SEATTLE — A hiker believes he was attacked by an owl while he was walking on a trail at Discovery Park in Seattle.

"All the sudden, I felt like I got hit over the head by a stick or something out of nowhere," said Justin Harberg. "I turned around expecting to see a person [but] there was no one there. Then I thought maybe something fell out of a tree and hit me. I wasn't really sure so I kept walking."

Harberg felt the first whack on his head around sunset. Less than a minute later, he felt another one.

"This time, my hat was ripped clear off my head. It didn't just fall off. It was gone," he said. "At that point I figured I should probably get out of there; it was getting dark."

Harberg posted about the incident on social media, where commenters overwhelmingly suggested he had crossed

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