Nancee Martin
Appearances
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Episode 114: The Michigan Dogman Pt. 2
So my name is Nancy Martin. I am Grace Godvin's aunt. Her mother is my sister and the two of them, Grace and her mom came to visit my husband and I in Southwest Michigan. I think it was about 2009. It was late afternoon. And we were going to go over to a place called Tabor Hill. It's a winery and have a few glasses of local white wine.
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Episode 114: The Michigan Dogman Pt. 2
And I want to emphasize that this man-dog sighting occurred before we got to the winery. We had just left our house and we were on a road called Boyle Lake Road, locally nicknamed Boyle Head Road. It's very deserted. It's a gravel road. There's maybe four houses on it. It's probably two miles long. Three of the houses look like they should be torn down or they're abandoned.
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Episode 114: The Michigan Dogman Pt. 2
And then there's one very nice home that is lived in by a very brave woman from Chicago. She lives there by herself. And we were just coming upon her house Dan was driving, I was in the passenger seat, and Grace and my sister were in the back seat.
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Episode 114: The Michigan Dogman Pt. 2
To our right, there was a gravel parking lot where people would come park their car and put their boats in a little stream that took you to Boyle Lake. And it was apparently good fishing. And the parking lot was empty. And sitting in the middle of it was, and sitting very oddly, was a dog. It was a big dog.
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Episode 114: The Michigan Dogman Pt. 2
It wasn't recognizable as a breed, but it looked like, you know, I don't know, not a lab, not a golden retriever. It was a kind of a hairy, big dog. And it was sitting with its two front paws, one crossed over the other. So it had this sort of, it was a weird way for a dog to sit. In a way, it was kind of elegant looking.
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Episode 114: The Michigan Dogman Pt. 2
But it was odd to me that it would sit there in a parking lot, this big dog, and have its front paws crossed. It had a human-like face. It did not have a snout. It had a flat face. It sort of stood up, and the best way I can describe it is it sort of walked like John Wayne. It had a saunter, and it just started coming at the car. Not attacking, not fast, but it just started coming at the car.
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Episode 114: The Michigan Dogman Pt. 2
And for a moment, everybody froze because it was... It was odd. It really had a human face, and it was walking towards us. It just kept reminding me of John Wayne coming out of a saloon and kind of walking towards his nemesis. And I recognized it as a dog, the way it was sitting in the parking lot. And when it started to walk towards us, I looked at its face.
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Episode 114: The Michigan Dogman Pt. 2
I could see these big, you know, round human-like eyes looking at us. No snout, a flat face. And it just started walking towards us. And at the same moment, we all panicked and started yelling at Dan to, you know, go, go, go, go, go. And we took off and the dog just stood in the parking lot looking at us until we, you know, turned off Boyle Lake onto Gardner and hightailed it to the winery.
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Episode 114: The Michigan Dogman Pt. 2
And we talked about it all night, or we talked about it while we were having drinks. And then when we got back to the house, I don't know who did it, but somebody, we just kept calling it man dog, because it looked like a man and a dog. And when we got back to the house, it most likely was Grace. We started, she must have started Googling.
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Episode 114: The Michigan Dogman Pt. 2
And it turns out there is something called the Dog Man of Michigan. If you Google Dog Man of Michigan, there's websites dedicated to it. There's all sorts of sightings. We refer to it as Man Dog just because we saw the dog man, whatever, before we knew that we were not the only people that had, seemingly not the only people that had this weird experience. I've never had any...
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Episode 114: The Michigan Dogman Pt. 2
uh, extra phenomenal, whatever they call them. You know, I don't think aliens have landed in my backyard. I don't, haven't seen ghosts, you know, haven't done any of that stuff. The only strange thing that has happened to me and to anybody I know who, which is my sister and Grace and Dan was this, whatever, this brief, uh, interaction, uh, with man talk.
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Episode 114: The Michigan Dogman Pt. 2
You know, it's made me more open to when people tell me something that sounds screwy. You know what I mean? Like, Oh, we had this experience instead of going, Oh, you're ridiculous. You must've been drinking or, you know, you were, you're, you're mistaken. I mean, I will tell you that I, uh, in my, Not in my heart, but what I experienced was not a dog. It was some sort of mixed species.
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Episode 114: The Michigan Dogman Pt. 2
It had very, very human-like tendencies. The face, the rest of the body looked like a dog. It was covered in fur. It had four legs. It had a tail. I don't remember if it had ears. I don't know. I remember its face looking very human. And I remember its movements and its reactions and its gestures being more human than canine.
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Episode 114: The Michigan Dogman Pt. 2
So when people tell me nutty stuff, I'm more curious about it than I am sort of just disdainful of, you know, well, you're crazy. I don't reject things out of hand. I think that's the impact it's had on me. Anything's possible.