Large prints found below Cold Springs
Account
On a Sunday night, repeated shrieks were heard in brushland where a roughly 10-foot-tall grotesque man-like figure was reported. Large prints measuring about 14 to 17 inches were found nearby over the next two days and were followed through a subdivision, park and camp area. A law enforcement leader later described the tracks as shoe prints made before a light snowfall and suggested a mountain lion as a possible source of the noises, while noting fresh lion tracks and no cabin break-ins.
What was reported
Every kind of observation in the account. Select one to find other encounters with it.
Sightings
Sounds
Described appearance
In the source's own words, field by field. Hover a field's marker to see where it was read.
- Height src
- 10-foot-tall
- Other features src
- grotesque
Facts & provenance
Each value names where it came from.
| Date |
28 January 1963
|
|---|---|
| Time of day |
Sunday night
|
| Place |
Cold Springs, Tuolumne County, California
Stated
BFRO report #2310
· BFRO report, labelled fields: State, County, Nearest Town, Location Details, Nearest Road
|
| Map point |
38.16, -120.05 (± 1000 m)
BFRO map layer point for report 2310 (4 decimals, no boundary)
|
| Account type |
Press report
|
| Witnesses |
2
|
| Figures reported |
1
|
| Witness's word for it |
grotesque 10-foot-tall man
|
| Source classification |
Class B
|
Evidence & investigation
What the source says was found or done. Claimed evidence is listed as claimed; the Anomadex has not examined it.
Large prints described as 14 to 15 inches long found near Sunday night report area.
Measurements: 14 to 15 inches in length
Prints initially reported as 15 to 17 inches long.
Measurements: 15 to 17 inches
A reserve deputy first spotted large prints and later lost the trail among cabins.
A sheriff-led party returned in the morning, followed prints through subdivision, park and camp areas, found additional footprints described as pre-snowfall shoe prints, checked cabins with no break-ins found, and noted fresh mountain lion tracks.
A reserve deputy first spotted large prints and later lost the trail among cabins.
A sheriff-led party returned in the morning, followed prints through subdivision, park and camp areas, found additional footprints described as pre-snowfall shoe prints, checked cabins with no break-ins found, and noted fresh mountain lion tracks.
Source timeline
Every record this entry is built from, earliest known first. Records are versioned and never edited in place.
-
BFRO report #2310 Primary
-
BFRO map layer Reference