Incident #991786
Riceville, Acadia Cty, Louisiana
Jan 1978
Account
Little Rhonda Duval found tracks when she went to fish in a pond behind her home just north of Bayou Queue De Tortue. Her father Nolan Duval and George Kutch investigated and Duval followed the tracks three quarters of a mile into the swamp and out again. He lost them at the edge of the swamp. Bob Dailey and Harold Gonzales from the Post-Signal were shown where the tracks went into the bayou and came out again at a point of land almost 100 yards away. Duval assumes the creature that made the prints was also what has been eating the skinned bodies of nutria on his boat dock for two weeks back.
When
- Observation Date
- JAN 01 1978
- Month
- Jan
- Year
- 1978
- Season
- winter
Where
- State / province
- Louisiana
- County
- Acadia Cty
- Nearest Town
- Riceville
- Latitude
- 3005
- Longitude
- 9231
What was seen
- Individuals
- one large, sex unknown
- Total Individuals
- 1
- Population Status
- rural
- First Seen
- beside
- Terrain Object
- water
- Near or/at
- marsh
- Track Photo Y/N
- Yes
Witnesses
- Witness(es) Sex
- Both sexes
- No. of Track Witnesses
- several
Setting
- Terrain
- bottom land
- Nearby Water
- pondýriver
Source
- Source
- Crowley, LA, Post-Signal, about Jan. 12, 1978, Bob Dailey and Harold Gonzales quoting Nolan Duval and George Kutch, Riceville, LA.
Creature description
- Eating
- small animal
- Water Activity
- wade inýwade out
- Use of Water
- travel
Footprints
- Set of Tracks
- 1
- Footprint Length
- 13.5
- Greates Width
- 7.5
- Stride in Inches Average
- 34
- Number of Tracks
- many
- Number of Toes
- 4
- Size of Toes
- toes more of a size than human's
- Longest Toe
- all same
- Material Tracks Made in
- wet clay
- Tracks Went to
- marsh
- Foot Shape
- long-toed
Witness
- Observer Was
- fishing, shore