Moose In The Middle

Nope, it’s just a moose in the middle. There’s a lesson somewhere in this story.

Sometimes moose watchers don’t have to go deep into the woods to see one. They just have to drive down Route 1 on the Brunswick-Topsham line in Maine. This week, eyewitnesses have reported a moose on an island in the Androscoggin River.

How did it get there? Wardens believe the moose went over the dam and washed up on the island. They plan to leave alone, hoping that when the water on the river goes down, the animal will find a way to get itself back to dry land on its own.

The moose has caused quite a spectacle. Route 1 winds along the edge of the river, and passing motorists have had a good view of the animal, according to television station WCSH6, midweek.

The moose stuck on the small island in the Androscoggin River waterfront has moved on.

The two year old male moose somehow made landfall on an island just below the energy dam in the town of Brunswick, Maine. People who have been monitoring the situation told local station WCSH6 that the moose was able to make it off the island to safety.

People who live nearby believe the moose (thankfully unnamed) is now safe and sound, somewhere in the woods.

Raw footage of the moose, on the island eating, can be seen here. A news reporter detailing the story, with interviews, is here.

Loren Coleman About Loren Coleman
Loren Coleman is one of the world’s leading cryptozoologists, some say “the” leading living cryptozoologist. Certainly, he is acknowledged as the current living American researcher and writer who has most popularized cryptozoology in the late 20th and early 21st centuries. Starting his fieldwork and investigations in 1960, after traveling and trekking extensively in pursuit of cryptozoological mysteries, Coleman began writing to share his experiences in 1969. An honorary member of Ivan T. Sanderson’s Society for the Investigation of the Unexplained in the 1970s, Coleman has been bestowed with similar honorary memberships of the North Idaho College Cryptozoology Club in 1983, and in subsequent years, that of the British Columbia Scientific Cryptozoology Club, CryptoSafari International, and other international organizations. He was also a Life Member and Benefactor of the International Society of Cryptozoology (now-defunct). Loren Coleman’s daily blog, as a member of the Cryptomundo Team, served as an ongoing avenue of communication for the ever-growing body of cryptozoo news from 2005 through 2013. He returned as an infrequent contributor beginning Halloween week of 2015. Coleman is the founder in 2003, and current director of the International Cryptozoology Museum in Portland, Maine.

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