Police Look into Michigan Bigfoot Sighting

On June 22, 2022, police said that they had responded to a bigfoot sighting in Shelby Township in Macomb County in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. The police responded to a call from a local resident the night of June 17 reporting she had captured an image on her home surveillance camera that resembled a bigfoot. According to the Macomb County Scanner Facebook page, officers searched the area but did not find a sasquatch or anything resembling the fabled large, hairy, ape-like creature.

However, the possible bigfoot sighting in Shelby Township is now being downplayed by police and described as a “suspicious incident” and a “shadow or silhouette” captured on a resident’s surveillance camera. A release from Shelby Township Police on June 23 confirms that officers searched the area but “after a thorough investigation, there was no bigfoot sighting in Shelby Township.”

Michigan Bigfoot researchers Gabe Heiss, of Southeast Michigan Bigfoot Research Organization, and Josh Parsons, who produces the Hide and Seek Archives Bigfoot podcast, say that kind of response from law enforcement or government officials is not uncommon. In particular, reported urban Bigfoot sightings tend to make some people uncomfortable.

“A lot of times police want to keep Bigfoot reports quiet,” said Parsons. “Part of it may be that they don’t want to alarm people.”

Heiss notes that a well-known Sasquatch sighting in Monroe in 1965 was downplayed by local officials. “The police went as far as taking a caveman statue from the Prehistoric Forest in Irish Hills and placing it in a field near the reported encounter as a cover-up,” said Heiss. (theoaklandpress.com, 24 June 2022)