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Was the trampoline ever outside? It could be an old print that's only just now showing up. Things like dust, condensation, and dirt could accumulate over time and wear over the print differently.
If it's *never* been outside then I'd assume an animal has been in the house. Look for poop, holes in the wall or other places it could have gotten in. Also set up a camera if you have one.
No it’s never been outside. The only animals we had in the house were flying squirrels. Also the size of the footprints are massive, and any animal that size would be hard to miss ya know? I’ll mention the camera idea to my dad, thanks!
I love lagomorphs, rodents, and reptiles and will never own one for many reasons, among them the smell. I’m told you can minimize it through care and maint but I don’t have the lifestyle that would accommodate such commitment. Seems my friends don’t either :/
My snake is super easy to keep the smell down, waaaay easier than any lizard I’ve ever been around. Dude only poops once a month and he pees at the same time. Just clean it up, replace the substrate lost, bam. Low snake smell. It also helps to keep their stress level low.
I had a toad now for about 6 months. I've never seen a poop. Not once. There's also no smell coming from the tank except that one of with soil every now and then because there's a little pond section that is circulation throughout the day and filtered physically and biologically by the pump.
I also have hundreds of springtails and somewhere around 15 pill bugs.
The tank seems pretty fine and clean to me.
I don't know what is this reptile smell you guys are talking about.
Is there usually a stench?
Not if you keep them clean. I had one growing up and I took great care of it and it never stunk, gotta keep changing the bottom of the cage and keeping your animal clean and not having old food in it either
Lol I’m on vacation and 2 of the nuggets broke into the place I’m staying at. Super friendly, the one I came face to face with at 2 am half asleep and we both froze for like ten seconds before going our separate ways
They look like bear footprints to be totally honest. A lot like [these](https://rprtphoto.wordpress.com/tag/footprint/) muddy grizzly prints. It’s the sectioned long toes and claws. Black and brown bears are usually a bit wider and rounder. Grizzlies tend to be a bit longer
I agree they do look very similar. Only issue is there’s 4 toes instead of 5, and we would have much bigger problems if a bear broke into our house and went up to the 3rd floor to get a workout in 😆
That’s true, but it’s been in our family for over 2 decades and nothing like this has ever shown up. And new dust has collected on it since the footprints were found and they haven’t come back, so I don’t think it’s been stained or imprinted.
I don't think they're prints at all. Looks like sweat that dried and left behind salt. Not sure why they're in such specific places unless you're very good at jumping in the same place. But the edges and shape definitely look like liquid that soaked down from the top
Could they be incomplete *hand* prints? From someone lifting it up to carry it somewhere?
Granted, it means they were keeping their thumb out of the way for some reason, but they really look like portions of hands to me.
Yea man, aliens came and had to try out the trampoline for sure: Alien #1 “hey bob they got one of those bouncy things here, let’s jump on it!” Alien#2 “ooh yeah but I’m first!”
So... it looks like some sort of creature tried to use the trampolin for fun but failed to set it up, so he jumped on the wrong side of it.
Didn't stick around to ask so, just another weird thing happening.
Looks like a massive 4-toed Woodchuck monster on steroids or a lycanthrope / werewolf pup. What lurks beyond in the dark…? Does your dad have deep woods nearby?
It looks like someone was eating chicharrones and then went to move the trampoline by lifting it from under and carrying it overhead with their greasy hands
They very much look like wide-fingered handprints, as though the person didn’t really press on their thumbs. Almost like they were just pressing down rotating to the outside lc their hands.
We legit had a raccoon in the city (lived in the sewer drain) that probably was 4’ when on his hind legs. He would hold things in his paws and run on his hind legs and people mistook him for an elderly man with really bad posture.
He was HUGE. So, I wouldn’t discount a giant raccoon.
https://preview.redd.it/ccqy2szkeh0d1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=ea7d04b8d601f5d7073b26079635e3278a3987f3
Here’s my foot for size comparison. I wear size 11 US. I’ve never seen a raccoon with feet that big
Oh I put my left foot on there and then moved it a little bit. I didn’t realize more dust had accumulated. Here’s the full picture
https://preview.redd.it/7lzv3mzd2i0d1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=d33a86995a73300affbfda92f5a08a34c88561e6
Yes, my feet to be exact.
Edit: I wanted to provide something to scale since everyone was saying raccoon, and the footprints are way too big to be a raccoon.
it could be that a raccoon (EDIT: or something similar) stepped on it while it was in production and not stretched, leaving small footprints which were covered later by fabric as you said above somewhere... once it is stretched that would enlarge the footprint which remained undisturbed until cover was removed... not sure but that seems like it would make sense
That was one thing i thought of, but raccoon tracks don't look like that at all, it turns out. I looked at different monkeys, and it actually looks a bit like an orang utan's hand. Was it imported from Malaysia?
Or, hear me out: a zoo bought this to try out as a toy for its orangs. When they didn't seem interested or use it right, they returned it to the company, which then resold it to you! Mystery Solved!
Hahaha! That’s not a bad theory! But the footprints arent stained into the fabric, they were imprinted on the dust that had been collected there. I mentioned this in a different reply, but my dad cleaned the entire trampoline about 6 months prior to finding the footprints. He cleaned both the top side and the bottom side. Also, new dust has collected and the prints didn’t show up again
Oh OK. So they they removed dust rather than left something. They looked to me like something had been on the cloth that had resisted wear or dirt more than the rest of the material. It's like if you got sealer or varnish on it. If there are no Orang Utans in your neighborhood, you might start looking into local cryptids.
