Black Bear Wanders Into Alaska Hospital and Raids Halloween Candy

A black bear in Alaska decided not to wait until Halloween to enjoy a few treats. Instead of searching through the woods for a snack, the unexpected visitor wandered into a hospital in the middle of the night and discovered a bucket of donated Halloween candy. The unusual encounter happened around 2 a.m. on Monday, October 12, at a hospital on Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson near Anchorage. The bear made its way through the emergency department, surprising people inside and turning an ordinary hospital visit into a wildlife encounter nobody was expecting. Fortunately, the bear’s late-night adventure ended without anyone getting hurt. Credit: YouTube An Unexpected Visitor in the Emergency Department Hospitals are used to handling emergencies, but a black bear strolling through the building is certainly not an everyday occurrence. Somehow, the animal gained access to the hospital and began exploring the emergency department during the early morning hours. One of the people who encountered the bear was Sherri Warnke, who had been visiting her mother at the hospital. As she was preparing to leave, she spotted the large animal approximately 30 feet away in a dimly lit hallway. It was a ...