Monster Stories of Indiana 

My dad was a deputy sheriff in warrick co Indiana he always patrolled at night ,and would always talk about seeing large black panthers crossing back roads in wooded areas, many of times for years 1978 to 1991.

I've grown up in Southern Indiana. low key its one of the most beautiful places in america

I’m Indiana born and raised and love that you share the “not talked about” history of Indiana and locations so people can see for themselves. You have given me and my family some great new places to explore… thank you!

I love how this is bringing Indiana residents from all over the state to share with each other. Even those out of state that has ties to Indiana. Even the stories from other states are awesome because we all can still relate to their experiences. Great job at bringing people together. This is much needed, you know how hard it is to keep these experiences inside with no one to share it with?

Your cinematography is just beyond beautiful. Also, the stories are engaging, very well spoken and fascinating. This could be on television and beat a lot of shows currently on the air.

My dad grew up in Southern Indiana. He always told a story of him and his best friend going coon hunting at night in the 1950's. He talked about treeing the devil one of those nights. The story always scared me no matter how many times he told it. In the last several years, I've heard about the possibility of panthers being sited in the past. I believe this was the case in the experience my father had.

I grew up in southern Indiana and around 1994, I saw a black panther running across a field. Definitely a strange sight!

My grandparents lived in Rochester on Lake Manitou for 30 years. From the age of 8 to the age of 18, every summer for 2 weeks I would go and stay with them. My grandpa was an avid fisherman, so almost every night I was there, we would go night fishing. We would SLAY crappie and cat fish. I've heard the tails of this monster. I must say the lake can be very eerie at night. Once a thunderstorm rolled in and we were caught in it. We shot around Party Island to get wind block, but it was so bad we just stopped at party island for a little while. During the storm lightning would light up everything, I thought I saw a horse swimming. I told my grandpa and he laughed and proclaimed: " Probably that damned monster everyone talks about." I didn't see where that horse looking figure went, but I swear to this day it was real.

I'm from south west Florida but I live in Indiana now for 9 years now, these are all new to me,I'm blackfoot, Cherokee and Irish mixed my heritage is rich in story's like this and all true, story telling is a way to pass down history and to be a one you must be able to remember everything and never lie or add to the history, thank you for sharing my new home with us, much love and appreciation God bless

Love this channel man, no one really looks into the interesting history of Indiana. It actually held the second largest freshwater swamp area in the US near the Kankakee River, before we dredged the river. It was a hunters paradise.

Another outstanding job! Loved every second of this. Thank you for all of your hard work and taking us on the adventure.

Such a great video. I grew up in Indiana and loved these stories when I was a kid and teenager (especially the Beast of Busco and Champ!). I know live in Europe and watching this video with my wife is truly nostalgic! Thanks so much for this.

I just found your channel, and I can't wait to watch all of your videos! I live in Southern Indiana, and I love to hear stories about places on my side of the river instead of Kentucky 😁

There are numerous stories of the Ohio valley having panthers in the 18th century and before (1700’s) especially from the Shawnee tribe. They had a family called “panther” and it just so happens to be the family that Tecumseh is from.

I dated a woman in Elkhart around 2005 who claimed she saw one of the large black cats on The Dean Mock Expressway right next to a large field and forested area. It ran right by her car and was as tall as as her hood. I believe her.

Yay! Love your work! Love monsters. So excited to watch and listen :) Best-Mary

Fantastic work Roger. I am a fan! Ever since I had a strange experience in the Yellowwood Forest I have been intrigued by such stories.

Im from just south of fort Wayne Indiana. Im really enjoying this station & the history with backstory. Well done sir✨

I was born in Michigan City and grew up in Walkerton. My dad told me of black panther sightings north of Laporte when he was growing up. Around 1990 I was just west of Walkerton heading home when I saw one walking along the side of the road next to a swampy area heading in the opposite direction. The eye shine in my headlights made me slow down thinking it was a big dog. When we passed there was enough light that I could see it definitely was a cat. The body was about 4 feet long. Every hair on my body stood up. I told a few friends but no one believed me until a couple weeks later when one of them told me he had seen one in the same area. I don't know if he did but I know what I saw.

