He interacted affectionately with them, engaging in play and conversation. He regarded them as his friends, even considering the grizzlies as a source of comfort. Timothy Treadwell, a 46-year-old former heroin addict, spent 13 years camping out in the wilds of Alaska, specifically with wild bears during his summer trips.
Collecting the pair at Katmai National Park, air taxi pilot Willy Fulton immediately knew what had occurred upon landing. This realization came as he arrived at Katmai National Park to retrieve the duo. The assault occurred just hours before the couple was scheduled to be picked up by a seaplane for their journey back home for the winter. Prior to the bear attacking her, the situation unfolded.
The footwear was placed in an orderly manner beside the entrance. Tim and Amie’s shelters were discovered in a state of disrepair and damage, with their dinner spread out and undisturbed. Rather than encountering the duo waiting at the waterfront, an unsettling quietness filled the air, accompanied by a menacing bear perched on a heap of human remains, consuming from a skeletal structure of a person.
They found his wristwatch still attached to his right arm. The ranger, Joe Ellis, spotted remains of Tim’s mauled head connected to a small piece of the spine. Outside one tent, there lay a 3ft-high mound of mud, twigs, grass, and a grotesque arm with protruding fingers.
The terrifying attack of the bear was recorded by Tim’s video camera in his tent, providing a full picture of what really happened. Tim didn’t have time to remove the lens resulting in minutes-long blood-curdling audio, and he didn’t panic either during his interactions with the ferocious bear.
Amie rushes out into the storm, hearing Tim’s screams and shouts for help as she sees the bear clamping its jaws around his head once more, apparently pulling him towards the undergrowth. In a frightened state, Amie starts to ask if the bear is still there, as Tim lets out shouts and screams for her to appear and work to help him, but she quickly shouts and screams for her boyfriend to “play dead” as she rushes out of the tent, hearing the zipper. “I’m getting killed out here!” Screams Tim, still out there with the bear.
The tape is playing there. Amy is terrified as she hears the bone-chilling screams and panics before the bone-chilling screams and panics before the bear silently gives way to Tim’s sinister moans. She hears him telling her to “fight back” before it attacks with a frying pan, and Tim screams frantically for Amy to hit the bear.
According to Willy, the bear had supposedly attempted to befriend Tim, although this event was never experienced. Willy stated that the 28-year-old male bear, who allegedly faced difficulties in finding food during that particular season as a result of his age and damaged teeth, had his stomach found to contain four bin bags filled with human remains upon being shot.
In California, she had a new job waiting for her and she was told that her last trip would be “destruction on hellbent”. She revealed how terrified Amie was of bears and thought her boyfriend was, which was the subject of Werner Herzog’s award-winning documentary “Grizzly Man”. The attack took place in October 2003.