Manistee County, Michigan

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Manistee County Michigan (Class A) BFRO

November 2009

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 twilight we decided to call it a day, picked up our equipment and started a slow walk back to my truck, only got about 50 yds when a 6 point buck ran within 20 feet to the front of us, and about 6 feet behind the deer was a sasquatch chasing him, it had its arms outstretched to grab the deer, it was black and in the 8 ft area, really big. As the creature was directly in front of us it looked at us, it was as surprised as we were, the deer continued on to the south west, the creature headed south east at that point into the pines, hard woods, hemlock and ceders, it was out of sight in about 15 seconds, they seem to be able to hide from sight pretty easy. My Grandson turned to me and said,"Holy crap Grandpa did you see that big black thing?" all I could say was "yup", and again the safety was tak...

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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

Daylight sighting of a white creature while walking near Thompsonville

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 somet...

May 1999

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

Hardin County Kentucky (Class A) BFE

Veteran recalls sighting while in service and again several years later while visiting a moonshine still

In the service Fort Knox we were Bivwackung near the KT,OH boarder on guard duty someone was messing with the food stuffs myself shined a light thought is was a bear outline was I thought a soldier ...

January 1976

Yakima County Washington (Class A) BFE

Photographer has encounter near old cemetery at Grand Lake RV

I'm from Yakima, Washington originally, and I call these being Big Foot or Sasquatch. Ran into something which I believe was a Sasquatch about 15 to 20 feet in front of me while jogging in the drive...

August 2010

Montmorency County Michigan (Class A) BFE

Creature stares down young deer hunter near Lewiston, Michigan

I was 17 years old and bow hunting and had placed apples and Doe estruses [scent] near a stump and went back to sit 60-100 ft cant remember for sure anyway I do remember sitting up hill being heavil...

October 1985

Walker County Texas (Class A) BFE

Deer hunter observes bipedal creature crossing over pipeline near Huntsville, Texas

Me & my dad were deer hunting , myself & a few buddy's built a little camp house out of scrap materials from construction sites where we worked. Dad & I hunted for 2 days , realized we're weren't gonn...

November 1984