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Welcome back to Scary Bear Attacks! Today’s episode takes us to Alberta, Canada, near the town of Elkton. The town is so small it doesn’t appear on the list of population centers for the province. It is surrounded by cattle ranches and sprawling farms . This cow town sits at an elevation of 3670 feet and is in the foothills of the Canadian Rockies. The Little Red Deer River flows right through town and along its willow covered banks moose, elk and mule deer frolic. Around town are hills that are packed with pine, fir and spruce trees in which the wildlife abound. Predators in this area are aplenty with black bears, cougars, coyotes, and wolves prowling the shadows, but the latest surge in grizzly bear attacks are on the minds of the local residents.
Fall is a pivotal time for bears in general but particularly for grizzlies. They are in a state called hyperphagia which dramatically increases their drive to eat. They must put on enough calories to fatten up for hibernation in the coming winter and this search for food will frequently take them into territories they wouldn’t normally be found. In this phrenetic state, bears move much more than they typically do, and are known to take risks that they normally wouldn’t take to find calories. Any variance in availability of food sources may put bears in dire circumstances, and past few years had yielded poor production in wild Buffalo Berry crops.
In a dangerous mixture of timelines, fall is also the time of year in which hunters venture into the woods to harvest game. Earlier in the fall in most areas, archery hunters are the first to head into the forests and mountains. They are particularly vulnerable compared to rifle hunters because a bow is not as accurate and is only lethal at close distances. That means by the time a bowhunter decides they have to defend themselves, the weapons they must use to do so aren’t the best at getting the job done.
Robert Wagner was a 48 year old meat cutter at the Didsbury AG foods in Didsbury, a town just 15 miles or so east of Elkton. He is known in the town to be a generous and gregarious man who gives away game meat from animals he harvests as an avid bowhunter.
Robert enjoyed hunting elk and deer but Moose were one of Robert’s favorite game animals to pursue with his bow. Each year he would grab his bow and archery gear and make his way to the willow lined creek bottoms around the Little Red Deer River to hunt for moose. He was a pretty good bow hunter too and frequently bagged one of the giant ungulates filling his freezer, allowing him to give meat to friends who enjoyed eating it.
Having scheduled his time off at his job, Robert enthusiastically told his coworkers of his hunting plans in the coming fall. He had spent time in the preseason scouting the animals in his hunting zone and knew where they tended to be. As his scheduled vacation approached, Robert packed his gear and bid farewell to his friends, family and coworkers before setting off for his hunting trip the last week of September 2008.
Robert had scheduled several days off of work, but by the end of his vacation hadn’t returned to his job on time on September 29th. His family had initially hoped that he would show up a few days later than normal, having had to spend extra time packing his moose out. As time lagged their concerns grew and they decided to reach out to local authorities to file a missing person’s report on Robert.
Based on information gleaned from family and friends, authorities determined roughly where to begin their search for Robert. It wasn’t long before searchers found Robert’s pick up truck parked along a remote stretch of highway, but couldn’t find any clues as to his location.
A search party was organized and a systematic canvassing of the area ensued. Approximately one kilometer from Robert’s truck searchers located his corpse on Wednesday, October 1st. The scene surrounding his corpse was a grim one, with blood spattering the bushes and ground. The evidence at the location told the horrible tale, but the scientific analysis would be concluded by investigators.