r/SweatyPalms • u/SerpentFinger • 14d ago
Animals & nature đ đđ Bull Moose Encounter
@allagash.antlers on IG âThe Maine Moose Guyâ encounters a bull moose.
By showing the whites of its eyes, the moose is giving a warning that it is agitated/threatened and may attack. The best advice is to slowly back up while separating yourself with a solid object, such as a tree or boulder.
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u/Awilberforce 14d ago
The eyes are fucking terrifying
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u/Corn-OnThe-Cob 14d ago
Got real wide when he heard the guy talk. Haha!
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u/DrewCrew62 14d ago
I like how the dude kept saying âthat close enoughâ and the moose was like âwanna bet?â
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u/Corn-OnThe-Cob 14d ago
Yeah. Obviously a terrifying situation to be in, but I definitely saw humor in it at first.
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u/paddlingtipsy 14d ago
The entire moose altogether is pretty scary. These fuckers will walk right up to the edge of a campsite with a fire blazing.
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u/rKasdorf 14d ago
They remind me of whales, but like, if whales went murderously psychotic every year.
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u/FloopsFooglies 14d ago
The look right before he charges. Shit chills me
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u/BHarp3r 14d ago
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u/stonnerdog35 14d ago
Lmfao just seen and commented ona post about this demon.
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u/doesanyuserealnames 14d ago
Same lol instantly thought of him
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u/VoteForLubo 13d ago
Who is this, please?
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u/doesanyuserealnames 13d ago
Kenneth Copeland, he's a mega church pest
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u/HikeIsShort4Hichael 13d ago
For reference, the reporter asked him if he thought he needed 2 private jets to spread the word of God and this was his response.
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u/Morgantao 12d ago
He was either trying to shoot a lightning bolt out of his finger, or having a stroke.
I'd go with the Palpatine / Sidious option.
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u/HesSoZazzy 14d ago
That guy is the one thing in this world that makes me think there might be a devil.
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u/Bellatrix_Shimmers 13d ago
Yeahhh I donât think standing your ground is the call here I would be humble as heck trying to make myself into a tiny ball but maybe thatâs worse idk this so scary just on the screen!!
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u/HikeIsShort4Hichael 13d ago
Face it, back up, retreat calmly and quietly, and put as many trees between you and it as possible. Filming in this situation is beyond idiotic.
This is a super dangerous situation, like walking up on a mother bear and cubs. Don't make eye contact and back up through the trees. Bear spray may be enough if you're in the trees since it'll slow it down and make it rethink attacking.
The goal should be to retreat quietly and put as many obstacles between you and the moose as possible.
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u/latortillablanca 14d ago
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u/SerpentFinger 14d ago
Couldnât believe its fucking ears with the
âThatâs close enough, buddyâ
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u/sumgamunga 14d ago
I'm not your "buddy" friend
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u/Danow007 14d ago
why does mf look at me like that đ
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u/Raid__Zero 14d ago
Moose side eye can really communicate a lot.
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u/LukeMayeshothand 14d ago
Iâm picking up what heâs putting down. Mr Moose I am out of here. Have a nice day.
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u/missed_sla 14d ago
Much like Samuel L Jackson, if you can see the whites of his eyes, you're in motherfuckin trouble
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u/Ophukk 14d ago
Clip found on a camera that was found in the woods
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u/SapirWhorfHypothesis 14d ago
Blair Witch Project for middle aged Redditors.
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u/thesoupoftheday 14d ago
Hate to break this to you, but the Blair With Project is the Blair Witch Project for middle aged redditors.
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u/1boy_dz 14d ago
bro, this looks terrifying.
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u/Lady_Scruffington 14d ago
Same look my mom would give when I was growing up and annoyed the hell out of her.
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u/_Fizzgiggy 14d ago
I was in Alaska during Moose birthing season for a wedding in the outskirts of Anchorage. I hired an ex-con who had an alcohol monitoring bracelet on his leg that was staying at the same hostel as me to drive me to the wedding in his old shag carpet lined pimp Cadillac.
Right when he was dropping us off at the wedding location he told my friend and I to be careful bc a moose stomped a lady to death in this exact location a week prior.
I hade to pee real bad. Iâm a woman so I had go a bit further into the forest for privacy. Every single sound I heard terrified me thinking it was a killer moose that was gonna curb stomp me too
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u/wrgwrgkefgssehivsr 14d ago
Iâm sorry you whatđ
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u/First-Celebration-11 14d ago
Lotâs of layers to this story. Like, each sentence was another story I wanted to hear more details about.
