Incident #1001388
Helena, Lewis and Clark Cty, Montana
Jul 1996
Account
Shannon Kelly and Kelly Cundliff, investigating reports of strange screams heard by miners in an area West of Canyon Creek, found 14-inch footprints and cast two of them.
When
- Observation Date
- JUL 07 1996
- Month
- Jul
- Year
- 1996
- Season
- summer
Where
- State / province
- Montana
- County
- Lewis and Clark Cty
- Nearest Town
- Helena
- Direction from Town
- Northwest
- Population of Town
- 30000
- Latitude
- 464---
- Longitude
- 1120---
What was seen
- Individuals
- one large, sex unknown
- Total Individuals
- 1
- Population Status
- wild
- Shot Hit
- No
- Cast Made Y/N
- Yes
Witnesses
- Report type
- 1st person
Setting
- Terrain
- alpine
- Nearby Water
- creek
- Cover
- heavy
Source
- Source
- Helena, Montana, Independent Record, quoting Shann
- Source Type
- newspaper
- Source Date
- JUL 19 1996
- Source reliability
- 7
- Incident reliablility
- 8
- Jwg file date
- DEC 1996
- Incident type
- 2
Footprints
- Set of Tracks
- 1
- Footprint Length
- 14.0
- Estimated Animal Weight
- 400
- Number of Tracks
- 7
- Footprint Cast Y/N
- Yes
- Material Tracks Made in
- dirt
- Trackmaker attracted by
- natural food plants
- Remarks
- Evidence that plants had been pulled up by the roots in the vicinity of the tracks.
Witness
- Interviewer
- reporter on Helena Independent Record
- Interview date
- JUL 1996
- Witness Saw with
- naked eye
- Observer Was
- sasq. hunting
- Track witnesses
- 2
- Age
- 31 to 40