I have been besieged by one reader to tell my audience more about the Michigan Dogman. Apparently, there is a confusion between what are dog people and what are the cryptozoological creatures referred to as “dogmen.” Allow me to explain. Dog people are humans who love possessing dogs as pets. Dogmen don’t ordinarily keep dogs as pets, as far as I know.
Dogmen have been sighted in various locales across this country, not just in Michigan. However, the first reported sighting was in Wexford county in 1887. The creature was described as a 7 foot tall, blue or amber eyed, bipedal, canine-like animal with the torso of a man and a fearsome howl sounding like a human scream.
Most recent sighting have been in the lower peninsula’s northwest quadrant, although people as far away as North Carolina have seen them as well. Some dogmen were apparently communing with alleged helmeted aliens. This may be a serious situation, people.
Several horrific possibilities cross my mind. Could these “monsters” be aliens attempting to colonize our forests? Might they be space dogs stranded on Earth when their ship conked out after entering our atmosphere? Perhaps some mad scientist is cross-breeding different animals together.
Most scary of all–why do they only show themselves to the inebriated?
It’s a well-known fact that an excess of alcohol affects one’s eyesight. However, wouldn’t the eye-witnesses have seen two dogmen and not just the one big fellow? Maybe some people, gifted with “blurry vision,” are able to see beings in other dimensions that most bespectacled skeptics cannot. I know that I can see quite strange things without my glasses.
Never known to dismiss weird tales with a smug roll of my eyes, I am willing to accept that there really might be dogmen, (and women, of course), roaming around the woods. After all, there are werewolves in London, (“his hair was perfect.”) In fact, all the pictures of dogmen resemble those of werewolves. Actually, those are sketches. Most of the photos I’ve seen look like a bunch of trees with a seductive, though quite hairy, doggie leg disappearing behind the shrubbery.
If anyone out there sees such a creature without the benefit of alcohol, please let me know.
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