Incident #991197
Tuscola Cty, Michigan
Apr 1985
Account
Having coffee in kitchen, 7.30 a.m., farmer saw big, dark creature walk into bean field from woods 300 to 400 yards away. Called his wife and they watched 2 or 3 minutes as it walked East and disappeared in heavy brush. Art Kapa called and found footprints in bean field 17.5 x 7.5 inches, then found second set, 18". They went together Northeast from brush into small woods, across a small field, through more heavy brush and woods, across a deep, water-filled ditch and into an area of woods and swamps along Saginaw Bay. After almost 10 hours of tracking, Kapa could not cross the ditch. He made six good footprint casts. Period of investigation and inquiry in area for several weeks produced nothing more.Creature's walk was smoother than human but very fast.
When
- Observation Date
- APR 06 1985
- Month
- Apr
- Year
- 1985
- Season
- spring
- Time of Day
- early morning
- Duration
- 2 minutes
Where
- State / province
- Michigan
- County
- Tuscola Cty
- Latitude
- 4320
- Longitude
- 8320
What was seen
- Individuals
- one large, sex unknown
- Total Individuals
- 1
- Population Status
- rural
- First Seen
- in
- Terrain Object
- farm field
- Near or/at
- trees
- Tracks
- found later
- Cast Made Y/N
- Yes
Witnesses
- No. of Witnesses
- 2
- Witness(es) Sex
- Both sexes
Setting
- Terrain
- plain
Weather and light
- Lighting
- daylight
Source
- Source
- Bigfoot Co-op, Aug. 1985, Art Kapa reporting on footprints he found and a sighting by a farmer couple.
Creature description
- Hair Covered
- presumed
- Height
- 8 ft
- Build
- heavy
- Posture
- erect
- Hair Colour
- brown black
- Shoulders
- wide
- Movement
- walking
- Later Movement
- crossed view fieldýentered woods
- Speed
- fast
- Movement re observer
- across observer front
- Evidence Left
- footprints
- Position when first seen
- erect
Footprints
- Set of Tracks
- 2
- Footprint Length
- 17.5
- Greates Width
- 7.5
- Number of Tracks
- many
- Material Tracks Made in
- dirt
- Tracks Came From
- farm field
- Tracks Went to
- marsh
Witness
- Witness Saw with
- naked eye
- Observer Was
- at homeýinside building
- Closest horizontal distance
- quarter mile
- Action on sighting
- studied