Indiana County: Monroe County

In southern Indiana, Unionville October 1990 or 89. My sister and I were on our way home late at night (approx. 2:00 a.m.) when a bigfoot walked in front of my sister’s Honda touching the front of the vehicle. It was very hairy and had long arms. It walked upright, but this creature had a sideways gait as though limping or injured. It looked straight at us and walked slowly. It did not appear to be afraid. It was approximately 5 foot four I’d say. It closely resembled an orangutan.

Indiana Bigfoot Awareness Group Report #0003-2005 DATE: Late Nov. 2003 / Sat 29th or Sun 30th TIME: aprox. 7:am LOCATION: SOUTH OF BLOOMINGTON AND EAST OF STANFORD in Monroe County TYPE: Vocalization(s) AREA/TERRAIN: FOREST WITH A WATER WAY AND COW FIELDS WEATHER: 30S AND OVERCAST EVENT/ENCOUNTER: I GOT OFF TO A LATE START THAT MORNING. IT WAS ABOUT 7:00 AM AND I WENT THREW THE GATE AND STARTED DOWN THE HILL AND AT ABOUT HALF WAY DOWN THIS BLAST OF NOISE JUST HIT ME FROM MY RIGHT AT ABOUT 60 YARDS I WOULD SAY. I JUST FROZE IN MID STEP AND TURNED TO MY RIGHT I COULD HEAR IT THRASHING ABOUT. IT SCREAMED 3 MORE TIMES AS IT WALKED DOWN THE DRY CREEK BED PREVIOUS EVENTS: None SEEN/OBSERVED: I HAVE SEEN TREE BREAKS. SNAPPED AND TWISTED BOTH HEARD: 4 vocalization/screams – the first two were closer together, then the last two were 15 or 20 seconds later and apart. It was moving away as it screamed. SMELL: none OTHER NOTES: THAT WAS THE ONLY DAY I EVER HUNTED DOWN THERE AND NEVE SAW ONE DEER. IT WAS STILL THAT WHOLE DAY. WHAT I DO KNOW IS IT WAS VERY BIG IT WAS ON TWO FEET AND IT WAS NOT ANY THING I HAVE EVER HEARD BEFORE. THE BRUSH WAS TOO THICK TO SEE ANYTHING. WENT TO MY STAND BUT NEVER SAW ANYTHING OUT THERE ALL DAY. THE AREA STAYED REAL QUITE. MIKES NOTES: I spoke with **** via phone. While he doesn’t recall if it was Saturday or Sunday, it was the weekend of Thanksgiving. This is private property of a family that he and his family knew when he was in high school. He has not been back there since that day. Would like to ‘sometime’. Invited me to contact him in the future if I’m down in the area again and may be able to show me the area if he can get permission. Per his request, his name will be withheld from the website. If I have any further questions, he was very open to my calling again and has become very interested in the subject of Bigfoot/Sasquatch. He found my website to make his report, by reading an online news article out of Jennings County that mentioned my website. Michael R. Bardsley Indiana Bigfoot Awareness Group www.bigfoot46555.net bigfoot46555@earthlink.net Received/Posted: Monday, Aug.8, 2005 / Wednesday, Aug.10, 2005 ;