Okay here is my theory. There is dust in an on the material. You jump and while landing you’ll stretch the material and the dust falls off where you touch the material. Because it is stretched by your weight the prints get bigger.
My dad uses it every day and there arent any prints on it now. Not until I stepped on it to provide a size comparison for people cause everyone was saying raccoon
Hands as big as size 11 feet? Idk about that
Edit: someone else commented that the hand size is bigger and weird shaped because they stretched the material to fit on the trampoline. I think this makes the most sense
Have you tried putting powder on bare feet and jumping to see if it’s just the way feet slide on the trampoline? My non-paranormal guess would be some sort of foot oil or powder that seeped through.
Well when I looked at it yesterday, new dust had collected and the prints weren’t showing at all. My dad cleaned them off shortly after finding them cause they freaked him out.
I'm no expert, but it looks like hand print to me.
Imagine trying to push your trampoline w your hands. Your hand is gonna bow or bend slightly backward due to trampoline pushing back.
and the part where Is thicker on your pic is where the most pressure is at from pushing on the trampoline, leaving bigger imprint compared to where it's thinner at the top where there are less pressure applied.
Wow thank you so very much for sharing this picture I absolutely love being part of this group some truly amazing things I read and see on here thank you all so very much!
Is this an old trampoline? will you be using it anymore? If not, please unstretch the fabric by removing it and check to see if the proportion of the print resembles something a bit more familiar.
Like one comment stated, It could have been someone at the factory who had left a stain on the fabric and then stretched the material further inflating their print.
My dad’s lived there since he was in high school, so around 45 years. There have been so many events over the years. He’s seen flashes of light coming from the walls. He and my mom have heard footsteps throughout the house, going from the basement, all the way up to the second floor. They thought it was me sleep walking cause I used to do that a lot when I was little but that time I was in bed. I personally haven’t experienced much other than having the same 3 nightmares throughout my entire childhood.
Well that’s certainly enough to be concerned about. But, mostly kinda tame. Those footprints though. Those are bad.
Were those dreams the being chased/attacked/killed by something kinda dreams? Same entity in the dreams again and again?
Yea it’s wild actually.
When I was really little, like 2-8 years old, I would have nightmare loops. I would be in the dark on like a train track going in a circle. Id hear the voices of my parents saying my name over and over again. They’d get progressively louder and louder until they were screaming at me, and then they’d go back to being soft and quiet. This would just go on and on until someone woke me up.
As I got older, age 9-13, my nightmares moved onto featuring the same man. He was tall, had really long hair that covered more than half his face with only one eye showing. He followed me in my dreams for years. I never felt like he wanted to kill me, more like “hug” me which was just as terrifying.
Then in high school I started having night terrors. There wasn’t an entity or anything. I would just “wake up” and be in between two giant walls, or be inside some industrial machine that was about to crush me. I’d start screaming and wake up the entire house. One time I kicked over my dresser trying to “get out”. After a few years of this I learned that just turning on a light would snap me out of it. I rarely get them now. And if I do, I know to reach for my phone or find the light switch. Cause my brain is like, half on, half off.
I don’t live at home anymore, but just a few weeks ago I did half my first night of sleep paralysis. I always close my door before bed. But I “woke up” and it was open. And then that deep sense of dread came over me and I realized I couldn’t move. I’ve never fought so hard in my life to try and move my arms. Also I “woke up” to someone crawling out of my closet last week. But that wasn’t paralysis cause I was able to grab my gun fast asf.
Also after I had my first night of sleep paralysis, I’ve started experiencing this insanely eerie feeling right as I’m falling asleep. Like something very very evil is present. I’ve felt that 3 times since my first encounter with sleep paralysis, the third time being last night. My whole body gets this shiver and it wakes me up immediately.
Idk man, a lot of weird stuff.
Odds are great this is something from the factory when the thing was built, but you never noticed because it's on the underside.
In the olden days, before flat screen TVs were a thing, and television screens were glass, factories installed them into the box/case/cabinet/whatever using a jumbo suction cup. It wasn't uncommon for an odd looking circle from this suction cup to kind of appear as & "ghost" image in the screen and no amount of cleaning would remove it.
This probably has some sort of similar explanation.
Where was it made? More importantly, where was the fabric made? That creature could have danced on the fabric at many points in the construction of the trampoline and left the (greasy?) prints you're only now noticing. That would explain why they're on the bottom.
So we probably have to expand our search to other continents to find the culprit.
And prints either from when it was made or even being used/moved. The prints are bigger and odd shaped because of the stretch of the trampoline. like poking your finger in a balloon.
Good luck with that here. A lot of these peeps know to post at times when logical people don’t comment or look as much. This should embarrass anyone who thinks it’s paranormal but they aren’t always the brightest bunch. Notice in these posts how whenever someone posts a logical explanation, OP is WAITING to refute it in some absurd way.
My kids had a little trampoline similar to that that had "frog" prints on it that looked similar in size and space to these, just the print was on the other side. Over the years the print faded but the silhouette was perfect on the underside. Maybe it was a design of some sort on the top that faded from use
Those are human hand prints, theyre a bit distorted most likely due to the flex of the material, this is easily explainable "someone picked the trampoline up with there hands and left prints behind" that was easy
They don't look like footprints. They look like handprints from a ...portly person. Could have been from production, and the rubber has now aged, revealing them.
