Hunting Old Moxie: The Largely True History of the Specter Moose of Lobster Lake, Maine

Fifteen feet high. Twenty-five hundred pounds. Grayish-white in color. This was the common description of Old Moxie, otherwise known as the Specter Moose of Lobster Lake, Maine. His antlers spread twelve feet across and were spiked with over forty tines. His hoofprint measured ten inches wide. He had a double mane that fell on each side of his neck, and the “bell” hanging under his chin was eighteen inches long.

“Hunter Shoots at Monster Whose Existence Was Doubted,” reported the New York Ti...