Couple sees 7-8' tall "ape-like creature" in Tuttle Marsh witnessed in Iosco County, Michigan

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It was the morning of the New Year in 1979 during the pre-dawn hours. I took my wife with me to help search out a deer I thought I may have wounded while hunting the prior evening. There was plenty of snow in the Tuttle marsh that year so we were able to see even though it was 6:00 a.m. approximately. A storm had been predicted for New Year's day and I knew if I was to have any chance of retrieving my deer, I would have to be out there early. We were about a half a mile off old U.S. 23 and the heavy snows that year meant leaving the car parked on the highway. When we got to my ground blind I positioned us exactly as I had been the previous evening to get some bearings as to when to begin our search. It was already beginning to snow and as we peered through the blind we could see a tall dark image moving towards us. We simply froze in the blind and watched. It was a two-legged, ape-like creature about 7-8 ft. tall with a heavy coat of fur. Had it not been for the size, I would hav...