Flesh being gnawed from the bone, low menacing growls and her daughter’s blood-curdling cries for help.
These are the horrifying sounds that made up a mother’s last phone call to her teenage daughter as she was eaten alive by a brown bear and its three cubs.
Olga Moskalyova, 19, had taken a summer walk along a river in eastern Siberia with her stepfather in August 2011 before tragedy struck.
But nothing could have prepared the couple for the horrors that would soon unfold.
As the teenager and her stepfather, Igor Tsyganenkov, walked along the waterfront in Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, a brown bear launched a terrifying attack on a defenseless duo.
Olga managed to evade the vicious predator as it overpowered her stepfather – breaking his neck, crushing his skull and killing him as he writhed in agony for his helpless daughter.
After watching the brutality unfold before her eyes, Olga ran about 60 yards away before the mother bear sunk its teeth into her leg and dragged her to the ground.
Eaten alive: Olga Moskalyova, 19, gave a gruesome hour-long commentary on her own death in three separate calls to her mother as wild animals mauled her in 2011
Killed: Olga Moskalyova (right) and her stepfather Igor Tsyganenkov (left) were both eaten alive by the bears
Settled: Six hunters were sent by emergency services to kill the mother bear and her three cubs (stock image)
While fighting the claws of the huge bear, the teenager managed to call her mother, Tatiana, several times.
In the first desperate phone call she screamed: ‘Mom, the bear is eating me! Mom, it’s such a pain. Mom, help!’
Her mother Tatiana said at the time that she initially 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 of shock at that moment.”
Tatiana tried to call her husband for help, but was tragically unaware that the bear had already mauled him to death.
The mother, sick with worry and confusion, alerted the police and relatives in the village of Termalniy while making urgent efforts to find help for her family.
She begged them to run to the river where the couple had gone to retrieve a fishing rod that Tsyganenkov had left behind.
On a second call, a weak Olga gasped: “Mom, the bears are back. She came back and brought her three babies.
“They… eat me.”
Dismembered: The bodies of the teenager and her stepfather were both discovered about half an hour after the brutal attacks
Finally, during her last phone call – almost an hour after the first – Olga felt she was on the brink of death.
Since the bears had apparently left her to die, she said, “Mom, it doesn’t hurt anymore. I don’t feel the pain.
“Forgive me for everything, I love you so much.”
The call was cut off and that was the last Tatiana ever heard her daughter’s voice.
Half an hour later, Igor’s brother Andrei arrived with the police and found the mother bear still devouring his body. The badly injured Olga was also dead.
After the devastating double murder, six hunters were sent by emergency services to kill the mother bear and her three cubs.
A tearful Tatiana said Olga had everything to look forward to and was happy with her life and boyfriend Stepan.
‘My daughter was so much fun. She was so cheerful, friendly and warm,” Tatiana said.
“She graduated from music school and got her driver’s license just days before the bear attack.”
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 that she had to experience the horror of the last few minutes of her daughter being eaten alive by the bear.
“It confirmed my thoughts of never wild camping or entering the wild again.”
Another wrote: ‘The story made me feel very ill, but I agree that these people should never have been in bear country without protection.
‘My heart goes out to the families of the victims, but you can’t blame a hungry mother with three babies for doing what comes naturally. Lessons need to be learned.”
A third added: ‘How cruel is that… hearing someone you love die in a horrible way and not being able to do anything about it.
“Still, it’s a small consolation that we can at least say goodbye.”