I live in northern Indiana. Elkhart county. I've talked to people who know others and have seen a black panther. My brother in law was even stalked by one. All the signs he saw later said it wasn't normal. All while deer hunting.

On the White River in southern Daviess co. area known as High Rock my Great grandparents farmed there....Grandpa always took rifle with him to farm bottoms...They seen black panthers down there for years...That area was strip mined in the 80s ....Not as much woods as there used to be....Oh ya , John Dillinger used to hide out at High Rock also....

I live in northern Indiana and I have a true story I would like to share with you. We have a cabin about 300 miles NNW of Thunder Bay Ontario. We drive till the road stops then take a float plane in to our cabin. My Dad built our cabin in 68 and we go up 3 times a year. The end of May, mid July and early Sept. One fall trip maybe 15 or 20 years ago now, we wanted to portage to a different lake. In the spring and fall if the weather was cool we would go after some Lake Trout. If I had to take a guess, I have been on that lake 30 to 40 times now. We are the only cabin on our lake and there is no cabins on the Lake Trout lake. We have 3 small boats we just leave on that lake because we go there so often. We had 6 men in 3 Boats that day. We all kinda went our own way and started fishing. It was maybe 4 hours later (around 2 or 3 pm) all 3 boats meet back up in the middle of the lake and we all killed our engines and started to eat our lunch. It was a beautiful sunny day with no clouds and the lake went completely flat, no wind at all. Ok now this is the part where you are going to think I'm nuts, so here I go. The first sound came from our north (the way back to our lake) The best way I can describe it was someone holding a note on a freaking pipe organ. The notes were perfect, not flat or anything like that. The notes would last maybe 5 to 8 seconds, that's a long time to hold a perfect note. When the one would die out, another would start from a different shore at a higher or lower note but all just perfect and sounded like a pipe organ. All the sounds were just single notes, we never heard 2 different notes at the same time. This lasted for maybe 15 or 20 min. We all 6 were hearing 20 + pipe organs play single notes around a lake with no cabins in the Canadian wilderness. The notes were extremely loud (like feel it in your chest loud) and with no wind and land no more the 400 yards away in any direction the notes would echo around a bit. My brother did not want to make the portage so he stayed in our lake with one of my uncles. Later back in our cabin we all were telling my uncle and brother what we heard. They both said they could also hear the notes from our direction. We never saw a thing and I don't know what we heard. We didn't see anything on the ground nothing in the trees, or water and boy we all were looking. About the only thing I do know there is no pipe organs around that lake. Over the years we have been back to that many times and nothing. Over the years we have asked State biologist, they look at me like I'm nuts. I even have asked a First Nation friend from that area. At least he gave me a kinda answer. Are you ready, I sure was. He said some things in nature are best left unknown. lol What that is your answer, I was so ready to find out and that's what I got. I'm the last one of the 8 people still alive who heard the pipe organ notes around a lake in the Canadian wilderness. I'm not saying it was BF, I don't have a clue but something was making the sound and I'm just trying to find out what. Thank you. Greg P.S. I wrote this a few years ago now but I'm still looking for some answers.

Keep up the good work Roger, your programs just keep getting better & better

Love the stories Roger. Thanks so much.

Tales of the Pekin panther has been around since I was a kid over 3 decades ago. I'm amazed that you found so much information on it. Absolutely amazing 👏. Thanks for your hard work on everything. You sir have become my favorite channel. Edit-I have been sharing this with all my family and friends.

