Southeast Michigan
INGHAM COUNTY REPORTS
Ingham Co 1978 – Moaning/Howling in Middle of Nite, Bigfoot Chased Thru Orchard Near Dansville

Date Received  13 Apr 2006 From: L B

I remember the event clearly (It was Sept of 1978, or perhaps early Oct.) because  I was 9 months pregnant and not sleeping  well due to the discomfort of carrying a 10 lb son.

I heard a very weird moaning/howling in the woods across the road from us in the middle of the night. During the middle of the night I heard a very strange, moaning howl.  It started out low and wound up to a higher pitch – it was a LONG howl – perhaps lasting over 1 minute.  I have heard owls, coyotes, dogs, etc – this was completely different and sounded like it was coming from a rain barrel. For some odd reason I thought a horse was caught in the fence – altho this howl sounded NOTHING like a horse!  Anyway, I went out the door and headed to the coral – I don’t know how I expected to untangle a thrashing horse from a fence when I was over 9 months pregnant! I actually went into the yard to investigate, thinking one of our horses had gotten caught in a fence.

There was a full moon that night, and halfway to the coral I could see that the horses were fine.  They were standing in the middle of the coral, shoulder to shoulder, with their heads towards the woods across the road, and their ears all pointed in that direction also. They didn’t seem upset, just very vigilant. That’s when I got a little scared!  I didn’t stick around to watch very long! Got scared when I saw the horses were fine, and ran for the house. I hustled right back in the house, scared.  I went back in the house and closed and locked all the doors and windows. It was a warm enough night to have windows open, and in 1978 we almost never locked our doors.  I woke my husband and told him about the howl, but he just turned over and went back to sleep.

Just a few days later, the Ingham County News came out, and the headline was “BIGFOOT SIGHTED IN DANSVILLE”.  The newspaper ran an article about a bigfoot sighting near Dansville, just a few days earlier (the night I heard the moaning). The story I remember in the News said  the creature was sighted in an orchard at M36 and Walker Rd by a deputy sheriff and two other men, who chased it thru an orchard near Walker road, which is 3 miles from my house They mentioned the howling and also the horrible smell associated with the sighting. I did not smell anything.  As I recall, a couple of days later, the creature was again sighted again near Williamston, where it was said to have destroyed  someone’s chicken coop and killed several chickens.  Then – never sighted again that I know of.  I did find another article about continued hunts for bigfoot taking place by local citizens.

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Ingham Co Late 1970’s – “Thing” Seen Crossing M36 Near Dansville

Date: 19 Aug 2008     From: Anonymous

It was in the late 70s I think or maybe the early 80s when a couple of locals of Dansville saw the thing crossing M36 not far out of town. The first place they went to tell of this was the Wooden Nickle. Then the following spring we had a Bigfoot race on May 25, and have had one race that is every year after that. I know the dog I had then would not go into one part of the Dansville state game area for a couple of years.

I am relaying an encounter in Kent county Michigan. I did speak to the witness and she sounded credible, not someone just looking for attention. The one remarkable thing that she included is that it sounds like she may have been zapped by this creature. When I spoke to her about it she thinks that she was observing a juvenile Bigfoot bit was being zapped by an adult nearby. She then went to say that someone had told her it was fortunate that she did not make any advances towards this juvenile creature because the adult , if it was nearby, might have taken this as a threat to it’s youngster.

Here is her story.

 

 

It was a cool sunny Spring/Summer morning, I know it was that time of year because if it was full blown summer i wouldn’t have been sitting outside due to the heat.

I was talking on the phone W/my friend Gail, she was talking so I wasn’t making a sound. There was a slab of concrete down in front of me, where we’d put scraps of food, popcorn, bread, produce, all kinds of left overs for the Wildlife to eat.

We had a lot of different Wildlife that came to R slab to eat, we had ~ Wild Turkeys, Muskrats, Turtles, Ducks, Squirrls, Geese, Raccoons, Opossums, Ground Hogs, all different kinds of wild birds. & now We know we had Sasquatches as well.

Anyway as I was sitting there talking to my friend, I was watching all the critter’s that had come to eat,. out of the cornor of my eye of my eye I saw this flash of beautiful Blonde hair bounding to the slab, @ first I thought it was an Afghan dog, because it’s hair was smooth as silk & 6/7 inches long, it looked like someone had just brushed it’s hair there was a gentle breeze blowing, so it’s hair blew gracefully in the breeze.

Once it got down to the feeding station, it was on all 4’s I could hear this grunting sound like a pig eatting, By now I was talking to Gail & I said Ur not going to believe what I’m seeing, I wasn’t sure what it was but I started explaining this creature to her. He had black or very dark brown face, hands & feet, they looked like wrinkled leather. his nose was turned up a little but yet it was kind of smashed into his face like a monkey. his eyes were black. I say He because I didn’t see any female parts, nor did I see any male parts either, so I just figured it was a male.

As I looked @ it I felt like I was seeing a Disney Character, I felt utopia, mesmerized, almost like I was floating, I felt kind of sick inside because I couldn’t wrap my mind around what I was seeing. {By now I had told Gail that I’d call her back later} I was still in my chair trying to comprehend all that was happening, the next thing I knew this thing stood up on its back legs, it was 3/4 ft tall, @ the time I was 5 ft. so it was almost as tall as I was, or maybe he was, it was hard to judge everything as things were now moving fast & out of sorts, he walked up this small hill we had in R back yard on 2 feet like a Human..

