September 4, 2025 • 9 mins
A highly strange report out of Ohio that involved UFOs, Bigfoot-type creatures, and “black forms,” all of which reportedly besieged the family of “Robert S.” in Ohio during the months of June and July in 1981. The principal investigator was Dennis Pilichis, who self-published a booklet in 1982 titled, Night Siege: The Northern Ohio UFO-Creature Invasion. The witnesses, Robert S. and his sons, reportedly shot at “black forms” and hairy creatures with glowing red eyes, and Pilichis wrote that he saw a ladder leaning up against the house and shotgun shells littering the yard when he arrived, and upon investigation, found strange, three-toed footprints. This week, we’ll look at Pilichis’s claim that he witnessed a siege from the roof first-hand, along with investigators who were assisting him, and we’ll share some thoughts on the validity of the case from the researchers involved in the making of the Small Town Monsters Mysteries and Monsters episode, “Sasquatch Night Siege.”
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A nineteen eighty one report of an Ohio family besieged
by UFOs, hairy humanoids and black forms Part two by
Charles Lear. In last week's blog, we looked at a
(00:24):
highly strange report out of Ohio that involved UFOs, big
foot type creatures, and black forms, all of which reportedly
besieged the family of Robert S in Ohio during the
months of June and July in nineteen eighty one. The
principal investigator was Dennis Pelichius, who self published a booklet
in nineteen eighty two titled Night Siege the Northern Ohio
(00:47):
UFO Creature Invasion. The witnesses Robert S and his sons
reportedly shot at black forms and hairy creatures with glowing
red eyes, and Policius wrote that he saw a latter
leaning up again against the house and shotgun shells littering
the yard when he arrived, and upon investigation found strange
three toed footprints. This week will look at Polychus's claim
(01:10):
that he witnessed a siege from the roof first hand,
along with investigators who are assisting him, and will share
some thoughts on the validity of the case. From the
researchers involved in the making of the Small Town Monsters,
Mysteries and Monsters episode Sasquatch Night Siege. Under the heading
the Encounters of July sixth and seventh, nineteen eighty one,
(01:32):
Belitchus says that Willard MacIntyre of the Marsenne Group of
Maryland made plans to visit him on his way to
Mount Saint Helens to investigate Bigfoot reports. According to Polichus,
McIntyre arrived and Politicus briefed him on the events in
his area of Rome, Ohio. He adds that James Carnes
of Mecca, Ohio stopped by his well and they all
(01:55):
jumped in the car and went to Robert S's home.
Belichus describes finding the Robert had put up a barbed
wire fence around the front of his house and yard
to protect his family from some sort of large creature,
a black form that had walked up to the window
on the porch. Politicus notes there were eighteen inch five
toed impressions found in the yard, the driveway, and in
(02:18):
front of the window. In addition to all this, Robert
is said to have told Policius that the forms had
come back and Blitchus says that three toed footprints were
found in the area, as well as big hoof marks
of some sort that couldn't be identified as coming from
anything earthly. An unusual discovery Policious describes is a set
(02:39):
of five toed footprints and four feet high grass where
the grass was swirled around them in a clockwise direction.
According to him, all of the above was documented and
photographed on thirty five millimeter film, though he doesn't include
any photos of the footprints with the swirled grass around them.
He says that after more taped interviews were taken, Carnes
(03:01):
went home and he Belitches and MacIntyre decided to come
back and spend the night. Polychus says that when they
arrived late in the day, the family was loading their
guns getting ready for another night on the roof. According
to him, one of the family members said they saw
glowing eyes in the wood line behind the house, and
(03:21):
he says that he, MacIntyre, and two family members went
out there. He explains that he could not first off
see many of the forms moving on the wood line
and attributes this to his night vision abilities. He points
out that the family members could probably see better at
night than he could, as they were expert hunters. Polychus
(03:43):
describes an intense experience while out on the wood line
where a glowing form stepped out of the woods on
the other side of a field, and three members shot
at it, hid it, and it seemed to fall into
the high grass. He says they went to look and
saw the grass was smashed down with a path leading away,
as if something had dragged itself away into the woods.
