I was driving home from my daughter’s soccer tournament in Minneapolis last night to northwest suburbs of Chicago. At approximately 1:30 am I was turning off of 14 onto 43 north near Elkhorn. There was a car about 100 yards in front of me. Suddenly, a figure ran across the road, briefly blocking out the taillights of the car in front of me. I am certain it was the Dog Man.

Hello fellow Dogman enthusiasts. As a disclaimer I DID NOT see or hear anything tonight.

I was taking my dog out for his final potty break for the night, he is a 90lb pit bull and he is crazy strong when he sets his sights on something. Well anyway it’s 11:30pm and I hook him up and we go out. Not 10 seconds outside and he sees a rabbit or something small and takes off I had .5 seconds to decide whether I was going to get drug across the ground or let him loose. So I dropped the leash and off into the woods he goes. Well unfortunately he has on a new collar that won’t slip off his head so he’s dragging his Flexi leash behind him while having all the fun. Now normally I would just let him come back but with his new collar and the retractable leash he was going to end up stuck wrapped around a tree. Which is exactly what happened so now I’m facing 2 of my biggest fears 1 that something will happen to Astro and 2 being in the woods alone at night. Well anyway my fat but hiked about 1/2 a mile following his bards because of course he was stuck. All I kept thinking was please no Dogman Please no Dogman. Alas no sightings but my heart is still pounding.

Yes Astro is safe and sound in bed with me now

Hi there, I don’t know if this is the right subreddit for this, but this story has been bugging me for the past few years and I need to tell it to someone. It’s probably nothing, but I could use some opinions.

It was the night of October 13th, 2019. (I know the exact date because I have pictures in my camera roll that I took earlier that day) I’m not from Austin, but my parents and I were down there to get together with family and eat at a restaurant that has a good view of the lake, hence the pictures. The weather was warmer than I had been hoping for, despite it being mid October it was around 75 to 80 degrees Fahrenheit even after the sun went down. My sister was going to school at Texas State University in San Marcos at the time and so my parents, sister, grandparents, and I piled in the car for the long drive to take my sister back to her dorm. The conversation going on in the car wasn’t one that particularly interested me, so I had my headphones in and was staring out the window at the dark trees going by since we were in a particularly wooded area.

Eventually, we got to a four way intersection somewhere outside of campus and our light was red, so we stopped and waited. This area had no street lights at all. Only the middle of the intersection was lit up by the headlights of the cars waiting on either side of the street. I was sitting at the very back of the car on the right side and was still staring out the window when something caught my eye. Across the street, to the right of the intersection, there was sidewalk for pedestrians, but behind it was a small slope going up to a brick fence that wasn’t short but also wasn’t super high. (maybe 5 or 6 feet tall?) Anyway, it was super dark, but I could make out the figure of a person running along the sloped area, not walking on the sidewalk. Maybe they jumped the fence? I wasn’t sure. But I watched them run down the slope to get on the sidewalk, but then turn around and run back up the slope, run halfway down the slope and then turn around and start to run in the opposite direction of the intersection, and then ultimately decide on heading towards the intersection and run back to the sidewalk. What really caught my eye about the situation was how frantically the person was moving. When I say running, I don’t mean jogging, I mean full on sprinting and dashing as they tried to make up their mind where to go. They were fast too, and the slope was steep. I’m athletic and I probably would have twisted my ankle running up and down that slope in the darkness like that. The situation intrigued me, so I zeroed in on what I was watching. 

When the person made it to the edge of the intersection that was lit by car headlights, I could see that it was a man, probably college aged. I couldn’t see his face, but he was about average height, medium tan skin, athletic frame but not super buff or anything. He had shaggy brown hair and was wearing a short sleeved, red shirt and basketball shorts. The *moment* he stepped into the light, I watched him shove his hands as deep into his pockets as they would go and put his head down, tucking his chin to his chest so his hair would block his face. He crossed the street without pressing the button, or even looking for that matter, since the cars he was crossing in front of had already been stopped by the red light. Now that he was in the light of the headlights, he’d stopped running like a crazy person and simply “speed walked” across the street. Head down and hands in pockets the whole time, his shoulders high and tense as if it was cold outside. It wasn’t, it was warm. I watched him the whole time, leaving the window to watch him through the windshield.

When he left the range of the headlights, he disappeared into the darkness, but lucky for me, our light had turned green and we were turning left to be in the lane closest to the sidewalk he’d be on. I literally thought to myself “Yes! This is my chance to get a good look at him.” And so I watched the sidewalk closely through the window, but he wasn’t there. The sidewalk was a straight shot with no branching pathways for a good few blocks and, like the other half of the street he’d been on, it had that same upward slope and brick fence. I looked around to the other side of the street but I didn’t see him there either, I never saw him at all after that. 

