Indiana County: Kosciusko County

DATE: Friday, April 2, 2004 TIME: aprox. 5:00 P.M. SIGHTEE: Name withheld by website. Sightee’s husband prepared and submitted report via website. LOCATION: 300 feet east of the intersection of county roads 1100 north and 300 east. This is east of Waubee Lake in Milford, IN. Kosciusko county TYPE: Visual sighting – just under 10 seconds AREA/TERRAIN: Low, wet looking area on north side and wooded on south side of road. WEATHER: clear EVENT/ENCOUNTER: Here is the report we promised to send. We are the couple who talked to you at the grocery store in N. Webster. On friday, April 2, 2004, at about 5:00 PM my wife was returning by herself from a trip to drop off our daughter at a friend`s house west of Waubee Lake in Milford, Indiana. She was travelling east on County road 1100 North. She approached the intersection with County road 300 East, which leads into Oswego, and came to a stop at the stop sign. She looked left, right and briefly ahead. Before beginning her turn she noticed movement directly ahead on road 1100 N. She saw crossing the road from left to right,(heading south) approximately 250 feet ahead, two large, black, hair covered figures, taller than an average man walking on two legs at a hurried pace. Her first reaction was to say out loud “what the heck was that?”. The way they were walking very close together and hurrying suggested that they were aware they were exposed in the open and wanted to get back to cover quickly. By the time she saw them they were in the middle of the road but she saw them take 5 to 7 steps over several seconds. They were stooped forward and looking down and swinging their long arms quickly. After this they entered the woods. She said they were close enough to have scared her if they had looked her way. Also, they were close enough to see they were not just men in black clothing as there were no divisions where shirt, pants and a hat would be; only solid black from head to toe. My wife, who is a college educated professional, then made her turn onto 300E thinking she would then have something interesting to tell me immediately upon arriving home. When she reached home however, something else unusual happened. Instead of telling me, she apparently blocked out or repressed the experience from her memory, as if in denial. I have been a Bigfoot enthusiast for many years and have read of this happening before to people seeing a Bigfoot. It is like your mind refuses to believe what the eyes are telling it because it is so new, different and without a reference point. About 2 days later we were talking and I said something that brought it all back to her suddenly. She then told me the whole experience in detail, showing signs of alarm and even imitating the way they walked. Of course I wasn`t about to believe her without asking questions. After all I was the Biology major in college, Im the outdoorsman and Im the bigfoot enthusiast – Im the one who should have seen them! I asked all the typical questions that the BFRO interviewers asked and she answered them all correctly, even adding additional detail. I asked if they might possibly be some young high school guys in all black Gothic clothes, as some of them like to wear. The answer was “they were absolutely not men in black clothes”. The thought also occurred to me that she was messing with me – playing a joke to mislead me, so I asked. This was the last straw; she got hurt and angry with me for not trusting her after 27 years of marriage, and I got the silent treatment for 2 days and had to do a lot of apologizing. I’ll have to just agree with her – based on the evidence, she saw 2 Bigfoots crossing the road. Wish I had seen them! Hopefully, by learning as much as I can about this creature I will be able to remain calm enough to stay and observe it, if I ever see one, instead of freak out and run as most do. Some may say “your wife learned all this from listening to you go on and on about what you read on the internet. Believe me, when she tells her story you can tell it was a very real experience for her; whether anyone believes her or not she knows what she saw, and will say so. PREVIOUS EVENTS: Have heard “possible vocalizations/screams” when camping south eastern Indiana. HAS AFFECTED SIGHTEE: A little nervous being in remote, wooded areas alone. VISUAL FACE OBSERVATION: No, heads were down and happened too fast. MIKES NOTES: I first heard of this encounter from “sightee” first hand at a local grocery store. My Suburban has my website name and web address on it… family saw it and drove over to talk to me when I came out. While the above location specifies 250 to 300 feet away at time of sighting, when describing the distance, sightee gave me a “from your truck there, maybe a space or two over, to that house across the street”. My gut reaction is that it would be well UNDER 200 to 150 feet that the two creatures were observed. In any case, sightee got short, but direct look. The field on the north side of 1100 N. is a low lying swampy area, predominately made of reeds and water grass. This whole area of Kosciusko county is dotted with natural lakes, ponds and marsh areas and is also farming land. Below this report is a panorama picture of the area, from a car’s perspective sitting at the stop sign. At the center of the picture you are faceing EAST.. left is NORTH… right is SOUTH. I clarified with witness that it was indeed “3” days after the sighting that the memory of the event returned. As stated above, it was “about 2 day”. As witness has anything else to add, or answers any further questions, I’ll add those as an addendum to the report, marked as such. Michael R. Bardsley Indiana Bigfoot Awareness Group www.bigfoot46555.net bigfoot46555@earthlink.net Received/Posted : Tuesday, Oct. 26, 2004
