Montcalm County. I grew up in close by Midland County, Midland to be exact, though my Mother grew up close to Shepherd in west Midland County. I will detail a scary Bigfoot experience soon that took place in the outskirts of Midland in 1996. My first sighting was in Roscommon County either 1976 or 77 opening day of deer season. Between Houghton Lake and Lake St. Helens, known as Nine Mile Muskege. This subject I assumed was human walked out of the forest into the swamp area where I hunted in a raised stand, not much as they were illegal back then, but no one except our party of my Father and Uncles and Cousins ever hunted there since my Grandfather in the mid 1920s. It was a 2 mile 2 track to get back there at that time. Now I was appx 500 yards away and it was all black, no orange signature of hat or clothing, which was required, and no rifle. It crossed the 3/4 of a mile or more to the next woodline in about 10 minutes, maybe less which also had over the head water holes. And in the entire 10 years I hunted this spot not a single human or deer or other animal ever crossed it. They would only come out to the edge to get a drink. When all 10 of us or more met up for lunch and I told what I had seen to my Dad and Uncles. They had had a bizarre stare at each other, like whats up. It got through the woods between them all and was never seen. It took me until around 2009 when I started reading BFRO reports, Starting with places that I had lived and hunted, that I became aware that this was a Bigfoot. Wish like heck we new about them back then, but we never talked about them, thinking only in the Pacific North West.