WESTFORD, Vt. -
A Westford, Vermont man says a moose charged at him several times and it was captured on camera.
Brent Olsen says he had never seen a moose at his Westford home where he has lived for 15-years. That all changed Sunday morning.
A home video captured the huge bull moose charge right at Olsen.
"I was scared then. I was scared but it was still something I had never seen before," says Olsen.
Olsen says he had first noticed the moose at it scratched his car.
"I ran from my house out here, yelling at the moose, saying get the hell away from my car because I didn't want to get it damaged," says Olsen.
The moose backed away and that's when Olsen picked up his video camera and hit record.
"You can kind of tell, when he first charged me, I'm still freeze framed on him and after he's almost stopped is when I started reacting. I said whoa get me out of here. So I back to the door, set the camera down, zoomed out, and went inside," says Olsen.
As Olsen peered out the door, the moose charged again.
"I closed the door and tried to hold the door, in case he was going to hit it," says Olsen.
Olsen says the moose ended up charging four-times. Then Olsen says he saw the moose walk in circles and even hit the flag pole.
"The more I watched it the more I could see this thing was in serious trouble," says Olsen.
Olsen called police and a game warden was sent.
When the warden arrived, she says she was concerned that the moose had been aggressive and it also appeared to be sick.
That's when the decision was made to kill the moose, which was suspected of suffering from a brain disease.
For Olsen, it was a sad ending for the first moose that he's seen in his front yard.
"I thought finally a moose. It's such a beautiful moose. You know, I thought I'm going to get video of a really pretty thing that's happening in my yard, never did I realize I was going to be attacked," says Olsen.
Biologists will test the moose because the warden believes it had a disease called brain worm, which symptoms include walking in circles.
There were no people hurt and there was little damage to property.
