It’s time to make it official.
The Cloaked Hedgehog has left the building.
This blog has existed for over 10 years. It started as a way to
investigate and try to make sense of the dogman phenomenon, as well as others.
That is just not going to happen. Not in any scientific way at least.
I do believe that people see this creature, but how do you make any objective sense of something that seems to be so subjective
in nature?
At this point it’s a red herring. It’s distracting us from something we ought to pay more attention to.
I will always remain interested in a mystery, such as this subject, but I won’t give it any more attention unless it actually gives us more information.
We, who do this, have for a decade, or decades, been trying to figure out x+y=z, without knowing the value of either x, y or z.
That is not a solvable equation. It just isn’t.
This is not a solvable mystery. It’s a mystery, period.
We can try to speculate and hypothesize and apply actual science to the topic, but at the end of the day it’s still not a solvable equation.
The dogman phenomenon is good for three things;
to form friendships with likeminded people,
as entertainment, or
as a way to generate income, for those who do that.
That’s it.
We are fooling ourselves if we think it’s something more.
It struck me that over ten years later we have absolutely no more facts about this creature than we did when this blog started.
All we have are many, many stories. Anecdotal evidence, which, in terms of science, isn’t exactly evidence.
Although absence of evidence is not evidence of absence, as far as science goes, we have nothing.
Yes, I know, we have some fur/ hair and some casts of footprints, but how has that helped? We still can’t explain this phenomenon.
So where does that leave us?
The conclusion is that the dogman phenomenon is a subjective one, not an objective one.
That means throwing biology, zoology, history, anthropology etc. at it will lead to nothing.
Psychology might.
No I’m not saying dogman witnesses need a shrink, but if the topic is subjective, then the answer may only ever, possibly, be found by
delving into the psyche of humans.
I know lately more and more research is being done on the human consciousness, with researchers becoming more open to
the applications of psychedelics on humans and how they might be beneficial.
It’s not a hard science, such as zoology, but it’s basically our only hope I think. Not just to possibly explain the dogman phenomenon but bigfoot and all other creatures as well.
But either way, I’m not going to deal with it.
All the information I’ve gathered through the years will remain
online for anyone who needs it.
The blog. The map. The youtube channel.
There just won’t be anything new because I have nothing more to
offer you.
And no I won’t update the map. Feel free to make your own map, you can even use mine as the base and the links that still work.
All that said, I want to extend a huuuge thank you to all my friends over these years!!
It’s been a ride and I’m very grateful you’ve put up with me and my ways!
I wish you the best of things! Health, love and peace!
Thank you!
Your humble hedgehog,
Anna
Spooky probable Dogman in BC
I received a sighting from Chilliwack, BC the other day.
The witness briefly saw a creature that seems to fit physiologically with a Dogman. Alas, he didn’t see the head and thus I call it a probable Dogman.
“I saw a Dogman last night. It was at out back window and I (saw it) out on the deck and it ran off around the side of the house.
In the morning the truck door was open with paw prints on the handle that aren’t bear.
I grew up in the rural Okanagan on a farm and hunting. I know local animals and this thing looked like a grey hyena with a lower back end and the size of a man. It moved quickly and and made no sound. It was 10 feet (in front) of me and I had a flashlight directly on it. I don’t know what it was exactly but I know it wasn’t any animal I’ve ever seen before. Our big compost bin vanished a couple days ago and has never shown up again.”
When asked the witness expanded on his description:
“I didn’t see it’s head. I heard it by the window, went out on the deck and it moved in a very unnatural way at a consistent speed without the movement of shoulder blades or hips, almost floating, then travelled overtop of two low lounge chairs without stepping over them, it had a hyena shaped body with grey hair, a lower rear end and it didn’t make any noise. A normal animal like a bear would have made clicking on the deck due to claws. It wasn’t a normal animal.”
I didn’t understand how this creature passed the two lounge chairs so I asked the witness for clarification:
“As for how the thing moved its difficult to explain. When I initially saw it, it did what I’ve come to understand as bilateral teleportation. It went from point a to point b without passing through the chairs. Either that or I have a gap in memory because I have no visual data in my memory of the the thing moving from a to b. Once at b it somewhat floated around the corner at a consistent speed without sound or movement of limbs.”
