Dogman Tales

An eleven-year-old boy and his loyal dog set out for another quiet morning in the Appalachian hills—just like they’ve done countless times before. But when the woods fall silent and something unseen begins steering them away from home, their familiar mountains turn into a maze they can’t escape. Forced to spend the night under the watch of a predator that never quite reveals itself, the boy comes to a chilling realization… he isn’t lost. He’s being kept—and whatever is out there is deciding when, or if, he gets to leave.

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 a backcountry camper strays off trail in Yellowstone, he finds himself in a part of the park where the usual rules don’t seem to apply.   The silence comes first. Then the tracks. Then the circling.   What stalks him through the timber doesn’t attack—not right away. It watches. It follows. It waits.   And by the time he understands what he’s dealing with, it’s already decided how the night is going to end.

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.

For decades, residents of a small Arkansas town have heard a terrifying howl echo through the surrounding forests and swamps—a sound no animal should be able to make. The locals call it the Howler. No one knows what it is, and no one has ever gotten a clear look at it, but the stories have been passed down since the nineteen-fifties. Most people have learned to ignore the sound and stay out of the woods after dark. But when a group of kids decides they’re finally going to track the source of those haunting cries, they discover there may be a very good reason the older generation never tried.

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.

When a rural power crew is sent deep into a remote stretch of forest to clear and repair a right-of-way, they expect downed lines, rough terrain, and long hours. What they don’t expect is something watching them from the tree line. At first, it’s just small things—tools moved, distant howls, that heavy feeling of being observed. But as the days pass, it becomes clear the crew has crossed into territory that doesn’t belong to them, and whatever claims it isn’t willing to give up ground without a fight.

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.

A late-night search for a missing hiker pulls a seasoned rescue team deep into a silent mountain ridge. When the forest goes dead and massive claw marks appear where no bear should reach, they realize they aren’t alone. What begins as a recovery mission turns into a calculated game of control as towering, upright predators herd them through fog-filled hollows and narrow switchbacks. The team will get the missing man out alive—but only because something in the woods allows it.

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.

When a family’s peaceful night at a Pacific Northwest campground is shattered by an encounter no one wants to believe, park rangers dismiss the report as a harmless misidentification. Hours later, a camper is found dead—and the evidence doesn’t match any known predator.  As the campground is closed, investigated, and then reopened under mounting pressure, a marauding Dogman returns, striking multiple campsites in a single night. Rangers, sheriff’s deputies, and state police are forced to confront a pattern that defies explanation, while a veteran ranger carries the weight of a secret he’s kept for decades.

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.

When lifelong West Virginia ginseng hunter Jimmy Shepard finds his secret honey hole stripped bare just weeks before the season opens, desperation pushes him toward a place locals refuse to enter—a deep, forgotten forest below a sheer bluff known only as Widow’s Bottom. Despite warnings passed down through generations, Jimmy lowers himself into the bottom, convinced untouched ginseng still waits below.  What he finds instead is a place that doesn’t behave like normal woods. Sounds disappear. The ground feels watched. And something begins to follow him—patiently, deliberately—cutting off escape and herding him deeper into the forest.  As daylight fades and the bottom closes in, Jimmy realizes the stories weren’t superstition at all. Some places don’t just take lives. They keep them.

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 seasoned wingsuit flyers hike deep into a remote section of Daniel Boone National Forest to scout a launch site few people ever see. The forest is quiet, the terrain unforgiving, and the timing critical.  While moving along a high ridge, they notice something on the cliffs above them—something that doesn’t belong there. What begins as a routine approach quickly turns into a fight for survival as the men realize they’re no longer alone, and whatever is watching them has no intention of letting them leave easily.  Cut off from safety and forced to make impossible decisions under mounting pressure, the two flyers must rely on experience, discipline, and the one advantage they have left—air.

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.

When a hunting party sent from a migrating tribe fails to return, only one man stumbles back—half-frozen, bloodied, and carrying a terror no human should ever see. As he gathers the tribe around the fire, he recounts a nightmarish creature that stalked them through the forest, killing his companions one by one. A creature that moved with impossible grace… stood taller than any man… and seemed to play with its prey.  But the survivor did more than escape. He led the monster back to camp.  Fear tightens around the tribe as signs of the creature begin appearing around their teepees—gouged poles, stolen meat, heavy footsteps circling the fires at night. No one knows what hunts them… except perhaps their chief, Grayback, whose silence grows heavier with each passing hour.  When the tribe finally demands answers, Grayback reveals the truth he has carried since boyhood: he encountered this beast long ago, and his youthful arrogance left a mark the creature never forgot. Its true name has been whispered only in old stories... Windashar, which means "The Night Ripper" in the ancient language. And when the creature finally emerges from the forest, towering above the firelight, it recognizes Grayback instantly. What follows is a chilling confrontation between man and beast, memory and vengeance, as Grayback faces what he once fled.

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.

Two lifelong friends travel deep into California’s remote redwood forests in search of a rumored giant—an unnamed tree said to rival the tallest on Earth. But when the sun drops behind the canopy and they lose the trail, their adventure turns into a nightmare. Something ancient and powerful begins stalking them through the dark—silent at first, then deliberate, and finally relentless. With no light, no weapons, and the river as their only escape, the men quickly realize they aren’t being hunted for food… they’re being hunted for sport. Their only hope is to survive a creature that doesn’t want to kill quickly. It wants to enjoy the chase.

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.