Hello and welcome to the program UFO Warning.
In this episode we're talking about the Minnesota Dog Man.
That's correct, the Minnesota Dog Man.
I've been thinking about doing an episode on Dog Man.
It's been a while. It seems to always be a very
popular subject and someone asked me in the comment section
if I could if I could talk about that again.
So despite this cold I'm fighting, I found some stuff
over here at fandom.com, cryptidsfandom.com, actually
talking about the Minnesota Dog Man.
They got some reports. They look pretty cool, so let's
take a look at them. This first one says Minnesota
Dog Man. The Minnesota Dog Man is an
alleged Cryptid cited in various Minnesota counties.
It is similar to the Michigan Dog Man and the Beast of Bray
Rd. It could very well be the same
type of creature. Yeah, I think this thing could
be like Bigfoot. It could be all over the place.
Who knows? I says.
In one of the early months of 2009, a man reported seeing a
dog man near Fergus Falls in Otter Tail County.
Here's how he described the encounter, He says.
I'll start off by saying that I have never believed in any of
these sorts of creatures, but I saw something in early 2009 that
really disturbed me and is making me change my mind.
I was not under the influence of any drugs and I have better than
average eyesight and the lighting was nearing sunset but
I was still able to see clearly. So I get this underway and
explain my story and maybe someone can shed some light on
this for me. I live in Fergus Falls, MN which
is in West central Minnesota about an hour drive from Fargo,
ND. My mother-in-law lives out in
the country about 3 to 4 miles out of Fergus Falls and I was
staying there while my wife and her mother went shopping in
town. They called me and asked if I
wanted to go to a 7:00 PM movie. So I left the house at about
6:30 PM, maybe 6:45 PM to meet them at the theatre.
About two miles from their house on a country Rd. known as the
Wendell Rd. along the Mystinka River, I saw three white tailed
deer. Two of the deer were rather
small, probably just yearlings and a larger doe who I assumed
was her mother. Me being an avid hunter, lover
of wildlife and future wildlife biologists stopped to look at
the deer. I should also mention that I
hunt in the area and I spent my whole life in the Ferguson Falls
area. The deer were following the
small Creek bed, which is in fact the Mistinker River, so
there were hardly any trees except for one.
Maybe I didn't see it because of the trees, but I just noticed
something crouching behind the tree on my side of the road,
looking at the deer and to my disbelief, hunting them.
It just sat there looking at the deer, taking no notice of me,
even though I was in my truck no more than 40 yards away with a
Clearview with nothing instructing my view of it.
It had one hand on the tree that it was bracing itself with.
What struck me as shocking was the fact that it seemed to be A2
legged creature and not a four legged one.
Its hands, quote UN quote, appeared to have opposable
thumbs and were rather slender and long, very unlike a wolf.
The creature looked as though if it stood upright it would be
over 7 feet tall with a protruding muzzle, broad
shoulders, a slender waist, thick muscular thighs, and being
as there was snow on the ground, I couldn't see the feet.
He was deep, dark and caller throughout the body.
After several seconds of looking at the creature in shock, the
deer ran off. Then something amazing happened.
It looked right at me as though blaming me for losing his meal.
He just sat there looking at me and blinking but not moving.
This scared the crap out of me so I hit the gas pedal and drove
off. It was very dark after the movie
so I didn't much feel like trudging through the 3 1/2 feet
of snow with the possibility of a monster looking in the area
who is currently looking for a meal that I scared off.
So at about 10, AMI went back there and walked down to the
tree. Under the tree there was no
snow. There were no tracks that I
could see, but leading up to the tree there were 3 tracks leading
in from my grandmother in Law's field, which was hard black
dirt. And if you know what a Minnesota
field looks like in late winter, early spring, you can't make
anything out of the dirt. The tracks I did find were only
about 6 or 7 inches in length, but we're clearly canine prints.
I'm thinking about that six or seven inches canine prints.
That's pretty big actually. I think with the exception of
four toe looking marks in the snow.
That's weird. Yeah, that's a strange one,
ain't it? There's one from Saint Louis
County that says the second story is from another unnamed
man. He saw the creature in early
September. The year was 1999 on an Air
Force Base in Saint Louis County.
He said that it looked like a dog man.
Here's the e-mail he sent to a dog man counter site.
First off, I would like to keep my name confidential just for
the fact that this happened on an Air Force Base and I don't
know who reads this stuff. This happened sometime in
September of 99. I forget the exact date.
It was early in the month though it was between 2:00 and 3:00.
AMI was a security forces airman working third shift on base
patrol. Now mind you, this is an Air
National Guard base that I worked at full time.
It's on the north side of Duluth, MN next to the
International Airport. North to northeast is nothing
but large wooded areas, forest areas.
