Dogmen, The Beast of Bray Road and True Stories of Werewolves
Added 2022-10-12 13:46:18 +0000 UTCThe story always starts the same way. On the side of the road, in a backyard, or in a parking lot; a large dog hovers over a dead animal, quietly eating.
As you approach, the dog looks up. Its eyes shining in the dark.
As you move closer, the dog stands up on its hind legs. It's well over 7 feet tall. It has the body of a man but the head of a dog or a wolf.
Some call them werewolves. Others call them dogmen. Whatever they are, they've been terrifying people for hundreds of years.
In the past, it's been easy to dismiss these sightings as mistakes or superstitions.
But these creatures are not so easy to dismiss anymore.
Because now -- we have pictures.
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My wife (then girlfriend) and I came across something similar in Central Oklahoma in 1989. One late spring night going down an unlight 2-lane country road with no bar ditch and 6 foot banks leading up to barbed wire fenced fields on either side. We saw what looked like a really large black dog walk down the right bank and into the middle of the road in front of us. I stopped my '84 Z-28 because my T-tops were off and windows down. I turned down Def Leppard and all we could here was the rumbling of my engine. No crickets no frogs. No sounds of nature. The dog was just at the edge of my headlights on dim so I turned on my brights. The dog turned its head towards us and then stood up on two legs and began walking towards us. A tremendous sense of dread and fear poured over us and my wife (then girlfriend yelled back up). I may have screamed a little too. I threw the car into reverse and backed up as fast as I could until I got to the next intersection, got turned around and took off as fast as I could in another direction. While my wife and I disagree on exactly where this happened, it was just on the edge of the neighborhood where she lived. Even now recounting this story gives me chills. I cannot say how tall the dog was when it stood up, but it did not move like a dog walking on its hind legs and I didn't need to see anymore. We have relayed this story many times to friends and family who have acted skeptical, but I don't know how to fake chills and that sense of dread, so many have expressed they believed we are telling the truth. Thank you for sharing these stories in this episode.
Tadd Weese
2025-10-26 23:17:36 +0000 UTCHaving grown up in Michigan all my life and camping and canoeing each summer with our extended family members and snowmobiling in the winters there was not a common to hear campfire stories of witches and Dogman. For us we grew up in the late 70s early 80s and our uncle always told the story of the dog man of Sigma. Sigma now is a gas station/corner store on M 66 just north of Fife Lake and south of Kalkaska, mostly woods and agriculture fields in this area.
Aldosterone
2025-10-23 13:08:25 +0000 UTCi’ve heard this story several times and found it more credible than most. you can’t stop hoaxers once a story is out.
David Leatherman
2025-04-27 13:58:24 +0000 UTCRegards to Lord Hecklefish Moriarty....such a magnificent sidekick
Daniel F
2022-11-21 15:05:12 +0000 UTCwith those from last year.
Daniel F
2022-11-21 15:03:56 +0000 UTCDear AJ...you have a quality channel....absolutely wonderful. I have seen most of your videos, slowly catching up with
Daniel F
2022-11-21 15:03:24 +0000 UTCI enjoyed hearing about the dogmen, errhmm dogpeople. I'm surprised that none of the witnesses shot one.
Frank Kumro
2022-10-13 13:48:45 +0000 UTCSubbed on spotify now 😁👍 thanks
Ten Toes Gaming
2022-10-13 13:05:55 +0000 UTCI'm not even sure if I had heard of the term cryptid until you mentioned it, I believe, in the After Files.
MikeD
2022-10-13 04:30:59 +0000 UTCIf it easier, there's a podcast version of the show on Spotify and Apple. And I feel you about WW3. We're close!
The Why Files
2022-10-13 03:58:16 +0000 UTCThey got a hold of the good stuff.
The Why Files
2022-10-13 03:57:04 +0000 UTCRight with you. Never heard of them nor cared when the topic was brought up in the live. But really enjoyed the well researched video!
Victoria
2022-10-13 03:54:34 +0000 UTCI was kind of in the same boat. I'm not in to cryptids so I tried to add some other facts and stories for people like us.
The Why Files
2022-10-13 03:54:08 +0000 UTCYeah, some of the witnesses were really terrified. They didn't seem like they were hoaxing.
The Why Files
2022-10-13 03:52:57 +0000 UTCYes! Shape shifter!
The Why Files
2022-10-13 03:52:17 +0000 UTCThanks, Chris! A few people have requested the NJ Devil. I'm going to take a look at it.
The Why Files
2022-10-13 03:49:58 +0000 UTCWe should have cake!
The Why Files
2022-10-13 03:48:37 +0000 UTCI am very interested in that topic!
The Why Files
2022-10-13 03:47:58 +0000 UTCHAAAAA
The Why Files
2022-10-13 03:47:35 +0000 UTCThe best compliment I can give is I had minimal interest in the topic of "dogmen", yet here you are again making the story engaging and compelling, forcing me to reconsider werewolves and dogmen. : -)
MikeD
2022-10-13 03:19:03 +0000 UTCWhat the heck was in that weed they were smoking?
Scott Graham
2022-10-13 02:14:34 +0000 UTCI remember watching a documentary on Bray road. It was definitely interesting and I can't wait to see the why files take on it. I would watch it now but I drive a truck and listen to these videos while I'm driving to keep my mind off ww3. 😅 so tomorrow while I'm turning wheels I will absolutely enjoy this.
