Behind the Lens: Legacy of The Forest - Dogman Encounters Episode 669

Adam Merriott is a filmmaker who lives in Hot Springs, Arkansas. The reason Adam is here tonight is that he’s working on a project called “Legacy of the Forest,” a cinematic horror story focused on the Dogman phenomenon.Adam’s main goal with the project is to tell the stories behind the Dogman encounters so many eyewitnesses have had over the years, using the language of cinema. Adam isn’t making the film only for people who already believe in the existence of Dogmen. He also wants people who don’t know a thing about Dogmen to be able to watch the film and walk away with something from the experience.To get the project off the ground, though, he’ll need help financing it. That’s why he’s launching a Kickstarter campaign for the project.Adam’s aspirations for “Legacy of the Forest” don’t end with a short film. He wants the short film to merely be the beginning of the project. After the film is released, he hopes to expand “Legacy of the Forest” into a cinematic universe consisting of a trilogy of feature films alongside an eight-episode television series.On tonight’s show, Adam is going to tell us what to expect from the film and announce the launch of the Kickstarter campaign he plans to use to help fund the project. We hope you’ll tune in and listen to him do that.If you’d like to check out the teaser trailer for Adam’s Legacy of the Forest film, please visit…https://youtu.be/d6oY7OT1Lw0?si=HpbUd8uLbVWC1bKRIf you’d like to contribute to Adam’s kickstarter fund, for Legacy of the Forest, here’s the link to the kickstarter page for the film…https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/jamcinema/legacy-of-the-forest-episode-1To stay up on the latest news about the film, please visit the Legacy of the Forest Facebook Page by visiting…https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61594142193930You can visit the Jam Cinema Facebook Page by visiting…https://www.facebook.com/jamcinema/If you've had a Dogman encounter and need help or would like to be a guest on the show, please go to https://DogmanEncounters.com and submit a report. I’d love to hear from you.Premium memberships are now available! If you’d like to listen to the show without ads and have full access to premium content, please go to https://DogmanEncounters.com/Podcast to learn how to become a premium member.If you’d like to help support the show, by buying your own Dogman Encounters t-shirt, sweatshirt, tank top, or coffee mug, please visit the Dogman Encounters Show Store, by going to https://Dogman-Encounters.MyShopify.comIf you've had a Sasquatch sighting and would like to be a guest on My Bigfoot Sighting, please go to https://MyBigfootSighting.com and submit a report.I produce 4 other shows that are available on your favorite podcast app. If you haven't checked them out, here are links to all 4 channels on the Spreaker App...Dogman Tales...  https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/dogman-tales--6640134My Bigfoot Sighting...  https://spreaker.page.link/xT7zh6zWsnCDaoVa7 Bigfoot Eyewitness Radio...  https://spreaker.page.link/WbtSccQm92TKBskT8 My Paranormal Experience https://www.spreaker.com/show/my-paranormal-experience Thanks for listening!

On last week’s show, our guest, Sean Patterson, talked about several of the amazing Dogman encounters he’s had in a place tucked away in the woods surrounding Irvine, California. He calls the place “The Dogman Sanctuary.”Due to how many experiences he had to share on last week’s show, I didn’t have time to ask him the plethora of questions I had for him. There also wasn’t enough time for me to display a group of photos he took that show the Dogmen and areas around the sanctuary.Luckily, Sean has come back to answer the questions I have for him about his experiences. I’m also going to display his photos on the YouTube version of tonight’s show. The photos start at 23:17.If you've had a Dogman encounter and need help or would like to be a guest on the show, please go to https://DogmanEncounters.com and submit a report. I’d love to hear from you.Premium memberships are now available! If you’d like to listen to the show without ads and have full access to premium content, please go to https://DogmanEncounters.com/Podcast to learn how to become a premium member.If you’d like to help support the show, by buying your own Dogman Encounters t-shirt, sweatshirt, tank top, or coffee mug, please visit the Dogman Encounters Show Store, by going to https://Dogman-Encounters.MyShopify.comIf you've had a Sasquatch sighting and would like to be a guest on My Bigfoot Sighting, please go to https://MyBigfootSighting.com and submit a report.I produce 4 other shows that are available on your favorite podcast app. If you haven't checked them out, here are links to all 4 channels on the Spreaker App...Dogman Tales...  https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/dogman-tales--6640134My Bigfoot Sighting...  https://spreaker.page.link/xT7zh6zWsnCDaoVa7 Bigfoot Eyewitness Radio...  https://spreaker.page.link/WbtSccQm92TKBskT8 My Paranormal Experience https://www.spreaker.com/show/my-paranormal-experience Thanks for listening!

