Kurt writes “I had an incident in 1995 in Northern Michigan that I would like to run by you. I was jogging and this thing got up and took off running. It looked like shaquille o neal in a ghillie suit. I have never disclosed this to anyone but my wife…… but now that I am retired (training units only), I’m not so nervous about speaking about it.”
Spoke to Kurt in depth about his encounter including other strange calls he has been on. One account Kurt relates was a call where the home owner said there was a prowler on the property. When the officer’s arrived they said there was large canine tracks around these peoples home. These tracks were larger than normal and there was scratch marks on the side of the house about 8-9 feet up.
Kurt relates “I got a call one time about a lady who said someone was walking on her roof. When we arrived we walked around her property and could not find anything. There was a lot of snow but as I shined my light up on the roof I saw what appeared to be footprints on this ladies roof. It was odd….I remember getting in my patrol car not sure what to make of this.”
Kurt will be sharing this and many more incidents that he encounter as a police officer. Join me as we pull the curtain back and take a look at law enforcement from behind the scenes.
Denise F
This sounds like a good episode, very excited to hear Kurt’s encounters, ty ?
Asheim
Looking forward to it!! Thanks Wes!
Amy H
Oh this is gonna be a goody! Can’t wait to listen….
Gumshoguy
Date, Time, Location of Report
Come on Kurt, the state has 83 counties and covers 97.700 square miles with nearly 10 million people most could give two hoots about Sasquatches. I retired six years ago, with 25 1/2 years on the job. I still go in to shoot and qualify every year. I get it that some people do not list a location because of jealousy or wanting to keep the location anonymous for privacy issues but most counties are 500 square miles or more… Just good to know what county the sighting occurs in. Your report is good but not helpful to people like me that look at stats.
I pulled in some favors from childhood friends who professional archivist and they brought me some interesting news articles. I read and studied them. Six years ago I began feverishly searching and reading every BF report inside Michigan I could find. In July 2014, I did in fact see something in Washtenaw County, Southeast Michigan that confirmed for me what so many others have said all along. They do exist and there more of them than some would rather not consider.
I’ve seen some bad things in my career but this Sasquatch thing is something that will shake you to your core, it did me. You don’t hold in, you share it and find peace with the world and yourself.
I’ve got a spread sheet of over 1.600 Michigan reports and a half dozen more that make like this that share a report without listing the county from which the incident allegedly occurred. Some are very old. I always implore people that share reports to take a moment an note the date, time and place. We all heard that back in our academy days… Date, Time, Location.
Charles R
Washtenaw County for some reason is the hottest spot in SE Michigan. One even made national news back in the last century when a Sasquatch reached into an auto and bloodied up the a woman driver who was parked at the time. I could add about 7 experiences to your list of 1600 including my sighting in Roscommon County. One in Midland County. One in Oscoda County. And 4 in Iosco County. Two weekends ago we visited my sister and brother in laws new to them retirement house on Secord Lake in Gladwin County. With the house they also purchased two pole barns and 17 acres of all wooded land on the other side of the road. I spent some of Saturday afternoon scouting the woods for structures with my golden/lab mix Finn. Found some interesting stuff including two 20 foot pines that were alive and arched all the way over. There were several of these trees and only those two were arched and there was not enough branches to be caused by snow load. Unfortunately the gobs of rain Michigan has witnessed in the past several months made the low lying areas a mess and I did not want Finn to come back to my sister’s house a muddy mess.
Gumshoguy
Hi Charles thanks for the Michigan reply. I’ll gratefully take any reports you have with adequate amount of information. If you can step over to the forum create a thread and address as Michigan BF Report or any way you want I’ll see it, and respond to your questions.
I agree with you about Washtenaw. That report made news by the two military reservist occurred the following summer after my encounter in roughly the same area.e too.
I have lots of reports that leave Date, Time and Location or county out of their reports that are trashed because they cannot be used for tracking purposes. .