I've lived in Northern Indiana all of my life and have seen some pretty strange things. It was my sophomore year at Goshen College and we would go hang out on moonlit nights at the Goshen Dam nearby. A friend of ours lived right next to the dam so we would usually walk and hang out in the dark and just watch the sky. One night in mid October we witnessed what we can only describe as a pterodactyl fly up from the area down where the dam runs off of. We approached the edge of the dam where you can look off into the water and heard some crazy commotion coming from down below. As soon as we got close to the edge this HUGE creature flys up in front of us .All we could remember was the wings and the wind and heat from them when they flapped. I've been in the woods all my life and it was NOT an Eagle or anything of that nature. It could have EASILY picked one of us off and flown off in the night. The shape of the wings were similar to that of a pterodactyl or what you would see in a museum. The head was also shaped like it and it had a strange smell as it flew by. It looked like something out Jurassic Park. That wasn't even the scary thing.... The scariest part was that prior to that we heard someone coming out of the trees behind us and then a large BOOM. Sounded like a shotgun, so someone was shooting at that creature. Someone knew that thing was there, we ended up running off to a friends house right by the dam. Not more than a few minutes later police arrived since it's a public park. We ended up going across the lake area the next day to see where it flew off to. We remember as we ran hearing a crash in the trees across the lake so we went to investigate. There was an old man picking up branches and sticks, and he turns to us and goes " You guys saw it too? There are things in this world that aren't supposed to exist, but they do, careful what you're looking for because you might just find it". We never went back at night but we've heard stories that the people are still seeing this creature in the area and around Southern Michigan..... .But even until this day my friends and I still wonder who the hell was out there shooting at that thing. I wish I could contact them in someway and find out more about it and why they were trying to shoot it. If it deemed us a threat it would have easily eaten all of us. The 2nd creepiest thing I've seen was also at night in a rural area next to some woods in Goshen. My girlfriend and I were taking a night hike when we saw a group of people about 100 feet in front of us near a street light. When we went to move to the other side of the street to get around them things got STRANGE! What we thought were people molded into a giant ball of blackness. It moved around a bit and jetted off into the woods nearby. We ened up turning around and going back the way we came. Needless to say we haven't walked that same stretch of road at night since then. Great video, I enjoyed every minute of it!

You are very good at telling stories. Your videos are always visually beautiful. Thank you for all the work you put into these. You really must love it here in Indiana.

Been a avid outdoorsman my whole life here in the Hoosier state and have had numerous very strange occurrences.

Awesome video. Native to Pekin, IN. Lots of stories of what we refer to as the Pekin Panther. A large Alligator Snapper in Jordan Lake with a shell the size of a dinner table. Cool to see someone making a film on our cryptids. Great work. Thank you

There are mountain lions in southern Indiana. They migrate through. I have seen two of them already. Conservation officers like to deny a lot of things exist.

Oh my goodness-the alligators! 🐊 YIKES! 😳 Thinking back to my younger days and all the swimming we used to do in Blue River, Ohio River, Patoka Lake, Indian Creek, etc. I’m happy with my clear swimming pool now, lol! Nothing better than spooky historical folklore and legends! Great work as always Roger, enjoying your channel! 👏🏻 🏆

I have lived in Indianapolis my whole life. Its a massive city. So not many cryptids running around the city but Indiana over all is eerie. When i was a kid we seen a UFO over a cornfield in Pittsboro, IN. I grew up 5 mins from an airport so i was used to seeing planes every day all day. This was no plane. We also used to see multiple sets of red eyes at the edge cornfield not at the same night we seen the UFO. This cornfield had a very creepy feel to it, i got lost in it one time couldnt find my way back for an hour. I was 8 or 9.

Pretty neat how many of you have experience with Indiana. Even though I was born in Rhode island, I grew up in New Albany. It was a crazy history being right next to Louisville. But I spent a lot of time in Jeffersonville and Evansville.

This was brilliant! I’ve not heard most of them... so thank you!

I cant belive I just now found this channel! Im a new subscriber and spending my entire day with you! Much respect sir!

So cool. I was telling my eldest about how my friend and I saw a black panther in Harrison co. as teens. It was just north of the Harrison-Crawford forestry at a camp we were allowed to stay at on Blue River.

I went to high school in Lincoln City Indiana in the early 80s. That's when 3wheelers were just getting popular. We ran all over the woods outside Gentryville and that whole area. Camping every weekend at Lincoln State Park. That was some of the best times of my life 💜

DNR in Monroe County told me as long as their nostril don't freeze over an alligator could survive Indiana. They can go in to a dormant state and reawaken when warmed.

I grew up in Elkhart county, northern Indiana, and always heard tales of a swamp creature that lived in an area that used to be known as Cable Line Rd which is now a developed stretch of road on C.R. 26. I've never been able to really find anything on the internet about it. Would be interesting to see this channel cover it. Also I am new subscriber to your channel and can't wait to watch all your videos.

