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It wasn’t the boogeyman a little girl saw roaming around the house. The 10-year-old woke up to the sight of a strange man and his two dogs in her bedroom last month. She ran to tell her sleeping parents, but they told her to go back to bed. "The parents evidently thought she was having a dream or a nightmare," said A. Gerald Schramek, chief criminal investigator for the Putnam County Sheriff’s Office. The parents still didn’t believe the girl half an hour later, when she said the man and his cocker spaniels left the family’s house in Philipstown, about 50 miles north of New York City. Later the parents discovered muddy dog tracks throughout the house, and that cash, keys and a cell phone were missing. |