Where I live in New Hampshire, bear sightings are not uncommon. Last year, one was spotted walking in front of the stores in a strip mall downtown. That made the front page of the local newspaper. A couple of years ago, one visited the miniature golf course. And a few months before that, one was caught on video robbing a bee-keepers honeycombs. I live in the middle of the woods and I have seen racoons, a pack of coyotes, white-tailed deer, flocks of turkeys, and once I saw what looked like a bear in the woods at the side of my house. I didn't go outside for many days after that. The thing that I have yet to see is a moose, but the neighbors tell me that they have spotted them.