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DATE: Late Sept. or early Oct. 2005 TIME: aprox. 12:30 a.m. on a weekend SIGHTEE: Name(s) withheld by default and by request. The two are sisters living in Kosciusko County. LOCATION: On County Road 450 N. in Kosciusko at county road 1000 E. which is the boundry road with Whitley County. TYPE: Visual Sighting/Encounter AREA/TERRAIN: Swamps/lake area with wooded areas all over area. Rural with scattered farms around the area. Gravel quarry to the north a few hundred yards and Native American Burial Site also to the north back closer to Backwater Lake. WEATHER: unsure – typical fall cool weather … nothing about the weather really stood out to be remembered. EVENT/ENCOUNTER: (taken directly from report form) “Hi, Umm…My name is Xxxxxxxxxxx, and I just thought, I know I’m not much help or anything, but one night as me and my younger sister were driving, this was some time ago, I believe in September/October of last year, we were driving home from Fort Wayne, the back way taking 5 [State Road 5], and we turned off of 5 onto a back road that takes us to Ponderosa Estates, where my sister lived. As we were traveling down the back road that goes by Whispering Springs, we saw this huge black bear looking thing, out of the corner of our eyes from my Jeep Liberty. I quickly looked at my younger sister and asked her if she had seen that, and she said yes, and we looked back and slowed down and we saw this huge massive thing chasing the car, along side the road, we quickly got scared and I stepped on the gas and drove as fast as I could to her house, and we sat in her drive way, terrified. To this day, I do not take that road, due to that night, and if I have to take that road, I will only take it during day light. We were terrified and so I do believe in all of this stuff thats being said, because we think we have seen it first hand. But this thing was huge, the biggest moving thing I have ever seen and at first you couldn’t see any hands or anything, but then as it was running you could see it had arms and legs. Sorry we aren’t much help, I just thought I would share this encounter with you. Thanks for your time, Xxxxxxxxx.” PREVIOUS EVENTS: No. HAS AFFECTED SIGHTEE: Hasn’t driven that road at night since the event occurred. VISUAL FACE OBSERVATION: No. MIKE’S FOLLOW-UP: While the sightee simply can’t remember the exact day/date this occurred, she’s sure it happened right toward the end of September or beginning of October and on a weekend. Right after turning WEST onto County Road 350 North in Whitley County having come north on State Road 5, they approached the intersection where 1000 E. “T’s” to the north off of this road, which becomes 450 N. in Kosciusko County as you continue west. Just as they cleared the intersection the sighting occurred to the left, or south side of 450 North. (picture from intersection perspective will be attached below this report) Upon seeing ‘subject’, the two sisters acknowledged that they had just seen something unusual, so Xxxxxxxx, the older sister who made the report, hit the brakes hard and nearly came to a complete stop with just a little rolling left in the car. As she kept a foot on the brake peddle, they turned around in their seats and could see a large hairy ‘creature’ running up on the back of the car. At that point, she hit the gas and began to speed away. It ‘appeared’ that the creature pursued them right at first as they took off while it was still in sight. They then drove a little over a mile (+) away to where the younger sister lives. It’s worth noting that immediately to the north of the “T” intersection, there is an area that has been under excavation for gravel for quite some time, and just a little further to the north on the west side of 1000 East, is a camp facility, where county records indicate a Native American Burial site is located. This whole area is generally known and referred to as “The Backwaters” of North Webster, and is only a couple miles due east and a little north of a Barbee Lakes area sighting on October 1, 2005 by two individuals. This area (the backwaters) is also only a “stone’s throw” from Tri-County Fish and Wildlife Area… extended portions of which border with the Backwaters area as they both are bordered on the east by State Road 5. I’ll keep you updated, and this area under investigation and under a watchful eye as Spring is only weeks away. This sighting would have been only a few weeks after autumnal equinox. -Michael R. Bardsley Indiana Bigfoot Awareness Group Received: Feb. 26, 2006 / Posted: March 5, 2006 Intersection of 450 N & 1000 E.
