Location: Lower Michigan

Date of occurrence:   2004

Date report filed:   05/26/09

Weather conditions:  Clear

Lighting conditions:   Night, full moon

Narrative of report:  

I saw a bigfoot up close around I would say 5 years ago in northern lower Michigan, <location deleted>.

I had been walking thru a tree clearing coming back from a rocky shoreline (Lake Huron) and had been wading out in the water around a 1/2 hour to :45 minutes. As I was coming thru these trees to reach my car I had the very distinct feeling of being watched. Every now and then, I would hear some tree/twig snaps or multiple snaps that sounded like great weight was being applied to whatever it was. Other moments I would also hear what sounded like whole small sections of trees being moved or pushed out of the way. It was a little un-nerving as it was clearly evident something was just inside this treeline about maybe 2-300 feet away. The sounds kept up with my walking and never at any point, became distant or going away from me. The only thing I could think was perhaps either it was a deer or bear.

I remember after I finally got to my car which was parked by a lighthouse, I felt relieved but didn't know necessarily why. After I got in and started it up, I turned the radio on and drove away at a slow rate of speed. About 3-400 feet down the road I noticed a figure out of the left side of my vehicle standing flush in front of the tree line. The treeline I would estimate was about 100 feet from my vehicle, if that. It completely startled me and I could not believe-initially on that what I was looking at was really, real.

It stood around 7-8 feet tall, completely dark with black fur and had a huge torso with massive shoulders and the arms hung down at it's side- far too long for a bear or human of any kind. It followed me with it's eyes as I drove past. The face was by far one of the biggest impressions that still stays with me today, the hair (or fur) was flat or had a groomed like appearance and especially the eyes were very piercing as it looked directly at me. The face had a flat nose and it also resembled that of a man.

The time of this sighting was around between 9-10:00 pm with a full moon outside and clear sky with no clouds of any sort.

After I first saw it, I immediately slammed on my brakes and came to a dead stop in the road. I had to re-gain my thoughts and composure which all took a few seconds to try and register what I had just taken a good look at. It will be a night I will always remember and it definitely was not a bear on it's hind-legs or anything else. It was completely bi-pedal and stood entirely up right with a very straight posture. For a few moments I had thought I would turn my car around and aim it towards the tree line and put on my hi-beam headlights but something inside of me said to just go on and don't mess with this "thing" or situation. It is not in your best interest to do so.

I was very glad when I finally reached (and saw) the lights from the north edge of town, coming back into <location deleted>. At the time I had finished a week long of training and exercises with the Michigan Air National Guard at Phelps-Collins ANGB-Alpena CRTC (Combat Readiness Training Center). I was not drinking at the time (as I don't drink) or smoking either as I have never that in my life as well.

Follow up:   Repeated contacts with this witness has shown them to be highly intelligent and quite credible.  Asking further questions brought the following additional information:

To try and answer some of your questions: No, I never did smell anything un-usual as I generally have a pretty good sense for that and would have picked up on it right away.

I suppose because of the nature of seeing it so suddenly- completely overwhelmed and startled my senses, it immediately came to mind that I should just go and leave whatever it was that I just saw, completely alone- with no questions asked.

I've been a few times in recent years back up to the area where I seen it and the treeline where it was standing was (is) a lot closer to the road than what I had originally thought or remembered. So basically when I saw it, it was for all intense purposes- standing practically on top of me. It could have maybe taken a step or two (if that) out of the treeline and we would have been nose to nose, so-to-speak.

The look it gave me (I believe just a natural look, perhaps for the creature) just gave the impression of meanness and ferocity, like I mean "business" and you had better not try anything funny with me. It looked (the face) flat out nasty, and judging from it's size, could have took a nudge or two on my two-door Chevy Lumina I had at the time and at least flipped it on it's side probably with not a whole great deal of effort- if it had been inclined to doing so and felt threatened. I think the feeling I had was maybe a combination of the two examples you gave, a logical conclusion plus a "feeling" that this does not feel or seem right, in everyway possible.

I usually have a pretty curious nature about myself so to have experienced this, was truly something completely different and out of the ordinary. I've thought more times than I can remember, "what if" that night, say I had backed my car up instead and looked once more but if it had moved towards me (if I would have been that brave) I would have probably died of shock or passed out with no problem, sounds a bit like an exaggeration but not really.

Confidential database information:  Available

Michigan Report #3