The witness is insistent that the creature was NOT a bear, even though people around him have insisted it must have been.
“It also tried rear drivers side first and then walked around and opened (the) rear passenger (side door).
We had a bear in our barn as a kid opening an old freezer we stored grain in so we turned it around and the next day it had just ripped it off at the hinges. Bears don’t typically try doors. If it doesn’t open, the go through it.
It wasn’t bear fur either. Bears can be grey but I’m telling you, nothing about this looked bear. Everyone try’s to punch a circle through a square hole because they want to match it to something known. Not a bear. My first thought was large grey dog. It had a muscular back like a pit bull and broader shoulders, nothing like bear.
There was no trash or anything from the vehicle moved around or rifled through. If you’ve ever had a bear around it’s like a 5 year old in a toy box. It takes 1 minute and shit is scattered everywhere. If if was a bear is was the cleanest and organized break in I’ve ever seen. No dirt or paw prints on the seats or interior.
I have told the others I think I must have seen a bear and apologized for the drama. They actually think I’m crazy.
Despite the fact that the night before last the girl who is in disbelief had a nightmare all night of wolves attacking her family.
Then a Dogman shows up and I’m crazy for mentioning the correlation.”
Again we see how a witness is ridiculed by the people closest to them and forced to concede that what they saw didn’t happen the way it actually did.
A terrible shame, but people are the way they are and they relish the idea that they have a firm grasp on reality, even though they most certainly don’t.
“I’ve completely retracted everything I’ve said to everyone here and I’ve convinced my son it was a wolf so he’s not afraid. I’m hoping this thing was just visiting. I was up most of the night last night again as a precaution.
I feel the same way I felt as a 12 year old after watching Nightmare on Elm Street. Afraid of the dark, I won’t even stand outside the door for a cigarette at night. Every bump and creak in the house makes me nervous.
I won’t be going into the forest for a while I imagine, day or night. I literally have PTSD from a 2 second sighting.
If things continue I’ll file a report but I’m not about to tell the truth to them. I’ve been getting looked at like I have two heads for the last 48 hours and I won’t subject myself to that again. Thanks for at least believing me.”
The witness sent several photos of the dirty hand prints on his truck.
Here are some of them:
He also found a handprint on the downstairs window a few days later that might have been placed there the same night:
I have recommended the witness to also speak to Vic Cundiff.
Maybe more will come of this in the future.
For now, it’s an unexplained probable Dogman sighting in Chilliwack.
Cruel Dogman near LBL
I was contacted by a person living near Eddyville, Kentucky about a creepy Dogman encounter that took place recently.
As well as being absolutely terrifying, there are also some special peculiarities about this case, near the end.
I’m going to present the story as it was told to me, with just some minor edits for grammar and such. I’ll also include photos of the killed and brutalized deer in this story, so heads up for that.
“On October 23rd I woke up to a gang of crows raising hell on my property. It was just getting daylight outside.
I grabbed my shotgun loaded with 00 buckshot and I noticed a dead deer balled up on the edge of one of my ponds. As I walked over to investigate, I stopped and noticed the crows were alerting to something 40 yards up the hill from the deer.
I went back to my home and got dressed. I holstered my 1911 .45 and switched to my semi auto .308 rifle and went back.
I decided to get above where the crows was at and flush out what was there. When I moved in above that spot the crows left and I found a large depression in the leaves behind a big log from the deer.
I went down and dragged the deer up behind that log and noticed how strange the deer had been mutilated and brutalized. I then decided to take pictures of the deer and the spot where it had been placed.
There were no drag marks, no prints, no blood, no guts or tufts of hair anywhere around that area. The deer had been carried and dumped there in a depression for an attack on whatever would investigate the deer kill.
The deer’s head had been bitten down on its skull and the wound on the left side of the deer’s head had punctured through its skull and the other scraped the skull. It was a massive creature to bite down on that deer’s head like that. Also the deer’s back bone was ripped out from the abdomen and the deer’s right leg was broken too above its hock.
