Terrifying moment Grandpa is LAUNCHED eight feet in the air by charging bison at Yellowstone

A grandfather was blown eight feet into the air after an agitated bison attacked him during an evening walk in Yellowstone National Park.

The man, whose name was not released, was walking around the Bridge Bay Campground with his grandchild on Friday night when they suddenly came across the angry animal. Cowboy State Journal.

He charged through the trees towards the grandfather and violently threw him upside down into the air before crashing to the ground.

Mike MacLeod, a Montanan who photographed the area, told the press: “The bison tied him to his hip with its left horn and threw him into the air.”

‘He did a perfect somersault and landed on his side,’ he added. ‘The bison was at least five feet tall, and the victim was several feet above him.’

After the monster was gone, witnesses rushed to the man and found him suffering from intense pain in his hip and the leg he was standing on, although he had no external injuries.

‘Someone held her hand. “Another man pulled security outside to make sure the bison didn’t come back,” MacLeod said. ‘A girl in the car was calling 911 and another girl did a blood scan but we couldn’t find any blood.’

The victim’s grandson told MacLeod that his grandfather had “pretty significant injuries” and was still “not out of the woods yet.”

The bison charged through the trees towards Grandpa and violently threw him upside down into the air before crashing to the ground.

He also said his grandfather feared the attack might have been caused by something he had done, but MacLeod, who recorded the entire incident on camera, insisted it was the bison that started it.

“They were out for an evening walk, they turned the corner and there was a bison,” the professional photographer said.

‘We could tell he was excited, angry and blaming everything,’ he added.

‘I’ve been around bison for a while now, but this was really weird. Why did he choose these two? There were a lot of people around and most of them were closer and behind the bison. It was really weird.”

The attack took place shortly after terrified campers at Bridge Bay, south of Fishing Bridge, found themselves in the same terrifying situation as a massive bull bison silently entered the area.

Among the campers was MacLeod, who ran to grab his camera after his wife spotted the wild animal slowly wandering around the family-friendly campsite. He started filming from a safe distance.

‘He was coming up to a group of kids from a long distance who were taking pictures on their cell phones, and then the buffalo attacked those kids,’ the Cowboy told State Daily.

The attack took place shortly after terrified campers at Bridge Bay, south of Fishing Bridge, found themselves in the same terrifying situation as a massive bull bison silently entered the area.

“You could tell he was excited, angry and blaming everything,” an eyewitness said

The boys managed to escape the bison’s fury, but MacLeod, a former Army combat photographer, feared the animal’s violent attack had only just begun.

It wasn’t long before the bison charged into the campsite, sending the terrified visitors into a panic as they shouted warnings at each other. But after the chaos, the animal calmly settled on a nearby patch of land.

“He was sitting in the dust with his head towards the road, just like bison do,” MacLeod said. A few minutes later, the old man and his grandson arrived at the scene unknowingly.

The pair noticed the bison lying down and kept their distance, staying about 100 yards (the equivalent of a football field from one goal line to the other), which is considered safe by the National Park Service (NPS).

“I didn’t see anyone approaching,” MacLeod said. ‘People were shouting, ‘Be careful, there’s a bison coming,’ and they were keeping their distance. “They were very respectful.”

Like the other campers, they took a few photos before the bison’s movement caused the grandfather and his grandson to abandon the area and move into the trees.

But a few minutes later, a white pickup truck passing nearby set the bison on the move again.

‘The bison was attacking the truck. “The guy in the truck saw this and moved on,” MacLeod told an outlet. ‘The bison then went to where these two were hiding in the trees.’

As the bison pursued his grandfather through the surrounding forest, the grandson managed to escape and eventually caught up with him and threw him into the air.

The terrifying encounter occurred during the annual bison rut, which runs from June to September, when the bulls flare up with increased energy and aggression.

As the bison pursued his grandfather through the surrounding forest, the grandson managed to escape and eventually caught up with him and threw him into the air.

MacLeod fell to the ground, where he said the bison stood over the victim and nodded excitedly. ‘I had to get the bison’s attention,’ he recalled.

‘I was really scared of the guy falling to the ground, so I stopped taking video and ran at the bison, yelling loudly and trying to be as big and scary as possible.’

Others followed in MacLeod’s footsteps, banding together and charging at the wild animal, eventually frightening it out of the campsite.

The campers remained with the victim until Yellowstone EMS became involved. ‘You can see in the video that it wasn’t his fault. You can tell from the very beginning,’ the photographer added.

The terrifying encounter took place during the annual bison rut, which runs from June to September, when bulls feed with increased energy and aggression as they fight for dominance and females.

“It changed my mind about what to expect from these guys this time of year because I couldn’t have predicted this coming,” MacLeod told the outlet.

The National Park Service has not released any information about the incident.