Hello and welcome to the program UFO Warning.
In this episode we're talking about Bigfoot reports from
Michigan. That's correct, Bigfoot reports
from Michigan. Found these over on bfro.net.
Really cool site. This first one is dated May
18th, 2025. It says father and son fisherman
have a close encounter with a Bigfoot halfway between Toledo
and Detroit. Now this is down in the
southeast corner of Michigan, not far from the coast of Lake
Erie. They're pretty wild.
I looked this up, they've got some good map pictures here and
this doesn't look like it's that far from the city where this
thing was spotted at. Tells us that this is in Monroe
County. Location details I-75 to
Placeance Rd. exit behind the jail near the quarry in the back
and then we have investigator notes.
The two witnesses entered and exited the area from where
Winchester St. terminates at the railroad bed.
West side of the railroad north of Plum Creek.
These GPS coordinates are not precise.
This point is in the marsh near the railroad tracks, but it's
otherwise off the mark from where the incident occurred.
At the time of this posting. I'm still awaiting precise
coordinates. I wanted to post this report
because the incident happened this morning.
This GPS point is definitely in the Martian near the railroad
bid mentioned in this report. And then it says nearest town
Monroe, nearest road I-75 observed.
I was bow fishing today with my son around 11:30 AM.
We walked down the Creek, that's Plum Creek, past four railroad
bridges and headed into the marsh.
About 100 yards into the marsh, the dog scared up something that
had been bedded down there. Trees were shaking.
We thought it was a group of deer.
We continued another 200 yards to the Creek basin in the marsh.
I noticed she's talking about the tree shaking Trees, plural
shaking, something we hear an awful lot when these things are
stumbled upon. We sat and enjoyed the wildlife
for a little while. We headed back through the
cocktails and saw a lot of deer beds on the way to the on the
way to the first bridge. We crossed the first bridge and
wore between that and the second bridge when we heard sirens in
the distance. My son said do you hear that?
I set down my bow and arrow to get out my cell phone and
earbuds. I wanted to listen to the police
scanner app on my phone to see what was happening.
My son was behind me and the dog was off to the right.
All of a sudden I heard rustling in the trees to the left and
then a huge thud hitting the ground.
A big, heavy animal dropped from the tree, crouched, and started
moving toward me through the brush.
My dog shot off from my right toward the creature.
The dog almost got to it, but the creature took off extremely
fast through the trees and brush.
The dog chased it up the slope over the train tracks.
I called for my dog to come back.
My son said holy crap, what was that?
It was as big as a bear, but it looked like a gorilla.
We started walking back, but then we heard something
crunching the ground behind us. We left.
Yeah, I guess I could see why you would maybe want to vacate
the area. It says other witnesses to other
stories. Since 1963 we have found
numerous newspaper articles. Time and conditions. 11:30 AM.
Environment, swamp, forest, railroad tracks.
Follow up investigation by BFO investigator Matthew Moneymaker.
I spoke with Edward and his 12 year old son by phone
separately. Both are credible and very clear
about what happened to them this morning.
Edward is 47. He was born and raised in the
area and earns a good living in the demolition trade.
I asked many questions about what they saw and what the
animal did enough to determine that it was not a bear.
It was a large dark furred primate that ran up a slope on 2
legs looking like a gorilla from behind.
Yes, that would be Bigfoot. The animal was roughly 10 feet
up the tree when it jumped down. At no point was it facing the
two witnesses. The moment they got the clearest
look was when it was ascending the embankment.
They saw the hairy back and large buttocks clearly for a few
seconds. The animal was not on all fours.
It raced up the slope on 2 legs, but was hunched forward.
And that posture, It was nearly 6 feet tall.
The sunset. It would have been much taller
if it were standing upright. The incident happened so fast
that there was no time to attempt a photo.
The entire encounter lasted less than 10 seconds.
It happened completely by surprise.
No one would have gotten a photo during that initial shock.
The marsh area around Tamarack Creek is full of deer.
