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Aug 2

SC EP:1176 It Was Six Feet From My Van

Linda writes “I wanted to share my experience I had back in April of this year. This was in a large natural area in Southeast Michigan. I was suppose to meet up with my research/ investigating friend on a Friday night in May at a camp.

The weather was not so great on the way down. It was storming off and on throughout the afternoon. When I got to the camp nobody was there. My friend Gabe was still working and had not been able to come yet. It wasn’t dark yet but raining so I stayed in my van. Finally after texting back and forth, we established that He would come out the next morning because the radar showed a huge storm approaching and there were already flash flood warnings out.

So as twilight approached I decided to go outside even though it was sprinkling and load up on my drinks for the night so I would not have to get out again after dark in the storm approaching. I did not have a fire going didn’t see the sense in that. After grabbing two pops from my cooler I approached the opening of my van the slider door on the side.

I had miscalculated my timing and now it was fairly dark with almost no light..I looked toward my left out into this neighboring field there were 4 sets of eyes kind of greenish, and they were heading right at me. Now I figured they were about the right height for coyote or deer but I was a bit confused as to why they were coming at me. I grabbed my little flashlight from behind the seat and turned it on the eyes and yelled out in a very stern voice “Whatever you are that’s far enough!”

The creatures stopped and I realized now they were whitetails. All adult deer no fawns or bucks with them. In that second I thought to myself Why are these deer running up to me that’s not normal behavior, light went off in my head, they were trying to escape a predator.

Soon as I thought that they all raised their heads and looked back at the wood line on the other side of the field. Then bolted across the field taking off and away to the left. I started panning the wood line and bingo there about 7 or 8 feet ( a guess) up in the air were two huge round forward facing eyes set wide apart..And NOW its watching me instead of following the deer. I called out “I see you” in a casual voice but loud enough to let it know I knew it was there.

It kept watching me, I grabbed my bigger flashlight thinking i would light this thing up with my 1500 lumen but no all I could see was the eyes watching me still. Now its very dark and sprinkling harder. I decide to get into my van and get my thermal out thinking Im going to try and thermal this thing. Its still standing in the tree line. I step up into my slider door turn around and sit down on my bed, grab my key fob thinking id shut the slider door while its raining and I’m getting my thermal out..now I hit the keyfob and as the door slides shut I hear this very loud growl/roar and it sounds like it is 6 feet from my van!!

The door finishes shutting I hit lock and alarm. I am in shock now and sitting inside in the dark thinking no way am I going back out there and am I going to have to climb over the middle console to jump in the drivers seat to escape?! I listened intently waiting to see if my door was going to be torn off or what this thing was going to do and then the torrential storm hit …I was not going to turn on any interior light and would just keep quiet..even though it rained most of the rest of the night i could hear screams and howls throughout the night. Something screamed and the coyotes sounded off going nuts…Gabe showed up next morning and crossed over there and found suspicious tracks…upon his return to camp he was going to go back and cast the one but it had been scuffed out, very strange. I was happy to not be alone anymore at camp Ill tell you that! Then in June in a different area I was attempting to hike a trail but stopped on top of a berm to look at a print and got charged from behind in the woods behind me but I couldn’t see it..you are welcome to call me if you want the rest of that experience. Since I have talked to you on the phone years ago.”

 

 

 

 

 


 

 

 

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67 Responses to “SC EP:1176 It Was Six Feet From My Van”

  13. Lisa B

    Love Linda’s Midwest accent! Reminds me a bit of my central Illinois family’s accent! Linda you sure are one brave woman! Thanks for sharing!! Thanks Wes!

      • Charles R

        I growing up in Midland always state that us Michiganders have good enuciation of words. Linda has a very close voice to my cousin Caroline who lives on Sanford Lake. Continued success of your research area Gabriel and all in your group.

          • Charles R

            I hope they get your new Damn completed soon. Such a tragedy that happened back in 2020 when your Damn and the Edenville Damn both broke from that massive flood. I have fond memories of Sanford. My Mom’s oldest sister and her husband use to own Bigelow Drugs store there until they retired and sold it sometime in the early 1980s, I think. They would throw a 4th of July Party every year at their house at the end of Lemke Lane for all my Aunts and Uncles (10 in all) and families. My favorite cousin retired 2 years ago from the Flint area and bought a lake house on Sanford Lake along the M 30 side. My youngest sister and BIL live on Secord Lake north on the Tittabawassee, after retirement from Dow Chemical, of course. Heck back in the late 1970s, our softball team was sponsered by The Longbranch Saloon and I still have my Jersey top.

