🦇 Wings in the Cornfield: Mysterious Humanoid Spotted in Indiana

📍 Wheeler, Indiana | 🗓️ March 28, 2025 | 🧾 Category: Cryptid

Something stirred in the skies above northwest Indiana—and it wasn’t an owl.

On the quiet evening of March 28, a resident of Wheeler, Indiana, stepped outside to investigate a strange sound—a low, rhythmic whoosh—echoing over his rural property. What he saw next stopped him cold: a tall, humanoid figure with expansive wings, gliding just above the treetops before silently vanishing behind an open cornfield. The witness described the being as “at least seven feet tall,” with a thin frame, glowing red eyes, and leathery wings that spanned “wider than a car.”

The report was submitted to Singular Fortean Society, a group known for tracking winged cryptid sightings across the Midwest. Investigator Tobias Wayland, who has documented similar incidents tied to the Lake Michigan Mothman wave, noted striking similarities: red eyes, silent flight, and a strange sense of dread experienced by the witness.

This is not the first time northern Indiana has played host to winged anomalies. In 2023, a truck driver outside Valparaiso reported a similar creature perched atop a grain silo. Though skeptics blame sandhill cranes or large owls, the consistency of these sightings—and the eerily human qualities described—raise deeper questions.

Is this part of the ongoing Mothman phenomenon sweeping across the Great Lakes region? Or does Wheeler now have a cryptid all its own?

Whatever the truth, one thing is certain: Indiana’s skies are no longer empty.