A listener writes “Wes, I hope all is well. I’ve been carrying around this experience 20 years now hoping that what I saw in the woods while turkey hunting in southern Indiana.
While sitting beside a huge poplar tree on top of a ridge in the Hoosier national forest area of Martin county, that was blocking my view of anything coming on my right side. I was watching a few turkeys that were coming up the south ridge in front of me, they were startled by something and started acting strangely. That’s when coming from my right side I heard some small twigs and leaves rustling around and it was something of significant size by the sound of it. I slowly peaked around to see what it was and the thing I convinced myself of that I saw being a good sized bear somehow standing in a region of the country bears aren’t supposed to be.
Suddenly I realize the shoulders were way too wide to be a bear it almost had the features of a dog, long snout pointy ears, in all these years I’ve yet to find what I seen that day researching bears. Only a month ago did I hear the same almost exact story from your podcast American werewolf.
I don’t know why those cold black eyes didn’t choose me as it’s target but now I know what I saw was Dogman or something like him and am ready to release the burden of carrying this experience for good there’s more on how I managed to get away so please contact me and looking forward to sharing my experience.”
Sheila L
Wow! I am from this same county.
To clarify, there are no bears southern Indiana at all. Please come on Wes’s show and share your experience, good sir.
Kevin L
Brenda G
https://www.wthr.com/article/news/local/black-bear-sightings-on-the-rise-in-indiana/531-2e56c541-6ffb-48d0-8428-5e7af9277a2c
https://www.journal-news.net/journal-news/bear-spotted-in-jefferson-county/article_4b3edde3-f1b9-5258-90b8-c8183724c3f1.html#:~:text=The%20bear%20spotted%20in%20Jefferson%20County%20was%20likely,the%20hunt%20for%20a%20territory%20of%20their%20own.
I grew up in Southern Indiana and I don’t remember any bears being in the area 20 years ago. Wildlife is on the move now. I’ve spent that last 15 years in the Southwest USA, and have seen thousands of bear tracks & even had bear crap in my back yard – but, fortunately I haven’t had an up close encounter with a bear, or, god forbid, having an encounter as this listener has had. Before I moved to the Southwest I lived in the woods back in Indiana, surrounded by hundreds of acres. I’ve heard dozens of tree knocks but always thought it was people hunting illegally on my land. After listening to the stories on Wes’ site I think the tree knocks may have been something else living right there with me.
Sheila L
Thanks for those, Miss Brenda.
Seems they are coming back, but they are very rare. Certainly, none in Martin County. Looking forward to this show!
Kevin L
Suzi P
I grew up in southern Indiana and also very interested to hear your story. These ” things” are real.
Sharon H
Sounds like a good encounter to hear!
Linda B
I saw something coming across a frozen cornfield at 4 am that looks just like the picture on this screen but it didn’t appear to me to be very big. It did have that nasty sinister expression on its face which Wes always, and rightfully so, identifies/points out during his interviews and it’s an important fact, I’m glad he does.
Daren c
Awesome! Looking forward to it!
Linda B
It’s not uncommon to see black bears in Colo, of course, but funny story…one evening in downtown Evergreen Colo I and some friends were chatting in the parking lot of the bank where we all worked, we had just finished dinner at a restaurant across the street, and we had just broken up our visit and gotten in our respective vehicles when from the drive through of the bank where we had just been standing came a mama black bear and her two large cubs. I was so relieved I could book it out of there just in time. We had them in our yard, and a friend of mine was cooking a particularly aromatic dinner one night when a bear slipped down the cliff behind her house and bumped into the sliding glass door. Yee ha, the wild wild west. Lol
Timothy S
Another sighting in the vicinity of a military base. Crane Naval Warfare Center