(04:05):
Polyitchus says he and MacIntyre threw rocks into the woods
to see if they might hear something run away or
see something come out after them, and that a rock
came flying out of the woods and landed by the
family members fifteen feet behind them. He then describes multiple
instances of seeing glowing eyes and a form with a
white glow. According to Polychus, the best sighting they had
(04:29):
that night started with three sets of glowing red eyes
around a dead tree. Polychus describes a twelve feet tall,
black haired creature stepping out and standing to the left
of the tree and says he caught it in his
flashlight beam and it cast a shadow on the tree trunk.
He says everyone fired at it and that the creature
turned sideways with a strange sort of motion, walked out
(04:53):
of the beam of light, and seemed unaffected by the shooting.
More encounters and shootings are described, include on August twenty first,
and reportedly involved Blitches MacIntyre and Larry Peters. A new
addition to the investigation, there's also an account of a
trap being set using live rabbits with a capsule of
(05:14):
cyanide inside each of them. Blitches doesn't explain what getting
the capsules inside entailed, and a tape loop of rabbits screaming.
Blitch's reports that one rabbit was gone and five toed
eighteen inch bigfoot type prints were found. While Polychus's account
is highly strange and dramatic, the fact that he presents
(05:35):
what he claims are transcribed police reports and as so
many named witnesses, begs for some follow up research, as
nineteen eighty one was recent enough that it would be
highly likely the witnesses would still be alive. Supporting the
story are transcripts of newspaper articles from the period from
the Orwell, Ohio Valley News, presented on the website Sasquatchs
(06:01):
under the heading Strange Beast Romes in Rome, Ohio. The
first article is from the July first, nineteen eighty one edition,
with the same headline as the heading of the posting,
and describes a Rome family reporting that it shot a
seven to nine feet tall black animal that had been
showing up repeatedly since the previous Wednesday. According to the article,
(06:25):
sheriff deputies weren't able to find the animal, but did
find footprints. The family is reported to have said that
since the creature first showed up, four ducks and some
chickens have disappeared. The article in the July eighth, nineteen
eighty one Valley News headlined Rome's Strange Beast is in fact,
(06:45):
were fantasy reports that at least three area residents spotted
what they believe is a nine foot tall animal which
walks on its hind legs Tuesday night in the same
area where sheriff's deputies found large foot prints a week ago.
The last article is from the July fifteenth, nineteen eighty
one Valley News headlined Rome's bigfoot fact or fantasy and
(07:10):
the source of the information is poligious. The account here
contains many of the same elements as the account in
Knight Siege presented in chronological order with dates in the
Small Town Monsters Mysteries and Monsters episode Sasquatch Night Siege.
The host, Eli Watson provides background on how he came
(07:31):
to know about this story through Andy Matski, whom he
met when both were the youngest Small Town Monster's film
crew members, and how Matski went about trying to verify
the story. Matski talks about how he went to Rome,
Ohio and how he sought to find people and organizations
mentioned in Politicius's booklet. Matski's father, Mark Matski, a regular
(07:53):
narrator for Small Town Monsters productions, who passed his interest
in the case down to his son, proved Night's commentary
in speculation throughout the question of why Politicius never followed
up on the case in the over forty years before
his death is raised by Watson, and Mark Matski speculates
that it was because Politicius discovered it was a hoax
(08:16):
and stayed quiet so he didn't look like a fool.
Supporting this is some background on Willard McIntyre. Macintyres, identified
by Andy Matski, had around one hour in as the
person who presented a photo of what he claimed was
a burned alien body. It was dubbed the Tomato Man
that was identified as an Air Force pilot by Ron Schaffner,
(08:39):
who wrote about it in the article The Tomato Man
Revisited and investigators from the Ohio UFO Investigators League, who
noted not only elements of the uniform, but electrical wires
in the frame of a pair of aviator glasses in
the picture. Maski describes coming upon an article by Schaffner
in which he wrote that during personal contact with Matt McIntyre,
(09:00):
MacIntyre said that Polichus believed everything he was told and
would be easy to hoax, and that he McIntyre was
related to one of the witnesses. Matski presents the argument
that the whole episode was a hoax perpetrated on Polichius
by McIntyre with the cooperation of the witnesses who possibly
shot blanks. Charles Lear is the author of The Flying
(09:24):
Saucer Investigators, available in its second edition at Amazon dot com.
