A listener writes “I have been putting this off for years now, but here it is, I don’t know what I’m getting into by doing this, but it happened, it’s bothered me for years, and though it’s not all that exciting, it had consequences for me.
I can’t think of everything at this moment, it literally causes stress when I try to go over it and over it, but here are the basic details.
It was summer 1998, sorry I can’t place the month. My girlfriend at the time and I were going to visit my Dad’s hometown Saint Ignace, Michigan drive north from there with completely inept plans to try to go to Isle Royale. We weren’t even sure if one could literally travel to Isle Royale, but we planned to camp and look for medicinal plants in parks along the way. This campground was on the way, just north of Saint Ignace.
We picked a spot in the back, it was a nice sunny day, no bad weather, and then left to go look for ginseng just up the road from this campground. We didn’t find ginseng, but we found Spikenard, a ginseng relative. We returned to the campground, hung out for a bit. Laughed and pulled a few things out of the car and talked. It was no more than 2:30/3:00 in the afternoon.
There was strangely nobody there at the campground except a trailer. This was mid summer, which is really weird. Anways, I began to feel really strange, like we were being watched, but the thing is, it kept getting worse and worse as the minutes passed. It got so bad that I felt we had to leave, but this made no sense to me. I was mad that I even felt like this. It was a perfect day, a sunny day, and nobody was there. But it kept getting weirder, a strange feeling. I eventually turned to my girlfriend and said “We need to leave” and she strangely looked at me without questioning it and said “I know.”
As I got stuff into the car and walked around the back to get over into the driver’s side, this feeling just got more and more intense, like ‘get out now’ ‘get the fu#@ out now.’ Literally second to second it was getting worse, and I got in and turned the ignition, and backed out, looked at my girlfriend who looked to be in shock, and I almost felt like I was going to lose consciousness, peripherally, because of looking over at the passenger side of the car, I saw this tall creature.
It was for a few seconds, we were getting out of there, so it was very brief, but I saw it, and I saw its head, shoulders, arms, didn’t see the feet, it was on a little bit of incline so the feet were not visible. What it appeared to be I don’t think my mind could handle at the time. It was tall, hairy, and somewhat balding on top of its head. It did not look like Patty from the Patterson Gimlin video but had a slight pointed top of head. The face I will never forget because it wasn’t an ape, it was not anything I have ever seen in any illustration, book cover or movie, it’s not what people seem to have made it out to look like. It was disturbing. It did look curious, but bizarre. Its hair was brown, its skin was like that of a chimp, I don’t know if people call that ‘caucasian’ skin, pink skin or what, but it was like light skinned undeneath the hair. It’s face was very peculiar, with peculiar wrinkles which is what I remember most. I didn’t say a word about this to anyone, not even my girlfriend at the time, but thought about it as we drove to Saint Ignace to get a motel. I was burying deep fast, I was astonished, and we spoke very little at all on the way to the motel.
Later the next week she told me she had nightmares about a hairy man coming after her, and I had nightmares.”
Denise F
Glad the listener made it out (physically) ok.
Trent M
Wow, glad you decided to share your experience! This projecting fear and discomfort is sure reported often enough and as bad as it is I’m sure it beats being chased and growled at!
ohkyhiker
Wow reading this gave me chills.
Karen C
Great instincts, I applaud the fact that you listened to yourself…and was able to hold it together to get out of there…
Steve W
Sounds like you and your girlfriend were being hit with INFRASOUND. Talk to Wes and hopefully you can get some relief. I wish you the best…
Augustine L
I’d love to see a drawing of this creature. Great story.
Asheim
Sure would love to have this person come on the show, if they are so inclined. Glad you listened to those instincts. Everyone needs to be in touch with such feelings. Never second guess. Thanks so much for sharing.
Ulrike H
Amazing! I’m happy that you listened to your senses and got out of there.
Christian L
Always trust your inner-caveman. Get this guy on the show and see if a drawing could be made. What a great project for a forensic artist!
Barbara W
Perhaps he could contact Sybila Irwin. She’s on Facebook, and accepted my friend request. She probably would his too if he made one, especially if he mentioned his encounter.
Birdy Lywak
Thank you
Tracy H
OMG ,I can’t even imagine how your GF at that time must have felt seeing this thing and it coming towards her,ohhh,that’s super creepy.
Rick C
Trust your gut, especially when it’s sick with fear.
Linda P
would love to know where this campground was??? I am from Michigan so i have a fair idea Thankyou for sharing this
Karen S
Just goes to show “Always listen to your instincts”;they are never wrong and its folly to ignore them. What a strong message that was sent and received to cause them to bug out like that. I mean, how many encounters have we all heard where the people ignore that instinct – lots ! And then things just get worse.