Wedge-Ledge Chomper

The Wedge-Ledge Chomper is a creature from Lumberjack Folklore in Maine. They’re hippo-sized creatures with massive mouths like bulldozers.  They can range from the size of a car to a football. They have perfect camouflage and are rarely seen, with stony skin and sometimes even moss growing on them. They scrape up stone ledges, causing erosion and rockslides. They are thought to enjoy carving stair-like structures into the sides of mountains. After breaking the rocks, they consume the ones they can fit in their mouths. They rarely venture far and often return to the same place to eat nightly, leading to them often mistaken for boulders. They have great hearing and are very shy and peaceful, standing still when any approach and only one with a keen eye can notice the subtle changes in the boulder’s position. A small population supposedly lives on mountains around the West end of Sebec Lake.

Citations:

Packard, Christopher. Mythical Creatures of Maine: Fantastic Beasts from Legend and Folklore. United States, Down East Books, 2021.