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Unusually Large REPTILE-LIKE TRACKS Discovered Along Devil’s Backbone, Colorado
A Loveland, Colorado resident describes a strange incident experienced by his mother while taking the dog out. Years later, he finds unusually large reptile-like tracks near their home.
“I live in a house up next to the Devil’s Backbone near Loveland, Colorado. The area around our house is just urban enough for us to have a house there and about three neighbors, but wild enough for a herd of about 40 elk to come marching through our yard during migration.
One night in 2002, I was watching TV with my parents. My mom went to take one of our dogs out. They went out and came back a few minutes later. My mom came back and told my dad and me that there was something out there. This is, according to her, what happened.
She went out to the dog pen with the dog. Just from experience, I know that the outside lights on that part of the house only illuminate the driveway and half of the dog pen. The dog began sniffing about for a place to “do its business” and went over to the darker end of the pen. There was just enough light reaching that end to see the dog going up against the fence. I don’t remember exactly, but at some point, while she was in the shadows, my mom said she heard a loud, terrifying feline growl come from that end of the pen. The dog, of course, bolted immediately for the light at the opposite end of the pen. It was scared out of her wits. Thus my mom was convinced that the time was right to return to the house.
I thought about this for some time. The only non-cryptid animals in the area capable of producing anything like this noise were foxes and raccoons (there were no mountain lions in the area at the time), but from my mom’s description of the sound, it would have to have been a larger creature. Also, the dog that was involved has a reputation for being able to detect foxes easily, and there hadn’t been any raccoon sightings (at least in our neighborhood) for years. This, however, is about as far as I got before I moved on to other things.
I didn’t think about the noise again until this summer (2006). Every day I go on a hike up the Devil’s Backbone trail with the same dog from the previous account. I had a lot of time to think during those hikes and, as I said before, the strange noise came to mind. I tried to come up with an animal that would fit the description and ended up with nothing. To my knowledge, there were no cryptids in northeast Colorado. The closest cryptids were the Colorado River Lizards, but they’re in southern Colorado. I continued my hike and let my mind wander to other things.
Then, something in the dirt caught my eye. I stopped and bent down to examine it. It appeared to be a footprint of some kind. Most of the dirt around the print was too hard-packed to make much of a footprint with only a thin layer of loose dust. But occasionally, as was the case, there would be a small patch of dirt loose and thick enough to make a decent print. The print was about 3.5 inches wide and 3.5 inches long with three, thick, bird-like toes. From what I’ve seen of the trail wildlife, there isn’t anything big enough to make a decent track much less one as strange and bizarre as this. Of course, it got me really excited and I searched for more footprints like it. There was evidence of other footprints leading up to the original, but they were on the packed stuff and therefore, were not very legible. As I said, I got really excited and promptly began beating myself up for not having a camera with me. Fortunately, the backbone was shielding most of the wind, the print was off on the side of the trail and there was enough gravel to keep its shape long enough for me to go back home (we live very close to the trailhead), get a camera and snap a few photos (see picture).
On my way back, I also managed to find some other tracks like it in more footprint-friendly soil and snapped some shots of it too. This one actually had some fairly legible prints around it in a “running” pattern, but they were too far apart for me to snap in one shot. I’m tempted to say that the mysterious footprints are connected somehow to the mysterious animal from the previous account.
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BIGFOOT? HUGE TRACKS & DEAD DOG Discovered at Muskowekwan First Nation, Saskatchewan (PHOTOS)
Tey Faye of Muskowekwan First Nation in Saskatchewan, Canada shared on her Facebook page on March 8, 2023, some amazing photos she took near her grandparent’s home.
“So, last night (March 7, 2023) I heard my dogs barking at I don’t know what but it sounded pretty creepy when I heard a strange growl. Don’t usually hear them barking the way they were either. Woke up to one of them dead. Not sure how he died but he probably was injured from whatever that was, maybe? I don’t know. What kind of tracks these are? I personally think it’s Bigfoot. But everyone has their own opinions. Not to mention the snow was just above my knees taking these photos. I was pretty creeped out. Located in Saskatchewan.”
The response from various readers has been mixed with some claiming outright that it’s definitely a Bigfoot while others felt it might be various wild animals including rabbits, wolves, and deer:
“Just a deer jumping through the snow that’s all,” wrote GeorgeMoosetail.
Jonathan Ballantyne wrote:
“If it was a Sasquatch it would be like a human running in the snow. These look like an animal jumping straight upward and landing straight down. I’d say wolf. It’s probably a lone wolf, sick or elderly. If it’s alone desperate for food. If it’s coming close to people.”
