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Michigan has a long history of strange encounters, and tonight’s episode of UNEXPLAINED MICHIGAN brings together some of the most disturbing reports from the Great Lakes State.
In this episode, Lon Strickler examines eyewitness accounts involving Michigan Dogman encounters, a terrifying shoreline incident in the Upper Peninsula, a Sasquatch-like scream near Big Rapids, a strange mimicking voice near South Haven, black-clad operatives near the Lake Michigan shoreline, triangular UFO sightings between Oxford and Lapeer, a possible Mothman-type winged humanoid in Oakland County, a bizarre creature reported near Merrill, and a mysterious suburban Detroit encounter involving two women who may not have been human.
These reports come from hunters, outdoorsmen, families, truck drivers, and ordinary witnesses who experienced something they still cannot explain.
From dark forests and lonely highways to the Lake Michigan shoreline, this is a deep dive into the unexplained side of Michigan.
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>> Mhm.
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>> Hey folks, welcome to Phantoms &
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Monsters Radio.
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Now, Michigan has always carried a
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strange weight. It's a state of deep
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forest,
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dark water,
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isolated roads, old mining country,
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inland farms, Great Lake shorelines, and
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rural communities where the woods
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can still
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press close enough to make a person feel
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watched.
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Now, for many people, Michigan means
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lake cabins, hunting land, fishing
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trips, late-night highways, and quiet
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towns.
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But, for others, it has become the
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setting for something much harder to
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explain.
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So, tonight, we're going to move through
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the Upper Peninsula, the the Lake
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Michigan shoreline, the woods near Big
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Rapids, and the backroads of Oakland
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County, rural towns, isolated highways,
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and suburban neighborhoods where
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witnesses describe dogman encounters,
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Sasquatch activity,
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strange mimicking voices, black-clad
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operatives, triangular craft, winged
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humanoids, bizarre entities, and
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possible non-human visitors hiding in
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plain sight.
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Uh these are not polished campfire
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stories. Many of these accounts come
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from outdoorsmen, hunters, truck
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drivers, families, and normal ordinary
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people who were not looking for the
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unexplained.
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But, something found them. So, this is
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Unexplained Michigan.
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Now, our first report comes from
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Michigan's Upper Peninsula, where a
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night fishing trip turned into something
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these men apparently never recovered
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from.
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The account was passed along by someone
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who heard it many years ago.
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Uh
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according to the witness, the incident
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involved four men from Upper Peninsula,
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all avid
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outdoorsmen. They were described as big,
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rugged, lumberjack type men who had
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spent most of their lives outdoors,
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fishing, hunting, camping, and living
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close to the land.
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So, one night their family stayed behind
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at camp while the men took a johnboat
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out to catch fish for the next day's
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meal.
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They traveled some distance away from
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the camp before pulling up along a
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shoreline.
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It was pitch dark as they began setting
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up chairs, lights, and fishing gear.
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And as they worked, they began hearing
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something moving back and forth along
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the tree line behind them.
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Now, at first they were cautious, but
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not afraid. They had spent their lives
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in the outdoors and were familiar with
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predators.
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They shined their lights
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towards the sound and caught the red
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shine of eyes watching them from the
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darkness.
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They kept setting up.
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But then, from another part of the tree
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line, they heard growling.
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Now, when they turned their lights that
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way, they saw another pair of red eyes.
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Now, the mood changed. The men began
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packing up. One of them stayed standing,
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keeping watch with the light,
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while the others gathered the gear. Both
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unseen animals began growling and
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huffing from separate positions in the
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woods.
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Then, a massive rock rock came flying
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over their heads and crashed into the
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water.
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Now, at that point, the men stopped
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treating the situation like normal
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wildlife encounter. They began throwing
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their gear into the boat as fast as they
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could.
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They had only gotten about half their
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equipment loaded when one man screamed
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and pointed toward the tree line.
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There, moving toward them was a massive,
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upright creature.
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It was described as inhumanly
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tall,
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covered in hair, powerfully built, and
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broad through the shoulders.
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Its face looked more wolf-like than
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human.
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The creature was screaming at them as it
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advanced.
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The men abandoned the rest of the gear
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and shoved the boat into the water.
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>> [sighs]
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>> When they were far enough out, they
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turned their lights back toward shore,
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and in the beams they could see two
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large shapes standing there, both
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similar in height and form.
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Now, according to the person who heard
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the story, the men who told it were
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sobbing and struggling to speak.
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These were not men easily frightened. Uh
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they were raised in the outdoors. They
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hunted, fished, and camped, and you
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know, lived in the wild country. But
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after this encounter,
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they reportedly moved away from the
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rural areas into the suburbs or cities.
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Their homes no longer felt safe. They
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never went camping again.
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Now, the person who passed along the
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account said it was an emotional state
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of the men that made the story
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believable.
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They were shaking. They were crying.
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They were trying to describe something
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that had broken their sense of safety in
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the woods.
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Now, whether these creatures were
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animals, dog men, misidentified bears,
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or something else entirely,
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the result was the same. Four
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experienced outdoorsmen went out that
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night believing they understood the
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Michigan wilderness.
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They came back knowing they didn't.
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Now, Michigan dog man reports often
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share a recurring theme. The witness is
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not simply frightened by the creature's
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appearance.
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They describe a deeper reaction, a
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sudden realization that whatever
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is looking back at them is not acting
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like a normal animal.
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But this next case shifts into a
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different type of fear. No glowing eye.
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Eyes. No massive creature stepping from
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the woods.
