Iowa has a long history of bigfoot sightings. An old newspaper clipping states : " 'It' is the mysterious creature folks around here have heard about for 50 years -- a furry, scary thing that stands like a man."
The article continued with telling of a woman who talked of hunters and trappers that would tell tales of animals that walked like men when she first moved to the area as a young girl.
Gary Koontz reported seeing a strange animal in the early '70s while he was hunting. He was in the middle of dense woods and underbrush near a state park and was about 100 yards away when he saw it. Koontz described it as standing upright, covered in dark fur or hair and had a "flat, frightened face". He estimated it at four or five feet tall. "I knew it was something I had never seen before. I was startled . . . . It let out a high-pitched, woman-like scream and disappeared into the brush." He added that his uncle had also seen a similar creature around the same time.
In October 1975 a report out of Lockridge, Iowa, told of a sighting of a "thing" with long, shaggy dark hair seen by several people. It was further described as usually moving on all fours but sometimes was seen to stand up on its hind legs and walk. People said it had an apelike face.
In August of 1976, A Dumont man found a half mile of big tracks going along a gravel road. The tracks were 12 to 13 inches long and five inches wide. The stride measured about 6 ft. The tracks came from the open country but then headed towards a wooded area that paralleled the West Fork River.
August 22, 1976 a 13 year old boy reported seeing a 6 ft, hairy black creature near the Ocheyedan River. At around 9:30 am the boy saw it at the river, holding it's hands as if drinking from them. When he returned to the area with his family, they found 14 inch footprints, narrow at the heel, but 7 inches across the 5 toes. The tracks ran along the river bed, disappearing into the distance.
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