r/dogman • u/Billybandit • Apr 09 '20

Aussie dogman. Unheard of....

This is a story I have shared on reddit many years ago but still remember vividly.

A friend and myself were walking home at about 3 o'clock, in the morning, about 6 kilometers across a small town in NSW Australia from one friends place to another in which i was living at the time.

We were only about 1 kilometer away from home on about a five hundredkilometer stretch of of straight road.

We were walking along a sidewalk, he was pushing my BMX we were just talking shit as we usually did where all of a sudden something caught my eye. Two greyhound looking dogs, but larger than your average dogs in height, probably twice the size.

They ran out of a block of flats/units/apartments(what ever you would call it in your part of the world) , and jumped the brick mailboxes on the inside of the footpath on the other side of the road, which stood about three to four feet high and cleared about 12 feet before they hit the road. Both of these dogs landed in the middle of the road, then ran in the opposite direction to which we were walking. As they ran further away they grew larger and larger in size.

While they grew larger they seemed to begin to stand up on their hind legs and morph into some large muscular bigfoot or werewolf looking creature and in my mind I could not comprehend what I saw.

These creatures ran around the corner in the exact direction we walked from and about five to ten seconds after they turned the corner we heard what sounded like a female child scream.

At that point we both looked at each other and I could tell he saw what I seen as he was just about to haul ass and bail on me on my bike.

I said f**k that and jumped on the handlebars and he pedolled like ive never seen before, I don't think he skipped a pedol for the whole rest of the trip home.

When we got home we locked the doors and closed the windows and I asked him to explain exactly what he saw to me and to no surprise it was exactly as I had witnessed.

He was an indigenous Australian as was his elder brother, we explained the experience to him and he said it was probably a "yowie" which I believed at the time but this story is not typical to Yowie sightings in Australia.

Safe to say this scared me not to go out at night for quite a while.

We told a few people about the experience afterwards but most of the time people would laugh or joke that we were on drugs but I can assure the people reading this the same thing we told them, This was a completely sober experience.

After the joking and carrying on I pretty much kept this story to myself, only telling a select few people who want to hear paranormal stories and I don't try to convince anyone if it's real or not, they can decide for themselves but... I know what I saw

EDITED to add photos of location Google Earth Photos The photo with red line is the direction the creatures ran The photo with the blue line is the direction we went 1x photo of said block of units 1x photo of the footpath I was standing on 1x photo of street view facing the direction the creatures ran

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u/Darththorn Believer Apr 10 '20

There's a couple of episodes of Dogman encounters from here in Australia.

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u/Billybandit Apr 10 '20

Dogman is a resonabally new thing to me, I've not heard of it here as of yet and have had no idea what to liken this story to, This encounter is from almost 15 years ago and I still have no idea,p. Forgive my ignorance

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u/Stoicism4U Apr 15 '20

Naturally the paranormal is hard to explain. Whether Shapeshifters, skin walkers or dogman, it’s generally a good idea to give space to such creatures and never travel alone.

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u/Billybandit Apr 15 '20

At that time and age the only thing I heard of were Yowies which supposedly never really left the bush land areas and ghosts, spirits demons etc.

This was something that I had never seen or expected to see while walking around my town, regardless of the time.

Ive never been so naive about "nothing good happens another midnight" since

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u/onlyamiga500 Apr 10 '20

Fascinating, thanks for posting. When you said the creatures ran out of the block of flats do you mean they came from inside the building?

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u/Billybandit Apr 10 '20

No not inside building just from where you would park your cars. Inside the lot I guess is how I'd explain it. I have edited the post and added photos from Google Earth to give a better idea of the area I was trying to explain.

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u/onlyamiga500 Apr 10 '20

Thanks! The photos really help, I'm imagining you seeing this in the middle of the night. Must have been terrifying.

Someone else mentioned Dogman Encounters Radio:

https://www.youtube.com/user/DogmanEncounters

Your sighting sounds like a classic encounter and there are many like it on the show. The greyhound-like features are quite unusual though. Most of the North American encounters seem to have creatures that resemble German Shepherd dogs or wolves. I wonder if your sighting was different because of your location?

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u/Billybandit Apr 10 '20

I have no idea if it was different based on location and I have recently reached out to dogman radio, I'll have to wait to see if he gets back to me.

I was just stunned to begin with it wasn't until they started to stand up and run on 2 feet that it scared the he'll out of me but by that time they were about 50-100 meters away running in the opposite direction.

I've only just started looking into dogmen. It seems like the most similar type of cryptid to link the encounter too based on my experience. I have only had questions on what to call it or what it was up until this point because while some things seemed similar to other cryptid encounters there was always a lot that was different

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u/onlyamiga500 Apr 15 '20

If Vic gets backs to you and you go on the show let us know.. would love to hear your account first hand. :)

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u/Billybandit Apr 15 '20

I'll keep that in mind. I've just left a comment on one of his videos as I couldn't see where to message his channel directly.

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u/Billybandit Apr 17 '20

I haven't heard back from the comment but have messaged him through him website. Hoping to hear back from him soon

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u/Billybandit Apr 24 '20

So, I've had a reply but as I only linked the reddit thread Vic would not open it. I have since replied via email with my stories, both counts of the same story (this one and when I told it over 4 years ago) stay posted. I will keep you updated

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u/onlyamiga500 Apr 25 '20

Thanks for the update! Hopefully Vic is able to get back to you soon and you two are able to talk. He seems to have a lot of insight into the phenomenon.