Bigfoot · Little Manistee River, Michigan · 2003
MI-2003ID case-a54527e473First-hand accountAdded to map Oct 7, 2026
- Creature
- Bigfoot
- When
- Oct 11, 2003to the day
- Where
- Little Manistee River, Michiganto approximate level
- Reports
- 1 document1 independent
The account
Witness reports hearing three distinct knocks from the north and answering sounds over four mornings in October 2003, initially attributing them to large woodpeckers.
See the source ↓ one document so far, so there is no trail to follow yet
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Details
- Creature
- Bigfoot
- Where
- Little Manistee River, Lake County, Michigan, United States
mapped to approximate level · from the report's own words - When
- Oct 11, 2003
- Account
- First-hand (the witness telling it)
- Backed by
- 1 independent source
- Added to map
- Oct 7, 2026
- Case id
- case-a54527e473
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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.
- Multiple years of wood knocking and primate-like behavior described by a soldier hunting near Manistee
BFRO · 2014-02-09
Earliest found, not necessarily the original.
Further reading
- Sasquatch: The Apes Among Us, John Green (1978)
Newspaper-publisher's file of Pacific Northwest reports.
Borrow on Internet Archive - Sasquatch, Don Hunter with Rene Dahinden (1975)
Casebook from a long-time field investigator.
Borrow on Internet Archive - On the Track of Bigfoot, Marian T. Place (1974)
1970s account of reports and searches.
Borrow on Internet Archive - Bigfoot! The True Story of Apes in America, Loren Coleman (2003)
Coleman's history and case survey.
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.