'Mum, the bear is eating me!': Frantic final phone calls of woman, 19, eaten alive by brown bear

dailymail.co.uk ^ | 17 August, 2011 | Will Stewart

[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.

[Scotsman will be Free]

Just make sure that you don’t notch your forehead with the front sight.

[kaylar]

I see there are some here who doubt this account. There was a case of an attack on a woman in the USA who was partially eaten alive by a black bear. Cynthis Dusel Bacon was a geologist working in the field , with a walkie talkie with her to keep in contact with her co workers. An emaciated black bear attacked her; she played dead and described over the radio how the bear was eating her alive. The woman survived minus both arms (last update on her I read , she had been fitted with prosthetic arms). This case is what changed the advice on how to deal with an attacking bear : Before, the advice was always to play dead . After this atrocity, the advice changed to , play dead for a grizzly or brown bear, grab whatever you can and fight against a black bear. Apparently grizzlies attack humans because they think we're after their kills or their territory or their cubs , black bears think of us as prey-they stalk and attack us for the purpose of eating us .

If this attack IS a fake, maybe it was inspired by this true attack from 1977.

Cynthis Dusel Bacon

[kaylar]

Let me add that I sincerely HOPE it is a fake-it’s just too horrible to imagine, if it’s real. :-(

[kaylar]

How did I mistype her name TWICE??? That’s Cynthia Dusel-Bacon, and she’s apparently gone on to have quite a distinguished career as a geologist...I see quite a few papers and books she’s published, via google.

[Georgia Girl 2]

LOL!!!

[WKUHilltopper]

Bull! So you’re being eaten by a bear and whip out a cell phone, in all places—Siberia—to call your mother. I say “mom” whacked her daughter and is blaming the “disappearance” on a bear.

With that said—never go into the wilds without packing heat of a suitable caliber.

[fabian]

Always carry a BIG gun in the wilderness! Come on now!

[NCLaw441]

Delicious!!

[EN1 Sailor]

Magnum Research made a 5-shot pistol in .45-70.

[ExSoldier]

My squid friends claim the latter is correct.

[marktwain]

Bull! So you’re being eaten by a bear and whip out a cell phone, in all places—Siberia—to call your mother. I say “mom” whacked her daughter and is blaming the “disappearance” on a bear.

Bear attacks often involve phases where the person is attacked, left for a while, then the bear comes back, more attacks, left for a while....

Once the person is relatively immobile and not fighting back, it is not unusual for the bear to start feeding.

Cell phones are easier and cheaper to put up in an area than are land lines. I understand that there is cell coverage in much of Africa.

It is much easier to dial a cell phone than it is to fight off a bear.

The 1977 attack by a black bear, in which the lady geologist had her arms eaten, during which she was able to call a helicopter to her aid, is well documented on this thread.

[ExSoldier]

Whilst walking in the woods always be accompanied by a .44 mag or a .45 ACP. Friends you can count on.

Still too small. This is exactly why I got my S&W 460 magnum. The five inch ported barrel makes it very easy to tote in a cross draw holster. It shoots three calibers for diversity: 45 Colt, 454 Casull and the big 460 magnum. My wife looked at me and said: Really? In MIAMI, FL? And I replied: Well, you know, we might be at the mall and be attacked by a rampaging POLAR BEAR or a SASQUATCH and need just exactly this. I admit it's unlikely, but it COULD happen. She rolled her eyes and muttered something about twenty three years of marriage and "Big Boy's Toys."

[submarinerswife]

Do those serving on submarines prefer to be called subMARiners or submaREners?

Submarine-er is correct.

SubMariner is below a Mariner. Make sense?

He educated me on that the first date we had.

[1raider1]

Thanks!

[ExSoldier]

“A Casull(sp)454 is what is wanted” Yeh if the recoil doesn’t kill you. LOL!!

Recoil schmecoil. I can fire and empty my 460 S&W in four seconds. That's 5 rds of 460 magnum in four seconds AND hit what I'm shooting at within a range of 20 yards. I love shooting that caliber. Most fun you can have fully dressed.

[1raider1]

Thanks!

[EternalVigilance]

This is one of the most horrifying stories I’ve ever heard.

[riverrunner]

Sounds like the bear came back and forth between her and her father typical bear attack when then is more then one victim

[marktwain]

I was surprised at how well I could shoot the Smith & Wesson .500 magnum. I think I would prefer a .460 because of the ease of finding components. I figured that used ones would be coming on the market at considerable discounts, with few rounds actually fired, but I haven’t found one yet!

[ExSoldier]

When you fire a 45 Colt load from that whopping XVR (Extreme Velocity Revolver) it feels like a .22 from any other gun and gets boring real fast. The 454 has a sharper kick and a very loud report but the big 460 is more of a solid PUSH. When I fire the 460 I almost always find myself taking a step to the rear even if I'm leaning into it and I feel the muzzle blast on my front teeth. The only time I don't take that step backward is with rapid fire. Dunno why it happens that way. Maybe because rapid fire is usually not up to the standards of precision sighted fire and is more like "point shooting" while using a "flash" sight picture, so the shooter's balance is different. Does that make sense?