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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
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.