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September 1977 Ottosen Ia, Humboldt County, Iowa Class B #5072

Witness reports seeing footprints as a child

As a young child, the witness was helping a relative with weed clearing in a bean field while another relative operated harvesting machinery. They found a line of very large human-like footprints with an unusually long stride leading toward the house and showed them to the other relative. The family contacted authorities, many local people came to view the prints, and the witness recalls being frightened afterward.

Tracks
One or two years later Ottosen Ia, Humboldt County, Iowa Related account #5072

Tracks near Ottosen Ia, Iowa

A later track find in the same farm area involved paired larger and smaller prints leading to the house with shapeless excrement nearby.

TracksScat
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