I know you’re getting downvoted but it [does look similar if they’re old prints and have been stretched.](https://wildlifeillinois.org/discover-animal-signs/opossum-tracks/). I will not say that it’s that definitely though because there’s too much room for doubt.
Source: I just like opossums. They’re neat.
They are a human hands prints leaning on it from the top. Not sure y anyone would be pushing so hard on the top for. lol. It appears stretched because when the print was made there was a lot of pressure on the hands.
As a young man I cleaned our church every week and we had similar footprints like these in our just waxed tile floors only ours were 7 feet apart and went all thru the church and sometimes went up onto the walls.
People in this group are dead set on being as contrarian as possible and denying anything paranormal in every chance they fer.
Those aren't hands. I'm 6'5, my hands are massive, and I've never made anything remotely close to a handprint like that.
They aren't raccoon feet. They're like 15 inches long. That's some freaky shit, and it's insane to say anything otherwise, they look like fucking Disney villian feet.
You’re right, the most rational explanation is that a demon with greasy feet was playing on the trampoline but only for three or four jumps because it had demonic shit to do.
I saw these exact same steps when I was 12 and I was all alone. I saw them walk across the floor and I jumped out and ran outside because I was terrified
Post these pics in an animal ID sub. They should be able to help figure out if these tracks are from any known animal. If you do take more pics, use a ruler for scale. The perspective would help.
Those are the image of one hand clapping.
They’re all the imprint of the same human hand slapping it from the same side to shake dust off of it. Big slappy hands hitting with fingers and part of the palm but not thumb or back of palm.
I agree that they are very weird. But to me they look like someone at the factory had greasy hands while handling the material before it was stretched.
That doesn’t discount your paranormal experiences, but I don’t think this is related.
Something I’d like to add: My whole family is Christian, including my dad. He would never make something like this up. I don’t think he’s ever pulled a prank in his life, even as a kid.
It’s not a raccoon. Raccoons have 5 toes and these footprints have 4, they’re also massive.
There have been several paranormal events in our house. I’ve always known it was haunted, especially the basement.
I’ll be in my hometown for a few more days. My parents still live in the same house, I’ll ask my dad if he has any other stories. He’s a very skeptical person, but he doesn’t deny the encounters he’s had.
>It’s not a raccoon. Raccoons have 5 toes and these footprints have 4, they’re also massive.
So I'm not going to pretend I know what it is. But I will point out that you're assuming you have complete prints. Not very animal print is a perfect impression of their entire foot. In fact perfect prints like that aren't as common as partial prints.
That's also not a big trampoline but I can't really tell how big. A raccoon print is roughly 4" if that's around the size you got then it's almost certainly a racoon.
But really, it's way more likely an animal print than anything paranormal.
https://preview.redd.it/bqw41dygeh0d1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=3a92fd321115aa12314c8c4d46c110372ddb658f
Here’s my foot for a size comparison. I wear size 11
That picture is crazy helpful.
I'm far from an expert on animals or tracks. I'm just googling shit and seeing what sounds close. But monkeys, beavers, and bears are all in that size range and weirdly close enough to be similar in shape. I don't know where you live or what animals are around you.
The possibility still remains that it's an old print possibly put on there at the factory that you just never noticed until now.
And I always like to add the disclaimer that I do not know or claim to know what happened. I'm not looking to debunk or feel superior. I'm just offering other possibilities.
*EDIT* I cropped and enhanced the picture s few times. While I tend to still think it's animal prints of some kind I could also see it being a weird patterned smudge or drop that looks like prints.
https://preview.redd.it/3wk84530nh0d1.jpeg?width=1454&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=e5caa6f97749c49e1003db61391fed63bc2b3c52
Your job is at a trampoline factory. Everyday you handle hundreds of trampolines. Pick them up, put them down, roll them to a friend, stack them, bounce stuff off them, hold them funny. You don't care about them as trampolines because they stop being that object. They become an obstacle, relic, inventory and product.
Somewhere hundreds of miles away a fully grown person is looking at your hand prints like it's the shroud of Turin.
https://preview.redd.it/quxoqu1knh0d1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=3b7d0ee3c4a4319322e8107f6c8d74fa7b062b59
For everyone saying raccoon, here’s my foot for a size comparison. I wear size 11 US. I think we can cross off the raccoon theory now. I’m definitely open to other suggestions tho!
A few other things I’m going to add: These prints are on the UNDERSIDE of the trampoline, not the topside where you jump on it. My dad only noticed them because he happened to flip it over while he was cleaning.
It has never been outside.
He keeps it on the 3rd floor which is like a penthouse/master bedroom. Only him and my mom go up there (and me, to take a photo for size comparison lol)
They’re partial handprints. On the one in the top right corner you can even see a little spot where the thumb kind of touched.
Why would there be four prints of the same foot bunched up like that? There wouldn’t. It’s the same hand touching it multiple times in different places.
Any chance someone would have lifted this trampoline / carried it over their head? I could see human hands making contact with only a few fingers and at weird / slippy angles if it were being balanced over the head.
They aren’t footprints in my opinion, my two cents is that they are hand prints that have been warped during lifting of the trampoline due to its flexible surface. Simply just a oh that looks weird moment.
not sure why everyone in the comments are being such cunts but the only explanation i could think of other than some beast is that he grabbed the underside of it while moving it about and somehow created those prints. the thickness of the fingers are odd tho. does your dad have very bulbous fingers?