Regarding the wolf theory, Woody Don pointed out a certain detail that the others were missing:
“If the tracks were from a wolf or cougar or any long-tailed animal, how come we don’t see the tail track as well? Can make fun of me or whatever but I know these aren’t from any four-legged animal.”
Chynna Simms noted:
“Most people say wolves but the tracks are very strange. I’d like to believe it was just a wolf but it could have been something more sinister.”
LeeAnne Thomas wrote of the deer theory:
“She also mention one of her pet dogs had died that night…it’s hard to say. I was thinking deer hops too but their little hooves would have been more into the snow than their stomachs.”
Linda Herman wrote of Tey’s dog:
“Your dogs were protecting you. I’m so sorry you lost one. But such long strides and looks like some sort of two-legged tracks.”
Chase Jimmie probably said it best, though:
“I as an Alaskan native always heard a saying – ‘Just don’t think about it.'”
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TALL SKINNY HUMANOID & UNDERGROUND CONSTRUCTION Discovered in Northern Arizona Desert
A Phoenix, Arizona man is in northern Arizona hiking and exploring. That night, he has an encounter with a tall skinny humanoid. The next day he makes a discovery that frightens him for years.
The following inquiry was forwarded to me:
“In 2015 I took a trip through northern Arizona (I live in Phoenix) hiking, taking photos, and enjoying nature. At one location it was late so I decided to park for a few hours or spend the night in my truck. I had the truck turned off, with the window down. There was a huge full moon in the sky behind me, I was looking at it in my outside rearview mirror.
Then this ‘being’ walked from my left to my right, about 4-6 feet behind the tail of my truck. It stopped and looked at me. It was about 8 feet tall, very skinny, with long arms with the elbow lower than ours would be. The neck was about a foot long pointing forward a bit, oval head and what looked like a 4-foot tube extending from the jaw down forward, almost like a very long beard coming to a point. The moon was behind it so I saw it in silhouette. It walked very slowly like it was struggling to move. I tried to roll up my window but the truck was off. Slowly it slightly turned its shoulders towards me and that long freakish neck turned like an insect would. The face looking right at me. I thought that was it, I’m dead. It looked so skinny I figured it was hungry. I had my hand on the keys, if it came towards me I’d turn the truck on, roll up the window and take off. The head turned back forward and it walked on. I waited a minute then started the truck and took off.
A few months later I decided to go back but in the daytime. I found the exact spot. There was nothing there but dirt and desert. No buildings for miles, all dirt roads. I traveled around the area since I was there, did a bit of hiking then came upon a place and parked. It looked like an old crash site, with a hole in the ground, big rocks all burned, and bushes growing in it. Whatever happened there happened a long time ago. Then I heard digging sounds, like heavy machinery, trucks backing up and making the ‘beep beep’ sound, like a lot of them but there was nothing around me for miles, just desert. I drove around a bit to see where the sound was coming from but I was all alone out there. I went back to that spot and could clearly hear lots of trucks busy at work, like major digging construction machines. I then got on my knees and put my ear to the ground. The digging sound was coming from underground.
I thought that was odd, nothing around that would identify that area for construction, out in the desert on a very simple road, saw no one pass by at all. Then I noticed out in the desert two big white shiny pickup trucks facing me, windows were black. They seemed to appear out of nowhere, then behind me were two more. It was just me, the 4 trucks, and a lot of people digging under me. I got concerned, got back in my truck, and left.
After a bit, I slowed down. No one was following me so I drove until I got to the next road. There was an underpass to the road to go north. I take a right to go south, go under the underpass and take a left. At both exits were the same big white pickup trucks, the glass-tinted black and waiting. Whichever way I turned one of them would be behind me. I headed south, and the truck behind me immediately took off after me. The other truck turned around and followed. The truck was right on my bumper. It was so large I couldn’t see in its window but it was tinted so dark I’d not seen anyone driving anyway. I was going 90 miles an hour, and as it was right on my tail the other one tried to overtake me. I was weaving between two lanes to keep it from passing, as I’d gone into the left lane to block the second truck the one behind me tried to pass me on my right. this went on for miles until there was an exit with a few shops there. I took that exit, and both trucks slowed, did a U-turn, and retired back.
I knew they had my license plate, so I figured I was screwed. I uncovered something they didn’t want to be found. I went home and just waited for a knock on the door or to be shot or whatever. Nothing happened. I got no contact, no warning, nothing. I was afraid to tell my friends as they might be incriminated, too.
Years passed and nothing happened. It’s been 7 years now, and I’ve never gone back to either location. By me seeing that thing walking and where I heard the digging underground and very earthly trucks trying to run me off the road, could there be a connection? I don’t know, I stopped going out into the desert from then on.
Do you have some ideas about the thing I saw? I’d love some answers. I guess we all would.” D
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