The Littlethorpe Bigfoot Prints: A Mysterious Encounter 1/1/1982

It is rare in the realms of Cryptozoology to come across a really good footprint that could possibly have been left behind by a Bigfoot Creature moving through an area anywhere in the World. These creatures are incredibly reclusive and are rarely seen by man, sometimes if we are really lucky we come across a good footprint. I was contacted recently by a gentleman who was a child when his Father found a set of "Bigfoot" prints in Leicestershire a small county in the United Kingdom. And what is even stranger is this set of footprints started in the middle of a field that was covered in thick Snow. 

Thankfully due to the families fortitude they did take some photographs at the time and made a report to the local Police who did attend the scene and examine the prints. 

The family provided me with a full set of images and a video of the images in frames from the 1980's. They have also been very transparent with me throughout and I have no reason to doubt their claims. The prints are fascinating and well worth peer review in my opinion. 

Stuart: "Hello Deborah, I hope you're keeping well. Would like to share this story with you from an encounter that happened to me and my family and some friends of ours on New years day 1982, I think. The winter of 1981/82 was particularly harsh that year in Littlethorpe, England. The village was blanketed in snow, and the residents were struggling to cope with the severe weather conditions. For our family, caring for our friends horse that we were looking after in the stables near our home was becoming a real challenge. The horse was jittery and on edge at the time, perhaps sensing the tension in the air.

It was on one of those cold winter mornings that the my Father made a remarkable discovery. He had been up to see to the horses and after mucking out the stables, he returned home looking a bit panicked, he even had his hayfork still in hand. He told us all that he had found large, 'Bigfoot'-style footprints in the snow. And even stranger the tracks seemed to appear out of nowhere, starting from the middle of a snow covered field, then proceeding around the farmyard, past the hay barn, and they then carried on down to the river. The tracks came from the direction of the M1 motorway.

As you can imagine the whole family was interested to see the prints and we followed the tracks and managed to take photographs of the footprints, we still have those photographs. However, in the excitement of the moment, they didn't think to take plaster casts, which might have provided more conclusive evidence. My father contacted the local police, who sent out an officer to investigate. The officer's reaction was reportedly one of bemusement, unsure of what to make of the strange footprints. He actually said "Blimey, have you checked the top of the hay barn?" To which my Dad said "No way" at this strange question.

As a family we reached out to the Leicester Museum, leaving some of the photographs with them and as far as I am aware they may still be there. I have added the photographs for you to take a look at Deb, I'm going to try and find the negatives the next time I'm around my dads to see if I can find the other photos he gave to the Leicester museum. The Wellington boot you see in the Image is a size 11. I'm not sure about my sisters shoe she would have been 11 years old, and I was 8 at the time.

Despite the initial interest, the incident seems to have faded into local lore. The photographs, still in the family's possession, remain a fascinating piece of evidence.

The harsh winter and the jittery horse added to the sense of unease and uncertainty surrounding this incident. To this day, the true nature of the footprints remains a mystery, leaving the family and the villagers to wonder what might have made those strange tracks in the snow.

One point to note is the way the footprints started in the middle of a snow covered field. How had the owner of the feet reached the middle of the field without disturbing the snow? The prints then went to the area where the horses were kept, possibly looking for food or shelter. Then they meandered down to the River Soar which at the time would have given the Creature a better shot at staying hidden as it headed deeper inland to the forested areas bypassing the village of Huncote to the West and it was free to head in any direction from there. 

Apart from the River there is a railway line that runs along it, that runs for miles in both directions. We also have the M1 motorway that could give an easy route, like the railway line at times when us humans are not around. 

I pointed this out as there are several reports to the north of where the footprints were found in Swannington and Leicester Forest East. 

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I thing the footprints captured in Littlethorpe are very similar to the prints found in Bhutan. In 1951, renowned British mountaineer Eric Shipton and his colleague Dr. Michael Ward were in the Himalayas for a reconnaissance expedition to search for potential routes to the top of Mount Everest. While walking across a glacier near the Menlung Basin at an elevation of between 15,000 and 16,000 feet, they stumbled upon a series of peculiar footprints in the snow.

Each print was between 12 and 13 inches long and roughly six inches wide with one big toe and four or five smaller ones. The men didn’t have a ruler or measuring tape with them, so they used their own boots and ice picks as a size reference. As Ward later wrote in an article for the Alpine Journal in 1999, “We followed the tracks some way down the easy glacier and noted that whenever a narrow, six-inch-wide crevasse was crossed there seemed to be ‘claw’ marks in the snow.”

Shipton and Ward asked Sherpa Tenzing Norgay, who was accompanying them on their expedition, about the tracks, and he “had no doubt at all that the footprints belonged to the Yeti.” Norgay explained that there were two types of Yetis: “the yak-eating and the man-eating.” He also described the creatures as “walking on two legs, standing about five feet high and covered with brown hair” with “a face like a man, with a high forehead.”