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Just a voice.
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A familiar voice calling from the wrong
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place.
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Now this report came from a small rural
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town just outside of South Haven,
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Michigan during the late summer of 2022.
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The witness had traveled there with
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family for a cousin's wedding.
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They rented a small house in the wooded
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area near the small lake.
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Now from the moment they got out of the
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car, the witness felt uneasy.
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They described it simply, something felt
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off.
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Now at first they dismissed it feeling
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as fatigue or anxiety.
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But that night while smoking outside
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with their father around 11:00 p.m.,
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they both noticed how strange everything
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had sounded.
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The trees were cracking loudly.
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There were animals noises in the dark.
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Nothing that could be called impossible
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exactly, but everything sounded slightly
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wrong.
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Now the next morning the witness's
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father said he had gone outside around
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2:00 2:00 a.m. for a cigarette and heard
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what sounded like someone banging on the
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metal siding nearby.
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It seemed to come from just next door,
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but there were no footsteps before or
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after the noise.
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They laughed it off.
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The second night was different.
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Sometime between 11:00 p.m. and
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midnight, the witness went outside for a
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final cigarette.
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Their grandparents were asleep. Their
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father had gone to bed and was watching
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television.
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The witness sat on the outside steps at
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the back of the house facing the yard.
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Then they heard someone shout their
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name.
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It was abrupt, loud, and very close.
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It sounded exactly like their father,
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but the voice seemed to come from the
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front of the house as though he was
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standing on the porch calling toward
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them.
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The witness immediately knew something
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was wrong. They had not heard the front
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door open or close. They quickly went
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back inside.
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And their father was asleep in bed.
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There was no way he could have gone
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outside, called their name, returned
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inside, and fallen asleep in the short
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time it took for them to check.
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And when the witness woke him and asked
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if he had been outside yelling, he was
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confused and said, "Of course not."
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So, the witness tried to sleep, but
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could not get the sound out of his head.
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They stayed awake for hours, even
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considering leaving the rental and
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finding a hotel.
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Now, the next morning, they were ready
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to leave.
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As soon as they got out of town, the
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uneasy feeling disappeared.
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Now, later, when the witness told a
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co-worker about the incident, the
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co-worker reacted strongly and said that
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in Appalachian cryptid lore,
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there are stories of of beings that
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mimic the voices of people close to you
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in order to draw your attention.
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But, this happened in Michigan.
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The witness was left wondering whether
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anyone else had experienced something
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similar.
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There was no visual contact, no creature
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in the yard, no figure at the door.
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Only a familiar voice calling from the
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wrong direction, at the wrong time, and
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from someone who could not have been
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there.
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Now, mimicry reports are unsettling
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because they do not rely on a dramatic
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sighting.
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They attack the witness's senses of
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trust,
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and a familiar voice becomes bait.
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In the next account, the witness is a
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hunter who had spent years dismissing
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strange activity on one large property.
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Tree knocks, foul odors, stones moving
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through the trees.
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Each incident was explained away.
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Until one night, whatever was out there
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decided to make itself impossible to
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ignore.
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Now, this report comes from a 900-plus
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acre farm and ranch located about 10 to
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15 minutes outside Big Rapids, Michigan.
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The witness is an experienced archery
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hunter who had spent many years scouting
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and hunting the property.
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He already believed Sasquatch existed,
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but he did not want to believe he was
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dealing with one on the land he hunted.
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So, over time certain areas of the
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property began to make him
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uncomfortable.
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While scouting, he would sometimes feel
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his sixth sense go into overdrive. He
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dismissed it as imagination.
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Now, from his stand he would
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occasionally hear loud tree knocks from
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different points around him.
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Again, he dismissed them as natural
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noises, perhaps limbs hitting or
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breaking.
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But then there were the smells.
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At times rank stagnant odors would
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overwhelm the area. He told himself it
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was probably just a black bear.
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On one occasion while walking to his
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stand he heard what sounded like a rock
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skipping through the treetops striking
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high branches before falling to the
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ground.
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He looked, but saw nothing.
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Then it happened again, but closer.
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This time he watched a 2-3 in rock fall
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from the tree as it had just struck.
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He picked it up, stared upward, and
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wondered how squirrels could possibly
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carry a large a rock that large.
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Again, he dismissed it.
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But the final incident changed
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everything.
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One night he and his son were walking
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out of the woods after dark under the
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bright full moon.
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They did not need flashlights. They had
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about a half mile walk back to the
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vehicle along a bottom area below
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rolling hardwood hills and deep ravines.
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This was the same area where he had
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experienced the knocks, thrown rocks,
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and foul smells.
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They reached the vehicle and began
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unloading their gear.
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The witness started the engine while
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still standing outside the car to
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provide some light.
13:26
Then while standing standing near the
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vehicle, he heard what he first thought
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was his son turning up the radio as loud
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as it could go.
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He turned and looked at his son.
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His son had not entered the car.
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He was standing on the other side of the
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vehicle, frozen, mouth open, fear in his
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eyes.
13:45
The sound was not the radio.
13:47
It was a scream or bellow coming from
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the bottom that they had just walked out
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of minutes later.
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The sound lasted 10 to 15 seconds and
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was loud as any concert the witness had
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ever attended.
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Now, both men were large, armed, and
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experienced outdoorsmen. The father was
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6-ft tall, 230 230 lb. His son was 6-ft
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2, about 260.
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They had bows, knives,
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and the witness carried a .45
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Springfield XDS.
