#millracemonster

The Mill Race Monster is coming…

MILL RACE MONSTER #MILLRACEMONSTER On November 1, 1974, the Columbus Police Department received a series of panicked reports from no less than two sets of eyewitnesses, all of whom claimed to have seen (and even been attacked by) a huge, bipedal, green-skinned monstrosity that took to skulking near the waterways inside Indiana’s 83-acre Mill Race Park. These encounters would alarm locals and lead to what some consider to be the biggest “monster hunt” in the history of the United States. Dubbed “Death Valley” by residents during the 1950’s — when the location was besieged by rodents and severe flooding — the tree shrouded Mill Race Park is now known for its’ winding rivers, two small lakes and dense wooded areas designed for picnicking, family outings and private rendezvous. But in the autumn of 1974, the picturesque park was notorious for something else — harboring a violent, scaly, green monster. The first encounter involved four young women whose names (perhaps due to their age) were not released by the police. As bored teens are want to do, the group decided to go hang out in Mill Race Park where they could converse free from adult supervision. At approximately 3:00 p.m., on November 1, 1974, one of the young women spotted “the thing” between two trees near the paved boat ramp that led into the east fork of the White River, not far from where the Driftwood and Flat Rock rivers merge. The terrified teens wasted no time in escaping the park and reporting the incident to (almost certainly skeptical) law enforcement officials; stating they had seen a “green, hairy and large” creature. Later on that same evening, a pair of women — having heard nothing about the teenagers’ earlier sighting — decided to stop in Mill Race Park to chat and eat the fast food they had picked up somewhere quiet. There’s no way either of them could have known that they were about to have a traumatic face to face encounter with an unspeakable thing?