A Radio DJ Accidentally Invented a Monster _It_s Coming Back in 2027_
In March 1987, Traverse City DJ Steve Cook sat down with a $99 keyboard and invented a monster for an April Fools' bit — a seven-foot dog-headed creature stalking Northern Michigan on a ten-year cycle. He made up the year. He made up the sightings. He'd never heard the words "Dogman" before that afternoon. Then the phones started ringing. Not with laughter — with confessions. Listeners who'd kept a story secret for years, even decades, suddenly had permission to say it out loud. Within a week, Cook's joke was the most-requested song on the station. Within years, he'd logged over 500 separate…
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