While Terri Frana was in the jaws of a black bear, her cell phone accidentally dialed her husband. The almost six-minute voicemail she left was chilling.
"There was just a voicemail of five minutes and 43 seconds of me screaming," Frana told ABC News through tears.
After surviving a brutal bear attack near her garage, she ran into her home and collapsed to the ground. Her son frantically called 911, and his mother's panic is clear on the recently released audiotape.
"She came in screaming. She said a bear attacked her," her son told the dispatcher.
Frana's husband, Frank, also communicated his wife's trauma to the 911 operator.
"She's breathing," he said. "She's just traumatized. She's breathing and bleeding hard."
Frana of Lake Mary, Florida was in her garage on April 12 when she noticed several bears in her driveway and digging through her trash. One of the bears noticed her too.
"I saw this large bear charging at me," Frana recounted to WESH Orlando, "so I turned and started to run and she must have turned and stood on her hind legs and pushed me down, because I've got both her paw claw marks on my neck all the way down to my waist. I could just hear her teeth marks going through my scalp.
"The bear actually had my wife's head in its mouth and started to drag her toward the woods," Mr. Frana added. "The bear's jaws let her head loose then it started on her arms."
While her head was in the bear's mouth, the 44-year old wife and mother began to pray.
"I just thought 'God, please, this can't be the end. It can't end like this.'
"I literally heard Jesus say to me, 'It's OK, you will be at peace with us.'
"I replied, 'Please, my kids need me.'
"Then the bear released my head. She let go of my head and I knew I had to get up off that ground and get away, otherwise I was not going to make it."
Following the attack, Frana received 30 staples and 10 stitches in her scalp.
