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Two old tales from Fort Mac. True??
Just wondering if any of the guys from Fort Mac have ever heard a story about a cougar attack. An old fellow once told my father a long time ago that when he was a child, he lived near Abasand down by the river (or maybe Waterways, I can't remember) and his school was up the hill. The teacher would walk the children to school and one morning a cougar came out and killed the teacher. This was during WW2 and the US army was there at the time. The soldiers ended up killing the cougar.
Anyone ever hear this story?
Another one I heard was about the cemetery downtown by the superstore. A guy I used to work with up north, grew up in Fort Mac during the 60's and said that bears got into the cemetery and were digging up bodies. The police went in and were shooting the bears with their handguns.
This one seems very unlikely to me, unless bodies weren't buried 6 ft under in the 60's??
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09-05-2013, 11:03 AM
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I have lived here for 33 years; and I haven' t heard either story before.
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09-05-2013, 12:45 PM
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I was there for 34 years and never heard of either. I do remember about a Whitetail buck tangled in barbed wire in the downtown cemetary that forum member Kurt505 and some other fellas came across I believe. Made the front page if I remember right....
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09-05-2013, 12:48 PM
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A cougar killing the teacher while she was with a pile of kids sounds unlikely to me; a predatory cat would have picked the easiest looking target, most likely focusing on the one that was most 'Timmay!' among the little ones with her.
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09-05-2013, 01:16 PM
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I was there for 34 years and never heard of either. I do remember about a Whitetail buck tangled in barbed wire in the downtown cemetary that forum member Kurt505 and some other fellas came across I believe. Made the front page if I remember right....
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That was a monster buck, beams as thick as baseball bats!
We had land in the clearwater river valley, never once came accross any sign of a cougar(feline anyway). Not to say its not possible, we have land by the Athabasca river valley near Vega now and I've seen cougar there, they could travel as far down stream as the Mac I guess. Tons of bears but I'd think they'd have to be mighty hungry to dig up a corpse filled with embalming fluid?
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09-05-2013, 01:17 PM
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...most likely focusing on the one that was most 'Timmay!' among the little ones with her.
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09-05-2013, 02:45 PM
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urban legends, both of them......
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09-05-2013, 03:22 PM
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The one about the bears eating the dead has a bit of fact in it however. In the early years when the natives were mostly incapacitated by smallpox there were stories of bears eating the dead. The natives still have superstitions relating to that time.
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09-05-2013, 04:33 PM
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I'm not sure if we have cougars around here......
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09-05-2013, 04:57 PM
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 I like the bears story. im gonna keep that one going. as for the cougar thing. there was a cougar on the birch wood trails reported to f&w and put on mymcurray.com and facebook. ive seen pretty well everything else on those trails. even a couple my parents age going at it. so I don't see it that improbable.
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I like the bears story. im gonna keep that one going. as for the cougar thing. there was a cougar on the birch wood trails reported to f&w and put on mymcurray.com and facebook. ive seen pretty well everything else on those trails. even a couple my parents age going at it. so I don't see it that improbable. |
Pictures or it didn't happen lol 
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urban legends, both of them......
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Wasn't on the CBC, so it never happened. Thing about old historic items is that they didn't get widely spread around or documented, wouldn't write it off too easily. Stories also tend to get exagerated with time. Was surprised to learn some time ago, back in the very early 1900's, there was a fatal Black bear attack in the Williams creek area, west of Sundre.
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09-07-2013, 12:18 PM
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Oh well! Anyone got any old Fort Mac stories to share?
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09-07-2013, 01:26 PM
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I know this guy named Steve, he works at site........always has some good stores to tell 
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I have no first hand knowledge of either story, but the while the first one is plausible, the second never happened, unless the streetcars run through the cemetery. Cops ain't that proficient with handguns.
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09-07-2013, 08:00 PM
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have been in Ft mac since 1984, never heard of either of those stories. Two years ago I saw a cougar in wandering river while deer hunting. Came out of the trees and ran parralell to me and then ran back into the woods.
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09-07-2013, 08:14 PM
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I have seen lynx close to town, one last weekend, which some people assumed to be a cougar. I haven't seen a cougar in town since the Oil Can closed.
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09-07-2013, 09:23 PM
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I have seen lynx close to town, one last weekend, which some people assumed to be a cougar. I haven't seen a cougar in town since the Oil Can closed.
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Last time I was in Ft. Mac, there was a bear in the dumpster at Mac Donald's. Definitely don't see that in Olds. 
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The thing about historic items is they start off as a bear wandered into town and the cops shot it next to the cemetery and it evolves into corpse eating bears over time
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09-07-2013, 09:37 PM
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Last time I was in Ft. Mac, there was a bear in the dumpster at Mac Donald's. Definitely don't see that in Olds.
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Actually bear sightings in town are very common. I hope that the bear in question didn't suffer any ill effects.
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I have seen lynx close to town, one last weekend, which some people assumed to be a cougar. I haven't seen a cougar in town since the Oil Can closed.
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come on elk , your an old timer bud. you meant to say peter's at the peter pond inn !
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09-08-2013, 07:58 PM
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Did a Wildlife Study several years back north of Ft Mac. I found several sets of Cougar tracks. Two days later, the Mulcher operator saw the cougar stroll down the line Just like he owned it.
Good friend of mine saw a cougar several times south of Rainbow Lake down by Haro 3. Later that year, late spring as I recall, the local Game Warden found a Cougar carcass under the bridge on the Hay River south of Zama City. Ses to me that they are, or can be, found anywhere in the Province.
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09-09-2013, 11:07 PM
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Now that is funny... Thanks for the memory. Off to YouTube I go to look a few of those vids over again!
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09-09-2013, 11:29 PM
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Cougars have been sighted up here, and I know of one that was taken close to town.
I've been here since '73, lived in Waterways for quite a for years, my best friends being old time trappers, and I never ever head the bear story .
Ghost up the river from a river boat wreck, kids that went missing on traplines, the woodland caribou migration in town, and all kinds of crazy stories about old Dim Sillin, but never the bear story.
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