Jun 3

The Mill Race Monster

The Mill Race Monster is a beast that was purportedly seen in Columbus, Indiana in 1974. It launched what is considered by some people to be the largest monster hunt in US history.

It has been described by witnesses as bipedal, between six to seven feet tall, and having a mossy green appearance.

On November 1st, 1974, the police department in Columbus, Indiana received reports from at least two sets of eyewitnesses who claimed to have seen and even possibly been attacked by a huge green-skinned monster by the water inside Mill Race Park.

The first report involved four young women whose names were not released by the police department. At about 3 PM, one of the women spotted the monster between two trees in the park. The group was able to escape and immediately reported their encounter to the police. They stated they had seen a “green, hairy, and large” creature.

The second report involved a pair of women unrelated to the first group, and who were also supposedly unaware of the sighting that had previously been reported. Tyra Cataline, one of those women, later came forward in 2014 on the show Monsters and Mysteries in America. She also told her story in 2015 on a local Fox News station, a full 41 years after the fact. She told them, “It was something. I don’t know what it was, but it wasn’t somebody wearing a costume.”

Cataline’s report also described the monster as having slime on its face and possessing large claws. The women claimed to have been attacked, and their car had scratch marks and a stench as a result of that attack.

Sightings have continued up to the present day. The story run by the Fox News station featuring Tyra Cataline was prompted by a report on October 10th, 2015 from a local hunter. He claimed to have seen a bigfoot-like creature, which may or may not have been related to the Mill Race Monster, in the Morgan-Monroe State Forest in Martinsville, Indiana.

 

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5 Responses to “The Mill Race Monster”

  1. Farrell Stormcrow

    Now you are in my neck of the woods. Monroe County, two counties over from where Columbus, Indiana is, and one county south of Morgan County has had the most reports, according to the BFRO in Indiana. We have, besides the Morgan-Monroe State forest, the Hoosier National Forest runs though these parts. A very large forested area, with some areas of old growth forests.
    The episode in (not) Finding Bigfoot, where Bobo shoots off roman candles was filmed in the Morgan-Monroe Forest.

  2. Carol F

    We take our local Sasquatch sightings very seriously here in south-central Indiana . Personally having seen 2 different Sasquatch in our area, we have been given numerous reports from other observers in the area of Morgan Monroe Forestry, and other nearby areas. Owen, Putnam, Green and Brown Counties are also ares of sightings of the wildmen. We are an independent team and not BFRO, and have indexed an extensive database of historical and current sightings of suspected Sasquatch incidents.

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