Location: Eastern Iowa

Date of occurrence: Late November, 1970

Date report filed: 06/13/06

Weather conditions: Light snow, 10 MPH wind, 4" on ground

Lighting conditions: 11:15 PM; automobile headlights

Narrative of report:

I was riding in rear seat of car with 3 others, all college students. We all lived same house in Fayette. It was a fri. nite,weather called for heavy snow overnite. We all were from same area about 25 miles away,decided to head there for weekend or would be snowed in at Fayette by morning. We headed south in my brothers car, he drove, Carl [R.] in pass seat, Al [B.] in LR,and I in RR.

There was 4 in.snow on road so we were going slow about 20 mph. I was leaning to center of rear seat to see out front. I saw something moving in field up ahead just in headlight range about 200 ft. ahead. It was big and moving towards road. I hollered what the hell is that, and elbowed Al who was sleeping next to me. My brother let off gas, as we rolled on we all watched as the creature never broke stride stepped over a fence at least 40 in. high, into a ditch, across the ditch, up onto road shoulder, to center road, to other shoulder, across ditch, over another 40 in. high fence, going into darkness as we passed by. It passed in front of us from right to left,about 50 ft.away when it was center of road.

It was big at least 8 ft tall covered from coned head to feet with dark brown hair. It had barrel shaped body with long arms and legs. It just walked like a human taking long strides and swinging its arms. It crossed at an angle from NW to SE never turning to look at us, so we did not see its face. After passing all were in shock, someone said stop lets go look for it. A big NO!! was the response and we went on our way.

I have lived in this same area for 50 years. Only recently have I talked about this much, as I have two others have told me accounts not on your site. One farmer,Verle J., saw big foot print in dirt in cornfield near woods. Harvesting corn at night stopped to unplug corn head on end rows near woods saw print, in fall 1970. Babs W. who lives by west entrance to [Backbone State Park] 5 mi SE of here, pulled into her place saw a bigfoot walking across a field and into the park, in late fall 1979. There was snow on ground. Later she heard screams and howls that scared her horses for several days as this went on. She reported it to a park ranger. He told her she probably saw a bear. She said it was no bear. It walked on two legs and stepped over a fence while she watched it.

I also heard a scream in late summer 1965 after dark behind house here in a grove of pine and apple trees. The dogs were barking, and this horrific scream started very loud and close. High pitched lasting at least 5 seconds, made my hair stand up, dogs stopped barking, probably hid. There were three more screams as it moved off to the east toward woods one mile away.

Follow up:  We have interviewed this witness.  He is intelligent and credible, and gives extremely detailed account of this encounter.

Confidential database information:  Available

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