The Grizzly Bear Attacks of 1967
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- Опубліковано 14 лис 2023
- The terrible Grizzly bear attacks that happened in Glacier National Park on the same night.
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Night of the Grizzlies
Book by Jack Olsen
Most quotes are from this book!
Please check out the book for further reading.
Opening quote from prologue page 32.
Details of George G. Ostrom from Chapter 5.
Grizzly Bear:
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Sources:
Night of the Grizzlies
Book by Jack Olsen
Most of the quotes are from this book, please check it out.
George Ostrom:
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History of National Parks:
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Yellowstone History:
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Glacier National Park:
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Grizzly Bear Information:
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Average Size of Grizzly Bears:
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Largest Grizzly in Lower 48:
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Grizzly Speed:
www.nps.gov/parkhistory/onlin...
Bear vision:
bear.org/senses-and-abilities/
howitsee.com/do-bears-have-go...
Bear Feeding:
www.bearsmart.com/blog/dont-f... - Домашні улюбленці та дикі тварини
You run a chalet in the middle of Grizzly country, you purposely bait for them with garbage, you keep no medical supplies handy and you have no weapon?! The idiocy in that arc of a story is amazing!
not if you are one with nature.. i'm a little surprised at your fear of bears, however i did read a book by dean holtzhagen, and he clealy states that a child growing up who had never received a teddy or toy bear, will carry these fears. I hope you can control these unwarranted fears gashouse69... - ha..lol - just trolling/kidding you a bit, and there is no dean holtzhagen, i thought that was a good touch. Yea on your post i agree, even tho i do love animals - also remember this was the 60's there was a lot of stupidity running about!!!
@@paulcarey191for me, I’d much rather prefer to be better safe than sorry. Even if I lived in the 60s, I’d prolly never go to bear country
No fear here, just respect. I've spent my whole life in the woods and mountains of the Carolinas and while we do not have Grizzlies, aka North American Brown, we do have a large Black Bear population as well as wild pigs and other creatures capable of doing a person serious damage. I've encountered bears many times on hikes and camping. Respect them and give them the right away and typically you'll be fine. The biggest mistake one can make is leaving food & garbage out.
While I expect no issue, I still go prepared whenever in the woods by carrying a firearm, I would use it as a last resort only after intimidation and bear spray failed, and even then the 1st round would be in the dirt if time allows and the noise alone should cause them to turn tail. @@paulcarey191
Well said brother man and about almost exactly the same thing I was just thinking
EXACTLY
A grizzly banging om your home and doors trying to get in is literally nightmare fuel. Straight out of a horror movie. Tragedy for all involved
"grizzly ...is literally nightmare fuel" But yet we decide to make a replica stuffed grizzly cub and give it to the baby.... surprised humanity is still around. Lol
@@MrWolfheart111 I mean trueeeeee buuuut…. that’s only been around since Teddy Roosevelt lol he refused to shoot a bear that had been tied up for him to shoot after he was the only one who didn’t get one on the trip. It spread around the country, and a political cartoonist made a little drawing that ended up being seen by a family of toy makers. They made “teddy’s bear” in honor of him. It was so popular it allowed them to start a toy company and…. The teddy bear as we know it is here today lol
@@Birchlead Thanks, Ya I remeber that now, Teddy bear was named after Rosevelt... very cool thanks.
People living in grizzly territory should lock all doors at all times !!
Literally? I tought unliterally 🤦♂️🤦♂️
“A grizzly bear on the danger scale is somewhere between 0 and 1” is the wildest and frankly dumbest thing I’ve ever heard 🤣
Yeah that’s bunch of BS. Danger is through the roof for grizzlies
Yeah at the lowest it is a 4, and that is with a bebe bear cause then you are factoring the 10 from mama bear
I said out loud when I heard their rating, “They’re stupid!”
If the bear wants to attack you and the scale is “1 is butterfly, 10 is snake” a grizzly would be a 7,000,656
@@WorldwideWyatt Plus tax lol
Safety rules are always written with blood
Oh yes such an original quote I'm sure you just made that up, no way you haven't heard that before a billion times. It is 100 percent your original.
@@edwardwright2989 finally, some recognition for what id clearly tried to claim as my doing
So is the national electrical code.
Lol
Written with blood, yes, but often with over zealous fear as a topping.
"Their distance vision has never been tested" now I'm just picturing a bear at an optometrist, looking at a vision chart. "Can you read the first line?"
