Stevenson Shaw is the survivor of an alleged bear attack in 1959. |
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When reading about past bear attacks in Black Water Ridge, Sam and Dean find an article about the survivor of a supposed bear attack in 1959, and decide to question Shaw. Shaw is at first not quite forthcoming with the brothers, telling them what happened is public record. However, when Dean begins to press him about all the people that went missing in '59 and this year (2005), he tells Dean and Sam that it was not a grizzly that attacked his family. It was a creature that was smart enough to unlock the cabin door, roared like no man or animal, and moved like lightning. It had only clawed him while he lay next to the fireplace, scarring him on his chest, but had killed his parents who were upstairs. Later on, Dean and Sam discover that it was a wendigo that attacked Shaw.
Nine-year-old Stevenson Shaw crawled out of Lost Creek yesterday morning, barely alive. Injured, exhausted, and clearly traumatized, the boy claimed that a monster had dragged his parents off into the night.
The rangers coordinated a search party, but were unable to find any trace of Stevenson's parents, save for the trail of blood that led off into the woods. "That kid's parents got mauled by a grizzly, plain and simple," Ranger Daniels asserted. "Where it took them, I couldn't tell you."
When asked what he saw, the boy trembled as he spoke. "I... I didn't see it - it moved so ... so fast. It wasn't a bear. That roar was unnatural..." Then young Stevenson Shaw looked at me with an intensity this reporter's rarely seen. "How'd it get inside our cabin? It didn't smash a window or break the door. What kind of bear can turn a doorknob?"
I had no answer for him, and I suspect no one ever will.
By Henry Morgan