Trail Cam Photo Leads Experts to Question Mystery Animal in Maine
What is THAT? A recent trail cam photo really raised eyebrows on whether Lowell, Maine has its own version of the Chupacabra. The photo posted by bangordailynews.com drew a lot of reader engagement with their guesses. The animal is extremely hard to identify from the trail cam photo and looks downright terrifying. I hope I don’t run into one of the mystery beasts on any of my hikes.
After posting the photo and having readers post their guesses as to what the creature was, the Bangordailynews.com turned to the experts. After the news outlet originally posted the photo, local wildlife experts were in disagreement and analyzed the photo further. The guesses ranged from capybara to kinkajou, beaver, wolverine, and porcupine. The editor of the article mused if it was not “[a] beast had escaped from atop Stephen King’s wrought iron fence in Bangor and was actually a gargoyle.”
Readers of the
Bangor Daily News, some experts and people commenting all had an opinion on what the hell that thing caught on a trail camera was. Here is the original story that started it all.
Norman Tremblay, up in Lowell in Penobscot County, caught this
thing on his Christmas gift camera. He thought it was a fisher, most said it was a beaver but the experts finally came to the conclusion that it s a very wet
porcupine!
The
BDNwas not fooling around here. They did some serious investigative reporting and got Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife biologists Shevenell Webb, Keel Kemper and Bob Cordes and longtime trapper Bob Noonan to fight it out.