VA Dogman Research

What is a Dogman?

The Dogman is usually described as a bipedal humanoid creature with the head of a dog or wolf and the body of a man or hairy man-like beast. Stories of werewolves and doglike cryptids date back to the late 1700s, according to Linda S. Godfrey, a Dogman researcher. The most famous Dogman encounters are often seen on Bray Road in Michigan. Godfrey refers to it as an “upright canine” that’s a Dogman fulltime, not a shape-shifter.

It’s fully canine, walks on its hind legs, uses its forelimbs to carry chunks of … roadkill or deer carcasess. They have pointed ears on top of their heads. They have big fangs. They have bushy tails. They walk — most tellingly — digitgrade, or on their toe pads, as all canines do, and that’s something that a human in a fur suit really can’t duplicate.

Dogman sightings in Michigan and nearby states include an 1887 report by lumberjacks, a 1938 incident around the Muskegon River where a man was attacked by a dog walking on two legs and three sightings in 1993 and 1994 by a teenage boy in Grand Haven.

There have been numerous reports of a werewolf or dogman in Henrico County, Virginia near the National Battlefield Park. Also sightings in the mountains and in the Great Dismal Swamp have been reported over the years here in the Old Dominion.