Boy has possible nighttime encounter near family campfire close to Raccoon River witnessed in Dallas County, Iowa

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I saw a Big Foot when my aunt, cousins and parents were camping at our property. We had a fire blazing and we kept hearing these strange noises, branches breaking and thumps. After about an hour of this, I was wondering what might be lurking in the woods. So I went over to the area where I heard the noises to see what it was; I went about 10 yards from the fire. All of a sudden, something about waist high ran very fast in front of me. To this day I don't know what it was; I turned and about nine feet away I saw an eight foot creature staring at me. I did not get any facial details. I was too far away from the fire. I could tell that its head had a point on top. It stared at me for about 10 seconds, but it felt like 10 minutes. Then it did this slow turn away from me and walked away. I ran back into the cabin and I did not come out for the rest of the night. I did not tell anyone right away, because I thought it might have been a trick on me (played by my cousins). Six months later my p...