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ndiana Bigfoot Awareness Group Report #0004-2005
DATE: Friday ? / First Week of April 1970
TIME: Between 8:30pm and 9:30pm
LOCATION: TRI COUNTY Fish and Wildlife Area / AROUND BARREL AND HALF LAKE , near North Webster, IN. Kosciusko County
TYPE: Sighting
AREA/TERRAIN: In view of lake / open area around woods
WEATHER: A little cold.
SIGHTEE: engaged couple / man 25 at time of sighting , is 60 now. Names withheld from publication.
EVENT/ENCOUNTER: Text taken directly from web submission form –
MY WIFE (SOON TO BE) AN I WENT OUT TO THE TRI COUNTY TO PARK AND HAVE A ROMANTIC EVENING. I WAS ON THE DRIVER SIDE OF HER CAR AND SHE SAT BESIDE ME. AS THE COLD DIDN’T BOTHER US ,WE SHUT THE MOTOR OFF AND WAS JUST TALKING. FOR SOME REASON SHE LOOKED BACK IN THE REAR WINDOW. SHE SAW A FORM ABOUT 10 TO 15 FEET IN BACK OF THE CAR. THEN I LOOKED AND SAW A FORM OUTLINED IN THE NIGHT SKY (THERE WAS A LITTLE MOON LIGHT OUT) IT STOOD ABOUT 7 TO 8 FOOT HIGH AND YOU COULD SEE THE HAIR ALL OVER THE BODY IN THE BACKDROP OF THE NIGHT SKY. IF I HAD TO SAY ,I GUESS THE WEIGHT ABOUT 400 PLUS POUNDS. MY CAR WAS ON HER PASSINGER SIDE ABOUT 20 FEET AWAY. SO I STARTED HERS AND TOLD HER AS SOON AS I GET TO MY CAR WE BOTH GET OUT OF THERE. AFTER STARTING HER CAR I LOOKED BACK AND IT WAS NOT THERE. SO AFTER GETTING IN MY CAR WE BOTH SPED OUT OF THERE.
PREVIOUS EVENTS: None
HEARD: No sounds from creature.
SMELL: Not noticed.
OTHER NOTES: (From person submitting report) This was “A SIGHTING OF A LIFEFORM WE KNOW NOTHING ABOUT”. Has caused the sightees to “BE OPEN MINDED”. After leaving Tri-County area, the couple “WENT TO HER HOUSE AND TOLD HER BROTHER” what had occured.
MIKE’S NOTES: I spoke with ***** via phone. Very nice conversation. Here’s my replay of the chain of events after talking/walking thru the 1970 sighting with him. ***** and his ‘wife-to-be’ met out at Tri-County because he was working out of county to the north of Kosciusko county and she was living in/near North Webster at the time. They they both drove out to Barrel-And-A-Half Lake located in the Tri-County Fish and Wildlife Area. They parked within view of the water, and “he” got out of his car, and got in the driver’s seat of her car. She moved over to the passenger’s side. The estimated time of the evening was believed to be between 8:30pm and 9:30pm. At some point in their talking, “she” glanced back to the rear window and just froze looking that way. While he continued to talk to her, she began poking at him and made a gesture to look out the back window. He turned and looked with her together. They saw standing between 10 and 15 feet max. behind the car, a large solitary figure. While it was dark out, with the available moonlight, they both observed a large figure that stood between 7 and 8 feet tall. In the moonlight they could distinguish that this figure was completely covered in hair, had an enormous upper body build, large shoulders that seemed to “slope” up to the head region. It’s arms hung at it’s sides. They sat and stared at this “thing” for approximately 1 1/2 minutes, but probably not more than two minutes. Finally they turned to face each other and began to question what they should do. They decided to start her car and afterward he would dash over to his car and they would drive out of Tri-County as fast as possible. He started the car and looked back, but now the creature/figure was gone. They glanced around, and because they couldn’t see it standing anywhere else, he ran to his car, started it and they both drove to her family’s home where they told her brother about what had just happened.
