The story behind the discovery of this fossil human footprint is remarkable and what makes this print so amazing is that when it was discovered it was initally examined by a professional geologist.
In the late 1950’s, geologist, Dr. Billy Caldwell, had left the oil business becasue the price of oil had dropped to all time lows. He started a business as a stone supplier in the Fort Worth, Texas area.
Mr. Caldwell had stone suppliers that would bring stone from all over the United States. One day in 1964, his stone supplier from Glen Rose, Mr. Bill Osborn, came to his shop and told him that he had something in the back of his truck that he wanted Mr. Caldwell to see.
Mr. Osborn proceeded to show Dr. Caldwell a very large slab of stone with a giant human footprint impression in it. Mr. Osborn stated that he and his workers had discovered the giant human track in the Paluxy River while quarrying stones and that business had been slow so he had decided to chisel the footprint out of the river bed.
Dr. Caldwell examined the human fossil footprint and attests to its authenticity. A short time later, Mr. Osborn informed Dr. Caldwell that he was selling the print to a man in Houston, Tx. Mr. Caldwell asked Osborn if he could have a casting of the print made before he sold it, and Osborn agreed to this.
The origianl print was then sold. It is beleived that the original print was last seen on display at the 1965 World’s Fair and has never been seen since.
The original cast that was made by Dr. Billy Caldwell is located and on display in the Creation Evidence Museum in Glen Rose, Texas.
Below is and notorized statement from Dr. Caldwell. Watch Dr. Billy Caldwell’s full interview.
I was wondering if there has been any other sites around the world where human tracks were discovered in or around the dinosaur tracks? In the documentary featured on this site it says fossilized human prints are found all over the world,… i am curious if this also means alongside dinosaur prints? Thank you for your time, if there is any book or site you could recommend to me for personal study on the whole subject, i would be very grateful.
In the video, I meant human footprints in stone and not necessarily located with dinosaur prints. Human in dinosaur footprints together are extremely rare, but they have been found.
I have heard of dinosaur tracks located near human tracks in both China and Russia, but I have not been able to verify these. There are some in Russia that have been verified, but the “human tracks” are difficult to distinguish and so I did not include it in the video.
Cannot say that there is a definitive book on the subject that I could recommend. There are a few other website scattered here and there, but you’ll have to just do some searching to try and locate them.
Kind regards,
Jeff
Several. There are the Daughtery tracks, Joe Taylor’s Japanese track, and some others where they are close enough to be on the same rock. There are many places where human and dino footprints are in the same area (dozens, hundreds thousands of feet apart, but in the same rock), but too far apart to cast together in one piece.
I have what i believe to be a human footprint in mudstone or as some call it siltstone, it has five toes and my size 9 foot fits it pretty good. it has no heel but does have the creases on the sole which is amazing . my son found it while digging fence post holes here in Normandie France. i am hoping someone will give us a good price for it on ebay