A 19-year-old woman in Russia was tragically mauled to death by bears while her mother, unable to intervene, could only listen helplessly on the phone.
In 2011, Olga Moskalyova tragically lost her life when she and her stepfather, Igor Tsyganenkov, went to a river in the village of Termalniy, near Petropavlovsk Kamchatskiy in eastern Siberia.
The pair had gone to retrieve a fishing rod that Igor had left behind, so Tatiana was caught off guard when she received a call from Olga during their outing.
The teenager had gone out with her stepdad to the river. (Getty Stock Photo)
When Tatiana answered the phone, she heard her daughter’s desperate voice: “Mom, the bear is eating me! Mom, it’s so painful. Mom, help!”
Tatiana was initially shocked and thought Olga might be joking. However, she soon heard the horrifying sound of chewing on the line.
She recalled, “I heard the real horror and pain in Olga’s voice, along with the sounds of a bear growling and chewing. I felt as if I could have died from shock in that moment.”
