[Phil] Okay, okay, okay. Look for eyeshine.
[howling]
[Josh] On this episode of Expedition X...
-All right. -[laughing]
[Josh] ...my team heads deep into the forests of Michigan
on the hunt for a bloodthirsty beast...
[man] This thing must've been seven foot plus.
That is giant.
[Josh] ...that some believe
is part of a shocking government conspiracy...
We know who you are. We know what you did. You killed our asset.
[Josh] ...as Phil and Heather search for answers to the mystery of the dogman.
[Phil] This airport is or was a front for some sort of dogman training facility?
They call that place Dogman Hotel.
[Heather] Somebody was trying to get out.
-[thuds] -[gasps] What was that?
[Josh] The hunters will become...
Heather, get back here!
-Wow. -Is that blood?
-[Josh] ...the hunted. -[screeching]
Okay, guys, I have a story to pitch,
but I don't want y'all to look at me like I'm a lunatic.
Too late for that.
Yeah, I can already tell this is gonna be bad.
Should I have a tinfoil hat on?
I mean, maybe. Take a look at this headline.
"A Michigan trucker believes he encountered and shot the dogman."
What in God's name is a dogman?
Okay, bear with me.
There have been a ton of recent sightings
of this human wolf-like creature in Michigan.
Most recently by this guy, Joe Barger, who did not believe in dogman.
But he says it attacked him and he fought back.
-And not only did he shoot it, he killed it. -[Josh] What?
[Phil] So there's a dogman body out there
-we can do a DNA analysis on? -Dude, this is amazing.
[Heather] Well, that's where the story gets even wilder.
He says that before he could retrieve the body,
government agents came and took the body away.
Not only that,
they also told him to be quiet and threatened him.
This story is bananas, but I've heard of this.
-What? -[Josh] Yes, this dogman,
government conspiracy thing is a real thing.
And actually, sightings of a dogman creature
date back centuries.
Terrifying tales of a canine cryptid dubbed the dogman
begin in the old histories of the Odawa tribes in what is now Michigan.
The first documented claim of a dogman appears in 1887,
when lumberjacks in Wexford County survive an encounter
with what they describe as a monstrous amalgamation
of hound and human.
In 1938,
Robert Fortney is in the same area
when he is attacked by a pack of wild dogs.
He claims the leader of the pack rises onto its hind legs
and watches him with what he describes as human eyes.
Though the story sounds outlandish,
in the decades since, there have been countless
alleged dogman encounters,
often corroborated by compelling photos and footage.
Blamed for violent deaths and disappearances over the years,
the creatures are said to be an astonishing seven to ten feet tall,
with a wolf-like head on a human torso.
Witnesses claim they can charge on all fours or run bipedal.
They also say the dogman's eyes are very human-like.
Often amber.
And its howl is said to resemble a human scream.
[howling]
Some allege the U.S. government
knows all about these disturbing canine creatures,
but wants to keep them secret from the public.
Incredibly, some go even further,
claiming to have seen dogman on U.S. military bases,
fueling a jaw-dropping debate
over whether this creature was actually created
in some kind of government experiment:
A wild weapon tamed by our military.
Now Heather was contacted by a trucker who claims to have been
personally attacked by a dogman that he then shot and killed.
[gunshot]
Can there really be any truth to this wild story?
Is the dogman out there or is the tail truly just wagging the dog?
Heather, you're buying this?
Okay. I don't know about this government conspiracy thing,
but there could be some truth to something being out there.
There's millions of acres of forest and hundreds of years
worth of stories about something similar.
All right. Phil, I'm guessing you're skeptical.
I don't know if I'm so ready to go down this rabbit hole.
-[Josh] Dogman hole. -[Phil] Right.
Listen, like so many other conspiracy theories, it could be people
misidentifying something influenced by what they read online,
what they see in movies, see on TV.
Whoa, Phil, don't bite the hand that feeds here.
Look, I understand. We do have to be careful
when it comes to conspiracy theories.
People wanting something to be real is not the same as it being actually true.
But there is something about this story that really intrigues me.
It has been around for so long.
It has gained so much traction.
I want to know what is the truth behind this thing?
Like, where did this come from?
So go and investigate.
Meet this trucker, see if you can verify
his dogman attack or the government involvement
and find out the truth behind the dogman.
