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Cryptid Canines / Wolves Reported in Proximity to the Paulding Light Phenomenon
I offer two examples of cryptid canines being seen in the area of the Paulding Light, a location that has been long known for anomalous light activity, as well as other unexplained phenomena.
I recently received the following account:
“I live in Phelps, Wisconsin about 8 miles from Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, and near the location of the Paulding Light phenomenon.
In the early fall of 2018, I turned from Highway 17 onto St. Louis Rd. As I came around the corner what looked like a giant wolf the size of a Volkswagen Beetle! He was chasing something and leaped over the entire width of the road in one stride. But the thing that was weird about it was obviously the size of this creature but the way he was moving, it’s hard to explain. It was robotic, or animated that’s the closest I can get to explaining it. But it gave me the chills bad, and I can’t get it out of my head. I’ve seen plenty of wolves and they’re big here but this thing was HUGE! And the way it moved, it was just freaky. I’ve never seen it again and when I have to drive down that road I get scared. The creepy feeling comes over me!” MG
This was not the only cryptid wolf or canine sighting in the area:
This encounter took place in the area of Watersmeet, Michigan home of the famous Paulding Lights phenomenon. Oddly enough, the Paulding Lights are also known as the “Dog Meadow Lights.”
“I was thirteen, had just gotten new rollerblades for Christmas. Since the main road where our property sits is paved, I couldn’t wait to ride around. I went blading by myself and stopped to rest for a second. On this road, the woods are so thick, there’s not much space between the road and the woods in most parts, and I remember seeing trees pushed down on the road that my dad said was done by bears (He was an avid bear hunter). I remember not hearing any of your normal sounds of nature, not even birds. The air was still, and the sky would be pure dark in not too long. I was deciding if to turn back when I heard a rustling behind me, and something emerged from the left side of the road. I assumed it was a deer, and paused and made myself as quiet as I could so I could watch it and slumped down on my stomach in the middle of the road. It was about six hundred feet ahead of me.
When I got myself settled in the road to watch it and looked up. I realized what I was looking at wasn’t a deer. It was on all fours, with grey/brown fur. At first, I feared the worst, thinking a bear had caught my scent until I saw its outline and color. I thought I was looking at a dog until I realized the face was too…primitive? Like a fox or a coyote’s. At this point in my life, I had never seen a wolf in real life, and it was too far for me to make out the face exactly.”
The Michigan Department of Natural Resources has always recognized that wild wolves still roamed in Upper Peninsula, although they were thought to be in very limited numbers, and only in extremely remote areas. It is conceivable this witness was seeing one of these wolves, but then something very strange happened:
It extended its front legs, and in the slowest, longest seconds of my life, stood up on its hind legs, sniffed the air, and walked for about five steps. Then got back down on all fours and walked to the other side of the woods, then disappeared.
I don’t remember how long I lay in the middle of the road staring at the empty space. I saw this thing stand like a human. I remember my jaw hanging down as low as it could, and a pool of drool on the cement under it. It finally clicked in my mind that, perhaps, I should rollerblade my butt back home as quick as I could.” Name withheld
NOTE: If you click this link you will discover other unexplained activity in the area, including the manifestation of an apparent alien being. Lon
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Prior to pursuing his dream of becoming a full-time author and musician in 2015, Joshua Cutchin served as Public Affairs Director of the University of Georgia Hugh Hodgson School of Music for three years. During his tenure at UGA, Joshua authored over one hundred articles, press releases, and blog posts.
Joshua Cutchin has appeared on countless paranormal programs discussing his work, including Coast to Coast AM, Mysterious Universe, Binnall of America, Expanded Perspectives, Radio Misterioso, and the Gralien Report. He has been featured on the hit History Channel television show Ancient Aliens, and is a recurring roundtable guest on the Where Did the Road Go? podcast.
He is the author of seven critically-acclaimed books: 2015’s A Trojan Feast: The Food and Drink Offerings of Aliens, Faeries, and Sasquatch (translated into Spanish as Banquete Troyano); 2016’s The Brimstone Deceit: An In-Depth Examination of Supernatural Scents, Otherworldly Odors, & Monstrous Miasmas; 2018’s Thieves in the Night: A Brief History of Supernatural Child Abductions; and 2020’s Where the Footprints End: High Strangeness and the Bigfoot Phenomenon, Volumes I & II, with Timothy Renner. In 2022, he released his two-part masterwork: Ecology of Souls: A New Mythology of Death & the Paranormal.
