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A young graduate biologist studied wolves in the woods of Cook County, Minnesota. She was twenty-five, two field seasons in, and thought she knew every animal that lived in those woods. She was wrong.

Five college students take an end-of-summer canoe trip down Minnesota's Kettle River, expecting nothing worse than sore arms and sunburn. Then something steps out of the tree line into their firelight — and the narrator, a lifelong skeptic who'd long since written off the cryptid stuff he loved as a kid, realizes he's looking at a dogman

In this episode, two witnesses from the Wexford County area share accounts they kept buried for years. One is a construction worker who came face to face with something on a back road near Mesick after weeks of livestock losses and strange animal behavior. The other is an anonymous woman writing about a childhood encounter on her grandparents’ farm, where the tree line, the state land, and one October evening left a mark that never really went away.

After two calves disappear in rural Wyoming, a ranch crew starts watching the pastures after dark. One night, through a night vision scope, the owner finally sees what has been coming for them.

Amateur hunter Caleb thought he understood the Tennessee woods well enough to hunt alone after sunset. But one evening in rural Cumberland County, something moved through the trees so quietly that he never knew it was there until it wanted him to. What he saw that night changed how he thinks about hunting, darkness, and the word Dogman.

A Nebraska irrigation worker was sent out after dark for what should have been a routine pump repair. What he saw near a farmer’s property left both him and the farmer's family traumatized for life.

In this chilling witness account, a former Marine turned small-town sheriff confronted a strange predator stalking the ancient forests of Oregon. Pets vanished, human remains were found in the woods. Things quickly turned strange - and violent.

Around Bankhead National Forest, locals have been whispering about something wrong in the woods. In this episode, a woman driving alone at night and a trucker familiar with the back roads give two separate accounts of a scarred, bare-skinned Wolfman moving through the ditches and timberlines of northern Alabama.

Retired hobby-farmer Carl had heard the old stories about something wrong in the woods. He never took them seriously. Until the night his dogs refused to go outside and his goats started screaming.

In a dying town in Ohio, a routine repair job turns into a close encounter with a strange, terrifying creature hiding where nobody bothers to look.

Home from college for the summer, Evan joined old friends for a late-spring bonfire deep in the Allegheny woods. The night began harmless. Until his high school crush Jenna’s golden retriever wanders beyond the firelight and yelps from the brush. When the group rushed to investigate, they found something they weren't ready for.

Four teenagers take their dirt bikes into the Allegheny woods for one last ride before dark, cutting through old trails, creek bottoms, and a forgotten gravel pit they think they know. When something huge starts chasing them through the timber, they find themselves face to face with a creature none of them can explain.

Kyle used to laugh at stories about the Beast of Bray Road—until the night something followed him through the cornfields and woods outside his small Wisconsin hometown. What he saw moved like no ordinary animal, tried to get into his uncle's house, and left him wondering whether the legend was a werewolf, a dogman, or some other unknown predator that has been hiding in plain sight for decades.

Deep in the frozen wilderness of northern Canada, something strange and terrifying stalks the workers of remote mine and drilling sites. This collection features three terrifying dogman encounters experienced by workers—haul truck drivers, geologists, and oilfield technicians. Trapped in snowbound camps and surrounded by endless forest, they come face to face with horrifying creatures that don’t just hunt…they think.

In a remote Vermont neighborhood, a month of strange deer kills, terrified pets, and whispered sightings turns into something no one can dismiss.

A man living in his broken-down car under an overpass witnesses two strange figures with canine heads at night. A railyard worker in Denver makes a horrible find inside a boxcar. The next night, he comes face to face with the the beings that have claimed the boxcar as their home.

A Wisconsin lineman responds to a late-night power call at an elderly woman’s cabin, only to find a monster watching from the edge of the yard. What follows is a terrifying close call with a dogman that seems to know exactly how to use the dark.

The team of a small hedge-fund heads up to rural Minnesota for a weekend of paintball, booze and hook ups, under the guise of an annual team-building retreat. However, things quickly take a turn for the worse when a large, unknown predator, which can only be described as a Werewolf, crosses their path. Worse yet, there seems to be more than one. Ryan, an ex-marine turned trader, takes charge of a small group as they fight their way out of the forest.

Two friends go night fishing on Lake Superior and encounter a massive, upright werewolf-like beast. An elderly widow living near Marquette, Michigan, is thrust into a terrifying encounter when a dogman appears outside her cottage. After the beast goes after her beloved tabby cat, she is eager to make it pay.

A routine wildlife camera retrieval north of Whitehorse turns into a violent encounter with something large, intelligent, and badly out of place. The witnesses called it an unknown animal in their report, but what chased their truck through the mud looked disturbingly close to a werewolf.

