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Sasquatch sighting near Benzie County (1978)
While running downstream to intercept fish, the witness stopped and saw a smaller hairy creature standing with its back to him in the creek. It appeared to hold a fish in one hand and move the other in the water as if fishing. He watched briefly, then ran back to the other children.
Sasquatch sighting near Benzie County (1978)
The witness stepped a short distance from a group of children to urinate near a fort by the creek. A large hairy creature stepped from behind a broken tree about 50 to 60 feet away and stared at him. He panicked, ran screaming to the house, and his father and friends went back with guns but found only broken tree limbs.
Nighttime sighting remembered while driving southeast of Kalkaska
While driving home from Kalkaska after dark, the occupants of a vehicle noticed eye-shine in the headlights beside the road. The headlights revealed a small, very light-colored Bigfoot-like figure that had been sitting with its leg crossed on a log in a small clearing near a cedar swamp. Startled by the light, it stood up and walked casually into the woods and disappeared.
Witness and cousin see "hairy brown man-like creature" watching them
The witness and two young companions went to play on large grapevines near a cabin they were building in the woods. The witness looked up and saw a brown hairy human-like figure sitting against a fence post with legs bent and arms around legs. The witness screamed and the companions ran with the witness, with one companion also seeing the figure. On one backward glance the witness saw the figure standing upright.
Cub Scouts see two different colored creatures
The witness was fishing with five other boys near a house on Rolland Road when a breaking-log sound drew attention to a large dark hairy biped crouching in the woods east of the road. The boys ran to the house, and about an hour later they saw a lighter-colored hairy biped in the field west of the road while crashing sounds continued in the woods.
Motorist has nighttime sighting of animal near Marshall
The witness was driving a rural road at night for work when he stopped to watch an upright creature on the roadside that appeared to be smelling and examining possible roadkill. He watched from his vehicle for about three minutes in his headlights as the creature stood up and walked toward him to within about ten feet. The creature then turned away, walked into the ditch and woods, and the witness drove away and avoided the road afterward.
BF shakes bush and screams at 2 hunters
Two people entering the woods to deer hunt at daybreak encountered a large creature about 150 feet ahead. The creature stood up, paced, shook a large bush, and screamed at them, causing both to flee in panic. They returned in full daylight hours later, estimated its height at about 8 feet from the bush, and found no prints or hair.
Teenager views runner covered in hair near Michigamme
The witness was riding a motorbike slowly down an overgrown track when the route opened into a clearing. About 30 yards ahead, a very tall dark-brown figure ran left to right at full speed with pumping arms. The witness watched for about five seconds, then turned around and rode several miles back to a family cabin.
Dusk sighting by two women near Three Lakes (w/sketch by artist)
Two witnesses driving west on Highway 41 between Three Lakes and Tioga around sunset stopped to watch a tall white-furred biped standing on a hilltop south of the road. They described it as human-like but much larger, covered in long flowing hair, watching them from about 100 to 150 feet away for about 30 seconds. They then left unnerved, stating they had consumed only coffee.
Sasquatch sighting near Grand Haven, Michigan (1970)
The witness, then about seven, was playing outside with her twin sister and two large dogs on a gravel road. The dogs began barking aggressively, and the witness saw a large hair-covered creature step from the woods and walk across the road about 200 feet away. It paused, turned its whole torso toward the children, then continued into the tree line. The frightened children ran to a neighbor's house, and the witness's mother later suggested it was a Bigfoot, which the witness confirmed from a magazine photo weeks later.
Multiple childhood interactions recalled by a woman who grew up near Kalamazoo
As a second-grade child the witness wandered from a school picnic into adjacent pine woods while gathering cones. She collided with a huge hair-covered biped holding aside a tree limb and stared up at its expressive face as its look shifted from startled to gentle. After a prolonged motionless pause the creature released the limb, which swung overhead, and walked away with long powerful strides.
Woman remembers childhood sighting near Rogers City
The witness and an older sister rode bikes along a road beside a dense wooded lot. They stopped after noticing a dark stump-like shape in the middle of the lot and, when wind moved long hair, realized it was a large hairy figure sitting cross-legged apparently asleep. They described a flat apelike face and long limbs and fled quickly to their house where they told a parent. They said they avoided the road and thicket afterward.
Man recalls walking home from the bus stop and observing a Bigfoot taking off across a field near Midland
As a 12-year-old walking home from the school bus with five other children, the witness noticed movement from a deep ditch beside a gravel road. A hair-covered figure rose from the ditch, crossed the road on two feet, vaulted a pony fence with one hand, and sprinted across an open field much faster than ponies. The figure was estimated at about six feet tall and its face was not seen.
Afternoon highway crossing near Felch
A woman driving east in daylight saw a tall black-haired upright figure cross the two-lane highway in front of her and disappear into brush on the other side. She stopped, locked her doors, waited, then drove to the crossing point and searched but could not locate where it entered the brush. She said it was too big to be human and took very long strides.
Apelike creature seen by children on a sand dune near Caseville
In summer 1965 the witness, then a child, joined other children searching sand dunes above Lake Huron after two children reported a frightening encounter. On a steep dune path in full moonlight she came face-to-face with a short orange-haired upright creature that growled, then grunted while swinging its arms and walking toward her. She fled to the beach and later learned her young sister had seen the same creature at close range from the side of the path.
Eight foot tall creature seen standing under a tree at family cabin
The witness, then 13, was staying with relatives at a forested weekend cabin. After the aunt raised an alarm about a supposed bear, the witness went to look and saw an upright, hair-covered figure standing under a tree with an arm resting on a branch. When the witness stepped forward and the uncle appeared with a rifle, the figure turned and walked away up a deer path into the woods.
Man recalls multi-witness sighting in teen years near Manistique
Six youths walking along railroad tracks heard a loud guttural sound behind them and turned to see a tall hair-covered figure. The figure walked steadily across the tracks and down into swampy woods about 110 feet away without stopping. The group later went to where it entered the woods, noticed a strong rotten odor but found no tracks.
Man recalls encounter he had as a teenager near Kalkaska
While camping with relatives and neighbors, the witness drove west toward a highway early the next morning to buy supplies, accompanied by an adult. About 10 miles from camp, he saw a large reddish animal emerge from the forest, stand upright at the road edge, and cross the road in two steps before disappearing into dense woods. The adult companion was asleep and did not see it. The witness later described the encounter to a store worker, who said similar reports of a large unknown animal had been heard in the area.
Witness recalls a childhood face to face daylight sighting near his home and night vocalizations outside Gaylord
The witness was in an outhouse near the home after waking when rustling and sticks breaking were heard approaching. The witness opened the door and saw a tall, hairy, ape-like figure that fled into the woods on being seen. Later that night the witness and relatives heard loud screams or howls.
Memory told of a possible daylight sighting while playing in the woods in Eben Junction
In summer 1944, the 9-year-old witness and his cousin were playing in a woodlot on a family farm, knocking dead saplings against live trees. They stopped and saw a huge man-like figure standing broadside nearby looking at them, which then turned and walked away. The boys ran out and told their mothers, who dismissed it as a neighbor, and the witness says they avoided that part of the woods afterward.