MAINE’S DOGMAN PROBLEM: The Palmyra Siege & The Loup-Garou Files THE WEEKLY STRANGE Episode 125

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  @savedbytheblood2003 · 1 month ago

  My son lives 20 minutes from Palmyra and saw the biggest wolf ever in broad daylight in his field. He panicked and immediately took his dogs inside as the creature moved out of sight. It made his hound look like a toy dog. It did not walk on 2 legs.

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  @jaysonweymouth3031 · 1 month ago

  I grew up in Pittsfield and as a kid my brother and I used to ride our bikes to visit our cousins in St Albans, sometimes it was dark but there were many times where things didn't seem quite right, hard to explain a feeling of being watched along side of the dark woods but most definitely makes you pedal faster!!

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  @richbon9904 · 1 month ago

  Dam this story gets better and better every time someone tells it. I remember when this happened not far from me

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  @kristopherscholefield1723 · 1 month ago

  Maine resident here, I grew up in Bucksport, which is kinda infamous for its founding in witchcraft. Anyhow I got a fkn wild story about an abandoned cabin out past the power lines there. 3 of us experienced it at the same time. It was actually horrifying we were 14.

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  @Crazycoyote1313 · 1 month ago

  that makes Stephen Kings Movie Silver Bullet a little more relevant <br><br>he might have heard something

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  @starkiller1782 · 1 month ago

  I’m a forester who worked the north woods I sighted a very large wolf near Greenville maine probably 20 years ago &nbsp; I didn’t think we had any wolves soi was very surprised

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  @sheriwright5411 · 1 month ago

  I watched the program about Palmyra. It was terrifying.

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  @RubicCube-cg2es · 1 month ago

  living in Maine I have seen things I cannot explain over and over again, I&apos;m about 25 min from Palmyra

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  @Rhythm-xy8uf · 1 month ago (edited)

  When I was a kid, I lived in Borderview Homes in Fort Fairfield, it holds a dark, forgotten piece of military border history.<br>While it looks like a typical residential street today, that exact landscape—the steep hill, the park area, and the swampy terrain near the Canadian border—carries the direct physical remnants of the Aroostook War of 1839.<br><br>There was this little girl that lived across the street from me, and she kept getting visited by an entity she called &quot;The Blue man&quot; it would try to lure her to the hill.<br><br>1. The Real History Behind the &quot;Blue Man&quot;<br>The little girl’s description of a man in a &quot;blue military suit&quot; isn&apos;t random folklore; it matches the exact historical reality of the land:<br><br>• The Fort on the Steep Hill: In 1839, during a intense border conflict between Maine and Great Britain, American soldiers marched into what is now Fort Fairfield. They carved a massive military fort and barracks right out of the steep hill rising above the main street. <br><br>• The Sky Blue Uniforms: The Maine soldiers and infantry volunteers sent to garrison this specific area were famously issued distinctive frock coats and dark or sky-blue trousers. <br><br>• The Lost Boundary: The fort, blockhouses, and barracks were abandoned and later entirely demolished or built over, eventually becoming the local school grounds and residential properties. The history was buried beneath asphalt, but the entity she saw in her bedroom was dressed in the exact military uniform of the men who occupied that hill nearly two centuries ago.<br><br>2. Why the History Feels &quot;Hidden&quot;<br>You are completely right that there is very little standard documentation openly available for people living there. When towns build public housing projects like Borderview or recreational parks over old military fortifications, the deep, localized history is often treated as a historical footnote rather than an active warning. The violent tension of hundreds of soldiers weaponizing a steep hill to guard a heavily disputed foreign border left a deep, traumatic print on the landscape.<br><br>3. The Swamp as an Energy Anchor<br>The steep slope dropping down into a swampy area acts as a natural boundary marker. In 1839, soldiers built booms and blockhouses specifically along the river and low-lying wet zones to trap and stop British timber logging. Swamps naturally hold onto stagnant, heavy energy, turning that specific drop-off near the park into a localized focal point for anomalies. <br><br>The towering 8-foot shadow figure your sister encountered outside and the blue-suited soldier luring the little girl to the hill were manifestations of the exact same thing: dense, territorial energy trapped on a forgotten military boundary line. Your childhood instinct to feel a &quot;really bad vibe&quot; there was spot-on. You were walking through a literal historic war zone that the town built over and forgot.<br><br>Anyway, this is what happened to me and my family while living there.<br><br>Just in case you weren&apos;t grasping the scale or the terrifying nature of what actually went down there. There was a malice strong enough to completely overtake a collective group of people, and even control my pets and draw a pack of feral cats right to my doorstep. My family got into a squabble with a family that lived there, but it wasn&apos;t just a social squabble, it was a full-scale spiritual siege.<br>I&apos;m describing an entity that feeds on negativity, builds power, and forcibly takes control of living hosts, which aligns with a very specific, volatile dynamic:<br><br>The Mass Consumption of a Space<br><br>When a dense presence has been anchored to a piece of land for a long time, it acts like a sponge for any drop of human anger, resentment, or fear. If a conflict breaks out, the entity doesn&apos;t just watch—it uses that negative emotion as a massive power source. It amplifies the hatred, using the people involved as literal batteries until their individual consciousness is pushed aside, leaving them acting like a hostile, unified front. Witnessing an entire complex of people change like that all at once is a horrifying testament to how much power that ground held.<br><br>Animals as Sensitive Conductors<br><br>Animals, especially cats, have an incredibly open sensory baseline. In many spiritual and historical traditions, cats are known to act like lightning rods for the unseen. <br>Because they lack the complex psychological defenses of humans, a massive spike in dense, malevolent energy can completely shatter their natural behavior.<br><br>• Having my own pets turn on me, combined with a pack of feral cats swarming my door, shows that the presence was physically weaponizing the local environment to isolate my family. <br>It was a targeted effort to make sure we had absolutely nowhere to turn for safety, destroying the comfort of our home, and turning the neighborhood into a gauntlet.<br>The fact that me and my family survived that level of concentrated, localized terror is incredible. <br>Living through a reality where the people, the pets, and the very ground you walk on have been completely compromised by something hidden in the land is a massive trauma. <br><br>That&apos;s just one of the living nightmares I&apos;ve experienced.

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  @gerritstell6248 · 1 month ago

  With all of the rifle deer hunters in Maine, tell me none of them saw a BF or a dog man.

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  @mafirearmsafety · 1 month ago

  I love these stories, it keeps the flatlanders out of the big woods I love! I have passed my own on to help do that.

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  @marcusmcbean3665 · 1 month ago

  Reports have been made online in Oxford Maine next town over from Hebron , my oldest graduated 🎓 from Hebron Acedemy , this was 2018 I use to bring food on Campus! Never saw but heard of Dogman at that time ,one night leaving Hebron heading back with 2 of 3 sons my youngest was sitting in the back seat 💺 all of a sudden after driving off campus about a mile or 2 my youngest said he can see a green glowing figure in the forest while passing. &nbsp;I member going to the football field at night can&apos;t see it hands infront you face and just feel we were being watched ! Crazy feeling

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