2 Arguably the Creepiest DOGMAN Encounters I’ve Ever Heard (With Footage)
The Dogman Tapes
I’ve spent the last 18 months reviewing security footage that was sent to me anonymously. What I saw on those tapes made me realize that some things are better left unseen. But after what happened to the people who recorded this, I can’t stay quiet anymore.
My name is Marcus Brennan. I’m 52 now, and for most of my life, I worked as a security consultant for rural properties across the Pacific Northwest. My job was simple: review surveillance systems, check for malfunctions, and occasionally look at footage that clients found disturbing. Most of it was nothing—animals, shadows, the odd trespasser. But in March of 2023, I received two sets of footage that changed everything I thought I knew about what lives in the forests around us.
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It started with an email. No subject line, the sender’s address a random string of numbers and letters. The message was only one sentence: Please watch this and tell me I’m not losing my mind.
Attached were two video files, each about four minutes long. I almost deleted it. I got weird emails all the time. But something about the tone made me open them. Maybe it was the desperation in that single sentence. Maybe it was just curiosity.
I opened the first video file at 11:00 p.m. in my home office. By 11:15, I was sitting in complete silence, staring at a paused frame on my screen. By midnight, after watching the second video three times in a row, I was physically shaking. The sender never replied to my responses. But those two videos have haunted me every day since I first watched them.
The first video was from a backyard security camera. The timestamp read February 19th, 2023, 2:47 a.m. The location—judging by the landscape—was somewhere in northern Idaho or western Montana. Dense forest surrounded a cleared yard with a detached garage on the right side of the frame.
The video quality was good—modern HD, clear even in night vision mode. The camera was positioned high under the eaves, giving a wide-angle view of the yard and tree line.
For the first 30 seconds, nothing happened. Just an empty yard. Then, at the 32-second mark, a large dog entered from the left. German Shepherd mix, maybe 80 or 90 pounds. It walked into the middle of the yard, sniffed the ground, circled a spot. Normal dog behavior.
At the 1:08 mark, the dog stopped moving. Froze completely. Head down, absolutely motionless—not the alert stillness of a dog listening, but something else. It looked almost like the animal had been turned off, like someone hit pause on a living creature.
This lasted 11 seconds. I counted, frame by frame.
Then it started.
The dog’s back leg—the rear right—began to extend. Not stretch, but physically lengthen, the bones and joints growing as if pulled from both ends. The dog didn’t react. Didn’t whimper, didn’t move. The other back leg did the same. Then the front legs. Within 20 seconds, the dog’s legs were grotesquely long, out of proportion to its body. But it wasn’t done.
The spine shifted, the back straightened, pulling upward, forcing the torso into a more vertical position. The shoulders broadened, the rib cage reshaping into something wide, almost humanlike. The arms—those front legs—lifted off the ground, impossibly long, ending in paws that looked more like hands, with visible digits.
The head changed. The muzzle shortened, ears elongated and moved higher on the skull, the whole structure expanding, becoming angular. The eyes reflected the camera’s infrared light with an intense, bright glow.
The transformation took 1 minute and 43 seconds. What stood in that backyard at the end was not a dog. It was roughly seven feet tall, standing upright on legs that bent backward at the knee like a dog’s, but supporting a torso shaped like a human’s. The arms hung past where its knees would be, ending in hand-like paws. The head was the worst part—canine, but wrong. Shorter muzzle, longer ears, and those glowing eyes.
It stood motionless for another 28 seconds, then turned its head toward the forest. Without warning, it bolted—crossed the yard in three strides, disappearing into the trees. The video continued for another minute and a half, showing only the empty yard.
I sat at my desk, trying to rationalize what I’d seen. My first thought was CGI—a hoax. But I’ve worked with security footage for two decades. I know the signs of editing. I spent hours analyzing every frame, checking for cuts or overlays. There was nothing. The transformation happened to the same continuous object in the frame, no tricks I could identify.
Either this was the most sophisticated fake I’d ever seen, or I was looking at documentation of something that shouldn’t exist.
I took a break before opening the second file. Made coffee. Walked around my house. It was almost 1:00 a.m., but I couldn’t let it go.
The second video was from another security camera. The timestamp: October 8th, 2022, 11:34 p.m. The angle showed a driveway in front of a house, partially visible on the right. To the left, a dirt road led into dense forest. A dark sedan was parked in the driveway, facing the camera.
For the first minute, nothing happened. Then, at 1:17, the car shifted sideways—like something bumped it. Six inches, maybe. Then it shifted backward, toward the forest. The tires rotated, but there was no sound of an engine, no lights, nothing to indicate someone was driving.
Then something appeared at the rear of the vehicle—a massive dark shape, upright on two legs. The body structure matched what I’d seen in the first video: impossible combination of canine and humanoid features. But this one was bigger—at least eight feet tall, maybe nine.
It grabbed the rear bumper. I could see its hands—paws, whatever—wrap around the metal. Then it started pulling. The car began moving backward, dragged by this thing toward the forest. The tires left tracks in the dirt and gravel. This wasn’t a light push. The creature dragged the entire car—probably three thousand pounds—across the ground like it was nothing.
It pulled the car about sixty feet, into the darkness beyond the camera’s range. The whole thing took about 90 seconds. Afterward, the video showed only the empty driveway.
I sat back, hands shaking. The strength required to move a car like that was beyond anything a human could do.
