I used to have a cabin in northern MI, and had run ins with unexplained things in the years with sevens in them.
Also Hauntings occurred with me and my family up there. It was quite the experience.
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I used to have a cabin in northern MI, and had run ins with unexplained things in the years with sevens in them.
Also Hauntings occurred with me and my family up there. It was quite the experience.
Hey welcome to Um.. Maybe you could tell us some specifics about your exeriences so we could discuss them.. Whats do you say? Sound like fun?
a dog man? what it look like?
Where in MI I live in northern Indiana.
Are you trying to say you've seen a dog man? Or that you are one? Either way, welcome to our site..Please feel free to use our many free literary devices such as elaboration, and sentences that form complete thoughts! 
I've heard about the Michigan Dogman but I haven't heard anything specific about the story. All I know its supposed to appear every seventh year in a decade in Michigan, thats about it.
By northern MI, do you mean the Upper Peninsula? I lived in th U.P. for over 30 years and would like to hear your experiences with the strange occurances and such. welcome to the forum.
If you like animal people technichally hybrids,go to,the New Jersey Gator Man or Goat Man
P.S Welcome to UM
P.S Welcome to UM
I'm from Northern Michican, and have never heard of such a thing... I'm from Traverse City... so if its supposedly near there... I'd kinda like to know!
dog man??? i live 20 miles north east of detroit ,and spent many days and nights hunting and fishing up north ,hillman area, never heard of such bull crap the only story i ever heard was from a friend of a freind ,who said he was hunting and saw bigfoot 
then threw his rilfe at it!! 
HE THREW HIS RILFE AT BIGFOOT NOW THATS FUNNY
then threw his rilfe at it!! HE THREW HIS RILFE AT BIGFOOT
NOW THATS FUNNY
is that how they hunt in MI? there are better ways
PERSONAL I LIKE TO USE THE FORD 
DO YOU NOW WHAT I MEAN?
DO YOU NOW WHAT I MEAN?
um.. well since there are like no details... cant really talk much on it.. but... im going to MI... well tomorow morning...doubt ill see anything interesting but if i do ill post some other day.... especailly if i see a dog man...
what is a dogman, is it kinda like a bigfoot, i am from the south and we do not have dogmen here, wait well not at least the ones you are talking about 
Alright, I'll come clean! You've hounded me long enough!
It was the winter of '74, a bitterly cold and snowy one, even by the hardscrabble standards of Keweena County. I was all alone in my cabin on the shore of Lake Superior. Just me...and my German Shepherd, Princess. Ah, dear Princess, no one can really understand the close bond of affection between a man and his German Shepherd until the arctic wind howls through the chinks, and it's 42 below at high noon!
Anyway, I just assumed the consequences were genetically impossible, until five months had been and gone, and a dogboy appeared on my bunk on the Fourth of July!
Then a black helicopter lit on the field across the road. Government men burst into my cabin and exclaimed, "Aha! Success at last!" They seized Princess and my dogboy. Only then did I realize why the Navy had called me back to the base to run some "tests" on me. I assumed it was something to do with my brush with Agent Orange in Vietnam.
The army doctors never revealed what those painful injections were for, nor why I was increasingly attracted to dogs after that series of hypnotherapy sessions!
Somebody somewhere knows the fate of my Princess and my Michigan dogboy, but they're not talking....
It was the winter of '74, a bitterly cold and snowy one, even by the hardscrabble standards of Keweena County. I was all alone in my cabin on the shore of Lake Superior. Just me...and my German Shepherd, Princess. Ah, dear Princess, no one can really understand the close bond of affection between a man and his German Shepherd until the arctic wind howls through the chinks, and it's 42 below at high noon!
Anyway, I just assumed the consequences were genetically impossible, until five months had been and gone, and a dogboy appeared on my bunk on the Fourth of July!
Then a black helicopter lit on the field across the road. Government men burst into my cabin and exclaimed, "Aha! Success at last!" They seized Princess and my dogboy. Only then did I realize why the Navy had called me back to the base to run some "tests" on me. I assumed it was something to do with my brush with Agent Orange in Vietnam.
