The Legend of Orange Eyes

The legend of Orange Eyes dates back to March 28, 1959, when three panic stricken teenagers allegedly encountered a large, bipedal, hair covered monstrosity, which rose from a mist covered morass on a desolate stretch of country road known as Lover’s Lane. This lane, which is officially named Ruggles Road, runs along the Charles Mill Reservoir outside of Mansfield, Ohio, and is also the purported home of a bizarre, armless, semi-aquatic fiend known as The MILL LAKE MONSTER.

Described as being approximately 11-feet in height and weighing somewhere in the order of 1,000 pounds, old Orange Eyes is truly a HAIRY-HOMINID to be reckoned with. Believed by many to have once been a docile creature, which dwelled in a tunnel in Cleveland’s River Side cemetery, it was thought that when a highway construction crew destroyed the animal’s sanctuary in the late 1940?s, it was forced to move into the wooded area near Mill Lake, where its attitude took a turn for the worse.

Although this creature first came into the spotlight in 1959, it would not be until another (albeit less documented) encounter with this beast occurred in 1963, that the residents of the Mill Lake area began to take this creature seriously. According to eyewitness reports, the creature appeared before a plethora of eyewitnesses who wasted no time in arming themselves and forming a posse in order to ensure the beast’s destruction. Their efforts were met as the so often are with abject failure.

The next recorded encounter with Orange Eyes occurred on April 22, 1968. It was said the a group of children spotted the beast after dark and took chase armed with flashlights, baseball bats and rope, what these children intended to do with a cornered beast of the purported proportions of Orange Eyes is anyone’s guess. The elusive animal managed to slip away, however, much to the chagrin of the children and, no doubt, the delight of the parents.

The final recorded encounter with this creature was said to have taken place in June of 1991, when this creature presented itself to a pair of anglers who were fishing near Willis Creek. These apparently anonymous eyewitnesses had the good sense to allow the beast to disappear without pursuit.