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But, none of that mattered.
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They jumped into the vehicle, slammed
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the door, and tore out of there as fast
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as they could.
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The witness joked that they left like
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the Duke boys being chased by Rosco and
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Boss Hogg.
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Boss Hogg. With dirt flying from the
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tires all the way to the paved road.
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>> [sighs]
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>> They talked about the encounter all the
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way home.
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They had just spent hundreds of hours in
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the woods and hunted nearly everything
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in the area, but they had never heard a
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vocalization like that before.
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The witness say they rarely hunt that
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property now and never alone.
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The last time he sat in that area during
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the rifle season, he heard a large tree
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fall in the windless afternoon.
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He immediately retreated to the truck
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and called it quits for the day.
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Whatever was on that property did not
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need to show itself.
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It only had to make a sound,
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and that was enough.
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Now, from Big Rapids, we move west
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towards Lake Michigan shoreline near
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Muskegon.
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This next report enters a different
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category, one that blends UFO sightings,
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surveillance-like behavior, strange men
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in black clothing, and a shoreline
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operation that the witnesses were told
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were a matter of national security.
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Now, whether that explanation was true
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is another question entirely.
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The next witness lives near Muskegon,
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Michigan, close to Lake Michigan
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shoreline.
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The family had moved there in 2012, and
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over the years several neighbors, along
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with members of the witness's family,
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had seen strange lights over the lake.
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Now, in the weeks leading up to the main
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incident, the witness noticed strings of
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red and white lights moving north over
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the water on several different nights.
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The lights were unusual enough that the
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witness paid close attention.
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A neighbor across the street eventually
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contacted a UFO group after seeing
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similar lights.
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Later, that neighbor told the witness's
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son that 2 days after filing his online
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report, he had seen strange people in
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the backyard late at night.
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He spotted them from his bedroom window.
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And when he went outside to confront
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them, they were gone.
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Now, soon afterward, on two consecutive
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nights, the witness and his son saw
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bright spotlights shining from the
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shoreline.
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Between their house and the lake were a
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field, a narrow road, and a berm.
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From where they stood, the lights
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appeared to be mounted on the vehicles.
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Now, both times the activity happened
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around 11:00 p.m. and lasted only a few
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minutes.
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But then a few days later, the witness
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was working in his back garden when a
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man dressed in black military-style
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clothing came to the back gate and
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walked directly toward him.
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Everything about him was black except
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for yellow-tinted glasses.
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He wore a plain black cap with no
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insignia.
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The man approached without expression
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and asked whether the witness had
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noticed lights over the lake.
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The witness told him what he had seen
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and gave every detail he could remember.
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The man wrote everything in his small
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notebook, speaking very little except to
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ask, "Anything else?"
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Then the man asked whether the witness
17:31
had reported the sightings.
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The witness said the neighbor across the
17:34
street had contacted a UFO group.
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The man asked, "But did you contact
17:39
anyone?" The witness said, "No."
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Then he asked the man what group he was
17:44
with. The man stared for a moment and
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said, "Thank you for cooperating."
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That answer disturbed the witness.
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His intuition told him something wasn't
17:53
right.
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Now, after that, the lights returned
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near the shoreline. This time, the
17:58
witness decided to investigate.
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His 17-year-old son went with him.
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They crossed the yard, moved through the
18:06
field, and went over the berm toward the
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lake.
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>> [snorts]
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>> About 100 yd south along the shoreline,
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they saw five black Land Rover type
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vehicles parked near the beach.
18:17
At least a dozen men in black clothing
18:20
were moving around the area.
18:22
And as soon as one of the men saw them,
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he shouted, "There!"
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and ran toward them. He carried a
18:28
light-colored
18:29
baton about 3 ft long with a yellow
18:32
light at the end.
18:35
Two other men ran toward them as well.
18:38
The man with the baton yelled, "You must
18:40
leave at once. This is national security
18:42
operation."
18:44
Witness's son asked who they were. No
18:47
one answered.
18:48
Another man, apparently in charge, told
18:50
them, "You must leave the area
18:51
immediately. Go back to your home.
18:54
A representative will come to you and
18:55
contact you in a day or two."
18:58
Well, the witness and his son left
18:59
immediately.
19:01
No one ever contacted them.
19:03
Now, later, they returned to the
19:05
shoreline and searched the area. Nothing
19:07
was left behind.
19:09
The witness still believes the men may
19:11
have recovered something important
19:12
because of how they reacted when they
19:14
were discovered.
19:16
Now, the official-sounding phrase
19:17
"national security operation" might
19:19
explain everything.
19:21
Or, it just might explain nothing.
19:26
Now, UFO accounts along Great Lakes are
19:29
not unusual. Lake Michigan, in
19:30
particular, has produced decades of
19:33
strange light reports,
19:35
aerial anomalies, and alleged
19:36
encounters.
19:38
But, the next account moves away from
19:40
the shoreline and onto the rural road
19:42
between Oxford and Lapeer.
19:44
It begins with a triangular craft
19:46
hovering low over a field.
19:49
But, then it becomes something much
19:51
stranger.
19:54
In late August 1994, the witness is
19:57
riding home with their mother and a
20:00
close friend after a weekly Friday night
20:02
bowling session.
20:04
Now, as they approached the rural area
20:06
between Oxford and Lapeer, Michigan, the
20:09
witness noticed an extremely bright
20:10
light in the field on the east side of
20:12
the road. Now, at first, they thought
20:14
there might be a football game or some
20:16
kind of event happening nearby.