2023 will see the release of Fairy Films: Wee Folk on the Big Screen, a collection of essays for which he is the editor and a contributor.
He also appears alongside coauthor Timothy Renner in the 2023 documentary ‘I Believe in Bigfoot.’
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UFO & Bizarre Humanoids Reported by Romanian Officials & Villagers
Local Romanian officials and residents report unexplained lights and bizarre humanoid beings that descended on their village of Certesti. There were other strange effects after the incident.
My Romanian colleague Christinne provided the following translated account:
On the night of July 8 to 9, 1996, police platoon leader Marian Mancu and volunteer guard Maricel Rusu were making their rounds through the village of Certesti, Galati County, Romania.
Around 00:30, getting hungry, platoon leader Mancu wanted to stop at home to eat something. His home was in a block with one floor, located on the other side of the paved road in front of the police station. The entrance to the block was through the back.
The policeman was going to be absent for ten minutes at most; meanwhile, the Russian guard was going to wait for him in the street. The platoon leader barely passed the corner of the block when he heard a strange whine and felt a strong current of air. He turned around and saw something on the road that “sparked blue-reddish colored lights and made a vum-vum.”
At first, he thought it was the traffic light from the car of a police crew from Galati, who came to check. Approaching, he saw that the object was a UFO, floating above the road, and next to him was moving a little man with an unusual appearance. He shouted “guard!” In response, Rusu, who, in the meantime, had hidden, out of fear, in the ditch on the side of the road, half buried under a footbridge, two or three meters from the object, raised his head saying: “Mr. Marian, Satan!”
The guard Maricel Rusu declared that as soon as the platoon leader headed towards his house, located around the corner, “a noise from above…” appeared.
He was leaning against the fence, so he did not see the appearance of the object very well. At first, he thought that the neon from the street lighting was defective. He said to himself that maybe “the wind is blowing him.”
The object descended slowly, without noise, “fal, fal, fal.” When he saw the lights, the guard thought to himself that it was a police crew coming to control or something like that and that he would have “someone to talk to until morning.” He only got scared when he saw that the object “didn’t come close to the ground.” He said to himself that “this is not a good thing” and when three humanoids appeared, he hid in the ditch. According to his own statements “when I saw how they were, when I saw their state of ugliness, I said to myself that these are not ours… then I got scared and went down into the ditch… (to) hide as if somehow… that I have never seen (something like this) in my life…”
The object, according to the concordant descriptions of the two, was discoidal and had a diameter of about 5-6 meters and a height of about 2-2.5 meters. A drawing depicts him as somewhat shaped like a hat.
The UFO was hovering about half a meter above the road and swaying slightly. It had, all around, a “continuous” luminous belt, “like a rainbow” with white, red, blue (or green in other statements) lights that flickered. The lights were not seen rotating, but they were “erased like this…” and passing into each other: “from green started red…”. Below the object was a strong, white light. Neither of the two saw that the ship had doors or windows.
Before the pilot left the corner of the block, the UFO took off perpendicularly, “went up once”, at which point its lights became much brighter, and then “took off at a very high speed,” to the northwest, towards the village of Pochidia.
According to Maricel Rusu, “it disappeared with a big storm,” “it went in a direction that I didn’t even realize… that it was for a short time…” The neon lantern that provides street lighting went out at the moment of take-off, but recovered by itself, “without anyone’s intervention,” in about half a minute.
The humanoid creatures were seen better by the Russian guard. Platooner Mancu saw only one, and the one from the back. Their height was estimated at about one meter, maybe less, but possibly even higher (“like a six-year-old child”). The Russian watchman says that the creatures were swirling around the ship, chattering and babbling unintelligibly, “like rain in a downpour.” They had, according to the concordant descriptions of the two witnesses, an “unfulfilled” appearance.
