Post by MoMo on Jun 18, 2011 19:21:58 GMT -6
Michigan Dogman
Grouping: Cryptid
Sub grouping: Hominid/Canine
First Reported: 1887
Country: United States
Region: Michigan
Habitat: Forest, wilderness
History
In 1987, disc jockey Steve Cook at WTCM-FM in Traverse City, Michigan recorded a song titled "The Legend", which he initially played as an April Fool's Day joke. He based the songs on actual reports of the creature.
Cook recorded the song with a keyboard backing and credited it to Bob Farley. After he played the song, Cook received calls from listeners who said that they had encountered a similar creature. In the next weeks after Cook first played the song, it was the most-requested song on the station. He also sold cassettes of the songs for four dollars, and donated proceeds from the single to an animal shelter. Over the years, Cook has received more than 100 reports of the creature's existence. In March 2010, the creature was featured in an episode of MonsterQuest.
Cook later added verses to the song in 1997 after hearing a report of an animal break-in by an unknown canine at a cabin in Luther, Michigan. He re-recorded it again in 2007, with a mandolin backing.
Sightings
The first known sighting of the Michigan Dogman occurred in 1887 in Wexford County, when two lumberjacks saw a creature whom they described as having a man's body and a dog's head.
In 1938 in Paris, Michigan, Robert Fortney was attacked by five wild dogs and said that one of the five walked on two legs. Reports of similar creatures also came from Allegan County in the 1950s, and in Manistee and Cross Village in 1967.
Linda S. Godfrey, in her book The Beast of Bray Road, compares the Manistee sightings to a similar creature sighted in Wisconsin known as the Beast of Bray Road.
Gable film
in 2007 a piece of 8 mm film footage of the Dogman was uploaded to the internet. It shows a large, bear-like animal rushing toward the camera and attacking the cameran, believed to be a man by the name of Aaron Gable. It is currently in the possession of Steve Cook. The film was apparently made in the 1970s and was found in an estate sale. The film is suspected to be a hoax, in the opinion of the cryptozoologist Loren Coleman. the film was ultimately exposed on the TV show Monsterquest as a hoax.
Grouping: Cryptid
Sub grouping: Hominid/Canine
First Reported: 1887
Country: United States
Region: Michigan
Habitat: Forest, wilderness
History
In 1987, disc jockey Steve Cook at WTCM-FM in Traverse City, Michigan recorded a song titled "The Legend", which he initially played as an April Fool's Day joke. He based the songs on actual reports of the creature.
Cook recorded the song with a keyboard backing and credited it to Bob Farley. After he played the song, Cook received calls from listeners who said that they had encountered a similar creature. In the next weeks after Cook first played the song, it was the most-requested song on the station. He also sold cassettes of the songs for four dollars, and donated proceeds from the single to an animal shelter. Over the years, Cook has received more than 100 reports of the creature's existence. In March 2010, the creature was featured in an episode of MonsterQuest.
Cook later added verses to the song in 1997 after hearing a report of an animal break-in by an unknown canine at a cabin in Luther, Michigan. He re-recorded it again in 2007, with a mandolin backing.
Sightings
The first known sighting of the Michigan Dogman occurred in 1887 in Wexford County, when two lumberjacks saw a creature whom they described as having a man's body and a dog's head.
In 1938 in Paris, Michigan, Robert Fortney was attacked by five wild dogs and said that one of the five walked on two legs. Reports of similar creatures also came from Allegan County in the 1950s, and in Manistee and Cross Village in 1967.
Linda S. Godfrey, in her book The Beast of Bray Road, compares the Manistee sightings to a similar creature sighted in Wisconsin known as the Beast of Bray Road.
Gable film
in 2007 a piece of 8 mm film footage of the Dogman was uploaded to the internet. It shows a large, bear-like animal rushing toward the camera and attacking the cameran, believed to be a man by the name of Aaron Gable. It is currently in the possession of Steve Cook. The film was apparently made in the 1970s and was found in an estate sale. The film is suspected to be a hoax, in the opinion of the cryptozoologist Loren Coleman. the film was ultimately exposed on the TV show Monsterquest as a hoax.