No hunting is allowed there, only fishing.
So deer reside in the marsh and woods year round.
There are also many cactails which Bigfoot consume along with
deer, especially in winter. There are likely additional food
sources in the area. Satellite images of this marsh
may lead some to believe it's too close to development for
Bigfoot's, but this forest and marsh pocket connects to other
greenbelts and farm lands. Deer enter and exit along the
railroad easements heading South.
It's not far along the tracks from Tamarack Creek to large
farm fields that are open and dark at night.
Bigfoot often walk along railroad beds for long
distances. Those beds can bring them into
wooded pockets surprisingly close to towns, as in this case.
That says, why might Bigfoot prefer a large forest and marsh
pocket near a town? The closer a natural area is to
town, the more likely hunting is forbidden there to prevent stray
rounds. These areas become a de facto
safe haven for deer herds. Bigfoot follow deer, so they
sometimes end up in wood wooded pockets near towns like Monroe
when food sources, plant animals are abundant.
Yeah, I could see that. Just imagine being hot there
fishing in this marsh area and this giant Bigfoot jumps down
out of a tree. I'm a 10 foot to the ground, it
says. I mean that is really something.
This next encounter is dated February 22nd, 23rd and 24th of
of 2022. This happened in Mackinac
County, it says. Location details.
We were staying at a multi cabin resort on the South side of the
lake. I would rather not mention the
name to protect the owner's privacy.
Now this actually happened. It says wood knocks at night in
the UP Big Manistique Lake, east side of Sydney Refuge.
On the map you can see this is up in the UP of Michigan Upper
Peninsula and it's over on the western edge, so toward
Wisconsin. Looks like a really, really
remote area to me out there just kind of in the middle of
nowhere. It says location details and
then it goes on. It says nearest town Curtis,
nearest road H 42 Curtis Rd. Observed.
We were staying on the southwest side of Big Manistique Lake in a
lakeside cabin. It was February and very cold
with heavy snow cover. We were there for five nights,
and every night I would go out for a cigarette before bed.
On the three consecutive nights, shortly after stepping outside,
I heard a distinct, very loud knock in the woods.
It was often followed shortly afterward by additional knocks,
but further away in the distance it was extremely dark because I
left the outdoor light off. I don't know if it was a Bigfoot
trees cracking in the cold or Bigfoot hunters knocking to each
other, but I certainly know what I heard.
I'm not necessarily a skeptic, but I wouldn't call myself a
believer A believer either. I'm open to the idea.
Yeah, I'm thinking that a tree cracking is going to sound quite
a bit different than an actual wood knocking.
I also noticed nothing. Witnesses myself.
Other stories. I've heard stories in bars while
snowmobiling up there. I always chalk it up to camp for
a talk or locals trying to sell souvenirs.
I always figured that if someone had a real encounter, they would
probably keep it to themselves. Time and conditions
Approximately 10:00 PM. Single digit cold, very still
heavy snow cover mostly clear. Very dark with a Crescent moon
environment. Large lake to the north, pioneer
Birch forest to the South, not far from the Sydney National
Wildlife Refuge. Yeah, pretty strange, yeah.
Could just imagine being up there in this really remote
cabin area, hearing these wood knocks coming in from out in the
distant forest. Kind of a little spooky,
actually. This sighting is dated this
Saturday, January 30th, 2021. Coyote hunters observe upright
figure at night in the wood line with glowing yellowish eyes
outside Faith Horn and it says Menominee County location
details investigator money maker notes for Google Maps link to
the location nearest town Faith Horn nearest Rd.
Menominee County Road 388 observed.
We are cut. We were coyote hunting and when
we first sat down my buddy said did you hear that?
I said hear what? Then he told me it sounded like
a wood knock. I didn't think much of it and we
began calling for about 30 minutes.
After 30 minutes of calling, I stood up to scan the field edge.
When I scanned I saw two huge glowing eyes and a tense
yellowish color unlike anything I've ever seen.
