Other / Unknown · 1997
XX-1997ID case-ffc8456515Added to map Oct 29, 2026
- Creature
- Other / Unknown
- When
- Mar 12, 1997to the day
- Where
- Place unknownno dependable place
- Reports
- 1 document1 independent
The account
Witnesses report finding a large claw print with three digits in the snow at the bottom of the tree near the ranch house on March 12, 1997.
See the source ↓ one document so far, so there is no trail to follow yet
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Details
- Creature
- Other / Unknown
- Where
- No dependable place
The account doesn't say where in words we can place, so it isn't drawn on the map; the map lists it under Cases with no resolvable place. Other Other / Unknown reports with no place (800) - When
- Mar 12, 1997
- Account
- Not first-hand (retold or reported by someone else)
- Backed by
- 1 independent source
- Added to map
- Oct 29, 2026
- Case id
- case-ffc8456515
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Source trail (1)
Every link goes to where we found the account. The earliest we found is marked; it is the earliest found, not necessarily the original.
- #DOGMAN, FORMER MILITARY CONTRACTOR SHARES HIS TIME AT A SECRET GOV'T BASE SITE OF CRYPTIDS & MORE
YouTube · 2026-06-30
Earliest found, not necessarily the original.
Further reading
- The Jersey Devil, James F. McCloy and Ray Miller Jr. (1976)
The New Jersey Pine Barrens legend and its 1909 flap.
Borrow on Internet Archive - Phantom of the Pines: More Tales of the Jersey Devil, James F. McCloy and Ray Miller Jr. (1998)
Borrow on Internet Archive - On the Track of Unknown Animals, Bernard Heuvelmans (1959)
The founding work of cryptozoology.
Borrow on Internet Archive - Cryptozoology A to Z, Loren Coleman and Jerome Clark (1999)
Encyclopedia of reported creatures.
Borrow on Internet Archive
Books we have not reproduced: borrow them free at archive.org. Listing a book is not an endorsement of its claims.