20:19
But, then they realized where they were.
20:22
There should have been not have been
20:23
anything there.
20:25
The field was illuminated for at least
20:27
100 yd.
20:28
Then, the witness saw the source.
20:31
A large triangular object was hovering
20:33
silently above the ground.
20:35
It had three bright white lights, one on
20:38
each point of the triangle, and in the
20:40
center was a dome emitting a red
20:42
laser-like light.
20:44
The craft was low, perhaps only 100 ft
20:47
above the ground.
20:49
The witness could see structural details
20:51
underneath it, including what looked
20:53
like metal beams.
20:57
They were so memor- mesmerized that they
21:00
remained silent for a moment. Then, they
21:02
realized no one else in the car seemed
21:04
to be looking. They shouted, "Hey, look
21:06
over there. What is that?"
21:08
There was no response.
21:11
The mother and friend appeared to be in
21:12
some kind of trance.
21:15
The witness shoved the friend and found
21:17
him stiff as a board.
21:19
The mother, who was driving, remained
21:21
focused straight ahead.
21:23
Then the witness realized the car was
21:25
stopped in the road.
21:27
There were no other vehicles around.
21:30
The witness looked back at the object.
21:32
It began to turn sideways like a fighter
21:34
jet banking in the air.
21:37
It hovered on its side for a few seconds
21:39
and shot away at incredible speed,
21:41
shrinking to a dot on the horizon.
21:44
Now, at that moment, the mother and the
21:45
friend seemed to snap out of their
21:47
condition. They began asking, "Where?
21:49
Where?"
21:51
The witness pointed toward the western
21:52
horizon, but the others had missed it.
21:55
Now, the incident did not end there.
21:58
The following Friday, on the way home
21:59
from bowling, the witness saw the
22:01
triangular object again. This time, it
22:03
was higher in the sky and appeared to be
22:04
following them.
22:07
Now, according to the witness, this
22:08
continued for 3 weeks in a row.
22:11
Later, after one of the sightings, the
22:12
witness was sleeping at a neighbor's
22:14
house. Everyone was in the basement, and
22:17
the witness was closest to the stairs.
22:19
In the middle of the night, they woke to
22:22
a sound.
22:23
They saw a small, 3-ft being creeping
22:27
down the stairs.
22:28
Terrified, the witness yelled, "I see
22:31
you."
22:32
The being peeked through the stair
22:33
banisters, looking at the witness, then
22:36
ducked away and vanished.
22:39
Now, the witness described it as
22:40
matching the typical gray alien form.
22:43
Small stature,
22:45
large black eyes, and long arms.
22:48
A couple weeks later, while watching
22:50
television, the witness saw a segment on
22:52
Unsolved Mysteries about triangular UFO
22:55
sightings.
22:57
They connected what they had seen to the
22:59
other reports from from same period,
23:00
including references to the Belgian
23:03
Wave.
23:05
For the witness, the event became the
23:07
defining encounter of a lifetime marked
23:09
by multiple sightings.
23:11
The most disturbing part may not have
23:13
been the craft itself. It was that the
23:15
witness appeared to be the only person
23:17
in the car fully awake to it.
23:23
Now, from triangular craft and a
23:24
possible gray entity, we move to
23:26
southeastern Michigan in 2017.
23:30
The next report involves two witnesses,
23:32
a dark wooded road, a pair of red eyes,
23:34
and a figure that did not run into the
23:36
woods.
23:38
It went up.
23:41
Now, this report comes from Oakland
23:43
County, Michigan in mid-fall 2017.
23:48
The witness lived in a small town in
23:49
southeast Michigan and was attending a
23:51
high school at the time.
23:53
Their younger sister, who had a similar
23:55
early schedule,
23:57
drove them to the school each morning.
24:00
They had to leave before 6:00, traveling
24:03
about 15 minutes through the curving
24:05
wooded backroads.
24:07
Now, one morning, as they followed their
24:09
usual route, the witness noticed two
24:11
glowing red spots ahead, roughly 60 I
24:15
mean, roughly 600 to 2 800 ft away.
24:19
Now, at first, they assumed it might be
24:20
a deer's eyes reflecting light,
24:22
but something felt wrong.
24:25
The color did not seem right for a deer,
24:27
and as they got closer, the spacing and
24:29
height seemed wrong as well.
24:31
The eyes were too high for any animal
24:33
the witness could think of.
24:35
The figure itself was mostly a dark
24:37
silhouette.
24:39
Then, as the headlights came close
24:41
enough to illuminate it, the figure
24:43
launched into the sky.
24:45
The witness described it as taking off
24:47
like a bat out of hell.
24:50
Before it rose, the dark silhouette
24:52
expanded dramatically like a bird
24:54
spreading its wings.
24:55
Then, it disappeared over the tree line,
24:57
that's a tremendous speed.
25:00
The witness barely had time to process
25:02
what had happened.
25:04
Then he looked at their sister. Her face
25:07
showed the same shock.
25:09
The sister asked if the witness had just
25:11
seen it, too.
25:12
And both described the same thing.
25:15
Now, the witness later came across
25:17
reports of similar winged humanoids and
25:19
and noted that many were dated around
25:21
the same period. And over time, they
25:23
became more convinced that they had seen
25:25
something like a Mothman.
25:28
Now, the sighting was brief, but the
25:30
details are familiar to anyone who has
25:32
studied reports of winged humanoid
25:33
sightings. Red eyes, a dark upward
25:36
upright form,
25:37
wooded roads, early morning darkness,
25:39
sudden expansion of wings, and a rapid
25:41
vertical escape over the trees.