They were high enough off the ground that my first thought was
the land owners had put up a reflective sign up in a tree.
I scoped in on it and realized that whatever it was, it was
hiding behind a tree and looking around it.
My buddies began scoping in on it too.
Then the figure crouched down low to the ground and looked
around to the other side of the tree.
It disappeared for about 10 seconds, then popped up about 10
yards to the right at where it had been, again looking around a
tree. When we all scoped in we clearly
saw it crouched down like a person and then it vanished.
I've been in the woods my entire life and I've seen all sorts of
eyes shine, but tonight I saw something unexplainable.
Oh man, that's really a cool sighting.
Also I noticed my buddy had told me about 40 minutes before the
sighting that he thought he heard it would not, but we
laughed it off at the time. Other witnesses at 3 hunting
with me, Other stories. No time and conditions at 9:30
PM. Full moon cloudy, slight breeze.
Environment. Large agricultural field
surrounded by nearby swamp. Follow up investigation by BFR
investigator Rich Meyer after communicating with Tyler.
We have more details to add to this incident.
The eyeshine changed in intensity depending on whether
it was illuminated by moonlight or by the spotlight.
The eyes appeared to be roughly the size of a bicycle reflector.
That's big. Before the eyeshine was
observed, the dogs at a neighboring house began whining,
barking and acting strangely. I know the neighbor.
The dogs are trained to hunt bear and raccoon and are
generally quiet in their kennels.
Tyler hunts this field every weekend and is very familiar
with the surrounding area and with both wild and domestic
animals. The coyotes were unusually quiet
that evening. The hunting party was using a
Fox Pro call with a deer in distress sound.
Tyler uses a Vortex Razor HD 20 by 50 scope on his rifle.
The area has sufficient cover, food and water to support
Bigfoot says well as several possible exit routes from the
exciting location. This is update 4923.
I spoke with one of the other coyote hunters from that night.
He had no knowledge that this report existed and is a skeptic.
Without being prompted or asked any leading questions, he
confirmed the eye collar, height, distance and overall
circumstances of the sighting. Before this encounter, these
hunters use this field every other weekend.
Since the incident, they have not returned to hunt this
location. That's kind of funny.
Yeah, I guess you could be skeptic, but at the same time
not feeling like you want to go back there and have a another
run in with this thing. It's funny how people's minds
work sometimes. That's a strange one.
This one happened in the fall, September.
It says 1998. First week of first week of bird
season which starts September 15th.
Haunted the area all week. My son was dropped off to me on
the 18th. That was the day.
State Michigan County. Alpena County location details.
160 acre private property, mostly wooded with small 5 acre
sections. Clear cut about every five
years. Bounded mostly by farmland.
Heavy swamp only 3/4 of a mile from the Thunder Bay area.
Field of travel Crossing property lines without crossing
a road is about 1.9 to 4 1/2 miles nearest town.
Alpena nearest Rd. Long Rapids Rd.
Observed while bird hunting with my son.
We heard a rustle. As any bird hunter would, I
raised my gun, expecting, based on the sound, to see a deer
startled from sleep. Instead, I glimpsed something
quickly moving between the trees, about 8 feet apart, over
the ferns and just below the lowest tree branches.
Admittedly, this entire sighting lasted no more than three
seconds. It was a very quiet day with
almost no breeze. It wasn't so much what I saw,
but what I heard or didn't hear. If I were deaf, I could have
dismissed it as a human trespasser.
It was completely dark brown, about 7 feet tall, and running
extremely fast through the ferns, branches and sparse
deadfall, yet doing so silently. It was not a bear.
I was not a believer in Bigfoot. I tried telling myself it was a
deer leaping because of the silence and upright posture
covering roughly 11 yards. Acceptable, right?
But then I looked at my son. The pure white fear on his face
said otherwise. Also noticed nothing unusual has
ever occurred to this location, nor have I heard stories about
anything odd happening here. Please note I was not a believer
in Bigfoot at the time or even a year after the 1998 bird opener.
