Now, something you may know about me, and that is I do not believe in ghosts, but this was not a ghost, but ghost tracks. Or was it?
I am a hunter. I hunt with a bow and crossbow. Early in December I was hunting in a field where deer tracks usually are found. It snowed the night before so I thought that it was a good time to find out where the deer runs were with the ground being freshly covered with snow. However, this lend to something that I had not planned or figured on, which certainly gave me an awakening that day!
As I entered the field there was no tracks anywhere, no footprints and no tracks going in or coming out. However, about 100-yards away from any trees, shrubs etc., there were tracks that looked like human tracks, but they had seven toes.
Now this was weird! No entrance in the field and no tracks going into the woods. So it had to land there and then take about 10 steps and fly off. I had wished I had my camera! This was very weird, as I know about every animal and bird in this area. It was nothing like I had ever saw before in my 50+ years of hunting!
When I got home I checked my bird book and found nothing to match the tracks that I had found. Then I checked my North Animal book to find any mammal that might have seven toes; there was none in this area! What concerned me, was that the tracks stopped after about 20-feet into the field, so it had to fly off.
What was it? It's feet spread was about 4-foot where mine are about 1-½ to 2 feet apart, so its legs had to be longer then mine. I am 5' 9", so this creature's legs had to be much longer and it had to be able to fly. What creature can do that? Any help would be gratefully appreciated.
To this date I have never seen this winged creature, but about 50-yards away there was a fox carcass, but no footprints around it. Now granted a fox is not too heavy, but what bird can lift a 20-40 pound fox and then drop it?
None, which I know of! When did he pick it up? There were no blood, fur or fox footprints where the "bird" first landed!
I walked in a 100-foot diameter circle from where the dead fox was found and not one track of any kind was located. This is state land, where people can, and do, hunt when in season. However, there were no other tracks anywhere, and there was no fresh snow for the past 36 hours before this. There were also no hunters accept me who had been in the area. What was this "bird, or was it something else? One thing was for sure, and that was that I was certainly not going to report it to the state, as they would think I was crazy.
Anyone have any ideas? Maybe this will remain just another freak of nature that will never be solved? This same area has been ripe with UFO reports almost every month or so. I wonder!
