Indiana County: Bartholomew County

The sighting was witnessed by my brother and a friend. My brother told me of the sighting shortly after it happened in the winter of 1992. He has retold it to me a few times over the years, most recently on New Years Eve ’98. The story is always the same and never changes. My brother was in high school at the time and had been at a party. The party was supervised by parents at a friends house so there was no drinking envolved. His friend was driving the family van. After the party, the two boys drove a girl home that lived west of Columbus around the Youth Camp Road area. After dropping the girl off, the boys proceeded east on the road, back towards State Road 46. My brother states that “something” crossed the road about 50-80 yards in front of the van. He said it walked out of the woods on the left side of the road, crossed the road, and entered the woods again on the right. He said the headlights caught a climpse of it as it was re-entering the woods on the rightside of the road. He said it was completely white and furry. He said that they drove for about 5 minutes in silence without stopping. After about 5 minutes, my brother’s friend said “What the hell was that?”. My brother said “I don’t know. I was afraid to say anything because I thought it might have just been my imagination”. According to my brother this is the EXACT dialoge spoken. He said it was big, tall, and covered in white fur. He told me that he didn’t see it clear enough to tell if it was “Bigfoot” like or huminoid, although he said it was about 6ft. tall and walking upright on two legs.

I was 18 and a senior at Columbus East High school at the time this occurred. There is a park directly across the street from my house. It was a warm spring night. I was doing a report for school and it was getting rather late and I was the only person still up at the time. I was, to my best guess, 1:30 AM. I had just broken my last pencil and I needed another one to finish my report. I had to go outside to my car to get one. I had just shut the door to my truck to go back inside when I hear the most God-awful shrill scream in my life. I turned around quickly and could make out the vague outline of a large man-like creature running through the park and back into the woods. The scream lasted for about six seconds. Needless to say I high tailed it back into the house. I told my parents in the morning and they said that they had hear nothing and that I all I hear was a cat. The next day I pulled up a bigfoot website and listened to some wav files and the sounds that I heard were identical to what I had hear the previous night.

I was walking our puppy at 2:30 Am, Puppy training! We live directly across from Camp Atterbury,which is heavily wooded on our side. We also share it with Brown County State park And Yellow wood. I was basically star gazing… I hear a loud howl type sound, that I have never heard before; I grew up here, so I know what coyotyes, wolves, foxes, owls, and even bobcats sound like…THIS WAS NOT ANY OF THOSE! I have never heard this sound from here???? There was one short howl… it sounded like it was right in front of me no more than 140 ft. I moved a few paces to my right and again I heard a howl in front of me, as if it moved to the right with me…this time after the second howl there was about four or five short hoops after it! By that time I was really freaked out and ran back to my house!

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Indiana- August 15, 2006 A young man was squirrel hunting in a remote area about 3 miles from his home. He had created himself the network of trails that he frequently traveled to reach his favorite places in the forest and he knew it very well. In the past he had seen several footprints that he had no idea where they had originated but he had not given it very much thought. He had found a place to use his game call that he also could conceal himself. After several minutes of using his call he was startled by a very loud whooping call, very similar to the Puyallup, Washington recordings. When he looked in the direction of the sound he could see it running thru the woods basically circling him. It stayed on all fours but he said that it was still huge. Fur or hair was black in color. He told me even though he had a 12-gauge shotgun he was terrified and he had no inclination of trying to shoot it. He ran out of the woods backwards, he would not completely turn around to run and he did so for 3 miles. The creature followed him for at least half the distance home. He said this is the second time encountering it the first was a couple of weeks ago but then he only saw the glowing red eyes and nothing else. Larry Battson