Small dog chases bear from Gatlinburg bedroom where children slept

photo Coco the dog ran circles around a black bear, chasing it out of Priscilla Epperson's Gatlinburg home, where her kids were sleeping.

A Gatlinburg, Tenn., woman got quite a scare at her home one recent evening when she heard her dog barking frantically downstairs in the bedroom where her children slept.

When Priscilla Epperson got downstairs, Coco the dog was running circles around a black bear.

Epperson said she had not yet locked up for the evening about two weeks ago, and the exterior door to her bedroom, which she described as a mother-in-law suite, apparently didn't completely latch.

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