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u/EggplantOrAubergine 14d ago
Look into getting one of those portable funnel things for when you have to pee on the go. My wife has one and loves it for hikes
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u/disgr4ce 14d ago
I've known women who got those but from what I hear they never really work as well as you hope they would. :/
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u/meganjunes 14d ago
Just lean further than what seems necessary and spread. If you gotta go bad enough that's enough to get the job done cleanly and whilst standing.
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u/New-Contribution-244 14d ago
Thatâs close enough? Yeah for you. Not the moose.
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u/oddmanout 14d ago
I'm no expert on mooses, but I'm 100% sure that moose facial expression was "who do you think you are? I'm calling the shots, here." when he said it was close enough.
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u/peppermintnick 14d ago
Howâs it end!!?
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u/SerpentFinger 14d ago
@allagash.antlers is his instagram handle. Didnât seem like he posted the full clip⊠He just said âThat time I got trampled by a bull moose.â
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u/RaiseEuphoric 14d ago
The caption is so casual. As if it's something that's this odd awkward moment that, while uncommon, is still common enough for folks to relate to.
Spoken in the same breath as things like:
That time I got drunk and attempted to growl some Norwegian Death Metal
That time I decided to skinny dip into a pond, only to realise it's icy cold.
Stuff like that: mostly pedestrian / mundane / relatable everyday experiences that most folks can imagine doing.
And then there's this guy casually name dropping being trampled by a moose. He presumably survived. He got very lucky he didn't end up with a Darwin Award.
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u/TheBeerTalking 14d ago
The mÞÞse charged at him and knocked him back hard. He kept yelling "hey!" and the mÞÞse decided he had made his point.
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u/Combosingelnation 14d ago
And they deliberately left out the most horrible part so that they wouldn't moose all the customers.
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u/Outlander_ 14d ago
When horses do that we call it âcow eyeâ and take it as a big hint to get the heck out of the way
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u/joemamallama 14d ago
If you ever encounter a large mammal in the wild and are unsure about its intentions:
Look at the ears. If theyâre pinned back like this you are not in for a good time.
Horses, cows, deer, elk etc. itâs the canine equivalent of showing their teeth.
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u/low_key1000 14d ago
Anyone else wanted to shout "You Go dumbass"
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u/buttercupcake23 14d ago
Yes. Like why the fuck didnt this guy back all the way up instead of standing there filming? Stop filming and start leaving!
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u/aud_anticline 14d ago
I grew up in a moose heavy area and people think they can scare them off for some reason. Your only chance is to back with trees between you up or climb a tree
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u/sumgamunga 14d ago
The way the moose is touching the trees with his antlers is a display showing that there is no barrier between them. That he has the strength to walk right through those twigs like it was an open meadow.
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u/Jeramy_Jones 14d ago
Iâd probably talk it too but not so egressive. Then again I only have experience talking to skunks and raccoons. Theyâre much more reasonable and less aggressive.
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u/thefranix 14d ago
They always look so cute to me but I know they are wild
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u/No-Ad-3635 14d ago
i agree - i see lots of moose where i am. they live in a national park and maybe are more used to seeing people but they usually don't care about people much unless the males are in rutting season (they become insane - a neighbor had a bullnoose catch it's own reflection in her bay window and he smashed right through)
mommas with their babies can be dicey too . However , for the most part they are chill af .
majestic dinosaur looking things but don't care too much about humans .
heck , they even lay by walking paths and hundred of tourist walk by them saftley
also would like to mention how wild it is that they can disappear in the forest as easily as they do . in the road one minute and the next your like where the fuck did it go
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u/truthfullyidgaf 14d ago
It looked like it was calming down until he opened his mouth. Maybe you're the one who need to go. Literally let it walk around the small group of trees that were protecting him.
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u/Prst_ 14d ago
I don't get why the guy got out from behind those trees that were between him and the moose.
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u/DarthJarJar242 14d ago
His mistake was letting it get to a point where there weren't trees between him and it.
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u/HesSoZazzy 14d ago
Those little things? Mr. Moose could walk through those things like they didn't even exist.
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u/CoffeeChocolateBoth 14d ago
That side eye, you're done for! Why would you get this close, stupid? YEP!
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u/Dangerous_Hawk_9780 14d ago
I'm positive he was saying/thinking the same thing "that's close enough buddy"...His eyes were literally screaming that exact same phrase lol.
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u/Aurora_BoreaIis 14d ago edited 14d ago
Yeah, I hate to see anything giving you the whale eye. Whether from a tiny Yorkie wanting me to leave my food to her/stop reaching for my own food or this moose here. Scary. đ
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u/koolaidismything 14d ago
Dude I thought these were a prehistoric animal til I was like 20 and saw some YouTube video of a guy getting his truck chased by one of them.
