I think I saw a wolverine when I was a kid!
Back when I was in the girl scouts we went to a camp in either Wisconsin or Indiana called Camp Butternut Springs.
Side note: When I check online, the camp named Butternut Springs is in Indiana and doesn’t look as familiar as the one in Wisconsin named Camp Juniper Knoll, so now I’m confused as to where we really went to camp. It was the 80s so I don’t have photos of anything and just my memories to go by.
A couple of us were out one day on a trail and came upon an open field that the trail went around on both sides. Across the field was this very large animal just standing there, looking at us. It was strange looking, like a cross between a bear and a beaver. Being 10 or whatever, we all starting screaming and running back the way we came.
I wasn’t close friends with those girls so I never talked about it to anyone but Joe. I always wondered if we somehow imagined the weird creature…. until today when I saw this video. I think this is what it was! Apparently wolverines used to live in the Midwest, which includes both Wisconsin and Indiana, but there’s no evidence they still do.