In Colorado’s Poudre Canyon, Highway Patrol officer Dee Baxter responds to a routine wildlife sighting—only to face a towering, intelligent predator feeding in the rain-soaked forest. Further south in the San Isabel National Forest, ranger trainee Eli Granger discovers he isn’t alone on patrol. Something large, bipedal, and eerily aware follows his every step through the pines. Both witnesses describe the same impossible creature—part man, part wolf—known across North America as the Dogman.

A utility arborist working the back roads outside Randle, Washington, finds signs of something wrong in the timber long before he comes face to face with it. Then a terrifying roadside encounter in the deep forests of Lewis County leads to a disastrous armed search that leaves seasoned deputies and rangers shaken, injured, and unwilling to speak plainly about what they found.

Are the legends of the Michigan Dogman real? In this chilling story pack, we explore two terrifying encounters from deep in the northern woods—told from the eyes of unsuspecting hunters who came face-to-face with something they couldn’t explain-something utterly terrifying.

When a divorced father begins to notice strange activity around his rural home, he assumes it’s just a rogue predator. But as local animals go missing and the town grows tense, his youngest daughter begins drawing something strange. What he discovers shakes his reality to its core.

In this firsthand account from rural Newton County, Arkansas, two brothers encounter a werewolf/dogman while out in the woods with their new .22 rifles. After a dumb move by the younger one, a spoiled brat who really shouldn't handle firearms, things quickly take a turn for the worse.

A truck stop worker witnesses a terrifying fight between two massive werewolf-like creatures on the Michigan–Wisconsin border. This story follows Joe as he encounters a terrifying presence in the woods around the Great Lakes and experiences a violent standoff up close.

A veteran school bus driver in the Cherokee National Forest thought he’d seen everything—until one foggy October morning changes his life forever. What begins as another routine drive through the backroads quickly turns into a nightmare when he spots what can only be described as a Werewolf on the road, feeding on a deer carcass. A few tense moments end up costing him everything he holds dear.

Long-haul truckers know the roads better than anyone—and some wish they didn’t. In this episode, you'll hear three terrifying firsthand accounts of werewolf encounters on remote American highways. From the frozen Dalton Highway in Alaska, to isolated Nebraska turnouts and moonlit South Dakota fields, these truckers came face-to-face with something far worse than wildlife.

The Michigan Dogman—a terrifying werewolf-like cryptid—has been haunting the forests around the Great Lakes for decades. Here are two chilling tales of encounters with this terrifying beast.

A grown man recounts the summer that changed his life forever—a remote Michigan scout camp plagued by howls, fear, and a counselor who vanished in the woods.

Six college students venture deep into the Upper Peninsula for a weekend of partying, but what stalks them from the tree line isn’t interested in the booze or weed. It wants meat. Their meat.

A late-night dog walk on a muddy forest trail in Jackson County, Oregon turns into a nightmare when Erin, her boyfriend, and their two dogs notice something huge shadowing them in the brush. Erin recounts the ensuing chase, the fallout when she got home, and how her research led her to one disturbing conclusion: the only thing matching the description is a Dogman.

In this chilling compilation, we explore three werewolf encounters reported from the dark forests and forgotten hollows of the Appalachian Mountains. A young deputy investigates a crumbling homestead with a tragic past. What she finds upstairs defies evolution… and sanity. Two urban explorers descend into an abandoned coal mine—what they find in the depths of the mountain changes them forever. And a professional trail runner is stalked by a creature that shouldn’t exist.

Deep in the remote Alaskan wilderness, a young field biologist tracks a pack of wolves—until their behavior suddenly changes. Something is hunting them. As he uncovers disturbing signs and strange footage, he realizes he’s stumbled upon something far more terrifying than a wolf. This is a gritty, realistic dogman encounter told through his eyes.

Three hikers. Three werewolf encounters. Three terrifying creatures stalking the wilderness. In this chilling collection, we follow the haunting experiences of two hikers and a trail medic on the Pacific Crest Trail—from eerie footprints in the Sierra Nevada to a grotesque creature haunting Crater Lake. Each encounter peels back the thin boundary between legend and reality. These creatures aren't your typical werewolves from folklore. They are disturbingly real, terrifying, deformed creatures, stuck somewhere between man and beast.

A farmer living near an abandoned railyard begins to notice strange signs—strange howls, spooky cattle, broken fences, a disgusting stench around the barn and house. Something is lurking in the cornfields and pastures after dark. Then his beloved dog vanishes. As he investigates, he finds himself, his young niece in grave danger - hunted by a terrifying, werewolf-like creature that has made a home in the abandoned railyard next to his property.

A former game warden discovers strange prints deep in Groton State Forest — long, clawed impressions that seem halfway between man and beast. When he follows them to a clearing, he comes face to face with a Werewolf - a smart and highly territorial predator. The same creature then starts terrorizing local farmers. Claire, a 26-year-old dairy farmer, wakes to find one of her cows dead — with huge bite and claw marks. Determined to find the culprit, she sets an ambush. What follows is a terrifying encounter that ends with a government cover-up and the lingering question of what’s really stalking the woods of Vermont.

