Florida Footprint Find

He is a very credible, honest and humble man. These casts are 25 years-old and it is evident that he is not looking for any publicity or notoriety. The family has remained quiet about the find for the usual reasons of criticism and ridicule.

His step–father had a hunting cabin in Levy County on Spring Run for many years. The family spent many weekends hunting there.

On one particular winter weekend in 1991, his step-father went to the cabin to open it up before everyone else arrived. He discovered the prints, drove back to town and used a pay phone to call home to tell them to make sure that they brought a camera with them.

Once the family arrived, they were amazed to see the prints. Someone took photos and another drove back to town to purchase Plaster of Paris. The right print measured 18″ long and 8 1/4″ wide, the left measured 17 3/4″ long and 7 3/4″ wide.

The tracks came from the north, walking to the left of a footbridge over the creek. The creek was muddy and they were able to make casts from the prints there. They only took two – one of each foot without considering to make more.

The tracks continued around their cabin and headed southeast. The footprints were not always visible but they were able to follow its trail by following broken branches and trees. It wandered down, then turned east and circled around three other vacant hunting cabins. The owners of these cabins were alerted to the presence of the footprints. The trail turned north again and crossed the creek, once again to the west of another footbridge before heading north and walking through a barbed wire fence breaking at least five posts.

None of the cabins had been broken into. Each cabin had compost piles of garbage and areas where they dumped the remnants of the hunted animals. It appeared the creature had “toured” those areas.

The men scouted the area looking for more evidence and found what appeared to be a bedding area made from palm fronds. Near there they discovered several palms that had been pulled up with the hearts eaten. This was in an area they referred to as “Tangerine Island”; it had a tangerine tree on it and was high, dry ground surrounded by a wet marsh.

Video footage the witnesses filmed about a week after the original discovery is included in the following video. The family has additional photographs that will be added at a later time.

The witness claims that hunting was always very good in the area, and they never experienced anything unusual except for the footprint discovery.

The family did not have a set schedule for visiting the cabin so they find it very unlikely “someone” did this as a joke because of the effort and timing.