Is this Bigfoot's footprint? Woman who claims she's been plagued by sightings of the beast around her Ohio home finds 7in print in her backyard



An unusual and unexplained footprint discovered in an Ohio backyard has sparked speculation that the legendary Bigfoot passed through earlier this month.



One Ashtabula County resident, who only wanted to be identified as Wendy due to the inevitable skepticism that surrounds Bigfoot, discovered the seven-inch wide print on her property on August 11th.



'I took a picture to show my mother’s husband, who’s a hunter, and he said it wasn’t a human’s,' she said to ABC News. 'I’m not claiming that footprint to be anything. I don’t know what that is.'

Massive: Ashtabula County resident Wendy measures the 7.5 inch wide footprint that was an inch and a half deep into the mud - that could be of the legendary 'Bigfoot'

While it is not possible to tell how long the footprint is, Wendy claims that having shown her husband, they both agreed it was 'larger than anything me or my husband has ever seen.'



Puzzled, Wendy showed photographs of the footprint to several local hunters who encounter bears frequently.

'We have deer and turkey here all the time. Even a rare black bear sighting,' she said to WXYZ.Com.

'The hunters agree, it's not a bear. These are definitely toes. They are not claws.'

Comparison: This image shows Wendy's footprint next to the 'Bigfoot's' to show how wide from toe-to-toe the print actually is

Indeed, the mystery surrounding the footprint for Wendy has deepened due to this latest strange encounter.



'It started about five years ago.' she remembered. 'My husband took the dog outside during the night. That's when he heard it.'



Recounting hearing a loud, growling noise, Wendy said that her husband described it, 'like no other animal you've ever heard.'



'It made his skin crawl.' said Wendy. 'Whatever it was, it was large.'



And then around three years ago, Wendy had a very similar experience as she was out walking her dog in her backyard and taking in the stars.



'All of the sudden my dog stopped. That's when I heard what sounded like a truck shifting gears driving on the next street,' said Wendy to WXYZ.Com

'It was a loud growl, not from the street over. It was coming right from the back of my house just a few feet away! It was nothing like you've ever heard before!'

Beast: Wilderness explorer C. Thomas Biscardi, 32, of San Jose, California, who has been searching for the legendary "Big Foot" for nearly a decade took these pictures in May of 1981

And again last year, Wendy witnessed a very strange incident on the railway tracks near to her house.



'Just down the road, at dusk, we were driving across the railroad tracks. I caught a quick glimpse of a large dark figure,' said Wendy to WXYZ.Com



'It appeared to be dressed in all black running across the tracks. I thought to myself, why would a hunter be dressed in all black at sunset?'



The mysterious figure Wendy glimpsed was extremely large, dark and moved very quickly over the tracks into the woods.



In addition to the sightings, Wendy has said that late at night she and her husband hear disconcerting noises coming from the adjacent woods in summer and fall.

The Wilds of Ashtabula County: Wendy has been plagued by strange sightings and noises for years coming from her Ohio property

'Whatever it is,' she said, 'seems like its just passing through each year.'



Frighteningly for Wendy, the latest unexplained event took place just a few weeks ago, over the Labor Day weekend.



'My husband was in the bedroom at the back of the house.' recalled Wendy.



'I was in the kitchen. It was about 9:30 at night. Something pounded on the outside wall of the house.



'We both heard it and came running. Since it was dark we couldn't see anything outside.'