In the woods surrounding Irvine, California, there’s an area tonight’s guest, Sean Patterson, was drawn to when he was younger. He doesn’t know why, but he always enjoyed spending time there while roaming the woods.More than 10 years later, Sean made an amazing discovery about that spot. He says the area serves as a sanctuary for a group of Dogmen and that, after spending so much time there, they began interacting with him.Over the course of those interactions, Sean was able to take several pictures of them, which he shared with me. When he comes back next week for a Q&A, I’m going to display those pictures on the YouTube version of the show and have Sean tell us the story behind each one.We hope you’ll tune in to both shows to hear Sean talk about his experiences with the Dogmen in that area, the interactions he’s had with them, and what led to him being able to take those pictures.If you've had a Dogman encounter and need help or would like to be a guest on the show, please go to https://DogmanEncounters.com and submit a report. I’d love to hear from you.Premium memberships are now available! If you’d like to listen to the show without ads and have full access to premium content, please go to https://DogmanEncounters.com/Podcast to learn how to become a premium member.If you’d like to help support the show, by buying your own Dogman Encounters t-shirt, sweatshirt, tank top, or coffee mug, please visit the Dogman Encounters Show Store, by going to https://Dogman-Encounters.MyShopify.comIf you've had a Sasquatch sighting and would like to be a guest on My Bigfoot Sighting, please go to https://MyBigfootSighting.com and submit a report. I produce 4 other shows that are available on your favorite podcast app. If you haven't checked them out, here are links to all 4 channels on the Spreaker App...Dogman Tales...  https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/dogman-tales--6640134My Bigfoot Sighting...  https://spreaker.page.link/xT7zh6zWsnCDaoVa7 Bigfoot Eyewitness Radio...  https://spreaker.page.link/WbtSccQm92TKBskT8 My Paranormal Experience https://www.spreaker.com/show/my-paranormal-experience Thanks for listening!

Late one night in 2012, tonight’s guest was riding home with her fiancé in Marietta, Ohio, after feeding, watering, and exercising her horse where she had been boarding him. Her fiancé was driving, and “Mandy” had her feet up on the dashboard on the passenger side of his truck.As they drove past Sacra Via Park, all of a sudden, her fiancé slammed on the brakes and stopped the truck in the road. When Mandy looked over at him, he was white-knuckled, with a death grip on the steering wheel. When she asked him what was wrong, he told her that he had seen something he initially thought was a deer—but it wasn’t a deer. As he described what he had seen, he was white as a sheet.Mandy never saw what her fiancé had seen that night, but the experience lit a fire in her. Using his description, she began doing exhaustive research in an attempt to figure out what it might have been. Eventually, she came to believe that what he had seen was most likely something called a Dogman.After reaching that conclusion, Mandy became almost obsessed with Dogmen. Her fascination with them eventually led her to seek out an encounter of her own. She began walking her dog, Boston, at night in the same park where her fiancé had seen the Dogman, hoping that, sooner or later, she would have a Dogman encounter of her own.As fate would have it, on a very hot night, around 2 AM, in August of 2013, while walking Boston in that park, Mandy finally got her wish.Unfortunately, the experience didn’t affect her the way she thought it would. She thought she was ready to have a Dogman encounter, but she wasn’t. Since that night, she’s suffered from ongoing Dogman-related nightmares and night terrors. She’s also been diagnosed with PTSD and says she is still traumatized by the experience.We hope you’ll tune in to tonight’s show and listen to Mandy share everything she’s been through, including why she believes her encounter affected her so strongly. What happened to Mandy should serve as a warning to anyone who thinks they’d like to have a Dogman encounter of their own.It just might not turn out the way you hoped it would.If you've had a Dogman encounter and need help or would like to be a guest on the show, please go to https://DogmanEncounters.com and submit a report. I’d love to hear from you.Premium memberships are now available! If you’d like to listen to the show without ads and have full access to premium content, please go to https://DogmanEncounters.com/Podcast to learn how to become a premium member.If you’d like to help support the show, by buying your own Dogman Encounters t-shirt, sweatshirt, tank top, or coffee mug, please visit the Dogman Encounters Show Store, by going to https://Dogman-Encounters.MyShopify.comIf you've had a Sasquatch sighting and would like to be a guest on My Bigfoot Sighting, please go to https://MyBigfootSighting.com and submit a report.I produce 4 other shows that are available on your favorite podcast app. If you haven't checked them out, here are links to all 4 channels on the Spreaker App...Dogman Tales...  https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/dogman-tales--6640134My Bigfoot Sighting...  https://spreaker.page.link/xT7zh6zWsnCDaoVa7 Bigfoot Eyewitness Radio...  https://spreaker.page.link/WbtSccQm92TKBskT8 My Paranormal Experience https://www.spreaker.com/show/my-paranormal-experience Thanks for listening!

