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Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. Something crosses a dark road in Wisconsin. For a moment, it stands like a man. Then it is gone - leaving a scratch on a car, a smell of rot, and a witness who will spend the rest of their life unable to say what they saw.They call it the dogman. But the thing at the treeline has a hundred older names.In DOGMAN: Anatomy of a Myth, R.J. Blackwell follows the upright wolf across four centuries and half the world - from the Beast of Gevaudan and the werewolf trials of old Europe to a Serbian graveyard, an English drainage ditch, and the burial mounds of the American Midwest. This is not a monster hunt. It is an investigation into a far stranger question: why the same figure keeps appearing to people who never met, in cultures that never spoke - and how a radio prank, a tabloid headline, or a courtroom can raise a legend on top of a real and unexplained fear.Rigorous, unsettling, and refusing every easy answer, Blackwell separates what was documented from what was only ever told, and arrives at the one honest conclusion left standing: I do not know what it is. But I have stopped being able to say that it is nothing.A serious, global reckoning with the myth that will not stay dead - for readers of Linda Godfrey who want the history beneath the headlights. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

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Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. There is a bridge in Scotland where dogs climb the wall and fall to the rocks below. Around three hundred of them, over seventy years, mostly at the same few feet of the same parapet, mostly on clear days. A good explanation exists. The people who live along that road have heard it, and are not satisfied by it.This book looks at eighteen places of that kind, and it looks at each of them twice.The first pass sets down what happened: the dates, the names, the counts of the dead, the court records, the autopsy findings, the testimony of people who were there. The second asks what can be explained, and explains it, even where the explanation dissolves the mystery entirely.A great deal of it dissolves. The most haunted forest on earth has never recorded a single death. The famous government sign at Bhangarh Fort says nothing about ghosts; it is largely about firewood. The Amityville haunting was invented by a defence lawyer over several bottles of wine, in an attempt to win his convicted client a second trial, and he admitted as much to a magazine in 1979.Some of it does not dissolve. Those chapters end without an answer, because there is none to give.Alongside the cases most readers will know, from Dyatlov Pass and Chernobyl to Poveglia, Point Pleasant and Skinwalker Ranch, are several that almost no English-language book has touched: a house at a Bosnian crossroads that has stood boarded shut for a hundred years, a watermill in western Serbia, and a lake in the Canadian north where the wrong disappearance became famous.There are no seances here and no cold spots. There are documents, witnesses, science where science has something to say, and, where the accounting runs out, an honest silence. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

Condizione: New. Print on Demand.

Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. Something crosses a dark road in Wisconsin. For a moment, it stands like a man. Then it is gone - leaving a scratch on a car, a smell of rot, and a witness who will spend the rest of their life unable to say what they saw.They call it the dogman. But the thing at the treeline has a hundred older names.In DOGMAN: Anatomy of a Myth, R.J. Blackwell follows the upright wolf across four centuries and half the world - from the Beast of Gevaudan and the werewolf trials of old Europe to a Serbian graveyard, an English drainage ditch, and the burial mounds of the American Midwest. This is not a monster hunt. It is an investigation into a far stranger question: why the same figure keeps appearing to people who never met, in cultures that never spoke - and how a radio prank, a tabloid headline, or a courtroom can raise a legend on top of a real and unexplained fear.Rigorous, unsettling, and refusing every easy answer, Blackwell separates what was documented from what was only ever told, and arrives at the one honest conclusion left standing: I do not know what it is. But I have stopped being able to say that it is nothing.A serious, global reckoning with the myth that will not stay dead - for readers of Linda Godfrey who want the history beneath the headlights. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. There is a bridge in Scotland where dogs climb the wall and fall to the rocks below. Around three hundred of them, over seventy years, mostly at the same few feet of the same parapet, mostly on clear days. A good explanation exists. The people who live along that road have heard it, and are not satisfied by it.This book looks at eighteen places of that kind, and it looks at each of them twice.The first pass sets down what happened: the dates, the names, the counts of the dead, the court records, the autopsy findings, the testimony of people who were there. The second asks what can be explained, and explains it, even where the explanation dissolves the mystery entirely.A great deal of it dissolves. The most haunted forest on earth has never recorded a single death. The famous government sign at Bhangarh Fort says nothing about ghosts; it is largely about firewood. The Amityville haunting was invented by a defence lawyer over several bottles of wine, in an attempt to win his convicted client a second trial, and he admitted as much to a magazine in 1979.Some of it does not dissolve. Those chapters end without an answer, because there is none to give.Alongside the cases most readers will know, from Dyatlov Pass and Chernobyl to Poveglia, Point Pleasant and Skinwalker Ranch, are several that almost no English-language book has touched: a house at a Bosnian crossroads that has stood boarded shut for a hundred years, a watermill in western Serbia, and a lake in the Canadian north where the wrong disappearance became famous.There are no seances here and no cold spots. There are documents, witnesses, science where science has something to say, and, where the accounting runs out, an honest silence. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.…