"Grrr?"
you silly willy you beamed that silly image into my head.
but for me, the bear IS the optometrist in a white coat and a stethoscope around his neck and a pair of very scientific looking glasses on his face.
Omg......this image is cursed! 😂
No medical supplies?! No weapons?! In bear country..while you're feeding them..jeezuss...
Pure genius huh!🤪☠️🤪
Yeah, that's dumb as hell
And till this day you still see all kinds of idiots trying to interact with these WILD animals...The Treadwell syndrome.
@@JOHN-vr4og Yeah, I've heard of him. He got his girlfriend killed because she, for some totally inexplicable reason, went along with his insanity. There was a guy who got a baby hippopotamus and tried to keep it as a pet. He ignored those who urged him to get rid of it, and it eventually killed him.
she did it because he was like 6 foot 2@@grumpygremlin2379
A more successful "grizzly repelent" which is also free, can be used. It's called "don't go looking for grizzlies".
I've been using this method for 31 years and I can attest to it's success.
You got that sh* t right
This. If you accidentally encounter wild animals, unless they have rabies, they typically stay away. If you go looking for them though, then you’re walking to a potential meeting place with your maker.
*doesn't work in soviet russia
They weren't looking for grizzlies, they were camping.
Both my wife and I grew up on this story and in fact my wife was friends with the son of George Ostrom. This is the best telling of this tragic event we have seen. One fact worth noting is that on the very same night a guard station in Yellowstone Park was attacked by a grizzly. A back country ranger was inside. Thank You for this in-depth journalism.
so is my wife
@@jdangosilent5340i hope she's carrying more than bear spray
You can bet he was loaded for bear.
The guy who retraced his steps ALONE in the DARK to get a mattress for Julie is so brave. Everyone is ho tried to help is grace but wow that stood out
No, he is not brave, he is dumb. 'I have big balls and a small brain' is that bravery?
No animal is scarier to me than a bear. They can outrun, out-swim and out-climb me. They can shred a tent to ribbons, rip the door off a car or RV and easily break thru a window on a cabin or house. Even though experts say how rare bear attacks are there is always a chance it can happen while walking in the woods
Can try really rip a door off a car? Does the car door need to be open or just unlocked?
If I go through a bear park in Colorado
You drive through the park and the bears climb all over your vehicle as you drive through really slow
Would that be safe!??? I want an honest opinion
@@jennifertonyan9984 absolutely can tear a car door off as easily as we rip open a cardboard box. Doesn’t matter if it’s locked or unlocked. It can also simply break the window and climb in that way. There was a report of an angry bear who tore through the trunk of a car for a stick of gum that it smelled inside.
Exactly. Bears are land sharks.
Ex-wife.
@@jennifertonyan9984 Yes, they CAN! It wouldn't take much for a near-thousand-pound Grizzly to break into a window or a door, locked or otherwise if it's angry or hungry enough! They're big enough to steal hard-earned kills or supplies from a store and get away with it. Once they're conditioned to human food, they'll continue to waltz into human properties until they're either relocated, or killed!
34:10 Man, this makes the whole situation even sadder. 1 and 2 were just innocent bears lured and habituated by humans and they weren't even the killers but they still paid with their lives for the greed and amusement of irresponsible people
As I commented, a fed bear is a dead bear which is why you're warned not to feed any wild animal especially bears.
actually stomach churning.
It's tragic of course, but stats show those bears would have killed someone eventually. Completely senseless deaths of humans and animals that could have been avoided. DO NOT FEED THE BEARS.
fr its awful and the poor babies :(
@@1ceanator99what?! You have no proof or stats these bears would have hurt anyone. Yes do not feed bears but those 2 were not dangerous
Bear biologist Stephen Herrero describes this attack in his book "Bear Attacks - Their Causes and Avoidance", but does so as a scientific summary. You add the contributing human behavior in greater detail. Well done!
I love that book! Really teaches a lot about bear behavior.
Very interesting book. It taught me a lot.
I swear it sounds like these people did everything to get eaten but wrap themselves in bacon.
Maybe some butter
Some honey
Actually, my son (8 at the time) encountered a grizzly in our home city, in Vaasa, Finland, just this year at the beginning of summer (in the beginning of June).
He was out playing in a park near by when he first heard the bear, then saw it. It sniffed the air, moved towards my son and his friend, growling and clearly searching.
