petoskeynews – When Ron Kostrubiec visited Wilderness State Park (Emmet County, Northern Michigan) with his family at the end of July, he got more than he bargained for.

Riding his mountain bike along Swamp Line Trail at approximately 6:30 p.m. on July 29, the 41-year-ancient Macomb Township man was enjoying the earthy smells of nature. Two miles or so into his ride, he turned east toward the Nebo Trail, delighting in deep breaths of pine and damp earth – that is until he reached a “wall.”

“I was about three quarters of the way to the Nebo Trail when I ran into the thickest wall of live human body odor that you could ever imagine,” he said. “It sent chills up my spine and my hair stood up. It frightened me so much, I peddled as quick as I could out of there.”

Kostrubiec got back to camp and told everyone about his experience. The next morning, he spoke with rangers but no one could give him an answer about what he smelled. So that evening he went back to the same spot at roughly same time.

“This time I was on full alert. I place my nose in the air and looked around as much as I could but I never smelled it again. That tells me something was there. And I truly believe what ever was there watched me go by,” he said.

Not only did he go back to the spot once, but every night until he and his family left. Although he never smelled it again, on one of his “missions,” something else happened. While walking down a snowmobile trail by O’Neal and Lawrence lakes, while listening to the wind blowing through the trees, he heard something.

“I was listening to the sounds of nature when all of a sudden from the direction of the smell encounter I heard three faint taps like two pieces of wood being hit together, then a slight pause, then one more and then back to the sounds of nature,” he said.

After listening to people talk about Bigfoot, Kostrubiec thinks this is what he may have encountered – and he’s not the only one. Shortly after his first encounter, Kostrubiec’s 9-year-ancient son, Anthony, said a young boy by the name of Jack had a similar experience.

“Jack smelled really terrible body odor too right behind the campground around the same day as my encounter,” Kostrubiec said. “He was riding his bike along a powerline trail when he said he ran into the smell. He said it really frightened him and he got out of there and went back to his camper.”

The tale doesn’t end there. On one of the last days of their trip, Kostrubiec, along with his wife, Gina, their three sons, Anthony, Mikey, 7, and Joey, 5, and his mother and father-in-law, took a bike ride on Wilderness Road to a large glacier boulder marked by the Department of Natural Resources.

As the kids were playing on the rock with his wife and mother-in-law, Kostrubiec and his father-in-law walked through the woods when they came upon unusual markings in the ground.

“To know these markings, picture the ground being a thick thatch layer of pine needles and to really make a mark in them you would really have to kick the ground in a forward motion to even really attempt to get to the dirt below,” Kostrubiec said. “But there were these marks that went back into the woods that looked as if you would have gotten on your knees and punched the ground to push the needles forward and expose the dirt below.”

The men followed the marks into the woods toward the road where they seemed to stop at the base of a fallen tree. As Kostrubiec looked around, he noticed a footprint.

“Because of the pine needle floor it was more of a impression like you would see in your carpet after vacuuming,” he said.

He called for everyone and directed them to come to him without stepping on the trail. When everyone was there, he grabbed a small stick and traced out the footprint.

“It was a right foot print about 16 inches long and really wide,” he said. “You could make it out perfectly with a small rise of dirt between the small and next toe. Everyone saw it.”

He traced it out a couple more times, all the while not believing what he was seeing.

“Not even thinking of Bigfoot when going out there, my mind and senses seemed overwhelmed,” he said.

With no camera, everyone went back to camp.

Since the trip, Kostrubiec has spoken with the Mackinaw City Police, as well as with the State Police in Petoskey. Chief Patrick Wyman with the Mackinaw City Police and Sergeant Jerry Briolat with the State Police Post in Petoskey said neither posts have ever received any report of suspicious Bigfoot activity.

“We’ve had reports of suspicious activity in the area but nothing related to Bigfoot,” Briolat said.

The Department of Natural Resources Law Division also has not received any reports of that nature in the area or any other area in Northern Michigan according to Lt. Daniel Hopkins.

“The reports of activity we’ve received are cougar or wolf related – nothing Bigfoot,” Hopkins said.

Kostrubiec said all of the researchers he’s spoken with from the Michigan Bigfoot Organization and the Bigfoot Field Researchers Organization said what he encountered in the woods could have been Bigfoot.

Matt Moneymaker, president of the Bigfoot Field Researchers Organization said, with absolute certainly, Bigfoot creatures exist in some places in North America, but they are not everywhere.

“Reports have been consistent in the last 11 years since reports started to be collected through the Internet,” Moneymaker said. “The same kinds of animals are present and that indicates there may be a relatively sizable population.”