25:44
Now, Michigan is not
25:46
usually placed at the center of the
25:48
Mothman lore,
25:49
but this report suggests the phenomenon
25:52
may not care about state lines.
25:55
And we did get a lot of Mothman reports
25:58
from Michigan.
26:00
Um most of them were
26:03
not
26:05
exactly what we were looking for, but it
26:07
could have very well been a winged
26:09
humanoid or a Mothman.
26:11
And it happened around the same time as
26:13
the sightings across the lake in the
26:15
Chicago area.
26:19
Now, the next Michigan case is much
26:20
harder to classify. It does not neatly
26:23
fit Dogman, Sasquatch, Mothman, or the
26:25
classic alien encounter.
26:28
It involves a small creature seen by
26:30
multiple witnesses in and around
26:32
Merrill, Michigan.
26:34
A short, hair-covered thing with
26:36
backward-bent legs,
26:38
using insect-like eyes,
26:40
with huge insect-like eyes, and movement
26:43
that did not sound human or animal.
26:48
Now, this report comes from Merrill,
26:50
Michigan,
26:51
where the writer says multiple witnesses
26:53
in the small town have seen a creature
26:55
that does not match any known cryptid
26:58
they have researched.
27:01
The writer had not personally seen it,
27:03
but had spoken with three witnesses they
27:05
trusted strongly.
27:08
Now, the first witness was the writer's
27:10
uncle.
27:11
When he was younger, he often took night
27:13
walks through the neighboring woods. He
27:15
carried a dim flashlight that would
27:17
cover it with his hand as though as he
27:20
thought any anyone saw him.
27:24
He knew trespassing carried risk, but he
27:26
said the main thing that frightened him
27:28
were the raccoons and the opossums.
27:30
So, one morning
27:31
just before sunrise, he was leaving the
27:33
woods.
27:35
The sky was turning gray and the road
27:36
was becoming visible, but
27:39
the woods remained dark.
27:41
And as he crossed the road back toward
27:43
the house, he saw something a short
27:44
distance away.
27:46
It was only a few feet tall.
27:49
Had backward bent legs, large bulbous
27:52
insect-like eyes, and a body that
27:54
reminded him of a kangaroo-monkey
27:57
hybrid.
28:00
The creature was covered in thick hair
28:01
and had huge dark eyes.
28:04
It crossed the road in only two steps
28:07
despite being short.
28:09
Then disappeared into the woods the
28:11
witness had just exited.
28:14
The second account comes from a man who
28:15
is now deceased. He had once reported
28:18
seeing a small ape-like figure leap
28:20
almost to the tops of the trees a couple
28:22
miles from first
28:24
sighting location.
28:26
Unfortunately, there was no way to ask
28:28
follow-up questions.
28:30
And the third account came from Sylvia's
28:32
husband, a family friend.
28:34
Every 4th of July, Sylvia and her
28:36
husband would park a camper at the the
28:38
grandmother's yard and stay for a week
28:40
or two.
28:42
They had never heard the earlier
28:44
stories.
28:45
So, one evening Sylvia's husband had
28:47
been drinking beer with the
28:48
grandparents.
28:50
He walked over to a large tree beside a
28:52
rarely used road to relieve himself.
28:55
And as he stood there, he noticed the
28:56
same large black bug-like eyes staring
28:59
at him from the tree line up across the
29:01
road.
29:03
Now, as soon as he focused on it, the
29:05
creature backed into the brush and
29:06
disappeared.
29:09
Now, the writer and their uncle were
29:10
stunned when they heard this because the
29:12
description matched what the uncle had
29:15
seen.
29:17
The family eventually tried to narrow
29:19
down where the creature might be moving
29:21
or living based on the locations of the
29:24
sightings.
29:26
This is one of those reports that resist
29:28
easy classification. It contains
29:29
elements of small ape reports, leaping
29:32
humanoid reports,
29:35
uh goblin-like encounters, and strange
29:37
road-crossing cryptids.
29:40
But, the repeated description of the eye
29:41
is significant. Large, black, bug-like
29:44
eyes. Not reflective animal eyes, and
29:47
not red glowing eyes.
29:49
But, something staring back from the
29:50
tree line that witnesses immediately
29:52
recognized as wrong.
29:57
Now, our next account takes us away from
29:58
the woods and into suburban Detroit. At
30:01
first, it sounds ordinary.
30:03
A yard sale, two young women walking
30:05
through a neighborhood, and a homeowner
30:07
who notices something slightly unusual
30:10
about them.
30:12
But, then they walk toward a fence with
30:13
no exit. And somehow,
30:16
they appear on the other side.
30:20
So, on Saturday, October 24th, 2020, the
30:23
witness and his wife were holding a yard
30:25
sale in front of their garage in
30:26
suburban Detroit.
30:29
Their next-door neighbors were also
30:30
holding a sale.
30:32
So, around 1:00 p.m., the witnesses
30:34
noticed two young women coming down the
30:36
street toward them.
30:39
They appeared to be in their mid-20s and
30:41
did not live in the gated partially
30:44
fenced community.
30:47
The witness immediately sensed something
30:48
strange. The women were both attractive
30:51
and stylishly dressed, wearing what
30:53
appeared to be brand new clothes and
30:54
shoes.
30:56
One was about 5'9" with medium-length
30:58
blonde hair, the other about 5'7" with
31:00
long light hair.
