Comments on: 25 Years Ago Today

By: jasonpix6

jasonpix6 — Sun, 05 Nov 2006 05:45:01 +0000

By: swol

swol — Mon, 23 Oct 2006 12:15:40 +0000

quote “The animal was called the sea panther by local Indians because its head looks like a cat’s, with the body of a large lizard and spikes down its back.”

Kind of sounds like the descriptions of the Chupacabra doesn’t it?

By: jamesrav

jamesrav — Mon, 23 Oct 2006 09:24:22 +0000

I’m still a strong Bigfoot believer (mainly due to the Patterson film), but I’ve read my share of skeptical articles and books. The book by Paul Wylie (I think that’s his name) I felt did a good job poking large holes in the idea that a huge creature could live undiscovered in the Michigan area. Granted it’s got lots of trees and the like, but his analysis of the food requirements vs. availability for maintaining an on-going population of these creatures was hard to disagree with. I think many believers have the notion that simply because there’s a lot of tree cover Bigfoot’s a ‘natural’ to be living there. But dozens of them? I’ll stick with believing California, Oregon, Washington are possible, but Texas, Oklahoma, Michigan?

By: thebunyip

thebunyip — Sun, 22 Oct 2006 23:23:22 +0000

The underwater sea panther was a common motif of the moundbuilder culture of the south and midwest. In their representations (there’s a good book of these in a catalogue published for an exhibition at the Art Institute of Chicago last year) it’s pretty clear the underwater panther was not a bigfoot-like hominid, but possibly some other sort of cryptid.

By: arbigfoothunter

arbigfoothunter — Sun, 22 Oct 2006 04:36:41 +0000

I was born in Michigan and lived there for almost 40 years before moving to Arkansas. I remember in the 1970s reading many news articles about sightings in Washtenaw, Livingston, and Genessee Counties. But the papers would make the eyewitness(es) look like they were crazy, so many encounters went unreported after that. There was an article about a sighting at Camp Grayling (National Guard) that happened one night on the artillery range. Many saw the creature walk right across a field where soldiers were “playing war”.

I had my first “encounter” just south of Houghton Lake in 1982, when my wife, my step daughter and I were all awakened in our tent by the loudest, scariest screaming I have heard and listening to this large creature trying to make up its mind whether to cross into the swamp from the woods (which we were right between), and being able to sort of feel his heavy footsteps under our bodies as we lay in pretty heavy fear. Anyway, yes, there are many excellent places for Bigfoot to eat, roam and hide in Michigan. I have always thought that an area called the “Deadstream Swamp” (west of Houghton Lake, towards Cadillac) could be home to several creatures, much like the forests of California, Washington, and Oregon.

By: JMarlowe

JMarlowe — Sun, 22 Oct 2006 01:21:12 +0000

I live in the upper peninsula of Michigan. I saved an article from our local paper about a bigfoot sighting on October 17, 1977. Typical bigfoot crossing the road. The paper made it seem like the driver must have been drinking to see something like that.

By: kittenz

kittenz — Sat, 21 Oct 2006 21:22:25 +0000

I used to live in Western Michigan years ago. WOW what beautiful country. Rolling, low hills and heavy forests. Lots of water. If there aren’t Bigfoot there, there should be!

By: robzilla

robzilla — Sat, 21 Oct 2006 20:49:59 +0000

I live on the other side of the state. I believe bigfoot has been here along time.

By: twblack

twblack — Sat, 21 Oct 2006 14:46:56 +0000

Never heard of the Sea Panther. Now BF in MI. A lot of good places to hide out and the food would be plenty. A BF dream home so to speak.