-Okay. -You got it.
[Josh] It's a two-and-half-hour flight
from New York to Grand Rapids, Michigan.
Then, it's another 90-minute drive north
to the Manistee National Forest,
where I've arranged for Phil and Heather
to meet up with our alleged dogman witness.
For years, it's been Bigfoot, right?
-Yeah. -But now,
there's a huge uptick in the dogman.
-Why is that? -We know there's been reports
of a dogman-like creature since the 1800s,
but there are people that believe
it's actually a recent creation of the government.
These are those conspiracy angles that I have a tough time with.
The way I see conspiracy theories is it is a dramatic way
to talk about something you don't quite understand.
I mean, look at what people talk about
in conspiracy circles. flat Earth theory, lizard people.
That is a gross exaggeration.
We know there's only one lizard person. It's Josh.
But lizard people? No.
Did you know there's a really cool,
long-tailed duck that you could spot here in Michigan?
[Heather] Of course there is. I mean, what would you do without your birds?
[Phil] I don't know.
-And that is our truck stop. -[Heather] That's a big rig.
All right, let's see what he's got to say.
[Heather] Joe Barger is a long-haul trucker
who's been driving the Michigan back roads for decades.
And it's on this stretch of highway where
he says he came face to maul with a terrifying dogman.
So our understanding is you've got quite a crazy story
-that happened to you on this road. -Yeah.
Can you just walk us through it?
Tell us from the beginning what happened that day.
I was picking up a load and as I was coming back,
there was a air leak that I had.
So I pulled in here.
I just got out my tools and got underneath,
and that's when I noticed the atmosphere was--
It was really different.
Then I heard footsteps.
[footsteps approaching]
So I got right back in my truck.
As I was leaving, I looked on the right side
and I see that there's a wolf head looking down,
peering in at me from the passenger side.
-A wolf head, staring at you. -Staring at me, keeping up with me.
I'm at about 20 miles an hour.
What are the chances here that this is a bear or a wolf
that jumped onto the side of your truck
and was essentially trying to get in?
There's no chance of that.
He was running next to me.
-On two legs. -On two legs?
-Yup. -[Heather] But that's like nine feet up.
That's super tall.
Yeah, and he was stooping down to look in.
So I pulled my gun out
from the side of my seat and shot twice as fast as I can shoot it.
-Did you hit it? -I hit it. It went down immediately.
What do you think it was that you shot on this road?
A dogman.
Because he was reaching in with his clawed hand
like a raccoon-looking hand,
but just five times bigger than my hand.
About three to four minutes later,
I feel like I have to turn around and go back.
As I'm approaching,
there's people already there, right where this occurred.
And I'm thinking, what are these people doing here?
And I can tell that
this thing that I just shot is gone.
The body was no longer there?
You could see the disturbance in the ground,
but it was gone.
-[Heather] I mean, that's strange. - [Joe] Yeah.
Eventually, I get detained by federal agents.
"Detained by federal agents." What do you mean?
Yeah, they pulled me in,
and they showed me some homeland security identification.
How did this conversation go with the feds?
Intimidation right off the bat,
like, we know who you are, we know what you did.
You killed our asset.
Uh, you're not going to talk about this again.
And if you do, these are the things
that we can do to make your life miserable.
They told you that you killed their asset?
Yeah.
So they're trying to intimidate you into silence?
Yeah.
It looks like it didn't work.
Well, it did for about four years.
But then I decided I'm not doing that anymore.
This is more disturbing than my encounter.
The government is controlling these cryptids.
They're real.
[Phil] Joe's bizarre sighting happened in the middle of Manistee National Forest,
which spans over 1,300 square miles of western Michigan.
Apex predators out here typically do not venture
so close to humans along the highways.
I think our best bet to encounter whatever it is that Joe saw
is to head deep into the thick, rugged woodlands.
So deep we're gonna need a special set of wheels.
-All right. -[laughing]
Okay. Okay.
[Phil] I did a scan of the satellite imagery of this region
and came across a large clearing
that would serve as a prime hunting ground
for any apex predator out here.
That's where I wanna head.
Check this clearing out right here.
[Heather] All right. What are we looking at?
[Phil] Meadows like this in the middle of a big forest
are super important for the potential prey animals around here.
