Legendary Creatures Letterboxes (2)
Loch Ness Monster, Nokkon Wud
Placed Sept. 2002, Exeter, Rhode Island (Washington County)
About 3 1/2 miles round trip. Nice walk with a little mud and roots in Nokkon
Wud territory........
Hidden by Mike and Christine
Park at the trailhead for the John B. Hudson trail. This can be found up a short
dirt road off of Rt. 165, about 2.4 miles from Rt.3. There is a sign on Rt. 165
for the trail. A short ride up this dirt road will lead to the trailhead/parking
area.
LOCH NESS MONSTER (checked Apr 22, 2007-OK)
To begin your quest, start following the yellow blazed trail that begins at the
parking area at the wooden sign. You will follow this yellow blazed trail for
about 1.5 miles. You will pass thru a stone wall, past Rhode Island Historic
Cemetary #101, always following the yellow blazes, crossing a woods road. Follow
the yellow blazes, coming to a T intersection, continue to follow the yellow
blazes left a short ways, then left again and follow the yellow blazes till you
emerge into an open area with a large body of water to the north. Take some time
to enjoy the view. Leave the blazes for now. Follow the dirt road to the left,
over the bridge with the waterfall to your right, continue on the dirt road
until you reach a red gate, pass thru the gate, with the body of water to the
east. Notice two stone walls on your left shortly after the gate. Continue on
the trail and you will see a 3rd stone wall on the left. Continue and pass a
half rotted upright tree on the left of the trail (a culvert passes beneath
you). When you see the next stone wall (4th), bushwack 34 paces west along this
wall from the trail. The Loch Ness Monster is hidden in the stone wall here. At
his hiding spot you should see a large pine tree with lots of broken branches on
its bottom half at 36 degrees.
NOKKON WUD
On to Nokkon Wud. Tread carefully! To begin your search, retrace your steps back
to the bridge/waterfall. After recrossing the bridge, look to your right and you
should notice some white blazes. Over some rocks in the ground and crossing the
threshold into Nokkon Wuds magical domain. You should see the stream to your
right. Follow the white blazes (one of many white blazed trails in Nokkon Wuds
territory). At a Y intersection, go left, following the white blazes, up a small
hill, past a large rotted tree on left of the trail. Can you hear Nokkon Wud?
Over a log, past two fallen trees across the stream to the right. Has Nokkon Wud
seen you? Up a rocky/muddy bit. You will come to a knee high small wooden post
on the left of the trail. Is that Nokkon Wud there, thru the trees? Continue on
until the trail goes left up a rocky ravine, away from stream. Nokkon Wud is
near. Past a birch tree in middle of trail, over a fallen tree, up to another
tree in the middle of the trail with a white blaze on it which is right before
another fallen tree across trail. From the this white blazed tree in the middle
of the trail, look north, about 14 paces you should see a smallish boulder in
the ground. On the NE side of the boulder there is a tree which at its base you
will find the lair of Nokkon Wud.
"Nokkon Wud is an evil spirit, probably Scandinavian in nature, whose sole job
is to listen for people challenging the fates by rashly making factual
observations. 'Break a leg!', he would hear someone say, immediately followed
by, 'Knock on Wood' and Nokkon would swoop invisibly into their homes in the
dead of night and give their lives a stir for the worse.
Some say Nokkon Wud looks like a Goblin and is very big and can stomp hard
enough to shake the ground into earthquakes and volcanoes and has a voice like
Thunder. Some say he is very little and sounds as if he were Welsh. Some say
Nokkon Wud is normal sized. They are quite rare...Some, never see him at
all....."
After "meeting" Nokkon Wud, continue on the trail to a 4 way intersection. Take
the south trail and continue across a small woods road, staying on this trail
which will eventually lead back to the parking area.