Hello and welcome to the program UFO Warning.
In this episode, we're talking about the top ten dog man
sightings in the US Midwest. That's correct, Top ten dog man
fightings in the US Midwest. Found this article over at
listfirst.com written by Aaron Fox says fact checked by Darcy
Heichman. They begin by telling us the
werewolf is one of the most iconic monsters of history, both
fictional and historical. From the legend of King Lysicon
to the leading wolfman and well, the wolfman, the idea of walking
upright half wolf, half man has invaded many a fantasy
enthusiast imagination. One would be hard pressed to
call a werewolf a Cryptid though, and that is where our
new friend the Dog Man steps in. Also referred to as the Michigan
Dog Man, the Beast Ray Road, or simply as an upright canine,
these de facto modern werewolves have been spotted from the start
of the 20th century through to this today.
Most of the sightings though, have taken place in the US
states of Michigan and Wisconsin.
Here is a list of 10 modern werewolf sightings in areas
around Lake MI, listed in an order from the earliest to
latest. However, this list hardly strike
scratches the flea bit in the surface of these mysterious
canine encounters. It gets a little bit flat twist
there, but we'll go ahead and take a look at the article in at
#10. It has listed as 1936 Racine,
WI. One of the first dog man
sightings to take place around the Great Lakes took place in
the Wisconsin city ever seen, right on the western coast of
Lake MI and very near to the border of Illinois.
A man by the name of Mark Shackleman was working as a
night watchman for the US Coletta Convent in 1936.
One night during his rounds, Shackleman saw a canine looking
black furred and carrion smelling creature with what he
described as long claws. The dog man was kneeling and
scratching at an indigenous people's burial ground near the
convent, but he fled as soon as Shackleman approached to
investigate. He returned the next day only to
find footprints and claw marks, although apparently two of the
fingers seem to be withered from what the night Watchmen can tell
from the markings. Shackleman, scheduled to work
two nights in a row, went back the next night and once again he
witnessed a creature scratching at the mound.
However, this time, the animal didn't run away.
It stood up 6 feet tall and made eye contact with Shackleman.
And then it spoke. It was only one word, though,
less of an actual word and more of a name.
Gedara, the night watchman, summoned up his courage and
refused to run away. He simply maintained eye contact
before praying to God, turning around and walking slowly away.
The dogman sneered at Mark, still staring menacingly, but
didn't move. Mark Shackelman never saw the
creature again, though he did often smell the dead meat scent.
Wow, that is nasty. So I went to ChatGPT and I asked
it to define gadara, this word that this dog man reportedly
uttered. This is a little spooky.
So it says. The term Gadara GADARAHAH is not
commonly found in historical, linguistic or mythological
records, but it might carry a context specific significance.
Here are a few possible interpretations get this
biblical connection. It could be a variation or
reference to Gadara, spelled GADARA no H on the end.
A city in ancient Palestine near the Sea of Galilee, mentioned in
the Bible in relation to the story of Jesus casting demons
into a herd of pigs in a region of the Gadarenes.
This might imbue the term with supernatural or spiritual
connotations. Gadara isn't that interesting.
So the dog man says this word gadara and for some reason they
put an H on the end of it. But it's the same name of the
city where Jesus cast the I think that was a guy that was in
the cemetery plagued by demons. And Jesus cast the demons out of
them and they went into the pigs and then the pigs went running
off a Cliff. Now some people might say, well,
well, that why would the Jews be, you know, they don't you
poor. Why would they have pigs?
Now remember, they were occupied by the Roman army and the Romans
had a taste for pigs. So at that time it would not
have been out of the question for locals to be raising these
pigs for consumption by the Romans.
If you go back and look at the parabolic of the of the prodigal
son, he was working for pig farmer.
So that might been why Jesus used that parable.
I think it was probably kind of a common thing.
He had all these Roman soldiers around.
Probably one of the cheaper ways to feed them meat protein at
that time would have been raised pigs.
