The following (first two) pictures are of a guy who works for the US Forest Service in Alaska and his trophy bear. He was out deer  hunting last week when a large grizzly bear charged him from about 50 yards away.  The guy unloaded his 7mm Mag Semi-automatic rifle into the bear and it dropped a few feet from him. The big bear was still alive so he reloaded and shot it several times in the head. The bear was just over one thousand six hundred pounds (1600#). It stood 12' 6" high at the shoulder, 14' to the top of his head. It's the largest grizzly bear ever recorded in the world. Of course, the Alaska Fish and Wildlife Commission did not let him keep it as a trophy, but the bear will be stuffed and mounted, and placed on display at the Anchorage airport (to remind tourist's of the risks involved when in the wild). Based on the contents of the bears stomach, the Fish and Wildlife Commission  established the bear had killed at least two humans in the past 72 hours.  His last meal was the unlucky nature buff in the third picture below.  The US Forest Service, back-tracking from where the bear had originated, found the hiker's 38-caliber pistol emptied. Not far from the pistol was the remains of the hiker. The other body has not been found. Although the hiker fired six shots and managed to hit the grizzly with four shots (they ultimately found four 38 caliber slugs along with twelve 7mm slugs inside the bear's dead body) it only wounded the bear and probably angered it. The bear killed the hiker an estimated two days prior to the bear's own death by the gun of the Forest Service worker.  Think about this - If you are an average size man; you would be level with the bear's belly button when he stood upright, the bear would look you in the eye when it walked on all fours! To give additional perspective, consider that this particular bear, standing on its hind legs, could walk up to an average single story house and look over the roof, or walk up to a two story house and look in the bedroom windows.

I wonder what he eats to get big like that.
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The bear was not that big as seen on the first picture, it's only a because of the perspective... Here's another image of the same "teddy", and it looks less enormous on it... Still the picture is not fake and the story has just a few inaccurate details(the urban legend sites are right).


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i'd like to defend my point... It  would  be senseless to me to think that some guys saw the pic of the huge bear, after they shot another(smaller) one, dragged it to the place where the first was pictured, aligned it to be in the same position, the photoshopped two guys behind it... the two bears are the same, the size of the first is just a photo trick with the perspective. The terrain, the stone on which the head is placed is the same, and the size of the paws are the same compared to the original second pic. The paw is not that extremely huge, too. i've seen a tiger with paws slightly bigger than a man's head, and the teddies are bigger than tigers...
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Why does the first picutre of the bear (in my previous post) have no ears, when the second picture does. It seems like they forgot to add it in when they were editing the pic.

It is fake.

I hate how the bears always seem to be picked on, and I don't understand why someone would hunt bear in the first place ? I know some people eat bear
but I don't see the point when we have domesticated livestock ?
Plus eating bear would be disgusting. Grizzly bears are an endangered species we need to think about this whole hunting bears thing.
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To them, it's a sport.
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The bear is real.. perspective is the thing.. I live in Northern BC Canada and have been to Alaska and there is some damn frightening BIG BIG Bears...
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This is what snopes.com has on the three photos:
Claim:  Photographs show an enormous bear killed by an Alaskan hunter.

Status:  True.
Origins:  The basic story here is true although some of the details are wrong, perhaps because two different recent incidents of very large bear killings in Alaska have been conflated into one.

The bear pictured above was killed in November 2001 by a hunter (not a Forest Service employee) who came across it while he was deer-hunting in Alaska. As he described the event on the message board at HuntingNet.com:
My partner and I ran into the unexpected . . . "BIG ARSE URSUS"! The bear was shot 10 yards away (no zeros missing in that figure my friends) in the head with a .338 Remington Winnie, using 250 grain Nosler handloads, followed up with two shots to the vitals. A very quick clean death.

We were working up a creek, headed for the mountains to hunt blacktail. He was coming down the creek, hunting for the last of the spawning Coho in the creek. We initially spotted him from 40 yds off. As a matter of fact we were glassing the bear over the high brush just behind the bear when we spotted him.
Here's another photograph of the hunters posing with their ursine prey:


The pictures of the November 2001 shooting became confused with a later account of a killing, also in Alaska, of another very large bear. This incident, as described by the Associated Press, took place on 21 April 2002 in Anchorage:
Sigfredo Casiano, 28, was hiking to a camp site near Swanson River Road Sunday morning when he heard a noise in nearby woods. Initially, Casiano thought a moose was making the noise but he removed the safety from his rifle as a precaution, troopers said.

Soon after, a brown bear appeared about 10 feet away and began moving toward him.

Casiano fired one shot with his rifle, striking the bear behind the skull. The bear collapsed and Casiano man fired several more shots.

The bear was described as a male between eight and nine feet tall.

A moose carcass was found nearby and the bear was probably protecting the find, troopers said.
The pictures shown above are from November 2001; none of them is a photo of the bear killed by Sigfredo Casiano in April 2002.

In 2003 another photograph began to be circulatedin conjunction with the pictures shown above, purportedly showing a human victim who was the bear's "last meal":

Although this is a genuine photograph of human remains gnawed by one or more animals, it has nothing to do with the bear pictured above. This photograph comes from a completely different source and was only tacked on as an addendum to the bear story after both had been circulating independently for over a year.

Last updated:  18 October 2004
Link to Snopes article about the bear photos
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After some research I can conclude that I was wrong, and that this picture is genuine. Heres a link. The picture of the man who was eaten had nothing to do with this bear.
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