Blizzard of '26

On January 21, 2026, a major blizzard struck the Ohio Valley, and the worst was unleashed specifically in the town of Paoli, Indiana. A man was driving down State Road 37 just south of Paoli, when gusts of at least 60 mph started battering his car. He swerved really hard and crossed the other lane, striking a tree. He miraculously got out of his car without a single bruise, but the way he got out was reported as "unbelievable" by some local media outlets. A spirit grabbed him by the hand and drug him out of the car before the fire got to the fuel line. The spirit told him, "Run!", just as it drug him out. The spirit immediately vanished and the man was able to get far enough away to avoid the explosion. A witness of the event said that the man look like he was being blown out of the car with his arms and hands back, like someone was holding on to him and pulling him out. However, the witness never saw a spirit, but she did see a large, black cat run into the woods after the man started running. The WAVE-3 news station in Louisville reported on the incident as a freak accident and paranormal encounter. During the blizzard, on the same stretch of highway, at least 3 people died due to car accidents that were similar, but this particular accident was the only one that had paranormal activity involved with it. A few days later, in 23.2 inches of snow, detectives investigated the accident area, and caught footprints in the snow that were the size of a young adult or adolescent, and then found a set of very large cat prints starting just after the footprints of the man, heading in the exact same direction. They followed the prints until they suddenly vanished in the middle of an open field. Just 10 feet or so away, the discovered the body of a girl who had vanished from Bloomington on November 26, 2025. Oddly enough, the cat prints turned back into human footprints, and stopped right at the body. The detectives could not conclude much from the findings, as it was hard for them to believe what they saw. Some paranormal investigators came in not long after the findings to conduct some sessions. They concluded that the spirit wanted to save lives and that its name was Janna, the same as the girl who had vanished from Bloomington a couple months before the blizzard happened. The same team that got the EVP of "Janna" also got an IR image of a woman shape-shifting into a cat at the edge of the woods. Some local kids and teens like to visit the area at night, and see if they can find the Ghost of Janna Brown.