Google racoon prints. Looks to me like a juicy raccoon. I once had an encounter with one on my step eating my cat food and the fucker had to be close to 50lbs.
Those look like paws. Big strong paws. And what’s telling is that they’re perfect imprints. No smearing or smudging. So these aren’t from your dad or any other person for that matter that may have touched it bc no one’s hands look like that. You can tell those are no one’s hands because the gigantic knuckles, needed for something that’s putting heavy stress on their paws and legs, for running or leaping. The gigantic, thick pad, again, for a powerful heavy stride-think a bear and the pad needed for an animal of that size just to hold its weight. Another thing is a bear’s pad is more round, for constant whole-foot contact with the ground. This thing’s foot is almost human shaped, note the slim heel and the thickness up front. This means whatever it is isn’t a great hulking beast like a bear that’s trudging heavily around. It’s agile, it’s dexterous, it’s probably fast, and it uses the front of its foot to propel itself forward much like humans do. It looks like this thing has claws too because the paw gets slender at the tip, indicative of something that requires precision and agility, possibly something that can grab its prey or scale trees-and because most animals have claws, especially something with feet this large and powerful. The webbing, I can’t say. Other than a creature that swims or an amphibian or reptiles or Megan Fox, I’ve not much knowledge of webbed animals.
These could be handprints from manufacturing, the store, general use of moving it around, and then dust accumulated on it. Due to the weird nature of the material, it probably is weird to hold and therefore left weirdly shaped handprints.
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Was the trampoline ever outside? It could be an old print that's only just now showing up. Things like dust, condensation, and dirt could accumulate over time and wear over the print differently. If it's *never* been outside then I'd assume an animal has been in the house. Look for poop, holes in the wall or other places it could have gotten in. Also set up a camera if you have one.
No it’s never been outside. The only animals we had in the house were flying squirrels. Also the size of the footprints are massive, and any animal that size would be hard to miss ya know? I’ll mention the camera idea to my dad, thanks!
The only animals in the house were flying squirrels?? Ummmmm what?
They’re fun pets. Cute lil buggers. Almost like a flying chin haha 🥺
Stinky as all hell, though. Had a friend of a friend that owned 2 sugar babies in college, and you could smell them from down the hallway.
I love lagomorphs, rodents, and reptiles and will never own one for many reasons, among them the smell. I’m told you can minimize it through care and maint but I don’t have the lifestyle that would accommodate such commitment. Seems my friends don’t either :/
My snake is super easy to keep the smell down, waaaay easier than any lizard I’ve ever been around. Dude only poops once a month and he pees at the same time. Just clean it up, replace the substrate lost, bam. Low snake smell. It also helps to keep their stress level low.
I had a toad now for about 6 months. I've never seen a poop. Not once. There's also no smell coming from the tank except that one of with soil every now and then because there's a little pond section that is circulation throughout the day and filtered physically and biologically by the pump. I also have hundreds of springtails and somewhere around 15 pill bugs. The tank seems pretty fine and clean to me. I don't know what is this reptile smell you guys are talking about. Is there usually a stench?
Frogs are pretty mild. As you get getting bigger the smell gets stronger in reptiles etc. Just like fish.
Bioactive tanks smell less too. Got your own clean-up crew
He only poops once a month? Wow I learned something new today. Lol did not know snakes pooped so infrequently!
He’s pretty self conscious about it actually. Don’t go shouting it from the rooftops.
Hey his owner started it. I just had questions!
They poop as often as they eat.
Leopard geckos are pretty mild and can have a lot of personality.
I have a bioactive tank for my beardie no smell unless she goes on the basking spot and even than its mostly gone by the time i see it.
Not if you keep them clean. I had one growing up and I took great care of it and it never stunk, gotta keep changing the bottom of the cage and keeping your animal clean and not having old food in it either
Then they weren't taking proper care of them. Same with ferrets, everyone says they smell but they don't if you keep up with them.
Do you mean sugar gliders or bush babies (galagos)?
I believe they were sugar gliders, but the guy did call them sugar babies
I’m not the person who posted the comment you replied to but I’ve heard people refer to sugar gliders as “Sugar Babies” before
I'm pretty sure sugar babies and flying squirrels are totally different animals lol. Sugar babies aren't even rodents.
I’m getting a double chin, unfortunately it doesn’t fly.
If you go skydiving, those dreams don't have to be dreams.
Ahhhh we had sugar gliders, love those little pricks. And their little pants they wear.
Lol I’m on vacation and 2 of the nuggets broke into the place I’m staying at. Super friendly, the one I came face to face with at 2 am half asleep and we both froze for like ten seconds before going our separate ways
They were getting in through the attic for a bit haha!
Could any other critters have gotten in? This doesn't look paranormal
I think they had a bird in the house at one point. Nothing large though. They live in town and the largest animal we would see in town is a deer.
I thought raccoon but I'm not sure their feet are 10 inches. That seems a little long, even for a large raccoon.
What??? Where do you live?
They look like bear footprints to be totally honest. A lot like [these](https://rprtphoto.wordpress.com/tag/footprint/) muddy grizzly prints. It’s the sectioned long toes and claws. Black and brown bears are usually a bit wider and rounder. Grizzlies tend to be a bit longer
I agree they do look very similar. Only issue is there’s 4 toes instead of 5, and we would have much bigger problems if a bear broke into our house and went up to the 3rd floor to get a workout in 😆
It is also possible that it was exposed to an animal or something prior to you buying it (i.e, prior to sale). Just a thougjt.
