A teenage boy survived a wolf attack in northern Minnesota, according to FOX News. Noah Graham, 16, was camping on Lake Winnibigoshish with friends when the attack occurred.
Graham was with five friends when the wolf bit him on the back of the head on Saturday. It's the first documented wolf attack on a human in Minnesota to cause serious injury, according to the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources (DNR).
Graham's girlfriend ran to her jeep, while two other members of the camping group slept right through the ordeal, even with Graham yelling, kicking and fighting to escape the wolf.
"After I got up, I was kicking at it and screaming at it and it wouldn't leave," Graham said. He suffered a four-inch cut on his scalp and received 17 staples to close the wound.
"I had to reach behind me and jerk my head out of its mouth," Graham said of the scary experience. "After I got up, I was kicking at it and screaming at it and it wouldn't leave.
"There was no sound at all, didn't hear it," Graham said of the attack. "It was just all of a sudden there."
A wolf was trapped and killed in the same area on Monday, and officials are awaiting the results of a DNA test to determine if it's the same wolf that attacked Graham, as well as results to determine if the animal had rabies.
The wolf killed was 75 pounds and had a jaw deformity that likely would have prevented it from killing large prey, said Tom Provost, the regional manager for the DNR's enforcement division in Grand Rapids.
On Friday, an animal many campers described as a wolf ran through a campsite at the West Winnie Campground, which is operated by the U.S. Forest Service. The wolf tore through tents, puncturing an air mattress.
Wolf attacks are rare. In the last two decades, there have only been two reported in North America, one in Canada and the other in Alaska.
News coverage of the wolf attack.
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