https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5uwFZYCwnS0
A song started a phenomena.
The Michigan dogman is a creature that stems from a song in 1987 taking place in 1887. Steve Cook was a disc jokey who decided to play a little practical joke on locals near Traverse City MI.
Playing this song lead to an outrush of calls from people who reported seeing the Dogman previously. People had reported seeing a large hunched man like dog in the roads. Cook remained skeptic until he rerecorded the song in 2007 to add the verse about the cabin break in in Luther MI. Supposedly the creature comes out every 10 years, with the 10th ending in 7 so the last major reports would be 2017 and 2007, lining up to the break in.
This myth has been floating around Michigan for years and years however I know someone who personally saw it with his wife. He was driving alone in the middle of the night down a main road. They saw him on the side, driving fast they passed him but got a good look at the creature, tall with dog like features hunched on the side of the road...

