Chilling Quotes from Nonfiction Books

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Grandpa

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There's a line that haunts me from back in the late '60s, early '70s. The book was Night of the Grizzlies, and it reports on a night when two young women, in two separate camps, were killed in separate grizzly bear attacks. I think it was a first for that national park. But as the grizzly went through one girl's tent and then sleeping bag, she was screaming (as I remember), "He's got my arm! My arm is gone! Oh my God, I'm dead!"

My boyhood friend Curt read the book about the same time I did, and that's all we could talk about. We were horrified, reading it.
 

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