Vacationers in Gatlinburg, TN got quite the surprise after a bear broke into their rental cabin and ransacked the place, making off with candy and two beers. Michelle Eberhart told CNN that the bear opened a locked door and entered the cabin while she and a friend were chatting inside. The women ran upstairs and hid in a bedroom while the bear poked around.
Though Eberhart couldn’t see what was happening downstairs, she says she thinks a second bear entered the cabin, too, and that both bears were pretty active. They knocked over the garbage and “scratched up a lot of stuff.” Ultimately, they made off with five pounds of Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups, a pound of M&M’s, two pounds of Sour Patch Kids, two bags of potato chips, a tub of peanut butter pretzels and two bags of Dove salted caramel—as well as two beers, two Diet Cokes and