Atv riders hear daytime vocalization and find tracks near Keokuk witnessed in Lee County, Iowa

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This incident involved hearing and smelling what my brothers and I can only describe as Bigfoot. It happened on my Grandparents property when I was approx. 14 years old. Our Grandparents had given all three of us 3-wheelers for Christmas the following year. It had to be sometime between February and July of 1985 (Est. year, can not recall exact date). My brothers (at the time ages 12 and 9), were all on our 3-wheelers down by the creek behind my Grandparents home. We had just gotten off of the ATV's and were going to cut through the woods to go up to my Grandmothers antique store, when we smelled something so putrid, it reminded us of sewage. I remember telling my brothers that something really stank at about the time they smelled the odor. Seconds later, we all heard a very loud, gutterral roar. We froze in terror, looking at one another for what may have been only seconds, but seemed like several minutes. Then we all raced up the hill to our Grandparents house, leaving our ATV's down...