On May 4, 2021, Tony Merkel, host of The Confessionals podcast, published episode 335: Dog vs Dogman with a man named "Kyle" about his horrifying encounter with a creature known as Dogman. When he was 15 years old, he and his grandfather set out for a night of hunting raccoons with their dogs Bow and Jake. Little did Kyle know that on this night, his life was going to change forever. The dogs treed a coon when a pack of coyotes moved in to challenge the hunting dogs. There was a strong battle of dominance, and when Kyle finally arrived at the scene he saw Jake standing strong with coyotes on the run. He then heard what he thought was his dog Bow on the other side of a large tree, chomping on a coyote. But, when he circled around to find Bow, he came face to face with a monstrous beast that towered over him. This is where Kyle's life changed forever, as a bloodthirsty dogman took chase after him, and a battle of dog versus dogman took place! Kyle's story of survival truly defied the odds with those two kinds of dogs in the woods that night - one was man's best friend, and the other was man's worst nightmare.

This is the encounter that brought Tony and his team of monster hunters to the Daniel Boone National Forest in Kentucky. They go deep into the forest drenched in coyote urine and armed with predator calls, guns, and cameras, to spend a week hunting down this mysterious beast in his own backyard. Five men from all over the United States walk into the forest, but will five men walk out as they try to draw the dogman out of his dark lair.