Thankfully my son had been paying attention when I've told him what to do when encountering a bear and he managed to get away with his friend but he's still shook up on the matter.
I called emergency center, of course, but extremely heavy rain had started and washed away any tracks.
It was a great reminder that even if we live in a city of 100k people, we're still close to nature.
Great video!
That's chilling, especially considering that bears move further south due to climate change all over the EU. I'm in Germany and we rarely have bear sightings but I'm terrified of them.
That would have been a Eurasian Brown Bear not a Grizzly. Grizzlies are an exclusively North American subspecies.
@@jaredthehawk3870 Yes, true. Thanks for the correction.
I'm glad your son was okay. Sounds like a scary encounter.
@@wildworld6264 Me too! :D Thankfully he's a bright kid and didn't panic.
“Lightening strikes drove the bears mad.” Yep, it was definitely not the piles of food, garbage and crowds of people.
This documentary is amazing. Can’t believe I’m just coming across this channel.
I’ve been to Katmai National Park in Alaska twice, and it’s absolutely insane how many bears there are! At Brooks Lodge, you have to go through a 30 minute bear school course before being allowed onto the fishing trails. It’s abundantly clear that this is Bear country, and that we MUST respect it… or else.
That is Very Good & definitely, Vital and interesting News about the necessary need too attend a 30min Bear awareness Seminar upon every One's Entry into those two Great Sanctuaries of Pure Gloriously Great Bueaty and Wonder.
30 minutes is a waste of time.
@@user-wx8uj4xr2q Maybe it wasn't quite 30 minutes, but it was certainly more than 10! But it most certainly is NOT a waist of time when you're entering the territory of the 2nd largest land predator on Earth, ESPECIALLY when there are so many in the same area.
@@erich930 All one has to do is run faster than the persons around you.
@@user-wx8uj4xr2q Ideally, no one has to run at all
If a rattlesnake is a 10 on the danger scale, a grizzly is about a 747.
Fighting a bear is like fighting a wood chipper attached to a professional wrestler body in quadriped form.
As a native I’ve been to the chalet, and it now features nine inch nail through the wooden windows, so any bear that tries to break in would injure its paws. (No glass windows, the old timey ones made of wood. Whole building is stone and wood.)
Dude. Those pilots need their own story.
I can just imagine them going back and forth under the red glow. Pushing that chopper to the limit. Unsung heroes.
In the late 60's, the Hippies had the 'Free Love' movement and the Grizzlies had the 'Free Hug' movement. Peace man.
I'll take the grizzlies. Much less destructive.
Geez, that is a truely tragic story. I absolutely agree that nature should be respected, which is different from it being feared. I always tell people to listen to their gut. If you gotta think about something for more then 30 sec, either take caution or don't partake in it at all. Fantastic video as always my friend.
Thanks for your support pal. Btw, just watched 'Sharks, the cleaners of the lagoon' and I thought it was pretty good. I really liked the coral sharks tearing up those nets and the part with the Tiger sharks and the Blue whale was wild. Thanks for the recommendation!
@@wildworld6264 Yea the part with the blue whale was crazy. Glad you liked it! 👍
Doesn't work if you have anxiety.
@@wildworld6264 In relation to 1:04 wasnt yosemite the first national park of its kind in the world and not just the USA or were similar nationally protected wildernesses around before then, loved the video!
This reminds me of the Sankebetsu bear incident, yet this series of attacks was entirely man-made. How unfortunate.
OH MY GOD The Sankebetsu bear incident is the stuff of nightmares!!!! After learning about it I will NEVER forget it!
OH MY GOD The Sankebetsu bear incident is the stuff of nightmares!!!! After learning about it I will NEVER forget it!
Japanese bears are just built differently
Yeah Japanese bears (asuryi) are not as small as a average grizzly. Only the Kodiak and polar bear are bigger (and not by much).
I'm no gun nut and I love all animals, but spending time in active grizzly territory without protection is basically insane. Same goes for running a resort with no medical supplies.
I found myself getting misty eyed, as you described judy being carried back to the chalet, on the bed spring. And father Connelly holding her hand tightly, whilst she kept saying how afraid she was. And the fact that father Connelly, despite everything, offered her hope and faith…in the doctors that awaited, back at the chalet, and, as you so eloquently put, “the protective gaze of God”.
