Okie Pinokie

I went here with my girlfriend and a couple friends. We have been 3 times the first time it was like 12am and we drove back to the circle but none of us wanted to get out of the car. We were looking into the woods it's pitch black back there and we see something that looked like smoke but it looked almost like a bunch of horses coming straight for us. We ended up leaving. The second time someone had told us that the circle was shaped as the number 6 and that we were suppose to drive around it three times. So we did that and then parked off to the side. This time we got out and together looked around. Something spooked us and we all jumped in the car and took off . We found hand prints on the trunk of the car like someone was trying to push the car away. The third and last time we all went on Halloween in like 2009 or so and when we got back to the circle there was already someone else there. We met with the other small group and started to party. A bus and like 3or 4 cars pulled back there. We ended up all building a huge fire in the middle of the circle. It was almost a 30 foot fire. Dnr came and made us out the fire because it was too big. They asked why were there and all of us told them we were there with a paranormal researchers that were on the bus. Dnr left and we continued to party.. oh my gosh it was Soo much fun. Later that night we tried to walk into the woods. We got a few yards away from the trail and heard some loud noises right in front of as so we all turned around and ran as fast as our legs would go until we made it back to the trail. We started taking pictures. We have so many pictures of orbs figure standing in the woods. After we took a picture one time there was this huge orb where my girlfriend was pointing and telling me to take a picture in that area and so I did and that's when we got the picture of a huge orb and a bunch of smaller orbs lined up on each side of the trail in a row. That's when all of us decided that we saw enough to know that the woods are absolutely haunted by hundreds maybe thousands of spirits and it was time to go. All of us ran to our cars. We all left except for the bus of researchers. It was so fun and scary I want to go again. Every since then I have some kind of entity that's attached itself to me. I have always been able to see and feel spirits. This place made that sense a lot better. I would absolutely refer okie pinokie to only the serious people. Hope your not too scared. If you decide to go ..Good Luck!!

August 2026

They closed the road leading back but there’s still a place to park. My friends and me went camping here a couple of months ago and around 3am we heard screaming. It sounded like a woman’s voice. We dragged our tent through the woods and were running full speed and we were still hearing screaming from right behind us. No other cars were parked here. Another time we pulled up on ghost investigators and walked back to devils circle with them. We heard a voice by the river and nobody was there. We went deep on a trail and were lost. We started hearing weird animal noises from all around us. We all thought they sounded more human than animal and were spooked by it and left. I’m aware of what foxes and coyotes sound like. I’m not sure how to describe the noises we heard but it gave all of us goosebumps

February 2026

Went here a few times actually always around 1 am, my friends and I didn't expect anything of that place. We are all skeptical of the paranormal and after that place we aren't and I am former law enforcement and had faced bigger and scarier things than people could ever imagine but after going there and getting the photos I did. I'll never doubt that place again. we caught a photo of something peeking around a tree at us eyes and all. That was just the first night, the second night we went back and we were immediately warned by a DNR officer to be careful in the woods after oh so many calls about people trying to assault others within the woods. we never saw anyone else that night but just very off putting things had started happening like the flashlight batteries dying and then our phones dying even scratches started forming on a friend (I have the photos) after that night we had went to a church not too far away and i swear you could hear something whispering in disgust as soon as we touched the building.

January 2026

I’ve been back there with a group of friends, 5 of us total. We got separated while wandering the woods but regrouped quickly afterwards in the open gravel area. I don’t know what the people with me saw but they couldn’t get out of there fast enough and were pretty quiet the whole way back to Logansport. I personally felt like someone was watching me and walking behind me on one of the trails but saw no one when I’d turn around. On our way down the lane when we were leaving in the car, I had the sudden urge to look behind us. As soon as I did I saw a partial full body apparition step from the edge of the lane and into the woods. I told my friend to stop, jumped out and ran back to where I saw them standing but obviously saw no one. No branches or weeds were moving and there was no physical signs of a living person having just been standing there. Also, I say “partial FBA” because I could only see the one side of their body as you would if someone was standing partially hidden behind a wall, shrubs or something similar. I’ve dealt with paranormal experiences since I was a child and that was my 3rd time seeing an apparition. Unfortunately the lane was gated off in 2022 for reasons like the body of Drake Smith being found, vandalism and other illegal activity. However, you can park on the side of the road and walk back the almost 1 mile long lane.

December 2025

I heard little kids screen bloody murder and the sound of trees falling during my one week camping trip with my best friend! I would never go back tho

April 2025

I know every foot of that woods been going there for 45 years hunting and having party's back there since 1981 there is no root cellar

September 2024

The woods is on 124 2 cement pillars stand at the entrance been going there since 1981 we witnessed satanic Ritual.one night the people I was with never would go back they have it gated off now you can go there in the daytime but it's prohibited to go there at night now Used to be the state forest a kid was murder there a few years ago

September 2024

I grew up in Miami Co. and there wasn't any murder of Joe Peoria in 1976.
The road is part of the old Francis Slocum trail going from Peru to Marion. It's a beaitofi; drive in the fall. Colo Porter's grandfather's estate, the Old Fashion Gardene, the Seven Pillars to name a few. No Ghost stories when I was growing up there.

August 2024

I drove out to Peru and Noone knew what I was talking about with okie pinokie or could give directions. I call crap on the whole thing unless someone can send exact coordinates

August 2023

I wish I could post a picture here, because I feel like people would shit their pants if they could see the picture I have from this place. A small group of three, including myself went on Halloween night in 2017 or 2018 and nothing much happened. The biggest thing was something running at us in the clearing off the gravel road. But the interesting things happened when we got home. My friend had three scratches on her back and capture a picture with what seemed to be a demons face. It had bulls horns and a nose ring like a bull. There's also a few other figures in it but they are not as easy to see as the demon. I don't know if I'd ever go back. But if I do it's definitely during the day

May 2023