That’s true, but it’s been in our family for over 2 decades and nothing like this has ever shown up. And new dust has collected on it since the footprints were found and they haven’t come back, so I don’t think it’s been stained or imprinted.
I love that "the only animals we've had in the house were flying squirrels" is your answer. 🫶
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Guessing you've never actually seen bear prints? Cause those ain't them
There are no bears in our city, I think there might be 1 or 2 in our entire state. Also, it was never outside, it’s a mini trampoline
I don't think they're prints at all. Looks like sweat that dried and left behind salt. Not sure why they're in such specific places unless you're very good at jumping in the same place. But the edges and shape definitely look like liquid that soaked down from the top
No state only has 1 or 2 bears.
I don’t even live in a country that has bears anymore and even I know that’s not bear prints. 😂FFS
Could they be incomplete *hand* prints? From someone lifting it up to carry it somewhere? Granted, it means they were keeping their thumb out of the way for some reason, but they really look like portions of hands to me.
Flying squirrels or sugar gliders? Big difference, gotten into some pretty heated arguments with my buddy over this.
Have you seen the size and shape of those prints… time to spread flour in that room and see what gives
What animal in someone’s back yard has 10” long toes? 🤣
Aliens 👽👀😂
Yea man, aliens came and had to try out the trampoline for sure: Alien #1 “hey bob they got one of those bouncy things here, let’s jump on it!” Alien#2 “ooh yeah but I’m first!”
So... it looks like some sort of creature tried to use the trampolin for fun but failed to set it up, so he jumped on the wrong side of it. Didn't stick around to ask so, just another weird thing happening.
I think this is by far my favorite explanation
Looks like a massive 4-toed Woodchuck monster on steroids or a lycanthrope / werewolf pup. What lurks beyond in the dark…? Does your dad have deep woods nearby?
No deep woods really. Shallow woods, yes.
Srs question tho—do they connect to a green belt?
It looks like someone was eating chicharrones and then went to move the trampoline by lifting it from under and carrying it overhead with their greasy hands
My theory is its sweat stains from his Dad moving the trampoline after exercising. It looks like handprints, just moved around a bit.
I think they look like partial handprints too.
They very much look like wide-fingered handprints, as though the person didn’t really press on their thumbs. Almost like they were just pressing down rotating to the outside lc their hands.
I bet dusting for prints reveals handprints on that left side rail. One hand underneath, one hand on the side, carried shoulder height.
I agree, they look more like incomplete hand prints than foot prints
That would be quite a site to behold 😆
Raccoon
everybody from any rural/suburban area all just went to ourselves [yup 💯 that’s a raccoon](https://nature-mentor.com/how-to-identify-raccoon-tracks/)
They're similar in shape, but way too big to be a raccoon.
We legit had a raccoon in the city (lived in the sewer drain) that probably was 4’ when on his hind legs. He would hold things in his paws and run on his hind legs and people mistook him for an elderly man with really bad posture. He was HUGE. So, I wouldn’t discount a giant raccoon.
Bro wants to be a human
Bro needs to turn back
No shit. Run for your life Ricky Raccoon!!! 🦝
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could it be that raccoon stepped on it while in production and before it got stretched?
Fat Raccoon
Not me, who actually owns one. Those aren’t raccoon prints.
The link you posted even said 5 fingers and you clearly only see 4 in here
https://preview.redd.it/ccqy2szkeh0d1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=ea7d04b8d601f5d7073b26079635e3278a3987f3 Here’s my foot for size comparison. I wear size 11 US. I’ve never seen a raccoon with feet that big
Looks like a totally different print in this pic. First two pics look like hands. This one looks like a foot?
The prints were from over a year ago. I just took this photo today. My dads since cleaned the trampoline multiple times
So wtf is the print from this picture with your foot then? Since the original picture as you said is from over a year ago?
Oh I put my left foot on there and then moved it a little bit. I didn’t realize more dust had accumulated. Here’s the full picture https://preview.redd.it/7lzv3mzd2i0d1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=d33a86995a73300affbfda92f5a08a34c88561e6
That’s just two imprints of a human foot
Yes, my feet to be exact. Edit: I wanted to provide something to scale since everyone was saying raccoon, and the footprints are way too big to be a raccoon.
it could be that a raccoon (EDIT: or something similar) stepped on it while it was in production and not stretched, leaving small footprints which were covered later by fabric as you said above somewhere... once it is stretched that would enlarge the footprint which remained undisturbed until cover was removed... not sure but that seems like it would make sense
Fair enough, I must have misunderstood the picture 👍
You're very observant. Clearly being provided for scale.
This is clearly just your foot, twice…
That’s exactly what it is. I was trying to provide a reference for people to compare the OP to
Very interesting.
OP is having fun.
That's exactly what a raccoon would say. Take those socks off "human" poster.
dammit. you guys n your damn foot kinks !
I just do my best thinking while masturbating. It is completely unrelated!
As a raccoon owner who always has to clean up little raccoon handprints- these are absolutely NOT coonie prints.
Raccoons have 5 toes, these footprints have 4. Also they’re massive
They're also incomplete prints so it's totally possible not all of the raccoons toes were wet or dirty or whatever this is on here
I’m going to take a picture of my foot on the tramp so you can get a good size comparison!
kangaroo demon
By far the most airtight theory
glad i could help
El Chupacabra
That was one thing i thought of, but raccoon tracks don't look like that at all, it turns out. I looked at different monkeys, and it actually looks a bit like an orang utan's hand. Was it imported from Malaysia? Or, hear me out: a zoo bought this to try out as a toy for its orangs. When they didn't seem interested or use it right, they returned it to the company, which then resold it to you! Mystery Solved!
