Incident #991089
Harvey, Marion Cty, Iowa
Feb 1978
Account
Matt Ver Steeg went to investigat reports of tracks in the snow near Harvey, and aftera 14-inch snowstorm found tracks 20 by 9 inches, with a five-foot stride and followed them several miles by snowmobile. From the way the tracks crisscrossed he thought there were two creatures.
When
- Observation Date
- FEB 20 1978
- Month
- Feb
- Year
- 1978
- Season
- winter
Where
- State / province
- Iowa
- County
- Marion Cty
- Nearest Town
- Harvey
- Latitude
- 4119
- Longitude
- 9255
What was seen
- Individuals
- one large, sex unknown
- Total Individuals
- 1
- Population Status
- rural
Witnesses
- No. of Track Witnesses
- 2
Setting
- Snow Condition
- deep new
Source
- Source
- Des Moines, IA, Sunday Register, Nov 12, 1978, quoting Matt Ver Steeg, Knoxville, of Iowa Bigfoot Information Center.
Footprints
- Set of Tracks
- 2
- Footprint Length
- 20.0
- Greates Width
- 9.0
- Stride in Inches Average
- 60
- Number of Tracks
- many
- Material Tracks Made in
- soft deep snow
Witness
- Observer Was
- sasq. huntingýsnowmobiling