YEAR: 2026

SEASON: Spring

MONTH: May

DATE: 5 19 26

STATE: Michigan

COUNTY: Chippewa County

LOCATION DETAILS: At white fish point

[Investigator (MM) Notes:
GPS coordinates for where figure was seen:
46.772352, -84.958452 ]

NEAREST TOWN: Paradise

NEAREST ROAD: US123 Michigan Upper Peninsula

OBSERVED: Seen Tuesday May 19 at dusk, just a touch of sunset left. At Whitefish Lighthouse. Go out to beach, go left until you see the biggest pile of drift wood next to shore. It was on the west side of that pile. My doberman stopped, we stopped, I turned on my flash light. It ducked down and stayed down for 1/2 min., then looked back up at us. My dog pulled me back to in front of the lighthouse. We ran and got the hell out of there.

ALSO NOTICED: Dog smelled him early that day at Barbs Beach west of Whitefish Point. Stopped, growled, turned and pulled down beach...12pm that same day

OTHER STORIES: Heard lots of sightings

TIME AND CONDITIONS: At dust 5min left of yellow dusk glow

ENVIRONMENT: Cold, rain.next to lake superior

Follow-up investigation report by BFRO Investigator Caroline Curtis:

This report is Class B because the witnesses only saw a silhouette without detail that would absoutely exclude it from being a large human. That is why it is described as a "possible bigfoot".

Diane and her sister Denise live in the Lansing MI area. They came up to do some sightseeing, and stayed with friends in Paradise. This encounter occurred on Tuesday. Her doberman "Snoop Dog" had been spooked the day before when they visited Barb’s Beach.

Tuesday morning they again went to Barb’s Beach and again the dog wanted to go back to the car. She told her sister there must be a bear or a wolf in the area. She says the dog is very smart, and protective and does not scare easily.

Later that day they went a short distance away to Whitefish Point and again the dog growled at something unseen. Towards evening they walked past the observation deck to look for yooperlites (fluorescent beach stones). Diane had the flashlight. It was a few minutes after sundown. There was still a yellow glow above the horizon. It appeared that nobody else was around on the beach.

As they approached a large log pile at the edge of the water, the dog started backing up and growling and wouldn’t go any further. Diane looked toward where the dog was looking. Dianae was between 50-75 feet from the log pile and saw the distinct moving silhouette of what appeared to be a large man bent over. It was on the opposite side of the log pile. Diane yelled to her sister that something was over there. The sister looked and saw the dark upright figure. The figure put its hand on a log and swung its leg over as if it was going to cross over to her side. When she turned the flightlight in that direction the big dark figure ducked down behind the log pile.

As the doberman was insisting they leave, she looked back with the flashlight to see a head pop up a couple of times. She described the dark figure as having the build of a very big lumberjack with no neck.

I spoke to the sister also. She heard Diane yell when they were apart from each other. She looked and saw the upright silhouette at the big pile of logs. The figure was behind a log and then disappeared. She said the figure was at least as wide as the biggest log. It had the general shape a large man. She and Diane were probably 50 feet apart.

They hurried back to the parking lot where there were only two other vehicles. One of the vehicles they knew belonged to a bird bander.

The last photo below was taken at the location earlier in the day. The pile of logs is in the background.

On Friday May 22 BFRO investigator Don Peer looked around the wood pile, and the beach and nearby woods. There were hundreds of human tracks on the beach but no obvious bigfoot tracks among them, but this was three days after the incident with a lot of wind and rain in the interval.

During the day these beaches are popular with rock hunters and bird watchers, a corridor for migratory birds. Don mentioned that if it was a human climbing over the pile of logs at dusk with no light source ... that would be very odd.

It is important to note that there was more activity than normal in the woods that day with bird banders banding owls, and at least 35 law enforcement officers combing the woods, just north of Paradise. The law enforcement officers -- including helicopters and dog teams -- were spread out through the woods approximately four miles to the south of the lighthouse area. It is quite possible that all this human activity in woods normally devoid of people might have flushed a sasquatch from there.

Click here for local news article about that search and rescue operation."Human Remain Found, Chippewa County Police Say"

Also note, this point on Lake Superior gets a lot of snow in winter. Deer in the area move south, far away from the lake shore in winter. Deer return to these swampy, boggy forests (which includes a very large natural cranberry bog) when the weather warms up.

Tahquamenon Falls State Park is in this area. The snow is 3-4 feet there through much winter, whereas Hiawatha National Forest to the south has only 1-2 feet of snow on the ground through most of winter. 1-2 foot snow depth is much more survivable for deer than 3-4 feet of snow, so the deer move south, away from Lake Superior. Don Peer noticed a lot of deer tracks on the beach near Whitefish Point last week, so the deer have returned, and the predators like bigfoots would have followed them.

The local contact of the witness lives in Paradise. He has heard that a local guy who lives up near the point says there has been bigfoot activity in the area over the years. We haven't spoke with him. We only know his name is Dino and his wife is named Sara. We don't know how to get ahold of this guy to ask what he knows, so we don't if he has had his own experiences or just heard about incidents there.














See the local news article about the search and rescue operation:
"Human Remain Found, Chippewa County Police Say"

About BFRO Investigator Caroline Curtis:

• Worked as an Assistant to a Circuit Court Judge in Florida for thirteen years
• An avid outdoorswoman, growing up in the UP of Michigan on a family-owned fishing and hunting resort
• Certified Visual Tracker, Level 1
• Attended and assisted with numerous public and private BFRO expeditions
• She and the Florida BFRO organized South Florida Expedition 2008, North Florida Expedition 2008 and Central Florida Expedition in 2009.
  
• She and the Michigan BFRO organized the Lower-Michigan Expedition in 2011, Michigan UP Expeditions in 2012, 2013, 2015, 2016, 2018 and Wisconsin 2018
• BFRO Secretary for 20 years