Man Has Close Run-In With a Wolf
‘Mike Olson had been working under his dad’s deck for about 20 minutes when he realized he wasn’t alone. “I cocked my head back, and I saw those two eyes looking at me,” Olson said of the Monday encounter. “I got out real fast.”
Olson had seen what he thought was a gray wolf. “It was probably 6 feet away,” he said. “It was just laying down. It had its head up and was just looking at me.”
Olson and his dad, Erling, called the police, who responded expecting to find a large, wolf-like dog beneath the deck.
“They put their head under the deck, and sure enough, it was a wolf,” said Craig Mattson, deputy chief for the Thief River Falls Police Department.’