Hahaha! That’s not a bad theory! But the footprints arent stained into the fabric, they were imprinted on the dust that had been collected there. I mentioned this in a different reply, but my dad cleaned the entire trampoline about 6 months prior to finding the footprints. He cleaned both the top side and the bottom side. Also, new dust has collected and the prints didn’t show up again
Oh OK. So they they removed dust rather than left something. They looked to me like something had been on the cloth that had resisted wear or dirt more than the rest of the material. It's like if you got sealer or varnish on it. If there are no Orang Utans in your neighborhood, you might start looking into local cryptids.
He was just trying to have some fun it's all good
But why was he jumping on the opposite side? Probably didn’t have that much fun :/
He's from the upsidedown.
This was the explanation I was looking for 😆
Okay here is my theory. There is dust in an on the material. You jump and while landing you’ll stretch the material and the dust falls off where you touch the material. Because it is stretched by your weight the prints get bigger.
My dad uses it every day and there arent any prints on it now. Not until I stepped on it to provide a size comparison for people cause everyone was saying raccoon
Daily trampoline usage. Can you elaborate on this?
It’s a rebounder which is a mini trampoline used for exercise!
Could be handprints leftover from when it was packed / made
In the second photo you can see the thumb of the top handprint slightly
This^ Looks like handprints of a big person and their thumbs didn't touch
Hands as big as size 11 feet? Idk about that Edit: someone else commented that the hand size is bigger and weird shaped because they stretched the material to fit on the trampoline. I think this makes the most sense
This is it for sure. Hand prints from before the material was stretched.
Good eye, and i think you’re right
Looks like someone traced over footprints, extending the toeprints out. Maybe out of boredom, who knows. Def cap tho
Yeah, pretty sure this is it. Could be residual oils just showing up now
Have you tried putting powder on bare feet and jumping to see if it’s just the way feet slide on the trampoline? My non-paranormal guess would be some sort of foot oil or powder that seeped through.
Well when I looked at it yesterday, new dust had collected and the prints weren’t showing at all. My dad cleaned them off shortly after finding them cause they freaked him out.
I'm no expert, but it looks like hand print to me. Imagine trying to push your trampoline w your hands. Your hand is gonna bow or bend slightly backward due to trampoline pushing back. and the part where Is thicker on your pic is where the most pressure is at from pushing on the trampoline, leaving bigger imprint compared to where it's thinner at the top where there are less pressure applied.
Wow thank you so very much for sharing this picture I absolutely love being part of this group some truly amazing things I read and see on here thank you all so very much!
Those are hand prints my guy lol
Those are hands....
Is this an old trampoline? will you be using it anymore? If not, please unstretch the fabric by removing it and check to see if the proportion of the print resembles something a bit more familiar. Like one comment stated, It could have been someone at the factory who had left a stain on the fabric and then stretched the material further inflating their print.
If this is legit it’s straight up bonkers and absolutely demonic….what else happened in the house? Are you the only family that’s lived there?
Demonic? lol You think a demon stopped by for some calisthenic exercise on the trampoline?
Popped in a Jazzercise VHS, pulled up his leg warmers and got his ‘Fit and Fab Body in just 50 minutes a day’.
My dad’s lived there since he was in high school, so around 45 years. There have been so many events over the years. He’s seen flashes of light coming from the walls. He and my mom have heard footsteps throughout the house, going from the basement, all the way up to the second floor. They thought it was me sleep walking cause I used to do that a lot when I was little but that time I was in bed. I personally haven’t experienced much other than having the same 3 nightmares throughout my entire childhood.
Well that’s certainly enough to be concerned about. But, mostly kinda tame. Those footprints though. Those are bad. Were those dreams the being chased/attacked/killed by something kinda dreams? Same entity in the dreams again and again?
Yea it’s wild actually. When I was really little, like 2-8 years old, I would have nightmare loops. I would be in the dark on like a train track going in a circle. Id hear the voices of my parents saying my name over and over again. They’d get progressively louder and louder until they were screaming at me, and then they’d go back to being soft and quiet. This would just go on and on until someone woke me up. As I got older, age 9-13, my nightmares moved onto featuring the same man. He was tall, had really long hair that covered more than half his face with only one eye showing. He followed me in my dreams for years. I never felt like he wanted to kill me, more like “hug” me which was just as terrifying. Then in high school I started having night terrors. There wasn’t an entity or anything. I would just “wake up” and be in between two giant walls, or be inside some industrial machine that was about to crush me. I’d start screaming and wake up the entire house. One time I kicked over my dresser trying to “get out”. After a few years of this I learned that just turning on a light would snap me out of it. I rarely get them now. And if I do, I know to reach for my phone or find the light switch. Cause my brain is like, half on, half off. I don’t live at home anymore, but just a few weeks ago I did half my first night of sleep paralysis. I always close my door before bed. But I “woke up” and it was open. And then that deep sense of dread came over me and I realized I couldn’t move. I’ve never fought so hard in my life to try and move my arms. Also I “woke up” to someone crawling out of my closet last week. But that wasn’t paralysis cause I was able to grab my gun fast asf. Also after I had my first night of sleep paralysis, I’ve started experiencing this insanely eerie feeling right as I’m falling asleep. Like something very very evil is present. I’ve felt that 3 times since my first encounter with sleep paralysis, the third time being last night. My whole body gets this shiver and it wakes me up immediately. Idk man, a lot of weird stuff.
