Screams and stalking at a Girl Scout camp 13 miles west of Dubuque witnessed in Dubuque County, Iowa

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Saw a mid-height gangly creature run across the road on two feet. This occurred many years ago, but with the more current sightings in the area, I'd like to submit the story. The summer of 1959, after having worked the two previous summers as a counselor-in-training, I worked as a fully-fledged counselor at Little Cloud Girl Scout Camp west of Dubuque, Iowa. On the first day of the third and final camping session, the girls arrived and were escorted to their tents to unpack and get settled in. Just at dusk, I was approaching the main lodge when I noticed a dark figure standing in the shadows near our craft hut. I mentioned this to the camp director's husband, 'Big Daddy,' thinking that all the parents had not yet left. He said all the parents had left some time ago, and called the Sheriff's Office to report this. Deputies arrived and checked out the area but didn't find anyone. Later that evening, my co-counselor and I had our campers settled down in bed, and had just cra...