SaginawIan
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Okay - this is 100% true. In fact, I just returned home and I'm still very confused about what I saw. My wife doesn't beleive me. I drew a sketch of what I saw right away so that I could have the best memory. What the HECK did we see
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Story:
After work this afternoon, Dan and I did a little scouting deep in the woods of Lapeer County. Dan has come up with a lead for a small neighborhood of early 1800's houses in the middle of nowhere. When I say no where - I mean deserted - gone, forget about it. There are no remnants whatsoever. This is the deepest wooded site I've ever detected.
So we drive down 15 miles of one lane dirt roads and park. We basically can see off the edge of the main road where a long overgrown side road winds through the woods. The road is completely overgrown and has 2 foot ruts everywhere - you aren't getting back there without a 4 wheeler. So we hike it - and we hike it. It's about 1.5 miles into the deep woods and nearly 3 miles from ANY house. We arrive on the site at about 6:15pm - so it's still bright and sunny. There is a swamp and small pond nearby. As we are walking up an embankment Dan and I are walking side by side and Dan is pointing out a depression where a house once stood. We are both looking at the depression when Dan says " WHAT THE F*** IS THAT!!" At first I didn't notice what he was talking about - then I ducked down to see around some brush and I saw it. Whatever it was. This thing was about 25 feet from us, coming down a hill off to the side of us.
This is my best description from my limited view: It walked on four legs. It appeared to be about 3 feet tall at the hind legs. It had short glossy WHITE fur. Yes white! IT DID NOT HAVE A TAIL! It was sleek and muscular - and I could only see the back half of it because a bunch of brush was in my way. It was walking or trotting about 4 miles per hour and it's hind legs were muscular. It made no sound at all. Dan saw the whole thing and I'm hoping he posts on here what he saw.
So the thing trots down the hill and I retreat back and pull up my shovel. Dan - crazy man - runs down to where it went - the thing VANISHED. I can hear Dan talking to himself - looking in the bushes and looking for a hole or anything - the thing was GONE!! Did it go in the ground? I have no idea - but it didn't make a sound and it was gone. We basically spent our whole hunt looking over our soldiers wondering where it went. The thing was too big to dive into a hole!! That's the strange thing.
Guys, I gotta tell you that I'm no hunter - but I've spent thousands of hours in the woods. I've seen most every native animal. I've never seen something like this before. Please don't call me crazy here - but it looked like a large cat, but that's impossible, right. Dan said he thought it was the size of a small pony! I started thinking - was it a pig? Too big to be a silver fox - plus the fur wasn't bushy. I have no idea. It was not domestic - 100% positive on that. Albino mutated Coyote? I have no clue.
So everyone - please don't make too much fun of me. I just wanted to post this for your amusement and maybe you can help me out here. Maybe this is a good place to post your own bizarre animal story. . .
Dan - post what you saw - you saw the whole animal so I'll let you tell the rest of the details. Here is my crude sketch.
Ian
?Story:
After work this afternoon, Dan and I did a little scouting deep in the woods of Lapeer County. Dan has come up with a lead for a small neighborhood of early 1800's houses in the middle of nowhere. When I say no where - I mean deserted - gone, forget about it. There are no remnants whatsoever. This is the deepest wooded site I've ever detected.
So we drive down 15 miles of one lane dirt roads and park. We basically can see off the edge of the main road where a long overgrown side road winds through the woods. The road is completely overgrown and has 2 foot ruts everywhere - you aren't getting back there without a 4 wheeler. So we hike it - and we hike it. It's about 1.5 miles into the deep woods and nearly 3 miles from ANY house. We arrive on the site at about 6:15pm - so it's still bright and sunny. There is a swamp and small pond nearby. As we are walking up an embankment Dan and I are walking side by side and Dan is pointing out a depression where a house once stood. We are both looking at the depression when Dan says " WHAT THE F*** IS THAT!!" At first I didn't notice what he was talking about - then I ducked down to see around some brush and I saw it. Whatever it was. This thing was about 25 feet from us, coming down a hill off to the side of us.
This is my best description from my limited view: It walked on four legs. It appeared to be about 3 feet tall at the hind legs. It had short glossy WHITE fur. Yes white! IT DID NOT HAVE A TAIL! It was sleek and muscular - and I could only see the back half of it because a bunch of brush was in my way. It was walking or trotting about 4 miles per hour and it's hind legs were muscular. It made no sound at all. Dan saw the whole thing and I'm hoping he posts on here what he saw.
So the thing trots down the hill and I retreat back and pull up my shovel. Dan - crazy man - runs down to where it went - the thing VANISHED. I can hear Dan talking to himself - looking in the bushes and looking for a hole or anything - the thing was GONE!! Did it go in the ground? I have no idea - but it didn't make a sound and it was gone. We basically spent our whole hunt looking over our soldiers wondering where it went. The thing was too big to dive into a hole!! That's the strange thing.
Guys, I gotta tell you that I'm no hunter - but I've spent thousands of hours in the woods. I've seen most every native animal. I've never seen something like this before. Please don't call me crazy here - but it looked like a large cat, but that's impossible, right. Dan said he thought it was the size of a small pony! I started thinking - was it a pig? Too big to be a silver fox - plus the fur wasn't bushy. I have no idea. It was not domestic - 100% positive on that. Albino mutated Coyote? I have no clue.
So everyone - please don't make too much fun of me. I just wanted to post this for your amusement and maybe you can help me out here. Maybe this is a good place to post your own bizarre animal story. . .
Dan - post what you saw - you saw the whole animal so I'll let you tell the rest of the details. Here is my crude sketch.
Ian
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