Avid hiker recalls years of experience living in an area with what local people called the "Shadow People" near Montague
Account
The witness describes repeated activity over years living near woods in White River Township. The witness reports seeing part of a tall hair-covered figure peeking from brush, finding deer carcasses cached high in trees, stacked bone piles and dugout shelters, hearing breathing and strange calls, smelling musk, feeling watched, and being chased at night by a bipedal creature that halted near the road.
What was reported
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Sightings
Physical traces
Interaction
Other senses
Context & caveats
Described appearance
In the source's own words, field by field. Hover a field's marker to see where it was read.
- Height src
- ranging from six 1/2 ft upwards to around 8 1/2 ft
- Build src
- massive upper body structure
- Face src
- face is flatter, softer than an ape
- Arms src
- arms longer in proportion to their body
- Hands src
- Large hands
- Gait src
- ran on two feet
- Posture src
- bipedal
- Other features src
- cranium is shaped more apelike
Facts & provenance
Each value names where it came from.
| Date |
Summer 1979
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|---|---|
| Time of day |
after dark
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| Place |
Montague, Muskegon County, Michigan
Stated
BFRO report #31302
· BFRO report, labelled fields: State, County, Nearest Town, Location Details, Nearest Road
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| Map point |
43.42, -86.35 (± 1000 m)
BFRO map layer point for report 31302 with published boundary
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| Account type |
First-hand
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| Witnesses |
1
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| Witness was |
walking in woods
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| Witness's word for it |
an animal of tall stature
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| Source classification |
Class B
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Evidence & investigation
What the source says was found or done. Claimed evidence is listed as claimed; the Anomadex has not examined it.
- Investigated by
- Jim Sherman (BFRO)
Deer carcasses cached high in trees, one in a fork and one in a maple crook, inspected visually with no lab analysis reported.
Measurements: approximately 20 ft in a tree; five feet from a creek; around 150 yards from bone piles
Piles of clean bones from small mammals and fish stacked in brushy area near creek, inspected visually with no lab analysis reported.
Measurements: 1 1/2 foot at the base and over 2 foot tall; about five feet apart; two and three feet high
Dugout shelters into hillside under root systems covered with brush, described as debris huts.
Measurements: up to 4 ft deep; around 8 to 10 ft long
An investigator held a long series of discussions with the witness about vocalizations, family structure and food sources.
Source timeline
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BFRO report #31302 Primary
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BFRO map layer Reference