This was sent to me by a listener
“In 2007, on a trip to Dale Hollow lake (TN / KY border), we took our houseboat to a very remote cove, where there’s a path to a waterfall – the waterfall is about 1.5 miles back from the cove: You can see the trail to the waterfall in the photos below.
Our boat was the only boat in the cove that day – we’ve visited that waterfall several times over the years and never saw another boat in the cove or person on the trail, or sign of a person on the trail, before. There is no road anywhere near this trail to the waterfall: I reported this track to the BFRO and one of their researchers tried to get to the location by road (to find a road to hike from), and found that there is no road within miles of this creek.
About 1 mile into the hike to the waterfall, we found the footprint that you see in the first photo. I immediately realized this was very unusual as you have to wonder why anyone would remove their shoes and step in the mud there. There was only one print. So I took this photo of the print. It was the size of a child’s foot – like a 10 year old’s foot. Within a yard of the print was the bear print (photo below).
The same summer, I was hiking in Arizona in extreme northeast Maricopa County (12 miles north of Fountain Hills): I hiked in a remote area off hwy 87: I drover back a dirt road as far as I could drive and then parked by a creek, and hiked in an otherwise dry desert-mountain terrain. I came across a large footprint (two inches larger than my shoe – size 10.5): The print was pressed into the hard,dry desert soil about an inch. My footprints would not even make an impression except to disturb the dust. The print was about 150 feet from the creek. I got a very creepy feeling and felt like I needed to get out of there and left quickly, and never went hiking in that area again. I live in Arizona.”
