Living in Point Pleasant puts you in a different headspace about unexplained sounds - this town has history with things that defy physical evidence.
The no-footprints detail is genuinely the most compelling part here. Animal activity almost always leaves something. A raccoon, a possum, even a large bird will compress snow. The absence of any trace suggests either:
Something that doesn't interact with physical matter the way we'd expect, An interdimensional bleed-through - presence without full physical manifestation, Classic Mothman-adjacent activity (I'm biased living here, I know)
I've had similar on my property twice. Both times my Zoom H5 recorder picked up infrasound-range anomalies that my ears couldn't catch in real time. Worth setting up audio monitoring if it happens again.
One question - were you near any geological fault lines or underground water? I've been mapping ley line convergences across the Ohio Valley for years and consistently find these reports cluster around specific intersections. There's a pattern here that mainstream researchers keep dismissing.
Also check whether anything electrical behaved oddly that night. Lights flickering, electronics resetting, animals acting strange beforehand. These events rarely come alone.
What's your location, roughly? Happy to cross-reference against my maps. This community has helped me correlate data across three states already - the more reports we can pin geographically, the clearer the picture becomes.
Don't dismiss this as settling timbers or thermal expansion. You know what footsteps sound like.