I questioned ***** about the possibility of this just being a man, or a person who happened to walk upon the back of their cars and that there could have been other people back out there at that time as well. ***** was very clear about being able to distinguish even in the moonlight the size and bulk of this “lifeform” (his words) and that it was clearly visible in the moonlight to be completely covered in hair.(as far as they could see the upper body half -roughly) After starting her car and then getting in his car, when they left, they encountered no other vehicles back there, and never saw any other signs of people until they got back into North Webster several minutes later.
If witness can think of anything else, he will likely relay that on to me. This witness is now 60 years old, and was 25 at the time of the sighting in 1970, but feels he clearly remembers the details of that night extrememly clearly. In recounting the story to me verbally, he was very precise about the events and recalled them easily, filling in some of the details of the event not included in his initial web submission to me.
Michael R. Bardsley
Indiana Bigfoot Awareness Group
www.bigfoot46555.net
bigfoot46555@earthlink.net
Received/Posted: Monday, Aug.8, 2005 / Thursday, Aug.11, 2005

Indiana Bigfoot Awareness Group Report #0009-2005 DATE: Late Aug. or Early Sept. ’92 or ’93 TIME: Around 11:pm LOCATION: Kosciusko County – 1050 N. a couple hundred feet West of Co.Rd. 450 E. TYPE: Visual Sighting AREA/TERRAIN: Woods on south side of 1050 N. / Corn field on North side of 1050 N. Entire area is rural farm and wooded, with some swamp areas near. WEATHER: Clear / Dark EVENT/ENCOUNTER: “”Myself and a friend of mine were traveling into Syracuse from the Leesburg area in my friends car. (Nissan sports car). Friend was driving. Was somewhere around 11pm-We came over the hill towards the intersection and began slowing down for the stop sign. We noticed a shadow moving out into the road, so my friend slowed down faster by applying the brakes. As we approached the place where the shadow was, we came to a crawl (about 1- 4 MPH), then saw the dark figure again out the right side of the car. As we watched it, the figure ran around the back of the car and into a corn field. We were able to see the figure out the sunroof, so the thing either jumped over the trunk or was tall enough that we were able to see it through the sunroof. As I can recall, it didn’t appear that it got any shorter as it ran into a cornfield., so I think it was tall. PREVIOUS EVENTS: None. SEEN/OBSERVED: Could not see anything ‘clearly’, happened fast in the dark. Was able to ascertain height 7 – 8 feet. Long wooly coat, like a sheep dog, dirty grayish. HEARD: Nothing. SMELL: No. OTHER NOTES: Taken from report form: “It ran and disappeared, we went on to eat.” – “Made out arms and legs and body. Head looked like art of the body sloping to the shoulders and about half the width of the shoulders.” – “It was upright, large strides, swift and graceful.” -“Definitely ruled out the figure being a deer based on the stride, upright run, and the texture of [it’s] exterior.” – “Not sure what this figure was, taller and faster and more agile than a person.” – “Still not sure what we saw. The closest known creature to what we saw is described by basically a bigfoot.” Mike’s Notes: This report came into me after a couple different media articles had come out on Indiana Bigfoot: WNDU 16, The Mail-Journal, The Goshen News. This reminded the witness of the incident from early ’90s, but doesn’t remember which year exactly, but it was either late Aug. or early Sept. due to corn in the fields still having green in them, yet it seemed like it may nearly have been fall. The short of the story is they were driving EAST on Co. Rd. 1050 N. and a few hundred feet East of where 1050 N. “T’s” into 450 East, a shadowy figure caught their attention, so they slowed down fearing “something” might run out in front of the vehicle. Instead, as they crawled past where they perceived it was, it darted out from the edge of the woods and ran behind the car. The sun roof was apparently open, because as they looked back toward it, they saw it thru the sunroof as it continued on to the north, into the corn field. I’ve driven this area of the county many times, day and night… before I ever got this report, I had always said to myself, ‘If there were ever a good place to have a sighting, this area would be’… so I wasn’t surprised when this report came in. This