Search Reports
Counties in Michigan with reports
Alcona Alger Allegan Alpena Arenac Baraga Barry Benzie Berrien Calhoun Cass Charlevoix Cheboygan Chippewa Crawford Delta Dickinson Gladwin Gogebic Grand Traverse Gratiot Hillsdale Huron Ingham Ionia Iosco Iron Isabella Jackson Kalamazoo Kalkaska Kent Keweenaw Lake Leelanau Lenawee Livingston Luce Mackinac Manistee Marquette Mason Mecosta Menominee Midland Missaukee Monroe Montcalm Montmorency Muskegon Oceana Ogemaw Ontonagon Osceola Oscoda Otsego Ottawa Presque Isle Roscommon Sanilac Schoolcraft St. Clair Tuscola Van Buren Washtenaw Wayne Wexford
Monroe County Michigan (Class A) BFRO
Man recalls close range daylight sighting while squirrel hunting near Monroe
It was late September 1980, mid-morning on a Saturday with sunny, calm and cool weather. Perfect for squirrel hunting, so off I went, not telling anyone where I was going (I had a number of different ...
September 1980
Roscommon County Michigan (Class A) BFRO
Two firefighters have near collision with animal north of Houghton Lake.
A friend and myself were coming home from a party, about 10:30 at night. We were in his Chevy van. Something ran out in front of us. He slammed on his brakes and this large animal on 2 legs bent at th...
August 1980
Alpena County Michigan (Class B) BFRO
Fisherman recalls being startled by late night encounter on Fletcher Pond near Hillman
It was the summer of 1980 June or July a full moon night. At "Fletchers Pond" 25 west of Alpena MI. and about 10 miles east of Hillman MI. off highway 32. Myself and a friend (Adam) decided to go fish...
June 1980
Benzie County Michigan (Class A) BFRO
Near Bendon, woman and daughter recall their daylight sighting from automobile
My mom and I were driving home to Interlochen from a friend's house. It was late afternoon / early evening. We were on Reynolds Road. This would have been in the mid 80's and I would have been in my m...
January 1980
Calhoun County Michigan (Class A) BFRO
Sighting by two teenagers in woods near Albion
This was October just after my birthday. It was getting chilly in the late afternoon. My friend and I were bored so we decided to go walking around in the woods adjacent to my home which was a one roo...
October 1979
Kent County Michigan (Class B) BFRO
Bow hunter remembers possible intimidation behavior near Grand Rapids
This incident took place over 30 years ago (1979 or 1980) on the western side of the state, near Grand Rapids. It was the opening of archery deer season ( that would make it Oct?) and I and two other ...
October 1979
Mackinac County Michigan (Class A) BFRO
Motorist describes nighttime sighting/encounter in headlights on US-2, west of St. Ignace
I saw what I feel was Big Foot, in 1979. I was traveling home from Minot AFB, North Dakota, in the early summer of 1979 with my family, on leave. We were headed for upstate New York. It was approxim...
June 1979
Iosco County Michigan (Class A) BFRO
Couple sees 7-8' tall "ape-like creature" in Tuttle Marsh
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...
January 1979
Kalamazoo County Michigan (Class A) BFRO
Multiple childhood interactions recalled by a woman who grew up near Kalamazoo
I have several encounters with Sasquatch. I also believe it was the same one both times although the encounters were 10 years apart. The first encounter was when I was in 2nd grade. I was born in 1963...
January 1979
Muskegon County Michigan (Class B) BFRO
Avid hiker recalls years of experience living in an area with what local people called the "Shadow People" near Montague
I grew up in lower MI, right on the border of Muskegon and Oceana counties about one mile off the lake. I believed there was a bigfoot in that area. I saw on one walk an animal of tall stature, peakin...
January 1979
Kent County Michigan (Class A) BFRO
Man recalls spotting a sasquatch watching him while hunting deer north of Grand Rapids
This occurred in western Michigan November of 1978, when I was about 13 years old. I lived in Cedar Springs, Mi on Myers Lake Road near 17 mile rd. The land today is a golf course. At the time, this w...
