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According to his recorded videos, he was aware of the dangerous location. Still, Treadwell was convinced that the animals wouldn't pose any harm as they considered him a friend. Considering the bears friendly, Treadwell stopped using bear sprays and electric fences around his tent. His dangerous tactics for bear encounters had always drawn warnings from the park rangers. Treadwell believed he had developed a sense of mutual trust and respect with the animals.

However, experts thought he "was breaking every park rule that there was, in terms of distance to the bears, harassing wildlife, and interfering with natural processes. According to biologist Larry Van Daele , "his decision not to have any defensive methods or bear deterrents in the camp [was] directly responsible for [the] catastrophic event.

In the summer of , Treadwell had experienced more aggressive bear behaviors. The bears were starving due to drought and preparing themselves gradually for hibernation.

As fall approached, salmon populations soared, making the bears very active. After spending 13 years as a bear enthusiast, Treadwell was well aware of the season and bear activities, yet he still decided to stay. We made the best friggin' choice of our lives Once the [rain] settled down, boy, it was amazing out here," Treadwell told his friend Willy Fulton on October 4, two days before his mauled body was found.

Jewel was also one of the few aware of the couple's decision to stay back in the park in September. What do you think? The couple was set to return on Monday, October 6, and informed their friend Fulton to pick them up on his floatplane. The horrific attack on Treadwell made experts believe that he might have encountered the "25th Grizzly.

A video camera captured the sounds of their last moments, indicating that Treadwell was attacked first. According to his book, Among Grizzlies: Living with Wild Bears in Alaska, his mission to protect bears began after he survived a near-fatal heroin overdose in the late s. He confesses in his book that his drug addiction grew from his alcoholism, and after that experience, he knew he needed to do something with his life that was meaningful.

A lover of all animals since he was a child, he traveled to Alaska to watch bears at the urging of a close friend. He wrote that after his first encounter with a wild bear, he knew he had found his calling in life.

He attributed his recovery from drug and alcohol addictions entirely to his relationship with bears. Auditioned for the role of Woody on ''Cheers '' and was a final contender but ultimately lost to Woody Harrelson.

This, he got from the bears, and so he found himself insatiably repeating the experience time and time again. Grizzly Man shows a Timothy Treadwell who is passionate about the bears. A documentary, Deadly Passion, by Stefan Quinth, is quite enlightening, although the ending shows poor taste, with the killing of a small young bear.

He was trying to prove that bears are not monsters which they are not but they will eat when hungry and just about anything in site is on the menu. Good on this guy gor doing what he wanted but a damn fool to ever think it wouldnt end this way. He tested fate 1 too many times.

I think in his mind he was doing things for the greater good so his intent was pure. Meanwhile back in reality he was conditioning bears not to be afraid of humans in their area and in turn 4 deaths resulted. I doubt he would have wanted to see a bear killed but his actions alone created that chaos. In my opinion, Tim accomplished his mission. He committed suicide by bear. Its a shame however, that Amy died in the process too. This event did raise my awareness about the dangers of people coexisting with bears and bear behavior.

Ive camped many nights in bear country and I never carried bear spray. That will not happen again. As for the recording, I believe its real. I just believe it has been edited. Jewel was not the only one to have a copy. As far as inconsistencies with sound and distance. Keep in mind Tim had a microphone on his hip pocket. I also believe it was edited out of respect for Amy.

This is more, a story of Tim committing suicide. The tragedy is Tim took Amy with him. I take it they never really discussed what Amy should do if Tim was attacked by a bear. As soon as that bear started dragging him off as a food source. Amy should have ran in the opposite direction. I am sad for Amy. She never should have died that way. Thank you for this great article. As a person who grew up in Calgary, we are taught from an early age that bears are not your friends.

Yes, the cubs are so cute but not your friends. We learned to live with the bears and respect their presence and we never had any serious issues. I do remember one time in late fall, my uncle taking the trash cans out to the road in the back of the truck armed with a shotgun as the bears had a food shortage and would attack trash cans.

This guy just annoys me. How ridiculous. He was no warrior. He was a fool who paid for his idiocy with his life. Bears are beautiful wild animals. Leave them be. Do not feed them. Do not approach them. Admire from a safe distance and be respectful. I recall watching "Grizzly Man" years ago and the photography was beautiful. But Treadwell was a fool. All he did was acclimate wild animals to human beings, putting humans and wild life in more danger.

Why anyone would want to listen to the tape of his being killed I will never understand. I truly understand human fascination with wild life. But after several trips to Yellowstone and watching how stupid tourists are around the bison, trying to pet them, climb on them or place their children on them, one has to wonder.