So things like deer, rabbits, gophers,
because they know they have grass they can eat,
but also they've got quick shelter,
if something does try to come and eat them.
And to make it even better, we have this evergreen pine forest on this side,
and we have that deciduous forest on that side.
And anytime in an ecosystem where you're at the border of two different habitats,
you have a higher species biodiversity.
And right now, we have three habitats.
We have the forest, the meadow and that forest.
-Trifecta. -Yes.
So bottom line is, if there's wildlife in this national forest,
we have a great chance of seeing them here.
[Heather] I guess we should take a look around, right?
[Phil] Yeah.
I'm not gonna be much for tracks here, but we might get lucky.
Ooh. Look what we got here.
-Pellets. -We got some pellets.
So we know the deer do come here.
There's some activity.
Well, that's good. At least we know there's prey here.
[Phil] Yeah.
As we continue to scour the meadow
for any signs of an apex canine predator
or the dogman cryptid our witness Joe claims to have encountered,
we establish multiple extra sets of eyes along the perimeter.
-Is that good enough? -Yeah.
Maybe get some dogman's shoulder?
Yeah. I mean, it's above me.
[Phil] These camera traps will capture any wildlife that crosses their sensors.
And I'll get an alert sent to my phone anytime a photo is snapped.
All right.
I got an idea.
So let's assume there's something like a dogman out here
and that the dogman is at least part-canine.
And some of the reports of people seeing dogman say
that he's in packs amongst wolves.
So let's howl. Let's bring in the wolves.
Okay. Well, let's hear yours. Yours any good?
The key I found is people always want to do... [imitates howling]
But you want some "R" in there.
-So, like... [imitates howling] -Ah.
And honestly, it's a thing when humans howl,
wolves out there sometimes howl back
or at least become curious and come check it out.
Research indicates wolves have an uncanny ability
to differentiate the frequency modulation in each other's howls.
Howl will serve a variety of purposes.
They can communicate location to other pack members,
act as a rally call for hunting,
and even ward off rivals from a pack's territory.
[howling]
Howls can be heard by other wolves up to seven miles away.
And even human howls can get the occasional response.
You're ready?
[howling]
Just north of Reed City, you have the Miller Airport.
They call that place Dogman Hotel.
-[Phil] Oh. -[Heather whispering] I think I just saw something.
Heather, get back here.
-Wow. -Is that blood?
[gasps] Oh, Jesus.
[howling]
[Phil howling]
The way I see it, even if they're not
howling back now, the message is sent.
So now we just wait.
Well, at this point, we have eyes down low.
Now we need to get eyes up high.
What do you mean?
How are you with heights?
The meadow's best vantage point
is up high in one of the perimeter trees.
From there, we'd be able to see any predators
tempted by our howls or the promise of prey.
Okay, let's go. Let's go.
So we set up a ladder stand,
extending it as high as possible, next to a sturdy pine,
giving us a perch of around 20 feet.
Looks good. Looks great.
Okay, from up there,
you keep eyes on the meadow
and I'll go around the perimeter, keep eyes on the forest.
-All right, I got your back. -Okay.
Wolves are not strictly nocturnal creatures,
but any apex predators out here will prefer to hunt
under the cloak of darkness.
-The plan is to wait for nightfall. -[Heather] Okay.
[Phil] Heather will use the FLIR from the ladder stand,
and look for any heat signatures in the meadow.
I'll be on foot, patrolling the surrounding woods
with the night vision binoculars.
[Heather] Okay. [sighs]
[camera beeping]
It's deathly quiet out here.
So now that it's nightfall, this is when the activity should be picking up.
Right now, I'm looking for eyeshine.
I'm looking for any disturbed ground,
essentially, just any sign of who might be living out here.
It is really creepy...
being out here by myself.
[twig breaking]
What? What's that noise?
That was a loud knocking noise.
It came from somewhere over here.
Heather, checking in. How are you doing?
[Heather] I just heard a loud knock.
I haven't gotten anything on the FLIR yet, but it is creepy.
[Phil] Yeah, I'd say the same goes throughout here.
Not hearing much.
That doesn't mean something's not out here listening to us.
I think I might be almost to the top of the ridge line,
and if I howl, my sound will travel a lot further in this area
and maybe we'll get something back.
So I will give a howl.
I think you should give a howl.
And then let's just sit in place
and listen to see who comes.