I suppose there’s some consolidation in the fact that judy, though she did pass, did so surrounded by heroic friends. And not alone, in the dark, eaten alive by a bear
Well said 🙏
..Her name was Julie. And she lay outside for over two hours after getting attacked and dragged by the bear. Who knows if the bear was attacking her again during those two hours. Her injuries suggest that the bear did.They left her out there because they had to wait for someone to come with a gun. It’s incredible that rangers didn’t have firearms then.She might have survived if she didn’t have to wait for almost four hours for the helicopter and real medical help to arrive.
There wasn’t anybear spray for 🎉
religious people are so delusional. where was this loving gaaawd when the woman was being eaten alive? Oh taking a coffee break
they gave up on her and let her die, they're not heroic in the slightest...
I wonder if bears tell each other stories about how dangerous humans are.
I’m sure that Yellowstone used to be called Jellystone when I was a boy. I remember the bears used to wear hats and collars with ties. But I’m probably imagining that part
Maybe you're thinking of the cartoon Yogi Bear .
This channel deserves a lot more recognition, the topics you cover while narrating are honestly some of the most interesting i've seen
Thank you so much!
Damn, clicked on this video to fall asleep to and couldn’t stop watching! This video was very interesting and portrayed very well. Very underrated and deserves a LOT more attention!
Thank you so much
same! this is sooo good
What a heartbreaking story, but very moving to hear the bravery of the rescuers involved. One thing that stood out to me is that I cannot imagine the decision that 22 year old ranger faced, when deciding if they should go after Julie. If she chose to wait, that meant Julie would likely not get help in time to save her. But if she approved the search then and there, and more people were hurt or killed in another attack, that would also be on her. I cannot imagine having to make such a choice alone as a fresh 22 year old.
That's why women shouldn't be in charge of decisions involving Valor. She chose to do nothing and the girl died because of it.
@@bigscrap84 💀
@bigscrap84 and then if people went out to save her, more could have died. She likely would have died either way. Any intelligent man would do the same
@@bigscrap84the odds of someone getting lost, getting hurt or getting attacked without proper lighting and no weapons were high. you cannot risk the lives of many for one person. she made a difficult decision but she made the right one. you’re just a sexist moron.
@@bigscrap84Have YOU ever gone after a bear, princess? Or are you just getting your rocks off being a sexist troll about chicks with way bigger nuts than yours?
I’m a solo female hiker. The last thing I EVER want to see is a freaking bear.
When I was 12 years old I had a very close encounter with a grizzly bear. It was night time. I was walking between the 2 cabins my family and some family friends had rented in Yellowstone Park. It was very dark and I could only see the light in the windows. Suddenly something very big passed in front of one of those windows. I was very confused. What is that? I reached out. Fur. Moving fur. My mind left my body in pure terror. But the bear didn’t give a fluff that I was touching it. The bear was focused on the trash cans located about 100 feet away. It left me alone and moved on. I turned around and went back into the adults cabin. When I walked in all I could get out was, “BEAR!”. Later, my mom said I had the look of a terrified child. Everyone ran past me to go see the bear. Finally, a ranger arrived. We watched the bear in the trash can. It was HUGE. The ranger was impressed with the size.
Ever since then, my fear and terror of bears is only surpassed by my fear and terror of snakes.
😮 gee that’s crazy!
I live and grew up in glacier national Park. So happy to see a video on it and the grizzly population here. Awesome video
Yooo did u ever see any bears? I love bears but I’ve never seen one before
I'm a born & raised Alaskan, and up here we grow up w/ 'bear' problems so we teach our kids about surviving in the vast Alaskan wilderness; although I am part AK Native I'm not talking about us as families teach our kids. Survival skills are literally taught at our local elementary & middle schools. Also, since I live on an island on the cold ass Pacific coast, kids in town are taught in school how to survive if they fall off a boat, how to make floatation devices out of our pants, etc. This swimming course is a mandatory 2 weeks long, every year from 1st grade to 5th. By the time I was in 6th grade, I could make a floatation device out of my pants if I fell in the ocean, make a fire w/o a flame (which is a pain in the ass but can be done, even in the wet Tongass Rainforest that I live in) & learn how to turn an old coffee can into a cooking device.
But I digress; dealing w/ bears is a daily occurrence. Black bears are little more than giant messy raccoons, they dig into and tear open our garbage cans and make a huge mess. The city gives us all special 'bear-proof' garbage cans; I've had to have mine replaced twice cuz the bears bend them open.
