Flesh being gnawed off the bone, low menacing growls, and her daughter’s blood-curdling screams for help.
These are the chilling sounds that made up a mother’s last ever phone call with her teenage daughter as she was eaten alive by a brown bear and its three cubs.
Olga Moskalyova, 19, had been taking what began as a summer a stroll with her stepfather near a river in eastern Siberia, in August 2011, before tragedy struck.
But nothing could have prepared the pair for the horrors that would soon unfold.
As the teen and her stepdad, Igor Tsyganenkov, made their way along the waterside in Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, a brown bear launched a terrifying attack on defenceless duo.
Olga managed to dodge the vicious predator as it overpowered her stepfather – breaking his neck, smashing his skull and killing him as he writhed in agony in front of his helpless daughter.
After watching the brutality unfold in front of her eyes, Olga ran around 200ft away before the mother bear sank its teeth into her leg and dragged her down to the floor.
Eaten alive: Olga Moskalyova, 19, gave an horrific hour-long running commentary on her own death in three separate calls to her mother as the wild animals mauled her in 2011
Killed: Olga Moskalyova (right) and her stepfather Igor Tsyganenkov (left) were both eaten alive by the bears
Put down: Six hunters were sent in by the emergency services to kill the mother bear and her three cubs (stock image)
As she fought the clutches of the huge bear, the teen managed to call her mother, Tatiana, several times.
In the first desperate phone call, she screamed: ‘Mum, the bear is eating me! Mum, it’s such agony. Mum, help!’
Her mother Tatiana said at the time that at first she thought her daughter was joking.
‘But then I heard the real horror and pain in Olga’s voice, and the sounds of a bear growling and chewing,’ Tatiana said.
‘I could have died then and there from shock.’
Tatiana attempted to phone her husband for help, tragically unaware that the bear had already mauled him to death.
The mother, sick with worry and confusion, alerted the police and family members in the village of Termalniy as she made urgent attempts to find help for her family.
She begged them to rush to the river where the pair had gone to retrieve a fishing rod that Tsyganenkov had left behind.
In a second call, a weak Olga gasped: ‘Mum, the bears are back. She came back and brought her three babies.
‘They’re… eating me.’
Mauled: The teen and her stepfather’s bodies were both discovered `around half an hour after the brutal attacks
Finally, in her last call – almost an hour after the first – Olga sensed she was on the verge of death.
With the bears having apparently left her to die, she said: ‘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.
Half an hour later, Igor’s brother Andrei arrived with police to find the mother bear still devouring his body. Severely mauled Olga was also dead.
Six hunters were sent in by the emergency services to kill the mother bear and her three cubs following the devastating double-killing.
A weeping Tatiana said that Olga had everything to look forward to, and was happy with her life and boyfriend Stepan.
‘My daughter was such fun. She was so cheerful, friendly, and warm,’ said Tatiana.
‘She had graduated from music school, and just days before the bear attack she got her driving licence.’
Her husband and daughter were buried on the same day in 2011.
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.’
A third added: ‘How cruel is that…hearing someone you love die horribly and not being able to do anything about it.
‘Still, there’s some small comfort in being able to at least say goodbye.’
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