Dan's Run - 07/01/07 - 07/05/07 - 07/13/07

View from the top of the bridge, looking into the ditch.

Dan's Run - Henryville, IN
07/01/07 - 07/05/07 - 07/13/07

Legend:
Daniel Guthrie was murdered and placed in a shallow grave near the corner of Pixley Knob Road and Cemetery Hill (Mountain Grove). Guthrie's body remained undetected for one year before being found, unearthed and reburied in nearby Mt. Zion Cemetery . The hole he was buried in is still open (about 4-feet deep) near the edge of the woods. Homes in the nearby area have experienced sightings of a young man with a large, handlebar bushy mustache, doors open and close by themselves, footsteps walking up and down hallways at night, footprints found outside bedroom windows, objects moving by themselves, and ghostly whispers. Also, a tape recorder left on Guthrie's gravestone in Mt. Zion later revealed a faint, haunting man's voice crying, "Help me, God help me, please help me..."

Directions:
From I-65 take Exit 16, turn (left coming from South, right coming from North) onto Memphis-Blue Lick Rd. Follow this road, until you see Cemetery Hill/Moutain Grove Rd on the left. You will come to a small cement bridge with a creek underneath shortly after turning onto this road. The woods to the left of the creek is where we suspect his shallow grave lies.

More Information:
Before doing our investigation we visited with with one of our team member's relatives. The subject of Daniel Guthrie came up, since we told them why we were in the area. They told us that Dan Guthrie was just one victim in a string of murders in the Henryville area. They said he was not only buried once, but was also dug up again by his murderer and then burnt in a brush fire. They also confirmed that the creek bed beside the woods at the intersection is where they remembered him being buried the first time. This made us much more anxious to investigate, and we were not disappointed.

Investigation #1: 07/01/07
We made the trip up there and arrived at dusk, to make sure we could find both places, and it was no problem since it's pretty simple locate. I got out of the car to try and find the shallow grave along the creek bed, but it was partially on private property and I didn't want to risk being caught trespassing in broad daylight. We then went back to the fast food restaurants down Blue Lick Rd near the highway to grab a bite to eat and wait night out.

We drive down Cemetery/Moutain Grove Rd and hit the bridge near the intersection. I get out of the car, but the other person with me refused, still being a bit freaked out (see our investigation of Moutain Grove Cemetery.) I start taking pictures from the road of the creek below, and after taking a couple pictures as I look into the flash of the next photo, I see a transparent blue fog in the creek. I have never been more caught off guard in my life, I was frozen for a second and then just jumped back into the car and got out of there.

Investigation #2: 07/05/07 We decided to do a follow up investigation here after the strange occurrence with the fog. This time a friend and I were dropped off by someone in a car on the bridge, and told them not to come back for a little while.

As they pulled off and we looked for a good way to climb down from the bridge into the creek bed I hear a sound that catches my attention. As I listened more carefully it sounded like a very deep guttural growl coming from the woods. I turned to my friend and asked if he heard it as well, and he said he heard it too. The sound returned once again a few seconds later much louder than before, like whatever was in the woods was coming towards us. It was the lowest growl I have ever heard anywhere around here, this thing must've been big. So we back away to the other side of the road, but the growling didn't stop. We start walking back up Moutain Grove Rd, hoping to see our ride, but the sound still doesn't stop, in fact it actually followed us along the woods on the opposite side of the road. I'm guessing whatever this thing was really didn't want us to be near that bridge. I thought about taking a picture for a second, but came to the conclusion that whatever this thing was I didn't want to provoke it anymore then I already had. We make it past where there's a break in the wood line, it appears a road or trail used to be there, and the growling stops.

We stand there continuing to look at the opposite of the road for any sign of this thing, and as we're looking a flash of dim light partly illuminates the woods along the road we're standing on. I listened and looked around for cars or some other light source that could've created that flash, but didn't see anything. A few minutes later we see my friend pulling up with the van and got out of there. I will definitely plan a better follow up investigation next time. I'm even thinking about asking the owner of the property for permission to be out there at night so we wouldn't have to worry about anyone catching us.

Investigation #3: 07/13/07
I wouldn't really call this an investigation, we were just in the area at night once again, so we decided to stop by for a few minutes. This visit merely consisted of us sitting on the bridge in the car, but it yeilded results none the less. After a few minutes of sitting there, in the headlights of my car I saw a human shaped shadow walking in front of the car against the road. I looked over at my friend and asked "Did you see that?" and he responded "That shadow that looked like a person?"

After that I decided I needed to get out of the car, I figured if there's really anything here there's a good chance it's here right now. After standing on the bridge next to my car for a few moments, I hear a cough come from right in front of me on the edge of the bridge. As soon as I heard that I kinda laughed in disbelief and decided that was enough for that night. Once again, I'm planning a real follow up investigation in the near future, but still need to get the owner's permission to be out there.