Grizzly Man Page #3

My face went numb.

My arms and legs went numb.

And then I called back...

back to the office,

and told them what happened out here,

what I thought had happened.

And that we would need some assistance

out here. That we had some problems.

After the Park Service arrived,

then I'm leading them up through the alders.

This is the same trail

that I'd come up the first time.

We got to about right here,

and we just stopped.

We stopped just to take

a look around.

Right then, one guy with us

just yells, "Bear!"

And they all spin around. These gun barrels

come over the top of my head.

Boy, they just start

firing them off.

I ducked down 'cause

they hadn't given me a gun.

I'd look up, and they'd fire

over and over again.

Then I look up when they're done firing

and there's just a cloud of smoke here.

I look over, and the bear

is laying right there.

They're yelling at me,

just don't go near the bear.

I knew he was dead.

He'd been shot in the head

and the neck and everywhere.

He was just laying here

pretty much lifeless.

And this is right where...

where the bear...

I told them at the time, I said,

"This is the bear that killed Tim."

I knew, 'cause that was the same bear

that I had seen down here

looking at me right through

the alder bushes there.

So I knew this was the bear.

I said, "Yep, that'll be the one."

That wound up being the bear

that they found Tim in.

I'm here on camera with Olie, the big old bear.

The big old grumpy bear.

He just took Cracker

out of the creek area.

There's not a lot of fish here

so you can understand him wanting

to have control of the creek.

He's acting like

an alpha male here.

Which, I guess, for the fact that he is

the only male here, he is the alpha male.

At any rate, he's also...

He's a surly bear.

I met him on the path

the other day,

after feeling sorry for him, thinking

that he was a bit thin, a bit gaunt...

And he promptly charged me

with the intent to probably strike.

I know the language

of the bear.

I was able to deter him from doing that,

and I'm fine.

But I will tell you something.

It is the old bear, one who is struggling

for survival,

and an aggressive one at that,

who is the one

that you must be very careful of.

For these are the bears,

that on occasion,

do, for survival,

kill and eat humans.

Could Olie, the big old bear,

possibly kill and eat Timothy Treadwell?

What do you think, Olie?

I think if you were weak around him,

you're going down his gullet,

going down the pipe.

Right up top of the hill here

is where we found

what was left of Tim's body...

his head and a little bit of backbone.

And we found

a hand, arm,

wristwatch still on the arm.

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