Sasquatch Sighting in Michigan

Last week, my husband and I took a mini vacation to the upper peninsula of Michigan. Luckily, we are both avid campers, and didn’t mind staying at a  rustic, state park. I’m not a huge fan of pit toilets, but I do want to social distance as much as possible, so this isolated spot fit us perfectly.

One place we visited was the Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore. I can’t believe that I’ve lived in Michigan and had never once been there! Lake Superior was icy cold, but calm and deceptively tame-looking.

If you ever get to the upper peninsula, you’ll find these three things in great plenitude: smoked fish, fudge, and pasties. Pasties, a traditional miner’s meal of ground meat inside a pastry crust, is one of my favorite delicacies. When we went into town to buy some, we were astonished by the number of Bigfoot statues and signs we saw.

Of course, I had to find out what the Bigfoot hoopla was all about! Turns out, Sasquatch was spotted in Munising five years ago by a couple of guys coming home from the bar. They swore to everyone that they’d watched the legendary creature cross the road right in front of them. A crew from Animal Planet even came to the town to shoot an episode of a Bigfoot-related show they were airing.  The TV crew’s conclusion: it might have been a Bigfoot.

Is it possible?

The clerk at the pasty shop shrugged when we asked if she believed the rumor. “I can’t say that it didn’t happen,” she said. Although, to be honest, I think she was just humoring a couple of tourists.

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