31:02
They spent 10 to 15 minutes looking
31:04
around the sale.
31:07
The witness's wife offered them donuts,
31:09
which they refused. The shorter woman
31:11
accepted a small Snickers bar, but did
31:14
not eat it there.
31:16
Then the women left, and the witness
31:17
watched them.
31:19
Instead of returning the way they came,
31:21
the taller one raised her right arm and
31:23
pointed in the opposite direction as
31:25
though indicating, "Let's go that way."
31:29
The witness knew that direction led to a
31:31
dead end.
31:33
The sidewalk there led to a 7-ft metal
31:35
fence with spikes on top. There was no
31:38
gate, no opening, and no exit.
31:40
On the other side of the fence was a
31:42
public pathway leading toward St. Albans
31:44
Street.
31:46
The witness decided to follow and tell
31:49
them they could not go out get out that
31:50
way.
31:53
He was only about 10 seconds behind
31:54
them, and when he reached the area where
31:56
the sidewalk ended at the fence, the
31:58
women weren't there.
32:00
He expected to find them standing at the
32:02
fence or turning around. Instead, he saw
32:06
them on the other side of the fence
32:07
walking down the public path.
32:10
He immediately checked the fence. There
32:12
was no opening. The vertical bars were
32:13
only about 4 in apart, and the fence was
32:15
7-ft high with spikes at the top.
32:20
When he looked back toward the path, the
32:21
women were gone.
32:24
The witness concluded there was no
32:25
normal way they could have crossed that
32:27
fence in less than 10 seconds.
32:30
And in his own interpretation, he
32:32
wondered whether they were
32:33
extraterrestrial biological entities,
32:35
possibly Nordic-type beings
32:38
capable of dematerializing,
32:40
rematerializing, or passing through
32:41
solid barriers.
32:44
Now, that's the witnesses' conclusion,
32:46
not a proven explanation, but the
32:47
central mystery remains.
32:50
Two women walk toward a dead-end fence.
32:52
Seconds later, they're on the other
32:53
side,
32:54
and they vanish from view.
32:59
Now, our final report returns to to
33:01
Michigan dog dogman territory.
33:04
This time, the witness is a long-haul
33:06
truck driver stopped along a highway
33:08
near Reed City.
33:10
He sees a deer running from the tree
33:11
line and assumes a bear may be behind
33:14
it.
33:15
Then something appears at the passenger
33:17
window window of the truck.
33:20
So close that it reaches inside.
33:25
Now, the final account comes from the
33:27
long-haul truck driver who had an
33:29
encounter near Reed City, Michigan.
33:32
The story was passed along by the
33:33
witness's nephew, who said his uncle had
33:36
always been a serious, no-nonsense man.
33:39
When he finally told the story, he
33:40
sounded genuinely disturbed.
33:44
The uncle had stopped on the side of the
33:45
highway in a heavily wooded area
33:47
somewhere several miles out in the
33:49
middle of nowhere closest to Reed City.
33:52
He did not have a trailer attached at
33:54
the time and had stopped to fix uh
33:56
something before continuing.
33:59
After finishing the repair, he had about
34:01
the he was about to climb back into the
34:03
truck when he saw a deer come running
34:04
from the tree line.
34:07
It looked like it was fleeing something.
34:10
The trucker assumed there might be a
34:11
bear nearby.
34:13
Then, as he was preparing to leave, he
34:14
saw something looking at him through the
34:16
passenger side window.
34:19
It had jet-black fur,
34:21
bright yellow eyes,
34:23
vicious, snarling teeth.
34:25
It was so close that he could see the
34:27
fur moving in the slight breeze coming
34:30
through the open window.
34:32
The creature apparently did not realize
34:34
the window was open. It raised the paw
34:35
towards the glass as if to press against
34:37
it, but then pulled back in surprise
34:39
when the paw entered the cab.
34:43
The trucker usually carried a gun. At
34:45
that time, he had a heavy revolver.
34:48
He pointed it at the creature and fired,
34:50
shooting it directly in the face.
34:54
Then he got the truck moving and did not
34:55
stop to see what happened next.
34:58
He only cared about putting some
35:00
distance between himself and whatever
35:01
had been at the window.
35:04
Now, according to the nephew, the man
35:05
still had nightmares about the
35:07
encounter.
35:08
He described the creature as radiating
35:10
pure evil and ill intent during the few
35:13
seconds he faced it.
35:15
He refused to tell
35:18
anyone for years because he feared
35:19
people wouldn't think he think he lost
35:22
his mind.
35:23
He had never been interested in the
35:25
occult, cryptids, or the paranormal, and
35:27
he had no framework for what he saw.
35:32
Only later, when his nephew told him to
35:34
look into the Michigan Dogman, did he
35:36
see artist depictions that matched what
35:39
appeared in the truck window.
35:41
The image is hard to forget. A lone
35:43
truck, a wooded highway, a deer fleeing
35:46
in the tree line,
35:47
and something black-furred, yellow-eyed,
35:50
and snarling leaning into the passenger
35:53
window.
35:54
>> [sighs and gasps]
35:56
>> Now, Reed City, Michigan,
35:59
is an area where a lot of Dogman
36:00
sightings have taken place over years,
36:02
and uh this one doesn't surprise me
36:04
because there was another report very
36:06
similar to this by another trucker,
36:08
maybe a few years before that.
36:11
Not as dramatic, but uh
36:14
it was definitely something that looked
36:16
like a Dogman or a cryptid canine.
