Little People · Emmet County, Michigan · 2017
MI-2017ID case-5f172c490bFirst-hand accountAdded to map Oct 30, 2026
- Creature
- Little People
- When
- 2017to the year
- Where
- Emmet County, Michiganto county level
- Reports
- 1 document1 independent
The account
The narrator's girlfriend reports seeing a boy with a dirty face and ragged clothes emerge from the forest and stare at her, followed by the narrator seeing two similar boys staring into their car before they disappeared.
See the source ↓ one document so far, so there is no trail to follow yet
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Details
- Creature
- Little People
- Where
- Emmet County, Michigan, United States
mapped to county level · from the report's own words, generalized to a larger area - When
- 2017
- Account
- First-hand (the witness telling it)
- Backed by
- 1 independent source
- Added to map
- Oct 30, 2026
- Case id
- case-5f172c490b
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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.
- encounter with strange children while driving through the woods (August 2017)
Reddit · 2018-12-13
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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
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