Two children discover small footprints frozen on the surface of a creek near Jackson.
Account
As children, the witness and a sibling companion went to play on a creek that had partly thawed and then refrozen hard overnight. They found a line of barefoot-like prints with distinct toes crossing the ice for about twenty feet and continuing up a steep bank. No other prints were present, and the witness judged a human origin unlikely because of the remote location and freezing weather.
What was reported
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Facts & provenance
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| Date |
January 1984
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| Time of day |
early morning
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| Place |
Jackson, Breathitt County, Kentucky
Stated
BFRO report #9407
· BFRO report, labelled fields: State, County, Nearest Town, Location Details, Nearest Road
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| Map point |
37.28, -83.22 (± 1000 m)
BFRO map layer point for report 9407 with published boundary
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| Account type |
First-hand
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| Witnesses |
2
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| Figures reported |
1
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| Witness was |
going to play on frozen creek ice
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| Witness's word for it |
a small bare footed child
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| Source classification |
Class B
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Evidence & investigation
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barefoot-like trackway with heel, front pad and five toes crossing frozen creek ice and up a bank
Measurements: about eight inchs long and three or four inches wide; about twenty feet in six steps
same human-like footprints preserved in slush ice
Measurements: just over one inch deep
An investigator spoke with the witness after the report to record additional details about the prints and discuss a possible follow-up conversation with the mother.
Source timeline
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BFRO report #9407 Primary
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BFRO map layer Reference