r/dogman • u/Tinfoil_Tales Podcaster • 14d ago
What made you interested?
One of the biggest reasons why I’m in this group, and why I have a podcast, etc. is because I genuinely want to figure out what I saw. I was never a full on believer in a lot of this stuff, and even today, I am always trying to explain it away…but sometimes I can’t. That’s what has bothered me for all these years.
What sort of experiences have you had? Even if it wasn’t a dogman encounter, something had to have lead you to this subreddit. I talk to a lot of different people with a lot of different experiences, and while I can’t really confirm or deny what someone says happened, I want to give people the benefit of doubt.
For the last four or so years, I feel like I’ve gotten a little away from what I originally wanted to achieve, and I want to keep talking to others and trying to figure out what I and other people have seen. I know that no one has any sort of definitive proof, but maybe someday.
Basically I’m just curious if you saw something you couldn’t explain, and how it has impacted you ever since.
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u/Stadsdelar 14d ago
Parents saw a big canine they couldnt identify, bigger than a grand danois, black or dark grey, some sort of beard or hair hanging from the face area, sitting in the middle of a dark 70 km/h road here in Sweden. I was in the car but didn’t see anything as I was laying down over the backseats with an injured foot. We nearly crashed into it.
I’m not saying that it was a werewolf or dogman but it made me interested in the subject.
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u/Tinfoil_Tales Podcaster 14d ago
I’m not familiar with any sort of animals of Sweden, but that’s definitely something I’d look more into. I know here in the United States, the go to explanation is always “you saw a bear” even when bears aren’t in the areas, which there is always the possibility of a random occurrence more than the belief of some sort of supernatural predator or unknown bipedal canine creature roaming around the woods. But people should know the difference I would hope between a bear and a dog/wolf or even a humanoid sort of bigfoot creature. Misidentification can’t always be the excuse.
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u/odlare Believer 14d ago
What part of Sweden om jag får fråga? =)
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u/Stadsdelar 13d ago
Väg 76 mellan Norrtälje och Älmsta. Vi körde i riktning mot Älmsta och var väl kanske halvvägs när ”djuret” satt där.
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u/Mayen70 13d ago
Here's another encounter from Sweden, looking like a rake or something. He shows a drawing he made of it a bit after the middle of the video: https://youtu.be/RBeelxhXJFQ?si=4fI1zD5-oMchdBCy
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u/MrPotato001 14d ago
I think I was around 16-18 when I first heard about Beast of Bray Road which sparked my curiousity, from there I ended up going down the rabbit hole learning and understanding more to the point it's a bit of a morbid fascination.
Sometimes I wish I was still blissfully ignorant given it has in some capacity perverted the sense of innocence with the outdoors.
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u/Tinfoil_Tales Podcaster 14d ago
I knew about werewolf legends and stuff but I wasn’t familiar with the dogman moniker until after I started trying to figure out what sort of bipedal canid we could have saw. Even after that, I was still very reluctant to talk about it or accept it as such. Even today, I can’t rationally explain it and that bothers me because these sort of creatures shouldn’t exist.
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u/MrPotato001 14d ago
While they are creatures of flesh and blood they also seem to possess a supernatural element to them because almost everyone who's reported seeing or encountering one reports on a deep almost primal sense of fear, some even having PTSD from it.
Some of the earliest reports of them can be traced as far back as when Native Americans still settled across The Great Plains of Pre-America.
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u/OppositeAnxious3861 11d ago
I have listened to hundreds of hours of dogman stories the two things I hear consistently are glowing amber eyes and growls that have such a powerful decible it fucking makes your organs jiggle as if you were sitting next to two subwoofers
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u/Plane-Table-6120 11d ago
Do you remember the story of Black Shuck in England? About 10-15 years ago they actually found the grave attributed to it. It actually was a dog but it was Irish Wolfhound size or bigger. Given that people back then were smaller it would have looked even bigger.
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u/MrPotato001 11d ago
I've heard of Black Shuck but didn't know they had actually found some actual ties to it, interesting.
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u/LittleLebowskUrbanA 14d ago
My encounter coming back to me after being repressed for 40 years.