Tonight’s guest, Ken, was born and raised in Susquehanna County, Pennsylvania. Located along the northern edge of the Endless Mountains, Susquehanna County is home to countless forest-covered, rolling hills and the kind of terrain that would make it easy for a large cryptid to remain hidden.Late one night, in November of 2016, Ken was driving his ex-girlfriend around while she delivered newspapers on a route the two of them had been warned about. The warnings came from friends of his ex-girlfriend who had previously delivered papers on that route. They told Ken and his ex to be careful because they had seen what they described as Yetis while making deliveries.Naturally, Ken and his girlfriend didn’t know what to make of those warnings. They had no reason to believe anything like that could be in the area. Their views on the existence of large, unknown cryptids changed abruptly that night, however. What they encountered didn’t resemble a Yeti. According to Ken, it looked like a huge Werewolf.We hope you’ll tune in and listen to Ken chronicle what happened that night, how the experience affected him, and the one detail about the encounter that still doesn’t make sense to him.If you've had a Dogman encounter and need help or would like to be a guest on the show, please go to https://DogmanEncounters.com and submit a report. I’d love to hear from you.Premium memberships are now available! If you’d like to listen to the show without ads and have full access to premium content, please go to https://DogmanEncounters.com/Podcast to learn how to become a premium member.If you’d like to help support the show, by buying your own Dogman Encounters t-shirt, sweatshirt, tank top, or coffee mug, please visit the Dogman Encounters Show Store, by going to https://Dogman-Encounters.MyShopify.comIf you've had a Sasquatch sighting and would like to be a guest on My Bigfoot Sighting, please go to https://MyBigfootSighting.com and submit a report.I produce 4 other shows that are available on your favorite podcast app. If you haven't checked them out, here are links to all 4 channels on the Spreaker App...Dogman Tales...  https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/dogman-tales--6640134My Bigfoot Sighting...  https://spreaker.page.link/xT7zh6zWsnCDaoVa7 Bigfoot Eyewitness Radio...  https://spreaker.page.link/WbtSccQm92TKBskT8 My Paranormal Experience https://www.spreaker.com/show/my-paranormal-experience Thanks for listening!

Nine years ago, tonight’s guest, Dave, contacted me to tell me about a Dogman encounter he’d had not long before reaching out to me. The encounter had traumatized him, and he contacted me hoping I could help him come to terms with what he’d experienced.Dave was no stranger to the woods. He’d spent untold hours in the outdoors over the years, doing all sorts of things. In fact, many years before his Dogman encounter, he’d had several encounters with Sasquatch. Those experiences didn’t frighten him. His 2018 Dogman encounter clearly did.When Dave and I spoke at length about his encounter back in 2018, he wasn’t ready to come on the show and share what had happened to him. Recently, though, he contacted me to let me know that had changed. After all these years, he’s finally ready to share his encounter with all of you.We hope you’ll tune in and listen as Dave tells the story of the Dogman encounter that affected him so deeply.If you've had a Dogman encounter and need help or would like to be a guest on the show, please go to https://DogmanEncounters.com and submit a report. I’d love to hear from you.Premium memberships are now available! If you’d like to listen to the show without ads and have full access to premium content, please go to https://DogmanEncounters.com/Podcast to learn how to become a premium member.If you’d like to help support the show, by buying your own Dogman Encounters t-shirt, sweatshirt, tank top, or coffee mug, please visit the Dogman Encounters Show Store, by going to https://Dogman-Encounters.MyShopify.comIf you've had a Sasquatch sighting and would like to be a guest on My Bigfoot Sighting, please go to https://MyBigfootSighting.com and submit a report.I produce 4 other shows that are available on your favorite podcast app. If you haven't checked them out, here are links to all 4 channels on the Spreaker App...Dogman Tales...  https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/dogman-tales--6640134My Bigfoot Sighting...  https://spreaker.page.link/xT7zh6zWsnCDaoVa7 Bigfoot Eyewitness Radio...  https://spreaker.page.link/WbtSccQm92TKBskT8 My Paranormal Experience https://www.spreaker.com/show/my-paranormal-experience Thanks for listening!

