We are attempting to set down the information which is now available on these incidents, not in a sensational fashion, but to show that "something" has frightened some area residents.

If, on the other hand, someone is attempting some elaborate pre-Halloween pranks, they are not very funny and more than a little dangerous.

This week's issue of The Valley Advance departs from its usual format to cover an area news story which might be mildly described as "unusual."

There has been considerable rumor and speculations about whatever it was which smashed the siding on a house at the edge of Vincennes and confronted residents of Knox, Daviess and Martin counties in recent weeks.

We are attempting to set down the information which is now available on these incidents, not in a sensational fashion, but to show that "something" has frightened some area residents. The accompanying story by Richard Day adds that reports of unusual creatures are not new. Who is to say that the "man-mountain" of pioneer days is so much different from the Sasquatch or "big-foot" reports of more recent times?

Those who have turned in these area reports might have some fear of being dismissed or laughed at, yet they are sincere and honest in their accounts and deserve to be treated with respect.

That there might be a species of animal of the proportions described which has gone undetected does stretch credulity, but it is possible. If, on the other hand, someone is attempting some elaborate pre-Halloween pranks, they are not very funny and more than a little dangerous.

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