Yeti · Iron River, Michigan · 1960s
MI-1960ID case-3dae03836eAdded to map Oct 7, 2026
- Creature
- Yeti
- When
- the 1960sto the decade
- Where
- Iron River, Michiganto town level
- Reports
- 1 document1 independent
The account
Witness reports his brother saw a huge, hairy creature step over barbed wire fences while driving deer in the late 1960s.
See the source ↓ one document so far, so there is no trail to follow yet
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Details
- Creature
- Yeti
- Where
- Iron River, Iron County, Michigan, 49964, United States
mapped to town level · from the report's own words - When
- the 1960s
- Account
- Not first-hand (retold or reported by someone else)
- Backed by
- 1 independent source
- Added to map
- Oct 7, 2026
- Case id
- case-3dae03836e
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Source trail (1)
Every link goes to where we found the account. The earliest we found is marked; it is the earliest found, not necessarily the original.
- Memory told of a possible daylight sighting while driving deer on a farm east of Iron River
BFRO · 2011-06-20
Earliest found, not necessarily the original.
Further reading
- Abominable Snowmen: Legend Come to Life, Ivan T. Sanderson (1961)
Early comparative study of wild-man reports worldwide.
Borrow on Internet Archive - Tom Slick and the Search for the Yeti, Loren Coleman (1989)
Borrow on Internet Archive - On the Track of Unknown Animals, Bernard Heuvelmans (1959)
The founding work of cryptozoology.
Borrow on Internet Archive - Cryptozoology A to Z, Loren Coleman and Jerome Clark (1999)
Encyclopedia of reported creatures.
Borrow on Internet Archive
Books we have not reproduced: borrow them free at archive.org. Listing a book is not an endorsement of its claims.