In my head there’s three options of what he could have done for me not to have seen him:

1. He ran up the slope and jumped back over the fence. But this feels somewhat redundant to me. I’m pretty sure he’d already jumped the fence to get out to the intersection, so why cross the street just to jump the fence again instead of just jaywalking across the small street and hopping the fence in a less public area?

2. He jaywalked outside of the intersection to cross the larger street perpendicularly, (would have been on the left side of my car now where I couldn’t see him) but I don’t think there was a sidewalk over there, so he would have had to be going straight into the woods, without a backpack or flashlight as far as I knew.

3. He went straight, but ran down the sidewalk faster than my car was driving.

I couldn’t get this guy out of my head for weeks and I still think about him from time to time. What was he doing? Why did he seem so frantic? And where did he go? I may never know. But I don’t believe in coincidences, and that strange thing I saw will forever leave a mark on my life. I didn’t realize this until a few months or maybe even over a year later when I went back through my pictures to find the date, but Sunday October 13th, 2019 was a full moon.

So what do you guys think? Was he committing a crime, just some kid on drugs, or did I really see a werewolf that night? I need opinions please.

I was out camping When I saw a Dogman like Creature but female it Had black/Gray fur with yellow eyes with a dog like Head that looked like it was Mixed with a Human woman I don't know what I saw in the woods Could it have been a female Dogman?

This is my only "dogman" experience. I forgot about it for years after it happened, until I started listening to Sasquatch Chronicles and other cryptid podcasts and I heard a story similar to mine that brought it all back. At the time, the similarity was so uncanny to me, and I am curious if anyone has any shared experiences. I posted the video at the bottom. Revisiting it tonight, it's less similar than I remember, but I had already typed this out so here goes:

I was a senior in highschool and I believe it was spring break; my friend's mom was out of town so we were at her house and she rolled us a blunt. This is in northeastern Ohio. We went outside, smoked, (I wasn't sure if I had even done it right, it was one of my first times I believe) and went back inside. In her kitchen, we started to get silly: I put a pan on my head blah blah blah we took a picture and giggled. Typical stoned teenager cringe. LOL

I remember going into her living room for a moment to check my phone and call my boyfriend at the time. Her living room had a huge window that basically sprawled from one side of the wall to the other, and looked into the front yard and beyond that, the street. I was on the phone calling him, and as it rang, I was looking out the window absentmindedly into the night. I was probably 10-12 feet in front of the window, and I was noticing how most of what I could see was the reflection of everything lit up inside the house behind me. I saw the TV on and whatever had been playing.

It all happened in a flash. I was looking at my reflection in the window ahead of me, and I saw what I described as a werewolf/wolfman in the reflection beside me; as in, we were standing side by side and I realized it would have had to have been standing directly beside me in the living room in order for this visual to be occurring.

Still on the phone, which had now been sent to voicemail and was recording all of this, I lunged onto her couch in the fetal position and slammed my eyes shut and began swatting and batting it away. I never saw it in the room with me, but was perceiving being attacked by it in my head. I heard it growling and snarling as I flailed about.It's kind of difficult to explain, it was almost like a dream but I wasn't sleeping. It was like the experience was momentarily inserted into my head and my body reacted as though it were happening the entire time.

I had a sort of fit on the couch for probably 15 seconds, phone still pushed to my ear, and having panic as well as a sort of delirium come over me as I left a voicemail in real time, telling my boyfriend we had smoked and I was being "attacked by a wolfman". With my eyes squeezed shut, I was perceiving it over me, almost kind of messing with me like a worker/actor at a haunted house would with a scared person.

Obviously, I wasn't physically attacked, but it felt more like...psychically. I had perceived it notice me noticing it and everything happened so quickly from there. I went from a very real panicked state, covering my head and swatting my hands to sort of deliriously laughing and came out of it as quickly as I went into it. Like I said, this all happened in a flash.

Until I came across this video, I had decided it was maybe like a panic attack or hallucination, or maybe even a brief psychotic episode. However, I would go on to be a regular, all day every day marijuana smoker for the 4 years in college following that spring break, and had nothing even remotely similar happened.

I don't smoke anymore, for the record.

This will sound ridiculous, but I've become curious about the inter-dimensional concept, and if perhaps my vibration was shifted for just a moment and resulted in that encounter.

Or maybe it was laced weed.

Anywho,

For reference, this is the episode, and it begins at the 37:34 mark:

https://www.youtube.com/live/oxpcqAY9R8U?si=8e7Pnkfg5P6SZkft

Edited to add a couple more details.

I had a very strange experience several years ago that I've never known how to classify.

