Maine · Series Two
Specter Moose
The Ghost of the Woods
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Maine's colossal pale moose, glowing between the pines since 1891 — shot at by the best hunters in the North Woods, touched by none of them.
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Specter Moose
Maine
- Size
- 10-15 ft
- Habitat
- North Woods lakes
- Sighting
- Lobster Lake • 1891
- Trait
- Ghostly pale glow
A colossal pale moose glowing between Maine's pines, shot at by the best hunters but never hit.
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Legendary Creatures
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Evidence enclosed
Tucked inside every Specter Moose box is card #023 of 50: a collector's card you won't find in any shop, pack or booster. The only way to get it is to bring the Specter Moose home.
Fifty legends, fifty cards. Collect the figures, complete the field guide.
- Size
- 10-15 ft
- Habitat
- North Woods lakes
- Sighting
- Lobster Lake • 1891
- Trait
- Ghostly pale glow
Sculpted from the sightings
Specter Moose, up close
- Figure height
- 5 inches
- Finish
- Hand-painted
- Edition
- Series Two — Fresh Tracks
- Classification
- Spectral Megafauna
- Family
- Forest Folk
- Legend reports it at
- 10–15 ft (estimated)
The legend of Maine
“He glides between the ancient pines when the moon is high and the woods are still. A guardian of Maine's wild places, rare and wise. If you're lucky, you might see his glow. If you're kind, he'll watch over you.”
The North Woods of Maine run to the horizon in every direction — millions of acres of spruce, bog, and black lake where the logging roads end and the cell signal dies. The oldest thing in them, the guides say, is pale. Since 1891, hunters and woodsmen around Lobster Lake and the Chesuncook country have reported a moose far beyond the size of any bull on record: ten to fifteen feet at the antler, dirty white to silver-gray, with a rack spread wider than a man is tall — and a faint luminescence, as if the animal had been cut from moonlight and let loose among the trees.
They call him the Specter Moose, and he has earned the name twice over. He appears without sound, vanishes without trail, and — in the detail that fills the old sporting journals — cannot be shot. Rifles that drop ordinary bulls at two hundred yards do nothing at fifty. The bullets, the hunters swore, went through.
The Legend+
The first report came from Clarence Duffy, a guide out of Oldtown, who in 1891 saw an impossibly large, pale moose near Lobster Lake and was laughed out of the camps for saying so. The laughing stopped as the 1890s wore on and the sightings stacked up: lumbermen, sportsmen, and surveyors all describing the same gray-white giant, always in the same wild triangle of country.
The legend's defining encounter belongs to a hunter who met the moose at close range near Sourdnahunk in the late 1890s and fired repeatedly with a heavy rifle. The animal neither fell nor fled; it turned and considered him — witnesses of the era return again and again to that horrible deliberateness — then walked into the spruce and was gone. The hunter checked his rifle, checked his hands, and gave up hunting.
Documented Sightings+
The Specter Moose was a genuine press phenomenon: Maine and Boston newspapers carried sightings for four decades, with flaps around 1899, 1901, 1917, and into the 1930s. Estimates from witnesses ran to fifteen feet tall and twenty-five hundred pounds, with an antler spread of ten to twelve feet — half again the size of the greatest bulls ever taken in North America.
Hunting parties went after him repeatedly and returned with the same two findings: nothing, and a profound desire to talk about it. Tracks would end in unbroken moss. Dogs would not take the line. And every few years some camp cook or game warden would see him again at dusk, pale as birch bark, standing at the edge of a bog like the woods' own monument to themselves.
The Lore+
Biology offers a humble candidate: a piebald or leucistic moose — rare, white-coated animals that do occur in Maine — grown large in memory each time the story was retold. It accounts for the color. It accounts poorly for forty years of consistent size estimates, and not at all for the bullets, unless every rifleman in the North Woods spent four decades missing.
Maine's own reading is gentler, and it is the one the guides still hand to visitors: the Specter Moose is the warden of the deep woods — the forest's way of appearing to people it has decided to either warn or bless. Seeing him means the wild is still wild where you're standing. The modern protocol is the old Wabanaki courtesy in new words: don't raise the rifle, don't raise your voice. Be kind to the woods, and the ghost of the woods will watch over you on the way out.
Good questions
What comes in the box?+
A 5-inch hand-painted collectible figure of Specter Moose from Series Two — Fresh Tracks, plus its collectible Fablins trading card — with Specter Moose's size, habitat, first sighting and signature trait.
When will it ship?+
Specter Moose is on pre-order and ships Q1 2027. You'll get a tracking link the moment it leaves.
Do you ship internationally?+
Yes — to the US, Canada, the UK, most of the EU, Australia, New Zealand, Japan and more. Prices show in your local currency and checkout calculates shipping for your country.
What if I need to return it?+
You have 30 days from delivery to start a return (return postage is on the buyer). Reach us through the contact page and we will walk you through it.
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