  20. Candice W

    I do exactly what this woman does. except I do not go out at night. I’ve had more encounters during the day than at night. Except for when I went to East Texas. This man named Moe took us out to a spot .That’s when I first saw the eyes glow red. That changed the way I looked at these beings. I’ve now had two clear sightings one during the day here in Massachusetts. My 1st one was in Huntsville Texas and he was approximately 7 and 1/2 ft tall.. I measured the camper after the fact. The being I saw ran right in front of our camper directly into the wood line.I could remember exactly where I saw the camper behind his head,so I knew that based on the measurement of the camper,he was approximately 7 and 1/2 ft tall. I wish this woman lived in Massachusetts because I would love to research with someone who is of similar mind. Because there is DEFINITELY something more to these people or beings.

  26. Laurie C

    The people scoffing at the voice she heard amuse me. Hearing voices does NOT mean you have a mental illness or drinking problem. If it’s a frequent occurrence, yes, by all means get help- that’s disruptive to daily living. But if it’s a rare occurrence, it’s quite common across all cultures. It could have been her intuition taking a different route, the Bigfoot, her spirit guide, or her guardian angel warning her, etc. Whatever theory you find easiest to subscribe to. It could have been something we’ve never even considered, for that matter.

  27. Blanche D

    Thank you to Linda for reminding us of her childhood sighting of our hairy cousins and for her recent experiences. Falling asleep as she did must be flummoxing, defo sumfink strange about it. I didn’t quite understand why Linda thought they’d get the drop on her, could be just getting the measure of her. Some more shenanigans from the park ranger about the glamping bidnez. Never sits well with me that these officials have to lie, it must take its toll on them. Lying like that must change a person. I’m not naive, we all lie, but this is sumfink else.

    • Charles R

      Wow Linda P and I know your last name from a video I watched a few years ago, maybe Sanford Micigan where I still have a cousin Caroline (acutally sounds a lot like your voice) that has lived there her whole life, about 78 years. My best friend Mike (RIP in 2008) was friend of a cousin or two of yours probably. I think they lived out close to him in Mt. Haley Township (south central, Midland County) and very wooded, but Im not sure. He just mentioned them a lot. I was at Mike’s house on Bradford Road Sept 1, 1996. I stayed overnight and slept next to an open window. Mike was in hospital bed next to me. At about 3am we were awaken by the most god awful and long duration scream of what sounded like a woman being murdered. It actually vibrated his double wide modular window. Sound no more that 40 feet away, probably next to is inground pool. No way in heck we we going to investigate even though he had lots of rifles and shotguns. Because we knew it was not human. I moved to SW Ohio to marry a great woman I met in the Upper Penisula that next day. However growing up in Midland, graduated Midland High School in 1974 and Mother and sister still lived there I visited all the time. Every time I would go to Mike’s house we would talk about what the heck could made that noise. It made that much impressionon us. It was not until either 2009 or 10 when reading every BFRO report published I found out. And unfortunately Mike had already passed. I did tell his next door nephew Chad in 2011. Chad believed me and stated he from time to time hears calls he can not make out what they may be.
      In your original experience I guess around 1978 you stated NE Midland County. Was this Mills township or close by? A really good friend since our youth built a home out there around then and still lives there. I will be visiting Terry and Jenifer at the end of the month when visiting my sister at Secord Lake, in Gladwin County. I have spoke with Phillip Shaw, R I P, twice, last time at Lumberman’s Monument on the Au Sable River in 2019. Great researcher and the go to guy for the Huron National Forest.
      Really fanstastic Linda to listen to all your experiences. Would love to see your thermal. I was a bit surprised that you and Gabe and others research the Highland Campgrounds. There is a great amount of population around this area being in Oakland County. However there is in places enough woods and small lakes galore. My favority Michigan rocker, Bob Seger has a huge place on Orchard Lake. Back when I lived in Birmingham in 1981 and 82 I use to ride my first motorcycle out in this area a lot. In the winter I would ski at close by Alpine Valley. Back then no one I knew in Michigan was talking about Bigfoot. Hope to hear more from you.

  31. Sharon L

    Okay, you just said it. I’ve been to this park several times. I grew up there. I have even hiked there by myself. I always wondered if they were there. yikes.

    • Linda P

      Yes but i cant say it was a bigfoot..it Was NOT a couger..but there are reports all over the metroparks of dogmen encounters and one or two “werewolf” reports..i have never seen such things to my knowledge but i try to stay open minded especially if the military may be involved..so yes please be careful there

  33. Tracy B

    FYI you can use Google maps to measure distance by dropping a pin, right click, the choose Measure then drop second pin. I did that to measure distance for my experience

  34. Debra T

    Falling asleep suddenly is often reported during various paranormal encounters. People see something strange or terrifying and then suddenly find they fell asleep without realizing it. I’ve also heard eye witness reports on here from people in tents reporting the same thing. Can’t be entirely flesh and blood with the ability to do that.

  35. David H

    Great show Linda can’t wait to see y’all when we go out again. Linda, Gabe and Todd are great people and don’t bull shit. That’s why there the one and only group I go out with because i know they don’t bull shit. shout out Semi

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