"The bear was burying me and I ate": stories of survivors of the encounter with a predator

Meeting with the "master of the taiga" in the wild can be fatal. Two heroines told us how she was able to survive. And these stories are scarier than any Thriller.

Marina (left) and son, sister and nephew that day. The photo was taken 12 hours before the attack.

Marina Fokina from Sayanogorsk (Republic of Khakassia) — girl fighting. For her best way to relax is to get out for a couple days in the woods with friends. Fortunately, nature allows — just 200 km away is the natural Park Ergaki, one of the most popular in the region. Marina goes here here for a quarter century, since high school.

That day, June 12, 2015, she went to the forest with her five children, sister, nephew, and 72-year-old girlfriend. And in the night when all were asleep, they in the tent got bear-teen smelled food in the tent. Marina was the first one on his way.

It was very painful, but Marina was more afraid of the children saw the beast swung at her son.

Remember that the outside of left the axe to chop logs for the fire. Somehow crawled out of the tent and a broken arm, grabbed him in a state of shock forces come from nowhere. But the predator saw it and grabbed the leg.

At this point my sister and her children and a friend ran out of the tent, and the bear no one else was interested — people were just obstacles in his way to the food. Tourists were able to get out alive from the forest and call emergency services. And Marina believes that if she then still went on it with an axe, it would only make him angry and then they would have survived.

Marina after surgery.

In General, the main rule of a tourist — do not store food in the tent and be sure to leave on bonfire night. But that night it rained and they decided to take food with them to get soaked. It was a fatal mistake, says Marina.

The bear managed to tear her son's hand and side, with an older friend nearly scalped — she's still not recovered from the shock. Marina was lucky even less. Doctors in Abakan, the capital of the Republic, raised face literally in pieces. Jaw dangled as hinges. The bite was literally a millimeter away from the brain and optic nerves.

The Marina is now 38. She had some plastic surgery: particularly affected the nerve endings on the left side of the face, eyes blinking through time. And recently, Marina returned to the same clearing in the woods and tied it to the ribbon:

But if the forest is still at least expect to see a bear in the city his appearance is completely unpredictable. Natalia Pasternak from Tynda (far East) had seen bears in the zoo and the circus.

Natalia after the attack, the bear has survived several operations.

May 11, 2015 54-year-old woman with a friend, 82-year-old Valentina Gorodetsky and dog Natalia went to the outskirts of the city to collect birch SAP. The place was divided: in the clearing they knew every Bush, because they went there for 15 years. The first predator smelled the dog. It was a bear of four years, which, apparently, after hibernation looking for food.

She wanted to run away, but remembered her friend stopped and began to shout that she was gone.

On a bloodcurdling scream of a friend and ran Valentina. At first she thought that they were attacked by stray dogs, and when I saw how bloody over Natalia is a bear, then ran for help — but the she-bear noticed her and struck on the back. The trail from the claws remained still. Fortunately, Valentina managed to escape and call emergency services.

Dipper, meanwhile, has returned to production, she's almost buried, but when she was startled by Valentine, decided to move to a secluded place. Natalia resisted desperately: clinging to the bushes, behind trees, periodically losing consciousness from the pain.

The hunters came after 40 minutes. The bear tried to attack to them, but they managed to fire. The place where was Natalia, found the dog, which, seeing people immediately began to bark. Perhaps from death saved by the fact that the head bear to bury did not have time was to breathe.

The bear took it all the scalp, legs was eaten away almost to the bone.

After that Natalia no longer go to the forest.

After the operation the aircraft was sent to Blagoveshchensk, where the strips were removed and the skin closed where not enough. There Natalia spent two months, and is still recovering — not only physically, but also mentally.

After the incident, she learned that bears in the city in recent years saw other.

In Tynda all the beautiful nature: hills, forest circle — in the Soviet years, parents Natalia came here to build the Baikal-Amur mainline, then came back to Dnepropetrovsk, and she decided to stay. Recently, she finally got an apartment in the queue which stood for 20 years.

Uptown Natalia's not coming.