And here this word is ghadara. That's spooky stuff, man.
It also says it could be a symbolic or invented name, may
have been created just for the destroy or maybe it just came
from some kind of a says crypto specific identifier.
I don't know. I like, I like the first, I like
the first solution better. Could be a variation or
reference to Ghadara, a city in ancient Palestine.
You know the Sea of Galilee where Jesus is told about what's
told about Jesus casting demons into a herd of pigs.
Man, that's weird stuff. I hear this guy sees this thing
in 1936 and what's to say Ghadara?
Weird weird number 91938 Paris MI.
Our next story takes us to Michigan and the domain of the
Michigan Dog Man. Though most pre 1987 sightings
of the dog manner showcased in Steve Cook's April Fool's Day
song, The Legend, the story of Robert Fortney is one of the 1st
to take place that doesn't show up in the music.
This is important to bring up because most of the werewolf
encounters in Steve Cook's piece are fictionalized, with Cook
believing that he made the legend up.
However, this story proves that the Dog Man actually truly been
around before his song was published in the late 1980s.
That's how it is, I think a lot of these things.
Robert Fortney was fishing one summer day on the Muskegon River
closest to the town of Paris, MI.
The year was 1938 and Fortney was 17 years old.
Suddenly, Fortney was attacked by a pack of wild dogs. 6 as far
as Fortney could count. The teenager was lucky to have
his rifle handy. Before any of the dogs could
lunge, he fired one warning shot into the air.
After that, all the dogs scattered save for one.
OK, so it says he was attacked. I think what they actually meant
is he was threatened. This black fur canine proved to
be no ordinary dog, however, and as soon as the shot rang out, it
proceeded to stare and Fort his eyes with his own piercing blue
gaze from a distance of 10 feet. Then it started grinning.
Not succumbing to fear, Robert Fortney fired one more warning
shot, this time causing the maybe werewolf to run off.
However, instead of scaddling on all fours, this would be
Werewolf stood up around 6 feet tall before running away on two
legs. Man, Fortney would be one of the
many callers that Steve Cook would receive in 1987 after
putting a song, The Legend, on the radio, The Creature that
Cook made-up, as a prank. It turned out to be a very, very
real thing to the longtime Michigan native Robert Fortney.
Yeah, Yeah. No joke to him. 1961, Big
Rapids, MI He's got some videos that they've linked to here,
too. It's also pretty interesting.
This next story is one of the rare encounters in which someone
allegedly captured a photograph of this upright cane, encrypted.
And I got a picture. It's interesting.
It was the year 1961, though the anonymous narrator fails to
specify which month it is. It was around 3:00 in the
morning in the Michigan town of Big Rapids, where the unknown
source was up late at night at his home.
He lived right across from the manufacturing plant that he
worked at as a night watchman. The plant sat right next to the
Haymarsh State game area, and this is where the source claims
to have seen someone or something making noise by the
chain link fence bordering the property.
Thinking it was an intruder, the narrator goes from his work to
his house to grab a gun, but when he returns outside, he
instead sees a six foot tall, grayish brownish upright canine
canine shambling about in his driveway.
Thinking quickly on his feet, the anonymous source rushes into
his house to try and grab his camera instead.
When he returned outside, the dog man was already out of his
driveway further into the dark St.
However, at one point the creature did move near the
street light, where the anonymous source was able to
snap one of maybe four or five alleged pictures of the Michigan
Dog Man before it ran off into the night.
Well, people can say he's anonymous.
We don't we shouldn't believe him.
But you know, after seeing how people sometimes have their
lives negatively impacted by reporting these things, so I can
kind of understand why they chose to be anonymous.
Number 71988, Alto and Lowell, MI, says this story is
remarkable and as much as it details a man who claims that a
dog man has followed him since he was young, but two separate
encounters spanning 20 years apart.