I checked the metadata—same brand of security system, different location. No signs of editing, no tricks. Two videos, two locations, two dates, both showing creatures that matched descriptions I’d heard my whole life—stories I’d always dismissed as legends.
Dogmen, people called them. Upright canines, wolf-men, cryptids haunting the deep forests.
I didn’t sleep that night. I watched both videos again and again, looking for any explanation that didn’t mean accepting these creatures were real.
Over the next weeks, I became obsessed. I reached out to the email address that sent the videos—no reply. The address went inactive, messages bounced back.
I showed the footage to colleagues in the security industry. Most laughed it off. A few took me seriously, and their reactions ranged from confused silence to outright denial. One friend, Tom—15 years in law enforcement video analysis—spent a weekend examining the footage. He called me Sunday night. “Marcus, I don’t know what to tell you. If this is fake, it’s the best fake I’ve ever seen. If it’s real, then we’ve got a serious problem.”
I started researching Dogman sightings. Reports went back decades—hundreds of sightings across North America, especially the Great Lakes, Pacific Northwest, Appalachians. Witnesses described upright canines, six to nine feet tall, strong, fast, intelligent. Some described transformations—dogs or wolves changing into upright forms. Others described these creatures manipulating objects, opening doors, showing intelligence beyond animals.
One detail came up repeatedly: an interest in vehicles. Reports of cars moved, pushed off roads, even flipped over. The incident in the second video wasn’t unique. It fit a pattern.
I contacted cryptozoology researchers, without revealing the footage. Several said they’d seen similar footage, but couldn’t verify it. Others said homeowners in certain areas were taking their security systems offline because of what they were capturing—things they didn’t want documented.
People are terrified, one researcher told me. They see these things, capture them on camera, then destroy the footage because they don’t want to deal with what it means.
That stuck with me. I had footage—potentially groundbreaking evidence—and I was terrified to do anything with it.
In August 2023, I got another anonymous email: “The property in the second video was abandoned last month. The family that lived there is gone. The authorities found the car 3 miles into the forest. They’re calling it vandalism. I thought you should know.”
I searched local news reports. It took me two days, but I found it—a brief article from eastern Oregon: “Local Family Abandons Home After Mysterious Vehicle Incident.” A family left their property suddenly, leaving most belongings behind. Authorities found their car deep in the forest, damaged as if dragged over rough terrain. The family couldn’t be reached. Neighbors said they left in the night.
I felt sick. This wasn’t just about interesting footage anymore. Real people had been affected. A family had been so frightened they abandoned everything.
I tried to find more about the first video, but there was less to go on. I found scattered reports from northern Idaho around the same time: unusual animal activity, livestock disappearing, pets missing, strange vocalizations at night. Nothing definitive, but a pattern.
By September, I knew I had to do something. Keeping this hidden wasn’t protecting anyone. If anything, making it public might help people understand what they were dealing with.
I started reaching out to researchers and documentarians. Some were interested, some skeptical, some warned me it could be dangerous.
One researcher, Dr. Patricia Morrison, spent a day reviewing the footage with me. Her reaction was unlike anything I’d expected. She watched both videos three times, then sat quietly.
“I’ve seen a lot of footage over the years,” she finally said. “Most of it is easily explained. But this… this is different. If this is fake, whoever did it has a deep understanding of the reports. If it’s real, it’s evidence of something we’ve been documenting for generations, but science refuses to acknowledge.”
She theorized these creatures might be an unknown species of primate, evolved in parallel with humans, or something else entirely. “What concerns me most is the transformation behavior. If they can change appearance, hide as normal animals, how many dogs are actually dogs? How many wolf sightings are actually something else?”
It’s been 18 months since I first received those videos. I’ve wrestled with what to do, how to share this information, whether sharing it will help or hurt the people who might encounter these creatures.
But I’ve made my decision.
The footage I described exists. I have it. I’ve analyzed it, had it reviewed by experts, verified its authenticity as much as possible. I’m not sharing the actual videos publicly—for now. I want this story to be about the implications, not about whether the footage is real or fake.
What I saw on those recordings changed my understanding of the world. Those creatures exist. They’re out there, living alongside us, mostly unseen, but sometimes captured by the cameras we install to protect our homes.
The transformation shown in the first video suggests abilities we don’t understand. The strength in the second video shows they’re capable of things that should be impossible. And the fact that families are abandoning their homes, that people are destroying evidence out of fear, tells me this is a bigger phenomenon than anyone realizes.
I don’t know what these creatures are, where they come from, or what their intentions are. But I know they’re real. They’re more common than we think, and as security cameras become more widespread, we’re documenting them more frequently.
If you live in rural areas where Dogman sightings have been reported, take precautions. Secure your property. Be aware of your surroundings. And if you have security cameras, review the footage regularly. You might be surprised by what you find.
If you capture something unusual, think carefully about what you do with that information. Going public has consequences, but staying silent keeps important knowledge hidden from those who might need it.
These creatures are real. They’re out there. And based on the increasing frequency of documented encounters, I believe we’re approaching a point where this can’t be kept hidden much longer. Too many people are seeing things, recording things, experiencing things that can’t be explained away.
The truth is going to come out eventually. Maybe it’s better if it comes out on our terms—through careful documentation and research—rather than through some catastrophic encounter that forces the issue in a traumatic way.
That’s why I’m sharing my story now, after 18 months of sitting on what might be the most significant wildlife footage ever captured. Stay safe out there. And remember: not everything caught on camera can be explained away. Some things are real, whether we’re ready for them or not.
