt like posting here might give some answers or maybe even just a space to get it our into the world lol

every summer my family, cousins and a few family friends travel to a rural place in Co Kerry right beside the coast. without giving away our houses exact location it’s surrounded by forested mountains and cliffs in a bay area. it’s pretty rural and the village we stay in has two pubs ,one petrol station, a church and a beach cafe and that’s pretty much all the amenities around. farming and fishing are both massive in the area so there’s plenty of those people. the farmers in the area usually have , mountain sheep or goats because they are the only breed that can withstand the weather and steep heights the hills get to. my cousins house is pretty far up the road into a shrubby dense mountain and their neighbours own a large farm beside them their home being right beside my cousins, their shed being about 50 foot away another smaller tractor shed being 50 ish feet from that with field space in between behind the tractor shed is a dense forest, there is also a few derelict houses that have been abandoned for a while near them . my cousins always have an end of summer barbecue with all our friends and family and it’s usually a really fun time. three years ago august my cousins had their barbecue early because the weather was nicer then it would have been later that month.

that night , me, my cousin, my sister and our friend went for a walk along a steep dirt road that was used by farmers to go up further into the mountains, it’s beside my cousins house and we usually walk up just a bit to get a good view of the bay on clear days but this time it was pretty dark probably around nautical twilight so we had just enough visibility before it was complete dark. (it’s worth noting that this was on the 6th of august 2023 and just a few days before we had both a blue and Super moon) while we were walking along the path we looked to our right, we had a view of the neighbours two sheds and we could see a completely black figure crawling along the ground on all fours unnaturally fast, it stood midway through moving on its two hind legs and bolted as fast as possible into the forest area behind the tractor shed, we immediately ran down as fast as we could the hill road and back to my cousins house where i left my sister back with our friend who was older as my sister was pretty young at the time, while me and my cousin walked cautiously back to the area where we spotted the creature, at this time it was near,y completely dark so we knew we couldn’t stay for long but as we waited and stared into the spot where it was originally we noticed two yellow slitted dog like eyes staring directly at us, we ran down and haven’t been back since.

this has been something we have talked about a lot the last year or two since it happened because there was no way what we saw was human yet it wasn’t quite animal either, we have been calling it the wolfman and i’d love others input

For people who have said to see them, do they ever display canine behaviors like panting or barking? Or wagging their tail if they even have one? Genuinely curious if they have canine traits beyond just their appearance

As someone who always enjoyed studying the paranormal I'd often notice parallels between different cultures in their approach to protection from similar entities and creatures.

For example we can find vampire type entities in many cultures around the world and people had various means of protecting their homes and themselves through plants, items, chants and more.

But I haven't seen any specific mentions about dogmen although Cynocephali can be found mentioned throughout history.

Have you ever encountered anything like that? Any folk remedies specific to dogmen to ward them off?

Scents, sounds (frequencies), etc.

I've heard stories where some kind of agency would come clear the reported dogman sighting and they used a frequency gun/generator/sonic weapon (not sure what the correct term would be).

I'm curious of any insights people have. Even if it's just something you think you heard. 😄

No canine species has the ability to consistently stand bipedal for long periods of time nor does any canine species run as fast as people claim Dogman does nor do any of them have reflective eyeshine, it makes me question what the fuck this thing even is if its real and if its even a canine at all

Also canines are very pack oriented (minus foxes and coyotes) and Dogman is often described as traveling alone. Idk its behavior just doesnt add up to canines at all biologically it makes me think its something else entirely if its real

To my knowledge, there are no movies that explore the dogman phenomenon.

We have plenty of werewolf type horror movies but given how the movie industry explored all sorts of monsters and creatures, the dogman seems to be an untapped goldmine.

Why do you think that is?

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.

Hello y'all. For those unfamiliar with me, my name is Hazel Ife and I'm from Leamington, Ontario in Canada. I descended from early Free People Of Color that fled to Canada during times of racial tensions in the USA and back in 2025 I went to the USA to visit relatives in a small town called London, Ohio where I have many distant relatives I wanted to meet who are part of a thriving tri-racial community there. During my travels in the town - which were originally centered on meeting relatives, finding the few who do hoodoo and rootwork, and going on hikes - I ended up having my very own dogman encounter. A relative advised me to leave Ohio after my family's trip to Columbus and to never come South of Lake Erie again after I got home to Canada.

