Dogman Encounters with Stacy Brown - Midweek Howl Episode 273

February 4, 2026·50 min·4 clips

A hunter and father driving home on Christmas Eve in rural Ohio watched a six-foot black-haired creature drop from two legs to four and bound across a roadside ditch in a single leap.

The howler gets a breather. Instead of the regular Midweek Howl setup, the host brings in Stacey Brown Jr. and keeps things loose, treating him like the best available substitute. Stacey plays along. The conversation starts with Bigfoot Stacey reaching 10,000 YouTube subscribers, which still seems to catch him off guard after years of uneven posting and a recent return to regular content. Then the tone changes. Stacey reads an email from a listener who says fear of judgment kept him from sharing the story for years. The details stay close to home. He grew up near Galion and puts the sighting on Bethel Road near National Limestone outside Lemmert, Ohio. It was December 24th, 2014. Around 9 p.m., he says he was driving with his wife and children after a family Christmas party, heading to his in-laws for the night. They came around a bend. Both adults saw something that looked, at first, like a person walking near the road. As they got closer, that explanation fell apart. It stood tall. The figure is described as six to seven feet, covered in black hair, with a clearly canine face turned toward the vehicle. Then it moved. The creature dropped from two legs to all fours and bounded off, clearing the roadside ditch in one leap. Nobody spoke right away. The driver kept going for several seconds before asking his wife if she had seen it too. Her answer is the part that lingers. She said she did not know what she saw, which somehow feels worse than a neat answer. There was a gun in the car. The listener says a revolver was in the back because he planned to shoot targets the next day, a detail that makes the family-car tension feel practical, not staged. The ending loosens back up. The host asks people from the area to reach out if they know anything, while joking that Stacey does not want to talk to anybody about dogman. Stacey takes the joke. The conversation leaves on the show's usual mix: a little laughter, a little darkness, and one more reason to wonder what might be out there in the shadows.

As heard by us

A roadside creature story with easy banter and enough specific detail to stick.

Stacey Brown Jr. fills in while the howler takes the week off, and the episode settles into a roadside creature account tied to a Christmas Eve drive home near a rock quarry on Bethel Road outside Lemmert, Ohio.

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If you want a porch-light canine-creature story, this one keeps the details close.

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