Jeremy McNaughton won't quickly forget his encounter with a rogue beaver that attacked him off the shores of Nova Scotia.
The 23-year-old Halifax man was snorkelling in Spanish Ship Bay, near Sherbrooke, with a couple of friends, when one of them looked down and noticed an animal of generous proportions with reddish-brown fur
following them.
"I thought it must be a seal," said Paul Kerry, who was in the water with McNaughton, due to the sheer size of the creature, which he estimates weighed nearly 50 pounds.
Never suspecting its true identity,
considering beavers live exclusively in freshwater, Kerry couldn't make sense of what the animal was until it approached him.
"I quickly realized it could only be a beaver," once he recognized the animal's markings, including buck teeth and a distinctly paddle-shaped tail, he said.
Comment: Given the sparse amount of information in this report it is hard to determine exactly what might have been the source of these booms. Regular Sott.net readers may have noticed the lack of reports of loud or mysterious booms this summer. This most likely coincided with the reduced reports about fireballs and meteors. These booms may be related to the recent upsurge in fireball sightings or they may be indicative of some other earth changes phenomenon as of yet unexplained.