What in the hell are they thinking? What in the hell was Treadwell thinking. He was incredibly lucky for 13 years and his luck ran out due to his reckless behavior. And sadly his girlfriend lost her life too hanging out with a fool. Great article on a harrowing reminder to respect nature. Obviously what Timothy did was wrong for both himself, Amie, and bears, but unlike a lot of the reviews here I can't find myself laying the blame on him.

I feel that in his head, he was helping, and he wasn't putting Amie in danger. It's almost more a a tale of how someone can be so beaten and bruised in life that they have to push all the painful and human choices they have made away. Ignoring and shunning the more aggressive and confrontational side of humanity and falling back on a kind of Disney perception of right and wrong. Saying that, I feel that Timothy was always a submissive person by nature, a 'patsy' as he says. Nothing wrong with that, but perhaps he was always disappointed that he wasn't more of an action hero, and deliberately put himself in dangerous situations to prove that idea wrong.

Who knows, all I can defiantly say is that he was very childlike, and obviously wanted to stay in a protected, child-like world. But let's face it, no one deserves the kind of tormented life or death Timothy endured.

Nature is cruel. I can't speak for Amie other then her utterly heroic feat, I mean fuck, Leonidas would have shed a tear. What a girl. Hopefully the end was quick. RIP both. The thing that really stands out to me, on top of everything else, is that he TT had no back up plan.

No gun, I know, not permitted in national parks at the time. That's hubris beyond arrogance to my mind. As for Aimee, she was educated, probably intelligent, and perhaps successful in her field, but those factors have never precluded naivete.

She trusted TT, against her own instincts towards the end, and sadly paid the ultimate price. Great article about a sad and fascinating event. I am SO glad I found this article again, so many years later! Took some digging. I too think that many of the bears in his videos were extremely close to attacking him and I find it odd he didn't pick up on this while editting his videos at the very least. Maybe it was willful ignorance but having so many close calls leads me to think that although he didn't intentionally cause Amie's death he certainly contributed to it and failed to protect her from the bears.

If TT were still alive I believe he would want us all to focus on the extremely threatened polar bears and to help them survive after man has melted the sea ice that the bears use to catch their prey, seals. The world needs to quit studying gas bubbles in Antarctic ice and redirect those funds to lead a manmade effort that involves transporting protein from beef or pork to the Arctic homes of the majestic polar bears.

Commercial aircraft fly over the polar bear habitat so chartered planes or ships could drop animal carcuses over the region until we can figure out how to cool our planet down to re-form the sea ice. Polar bears will become extinct if we fail to act.

Complete Cali airheads I find it curious that the author cites Aimee as TT's lover? A sober recount of what might have happened. I watched the doc. I thought borderline schizophrenia and a narcissistic disorder. Very possibly gay. He really tries to be a nice guy, but at any point fails to convince me that he actually was a nice guy. Can park laws be made stricter in order to protect wildlife from troubled individuals? I have read a whole bunch of articles on Tim and Amie's attack and death and in my humble opinion, I feel this is the closest to the truth there is.

The one thing I would like to know more about is why did Tim say he had no family. That must have hurt his family something awful. Part of the reason people like him start to get this romantic view of nature is because it is over-romanticized in much of popular culture, especially documentaries.

I mean, sure, it's great but all animals-including humans-are the result of millions of years of a brutal and cold struggle. Just watch videos uploaded by regular people of hyenas and wild dogs hunting prey in Africa.

It's extremely ruthless. There is nothing majestic or beautiful about it. Now think about the fact that up till the end of the last Ice Age, most of the world was filled with even more ferocious and massive beasts than currently exist. Anything that made it past that wild hell would have to have been incredibly tough.

We lived through those times and it probably explains why we humans are as violent as we are. But we've experienced a slow process of domestication via civilization, something that animals like bears and big cats have not. Anyone who wants to be in the proximity of wild animals must understand that or end up like TT. I've read just about everything about this incident and it really just sums up to a delusional man with "no family", claiming to protect bears, gets himself killed and his gf and two bears because he doesn't understand nor respects wild life.

Am I the only one who thinks releasing the tape would probably help discourage other lunatics? Sorry Jewel Palovak, but tis seems more like censorship than respect..

Excellent article about Timothy Treadwell. I saw the "Grizzly Man" movie last year, so I knew nothing about his life or death. Timothy seemed like a very misguided man, thinking that this was his life mission, totally detached from society. He was very passionate about bears, but lacked in common sense and healthy fear of wild animals. Sadly his actions caused his death and Amie his girlfriend.

