Incident #991049
Roachdale, Putnam Cty, Indiana
Aug 1972
Account
This is one of the cases investigators at the scene believe has a UFO link. Lou Rogers heard the creature outside their trailer home one night in the first week of August. The next couple of nights she heard something pounding on the siding and windows. Her husband, Randy, rushed out one night with a shotgun and glimpsed an enormously broad shouldered, shadowy biped about 6 ft. tall escaping into a cornfield. Things went on for two or three weeks. It smelled rotten, like dead animals or garbage. They never got a clear look. Once it jumped up and down outside the window while she was washing dishes. It stood like a man, but she saw it run on all fours. They were puzzled that they never found tracks, even when it ran over mud, and when it ran through weeds there was no sound. Other witnesses were interviewed by Conservation Officer William Woodall, of Crawfordsville.
When
- Month
- Aug
- Year
- 1972
- Season
- summer
- Time of Day
- 10 to midnight
- Duration
- brief
Where
- State / province
- Indiana
- County
- Putnam Cty
- Nearest Town
- Roachdale
- Latitude
- 3951
- Longitude
- 8648
What was seen
- Individuals
- one large, sex unknown
- Total Individuals
- 1
- Population Status
- rural
- Near or/at
- occupied building
- Multiple Sightings Y/N
- Yes
- Tracks
- not found
Witnesses
- No. of Witnesses
- 2
- Witness(es) Sex
- Both sexes
Source
- Source
- Jerome Clark article, quoting Randy and Lou Rogers
Creature description
- Hair Covered
- yes
- Height
- 6 ft
- Build
- very heavy
- Posture
- erect
- Hair Colour
- black
- Shoulders
- wide
- Later Movement
- made a noiseýhandled something
- Aggressive To
- house
- Object Handled
- building
- Sound
- growl
- Odour
- strong
- Human Contact
- look in window
- Reaction
- avoided
- Position when first seen
- erect
Witness
- Witness Saw with
- naked eye
- Observer Was
- at homeýoutside on foot