Memory told of a possible nighttime sighting by a teenager snowmobiling south of Houghton Lake witnessed in Gladwin County, Michigan

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I'm 50 now, but when I was 15 my father had a modern cabin, I designed and drafted, in lower upper Michigan, near Gladwin, Michigan. I saw your Michigan episode today and wanted you to know about something I saw in the woods near Streaked Lake. I know the county pretty good as I hunted, fished and snowmobiled in the area. We lived in Brooklyn, MI and would travel to the cabin on my dad's days off. The winter of 77/78, don't remember the month, my younger brother and I were out doing nighttime, off trail snowmobiling. We were on the state park next to my dads place. My brother was leading, we were in Cedar Pines most of them not more than 10 inches in diameter (I know this because my dad use to have me cut firewood, and poles for fences.) Snow was pretty deep and we were moving over snags pretty good at about 10 mph. My brother took a turn ahead of me, he was about 50 feet or so in front of me, as I began my turn to follow to the left my headlight caught something next to a 6' cedar, it...