Hopefully this will serve as reminder to others that want to do this kind of work to listen to those who have been around such creatures and to use precaution when in their presence. Very sad ending to their lives. RIP Timothy and Amie. I actually appreciate this clearing up the fake audio as i nearly made a fool of myself alluding to it being real merely because I had fooled myself by so many repeat occurrences of the footage followed by others claiming it to be real, who were either intentionally perpetuating the hoax or just others fooled like me.

But I was originally skeptical. And what you said about bears being silent during attacks reminded me of why I was skeptical. When you hear the bears roar they are clearly closer to the camera than the screaming indicating a poor audio dubbing As i was increasingly fooled by repeats of the footage, I started to renounce my skepticism a little by saying maybe a second bear was wandering close to the camera as the other bear ate him because there are somewhat more distant roars in the footage too.

But a man and woman doing a coordinated effort one a single microphone they are both within similar proximity to seems more likely than the woman being just as far from the camera as he is.

After all, someone hit record on the camera. Why would she as far away from it as he is? Thanks for confirming my doubts. Tim got what he deserved. He assumed the risk of putting himself in the worst possible situation hungry bears already late to start hibernating for the winter and scarce food to be found.

Darn shame that he also placed Amie directly in harms way. To make this guy out to be a true conservationist is an insult to those knowledgeable rangers, hunters, sportsmen, etc Sadly, Ammie trusted and was with an idiot California nut that got what he deserved.

That bear ate the finger that he flips off the rest of society with in his so called documentary. Great article with new perspectives. Sad end of an extraordinary man and his love. I truly believe if there were more Treadwells this world would have been a better place for humans and animals.

His fate reminds me a little bit of Steve Irwin's death. Caused by animals. All I wanted to do is listen to the six minute audio of Mr. Treadwell being eaten alive. Good writing of the events, if Tim would of keep a 44mag for just this kind of event he and his friend would still be here, not having a backup plan was his down fall, hope is not a plan.

Nice read I've seen a sasquatch twice in broad day light I respect the man. He did what he believe. He loved nature. But fail to study, learn,about their ways, Behaviors,thats a must before Confronting the objects.

He's a great lost. He out stayed his welcome. In the mammal world. The young gets to the age where, they will Challenge the older, leaders for Authority if he beaten he kick out the Clan. In some cases it's a fight to the death. He was a Threat, he never made any physical Contact with them, thats call acceptance. He was an outsider.

A threat to the males. Alpha, rule many Ignores that. I learn that. There were a lot of questions in my head. Very informative and interesting! This gives a more in depth look onto Tim, Amie, and the incident. You also have quite a few sources, but what I'm really interested in is the incident report by Joel Ellis. Can that be found online?

I wonder, is it possible that Amie wasn't killed by the bear? The ranger stated that she looked "as though she were peacefully asleep". Maybe she had had a heart attack or something and the bears only ate her dead body afterwards. I hope it was just so. In seeing the documentary and reading a lot about TT, it was obvious he had some serious mental issues. I would wager he was tormented w sexuality issues, and couldn't come out of the closet. He goes on and on about "wishing he was gay", as "it would be so much easier" You ARE gay".

I think initially he turned to heavy drugs to ease his pain w living life in the closet, and then, he turned to Wild Alaska, where he had no boundaries, labels, etc. His severe misstep was staying longer than usual that last summer. Makes total sense that he got GOT by an older bear that had come into the Maze after the younger, stronger bears, had had their fill of food and headed in to hibernate.

I will say Kudos to Treadwell for living the life that he wanted to live Because of his disregard and disrespect for mother nature, 2 bears were killed just so ppl could investigate the "murder" scene. Shouldn't have to work that way. Minor fact but this attacked happened at PM Alaska Time.. Overcast due to the nasty weather. Many people trash Timothy, but he did things for 13 years, up close and personal,,but, the law of averages catches up to you.. Why he didn't use a simple battery Bear cage around his tent or especially 'Counter Assault Bear Spray' I will never understand..

Some of these ass-whips say he deserved it,,Nobody deserves to be eaten alive,, even when he was wrong. Look at how many idiots get killed driving drunk? I used to be a cop and Tim lived in my sector. I never arrested him for drunk driving. We all do stupid things at times. Tim was a lot more adventurous. Before I became a cop, in some idiot pulled a gun on me on Ipanema Beach in Rio.

