Indiana County: Parke County

parke county Ind, 1975 four teenagers musroom hunting, went back to car, saw 8 foot black bigfoot coming towards them on gravel road, got scared, got in car, and tried to start car, it was flooded, when bigfoot got up on the car, the car started, and back fired, making the bigfoot mad, and the creature hit the trunk of the car with both hands, kids took off, and went to sherrifs office in brazil Ind, and cops claimed the kide destroyed the trunk with a sledge hammer, making fun of them,

We were then living in Ohio. My husband had photography work to do and was being transferred to Indiana. In the fall of 1997 while driving south on Hwy 41 near Turkey Run State Park in IN, my husband and I saw what we affectionately call “A something”. It was a misty night and we were headed for Terra Haute. I was driving my Ford Aerostar Van with my husband in the passenger seat (I was glad he was on that side) we also had our two year old son in the back seat. “It” was walking in the gully. “It” stood taller than the van so to speculate on the height I would say over 6″ easily. The body was black and hairy although the face was huge and long in the jaw shaped like a knight of a chess piece but not like a horse! My husband describes the face more like a lions shape. We passed it and continued our trip – and later even moved here with our child going to Turkey Run School. We travel the same road often from Turkey Run to Rockville and have never seen “It” again – YET!

My significant other and I lived in a house near ( about 2 miles ) from Turkey Run State park. It first started out, we were sitting near a fire we had built in our yard when I kept getting the feeling I was being watched. This was probably 9 or 9:30 at night. My partner asked me what was wrong to which I told him. A few minutes later, The cattle pastured behind our house started bawling and running like something either scared them or was chasing them. My partner stepped out to the side of the garage ( Which was beside the house ) and called me to come look, which when I got there, there was something tall standing in the moonlight. He then picked up a piece of steel pipe, his weapon of choice, and threw it at the shape, which didn’t move and we then assumed it was a pine or cedar tree. We went in the house shortly there after, but I still could not shake the ” being watched ” thing. The next morning, we went back out to where the tree was supposed to be and there was NO tree !! He threw a big rock at the spot where he’d threw the pipe the night before and actually hit the pipe on the ground with the rock. We walked out to where these items were and the grass was all beat down and trails led out through the pasture where the cattle are. There was two distinct trails, the grass was waist high and you could tell the one whatever used to come up and the one it used to go back by the direction the grass was laying.

Year and Time- 2007-midnight activity of witness- camping on neighbors property in a secluded area with 3 other teenagers, witness and three other teen agers was all involved, and witnessed the same thing, Location- Parke County, Indiana, weather- was in July on a hot night, skies was clear, with a clear moon, terrain- in a small valley in the deep forest with deep ravines and hidden creeks, with cave hang overs as shelters, the forest was a hard wood and dedicous trees, investigator- Steve Abney I went to the private property to interview the teenager and found him scared out of his wits, after calming him down, I ask what happened, here is his story with the other witness collaborating, including the property owner, picture of 19 inch foot print and casting made, what happened– Dave the name of the witness [ does nor want to give out last name due to privacy of property owner] called property owner and ask if he and other neighbor teenagers could camp out in a certain area on property,[ all in the age range of 15 to 16] and the property owner okayed the camp out,, the property owner and the 4 teenagers loaded wood up for the night camp out on ATV’s and took the wood to the area, the wood was stacked as the other teenagers put tents and put up a Coleman lantern on a huge nail driven in to a tree near by the camp site, the lantern was hung about ten feet from a six foot wide creek with low water, and about 20 feet from the tent, the property owner made sure the kids had plenty of wood ,food, and a shelter up, and left them with a portable cb radio to call if their was a emergency, and then went back to his house about a mile away, this all happened on a Saturday night, about dusk, then the boys made a huge camp fire and doing their story telling and acting like any teenager, there was one ATV left for them, as it got darker and later in the night, they kept hearing tree knocks far off, but was not concerned, as midnight approached they all settled around the camp fire talking and telling jokes, when they heard the tree knocks getting closer, it was as if they was being surrounded, this scared them bad and the shouting among them was getting louder, they built the camp fire in to a bonfire in the small clearing where they was camping, but the fire only lit a small section of the forest and created shadows dancing around from the fire, then one tree knock as close as 20 or thirty feet away came booming through the stillness of the night, and was close to the Coleman lantern they had hung a nail 20 feet from the tent, this scared three of the boys so bad they took of running while one of them took the only ATV, leaving only Dave there to cope with all this, Dave tried to radio the property owner, but it was shut off on that end, Dave built the fire up again, and sit on a cut off stump and was shaking with fear, the other three boys made it back to the house of the property owner to tell him of what was going on, Dave then watched the lantern starting to sway back and forth, and got the courage to get up and walk to it, and nothing was around, not even the insect noises or birds noises, he walked back and sit on the stump, and then about ten minutes later, the lantern started swaying again , he jumped up and screamed and he saw a huge shadow come from behind the tree holding the lantern and run down the creek bed , shaking the ground around him, and all this time the tree knocks was getting louder and closer, he saw lights approach him and it was the three boys and the property owner with flash lights, they all looked around and could not find any thing because of the darkness, the property owner calmed the boy down and took all of them to the house and questioned them, and then took them home, investigator- Steve Abney I received a call from the property owner the next day, and was asked to come down and interview Dave, I went down as soon as was available and the boy and property owner was waiting for me in the house, I have been doing past research on this property every week, and had sightings there my self, so the property owner was accustomed of having this kind of activity going on, , I interview dave first, and he was calm and matter of fact about what had happened, he had a sighting at the age of seven, while with parents looking for mushrooms in the same area, he told me the above story, and the property owner confirmed his part in the story, and told me the tree knocks were still going on when he and the other boys went back to the area, the next day, the property owner went back to the area, and found 19 inch foot tracks imbedded in the sand along the small creek, he took pictures and a cast from it, and showed it to me, i went to the area, and found the tracks my self, pictures of them are with report, I find these witness creditable and honest, as I have had sightings here my self, and I saw the area, and took photos and found tree formations, saw the casting and took photos of that, .