Incident #991100
Webster City, Hamilton Cty, Iowa
Oct 1979
Account
Checking for raccoon tracks, 3.30 a.m., Bryon Davis heard a noise in the bushes, swung his flashlight and saw a big animal get up and walk off through the underbrush with huge strides. He thinks it had been sleeping. Location was 10 feet from the river.
When
- Observation Date
- OCT 26 1979
- Month
- Oct
- Year
- 1979
- Season
- fall
- Time of Day
- 3 a.m. to dawn
- Duration
- half minute
Where
- State / province
- Iowa
- County
- Hamilton Cty
- Nearest Town
- Webster City
- Latitude
- 4228
- Longitude
- 9350
What was seen
- Individuals
- one large, sex unknown
- Total Individuals
- 1
- Population Status
- wild
- First Seen
- in
- Terrain Object
- bushes
- Near or/at
- water
Witnesses
- No. of Witnesses
- 1
- Witness(es) Sex
- Male
Setting
- Terrain
- woods
- Nearby Water
- river
Weather and light
- Lighting
- flashlight
Source
- Source
- Webster City, IA, Daily Freeman Journal, Oct 29, 1979, quoting Bryon Davis, 48, of Webster City.
Creature description
- Hair Covered
- yes
- Height
- 7 ft
- Posture
- erect
- Hair Length
- long
- Hair Colour
- red brown
- Hair Shorter On
- head
- Movement
- getting up
- Later Movement
- walked away
- Reaction
- fled from
Witness
- Witness Saw with
- naked eye
- Observer Was
- hunting
- Closest horizontal distance
- close
- Action on sighting
- stayed still