Incident #992320
Rathbone, Steuben Cty, New York
Aug 1995
Account
Nellie and Joe Ferry, fishing at a neighbour's pond, found 15" by 6" tracks in mud, showing perfect detail. More showed up in the next few days. It appeared that whatever made them was pulling up cattails and eating the roots.
When
- Observation Date
- AUG 09 1995
- Month
- Aug
- Year
- 1995
- Season
- summer
Where
- State / province
- New York
- County
- Steuben Cty
- Nearest Town
- Rathbone
- Latitude
- 4207
- Longitude
- 7119
What was seen
- Individuals
- one large, sex unknown
- Total Individuals
- 1
- Population Status
- rural
- First Seen
- beside
- Terrain Object
- water
- Track Photo Y/N
- Yes
Witnesses
- Witness(es) Sex
- Both sexes
- No. of Track Witnesses
- several
Setting
- Nearby Water
- pond
Source
- Source
- Rathbone, NY, Leader, Aug. 22, 1995, quoting Nellie and Joe Ferry, 6788 Hardscrabble Road, and Michael McKeon, NY Dept. of Environmental Conservation. Also Corning, NY, Leader, Jan. 22, 1996.
Creature description
- Eating
- roots
- Water Activity
- wade inýwade out
- Use of Water
- eat plants
Footprints
- Set of Tracks
- 1
- Footprint Length
- 15.0
- Greates Width
- 6.0
- Heel Width
- 4.0
- Average Depth
- 1.00
- Stride in Inches Average
- 40
- Number of Tracks
- 16
- Track Condition
- very good
- Material Tracks Made in
- mud
- Tracks Came From
- shore
- Tracks Went to
- shore
Witness
- Observer Was
- fishing, shore