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 Report # 19936  (Class B)
Submitted by witness on Wednesday, June 27, 2007.
Possible footprints found in snow outside Marquette

YEAR: 2004

SEASON: Winter

MONTH: January

DATE: 22

STATE: Michigan

COUNTY: Marquette County

LOCATION DETAILS: im not sure as to the exact name of the road but if you go past lost creek apartments and keep following that road until you get to where it says Acocks where there used to be a sanitarium . keep going past that and its the next right , there is a road going up a little hill and there will be a gate . just about 300 feet from that to the right is where we seen the prints in the snow .

NEAREST TOWN: marquette

NEAREST ROAD: Acocks drive

OBSERVED: Hello , my name is shawn age 26 . I just heard about the BFRO today from my mother who told me right away about this bigfoot investigation team coming to marquette and this subject is something im very passionate about especially after an encounter my bestfriend erik and i had a couple years ago , the only people i ever told was some family and ofcouse discussing with my buddy over the years since . So the night it happend was i believe in 2004 and sometime in late january . we were driving on the back road just past Acocks Sanitarium on a dirt road that goes up to the right and heads back to some railroad tracks and LOTS of woodland . well it was between 9 and 10 and we very board and trying to find new places where we could snowboard so we decided to pull over there and walk up the road and see if we could find some good size hills back there . we got a couple flashlights out of my buddys car and started walking up the road past the gate . not even about 300 feet away from the gate we heard a strange sound but didnt think anything of it so we kept walking . i noticed what looked like very large prints in the snow to my right and right away thought it was from someone on snowshoes but even though it was late at night there was quite a bit of light out so even with the flashlights not on the prints you could see clearly they were to far apart in stride so this struck erik and i . we shined our lights closer on them and realized they were NOT from a snowshoer but there was clearly shaped FOOT prints , toes and all . it was very warm that day and even that night was pretty nice so i kept telling myself there is no way that its a bigfoot print and was telling myself that maybe the snow had melted a bit and made a footprint look larger but then i realized ok thats silly because its an actual FOOT print , clear as day and why would someone walk around the snow in bare feet and who would have feet that are that big . my flashlight was 12 inches long and i put it alongside it and the print was still quite larger than that and very wide . erik had a disposible camera in his car so i ran down and grabbed it and i even took a picture of the print . the stride on it also was very far apart , i walked in the snow next to it and i had to seriously spread my legs out far just to come close to the stride of these prints . i would almost have to run and leap to make those strides . so that really got me thinking and so erik and i were standing there discussing this whole thing not beliveing that it was real and not even 5 minutes after talking a huge tree across the road and down a little bank about 20 feet from us started shaking violently and the snow was falling off it and branches breaking so erik started running back towards the car and i followed . we sat in the car for a minute to just gather ourselfs of what it could have been and till this day we swear by what we saw . this is the first time ive ever wrote of this . and i just gotta say i think your BFRO is a great thing and i know someday bigfoot will be proven true .

OTHER WITNESSES: just myself and my best friend erik .

OTHER STORIES: no i never heard of anything untill this happend .

TIME AND CONDITIONS: 9-10pm

ENVIRONMENT: mostly woodland . across the main road before turning into the dirt road there is a little creek . lots of deer back in this area because its pretty remote . not busy at all.

Follow-up investigation report by BFRO Investigator Eric Lester:

I spoke with the witness about his experience. He was able to recount clearly what he experienced that night. He and his friend were scouting the area for possible snowboarding locations, and initially heard some sounds from the forest that they dismissed (small branches breaking, something moving through the snow). They then came upon a set of footprints in the snow, which led into the forest. The first print, right off the dirt road, was the clearest. The tracks were estimated at 14-15 inches long, with about a 5 foot stride.

They were in this area for a few minutes, looking at the prints and discussing what they found, when behind them in a gully a tree starting shaking violently, knocking snow off the branches. This may have occurred to intimidate them enough to make them leave the area. They left soon afterwards.

The area is near the Morgan Heights Sanatorium.

About BFRO Investigator Eric Lester:

Eric Lester is a medical professional and has been investigating possible Sasquatch sightings since 2004.
BFRO expeditions include: