It described various encounters over the decades, with a creature that left paw prints frightening a team of horses to death, menacing the crew of a schooner and peering into a van of hippies in the 1960s. “The Dogman song, right from the beginning, was a radio bit, and like most radio bits, we expected it to come and go,” said Cook.īut the spoken-word track became the most-requested song at the station in the following week. Steve Cook has never seen the beast himself, but helped popularize it with a 1987 April Fool’s Day radio piece called “The Legend.” Want to support reporting like this? Consider making a gift to Michigan Radio today.For decades, the creature – described as a man with a dog’s head, or a dog that walks curiously upright – has been spotted from Sparta to Bellaire and beyond. This post was written by production assistant Catherine Nouhan. However, who knows what’s living in the forests of Michigan.” So I’m not saying there’s a Dogman that’s going to show up. There’s been quite a few in the last few months. “For a long time, there were stories of large cats in Michigan that were sort of dismissed,” Clark said. In late 2011, filmmaker Rich Brauer released a film titled Dogman.Ĭlark says that she will not confirm or deny reports of Dogman, especially since Michigan forests have diverse wildlife which can house surprising creatures. In 1987, a Traverse City radio station recorded a song titled "The Legend," recounting the Dogman’s historical whereabouts. The legend has also been used as a reference in pop culture. That hasn’t convinced dedicated Dogman believers, though. Since the viral video was released, Agrusa has admitted it was a hoax. Mike Agrusa was a young boy in the 1970s when he supposedly captured a video depicting what appears to be Dogman during a northern Michigan vacation.
Some say the existence of Dogman was proven in what's known as The Gable Film.
Someone recently called OnStar reporting that Dogman ran in front of his car-causing it to flip over. These encounters have been said to scare people to death. In the 1870s, Michigan was the leading white pine lumber producer in the nation. Most of the original reports came from logging camps. It scratches at their houses or their tents.” They do talk about this beast coming out of the woods, it is very agile, it jumps in front of their car or in front of them. “Their encounters are very similar though. And then over the years, it’s a lot of times people who are again alone, either on an isolated road or the woods,” Clark said.
“So, the early reports are usually of men working in the woods who encounter this beast during their time there. According to legend, the Dogman appears to humans in a ten-year cycle that falls on years ending in the number seven. That's when two lumberjacks saw a creature they described as having a man's body and a dog's head. The beast has been on the minds of Michiganders for the last 130 years starting in 1887. Rachel Clark with the Michigan History Center walked us through the legend and sightings of the Michigan Dogman, which date back to the 1800s. He looked like a man, but also had the qualities of a canine-like creature. He was seven feet tall with glistening eyes of blue or yellow and a terrifying, humanoid howl.
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