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Joined once again by Least Haunted's resident bisexual biologist, Carolyn, we explore the wild Wisconsin Werewolf said to terrify motorists along a rural farm community short cut. And we hear the legend of conspiratorial canid creatures said to stalk the woods of Michigan and other midwestern states. But is there any truth to these furry folktails? Or has the wool been pulled over our eyes by a cleverly dressed wolf? So come join the pack as we howl our way through these questions and more in this special Pride Themed episode!

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The original news story's image from 1991

Inside Edition's Coverage of The Beast of Bray Road from 1993

The Legend (2007) by Steve Cook

The Gable Film

CAROLYN'S CLASSROOM!

Kangaroo caught on camera by hunters in Oklahoma

Red Kangaroo

Eastern Grey Kangaroo

Dogmen - Legendary creatures with canine or wolf heads and anthropoid bodies capable of walking or running upright.

Unlike weredogs, or shape-shifters, dogmen seem to be hybrids. Dogmen are reported around the world. In lore they have been considered a type of debased human being.

The Cynocephali, or Dog-heads, were well known in classical times, and were among the most feared of monstrous races. In some descriptions, they were fire-breathing cannibals with enormous teeth.

A race of raw-meat-eating dog headed men said to live in india was described as early as the fourth century B.C. Ctesias of Cnidus, the court physician to Artaxerxes of Persia and a philosopher, historian, and writer, wrote of them. Ctesias’s works were extensively quoted by Pliny the Elder in the first century C.E. in his work Historia Naturalis. Ctesias called the mutants the Dog-Headed Men of the Northern Hills:

In the hills there are men who have a dog's head, and whose clothes are the skins of wild beasts. They have no language; they bark like dogs and so make themselves understood to one another. Their teeth are longer than those of dogs; their nails are like those of animals, but longer and more curved. They are black and very honest, like the rest of the Indians, with whom they trade; they understand the Indian language, but they cannot reply except by barking and making signs with their hands and fingers like deaf-mutes. The Indians call them Calystrians in their language, which means dog-headed. They live on raw meat. Their population may reach 129,000.

The explorer Marco Polo also described a race of dog-headed men on the island of "Angaman," thought to be one of the Andaman Islands.

Ctesias's writings have long been dismissed by scientists, who point out that he never went to India himself and knew of it only by hearsay and second-hand reports. His "dog-men" may have been monkeys, or a race of hairy pygmies called the Vedduh from Ceylon. As for Polo, he also is dismissed as probably having been influenced by Ctesias.

In Egyptian lore, Queen Hatshepsut sent sailors to the "land of Punt" (part of Somalia), where they found dog-headed men who were fierce warriors.

References to dog-headed men appear in Christianity. The Theodore Psalter in the British Library features an illustration of Jesus preaching to dog-headed men—perhaps a symbol of the heathen. An apocryphal work, Contendings of the Apostles, tells of Andrew and Bartholomew preaching to a giant cannibal named Abominable, who has a doglike head and bestial body features. The legendary St. Christopher was described in the eighth century as being "one of the Dog-heads," who ate human flesh.

In North America, the Dogmen of Michigan are said to haunt northern Michigan. The legend dates to the late 19th century, when loggers were said to encounter a strange, large black dog that reared up on its hind legs.

Folklore accounts recorded since then tell of sightings of a creature with a dog's head and a man's body. "Dogmen" were said to break into houses and buildings, leaving claw and teeth marks on doors, and to attack people and animals, some of whom supposedly died of fright. A creature with a man's body and dog's head was encountered swimming in Claybank Lake near Manistee, where fishermen had to fight it off to keep it out of their boat.

Bigfoot vs Dogman: Michigan Cryptid Rivalry EXPLAINED!

The connection between Michigan's Bigfoot and another famous local cryptid, the Michigan Dogman, represents a fascinating area of overlap in the state's cryptozoological lore. first reported near Traverse City in 1887, the Dogman shares certain habitat preferences with Bigfoot, with both creatures reportedly favoring remote wooded areas, particularly in the northwestern Lower Peninsula. Intriguingly, some researchers have proposed a territorial relationship between the 2 cryptids, noting that Bigfoot sightings tend to decrease in areas where Dogman accounts are prevalent.

Other theories suggest they might represent different interpretations of the same phenomenon, with witnesses expectations and cultural backgrounds influencing how they perceive these encounters. The timing of sightings adds another layer of complexity as Dogman sightings reportedly spike during years ending in 7, while Bigfoot appears more consistently across time.

Chilling Dogman and Werewolf Stories from Minnesota

Werewolf and dogman stories from Northern Minnesota. A video version is at Dogman and Werewolf Stores of Northern Minnesota.

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