November 1978
Schoolcraft County Michigan (Class A) BFRO
Woman wakes to find sasquatch staring at her son while in her car
My sighting occurred over twenty years ago, in the fall of 1978, so I don't know if this will be helpful to anyone or not. I was driving on highway U.S. 2 across Michigan's Upper Peninsula, which skir...
September 1978
Lenawee County Michigan (Class A) BFRO
Woman recalls being paralyzed by fear during childhood sighting near Lake Hudson State Park
I have been watching your show and this reminded me of something I saw when I was around 10 years old. I can remember almost every detail like it just happened. I am now 43 and do not live there anymo...
July 1978
Lenawee County Michigan (Class A) BFRO
Large Hairy Arm Knocks in Window Screen
One night, while lying in bed reading a book, the screen from my window came flying in and landed in the middle of my bedroom floor. As I turned to see what had happened, I saw a large hairy arm reach...
January 1978
Livingston County Michigan (Class A) BFRO
Juvenile Bigfoot crosses road and clears a fence near Fowlerville
Livingston county, Michigan, approximately 1978, east of Fowlerville on Allen road, just east of Hogback road. I was about 14 years old and I was with my older sister who was 16. It was early evening ...
January 1978
Schoolcraft County Michigan (Class A) BFRO
Nighttime sighting by Air Force personnel near Seney National Wildlife Refuge
When I was stationed in the U.P.of Michigan's K.I Sawyer air force base,I travelled sometimes to see my family in the Detroit area.This was 1977-1978.A friend and I were driving on M-28,east of Munisi...
January 1978
Gladwin County Michigan (Class B) BFRO
Memory told of a possible nighttime sighting by a teenager snowmobiling south of Houghton Lake
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 some...
December 1977
Kalkaska County Michigan (Class A) BFRO
Nighttime sighting remembered while driving southeast of Kalkaska
We were traveling home, from Kalkaska, about dusk. When we came around a bend and our head lights hit an animals eyes glowing back, the driver being an avid hunter, backed up to inquire. A smaller tha...
October 1977
Midland County Michigan (Class A) BFRO
Witness and cousin see "hairy brown man-like creature" watching them
September 1977, I was ten years old. My Aunt, my cousin and myself were out in the woods behind my Grandmas house. We had been working on building a cabin all summer, just for fun. We would often pack...
September 1977
Livingston County Michigan (Class A) BFRO
ape-like creature seen by witnesses.
I was 8 years old, and very much a nature buff (when I was 10, I was helping grad students at the University of Michigan identify rare birds.) I was walking east along the RR tracks with my friend, wh...
January 1976
Oceana County Michigan (Class B) BFRO
Long term possible Sasquatch interactions on a farm near New Era beginning in the mid 1970's
January 28, 2016 email received by the BFRO: Can someone in your organization please put me in touch with Jim Sherman. I need to have a conversation with him about bigfoots in West Michigan. T...
January 1976
Isabella County Michigan (Class A) BFRO
Cub Scouts see two different colored creatures
Two creatures. . .walked upright. Hairy from head to toe. One on the east side of the road in the woods, the other in the field on the west side of the road. I was eight years old and in Cub Scouts. F...
November 1974
Calhoun County Michigan (Class A) BFRO
Motorist has nighttime sighting of animal near Marshall
I am an X-ray repair man. I traveled between Kalamazoo, Battlecreek, Coldwater and Niles Michigan. Most of my work was at night. I usally took back roads as it was faster than driving out of the way t...
September 1974
Washtenaw County Michigan (Class B) BFRO
Man recalls family experiencing possible intimidation near Ann Arbor
In late July of 1974, my father, mother, and I decided to take our German Shepherd on an early evening nature walk in the woods by our house. This area is southeast of the intersection of Packard and ...
July 1974
Berrien County Michigan (Class B) BFRO
Observer hears scream changing to low "demonic" chuckle
I was around 12 years old and watching my 4 younger brothers one evening while my parents went out for a few drinks when I heard something that scared me like nothing else I have ever experienced befo...
January 1974