My son's facial expression has matched was matched only by my
own. I was terrified by the unknown.
I've come to terms with what I saw.
It wasn't a bear, a deer, or a trespasser.
I'm only 38 years old. Throughout my years of hunting
and fishing, I've seen many animals, but many still elude
me. I've only seen a wild boar once
crossing a highway. I've only seen a bobcat once
while walking through land. I was considered I was
considering buying. If I seldom see these animals
while sitting motionless in a tree line, how many others have
passed unnoticed? It's a good question.
Other witnesses? I questioned my son as soon as I
could speak. My mind was still trying to
convince itself of a rational explanation.
My body was shaking and my speech was obviously stuttered.
He heard the initial rustle but couldn't pinpoint anything
afterward due to the silence. He did not see what I saw.
His fear came entirely from the look on my face.
He was nine years old at the time.
We've Hudded together several times and of course he knows me
well enough to recognize when something is seriously wrong.
This environment, the 160 acres, includes a swamp, clear cuts, a
small field in Old Forest. The sighting occurred 180 yards
from the field, 150 yards from the cut and 50 yards from a very
mild swamp in Old Woods with new growth.
We were on a four Wheeler path about 60 yards from the subject.
Yeah, it sounds like a pretty substantial sighting.
Very strange. This encounter happened on July
31st, 2013. Alcona County, Michigan location
details on Jewel Lake near Barton City nearest town Barton
City nearest road to Stout Rd. My girlfriend, son and I are up
at Barton City on Jewel Lake at 2:00 AM.
We were night fishing in a boat close to shore.
Rocks were being thrown at us. I've been coming up here for 37
years and I've never had anything like this happen.
These were big rocks, big perplunks and splices and it
only happened when we reached a certain point of the lake.
Never in all my years have I experienced anything like this.
This happened less than an hour ago and we are freaked out.
Contact me. My name is Mike.
I guess that really had an impact on him, huh?
This is time and conditions 2:00 AM.
Clear and bright environment, edge of the lake, Dark wooded
area overshadowing the shoreline.
Follow up investigation by BFRO investigator Kim Fleming.
The witness was sitting around a campfire with friends and family
around 11:00 PM when he and his friend's son decided to go
fishing. It was a beautiful clear 70°
night and the lake was calm. They launched their boat near
the northwest shore of Jewel Lake and headed South Down the
shoreline about 200 yards from their cabin.
They were approximately 50 yards from shore, casting toward the
bank using hoodle popper lures. After three cast, a startling
experience occurred. A huge rock hit the water right
near where the lure had landed. These were huge rocks.
They were large enough to make a capulsul sound when hitting the
water. The first rock hit about 20
yards away. The third one landed roughly 10
yards from the boat. At that point, the two fishermen
decided to head back in. I am an avid hunter and I know
what's out in the woods. No one could have thrown rocks
that large that far. The witness reported that
shortly before the rocks were thrown, they heard movement on
the Ridge just above the shoreline.
The witness has fished Jewel Lake for nearly 40 years and has
never experienced anything like this.
He noted that there were few people at the cabins or the lake
that day and he believes that they were probably the only ones
on the water that night. He also stated that if kids had
been messing with them, they would have heard giggling,
running or other movements noises.
He couldn't see anything on the shore and has no explanation for
what happened. After the third rock hit, the
hair on the back of my neck stood up.
Both fishermen decided it was time to get off the lake.
They returned to the cabin with no further incident.
The entire event lasted about 10 minutes.
Jewel Lake is located within the Huron National Forest, which
contains abundant wilderness with plenty of covering both
large and small game. The incident took place in an
area where dense forest covers most of the western shoreline
with minimal lake access. I've been up around these places
before and I've been, I've done a lot of fishing in Michigan.
