Woman Encountered Dogman in Woods: Family's Terrifying Hike Reveals Mysterious Creature

Posted Sunday, May 18, 2025

By Squatchable.com staff

Intriguing footage has surfaced on YouTube, shared by the Dead Net Studios channel, that details an unsettling encounter with a creature resembling the Pennsylvania Dogman. The video, titled "Divine Warning Saves Family From Pennsylvania Dogman Attack!", offers a chilling account of a family's hike in the woods that takes a terrifying turn. The video begins with the family walking along a peaceful trail, the woods surrounding them in a familiar, serene embrace. However, as they delve deeper into the woods, an eerie stillness descends, the once-comforting silence now unnerving. The family presses on, their conversation light, but the tension in the air is palpable. As they reach a bridge, a jarring sound beneath the river's quiet murmur sends a prickle of fear down the woman's spine. The leaves, usually a protective canopy, now flutter frantically, a warning she is too naive to read. The walk back towards their vehicle begins, the girls chattering about school matters, their voices a thin veneer over the deep, wordless dread building within her. Suddenly, a voice resonates not in her ears, but in her soul. Jesus, firm and absolute. Don't run. Her eyes are pulled uphill towards the upper bike trail, and she sees it - a dogman. Its head strikes her first, impossibly large, with a bone structure that speaks of jaw strength that could shatter bone like kindling. The woman's heart slams against her ribs, then seems to stop altogether. Air vanishes from her lungs. A sharp invasive chill spreads through her limbs as she glances at the girls, their teenage laughter suddenly brittle and terrifyingly fragile. Every cell in her body screams, "Run!" But her feet remain rooted, capable only of a quicker forced stride. The girls, still oblivious, match her pace without question. "Should I tell them?" she thinks frantically, the voice again quieter, but final. "No." Silence is their only shield. An argument, denials, precious seconds bleeding away. It would have painted them as erratic, vulnerable prey. So she walks, propelled forward by a force beyond her understanding. Every snap of a twig from the treeine, every rustle in the underbrush just beyond sight, lands like a physical blow. The urge to cry out, to crumple onto the path, rises like bile in her throat. To her left, the river flows, its constant murmuring, a deceptive soundtrack of peace. She lets the sound anchor her for a fragile second, her concentration wavering, her forced pace faltering. Then a sharp snap closer this time. Her stomach clenches violently. She surges forward again, her hand instinctively finding her daughter's arm, pulling her subtly along. A detached corner of her mind simply wonders how a police report would ever log a dogman. She forces her lips into the shape of a casual smile, keeping her voice deliberately light. "Look, see that big one?" she says, pointing toward the river. Inside, her thoughts scream. A frantic buzz beneath the forced composure. A raw, helpless feeling washes over her. The same desperate yearning for comfort she hadn't felt since childhood. Mom. The name echoes silently in the hollow space the fear had carved inside her. The car, perhaps a 10-minute walk away, stretches before her mind's eye like 40 miles of hostile territory. A silent prayer loops within her. Help us. Protect us. Walk us out. And then, through the trees, her escape. Never had a name been more fitting. Her heart leaps. A frantic bird suddenly finding the bars of its cage gone. Reaching the parking lot's solid cement, the faint smell of sunbaked asphalt fills the air. A shuddering breath escapes her lips. The relief is a fragile thing instantly shattered. Beyond a patch of purple wildflowers bordering the lot, her eyes snag on movement. Something dark low to the ground. A strangled gasp catches in her throat. There's more than one. The chilling certainty hits her. The dogman wasn't alone. She has never known a fear like the suffocating blanket that descended then. Surrounded, responsible for two young lives she'd die to protect. Utterly defenseless, her fingers scrabble in her pocket for the keys, clumsy, refusing to obey. As they near a metal drainage grate set into the asphalt, a fleeting, horrific image flashes. The keys slipping, skittering across the pavement, falling through the gaps. "No!" She jams her shaking hand deeper into her pocket, knuckles white. Of course, the keys drop anyway, but not until after the doors are unlocked, the girl scrambling inside. As she bends quickly, snatching them up, her eyes instinctively meet her daughters through the car window. And just beyond her daughter's silhouette at the edge of the lot, she sees it again. A dark shape unnervingly still. She straightens, pretending she hadn't seen, sliding into the driver's seat, continuing the desperate charade. But a cold certainty settles in her gut. It knows. It knows the frantic beat of her heart, the tremor in her hand. She can almost feel a dark amusement radiating from it. The engine roars to life. She slams the gear stick into drive while the girls are still fumbling with their buckles, the car lurching forward. The posted speed limit for the blind turn out of the lot was a suggestion she didn't even register. She drives, pushing the escape as fast as the winding pothole scarred access road would allow. Her knuckles white on the wheel, she refuses to check the rear view mirror, refuses to conjure the image of a loping shadow keeping pace. The detours that followed, a sudden trip to the brightly lit shop and save, then ice cream at the Dairy Queen, were frantic, unplanned maneuvers, the hum of fluorescent lights, the whoosh of freezer doors, the cheerful chatter of other shoppers. It all felt like a transmission from another planet. In the girls' minds, it was just an unexpected treat day. That night, kneeling beside her bed, prayer felt fragile. Yet she clung to the hope that Jesus remained a shield, that his presence lingered. She knows now with a conviction that burns deep and unwavering, that they were protected. Later, tucked into bed, the dam inside her finally broke. Hot tears soaked the pillow, her body releasing the hours of rigid tension and ragged gasps. She buried her