An Alaskan woman was trampled by a moose while walking her dog in Anchorage in mid-February.
Tracey Hansen was walking her dog, Gunner, along a path she uses three times a day when the moose appeared, according to KKTV. Footage shared on social media of Hansen clearly shows the enormous black moose trotting behind her, picking up speed as it approached.
A woman filming the moose, Kate Timmons, can be heard screaming “Hey! Hey! Hey! Watch out!” as the animal completely trampled Hansen, then carried on its merry way.
In a follow-up interview with Hansen, she said she thought someone wasn’t paying attention behind her and had hit her with a bike. “I had put my hands up to my head and I’m like, I’m bleeding!” she said. “Knowing that the moose had been somewhere behind me and now here this moose is in front of me and I’m like, ‘was that the moose?'”
WATCH: A woman in Alaska was walking her dog when a moose charged at her from behind and kicked her in the head. https://t.co/1U1MRHyOFD pic.twitter.com/ECDMiFTS5e
— NBC4 Washington (@nbcwashington) February 22, 2023
Hansen appeared to be okay after the attack, and even laughed a little as she retold the story to reporters. (RELATED: EXCLUSIVE INFO: Joe Rogan Guest Says Thousands Of Ancient Artifacts Were Dumped, Tells Public Where To Find Them)
“My husband was able to pull her over the snow bank, so we could get her in the truck with her dog and kind of get her out of the way,” Timmons said after the incident, KKTV noted. “It definitely seemed unprovoked from our standpoint and it happened so fast it was just like, a matter of getting her out of the situation, getting her help, making sure, you know, my big thing was that she didn’t have a head trauma, that there wasn’t a bleed or something.”
After the situation calmed down, Hansen said that she and Timmons discussed how “the Lord put her in the right place, at the right time to be able to help.” The snowbanks, seen in the video, are high, so it’s unclear whether anyone would have seen Hansen after she’d been trampled. Gunner was completely uninjured by the moose.
Earlier this year, a woman and her child were mauled to death in Alaska by a polar bear that wandered into their tiny village.