01-23-2008, 02:56 AM
Cadillac News
With 31 shows about cryptozoology under his belt with topics ranging from Bigfoot to Loch Ness, Doug Hajicek is no stranger to the world of the unexplained.
As the creator/producer of the series "Monster Quest" on the History Channel, Hajicek is familiar with these types of unexplained oddities and on Wednesday he will be taking on the infamous è Dogman.
"Monster Quest" investigated events and sightings using scientific principles in Wisconsin and Michigan. Witnesses also were questioned using a polygraph, è Hajicek said.
"What I was looking for in this was for witness verification so I decided to give a lie detector test," he said. "I can only say the results were shocking even to me and the results were consistent even in the witnesses who I thought were not telling the truth."
Linda Godfrey also was part of the production. Godfrey currently lives in eastern Wisconsin near Lake Geneva and has written numerous books including "The Beast of Bray Road," "Weird Michigan," "Weird Wisconsin," "Strange Wisconsin" and the yet unpublished "Strange Michigan." She has been writing about the Dogman, or Manwolf as it is called in Wisconsin, for about 15 years.
Although she has not seen the show yet, Godfrey hopes the show makes a distinction between the beasts know as Dogman and Bigfoot.
"There are a lot of people who wish this thing was Bigfoot and it is not," she said. "I think (the show) will provoke discussion."
During the interviews, Hajicek said he learned a commonality in the sighting of eye witnesses.
In all of the sighting stories, he said the areas led to corridors of deep forest or were on the edge of a deep forest. He also said all had water sources near.
"There were no sightings where the creature couldnââ¬â¢t slip back into the forest," he said. "These are geographic issues not demographic ones."
Hajicek said he and the crew took about 10 trips to Michigan starting in 2005 and continued through 2007. He also said more than 300 hours of footage in Wisconsin and Michigan was trimmed into the hour-long program people will see on Wednesday.
"It was one of the most interesting things I have done. Obviously, the topic has local lore and history and there are constant sightings," he said.
"Monster Quest" is scheduled to air 10 p.m. Wednesday on the è History Channel.
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With 31 shows about cryptozoology under his belt with topics ranging from Bigfoot to Loch Ness, Doug Hajicek is no stranger to the world of the unexplained.
As the creator/producer of the series "Monster Quest" on the History Channel, Hajicek is familiar with these types of unexplained oddities and on Wednesday he will be taking on the infamous è Dogman.
"Monster Quest" investigated events and sightings using scientific principles in Wisconsin and Michigan. Witnesses also were questioned using a polygraph, è Hajicek said.
"What I was looking for in this was for witness verification so I decided to give a lie detector test," he said. "I can only say the results were shocking even to me and the results were consistent even in the witnesses who I thought were not telling the truth."
Linda Godfrey also was part of the production. Godfrey currently lives in eastern Wisconsin near Lake Geneva and has written numerous books including "The Beast of Bray Road," "Weird Michigan," "Weird Wisconsin," "Strange Wisconsin" and the yet unpublished "Strange Michigan." She has been writing about the Dogman, or Manwolf as it is called in Wisconsin, for about 15 years.
Although she has not seen the show yet, Godfrey hopes the show makes a distinction between the beasts know as Dogman and Bigfoot.
"There are a lot of people who wish this thing was Bigfoot and it is not," she said. "I think (the show) will provoke discussion."
During the interviews, Hajicek said he learned a commonality in the sighting of eye witnesses.
In all of the sighting stories, he said the areas led to corridors of deep forest or were on the edge of a deep forest. He also said all had water sources near.
"There were no sightings where the creature couldnââ¬â¢t slip back into the forest," he said. "These are geographic issues not demographic ones."
Hajicek said he and the crew took about 10 trips to Michigan starting in 2005 and continued through 2007. He also said more than 300 hours of footage in Wisconsin and Michigan was trimmed into the hour-long program people will see on Wednesday.
"It was one of the most interesting things I have done. Obviously, the topic has local lore and history and there are constant sightings," he said.
"Monster Quest" is scheduled to air 10 p.m. Wednesday on the è History Channel.
http://www.cadillacnews.com/story_news/?story_id=173365&year=2008