![Sasquatch sighted in Leeds, Maine - Androscoggin County
From Cryptomundo.com
Dateline: Leeds, Maine – February-March 2010
A weird creature is the talk of a tiny town in Maine.
In the midst of the boggy lands that are the Turner Triangle, in Androscoggin County, Maine, containing the little towns of Turner, Turner Center, Greene, Leeds, and farther south, Durham, there exists a hodgepodge of reports of cryptids, creatures, and critters. Some appear to be black panthers, others are of hynea-like animals, and a few tell of mountain lion/cougars. This is the county that has given us the “Durham Gorilla” of 1973, the “Maine Mutant” 0f 2006, and the backwood’s “Turner Beast” or “Greene Monster” of the last dozen years. The same area also hosts historical and new accounts of Bigfoot and Bigfoot-type creatures. Leeds, a name more associated with the Jersey Devil, in New Jersey, than monsters in Maine, nevertheless, appears to have its very own Windigo, of sorts.
I shall overview the results of the recent investigations of myself, Loren Coleman, director, and Jeff Meuse, chief docent coordinator of the International Cryptozoology Museum. I shall attempt to make some sense of all of what I am calling the accounts of the Leeds Loki.
“Loki” – a hairy wild man trickster who sometimes appears as something else entirely – is a handy label as the body of accounts is a swirl of confusing descriptions that are hard to nail down. Furthermore, as it turns out, there is a decidedly Norse coincidence to the region’s 25 year old sightings, as was uncovered during our investigations.
The people in the area know of the news that has spread throughout town, and yet the news media are totally unaware that the folks of Leeds are abuzz with current reports of a large hairy creature having crossed a local road. The newest eyewitnesses’ close encounters for February 2010 are, generally, said to be of a hairy hominoid seen crossing the Line Road between Leeds and Greene, Maine. Nevertheless, sightings of recent and the not-too-distance past have described, along this very same roadway, mystery cat encounters, too.
The most recent full-view sighting of the Leeds Loki took place on Monday, February 8, 2010, at 8:50 am. The creature was said to have crossed north to south, which would be from Leeds to Greene. It reportedly moved at a fast clip and crossed the road in a short amount of time. It’s arms hung quite low, and likewise swayed low. The witnesses noted that it did not peer in their direction. Both agreed it was tall, with eyewitness #1 saying it was perhaps six and a half feet tall, and eyewitness #2 reporting it as seven feet in height. Each eyewitness said it was extremely dark in color, with the hair covering the entire body and head. (Due to privacy issues, the eyewitnesses do not wish to be identified, at this time.)
Jeff Meuse and I timed our trek to the area after a fresh fall of snow, so conditions would duplicate those on the day of the sighting. Warm days since the February 8th sighting had caused the snow in the sighting location to melt. Thus, when we searched the area on March 1st, the landscape looked as it did in early February. Above you see, only a few feet into the woods at the spot of the sightings, Meuse disappears into the darkness of the forest at high noon on March 1, 2010.
Coleman and Meuse had permission from the land’s owner to investigate the area, off the road. We caution against any searchers trespassing, going onto private property, or otherwise disturbing the privacy of property owners in the area.
[Sites described in this descriptive material may be on private property or border landowners’ property. The author and blog owner advise readers not to trespass on private property and disclaim any responsibility for those who are prosecuted for trespassing.]
Tracks of an unknown origin, at the exact site where the Bigfoot crossed the road, were found and photographed ten days after the sighting. They are posted below, with permission.
During the Coleman-Meuse investigations, locals told us often and openly of tawny-colored mountain lion/cougar encounters and black panther sightings, people being followed, and cat screams heard in the night around the surrounding Greene-Leeds area. Others told of Bigfoot-type sightings in the same specific area.
For example, five different individuals (Graham, Robert, Eric, David, and Tom – last names on file) all stopped to discuss with us what they had heard had been sighted along Line Road within the last month. We interviewed them without telling what we were investigating, letting these contacts and others lead us in whatever direction they wished. Graham told of Bigfoot sightings being reported in the River Road area in Leeds. David was well aware of the local Bigfoot reports, when I merely asked about any “unusual animal activity in the area.” Tom told of cougar signs being found in the boggy area. Two searchers from a lumber company had been in the area a week earlier looking for cougar and Bigfoot signs. Eric had heard strange animals himself thereabouts, and felt like animals often followed him and others in the area.