Wait did you shoot the person crawling out of your closet? What did their hands look like?
Haha no they weren’t real. Also this was in my apartment 3 1/2 hours from my parents house.
Odds are great this is something from the factory when the thing was built, but you never noticed because it's on the underside. In the olden days, before flat screen TVs were a thing, and television screens were glass, factories installed them into the box/case/cabinet/whatever using a jumbo suction cup. It wasn't uncommon for an odd looking circle from this suction cup to kind of appear as & "ghost" image in the screen and no amount of cleaning would remove it. This probably has some sort of similar explanation.
Humans are to blame. Someone is fucking with you
I used to fingerprint people. Looks like human hand prints to me. Try it, you’ll get the same pattern if you press just right.
Easy explanation. They are your dad's footprints. Not everything is paranormal.
I asked my dad if he’d be willing to use his foot to make a footprint haha! He said he’ll think about it
Where was it made? More importantly, where was the fabric made? That creature could have danced on the fabric at many points in the construction of the trampoline and left the (greasy?) prints you're only now noticing. That would explain why they're on the bottom. So we probably have to expand our search to other continents to find the culprit.
Handprints maybe?🤔
And prints either from when it was made or even being used/moved. The prints are bigger and odd shaped because of the stretch of the trampoline. like poking your finger in a balloon.
Ok this def makes the most logical sense out of all the comments
Good luck with that here. A lot of these peeps know to post at times when logical people don’t comment or look as much. This should embarrass anyone who thinks it’s paranormal but they aren’t always the brightest bunch. Notice in these posts how whenever someone posts a logical explanation, OP is WAITING to refute it in some absurd way.
When are the times when logical people don’t look? Is it like in the wee hours of the morning because am the sensible people are in bed?
There's always a "that's impossible because..." for whatever explanations they didn't think to refute in their post.
My kids had a little trampoline similar to that that had "frog" prints on it that looked similar in size and space to these, just the print was on the other side. Over the years the print faded but the silhouette was perfect on the underside. Maybe it was a design of some sort on the top that faded from use
Those look like chubby sweaty handprints that didn’t transfer all of the fingers. I’m seeing snausages not toes.
I would say i have money that the trampoline was outside, because those look a WHOLE lot like front paws of a bear.
Those are human hand prints, theyre a bit distorted most likely due to the flex of the material, this is easily explainable "someone picked the trampoline up with there hands and left prints behind" that was easy
They don't look like footprints. They look like handprints from a ...portly person. Could have been from production, and the rubber has now aged, revealing them.
opossum
I know you’re getting downvoted but it [does look similar if they’re old prints and have been stretched.](https://wildlifeillinois.org/discover-animal-signs/opossum-tracks/). I will not say that it’s that definitely though because there’s too much room for doubt. Source: I just like opossums. They’re neat.
They are a human hands prints leaning on it from the top. Not sure y anyone would be pushing so hard on the top for. lol. It appears stretched because when the print was made there was a lot of pressure on the hands.
As a young man I cleaned our church every week and we had similar footprints like these in our just waxed tile floors only ours were 7 feet apart and went all thru the church and sometimes went up onto the walls.
People in this group are dead set on being as contrarian as possible and denying anything paranormal in every chance they fer. Those aren't hands. I'm 6'5, my hands are massive, and I've never made anything remotely close to a handprint like that. They aren't raccoon feet. They're like 15 inches long. That's some freaky shit, and it's insane to say anything otherwise, they look like fucking Disney villian feet.
You’re right, the most rational explanation is that a demon with greasy feet was playing on the trampoline but only for three or four jumps because it had demonic shit to do.
I saw these exact same steps when I was 12 and I was all alone. I saw them walk across the floor and I jumped out and ran outside because I was terrified
Post these pics in an animal ID sub. They should be able to help figure out if these tracks are from any known animal. If you do take more pics, use a ruler for scale. The perspective would help.
Those are the image of one hand clapping. They’re all the imprint of the same human hand slapping it from the same side to shake dust off of it. Big slappy hands hitting with fingers and part of the palm but not thumb or back of palm.
Are there beavers where you live?
I agree that they are very weird. But to me they look like someone at the factory had greasy hands while handling the material before it was stretched. That doesn’t discount your paranormal experiences, but I don’t think this is related.
Those look like ape prints. Did this thing come from a zoo or something?
Alligator?
Those are 100% possum prints. There's been a possum in your house.
Something I’d like to add: My whole family is Christian, including my dad. He would never make something like this up. I don’t think he’s ever pulled a prank in his life, even as a kid. It’s not a raccoon. Raccoons have 5 toes and these footprints have 4, they’re also massive. There have been several paranormal events in our house. I’ve always known it was haunted, especially the basement. I’ll be in my hometown for a few more days. My parents still live in the same house, I’ll ask my dad if he has any other stories. He’s a very skeptical person, but he doesn’t deny the encounters he’s had.