I've since come back to London, Ohio again several times, setting up a dogman hotline of sorts. Anyone who believes they've seen or heard the Madison Plains Dogmen can email me at hazeltucky0@gmail.com or using a box with a slit hole to insert notes in a box I've hid in Cowling Park in London, Ohio.

A few days ago, a lady from the town sent me two videos which I posted here of what sounded like a human-like barking along with animalistic growls and sniffing. The woman allegedly claimed it was the dogman. I posted it here with an open-minded yet skeptical position and titled it "alleged footage" but since it seemed to sound much like people, many have believed this was a crazy person or a goat or someone pulling my leg. I have decided I personally believe the footage was most likely a hoax, and I am now taking measures to try to weed out anyone pulling my leg. I personally think it's possible that a dogman could make noises like that. It is a dogMAN after all, it is almost like something that shouldn't be, not quite canine and not quite human. But the videos I got sent were in an open field on top of a hill surrounded by more open fields in broad daylight next to a busy roadway called Keny Boulevard. As someone commented, "Why didn't the passing cars see the dogman" and indeed the cars were only about two football fields away from the camera, which the woman claims was set up to film small birds in the area called Killdeer. I also doubt the authenticity because of the high winds, which were very strong, and the way the supposed dogman sounds were being picked up means it would have to be right next to the camera or the winds would've prevented it from being picked up as clearly as it had, yet no dogman was caught on the camera. It could have been a dogman, but now after giving it some thought and critique I just don't believe that.

There has been more dogman sightings reported by locals of London, Ohio on several Facebook groups, most of which are now private and are not public anymore, when they were public just 3 weeks ago, making me believe the ridicule people are getting for claiming to see this thing has led moderators to do that as no other obvious reasons have been indicated.

On June 23rd, 2026 between 9:30pm and 9:50pm about 18 people all testified to hearing howling simultaneously coming from different spots off of Spring Valley Road, Payne Thompson Road, and along the Robert's Pass Trail section of the Ohio To Erie Trail. These locations and Madison Lake State Park seem to be the epicenter of the recent sightings from September 2025 to June 2026 which are ongoing at the time of this post and are being reported almost bi-weekly. Despite having my own very real experience with seeing and coming very close with what I cannot be convinced was anything other than a dogman, I am now more skeptical of people's claims after the video that lady sent me.

Does anyone with experience covering other's stories or investigating the dogman have any tips or tricks for vetting reports and weeding out potential misidentifications or straight up fakes?

To answer some questions people have asked me in DMs repeatedly:

It was not hard for me to identify the tree species at night while also being nervous about the dogman nearby that I thought was coming after me. It takes a second. Just seeing the trees. Shagbark Hickory is called shagbark for a reason it's obvious. And all I have to do is see Red Maple leaves and it's like, "Okay, this is out in the woods and looks like that, definitely not planted here or cultivated so it's gotta be a Red Maple with that shape." It's easy to tell apart from a Sugar Maple or a Silver Maple even in the dark because if I can see the leaf shape I instantly know, that's all it takes. To the people claiming that they don't believe my dogman encounter I had back in October because I included extra details like what trees I saw and that I had goose bumps and didn't care that I hadn't waxed when I saw that, I don't care if you believe me or not, I know what I saw, but why do those details remove any credibility from my experience? If I did care about not waxing my arms while being chased by an 8 foot tall bipedal wolf-man creature, wouldn't that be what would be unusual if anything? I have got a lot of harassment and bullying but I will continue to share my story and investigate, sharing other people's stories as well, but also I will be more careful of what I take at face value.

I guess after seeing what I never thought was possible or real, I no longer questioned anything and believed anyone telling me they saw that thing too, but if I want to get to the bottom of this mystery I need the most credible evidence of the Dogman. I want to have some closure and understand what I saw. I'm not even scared anymore after all these months. Just confused. How was this thing real? I can't say. But I've seen it and it was there. For others who've seen it, you're not alone, and you're not a "wacko". Anyone can chat with me if they just wanna chat. I know it helps me process what I saw.

I find it strange that this one person has single-handedly collected the most dogmen footage than anyone ever and claiming they are real videos. It’s funny how since AI came about there’s all these cryptid videos on Ytube and Instagram.