There was no blunt force trauma anywhere on the deer’s body. The deer’s shoulders were turned inside out and its back loins were removed and the deer was completely drained of all it’s blood.
All the deer’s white underbelly was removed along with all its guts.
All of the diaphragm was cleanly ripped out with the guts.
What ever done that was incredibly powerful. That diaphragm muscle is extremely strong and no known predator is capable of removing the diaphragm in that manner, not even a human.
I searched the rest of the day for the deer’s kill site on my farm but I never found where the deer had been killed on my property.
The deer was killed off my property and carried a long way to place it next to my pond.
The pictures attached are of the deer and the spot next to my pond where I found the deer.
Added note: The deer looked like it was caught with the bite on the head, raised up off it’s feet, grabbed by it’s hind leg and punched through it’s underbelly to it’s spine and ripped it’s spine out for the kill. That is my assumption of how the deer was killed.
I thought the morning event was the end, but later that night at 12 o’clock exactly, something massive let out a deep gravely howl that lasted about 10 seconds.
An hour later something was outside, growling and circling my home. It circled my place about 70 times and tried to open my door and tried to pull one of my windows out by its frame. It also raked its claws on the sides of my home as it circled.
Just before daylight that morning it left.
All during that next day I had a strange uneasy feeling something was wrong and I was in danger.
The second night it came back, and I opened the blind of the window at my kitchen sink to see what this thing was.
It was dark with a little moonlight outside and then it walked by the window. My heart sunk as I tried to make sense of what I was seeing.
This creature was walking upright on two legs.
I could see it’s arms swinging as it walked by. It had a head the size of a large grizzly bear with ears about 7 inches long and a long snout.
It stood approximately 8 feet tall and was all black.
I watched it several times pass by the window as it kept circling my home.
I put down the shotgun and picked up my .308 rifle knowing I had no chance with the shotgun if I had to defend myself.
The creature stopped at the window, walked up to it and bent down to look inside. I raised my rifle and aimed at it’s head. It couldn’t see me where I was standing off to one side. Then both of its ears turned towards me when I flipped off the safety switch in case I had to shoot it.
It stood there listening and then backed away slowly and continued circling my home, raking its claws and testing my windows and door.
The size of this monster! It could have easily ripped through a wall or the door with little effort. I estimated its size from shoulder to shoulder at 38 inches, with massive arms and upper body.
I never saw its eyes as it was dark outside and it was all black.
It circled my home about 30 times in 4 hours the second night and walked away.
I waited for about a hour and decided to go to bed.
About 30 minutes laying in bed I could hear something approaching the wall where my head was.
Once it got closer I could hear a heartbeat. As it got closer the heartbeat got louder. Then I could hear bristly fur rubbing against the wall at my head board. The heartbeat got louder and louder and my dog, while hiding and shaking, started whining as if he was dying.
I jumped off the bed and grabbed my rifle. I thought I might have been somehow hearing my own heartbeat so I checked my pulse and my pulse was slower than what I was hearing. The heartbeat got so loud that I could hear the blood pumping through it’s heart. The blood sounded fizzy, like Coca Cola was pumping through its heart.
This spooky heartbeat lasted for about 2 minutes and then as the creature backed away the heartbeat slowly faded until the creature left and the heartbeat stopped.
I don’t think it has came back since the heartbeat but I seriously believe it will be back with more elaborate tricks to either kill me or run me off my place.
I went ahead and gave you the long version of what happened here.
I am a U.S. Marine Combat Veteran and a former LEO.”
In my follow-up I asked the witness some questions and I found out that he was living on that property as a teen but that nothing peculiar seemed to happen there in those days, even though that’s when the most famous LBL-attacks were taking place.
The witness have asked the neighbors if they have noticed anything weird. One claimed he had heard what sounded like a person walking around in the woods at night near his home. Another had warned the witness about something that comes around at night.
The window the Dogman looked in through is 7 feet off the ground at its center, and the Dogman had bent down to look in.
The deer that was killed was also not just any deer but one the witness had saved and fed daily. The deer would alert him when anything came around or was out of place. It was his friend.
The witness is sure that if he hadn’t payed attention to the crows alerting him to where the Dogman was possibly lying and waiting to kill him, he wouldn’t be here now.
