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Two weeks after the flood, a woman and her brother go back to their mother’s house in southern Missouri for the things she keeps asking for. The water has gone down, but something came in with it and has been living upstairs. Her brother calls it a werewolf, and by the time the deputy arrives, they have agreed to call it a bear.

A farmer sees something at the edge of his pasture that he can’t name, so he calls it a dog and tells no one. In the bottoms after a flood, keeping quiet has a cost.

In the spring of 2005, seven undocumented laborers were clearing storm-wrecked timber deep in the Minnesota woods. Then they began finding wolves and coyotes torn apart and left in pieces. Soon they were seeing the animal responsible: huge, black, dog-like, and able to stand like a man. At first it ignored them. Then it took an interest in them. Twenty years later, one of the crew tells the whole story for the first time.

A young graduate biologist studied wolves in the woods of Cook County, Minnesota. She was twenty-five, two field seasons in, and thought she knew every animal that lived in those woods. She was wrong.

Five college students take an end-of-summer canoe trip down Minnesota's Kettle River, expecting nothing worse than sore arms and sunburn. Then something steps out of the tree line into their firelight — and the narrator, a lifelong skeptic who'd long since written off the cryptid stuff he loved as a kid, realizes he's looking at a dogman

In this episode, two witnesses from the Wexford County area share accounts they kept buried for years. One is a construction worker who came face to face with something on a back road near Mesick after weeks of livestock losses and strange animal behavior. The other is an anonymous woman writing about a childhood encounter on her grandparents’ farm, where the tree line, the state land, and one October evening left a mark that never really went away.

After two calves disappear in rural Wyoming, a ranch crew starts watching the pastures after dark. One night, through a night vision scope, the owner finally sees what has been coming for them.

Amateur hunter Caleb thought he understood the Tennessee woods well enough to hunt alone after sunset. But one evening in rural Cumberland County, something moved through the trees so quietly that he never knew it was there until it wanted him to. What he saw that night changed how he thinks about hunting, darkness, and the word Dogman.

A Nebraska irrigation worker was sent out after dark for what should have been a routine pump repair. What he saw near a farmer’s property left both him and the farmer's family traumatized for life.

In this chilling witness account, a former Marine turned small-town sheriff confronted a strange predator stalking the ancient forests of Oregon. Pets vanished, human remains were found in the woods. Things quickly turned strange - and violent.

Around Bankhead National Forest, locals have been whispering about something wrong in the woods. In this episode, a woman driving alone at night and a trucker familiar with the back roads give two separate accounts of a scarred, bare-skinned Wolfman moving through the ditches and timberlines of northern Alabama.

Retired hobby-farmer Carl had heard the old stories about something wrong in the woods. He never took them seriously. Until the night his dogs refused to go outside and his goats started screaming.

In a dying town in Ohio, a routine repair job turns into a close encounter with a strange, terrifying creature hiding where nobody bothers to look.

Home from college for the summer, Evan joined old friends for a late-spring bonfire deep in the Allegheny woods. The night began harmless. Until his high school crush Jenna’s golden retriever wanders beyond the firelight and yelps from the brush. When the group rushed to investigate, they found something they weren't ready for.

Four teenagers take their dirt bikes into the Allegheny woods for one last ride before dark, cutting through old trails, creek bottoms, and a forgotten gravel pit they think they know. When something huge starts chasing them through the timber, they find themselves face to face with a creature none of them can explain.