Grizzly bear returns, kills woman after she scared him off an hour earlier

FILE: Grizzly bear (Ursus arctos horribilis), Ursidae, Glacier National Park, Montana, United States of America. (Photo by DeAgostini/Getty Images) OVANDO, Mont. - The odds of being attacked by a bear are one in nearly two million, according to experts, so it took many by surprise when a 65-year-old woman scared off a bear in Montana, only for it to return and kill her.Leah Davis Lokan from California was killed by a 417-pound grizzly bear in her sleep on July 6 while camping in Ovando, Montana, according to a report from the Interagency Grizzly Bear Committee (IGBC).Lokan was on a multiple-day cycling trip with her sister and a friend when they stopped in Ovando for the night.

She decided to sleep outside in a tent alone on the campground while a couple from Texas she met on the trip, Joe and Kim Cole, slept in their own tent not far from her.BIZARRE ANIMAL STORY: Elephant kills woman and returns to her funeral to attack her corpseAt around 3 a.m., the couple heard Lokan yell out, "bear, bear," from her tent.

The three made a lot of noise and screamed at the bear until it left."The bear huffed at my head," Lokan told the Coles.Lokan moved the snack food and lentils she had inside her tent to a nearby building to stop the bear from returning.

She also brought a can of bear spray back to the tent.The couple said they asked Lokan if she wanted to sleep in the hotel where her sister was for the night, but she declined and told them she wanted to sleep in the tent.MORE IN BEAR NEWS: Bear smashes car window, helped itself to leftover McDonald’sAn hour later, Joe Cole woke up to a noise and realized Lokan was being attacked, yet she had not screamed.