Other Aquatic · Alpena County, Michigan · 1980
MI-1980ID case-5492ea63aeFirst-hand accountAdded to map Oct 7, 2026
- Creature
- Other Aquatic
- When
- Jun 1980to the month
- Where
- Alpena County, Michiganto county level
- Reports
- 1 document1 independent
The account
Witness reports hearing a roar and seeing something splash into the water near their boat on Fletcher Pond in 1980.
See the source ↓ one document so far, so there is no trail to follow yet
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Details
- Creature
- Other Aquatic
- Where
- Alpena County, Michigan, United States
mapped to county level · from the report's own words, generalized to a larger area - When
- Jun 1980
- Account
- First-hand (the witness telling it)
- Backed by
- 1 independent source
- Added to map
- Oct 7, 2026
- Case id
- case-5492ea63ae
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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.
- Fisherman recalls being startled by late night encounter on Fletcher Pond near Hillman
BFRO · 2011-06-24
Earliest found, not necessarily the original.
Further reading
- 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 - Abominable Science!, Daniel Loxton and Donald Prothero (2013)
Skeptical history of the Yeti, Nessie and others.
Borrow on Internet Archive - In Search of Prehistoric Survivors, Karl Shuker (1995)
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.