Family finds long-stride footprints in snow near house witnessed in Susquehanna County, Pennsylvania

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After a 7" snowfall the previous day (March 16, 2004) and couple more inches overnight (March 17, 2004), I noticed out the side window of the house large tracks about 4 feet from the side of the house. The tracks had been made at some time during the night because most of the snow had fallen but a couple of more inches had accumulated in the tracks making identification unlikely. At first I thought they were some sort of anomaly from snow sliding off the roof or some such thing because they were spaced about 5 feet apart and I called my son down to the bottom floor to have a look. From our vantage point we could only see the tracks along the side of the house and they seemed to disappear into the open yard. We had had some wind with the snow and I thought it may have eradicated some of the tracks. We both went about our daily work and later that afternoon the dish on our satellite needed cleared of sliding snow and I went around the house. Immediately I noticed indentations from the tr...