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Woman's Close Call With Grizzly Bear During Dog Walk Caught on Camera
A woman had a terrifyingly close encounter with a grizzly bear while walking her dog at a wilderness camp in Alberta, Canada on June 24.
ALBERTA, Canada - A woman had a terrifyingly close encounter with a grizzly bear while walking her dog at a wilderness camp in Alberta, Canada, on June 24.
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According to Jelmer de Blois, a licensed hiking and wilderness guide with Wilderness Escape Adventures, the woman, Jessie, had just stepped outside with her morning coffee to take her dog, Skoki, for a walk down the camp's gravel driveway when the grizzly suddenly appeared.
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Video of the encounter shows the massive bear circling Jessie and Skoki multiple times as she repeatedly yells for it to stop.
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"I felt scared, very confused, unsure what the next move should be," Jessie said.
Jessie eventually threw her coffee mug to distract the bear. When it paused to investigate the mug, she took the opportunity to run. But when she looked back, the grizzly had resumed chasing her.
"She darted into one of the tents at camp, while others nearby yelled and waved their arms as a distraction," de Blois told Storyful. "She made it inside with her dog and spent the next 15 minutes rewatching the footage until the bear wandered off and chased a moose."
The Source: Storyful contributed to this report. This story was reported from Los Angeles.