They were completely hairless (although in another statement the guard described them as “hairy,” but it seems he only wanted to emphasize how ugly they were). They had a big head, elongated towards the back and a kind of “mushroom” bumps on the crest. They had large, flappy ears, not pointed, as big as a man’s palm. Their faces were white, their eyes large, but none of the witnesses noticed what their noses or mouth looked like. The body was covered in metallic gray scales; “their clothes, as if they were clothes or whatever, were… like fish scales, so they shone…”
The Russian witness declares that he did not see whether the little men were wearing shoes or not. Their abdomens were relatively large and flabby. The arms were extremely thin “as much as two fingers” according to policeman Mancu, and according to Rusu “the hands were crazy sir, I can’t even figure it out… they weren’t normal like us…” The witnesses cannot specify whether the facts were walking or floating above the ground, leaning towards this second option, despite the low verisimilitude. As Maricel Rusu says “I can’t even figure out how they were walking… they seemed to be drunk…”
There were no traces left on the ground. A huge cherry tree located in that place had withered, dehydrated leaves on about 15% of the crown, on the side where the object is said to have landed and then taken off.
The phenomenon could be the effect of microwaves. It is said that the next morning leaves, branches, and broken fruits were seen on the ground. But there is also a villager who claims that he broke them. It is also said that there were other traces, seen by the villagers, but erased by the torrential rain the next day. No determinations of radioactivity or other measurements of this type were made.
Platooner Mancu stated that, after the disappearance of the object, “I stayed for a few seconds… the man was at the edge of the ditch, I took him, I came here, I didn’t know where to take him… he said he was sorry… – I went there on the grass, where is that traffic sign… then he asked me – dom Marian, have you seen Satan?”
Returning after the incident, the two witnesses decided to continue their patrol. The next day, Marian Mancu told the story of some villagers. One of them contacted the media agency Mediafax and from here the case reached the press. At first, Mancu politely refused to give an interview to journalists, until he obtained the approval of his bosses in Galati.
On August 12, 1996, Dan Farcas spoke with the witnesses, being invited to Certesti by TVR, through the filmmaker Mihai Badescu, together with Calin Turcu. He remained convinced, on this occasion, of the credibility of the witnesses.
Police platoon leader Marian Mancu (then 30 years old) was a veterinary technician, then he graduated from the school of non-commissioned officers; he was married with two children. Most of the villagers, including the mayor Gheorghe Nechifor, considered him a serious person, with laudable concerns.
Guard Maricel Rusu (41 years old) had graduated from six classes; he read with difficulty and only the sensational news from the newspapers. He had never heard anything about the UFO phenomenon before. He did not suffer from mental illness; made the army a genius.
The villagers did not remember being lied to. It is unlikely that the witnesses could have invented all the very specific details and presented them in such a natural and convincing manner, nor were they set up by someone else to do so.
Place of appeals
Although not everyone in the village believed the witnesses, we found that most of the appellants were persons, or relatives of persons, to whom the police had previously issued documents for various contraventions. Instead, there were concordant testimonies, such as disturbances in the electrical equipment in the area; unfortunately, we did not have time to verify these statements in detail. Also, in the village of Cotoroaia, located about 4 km northeast of Certesti, on the same night, a “very strong” light was reported above a house.
The incident at Certesti, therefore, has enough elements to be qualified as a third-degree encounter. But we can ask ourselves a justified question – wasn’t it even more? For example, a UFO abduction? A first argument could be the fact that in the days following the incident, platoon leader Mancu felt weak and in no mood; he declared that he was afraid of being irradiated.
The Russian guard had a nightmare. He declares that “about two nights ago I dreamed of them… I dreamed as I was standing in the trench”, after which he woke up frightened from his sleep. He added, “I wasn’t scared if I didn’t see them so ugly… yes, in the way I saw them… I was scared…”. I tried to find out if the two were aware of any “time gap.”
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Have you had a sighting of a winged humanoid or huge bat-like creature in the Chicago, Illinois metro area / Lake Michigan region? The entity has also been referred to as the ‘Chicago Mothman’, ‘Chicago Owlman’ & ‘O’Hare Mothman.’ – Chicago / Lake Michigan Winged Humanoid Regional Interactive Map – Please feel free to contact me at lonstrickler@phantomsandmonsters.com – your anonymity is guaranteed. Our investigative group is conducting a serious examination of his phenomenon. We are merely seeking the truth and wish to determine what eyewitnesses have been encountering. Your cooperation is truly appreciated.