Indeed, Eric’s brother Leif had one of the best close-up sightings of a smaller version of a Bigfoot over 25 years ago, in the “flats” area off Turner Center’s Bridge Road, near Allen Pond Road.
(Interestingly, Turner Center’s Bridge Road is exactly on the line between Turner and Greene, just as the Line Road of the recent sightings are on the exact border between Greene and Leeds. It will also be recalled that the “Durham Gorilla” accounts of 1973 took place exactly on the River Road in those incidents, which is the dividing line between Durham and Brunswick, Maine. In September 1999, tracks were found of a Bigfoot next to the road at the town line between Sidney and Manchester, Maine.)
Leif reported this circa 1985 “small Bigfoot” was not tall, but more like 5-6 feet in height, and was observed kneeling down, perhaps over a dead animal. Local high schoolers who had to walk across the “flats,” to and from school, would frequently report sightings and a sense they were being followed. The “flats” are described locally like they are the moors of the northlands of Europe. The two brothers with the Norse names, Eric and Leif, are bookends to over a quarter of a century of accounts of these borderland creatures.
The Leeds Loki seen up close in 2010 and by Leif and others in 1985-1986, seems to have been around a long time.
The surrounding area is ripe with a long list of sightings and stories. The one dead roadside “Maine Mutant” of 2006, popularized by news reporter Mark LaFlamme, was revealed to be of a dead dog found on Rt. 4 at Turner. However, as was mentioned often during the media madness of that summer, the “Turner Beast” back story was that a real creature or creatures, never caught, never identified, had been reported in the local woods for over 12 years. It has been variously described as hynea-like, panther-like, and wolf-like. It regularly disturbed livestock and viciously attacked domestic pets, especially large dogs.](http://28.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kz832zsFOo1qzgk6co1_400.jpg)
Sasquatch sighted in Leeds, Maine - Androscoggin County
From Cryptomundo.com
Dateline: Leeds, Maine – February-March 2010
A weird creature is the talk of a tiny town in Maine.
In the midst of the boggy lands that are the Turner Triangle, in Androscoggin County, Maine, containing the little towns of Turner, Turner Center, Greene, Leeds, and farther south, Durham, there exists a hodgepodge of reports of cryptids, creatures, and critters. Some appear to be black panthers, others are of hynea-like animals, and a few tell of mountain lion/cougars. This is the county that has given us the “Durham Gorilla” of 1973, the “Maine Mutant” 0f 2006, and the backwood’s “Turner Beast” or “Greene Monster” of the last dozen years. The same area also hosts historical and new accounts of Bigfoot and Bigfoot-type creatures. Leeds, a name more associated with the Jersey Devil, in New Jersey, than monsters in Maine, nevertheless, appears to have its very own Windigo, of sorts.
I shall overview the results of the recent investigations of myself, Loren Coleman, director, and Jeff Meuse, chief docent coordinator of the International Cryptozoology Museum. I shall attempt to make some sense of all of what I am calling the accounts of the Leeds Loki.
“Loki” – a hairy wild man trickster who sometimes appears as something else entirely – is a handy label as the body of accounts is a swirl of confusing descriptions that are hard to nail down. Furthermore, as it turns out, there is a decidedly Norse coincidence to the region’s 25 year old sightings, as was uncovered during our investigations.
The people in the area know of the news that has spread throughout town, and yet the news media are totally unaware that the folks of Leeds are abuzz with current reports of a large hairy creature having crossed a local road.
The newest eyewitnesses’ close encounters for February 2010 are, generally, said to be of a hairy hominoid seen crossing the Line Road between Leeds and Greene, Maine. Nevertheless, sightings of recent and the not-too-distance past have described, along this very same roadway, mystery cat encounters, too.