Now we get to the special peculiarities; the heartbeat.
This is the first time I have ever heard of anything like this, thus I made sure to ask the witness if he truly was sure that it was a heartbeat he had heard and nothing else, such as drumming or distant machinery.
The witness was adamant that both he and his dog could clearly hear the heartbeat. It was so loud, even though he has poor hearing, that it was almost as if he was wearing headphones with this sound coming through them.
The heartbeat also seemed to have a particularly adverse effect on his dog, like it was torturous to it.
The witness also told me that about the same time last year he found a deer fawn in the exact same area near the pond. The fawn had been attacked but was still barely alive and bawling with pain;
“I had to put it out of its misery. I chalked it up to a dog attack.
I am starting to think maybe it was using my abandoned farm as a hunting ground. My farm is totally secluded and no one ventures on this place and even now where they know I patrol my property.
If this Dogman is making a peace offering it is going about it all the wrong way! It killed the one deer it should have left alone and stalked me for two days.
I am a U.S. Marine and heavily armed here with also night vision. I recently purchased shotgun slugs designed for killing grizzly bears, and I set up tripwire alarms in a perimeter around my home and game cameras. So far I have only captured pictures of some resident raccoons.
Also when this Dogman was harassing me, I had a game camera set where I feed deer and there was coyotes here during that time. I have never captured pictures of coyotes here before or after and never seen any or heard any coyotes here. I am a avid hunter and survivalist and I believe I will start working on a underground shelter. I was planning to build a underground shelter for the tornadoes here but now with a 8 foot tall Dogman now I will be digging in.
After my encounter I started researching about what I saw here and I am shocked where there are so many encounters here and a hive of Dogmen living near a abandoned sawmill in Grand Rivers! Grand Rivers is just 18 miles away by driving there!
I have noticed several other strange and unusual things here that I don’t know what it is. Things that trigger my game cameras and harass the deer here. I will send you those pictures also with descriptions. I have no idea what those things are.
I included pictures of the deer I found last year in the same spot where the deer the Dogman had killed and dumped.“
The witness also tells me buzzards won’t ever touch a deer that’s been killed by a Dogman. Anything else in the area doesn’t last a day but the buzzards never go near a Dogman kill.
I will follow this case to see how it develops.
It cannot be!
Hello my friends! How have you all been?
Today I want to talk a bit about Dogmen for a change… 😛
The reason is that the more you study this subject the harder it becomes to call them Dogmen at all, for reasons I will soon mention. Still, do I have a better term?
No, not really. Even the old name werewolf doesn’t quite fit. I’ll soon tell you why.
I can feel this is going to be a long post…
The term Dogman comes from Michigan. It was the name early observers gave it in an effort to make it fit somewhere, somehow.
I’m sure at the time this was the best way this beast of a creature could be defined, but now it’s been several decades since this being was brought forth into the mainstream mindset via Linda Godfrey’s books, and it might be time to re-think the name.
First of all, not all Dogmen are created equal, however they must be equal enough to belong to the same species. Continue reading It cannot be!
Fenrir and fam
TL, DR? Video at the end.
Could the concept of Dogmen really be referenced in Norse mythology?
Well, we know about the Berserkers– the bear warriors clad in bear skins, the Úlfhéðnar– the wolf warriors and Odin’s special forces, and the Svinfylkings– the wild boar warriors.
But what about the actual characters from the mythology?
Fenrir, the Fenris wolf, Hróðvitnir- the famous wolf.
This is the most interesting character from Norse mythology for me. Of course.
Fenrir- the giant wolf, the monster destined to swallow Odin himself at Ragnarök.
Happy New Year 2018!!!
I truly wish a very wonderful new year to all of you kind, sweet souls who have asked about me and given kind feedback both here and on my YouTube channel!!
I love you so much and you’ve really helped!! ❤
I know I’ve taken a very long time off but it was truly necessary. I do take an awfully long time to recover from things. I’m an HSP and an INFP…
I have ordered a new mic that will hopefully be good when it comes some time in late January. It should at least be better than my super-ultra-professional cheap webcam with sock on I’ve been using so far, lol.