With several handfuls of reports in both peninsulas every year, Moneymaker said the Fantastic Lakes has a history of Bigfoot sightings dating back to early Native American times. With respect to Kostrubiec’s encounter, Moneymaker said there were characteristics that would make it possible that it was a Bigfoot but it’s not definitive.

“For all the time I have spent in the woods fishing and hunting in the Upper and Lower Peninsulas seeing bear, deer and other wildlife, I never had these experiences before,” Kostrubiec said. “It was a Bigfoot encounter as for the footprint. There is no mistaking that. I truly believe in the events and I certainly reckon there is something going on up there.”

Some other creatures that some people believe may be in area forests, but there is no conclusive proof:

- According to the Michigan Citizens for Cougar Recognition Web site, there have been 74 sightings of cougars in Emmet County from 1990-2009. Mary Dettloff, public information officer with the Michigan Department of Natural Resources, said although there are lots of alleged sightings, there have been only two cougars verified by scat, tracks and other biological evidence in the western half of the Upper Peninsula. Dettloff said there’s no established evidence of breeding populations of cougars in Northern Michigan.

- According to Dettloff, one wolverine was found in the thumb area of Michigan four years ago. Dettloff said a possible theory is that the creature came in on a Canadian garbage truck.

- Dettloff said there are more than 500 wolves in the Upper Peninsula. A wolf was trapped in Presque Isle County three years ago, but there’s been no biological data of wolves in the Lower Peninsula since then.
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Originally posted June 2007

BFRO Will Hunt for Evidence of ‘Bigfoot’ in Michigan

MANISTIQUE, Mich. (June 27) – Researchers will visit the Upper Peninsula in Michigan next month to search for evidence of the legendary creature known as “Bigfoot” or “Sasquatch.”

The expedition will focus on eastern Marquette County, said Matthew Moneymaker of the Bigfoot Field Researchers Organization.

“We’ll be looking for evidence supporting a presence. … We hope to meet local people who might have seen a Sasquatch or heard of someone else who had an encounter,” Moneymaker told the Daily Press of Escanaba.

The legend of Bigfoot dates back centuries. But skeptics have challenged accounts of sightings, and practical jokers have staged hoaxes that have included grainy film footage of people dressed in costumes.

But Moneymaker said members of his organization have either glimpsed Bigfoot or gotten close enough to hear the creature in all but three of 30 expeditions in the United States and Canada.

The late Grover Krantz, a Washington State University professor who specialized in cryptozoology, the study of creatures that have not been proven to exist, believed Bigfoot was a “gigantopithecus,” a branch of primitive man believed to have existed 3 million years ago.
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Originally posted July 2007

Group Tapes Bigfoot’s Weep in Michigan U.P.

MARQUETTE COUNTY, MICHIGAN — Bulletin No. 1: Bigfoot is frolicking in the forest east of this Upper Peninsula community, a California-based group of researchers says.

Bulletin No. 2: The group searching for the legendary mannish ape here this week captured evidence of its existence, they claim.

The Bigfoot Field Researchers Organization recorded the creature’s trademark howl during an expedition late Thursday night.

Group leader Matt Moneymaker quickly ruled out the possibility that the noise came from a human or another animal. He said it was similar to the sounds made by primates.

“We know it wasn’t an owl or coyote,” he said.

The group heard the noise in response to a howl by one of the searchers. The group also made other noises, including banging on wood with a stick, to pique the interest of the wooly bully.

The Michigan attendees are resolute in their beliefs.

Lack of evidence doesn’t stop them. Neither do sketchy claims and confessed hoaxes.

To them, Bigfoot isn’t some type of fuzzy-headed myth or scam or case of mistaken identity. It’s real.

And that’s why they’re trampling through dense brush in the rain, wearing camouflage and scent-blocking lotion, swatting away mosquitoes and fright.

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As he stands inside the doorway he is worried but he believes all that he sees…. on the floor where everything is merging…and the pictures he sees are tragic…and he starts to believe in Magic.
Richie Havens.

If you’re a debunker how do you clarify four credible witnesses who come forward 12 years later about a UFO sighting and Alien abduction? This was just the case in the Allagash abduction tale where twin brothers, Jack and Jim Weiner, along with their friends, Chuck Rak and Charlie Foltz, had close encounters and missing time. When eventually the tale came out a well respected, well seasoned, UFO researcher, Ray Fowler, set up the sessions with a certified hypnotist. Later, as all four went under separate hypnosis sessions. The classic abduction scenario played out. The debunkers, of course immediately jumped on the hypnotists as the explanation; simply place the hypnotist had led each one of these four men into a fake memory of alien abduction. Sounds like a plausible explanation. A overzealous hypnotist leads the subject toward abduction because that is what he/she believes happened.

