This Man Devoted His Life To Grizzly Bears — Until They Ate Him

Timothy Treadwell, a former heroin addict, spent 13 summers camping out in Alaska among wild bears, befriending them. The 46-year-old man found peace among the grizzly bears, which he talked to, toyed with and even interacted with them with bare hands. The man even named every of them, seeing them as his buddies.
However, his luck ran out in one stormy October evening, moments before he was about to be collected by seaplane to return home for winter, when Tim was mauled to death right in front of his girlfriend Amie Huguenard, 37, before the bear finished him and turned on her.

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Timothy and his girlfriend

Willy Fulton, the air taxi pilot, immediately recognized what had occurred upon landing at Katmai National Park to pick up the couple, just 24 hours after he last spoke to Tim. Rather than seeing the duo ready on the shore, Fulton only felt a creepy silence, accompanied by the ‘meanest looking bear’ sitting on top of a pile of human remains, still not yet finished its human ribcage meal.
He discovered that the tents of the couple were collapsed and terribly torn, with their evening meal lying opened and untouched, and their shoes being laid neatly next to the door. A 3ft-high mound of grass, mud, twigs and human remains lain outside one tent, spotted by ranger Joe Ellis, who also noticed fingers and an arm protruding from the distorted pile.

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The couple's tent

The remains of Tim’s savaged head, still connecting to a small piece of spine, were found, together with the discovery of his right arm still wearing his wrist watch. However, this wasn’t the most disturbing thing as they discovered the footage in Tim’s camera inside his tent that horribly depicted the full moment when the bear attacked.
As usual, Tim would record all of his activities with grizzly bears, and of course, the savage attack was no exception. But when they were frightened, he and Amie had no time to remove the lens, leading to the presence of 6 minutes long of blood-curdling audio.

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Timothy recording his interactions with bears

The tape begins with a panicked Amie asking if the bear is still out there before Tim screams: “Get out here! I’m getting killed out here!”. The tent zipper is heard going as Amie rushes out into the storm and shouts for her boyfriend to ‘play dead’.
Her screams and shouts appear to work and the bear lets Tim out of its grip, but as soon as she heads to help it returns, apparently clamping its jaws around his head once more and pulling him towards the undergrowth. Frantic, Tim screams for Amy to ‘hit the bear’ and she is heard telling him to ‘fight back’ before attacking it with a frying pan.

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He even read a book near a grizzly

Throughout the bear is sinisterly silent, with Tim’s shouts giving way to moans before Amy panics and lets out a series of spine-chilling screams. There the tape runs out. When the bear was shot, investigators recovered four bin bags full of human remains from the stomach of the 1,000 pound 28-year-old male, who is said to have struggled to feed that season due to his age and broken teeth.
According to Willy, Tim had previously tried to befriend the bear, but it ‘never happened’. The October 2003 attack was the subject of award-winning documentary The Grizzly Man by Werner Herzog, which revealed how Amie was terrified of the bears and thought her boyfriend was ‘hellbent on destruction’.
She’d told Tim the trip would be her last and had a new job waiting for her back in California. As for the tape, he warned that people should ‘never listen to this’ and it is believed to have been placed under lock and key with one of his friends.