Deep in the woods surrounding Ohio's Silver Creek Metro Park, multiple witnesses have come face to face with something massive, bipedal, and terrifyingly fast — and whatever it is, it isn't Bigfoot.
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IN THIS EPISODE: Ohio has its own strange creature roaming the forests… they call it the Dogman. And one man tells of his encounter with it. Ohio’s Silver Creek Dogman – what many consider to be a real life werewolf. *** A strange encounter in a diner turns terrifying when and old man appears to have black eyes. *** The feeling of being watched and cold spots in the home bring fear to a family in Oklahoma. *** Both a father and a son experience what can only be described as demonic oppression. *** A woman in Utah finds a stranger in her room… directly above her bed. *** Author G. Michael Vasey takes us to a haunted church in the Czech Republic village of Lukova. *** A strange figure appears in a photo – but wasn’t there when the picture was being taken. *** The first recorded ghost in the United States was reported in Sullivan, Maine, in 1799. And her name, was Nelly Cooper. *** Built in 1839, Highgate Cemetery, in Highgate, London, is now said to be one of the most actively haunted cemeteries in the UK. There were even newspaper stories that there was a vampire at large in there - the so-called "Highgate Vampire". *** When a woman died, leaving no heirs and no will. A couple were brought in to clear out the property after the estate had been settled. When it came time to clear out the deceased woman’s shed, what they found was more than disturbing… it was horrifying. *** A neighborhood in old Louisville, Kentucky had a large tree that stood in the center of the court – and served at one time as a hanging tree for various lynchings in the 1800s. The hangings may have stopped – but the darkness surrounding it, hasn’t.

CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)…
00:00:00.000 = The Foreboding
00:01:16.856 = Show Open
00:03:59.608 = When The Black-Eyed Man Strikes
00:06:20.285 = Floating Orbs And a Terrible Feeling In My House
00:08:18.516 = The Demon Who Levitated Me Out of Bed
00:10:13.255 = The Strange Man Who Appeared In My Haunted Dreams
00:12:02.526 = A Creepy Cursed Church And Its Ghosts
00:15:05.075 = The Creepy Selfie That Shocked Me ***
00:17:41.502 = Did I See The Ohio Dogman?
00:21:46.193 = Ohio’s Silver Creek Dogmen
00:30:49.993 = Nellie Cooper: The First Recorded Ghost In The United States ***
00:40:44.681 = Highgate Cemetery00:47:44.415 = The Shed
00:55:11.697 = The Man At The Hanging Tree ***
01:17:51.950 = Show Close
*** = Begins immediately after inserted ad break

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SOURCES and RESOURCES:
When The Black Eyed Man Strikes: (link no longer available)
Floating Orbs And A Terrible Feeling In My House: (link no longer available)
The Demon Who Levitated Me Out Of Bed: (link no longer available)
The Strange Man Who Appeared In My Haunted Dreams: (link no longer available)
A Creepy Cursed Church And Its Ghosts: (link no longer available)
The Creepy Selfie That Shocked Me: (link no longer available)
Did I See The Ohio Dogman?: (link no longer available)
Ohio's Silver Creek Dogmen: Investigating a Frightening Encounter With Midwestern Werewolves: (link no longer available) (Referenced in this story: “Real Wolfmen” by Linda Godfrey: http://amzn.to/2gN5lde)
“Nelly Cooper: The First Recorded Ghost in the United States” by Troy Taylor from the book, “The Haunting of America: Ghosts and Legends of America's Haunted Past” - http://amzn.to/2yAHrej
“Highgate Cemetery” by Alan Toner from the book, “100 True Ghost Stories: Terrifying Hauntings From The UK And Around The World” - http://amzn.to/2znJ24C. (Referenced in this story: “Beyond the Highgate Vampire: A True Case of Supernatural Occurrences and Vampirism That Centered Around London's Highgate Cemetery”, by David Farrant –http://amzn.to/2zF8qEc.)
“The Shed” by Cindy Parmiter from the book, “More Tales Too Strange To Be Fiction” - http://amzn.to/2yAvtS7
“The Man At The Hanging Tree” by David Dominé from his book, “True Ghost Stories And Eerie Legends From America’s Most Haunted Neighborhood” - http://amzn.to/2hQsmLX. (Referenced in this story: “Life Behind a Veil: Blacks in Louisville, Kentucky, 1865–1930” by George C. Wright – http://amzn.to/2zpMEmK.)
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Originally aired: February, 2017

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