"I got a good look at what it was, it had a humanoid body, muscular yet lanky at the same time, and the head wasn't like that of a sasquatch, it was like that of a wolf."
I received the following account:
"This happened to me in 2018 at a sleepaway camp, and it still sends shivers down my spine. I've always had a passion for the supernatural and the idea of cryptids roaming the forests, but I've always kept my guard up since this encounter.
So to set the scene, I was on a winter camping retreat with my church called "Ice Camp" and we traveled to a place called Camp Michindoh located outside of the town of Hillsdale, Michigan. The first night was pretty much uneventful, but we got to explore the campgrounds at night as well as get settled into our cabins. However, all the joy was taken out when we were told never to explore the campgrounds alone at night or the monsters would get us. For a bunch of rowdy teenage boys, we just laughed it off and went to bed. The morning was uneventful but one detail about where my cabin was, it was across a large lake with a relatively small footbridge connecting our cabin with the main lodge, and all of the other cabins.
So in the main dining hall, one of the cabins mentioned how last night, none of them got to sleep because something was howling in the woods near a section called "The Western Town" and my cabin didn't believe them for one second, and we just told them that it was coyotes, or wolves since there have been gray wolf sightings near our camp. However, the teens telling us this was shaken up, and they were adamant that it was something else, and we joked that it was Bigfoot. So they just told my cabin to shut the eff up and we did. Well, as the day progressed my cabin and counselor had done activities to keep us interested. However, that evening would be the worst night of our lives.
It was around midnight and we set up a bonfire to sit around and reflect upon the sermon that was given, shortly after that we just began to talk about random stuff, and when we heard a bunch of coyotes, we thought nothing of it. But then it just went dead quiet in the span of maybe a couple of minutes. Then we heard one of the most guttural howls that sounded like a human being murdered mixed with a wolf howl. This made us all jump up but we wanted answers to what we heard, so my counselor, myself, and two other cabinmates entered the woods with a 200-lumen flashlight, we had good visibility and at first, we didn't find anything, then way off into the distance (the furthest area the flashlight could reach) we saw two pairs of red glowing eyes looking at us, and as it got closer we thought we saw wolves, but the movements were unnatural, it was more like a person down on all fours. My counselor told us to move away slowly, but the creature kept approaching, and before I could remember the 2nd one stood up and began to charge us, and we ran as fast we could.
We yell to our cabinmates to get their butts to the cabin, and of course, they were confused as to why we were running until they heard the same howl as earlier, and we hauled our butts from the bonfire across the footbridge, but we stopped halfway because we thought it wouldn't go any closer. Until we heard the wood creaking rapidly, and my entire cabin booked it once again, this time up to my cabin, and we bolt the door shut. Whatever had followed us was now circling the cabin, all of us were freaking out, but then the thing looked into the window, and I got a good look at what it was, it had a humanoid body, muscular yet lanky at the same time, and the head wasn't like that of a sasquatch, it was like that of a wolf. All night we heard scaping and heavy footsteps. Until early morning it lost interest and left. I went to get some breakfast early that morning, and to my horror, I found a large set of claw marks in the wood and a large set of footprints leading towards the woods. So after that harrowing encounter, I found out that the thing we saw was not Bigfoot, but rather an older cryptid from Michigan folklore called the Michigan Dogman.
Ever since then, I refused to go to a sleepaway camp, because whatever I saw I knew it would still be roaming the campgrounds." A
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