Number of Witnesses: 5
Length of Observation: over a hour.
Vocalizations Heard?: grunts
when i was about 14 my brothers and neighborhood friends of ours decided to go on a camping trip on the edge of Warwick State Park in Royalston Massachusetts. we had fished earlier that day and had caught a few brook trout so that we could “live off the land” that night. we got dropped off at the head of the trail by one of our parents and we hiked a half hour up the trail. it is all up hill leading to a
clearing. we called it the “Land”. my Friend and i built a lean too and my brothers and there friends set up a tent.we sat around the fire till late talking and cooked the fish. late that night we all dozed off . i was in the lean to just in my sleeping bag and my friend was a few feet away.i woke up late that night maybe early morning, to hear trees cracking. everyone woke up . you could here a grunt then trees break and the most memorable for me was the ability to hear and feel stomping. this happened all around us for maybe a hour or more.we were scared shitless! you would here it one minute then a pause then here it again behind us. large branches braking some grunting then stomping.eventually it stopped and we all stayed up completely scared.the next day our parents chalked it up as a moose. as a adult now with lots of woods time under my belt there was no way it was a moose.
this last fall i took my wife and kids to that area to show them the swamp at the base of that same
ridge.we hiked for maybe 45 mins when we got off the trail to cross a swampy area to get to a rocky
steep hillside.as we crossed my wife stops me and shushes me. we stop and clear as day we all hear a long whistle.my wife was freaked out so we turned around and got back on the trail.as we hiked out we looked over our shoulders all the way back to the car. this is all one area that is remote except for the hiking trails and snowmobiles.