is one half mile south, and 1 1/2 miles east of a 2004 sighting, and about 2 miles south (as the crow flies) of a mid-80’s sighting up on 1200 North. (Bowser Rd.) It’s also just a few miles from our family farm/lake area. And, within a few miles of THIS location to the direct south, I’ve had an ‘undefined’ sighting in early summer ’04 as well as vocalization reports from the same general area just north of Tippecanoe Lake in a wooded area. Like any ‘report’, this one is at best anecdotal due to the age of it, with no real ability to go back and verify anything about it, except that this road and these people exist. Both names have been held by request. I’ll continue to make that area north of Dewart Lake part of my routine travels when I do late night, weekend driving. If the chance ever presents itself, I may stop and talk to some of the farmers in the immediate area to several of these sightings. It would be interesting to hear if any of them have had unusual events over the years out there. Michael R. Bardsley Indiana Bigfoot Awareness Group www.bigfoot46555.net bigfoot46555@earthlink.net Submitted/Posted: Aug 19, 2005 / Oct. 30, 2005 ;
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Indiana Bigfoot Awareness Group, Report #0001-2005 DATE: Late June, 1995 TIME: around 11:pm every night while camping at site SIGHTEE: name(s) withheld upon request TYPE: Various – sounds/smell/ with additional info LOCATION: along railroad tracks outside Syracuse, IN. behind “Chinese Gardens” AREA: wooded area along Syracuse lake, swampy/lake channels nearby WEATHER: clear, dark, hot and humid, not much moonlight, each time EVENT/ENCOUNTER: THE FOLLOWING IS DIRECTLY QUOTED FROM PERSON WHO SUBMITTED THE REPORT — “”I am from Syracuse Indiana, lived there most my life. It was mid summer 1995 I was between jobs and living with friends off and on. I often camp, and fish around that area so I just set up a tent along the railroad tracks and fished off the bridge where Syracuse lake leads to Wawasee. I just thought I’d spend a few weeks collecting my thoughts, before I would pursue my next job. I spent about 3 to 5 days/ nights at that location, got into a routine of getting back to the campsite around 10 pm make a little campfire and cook a can of soup etc, before going to sleep. The next day came and went I was in town till around 10pm I went back to campsite, made my little fire heated up my soup and got into tent to go to sleep. That’s when I first heard something that sent chills down my spine. What I heard was not a scream or a yell, but instead something that sounded like it weighed around 800 lbs walking on 2 legs. It was snapping tree branches like twigs and crushing anything it stepped on. When I first heard it, it appeared like it was coming from way over by the Syracuse lake side of the tracks walking slowly up through heavily covered woods and thick brush. Snapping and popping anything in it’s path slowly working it’s way up to my campsite. I was trying to convince myself it was a dear maybe or large animal, but I knew what i was experiencing was completely different from any animal walking around. This thing was walking upright and had to weigh around 800 lbs and it was coming right toward me. I sat up in the tent as it came up right beside my tent, nothing but a thin layer of canvas between us, it was rummaging through my soup cans. I was scared stiff trying not to breath too loud etc. Well this went on for the next night, same time, same direction, same sound of trees snapping, except I just realized that I had fish and empty soup cans in a bag right beside my tent and sure enough it came right up to the tent where I was sitting. About ready to freak I was thinking, well if im going to get attacked by something weird I at least want to see what it is, so armed with my trusty lil hatchet I unzipped tent and jumped out. I was right next to something huge, smelly, I was face to face with the creature. I could have easily been crushed like a tooth pic. I was so scared I forgot i only had what little fire I had going in campfire to see with. I could hear deep breaths and I just know this thing was not anything I’ve ever encountered before. I tried desperately to see what this thing looked like as it slowly retraced it’s steps back from where it came. It was very dark that night, I could not see what it looked like, but I do know it was something amazing. The next day I told my friend about what I had experienced, he just laughed and made fun of me. I