Incident #991191
Stockbridge, Ingham Cty, Michigan
May 1982
Account
Kenneth LaClear and his wife had noted something "growling around" their trailer home on Catholic Church Road, and neighbours had been noting dogs going beserk in the early morning for about two months. LaClear looked out bedroom window and saw a human shaped creature 7 or 8 feet tall standing upright by a stump in his back yard. Outside, he and neighbour smelled putrid odour. A footprint 11 to 12 inches long with a curve in it and three toes was found in a nearby field.
When
- Observation Date
- MAY 15 1982
- Month
- May
- Year
- 1982
- Season
- spring
- Time of Day
- 10 to midnight
- Duration
- brief
Where
- State / province
- Michigan
- County
- Ingham Cty
- Nearest Town
- Stockbridge
- Latitude
- 4227
- Longitude
- 8411
What was seen
- Individuals
- one large, sex unknown
- Total Individuals
- 1
- Population Status
- rural
- First Seen
- in
- Terrain Object
- yard
- Near or/at
- occupied building
Witnesses
- No. of Witnesses
- 1
- Witness(es) Sex
- Male
Source
- Source
- Stockbridge, MI, Town Crier, May 26, 1982, quoting Kenneth LaClear.
Creature description
- Height
- 7-8 ft
- Posture
- erect
- Movement
- staying still
- Odour
- strong
- Position when first seen
- erect
Footprints
- Set of Tracks
- 1
- Footprint Length
- 11.5
- Number of Tracks
- 1
- Number of Toes
- 3
Witness
- Witness Saw with
- naked eye
- Observer Was
- at homeýinside building
- Action on sighting
- stayed still