An open record of things people cannot explain

Strange accounts from Michigan

1,188 people here wrote down something they could not explain, between 1940s to 2020s.


What people here tend to describe

a triangle shape 88hovering 87an orange orb 66moving in formation 56screaming or howling 38a very tall figure 37red lights 35growling 25

The accounts

1974-07-30

In late July of 1974, my father, mother, and I decided to take our German Shepherd on an early evening nature walk in the woods by our house. This area is southeast of the intersection of Packard and…

1986-07-15

This took place in the summer of 1986. Myself and four other friends decided to go on an over night camping trip about 2 miles from my friends house. There were 3 men and two women all together. The a…

undated

I dont recall which summer this sighting happened. It could have been the summer of 2000 or of 1999. I still have a hard time believing it myself and the few people I've told have made so much fun of…

1965-07-15

When I was a child we used to go to Caseville every summer and rent a cabin on the Lake Huron shore. I believe I was 12, my sister 5, which would make it 1965 when this occurred. One night there was a…

2006-04-11

It was early april here in southern michigan, I was sitting watching tv around 2:30 AM and was preparing to go to bed when I felt like I was being watched. I live in a rented 12x70 2 bedroom trailer.…

undated

Newspaper article : Idaho Statesman (Boise); November 22, 1981 BIGFOOT BLAMED FOR TROUBLE NEAR EAST MICHIGAN TOWN Yale, Mich. (UPI) - Cindy Barone says it's not the torn- down fences of the barn doors…

2008-09-25

Let me start out saying I grew up in the woods of northern Michigan(I was 18 at the time ) I have hunted trapped and fished just about every critter in those woods since I was a very small child and h…

2018-05-30

We,(FIVE OF US) planned a three day investigation on private property, some 126 acres of private property near Rock, north of Escanaba Michigan, U.P. Arriving in a predetermined site, some half mile i…

undated

It was Aug or Sept of 2011. Warm night, around 3:30am. We were raising broiler chickens (meat birds) in chicken tractors (mobile chicken coops). Our bedroom window was open and I heard the sound of a…

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It was late September 1980, mid-morning on a Saturday with sunny, calm and cool weather. Perfect for squirrel hunting, so off I went, not telling anyone where I was going (I had a number of different…

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