36:21
Now, Michigan's landscape is part of
36:22
what makes these reports so compelling.
36:25
The state has dense forest, isolated
36:27
waterways, rural farms, hunting land,
36:30
deep ravines, lakefront regions, and
36:32
roads where a person can be only minutes
36:36
from civilization, yet still feel
36:38
completely alone.
36:40
Now, across these accounts, several
36:42
patterns repeat. First, the Michigan
36:44
Dogman reports appear with unusual
36:46
force.
36:48
The Upper Peninsula shoreline case, the
36:50
creature stalked the men from the tree
36:52
line through a rock, screamed, and
36:54
advanced.
36:55
Near Reed City, a blackford canine
36:57
humanoid
36:59
allegedly approached a truck window.
37:01
In both cases, the witnesses were not
37:03
casual observers. They were outdoorsmen,
37:05
hunters, and working men familiar with
37:07
rural Michigan.
37:08
>> [sighs and gasps]
37:09
>> Second, we see the theme of
37:10
intimidation. Rocks thrown through
37:12
trees, tree knocks, foul odors, screams
37:16
from darkness.
37:17
Creatures that do not simply appear, but
37:20
seem to test, warn, and drive the
37:22
witnesses away.
37:24
Third, we have
37:26
mimicry. The South Haven area case is
37:28
especially unsettling because there was
37:30
no visual confirmation, only a familiar
37:32
voice used in an impossible way.
37:37
These cases suggest that some encounters
37:39
may be psychological before they're
37:41
physical.
37:42
Fourth, a UFO-related encounter
37:45
suggesting Michigan's Great Lakes region
37:47
may have its own long-running pattern of
37:49
anomalous aerial activity.
37:52
The Muskegon shoreline case includes
37:54
strange lights, possible surveillance, a
37:57
black-clad visitor in an apparent
37:59
operation on the shoreline.
38:02
The Oxford-Lapeer case includes a
38:04
low-flying triangular craft, apparent
38:07
trance-like behavior in nearby to be
38:09
nearby witnesses, repeated sightings,
38:12
and a possible gray entity.
38:15
Finally,
38:16
there are the stranger outliers. The
38:18
Oakland County winged humanoid, the
38:20
Merrill creature with insect-like wings,
38:22
and the two mysterious women in suburban
38:24
Detroit. These reports do not fit
38:27
comfortably into any one category, but
38:30
that is off the nature of Fortean
38:32
material.
38:33
The most valuable cases are not always
38:36
the easiest to label.
38:38
Michigan may be known for its lakes,
38:39
forests, and winter roads, but beneath
38:41
that familiar image is another Michigan.
38:44
A place where something watches from the
38:46
tree line, where voices call from the
38:48
dark,
38:49
where lights move over the water and
38:51
where black vehicles appear near the
38:52
beach,
38:54
where wing shapes rise from the wooded
38:56
roads before dawn, and where the
38:58
unexplained does not always stay in the
39:01
wilderness.
39:02
Sometimes it comes right up to the
39:04
window. This has been unexplained
39:07
Michigan.
39:09
Now, if you had an unexplained encounter
39:10
in Michigan or anywhere else, contact me
39:12
at fams and monsters. Your report may
39:14
help identify a pattern that's been
39:16
hiding in plain sight for years. And as
39:18
always, thanks for listening.
39:22
So, we're going to start the Q&A. Please
39:25
put your uh questions in all caps.
39:47
Sir Wolf, Howland, do you get reports of
39:50
all the sea monsters and ghost ships
39:52
from Michigan's Great Lakes? I have had
39:54
a few.
39:55
Um
39:57
there are definitely supposed ghost
40:00
ships that go through Lake Michigan. And
40:01
you know,
40:02
honestly, all the Great Lakes have these
40:04
type of reports. Michigan
40:07
is probably different. I mean, I don't
40:08
know if you've heard of the Michigan
40:09
Triangle.
40:11
It runs from uh Chicago over to uh just
40:14
north of
40:16
Muskegon and down south a little further
40:18
closer to the Indiana
40:21
Michigan line.
40:22
Uh there have been missing planes,
40:25
reptilian creatures, underwater lights.
40:30
Uh some people suggest that the Chicago
40:32
Mothman sightings had were related to
40:34
the lake itself and they may come from
40:37
somewhere under the water.
40:40
It's hard to tell, but um
40:42
there have definitely been a lot of
40:43
anomalous activity associated with it.
40:50
Dag Nammit.
40:51
A group of armed Mexican soldiers on
40:54
military training accidentally ran into
40:56
a dogman once and they all stated
40:58
started shooting at it and they put
41:00
around 25 bullets into it. It fell down
41:02
but got up and ran.
41:04
Well, I mean we hear that with a lot of
41:05
cryptids.
41:07
Um
41:08
Bigfoot,
41:10
dogman, even the winged humanoids. I
41:12
mean, one of the Chicago Mothman
41:14
sightings
41:15
um the witness
41:17
unloaded a .40 caliber clip into it. So,
41:21
you know, and it didn't do anything. It
41:22
just kept flying and he knew he hit it.
41:25
So, uh yeah. I mean, cryptids
41:29
in my mind are are definitely
41:30
supernatural.
41:32
Uh there have been some Bigfoot
41:33
sightings in Pennsylvania. Stan Gordon
41:35
has mentioned this numerous times where
41:38
people would have a Bigfoot come up
41:40
close to the home.
41:41
They'd shoot a shotgun at it.
