If you’ve ever had the irrational fear of something biting you from inside a toilet, it turns out it’s not irrational at all.
An Alaskan bear in an outhouse bit Shannon Stevens on the bum while she, her brother, and her brother’s girlfriend were staying in a yurt near Haines.
“I got out there and sat down on the toilet and immediately something bit my butt right as I sat down,” said Shannon Stevens. She jumped up and screamed and ran out of the outhouse. Her brother found her with her pants down, sitting in the snow to ice her injuries. While they knew something had bitten her, they did not think it was a bear.
“I opened the toilet seat and there’s just a bear face just right there at the level of the toilet seat, just looking right back up through the hole, right at me,” said Shannon’s brother. The two retreated back into the yurt, reporting later that the injury was just a single puncture. They think that the bear must have pushed some rocks over to enter through the back of the outhouse.