A nineteen eighty one report of an Ohio family besieged
by UFOs, hairy humanoids and black forms Part two by
Charles Lear. In last week's blog, we looked at a
(00:24):
highly strange report out of Ohio that involved UFOs, big
foot type creatures, and black forms, all of which reportedly
besieged the family of Robert S in Ohio during the
months of June and July in nineteen eighty one. The
principal investigator was Dennis Pelichius, who self published a booklet
in nineteen eighty two titled Night Siege the Northern Ohio
(00:47):
UFO Creature Invasion. The witnesses Robert S and his sons
reportedly shot at black forms and hairy creatures with glowing
red eyes, and Policius wrote that he saw a latter
leaning up again against the house and shotgun shells littering
the yard when he arrived, and upon investigation found strange
three toed footprints. This week will look at Polychus's claim
(01:10):
that he witnessed a siege from the roof first hand,
along with investigators who are assisting him, and will share
some thoughts on the validity of the case. From the
researchers involved in the making of the Small Town Monsters,
Mysteries and Monsters episode Sasquatch Night Siege. Under the heading
the Encounters of July sixth and seventh, nineteen eighty one,
(01:32):
Belitchus says that Willard MacIntyre of the Marsenne Group of
Maryland made plans to visit him on his way to
Mount Saint Helens to investigate Bigfoot reports. According to Polichus,
McIntyre arrived and Politicus briefed him on the events in
his area of Rome, Ohio. He adds that James Carnes
of Mecca, Ohio stopped by his well and they all
(01:55):
jumped in the car and went to Robert S's home.
Belichus describes finding the Robert had put up a barbed
wire fence around the front of his house and yard
to protect his family from some sort of large creature,
a black form that had walked up to the window
on the porch. Politicus notes there were eighteen inch five
toed impressions found in the yard, the driveway, and in
(02:18):
front of the window. In addition to all this, Robert
is said to have told Policius that the forms had
come back and Blitchus says that three toed footprints were
found in the area, as well as big hoof marks
of some sort that couldn't be identified as coming from
anything earthly. An unusual discovery Policious describes is a set
(02:39):
of five toed footprints and four feet high grass where
the grass was swirled around them in a clockwise direction.
According to him, all of the above was documented and
photographed on thirty five millimeter film, though he doesn't include
any photos of the footprints with the swirled grass around them.
He says that after more taped interviews were taken, Carnes
(03:01):
went home and he Belitches and MacIntyre decided to come
back and spend the night. Polychus says that when they
arrived late in the day, the family was loading their
guns getting ready for another night on the roof. According
to him, one of the family members said they saw
glowing eyes in the wood line behind the house, and
(03:21):
he says that he, MacIntyre, and two family members went
out there. He explains that he could not first off
see many of the forms moving on the wood line
and attributes this to his night vision abilities. He points
out that the family members could probably see better at
night than he could, as they were expert hunters. Polychus
(03:43):
describes an intense experience while out on the wood line
where a glowing form stepped out of the woods on
the other side of a field, and three members shot
at it, hid it, and it seemed to fall into
the high grass. He says they went to look and
saw the grass was smashed down with a path leading away,
as if something had dragged itself away into the woods.
(04:05):
Polyitchus says he and MacIntyre threw rocks into the woods
to see if they might hear something run away or
see something come out after them, and that a rock
came flying out of the woods and landed by the
family members fifteen feet behind them. He then describes multiple
instances of seeing glowing eyes and a form with a
white glow. According to Polychus, the best sighting they had
(04:29):
that night started with three sets of glowing red eyes
around a dead tree. Polychus describes a twelve feet tall,
black haired creature stepping out and standing to the left
of the tree and says he caught it in his
flashlight beam and it cast a shadow on the tree trunk.