The army doctors never revealed what those painful injections were for, nor why I was increasingly attracted to dogs after that series of hypnotherapy sessions!
Somebody somewhere knows the fate of my Princess and my Michigan dogboy, but they're not talking....
Dogman
A legend in Michigan, USA, tells of this bizarre wolf-like creature that is said to appear in Northern Michigan on July 7th of the 7th year of each decade. It has been part of local folklore for years, however it is generally believed that the Dogman is nothing more than an urban myth.
This is quoted from UM's own A-Z Glossary. Here's the link.UM's A-Z Glossary
Sightings and stories of the dog man
"Fear gripped Robert Fortney as he shot and killed one of five dogs that lunged at him as he stood on the banks of the Muskegon River in 1938," wrote Sheila Wissner in the Record-Eagle on April 25, 1987. "But fear escalated to cold terror as the only dog that didn't run off reared up on its hind legs and stared at Fortney with slanted, evil eyes and the hint of a grin." Wissner said the man from Cadillac, Michigan, found himself recalling that traumatic incident when he listened to "The Legend." Fortney's encounter took place near Paris, Mecosta County, which lies about halfway between Lake Michigan and Saginaw Bay. Although Fortney said he "wouldn't want to call it a dogman," neither did he know WHAT to call the black canid that fearlessly locked eyeballs with him.
An ending to the tale wasn't reported, but evidently the creature and the human finally backed off from one another, since Fortney lived to tell the tale some forty-nine years later. Wissner also interviewed a history buff from Manistee County, Michigan, which borders Lake Michigan in the northern third of the state. The "buff," Clarence Gillispie, had collected several stories of dogman sightings in that county. Gillispie told Wissner that he heard one story from an old lumberman who had gotten it from two friends of his. Gillispie was able to record the gist of their story.
They had been fishing near Manistee on Claybank Lake one day just as the sun was setting, when an animal swimming toward their boat caught their attention. Taking it to be a coon hound that one of them owned, they ignored it until it got close. It was at that point the two men realized that the "swimmer" had a dog's head and a man's body! The men, very frightened, did the natural thing and began to row away. Fast. But to escape, they first had to emulate former President Jimmy Carter's famous "club the swimming rabbit" maneuver (Carter was also in a boat when "attacked" by a dripping cottontail near the end of his term...who knew rabbits could swim?) and whop the creature a few times with an oar.
Like Carter, they managed to keep it from climbing into the boat with them, and made their escape. The reporter did contact one of these men but he would not talk to her about it, insisting that he didn't know what it was he saw, and that he "didn't want to go into it."
In the weeks that followed April Fool's Day, Cook's song became the most requested title on WTCM radio, bested only by the immortal Ray Stevens Hit, "Would Jesus Wear a Rollex on His TV Show?" Cook said he chose to use the word "dogman" instead of "wolfman" because it sounded more familiar and "homey."
Other dogman sightings occurred in Manistee County and Luther, a small town in northern Michigan.woods of Newspapers around the country picked up the story. Paul Harvey spoke of the Michigan Dog-Man in his news and comments, and people from as far away as Germany clamored for copies of the song. Back in Luther, bartender Cavender told Mencarelli that although a few brave people drove out to the town of Baldwin, they later confessed they were too frightened to leave their cars.
Theater of the Mind
"Simulated Werewolf Hunt Amazes, Angers Listeners," growled headlines in The Grand Rapids Press February 16, 1992. Reporter Ruth Butler called it "an exercise in theater of the mind" when WCUZ disk jockey Ron Bailey took listeners on an imaginary hunt for werewolves. The odd thing is that the hunt was inspired not by the Michigan Dogman, but by Wisconsin's Beast of Bray Road! Bailey had read the Associated Press accounts of Walworth Countyıs creature, and immediately requested a radio field trip to Wisconsin. Denied travel permission, Bailey did the next best thing and enlisted the Grand Rapids Radio Players who helped ³flesh out² a story.
