Nordegg

Date: July 2003

Occurrence:

I feel

kind of weird telling this, so please bear with me if I sound stupid. About 2

years ago, some friends and I were camping in the north western alberta woods.

We had walked down to check out an old coal mine and were about half way back to

the main trail when we realized we were being followed by something. I thought

it could be a cougar and my friends thought that it was a bear. Whatever was

following us was showing genuine stalking behavior; it would stop whenever we

would stop. If we ran for ten or twelve steps; it would do the same and stop

when we stopped. This had all of us quite concerned, we finally did make it back

to the main trail and our stalker broke off following us.

We were walking towards my friend's truck, which we had parked on an old rail

bed. Suddenly a bloodcurdling scream came from the wood, then right after that

came a gutteral roar. I must confess that I almost wet myself, whatever it was

that made that roar was quite close to where we were standing. We jumped in the

truck and got the hell out of there.

Witness: Angela Taylor

*This report was submitted to the WCSRO website on 11/03/ 2005.

WCSRO, 2006.