A greater idiot, I charged the guy. He shot me in the chest but I still played grizzly bear, running him down and beating the crap out of him. Stupid because I could have gotten another passport. Even dumber, I checked out of the hospital with the bullet resting on my aorta, went to the airport bar, had a few rum and cokes for the developing pain of the hematoma, then took a 9-hour flight to New York.

The bullet finally traveled last year and a doctor removed it during surgery on my shoulder. I looked into a doku about a photographer from Switzerland, which has been spending a lot of time in Alasca, filming bears Lotta speculation in this article.

All I know is anyone who beats on a bear with a frying pan has balls, no matter how long they hesitate. Wish she'd had a gun, in a reasonable caliber. I came here since I heard the audio on youtube and wanted more insight and boy was this such a great read. Well researched and so informational in shedding light on such a tragedy that could have very well been prevented.

Humans need to go into natural spaces with profound respect. And be aware that yes, in the woods, you will potentially run into the animals that live and thrive there, just like you may in the ocean. Be aware and be smart.

Do not feed any wild animals, period. Again, such a great read! I am impressed with your work. Thank you for putting so much thought and effort into this piece. I really appreciate it. I couldn't see the pictures for some reason, but appreciated reading the story. High 5 to you for trying to deter people from profiting on Tim and Amie's deaths.

My impression of Tim is that he himself was an impulsive adrenalin freak who was using his obsession with bears to make a profit himself. If you can't get into show biz by acting, why not pretend to be a bear expert instead?

And everyone saw it coming except him. People do stupid things for fame, money, and greed. Tim, and those fake Utube audio's, all in the same pile! Thanks for an enlightening read! I hope your nightmares calm over time. I followed Tim starting in after I joined Sea Shepherd at the time. Just like any of us camping in a hostile environment. Not a good look.

I would have spent as many seasons as I could with him out there. But I definitely would have had a firearm with me, just for protection. I give him a lot of respect for going into Alaska with none. In the last paragraph of the "Discovery and Investigation" section, you mention that investigators performed a necropsy on the bear on Friday, October 8. How can that be when Treadwell and Amy were killed on Monday, October 6?

I was a logger on Afognak Island in the 80's and once briefly encountered a brown bear, I was terrified. I was like a living Tiger Tank traversing the forest. There is an old Pioneer story about one of the original pioneering families on Afognak, island next to Kodiak. The Pioneer awoke in the middle of the night to his horses screaming in the barn.

When he investigated in the light of day the barn door was torn open and one of his to pound horses had been carried off. The scariest part of the story is that he found no front paw prints on the retreating path of the bear. The bear had literally carried the horse off walking on its hind legs. These animals are the most powerful land predictor known to exist.

It is sad two of the wonderful, powerful, primitive, wild and majestic beasts had to die because of silly California Tourists who like to make videos. I'm not a clinical psychologist, but I've had my fair share of experience, the dude was screwed up, 1 3 minute clip of the movie can tell you a lot about how messed up this guy was, he claimed he protected the bears? His presence by virtue of deliberately placing himself in harm's way in fact caused the death of a bear that would not have otherwise happened A harrowing In-depth account of events.

So rare to find these days. Thank you! Extremely well written and thought article. You expressed compassion and kindness beside the facts. I find it very believable and insightful! It is a shame that you did not write a book I fully understand your reasoning and respect that tho as it would have given people much important information and helped to prevent this happening to others. At the same time, it would been feeling wrong to receive any money from it.

I truly wish that you find an another subject to write about as your writing style and reasoning is extremely good to read. Your voice is beautiful! I hope that you use it! Although I felt the opinion was a bit harsh and too "educated" where Treadwell had just been "lucky" all of these years, I believe in nature man doesn't give enough credit to our ancestral and primate tendancies akin to a child like state of being.

Animals are capable to express and behave as does any human in very similar ways. Treadwell, was incapable to discern between his "bears" previous behaviour and the one incident of a malnourished bear having a migraine, right before their monthly period if you know what I mean People also behave differently during times of stress and do very messed up things.

It might have been Treadwell's child like behaviour and outlook that allowed him to be accepted within the wild as opposed to most humans looking at animals as food or another low life form.

I got my words out but I wanted to say. I enjoyed your writing, research, and opinion and very much think you should write your book. It is not benefiting from death, but rather valuing life. Your words and story help others even though it would include lessons from others. Interesting, well done and terrifying article. Very sad too, and we can learn many lessons from these deaths, but one seems more relevant: bears are killers, not cute animals.

Do nothing but stay away from the bears. For your own good. What I don't understand about this article is why would anyone be mystified with this tragedy. For starters, this particular bear was unfriendly. Not only that, but it's a known fact that hunger will agitate any living species.