Manistee County, Michigan

Near Copemish/Thompsonville

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Manistee County Michigan (Class A) BFRO

May 1999

I was walking in the woods down a two track by Thompsonville in the early spring morning. On these early morning walks I often scare up deer and occationally a bear so when I heard the noises of something running in the woods I expected to see some such animal. Instead I saw what looked to me like a large man dressed in white running at an incredible speed. He was about 50 yards away and I tracked him for some distance. I was amazed at how he ran so fast through the dense undergrowth. He had to have long legs to be able to traverse the fallen trees and swampy areas. The next day I was walking in that same area and discovered tracks that confirmed to me it was not a man I had seen. They were quite large - about 18 inches or so. I could only see three toe prints thought there may have been more that didnt inprint and what may have been claws or long toenails that left a mark. The distance between them was about three of my strides long. My neighbor who lives in that area has report...

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Manistee County Michigan (Class B) BFRO

Night fishermen startled while in their boat at Tippy Dam Campground

We were on our yearly camping trip to Tippy dam pond, I believe its outside of Manistee. Its very remote, you have to travel down many back dirt roads to get to the campground .We have went camping up...

April 2012

Manistee County Michigan (Class A) BFRO

Grandfather and grandson witness a big, black creature chasing a deer near Manistee

My Grandson (11 years old at the time) and I were hunting for deer in the back end of the Clay Bank swamp, this time on the north end of it, opposite of my earlier encounter, when it was getting twili...

November 2009

Manistee County Michigan (Class B) BFRO

Possible bluff charge toward a hunter in a blind near Copemish

We deer hunt in a very remote and thickly wooded swamp. It is very difficult to walk through, not because of lots of water or mud, but there are fallen trees and dense small trees and brush. My encoun...

November 1990

Manistee County Michigan (Class A) BFRO

Memory told of an early evening sighting at a migrant work camp in Bear Lake

I'm 46 years old, we were at a migrant worker camp in Bear Lake Michigan picking apples. I stepped out of our house for what reason I can't remember. I happened to look in a direction up towards a hil...

October 1984

Koochiching County Minnesota (Class A) BFRO

Father relates sighting to son that occurred near Littlefork

I am writing this with what my father had told me after he came home from hunting. he was hunting neer a very small lake in a very remote area. He was about 35 in front of "Bigfoot" and what ever it w...

October 1983

Henderson County North Carolina (Class A) BFRO

Motorist slams on his brakes when a 4-5' brown shaggy creature steps in front of his car near Hendersonville

We were driving back to Wisconsin after Spring Break in Daytona Beach, mid-April 1983. We had dropped off a friend, who was in the Navy, in Charleston. We were driving through North Carolina on a rout...

April 1983

Washington County Ohio (Class A) BFRO

Sighting and vocalizations at a home in Wayne National Forest

I was staying the night with a friends of mine. It was late at night we were watching TV waiting on his parents to come home. We heard a noise out front and I looked out the window in the door to the ...

January 1971

Benton County Arkansas (Class A) BFRO

Motorist crossing a bridge sees sasquatch digging in the dirt below

In early to mid October of 1981 I was 17 years old. I was working weekends in Fayetteville, a town 28 miles from where I lived in Siloam Springs. I usualy left for work around 5:30am.I would drive the...

October 1981

Routt County Colorado (Class A) BFRO

Outdoorsman finds tracks in snow in Fall ; possible stalking encounter while mountain biking the following summer

1.) October 1996 after the second or third snow of the season. 2.) July 1997. 1.) Huge footprints with a couple inches of snow over them. But the stride was masive and could not be duplicated by m...

January 1996

Logan County Kentucky (Class A) BFRO

Bow hunter encounters large bipedal animal with a short neck and long arms

I had just climbed down from my deer hunting stand and quietly walked to the edge of a large soybean field. The moon was full and I thought perhaps I would see deer running from the field. What I saw ...

October 1972

Tazewell County Illinois (Class A) BFRO

Daylight sighting along levee in East Peoria

I saw a creature running on top of a levee just on the east Peoria side of the river.It was all tan from head to feet. It had to be running at least 30 mph. While running its knees were bent.It did no...

February 2013

El Paso County Colorado (Class A) BFRO

Campers report finding large footprints in the snow

Sometime in the late 1970s, a friend and myself were winter camping in the Pike National forest outside of Colorado Springs. I dont recall exactly what month of the year it was, but there was still ab...

January 1980