By now I was shaking but I wanted to get a better look @ this thing, so I stood up but stayed by my chair. I felt kind of dizzy & wobbly rellay out of sorts.

When I stood up this creature dropped down on all 4’s & took off like a road runner, he moved faster then any animal I’d ever seen move before. {It never occured to me that where a young 1 is there it’s Mother or a watcher is also, until my Friend Dave Groves was talking to me about it years later & he said its a good thing U didn’t make a move towards him. You see I didn’t even think about it being a Sasquatch until we had moved away.} 7 1/2 years later & I started putting it all together.

I ran towards the house out of fear & I wanted to get my Camera in case this thing came back. I went out there long enough to take Photo’s of the yard, & then I ran as fast as I could to get back into the house. I locked the doors  scared that this thing what ever it was would come after me it could have come from a UFO for all I knew.. I sat & shook & cried until Tim {My Husband} came home about 45mins/1 hr later. I was still shook up when he came in & asked me what had happened.

Seeing this creature changed my life totally, I used to go out & work in the yard from the rising of the sun until it was dark out & Tim would have to come & ask me if I wasn’t going to come in. After this encounter happened I wouldn’t go out in the yard unless Tim came out W/me. He found this to be very odd behavior from what I was like before. He said don’t be silly, I said I’m not being silly, U’d be afraid if U saw this thing just like I did and am, he’d just shake his head, he believe that I saw something, but he didn’t understand the impact that it made on my life.

I tried to explain what it was I saw & he said it was just a Ground Hog,  I said does a Ground Hog walk erect on it hind feet & stand almost as tall as I am, he said Nope. I said I rest my case. I named this thing the Nebster, where I came up W/the name I’ll never know but I had to name it something so Tim would know what I was talking about.

I tried to go back where I saw him run to, it was in a grove of tall trees & low bushes, but there was to much Poison Ivy back there so I stopped going back any further.

We didn’t live in that trailer much longer after that because it had Black Mold in it, the owner before us vented the dryer under the house instead of outside.

If U Google Earth that address, U’ll see where R house used to sit, there’s a new Trailer there now, But You’ll see to the left of that trailer the Grove of trees I’m talking about & to the right there is the pond & a creek that is lined on both sides W/tall trees. as You head South You’ll run into the Hwy & You’ll see that the creek branches off & goes to the East & to the West & there R trees that line the creek both ways. I have Photo’s of the back yard & You can see how very close I was to the Nebster. maybe 10/15 ft. from it.

I wrote a report before this 1 but as I’ve read it, I see where I had left a few things out & had some mispelled words, so I’ve re-written my report. I also have Multiple Sclerosis & sometime I don’t remember to add some vital parts.

We’ve since moved out to Zeeland Mi. we’ve had encounters here as well & now I know what it is that is leaving foot prints in the snow.

Although the sun had melted the tracks somewhat, U can still see the 5 toes.

We also found a strange foot print under R carport  about 1 year ago {2017} & had an expert look @ the print & he say’s it’s a Dogman’s print, much to my dismay. I’d rather face  SASQUATCH then a DOGMAN any day of the week.

I’m willing to talk to anyone that wants to know anything else, U have my Email @ the top of the page, so feel free to contact me.

Thank You~
Adele Hayes

This encounter took place around 2011 by a bow hunter, as told to me via a town hall meeting. This bow hunter , ( I do not have permission to reveal his name) was out hunting one fall day in the Allegan state game area near Swan creek. He parked his car at a DNR parking area around 2:30 in the afternoon near Swan creek. The day was  over cast, and he is wearing his full camouflage outfit when he notices  at the end of the road, maybe 1000 feet or so, he saw  what looked like to him a bear at the end of this two track. This figure, bear, was kind of hidden within the shadows of the woods. He presumed  this figure felt like  it was well hidden among the trees, and shadows. So not thinking much of this he continues his walk and checks out a potential place to hunt from in the meadows and creek area.

After awhile he notices that the bear is gone, and does not think much more about it until he hears twigs, and branches breaking behind him.  Then at one point  this animal starts talking, or mimicking talking,  in a language that he does not recognize or understands. And this creature goes through this procedure at least two more times that afternoon with the last time around 5:30 pm.He thought this was very odd. Are there other hunters in the area talking to each other? Who, or what is talking to him?  This thing is making a gurgling sound as well as dog barks, then eventually a loud howl. So he tries to process what is going on around him, and thinking this is very weird!. Around  5:55 Pm, he knocks an arrow to ready himself for his hunt in case a deer shows up when he hears a long drawn out howl, going from a low to high pitch, which as he said was very unnerving. When he gets home he googles Bigfoot sightings in Michigan. He then finds out that another  hunter in the Allegan state game area, and Swan creek , back in 2000  previously was howled and barked at  then eventually this thing chased this other hunter out of this area. Much like what had happened to this bow hunter.

The description this bow hunter gave was that this creature  had pure black hair, and well muscled and defined. He said it looked like a football player only much bigger. He measured the tree he saw it next to and it is estimated that this creature stood  around 7 and one half feet tall.

This bow hunter feels that this creature, or creatures was protecting it’s area and did not like humans encroaching on it’s land.