We're taught that if we're attacked by an aggressive black bear, we should try to make ourselves look as big loud, and intimidating as possible. If you run into an Alaskan Grizzly (which thankfully there aren't many on my island town) curl into a ball and make yourself as small as possible, protect the back of your head and your soft belly/midsection, and pray to your God that the bear already ate.
I agree 100% about brown bears here in alaska, and our black bears here. Black bears in other places are pretty different though, in some places they can be aggressive, but here in alaska they are never the top predator around .
@@TzeentchLordofChange good point I've never thought about Down South bears being more aggressive than ours. Whenever I've watched "scary" videos with black bears, I can't help but think, puh-leeze, that's not a scary bear, a Kodiak Grizzly, now that's a scary bear.
Very interesting..thank you for sharing this information. It must be quite something to have grown up that way.
Well, my mom, her mom, and my kids have all been born in our town, called Ketchikan, totaling 4 generations on my maternal side. We don't know any other way, to us this is normal.
I often find it interesting to muse about ppl's 'normal' in faraway parts of the world and how we all have our own definition of it.
Like the mandatory 2 week survival swimming course; every kid in town does it and it's a huge pain for parents; having to send your kid to school every day for 2 wks w/ extra clothes and towels, but it's just what's done. It was such a relief when my youngest got into 6th grade and we no longer had to deal w/ it anymore lol
Veteran helicopter pilots are unbelievable good pilots
Chilling story.Seasonal residents were i lived would feed the bears then go home and we were left with bears that hung around cabins wanting food.A couple times they got into cabins while people were cooking.
Seriously? That’s so horrible, I hate ppl!
I keep trying to use your videos as good videos to sleep to, but they’re too interesting and well made that i can’t fall asleep 😭
Thank you and I'm sorry.
@@wildworld6264 never in a million years! your content is some of my absolute favorite to get to see 💛
Haha I do the same! Your voice is so relaxing but I end up picking up the phone and watching.. so interesting. Next minute it’s 1am! lol
Excellent video, as always. You’ve a natural talent for storytelling…the way you combine the suspenseful background music, with your narration, and the photos you use…you have a real skill here, man. There aren’t many content creators on here that I’m as excited to see, and whose new uploads I anticipate as eagerly as your own.
It’s pretty goddamn sad how callous people can be about wildlife.
That's literally so true. I work in home office and watch UA-cam videos in the background many hours daily. (don't judge). so I love longer storys and people telling them in a way I can listen to very well. I listen to many and compare many so I must know.
This story was so well narrated and illustrated the timeline and series of events. Thanks for posting this. I wish current visitors to National Parks would watch this. The "selfies" they try to take with their stupid phones endanger both wildlife, people of all ages and wreak havoc on the peace of the parks.
Thank you for sharing this harrowing story of the Grizzly attacks of 1967. Good Lord I'm grateful I wasn't there for that. Those poor woman. You're such a skilled orator I look forward to more tales. I just discovered you recently and wil bel diving in head first to listen to your other stories. I feel for the bears too. Glass in your jaws? Unbelievable pain. Good for Ostrom.
I can't imagine making a garbage dump at a chalet where there are many visitors and just the general garbage left by campers and hikers. Now everyone also knows that a fed bear is a dead bear. I'm very relieved that now there are strict rules and the parks are clean and left as beautiful as you found them.
Imagine camping in bear country without a a high caliber firearm
Or bear bells, or bear repellent, or bear fences, or bear knowledge
Leave it to Disney land living idiot's to actually think that's a good idea to be unarmed
@@ohgeezrick2019it's imperative to always have the bear necessities with you
I wouldn't camp out in my backyard unarmed. Always well armed. Only ever needed it a few times, only ever had to use it once. Still won't go anywhere with it.
Insanity
I loved a talk I heard over here in the UK, some years ago now, about American wildlife as part of a biology lecture tour.
It was fascinating. Bears and wolves, especially.
At the Q&A the pair of American wildlife experts (I believe one was a former park ranger and the other was a specialist from the PCNW (I don't recall her speciality, but bells are ringing about Kodiak bears)) were asked a question on brown bears (as an umbrella for the various subspecies) and if their perception was justified.
They said they were even less a danger than the soothsayers about them suggested. Whilst public perception had strongly dipped into a very "respectful caution", which they felt was the safest area to be, they were probably still considered too much a risk.
