Peyto Lake

Date: July, 11/ 2005

Occurrence:

We had

gone to Peyto Lake for a day of hiking in the beautiful forests around the lake.

We had been hiking for about 2 hours when we decided to rest for a spell; off to

the side of the trail. My boyfriend [now husband], was poking around the brush

at the edge of the trail when I heard him say "Oh my god, Leanne come over and

look at this!" When I moved to where he was standing, he pointed to the ground.

There in the turf was a huge footprint, not only long but very wide. It was like

a bare-footed human had stepped right here, though this human would have had to

have had feet that were between 18 and 20 inches long. We both knew what we were

looking at, and almost in unison, we both started moving back down the trail

towards the location of our van. We did not see anything else, nor did we hear

anything. The forest was filled with the sounds of summer life. We only found

the one footprint; thinking back on it, it seemed as if whatever had made it had

stepped from the forest on one side of the trail, crossed the path, and went

into the trees on the otherside. The footprint could have been a week or more

old, though I'm not really sure how old it was.

Witness: Leanne Howard

*This report was submitted to the WCSRO website on 03/10/ 2006.

WCSRO, 2006.