I intend to start doing vlogs again, and also give you a quick update about some things that have been going on here lately; UFO’s and a Dogman.
Hopefully the new vlog will begin in late January.
In the meantime, feel free to check out my page and my group on Facebook.
I know I haven’t been very active there lately either but I’ll try to better myself. And feel free to post relevant stuff there if you find something interesting.
I got a trial period at newspapers.com right now, so I’ve been looking for old Dogman reports or things that could be just that.
I found a few. One of them was this thing in Florida in 1969:
What’s most interesting is the leaving of rabbit skulls and that it looked like a large German Shepherd.
If it’s a DM, what is the significance of the rabbit skulls one wonders…
Well, I’m off for now.
Take care everyone and I hope to talk to you again soon!!
The Alleged Sewer Werewolves of Minot
From Linda Godfrey.
Sounds interesting. Likely, almost obvious. Like we should have guessed this is how they move around in cities…
Image by Linda Godfrey copyright 2017 all rights reserved
About eight years ago I did something I always try very hard not to do: I lost a file on a possible upright canine case alleging there were werewolves roaming the sewers of Minot, North Dakota. I remember having been intrigued by the story and setting my printout of the report aside to investigate further. Much to my chagrin, it then disappeared. It had somehow slipped between two file folders, but I only just discovered that the other day while arranging my office after a recent move. I was delighted to find it, and decided it was about time I posted the short account in case someone else might know more.
I’d received the email February 24, 2008, from a man who claimed to be a law enforcement agent in North Dakota, and who wanted to stay anonymous for fear of affecting his…
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The World
Well.
After the initial shock of the American presidential election outcome has somewhat subsided I feel the need to talk a little bit about what seems to be going on in the world.
No, I’m obviously not a Trump supporter, but that is actually beside the point.
There’s this wave that seems to be sweeping over the world nowadays, of people digging their heels in and refusing to fall in line anymore.
Here in Sweden the Sweden Democrats have surprisingly grown from nothingness to the second/ third largest party in just a few years. A party that I in no way support, yet I can see quite clearly the reasons for this happening.
It’s the same reasons Trump won the presidential election. The same reasons Putin is so wildly popular, not only in Russia but even in America.
Media and politicians
The media has been manipulating us for a long time. No longer are they independently reporting current events. There’s an agenda. We all know it and the disgruntlement and discontent is growing exponentially among the people of the world. We’re starting to feel like pawns, pieces on an enormous chessboard.
The professional politicians are another huge factor in this mess we’re currently in. For much too long they have been playing their own game while completely disregarding the public and our opinions. They have relied on the media to angle the news and thereby swaying us to fall in line and adopt the opinions they feed us.
Both the politicians and the media failed in picking up on the magnitude of the ever growing need to pull the emergency brake among us mere mortals. They thought they were omnipotent. They thought they had us eating out of the palm of their hand. They thought we were powerless to resist.
But resist we have.
These events of late is nothing but a massive yanking on the emergency brake. It’s us saying STOP! Continue reading The World
Werewolf Movies
Waiting for me to post something?
I know, there hasn’t been much posting lately, so instead I thought I’d make a list of Werewolf movies to watch in this dark month of November.
SILVER BULLET
1985 (IMDb 6.4)
This will always be my favorite Werewolf movie I think. Yes, it’s getting a bit long in the tooth so to speak and yes, the werewolf itself may not be so incredibly sexy by today’s standards, but it comes with a good story and characters you actually become invested in.
I remember the first time I came across the Stephen King novel the movie is based upon. It was illustrated. I was sold!
This movie feels like an actual movie from the 80’s. It’s not just presenting some feeble, weak characters and story to fill in the gaps between the appearance of the creature. In fact, you don’t see the creature much, instead you are held in suspense, knowing that it’s around, lurking in the darkness, with music and general atmosphere building up tension.
My grade: 8
DOG SOLDIERS
2002 (IMDb 6.8)
It’s rare to find a well made Werewolf movie with characters you actually care about and with an at least somewhat believable storyline. This movie however pulls off that first part at least quite well.
It takes place in Scotland, a remote area from what we can surmise. A routine military exercise turns into something much less mundane when a pack of howling things get tossed in the mix.
