A New Brunswick man says he feared for his life when a black bear attacked him outside his home on Thursday night. “I’ve never felt so scared in my life,” said Paul Williams. “When I called 911, the operator, I had to leave a message because I thought this was going to be my last time that I was talking to my wife.” Williams has lived in his Beaubassin East home for 27 years, and nothing like this has ever happened before.
Beaubassin East is located in southern N.B., about 25 minutes from Moncton. He said he first saw the bear last week, and it tried to attack him once before Thursday night. Read more: Canmore man shares harrowing story after surviving grizzly bear attack On Tuesday, he saw the bear and her cubs in the woods behind his home.
Williams believes the bear was just being protective when it began approaching him on Tuesday. He called 911 for help. “She was standing on her back legs.
She’s about eight feet in height. She weighs about 450 pounds,” he estimated. “The noise that she made when she came after me, when I saw her, the size of her paws.