There's a lot of really, it's just wilderness area and pretty
unlikely, I would think that there would be these random kids
out there throwing these huge rocks at people if they were,
they're pretty stupid. I mean, you could, you could
kill somebody tossing a rock, talking, you know, tossing large
rocks off a Cliff like that. Really, really intimidating
behavior there, goes on and says about BFR investigator Kim
Fleming. Kim is a high school science
teacher who incorporates Bigfoot research techniques into
teaching the into teaching the scientific method.
She has been interested in Bigfoot research since 2008 and
her husband had a sighting in Florida in 1976.
Her interests include hiking, outdoor activities, birding, and
working with young adults. Kim attended the 2012 and 2013
Michigan UP expeditions and has conducted research in northern
Michigan. Yeah, I really like the way that
they involve so many people in this BFRO.
What a great organization here to bring in these accounts to
life for people to to enjoy. We'll do three more here and
wrap this up. This sighting is listed as one
of 1974 Berrien County, Michigan location details.
The area where this occurred was bordered on the north by I-94
Exit 23, on the South by the Lincoln Township Public
Cemetery, directly behind our house, on the east by the
north-south railway tracks with a factory in woods beyond, and
on the West by Saint Joseph Ave. which leads from the highway
into downtown Stevensville about a mile South.
About a half a mile West of the house is a very hilly wooded
dunes area that runs along Lake MI shoreline.
Lake MI is roughly one mile due West of the house nearest town,
Stevensville, MI nearest Rd. I lived in one of the five
houses on Marquette Woods Rd. between Saint Joseph Ave. and
the railroad tracks that crossed Marquette Woods.
Across the street were another 5 or 6 houses and behind them was
the Exit 23 interchange on I-94. Observed.
I was around 12 years old and watching my 4 younger brothers
one evening while my parents went out for a few drinks when I
heard something that scared me like nothing else ever before
since. It terrified me so badly that I
was too embarrassed to ever mention it to my parents,
certain they would ridicule me for making such such an
unbelievable claim without any evidence.
I had sent my brothers to bed about an hour earlier and was
lying on the living room couch watching television around 11:00
PM when I heard a noise outside the window directly behind the
couch. It was very loud and extremely
close right outside the window against the side of the house,
close enough that I could hear an intake of breath from
whatever made it. The sound horrified me because I
had never heard anything like it.
It began as a howling scream, like something dying, and then
gradually shifted into a gurgling chuckle like laugh that
lasted maybe 10 seconds. I had heard many screams from
both humans and animals, rabbits, deer, dogs, cats,
raccoons, and possums, but this sounded like none of them, not
even remotely, and I had never heard anything except a human
produce an actual laugh. What I heard did not sound human
at all, for lack of a better description.
It sounded evil, and I was so terrified that I waited about 30
minutes before gathering the courage to put on boots and a
jacket, grab a flashlight, and go outside to investigate.
It was midwinter and had been snowing since early evening, so
several inches of fresh snow covered the ground.
But after searching all around the house and yard I couldn't
find a single track showing what had made the sound.
The gap between the house where the sound came from is about 12
to 15 feet wide with a shrub line roughly 6 feet from the
side of the house, and snow there was completely
undisturbed. This upset me even more because
I had been hoping that maybe a boy who lived a shoe doors down
had somehow managed to sneak over and scare me as a prank,
but I could not convince myself that the sound could have been
made by a human, nor realistically reproduced by any
portable recording device available to teens in the early
1970s. Telling myself it had to be a
prank had been the only reason I managed to muster the courage to
go outside at all. When I found nothing, I became
truly frightened and went back inside to wait until my parents
came home. I never associated this event
with Bigfoot until just a few days ago.
While reading some Bigfoot citing reports online as a lark,
I was amazed at how similar some of the reported sounds wore to
what I heard that night. In fact, just reading the
descriptions caused me to relive some of the terror I felt so
many years ago, and I've never been a person with phobias or
irrational fears. The scream was frightening, but
also as terrifying as the inhuman laugh it turned into
before fading away. I saw the word diabolical used
to describe a sound in one of the reports and I completely
agree. It was the most accurate
description I could imagine for what I heard.