Granted, story-wise this isn’t exactly Oscar-material, lol, but the werewolves are quite well made and scary which means you accept it anyway. In fact, the Dog Soldier werewolves seem to be very reminiscent of the actual cryptid creature Dogman according to witnesses.
My grade: 6 (but the werewolves get a solid 9)
BAD MOON
1996 (IMDb 5.7)
The werewolf in this movie looks…not bad, but not exactly good either. It’s acceptable but you don’t really feel like it’s a living creature.
The movie has a relatively interesting story, and most importantly- it has a wonderful dog which really raises this flick. You really love this dog, and worry about it, and strangely this dog actually helps turn this movie from a generic horror flick to a decent dramatization which happens to involve werewolves.
My grade: 6.5
VAN HELSING
2004 (IMDb 6.0)
There’s a history to this character which I’m not going to go into here. Instead I’ll just comment on this particular movie.
Van Helsing is a monster slaying hero with pretty much supernatural abilities. If you’re a stickler for hardcore believability and realism his antics will bother you…
Another thing that will bother most is Kate Beckinsale… I don’t know if it’s her personally or if this is just how the director angled it but GEEZ! That’s all I’m going to say about it.
On the other hand, the movie is absolutely beautiful, stunning, amazing-looking! The werewolves, especially the black one, look awesome. Here too we find a werewolf that reminds people a lot about actual Dogmen.
We have the hottest Dracula ever in this movie. He may be the antagonist but droooool… (I know I should adore Hugh Jackman but I’ve always been weird, lol)
All in all. It’s a gorgeous movie which is quite dumb yet engaging.
My grade: 6
THE WOLFMAN
2010 (IMDb 5.8)
Alright. Here we find a typical example of the werewolf I don’t like. It just looks like a man with hypertrichosis and bad manners. To be honest- it looks ridiculous!
Still, it has a relatively interesting story and I know it looks the way it looks because it was based on the old Wolfman movie from 1941.
A classic as that one might be, the werewolf is not in any way a werewolf for me and I couldn’t hate it more.
The story in both of these movies is quite compelling however, involving gypsies and curses and interesting twists. I just wish they would redo this movie with a proper werewolf. Now THAT would be a movie!
My grade: 6 for the story, 1 for the werewolf
GINGER SNAPS
2000 (IMDb 6.8)
I know a lot of people like these movies and I’m not saying I don’t.
I do, I just don’t think they are as good as the hype says.
It’s a different type of werewolf movie, that’s for sure, and this franchise really does need new blood, so to speak.
It’s kind of a twisted type of movie, not at all what you would expect.
The werewolf looks decent, acceptable without being particularly special in any way.
The story and the characters may take more than one watch to appreciate since it really isn’t your classic, run-of-the-mill werewolf flick.
There are sequels too. I’ve seen one of them (something about a fort) I just can’t quite care enough for these two twisted sisters. These movies tend to leave me quite unaffected, yet I can sense there’s something here, so I’ll try watching them again and see if they grow on me.
My grade: 6
DARK MOON RISING
2015 (IMDb 5.2)
OK… Trip, trippely trip…
This movie was different. Was it good?
Not sure. I actually couldn’t finish it.
I’m assuming this movie was an effort to take on an artsier, twistier approach to the werewolf genre, but halfway through you still have no idea who’s really who or what motivates them.
And the werewolves? Some are regular wolves. Some look decent for a second in particular light. Some look absolutely ridiculous!
I’m just going to have to say no. If there was anything to be gained from this movie it was hidden in the second half.
I’m going to forget about this right now.
My grade: 2
Well, there you have 6 movies to watch and one to avoid. Then there’s always the Underworld movies, of which I haven’t seen one all the way through. The werewolves look good enough, a bit square in the muzzle but pretty decent. I don’t know if it’s Kate Beckinsale again turning me off them, but I just can’t seem to sit through a whole one for some reason.
If you’re poor like me there are places you can go to watch movies for free. Just don’t make a habit of it. The poor actors need their income for important things, like botox 😉
Have a good November peeps! 🙂
Vlog Ep.5 Wendigo
The Cloaked Hedgehog 