MONROE, Mich. (WTVG) – A reported bigfoot sighting in Monroe has made headlines across the country.

“I’ve heard a lot of talk about it. In fact, when I first heard about it, I was in Baltimore, Maryland, and I heard about it there, and I said, ‘Oh my gosh, I leave home for a week and look what happened,’” said Bobb Vergiels, voice of the Toledo Walleye Hockey Team and Monroe County resident.

Vergiels said the report of Bigfoot near Laplaisance Road is a talker. The account by a local 47-year-old man and his 12-year-old son was published by the Bigfoot Field Researchers Organization.

The story took off from there, getting widespread distribution via the Associated Press. The publicity prompted a nearby cannabis dispensary to offer a discount to anyone who comes in with photographic proof of Bigfoot.

“There was what was called the Monroe Monster years ago, after the first fuel was loaded into the Fermi I reactor. Someone saw a big creature out near the Fermi power plant, and so, I think it’s really funny that this was spotted near where that was. Although they didn’t really say where the location was, but it’s near where the Monroe Monster was seen way back in the 1960s,” added Vergiels.

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