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(via The Grim Gallery: Exhibit 3954)

It was 2014 when a Michigan woman (kept anonymous in the source book for this article) wrote to cryptozoological investigator Linda Godfrey to report a bizarre encounter her great-grandfather had had with an exceptionally unusual sort of wolf-like entity in the 1920s according to his son (her grandfather). The woman was the descendant of one of the founding families of Detroit.

He had been driving in the Rockwood area of the absolute southernmost tip of Detroit, somewhere along the Huron River not more than a few miles away from Gross Isle and Lake Erie when one of his tyres went flat - marooning him on a country lane in the days before service stations infested the corners of each and every street. Instead, he decided that his only reasonable course of action would be to walk to the nearest house and hope that the people living there would be kind enough to help him.

Taking this risk, however, would not go his way at all. He knocked on the door and something happened which he never forgot for the rest of his days. Something large and hairy opened the door - it resembled a ‘dog’ stood on its hind legs. As if the situation couldn’t get any stranger, the dogman proceeded to speak in clear English. Go, or I’ll kill you. Horrified, the man bolted from the doorway and ran back to his car, driving it all the way home on the flat tyre in sheer panic.