The viral story in Cheboygan making headlines statewide, a man staying at a local motel left without his pet alligator, ...

This hotel guest left his room — and made it snappy. Staff at a Michigan motel were shocked to find a live alligator left ...

Wally, a 3-foot dwarf alligator, was visiting Cheboygan elementary schools before his owner left him in a motel room, ...

There's only a handful of states in America where you need to be prepared for possible encounters with an alligator, and Michigan is decidedly not one of ...

CHEBOYGAN — An unexpected visitor was found at Pine River Motel on Friday: an alligator. Staffers at the motel found the ...

An investigation revealed the alligator had been left behind by a guest, an exotic animal handler, police said. The man was ...

He didn't try biting anybody or anything. But ... he hissed at me and that was probably pretty much to say, 'Leave me alone.' ...

Wally, a three-feet alligator, was found making himself comfortable under a bed at a hotel room in Michigan by shocked staff after he had been left behind by a guest ...

A worker at the Pine River Motel in Cheboygan on Friday, March 14, 2025, found a 3-foot alligator under a bed. It had been ...

Staff at Pine River Motel in Cheboygan discovered an alligator left behind by its owner, who was in town for exotic animal ...

Police near the northern tip of Michigan's lower peninsula were called to a motel to help secure an unusual piece of left-behind property: a live alligator.

Of all the strange items left behind at a motel, *alligator* now tops the list for the employees at the Pine River Motel.