Camper experiences possible aggressive night time display west of Bragg Creek witnessed in Alberta, Canada

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I am an avid hiker,fisher, and camper. I do go camping on my own quite often. I was camping on my own west of the town of Bragg Creek Alta. At about 10:00pm Thursday July 22/10 I started to hear a fair amount of movement in the forest around me. Around 10:30 I started to hear what sounded like the banging of logs together, so I did the same in return. I heard nothing. Around 1:30 that night it was pouring rain thunder and lightning. Again I heard the cracking of deadfall but this time it was very close to where I was camping. This woke me up quite abruptly, laying in my tent listening with shear amazement but not moving. Then I heard very loud breathing right beside my tent thinking it might be a bear. At this time i'm alittle frightened. For the next 3 to 4 hours while it is still pouring rain I heard a constant breaking of branchesI had a tarp strung outsid my tent for my cooking area. The animal literaly hit the tarp as to be walking underneath it, that made me jump. I slowly unz...