Hoosier here. Lots of stories from almost anyone from the countryside. Even officers. Thank you for this.

Just came across your videos and can't stop watching them! Great work reporting on stuff here in the state. Have you thought about doing one about UFO sightings in the state?

My dad was born and raised in Oxford Indiana. I haven't heard the snake story before. Thank you. My dad and mom are buried next to the mosulium.

Good afternood, Sir. I'm a hugh fan of your videos! I recently watched one of your videos where said you were from Greenwood, IN. I myself was a graduate of 1988. Nice to know I wasn't the only one from the down that had dreams of adventure, and exploration! Keep up the good work!

You just gained a viewer. I love adventuring in Indiana and am looking forward to checking these places out

I was so surprised that your first parts of the video talks all about both where I grew up and where I live now! I grew up on lake manitou. We never saw or heard anything, but it is creepy to think about! Now I live close to where the giant Churubusco turtle and where the 5 foot alligator was found in Whitley County last year! I now live on some of the small lakes that are all connected in noble county and im glad I watched this the day after we took our boat out of the water for the year! Lol! I hope to god I never see a giant serpent or an alligator while I’m swimming out here!!!

Hey Roger, I just found your channel. I live in Leavenworth, IN. Great video! Blessings!

WOW Loved this !

I was born in Jeffersonville ( 1961) & raised in New Albany. I've been in Fla for 30 years. Appreciate the videos, miss home.

Thanks! I enjoyed this. I was delighted to hear the first story of the large snake, being that I grew up in Oxford. ..though I was unaware of that story. Great video!👍

We 100% have big cats in indiana

I grew up on the Indiana/Illinois border, near Vincennes, Indiana, but on the Illinois side near the Wabash river. Now, they have sightings of brown bear, there. I saw a photo of a corn field with a dirt road on the edge, then woods. Two brown bear were walking on the dirt road. This was last Fall, during deer season.

Wow I had no idea very cool and interesting. Thank you for sharing this.

Just found your channel..love it

I live and grew up in Southern Indiana. Thanks for the video.

Excellent content! ❤

I enjoyed this video! Very cool about the turtle. A good friend of mine has seen a black panther on his farm. I need no convincing. A lady I worked with brought in a trail cam photo from her husband with a full sized mountain lion in a tree behind their house. I'm from AZ originally... Cats are elusive...most often they won't be seen unless they want to be seen

Lafayette native here. Used to cut grass in Oxford 👍 love the channel. Thanks

Excellent video an interesting comments too. I used to go tubing Kankake river an I'm happy i never saw any creatures! Thank you

I was born in Evansville, Indiana. It is a beautiful state, and Evansville is a very nice town. I'm retired now in North Central, Florida. I remember my Dad taking us to "The Mounds". I am part Cherokee (on my Fathers side) He had a keen interest in all Native Americans. I certainly enjoy your informative, well spoken & edited video's! Thank you:)

My grandfather always believed there was a mount loin in the woods near Mitchell, IN. He told a sorry of founding large panther like tracks in the snow. He said he could see marks of its belly dragging between the paw prints. We still look for signs of one, when we good dear hunting.

This channel is awesome Hey I had multiple experiences with a flying cryptid in 2018. Right outside Indianapolis in new Palestine. This huge flying bat creature was landing on our roof and one night I saw it up close it was terrifying. Me and my girlfriend at the time saw it it was absolutely traumatizing.

I live in Southern Indiana and grew up on most of these stories. Thank you for sharing these stories. Can you do a most haunted places of Southern Indiana?

I can attest to the panthers... I grew up in southern Illinois in the late 70's and early 80's and I have seen a black panther many times. Things were different back then, if it was summer time and there was no school me and my neighbor would go out in the woods all day long. I had older brothers that did the same, and for years we have all seen giant cat prints in the creek banks. Numerous neighbors have seen the same, and actually saw the panther itself. My neighbor friend and I were out one day playing in the woods and i had to pee, so i put my gun against the tree by the creek, and did my business.... i looked up, and across the creek about 20 feet away was the panther... Just sitting there, didn't seem to be to interested in me, trust me, i was watching him like a hawk.... but he was just casually sitting there looking all around and occasionally at me. We moved away a few years later, after seeing him or her a few more times, but i will never forget that. The day we moved it was about 4am. and we were just getting in the car to move to florida... there was a very crazy scream coming from the field just west of our place, it sounded like a woman screaming... I will never forget that. it was that panther. I would like to think it was saying goodbye....

