Her neighbors reported they heard a car honking intermittently about midnight, but McGowin and her family, including their four dogs, stated they didn’t hear anything.

Ashley realized her hazard lights were on the next morning when she and her husband Joseph, 52, stepped outside, and the bear was busting out of the car shortly afterwards. The two cubs were hiding in a tree on their front lawn, so only the mother bear was trapped inside the automobile.

When the two returned to the house, Ashley took out her phone and began recording the mommy bear, who poked her head back through the hole to inspect the damaged vehicle and wandered about the hood. Seth, Ashley’s 10-year-old son, and his friend Rye Tracey are heard in the video reporting they saw a cub in the tree.

The family deduced that there must be a cub trapped inside the car as the mommy bear circled around on the hood. As the bear climbs off the hood and walks away from the SUV, the camera turns off, leaving the family alone.

It’s unclear how the bear got inside, but McGowin estimates she was inside for around six hours when heavy gusts slammed the door shut behind her. McGowin went to examine her car after the bears had departed and discovered the interior had been entirely wrecked. But it was the enormous hole in the front windshield where the bear pushed herself out that caused the most damage.

They reported the event to the local police department’s non-emergency phone, but no one responded. A game warden phoned her a short time later, but the mother bear and her two cubs had already departed her land.

The family now runs on one car and a motorcycle, which is insufficient when you have children. Before buying a new car, the family is waiting for the insurance company to notify them how much they’ll get for their destroyed automobile.