I'm relieved to see that this thread exists. I was spurred today into a flurry of serious research after seeing something unbelievably strange on my way to work not long ago. I made an account just to reply to this thread, because I figured that sharing my experience here would be the best way to go about it.
I live in a suburb of Dayton, Ohio. The area that I live in is not incredibly prosperous-- I work at one of two grocery stores in the middle of a food desert, and the third grocery in our area was recently closed after it lost a ridiculous amount of money over one summer to theft and shoplifting. Needless to say, it's not an especially 'good' part of town. I wouldn't say it's necessarily a
bad area, but there's enough crime in this area for me to feel a bit uncomfortable walking to and from work at night. Fortunately, I usually only walk in the day, and have a ride home in the evenings.
I walk on one street to get to my place of work, and it's a rather busy road. There are two bus stops on the street, one on either side of the road.
About a week ago or so, I was walking to work. Mind you, it was about three or four o'clock in the afternoon, 15:00 or 16:00, so the sun was up and it was bright out. Broad daylight, in public, on a busy, busy road. At this time of day, there are lots of people getting on and off of public transit. So, as I was walking down the street, I noticed a man standing at the bus stop on the other side of the road. There were cars passing by, but in between spurts of traffic, I could see him. I'm not one to stare, but I tend to watch the traffic, because I get nervous when walking near a busy road. So I noticed this man, and he was a tall, trim man. He had a rather muscular build, with wide shoulders.
He was dressed in a finely tailored suit. I thought that was a bit unusual, given the area I live in. He looked as though he should have been working downtown in one of the upper scale business buildings, the way he was dressed. But there he stood, at a bus stop, in a dumpy part of town. I watched him as I walked, and he stared right back at me.
I don't know why it took me so long to notice it, but I knew there was something strange about him from the moment I laid eyes upon him, and it wasn't just the suit. I realized as I kept walking, and as he watched me walk, that he had the head of a dog upon his shoulders. I don't mean that he was ugly. I saw something very, very similar to the very first post on this thread. Long, distended neck, a narrow face, pointed ears.
A literal dog's head in place of where a human's should have been. For those who may be interested, the head resembled that of a doberman, from what I can recall. Same coloration.
It was impossible to miss, but it took me quite some time to process that I had seen it. For some reason, I brushed it off like it was nothing, and completely forgot about the incident until earlier today. At the time that I saw this man or creature, I was incredibly calm. Now, I am perturbed that I remember this event taking place. Above all else, I'm perturbed that I shrugged it off and forgot about it, as though seeing a dog headed man in the middle of a relatively busy suburb in broad daylight was perfectly normal. How I could have forgotten this incident is absolutely beyond me.
In what little research I've been able to do, I've been often directed to cynocephali stories and mythologies from ancient Europe. Depictions of Anubis and other dog-headed gods also are quite frequent. For a while, the only search results I was getting was the
Michigan Dogman and the
Ohio Silver Creek Dogman, NEITHER of which sounded like what I had seen. At all. I was worried that there were no other modern sightings (or documentation thereof) of these creatures-- I'm relieved to know that I am not the only one to have witnessed such a strange phenomenon.
I hope that others will continue to post their experiences and sightings of the dog headed men here, if only to form a better archive of information. I'm genuinely afraid to post this experience anywhere else.