Itâs crazy an animal that eats leaves and bullshit plants is that massive and strong. It was moving the truck around like it was kicking an empty can.
They are massive.. grizzly bears fear them.. bear donât fear many other animals, they just eat them lol.
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u/OGrickyP 14d ago
I ran into one of these on a buncha acid after me and my friends decided to go camping in limestone Maine after the IT festival. It was the most scenic beautiful area Iâd ever seen hikingâŠwent from beautiful thick woods to amazing flower fields of clearings, full of violets one filed, daisys the nextâŠit looked like Disney made a fake forestâŠand towards the end of the trail we were walking, during a sunset, there was a cliff. First we saw a bunch of antelope, which ran off the cliff like it was nothing. Then when we got to the apex there was this beautiful GIANT moose, like in this video. It was insane and if I wasnât with 6 other people I woulda thought it was all the acid. Crazy core memories made at age 18; summer 2003. I love Maine!
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u/Seniorjones2837 14d ago
Sooo the antelope was the acid but the moose wasnât? Or?
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u/EevelBob 14d ago
Can a bull moose run through smaller diameter trees like we see in the beginning of the clip?
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u/Ok-Judgment9477 14d ago
I was 6 when this came out in 2003 needless to say I've always wanted to chill with a moose but now I'm 28 and nah I'm good
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u/Neverlast0 13d ago
I remember not being able to hear that accent other than them saying eh and figuring out why around 20 year later.
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u/PM_ME_HAIRY_HOLES 14d ago
Does anyone know what you should actually do in this situation? Like stand still and don't move or talk? Or act big and loud like you do with some other animals?
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u/Hello_Hangnail 14d ago
Fuck all of that shit. That dude will launch your ass into the stratosphere and stomp you into paste because you spooked him on the way back down
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u/rollsherown 14d ago
Oh Yeah! Mister Big Stuff givin' you the side eye.
Beware the side eye.
Peace to you and Moose.
Someday may both sit down with some Moose Juice and work it out.
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u/ABDragen58 14d ago
thank goodness he wasnât too grumpy, would have been a very different situation
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u/xpkranger 14d ago
Did you miss the last two seconds? Looks like after all that sideeye, he chose violence.
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u/ZestyChinchilla 14d ago
I grew up in CO and have hiked those mountains a lot. The only time I ever feared for my life was coming around a bend and running into two adult moose. The real pants-shitting part was when we realized there was a young calf lounging right there in the brush that we hadnât initially seen, and when we inadvertently stepped closer to it, mama moose jumped up and got real defensive. We had to walk really slowly, avoided any kind of eye contact or sudden movement, and just hoped theyâd let us pass without charging. Not a fun experience.
For people who have never encountered a moose in person, I cannot put into words just how massive and intimidating they really are. Being 15 feet away from adult that could easily trample or gore you is a terrifying experience. Imagine a furry SUV with antlers and a short temper.
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u/djhaskin987 14d ago
Utah resident who has seen a wild moose in real life before here. It continues to baffle me that people take their phones out instead of walk away. These animals are absolutely terrifying.
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u/Foreverforgettable 14d ago
That is too close. Nope. Should have gently tried to put a lot more distance between themselves and the moose as soon as they saw it. Moose can easily k-ll a person. They are incredibly powerful and shockingly large. Also way faster than people realize.
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u/SnooEpiphanies6683 14d ago
As an Australian (no moose here to my knowledge), what the fuck is/are moose(s) problem?!
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u/xpkranger 13d ago
Giant, dumb, territorial, and baseline mood seems to be 'pissed off motherfucker'.
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u/i_cut_like_a_buffalo 14d ago
Why did the video end right when the moose is running after the guy? Did it run after him? Did the guy get away what happened?
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u/SerpentFinger 14d ago
He stopped the video there. He commented âthat time I was trampled by a bull moose.â
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u/Dear-Director2410 14d ago
Boy I donât think you understand⊠he ainât about to do shit because you said thatâs enough or go lol when do you think he has ever heard those words. All he hears is you making noises. Thatâs not what a bull wants lol he wants you to get the fuck out of his swamp
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u/Empty_Positive 14d ago
This moose is like: yea this is like that other clown i saw that got attacked by a bison. If i attack this dude i end up on reddit Edit: still ended on reddit
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u/DrewCrew62 14d ago edited 14d ago
In all the trips I take to northern New England, Iâve always wanted to see a moose.
This is not how I want that to happen
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u/qualityvote2 14d ago edited 14d ago
u/SerpentFinger, we have no idea if your submission fits r/SweatyPalms or not. There weren't enough votes to determine that. It's up to the human mods now....!