think he thought I was pulling a joke until he saw how upset I was about returning to campsite and how serious I was about the whole thing. He offered to go out there with me and confirm that it was a dear or something, I warned him every night, same time, same thing was happening. We arrived at campsite we stayed pretty quiet didn’t talk much. I went through my routine made a little campfire and we just sat around the fire this time. Before long here it comes, snapping tree limbs and crushing and cracking under it’s enormous weight, and on 2 legs. Well I got the last laugh because my friend freaked. He started picking up rocks and throwing them at it’s general direction until I stopped him. I told him 2 things it could have killed me but didn’t and also I don’t think you want to make it mad.” We both decided to abandon the campsite at that point. I have to say I’ve told a few people about that night and they have all just laughed at me and thought I am nuts. But I can’t deny what I have experienced, I just ran into this site because of the news broadcast the other day. I am finally glad to have a place that maybe people will listen. The weird thing is that since this occurred it appears to be following me somehow? I keep encountering it from time to time, different places. Also I never even realized that there have been others that has encountered similar creatures in Indiana let alone right in my area.” HAS AFFECTED SIGHTEE: “”I have since had a feeling of connection to the outdoors and a compassion for whatever they are”” “”opened my eyes and awareness, I played it over and over in my head and it wasn’t a known animal I can’t deny what I experienced.”” “”It was too dark to see anything, but I felt and heard and smelt it. I was within a arms reach of it, and it was something of great power and mystery.”” VISUAL OVBSERVATION: could not make out color or features due to darkness… stood beside it and heard it breathing a couple feet higher than his own head MIKE’S NOTES: Report was submitted to me via web form after *** saw news article on WNDU about my son’s 2003 sighting and heard about my website. I spoke with *** by phone. He had no idea other people in this area had ever seen or had encounters. My synopsis of his encounter is such: on a nightly basis, *** would return to a campsite he had set up just out of town in this semi-rural area. It’s wooded, wet/swampy in an area between Syracuse Lake and Lake Wawasee. After making soup on his campfire nightly, he would be in his tent going to sleep when around 11Pm nightly, “something” would come walking out of the wooded area making substantial noise. It would come into his camp and begin rummaging thru his trash and then eventually leave. After 3 or 4 nights of this happening, he finally decided after several nights he wanted to know what it was, so he grabbed his hatchet, unzipped the tent and quickly got out of the tent to find he was standing directly beside this “something” in the dark; the campfire had mostly gone out. He stood there in the dark beside this “something” that had a similar smell to it of a wet dog, yet different. He believes he was within an arms length, because as he stood there, he could hear it breathing, and the sound of it breathing was a couple feet above his head, only a couple feet away. After a short period of time, the “something” walked away without doing anything else. The next night, after bringing a friend with him who didn’t believe ***’s story, the “something” returned and began to come toward the camp. The friend wanted to throw stuff at it to make it go away. After short debate, the two left the campsite quickly and came back the next day to get everything. I spoke with *** about this incident. While he does acknowledge he never saw it, even as close as he was to it, having been a hunter and fisherman in this area, this was nothing he has ever encountered before. Even the sound of it’s “gait” as it walked was very unique. Every time it came into his camp, it would rummage thru his trash, apparently attracted by the smell of the recently cooked soup. *** had another unusual ‘encounter’ in 2002 which will be reported separately. It’s not clear whether this should be a Class “A” or “B” encounter, due to not visually identifying the subject in question, but *** is resolved in his belief that he stood beside “something” near 8 feet tall. *** understands his suggestion that it weighed 800 pounds is just his opinion, based on how heavily it seemed to move. Notes added 8-14-05 I spoke today *** to clarify how he heard or knew how tall the creature might be. *** is 5’6″ (five feet, six inches) tall, so when he stood beside the creature in the dark and heard it breathing beside him, it was his estimate this was at or near 2 (two) feet over his head in height. Michael R Bardsley Indiana Bigfoot Awareness Group www.bigfoot46555.net bigfoot46555@earthlink.net Received/Posted : Monday, August 8, 2005 / Tuesday, August 09, 2005 p>
