A listener writes “I’ve been putting this off for some time now. I’d like to tell you about a sighting that I had in 1981 when I was about nine years old.
I was born in a town called Saginaw Michigan. It’s pretty close to the big Saginaw bay which the Saginaw river and the Tittabawassee river run directly into. I lived right at the edge of the city where there was a large golf course large wooded areas which are now part of the Shiawassee wildlife refuge. The strange thing is what I saw did not make sense to be in that part of the edge of a subdivision. It was approximately 1 o’clock in the morning and I remember not being able to sleep so I was just playing on the back of the couch peering out the window towards my school that was kitty corner from my house. On the corner there was obviously a street light which illuminated the whole intersection between my house and my school. I saw what appeared to be a large hairy man with long hair walk under the street light and stop just at the edge.
The first thing I remember is saying that man has really long hair. But But as he proceeded into the light he became apparent to me That this guy looked like Chewbacca. I watched it as it slowly walked away across the intersection into the subdivision and disappeared. When I woke the next morning I remember telling my mother what I saw and she said you must’ve been dreaming. I told her I swear it looked like Chewbacca and she said that I had a very vivid dream and a wild imagination. When I woke up the next morning I was getting ready to go over to my school where there was an ice rink and play hockey with my friends. As I walked over across the sidewalk in the edge of the snowbank I saw what appeared to be bare footprints very large. There may have been more than one but as I recall when I saw the footprints I remember telling myself it wasn’t a dream it was all real. Sorry for such a long email but it was the only way I could describe it to you and I’ve told nobody about this but my wife. Thank you for your time.”
Sharon H
Interesting! Thanks for sharing.
Lisa S
I remember reading this on another platform some time ago. I have never heard the story, however!
Linda B
How scarey for a young person to see this across the street in his neighborhood. Makes me wonder what we may be missing in our neighborhoods roaming around at night after we all go inside and go to bed.
Bill F
That is their M.O. Linda, most don’t realize these critters live right on the edges of our “civilization”… on the edges of our settled areas rural and not so rural. They come in at night under the cover of darkness for the most part, sifting through what we throw out and finding what they can eat or be entertained by.
I know of many examples here in Florida of them inside city limits, we had one particularly bold individual and he is a big boy, that would be seen in small wooded areas inside the city during the day. He was more active at night as well.
They fully understand, we as humans do not pay attention to the the things that go on around us. They take advantage of this inattentiveness to a great degree. They also understand our vision, how it works, our field of view and our inability to see in the darkness.. they use it to their advantage.
They get that after midnight the VAST majority of us are sleeping soundly and no threat to their movement and even then the ones who are awake are not paying attention to what is going on around them. They have a complete and total understanding of our behavior, they have watched it, taught their young about it and operated within it for hundreds of years. Just like deer hunters understand everything about their deer they hunt. Where they bed, where they feed, when and how they move between the two, their vision.. etc.
They are intelligent creatures with intellect enough to figure all of this out.
The same one who was in the city here would stop in on a truck stop near his path in and out to entertain himself by shoving trucks around when the drivers were in the sleepers. He must have gotten some jollies off of the reactions. The trucks that got it were all parked at the back of the lot near the “woods” that were at the rear of the truckstop.
Yep… they ARE roaming around at night after we go in and go to bed. It’s what they do…
Nom S
They do se
Nom S
Some of them do seem to enjoy scaring the hell out of us, Bill F. And they do show up in the darndest places. Their opportunistic relationship to humans seems like a version of our relationship to coyotes and Ravens.