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Cryptids and UFOs in Indiana

Beast of Busco: the creatures, UFO files and strange history of Indiana, all in one place.

  • 1 creatures with famous cases
  • 184 Air Force UFO files
  • 6 old newspaper reports

Creatures reported in Indiana

Beast of Buscoaka Oscar the turtle, Busco turtleA 500-pound snapping turtle that set off a lake-draining hunt in 1949.

Famous cases

  1. 1898Oscar Fulk sighting
    Beast of Busco · Churubusco, Indiana
  2. 1948Fishermen sighting
    Beast of Busco · Fulk Lake, Indiana
  3. 1949Lake drained in turtle hunt
    Beast of Busco · Churubusco, Indiana

UFO files

From the old newspapers

Strange creatures, sea serpents and mystery airships reported in Indiana papers before 1927.

  1. 1891A gorilla in the hills around Vernon
    Vernon
  2. 1892An alligator-headed swimmer in the Knightstown mill race
    Knightstown
  3. 1893The Cedar Bass Lake monster
    Knox
  4. 1896A monster snake in the woods near Denver, Indiana
    Denver
  5. 1897A sea serpent in Lake Wawasee
    Syracuse
  6. 1921A white-furred phantom beast near English
    English

All 6 newspaper reports from Indiana

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