Haunted Okie Pinokie Woods Near Peru, Indiana

Oki A Huron-specific class of invisible Power spirits, carriers of magickal energy. Oki are both spirits, and unusual objects such as the sky, shamans, madmen, amulets, etc. Oki will appear in animal form to certain individuals known as Arendiwane

    The paranormal activity at this site is due to the reported Indian burial grounds that was on these lands.  The site is located near the mouth of the Mississenewa River where it enters the Wabash River. Mouths of rivers were favorite places for ancient burial mounds and are likely the catalyst for the paranormal activity in the area. It is said that that thousand of spirits inhabited the woods in the background. Very near this site I photographed an ancient stoe burial mound. 



Horrendous things have been found and done in the lonely piece of woods.

8 decaying bodies have been found in the woods

A 7-year-old girl named Stephanie was raped and killed in these woods

In early spring 1976, Joey and three of his friends strolled into the woods to go camping and never came out. It was several days before anyone became concerned because they had planned on spending an extended weekend in the woods as they often did. Four days after they walked into the forest a search party discovered the partially decaying bodies of three young men. The men had been brutally murdered and could barely be identified. Joey Peoria was never found or seen again. After an extensive investigation, it was determined that an argument occurred between the campers and it was suspected that Joey had killed the three men.

Between 1980 and 1985 five men were found dead in the same scenic area as the first three. People stopped going into the woods as they were convinced that Joey was living in the woods and murdering campers.

Update: In 2018 a body was found in Okie Pinokie Woods that was an apparent homicide

Iroquois "Okie" or Spirit Stones in Northern Indiana Associated with Paranormal Activity

Iroquois "Okie" or Spirit Stones in Northern Indiana Associated with Paranormal Activity

    At each of these three sites where the Iroquois placed "Spirit Stones" Paranormal Activity has been reported.  Near the stone bowl at Roann is a place called the Okie Pinokie Woods that is supposedly filled with disembodied spirits. One paranormal investigator reported a sense of dread and the feeling that something wanted him to leave immediately when he took the gravel road to the river at the Mississenewa Battleground site.  The gravel road takes you really close to the Iroquois Okie stone.

Iroquois Trail shrine located on an old Indian trail called 13 Curves. 

Associated with the Iroquois are larger sacred boulders that are called “Okies.” These boulder erratics from the melting ice sheets are usually found in odd spots, in a river or next to spring. It was believed that the boulders marked the presence of spirits.  

A large boulder with a bowl carved on the top called an Okie or Spirit Stone by the Iroquois is located on the Eel River in Wabash County.

This stone bowl is fed by a spring along the bank of the Mississenewa River in Wabash County, Indiana. It is located at the Mississinewa Battlefield Site in Wabash County, Indiana

Paranormal Activity Witnessed at a Native American Grave in North Carolina

Paranormal Activity Witnessed at a Native American Grave in North Carolina

Testimony by Baron von Graffenreid. His description, recorded in The Colonial Records of North Carolina, 1886

    “After the tomb was covered, I noticed something which passes imagination, and which I should not believe, had I not seen it with my own eyes. From the tomb arose a little flaming fire, like a big candle-light, which went up straight in the air, and noiselessly, went straight over the cabin of the deceased widow, and thence further across a big swamp above 1 mile broad, until it finally vanished from sight in the woods. At that sight, I have a way to my surprise and asked what it meant, but the Indians laughed at me as if I ought to have known that this was no rarity among them. They refused, however, to tell me what it was. All that I could ascertain was that they thought a great deal of it, that this light is a favorable omen, which makes them think the deceased a happy soul, but they deem it a most unpropitious sign when a black smoke ascends from the tomb. This flying flame, yet, could not be artificial, on account of the great distance; it could be some physical phenomenon, like sulfurous vapors, but this great uniformity in its appearance surpasses nature