I don't mind whether my account is believed or dismissed as
faults. I only want to share it in case
someone else reported something similar in the same place in
time, and perhaps my report can add some detail to other more
credible or better documented events.
Other witnesses, none other stories.
Thinking back, I remember in urban legend from my teenage
years about a family of primitive, possibly mentally
impaired mutants said to live in the deeply wooded dunes area
near the Lake MI shoreline between Stevensville and a small
town of Bridgeman 5 miles South. They were called Melon Heads,
supposedly with tall misshapen heads.
Teens would often drive back along the little 2 tractor roads
in the area to scare each other looking for the melon heads.
I have no idea how the story began or how long it had
existed, but it was common knowledge among kids when I was
growing up. As far as I know, the story is
still told today. That's weird time and
conditions. The time was close to midnight
around 11:00 PM. The night was moonless with with
low overcast light snowfall. When I went outside it was
extremely quiet and visibility was good due to the reflected
light from nearby businesses and the Interstate exit environment.
The neighborhood was rural residential at the time, about a
mile east of Lake MI, with plenty of heavily wooded areas
in nearly every direction. In the 1970s there were many
farms South and east of Stevensville, and although the
population has increased greatly since then, the region still
contains large areas of woods and open farmland.
The house across the street was an old farm with grapes,
Peaches, pears and cherries growing on A10 acre plot
bordered by the Interstate exit ramp and the railroad.
About 3/4 of a mile E is Hickory Creek and a deep, heavily wooded
ravine. The woods extended all the way
from the Creek up to the railroad tracks at the eastern
edge of the cemetery behind our house.
This is follow up investigation by BFR investigator Dr. Wolf H
Fehrenbach. The observer provided an
excellent and perspective description of the event which
occurred to the total silence of a snowy evening.
He emphasized how utterly frightening the sound was,
especially its unearthly human inhuman quality.
He noted that if the initial scream startling at a rabbit
scream pitch had not flowed continuously into the concluding
sound, a gravely low chuckle like laugh, he would never have
believed the two sounds came from the same creature.
He also noted the vocalization sounded so close and by
implications so powerful that he fully expected to find
footprints in the snow beneath the window.
However, the snow was completely undisturbed within the visible
area he surveyed. No dogs responded to the sound,
including the witness's own dog, which was nowhere to be seen
after the episode. Yeah, the dog might have been
hiding out. That's wild.
Do a couple more here. The sightings dated October
18th, 1979. Calhoun County, Michigan
Location details Albion north of I-94 on 29 Mile Rd. just north
of H Drive. The sighting occurred behind the
schoolhouse on the right, behind a swamp in old apple orchard.
Nearest town Albion nearest road 29 Mile Rd. north Observed It
was October, shortly after my birthday, getting chilly in the
late afternoon. My friend and I were bored so we
decided to go walking in the woods adjacent to my home, which
at the time was a one room schoolhouse my stepdad was
remodeling. We often took these walks
exploring or looking for cool places to build forts.
This time we went further back through an old apple orchard and
that's where it happened. As we were walking we both
noticed that it had become extremely quiet.
No birds, no animals, nothing. We were both amazed at the
silence. The wind picked up a little and
blew the leaves around. There were still a lot on the
trees. The sound of the leaves broke
the silence, so we started moving on.
I suddenly had a weird feeling of being watched.
I told my friend and he said he felt it too.
At that moment we both heard a loud thumping crunch.
I said did you hear that? He nodded yes, too afraid to
speak because it was loud and close, probably about 50 feet
away. It sounded like something had
stomped around. I said it came from over there,
and as I turned toward the direction of the noise, we both
saw a large, upright animal covered in hair.
It immediately moved into the deep brush and trees while
making a deep, throaty, uh, sound.
All we saw was a black roughly 3/4 of the way up the stomach,
the butt, and the left leg as it went into the brush.
It wasn't crouching, it was upright, as if it were simply
walking away. I took off running as fast as I
could toward my house about 350 feet away, through dense brush
and partial swamp and along a trail.