I saw a thing that pretended to be a dog on the road and then stood up to the point it was as tall as my truck, and it walked off.

My dad owned a track of woods/fields that is now known as the university of southern Indiana in Evansville. It’s in those woods that I grew up. I remember me and dad finding huge human footprints. Didn’t think much of it then

I believe it. Growing up in southeast central Indiana I'd always heard of this. In 1972 I was driving a country road at night east of Sexton in Rush County. A very large black cat with a long tail ran quickly in front of me, left to right, from one pasture to the other. I had my brights on, and no doubt what I saw.

Live in southern Indiana. Lots of stuff to do down around morgan, brown and monroe county. Very pretty and great parks. Thanks for giving me locations to explore with the wife.

I grew up in churubusco and always was told stories about Oscar the turtle and always did the turtle races at the fair so I love this video and the previous videos you have done sir

Down by Cataract Falls, I always heard loud roaring while fishing at night. That was in the 1990s.

Thanks RU-vid algorithm. I can’t stop watching ❤️ vigo county here

This is awsome I just found u on here and started listening I like it. I to live in Southern Indiana for 38 years just south of bloomfeild Indiana by crain navy base but anyway just wanted to say I like listening to this thank u👍

Interesting stories! We had not heard of any of those.

Growing up partly in southern Indiana and southwestern VA..My grandparents on my mother's side who were native Hoosiers told us many stories of the paranormal and supernatural everything from strange fire balls and UFOs to ghost and other dark entities other tales such as Katie's lane and the Pekin panther we learned from school teachers..southern Indiana is full of many strange and mysterious tales..thank you for Sharing these tales

Great narration, very well written.

I can confirm that there are Black Panthers in Indiana. I have seen one myself chasing a deer across Hwy 160 in Henryville years ago. I almost hit it with my car. It stopped in the middle of the road and looked straight at me before running away.

My grandpa used to travel from Tennessee to Indiana for years bringing fruit to sell at his business. He said on night he had to stop and turnaround because a snake stretched across the road and he knew that huge snake would flip up his old head, neck and long tail and crush him in his truck! Boy that always scared me so ouch as a little girl and teen!

Saw a Black Panther here in Indianapolis once. This was at Geist Reservoir in the Northeast corner of Marion County. In the late 1970s before it was developed into suburban sprawl. It was heavily wooded back then. The sighting took place on the jetty where the Marina still sits. It was back then a Boy Scout campgrounds and closed to the public. But people would hop the fence and go out onto the jetty, which was a fifteen-minute walk to the shore and great fishing spot. Anyway, we're coming back from fishing all day and heading back to the main road down a gravel road South to North (boy scout built road.) Came to an intersection with an old logging road. (East to West) And it came out of the underbrush and onto the logging road. West to us, 30 feet from us (a group of five of us) It was huge four foot body plus tail black and totally silent it stood there watching. Possibly even stalking us! We stood there facing it and it us for at least a good 3-4 minutes. We were un armed and decided to grab the nearest thick logs for protection. It turned around and ran back into bushes to our South. We never went back there unarmed after that. Didn't tell anyone, and we should have. But that entire jetty belong to the Boy Scouts and private property. Didn't want to get any trouble.

Yeah I love the backroads and hollers of western and southern Indiana. Always felt attached to the woods and lemme tell y’all the woods is the best wingman.

