Year: 2011
Month: August
Time of Day: 12:00 pm
County: Maine Cumberland
Lighting Conditions: It was dark the night before but well lit when I found the tracks.
Nearest Town or Landmark: Windham
Description of Encounter Area: Wooded area behind my house.
Are There Food and/or Water Sources in the Area? (if so, describe): We have many deer that
come through the yard and there is a pond and a small swamp right around our property.
Occupation/Background: Sales
Number of Witnesses: 3
Length of Observation: Only heard it for a short time that night.
Animal Description: No description, never saw it.
Can Witness Provide a Sketch of Animal Seen?: No
Any Odor? If so, Description: no
Vocalizations Heard?: no
Wood Knocks Heard?: No
Physical Evidence? (hold Ctrl key to select more than one): Tracks
Recordings Made?: No
The night before we found the tracks I had gone out to take my girlfriend’s brother home. We heard
something in the trees. I turned on the headlights of the car and shone them into the woods but we
couldn’t see anything. When I returned home, my girlfriend had told me that through the open window in the bedroom she had heard something running back and forth in the woods for quite sometime while we were gone and that it scared her. The next day, I went out back and found what looked like two footprints pressed into the ground not even 100 ft. into the woods behind our house. The fact that my own footprints would not make any impressions in the ground made me feel like whatever it was was rather large, and the fact that I could make out the toes on the end of the foot which was thin at one end and wide at the other made me really creeped out. I looked for impressions of claws but found none. I had nothing to take any casts of the prints, but I did take photos of the prints.
Attempted contact 3/6/12. will follow up in the am.
Witness has photos of impressions.
Mike Humphrey