Report Received From: The GCBRO Online Report Submission Form.
 
Report Posted To GCBRO Web Site On:   April 1, 2008

DATE:    July 15, 2003 
 

TIME:     8:30-9:00 PM 
 

LOCATION:   Presque Isle, Michigan 
 

TERRAIN:    Wooded 
 

OBSERVED:    I had went for the evening to relax in the nearby harbor (Presque Isle) to have dinner and then drove up to the New Presque Isle Lighthouse and parked my car.  I walked thru a clearing of trees (east) from the lighthouse towards Lake Huron.  It was a full-moon, clear night with very little waves on the lake.  I had been at this location for around :30 minutes to about :45 minutes and had been wading out in the water to just cool off.  I was in shorts/t-shirt and flip-flops as it was summer.  After I decided that it was time to leave I started to go back towards my car and subsequently dry off.  As I was walking back thru the same clearing that I had come from earlier I could hear some motion in the trees to my left.  I remember also it was very still/quiet that night while on foot.  At different times I heard what sounded like large (or fairly large) twigs snapping on or near the ground and thought maybe it was a deer of some sort, probably not a bear I didn't think.

 Sometimes it would be one or two twigs/branches snapping, other times it was multiple snaps which would occur quite quickly as if perhaps (at the time) whatever it was had some good size weight to itself. I had the distinct impression (or sense) that I was being watched and it made me feel quite un-easy, I had a more sense of urgency at this point of just wanting to get to my car and leave.  Also at other times I heard what sounded like whole trees being moved or pushed somewhat out of the way, I was puzzled as it implied to me that something was off in the trees that had a fairly good size body mass.  As I continued on towards the end of the clearing, the sound would parallel (or stay) with me--it wasn't getting distant or going away from my vantage point of where I first starting hearing the commotion going on.  After I had gotten into my car I felt hugely relieved but couldn't still necessarily understand why.  I remember too, that I was constantly looking around "over my shoulder" very intently but figured it was more than likely a small animal and no big deal.  As I drove off (about maybe--?  50-100 yards) as I had already turned on the radio and was feeling pretty relaxed I noticed from off the left side of my car (from the headlights shining onto some of the trees and roadway) a large black, furry looking figure standing completely in the front of the tree line looking dead, straight at me with some powerful--menacing eyes.  (The eyes followed me as I went past).  It completely shocked me, I slammed on the brakes of my car and just sat in the middle of the road for around half a minute (or less) and was trying to figure out (rationalize/take in) what I had just seen.  It stood around I would say between 7'-8' feet tall and it's arms were unusually long.  More than anything, the face is what spooked me and I remember the most as it closely resembled that of a man--the nose was flat and it stood completely erect, was not slouched or bent over--exactly still.  The head looked like it was just perched onto some huge shoulders, the shoulders were massive going across and the upper torso was quite impressive.  I decided it would be best to just keep going as I had thought about of maybe turning the car around and shine my high beam lights into the tree line (to see if I could spot it again) but decided this probably would not be in my best interest.  I went on and headed back to Alpena where I had come from originally.  I was never so glad to see "city lights" again until I reached the north end of town while on U.S.-23.  I told no one what I had seen, actually for a long time.   
 

Activities of Witness:   Wading out in the lake, enjoying the coolness of the evening.    
 

Description of Creature:  Quite massive, tall--very well built.  Eyes were piercing and looked like they meant business.  Hair on the face looked flat, or groomed like appearance.  Whole body covered in hair, black fur like that of bears common to northern-lower Michigan and the Upper Peninsula.  Arms quite long, down to or past the knee-caps  
 

Other Notes:    A night that will live with me forever, it's very vivid in my mind.  I was in total un-belief when I first saw it.  I don't look at the woods now in quite the same light as I did before this occurence. 
 

Other (Informational or Encounter History in the General Area) Notes:    N/A
 

Additional Notes and or Follow up Comments:  The witness also had this to add via e-mail follow up:  Last year in April ('07) I went with a friend of mine that shares a similar interest with bigfoot sightings (but has never seen one)--him and I went back up to this location (I live 3 hours away) and went into the wooded area where I originally heard the sounds from that night.  Other than possible wind damage from storms off of Lake Huron, etc., - the area back in there (we walked around 200-300' feet in from off of the clearing path) we saw numerous trees that looked like as "if" at one time or another, had been pushed over.  In particular one tree (about 30' feet long) with a trunk diameter of 12" inches or more had been bent over above my waist level and I am 6'ft/1" in-- tall.  The wood was fairly fresh and splintered all thru it, but not completely broken off.  "Whatever" it could have been that did that, had to have Had some enormous strength--at least I thought so.  Parts of it in there looked (somewhat) like a Mess!  I told my friend that I felt like I was walking around in someone else's domain, like we didn't necessarily belong there.  We walked a parallel course that I had thought perhaps it took that night, from hearing it in the trees to where it stood along the road (in the tree line).  It took us at least :15 minutes to walk to where we came out to the tree line, the underbrush and trees were quite thick.  -IF- the creature also went this way (or similar to it) It had to have went thru these trees (underbrush, etc) like "nothing"..
 

I found this rendition from google images one time, it's the closest to what I saw.  Especially the face.  The drawing depicts the hair on the head like there's a part in the scalp--the one I saw it was just covered with dark black fur..