I lived in Sullivan, Indiana in the 80,s on a farm and was on my way home about 1/4 mi from home and 2 cougars ran right out in front of my car. It freaked me out because my kids walked down our long lane to catch the bus everyday. I've heard about black Panthers in that area too

I lived in Whitehall as a teen. When I moved from there in the ‘70’s, I swore I would never spend the night there ever again! A couple of years ago we prepped a camper on the family farm in Whitehall that we were putting on a piece of property out of state. You know where I’m going with this. We wanted to get an early start so, yep….we spent the night. Let me just say not a thing has changed in all the years since I moved away. Never ever ever will I stay there after dark again. I really don’t care who thinks I’m crazy or being dramatic. I would walk out of there on foot if I had to before I would close my eyes in that valley.

Ive been to Evansville a couple of times for a mini vaca and just love it there! Nice place, friendly people.

I just found your channel looking for free movies and just finished your 44 min. I was needing some new content to watch. My mom's family was from Richmond and Muncie. I'm 54 now, but when I was 13 I went camping at Lake Monroe, actually got my first kiss from a boy I meet there😏 Anyway, I love Indiana. And am very glad I happened upon you looking through the results of "free movies" in my search bar. You read very well, and have a nice and soothing narrating voice; which is an awesome bonus. Not to mention the fitting music 😃 Appreciatively~Lisa

There are big cats in Indiana. Someone got a picture of a cougar in a field near Bargersville. That’s ten minutes from Greenwood

Everybody in the comments know its pop, not soda

Greetings from Churubusco. Enjoyed the video.

I'm from Busco, good work telling the story of Oscar.

In the late 80's in Darke Co. Ohio, I was just a boy, but we had our own panther sighting.

I’m certainly glad nothing ever snuck up behind me when I was driving my jeep around at all hours of the night in Hoosier national Forrest. Bigfoot wouldn’t be the only thing in the Forrest screaming like a woman…

I've seen picture proof of a mountain lion laying in a corn field behind my buddies' house in Scott County Indiana. I personally never go in the woods unarmed.

I am a native Hoosier, having lived here for 98% of my 69 years. I can assure you not all our "monsters" reside in/around lakes and such. Back in the '50s, '60s, and '70s, fifteen years of my youth were spent in the then-Indiana Soldiers' and Sailors' Children's Home just south of Knightstown. It was here I quickly learned monsters really do exist in the personages of staff, older/larger male students, and men from the American Legion alike, These monsters, under the protection of the State of IN, often violated/abused me and others at-will, all with the knowledge we could not tell anyone because those sanctionedmonsters to whom we should have been able to report the horrific abuse were often the very ones perpetrating it.

In Greene County, IDNR cameras have spotted a cougar, one big cat.

Hoosier National Forest is 203 thousand acres. ANYTHING could be living in there. Hell, there could be an Indian tribe and we would never know. Lol

I grew up in Anderson, spent a lot of time at Mounds state park, we now have our family Christmas there. Never seen anything strange but then again who's really looking. My dad swears there was a black panther roaming around. I've never seen it either but this story made me chuckle because I thought he was crazy.

I live in logansport my entire life and I've never heard this first story. Thnx for the info.

my cousin caught an alligator fishing in Indiana back in the 60's. When I was a kid we were bow hunting snakes in a creek west of Brownsburg and what I thought was a big log in the water was a massive snake. Hard telling the size because I was around 12 or 13 at the time, but it was huge. It was big enough I thought it was a tree...lol It was as big around as I was

I live in southern Indiana let me tell ya there's a lot they aren't telling us

Hi ☺️ Roger ! I Live in Northern Indiana ,I live across from a wooded area ,and I can tell you not only does it have coyotes but there is something else. Whatever it is it's not human, it screams sometimes ear piercing ,and sometimes all the dogs in our neighborhood are going off at the same time from hearing this . I know it scares the heck out of me ! No one knows what is out there in this world ,earth is huge . Thank you for the Awesome video !! I enjoyed it very much !

Excellent 🤗

I have lived in Indiana 44 years and spent most of my younger days as a hunter and spent lots of time in the woods and the only things I have experienced in this state is the paranormal with places being haunted and seeing UFO'S bright white lights in sky they look like stars but they are in the atmosphere and once me and my cousin was chased by one in my car and also my uncle and his friends in the late 1970's were chased by a triangle craft that hummed and could hover that resembled this new TR3B people keep talking about these days!

I live in Logansport! And you definitely need to do a story about shiloh church and graveyard!