Incident #991050
Roachdale, Putnam Cty, Indiana
Aug 1972
Account
Carter and Junior Burdine drove into Carter's farmyard and found dozens of dead chickens, ripped apart but not eaten. Town marshal Leroy Cloncs came to investigate. Something they did not get a look at dashed across a road and went through a fence, knocking it down. A few hours later Carter and Junior (his uncle) and Herman (Carter's father) returned to the farm and in headlights showed a creature standing in the chicken house door. Its shoulders were up to the top of the 6-ft. door. It was making a groaning racket. It ran in the barn and leaped into the hay mow. Carter and Herman followed, Junior circled the building and shot four times with a shotgun as the creature ran across a field. The shots, at about 100 feet, showed no effect at all. Ground too hard for tracks.
When
- Observation Date
- AUG 22 1972
- Month
- Aug
- Year
- 1972
- Season
- summer
- Time of Day
- night
- Duration
- considerable
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
- First Seen
- in
- Terrain Object
- empty building
- Multiple Sightings Y/N
- Yes
- Shot Hit
- Yes
Witnesses
- No. of Witnesses
- 4
- Witness(es) Sex
- Male
Weather and light
- Lighting
- headlights
Source
- Source
- Jerome Clark article, quoting Carter Burdine, Junior (Bill) Burdine, Herman Burdine and town marshal Leroy Cloncs.
Creature description
- Hair Covered
- yes
- Height
- 7-8 ft
- Build
- very heavy
- Posture
- erect
- Hair Length
- long
- Hair Colour
- red brown
- Neck Length
- no neck
- Shoulders
- wide
- Movement
- staying still
- Later Movement
- ran
- Aggressive To
- chickens
- Object Handled
- animal
- Sound
- other
- Reaction
- fled from
- Position when first seen
- erect
Witness
- Witness Saw with
- naked eye
- Observer Was
- in carýoutside on foot
- Closest horizontal distance
- 75 feet
- Action on sighting
- chasedýshot