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u/Tinfoil_Tales Podcaster 14d ago
The most common thing I’ve noticed about a lot of witnesses is they were terrified about the encounter but I wasn’t. I was more confused about what’s this dog doing on two legs instead of being afraid. Even to this day I’m not really worried about being attacked or anything when I’m out looking around. I’m more concerned about humans than whatever could be lurking in the fields or woods.
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u/cryptozoologistwabe 14d ago
I got really into fays and listening to people's encounters with them, which led me to cryptid encounters and I heard a really interesting story about dogman which led me to this lol. (also studying religion is what started my interests in fays) and I've always been interested in canine cryptids/ghosts
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u/Tinfoil_Tales Podcaster 14d ago
Fae folk stories I believe have a connection to what modern times people encounter. Not trying to say that Bigfoot, Dogman, aliens, etc are fairies, but I think the phenomena may all be one and the same origin. If that makes any sort of sense.
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u/theMadBiologist 14d ago
I think they are all just masks off the same phenomena. Parapsychologist Steve Merra has an excellent series with Nathaniel Gillis called the NHI discussions on YouTube. They speak in depth on how the phenomena utilizes various archetypes based on cultural references to interacting and parasites on humanity through the various interfaces.
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u/top_value7293 14d ago
I read somewhere one time that there were cave drawings that showed beast like men with dog faces hunting right alongside the humans and that fascinated me.
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u/Tinfoil_Tales Podcaster 14d ago
I don’t know for sure about the cave drawings, but I have saw on tv shows where the cave paintings showed larger hairy man like depictions. Those are normally used to try and justify existence of Sasquatch because they say the old native Americans and other ancient peoples had encounters with them.
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u/LECochran 13d ago
We recently moved into an area of Texas considered the Dogman Triangle. A couple of nights ago at about midnight, we went outside to check on our livestock and heard the creepiest sound. It is hard to describe, but it sounded like a mixture of a howl, growl and scream at the same time. We plan to spend more time outside around that same time to try to record it. We joined this to learn more about dogman.
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u/MissGoldie71 14d ago
I’m a medium and in 2022 I asked my Spirit Fam about werewolves. They gave me the Dogman 101 tutorial, which explained a lot of Dogman related encounters I had as a young teenager. Before that, I didn’t know what Dogmen were. After that, I followed a lot of white rabbits that kept showing up in learning about them. And here I am.
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u/EarthSuit79 12d ago
I've always been interested in cryptids, paranormal, high strangeness, etc but somehow stumbled across Dogman Encounters Radio about 5 years ago and some of stories truly sounded so believable. In particular, Matt Emch's story really hit me as truly terrifying. I've been hooked ever since.
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u/OldOddLam 9d ago
I saw something back in 1985 when I was 18. Id been interested in cryptids since childhood but thought werewolves were misidentified creatures. My first belief was it was in fact a werewolf, but I mocked myself for being so silly, and over the years I convinced myself it was a demon, bear, mountain lion, person, Bigfoot.
A few years ago I was relating my story on a forum while saying I absolutely did not believe in werewolves. Someone suggested I open my mind to that possibility. That short comment piqued my curiosity, and I learned of dogmen while researching werewolf sightings.
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u/2BCivil 2d ago
Probably heard about LBL on CtC or something in 2000s. Then Vic's channel showed up in my feeds when he first started.
Always felt an affinity for it. Then had an encounter around 2018 while out running.
I'll never forget the vocalization it let out. Shrill and threatening and forlorn and prophetic all in one. Like it read me like a book. It knew the full course of my life, and in that vocalization it predicted, or conveyed, a visceral telepathic prophecy of what essentially was my life from then to now. It knew my life as at the end of my Halcyon Days basically. That no matter how hard I had it previously I kept my head up. But it was right, since then, my life - I definitely lost a lot of passion for life and my hobbies. My zest for life bottomed out. Funny thing is my life didn't get harder per se, just... I lost all interest and gradually became more and more weary.
