Incident #992443
Seven Valleys, York Cty, Pennsylvania
Feb 1978
Account
Merle Shirey found tracks in a cleared area on the John Hunt farm while he was fox hunting. Next day he and Glenn Rosenzweig measured and followed them. They were partly melted and partly filled with drifting snow, and in both directions disappeared in wooded hollows. Strides varied from 3 feet going uphill to 9 feet going down.
When
- Observation Date
- FEB 27 1978
- Month
- Feb
- Year
- 1978
- Season
- winter
Where
- State / province
- Pennsylvania
- County
- York Cty
- Nearest Town
- Seven Valleys
- Latitude
- 3950
- Longitude
- 7647
What was seen
- Individuals
- one large, sex unknown
- Total Individuals
- 1
- Population Status
- rural
- First Seen
- in
- Terrain Object
- open
- Near or/at
- hill
Witnesses
- Witness(es) Sex
- Male
- No. of Track Witnesses
- 3
Setting
- Terrain
- farms and woods
- Nearby Water
- creek
- Snow Condition
- snow
Source
- Source
- York, PA, Record, Mar. 1, 1978, Jim HIll quoting Merle R. Shirey, 23, of 65 Frederick St., Dallastown, PA, and Glenn L. Rosenzweig, 21.
Footprints
- Set of Tracks
- 1
- Footprint Length
- 20.0
- Stride in Inches Average
- 54
- Number of Tracks
- many
- Track Condition
- poor
- Material Tracks Made in
- snow
- Tracks Came From
- trees
- Tracks Went to
- trees
Witness
- Observer Was
- hunting