Memory told of being chased off by frightening thumps and scream while hiking in Pikes Peak State Park witnessed in Clayton County, Iowa

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This is an old report, but recently after watching the better bigfoot programs on tv, it dawned on me that what we had experienced was a bigfoot. Every September, my husband I would go hiking to see the color. This trip was in September, 1970 to Pikes Peak State Park located on the highest bluff on the Mississippi River in Iowa. September is a time when the kids are back in school. There was only one other car in the parking lot so the trails were deserted. Pikes Peak had several walking trails. We decided to take the longest which led to the overlook on the Mississippi. We had hiked almost to the point of the overlook. Fall had us crunching on the fallen leaves when we heard a large thump, thump, thump from behind the trees followed by a loud animal scream that we had never experienced before. Having hiked in the woods almost weekly, we learned to identify most of the animal sounds around us. This was not an identifiable animal. The screech scared us so badly that we imme...