-All right, I like it. -Okay.
I'm gonna call. Let's give it ten, fifteen seconds to listen.
Then you give a call.
And we'll see what happens.
Copy that.
[howling]
Come on, let something respond out there.
[howling]
Wow, that just echoes through this entire area.
Something's got to be listening.
[Heather] I'm not picking up anything on the FLIR yet.
[twig breaking]
Wait. Shh.
Over here, over here. I'm hearing something.
[screeching]
What the [bleep] is that?
[screeching continues]
[Heather] What was that?
Phil, did you hear that?
How far away did that sound to you?
There's something moving on the FLIR.
[Phil] Heading your way fast.
[Heather] Holy [bleep]!
[Phil] Where did it go?
It's off my camera now. I can't see it anymore.
Do you see where my light is right now?
[Heather] Yes. Yes, yes. I see your light.
[Phil] Okay. You know the area that you just saw it?
-[Heather] To the left. -How big are we talking? What did you see?
[Heather] I don't know. It it just ran off.
[Phil] Okay, okay. Let me see what we can find out here.
Is that what I think it is?
[sniffs] Oh, my God, it smells terrible.
Look at this. Look at this.
That looks...
fresh.
Heather, I think I found some pee on a tree, fresh.
-What? -Pee.
And it's, like, relatively high up on this tree.
I think whatever did this has got to be big.
Like, dogman-big.
[Phil] Big canine-big.
And it is fresh. It definitely smells fresh.
It seems like our howling might have worked.
[Heather] It definitely feels that way.
-[Phil] Heather. -[Heather] Phil.
[Phil] Here. Come down.
Okay, I gotta see this footage.
-This is crazy. Check this out. -Show me the footage.
-What is that? -Ooh. That is quick.
What the hell is that?
That is a really a good question.
It's gone.
It's kind of hiding behind those trees.
It moves off to the left. So...
I mean, at that distance,
if it's coming across as that big of a thermal mark,
like, that's a pretty large animal.
-[Heather] Yeah. -I think let's spread out a little bit over here.
Let's just push through the forest and see if we can find it.
[Heather] All right, let's go.
[howling]
[Heather] It's hard to be certain about the size of the creature capture
on the thermal imager, but its speed is undeniable.
Unfortunately, that would be our last glimpse of any wildlife.
Our trail for dogman goes cold for the rest of the night.
The next day, Phil and I decided
to split up and gather more intel...
while he tracks down another possible eyewitness...
Hey, Jake.
[Heather] ...I meet up with a self-professed dogman expert.
Nice to meet you.
[Heather] John Bell is both an army vet and retired law enforcement.
He spent years researching the dogman phenomenon
and its supposed links to our government and military.
[John] One thing you have to understand is that
this comes into a kind of a new science of cryptozoology.
Basically, for layman's term, it's things that shouldn't exist
that there's evidence that they possibly do.
Mm-hmm.
[John] Now, when it comes to dogman,
everyone's got a different theory.
And my theory from my study and my research,
the dogman, it depends on the age,
but an adult male will be anywhere
from eight to nine feet tall,
most commonly reported.
They have hands that look like raccoon-looking hands,
with nails at the end.
They have the ability to run on all fours, but also on two legs.
They can run over 50 miles an hour.
They have very large mouths.
And the most common eyeshine that people report
is an amber, yellow or red.
At some point in time, the military discovered these things,
and they started to weaponize them in a super soldier program.
So there are eyewitness accounts of these super soldiers?
-Oh, yes. -Wow.
Have any of these things been deployed in conflict?
Absolutely. There's been lots of reports
about them being deployed in operations in Syria,
ss well as operations in the Middle East.
Interesting. I haven't found any evidence of that.
With my background, I've got connections
to sources that a lot of other people don't have.
And it's difficult telling you which they said because it's classified.
So how many dogmen do you think are potentially out in the woods of Michigan?
Hundreds. I would only be speculating, you know.
[Phil] But how far away were you from it when you saw it?
I want to say, probably, probably 30 feet.
[Phil] Jake Shetenhelm is a local hunter and trapper
who says he's had a recent dogman sighting not far from this stream.
My friend had come over and he knew that I'd been trapping,
so he wanted to see what that was all about.
And we go to check the traps.