Tonight’s guest wishes to remain anonymous, so I’m going to call her “Nicki” on tonight’s show. Nicki lives near the foothills of the Appalachian Mountains. That’s by design, not by chance. You see, she’s always loved spending time in the outdoors. In fact, for the longest time, one of her favorite things to do was take her massive Husky/Lab mix, Steel, to a nearby reservoir, close to a place called “Lycan Loop,” where the two of them would go on nice, long hikes together.Nicki and Steel loved hiking there so much that she had taken him to the reservoir well over 100 times. Then, one day, in spring of 2019, everything changed. That was the day Nicki and Steel had an encounter with a Dogman at the reservoir.Unfortunately, the experience traumatized Nicki so much that she stayed away from the reservoir for four years. We hope you’ll tune in to tonight’s show and listen to Nicki share what happened that day. If you've had a Dogman encounter and need help or would like to be a guest on the show, please go to https://DogmanEncounters.com and submit a report. I’d love to hear from you.Premium memberships are now available! If you’d like to listen to the show without ads and have full access to premium content, please go to https://DogmanEncounters.com/Podcast to learn how to become a premium member.If you’d like to help support the show, by buying your own Dogman Encounters t-shirt, sweatshirt, tank top, or coffee mug, please visit the Dogman Encounters Show Store, by going to https://Dogman-Encounters.MyShopify.comIf you've had a Sasquatch sighting and would like to be a guest on My Bigfoot Sighting, please go to https://MyBigfootSighting.com and submit a report.I produce 4 other shows that are available on your favorite podcast app. If you haven't checked them out, here are links to all 4 channels on the Spreaker App...Dogman Tales...  https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/dogman-tales--6640134My Bigfoot Sighting...  https://spreaker.page.link/xT7zh6zWsnCDaoVa7 Bigfoot Eyewitness Radio...  https://spreaker.page.link/WbtSccQm92TKBskT8 My Paranormal Experience https://www.spreaker.com/show/my-paranormal-experience Thanks for listening!

Tonight’s guest is Mike Fitzhugh. Mike is the creator of the Dogman Cometh app, a groundbreaking tool designed to help people who spend time in the woods document, analyze, and investigate potential Dogman evidence right from their smartphones.If someone discovers what they believe might be evidence left behind by a Dogman—such as tufts of fur, unusual tree gouges, tracks, or other signs—they can photograph it with the app and upload it directly for analysis. The app compares submitted evidence against a growing database of known animal characteristics, helping users rule out common wildlife through a process of elimination. It also serves as a powerful field journal, allowing users to document the exact location of sightings, weather conditions, time of day, lunar phase, and other important details that could prove valuable.Beyond documenting evidence, the Dogman Cometh app can help users locate nearby Dogman sightings, identify encounter hotspots, and evaluate how favorable conditions might be for a potential encounter based on factors such as terrain, available food sources, water, weather, and lunar activity.On tonight's show, Mike explains how the app was developed, how it works, and why he believes it can become an invaluable resource for anyone who investigates Dogman reports or spends time searching for answers in the woods.To purchase the Dogman Cometh App or find out more about it, please visit…https://comethdogman.com/  To purchase the Primal Signals Bigfoot App or find out more about it, please visit…PrimalSignals.appIf you've had a Dogman encounter and need help or would like to be a guest on the show, please go to https://DogmanEncounters.com and submit a report. I’d love to hear from you.Premium memberships are now available! If you’d like to listen to the show without ads and have full access to premium content, please go to https://DogmanEncounters.com/Podcast to learn how to become a premium member.If you’d like to help support the show, by buying your own Dogman Encounters t-shirt, sweatshirt, tank top, or coffee mug, please visit the Dogman Encounters Show Store, by going to https://Dogman-Encounters.MyShopify.comIf you've had a Sasquatch sighting and would like to be a guest on My Bigfoot Sighting, please go to https://MyBigfootSighting.com and submit a report.I produce 4 other shows that are available on your favorite podcast app. If you haven't checked them out, here are links to all 4 channels on the Spreaker App...Dogman Tales...  https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/dogman-tales--6640134My Bigfoot Sighting...  https://spreaker.page.link/xT7zh6zWsnCDaoVa7 Bigfoot Eyewitness Radio...  https://spreaker.page.link/WbtSccQm92TKBskT8 My Paranormal Experience https://www.spreaker.com/show/my-paranormal-experience Thanks for listening!

