EDITORS NOTE: We have recently been in contact with Dr Von Schnucks, and he has agreed to meet with us via webcam. As soon as the details are finalized we will have a clip of the session for public presentation. Look for an announcement on the main index page sometime this summer.
Chapter 3:
Of Bears, Bison, and Butt-Rape.
There were no major complications from the operation and Dillard took to his new baboon brain quite readily and he would have a normal hillbilly redneck childhood. Unfortunately, the surgical miracle did not get Dr Von Schnucks proper recognition or respect from the medical community. Max Von Schnucks' claim was considered a hoax because Cyrus and Delia Provost would not allow their son to be examined by any "big city" doctors. To this very day Dillard violently denies the baboon brain transplant, and becomes quite agitated when asked about it. Von Schnucks was branded a fraud and returned to his practice at the zoo. Rumours began to circulate that he was trying to duplicate his feat with continued experimentation in primate to human brain transplants. The discovery of several monkey and baboon mutilations, coupled with an increased incidence of missing backwoods children, cast a pall of suspicion on Von Schnucks. The doctor vehemently denied the allegations, and blamed it all on a brown bear that had recently escaped from a travelling circus. Regardless if the bear was, or wasn't involved in the abductions and mutilations, this particular brown bear would affect Dillard's life in a most profound and disturbing manner.
It all happened in the spring of 1966, shortly before Dillard's 13th birthday, when the adolescent finally got permission from his mother to hike a nature trail, alone. Rumours of the escaped circus bear had died down, but not before they became legend. Stories of the psychotic bear who had killed his trainers and escaped, were still used to frighten young children into behaving, and staying out of the woods. His mother, though concerned, grudgingly accepted Cy's determination that the psychotic brown bear was a myth, and that it would be alright to let their son go on a solo hike. The fact that the Providence family plywood shack stood nearly smack dab in the middle of a wooded area outside of Yellowstone National Park, was a tragic irony in itself, and is not looked back upon fondly by family members.
Delia Providence recounts, "I was unhappy that I could not go with him, I had a broken leg, all I could do was give him a hug, and wave goodbye as my Dillard lumbered off into the woods."
It is of professional opinion that his mothers loving hug is what led to the bears attack, as she had unkowingly put her smell on him, and her smell was still tinged with the smell of sex with her North American Sasquatch lover, Dillard's biological father.
The sexually charged bear rushed quickly out of the bushes and slapped Dillard to the ground. The bear wasted no time mounting the boy and brutaly sodomized him quickly into submission. Perhaps the bear may have killed Dillard if not suprised by a group of hikers.
Nigel Davenport, one of the hikers, gives this account.
"We heard some screaming up the trail. We ran up behind a large brown bear hunkered over something in the middle of the trail. The bear looked up, saw us, then straight-away took off. The bear left behind a young lad, a whimpering bloody mess. In shock he was, getting buggered by a bear."
It is of interest to note that the hikers when describing the bear attack to park rangers, all swore that the bear wore a circus collar. This was the escaped circus bear. The Rangers fairly discounted this fact as a bag of marijuana was found on one of the hikers, the group was then presumed stoned, and the Rangers went out and shot the first brown bear they saw. The incident was not pursued further, threat dismissed. This would not bode well for Dillard Providence, the bear was still out there. Dillard was airlifted to the Butte ER trauma center, and recieved emmergency surgery for severe anal tearing. It would've been worse if not for the dung beetles his mother had inserted into his rectum to alleviate chronic constipation, but that's another chapter titled: "The last Dung Beetle out my ass is a rotten egg". Anyway, the beetles served as a sort of rectum stretcher thereby lessening the potential damage caused by the bears repeated penetrations. Upon Dillard's release to his parents his mother won her first battle with Cy over the boy. She succeeded in convincing Cyrus that it would be in the boys best interest to move the family to San Francisco. Dillard did not need reminders of the traumatic experience "causing flashbacks" she told Cy. Cy agreed, and the family packed up the Rambler to leave the backwoods behind. Unfortunately for Dillard, the psychotic circus bear followed them, the bear would soon be Dillard's own personal serial rapist.
