Iowa summer of 1978. 1 bigfoot creatures involved

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Encounter date: AUG 27 1978
Year: 1978
Season: summer
Time of day: 10 to midnight
Duration: brief
Story Originator: n/a
Reported by: Centerville, IA, Iowegian & Citizen, Oct 6, 1978, quoting Tim Houser and John Fitzwater, high school students, and teacher Jerry Guinn, 32.
Terrain: n/a
Lighting: headlights
State: Iowa
Nearest Town: Dean
County: Appanoose County
Coordinates: Lat 4038 Lon 9243
Distance to Town: n/a
Number of Creatures: 1
Creature Types: one large, sex unknown
Photographed: NO
Tracks: found later
Tracks Cast: NO
Tracks Photographed: NO
Creature fired at: n/a
Superhuman Action: n/a
Trees Undergrowth: Species n/a, Variety: n/a, Tree Cover: n/a, Tree Condition: n/a, Tree Type: n/a, Tree Abborations: n/a, Undergrowth: n/a, Undergrowth Type: n/a
Slope: n/a, Slope Was Facing: n/a
Nearby water: river
Distance to water: n/a
Substratum: n/a
Snow condition: n/a
Weather condition: n/a, Heat: n/a, Wetness: n/a, Snow: n/a, Temp: n/a, Wind: n/a, Clarity: n/a, Humidity: n/a
JG Incident type: n/a
JG File Date: n/a
JG Source date: n/a
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JG Source reliability rank: n/a
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JG Visibility Index: n/a
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Tim Houser and and John Fitzwater driving on old dirt road 1.5 miles West of Dean, just West of the Charlton River, saw large apelike creature walking away down the road. When lights hit it it dashed into the ditch then into heavy brush. Jerry Guinn went back with them, and they found where something had gone through the brush, and tracks with mud oozed up through the toe spaces.