A group of teens is exploring a wooded area north of Indianapolis, Indiana when they encounter a Great Dane-sized creature that had markings similar to a raccoon.
"This happened 9 years ago in the early spring when I was 15 years old (Spring 2014). I was at a friend's house in corn country about an hour north of Indianapolis. Nowadays I am very familiar with the paranormal/unexplained having multiple shared experiences with friends, but at the time I was a major skeptic. I didn't fully process what we saw until years later.
I came over to my friend's house to hang out like any other time. I brought my pellet gun (he had one as well) so we could shoot some moles on his farm property. After a while, his brother joined us and we eventually got bored of looking for moles. There was a patch of woods about the size of 2 football fields a little over a mile away completely surrounded by empty cornfields with no access points from the nearby road. The three of us decided to walk out there because why not? We were bored kids looking for fun. We put on some boots and headed out with our pellet guns.
The walk wasn't super far but it took us a while to reach the woods because all the spring rain from earlier in the week made the empty field a big mud pit. So muddy your foot disappears with each step. Then right as we walked through the brush surrounding the edge of the woods we saw it. The best way I can describe this thing is it was a raccoon that was built like a Great Dane. We had seen coyotes and wolves before and this was not that. It 100% looked like the biggest raccoon we had ever seen. We could tell we caught it off guard because it was just standing there on all fours grooming itself and then it immediately locked eyes with us when one of us pointed at it and said, "Look at that thing!" There were a couple of seconds where we just looked at it as it looked back at us before it quickly turned around and scaled a 60ft tree. We lost sight of it in the canopy. We then looked at each other and were like "WTF was that?"
We talked about how the way it climbed the tree was what freaked us out the most. It only took a few strides up the tree using its front two paws to grab a spot on the tree to lift and launch itself up the tree. The arms were freakishly long and lanky looking when it climbed. It honestly looked somewhat human in the way it articulated its arms as it climbed. Like its elbows jutted out to the sides as it pulled itself up. We talked about how freaky that was some more and decided to keep looking around because even though we were spooked, it was intriguing and we wanted to see if there was any other freaky stuff around. There definitely was.
The woods were littered with easily over 100 animal carcasses/bone piles. Most of them were cows, raccoons, and opossums. There was one spot (maybe 25x25ft) that had at least a dozen cow carcasses ranging from just the bone left to one that looked less than a week old. They were definitely being eaten by something with huge chunks of flesh missing. I know cows get loose all the time but damn if this didn't look like a feeding spot. My theory is this thing was stealing cows from local farms for food, there are a couple within 5 miles.
We also found a man-made small pond near the middle of the woods, which couldn't have been more than 6 feet wide. A shovel and plastic bucket was sitting next to it. Once we found that were pretty freaked out again and decided we better head back because we had less than two hours of daylight left and there was a lot of thick deep mud to slowly walk through to get back.
That's pretty much it. At the time it freaked me out a bit but looking back now, knowing what skinwalkers are, I'm just happy we came back completely unscathed. Unfortunately, I don't hang out with those guys anymore and I tried to go back with some different friends somewhat recently only to see that the woods had been cleared out and there was nothing there. I thought I was tripping out but I looked on Google Earth and I could see in its place was dirt and log piles. Probably an omen to not chase this thing, I'll take it at face value.
I haven’t heard of the dogman but this thing didn’t look like a dog/coyote at all. I just used Great Dane as a size comparison as it was freakishly large to be looking like a raccoon. Yes, it had a striped tail like a raccoon. It had the face of a raccoon, specifically the large black spots around its eyes. Stubby almost rounded ears like a raccoon. It had bushy fur like a raccoon. We saw it very clearly with no obstructions from about 30-40 feet away. It was early spring and the brush inside the canopy was still dead."
Source: “Potential Skinwalker Sighting” - u/OptimusBlender
NOTE: Probably not a skinwalker. Most likely a cryptid canine of some sort. The location (north of Indianapolis, Indiana) has had cryptid canine reports, so I'm assuming that this may be an example of one. Your thoughts? Lon
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