The most recent full-view sighting of the Leeds Loki took place on Monday, February 8, 2010, at 8:50 am. The creature was said to have crossed north to south, which would be from Leeds to Greene. It reportedly moved at a fast clip and crossed the road in a short amount of time. It’s arms hung quite low, and likewise swayed low. The witnesses noted that it did not peer in their direction. Both agreed it was tall, with eyewitness #1 saying it was perhaps six and a half feet tall, and eyewitness #2 reporting it as seven feet in height. Each eyewitness said it was extremely dark in color, with the hair covering the entire body and head. (Due to privacy issues, the eyewitnesses do not wish to be identified, at this time.)
Jeff Meuse and I timed our trek to the area after a fresh fall of snow, so conditions would duplicate those on the day of the sighting. Warm days since the February 8th sighting had caused the snow in the sighting location to melt. Thus, when we searched the area on March 1st, the landscape looked as it did in early February. Above you see, only a few feet into the woods at the spot of the sightings, Meuse disappears into the darkness of the forest at high noon on March 1, 2010.
Coleman and Meuse had permission from the land’s owner to investigate the area, off the road. We caution against any searchers trespassing, going onto private property, or otherwise disturbing the privacy of property owners in the area.
[Sites described in this descriptive material may be on private property or border landowners’ property. The author and blog owner advise readers not to trespass on private property and disclaim any responsibility for those who are prosecuted for trespassing.]
Tracks of an unknown origin, at the exact site where the Bigfoot crossed the road, were found and photographed ten days after the sighting. They are posted below, with permission.
During the Coleman-Meuse investigations, locals told us often and openly of tawny-colored mountain lion/cougar encounters and black panther sightings, people being followed, and cat screams heard in the night around the surrounding Greene-Leeds area. Others told of Bigfoot-type sightings in the same specific area.
For example, five different individuals (Graham, Robert, Eric, David, and Tom – last names on file) all stopped to discuss with us what they had heard had been sighted along Line Road within the last month. We interviewed them without telling what we were investigating, letting these contacts and others lead us in whatever direction they wished. Graham told of Bigfoot sightings being reported in the River Road area in Leeds. David was well aware of the local Bigfoot reports, when I merely asked about any “unusual animal activity in the area.” Tom told of cougar signs being found in the boggy area. Two searchers from a lumber company had been in the area a week earlier looking for cougar and Bigfoot signs. Eric had heard strange animals himself thereabouts, and felt like animals often followed him and others in the area.
Indeed, Eric’s brother Leif had one of the best close-up sightings of a smaller version of a Bigfoot over 25 years ago, in the “flats” area off Turner Center’s Bridge Road, near Allen Pond Road.
(Interestingly, Turner Center’s Bridge Road is exactly on the line between Turner and Greene, just as the Line Road of the recent sightings are on the exact border between Greene and Leeds. It will also be recalled that the “Durham Gorilla” accounts of 1973 took place exactly on the River Road in those incidents, which is the dividing line between Durham and Brunswick, Maine. In September 1999, tracks were found of a Bigfoot next to the road at the town line between Sidney and Manchester, Maine.)
Leif reported this circa 1985 “small Bigfoot” was not tall, but more like 5-6 feet in height, and was observed kneeling down, perhaps over a dead animal. Local high schoolers who had to walk across the “flats,” to and from school, would frequently report sightings and a sense they were being followed. The “flats” are described locally like they are the moors of the northlands of Europe. The two brothers with the Norse names, Eric and Leif, are bookends to over a quarter of a century of accounts of these borderland creatures.
The Leeds Loki seen up close in 2010 and by Leif and others in 1985-1986, seems to have been around a long time.
The surrounding area is ripe with a long list of sightings and stories. The one dead roadside “Maine Mutant” of 2006, popularized by news reporter Mark LaFlamme, was revealed to be of a dead dog found on Rt. 4 at Turner. However, as was mentioned often during the media madness of that summer, the “Turner Beast” back story was that a real creature or creatures, never caught, never identified, had been reported in the local woods for over 12 years. It has been variously described as hynea-like, panther-like, and wolf-like. It regularly disturbed livestock and viciously attacked domestic pets, especially large dogs.
