Comments on: Unidentified Walking Object Reported to Indiana State Police

By: ZooUpBigfoot

ZooUpBigfoot — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 15:55:08 +0000

Here’s an idea:

Unidentified Walking Object Reported to Indiana State Police (1977)

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By: bucko

bucko — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 15:45:56 +0000

You’re welcome mystery_man. I wouldn’t say it if it wasn’t true. You’re a skeptic, but in a good way. We all need to be a little skeptical. There’s plenty of people who wanna make us look stupid. Just check out Bigfoot videos on youtube!

It’s good to hear from you Indiana people. I wasn’t sure how much wooded area there was in Madison county. I figured there was some, ’cause there’s some woods in all Indiana countys.

Happy Halloween everybody. Don’t eat too much candy!

By: mystery_man

mystery_man — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 06:34:17 +0000

SOCAL crypto, Bucko- Thanks for the kind words about my posts! They are much appreciated.

By: Jeremy_Wells

Jeremy_Wells — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 05:06:35 +0000

Wide ranging enough to say, oh, stretch out the period between sightings by a couple of years?

By: Jeremy_Wells

Jeremy_Wells — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 05:04:41 +0000

Wow. The wolf traveled over 600 miles (verified by its tracking collar)? Wonder how far ranging other large migratory animals might be?

By: mystery_man

mystery_man — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 04:30:42 +0000

DWA- Right. As you know I am what could be called a skeptic of sorts. But to me there is a difference between being skeptical and trying to fit a square peg into a round hole by trying to shove something not easily explainable into an unreasonable mundane explanation. Case in point, the horse explanation in this article. A horse looks nothing like a sasquatch. Most people who see a horse, even under unclear or dark conditions, are NOT going to make a jump to sasquatch. If anything, I’d think they’d rationalize it as a horse even if they weren’t sure. I highly doubt a person could see a horse and mistake it as anything other than either a horse, or an unknown, certainly not the very precise description of an 8 foot tall, bipedal, money like creature. That description is certain enough for me to rule out a horse as the culprit. A horse resembles a sasquatch only in that they are both large mammals and that is about where I’d think the similarities end. Trying to rationalize this sighting as a horse makes no sense and is in my opinion, absurd. I find it very hard to believe someone could make that kind of mistake even under less than ideal sighting conditions.

By: AtomicMrEMonster

AtomicMrEMonster — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 04:14:40 +0000

I know of a case where someone mistook a cow’s back end for Bigfoot, so I wouldn’t rule out the horse explanation just yet.

By: harleyb

harleyb — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 02:28:26 +0000

I love the historical articles keep em’ coming. I read it all, and if I don’t like it I don’t whine about it. Cryptomundo rules.

By: harpaholic

harpaholic — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 00:47:29 +0000

Hello Loren, Craig and all! I’m a long time lurker and first time poster to this wonderful site. I just wanted to add my two cents. I, for one, have never felt my time wasted by any posting Craig and Loren have deemed relevant to put up. The study of Cryptozoology is a continuum: past to present, backwards to forwards, in any order. In this particular study I feel all data is pertinent.

I was happy to see this particular post. As a life long Elwood citizen, I remember this sighting very well. There were subsequent sightings to follow, however, this first one was the only one to receive media attention. I myself had an encounter a few years later following this one. While there are no longer as many large wooded areas around here as there were just 30 years ago, there are still numerous patchwork areas to provide cover for a short time. My personal belief is the big folk pass through here. However, in my parents’ childhood it was commonly understood to be indoors after dark if you lived out in the country due to “The Wildmen” who were commonly seen after dark.

I enjoy this site and your books immensely, Loren. Please keep the fire burning to shed light for the rest of us to see by.

By: Rillo777

Rillo777 — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 00:34:35 +0000

I live in Anderson, Indiana currently and heard about this incident a few years ago from one the officers who investigated it. I didn’t know it had made the paper, however. Now the officer who is currently with the Sheriff’s department was a rookie at the time and was one of the first ones on the scene. The witness was very sure about what she had seen. The officer did not venture any opinion on it one way or the other but did believe she had seen something very unusual.

Tipton, by the way is about 15 miles west Elwood and both are very close to Hobbs which gained some notoriety in the 1960’s for a flap of UFO sightings. The Tipton bigfoot sightings have been included in many books, including Loren’s. Finally, just for general information, Madison County, especially the north western part is full of strange sightings and bizarre stories dating back to pioneer days, including black panther sightings, bigfoot, UFO, and bizarre paranormal activity as well, in an area that stretches north to Kokomo and west to Tipton.