He says everyone fired at it and that the creature
turned sideways with a strange sort of motion, walked out
(04:53):
of the beam of light, and seemed unaffected by the shooting.
More encounters and shootings are described, include on August twenty first,
and reportedly involved Blitches MacIntyre and Larry Peters. A new
addition to the investigation, there's also an account of a
trap being set using live rabbits with a capsule of
(05:14):
cyanide inside each of them. Blitches doesn't explain what getting
the capsules inside entailed, and a tape loop of rabbits screaming.
Blitch's reports that one rabbit was gone and five toed
eighteen inch bigfoot type prints were found. While Polychus's account
is highly strange and dramatic, the fact that he presents
(05:35):
what he claims are transcribed police reports and as so
many named witnesses, begs for some follow up research, as
nineteen eighty one was recent enough that it would be
highly likely the witnesses would still be alive. Supporting the
story are transcripts of newspaper articles from the period from
the Orwell, Ohio Valley News, presented on the website Sasquatchs
(06:01):
under the heading Strange Beast Romes in Rome, Ohio. The
first article is from the July first, nineteen eighty one edition,
with the same headline as the heading of the posting,
and describes a Rome family reporting that it shot a
seven to nine feet tall black animal that had been
showing up repeatedly since the previous Wednesday. According to the article,
(06:25):
sheriff deputies weren't able to find the animal, but did
find footprints. The family is reported to have said that
since the creature first showed up, four ducks and some
chickens have disappeared. The article in the July eighth, nineteen
eighty one Valley News headlined Rome's Strange Beast is in fact,
(06:45):
were fantasy reports that at least three area residents spotted
what they believe is a nine foot tall animal which
walks on its hind legs Tuesday night in the same
area where sheriff's deputies found large foot prints a week ago.
The last article is from the July fifteenth, nineteen eighty
one Valley News headlined Rome's bigfoot fact or fantasy and
(07:10):
the source of the information is poligious. The account here
contains many of the same elements as the account in
Knight Siege presented in chronological order with dates in the
Small Town Monsters Mysteries and Monsters episode Sasquatch Night Siege.
The host, Eli Watson provides background on how he came
(07:31):
to know about this story through Andy Matski, whom he
met when both were the youngest Small Town Monster's film
crew members, and how Matski went about trying to verify
the story. Matski talks about how he went to Rome,
Ohio and how he sought to find people and organizations
mentioned in Politicius's booklet. Matski's father, Mark Matski, a regular
(07:53):
narrator for Small Town Monsters productions, who passed his interest
in the case down to his son, proved Night's commentary
in speculation throughout the question of why Politicius never followed
up on the case in the over forty years before
his death is raised by Watson, and Mark Matski speculates
that it was because Politicius discovered it was a hoax
(08:16):
and stayed quiet so he didn't look like a fool.
Supporting this is some background on Willard McIntyre. Macintyres, identified
by Andy Matski, had around one hour in as the
person who presented a photo of what he claimed was
a burned alien body. It was dubbed the Tomato Man
that was identified as an Air Force pilot by Ron Schaffner,
(08:39):
who wrote about it in the article The Tomato Man
Revisited and investigators from the Ohio UFO Investigators League, who
noted not only elements of the uniform, but electrical wires
in the frame of a pair of aviator glasses in
the picture. Maski describes coming upon an article by Schaffner
in which he wrote that during personal contact with Matt McIntyre,
(09:00):
MacIntyre said that Polichus believed everything he was told and
would be easy to hoax, and that he McIntyre was
related to one of the witnesses. Matski presents the argument
that the whole episode was a hoax perpetrated on Polichius
by McIntyre with the cooperation of the witnesses who possibly
shot blanks. Charles Lear is the author of The Flying
(09:24):
Saucer Investigators, available in its second edition at Amazon dot com.
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