Alaska Woman Attacked By Bear While Using Outhouse “I got out there and sat down on the toilet and immediately something bit my butt right as I sat down,” Shannon Stevens told reporters. Mark Thiessen Wolfgang Kaehler/LightRocket/Getty Images American black bear (Ursus americanus) at creek at Neets Bay fish hatchery, Behm Canal in Southeast Alaska near Ketchikan, USA. ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — An Alaska woman had the scare of a lifetime when using an outhouse in the backcountry and she was attacked by a bear, from below. “I got out there and sat down on the toilet and immediately something bit my butt right as I sat down,” Shannon Stevens told The Associated Press on Thursday. “I jumped up and I screamed when it happened.”