Third shift on the base was pretty boring. 10:00 PM to 6:00
AM and us full timers worked a skeleton crew usually 5 or 6 of
us. On 3rd shift.
I was in the patrol truck doing my usual rounds checking doors
and fence lines late at night on the north side of the base.
Was usually creepy enough on patrolling by yourself.
Anyway, I was on this road driving toward our baseball
field when my headlights caught a pair of eyes reflecting back
at me. They were almost eye level with
me and I was sitting in an F150. Around this time a few of the
guys have been seeing this huge buck around the property, like a
16 pointer or something around that size.
I was about 80 yards or so when I saw these eyes reflecting back
at me. So I'm thinking it was a big
deer. I got to see this thing so I hit
the gas and started speeding toward the field.
This is where it all happened so fast it's almost hard to
explain. There was a little slope behind
the baseball field. It sloped down probably about 12
to 15 feet into a brush line. The brush went about 30 feet
then turned into a thick tree line.
The brush was probably armpit high to me and pretty tough to
diverse through being so thick. As I turned into the baseball
field and turned the truck toward the thing, I just caught
the rear end of the thing, leaping down the slope below the
blank side of my headlights. The thing was no more than about
20 feet ahead of me when it leaped.
All I got to look at was the back end of this thing and it
was big. The best I can do to describe it
is to say that it was a wolf slash dog.
Like in nature. It had a long tail, longer than
two feet. The hind legs looked exactly
like those of a dog, same with the back paws, but the paws were
huge. They were bigger than my hands
for sure. The hair fur was WAVY yet matted
and thick. The collar was blondish or very
light brown. I didn't notice any grey on it.
But this all happened within about two to three seconds.
I sat in my patrol car for a couple of seconds, confused the
thinking. I knew what I saw, but it
couldn't have been what I saw. So I hopped out with my
flashlight and my M16 rifle and walked to the edge of the slope.
All I heard was this thing running through the woods in
front of me, heading in a northwest direction, and this
thing sounded like a moose charging through the trees.
It made a lot of noise. That's when I started to get
really scared, thinking if this is some sort of a wolf or
whatever it could be, my M16 isn't going to do a thing to
this animal. So I jumped back into my patrol
truck as fast as I could and headed back to the SF
headquarters. I never told any of the other
members about this for fear of ridicule.
Are being called crazy. There is no way I misidentified
this thing. I'm a trained observer, an avid
hunter, and have worked with animal rehabilitation with
Minnesota DNR in the past. I know my animals and the
Northwoods extremely well. I saw exactly what I saw and
that was a back end of a large wolf dog thing.
Basically had its eyes level with mine while I was in a
patrol truck. The back end was definitely much
larger than any of the largest deer or black bears I've seen.
The points I remember the clearest were the tail and the
back paws, as well as the texture and color of the hair
fur. This is my story.
I've never told it to anyone for fear of ridicule.
I swear to it to be the truth. Wow.
Since it happened early September 1990, nine, 2:30 AM.
That is really neat. Here's one that says Todd
County. Lastly, the third story is from
another unnamed man. It says it was reported in the
city of Long Prairie in the center of Todd County.
This is how the encounter went. I was visiting my grandmother up
in Long Prairie, MN. I was spending a week with her,
mostly just to help her with whatever she needed to help
with. It was summer and early one
morning before the sun was even up I went outside to attend the
garden and maybe even get some squirrels for some squirrel
dumplings for dinner. So I slung my semi automatic
assault rifle over my shoulder and headed out.
I had just gotten me about 20 squirrels.
My grandmother's place has a lot of squirrels when all of a
sudden I picked up my last squirrel and saw I saw something
just on the edge of the woods behind my grandma's property.
I saw some humanoid dog thing. It never attacked me, it just
sat there. So I fired a couple shots at the
creature, it yelped and ran off into the woods.
I then went into the house and proceeded to call the local
Police Department. They never found proof of what I
saw other than a few paw prints, so they claimed I just shot at a
wolf. My grandmother was worried and
confused by the events taking place, so at dinner she sat me
down and asked me about what I saw.
I told her the whole story. Strangely enough, she seemed to
believe me. I showed her where I saw the
thing and where I was when it happened, etcetera.
I never saw it again. But if otherwise gotten over the
whole ordeal, I'm not sure I'd be shooting at these things.
Yeah, what a story. This is a cool sight.
I'll put it over at Kofi. Let's see if we can find a
couple more here. And so I found this one over at
dogmanencounters.com. I'll put the link on Kofi.
It says Washington County, Minnesota encounter.
It was a summer of 97 and I was 13 years old.
I was roller blade. I was rollerblading from a part
of town called Old Cottage Grove.
