Missouri Cast with strange waffle like imprint on toes

[OkieFoot]

This cast was made in SE Missouri; I don't think it's really very old.  You can see the odd waffle like imprint on the toes and upper ball of the foot.

The screenshot came from the attached video, which is about  a county sheriff's sighting in SE  Missouri back in 1989. The video also shows some casts made by a friend of the narrator/interviewer, starting about 12:42. The one with the strange waffle type imprint is shown at about 14:17, and a good close up view is about 14:26.

 

I have no idea how that imprint would have got into the track, or just how it happened. We've seen what are thought to be dermal ridges in some tracks before, but this one really looks strange.

It's as though a Bigfoot stepped on some burlap or wire mesh laying on the ground.

The two casts in the chair are four toed casts.

 

 

[NorthWind]

May have been made from a fiberglass "stomper"?

[MarkGlasgow]

Very strange. Seems to be in-between the toes too. We are all aware of certain conditions impacting the casting material and causing what looks like dermal ridges but in reality are just the 'plaster' setting in miniscule layers. This effect looks very different however. 

[OkieFoot]

Here is a screenshot from 14:43 that shows nearly the whole cast. There are some areas in the back half of the cast that have the same strange pattern, and there may be a few small areas in the middle portion, but the pattern seems to be most prevalent in the toe area. but it appears mostly in the toe area.

I wish we could have heard the two men talking about the cast when they were looking at it and pointing to it. They were pointing mostly to the toe area so I'd bet the odd waffle pattern may have been what was being talked about.

 

I had heard also that what look like dermal ridges could be caused during the casting process, although this cast did come out different.

 

 

 

 

 

 

[hiflier]

This may not "mesh" with what folks are thinking but my first impression when I saw the crosshatching was that it may have been a result of hoaxing by using a "foot" that had been molded using a fiberglass mesh material. I have seen such detail in a fiberglass surface where the resin was thin enough to fill the mesh but not thick enough to create a smooth resin surface. Does this make any sense? As I said- it was my first impression (pun intended). 

[OkieFoot]

I took a closer look at the four toed casts and the brownish colored cast to see if they showed the same waffle pattern, since the same man made those casts also, and I presume did them the same way.

The brownish cast, when freezing the video at 13:26, didn't appear to have any waffle imprint on it.

 

In the screenshot of the upper half of the four toed casts, at 13:10, are we seeing the same waffle pattern inside the red arrows? If it is, it looks like the only area where it shows.

It shows up more clear in the video. 

 

 

 

 

 

[wolftrax]

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Edited December 18, 2022 by wolftrax
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[JustCurious]

It reminds me of the weave of a thread-bare sock.  If someone were running through the dirt/mud, it would be picked up in some places thereby masking it in the casting in some places but not others.  I dunno, without more details about the casting process used it's hard to say.

[Skinwalker13]

This looks a lot like a mesh from either a fiberglass mold or someone with exceptionally large feet wearing socks without shoes.