Incident #991712
Altoona, Lake Cty, Florida
Jun 1980
Account
A road contractor found the footprints around a bulldozer on a road in Ocala National Forest close to Camp Ocala. Dee Kirby made casts for sheriff's department.
When
- Month
- Jun
- Year
- 1980
- Season
- summer
Where
- State / province
- Florida
- County
- Lake Cty
- Nearest Town
- Altoona
- Latitude
- 2858
- Longitude
- 8138
What was seen
- Individuals
- one large, sex unknown
- Total Individuals
- 1
- Population Status
- wild
- First Seen
- on
- Terrain Object
- road
- Near or/at
- empty machine
- Cast Made Y/N
- Yes
Witnesses
- Witness(es) Sex
- Male
- No. of Track Witnesses
- several
Setting
- Terrain
- swamp
Source
- Source
- Houston, TX, Chronicle, July 2, 1980, quoting Lake County Sgt. Dee Kirby and unnamed private contractor.
Footprints
- Set of Tracks
- 1
- Footprint Length
- 17.0
- Greates Width
- 6.5
- Average Depth
- 0.50
- Stride in Inches Average
- 48
- Number of Tracks
- 7
- Track Condition
- good
- Number of Toes
- 5
- Size of Toes
- toes more of a size than human's
- Longest Toe
- first
- Material Tracks Made in
- dirt
- Tracks Came From
- marsh
- Tracks Went to
- marsh
- Foot Shape
- short-toed
Witness
- Observer Was
- roadbuilding