As soon as we got close to the farthest trap away,
-we heard a branch snap. -[branch snaps]
And it's when we saw this thing.
It was a silhouette at first, and it was huge
with golden amber eyes, tall, a German Shepherd-like ears.
And after it takes a few steps towards us, it stands up.
It already looked massive.
But this thing must have been seven foot plus.
[Phil] That is giant.
And you were watching this thing walk towards you?
Yeah. My muscles weren't listening to my brain.
My friend,
he was all ass and elbows back to the house.
That should only exist in nightmares.
The next morning, my friend and I went out there and we found the tracks.
And they were dog prints, but they were bigger than my hand.
-That's huge. -Yeah.
Wolf tracks can be very, very big.
I mean, they can be about that big,
but you're saying it was bigger than that.
It was much bigger than that.
Interesting.
Before this incident, what did you think of the dogman?
I thought it was a legend.
I thought it was a scary story to tell around the campfire, tell your friends.
But your eyes can't lie that much when two people see it.
It's not something that should exist in nature.
It's a nightmare that's come true.
Okay. I'm looking for dogman.
Where do I go?
Well, first of all, you shouldn't be looking for. That's my best advice.
But you should be looking in rural areas
or areas connected to the DNR are specifically.
Department of Natural Resources.
You want to look for very strange structures out in the wilderness,
things that are completely out of place and don't belong there.
For example, just north of Reed City.
you have the Miller Airport.
Miller Airport is a huge facility.
Reed City is a very small town with a very small population.
It just doesn't make sense.
-That's strange. -It's very strange.
And it has a history of military involvement
in operations that have taken place there.
And it's right on the border of DNR property.
So all of that makes it an extreme hotspot.
I talked to a source of mine who told me
that they call that place Dogman Hotel.
[Heather] After learning about Miller Airport, I researched its location.
It sits on the outskirts of Manistee National Forest,
about two miles north of Reed City.
The airport was built in the '50s
by a local manufacturer, Miller Industries.
Its huge size far exceeding the needs of the small local population.
And strangely, there are very few flights
ever recorded as taking off from the facility.
And it now appears to have been completely abandoned.
Stranger still, locals report seeing
a military presence here on multiple occasions.
There is no public information on what they were doing here,
which only fuels the conspiracy theories.
With John Bell's warnings ringing in my ears,
I convinced Phil, we have to check out Miller Airport.
-[Phil] Here we go. -[Heather] Whoa!
-[Phil] You can't miss that. -Dogman Hotel.
[Phil] Oh, my God.
This facility is located around two miles away
from Jake's supposed dogman encounter
and roughly 15 miles from Joe's.
Whatever it was that our eyewitnesses saw,
it could easily call this place home.
Is the idea here then that this airport
is or was a front for some sort of dogman training facility?
[Heather] That's exactly what he thinks.
-[Phil] Wow. -I mean, it matches the description.
-Big facility, small town. -Middle of nowhere.
-[Heather] Check, check and check. -Yeah.
And you know, I'm not saying this is a secret government
dogman training facility, but this--
It's definitely out of place.
-That we can agree on. -Yeah. Okay, let's grab our gear.
Wow.
It says, "Don't come here."
Great.
Which means we should probably go in.
Watch out for this glass.
Oh. Yikes.
Wow.
[Heather] Whoa!
[Phil] What is this place?
-[Heather] This room is huge. -It is huge.
[Heather] We need to stop thinking about this place
as Miller Airport and start thinking of it
as a government facility.
I think that's the only way we're gonna figure out any secrets it may hold.
[Phil] Well, it sure looks like they tried to scrub
all the secrets they could out of this place.
[Heather] Wouldn't you do that if you were trying to cover something up?
[Phil] Yeah, I guess I would.
All right. You take that area, I'll take this side?
[Heather] Yeah.
[Phil] I do not know why there'd be these bunkers built into this place.
A lot of it is just plain weird.
[Heather] You see anything?
[Phil] Oh, [bleep]. Look, Heather. It was there.
Oh, no way.
Chain and padlock.
What needs to be chained down here?
[Phil] I don't know. Why would you chain it to a pipe like that, though?
Oh, it keeps going further back.
Well, there's a whole room back here.
Holy [bleep]!
-Heather, get back here. -Okay, I'm coming.
Whoa!
[Phil] Should we see where this door leads?
