The Michigan Dogman
Tracing a modern legend from Michigan timberlands to the hollers of Appalachia
In 1887, two lumberjacks working along the Manistee River reported seeing something that did not fit into the natural order of the woods. They described a creature with the body of a man and the head of a dog. It stood upright, watching them, before retreating into the timber.
The account survives in fragments, passed down more through local retellings t…