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Asrock creates new AM5 BIOS to resolve previously reported long boot times
Twitter by user HXL initially pointed out the problem on September 1st. The post highlights a table attached to Asrock’s x670 Steel Legend that described boot times based on the user’s chosen DDR5 RAM configuration and capacity. The boot times ranged from 100 seconds in a 2x16GB configuration to upwards…
The Shard: Climber reported and three men arrested
Child-Sized ‘Aquatic Humanoid’ Encounter Reported in Lake Erie
The Singular Fortean Society was recently put in contact with John Giancola, who claimed to have once seen a strange, childlike head with large, black eyes poking out of the water of Lake Erie during a family vacation.
Giancola first sent the report of his sighting to Paul Bestall of the Mysteries & Monsters podcast after listening to an appearance by researcher Travis Watson. Bestall passed the report along to Watson, who sent it to the Singular Fortean Society.
“Listened to the show and couldn’t find a way to tell this to Watson so I’m emailing you. Back in the ’80s, my family would go to Geneva-on-the-Lake in Ohio (Lake Erie) to stay at a cabin every summer. One time, I was out past the rock pier things playing on an innertube, and I saw what looked like a head from the mouth up about 20 yards farther out.
I knew I was the only kid out there at the time, so I was really confused about who it could have been. I watched it for maybe half a minute, then looked back at the beach to see who it might be, but everyone was still on the beach. When I turned around it was gone. Thought maybe it was a log, but I spent the rest of the day watching because it scared me a lot but nothing else surfaced.
It’s one of those childhood memories that was so profound that when I think about it, I feel like I’m back in that moment. If you can forward this to him that would be great. I’ve only told one other person about this because who would believe such a thing?”
In a series of correspondence provided to the Society by Watson, Giancola described the head as dark, hairless, and human-sized.
“I want to say merpeople, but is that really a thing?” he asked Watson.
Watson responded, “Merpeople actually are a thing. I have a chapter on them in Canadian Monsters and Mysteries. I found several Canadian stories related to them in my research, both at sea and in the lakes of Canada. First Nations people in some areas seem to refer to them as the ‘gods’ of bodies of water and they are associated with storms and other rough water events if antagonized.”
Tales of aquatic humanoids exist in many cultures across the world.
The Greeks had Nereids, for example, which were water nymphs typically associated with small bodies of water, while in Scandinavian folklore exists the Nøkken, a supernatural shapeshifter that often appears in human form.
Watson also inquired if perhaps Giancola might have seen a diver in a wetsuit, but that idea was eventually dismissed.
“I don’t know what the area looks like now, but back in the ’80s there were not any docks nearby and you’d see tankers going by more often than personal watercraft,” Giancola said. “There were no boats nearby.”
After receiving permission to contact the witness, investigator Tobias Wayland sent Giancola a list of questions in an attempt to garner more details about the sighting; including inquiries into the approximate date of the sighting, its location, and any additional information that Giancola could remember about what he’d seen.
“I was probably 11 or 12 [years old], so summer of ’85 or ’86 [is when the incident took place], I would say. […] At the time I was the only one in the water,” Giancola replied to Wayland. “At the end of the pier the water was too deep for an adult to stand, and I was another 20 yards or so past that, so [the creature] had to be floating. I couldn’t make out any details other than it appeared to be child-sized and it was dark. It looked to have larger eyes that were black. Every once in a while, you’d see a branch or something float by but when I looked up and saw this, I felt like it was looking back at me, and it scared me. It only lasted maybe 10 seconds, and when I turned to look at the beach and looked back it was gone.”
“I don’t remember anything [else paranormal] happening around that time but I always got weird vibes in the cottage and actually about the water there,” he added.
Wayland asked Giancola if he had considered whether or not it could have been a prosaic animal, such as an otter, but the man replied that he did not think it was.
“I just looked at a bunch of pictures of otters and no it did not look like that,” he said. “One thing that really sticks out other than the shape of the head is the otter’s ears. What I saw looked like it may have not even had ears, or they were super flush with its head.”
Although what exactly Giancola saw remains a mystery, the encounter has had an effect on him—one noted by both Watson and Wayland and expressed in the man’s willingness to speak openly about his sighting.
Like many witnesses to the unexplained, what Giancola ultimately hopes for is that he is not alone in his experience.