This is where the laymen and scientists so many times miss the boat when they explore no further and buy into this explanation. The details of this group’s alien abduction experience shouts out to the common sense mind that the “fake memory” floating boat does not hold water.

As in the Betty and Barney Hill abduction the Allagash abduction starts with a close encounter of the second kind. But, unlike Betty and Barney, they had a previous sighting four days earlier.

In this case four friends go on their dream camping and fishing trip in the Allagash river territory in Maine. Fascinating enough they were told the river water was too low to fish by Park Rangers, but they went anyway and to their surprise the water level was fine.

This first encounter and it’s description of the light have been repeated thousands of times in others UFO reports: They noticed on shore an extremely bright light over the trees, then it seemed to wink out as if it collapsing inward. They quickly forgot about it and four days later the small group found a spot where they chose to go night fishing. They built a large all night camp fire, and the four friends ventured forth by canoe on the river for some fantastic productive night fishing. It was productive all right, but not for them.

As they started to fish a bright light rose over the trees and hovered. It was described by all four as radiating. They mentioned that it seemed to be the same light they all witnessed four days earlier. What they do next also is not new to UFO history. They used their flashlight to signal the lighted object. The object responded by immediately bright a beam down on the river. Before the critical among you reckon that this could have been a helicopter, reckon again. The object witnessed by all four was silent, even at very close range. They became frightened as the object seemed to be getting larger and closer. Nearly simultaneously they all started paddling as hard as they can toward shore. Jack was in the back of the canoe and could see it was gaining on them quickly he knew there was no way they couldn’t possible get away. The next thing they were aware they were then on shore and was the large lighted object was hanging in the night above them close enough “to hit it with a stone.” They had been on the lake a small while; at least they thought… They signaled it again but got no response and it drifted away but then as an added statement the light collapsed inward only to reappear far away, It then to shot off into space. They did notice their campfire (which had been blazing when they left) was only cinders upon their return to the campsite- this was impossible they felt as they were no more than twenty minutes on the lake.

The following suggests strongly that they were under some powerful post hypnotic commands. After having the scary experience they all nearly immediately fell to sleep and never talked about their experience during the following ten days of their camping. Again, we find the classic experience: missing time and a nearly pathological need not to talk about it afterward. I have often wondered why these entities don’t just wipe human memories? But, you know, they don’t have to. All they need to do is buy time. That is what they seem to do after most abductions by inducing long term amnesia. But nature will not be denied not even by aliens. When something that traumatic happens it has to leak out. For years the two brothers had horrible similar nightmares. Folks, these nightmares happened years before the induced hypnotism. Although the dreams were in some ways different there was one way they were very much the same. They both experienced creatures in the dreams, they were confined in a room by these beings who paralyzed with their minds. They remembered being violated like lab rats. They felt the helplessness and the rage associated with a real abduction. These terrors are not from TV . What is happening here is much more than that and I reckon we all know it. The evidence and emotion surrounding this abduction was real and no induced hypnotism was yet in place.

For years afterwards, the brothers had these abduction terror dreams. They never told each other about the dreams; only their wifes knew. Eventually these dreams started to intensify and they started to talk to each other about them. (Reckon about Barney Hill right now and how Betty had the constant dreams and Barney had to be treated for an ulcer. Stress finds a way out). There reaction on learning they were both plague by their horrible dreams they stated to talk to the others who were there.

The vital details to these types of reports are the side avenues the debunkers don’t want to get into. They will not address these types of details publically because they really can’t. There is no other explanation except something real happened. When the horrible details of what happened in the four separate hypnotic sessions matched, this stopped being a quaint UFO tale. No, this was an all too frightening, this was the about pain, the terror the loss and embarrassment of abduction and rape. The ultimate terror… to lose complete control to something that isn’t even from earth.

Charles Fort, one of the group, eventually bought into the debunkers explanation. He stated it must have been fake memory. No one seems to point out this is a very possible reaction to an experience that was so horrifying in its significance as to shatter your future for all time. He simply did not want it to be real, and who can blame him? As for the fifteen minutes of fame explanation looming out there, the details of this abduction are embarrassing in a public forum. Why would these types of outdoorsmen do that to themselves?

What do these beings want? Why do they leave clues? Is it just mistakes or are they leaving messages in these abduction? Do they leave deep subconscious messages which tell us who is in control ?

Remember that even if you are in a group, if you try to signal a UFO what you get back may be more than a Hello.

Joseph Capp
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