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Indiana Bigfoot Awareness Group Report #0002-2005 DATE: July 2?, 2002 TIME: between 10PM and Midnight LOCATION: Kern rd. Syracuse, In. Residential area and a crop field TYPE: Heard large creature moving along fence line / nearly identical to previous 1995 encounter (IBAG report #0001-2005) AREA/TERRAIN: light residential / farm fields around WEATHER: Very dark but clear and quite warm EVENT/ENCOUNTER: THE FOLLOWING IS DIRECTLY QUOTED FROM PERSON WHO SUBMITTED THE REPORT — Well my nephew and I were finishing up a motor transplant in my car we kept working on it till it got fairly late. I think it was around 10pm to 12am. I was underneath my car and my car was up in the front on ramps, I was using a old type shop light to see with. My nephew all the sudden said wow” you hear that? I asked what he meant. He said oh nothing maybe it’s a dear or coon. I resumed work under the car and a few minutes later I saw him move more away from the fence that separated his yard from the crop field and he said, oh my god dude you hear that? what is that? So I stopped working and crawled out from beneath the car. We both just listened and that’s when I heard something familiar. A sound of something that had to weigh around 800 lbs walking on 2 legs crushing and snapping tree limbs and ground clutter moving along the fence toward us. My nephew also had a shed in that area which was also helping block any clear view combined with the natural foliage that grew there regularly. That’s when I told him that it sounds like my friend i made in the woods had followed me. He was quite freaked. We then took the shop light and started pointing it toward the direction where we heard the sounds coming from. As we did that you could hear .. whatever it was just walk away slowly. Needless to say again, it was no dear or known Indiana animal walking noise that I’ve ever encountered. It was definitely eerie, that and we both felt like we were being watched by something. After that we went back to work. At that time I started wondering if these things are following me or what? Am I going nuts? Whatever the case I can’t be too nuts that was the second time I heard this awesome thing and also my second witness to it.” OTHER: The movement of the “unknown creature” was, in the opinion of the subject who made this report, as nearly identical as possible to the movement and sound as his 1995 encounter. { IBAG #0001-2005 } MIKE’S NOTES: This “encounter” was strictly a “sound” type… most likely a Class “C” type encounter. There was no visual sighting of what was walking along the fence row, and nothing that the “creature” did gave away any specific information as to what type of animal/mammal it might have been. ***’s belief that it was another Sasquatch encounter is strictly based on the sound of how he heard the “object” move in the dark. This was, in his opinion, as nearly identical to the sounds and movements of the creature that came into a camp site in IBAG Report #0001-2005. Having spoken with *** via phone, I do believe he believes this was an encounter with a large bi-pedal creature. My concerns as I’ve tried to express them, are that without being able to say there was a visual element to this encounter, or something else to support it, it will/would be difficult to conclude what the actual maker of these stepping sounds was. Also, while it may be true this animal was of significant size, to accurately determine it’s weight from anything presented would be nearly impossible. I decided to include this report from *** because I believe his 1995 encounter was highly likely a real encounter, and felt at the least, it would serve to show the vast differences in the depth and detail of various sightings, and those belived to be encounters that unfortunately don’t have any evidence to help concretely support them. Michael R Bardsley Indiana Bigfoot Awareness Group www.bigfoot46555.net bigfoot46555@earthlink.net Received/Posted : Tuesday, August 9, 2005 / Wednesday, August 10, 2005 .