“It’s a weird encounter, but I saw what I saw and I’m not ashamed of it,” he said. “I really hope someone else has had a similar encounter.”
An exact location given by Giancola for the encounter has been sent to Ohio-based investigator Ashley Hilt. Any new information provided by her investigation will be published as it is received.
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Phantoms & Monsters Radio presents a Phantoms & Monsters Fortean Research Roundtable discussion. We will be discussing current investigations and other cryptid / unexplained incidents & sightings. Joining Lon will be James West, Chad Redding, Kit Taylor, & Bernadette McDaniel.
James West is a 2-time Dogman experiencer, has had multiple encounters with the paranormal including shadow people/creatures, suspected demons, and ghosts, and has been physically possessed on one occasion by an unknown dark entity. James is also currently in the process of writing a nonfiction book about cryptid beings in the United States, entitled “50 Cryptids in 50 States.” In addition to this, James is a member of Phantoms and Monsters Fortean Research.
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Chad M. Redding grew up in the Pigeon Hills region of western York County, Pennsylvania. A lifetime of roaming the woods, hills, and hollows led Chad to develop his passions and skills as a woodsman. Very much an avid lover of old traditional ways and old things. His love of the forests and mountains know no bounds. For he has camped, rambled, gathered, canoed, and fished. In all 4 seasons.
As a lover of local history and folklore, wanderer of forgotten places, and life-long experiencer of the strange. Chad also contributes to and works with Timothy Renner of Strange Familiars Podcast.
Chad has also given back to the community, woodsman or otherwise. For as a traditionalist, he believes that knowledge should be passed on. From demos at various festivals, his foraging walks he gives regularly, on the various charity campouts he has organized. He has sought to help others and educate them.
Chad became the proprietor of Ruck Rabbit Outdoors a company that supplies old-style crafted, curated, refurbished, and surplus gear to the woods folk community.
Chad is a member of Phantoms and Monsters Fortean Research.
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Kit Taylor is a film and Television actor, writer, producer, and documentarian. His latest work includes a short documentary on the Fayetteville Incident (the Bledsoe Family story) titled “Burden of Truth.”
Kit was an investigator for MUFON and has recently become a member of the Phantoms & Monsters Fortean Research team. Having first-hand, life-altering experiences, Kit’s approach to investigating is from an empathetic point of view and hopes to contribute positively, to the world of high strangeness.
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Bernadette McDaniel, Phantoms & Monsters Fortean Research member will co-host this episode. Bernadette will soon be hosting ‘A Paranormal Life’ on Phantoms & Monsters Radio.
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Have you had a sighting of a winged humanoid or huge bat-like creature in the Chicago, Illinois metro area / Lake Michigan region? The entity has also been referred to as the ‘Chicago Mothman’, ‘Chicago Owlman’ & ‘O’Hare Mothman.’ – Chicago / Lake Michigan Winged Humanoid Regional Interactive Map – Please feel free to contact me at lonstrickler@phantomsandmonsters.com – your anonymity is guaranteed. Our investigative group is conducting a serious examination of his phenomenon. We are merely seeking the truth and wish to determine what eyewitnesses have been encountering. Your cooperation is truly appreciated.
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‘BABY FROM HELL!’ / DC SUBURB BIGFOOT / ‘WHITE’ DOGMAN – Lon Strickler (Host)
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‘Large Black Figure’ Reported Lurking in Madison, Wisconsin Dog Park
The Singular Fortean Society was recently made aware of a sighting report submitted to the Madison, Wisconsin subreddit on the social media site Reddit.
According to that report, a man was visiting Quann Dog Park in Madison when he saw what he described as a “large black figure” lurking in the woods nearby.
I may have seen something near Quann Dog Park [and] my best guess would be that it was Mothman. Looking off towards a gap in the trees next to the railroad tracks was a large black figure. It was like someone with football shoulder pads had a big black cloak over themselves, peeking out, or even a giant black bear for some reason, I thought.
It didn’t make sense to me. It seemed to be looking out onto the park and definitely noticed me noticing it. They crouched down a bit and things shifted. I couldn’t get closer [from] where I was because of the fence (dog/baby) so we walked around and up the bike path, but I didn’t see anything.
Are there homeless people that sleep up by the tracks in those woods?