The group did their broadcast from a park outside Grand Rapids, while pretending to be just outside Elkhorn, Wisconsin. They invented a slew of characters including a skeptical veterinarian, a teacher who was attacked after school, a thirteen-year old girl, and an Elkhorn restaurant owner whose main quote was "the sightings are the biggest thing around here since girl's basketball in 88." The players added sound effects such as crunching snow and snapping twigs, while exclaiming over sights such as mauled, dead deer and glimpses of dark things running through the woods. People began calling the radio station immediately after the ruse was admitted. Some had believed they were hearing a true, live account and felt both disturbed and betrayed. Others compared it to Orson Welles' 1939 War of the Worlds broadcast, when Welles pretended to be reporting a Martian invasion, said Butler.
The Dog Man lives on.
A quote from one of the men who investigated the canine break-in at the cabin near Luther was added to the beginning of a new version of The Legend released on CD the year the creature was prophesied to return, 1997. Cook later said that almost simultaneously with the CD's release, strange coincidences began. In Kingsley, Ellsworth, Gaylord and Cross Village, said Cook, farmers began reporting numbers of small livestock snatched and "gone missing" overnight. In 2002, the station issued another CD, this time of their annual broadcast of spooky Halloween stories called The Haunting of Northwest Michigan. This was their fifteenth anniversary edition, and it contained five stories. The first was an expanded version of The Legend, and the other four were well-told ghost tales that were revealed as fiction at the end of the CD. However, the cut containing The Legend was declared to be entirely true.
This is quoted from the Weird Michigan site. Here's a link.Weird Michigan Monsters
A legend in Michigan, USA, tells of this bizarre wolf-like creature that is said to appear in Northern Michigan on July 7th of the 7th year of each decade. It has been part of local folklore for years, however it is generally believed that the Dogman is nothing more than an urban myth.
This is quoted from UM's own A-Z Glossary. Here's the link.UM's A-Z Glossary
Sightings and stories of the dog man
"Fear gripped Robert Fortney as he shot and killed one of five dogs that lunged at him as he stood on the banks of the Muskegon River in 1938," wrote Sheila Wissner in the Record-Eagle on April 25, 1987. "But fear escalated to cold terror as the only dog that didn't run off reared up on its hind legs and stared at Fortney with slanted, evil eyes and the hint of a grin." Wissner said the man from Cadillac, Michigan, found himself recalling that traumatic incident when he listened to "The Legend." Fortney's encounter took place near Paris, Mecosta County, which lies about halfway between Lake Michigan and Saginaw Bay. Although Fortney said he "wouldn't want to call it a dogman," neither did he know WHAT to call the black canid that fearlessly locked eyeballs with him.
An ending to the tale wasn't reported, but evidently the creature and the human finally backed off from one another, since Fortney lived to tell the tale some forty-nine years later. Wissner also interviewed a history buff from Manistee County, Michigan, which borders Lake Michigan in the northern third of the state. The "buff," Clarence Gillispie, had collected several stories of dogman sightings in that county. Gillispie told Wissner that he heard one story from an old lumberman who had gotten it from two friends of his. Gillispie was able to record the gist of their story.
They had been fishing near Manistee on Claybank Lake one day just as the sun was setting, when an animal swimming toward their boat caught their attention. Taking it to be a coon hound that one of them owned, they ignored it until it got close. It was at that point the two men realized that the "swimmer" had a dog's head and a man's body! The men, very frightened, did the natural thing and began to row away. Fast. But to escape, they first had to emulate former President Jimmy Carter's famous "club the swimming rabbit" maneuver (Carter was also in a boat when "attacked" by a dripping cottontail near the end of his term...who knew rabbits could swim?) and whop the creature a few times with an oar.
Like Carter, they managed to keep it from climbing into the boat with them, and made their escape. The reporter did contact one of these men but he would not talk to her about it, insisting that he didn't know what it was he saw, and that he "didn't want to go into it."
In the weeks that followed April Fool's Day, Cook's song became the most requested title on WTCM radio, bested only by the immortal Ray Stevens Hit, "Would Jesus Wear a Rollex on His TV Show?" Cook said he chose to use the word "dogman" instead of "wolfman" because it sounded more familiar and "homey."