I have had two possible “Bigfoot related” incidents. I’ve wanted to discuss the older incident for quite some time but have hesitated to do so. The second incident occurred March 16, 2009 and unnerved me enough to go ahead with these reports. (Note: for the older incident, please see report #25793) This occurred on the western outskirts of Bloomington, IN. While this happened in a subdivision, it is an isolated subdivision surrounded by fields, small growth forest and quarries. Only a few miles further west the forestation thickens and several creeks and streams run through this area. Deer are seen here frequently, as well as other game animals and occasionally turkeys. My girlfriend and I arrived at her parents’ home in this neighborhood. We exited the car and I immediately heard a very, very odd sound. They were short moans, about 2 seconds apart at first, then many different timing variations. But they seemed to come consistently in groups of 4, with each call lasting between 2-10 seconds. After my initial encounters with what I came to believe was a Bigfoot, I found the BFRO site and listened to all the sounds, viewed all the images, read as many reports as I could — I became an avid fan of the investigation and the science behind the creature. I recognized this sound as similar to the Ohio moans but shorter in duration. I’ll have to listen to them again to make certain, but these were not anything like the whoops, screams or “bionic bird calls” that I’ve heard. These were definitely loud, powerful, reverberating moans. I have heard owls call out responses to environmental noises and also heard coyotes howling many times — you can tell the difference based on the sheer power of the tones. This was not an owl or coyote. My girlfriend likened it to a very sick or injured cow — but none are near this location. She had heard sick cows before and this was not a sick cow mooing — it was, again, definitely a moaning sound. We listened for 2 or 3 minutes then went inside. She immediately went out the back door to listen, as she knew that I would want to do so. We listened another few minutes and I decided to try and call back. I first tried mimicking the moan and, not receiving a response, I tried to make a whoop sound as best I could. The moaning stopped immediately. Off to our right, about 200 yards away in a stand of trees, I could see a few trees visibly shake — not wiggle in the wind but shake like an elephant had just moved between them. I heard no noises like breathing, growling, grumbling, footfalls or otherwise. However, at that moment, off to our right a dog started barking ferociously and we could see it backing up closer to its house. This continued down the row of houses — the dog would bark, growl then back up — and it was in succession, getting closer to us. I was very scared at this point as, even if it was not a Bigfoot, I’d apparently gotten its attention and it was moving towards us. After passing the barking dog 3 houses away on our right, the dogs silenced and everything fell silent. At that moment, I saw some movement out in the field to the west of the trees, about 50 feet beyond the stand of trees. I heard a couple of quick moans then something streaked across the field from north to south. To describe what I could see is difficult. The moon and star light was enough that I could see a shape and a grayish color. The figure was definitely on two legs. It was running very fast but the legs were taking very large strides while the body appeared to be kept almost parallel to the group, like you would run if someone were shooting at you. The figure did not appear to be much taller than a normal person though it did seem (again, in poor lighting conditions) to be stockier than an average man. The shoulders were much larger than the waist and the legs were long and appeared lean but strong. The trunk of the being was too blurry to see any detail. The creature took 4-5 long and power strides and dropped to the ground behind what appeared to be a bush or clump of weeds. At that point, I felt nervous enough that we went inside. I peeked out several more times in the ensuing few minutes and saw nothing. I had been kicking myself about not having a camera, but the lighting was so poor and the movement so fast that an indistinct gray blur is all that would have turned out. About 10 minutes after all of this ended, we heard the sound of metal clanking and being broken. My girlfriend advised that there was lawn furniture further out in the field and it sounded, to her, like someone was throwing or breaking it. I looked a little later and yes, in fact, the lawn furniture had been strew about when it had been sitting upright when we arrived home (I didn’t see this as I am not all that familiar with the setting — she noticed it was upright because she knew what/where to look at). There were no storms, wind or other natural disturbances in the area that night, though I cannot preclude a common animal, such as a deer, may have run through the area and knocked everything over. Other than being on edge the rest of the evening, waiting for something to happen, nothing else was noted. In talking with her further about this, I learned that the neighborhood is aware of this creature. They have nicknamed it “The Troll” and generally give it a wide berth and respect it. They say it lives in a sinkhole further out west, but I’m not certain exactly where. I’ve asked her family to take me out to the sinkhole so I can take a look but have not made the trip yet. Sightings of this creature are seasonal, though I don’t know which seasons/time frames it is commonly present in. This second sighting felt a little more threatening, or at least I had the vibe that the situation was not safe or controlled (from either side — mine or the creature). I got the distinct impression that this was a juvenile calling out and when he got an unexpected response, he came to investigate, chest puffed out and ready to rock. But he quickly backed off and instead sought to either hide or make his way across the field and away from us. When we went inside, I think he showed his displeasure by trashing the lawn furniture. I could easily be completely wrong in my assessment, but those were the feelings I got from how things played out.

Location Yellow Wood State Forest
day time Spring of 2017
Witness by two people
We were leaving and just past the cemetery. Never noticed it before so I was looking on that side as we passed it. Between 100 and 200 feet past cemetery, I noticed what I thought was a woman with long brown hair. This lasted about a few seconds. Well I noticed when passing by it, it looked like a broken off tree too. I stopped and Edie asked what did you see. I immediately put car in reverse and I said maybe a bigfoot. Well as I was hurrying backing up Edie said stop, I saw it. I saw more of front side, she saw the back side. I did not describe what I had seen, Edie said she saw long brown hair. That’s what I saw too. Her description was identical to what I seen. Had long brown hair, maybe a little sandish red highlights in the mix but mostly brown. What’s really strange is that it looked shiny and pretty well groomed believe it or not. The face was a light beige or light tan color. We got out and started yelling, are there any hikers back there several times, no one. It may have been about 70 feet from the road.

After caving in a local pit off of Popcorn Road in Monroe County I decided to wait on the surface while my two fellow cavers did the next pit. I was sitting in the back of my jeep reading. I saw a silhouette moving south just within the tree line. Thinking this was the land owner I got of my jeep and walked up to the tree line. The jeep was parked in a small grassy clearing used for camping and the two pits were approx 50 feet east of the jeep with the fence and tree line 10 to 20 feet beyond the pits. The trees were bare of cover and it was a bit overcast. I waited at the fence line and I kept an eye on the silhouette moving towards me. I called out once, twice with no reply. The thickness and number of trees and the overcast made it hard to see details of the silhouette. The silhouette moved past me and the only noise I heard was the slight crunching of leaves on the ground. Still not able to make out more then a silhouette and thinking this was the land owner or local, I called out again and waved at the silhouette. It was now approx 50 to 60 from me. A bit confused and thinking that the silhouette did not hear me nor saw me, I moved down the fence line to a small opening cut in the tress for a power line. I stood at the fence waiting, and the silhouette moved into the opening. I called out again and froze. The silhouette also froze and turned its head towards me. We stared at each other for 10 seconds or so. No other interaction took place. I then was able to view the silhouette and make out some detail. The silhouette stood approx 6-7 foot tall, was covered in long dark brown fur/hair, and stood on two legs with a bit of a bend forward. After the brief stare the witness turned its head back and continued to walk back into the trees and I returned to my jeep. Officially I can not say for sure it was a ‘Bigfoot’, only that it was walking up right on two legs, had two arms, a chest, and torso and was covered in long dark brown fur/hair.