I guess I should start off by saying that the city where this
happened was a suburb of St. Paul, MN called Cottage Grove.
It was around 9:30 PM and I was rollerblading back home from a
girlfriend's house with a friend.
We were just coming around a bend in the road that went past
a farm that I believe at the time was called Green Acres
Farm. I'm not exactly sure what it was
they did at the farm, but I do know for sure at the time there
were always cattle of all different ages, sizes, and
genders. Which brings me to the
conclusion that maybe I was just at the right place at the right
at the wrong time. As I was running the bend in the
road to start coming up the hill, I felt a very strong sense
of fear. It was like my body was telling
me to get the heck out of there, yet I couldn't figure out why.
I can tell you this much though, for the first and only time in
my life I felt like I was no longer at the top of the food
chain. Right when I started to pick up
the pace to get out of there is when I heard a sound that came
from the fenced in cattle farm to my left, maybe 15 to 20 yards
behind me. It sounded like nails grabbing a
pole or fence and then what sounded like what a dog's paw
and claws would sound like when walking or running on a tile
floor. Except this just sounded like a
quick leap on the streets pavement.
As I turned around to look, there stood what looked like to
be a wiry Gray haired werewolf. It was like time stopped.
There was a street light at the time in the woods maybe 5 feet
behind me so all I could make out was a silhouette of this
monster. It had to be at least 7 feet
tall with the head of what looked like a German shepherd
with huge ears and a huge muzzle.
I could see this thing was built like a bodybuilder.
There stood by people like a man, not like what some folks
say with these things having dog like limbs.
It had long slim hands with black nails on his fingertips.
It had a slim waist but its upper body was muscular beyond
belief. The thing that always stuck with
me beside the point of seeing this thing in the 1st place was
that its head was turned to the side and snout up in the air.
The one thing that really stuck out and was out of place to me
was that I could see this thing breathe as though it was winter,
but mind you it was the end of June, almost July.
It looked as though it was smelling my scent but that's
just what it looked like. I'm not positive on that.
Before I knew it I was yelling to my friend to get the heck out
of there and not to look back but it's almost as though he was
in another world because he didn't seem to feel little on
see what I just experienced. I'm somewhat of an artist and
drew a picture of what I saw which was a werewolf.
Fast forward 17 years later and I still hadn't told anyone about
this encounter. That is until my oldest brother
and I were trading stories one summer evening and it just sort
of came up as we were talking about Bigfoot.
Mind you, my brother's a firm believer in this animal, so I
said the heck with it and started telling him about what
happened to me. Going to the point of pulling
out the original drawing, I drove it.
To my surprise, he didn't look at me or laugh at me like I was
positive he would have. Instead, he started to ask me if
I had ever heard of the Michigan Dog Man or seen anything on it,
which I replied no. He then pulled up an image on
the Internet of a sketch that an eyewitness had drawn and I swear
to you, it sent shivers down my spine because it not only looked
like my drawing, it looked exactly like the thing I saw
that night in the summer of 1997, an old Cottage Grove, MN.
To this day, I still find myself trying to wrap my head around
what I saw. I'm 33 years old now, yet still
find myself trying to rationalize what I crossed paths
with that night. It feels good to get this out
there and someone off my chest. I hope someone finds something
helpful in this experience and I hope this sort of thing never
happens again. Wow, that was really neat.
We'll do one more report here and find these dog band stories
to be really fun. Very interesting.
If you'd like to hear something maybe once every week or two,
kind of like we did with the big report, with the Bigfoot
reports, let me know in the comments section.
If there's a demand for it, I'll do it.
This last one is from a site called Linda godfrey.com,
lindagodfrey.com or Linda Godfrey's blog and says author
and investigator Strange Creatures, this is the Duluth
Dog Man. Now we had the other one we
talked about with the guy who was in the Air Force or Air
Force National Guard. This one says the Duluth Dog
Man, dated November 22nd, 2016. Minnesota is a state with far
fewer reports of Dog Man than I would expect, given its heavy
forest and abundant water sources.
So when a report came last week describing a very recent
encounter, I was glad to see it. And the best part is that this
witness is a professional artist and so provided me some very
compelling illustrations. She also found the courage to
return to the spot this past weekend and take a few photos.
I've left most of the report in her own words with minor edits,
mostly for the natural reputation that occurs during a
multi e-mail exchange. It says here's the account.
Hi Linda, I wanted to report a sighting.
I am a 41 year old graphic designer.
I was driving just out of the town in Duluth, MN on Maple
Grove Rd. It was a dark night, the clouds
covering most light of the 47% full moon.
