Posted on 08/17/2011 8:23:16 AM PDT by marktwain
A distraught mother listened on a mobile phone as her teenage daughter was eaten alive by a brown bear and its three cubs.
Olga Moskalyova, 19, gave an horrific hour-long running commentary on her own death in three separate calls as the wild animals mauled her.
She screamed: 'Mum, the bear is eating me! Mum, it’s such agony. Mum, help!'
Her mother Tatiana said that at first she thought she was joking.
'But then I heard the real horror and pain in Olga’s voice, and the sounds of a bear growling and chewing,' she added. 'I could have died then and there from shock.'
Unknown to Tatiana, the bear had already killed her husband Igor Tsyganenkov - Olga’s stepfather - by overpowering him, breaking his neck and smashing his skull.
Olga, a trainee psychologist, saw the attack on her stepfather in tall grass and reeds by a river in Russia and fled for 70 yards before the mother bear grabbed her leg.
As the creature toyed with her, she managed to call Tatiana several times during the prolonged attack.Tatiana rang her husband - not knowing he was already dead - but got no answer.
She alerted the police and relatives in the village of Termalniy, near Petropavlovsk Kamchatskiy, in the extreme east of Siberia.
She begged them to rush to the river where the pair had gone to retrieve a fishing rod that Igor had left.
In a second call, a weak Olga gasped: 'Mum, the bears are back. She came back and brought her three babies. They’re... eating me.'
Finally, in her last call - almost an hour after the first - Olga sensed she was on the verge of death.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
A truly horrifying story, and a good lesson for anyone who thinks bears aren’t dangerous.
I think if I were being by bears, my mom is the last person I’d call.
Horrifying.
A women survived an attack that killed her Husband by playing dead this year in Washington (?). Her and her Husband were hiking when they encountered the mother and cubs.
Shades of Ron White and the Grizzly man story...
Whilst walking in the woods always be accompanied by a .44 mag or a .45 ACP. Friends you can count on.
If you venture into bear country, PLEASE bring a hand cannon. And I don’t mean a 9mm. Bring a .357 magnum at a minimum. And screw any laws to the contrary. Can’t think of a worse fate than being eaten alive. Being charged with some BS crime doesn’t even come close!
Isn’t this why they still make .45-70?
The stuff that nightmares are made of...
What an awful, painful end to such a young life.
I am not afraid of much, but I do not like bears!!
Have a hard time believing this one!!! Cell phone service in Siberia, sure.
That was what I was thinking. If I get off the major highways I’m out of luck.
Yes, me too. I don’t think talking on a cell phone in such coherent phrases while being eaten is very likely. Being able to punch in numbers on a cell phone while being eaten is even less likely.
Cell phones...in Siberia?
Also works against big cats.
P K ping
It is cheaper to put up cell service than to put in land lines.
That and I would be trying my best to kill the bastard with a big rock.http://climbaz.com/temp/melissastuff/frog.html
Here’s a question for you. Do those serving on submarines prefer to be called subMARiners or submaREners?
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