Reporting update, October 15, 2026: The latest detailed Dogman sighting account Apep Bar could substantiate in this search was published October 10. The alleged encounters themselves are older. We could not establish a verified new Dogman sighting from the past nine days.
A remote woodland search for railroad history is an atmospheric setting for a mystery. In episode 673 of Dogman Encounters Radio, host Vic Cundiff presents a guest named Andy describing two frightening encounters he attributes to Dogman.
What the recent account describes
Podcast Rex’s AI-generated episode summary places the first claimed encounter in the Shreve swamps south of Wooster, Ohio, and the second near Grimm’s River Bridge in Columbiana County. It describes an upright wolf-like figure and places the second experience approximately five to six years earlier.
Those details come from a secondary automated summary, not an independent investigation. Its chronology is internally inconsistent: the ages and intervals it gives do not align neatly. We therefore cannot responsibly assign exact encounter years from that summary.
A fresh retelling is not a fresh sighting
The podcast’s own listing confirms an October 10 publication and a discussion of two alleged encounters. That establishes a recent public account; it does not establish the creature’s identity or existence.
Apep Bar has not independently corroborated either event. The material reviewed does not provide independently authenticated physical evidence establishing a Dogman. A witness’s fear deserves respectful treatment, while the explanation still needs evidence.
What would move this story beyond testimony? Original recordings with location and time information, independently interviewed witnesses, and physical material examined with a documented chain of custody would make claims more testable.
When a frightening account returns years later, are we seeing a new clue—or a powerful memory finding a new audience?
Featured image: forest photograph by Roksolana Zasiadko / Unsplash. Illustrative only; not an encounter location or a photograph of Dogman.
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