The first one takes place in 1988 in Alto, MI, just southeast
of the tiny town of Grand Rapids.
The anonymous source in elementary school at the time
was playing during recess. Around 10 in the morning he
decided to run out into the woods adjacent to the elementary
school playground to hide and also cheat at the game of war.
He made his way to a river by some train tracks when you heard
a huge splash and witnessed a dark furred dog man bolt into
the woods, switching between 2:00 and 4:00 legs to run before
disappearing. At this point the narrator ran
straight home to his bed, keeping silent about his
sighting until adulthood. He described it as 80 feet tall,
300 lbs, blue eyed this time and seeming almost like a timber
wolf, but upright with longer legs.
The second sighting took place in the nearby town of Lowell in
the winter of 2008. The anonymous man now has a
family all sleeping Sally. When he heard a third on the
roof, his canine related childhood memories immediately
flooded back. Without prompting, he quietly
snuck outside and that was when the very same blue eyed dog man
poked his head out from the top of the roof, staring directly at
him. Then the dog man leaped 30 feet
from the roof and bolted on all fours to the tree line, only to
stand up and stare at the anonymous man for a full minute.
He fully ran at the dog man with the machete that he had brought
with him. The dog man just stared at him,
almost grinning now, before entering a single audible don't.
The man stopped dead in his tracks and was overwhelmed by a
supreme weird sense of calm. He dropped his machete and
backed away slowly and the dog man turned and walked calmly
into the woods, disappearing. Man, that would have to be gut
wrenching to see that I just crazy stuff.
What I'm noticing about this article is when the author
approaches this topic seriously, the the writing's excellent.
When they veer off into trying to be cute, not so much weird.
OK, Number six, 1989 Elkhorn, WI.
Bray Rd. is a modest stretch of road running east from modest
Wisconsin from the modest Wisconsin town at Elkhorn.
It is also the particular stretch of Rd. in which the
Beast of Bray Rd. gets his name, though a sighting in 1989 would
be the first in this beast decrypted illustrious career.
It is a brisk fall night around 1:30 AM.
All is dark and quiet on the Backcountry Bray Rd. connecting
Highway 11 and County Road NN. Lori Indrizzi is driving home
from her job as a manager of an Elkhorn lodge, and that's when
she sees it. At the end, at the side of the
road, a dark brownish Gray figure is kneeling with his back
turn to her short pointed ears. Being the only real thing to
stand out. As in Drizzy drove closer.
It turned, showing off its strangely canine face.
Its elbows were up and its claws were facing out, so I knew it
had claws claims in Drizzy. I remember the long claws.
Those claws seem to be holding roadkill.
And its eyes reflected the glow of her headlights.
It appeared to be 5 foot 7 and 150 lbs from what she could tell
at a fleeting glance. However, unlike most wild
animals, this canine creature didn't run off, but instead
gazed directly into her eyes. And Drizzy drove off.
She felt as if it were so like a human that there could be no
trace of a wild animal being felt in those eyes.
To this day, I believe it was satanic, she says.
It was just my feeling. I don't really believe in
werewolves per SE, but I believe something could be conjured up.
My grandmother was very religious and she believed it
too. At some point later, Lori
Andrizzi went to report her story to the Walworth County
Animal Control and hers would be one of the first to enter into
Animal Control Officer John Frederickson's Manila envelope
labeled Werewolf and where the first of many sightings of the
Bee Spray Rd. would first be collected.
Multiple sightings by multiple people.
Isn't that something #5 Elkhorn, WI 1991, the second story to
enter into John Frederick's report.
However, it wouldn't take place until two years later, though it
would happen on the exact same stretch of Rd. where Lori
Andresi saw her for furried friend Pat Luster.
Lori Andresi's mother was a part time school bus driver and in
1991 she would actually have a student on her bus with a report
of a walking dog man. Except, to further add to the
legend of Brave Road Beast, this one took place on Halloween
night. Doris Gibson was driving to a
friend's house to pick up another friend from a party when
she hit something on the thoroughly foggy stretch of Bray
Rd. causing her front tires to lift off the ground.
