Mystery, paranormal, and the unexplained.Hosted by Shane Waters, Josh Waters and Kim Morrow1 hr 3 min episode
Brown County After Dark | Bigfoot & the Atterbury Saucers
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Brown County, Indiana, May 2020. A dad and his 11-year-old daughter are turkey hunting in Yellowwood State Forest when she spots it first: about six feet tall, gray, and in his words "very, very strong looking." It crossed ground in seconds that took the two of them six minutes to walk. Back in 1952, police across south-central Indiana and military observers at Camp Atterbury watched three lights in the sky for hours, and we could not find an explanation for that night in any paper we read.
Zoinks, the gang heads home to Indiana's Little Smokies. Shane walks Kim and Brent through the Brown County Bigfoot file, from a caver near Harrodsburg in 1979 to call-and-answer howls at Yellowwood Lake, the Finding Bigfoot town forum in Bloomington, and the Nashville couple running a Bigfoot research center today. Then the sky takes over: the summer of Operation Skywatch, two weekends of saucers over Washington, and the night police from Seymour to Franklin reported what one civil defense director called a dogfight over Franklin.
Timeline of Events
July 14, 1952: Operation Skywatch puts Ground Observer Corps volunteers on round-the-clock sky watch in 27 states.
July 28, 1952: Indiana troopers and Camp Atterbury observers watch three objects over south-central Indiana from 1:07 a.m. until after 4 a.m.
July 29, 1952: The Air Force holds its largest Pentagon press conference since World War II about the Washington sightings.
November 1979: A caver near Harrodsburg, west of Lake Monroe, reports a six to seven foot figure covered in long dark brown hair.
November 2011: Finding Bigfoot holds a town forum at the Monroe County History Center in Bloomington.
August 8, 2015: Campers at Yellowwood Lake hear deep howls answered from across the water.
May 9, 2020: A father and daughter report a gray figure about six feet tall in Yellowwood State Forest.
What You Will Hear
The 2020 Yellowwood sighting and the six-minute walk that makes it hard to shakeA rainy night on a cabin porch near Greenbriar Lake and prints that looked like fuzzy bedroom slippers What happened when Finding Bigfoot came to Bloomington The trooper logs from July 28, 1952, ending with a red, white and blue object seen from Camp Atterbury Why one military base keeps turning up in both the sky stories and the woods stories
Sources
Bigfoot Field Researchers Organization, Brown, Monroe and Bartholomew County reports
Seymour Daily Tribune and Anderson Daily Bulletin, July 28, 1952
Indiana Daily Student, November 2011
Indiana Public Media, July 3, 2026
Indiana Department of Natural Resources, Brown County State Park
If you liked this: Episode 163, The Phoenix Lights. Another night when ordinary people watched lights in the sky that nobody could explain.
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