Other dogman sightings occurred in Manistee County and Luther, a small town in northern Michigan.woods of Newspapers around the country picked up the story. Paul Harvey spoke of the Michigan Dog-Man in his news and comments, and people from as far away as Germany clamored for copies of the song. Back in Luther, bartender Cavender told Mencarelli that although a few brave people drove out to the town of Baldwin, they later confessed they were too frightened to leave their cars.
Theater of the Mind
"Simulated Werewolf Hunt Amazes, Angers Listeners," growled headlines in The Grand Rapids Press February 16, 1992. Reporter Ruth Butler called it "an exercise in theater of the mind" when WCUZ disk jockey Ron Bailey took listeners on an imaginary hunt for werewolves. The odd thing is that the hunt was inspired not by the Michigan Dogman, but by Wisconsin's Beast of Bray Road! Bailey had read the Associated Press accounts of Walworth Countyıs creature, and immediately requested a radio field trip to Wisconsin. Denied travel permission, Bailey did the next best thing and enlisted the Grand Rapids Radio Players who helped ³flesh out² a story.
The group did their broadcast from a park outside Grand Rapids, while pretending to be just outside Elkhorn, Wisconsin. They invented a slew of characters including a skeptical veterinarian, a teacher who was attacked after school, a thirteen-year old girl, and an Elkhorn restaurant owner whose main quote was "the sightings are the biggest thing around here since girl's basketball in 88." The players added sound effects such as crunching snow and snapping twigs, while exclaiming over sights such as mauled, dead deer and glimpses of dark things running through the woods. People began calling the radio station immediately after the ruse was admitted. Some had believed they were hearing a true, live account and felt both disturbed and betrayed. Others compared it to Orson Welles' 1939 War of the Worlds broadcast, when Welles pretended to be reporting a Martian invasion, said Butler.
The Dog Man lives on.
A quote from one of the men who investigated the canine break-in at the cabin near Luther was added to the beginning of a new version of The Legend released on CD the year the creature was prophesied to return, 1997. Cook later said that almost simultaneously with the CD's release, strange coincidences began. In Kingsley, Ellsworth, Gaylord and Cross Village, said Cook, farmers began reporting numbers of small livestock snatched and "gone missing" overnight. In 2002, the station issued another CD, this time of their annual broadcast of spooky Halloween stories called The Haunting of Northwest Michigan. This was their fifteenth anniversary edition, and it contained five stories. The first was an expanded version of The Legend, and the other four were well-told ghost tales that were revealed as fiction at the end of the CD. However, the cut containing The Legend was declared to be entirely true.
This is quoted from the Weird Michigan site. Here's a link.Weird Michigan Monsters
QUOTE(jococage @ Jun 22 2005, 02:26 PM) [snapback]692909[/snapback]
I used to have a cabin in northern MI, and had run ins with unexplained things in the years with sevens in them.
Also Hauntings occurred with me and my family up there. It was quite the experience.
i live by were the dogman is and i swear i have seen it b4 and u know how in the song they talk about the church....i've seen it.....there really are sratch marks its messed up and around october wen they play the song really weird things start happening!!
well thats all
There is NO proof or anyting about what Robert Fortney experienced. How do we know he was just no some crazy skitzo? or on drugs? IF someone is going to be used as any form of evidence they should be a credible source! we know nothing of this guy. NONE of the dog men tales seem to have anything significant to back them up other then some drunk uneducated hick/hunter reporting sitings makes u really think it exists doesn't it?
QUOTE(greattenchim @ Jun 22 2005, 06:48 PM) [snapback]692942[/snapback]
a dog man? what it look like?
It looks like a dog
Also we all know it has to be at least partially folklore the story of it says the creature appears on july 7th of the 7th that right there tells you that part of the account is a legend. Somebody up there saw or thought they saw something where does story telling begin and the facts end with case like this who can tell.
The mods should really create a forum entitled "Ghost Stories Only An 8 Year Old Would Believe In".
^ lol!
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