Ten Toes Gaming
2022-10-13 01:51:53 +0000 UTCI would have moved away immediately. Real or prank.
Eylul Deniz
2022-10-13 01:25:36 +0000 UTCHecklefish knows this: nahualli very common in south mexico!
73chn05h4m4n
2022-10-13 01:23:39 +0000 UTCI grew up with the Jersey Devil. I never thought I’d be jealous of Michigan. Fantastic lore, and you presented it masterfully.
Chris Overstreet
2022-10-13 00:04:45 +0000 UTCOh BTW happy belated birthday WF.. 2 years old!!!!
ed pluck
2022-10-12 22:42:04 +0000 UTCI growl at times but I get called Marge Simpson mostly. Lmao. Done it since I was a kid.
SarahLeightonCraigGater
2022-10-12 22:33:59 +0000 UTCEpic story great research AJ when or will you consider looking into adrenachrome its the scariest theory out their. Its likely only patron video as its a HOT topic for YouTube to bust butt's. I'm too scared to research but IF it's true people need to know especially when people believe it's sold on alibaba now or once. Always be safe first and foremost but if anyone I trust to research this its you AJ. Much love Sarah and Craig xx ❤️ P.s thank you again you're a true sweetheart and so appreciated 💗
SarahLeightonCraigGater
2022-10-12 22:31:44 +0000 UTCThese stories are all true. My First wife was one🤔. Another great Job AJ.
Kevin Via
2022-10-12 19:08:04 +0000 UTCSkinwalkers are also Dogmen, so you should have included them into the episode. There was a clip used in one of "Nuke's Top 5" on YouTube years ago from a black guy that managed to video a cloaked Dogman running by behind his house along the fence line. It's either dimensional or technological cloaking ability reminded me a lot of how the Predator looked in the films, but you could still see the basic werewolf-like outline to the body, even backwards bent legs. It is odd how there are so many reports of them in Michigan though.
Elak Swindell
2022-10-12 16:46:49 +0000 UTCSolid video. keep up the good work!
Paul & Rasa Fawkes
2022-10-12 16:22:17 +0000 UTCAlthough my husband is very interested in things like conspiracy theories and Cryptids and so on, he is not a liar, and a couple years ago he finally talked about a sighting he had of what he now thinks may have been a dogman more than 20 years ago (he thinks that term ‘dogman’ is silly by the way but it is what it is lol). It took place while he was driving around at night in Kirtland, Ohio. (a lot of wacko weird unexplained as well as heinous things have happened in Kirtland). I personally am not a fan of Vic Cundiff’s Dogman Encounters YouTube channel per se, however my husband was featured on Episode 377 last year if you want to hear him tell his story. https://youtu.be/ZRkMMYTSXmY
L.J. Hynd
2022-10-12 16:04:29 +0000 UTCCreepy as hell it’s self… this was a great episode.
Patch
2022-10-12 15:39:16 +0000 UTCBrilliant, mate. Loved it. I don't think it's by any means impossible that in the vast wildernesses of this planet, a human-variant (Wolfman, Bigfoot, etc) could exist and survive without being properly detected. I've spent years flying all over the world, and what always strikes me, while gawping out of the windows, is how vast and largely empty it is.
William Matthews
2022-10-12 15:22:50 +0000 UTCThanx boss, knew it had to be something besides editing.
Drew Shourd
2022-10-12 15:14:33 +0000 UTCThe last 7 minutes were scared as hell! - nothing like reality to bring you down from the clouds…. I want to believe. I really do. Until then my motto is… “ prove it”! Awesome video AJ HF/team …!!! Perfect for October madness! Xx
Charly H
2022-10-12 15:05:48 +0000 UTCLove the way you present your information. You are always entertaining and hecklefish reminds of one of the friends I keep in my head, that part was a joke. I haven't seen all your stuff yet but if you haven't covered "the legend of Boggy creek" I would love to get you take, my mom grew up in east Texas back in the 30's and 40's. Also if you haven't read the book " nothing in this book is true but it's exactly how they are" I would love your take and finally there is a film "What the bleep do we know" would like your thoughts.
Karl poff
2022-10-12 14:52:13 +0000 UTCno in the wild photos please ;)
ed pluck
2022-10-12 14:26:20 +0000 UTCHAHA! I think we'll actually make these.
The Why Files
2022-10-12 14:23:54 +0000 UTCi think it is a patreon issue, i had a few glitches today re-watched sections and it happened in different places
ed pluck
2022-10-12 14:23:06 +0000 UTCNow i want to get Hecklefish boxer shorts... damn you hecklefish
ed pluck
2022-10-12 14:21:54 +0000 UTCAwesome episode, never knew this about the midwest
Hector Anguiano
2022-10-12 14:19:45 +0000 UTCLove it, you know I am a writer of short stories of the paranormal and cryptids…this is my thing man, great video! I live in S.W. Michigan, and the Michigan Dogman is real!!! The frame froze mid way btw, it was still ‘playing’ but not moving.
Drew Shourd
2022-10-12 14:12:53 +0000 UTCPerfect October fare, AJ! I was nearly finished going down the John Titor rabbit hole 😊
SpookiestBecky
2022-10-12 13:48:53 +0000 UTC
