Bigfoot · Elkhart, Iowa · 1997
IA-1997ID case-4588139ff3First-hand accountAdded to map Oct 7, 2026
- Creature
- Bigfoot
- When
- Nov 1997to the month
- Where
- Elkhart, Iowato town level
- Reports
- 1 document1 independent
The account
Witness reports seeing a large, dark figure taller than the grass moving towards a treeline while pheasant hunting.
See the source ↓ one document so far, so there is no trail to follow yet
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Details
- Creature
- Bigfoot
- Where
- Elkhart, Polk County, Iowa, 50073, United States
mapped to town level · from the report's own words - When
- Nov 1997
- Account
- First-hand (the witness telling it)
- Backed by
- 1 independent source
- Added to map
- Oct 7, 2026
- Case id
- case-4588139ff3
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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.
- Large bipedal figure seen by pheasant hunter on public hunting land in Chichaqua Bottoms Greenbelt, near Bondurant
BFRO · 2023-10-05
Earliest found, not necessarily the original.
Further reading
- 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.
Borrow on Internet Archive
Books we have not reproduced: borrow them free at archive.org. Listing a book is not an endorsement of its claims.