Anyone boating through Muscongus Bay in Bremen in recent weeks may have come across a morbid — and so far, mysterious — site. Three dead coyotes have been trussed and arranged around a navigational marker in the waterway.
However, little other information was immediately available about the strange site, including who may have left the carcasses there, or why.
One of the coyotes is lying on top of the green buoy. Another dangles from its rear legs, its body resting on the platform just above the waterline. All that remains of a third coyote is its hindquarters, hanging from a rope near the water.
The Bangor Daily News obtained a photo and video of the coyotes from a person who has seen them there since late April, and as recently as Tuesday. That person declined to be identified, because they did not want blowback from within the community.
A clerk for the town of Bremen confirmed that it has received a call about the coyotes. But the town and the Maine Marine Patrol both referred questions about them to the U.S. Coast Guard, which maintains the marker.
Officials with the Coast Guard confirmed that they are looking into the site, as they would with any other problem with a buoy.
“We’ll consider this an aids-to-navigation discrepancy, and respond accordingly,” said Coast Guard spokesperson Ryan Koroknay, in South Portland. “We’ll treat it as a maintenance issue.”
The Maine Warden Service is also helping the Coast Guard to look into the incident, according to spokesperson Mark Latti.