Back in 1982 a friend, his brother and I was fishing along the White River about 4 miles north of Stinesville. We had been there many times before. That day I happened to mention that there was no birds singing or had noticed any game there.After a few minutes my buddy said that he hasn’t seen any either. He did say he had a feeling of being watched ,and his brother had said the same thing.After awhile of looking around while we fished I looked up on this tall ridge behind us about 50 to 75 yards behind us I thought I saw”someone” watching us.I pointed it to my buddy’s and they saw it to. I have lived in the country all my life, hunted day and night, still I never felt this way before. We watched each other for a long time, it moving so carefully trying to get a better look .After 45 minutes or so we thought it best we leave so we started back to my truck and “it” followed us from a distance never getting out in the open but not really trying to hide that well either. we also noticed a faint smell of something dead or so we thought.We made it to my truck and didn’t take too much time loading it, after all we walked about a mile and was ready to leave. We still tell this story today and not sure what it was but “Bigfoot” has been mentioned not disputed by my buddy’s or I.

This took place while on the last day of firearm deer season in November, 1988. It was after sunset but not yet dark. The temperature was in the mid 30’s but the ground wasn’t frozen and there were still patches of snow on the ground in places. I came out of the woods, put my shotgun, heavy winter coat, and day pack in the trunk of my car and got inside my car to start it up when a movement to my left caught my eye. I will tell you what I saw and what I thought as I was seeing this happen. This man/Bigfoot came out of thick brush between the trees to my left on the opposite side of the road from where I was parked, maybe thirty five or forty yards down the road at an angle but it had to know that I was there or at least that my car was there. When I first saw this thing coming out of the thick brush the first thing I thought was, where in the heck did he come from…. Then, I thought, stupid guy, no hunter orange and then I began to notice strange things like he had no gun, and that he was the same color from head to toe, no hat, no hunter orange? But then what I really noticed was that his arms were long, his hands were swinging at his knees and though he was taking large steps crossing the road very quickly but without running, he was just walking. His arms were swinging wide like a British soldier marching but he didn’t seem to be in any hurry and he completely ignored me like I wasn’t there but he had to know that I was there. He did not look over and kept his head looking straight ahead. He went into the woods on my side of the road (side I was parked on) and went down the hill and disappeared. My eyes told me that I just saw a Bigfoot but my brain and common sense was trying to dispute that. His color was dark brown and I thought could that have been a man in a one piece Carhartt outfit or if he were a hiker lost wouldn’t he just have stayed on the road rather than go down a steep hill when it was almost dark or if lost why didn’t he ask me for help? He was about six feet tall but very husky with his hands, body, feet, side of his head-face, all one color. I actually couldn’t see fur because the light was dim. I could see the trees and tree trunks fine but not the bark because the tree trunks were silhouetted and that’s what I mean about not seeing the fur, it was all one shade of dark brown. Now, all of this that I just told you took place in a minute or less. Soon as it disappeared over the side of the hill I jumped out of my car, opened the trunk and loaded my shotgun (for self-defense only), put on my winter coat, and got my flashlight out of my day pack and walked to where I thought the thing went over the hill. I wanted to check out what I just saw and was hoping to find a footprint in the ground or on a patch of snow and I went slowly back and forth, traversing this rather steep hill going a little deeper down as I moved back and forth. There was a deep like gorge on the right side of the hill and I looked up towards the road and by now the ridge on top was just a slither of gray and looking over my shoulder I realized this was not too smart, it was pitch black below me and I got a little scared and hiked back up to the road and to my car as fast as I could. I placed my shotgun back in the case along with my heavy coat putting them in the truck and then I drove up and down the main forest road to see if there were any cars parked off on the sides or if there were anyone walking, I saw nothing. I drove to the valley road where I thought this thing would eventually come out at the bottom of the hill into farm fields and I drove back to the end of this valley and back hoping to see something but saw nothing. I have been wanting to make a report of what I saw and have told my wife, children, teenage granddaughters, brother, and two close hunting buddies, but have always been hesitant to make a report. The truth is, though I am sure what I saw wasn’t a man I can’t prove it wasn’t a man dressed up in a suit but who would be that stupid especially during hunting season. I can’t say positively that it was a Bigfoot but that is what my eyes saw. Logic says “no”, my eyes say, “yes” and that’s my report the best that I can remember it. I am glad to get this off my chest. If this helps in any way then that’s great but please use only my first name if this is posted, I am not seeking notoriety here, thanks. Sincerely, [name removed]