Incident #991835
Saluda, Saluda Cty, South Carolina
Jan 1977
Account
Mark, grandson of D.W. Berry, and another boy found the tracks when setting traps on a piece of rural property the family owns about 10 miles from Saluda. Ralph Shealy, editor of the Saluda Standard-Sentinel, mentions three boys, says the tracks go from a pond down a little-used road, over a sawdust pile, along a creek bank, across a pasture and back to the pond. They go through briers and brambles and show a 4-foot stride. Strange screams have been heard in the area for two years, and the boys had just heard a scream from the area of the creek when they first found the tracks there. J. Kilber, RR1, Waterloo, SC, made at least one cast.
When
- Observation Date
- JAN 30 1977
- Month
- Jan
- Year
- 1977
- Season
- winter
Where
- State / province
- South Carolina
- County
- Saluda Cty
- Nearest Town
- Saluda
- Latitude
- 3400
- Longitude
- 8145
What was seen
- Individuals
- one large, sex unknown
- Total Individuals
- 1
- Population Status
- rural
- First Seen
- in
- Terrain Object
- farm field
- Near or/at
- water
- Track Photo Y/N
- Yes
- Cast Made Y/N
- Yes
Witnesses
- Witness(es) Sex
- Male
- No. of Track Witnesses
- many
Setting
- Terrain
- rolling hills
- Nearby Water
- creekýpond
Source
- Source
- Rock Hill, SC, Herald, Feb. 18 and 19, 1977, quoting Ralph Shealy and D.W. Berry. Also letter from Ken Fedynich, who saw tracks, to John Green.
Creature description
- Sound
- scream
Footprints
- Set of Tracks
- 1
- Footprint Length
- 14.0
- Greates Width
- 7.0
- Average Depth
- 1.00
- Stride in Inches Average
- 48
- Number of Tracks
- many
- Track Condition
- goodýgood
- Number of Toes
- 5
- Size of Toes
- big toe far largest
- Longest Toe
- first
- Material Tracks Made in
- dirt
- Tracks Came From
- water
- Tracks Went to
- water
Witness
- Witness Saw with
- naked eye
- Observer Was
- trapping