[Heather] Definitely.
[Phil] Whoa!
-Okay. -Tower. Tower.
-[Phil] Oh, yeah. -Okay.
Whoa!
You can see in every direction.
[Phil] Let's get our bearings up here.
It's over there.
-That's the lake we walked by to make our way over. -Yeah, that's the runway.
[Phil] And then that must be the aircraft hangar right there.
Yeah. And that means that this is the DNR property.
-All that over there? -Yeah.
-We should check-- -[thuds]
[Phil] Whoa!
[Heather] What the [bleep] was that?
[Phil shushes]
[Heather] I think I just saw something.
[Phil] Let's see if we can get a heat signature.
Okay.
Okay, look at this.
Look at this.
-That right there-- -Is that an animal?
[Phil] I cannot tell because it kind of matches that outside.
It just moved.
Holy [bleep]. It's moving.
[Heather] What is that? What is that?
Light it up. Light it up. You see anything?
We need to get over there.
-Let's go. -Okay.
[Phil] Okay.
Okay.
[Heather] Okay.
Let's slow down. Let's slow down.
[Phil] We've got nothing on the FLIR right now.
[Heather] I'm not seeing anything either.
But it also could just be below that wall right there.
-[Heather] Could have heard us coming, too. -Yeah.
Right over here. Right over here.
So where...
Hello?
You see that pipe back there? It's still swinging.
[Heather] Oh, God. You're right.
Which means... it either ran outside,
or pushed further back into this building.
Why would you abandon all of this?
-Heather. -What?
-Over here. -Do you see something?
Check this out. This is all the way back here.
It was like if you were gonna run out of this room,
you'd probably run this way.
Hello?
Oh, right here. Right here. Look.
[Phil shushing]
I think this is the only other way
in and out of this entire building.
So whatever was on the FLIR could have went out this way.
It seems like we scared off whatever was here.
So we circle back and search the building
for traces of any person, animal or cryptid.
If this really is dogman hotel,
housekeeping hasn't visited for a long time.
Whoa! Look at this door.
[Phil] Yeah.
Oh, right here.
There's a lot of claw marks right there.
Oh, here. That is deep. That is deep.
-It's a gouge. -One, two, three four, five.
-[camera shutter clicks] -What?
[Heather] The door's split. Maybe something was trying to get out.
[Phil] This place is getting more interesting.
-[Heather] Yeah. -Where do we get in?
Check this out.
Some little fingerprints right here.
Yeah. Yeah, definitely.
-Look awfully long and pointy. -[camera shutter clicks]
I mean, it looks human-sized, but just--
[Heather] Has that chain just looped around that place there?
Oh, and there are chains right there.
What is that doing there?
No. Look at this.
I mean, that's heavy.
If I wanted to keep something locked up and not moving,
a giant concrete block is a good way to do it.
Yeah. What is that doing in here?
There's something about this room that just doesn't add up.
-Yeah. -Between that and these prints,
whatever that is.
So I have luminol in my bag.
I say we spray this place down and see if we can find
any evidence of what used to be in here.
-Let's do it. -Okay.
So the way luminol works is that it reacts
with the iron and the hemoglobin in blood.
Does it show up instantly?
Oh, yeah, bright fluorescent glow.
-[Heather] Whoa. -Right here. Right here.
Look at that. Look at that glow.
-[Heather] Is that blood? -That has a huge blood stain on this one.
Look at that. Wow.
There is a long history of the U.S. government
conducting disturbing experiments on the animal kingdom.
In recent years, there have been dolphins
trained to minesweep.
Genetically modified monkeys,
and even remote-controlled cyborg insects.
But nothing tops the bionic kitty.
Declassified documents reveal that in the 1960s,
the CIA implanted a microphone in a cat's ear,
a transmitter on its skull and a wire inside its tail as an antenna.
After months of training, the 20-million-dollar kitty
was reportedly given its first mission:
Eavesdrop on Soviet agents meeting in a D.C. park.
A CIA reconnaissance van released the cat
moments before it was run over by a taxi.
-[tries screeching] -[cat yowling]
Suddenly, a government human-dog hybrid
doesn't seem so far fetched.
[Heather] I mean, that's sliding up.
[Phil] It is completely covered.
Look at that. It was dripping on this wall.
That is wild.
