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When I think about it, I've had many more of these experiences than I realized before.
Asides just flying out to the Aleutian islands which is always a risk. I'll have to go with being attacked by a mother moose when I was 14 or so with my grandma. We gave it a wide berth, did everything right but she must have been terrorized recently (it was near a shitty city). We were charged on a narrow trail. I had to choose between pushing my grandmother over to run faster, or getting trampled. She was an active elder and everything. But not as fast as a 14 year old. So obviously I got trampled.
I remember the force knocking me flat, sliding forward on my back, and the huge silhouette of moose belly against the cloudy sky. Before she started stomping and spinning, which I just went fetal position.
She ended up stomping through my thigh that first stomp, didn't break anything (idk how). She missed my nethers by about 3 inches and missed my artery by about 1/4 an inch.
Luckily my grandmother was a calm cool collected doctor. She knew it missed the artery and assured me I wouldn't die the ten minute walk back to the car. Didn't really calm me down.
That's one of the predominant experiences ๐
I misread that as 'goose' to begin with, which was a very different visual to a moose ๐