Stevenson Shaw is the survivor of an alleged bear attack in 1959.
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