The PCNW woman said that in thirty years of hiking the trails and being out in the wilderness, researching bears and generally being in areas they're in, in the times she was acting like she didn't want to get close (making noises, etc) she only ever saw them from a long distance away. Mostly bolting away from her.
The park ranger agreed. That he'd only had one close encounter with one. He'd been resting against a rock in a clearing for some time and a bear had come into the clearing behind him. He didn't want to jump up and startle it so he started shaking his pack and the bear got a little inquisitive until he starting shouting from behind the rock. At which point it takes off running.
It was interesting to hear that they simultaneously considered themselves safe in bear country and yet openly stated that if you're in the wrong place at the wrong time with the wrong bear, you're in significant trouble.
Kodiak bears, despite being the largest subspecies of brown bear are the most docile. Kodiak island and its surrounding are so heavy in bio mass bears dont even hold down territories there because they dont have to compete for food. The whole area is shot through with salmon streams, berry patches , deer herds, elk herds, ground squirrels...its bear paradise. So they really become more chill. Grizzlies in the interior of alaska are scrappy and mean as hell , due to scarcity and competition, by contrast.
I live around Black Bears . They do go inside homes , cars, trash cans. They are a slave to their nose. So far , where I live , no attacks on humans and have to say they are mostly docile and usually run away at the sight of a human or loud noise etc. But I have read James Gary Sheltons books on Black Bears. . If you dont want to be Bear food, it would be a good idea to read his books. Great video
Humans are the problem, NOT bears.
That cut between Part 2 and 3 was comedy gold! Haha
Great video - thank you! We need more George Ostroms. And more creators like you.
People leaving garbage around, so much for the Idea of Camp Sites. People are the real problem.
Yeah. Garbage is truly the animal bait.
Always cleans up when you are done camping.
@Exoskel2 I'd go one further and say clean up after yourself while there too. Unless you want to wake up to a bear sniffing your head.
We definitely are
No. Bears are the problem.
So called NATURE LOVERS need to clean up their shit. people still feed the bears and find this amusing. @@andyhulland7022
Really well edited and narrated video of such a preventable tragedy
That quote made no sense.
Grizzly attacks mostly happen late in the season. Older bears have trouble putting on weight due to bad teeth or being out competed for food. Even sous with cubs try to avoid ppl and only attack if startled.
Which is what makes bears like the old skinny one especially troubling.
This video was extremely well done, thank you for putting in the time and effort you did.
Damn, that picture of number 2 is horrifying. ☹️
i love your channel bro, found it about 6 months ago and i’ve put notifications on so i don’t miss a video. especially love your vids on sharks as i’m a marine biology student lmao keep it up man
I appreciate the support, thank you!
I absolutely hate when animals are killed for being themselves. Respect all animals as well as their speed and strength. People are supposed to be smarter, we should try to prove that sometimes.
Losing its fear of humans and eating garbage is NOT normal behavior and neither is attacking humans and coming within a campsite on a normal basis
It was the stupidity of humans that put the bears and themselves in that position! @@macgyversmacbook1861
@@macgyversmacbook1861it is however, completely normal when humans push those interatcions on animals.
This sort of issue is not unique to bears. Its humans that are the problem.
Non human animals will act on instinct. If we leave food and encroach on their territory, of course its only natural that they will lose fear of us and return to where we leave food.
Stupid comment
@@macgyversmacbook1861 'Fear' of humans? Bears do NOT fear humans. They just mostly have no interest... UNTIL humans create that interest by encroaching. People should just stay the hell out of the wilderness if they have no idea what they are doing.
@@silversmoke6 What an incoherent heap of cliches. A bear learning to approach humans by eating garbage is precisely the opposite of instinct.
The "problem" is that bears are large predators that'll eat you when they figure out that they can.
The only reason they fear humans to begin with is that they were hunted by them.
Don’t let this scare you from going to Glacier National Park, it’s up there with Zion, Grand Canyon, and Grand Teton as the most beautiful of all the national parks.
Dumping garbage in a national park is a tragedy all on its own.
Amazing video and amazingly made! Congrats!
Thank you!
@wildworld6264 you're welcome! I've actually discovered your channel a few days ago but I've been obsessively watching your videos. My favorite is the one with the killer pride of lions, but this grizzly one is up there in quality as well. I really like the paced videos and the subjects you talked about, please continue!
