Dogman Tales

When two brothers are terrorized by something that comes right up to their open bedroom window, their story ignites fear across a quiet Ozark town. After a second encounter leaves a man shaken in his own garage, a reporter sets out to uncover the truth—only to realize too late that whatever is out there isn’t hiding from people… it’s watching them, studying them, and deciding just how close it wants to get.

Two seasoned overlanders set out on a remote backcountry loop, expecting nothing more than rough trails and isolation. What they find instead is something that shouldn’t exist—something that begins following them miles from nowhere. As the terrain slows them to a crawl, the creature stays with them, appearing on ridgelines, circling their camps, and testing their limits night after night. What starts as a distant sighting turns into a relentless pursuit, where every mile toward safety feels earned under pressure. Out there, far beyond help, they realize the worst part isn’t being hunted—it’s being kept.

For years, he’s heard the same promise—that on the day he turns twelve, Uncle John will take him deep into the Rocky Mountains to a place no one else knows exists. When that day finally comes, the two of them set out on a grueling two-day journey through some of the most remote, unforgiving terrain imaginable. Guided by a man he trusts without question, the boy presses on as the wilderness grows quieter and the isolation begins to feel heavier with every mile. What waits at the end of the trail is every bit as breathtaking as promised—but the journey there forces him to confront something far more unsettling than the rugged landscape around him.

When two brothers inspect a remote property deep in the Appalachian woods, they expect neglect—not a calculated presence watching their every move. What begins as an uneasy silence quickly turns into a controlled, methodical encounter with something massive, intelligent, and completely at home in the darkness. As night falls, it circles, tests, and studies them without ever forcing its way inside—because it doesn’t need to. By morning, one thing is clear: they weren’t being hunted… they were being managed.

A county road worker is sent alone into the remote wilderness of Pine Hollow to repair a washed-out stretch of road before a utility crew arrives. What begins as a routine job quickly turns into a fight for survival when he realizes something massive is stalking him from the surrounding forest. Trapped overnight in an abandoned line shack with his equipment destroyed and no way to call for help, he must endure a terrifying siege by a creature that seems more interested in breaking his will than killing him. By morning he escapes the hollow—but he leaves knowing the thing that hunted him is still out there.

In medieval England, the villagers of Edwinstowe live by old rules: stay out of Sherwood after dusk, travel in numbers, and never follow strange silence beneath the trees. When livestock begins vanishing from latched pens and men start disappearing without a trace, the village is forced to admit what they’ve avoided naming for years—something in Sherwood isn’t a wolf, and it isn’t a man. As torches fail, traps are tested, and the forest itself seems to shift against them, a hunting party pushes into the heart of the woods to challenge the thing that has claimed it. What they find explains why Sherwood’s fear outlived kings, laws, and time itself.

In the 80's, a 4th-grade book report leads a curious student into the forests of central Kentucky—straight into the heart of the Bearilla legend. What begins as harmless research turns into a life-altering encounter that proves some local stories exist for a reason… and some truths are meant to stay buried.

On a quiet family dairy farm where tradition matters more than birthdays, turning nine means earning trust. It means getting up before dawn, walking into the dark alone, and bringing the cows into the barn like generations before you. For the youngest of seven siblings, it’s a rite of passage he’s waited his whole life for. But on his first morning, something goes terribly wrong. Found shaking and silent in the barn, the boy can’t explain what frightened him—only that he refuses to be alone in the dark ever again. His family struggles to understand. His father, a practical man who believes fear is something you work through, not something you give in to, sees a child trying to avoid responsibility. A lesson is given. A warning is spoken. The old fable of the boy who cried wolf is invoked. What no one realizes is that the boy is telling the truth. As days pass, the farm’s routines begin to fracture. Subtle signs appear. Claw marks are found where no animal should be able to reach. The boy encounters the creature again—then again—each time more certain, each time more alone. And when the truth finally forces itself into the open, it does so in a way that strips away pride, certainty, and disbelief all at once. Grounded, tense, and deeply human, The Boy Who Cried Werewolf is a slow-burn Dogman tale about fear, responsibility, and the terrible cost of not being believed—until it’s too late.

At the edge of a quiet Appalachian town, a reclusive widow lives alone on a stretch of beautiful, untamed land she fiercely protects. When a small group of curious local youths are invited to roam her woods under one strict condition—never after dark—they slowly discover that her rule is not born of superstition, but of hard-earned understanding. As boundaries blur and curiosity overrides caution, they witness a secret that places them face-to-face with something ancient, intelligent, and territorial. What follows is a tense, slow-burning descent into the reality of what truly moves through the mountains at night—and the terrible cost of being seen when you were meant to stay hidden.

Two young siblings, newly orphaned, are sent across the Scottish moors in the early sixteen hundreds to live with their aunt and uncle on a remote shepherd’s farm. Still burdened by grief and uncertainty, they arrive in a harsh, wind-scoured land where survival depends on cooperation, tradition, and an unspoken awareness that some nights are more dangerous than others. As the children settle into life on the moors, they learn that a feared date is drawing near—one that generations of shepherd families have learned to prepare for without fully explaining to outsiders. Clear nights and open skies foster a fragile sense of confidence among the farms, but tension simmers beneath the surface as preparations quietly continue. When the long-anticipated night finally arrives, the land itself seems to turn hostile. A terrifying presence moves through the darkness, livestock panic, and at least one farmer vanishes without a trace. In the days that follow, the children come to understand that what they witnessed was not legend or superstition, but a living truth the moors have guarded for centuries. Night of the Warwolf is a slow-building historical horror story about inherited fear, communal resilience, and the permanent mark left by encountering something that does not belong to any man’s world.

One year after raising a Dogman pup he named Bow, Harlan Pike has grown accustomed to living beside a creature both powerful and unpredictable. But when Bow wanders off for days, Harlan takes a trip of his own — and accidentally stumbles into a hidden marijuana grow, deep in the wilderness. Captured and beaten, he makes one desperate choice: he calls out for Bow. Miles away, he hears a deafening roar. What follows is a raw, terrifying rescue as Bow races to save the only man he’s ever trusted. Their bond is tested, fear rises in the hills, and the boundary between the wild and the human world blurs once again.

Deep in the backcountry of Alaska, a group of remote hunters is startled when a man named Luke staggers into view of their camp—frostbitten, starving, and terrified beyond reason. As they nurse him back from the brink, Luke finally reveals what he and his partner Jim had been doing in the wilderness. What began as a reckless plan to snatch a Dogman pup turned into a nightmare when the “parents” came looking for their young. Jim never made it out and now the creatures that killed him are tracking Luke, step for step—and the hunters realize that by helping him, they just might have sealed their own fates.

When a storm rolls in on a quiet night in the nineteen-seventies, three siblings are left home alone while their parents enjoy a rare date night. As the rain pounds the roof and wind howls through the trees, strange sounds outside start to blur with the storm. Then come the knocks, the scratching, and the fleeting shapes in the lightning. What begins as moderate fear soon turns into a night of pure terror when the siblings realize something is out there—and it’s not trying to get in for shelter.