McAlester Man Reveals Why He Donned A Bear Costume For The Snow

It was talk of the social media on Thursday when a person dressed up in a bear costume appeared during Reagan Ledbetter's report from McAlester.

We now know why he was in the costume after he met up with Reagan later that day.

Josiah said was on his way to surprise his girlfriend with an early Valentine's Day gift.

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"You know in times like this, some people expect the worst and some people want to think of the better of it you know. I always say that you only have one way to change the world and that's to make people smile and bring the positive back.," said Josiah.“I saw you all on the way up there and I was like I might as well do something funny for these guys. So I went up there and started dancing and running around and just made a blast out of it and made people smile you know.”

The early gift certainly made a lot of people across green country laugh.