The Massachusetts Environmental Police have confirmed reports of a black bear sighting in West Wareham.

Environmental Police officers have been looking for the bear in Wareham since Sunday night but have yet to see it, explained Reginald Zimmerman, a representative from the Massachusetts Environmental Police.

Zimmerman said “there's a high probability" that the bear is the same one the agency has been tracking for two weeks after it was first spotted in Attleboro.

While officers are having trouble locating the bear, residents said it was the bear that found them.

“He came up around the back of my house. I looked up and said ‘Oh my God! That’s a bear!’" explained Holiday Drive resident Maryanne Keller, who was hanging laundry outside on Tuesday around 8:30 a.m. when the bear walked into her backyard. “He was 15 feet away from me! But he was smart enough to leave.”

Keller said the bear stood about five feet tall on his hind legs. After a minute of staring at each other the bear walked off, she said.

Two hours later and about a mile to the east, the bear was spotted again on Gault Road in West Wareham.

“This thing came running across the road and I said to myself, 'That’s a terrible looking dog.’ Then I realized it was a bear!” said Windy Hill Drive resident Bob Santos, who was driving down Gault Road around 10:30 a.m. on Tuesday.

Santos, who has lived in Wareham his entire life, said he has only seen bears in captivity.

Both Santos and Keller said they were startled, but not frightened by the animal.

Bog Iron Road resident Peter Ramos, who he was sitting outside his home in the neighborhood where the bear was last spotted, said he would welcome a sighting.

“It wouldn’t bother me,” he said. “I wish I would have seen it.”

The Wareham Police Department did not immediately return calls concerning the bear sightings.

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