Mystery tracks reported on Curtis golf course

Thursday, January 22, 2015
Sharon Jorgensen of Curtis, Nebraska, discovered foot prints on the Arrowhead Meadows Golf Course in Curtis Jan. 15. She laid her glove beside one track for size reference in a photograph she took. (Sharon Jorgensen/Courtesy photo via the Frontier County Enterprise)

CURTIS, Neb. -- A walker on the snow-covered Arrowhead Meadows golf course in Curtis, Nebraska, last week discovered large barefoot tracks that she firmly believes "was something walking."

Sharon Jorgensen of Curtis told the Frontier County Enterprise newspaper that she and her dog, Babe, were walking the golf course about 8 a.m., Jan. 15, when they came across the large tracks in the snow between the third fairway and the fourth tee box. The Enterprise reports that the stride of the tracks appears to be about six feet, much larger than any bipedal animal in the area would make.

The tracks emerged from the heavily-wooded area to the east of the golf course's cart path, traveled up the path, then disappeared into the brush on the east side of the path.

Golf course superintendent Eric Senff found even more prints in pristine snow, near the area that Jorgensen found the first set of tracks. Senff said he's never seen tracks this big.

The Enterprise reports that sightings of a "Bigfoot"-type creature are not unheard of in Nebraska, the latest being of a 7-foot-tall hairy creature, upright on two legs, spotted in March 2014 near Linwood, in Butler County.

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  • Looks suspiciously like a swim fin that someone(tech student) carved to look like a clawed foot.

    -- Posted by quick13 on Thu, Jan 22, 2015, at 8:42 PM
  • Last summer I seen something streak across my driveway at night minutes after a 3 in rain and found what looks like a 2 toed footprint similiar to this one but mine was in muddy gravel. I took pictures

    -- Posted by c_smith7730@hotmail.com on Thu, Jan 22, 2015, at 8:58 PM
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    Oh no! Bigfoot has migrated to the open plains, and he plays golf!

    One thing we have always had out here in the dusty plains is a few kooks. Whether they are that way by genetics, or the nature of the area finally cracked them is of no concern...we have them! ;)

    -- Posted by didereaux on Fri, Jan 23, 2015, at 5:41 AM
  • Definitely a 'squatch!

    -- Posted by Hugh Jassle on Fri, Jan 23, 2015, at 1:00 PM
  • Rumor has it NGP introduced the new species to control the large population of out of control Golfers. Good luck with that!

    -- Posted by Online on Sat, Jan 24, 2015, at 8:08 AM
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