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The Polish Horseman

August 13, 2026

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The Polish Horseman

A man in southeastern Poland, sometime in the 1970s, was picking wild strawberries as a boy when something grabbed his foot from a hole in the ground. He turned around expecting a friend playing a prank. Instead, he saw a creature with pale, dirty skin, a human-like torso, and a face so long it looked like a horse's. Its eyes were human but full of rage, and its mouth was filled with large teeth. It was trying to pull him into the hole. He kicked it in the head, pulled his foot out of his shoe—the creature kept the shoe—and ran barefoot until a neighbor grabbed him, noticing the bloody footprints he was leaving on the pavement.

That story, sent in by a listener named Gabriel about his father, is the episode's namesake and its most unsettling account. But it is far from the only one.

The Dogman Encounters

Several witnesses described creatures that stood upright on two legs but had distinctly canine features—wolf-like heads, pointed ears, muzzles, and bodies that moved with an unsettling fluidity. One witness in El Paso, Texas, recalled a childhood memory from 1968: a group of boys playing baseball near railroad tracks saw a man standing motionless near a foul ball. When they threw rocks at him, he slowly turned, dropped onto all fours, and became something wolf-like. The boys ran. The next morning, they found the baseball but no tracks.

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What you'll learn

  • 1 (02:07) **Opening Banter & Listener Story 1: The Navajo Dam Dogman** - Co-hosts Kyle and Cam banter about fly fishing before reading a listener encounter from New Mexico.
  • 2 (09:13) **Listener Story 2: The Human-Faced Deer in Pennsylvania** - A witness named D. describes a terrifying encounter with a deer that had a human face near Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania.
  • 3 (13:25) **Listener Story 3: Black-Eyed Kids at the Front Door** - A 34-year-old listener named Jeff recounts a childhood memory of two strange children trying to enter his home.
  • 4 (16:35) **Listener Story 4: The Polish Horseman – Strawberry Picking Horror** - Gabriel shares his father’s terrifying encounter from 1970s Poland with a humanoid creature that had a horse-like face.
  • 5 (27:07) **Listener Story 5: The Sloth-Like Sasquatch in Washington** - A witness describes seeing a massive, owl-faced creature watching him from behind an embankment in Skykomish, Washington.
  • 6 (31:14) **Listener Story 6: The El Paso Werewolf on the Railroad Tracks** - A man recalls a 1968 experience in El Paso, Texas, where a group of boys saw a man transform into a wolf-like creature.
  • 7 (37:30) **Listener Story 7: The Alien Entity from Dover Creek** - Marty, now 74, reveals a lifelong psychic connection with an alien entity he met as a child in Minnesota.

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Show Notes

On this episode of Expanded Perspectives, the guys kick things off by talking about Kyle recently turning 50 before diving headfirst into the strange and unexplained.

First, they explore a terrifying encounter with a bizarre NOT DEER, a creature that looked almost right but moved in ways that were anything but natural. Then, they examine several unsettling Dogman sightings that leave witnesses questioning what might be lurking just beyond the tree line.

Finally, they travel to southeastern Poland for one of the strangest accounts ever featured on the show. A young boy's innocent trip to a strawberry field turns into a terrifying encounter with a mysterious horse-headed humanoid unlike anything you've ever heard. Was it an undiscovered creature, a dark manifestation of ancient folklore, or something far more sinister?

All of this and more on this installment of Expanded Perspectives!

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