Incident #991085
Lockridge, Jefferson Cty, Iowa
Oct 1975
Account
Herb Peiffer tending turkeys, saw large shaggy animal in tractor lights. It stood up on two legs and walked forward. No account of how incident ended. Later remains of several turkeys found piled up each morning for several days. Tracks larger than a size 12 boot found in creek bed.
When
- Observation Date
- OCT 03 1975
- Month
- Oct
- Year
- 1975
- Season
- fall
- Time of Day
- night
- Duration
- brief
Where
- State / province
- Iowa
- County
- Jefferson Cty
- Nearest Town
- Lockridge
- Latitude
- 4100
- Longitude
- 9145
What was seen
- Individuals
- one small
- Total Individuals
- 1
- Population Status
- rural
- First Seen
- in
- Terrain Object
- farm field
- Tracks
- found later
Witnesses
- No. of Witnesses
- 1
- Witness(es) Sex
- Male
Setting
- Nearby Water
- creek
Weather and light
- Lighting
- headlights
Source
- Source
- Fairfield, IA, Ledger, Oct. 28, 1975, quoting Herb Peiffer. Also Ramona Hibner quoting correspondence from Mrs. Peiffer.
Creature description
- Hair Covered
- yes
- Height
- 5 ft
- Posture
- erect
- Hair Colour
- dark
- Face Appeared
- apelike
- Arms
- long
- Movement
- staying still
- Later Movement
- got upýapproached
- Aggressive To
- turkeys
- Eating
- small animal
- Position when first seen
- on all fours
Footprints
- Footprint Length
- big
- Number of Toes
- 5
Witness
- Witness Saw with
- naked eye
- Observer Was
- farming
- Action on sighting
- studied