Incident #991774
LaPlace, St. John The Baptist Cty, Louisiana
before 1981
Account
Emmett Perilloux clearing land at LaPlace with a bulldozer. He and a friend found large footprints in the soft earth, goig from one swampy area to another. The left foot measured 20.5 inches, the right 19 inches.
When
- Year
- before 1981
Where
- State / province
- Louisiana
- County
- St. John The Baptist Cty
- Nearest Town
- LaPlace
- Latitude
- 3004
- Longitude
- 9029
What was seen
- Individuals
- one large, sex unknown
- Total Individuals
- 1
- First Seen
- at
- Terrain Object
- work site
- Near or/at
- marsh
Witnesses
- Witness(es) Sex
- Male
- No. of Track Witnesses
- 2
Setting
- Terrain
- bottom land
- Nearby Water
- swampýriver
Source
- Source
- New Orleans, LA, Times-Picayune, Oct. 31, 1981, quoting Emmett Perilloux, 54, LaPlace, LA.
Footprints
- Set of Tracks
- 1
- Footprint Length
- 20.0
- Material Tracks Made in
- dirt
- Tracks Came From
- marsh
- Tracks Went to
- marsh
Witness
- Observer Was
- work outdoors