She got out of her car to investigate, thinking she'd hit
a small animal, but found signs of neither animal nor injury, so
she made her way back to the car.
That was when it lunged at her through the fog.
Brown, straight for a canine face, a muscular frame and
striding on two legs, Gibson quickly bolted to her car door,
not particularly in a mood to get a closer look.
I just put my foot in the gas pedal and I started going.
However, as soon as she tried to pull out of there, the upright
cane had tried holding on to the rear bumper of the car to
prevent it from getting away. It is claimed that deep scratch
marks were etched into the car's rear the next day.
This is not where the story ends though.
On the way back that night, Gibson's new passenger and
friend shouted. Look at that thing.
The two of them saw the same muscular werewolf esque being
and Gibson took roughly 0 seconds before deciding to put
the pedal to the floor and get out of there.
Oh man, I guess 2006 it says. Fitchburg, WI.
One of the suburbs of Madison, WI's capital is Fitchburg, which
lies to the southwest of the city, and it is in Fitchburg
that this next 2006 encounter of a potential dog man takes place.
It is a cool night in the fall, September to be exact.
At around 2:00 AM in the morning, a Minnesota college
student named Matt was up late working on his homework when he
heard strange popping sounds, almost like bubble wrap being
played with, coming from the walls.
Then all of a sudden, thousands upon thousands of birds were
startled and flew off loudly. An odd thing for the middle of
the night. And that was when he felt it.
The tremors of a minor earthquake.
This answered all of the questions for Matt regarding the
weirdness, so he went back to his work.
That was when another sound pierced through the air, almost
seeming to ring across the whole neighborhood as a blood
curdling, almost murder victim like scream.
Worried about potential harm stemming from the earthquake,
Matt rushed outside. The screaming continued as he
ran out into the street, and just as a car approached.
Shining his headlights, Matt saw something unusual in the glow of
the car, a humanoid creature with a wolf like head.
The screaming stopped and the canine crypted runoff as soon as
the car approached, making it hard for Matt to parse out too
many details. The car then stopped behind
Matt, turning out to be a police officer who proceeded to ask the
college student. Are you the one who called?
Apparently, though, the officer wasn't checking up on any
screaming, only on concerns coming from the earthquake
itself. Still, after the officer left to
investigate the neighborhood further, Matt would hear the
same noise intermittently through the rest of the night,
and indeed a handful of nights afterwards as well.
Wow. Yep, Not caring about the
canine, just caring about the earthquake.
Yeah, very strange stuff. Number three, 2007 in Reed City,
MI. This story takes place in the
North Michigan town of Reed City in November 2007.
A man named Sam and his two friends were out hunting, each
positioned in their own stand until 4:30 PM rolled around and
the sun started to set. That was when the sounds of
birds and insects completely stopped.
A silence hung in the air for a minute, but was broken by three
deer running right past Sam and his stand, following a foul
scent similar to a mothball. That was when it appeared,
hulking, hunched over, yellow eyed, two leg Cryptid breaking
from the bushes to pursue the deer.
Perturbed, Sam stayed put until his friends arrived, though they
proceeded to make fun of him. Despite that, the three started
to head home, opting to return the next day.
The day would prove to be to remain objectively calm until
around 5:00 PM, and Sam heard shots being fired from about 100
feet away, followed by screaming from his walkie-talkie.
His friend panicked, described the exact same dog man the Sam
had seen, though thankfully it ran away this time as well.
Either they lacked foresight or were sufficient in courage
because they decided to hunt for two more two more days.
The third day of hunting was completely quiet in terms of dog
man related matters. The pseudo werewolf didn't even
wait until noon before he ran into a well lit clearing right
in front of two of the three hunters.
He stared at them directly and he started grinning.
