The Polish Horseman

Summary

Hosts Cam Hale and Kyle Filson read a string of listener-submitted creature encounters, headlined by a Polish man's 1975 claim that a pale, horse-faced humanoid rose from a hole in the ground and tried to drag him under while he picked wild strawberries. The episode is packed with dogman sightings from New Mexico, Alaska, Arkansas, Texas and Florida, alongside a human-faced deer, black-eyed kids and a telepathic octopus-like being. The strangest tale may be an Ohio child's account of a stuffed Easter bunny that spoke to him, with a small spiky dinosaur-like creature hidden behind it.

Key takeaways

• 1In summer 1975 in southeastern Poland, an 11-year-old boy picking wild strawberries says a naked, pale 'horseman' with a long horse-like face, human eyes and large teeth grabbed his foot from a hole and tried to pull him in. His older brother later found the shoe and strawberry basket torn to pieces.
• 2The son who sent in the Polish story later found an online comment describing a nearly identical horse-faced creature grabbing a boy's foot under a bridge on the opposite side of Poland. The comment appeared in a forum discussion of the alleged Nazi 'Ubersoldat' werewolf super-soldier experiments.
• 3Two brothers cutting firewood off Navajo Dam Road near Aztec, New Mexico, report a hairy creature at least 7 feet tall with a wolf face, and claw-like tracks in the sand. One brother fired a shotgun at it.
• 4A witness named Dee reports a deer with a forward-facing human face and blue eyes near Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania, on June 26, 2023. Dee contacted researcher Lon, who forwarded the account to the show.
• 5An army veteran recalls black-eyed kids demanding entry to his childhood home, and his imposing father hiding the children in the bathroom.
• 6Marty, a 74-year-old pastor from Dover, Minnesota, says a humanoid octopus rose from Dover Creek when he was a boy and contacted him telepathically for years to study world news. The contact stopped when he joined the military.
• 7A 1968 sighting in El Paso, Texas, describes a man by railroad tracks who dropped onto all fours and became wolf-like after kids threw rocks at him.
• 8Dogman encounters are also reported on Trunk Road in Alaska's Matanuska Valley, at Beaver Lake, Arkansas, in October 1972, and feeding on a deer near Apalachicola National Forest, Florida.
• 9A February 8, 1929 Vidette-Messenger article describes a bipedal black beast with pointed ears that carried off a pig from the Aikens farm in Galena, Indiana.
• 10The hosts link berry-picking to strange disappearances, citing David Paulides' books.

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Transcript excerpt

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Excerpt from Expanded Perspectives, Aug 13, 2026. Rights remain with the original creators. Hear the full episode at the source.