Blacktail Deer Plateau Now you know, now you know

It already felt like her encounter with the ghost or spirit or whatever it was happened hours ago. She could scarcely remember its details. It took the shape of the bear and had pale eyes, but she couldn't remember how tall it was, the shape of its ears, whether it was a grizzly or a black bear or some other type of bear. These details were lost, the woeful shortcoming of short-term memory.

But, upon wracking her brain, the teen was sure it hadn't said anything. "No," she said at last, certain this was the correct answer. "It didn't say anything. It didn't follow me either." That was probably the creepiest thing of all: the bear had just stood there and stared at her. She didn't know its intentions or what it meant, just that it was there and now it was nowhere to be seen.