The Gorge is a dead land, as Eliot describes it, a hollow valley that is inhabited by those who died a long time ago yet refuse to leave their physical bodies and cross over to the other side. They are still wandering in the underworld, looking for something to give them that feeling of contentment, something that doesn’t exist in the world ...

The scariest, most terrifying sight was to see the creature moving along in its hideous lope, off to the side, parallel to your path but gaining on you even as you stepped faster and faster to get home before it caught you.

The origin of the Dogman legend in Michigan can be traced back to the late 19th century. The first reported sighting of the Dogman was in 1887 in Wexford County, Michigan, by a couple of lumberjacks. They described the creature as a seven-foot-tall monster with a dog’s head and the torso of a man, and it was said to have blue or amber eyes ...

Cryptozoology is a field brimming with elusive and enigmatic creatures, but few inspire the mixture of fear and fascination elicited by the Dogman. Allegedly half-man, half-dog, this cryptid has been reported across North America for decades, leaving witnesses shaken and sceptics unconvinced.

It was 1887, two lumberjacks were out in the woods when they spotted a creature they described as having the body of a man but the head of a dog. Other sightings began to trickle in throughout the Upper Peninsula of Michigan and locals found dog tracks in the dirt all around several dead horses who died of fright.