A large, muddy and mysterious footprint has captured imaginations in the area.

The print is much larger than a human's foot, and some say it couldn’t be an animal. Its size and unexplained origin are fueling wild theories about a creature of lore making a real-life emergence in rural parts of Cleveland and Burke counties.

A farmer said he recently stumbled across a larger-than-life footprint near the intersection of Highway 18 and George Hildebran School Road in the southern part of Burke County.Pork Lowman said he was walking in the woods when he came across the print, which measures 15 by 8 inches.

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