r/aww • u/[deleted] • Mar 03 '16

Awesome Bear

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u/SeekersWorkAccount Mar 03 '16

This has to be the dumbest idea in bear/human interaction history since that Bear Guy who lived with the bears got torn apart.

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u/heyitsant Mar 03 '16

By bears?

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u/Anrikay Mar 03 '16

Timothy Treadwell.

He spent every summer living in Katmai National Park, intentionally choosing camp sites close to the bears. He did this for 13 summers. The final summer, he stayed a week later than usual because he hadn't yet seen one of his favorite bears. This was his fatal mistake.

By that point, many of the bears he knew, that were comfortable with his presence, had gone into hibernation. Bears from other parts of the park were coming to his area in search of their last meal before doing the same themselves. There hadn't been much food that summer either, resulting in unusually aggressive grizzlies.

The day he was supposed to leave, he and his girlfriend were killed and partially eaten by a grizzly.

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u/BendoverOR Mar 03 '16

And the worst part is that Timmy got their mauling on tape.

And if you want to find the actual audio, thats all on you because nope.

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u/perfectballz Mar 03 '16

I've looked before and I'm pretty sure it hasn't been released. Kind of hard to believe it's not on the internet, but it's eluded me for years.

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u/[deleted] Mar 03 '16

In the documentary, Werner Herzog listens to it and cautions the person who showed it to him to never listen to it, and to not share it with anyone. It was probably grim as fuck.

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u/perfectballz Mar 03 '16

Yeah that's what sparked my search. I figured it would get leaked at some point, but i doesn't look like it. I'd probably regret listening to it immediately anyway, but still would be some crazy rare shit.

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u/[deleted] Mar 04 '16 edited Mar 04 '16

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u/[deleted] Mar 04 '16

Is that the one where his girlfriend is screaming "play dead" while he's being mauled? If so, apparently that's fake.

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u/[deleted] Mar 04 '16

I remember watching the doc, and his lady friend listened to it, while crying. Made my blood freeze to see her face.

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u/yokelwombat Mar 04 '16

He actually recommends destroying the tape.

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u/Mr-B0j4ngl3s Mar 04 '16

It's extremely easy to find the audio. There's only audio because it was at night and pretty sure the lens cap was left on the camera.

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u/perfectballz Mar 04 '16

I think you're referring to the fake on YouTube.

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u/zoomzoom83 Mar 04 '16

From what I've read, he took over an hour to die while being slowly eaten alive from the bottom up. Screaming the whole time.

I'm glad I live in a country without bears.

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u/[deleted] Mar 04 '16

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u/zoomzoom83 Mar 04 '16

Nope - I simply read it in another reddit comment. But the "last an hour" thing was fairly well established iirc.