Bigfoot · Rapid River, Michigan · 1986
MI-1986ID case-f1e6e001a2First-hand accountAdded to map Oct 7, 2026
- Creature
- Bigfoot
- When
- Jul 1986to the month
- Where
- Rapid River, Michiganto town level
- Reports
- 1 document1 independent
The account
Witness reports that five teenagers camping near a swamp in the Upper Peninsula heard screeching noises and saw branches breaking from a creature that circled their campsite for three hours.
See the source ↓ one document so far, so there is no trail to follow yet
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Details
- Creature
- Bigfoot
- Where
- Rapid River, Masonville Township, Delta County, Michigan, 49828, United States
mapped to town level · from the report's own words - When
- Jul 1986
- Account
- First-hand (the witness telling it)
- Backed by
- 1 independent source
- Added to map
- Oct 7, 2026
- Case id
- case-f1e6e001a2
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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.
- Campers have strange encounter near swamp in the Upper Peninsula
BFRO · 2003-01-22
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
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