Tonight's guest, Nadine Smith, is a paranormal investigator who has had some extremely frightening experiences with ghosts, demons, or whatever they were. None of those experiences frightened her as much as a bad Dogman encounter she had one night, at her home, however. You see, that night, she watched a Dogman rip the front door of her home off, merely feet from where she was standing in her home. She’s had other Dogman encounters, sure, but none of them came close to frightening her as much as that one did. We hope you’ll tune into tonight’s show and listen to Nadine lay out the details of what happened that night, as well as the other times she had encounters with Dogmen.If you’ve had a paranormal experience in Ohio that you’d like to share with Nadine, please visit the Black Swamp Paranormal of Northwest Ohio Facebook Page. You can message Nadine there…https://www.facebook.com/blackswampparanormalnwoIf you've had a Dogman encounter and need help or would like to be a guest on the show, please go to https://DogmanEncounters.com and submit a report. I’d love to hear from you.Premium memberships are now available! If you’d like to listen to the show without ads and have full access to premium content, please go to https://DogmanEncounters.com/Podcast to learn how to become a premium member.If you’d like to help support the show, by buying your own Dogman Encounters t-shirt, sweatshirt, tank top, or coffee mug, please visit the Dogman Encounters Show Store, by going to https://Dogman-Encounters.MyShopify.comIf you've had a Sasquatch sighting and would like to be a guest on My Bigfoot Sighting, please go to https://MyBigfootSighting.com and submit a report.I produce 4 other shows that are available on your favorite podcast app. If you haven't checked them out, here are links to all 4 channels on the Spreaker App...Dogman Tales...  https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/dogman-tales--6640134My Bigfoot Sighting...  https://spreaker.page.link/xT7zh6zWsnCDaoVa7 Bigfoot Eyewitness Radio...  https://spreaker.page.link/WbtSccQm92TKBskT8 My Paranormal Experience https://www.spreaker.com/show/my-paranormal-experience Thanks for listening!

Tonight's guest wishes to remain anonymous. With that in mind, I'll simply refer to him as "Donnie" throughout the show.Donnie had what is, in my opinion, the most horrific Dogman encounter ever shared on the show. Tragically, it happened at one of the most vulnerable times in his life—when he was just 7 years old.One night, while lying in bed at his great-grandparents' house, a Dogman quietly entered the home and took him away. One of the most horrifying aspects of Donnie's experience was where the creature took him. It carried him back to its cave—a place that sounds like something out of a nightmare when you hear Donnie describe what he experienced there.We hope you'll tune in to hear Donnie share the details of that terrifying first encounter, along with the other Dogman experiences he had in the years that followed. After listening to his account, you'll understand why I believe his first encounter is the most horrific Dogman experience ever featured on the show.Understandably, Donnie's encounters have taken a tremendous toll on him over the years. When he tried to tell his family about what he'd experienced, they refused to believe him. He's lost friends because of his encounters, he has ongoing problems with nightmares, and the experiences have continued year after year ever since the first one, when he was just 7 years old.I hope you'll show Donnie the same kindness and support that our listeners have become known for. It would mean the world to both of us. A little understanding and encouragement can go a long way toward helping him finally come to terms with everything he's been through.If you've had a Dogman encounter and need help or would like to be a guest on the show, please go to https://DogmanEncounters.com and submit a report. I’d love to hear from you.Premium memberships are now available! If you’d like to listen to the show without ads and have full access to premium content, please go to https://DogmanEncounters.com/Podcast to learn how to become a premium member.If you’d like to help support the show, by buying your own Dogman Encounters t-shirt, sweatshirt, tank top, or coffee mug, please visit the Dogman Encounters Show Store, by going to https://Dogman-Encounters.MyShopify.comIf you've had a Sasquatch sighting and would like to be a guest on My Bigfoot Sighting, please go to https://MyBigfootSighting.com and submit a report. I produce 4 other shows that are available on your favorite podcast app. If you haven't checked them out, here are links to all 4 channels on the Spreaker App...Dogman Tales...  https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/dogman-tales--6640134My Bigfoot Sighting...  https://spreaker.page.link/xT7zh6zWsnCDaoVa7 Bigfoot Eyewitness Radio...  https://spreaker.page.link/WbtSccQm92TKBskT8 My Paranormal Experience https://www.spreaker.com/show/my-paranormal-experience Thanks for listening!