Episode 69: The Park Monster
Mystery Category: Cryptids / Urban Legends
The Story: In 1974, a suburban park in Columbus, Indiana, became the site of a town-wide monster hunt. Multiple witnesses described a green-tinged, hulking figure lurking in the woods of Mill Race Park—a "Bigfoot" sighting that occurred not in the deep wilderness, but right in the heart of a community.
Public parks are the people’s playground — but they’re also, quite possibly, home to some unusual residents.
Mill Race parkgoers in Columbus, Indiana were probably not expecting to come face-to-face with a Bigfoot. But then again, who ever is?
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Hosted by Laurah Norton
Researched by Bryan Worters and Maura Currie
Written & Produced by Maura Currie
Engineered by Brandon Schexnayder
NA, “Monster: Women Report Seeing…” The Republic, 1974.
NA, “Mill Race Monster Makes…” The Republic, 1974.
NA, “Mill Race Monster Hunt…” The Republic, 1974.
NA, “Monster-ous Thing At Columbus…” The Indianapolis Star, 1974.
NA, “‘Green Monster’ No Danger…” The Columbus Herald, 1974.
NA, “Elusive ‘Monster’ Remains…” The Republic, 1974.
NA, “No Week End Monster…” The Republic, 1974.
NA, “Mill Race Park Closed…” The Republic, 1974.
NA, “Enough’s Enough,” The Republic, 1974.
A Concerned Reader, “Ignore Mill Race Monster…” The Republic, 1974.
NA, “November,” The Republic, 1974.
Nancy Wheeler, “The monster of Mill Race,” The Republic, 1993.
NA, “‘We thought we were going to die…” Fox 8, 2015.
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