@@matheusmartins1992 thanks so much. I really appreciate the support 🙏.
This was a very eell done narration, one of...if not the best Grizzy attack recounting I've heard. I loved how you contextualised everything .
This channel keeps delivering awesome content so consistently, it’s incredible!
I am old now but ex-Army. Played football as soon as I could run. Friends thought I was fearless(& somewhat an idiot. ) .
When I was in my 20's I was charged by a Grizzly in Yellowstone, a few feet from the Parking lot. I saw the bear charge and get close. Since we were feet from the car I grabbed my friend(he had the keys ) and we made it into the car as the Bear slammed into the trunk area. As I said I am considered brave..and still feel I am but I never felt the terror I felt seeing that Grizz within 10 feet. Up close they as tall as a horse. Teeth the size off daggers and Claws like Katanas. They sound like freight trains and in the cold the steam of the breath looks like the breath of a dragon.
I had been asked if I would I go to grizzly country again if I was carrying a shot gun. My answer is never with less than a granade launcher. I am brave, not stupid!
You got that.
Great video! I’ve read the book and watched several different videos about it but yours is the best by far. Your voice and narration style is calming and respectful unlike a lot of other UA-camrs that cover dark stories like this. Subscribed…
There is an audiobook version of Night of the Grizzlies. I couldn’t stop listening to it and remember staying up all night, unable to sleep. It was nightmare fuel and I was haunted for the next few days and have been averse to giving it a second listen. It’s an incredible audiobook that everyone should listen to at least once.
no guns or medical supplies how far from where in country with grizzly's..... im so confused....
i was a lone caretaker for a cabin club 30 miles from any human, no phone service for 20 miles and the rule was we could only stay for 30 days at a time in the winter when no guess came because it was like The Shining, things would seriously start to get weird...
but the first thing i packed was guns and survival gear, even though the club was fully equipped with those things, seems like smart things to bring IN A COUNTY WITH GRIZZLYS!!! just sayin....
Love your storytelling. Keep it up!!
Thank you! Will do!
This was an amazing story I enjoyed!
Glad you enjoyed it!
A grizzly is exactly as dangerous as it wants to be
This showing up in the midst of the current bear meme of 2024 is poetic
The bite of 67
Not one to normally comment, however this video was excellent. You did an amazing job with the narration and script. Would enjoy more narrative videos
That means this is an extra special comment from an extra arogant person
This was great story telling in a great format. Great work!
Yo babe wake up, new WildWorld vid just dropped 🤠
tragedy...I'd rather call it boundless stupidity. Like throwing tons of bloody carcasses into the sea, and once all the sharks are around eating, jump in and swim in their midst level of stupid.
Great writing and nice pacing, never seen channel before. Was looking for a video for a while and got really engaged with this one.
Im terrified of bears. Started at age 7, after accidently seeing a scary movie with a killer bear eating campers. I watched this entire video and was riveted. Excellent editing, narration, an indepth research. New subscriber!! ❤ (Your transitions cracked me up!!! A little dark humor 😂)
Woah... Me too. I wonder if it was the same movie. Was the bear mutated from like toxic waste that went into the streams from a factory?
@@san.r.9139 this was back in 1992 or 93. People were hanging out in a tent and the bear mauled them. There was a lot of screaming and blood. No toxic waste that I remember. But honestly, I didn't stay around to find out lol.
@@SaintNarcissaCould have been GRIZZLY ( 1976). One of the most famous killer bear films. It is about an 18 foot tall Grizzly bear that terrorizes a State Park. I read the novel and it was actually better than the movie.
@Boxingbear YES!!! That's it!!! Oh wow. I'll read the book bc nightmare fuel is always what I need. Thanks!!!! Maybe. ❤️
@@san.r.9139the prophecy. Great movie
As a kid in the UP, one of the popular thrills was to go to the dump at night on trash day. Youd sit in your car with your family and see them snuffling all around, all ages. They were black bears and considered safe to the point ppl would get out of their car for better pictures, or stick food through the windows.
It got shut down to the public when a bear figured out if the window was down enough, he could pull and break it, no problem 😂
The bear feeding at the dump was also carried out in Yosemite back in the 60s. At that time, we also saw the fire-fall off Half Dome every night in summer.