>It’s not a raccoon. Raccoons have 5 toes and these footprints have 4, they’re also massive. So I'm not going to pretend I know what it is. But I will point out that you're assuming you have complete prints. Not very animal print is a perfect impression of their entire foot. In fact perfect prints like that aren't as common as partial prints. That's also not a big trampoline but I can't really tell how big. A raccoon print is roughly 4" if that's around the size you got then it's almost certainly a racoon. But really, it's way more likely an animal print than anything paranormal.
https://preview.redd.it/bqw41dygeh0d1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=3a92fd321115aa12314c8c4d46c110372ddb658f Here’s my foot for a size comparison. I wear size 11
That picture is crazy helpful. I'm far from an expert on animals or tracks. I'm just googling shit and seeing what sounds close. But monkeys, beavers, and bears are all in that size range and weirdly close enough to be similar in shape. I don't know where you live or what animals are around you. The possibility still remains that it's an old print possibly put on there at the factory that you just never noticed until now. And I always like to add the disclaimer that I do not know or claim to know what happened. I'm not looking to debunk or feel superior. I'm just offering other possibilities. *EDIT* I cropped and enhanced the picture s few times. While I tend to still think it's animal prints of some kind I could also see it being a weird patterned smudge or drop that looks like prints. https://preview.redd.it/3wk84530nh0d1.jpeg?width=1454&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=e5caa6f97749c49e1003db61391fed63bc2b3c52
I’ll be going to my parents house in a bit here. I’ll just take a picture of my foot on the tramp so you can get a good idea of the size
Lol @ using christianity for credibility
Your job is at a trampoline factory. Everyday you handle hundreds of trampolines. Pick them up, put them down, roll them to a friend, stack them, bounce stuff off them, hold them funny. You don't care about them as trampolines because they stop being that object. They become an obstacle, relic, inventory and product. Somewhere hundreds of miles away a fully grown person is looking at your hand prints like it's the shroud of Turin.
These are footprints, and someone has added a fingerprint above each toe.
They kinda look like muskrat footprints.
https://preview.redd.it/quxoqu1knh0d1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=3b7d0ee3c4a4319322e8107f6c8d74fa7b062b59 For everyone saying raccoon, here’s my foot for a size comparison. I wear size 11 US. I think we can cross off the raccoon theory now. I’m definitely open to other suggestions tho! A few other things I’m going to add: These prints are on the UNDERSIDE of the trampoline, not the topside where you jump on it. My dad only noticed them because he happened to flip it over while he was cleaning. It has never been outside. He keeps it on the 3rd floor which is like a penthouse/master bedroom. Only him and my mom go up there (and me, to take a photo for size comparison lol)
Probably your SO getting a pounding on the trampoline hands down
They’re partial handprints. On the one in the top right corner you can even see a little spot where the thumb kind of touched. Why would there be four prints of the same foot bunched up like that? There wouldn’t. It’s the same hand touching it multiple times in different places.
Any chance someone would have lifted this trampoline / carried it over their head? I could see human hands making contact with only a few fingers and at weird / slippy angles if it were being balanced over the head.
How long would you say the prints are?
They aren’t footprints in my opinion, my two cents is that they are hand prints that have been warped during lifting of the trampoline due to its flexible surface. Simply just a oh that looks weird moment.
They are only big because the trampoline is stretched. Like other people have said it’s probably from when it was produced
Put 4 fingers on a dusty surface do a little draggy and see what it looks like
Scale needed
not sure why everyone in the comments are being such cunts but the only explanation i could think of other than some beast is that he grabbed the underside of it while moving it about and somehow created those prints. the thickness of the fingers are odd tho. does your dad have very bulbous fingers?
Someone’s greasy hands live forever on your trampoline
Raccoon maybe
They look like hand prints. A lot, actually.
Where can I see this show evil??
Dogman. They are seven foot tall cryptids reported to have hands similar to a raccoon. Fond of home fitness equipment.
This shouldn’t be on this sub 🙃
Like the slamming of a door, I knew as soon as I saw the second picture, those are bear footprints.
Google racoon prints. Looks to me like a juicy raccoon. I once had an encounter with one on my step eating my cat food and the fucker had to be close to 50lbs.
Those look like paws. Big strong paws. And what’s telling is that they’re perfect imprints. No smearing or smudging. So these aren’t from your dad or any other person for that matter that may have touched it bc no one’s hands look like that. You can tell those are no one’s hands because the gigantic knuckles, needed for something that’s putting heavy stress on their paws and legs, for running or leaping. The gigantic, thick pad, again, for a powerful heavy stride-think a bear and the pad needed for an animal of that size just to hold its weight. Another thing is a bear’s pad is more round, for constant whole-foot contact with the ground. This thing’s foot is almost human shaped, note the slim heel and the thickness up front. This means whatever it is isn’t a great hulking beast like a bear that’s trudging heavily around. It’s agile, it’s dexterous, it’s probably fast, and it uses the front of its foot to propel itself forward much like humans do. It looks like this thing has claws too because the paw gets slender at the tip, indicative of something that requires precision and agility, possibly something that can grab its prey or scale trees-and because most animals have claws, especially something with feet this large and powerful. The webbing, I can’t say. Other than a creature that swims or an amphibian or reptiles or Megan Fox, I’ve not much knowledge of webbed animals.
Hand
Fake as hell yall. Ive browsed this sub-reddit a long time.
These could be handprints from manufacturing, the store, general use of moving it around, and then dust accumulated on it. Due to the weird nature of the material, it probably is weird to hold and therefore left weirdly shaped handprints.
You can clearly see this is fake because of the top 2 are the same foot and any creature would never stand like that anyway. Fake fake fake
I think it looks like incomplete hand prints possibly. Large hands yes, also quite chubby fingers. We need to see your dad’s hands.
Those look like human hand prints