Grizzly Man - Audio Excerpts

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Widowmaker2

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This may sound morbid, but I watched the grizzly man special on discovery and wanted to hear the audio of the bear mauling.

From the Readers Digest webpage;
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A Cry for Help

A necropsy -- an examination of the dead bears' stomach contents -- showed that the big bear had human remains and clothing in its digestive tract. The small bear had been mostly eaten by other animals, but its remains showed no evidence of its having taken part in the killings.

Little would be known about the exact circumstances of Treadwell's and Huguenard's deaths had Trooper Hill not made a stunning discovery. Among the couple's effects was a digital camcorder; listening to the tape, Hill came upon a chilling audio sequence of Timothy and Amie's last moments.

"Come out here! I'm being killed out here!" Treadwell screams to Huguenard. Inside the tent, Amie has had the presence of mind to reach in the camera bag and turn the video recorder on with the attack in progress. They've been filming for days, and it may be an automatic reaction. Maybe, too, she realizes, This is it, and like anyone facing death wants to reach out toward the living one last time. The tape became her message in a bottle. The sound of a zipper is evident on the tape: the noise of the tent opening. Amie screams to Timothy, "Play dead!" Obviously she understands what Timothy, in his desperation, does not: There is nothing she can do to help him. The speed and force of an attacking grizzly is overwhelming. Like being hit by a truck doing 60. Or an avalanche.

"Play dead!" Amie cries again. It must take incredible, almost superhuman discipline to lie there, ripped apart and bleeding, with an enormous animal tearing and thrashing at you. But it seems to work for a time. The bear breaks off the attack; words pass back and forth as Timothy and Amie try to determine if it's really gone. At this point Amie may have rushed to Timothy's rescue. She was a surgical physician's assistant, after all, used to seeing things that would make other people blanch, trained to keep cool under pressure. And this was the man she loved.

But the sounds on the tape indicate the bear's return. Amie is forced to retreat. Timothy shrieks that playing dead isn't working, and he begs her to get something and hit the bear. "Fight back!" she screams. There seems to be the sound of an object being thrown.

Treadwell did not die quickly. The tape runs roughly six minutes, and his cries can be heard two-thirds of that time. He was not one of those people who float off into a shock-induced dream state. He was sharply aware and struggling desperately to survive. The bear, as is often the case, is nearly silent -- no Hollywood roars, only low growls and grunts -- which adds to the horror. Dragging sounds and the fading of Timothy's cries seem to indicate he's being pulled off into the brush, his fate now sealed.

The last sounds on the tape -- Huguenard's repeated, high-pitched screams -- are "eerily like a predator call," wrote Larry Van Daele, a wildlife biologist for the Alaska Department of Fish and Game. He was referring to a device carried by hunters to produce the distress cries of a small, wounded animal, which often attracts bears. He theorized that those shrieks "may have prompted the bear to return and kill her." After what she'd seen, enough to break anyone, it was easy to envision her rooted to the spot outside the tent, hysterical and paralyzed by fear until the bear returned.

The men played the tape again and again, paused and rewound, taking notes, blocking out scenarios, all the while trying to decipher sounds muffled by the tent walls, the camera case itself, and the incessant spatter of rain on the tent. Over and over they listened to the screams, unable to help.


No Gut's...No Story!!!
 
The movie tried to portray Treadwell as a hero trying to save Annie. They didn't play any of the tape because he cried like a girl and screamed for her help. The guy was an Idiot and she wasn't far behind.



JB

"Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote."
--Benjamin Franklin 1759
 
I watched that the other night and very quickly came to the conclusion that the guy was a complete wack job. The guy was delusional about what real life is like. He was living in some kind of fantasy land where everything played nice and god forbid anything kill anything else for food. It was a fitting way for him to go in my opinion. Guess he won't do that again huh.
 
I saw it a couple of weeks ago too. He really thought he was a bear himself. I will admit, I about fell over when he touched two. One was a cub with mother behind and he touched it on the nose. I never heard the tape, but a fitting way to die for him. Funny thing was in the show he actually said if he goes, he wished it would be by a bear. Got his wish.
 
LAST EDITED ON Mar-04-06 AT 08:51AM (MST)[p]This guy was a nut case and the young lady was foolish for following him to her death and for buying into his whole idiotic program in the first place. Predators are predators, and those bears are up there are at very the top of the food chain for a reason. I don't need to listen to any audio, as I can get a pretty good idea of how it went, just from knowing how he operated and what would be the most probable outcome of this type of behavior. He believed in his pie in the sky idea, that "we can all get along as friends". Wrong...
Wild predators will always be just that, wild. Just ask the "tiger tamer" Roy in LV...





Stop Global Whining
 
They were not so smart...also gotta wonder just how many of these bears got acclimatized to and lost their fear of humans because of him and his girlfriend????
 
He went there to protect the bears but actually was responsible for the death of at least 2 of them. And he made the foxs' dependant on food because he would always feed them.
 
The man was stupid...I think everyone on this site will agree to that. This is the first movie I have seen where I knew the ending and was looking forward to it. It reminds me of that greenie in yellowstone who was trying to haze bison back into the park and was mauled by a griz a few years back.

trevor

"...and now it's time for me to go, the autumn moon lights my way..." -Led Zeppelin
 
I wrote a story about the Treadway case for our local newspaper. I had seen a quote from Treadway in which he said to another reporter who asked him him if he was afraid of being eaten by a bear, "I would be honored to end up as bear scat."

In the last line of my story I use that quote and then say, "And he was."

Nope, the guy wasn't very bright, and like I had said all along. If he ever runs into a bear having a bad "hair day" then he is going to die.

"And he did."

Don Martin
Outdoor Writer
 
I can't get it to play,I've even tried saving it to my computer,and then play.Has anyone else had any luck with opening it up?




No Gut's...No Story!!!
 
Treadwell was an idiot and got exactly what he was asking for. He should have not smoked so much dope while he was over there and maybe he would have had a clear head! After seeing the movie myself, i have a hard time feeling sorry for the guy. I DO however feel sorry for the bear, he did nothing wrong but protect himself from this idiot that was constantly invading his precious space!!
 
LAST EDITED ON Mar-08-06 AT 05:42PM (MST)[p]I got it to play. It is silent for a little while as an intro and then the audio starts. It's a completely black screen since the lens cover was on.

It sounded like, well, a guy getting eaten by a bear. He lets out a few "predator calls" and gis girl says fight back! fight back! over and over. I can only imagine the strength that bear had and how easily a human would be to kill. Unfortunatley for this guy, it took a while for the death blow.

Hate to say it but, he had it coming. He was lucky to last as long as he did.

It isn't as "dramatic" as the film said it was either. It is just that, a bear attack. Nothing extraordinary about it. This is what everyone would imagine a grizzly attack to be.

Chef
"I Love Animals...They're Delicious!"
 
I have to agree with ya chef,
I never did imagine it would be a pretty way to go. I guess thats why those griz guides up there in Alaska love big bore rifles.
Irl
 

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