Nightfall With a Dogman
What if it's True Podcast
Cameron Buckner
4.8 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 18 March 2026
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
After fifteen years as a patrol officer and SWAT operator, a veteran responds to a frantic 911 call on a stormy October night: an elderly rancher reports a monstrous black creature—tall, fast, with eyes like fire—mauling his livestock. Arriving at the isolated property, the officer finds the chicken coop and lamb pen in savage ruin: birds shredded beyond recognition, six lambs mangled with impossible force, their bodies twisted and torn. Massive bipedal tracks, nearly seventeen inches long with clawed toes, confirm something unnatural walked upright through the mud. Drawn into the black pines by the old man’s terrified warning that “it watches,” the officer confronts the entity: a hulking shadow with glowing red eyes seven feet high, radiating pure hate. A deep growl vibrates through his chest, followed by an inhuman shriek that silences the storm; the creature vanishes as quickly as it appeared. Backup searches yield nothing more, and the incident is logged as a routine “suspicious circumstance / possible livestock mauling.” The old man flees, abandoning the cursed ranch to rot. Hunters now avoid the woods, and the officer remains haunted, knowing those fiery eyes may still linger in the darkness, watching.
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| 0:00.0 | I'm from Southeast Texas, and my encounter happened on land bordering the Big Thicket National Preserve along the Natchez River. |
| 0:18.0 | You described the swamplands of this area in Steve Lilly number 13. |
| 0:24.1 | My encounter happened 40 miles away in a small town called Spurger. |
| 0:28.8 | I've been in the woods hunting and fishing all my life and never had a strange occurrence |
| 0:33.1 | until 2024 during the deer season. |
| 0:41.9 | It was bow season in December and I was spending as much time in the woods as I could. |
| 0:47.9 | It was a rare year when it snowed here in our area and I wanted a bag of deer. |
| 0:56.0 | I slept out into the woods at 2 p.m. and started walking to a big flat that I knew of where I thought some deer and hogs might be. And when I got there, the woods were dead silent. I didn't think |
| 1:02.6 | much of it, so I just sat down and I waited. Fifteen minutes later, maybe a hundred yards away on the |
| 1:10.3 | other side of the flat, I caught |
| 1:12.2 | movement and I readied my Mossburg Model 500. I assumed I was looking at a hog because it was |
| 1:19.4 | low to the ground and dark reddish brown. All of a sudden this thing stood up on two legs. |
| 1:26.4 | It was at least eight feet tall, and I was petrified. |
| 1:30.6 | I had always believed in Bigfoot and had listened to your podcast, but I couldn't believe |
| 1:35.7 | one was standing right in front of me, only a hundred yards away. Just when I thought the |
| 1:41.6 | creature was about to leave, I heard a loud whoop to my right. |
| 1:45.9 | And then I watched the creature in front of me lean his head back, cup his mouth, and whoop back. |
| 1:52.7 | This scared the crap out of me and I started running. |
| 1:56.7 | I'm a state qualifier in the one-mile run on the track and in the 3.2 mile run across country, |
| 2:03.6 | but I have never run as fast as I did in those woods that day. |
| 2:08.9 | I made it to my four-wheeler, and I left, and I have never been back since. |
| 2:14.3 | Thanks for listening to my story. |
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