No camping for me! No sir. I live in the beautiful Pacific Northwest, and I love our wilderness, our rain forests...but you must be cautious. People die on the mountains, in the forests, and our coastline, also gorgeous, is treacherous. Nature gives life...and sometimes takes it away. 🌹
This video was amazing! Whole story was wild and put together really well.
Ostram is a goddamn legend. Its hard to believe and frankly infuriating that so many people lacked the voice of reason.
You have a calm, relaxed voice. It was a terrible tragedy, preventable indeed, and you made it palatable by your steady, measured words and voice. Thank you.
I know this topic is really controversial but could you do a video on if pit bulls are dangerous animals??
I'd like to see this too
As well as I
I believe that if you look into it you'll find that pit bulls aren't dangerous it's the people who are supposed to care for them that are dangerous.
They are very good dogs athletic strong and good natured,
@@UnknownUnknown-px5cg my neighbor had one that was very mild mannered and friendly but according to the internet they are monsters lol
Grew up on a rural stretch of the St. Johns River, Florida. Blew my mind the stupid things I saw people do around alligators even in breeding, nesting and hatching season.
I love the format of this one! It's like a horror/thriller movie with the different parts (reminded me of the Menu)
Thanks!
Bert Gildart was my high school biology teacher. He was a great teacher!!!🤓
Common sense tells you that the claim of a “trillion-to-one odds” of two people being killed in one night by a grizzly bear where many grizzlies live and many people camp is absurd.
That is assuming these events are independent, which is very much NOT the case.
Production value and storytelling is insane! Love this
This video is extremely well done, i love this format and would like more! ❤
It is staggeringly incomprehensible to me that as late as the 1960’s, those buildings that housed guests out in the woods where grizzly bears were not only seen REGULARLY, but were baited and enticed to some degree to come right up to where people were and they had NO medical supplies OR weapons? Good god almighty, I KNOW they could not have been that clueless or ignorant of the immense dangers that wild animals, PARTICULARLY bears, can pose for people. Certainly not in the relatively recent year of 1967. Absolutely indefensible stupidity.
People need to remember that during this period people thought it was OK to just toss garbage out of your window and dump garbage anywhere.
Solid narration and transitions. Thanks for your content!
Any bear is a dangerous bear. I can’t stress enough, how much respect and awareness you have to have when you are in their territory.
Extremely well done. One of the best retellings of this tragedy that I've come across.
The statistician probably didn’t account for a guy routinely dumping garbage and thereby attracting large hungry bears to the area. That would change the odds, I’d think…
I think that story is bullshit.
A trillion is just a million squared. Why would a statistician assume that bear attacks are totally uncorrelated?
I cant believe people didnt see bears beating on their homes as dangerous. It is.
I love your chapter transitions!
There are things that should be feared . It is a vital survival instinct .One can respect and fear something at the same time .good vid ..you covered some needs details that are left out in others
1:05 Pretty sure yellowstone was the first national park in the entire world, not just the US or am I mistaken
Just sub'd, loved this mini docu very well made
This is the best depiction besides PBS the night of je grizzly, from a slightly different angle, but this one completes what the PBS was missing...
This tragic event which claimed the lives of these 2 beautiful women was so avoidable if they had of just listened to the young man at the meeting. It was Inevitable that an attack was going to eventually happen! :( 😢 I feel sick for these ladies and their families. The bears were being conditioned to eating at the chalet and NO ONE stopped this. What a shame. 😢
There was speculation at the time of the attacks that the two girls were both menstruating and that their menstrual blood had attracted the bears. Thats both possible and plausible but not proven. Of the two cubs - one was shot in the jaw - it survived until the next year when it was humanely shot as its jaw had been shattered and it was unable to feed itself. Those poor girls - may they rest in peace.
I don’t think being on their period alone would have been enough to trigger an attack that blatant, especially since there must have been many other women on their periods around that time. Maybe the way they disposed of their period products lured them in and then the smell of it on them attracted the animals closer? It’s an interesting theory but I struggle to believe it’s anything more than chance
@@2008-wii-remoteI think your version bears the specifics that other simply summarize by saying they were on their periods. Bears do have a keen sense of smell, so it wouldn't be out of the question that a hungry bear caught of a whiff and went that way.
That sounds really stupid.
I don't see how that's more plausible than the bears simply happening to come across them.
And it wouldn't explain why both attacks happened the same day either, if that needs an explanation.
Those stories were Brutal . Great presentation -great job .
I really enjoyed this. Thank you. I have subscribed. Love from England.