I didn't even think about my friend.
I just ran. When I stopped, he was right
behind me, which surprised me because I thought I could outrun
him. This thing's leg was at least as
tall as I was. I was about 5 foot 414 years
old. The hair was dark reddish and
some Gray mixed in, about 3 to 4 inches long and extremely thick.
It's leg alone was thicker than my whole body.
Out of the blue. My friend recently visited me.
We hadn't seen each other since high school and now we're both
in our 40's. The second thing he said to me
was do you remember what we saw behind your house?
I told him yeah, we saw Dang Bigfoot.
I don't think I've ever run that fast or that strong since, not
even when I was in the Marines. Since then I've always kept an
eye out for those critters. I guess I could imagine that it
says also noticed deep impressions in the ground, trees
broken, loud screens before and after.
At the same time we thought the screams were owls.
Now I know better. Other witnesses, my friend name
removed. We were just walking around.
My stepfather has since passed away.
Other stories Haven't heard of anyone else reporting anything
in this immediate area. Times and conditions around 4:00
to 5:00 PM and getting dark whether it was fair but
overcast. It had rained for a couple of
days prior. Environment and abandoned an
overgrown apple orchard with many sumac trees, chookberry and
thick brush bordering a swamp. The area included an old one
room schoolhouse. Like we know these things seem
to be attractive to apples. Follow up investigation report
by BFO investigator Eric Lester so that I spoke to the witness
by phone and found him to be very sincere about his
experience. Not many additional details can
be added to the report. When he saw the creature, it was
walking away from him, leaning forward as it moved into the
brush and trees. He knew it wasn't a bear or
moose and based on what he saw, he later estimated height that
nearly 9 feet tall. The impressions found later in
the soil were 2 1/2 to 3 inches deep.
That's pretty deep. While neither the witness or the
others with him were able to make impressions of any depth,
he also mentioned hearing heavy bipedal walking in the same area
on another occasion. Wow.
When I tell you what, that would really be kind of a frightening
experience. Very cool.
OK, we'll do one last one here. This last sighting stated as
July of 1986 Delta County, Michigan.
Location details. To reach the location, turn off
US two at the top of which of White Fish Hill and drive down
County Road 511 past Road five O 9 to what is now the parking lot
at the head of the Rapid River Stemmobile Trail.
From there, take the road heading north into the woods.
After a minute or so, you'll come to a split.
Take the road to the right. You will come to a forced
service gate, which will likely be closed.
If it is, continue on foot up the road about 1/2 mile to the
site. If the gate is open, you can
drive in, but be careful if you don't have a four by four or
decent clearance. There has been significant
logging in the area, so the route is in now much different
condition than it was at the time, but the actual site is
mostly unchanged. If you've read the description
above, you'll recognize it when you reach the correct spot.
Nearest town Rapid River, nearest Rd.
County Road 511 slash US2 observed.
This took place in the summer of 1986.
Our friends and I decided to go on an overnight camping trip
about two miles from my friend's house.
There were three males and two females in total, ages 15 to 17.
The area we chose to camp in was known to us, the Beaver pond.
My friend's father drove us to within 1/2 mile of the campsite
and we hiked the rest of the way with our tent and gear.
The area where we camped was on a Ridge running alongside an old
small lake. Our campsite set on top of the
Ridge on an old road used as a snowmobile trail during winter.
One side of the campsite drop steeply down to the water's
edge. The opposite side sloped down
into a swampy brush choked area on both ends of the Ridge of the
terrain sloped down into thicker woods after about 20 yards.
We arrived after dinner, probably around 6:00 or 6:30 PM.
We set up a large yellow one room tent overlooking the lake.
We gathered firewood, made hamburgers and settled in.
As teenagers. We didn't plan on getting much
sleep. I should mention we were a
straight laced group. No alcohol or drugs were
involved. We stayed close to the campsite,
venturing only a few yards for wood or to the water's edge.