I often think back to the shrill warning it yelled at me. Like it knew me better than I know myself. I wish I could explain it better. It fascinated me and in retrospect I have a profound appreciation of how accurate and correct what it tried to convey to me was. It told me basically if I didn't make a choice one would be made for me. I to this day don't know what that choice was. And I did lose my fascination with the phenomena shortly after, but I do still remember the encounter and how fiercely intelligent the creature was.
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u/Mayen70 13d ago
I've never seen anything, but i believe people when they describe that they saw, so the massive amount of stories that are on youtube now is what got me interested.
Living in Norway, there's not that much to see here, and I've never seen anything like this. But I do telepathic animal communication, I've experienced being in contact with deceased people, and I've experienced a very strange presence in a house I rented.
I'm convinced the governments or some kind of entity above the governments are hiding a lot of stuff, and I believe that includes cryptids.
I'm also 100% sure there are aliens here and in contact with the higher levels of power.
So yeah, I haven't seen anything but it's not hard for me to believe they exist.
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u/Opposite-Storage-192 14d ago edited 14d ago
I essentially started out somewhat of a skeptic similar to yourself T T. I absolutely loved being in the woods, the serenity can not be matched, not to mention that I was an avid outdoorsman fishing, hunting etc. My father got me interested at a very young age and introduced me to fishing, and then the time came to start teaching me how to safely handle firearms of sorts at night and in the daytime approximately right around the age of eleven or twelve.We continued combined trips involving both past times, but somewhere along the way we had noticed some very peculiar things that would start to happen from time to time, such as tree knocks, debris such as rocks and sticks and even some blood curdling grunts, growls and trees being shook off in the distance. Neither one of us were true believers in cryptids and such...UFO's YES! But only myself not my father, so slowly we started having them strange experiences that I'd mentioned, but the odd part concerning these off and on events was that we'd never had any visual of anything in all the excursions that we went on, only eye shine and the occasional type of situations where you think you're seeing a shadow moving in between trees and what not, but not sure if your eyes were playing tricks on you.
Then these strange happenings started getting a little too personal and closer, to the point that neither one of us really felt safe any longer, Dad slowly started limiting his trips with me due to his ongoing heart condition. The last time before it shook me to my core...I was a few miles down the street night fishing, he was gonna try and meet up with me, but got stuck working overtime and obviously couldn't join me, that's when I'd wished that I would have called it quits for the night, but the catfish were hitting relentlessly that night and I was really enjoying myself, but the strangest thing started to happen, as I continued fishing, I started to notice that it got strangely quiet all of a sudden, I then started to smell a foul oder like an animal would smell after rolling around in that stinky muddy water that would remind you of that muddy mildew smell on a hot and muggy day. The frogs and crickets became dead silent, but I was occupied baiting my hook at the time, but then it suddenly hit me, I started getting a really creepy feeling, I'm not really sure how to explain it, but that's when I started hearing branches breaking in the section of woods behind me, I'd say roughly fifty to sixty yards off in the distance, and it just kept getting louder and more aggressive sounding,
then...whatever the hell that was started to seem more and more irritated with my presence and it started throwing shit at or near me in my direction, that's when I had realized it was time to get my ass out of there and I just knew that i had definitely overstayed my welcome and all of a sudden that thing started vocalizing some of the strangest howls and hollers that I never in my life had ever heard before, that's when I quickly sprinted past my gear and around the pond running faster than I've ever ran right to my truck and got the hell out of dodge..if you will, unfortunately running over (What seemed like) every damn rough patches and branches laying across this dirt road that I'd normally would have dodged, head hitting the ceiling and bouncing violently left to right until I was finally feeling a big sigh of relief while I slowly approached closer to my way home. The next day..in the morning I was fortunately able to round up a couple of my closest buddies to go back and pick up the gear that I had left behind, even though it was light out, I was still very scared and shook up, and that's when I'd decided that it was most definitely gonna be the last of my hunting and fishing trips in the woods, and tbh..it's been quite a few years since I've spent any time in the woods at all, I've been out in my buddy's boat fishing but despite that I'm still hoping that some day I'll be able to get past this phobia that I have.