That's because one of the largest black bear population in the area is in dismal swamp not far from there!!! We saw a couple when we went there before. That's what scares me about that being the area where she believed to be, spring bears waking up hungry!
Ha! I've ridden my bike close to a hundred times down the Dismal Swamp Canal Trail and I have all around the other side of the swamp in Suffolk and never saw a bear. Then I see one there on South Mills Rd and a couple of years another one on Shawboro Rd. Both in NC and both times while bike riding.