Incident #1001306
Medicine Hat, Manyberries, Alberta
Dec 1977
Account
Thelma and Vern Dunlop found in soft shallow snow beside an end wall of the railway station at Manyberries, where they lived, tracks 18.5 inches long and 8 inches wide. Pace length in photo appears proportionate to size, but by a window there were two prints a few inches apart. Snow was melting, but the best print showed five toes. Constable Bruce Best tried to follow them in mid afternoon, much more melted out, but most of area either blown clear or tramped on. Surrounding country bald prairie, but a creek from Cypress Hills (4800 feet. wooded) flows through Manyberries. Hotel owner Mike Larner said doges kept barking and howling all the previous night.
When
- Observation Date
- DEC 01 1977
- Month
- Dec
- Year
- 1977
- Season
- winter
Where
- State / province
- Alberta
- County
- Manyberries
- Nearest Town
- Medicine Hat
- Direction from Town
- South
- Distance from Town
- 40
- Population of Town
- 40000
- Elevation/Altitude
- 25
- Latitude
- 4923--
- Longitude
- 11041--
What was seen
- Individuals
- one large, sex unknown
- Total Individuals
- 1
- Population Status
- urban
- First Seen
- beside
- Terrain Object
- occupied building
- Near or/at
- grainfield
- Shot Hit
- No
- Track Photo Y/N
- Yes
Witnesses
- Report type
- 1st person
Setting
- Terrain
- plain
- Exact Terrain
- railroad
- Nearby Water
- creek
- Snow Condition
- snow
- Cover
- none
- Unnatural Conditions
- planted
- General
- none
- Undergrowth
- none
- General undergrowth
- none
Weather and light
- Lighting
- daylight
Source
- Source
- Medicine Hat, Alta., News quoting Thelma and Vern
- Source Type
- newspaper
- Source Date
- DEC 02 1977
- Source reliability
- 8
- Incident reliablility
- 8
- Jwg file date
- DEC 1988
- Incident type
- 2
Footprints
- Set of Tracks
- 1
- Footprint Length
- 18.5
- Greates Width
- 8.0
- Estimated Age
- 8
- Age Unit
- hours
- Number of Tracks
- few
- Trail Followed Y/N
- Yes
- Trail Ended Naturally Y/N
- Yes
- Number of Toes
- 5
- Footprint Photo Y/N
- Yes
- Material Tracks Made in
- soft shallow snow
- Remarks
- Dogs reported making a commotion in the night.
Witness
- Interviewer
- Dan Trafford, Medicine Hat News
- Interview date
- DEC. 1 1977
- Witness Saw with
- naked eye
- Observer Was
- at home
- Track witnesses
- many