Documented folklore from the Club 49 map, told straight and sourced.
This one has a birth certificate. On April Fools’ Day 1987 a disc jockey at a Traverse City station wrote and aired a song about a seven-foot upright dog stalking northern Michigan, invented whole, as a joke. The station was then buried in calls from listeners who said they had seen exactly that, some of them describing encounters from decades earlier. Whatever people are meeting in the Manistee and Wexford woods, the legend itself started as a novelty record, which makes it one of the best-documented cases anywhere of a folk monster being born on a known date.
Wexford and Manistee County woods (northern Lower Peninsula). Source: A modern legend with a documented 1987 origin as a radio song. The Club 49 map pins this legend at its documented country, beside the real mines, active claims, land status and modeled honey holes of the same ground. Open the free map and go stand in the story.
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