I’ll always just assume it was Mothman
The woods are west of Quann Dog Park and run along both the railroad tracks and Wingra Creek, which border the park to its west and northwest, respectively.
Investigator Tobias Wayland contacted the witness, who revealed himself to be a 41-year-old man living in Madison. He agreed to be interviewed over the phone by Tobias but asked that he be kept anonymous.
During the interview, the man reaffirmed his previous testimony and added some details that had been left out.
He told Tobias that he was roughly 200 to 250 feet from the figure during his sighting, which took place at approximately 9 a.m. on July 28th and lasted between 30 and 45 seconds.
“I lost sight of it when I needed to pay attention to my dog,” the man said.
The figure, described as “someone wearing shoulder pads and a big, black cloak,” appeared to be approximately seven to eight feet tall and three to four feet wide.
He said the figure “crouched down and spread out” when he saw it, as though it were reacting to being spotted.
Neither his dog nor any other dog present reacted to the figure, although, he said, that could have been because they were too distracted from playing with one another.
The man had his infant son in a baby carrier strapped across his chest and his dog was running loose in the park, both of which prevented him from taking immediate action to pursue and investigate the figure.
However, he said, when he returned later to examine the area, he found no evidence of human habitation.
“There was nothing there,” he said, “no tarp, sleeping bag, nothing.”
Tobias and Emily Wayland visited the park on the morning of August 13th to investigate the sighting.
Tobias entered the woods but could find no signs of habitation, human or otherwise. While there was some debris present, it represented nothing that couldn’t reasonably be assumed to be litter consistent with what one would expect to find next to a biking/walking trail.
The undergrowth in the woods is overgrown in the summer, which would make camping difficult.
Furthermore, none of the foliage appeared to have been flattened or removed.
This sighting of an anomalous figure in Madison isn’t the first to be compared to Mothman.
In 2002, a woman claimed to have seen what was later described by her daughter as a large, black, winged creature with glowing red eyes. The investigation into that event revealed a series of seemingly paranormal phenomena that had affected their family at around the same time. Such incidents are relatively common in potentially paranormal-winged humanoid sightings.
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Have you had a sighting of a winged humanoid or huge bat-like creature in the Chicago, Illinois metro area / Lake Michigan region? The entity has also been referred to as the ‘Chicago Mothman’, ‘Chicago Owlman’ & ‘O’Hare Mothman.’ – Chicago / Lake Michigan Winged Humanoid Regional Interactive Map – Please feel free to contact me at lonstrickler@phantomsandmonsters.com – your anonymity is guaranteed. Our investigative group is conducting a serious examination of his phenomenon. We are merely seeking the truth and wish to determine what eyewitnesses have been encountering. Your cooperation is truly appreciated.
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TODAY’S TOP LINKS
‘BABY FROM HELL!’ / DC SUBURB BIGFOOT / ‘WHITE’ DOGMAN – Lon Strickler (Host)
‘STRANGE DAYS’ with LON STRICKLER – Cryptid Encounters – Spaced Out Radio – 7/25/2022
New Updates Captain Mark Richards: True Crime Meets The UFO Community, with Ryder Lee | Podcast #806
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‘White Dogman’ Encounter Reported in Montcalm County, Michigan
A Fenwick, Michigan woman describes an encounter with a ‘white dog monster’ that her daughters had at their home. She also recalls a previous encounter that she had with a similar creature.
I recently received the following account:
“I would like to tell you of my daughter’s sighting of what I believe could have been a Dogman. It was the fall of 2014. I had recently started a new job at the Veterans Administration in Saginaw, Michigan, 1 hour 45 minutes away from my home. I left for work by 0615 to get to work by 0800. My daughters were 14 and 10 at that time. We live in the country, in Fenwick, Michigan (Montcalm County). Our driveway is about 100 yards long.
At about 0700 I received a FRANTIC call from my daughters. They were yelling about a white dog monster that chased them back up our driveway, and caused them to miss the bus. I did not believe them. I thought they made up this story so that I didn’t get too mad at them for missing the bus, because I had just started the new job and couldn’t turn around and take them to school. It is important to note that both of my daughters are straight ‘A’ students, extremely athletic, and well respected children, and still are, and have never before or after this incident ever missed the bus.
