 Linda S. Godfrey, in her book "The Beast of Bray Road", compares the Manistee sightings to a similar creature sighted in Wisconsin known as the Beast of Bray Road.In 1987 disc jockey Steve Cook at WTCM-FM in Traverse City, Michigan recorded a song titled "The Legend", which he initially played as an April Fool's Day joke.He based the songs on myths and legends from around North America, and had never heard of an actual Michigan "dogman" at the time of the recording