hoyt (04/12/83)
In the last century my family in Maine had a rather remote farm on which was located the ""Devil's Footprints". These were human footprints in stone which at one time were quite a local tourist attraction. At present the farm has grown up to forest and the footprints themselves are under a layer of moss so that even those that know about where the footprints are have difficulty locating them. An aunt of mine was the last to find them some 5 to 10 years ago. Some claim these are perfect human prints of someone who walked some distance leaving imprints in the rock; others say that they only resemble human footprints. The area itself is quite unusual geologically; for example, there is also slate there in which is imbedded irregular shaped gravel of about pea size separated nearly uniformly by average distances close to one inch. I don't see how this could form. There is one catch with the so-called human footprints - they are in granite.