I'm Laura Norton, and this is one strange thing, the show where we search the nation's news archives for stories that can't quite be explained.

Stranger? Strangers, let's talk werewolves. We know them.

We love them.

We somehow accept that they are played by men who transform from waxed chest lotharios into slavering, herstute beasts.

We admit it's a strange modern conceit, but we have affection for the whole werewolf genre.

Whether you favor the full wolf, the man wolf, or something in between.

There's a take on the classic werewolf for everyone.

Of course, we don't always use that word, werewolf.

In fact, when it comes to cryptids, the language has some variety.

Beast, monster, giant wolf, even Wolfman has held strong.

And certainly, the Americas have presented our own takes on the genre, both in folklore and film and even in urban legend. Folklorist and indigenous scholars have pointed out the similarities between the European

werewolf and versions of the Skinwalker and the Windigo and other figures and creatures

from different belief systems and the mythologies of continents around the world.

But there are also stories floating around that don't fit into any traditional narratives at all.

In the past 40 years, give or take, a new term has picked up in popularity.

Dogman.

We are not referring to the popular children's graphic novel character.

No, this is a term that is apparently native to the state of Michigan, and we will get to that, but its use has spread across the country and is used to describe all kinds of supernatural,

painted sightings. As far as we know, a dogman is a cryptid, in contrast with your classic werewolf.

What is a classic werewolf?

Well, to our understanding, it has, or had at some point, a fully human form.

And a dogman? It doesn't, as far as we can tell. or had at some point a fully human form.

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