Bigfoot · Pottawattamie County, Iowa · 1999
IA-1999ID case-e7ba5b290fFirst-hand accountAdded to map Oct 7, 2026
- Creature
- Bigfoot
- When
- Dec 12, 1999to the day
- Where
- Pottawattamie County, Iowato county level
- Reports
- 1 document1 independent
The account
Witness reports hearing heavy footsteps circling their tent and seeing something plow through trees toward the Missouri River while camping at Wilson Island State Park.
See the source ↓ one document so far, so there is no trail to follow yet
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Details
- Creature
- Bigfoot
- Where
- Pottawattamie County, Iowa, United States
mapped to county level · from the report's own words, generalized to a larger area - When
- Dec 12, 1999
- Account
- First-hand (the witness telling it)
- Backed by
- 1 independent source
- Added to map
- Oct 7, 2026
- Case id
- case-e7ba5b290f
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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.
- Campers get visited in the middle of the night and hear vocalizations.
BFRO · 2001-05-15
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.