After this incident, both of them were terrified to go out at night anymore. Occasionally I would make them go out and get their chores done if they forgot to do it during the day (like take the trash out to the road), and they would make me so mad, saying that they were too scared and would I please just sit out on the porch and watch them, which I always wound up doing, or else the chore was just not going to get done.
Well, fast forward to about a year ago. The girls and I were just sitting around, watching a tv show about sightings of unconfirmed creatures, like Bigfoot and the Loch Ness Monster, etc. At some point during the broadcast, a segment on the Beast of Bray Rd came on and immediately the girls both shouted out that that was the thing they saw back in 2014, and they were filled with anxiety and fear. It was very evident to me, after seeing their reaction, and watching the segment on this creature, that they had indeed seen this beast. I felt terrible about not believing them, or even really ever listening to their story.
After the show ended, my oldest searched online for information on how to report this sighting, and left a message at one of the sites on the internet about what they had seen. The next morning we also called and reported it to the Michigan DNR and the local police department, but I don’t believe that they took any of it serious. A little later that day, we did receive a call from a person that got our message on the internet about their sighting. My daughter informed them of what happened and what they saw and they took the report. During the months that followed, I occasionally would search up information on the internet about the Dogman. And, as crazy as this sounds, I believe I saw one a good 25 years ago.
I was with a boyfriend and we were cruising the backroads, and drinking a few beers. We were about a mile south of the Carson City, Michigan prison on Blackmer Rd. I had turned my head to say something to him, and when I looked back at the road, I saw a white creature that I thought was like, crawling, towards the ditch on the right side of the road. This creature was on the edge of the right side of the road. I only saw it for a split second and I only saw the right side of its body. A second after I saw it, the right front side of my truck grazed it, you could hear the thud, and feel it. My friend and I were both shocked and didn’t know what the heck the thing was. I had thought that it was it was like, crawling, or dragging it’s back legs, because the back side of it was definitely much lower than the front legs, and bent looking-broken or deformed-like its legs or hips were injured, hit by a car or something, and trying to get across the road.
I backed the truck up and was very upset and nervous because I wasn’t sure what the thing was, and it even crossed my mind that maybe it was a naked person that I had hit. We shined the area and did not see any blood, hair or body. I went back the next morning and looked again and found nothing. I even listened to the news for the next several nights to see if there was any report of a hit and run or anything unusual like that, and thank God, there was no report of anyone being hit.
I described it to my family as looking like a sheep that had just been sheared, like it was white skin, like a naked body, no or not much hair. But it was bigger than a sheep. They all teased me and insinuated that I was drunk. It didn’t take long before I stopped talking about it to them, and in the back of my mind began to doubt myself and what I saw.
Over the years, I never forgot about it, but I just never really thought about it anymore. After seeing the segment on the Beast of Bray Rd, and realizing that my daughters were not making up a story, I have been researching this creature on the internet. For some reason, I didn’t correlate the creature that my daughters saw to the thing I saw-that is until I began seeing pictures/drawings of the creature on the internet. I realized after seeing some profile views of the beast, that the thing I saw was probably not injured, but instead in the squatting position. I realized that its back legs weren’t injured, broken, or deformed, it was just sitting on its haunches. This also explains why, if it was already injured, and then hit/grazed by my truck, we did not find it anywhere, because the angle of its body when I saw it looked like the position of an animal unable to move its back legs, and then to add the collision, the animal would not have made it far from the spot my vehicle struck the creature. However, if the creature was in fact not injured, but just squatting, as seen from a profile view, it would be reasonable to assume that the creature wasn’t injured much from the collision and simply ran away.
If you would like to get the entire story from my daughters and their description of their sighting, you can email me back and I would love for you to hear their information. Also, prior to the last month, I have never said a word to my daughters about the creature I had hit with my truck, so there was nothing planted in their mind about this creature.
The reason I am writing this at this time is because recently I have talked to a few other people that have seen the same type of creature. Also, the girls made me a drawing of the creature they had seen and I posted the drawing on our community group on Facebook, simply asking if anybody has ever seen a creature like this. I received a few responses that gave me goosebumps. If you would like to hear about their encounters too, I could refer them to you.” CK
NOTE: I will attempt to follow-up this report with the witness’ daughters sighting report. I will reference this post with it. Lon
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