Dogman Tales

In medieval England, the villagers of Edwinstowe live by old rules: stay out of Sherwood after dusk, travel in numbers, and never follow strange silence beneath the trees. When livestock begins vanishing from latched pens and men start disappearing without a trace, the village is forced to admit what they’ve avoided naming for years—something in Sherwood isn’t a wolf, and it isn’t a man. As torches fail, traps are tested, and the forest itself seems to shift against them, a hunting party pushes into the heart of the woods to challenge the thing that has claimed it. What they find explains why Sherwood’s fear outlived kings, laws, and time itself.

A late-night search for a missing hiker pulls a seasoned rescue team deep into a silent mountain ridge. When the forest goes dead and massive claw marks appear where no bear should reach, they realize they aren’t alone. What begins as a recovery mission turns into a calculated game of control as towering, upright predators herd them through fog-filled hollows and narrow switchbacks. The team will get the missing man out alive—but only because something in the woods allows it.

In the 80's, a 4th-grade book report leads a curious student into the forests of central Kentucky—straight into the heart of the Bearilla legend. What begins as harmless research turns into a life-altering encounter that proves some local stories exist for a reason… and some truths are meant to stay buried.

When a family’s peaceful night at a Pacific Northwest campground is shattered by an encounter no one wants to believe, park rangers dismiss the report as a harmless misidentification. Hours later, a camper is found dead—and the evidence doesn’t match any known predator.  

As the campground is closed, investigated, and then reopened under mounting pressure, a marauding Dogman returns, striking multiple campsites in a single night. Rangers, sheriff’s deputies, and state police are forced to confront a pattern that defies explanation, while a veteran ranger carries the weight of a secret he’s kept for decades.

On a quiet family dairy farm where tradition matters more than birthdays, turning nine means earning trust. It means getting up before dawn, walking into the dark alone, and bringing the cows into the barn like generations before you. For the youngest of seven siblings, it’s a rite of passage he’s waited his whole life for. But on his first morning, something goes terribly wrong.  

Found shaking and silent in the barn, the boy can’t explain what frightened him—only that he refuses to be alone in the dark ever again. His family struggles to understand. His father, a practical man who believes fear is something you work through, not something you give in to, sees a child trying to avoid responsibility. A lesson is given. A warning is spoken. The old fable of the boy who cried wolf is invoked. What no one realizes is that the boy is telling the truth.  

As days pass, the farm’s routines begin to fracture. Subtle signs appear. Claw marks are found where no animal should be able to reach. The boy encounters the creature again—then again—each time more certain, each time more alone. And when the truth finally forces itself into the open, it does so in a way that strips away pride, certainty, and disbelief all at once.  

Grounded, tense, and deeply human, The Boy Who Cried Werewolf is a slow-burn Dogman tale about fear, responsibility, and the terrible cost of not being believed—until it’s too late.