Bigfoot · Ottosen, Iowa · 1978
IA-1978ID case-0f1d7453a0Added to map Oct 7, 2026
- Creature
- Bigfoot
- When
- Jul 1978to the month
- Where
- Ottosen, Iowato town level
- Reports
- 1 document1 independent
The account
Farmers and residents report seeing a large, hairy creature or hearing strange screams and whistles.
See the source ↓ one document so far, so there is no trail to follow yet
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Details
- Creature
- Bigfoot
- Where
- Ottosen, Humboldt County, Iowa, United States
mapped to town level · from the report's own words - When
- Jul 1978
- Account
- Not first-hand (retold or reported by someone else)
- Backed by
- 1 independent source
- Added to map
- Oct 7, 2026
- Case id
- case-0f1d7453a0
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Source trail (1)
Every link goes to where we found the account. The earliest we found is marked; it is the earliest found, not necessarily the original.
- Submitted on Tuesday, January 16, 2001. More sightings of a strange creature centering around the town of Ottosen. Other stories told about strange sounds, footprints and animal mutilatations.
BFRO · 2001-01-16
Earliest found, not necessarily the original.
Further reading
Books that mention this place
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- Bigfoot Casebook Updated: Sightings and Encounters from 1818 to 2004, Janet and Colin Bord (2006)
Dated case list from the early 1800s on.
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More on this creature
- Sasquatch: The Apes Among Us, John Green (1978)
Newspaper-publisher's file of Pacific Northwest reports.
Borrow on Internet Archive - Sasquatch, Don Hunter with Rene Dahinden (1975)
Casebook from a long-time field investigator.
Borrow on Internet Archive - On the Track of Bigfoot, Marian T. Place (1974)
1970s account of reports and searches.
Borrow on Internet Archive - Bigfoot! The True Story of Apes in America, Loren Coleman (2003)
Coleman's history and case survey.
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