Around 7:30 a.m. Wednesday, Blake and Katie Odgers were enjoying their honeymoon in their Gatlinburg cabin when they heard a honking noise coming from their Jeep.
The Jeep’s windows are tinted, so Blake, a Columbiana native, investigated further by inching closer to the driver’s side window when he “came face-to-face with the open mouth of an angry black bear,” he recalled Thursday to AL.com.
“Adrenaline kind of kicked in and my first thought was ‘I gotta get this thing out of my car,' so I try to open the door and his weight being right up against the door kept it from opening so I had to go back and actually pull on it,” Blake Odgers said.
The Shelby County native, who along with his wife work at West Ridge Church in northwest Atlanta -- which is where the Odgers’s wedding took place -- said the bear moseyed around before taking off across the street, up the mountain and out of the couple’s eyesight.
But not before Blake Odgers took a photo of the bear -- and the destruction it left in its wake -- from the front step of his cabin.
“Boy do we have a story for you guys...,” Blake Odgers wrote along with the pictures he posted on social media of the bear encounter.
“He tore everything on the inside to shreds,” Blake Odgers told AL.com. “The crazy part was the outside was completely unblemished. We still have no idea how he got in because there’s zero external evidence.”
Katie Odger’s parents live in north Georgia, about three hours away from the Odgers’s retreat in Tennessee, and were able to bring a car over so the newlyweds could continue their honeymoon.
“We’ve been able to just laugh it off and enjoy it for the most part — the way it’s taken off has been pretty fun to enjoy as well,” Blake Odgers said. “People have brought a lot of humor to the whole situation which has been nice.”
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