Incident #992553
Derry, Westmoreland Cty, Pennsylvania
Mar 1991
Account
Bob France found about 40 large 5-toed footprints in a swamp near the Dry Run-Shirley Run area of Chestnut Ridge. Skunk cabbage nearby had been shredded and it appeared the animal had been eating it. He cast a left footprint, which Paul Johnson later examined. The cast was very similar to one cast by Bob France the previous May, including callouses on the 3rd and 4th toes and a long narrow groove behind and parallel to the toes. 2252.
When
- Observation Date
- MAR 23 1991
- Month
- Mar
- Year
- 1991
- Season
- spring
Where
- State / province
- Pennsylvania
- County
- Westmoreland Cty
- Nearest Town
- Derry
- Latitude
- 4020
- Longitude
- 7918
What was seen
- Individuals
- one large, sex unknown
- Total Individuals
- 1
- Population Status
- wild
- Multiple Sightings Y/N
- Yes
- Cast Made Y/N
- Yes
Witnesses
- Witness(es) Sex
- Male
- No. of Track Witnesses
- 1
Setting
- Terrain
- hill
Source
- Source
- Creature Research Journal, fall 1991, quoting Bob France.
Creature description
- Object Handled
- vegetable matter
- Eating
- foliage
Footprints
- Set of Tracks
- 1
- Footprint Length
- 13.0
- Greates Width
- 6.0
- Number of Tracks
- 40
- Track Condition
- very good
- Number of Toes
- 5
- Size of Toes
- big toe far largest
- Longest Toe
- first
Witness
- Observer Was
- sasq. hunting