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Welcome to Otherworld. I'm your host, Jack Wagner. I'm your host, Jack Wagner.

In the last episode, we spoke to Emerson, a self-described, hardcore skeptic,

who had a very brief but strange encounter with a wolf, during which he was chased and then saw the wolf get up on his hind legs

and continue running full sprint upright, like a man would run. After this, he did some research

and discovered a local legend called the Michigan Dogman, a legend that may or may not be partly a hoax. After this, I decided to try

speaking to some biologists or wolf experts in Michigan. Normally, this wouldn't be something

that's very hard for me to do, but nobody, and I mean nobody, wanted to talk about the Michigan Dog Man.

However, they did send over the DNR data for Michigan

and told me that there are no known wolves in the area where Emerson had this experience,

which I thought was really interesting.

This all led me to talk to the man who started this experience, which I thought was really interesting. This all led me to talk to the man who started this all, or at least named it, the radio

DJ Steve Cook.

After speaking to him, it seems that the Michigan Dogman was definitely started as joke.

The history behind it was made up by Steve, and Steve

certainly fueled the fire of this hoax by releasing fake footage. But he also told me that

he has talked to so many people over the years who he believes had very real encounters with something that

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