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31st Jan 2025

Devastating final words of woman who was eaten alive by bear while on phone to mum

Ryan Price

“Mum, the bear is eating me! Mum, it’s such agony.”

The mother of a woman who was eaten alive by a bear has described the ‘horror’ of being on the phone to her while she was being mauled to death.

19-year-old Olga Moskalyova had been taking what began as a summer a stroll with her stepfather, Igor Tsyganenkov near a river in eastern Siberia in August 2011, when tragedy struck.

As the pair made their way along the waterside in Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, a brown bear emerged from the forest and launched an attack.

Olga managed to dodge the vicious predator as it overpowered her stepfather – breaking his neck, smashing his skull and killing him almost immediately.

After witnessing the death of her stepfather, Olga ran around 200ft away before the mother bear sank its teeth into her leg and dragged her down to the floor. 

Tragically, the bear caught up with Olga and bit into her leg.

It was at this moment, in fighting for her life, that she decided to make a call to her mum, Tatiana.

“Mum, the bear is eating me! Mum, it’s such agony. Mum, help!” Olga screamed.

Her mum, obviously in a state of shock at what she was hearing, admitted to the Daily Mail that she initially thought the teen was joking: “Then I heard the real horror and pain in Olga’s voice, and the sounds of a bear growling and chewing.”

Tatiana didn’t know at that point what had happened to Igor as she attempted to contact him and got no response.

Olga rang her mum a number of times, and on the second call said: “Mum, the bears are back. She came back and brought her three babies. They’re… eating me.”

Tatiana had attempted to get in touch with authorities, but nobody could reach the grave scene in time to stop the attack.

The distraught mother received a final call from her daughter about an hour later, once the bears had left her for dead.

“Mum, it’s not hurting any more. I don’t feel the pain. 

“Forgive me for everything, I love you so much.”

The call cut off and that was the last Tatiana ever heard her ­daughters voice.

Igor’s brother, Andrei, eventually arrived there with police to find Olga dead and the mother bear feasting on the stepdad.

Emergency services ended up calling for hunters to kill the mother bear and her three cubs.

“My daughter was such fun. She was so cheerful, friendly, and warm,” Tatiana said following the loss of her daughter.

“She had graduated from music school, and just days before the bear attack, she got her driving ­licence.”

After the decade-old story recently resurfaced on social media, one person said: ‘I feel so sorry for her mother to go through the horror of the last few minutes of her daughter been eaten alive by the bear.

‘It reaffirmed my mind never ever to go out camping in the wild or step into the wild territory.’

Another wrote: ‘The story made me feel very sick but I have to agree that these people should never have been in bear territory without protection. 

‘My heart goes out to the family of the victims but you can’t blame a hungry mother with 3 babies to feed for doing what comes naturally. Lessons need to be learnt.’