I am reaching out to this listener. I would really like to know what happen. A listener writes “I have never told anyone outside of family about this encounter. It’s unique in a way because my stepfather was severely mauled and survived but suffered what I learned to be ptsd.
In a nutshell I was 12 and I had a visual with what I thought was a massive bear on it’s hind legs no more than 15 ft away. A few days later the local elk herd was stampeded in the middle of the night directly through our front yard and we heard loud whistling coming from different directions. My stepdad Dean assumed some crazy poachers were harassing the elk.
And he headed out with his rifle at daybreak to investigate and our dog was with him. It turned into a violent encounter. This happened on our property in Allegany Oregon spring of 1974. There’s a lot more to this account.”