So I'm staring at a wall full of blood right now.
But the crazy thing is,
there are no drops,
no signs whatsoever.
That... that's rust right there.
So you're telling me someone cleaned up all the evidence?
Yeah.
-[banging] -[Heather gasps] What was that?
[bleep]
-[Phil] Yeah. -What the hell was that?
-[Phil] It's coming from down here? -Yeah.
Do you see anything?
-[Phil] Oh. -What? What?
[Phil] Holy [bleep]!
Look right there. Right there.
-Right there. Right there. -[gasps]
[Phil] That is a big [bleep] dog print.
Yeah, that looks like it's pointing out.
So what do you think? It just ran out? Maybe hit one of these boards?
That sounds like what we just heard.
[Heather] Yeah, I think you're right.
[Phil] Okay, okay. Look for eyeshine. Look for eyeshine.
Look at all that forest on the other side of the runway.
Yeah, it could've ran straight over there.
That's Nick's closest shelter.
-What the hell was that? -Oh, what is that?
Right there.
Whoa, whoa, whoa. Is it moving?
Oh.
It's lying down.
-[bleep] I'm seeing bones. -Is it dead?
[Phil] Oh, my God.
[Heather] That's a dead deer.
[Phil] Holy [bleep]!
Oh, my God.
Something's been eating this. You can see a lot of the bone.
It has been chewed on right there.
-There's still a lot of meat on this, meaning whatever-- -Could come back.
-[Phil] Yep. -Oh, Jesus.
I have never seen anything like this.
This is [bleep] crazy.
[howling]
Oh, my God.
Okay, I'm not seeing any eyeshine.
That could easily be a half a mile away.
-We need to keep checking this forest. -Okay.
[Phil] We're gonna set up a camera trap on this tree.
So I want to make sure that if it comes back,
and tries to go through this door again,
we can document it.
-You got eyes over there? -Yeah.
[Phil] Okay.
-All right, let's do it. -Okay.
[Josh] Heather and Phil searched the woods until sunrise
on the hunt for the source of the howl.
But whatever it was, it disappeared into the night.
Our search for the dogman proved to be an unforgettable investigation
as much for what we didn't find as what we did.
Phil and Heather analyzed the bizarre shriek they recorded
in the Manistee National Forest.
What the [bleep] is that?
[Josh] It was canine.
But far from being extraordinary,
-it was something every day. - [shrieking]
The howl of the very common Michigan gray fox.
[Phil] Oh, my God, it smells terrible.
[Josh] Phil sent out a sample of the urine
he discovered nearby for further analysis.
That looks fresh.
[Josh] While the results revealed it came from a canine,
the type of canine was inconclusive.
Another gray fox or something more significant.
We can't be sure.
-[Phil] Oh. -What? What? What?
[Phil] Oh, [bleep]!
That is a big [bleep] dog print.
[Josh] However, the paw print the team discovered at the abandoned airport
led to more questions than answers.
It matches a wolf print.
But one that's supersized.
Phil argues it could be a normal wolf print
that simply appears bigger due to displacement in the mud.
Heather is not so sure.
And the trail camera Phil set up nearby
did not capture any activity around the deer carcass.
[Phil] Oh, my God.
[Josh] Any predators that had been at the airport stayed gone.
The story of the airport itself is a strange one.
A detailed examination of company records
show the vast facility was built in 1956
by wealthy industrialist Jim Miller.
It was then sold in 1979 to the Nartron Corporation,
who said their business
was supplying electronics to automotive and military suppliers.
-[Heather] Whoa. -Right here. Right here.
Is that blood?
[Josh] But none of this explains why there was blood found on the wall
and the blood samples themselves were too old to be viable for analysis...
[Phil] That is wild!
[Josh] ...which brings us to the question of a government conspiracy.
Although many believe the dogman is the result
of some kind of secret government initiative,
we ultimately discovered no evidence to support that.
After extensive document searches
across all branches of government,
we found no record of anything that appears to relate
to any kind of a dogman project.
And far from acting like they had something to hide,
the local and federal authorities
were extremely helpful to our team,
giving us full access to investigate
in Michigan's state and national forests.
So is there an undiscovered creature roaming Michigan's wilderness?
It's possible.
Is the creature some kind of government asset?
We can confidently say you can stop chewing on that particular bone.