From: Le Voleur Newspaper in Paris for August 15, 1862...

"There have just come indications, says the Courier des Estats Unis, that in the forests that extend along Lake Saint Claire and Lake Huron (between Ontario, Canada and the State of Michigan) there exists a tribe or family of savage beings of a formidable and bizarre appearance, of a phenomenal and unknown species.

This is a troop of seven or eight individuals, of which two are men (if it can be said that these beings are human) and one woman or female, and three or four young or small ones. The men are of an elevated stature, slender but strongly muscled; the woman of a height below the medium range, and the young ones aged from ten to sixteen years; all are covered with hair.

The woman and the young ones, even as the men, have the face framed with a bristly beard, like those of certain simians of Brazil; one ofthe men has a bald head and a white beard. The head is very large in proportion to the body, the stomach is enormous, the arms inordinately long and the legs are knock-kneed....Whence comes this tribe? No one knows.

About two months ago, Indian hunters who came to carry their furs to Mont-Clemens got a glimpse of them; this was thirty miles to the west. Eight days later, they were encountered in the vicinity of Port Huron. A little later, they had gone back up toward Saginaw, on the shores of the Shiawassee River.

Everywhere they [they were seen] brought terror, unreflecting terror, without doubt, for it was not justified by any positive deed that one could impute to them. Nevertheless, some attributed to them depredations committed in the villages, from which had disappeared some livestock and domestic animals.

In certain places where they had been seen to pass by, bizarre deeds were reported. In a village near La Peer, nearly all the dogs died in the night. Elsewhere frightened cows stampeded across fields and forests and bats flew around in broad daylight.

Briefly, it seems that, after their appearance, the country they traversed was stricken by some malicious witchcraft.

There was one parish on the shore of Lake Huron where the bell had tolled by itself in the night; the next morning they were seen transporting [sic] themselves in the water, in the midst of a storm and to reach a small island nearby by swimming.

The rustics took up their muskets and followed them with boats; when they arrived on the island they (the creatures) had disappeared. The leaves of the bushes, across the copse (dense growth of bushes) where they had passed, were withered as at the end of autumn.

Those locals who have seen them say they crawl like serpents, run like deer, swim like fish and if need be, vanish like shadows.

Briefly, this is an extravagant apparition; superstition and folkore are naturally in the mix. Fear is everywhere; the villagers are up in arms and in several districts vigilante groups form to hunt a lawless band of hair creatures.

As of now no one can come near it; hunting dogs, flung into the pursuit, have not been able to catch it by speed, and in all the region of the lakes meetings are held to plan to purge the country of the "family of the devil," as they call it.

Probably it will go as it came, the path by which it flees unblocked, even as was the path by which it arrived ignored." 
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This story was published by George Haas in his BIGFOOT BULLETIN NO. 25.
The original article was provided by Igor Bourtsev and translated from French to English by Richard L. Tierney.

Thanks to Jim Burgtorf in Ohio for this article...it is also published on Mark Hall's site about the Norsemen Trolls here:  http://home.att.net/~mhall.feature/

David Paulides NABS website has a beautiful collection of other George Haas  BIGFOOT BULLETINS to # 19 http://www.nabigfootsearch.com/Bigfootbulletin.html


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