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Welcome to Otherworld, I'm your host, Jack Wagner. This story comes in from a guy named Emerson, and it takes place in a small town called Bloomingdale, Michigan.
Something that I think is noteworthy about Emerson and maybe a little funny is that not only did he tell me that he has always been a hardcore skeptic, he also told me that he was once a very active member in the online skeptic community. Despite this, he ended up having A very strange experience while walking in the woods one day with an ex-girlfriend.
an experience that he couldn't quite rationalize no matter how many times he tried, and he still struggles with it to this day despite many attempts at explaining it. Emerson's story is actually quite a simple one, but it ended up sending me down quite a rabbit hole. This is episode 113. The title is The Michigan Dogman Part One, and you're listening to Otherworld. Hello? Is this Bobby?
Yes, it is. At its core, the science, you can't argue with.
I'm worried about all the science. Up in the sky.
It's almost frustrating that it's happening. I'm going to die. His limbs were just like, wrong. Everybody moves back into the light, even if it takes them a minute.
My name is Emerson. I'm the oldest of four siblings. I'm about to be a dad. My wife is due any day now with her first. Actually, by the time this comes out, I might be a dad. So I'm excited about that. And I grew up in Michigan, spent most of my life in Michigan, just recently moved to Northern California. But yeah, this took place in Michigan.
I grew up in a Christian environment and sort of reacted against that. My family's in ministry. A lot of it's in ministry. My uncle's a pastor. My grandpa's a pastor. My parents have both been in and out of part or full-time Christian ministry. And when I was in my later teens, I started reacting against that a little bit.
If you remember the New Atheist Movement, I was pretty into that sort of thing and pretty skeptical. And I guess it's kind of ironic because what happened to me that we're talking about today, that happened like right at the beginning of me becoming like a pretty hardcore skeptic for like, I don't know, five or six years or something like that. And this did not square well with the rest of it.
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