jun 15, 1964 - Dewey Lake Monster
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The Dewey Lake Monster is the name given to a legendary creature said to be approximately 9 feet (2.7 meters) tall and weighing about 500 pounds (227 kilograms), which first gained wide notoriety in June 1964 after several reported sightings near Dewey Lake in Dowagiac, Michigan. It is also referred to as the Michigan Bigfoot and Sister Lakes Sasquatch. According to legend, the creature was rumored to dwell primarily along a 15-mile stretch of swamp-land extending from Dowagiac/Sister Lakes toward Decatur, Michigan (along Dewey Lake Street). In 1964 the tale gained national attention and caused a flood of curious thrill-seekers and monster-hunters to besiege the local community in the summer of 1964, some of whom offered photographs and plaster casts claimed to be of footprints of the creature. Former Cass County Sheriff, Paul Parrish, was quoted as saying "it was one of the strangest times" in his "33 years of southwestern Michigan law enforcement." He added: "We investigated it long and hard, but were never able to come up with whatever it was. But some good, honest, legitimate people" reported it.
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