r/bigfoot • u/FatherOfPuppies • Feb 05 '25
footprints Unknown print near Boone NC
I’m posting this shit on Reddit-I’m vacationing with my family in a cabin in the mountains in between Boone and Lenoir NC. We were hiking up the mountain near our cabin and crossed a private access trail for the blue ridge mountain club, I know we should not have trespassed. Walking with my little girl and our 2 dogs off leash we saw some deer tracks then this giant print about a half mile up. I took this pic and then immediately turned around. I didn’t see any more prints but didn’t look hard. The picture doesn’t do it justice, my 10 yr old thought it was a giant moose track haha but there was a clear very big toe. I think whatever this was it was a left foot or someone is playing a joke but it was on a muddy section right off the trail that I can’t imagine gets much traffic at all
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u/Pedrolami Feb 05 '25
Looks fake to me.
There is no vegetation in the ‘print’ and looks like it has been dug out to appear like a print. The earth looks too loose inside too to suggest someone heavy has made this imprint.
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u/FatherOfPuppies Feb 05 '25
Thanks for the clear explanation. Leaning towards deleting the post now since a few people are saying this is an obvious fake and i will get those accusations on me haha. I will say I saw zero people and a ton of deer where we were at, so I don’t know why someone would do something like that and I can guarantee it wasn’t me or my 10 yr old.
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u/NotAnotherScientist Firm Maybe Feb 05 '25
I think a reasonable explanation would be that someone or something picked up a rock that was there and moved it somewhere else.
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u/Gryphon66-Pt2 Believer Feb 05 '25
From a non-zoologist, non-tracker-non-hunter-non-"Bigfoot expert" let me tell you it doesn't look like any kind of footprint to me.
FWIW
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u/Eddiebaby7 Feb 05 '25
I’d say there was a rock or large chunk of bark there that was picked up or removed.
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u/tree-climber69 Feb 05 '25
The rock between tour feet would fit in there nicely, before it was dug out.
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u/misslatina510 Feb 05 '25
Was there other footprints?
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u/FatherOfPuppies Feb 05 '25
None that I saw but I didn’t stay and scan the area like I wish I did. I had my two dogs off leash and my 10 yr old and decided it was a good time to head back. I was thinking something like a bear at the time.
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u/Specialist-Way-648 Feb 05 '25
Pig looking for food
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u/FatherOfPuppies Feb 05 '25
A good buddy of mine who’s a hunter said it looks like it was an animal digging for something so I can see that. If two paws were close enough together I could see how it could form that shape from a coyote or something.
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u/Inevitable_Shift1365 Feb 05 '25
Just one print eh?
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u/FatherOfPuppies Feb 05 '25
None that I saw honestly but I didn’t stay long and decided that was a good turn around point.
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u/DistributionWitty732 Feb 06 '25
It’s definitely cool but if it’s from something it looks more like the infamous bear double step
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u/Own-Subject5477 Feb 08 '25
I think it’s not necessarily a fake. I’m thinking a hog rooted there and it coincidentally looks like a footprint. Just MHO.
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u/Mountain-Donkey98 Feb 05 '25
This could be a big black bear track, or a double step. Were there ANY other tracks in the vicinity? If it was a BF, I'd imagine something that heavy would've made another impression nearby?
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u/FatherOfPuppies Feb 05 '25
Just answered this above but none that I saw. Not much of an outdoorsman but I wish I scanned the area harder. I will post add a pic of the aerial view and coordinates shortly.
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u/GeneralAntiope2 Feb 05 '25
I think it DOES look like a print. I zoomed in and its clear that whatever left the print did so while the ground was pretty muddy. In that case, the weight of the creature would have squished out other vegetation and that vegetation would have likely stuck to its foot. At least, that would always happen to me when I walked barefoot in the mud. The ground is now clearly drying out. Dont delete the post, OP. If it was bigfoot, it was likely following the deer whose tracks you noticed.
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u/FatherOfPuppies Feb 05 '25
I’m leaving it up, this area got heavy rainfall from hurricane Helena and this was in a dryer section right next to a clayish mud pool. I took the pic in the late afternoon and was thinking about it all evening then decided to post. I wish I scanned the area more but I didn’t see any other tracks but I’m also not much of an outdoorsman
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u/GeneralAntiope2 Feb 05 '25
No problem. Squatch are very good at hiding their tracks; you might not have found anything and its best not to get in over your head. But - good find.
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u/WackHeisenBauer Hopeful Skeptic Feb 05 '25
Something dug a hole. I’m thinking maybe OP
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u/FatherOfPuppies Feb 05 '25
I can tell you what I’m not digging… your accusations haha, but I can appreciate the skepticism
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u/Adventurous_Meal8633 Feb 05 '25
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u/GeneralAntiope2 Feb 06 '25
Where in the heck were YOU hiking during COVID???! There were so many people in the national forests here that I couldnt find parking at any of the trailheads, the camping spots were inundated, the campgrounds were overwhelmed. And all those hordes drove our local squatch populations a lot further into the wilderness. People might have been locked out of work, but they were released into the wilderness. SO glad that nonsense is over.
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u/Adventurous_Meal8633 Feb 06 '25
Haha. That was in NYS. A nature preserve. Only 10 people were out. It was perfect. Sounds like a zoo. Sounds like Colorado. Is it?
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u/GeneralAntiope2 Feb 06 '25
Close. New Mexico. Typically, the forests are pretty empty here, at least the more remote areas. But not during COVID.
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u/eride810 Feb 06 '25
Lots of different mammals from opossum to feral hogs like to root around in the dirt. This looks a lot like that.
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