The Bigfoot Field Researchers Organization (BFRO) published a report last month in which a father and son claimed to have encountered a large, apelike creature near Monroe, Michigan, roughly 35 miles south of Detroit.

The father, Edward, 47, and son, 12, were out bow fishing at around 11:30 a.m. on May 18th when, while following Plum Creek deeper into the nearby marshland, they stopped to listen as police sirens sounded in the distance.

"All of a sudden," Edward said in the report, "I heard rustling in a tree to the left and a huge thud hitting the ground from the tree. A big heavy animal hit the ground and crouched and started moving towards me through brush."

His dog immediately gave chase and almost caught the creature before it "shot off extremely fast through the trees and brush."

The dog followed the creature up the slope it had disappeared over but returned when Edward called it back.

"Holy shit, what was that?" his son exclaimed. "It was as big as a bear, but it looked like a gorilla!"

Father and son both quickly agreed to retreat when they then "heard something crunching on the ground" behind them.

BFRO Investigator Matthew Moneymaker said he was able to interview both witnesses over the phone, describing the pair as “credible and freshly descriptive about what happened to them.”

According to Moneymaker, he "asked enough to discern that it was not a bear."

"It was a large, dark-furred primate that ran up a slope on two legs looking like a gorilla from behind. Yes, that would be a bigfoot," he said.

The incident, Moneymaker posited, happened so fast that there was "no time to even consider trying to photograph it."

"The whole encounter lasted less than ten seconds from beginning to end," he explained. "It happened totally by surprise. No one would have gotten a photo of it in that first shock interval."

Moneymaker, a materialist who favors the idea of bigfoot as an undiscovered animal species, went on to say that he thought the area was well-suited for such a being to exist.

He noted that the marsh is full of deer due to hunting being outlawed.

"Consequently, there are herds of deer in the marsh and woods year-round," he said. "There are lots of cattails around this marsh as well. Therefore, two things [that] bigfoots consume, especially in winter: cattails and deer."

Furthermore, Moneymaker continued, although it might seem counterintuitive, the marsh’s placement near civilization actually makes it more attractive as a home to bigfoot.

“The closer a nature pocket is to a town, the greater likelihood that hunting is forbidden there (so the bullets don't travel into the neighborhoods),” the investigator stated. “The area becomes a de facto safe haven for deer herds. Bigfoot look for deer so they will sometimes end up in pockets of woods near towns like Monroe when there is enough plants and animals to sustain them.”

This is the fifth bigfoot sighting to have been reported to the BFRO out of Monroe County since 1980, with the next most recent taking place in 2009.

So far, 226 total reports have been submitted within the state of Michigan.

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