Bigfoot Tracks/Casts

[Ray Ford]

Bigfoot tracks, foot prints, are, as we all know, the first and perhaps the most important indication that there is something out there.  What we all also know is that tracks are perhaps the easiest evidence for the existence of the big hairy guys to fabricate--to fake.  Any artsy-craftsy person could manufacture from wood or many other materials a foot which could be used to make hoax prints in the snow or mud.  Tracks are also easy to mistake.  Snow melts.  Mud distorts.

To illustrate this last point, a couple of persons took, and brought to a friend of mine, pictures of tracks in snow.  They were taken on public land near Oolagah Lake (Oklahoma).  They were relatively believable as possible Bigfoot tracks until we noticed an absolutely straight line across one of the imprints where the front of the heel of a boot would be.  Straight lines of that sort do not usually occur in nature--especially on the anatomy of a creature.  We concluded that the tracks were made by the boots of a man and that they had melted out.  Our assessment, and decision to not post them, elicited some antimosity from the men who took the pictures.  O well.

I say this to say this:  I saw a TV program on Bigfoot the other evening.  A cast of a track was shown which I could not dismiss as either mistaken or fabricated.  It was, to me, believable.  The large, Bigfoot-sized track showed a curious set of toes.  The big toe was offset to the side in such a way as to resemble a thumb on a hand.  The index toe was large--over-developed--and pointed straight to the front.  The remaining three toes were somewhat separated from it to the outside of the foot and noticibly smaller.  This struck me as an evolution of a foot similar to the way the hoof of a horse evolved over the eons.

There is residual evidence for an original five-digit foot on the horse.  The big toe, and the outside three toes have receded, and the index toe has enlarged with the nail becoming a hoof.  The pattern is very similar to what I saw in that Bigfoot track/cast.  While such a track could be fabricated, this similarity prevents me from dismissing it at the outset.

[Ray Ford]

With the above post in mind, let me recall a conversation by posts that I attempted to have with the people at MABRC about some of the casts that they have posted.  (I understand that they have a collection of casts.)  I certainly don't intend this recollection to resurrect any hostilities: I intend it as a reflection on the matter of tracks and casts thereof.

I observed that their casts appeared to be of two distinct types of tracks.  One looked very much like an elongated and slightly widened human foot.  The other was much blocker--much wider in proprotion to the length of it.  I recall that I inquired if this suggested that there were two different types of Bigfeet.
I also recall that I did not get a response.  It would be interesting to have a comparison, and discussion, of the various casts that have been made by different people in different places--a non-caustic discussion. 

How would such a discussion proceed? 
   "This cast has these characteristics."
   "There are six other casts from these locations which show those same characteristics."
   "I have a cast that does not have those characteristics but has these different ones."
   "I have a cast that shows some of those characteristcs but another that is different."
   "I have looked at 26 different casts, and the tracks all share these four characteristics."
You get the idea, do you not

As I have said before, I regard tracks and reports of encounters by ordinary and reputable people as the two best evidences for the existence of Bigfeet--if there are Bigfeet.  And I freely admit that both of these, tracks and reports of sightings, are not conclusive evidence.  But that cast/track that I spoke of in the previous post grabs me. 

[Bullet Maker]

Good post Ray. Since this post is about tracks, it brought back some memories, that happened to two of my deer hunters, a few years back. It was a hot August day, and two of the hunters wanted to come out and fish in  the strip pitts. I gave them permission, and  requested that I would like to have one of the bass for supper that night. They agreed and off they went to fish. Like I said earlier, it was hot, real hot, and I felt sorry for them. But there young, so there use to the heat.
    I was munching on a sandwich and watching something on T.V. sitting in my  nice cool house, with the central air, working overtime to keep me nice and cool. All of a sudden I see the two, coming across the yard. They knocked on the door and I invited them in, and told them that they sure wasn;t gone very long.
(Now they were both covered in sweat, like maybe they were running from something.) That's when they told me what had happened. As they were reaching the bottom of the strippitts, they noticed a very large foot track, with five toes, and was so fresh, that the water was still seeping into the track. They said it was very large, and there is no way that they would go back down there and take a picture of it. They figured the creature, had just passed by, moments before they arrived on the scene. Now both of these gentlemen have witnessed bigfoot out here, so they kn ew what had made the tracks.  I had a good laugh about this, and they went on home, they didn't want anything more to do with the strip pits.
   Even thought it was a hot summer day, bigfoot is still around. Heck, I figured, that he was doing some fishing himself.

[#59]

BM,

Would that be the same strip pit lake where your neighbor was screamed at (and he left the area in a hurry as well) when he was fishing while trespassing on you?

If memory serves me, that's the one just north of the strip lake with the caves along one of it's walls.

[Bullet Maker]

Yep, that's the one #59...Can't get those two, to go back down there anymore. LOL It's a very interesting and spooky place.