Incident #992190
Pleasant Hills, Harford Cty, Maryland
Feb 1995
Account
The morning after a snowfall, Bob and Jimi Toal found huge tracks passing 20 feet from their house, on a wooded one-acre lot near Gunpowder State Park. They started on a vacant lot went through an open area, and were lost in brush after about 300 yards. Bob Chance was called. He thought the prints had been enlarged by drifting snow and were probably about 17 inches by 7 inches originally.
When
- Observation Date
- FEB 04 1995
- Month
- Feb
- Year
- 1995
- Season
- winter
- Time of Day
- night
Where
- State / province
- Maryland
- County
- Harford Cty
- Nearest Town
- Pleasant Hills
- Latitude
- 3927
- Longitude
- 7624
What was seen
- Individuals
- one large, sex unknown
- Total Individuals
- 1
- Population Status
- rural
- First Seen
- in
- Terrain Object
- yard
- Near or/at
- occupied building
- Multiple Sightings Y/N
- Yes
- Track Photo Y/N
- Yes
Witnesses
- Witness(es) Sex
- Both sexes
- No. of Track Witnesses
- 3
Setting
- Snow Condition
- shallow new
Source
- Source
- Bob Chance file, quoting Bob and Jimi Toal, 800 Kary Lou Circle, Pleasant Hills, MD, 879-9838.
Footprints
- Set of Tracks
- 1
- Footprint Length
- 20.0
- Greates Width
- 10.0
- Stride in Inches Average
- 78
- Number of Tracks
- 200
- Track Condition
- poor
- Material Tracks Made in
- soft shallow snow
- Tracks Went to
- bushes
Witness
- Observer Was
- at home