The excitement of shooting her first deer quickly turned to fear as a first-time hunter watched five bears come out of the woodwork and begin eating her whitetail.

Five bears descended on the deer 20 minutes after Jordan Zabinski shot it during Thanksgiving weekend in Pennsylvania. “They threw my deer around like a rag doll, they ripped the tail off and cubs played catch with it. This is definitely one hell of a story, and I’m glad I got it on video or else no one would believe me,” Zabinski said on her Facebook post. She initially believed there were four bears, but later realized there were actually five bears. 

Zabinski said in an interview with WTAJ that she told her husband before the hunt she was worried about seeing bears. “I was so terrified of a bear, and my husband was like, ‘I’ve never seen a bear except for this one time,’ he said, ‘don’t worry, you’re not gonna see one,’” Zabinski said to WTAJ.

She tried reaching out to her husband after the bears showed up, but didn’t initially hear back from him as he was helping her brother load a deer he’d killed.

“At first I was really quiet, but then I really started to freak out,” Zabinski said. After finally reaching her husband, she had to wait about 30 more minutes, so she tried to keep as quiet as possible. “It’s been a while now and no one’s coming. What if they don’t to get me in time?”

Eventually Zabinski’s husband arrived and yelled to scare off the bears. She said with it being her first year hunting, she was too nervous to move. Only the tail was missing on the deer, and the rest of the deer they were able to eat, according to The News Tribune.