41:44
They'd see it move like it got hit
41:47
and then just disappear.
41:49
No body, no blood, nothing. It happens a
41:52
lot.
41:54
Um
41:57
it's just another example of our
42:01
trying to us trying to understand what
42:03
cryptids really are.
42:05
Are they supernatural? Are they flesh
42:06
and blood? Do they move in and out of
42:09
other
42:10
dimensions?
42:12
We just don't
42:14
But I think as time goes on we're going
42:15
to get a better answers.
42:17
Um you know, the Chicago Mothman cases
42:20
and and investigation has convinced me
42:22
more and more that
42:24
cryptids for the most part are
42:25
supernatural beings and uh
42:28
we may not know what they are exactly,
42:30
but at some point I think we're going to
42:32
probably find out.
42:37
>> [snorts]
42:42
>> Any other questions?
42:44
I saw somebody had mentioned melon heads
42:47
and uh
42:50
>> [gasps]
42:50
>> that's a phenomenon that does seem to
42:52
happen in some areas of um
42:55
of Michigan.
42:57
Basically, I I think it may be a
43:00
an inbreeding type thing, maybe feral,
43:02
but probably an inbreeding in the
43:05
backwoods somewhere.
43:08
Uh I have I have heard several stories
43:11
and several different types of um
43:15
descriptions of these human-like beings,
43:17
but uh
43:18
I know one thing, they always had big
43:20
heads.
43:21
Uh almost shaped like teardrops.
43:26
Paranormal, there have been reports of
43:28
mermaids in the Great Lakes. Have you
43:29
had reports of mermaids? I haven't ever
43:31
received a mermaid report from the Great
43:33
Lakes that I can remember.
43:36
>> [sighs]
43:36
>> There have been reports of small beings,
43:39
especially up in Lake Erie. Um
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there were a group of fishermen
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that were I don't they were all they
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were off the Ohio I think it was near
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Sandusky. I'm not really sure, but they
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were walleye fishing
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and someone
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had been grabbed reaching for a fish or
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a net
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uh by some small humanoid.
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They didn't give a very good description
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of it, but
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uh
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Yeah, that's about the only humanoid
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thing I ever remember other than, you
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know, the winged humanoids along Lake
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Michigan.
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Anything else, folks?
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I tell you what you do. Uh if you if you
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get a chance
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within the next day or two,
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send me a
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another state you'd like to uh for me to
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cover.
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As well as uh I mean, send it to my e-
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email at [email protected]
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or send it to my Facebook or the
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Messenger or text me.
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Uh my number's 410-241-5974.
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So, yeah, go ahead and do that.
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Jose Sanchez, do you believe that the
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most recent uptick in dog man reports
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might be in part to them increasing
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their population as of as of recent?
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Honestly, I haven't really seen an
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uptick of reports from dog man or
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cryptid canines. I mean, it's been
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pretty steady.
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Um
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I I don't know. Are there groups of
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them? We very rarely hear about a group.
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We might hear about two of them
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together.
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Usually a male, maybe a female with them
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or two males.
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But as far as a family group where we
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see little ones, we just don't
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normally get that.
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Now, I'm not saying there there aren't
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any. Uh
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But again, if these are interdimensional
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beings or coming from another
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realm, I mean, you know, they may
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procreate there and bring them through
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here. So, I don't know.
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I really have no idea.
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Dag [clears throat] Nammit, in
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Whitfield, Wisconsin I mean excuse me,
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Whitfield, Wisconsin
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has a legend that has gnomes living in
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the back wood in the woods that if you
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throw a rock in the woods they'll throw
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it back at you.
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I I've heard several in several places
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of gnomes throwing rocks and other small
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beings throwing rocks back at people and
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throwing branches and everything else.
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Uh I don't know that one in particular,
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but if you do have any
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uh information, descriptions, or any
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reports, send them to me.
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One cat away from crazy midnight, Lon,
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do you hear that there are many UFOs
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over Lake Superior in
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um
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over Lake Superior night
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where the Edmund Fitzgerald went down?
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Uh years ago I heard a one report that
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was seen of something hovering over the
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area where it possibly had gone down at.
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But there was no there was no evidence
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of it. Um
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of course, you know, the whole the whole
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Edmund Fitzgerald
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um story tends to bring out a lot of
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different other
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sightings and strange lore associated
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with it.
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Um but I won't ever heard that one.
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Winny Nici, Lon, MIBs look like what
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members? Do you think they changed their
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attire over the decades or is a
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different kind of intimidating crew?
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I I don't believe they're human, to be
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quite honest with you. Now, there could
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be other groups out there that are
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human, but I think
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the typical MIB or men in black reports
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are possibly alien in some type of crew
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that follows up on
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sightings that should have never or
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you know, UFOs or beings that should
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have not been seen and they usually end
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up coming pretty quickly.
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I call them the cleanup crew, the alien
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cleanup crew.
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Um and they're fairly intimidating
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trying to get people not to report
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anything and um
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if they do report it, they try to talk
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them out of, you know, helping in in any
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other way. So, um
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that's my take on the Men in Black. Um
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and until I get anything else, I I I'm
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not going to change my mind on it. I
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just
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don't think they're humans.
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Okay, folks. Well, I thank you for uh
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coming in tonight.
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Uh thank you for listening,
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So, until the next time we meet, stay
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aware, trust your instincts, and
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remember sometimes
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the strangest places are not that far
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away. So, have a nice evening, have a
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great weekend, see you next Friday. Good
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night.
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