DATE:  9-12-99

TIME:  5:30Am-5:45Am

LOCATION:  Ontario Canada, Approx. 15 miles South West of Deep River Ontario along the Chalk River.  Near the base of the Canadian Shield.
Hwy. 17.  Half way between Deep River and Chalk River
Closest Landmark: Petawawa National Forestry Institute

TERRAIN:   Wooded

OBSERVED:    My wife Cheryl and I while camping, heard grunting outside of our tent and some rustling with our food cooler. We discovered it torn open and two packages of hot dogs stolen and the rest just dumped out.
Some footmarks found around the camp fire but just "shuffle" movements, not definite foot prints.

There was a lot of grunting and rustling.  We were awoken by the noise and it was dark.
My wife wouldn't let me look outside in case it was a bear.  Being novice campers we certainly didn't have a gun. (Not that all campers bring a gun!)
After about 15 minutes that we were awake, we heard nothing but we stayed up the rest of the night.
I made the above mentioned observations at 6:30am.

Description of Creature:   None

Activities of Witness:  Camping

Other Notes:  We went to bed about 9:30pm. I had duck taped the cooler and placed it about 15 feet
from our two-man tent.  The fire was extinguished.

Other Other Notes:  None

Researcher Notes:  None