Delta County, Michigan

Near Escanaba/Rapid River

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Delta County Michigan (Class B) BFRO

April 2014

I was going out early morning fishing with my friend Ross and we live up by Escanaba, MI and we were out on a pretty remote road Brampton 27.5 road by the Days River. We got out to check out an area, see how the river is, all of a sudden we hear a real heavy sounding animal moving through the thick Tag Alders and brush on the non riverside of the road but right as that goes silent we hear another big creature on the river side, it goes from just making enough noise for us to notice that there is 2 big animals that seemed to be traveling together and it seems like we had interrupted them crossing the road so the one that was like 30 to 40 feet away suddenly does what I can only imagine was a bluff charge through the thick brush just knocking every Tad Alder and branch down with authority. Then after about 20 feet it stops and a few seconds later we both hear a tree getting just ripped down with force. It then like went silent on us, I was trying to see in the thick brush to get a visual...

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Delta County Michigan (Class B) BFRO

Deer hunter reports possible ongoing activity on his family's property near Bark River

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November 2013

Delta County Michigan (Class B) BFRO

Possible nighttime sighting by a couple in separate vehicles outside Escanaba

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January 2013

Delta County Michigan (Class B) BFRO

Possible sighting by a motorist avoiding deer west of Escanaba

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October 2005

Delta County Michigan (Class B) BFRO

Possible early evening sighting at a cemetery outside Escanaba

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July 2001

Lane County Oregon (Class A) BFRO

Late night sighting by family along Hwy 126, near McKenzie Bridge

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March 1977

Ferry County Washington (Class A) BFRO

Motorist has afternoon sighting on Sherman Creek Pass

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September 2013

Pike County Illinois (Class A) BFRO

Hunter has sighting from his deer stand near Detroit

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November 2007

Franklin County Ohio (Class A) BFRO

Saturday morning sighting by a motorist on William's Road

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June 1997

Marinette County Wisconsin (Class A) BFRO

Memory told of a sighting by a father and two sons grouse hunting at dawn near Pembine

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October 1979

Matagorda County Texas (Class A) BFRO

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January 1982

Siskiyou County California (Class A) BFRO

Sighting by a Family on the Banks of the Klamath River near Hornbrook

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August 1998

Hernando County Florida (Class A) BFRO

Man has brief encounter near lake

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January 1980