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(#1) A Woman Fought Off A Black Bear, Then Drove Four Miles With Her Face Torn Open To Find Help
Allena Hansen was 56 when a black bear leaped out of the trees and attacked on her property in the mountains of California in 2008. She recalled:
I found myself down on the ground. I heard, "Chomp, chomp, chomp." I felt it go through my skull. I felt it bite through this eye. I heard kind of a squishy, crunchy pop. I went, "There goes my eye!" Then it got a hold of my face and started shaking—you know, worrying it. I could feel it tearing off. I could feel the blood, the wetness; I could see it dripping, I could hear it 'whooshing.' And I think the one thing that was most vivid to me was watching that little bugger spit my teeth out.
Hansen gave up fighting until she heard her two dogs attack the bear trying to save her. The faithful canines gave her hope and Hansen was able to distract the bear by sticking her thumbs into its eyes. She managed to make her way down a hill to her car, her dogs alive and following her. Hansen's face was badly damaged, but she was able to drive her car four miles to the local fire station in order to get help.
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(#10) A Black Bear Jumped Out Of A Tree To Maul An 83-Year-Old Man
Senior citizen Orval Sanders was hunting with a few friends in Tahoe National Forest when the group cornered a black bear up a tree. After another member in the group fired at the bear, it leaped out of the tree and charged at Sanders. Sanders put his arms up to protect his face and neck as the animal mauled him, breaking his wrist in the attack. The bear eventually turned its attention on another hunter who was able to shoot and kill it. Sanders suffered serious injuries to his arms and was flown to a hospital for treatment. Doctors were surprised Sanders survived due to the amount of blood lost.
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(#11) A Father Protected His Daughter By Punching A Bear Through The Side Of Their Tent
From Redditor /u/masevm:
About year ago my father and sister (16) went camping in northern Arizona. Everything was going well and they were having fun. Night time rolled around and they put their food up, got into the tent, and went to sleep. Around 3:00 am my dad woke up to rustling. Groggy, he tried to listen to the noise. Then, through the tent's material poked a large snout. Knowing what it was, my dad started punching as hard as he could. He kept punching until he figured the bear was gone. He slowly opened the flap of the tent, found bear footprints, woke my sister the f*ck up, and drove home.
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(#5) A Woman Was Attacked By A Grizzly While Walking Her Dogs And Lived To Tell The Tale
Patty Miller had a three-year summer tradition of renting a trailer in Montana near her brother's fishing cabin and Glacier National Park. In 2013, she was on a walk around a lake with her two dogs when they stumbled upon two grizzly bear cubs and their mother.
Miller recalled to Backpacker:
She reared up onto her hind legs, must have been 8 feet tall. Her roar echoed throughout the valley as she dropped down to chase after me at a speed I didn't think possible. "So this is how it ends," I thought as I started to run.
The bear quickly caught her, clawing at her arms and biting her head. Miller was unable to reach her bear spray and blacked out, waking up after the bear wandered off. One of her dogs was dead and Miller realized she had forgotten her cell phone. She started walking, found an empty mountain road, and continued until a passing truck stopped almost four hours later. The bear had crushed the bones in her face and ripped the muscles in her neck, and although Miller lost an eye in the attack, doctors were able to save her life.
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(#13) A Man With His Pants Down Was Nearly Mauled By A Black Bear
From Redditor /u/vsTerminus:
Tito (my employer's nickname), age 21, was working as a tree planter in the remote wilderness of Ontario, Canada. One afternoon, he spotted a black bear at the far side of his land at the edge of the forest. Another tree planter was not far away but had headphones on and wasn't aware of the nearby bear, or the fact that he was between said bear and her cubs.
Tito tried to shout and warn his friend, who of course couldn't hear over the headphones. Tito turned his attention to the bear, yelling and waving his arms, trying to get the bear away from the unaware friend. It worked.
The bear turned towards Tito but rather than wander off into the bush or casually move to investigate, the bear charged. It was still a long way off but moving quickly and Tito started backing up, shovel in hand. As the bear got closer Tito moved to take off his planting bags from his waist so that he could run if need be (those bags are heavy when full of trees).
The pants Tito was wearing that day had the same kind of side release buckle as the planting bags and he unclipped the wrong one. His pants dropped and he tripped backwards.
By this time, the bear was most of the way across the field and not slowing down. Tito was thinking, "I'm going to die today. I'm going to get eaten by a bear, with my pants around my ankles and my planting bags still on."
At the same time, the supervisor and his dog arrived at the land Tito was planting and the dog, who serves as a great bear repellent in camp, came running. The bear ignored it, continuing towards Tito. When the bear was within no more than 10 feet, it suddenly let out a deafening roar of pain; the dog bit the bear in the *ss. Hard. The bear finally turned and ran off into the bush.
Tito got a tattoo to remind himself of the bear that nearly killed him with his pants down: a bear's face on his shoulder with claw marks through it, and a dog's paw print below.
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(#9) A Man Was Mauled By Grizzly Bears Twice And Became A Grizzly Advocate
In 1993, Jim Cole was hiking in Glacier National Park when he encountered a young grizzly bear. The bear was startled and attacked, breaking Cole's wrist and tearing into his scalp before Cole's hiking companion scared it off with bear spray. Despite the incident, Cole continued to love the outdoors, and he even made it his life's passion to help people understand bears. He continued hiking in backcountry areas, taking pictures of bears, and writing books about his experiences.
Yellowstone was also the site of his second grizzly attack which occurred while Cole was hiking off-trail alone and accidentally stepped on a female bear. "I apparently walked right on her without knowing it and she was on me—bing!—she was on me real quick. She drove me into the ground," he wrote in his book Blindsided: Surviving a Grizzly Attack and Still Loving the Great Bear. The attack was so fast and fierce that Cole had no time to grab the bear spray from his belt before the grizzly gashed his face and tore out one eye. He endured reconstructive surgery and wore an eye patch for the rest of his life, but never stopped his advocacy for bears.
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There are reports of bear attacks all over the world every year. There is no doubt that bears are aggressive wild animals. Even bears tamed in zoos or circuses still retain their innate nature. People cannot predict when they will get angry and cause death to humans. A number of the tragic incident of the bear attack has also triggered more serious thinking about the protection of wildlife and the safety of human beings.
Here the random tool collected 14 scary stories of bear attacks that survival people shared. Local governments should pay attention to and regulate the living space of wild animals and humans, and take necessary and safe measures to protect humans.
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