A young bowhunter and his blue heeler, Mako, cross paths with a dogman on reclaimed mining land outside Chisholm. A recently divorced man attempts a quiet solo canoe trip in the Boundary Waters, only to wake up to something sniffing around his tent at night.A sixteen-year-old mountain biker discovers a half-eaten black bear at dawn, only to realize the killer is still in the area—much closer than he thinks.

A veteran hog hunter from southern Mississippi recounts the most terrifying night of his life. While staking out his bait site, he witnessed something no human was meant to see — two ferocious werewolves locked in a brutal fight to the death. Through his thermal scope, the hunter watched as a malformed human-wolf hybrid creature was attacked by a different, more refined-looking beast. What followed was a violent, primal struggle that shattered everything he thought he knew about the woods.

Disturbing sightings suggest recent Werewolf activity near Leap River Wild Management Area, Mississippi.A young couple traveling across the South in their motorhome experiences a night of terror when something examines their RV. They get a good look at the creature. Good enough to create lasting memories.

The second account follows Ranger Jamie Harlan. Responding to a call about a missing hunter, Jamie and a young deputy discover a destroyed campsite, strange footprints and drag marks leading into the woods. As night falls, they come face-to-face with something straight out of nightmare.

A Pest Control Operator in northwest Ohio ran into a Dogman while investigating dumpster raids behind a grocery store. A second encounter a few months later turned violent, with shots fired and one employee ending up badly wounded.

A young ATV rider and a seasoned hunter each come face-to-face with a Dogman lurking in the Wisconsin woods.

George, a farmer from Tennessee, discovers dead animals hanging in his apple trees. As strange tracks appear and his eastern European farmhand unravels terrifying old-country legends, George realizes that something defying even his worst nightmares has claimed the orchard as its territory-a Werewolf.

A high school senior in rural Montana was testing his new a DJI Mini 4 drone with FPV gear. He sent it into the nearby forest, hoping to see bears or wolves. Instead, his drone captured something unthinkable: a terrifying, deformed creature stalking a mother bear and her cubs.He watched in stunned silence as the creature—something disturbingly close to a dogman or werewolf—circled the grizzlies and then launched a ferocious attack. Following the dogman to its den, he then uncovered something even more disturbing. It wasn’t just an animal. It was something far worse.

A night-shift operator at a dump in northern Maine describes how “werewolf” jokes among the crew gradually turned serious after multiple strange sightings and an alleged attack on a worker near the food-waste pits. Weeks later, the witness himself comes face to face with the werewolf, barely escaping with his life.

This account from a West Virginia surveyor describes how routine drone job at an abandoned coal tipple turns into a fight for survival after his drone reveals what appears to be a werewolf living inside the decaying structure.

A retired homicide detective retreats to a remote cabin in northern Wisconsin to escape the scars of city life. But peace turns to terror when his chickens go missing, and a massive predator begins circling his land. Armed with a rifle and two Caucasian Shepherds bred for battle, the tough old ex-cop is thrust into a brutal showdown against a monstrous creature straight out of legends.Was it a Dogman? A werewolf? Or something worse?This chilling firsthand account takes you deep into the forest of rural America, where instincts take over and survival depends on teeth, claws, and trigger discipline.

A remote landowner in the Cabinet Mountains spends nearly a year documenting a dogman systematically wiping out every predator in his valley. He uncovers how the creature uses strategy and terrain to completely reshape the ecosystem in its territory.

Two chilling werewolf encounters from rural Wisconsin reveal just how thin the line is between ordinary life and the nightmares hiding in the dark. A teenage boy living in a small rural town in Wisconsin spots a deformed creature lurking in his front yard—something that looks like a half-finished werewolf frozen mid-transformation. His memory immediately jumps to the countless jokes and rumors about the legendary Beast of Bray Road that have been circulating in the area for decades.A night-shift security guard discovers that the break-in he’s responding to is not the work of thieves but a towering, malformed beast. Cornered inside the building, he comes face-to-face with a starving werewolf.

In remote Washington State, two newbie rangers have a run in with a werewolf-like creature while responding to an alleged "bear attack". A while later, on a different assignment, something stalks and ambushes them. They finally realize that the thing hunting them actually resembles a Werewolf in every sense of the word.

A Wisconsin hunter describes how a routine evening of predator control on his Northwoods property turned into a nightmare when he stumbled upon a woman and her dog facing down an aggressive dogman. He finds himself in a desperate fight for survival when the dogman follows him back to his cabin.

Three werewolf encounters that took place across rural Iowa, beginning with a Grinnell farmhand who discovered a mutilated goat in a barn loft before coming face-to-face with a werewolf. The second encounter almost cost ex-army ranger Ben his life. His two Anatolian Shepherds stepped in. The third encounter happened to a farmer near the Illinois border, who barely got away when a werewolf latched onto his tractor.