By Tim Binnall
In an odd update to already weird story, authorities in Michigan have called into question reports that they were enlisted to investigate a Sasquatch sighting last weekend. The peculiar case began last Saturday morning at around 1 AM when a resident phoned the Shelby Township police department with concerns about a curious figure that her home security system had spotted lurking on her property. A Facebook group devoted to monitoring police scanner traffic subsequently reported the call as a suspected Sasquatch sighting, which led to multiple media outlets covering the strange incident, however the department now says it was all a big misunderstanding.
In response to the commotion surrounding the call, the Shelby Township police department went so far as to issue a press release on Thursday wherein they explained that the resident had, in fact, called 911 to report a "shadow or silhouette captured on her camera" and not the iconic bipedal cryptid known as Sasquatch. The bulletin went on to blame the Facebook group for the confusion and stressed that "after thorough investigation, there was no Bigfoot sighting in Shelby Township" and said that the case was simply a "suspicious incident." While that would seem to set the record straight on the suspected Sasquatch sighting, not everyone is convinced by the announcement.
Josh Parsons, who hosts a Michigan-based podcast about Sasquatch, told a local media outlet that he has doubts about the department's declaration and posited that "a lot of times police want to keep Bigfoot reports quiet. Part of it may be that they don't want to alarm people." Local Bigfoot researcher Gabe Heiss echoed that sentiment and noted a 1965 case in the city of Monroe wherein police said that a caveman statue was to blame for a series of sightings. He went on to observe that a Bigfoot encounter in an urban area, such as what some suspect occurred in Shelby Township last week, is not out of the ordinary as there have been similar reports in the past, suggesting that there just might be some smoke to the proverbial Sasquatch fire.