The area I drove was on the very edge of residential area where
houses were sparse, leading to the old farmland with a very old
barn. As I drove I noticed something
dash in front of me from right to left.
I saw a heading from the edge of a residential area where houses
are sparse, running into a field with a very old barn.
My eyes struggled to make sense of a very tall creature, 7 feet
I would guess it wasn't on hind legs and they got some pictures
that are pretty cool. This area, I guess where they
spotted it at. The creature moved faster than
normal. The face was wolf dog like with
a longer snout and its high set small pointed ears.
The back was very angled with extra long front legs in
comparison to the back. The length discrepancy caused it
to walk more stiffly, almost with an injured type stride.
The forearm was muscled but it wasn't primate or walking on its
knuckles. It had more of a forward stride
like a deer, just not as smooth. Since the night was shadowed.
It reminded me of a shadow person as the black was such an
intense black. It's hard to describe if you've
never seen a shadow being. The eyes seemed maybe orange in
my view. For a second I wondered if it
was my imagination, but I continued to watch and saw far
coming headlights shine through between the moving legs.
The oddest part was the feeling of incredible fear and dread.
I was literally so scared. Later I sat in a lit gas station
until my husband came home. It definitely wasn't a moose.
Angled shoulder too tall and steep, leg height different,
wrong head wrong ears not round body, body proportion wrong.
Not a Bigfoot, not a for human like.
Anyway, it felt unlike any animal I've seen with almost
unnatural speed. My sister and her boyfriend and
her friend have all seen it on its hind legs a few years ago.
It lives near her house. She said it stood and watched
them on the edge of the field with red eyes.
Mine was a side view. It felt otherworldly.
I am a physically gifted person as well.
I'm familiar with sprints and such.
Fear does not begin to describe it.
The feeling lingers like feeling a thick sludge weighing on me.
Really like a energy attack. I was an active camper, hiker,
et cetera. Now I don't want to be out in
the dark. The woods are driving alone at
night. I know better.
To fear these things is not good.
It's just hard to shake. It also felt like a bad omen, as
silly as that sounds. It took me a week to want to
drive up there to the location to see it.
If I could see anything, but I didn't see any prints as most of
the road was paved. In the daylight I could see it.
Definitely went up into a field with a barn and an old building.
The area is very close to the town of Duluth, but oddly this
is just far enough out that the field runs along a road that is
surrounded by Birch woods and swampland.
Our temps were really nice, 60° at the time.
This is hunting season and the deer are super active.
Our normal temps are much cooler than this every other year and
it says. Here is the illustration sketch
of what I saw that night. I am a wildlife artist with a
very keen eye and photographic memory.
I'm used to drawing musculature, accurate portrayals of animals.
So when I explained what I saw, hopefully there's a bit of
credibility. She's got some really nice
illustrations she's done here. I'm very talented.
It says the reason I drew what I did was because common responses
from people compared the animal to a wolf, bear, deer or moose.
I went online, drew each animal as a real representation of
actual shape and looked up the average height.
None of these look accurate. The main thing I noticed was the
sheer size, slope of the back, and very different long limbs.
I drew this mainly to try and figure out what I saw.
I don't care if my name is mentioned, I'm definitely not
seeking any attention, just to understand what this thing was.
I just call it the Bray Rd. creature.
Closest thing I could come to it and what I saw.
I just have a few comments. The first one is that if this
creature stood 7 feet tall while on all fours, it would have been
even taller if it ever stood on its hind legs.
Since bipedalism is a hallmark trait if any dog man, we can't
be sure that's what the witness saw, but it certainly seemed
larger and differently built than your ordinary wolf or dog.
Another unusual thing she mentioned was the overwhelming
lingering sense of fear and dread she experienced from
seeing the creature. This is a common occurrence,
encrypted sightings and other types of anomalous encounters,
but doesn't normally happen in the case of mundane animals
crossing a road. The third thing I took note of
was the presence of the old barn.
For some reason, barns and other outbuildings often play a part
in encounters with both Dog Man and Bigfoot.
I don't know whether the buildings serve as shelter,
hiding places, or hunting grounds for small tasty mammals,
but they do pop up fairly often in such reports.
Finally, my unfortunately necessary disclaimer.
Although she included the rough location, that land is
undoubtedly private property and must be respected as such.
Trespassing is strictly illegal and can bring harsh prosecution
of finds. I believe from long experience
that sightings of such creatures are random and rare and are more
likely to happen for those who are not searching for them.
Yet I do believe there must be many more places as Minnesota
where strange candid creatures abide.
What a nice article man. These reports are also cool.
They were very detailed, I noticed.
They're just telling you exactly what they feel in the first
person. Neat, neat stuff.
I really enjoyed doing this program.
Until next time, this is UFO warning over and out.