Kevin Cook from the Iowa Bigfoot Information Center INTERVIEW (Member's Only)

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Welcome to the Bigfoot Society Podcast.
What follows is a few minutes teaser for

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a member's only episode I just released
with mister Kevin Cook from the Iowa Bigfoot

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Information Center. If you know your
Iowa Bigfoot history, this is a extremely

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big deal in order to get mister
Cook to come on record to talk about

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his time in the late seventies researching
Bigfoot in Iowa. To hear the rest

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of the episode, you can become
a supporting member on Patreon or become a

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YouTube channel member Enjoy. Do you
remember when you first met Cliff. Yeah,

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I believe there was something that was
written and I don't know what it

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was. I'm trying to remember back
that's been like in what seventies, selling

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or something like that. He I
believe he had just contacted mister Daton about

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the sculpture and I met Cliff.
Cliff worked for his if I remember right,

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for his father in law. That
was the Chevrolet dealer in North des

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Moines, Northwest des Moines. I
can't remember the name of the Chevy dealership.

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But he married the guy, the
gentleman that don't have married his daughter,

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Betty Lebreck, and I just can't
remember for sure how I actually met

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Cliff, but we started however it
was. I might have been looking at

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the car for all I remember,
but we just started talking and visitey and

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he had mentioned something about Bigfoot,
and he was wanting to do this museum

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replica, and the one thing led
to another, and I was young and

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just started the family, and so
I was hesitant about it. But as

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the replica was finished, we took
basically I ended up taking the whole summer

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off of work when we trackdled with
that thing, because I figured it was

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more of an opportunity to travel with
this replica and hopefully get some more information

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about what people were seeing, and
so took off the summer, traveled throughout

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the Midwest exhibited, talked to a
lot of people, talked to a lot

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of people, law enforcement, while
life confrosation conservation officers, people from all

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walks of life, and it was
pretty interesting. And then of course reality

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sets in when you get done,
you got to go back to work,

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so Bigfoot became more of a part
time hobby at that point because you did

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have to make a living and support
a family. And then over the years

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Cliff and I lost contact and I
talked to Cliff about a year before he

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passed away, and we had a
good conversation and we talked about some of

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the people that had come to visit
him or that he had visited. I

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think there's a gentleman up in Idaho
that deals with I guess the plastic footprints.

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Yeah, doctor, doctor Meldrum yep, okay, yeah, he was

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talking about him and coming to see
the one or another he ended up I

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guess see the replica or Cliff sending
pictures or something. But anyway, so

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we just visited about the past,
what was going on, and at that

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time we decided that we were going
to stay in contact. And then,

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of course, then they passed on
and pretty much that was the last communication

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I had with Cliff. There's a
something you said a few minutes ago.

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You did run into some weird things
that you can't really explain that you're not

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really sure. Yeah, I mean
I never at the time. I didn't

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think about them being weird. It's
just sounds that you've never that I've never

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heard before. Growing up in Iowa, the deer hunt and fessant hunt,

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and I was pretty good hunter,
so I was pretty familiar with the woods.

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And I knew what was going on, and they just hear things that

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aren't in my mind, just weren't
normal. They weren't supposed to be there,

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and I could never never prove one
way or another. But that even

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teached your curiosity a little bit more
when you do hear something that you're not

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familiar with. Oh, absolutely were
they things like tree knocks or whoop or

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anything like that. Most of it
was either a whistle the along the Mississippi

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River, I believe it was.
I had relatives that lived down by Kilcock,

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and down in that area there was
I don't here again, it's been

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a long time ago, but I
remember properly there was some hoops that I

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had heard down there. Never really
got into tree knocks, and I was

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more focused on vocal vocalizations, and
so I didn't really and to be honest

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with you, if I heard them, I might have passed it off as

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something else. At that time.
I could look back on it and go,

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yeah, I probably heard someone.
I didn't know what they were,

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but I can't say, can't say
for certain. So eventually you started with

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Cliff the Iowa Bigfoot Information Center,
which pretty much as a group of you

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guys that would get together right and
you would have them go out and research

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different reports of bigfoot sightings around Iowa. Is that pretty much the easiest way

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to describe what the Iowa big Foot
Information Center was. Yeah, most of

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the research was done by either myself
or Cliff, or both of us.

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There was probably from what I can
remember, there might have been a couple

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other people that that I knew that
went out with me a couple of times.

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But back then it was a lonely
hobby. You didn't have four people

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out with like said, drones and
infrared cameras and everything else under the sun

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and a bunch of people following you
around. You were on your own.

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All your expenses were your own.
And here again just getting into raising the

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family. He did what you could
and try to make the most of it.

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in the late nineteen seventies, or
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