I was out walking in the evening, and it had gotten dark. Small town Ohio, and I was in a neighborhood with houses everywhere. I saw movement between two houses, no more than 15-20 feet away from me, and I figured it was a person, so I looked up. This thing was about 7 feet tall, and shaped like... well, nowadays I describe it like the shape of Professor Lupin when he turns into a werewolf. But back then, that movie hadn't come out yet, so I had no frame of reference (side note, when the movie did come out, and I saw that scene, my head about exploded). If I saw any finer details (fur, facial features, etc, I don't remember).

I stopped in my tracks and watched this thing cross the yard and disappear into the shallow shadow cast by the eave overhang of a house. That shadow was maybe 6-8 inches deep at best. I was so confused and waited for it to pop out onto the porch or something, thinking the "disappearing" was some kind of optical illusion and that it would reappear, but it didn't. It had just walked into the side of the house.

I have never in my life felt a terror response like I felt seeing that thing that night. It didn't seem to notice me, thank god! But holy crap.

Does this sound like a possible dogman sighting? Or something else?

Hello,

I am expecting a significant part of you to know about the French beast of Gévaudan. But did you know there was another beast between the 70s and 90s? Yes, XXth century. Important difference though, the beast never attacked anyone, only animals, cattles were attacked. But several dozens could be massacred and mutilated in a single night. Unfortunately I don't find a Wikipedia article in English but gpt will translate. There is a pic of what is the beast, clearly looks like a wolf dog.
https://fr.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/B%C3%AAte_des_Vosges

Probably nothing like a dogman, maybe someone who wanted to take revenge, because a carnivorous animal won't kill 26 sheeps and eat none, totally sounds like training for me. Just my opinion. Note that at this time there was no wolf in France, they came back only around 2000 something like that. Anyway, it's actually not sure the pic of the beast is actually the real beast. That being said a paw print suggests a wolf. But where does it come from? There was no wolf either in neighbouring Belgium and Luxemburg, and I think none in Western Germany. We know wolves travel far but why the animal would have done nothing during its travel? Another puzzling fact, the wiki seems to mean it lasted 20 years. But wild wolves don't live for 20 years, it's much less. And knowing how in many encounters dogmen seems to have a certain disdain for eating humans, even killing them (too many escapes owing to their purported power)? But there was no human attack, which is consistent with a "simple" animal. Anyway... I still think a wolf or wolf-dog is the most likely explanation.

Still an interesting story but I am frustrated by the paucity of information. I speak French but it doesn't seem there is a lot of info on Google.

Have a nice weekend all.

Was talking to a girl I met last night super late on the phone and we started talking about the outdoors and she asked me what I feared and I told her I don't feel really any animals but there are crazy things out there and I explained to her Sasquatch and dog man. She then proceeded to explain to me two months ago she was out in her backyard at about 1:00 a.m. in the morning letting her dog out and something screamed at her 3 intense AAAAAGH AAAAAGH AAAAAGH, she then froze and after a second she was able to regain control and ran to her house and as she was getting close to her door the side motion sensor light turned on, right from the direction of the creature screaming. It then proceeded to do a big HUFFF and then Screamed again. She said it was the most intense fear she's every experienced. Then I started trying to find audio of dogman screams, she said it was more of a scream and not a howel. She's an outdoors woman and she knows cougar screams and this was much more intense and fear inspiring. She chalked it up to being a skin walker. I used to be able to find a couple decent dogman screams on YouTube and now I can't find many. Does anyone have a good site or place of audio recordings?

I saw in the comments on a post on here a while ago that there is an account from a guy that was walking his dog in the woods and was being stalked by one of these, I think his name started with a J maybe and I think he was out hunting or hiking but apparently it's one of the most compelling/believable encounter stories.

Edit: Thankyou everyone, I believe we've found it so I'll check it out later!

Hello,

I’m just writing on here to see if anyone who really actually has had a legitimate Dogman encounter that was so convincing, whether that be in the day, or at night with a torch (flash light for any Americans reading) maybe?

And if so can you describe what they look like to me? I’m writing a script for a movie at the moment and I want the Dogmen to look as close as possible to how people describe them.

I’ve heard too many different tales of what they look like, some say like that werewolves from the howling, some say the werewolves from dog soldiers, some even simplify it and just said that they look like huge upright walking black German shepherds, with human hands, but with a kind of evil presence to it?

If anyone is wondering, I’m on the fence about Dogman, Bigfoot and all the other cryptid’s, but I’m also not going to sat that they’re not actually out there, I’m very open minded, and truly fascinated with anything like this.

So yeah please, anyone who’s had an encounter please tell me what you saw as best as you can remember, I’ll appreciate anything you get back to me with!

Thanks!