Is There A "Dog Man"?

It is said that in Wisconsin in the past 7 years there have been over 100 recorded sightings of one or more large hairy creatures that have been reported in the area for over 100 years.Originally they were thought to be werewolves but it was later changed to be called "Dog Men". The variety of persons seeing and reporting the creature run the gamut from children,elderly,white collar and blue collar workers.
It is described as from 6 to 8 feet tall,covered in black hair,walks upright and has red eyes.
One family saw three such creatures drinking from a creek using their hands as a human would.The creatures started toward them and they rushed to their truck and left as soo as possible.
One hunter has seen a single such creature along certain game tracks five times.
By the way,it has feet that look like humans.They also can jump fairly high on two feet.The creature also unlike reports of others often makes eye contact directly with the observer.
Five of the people reporting had polygraph tests that showed they were honest about their sightings.

What do you think?How is this different from Big Foot. I wonder....