Man recalls multi-witness sighting in teen years near Manistique witnessed in Schoolcraft County, Michigan

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We were walking facing west toward the sun. A loud guttural sound came from behind us. We had all grown up in and around the woods but this sound was louder and so unusual that we all turned around at the same time. When we first saw it, behind us, at the same spot we had just come from a few minutes before. It was walking up the hill to the top of the RR tracks. We were about 110 feet away. It had its head bent down and turned sideways toward us but never stopped walking straight across the tracks and down the other side. There was a well used trail along the creek south of the tracks but north of the tracks is all swamp and no trail at all. The North side is wet peat bogs, thick brush, cedar, spruce and balsam and poplar trees with small tag alders. We stood there for a minute or so and then ran back to where it went into the woods. We couldn't find the exact spot but the smell was still there. It smelled like a wet decomposing animal mixed with rotten fish. We couldn't find ...