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Tragic story of 'grizzly man' and girlfriend eaten alive by bear while filming entire ordeal

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Updated 18:53 29 Aug 2023 GMT+1Published 14:55 29 Aug 2023 GMT+1

Tragic story of 'grizzly man' and girlfriend eaten alive by bear while filming entire ordeal

The man was killed by the very thing he loved while camping alongside them

Jess Battison

Jess Battison

Featured Image Credit: Lionsgate Films

Topics: Animals, TV and Film

Jess Battison
Jess Battison

Jess is a Senior Journalist with a love of all things pop culture. Her main interests include asking everyone in the office what they're having for tea, waiting for a new series of The Traitors and losing her voice at a Beyoncé concert. She graduated with a first in Journalism from City, University of London in 2021.

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Bear enthusiast and documentary maker Timothy Treadwell was nicknamed ‘Grizzly Man’ due to his love for the animals.

It was tradition for him to fly out to Alaska every summer, having done so for 13 years. But on one year’s camping trip, tragedy struck.

Timothy would chat to, play with and even touch the bears when he visited - with him believing that he was one of them and that they were simply misunderstood.

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The bear enthusiast was apparently repeatedly warned by friends and family of the dangers of the predators, but still decided to camp with them every year.

But Timothy was tragically killed by the animal he loved so much, as he was mauled to death in front of his girlfriend, Amie Huguenard, in October 2003.

The bear then turned on Amie, who was also killed in the incident.

The attack happened just hours before the couple were due to fly back home by seaplane for the winter.

Timothy Treadwell was a bear enthusiast.
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Willy Fulton - who was the couple's air taxi pilot for the flight home - knew immediately what had happened when he landed at Katmai National Park.

Typically, he would find the couple waiting on the shore to be picked up, but instead there was an eerie silence and the 'meanest looking bear' standing on top of a pile of human remains.

The couple's tent was found collapsed and torn alongside their evening snack that was unopened.

A ranger spotted fingers and an arm in a 3ft-high mound of grass, mud and twigs, alongside some other remains.

They also found nearby what was left of Timothy's head, which was connected to a small piece of his spine.

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Before Timothy and Amie were killed, they were recording bear interactions as the enthusiast always did.

Timothy and his girlfriend Amie Huguenard were brutally killed by a bear.
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And the attack was no exception, but in the panic, both Timothy and Amie forgot to remove the lens.

This resulted in six long minutes of disturbing audio from the attack, which was the final moments of Timothy's life.

In the years that followed, a documentary about the tragic attack was made by Werner Herzog titled Grizzly Man.

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The doc was pieced together from Timothy's actual video footage of the bears and examined the bear enthusiast's love of heading to the Alaskan reserve every year.

The biography was critically acclaimed, achieving a 92 percent Certified Fresh rating on Rotten Tomatoes.

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