Around 1:00 or 1:30 AM, the first thing happened.
All of us had grown up in the Upper Peninsula and were very
familiar with the animals and sounds of the woods.
The first sound was distant, something like a screaming noise
a chimp might make. It was very faint, probably over
a mile away, coming from the direction of the swamp.
Since the swamp was only about 1/4 mile across, we assumed the
noise came from the pine forest beyond it.
Even though the sound was far away and short, it immediately
gave all of an uneasy feeling. We tried to rush it off and
return to our conversation, but a moment later it happened
again, much louder and closer this time.
I estimate it was 400 to 500 yards away.
Again, it was a lone screech lasting for two or three
seconds. After this one, none of us could
return to our conversation. We began discussing possible
explanations, but none of us had heard anything like it.
One person suggested it might be an animal, and he another said
maybe an animal was being killed.
Neither idea seemed right. We sat quietly, waiting to hear
more. After a few moments, the
screeching began in earnest. Whatever was making the sound
had come within 40 or 50 yards of our campsite at the base of
the Ridge on the swamp side. It seemed as though whatever it
was had made a Direct Line tortoise from the moment we
first heard it. The next three hours were truly
terrifying. The creature began moving around
our camp, always staying at the base of the Ridge.
It circled us completely, moving from one side of the lake to the
other. Sometimes we heard large
branches breaking, as if something heavy were moving
through the woods. Other times it moved silently.
Sometimes it screeched while circling and other times it
would screech from one spot and then without any sound of
movements, screech again moments later on the opposite side of
the camp. We shined our flashlights into
the woods but saw nothing. I can't recall if the creature
reacted to the lights, I don't think it did.
This went on for about 3 hours. Occasionally it would fall
silent for a few minutes before erupting again.
None of us had any idea what to do.
We were more frightened than any of us had ever been.
Our only weapons were two Rambo style hunting knives, popular
among teenage boys in the 1980s, and a couple of pocket knives.
We kept the fire burning strong. I remember a couple of times we
went into the tent to feel safer, but we would come out
again when the creature went quiet.
I think we were afraid it might sneak up on us.
The silence was almost worse than the noise because at least
when it screeched we knew where it was.
Around 4:00 AM the screeching stopped.
After a few minutes we heard one more scream several 100 yards
away and then another in the distance and then it was gone.
We did not sleep at first light. We took off at a jog down the
dirt Rd. toward the main road. In hindsight, I wish we had
searched for tracks for signs, but we just wanted to leave.
I do remember noticing that we saw no tracks on the on the
sandy dirt Rd. even though the creature must have crossed it
dozens of times. But again, we didn't look
closely. We walked to my friend's house
on mile and 1/2 or two miles away.
When we told his father what we what had happened, he dismissed
it as teenage imagination. Every adult we told were acted
the same way. We returned later that day to
retrieve our gear. My friend's father let him use
the truck so we could drive in. We loaded everything quickly and
left. It has been many years since the
incident. I've told many people but never
anyone able to evaluate it seriously.
I've since heard Bigfoot recordings and some are very
similar to what we heard. Many explanations have been
offered but none of it ever seemed right to me.
This is also noticed nothing. I can remember other witnesses,
3 males, 2 females. We were sitting around the
campfire drinking sodas, eating snacks, talking and listening to
the radio. Other stories.
This will sound vague, but as a child I remember hearing stories
about a feral man living up on County Road 5 O nine.
I vaguely recall hearing about police looking for him.
That could have been eight or nine years before our incident
and probably 15 to 20 miles away.
Time and conditions between 1:00 AM and 4:00 AM.
It was warm and humid. There must have been a new moon
as there was no moonlight in the woods environment.
We camped on top of a Ridge along an old pond filled with
dead tree trunks sticking out of the water.
There was a swamp on the opposite side of the Ridge, and
the surrounding area was mostly pine forest at various ages and
sizes. Yeah.
Very strange, very intense sighting there.
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