Sam's friend aimed a gun at the canine and it run off
immediately, making a growling, hissing noise.
About an hour later, the third friend radioed in and said.
You guys, are you in a werewolf suit at my blind because it's
not funny. Before Sam could answer, you
heard five distinct shots rang out in the distance.
The third friend was safe, but Sam reported that he had deep,
distinct call marks in the butt of his rifle.
When they returned to the cabin later, the trio saw the snowy
ground riddled with large canine footprints and the very same car
marks embedded in the front door of the cabin.
Oh boy. Came looking for the gun it
sounds like. Look, we got two more here.
This is number two, 2009 Shelby, MI.
The story takes place in the heart of the frigid Michigan
winter on a cold night 30 minutes to midnight.
Retired law enforcement officer Laura Love was riding shotgun
with her friend with a friend of hers who for the sake of this
story we used to remain anonymous, only being referred
to as See. The two were heading north on US
31 near the West Weber Rd. overpass when they I got a look
at something asanthropic on the cold, moderately snowy Rd.
We saw a large, tall, dark and oddly shaped creature run out of
the left side of the overpass, Claimed Love, and hit the rear
quarter panel of a small truck in front of us, causing the
truck to fish tail. The other truck didn't even stop
to check for damage, it just speed off.
However, Love and her compatriot were able to get a look at the
lunar lit lupine. She described it as an almost 7
1/2 feet tall, dark furred bipedal figure with backward
looking knees and a nearly and nearly a lion's mane's worth of
fur sitting on its neck like a fancy fur collar from the 20s.
She also claimed that the Dog Man had a face like a border
collie. The creature didn't stop to put
on any further show for its audience of two.
It ran off, disappearing into a patch of weeds and trees.
Love and C drove home silently stunned, and didn't discuss your
encounter until they were in the safety of Love's home.
Only then were the two able to admit to each other that both
had indeed seen the Michigan Dog Man.
They're pretty wild. Here's the last one here.
Number One 2016 Duluth, MN Though barely outside the border
of Wisconsin, the city of Duluth can be found in Minnesota, right
at the westernmost point of Lake Superior.
This report, taking place on November 7th, 2016, comes from a
graphic designer, though she wishes to keep her name
anonymous. That being said, having skills
in the arts did let her SketchUp a pretty good drawing of what
she saw. It was a cold night on Maple
Grove Rd. a stretch of Rd. that sets right at the border of the
of residential Duluth and the more rural areas to the
northwest of town. The anonymous source witnessed
an upright Cryptid running from the edge of where the lampposts
of the residential area are able to illuminate before dashing
into a field with a very old barn.
She described the creature as as probably being 7 feet tall if it
were not running on all fours with an extremely hunched back.
It had a wolfish face with a long snout and short, pointed
ears, and it moved swiftly and awkwardly, as if it were walking
on its haunches like a gorilla. The graphic designer was frozen
for a second, watching the dog man move, until she saw a
passing pair of headlights illuminate behind it, bringing
into focus the creature's silhouette much more clearly.
She panicked and drove to a wall at gas station where she waited
for her husband to come home, and she described an
overwhelming, almost supernatural fear weighing down
on her like a thick sludge. The story doesn't end there,
though. As soon as the anonymous
reporter told her family about the brief encounter, her sister
confessed to having seen the same hunched wolf like being
years back, standing at the edge of her property and ominously
staring into her house with piercing red eyes.
Whoa. Well, I think those were some
excellent sightings. Strange.
I mean, the way it was written, the writing on this varied from
being really, really good to being kind of silly.
But overall, I'm so glad that obviously did a good job posting
this and I do appreciate that there for this person putting
that up there. It's over at listfirst.com.
listfirst.com, like I said, written by Aaron Fox.
You can find it over there. Well worth the read.
And they've also got a bunch of videos linked to it too, which I
think is pretty neat. And yeah, really good job on it
overall, I'd say. OK, Well, hope you enjoyed the
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