The eyewitness, while a student at the University of Iowa, described seeing a dark human-sized figure with a large head on several occasions while running at night.
I received the following account:
"Hi. I used to go running and take a break at a railroad bridge in Iowa City, Iowa when I went to college there. I did a lot of night runs. Sometimes, only after dark, I'd hear something swimming around at that railroad bridge. The bridge was located southeast of the University of Iowa over the Iowa River. Maybe human or deer-sized.
One time, it was late and I heard it again. But this time, I could see something dark on the water. Looked like a profile of a very large head.
I said, "Hello, someone there?" It stopped dead still and looked at me. It was dark but I could tell it was looking right at me. This went on for 30 seconds or a minute. It then went under, and I never saw or heard it again.
I told myself it was a person swimming. But why not say 'Hi' back? Also, where did it go under? It was a slow river, I would have heard it surfacing or getting out of the water unless it went over a hundred feet.
Some people are saying beavers and otters. I've seen river otters (but not in the US), it was far too big to be a normal-sized one. I've never seen the 6-foot ones, and I don't think they live anywhere near Iowa. It was much too big to be a beaver too, I see those all the time, and they're usually denoted by telltale signs such as dams and chewed trees. Also, I've never seen beavers active at night only during the day. I think it was probably just a person, maybe a homeless person who wanted to not be bothered by me.
As I said, that's the closest I've come to seeing a cryptid. Has anyone ever mentioned a sighting near that bridge before?" O
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