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Ok… not “just a story”… this happened to us recently here “at home” one night… Friday night, Oct. 10th, 2003 – Saturday morning, aprox. 1:00am……. My son and two of his friends were coming home late one night, just about 1:00am on a Saturday morning after recent home-coming activities. Since their plans had gotten changed, I wasn’t expecting them home; they were supposed to stay somewhere else. When they pulled into the drive/yard, I was already in bed halfway sleeping, when I awoke to the sound of someone pounding on the front door and yelling excitedly. Then I heard my name and “dad” coming from them. So, I slowly pulled myself from bed and made my way to the front room where I heard the sound of one of the bedroom windows sliding open. My son came falling thru and ran to the front door just about the same time I reached it so we opened it and let his other two friends in. They came in very quickly. In a jumbled mess of excitement, they started telling me about “it” being “down there and coming up here” and all sorts of things I was too groggy to understand. Saturday after work, I finally sat down with two of them to hear it all again and get the whole story, in order, and without all the confusion there had been the night before. Here’s how they explained it…. After pulling into the yard up near the trailer, they walked in the dark up to the porch and started to knock. Friday night, the 10th of October was right around a full moon, and the sky was absolutely clear that night. As they walked up on the porch to knock, one of the three looked back over his shoulder ‘coz he heard something and noticed a “stump” down in the yard, about 150’ away, near the boats at the edge of the water. The other two looked then to see what he was talking about, when “the stump” got up and just stood there. Even in the moonlight, they could see it was NOT a deer… not an “anything” except the form of a person, ‘coz it stood there directly facing them and they could see it easily. So as they started to knock more excitedly, it began to walk away quickly to the east on the shore line, but then abruptly turned around and began to move much quicker right back across the yard where it had been and toward the marshy area and light woods and tall grass immediately south of the porch and trailer. When my son saw this he came running around the trailer and let himself in through the window. Now the other two could hear the sound of “this guy?” running heavily into the tall grass, sticks, branches and all the stuff that was down in the woods between the trailer and the lake, but then heard it starting to move closer in up the hill. That’s when the hard pounding and yelling to let them in really started. We let the other two in, locked the door… I went back to bed, while they stayed up half the night rehashing what had taken place and how it freaked them out. 4 hours later, I was up… ready for work and out the door around 5:25am. I had my son get up and briefly talk me thru what they had seen earlier. Even at 5:30am as I was leaving, the moon had made it mostly west in the early morning sky and was still so bright I could easily make out every tree, patch of grass, boat at the shoreline… every little thing we’re used to seeing out here. Back at 1:00am when this happened, it was even much more illuminated with the moon directly overhead, especially with the light bouncing off the water as well. So, maybe it was “just some guy” out squatting and then standing in 5 inches of lake water at 1:AM in the middle of the country? Well, when I’m 6 foot and about 200 pounds, and they see some “guy” who’s way taller than me and a lot larger… and built a LOT larger… way taller… way larger… and grunting slightly as he ran…?? We only have one neighbor, and knowing them, they don’t run around in a yard of standing lake water at one in the morning… or Noon for that matter. He’s also not approximately in the range of 8 feet tall, and built large at that height. Then my son reminds me when I asked what it looked like, he says, [ you know, like that thing xxxx and I saw about a year ago up between the sheds one night. ] You see, somewhere about a year ago, he and a friend were out running around with flashlights and a paintball gun after dark, when they see what they thought was a stray dog laying in some tall grass between two of our outdoor sheds. They decide to shine the light on it and then shoot a couple paintballs at it when “it” starts to get up revealing that it isn’t a dog, just some LARGE hairy…??? bigger than a man… but “we don’t know what it was… so we just ran” kind of thing. They never saw a “face”, but did see a large eye that reflected orangish red back at them when the flashlight hit it as it seemed to turn it’s head slightly toward them. When they DID see the eye reflecting back and realized that was a head, they observed there was no muzzle of any sort. That’s when they realized it wasn’t a dog. They didn’t stick around for “it” to get up all the way off the ground. They could see that as it was getting up, it was large, hairy, more like a person and not a dog. So he really felt like this Oct. sighting was the same thing they had seen some 6 or more months ago. So… that’s basicly it. After much grilling on my part, I do believe them. I didn’t see it myself. I wish I had the presence of mind that morning to grab a gun and stand on the porch and see if something did make it’s way up the hill in the little woods. Why I didn’t, I’m not sure. Too late to speculate.. only thing to do now is plan for “the next time”.