Three Dogman Reports, Three Delays: Muskego, Clare and Katy, and a Moon That Wasn't There

Yellow eyes in a small wood. A face with teeth that seemed to shine like metal. A figure in torn blue jeans standing on a dead-end road under a moon the witness says was full.

Three people, three states, three gaps between event and telling. Only one report gives a claim that can be checked against the sky, and it doesn't hold.

Muskego, Wisconsin: the teenager (event February 22, 2016)

Cryptozoology News posted the story on March 7, 2016 (the original page now serves unrelated content, so this is the April 2016 Wayback capture). A 13-year-old told the outlet "on Sunday" that he was walking his dog near woods by his home at about 8 p.m. when the dog began growling. "I take a closer look over and see nothing, until I hear a deep snarl," he said. "It sounded like a strangled wolf."

He says he saw "yellow eyes," backed up, and made out a creature about five feet tall, dog-like, walking on two legs, with black-and-gray fur, a long snout, big fangs, pointed ears and two-inch dark-gray claws. He says he told nobody because "they would've thought I was crazy."

The outlet places the report beside Michigan's Dogman legend, which it says was first reported in 1887 by two lumberjacks. That origin is disputed. A Paranormalis repost carries identical text, so it counts as one source, not two. What exists: one anonymous minor, one outlet, no photograph, no follow-up. The teenager is not named here.

Clare, Michigan: the long-delayed email (event August 28, 2005)

On June 13, 2016, researcher Linda Godfrey posted a woman's account of a drive home from a golf-course job at about 11:45 p.m. on Sunday, August 28, 2005, nearly eleven years earlier. Turning onto Eberhart Road, a dirt road, she says she saw a creature hunched under a yard light, eating the garbage left out for pickup.

She describes short, shiny, jet-black fur "like a horse's or a greyhound's," shoulders "like a man," and muscles she could see moving. She says it looked larger than a man, "perhaps the size of a bear when hunched over," and would have stood over seven feet tall. When it looked up, the eyes were red and seemed to "give off [their] own luminescence," though she allows "it could have been that they were just incredibly reflective from the yard light." The teeth were the most striking feature, so large they looked "like metal," a reading she says she spent years trying to explain away as reflection. The creature lunged toward her car as she floored it.

Godfrey writes that this "didn't resemble the majority of dogman reports" she receives because of the "huge, muscular shoulders," the "sleek, shiny black fur," and the metallic teeth, and that she believes dogmen of this description are usually tied to other unknown phenomena. She sets the report beside Clare's older local lore: lights seen along Herrick Road in the late 1960s and early 1970s and the "Clare Deer Man." That context is hers, an interpretation, not a corroborating report.

Katy, Texas: the clothed werewolf (event July 20, 2012)

On July 6, 2016, Godfrey posted an email from a man who says that on Friday, July 20, 2012, aged 19 and sober as the designated driver, he was parked on a dead-end street off Morton Road near Brookshire, west of Houston. Hearing heavy footsteps on gravel about 100 feet away, he got into his car. His headlights came on automatically and lit a figure he puts at six and a half to seven feet tall: black fur, "the body of a gym addicted man," a head like a German shepherd's or black wolf's, two-inch claws, and narrowed yellow eyes. The notable detail is the clothing. It wore, he says, "torn blue jeans that seemed too tight and unnaturally torn, and an open flannel blue shirt that was ripped at its bulky shoulders." It growled, dropped to all fours and ran into the trees. He says the whole thing lasted about 20 seconds.

Godfrey calls this "an exception to the rule," writing that "the great majority of eyewitness reports describe fur as the only covering." Playing devil's advocate, she notes that clothing spares a hoaxer a full fur suit, and that the sketch shows flat feet, not the toe-walking stance of a dog. The witness found no other reports near Houston, and says he waited four years to write, after reading one of Godfrey's books.

The moon check

The Katy witness writes that "the moon was full (the official full moon was July 19th but it still looked exactly the same from what I saw)." Godfrey's closing line adds, "And there was that almost full moon…"

The data say otherwise. The U.S. Naval Observatory lists the New Moon on July 19, 2012, at 04:24 UTC, and the Full Moon on July 3 at 18:52 UTC. Houston-area timing from timeanddate has the New Moon at 11:23 p.m. CDT on July 18, with the next full moon on August 1. On the night of July 20, the Moon was a waxing crescent about 3 percent illuminated. For Katy's coordinates, USNO's tables put moonset at 9:17 p.m. CDT. If the encounter came late in the evening, which the witness's description of a party and a drive home suggests but does not time, no Moon was in the sky.

That does not show he saw nothing. It does show that the one environmental detail in his account that can be checked is wrong, and that neither the witness nor the blog caught it. The error is the kind of thing the memory of a four-year-old night produces. It is not a hoax tell, and it should not be read as one.

What the three have in common

None has a photograph, cast or second witness. All three were told long after the fact, or in one case within two weeks, to a media outlet or researcher; all three are single sources. The Clare and Katy accounts rest on Godfrey's blog, and the Muskego one on a single outlet and its repost. The moon error in Katy is the only claim in the set that can be tested, and it fails the test. The rest stays unverified.

Related reading on the site: The Michigan Dogman and The Beast of Bray Road.

Bottom line

Per Cryptozoology News (and a Paranormalis copy), a 13-year-old in Muskego, Wisconsin, reports a five-foot, two-legged dog-like creature on February 22, 2016. Per Linda Godfrey, a woman describes a black, muscular figure with metallic-looking teeth near Clare, Michigan, in 2005, and a man describes a clothed werewolf near Katy, Texas, in 2012. His "official full moon" claim is contradicted by USNO data: July 20, 2012 was about two days after the New Moon.

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Attribution / source table

• Claim: Muskego: 13-year-old, Sunday contact, Feb 22, ~8 p.m., snarl, yellow eyes, 5 ft, fur, claws, 1887 lumberjack line, "crazy" quote
  Attribution: Cryptozoology News, posted Mar 7, 2016 (Wayback capture Apr 6, 2016; original URL now serves unrelated content)
  Link: Wayback
• Claim: Same text, reposted
  Attribution: Paranormalis forum thread, Mar 7, 2016
  Link: Paranormalis
• Claim: Clare: Aug 28, 2005, ~11:45 p.m., Eberhart Road, description, Godfrey's comparison, local lore
  Attribution: Linda Godfrey blog, Jun 13, 2016 (witness's email quoted)
  Link: Godfrey
• Claim: Katy: Jul 20, 2012, Morton Road, clothing, "official full moon was July 19th," Godfrey's remarks
  Attribution: Linda Godfrey blog, Jul 6, 2016 (witness's email quoted)
  Link: Godfrey
• Claim: Moon phases July 2012: New Moon Jul 19 04:24 UTC; Full Moon Jul 3 18:52 UTC
  Attribution: U.S. Naval Observatory
  Link: USNO phases
• Claim: Jul 20, 2012 at Katy: waxing crescent 3%, moonset 21:17 CDT, sunset 20:23
  Attribution: U.S. Naval Observatory, one-day data for 29.79, -95.82
  Link: USNO one-day
• Claim: New Moon 11:23 p.m. CDT Jul 18, 2012; Full Moons Jul 3 and Aug 1 (Houston)
  Attribution: timeanddate.com moon phases, Houston
  Link: timeanddate

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Entertainment and cryptid-news commentary only. Nothing here confirms a dogman, a werewolf or any other creature. Witness accounts are given as published, and each belongs to its source. The witnesses are unnamed, one is a minor, and the map locations are approximate to town level.