“One night, I dreamed I was walking along the beach with the LordâÂ?¦.” So begins a “Footprints in the Sand” poem that has inspired millions and tells the story of how Jesus carries people through the most difficult days of their lives. But does it really start that way? And who really wrote it anyway? All these questions are surfacing as the son of a deceased woman who claims authorship has entered a court battle with two other women who claim that it was not written by “author unknown,” as many a poster, coffee cup and pocket card proclaims. Basil Zangare, the son of Mary Stevenson, believes his mom wrote the poem in the 1930s and it was registered in the U.S. Copyright Office in 1984, according to a recent suit he filed in federal court.