To address some of the bigger questions in the comments: Several commentators have asked about the guns the villagers were using. Although I haven't been able to find out all the types of guns used, in my research I learned that the hunter who ended up finally killing Kesagake, Yamamoto, was using an M1870 Russian Berdan II Infantry rifle. So, apparently Russian guns taken from the Russo-Japanese War were available. I think we can assume that similar firearms of the time were present as well, although I can't say for sure. Many have asked to see the bear, but unfortunately no images survive. The best we have is the model they made of Kesagake that is shown in the video and on the Wikipedia page. At least that gives an idea of his size!
This is incredibly tragic and sooo heartbreaking, the power of a wild animal is to us, superhuman, but sadly I wonder are animals fighting back, this is not the1st killer behaviour of animals for the sake of killing, 2 I can think of, te movie the ghost and the darkness about the 2 lions, the gombe war where a chimp broke 1 human child's neck, another tore apart a human baby, and they brutally broke off into 2 groups and fought like human alot of the original footage can be found on RUclips, but you will never ever look at chimps the same way again for the rest of your life, I adored them, now I see them as pure evil, or potential evil waiting to come out, humans have done so much damage 💔 😢. I also wanted to add, I LOVE JAPAN ❤ 💞🕊🌻🇦🇺✌🤗.
If they were using military full metal jacket ammunition, I'm not surprised at the mere wounding. A bullet like that will only put a hole in the bear, and would not mushroom or expand, and that's what is what would kill the bear.
@@normanbraslow7902 Berdan was an American Civil War General. The one rifle he mentioned used by one of the better equipped hunters was a early bolt action that completely lacked locking lugs. So it would be limited in its power charge. Paper patched Lead Spitzer bullets were popular at the time. If that's what the best equipped man had that the poorer men were probably using muzzle loaders, maybe even smooth bored.
The misfire leads me to believe there were some cap and ball rifles that were used. The cartridge rifle used by Yamamoto typically does not misfire. Probably a hodge podge of guns. But cartridge rifles were expensive compared to outdated cap and ball and it doesn't sound like a very wealthy village. Even that M1870 is old compared to what was being used in 1915. That's a big round used in the M1870 being .42 caliber. Would surely kill a bear. Not only that, if they were cap and ball, they only get one shot before the bear is out of sight,
This true story reminded me of the one about the two Tsavo lions. For those that don't know who the man-eating Tsavo lions are, back in 1898, for nine months, two lions terrorized the Southern Kenyan region. It started after the British was constructing a railroad bridge over the Tsabo River. The two lions worked together as a team to cleverly trap and kill people! The way the 2 male lions worked together with thought-out plans to capture people was just unheard of!! By time their reign of killing was over, it was said that they had eaten 135 men!!! The lions are now in the Field Museum in Chicago. There was a movie made about them called, The Ghost and the Darkness.
Anyone that's ever hunted a bear will attest to their high intelligence, they literally will circle back on you and it's a little scary to find they've been hunting you !
Bears are not stupid for sure! They seem to figure, "if I'm going down, I'm taking down however many humans I can before I go". A wounded bear, is a dangerous bear! Instinct is powerful, when survival is at risk. Anyone who has ever hunted deer, knows how they can outsmart a human being, seemingly with ease.
A while back I was tracking a bear in the snow..the bear figured out it was being tracked and walked backwards in its tracks for about 50yrds. Then it jumped tree to tree until it reached the cedars, and tiptoed where the snow was spotty! Not only was that intelligent, but that was reasoning!
Loved you mentioned the Kodiak Brown Bear, I lived on Kodiak Island where they’re exclusively found. Kodiak bears are generally pretty easygoing, you can fish alongside them in peace sometimes. But they will attack people, I know two people who’ve had run ins with them. One had a gun and killed the bear in self defense. The other… he didn’t have a gun (or at least a strong enough one) and got his leg munched on. He survived though! Hungry bears are unpredictable creatures and can go ‘rogue’. Combine that with the fact larger bears are basically bulletproof to smaller caliber firearms, and you’re in for a bad time.
Thank you for the input. It's in line with what I have generally understood about the behavior of big bears in general. They can be dangerous in certain circumstances, but they don't typically hunt down and eat humans, which is why I found this story to be so fascinating. Thank you for watching!
Very few people actually live on Kodiak and they dont live there year round. It is a fishing community that is alot different than anywhere else on earth
You're full of crap too 😂 you don't live on Kodiak and the problem is people fail to respect them and there space. There's no such thing as a rogue. The bear went bear and you are just meat and bone.
My wife is a wildlife biologist and used to work in the field. This means spending weeks to months in Katmai National park studying grizzlies. Usually alone until I met her. Bears near city centers or large populations of people tend to be pretty used to people however real wild bears In the wilderness are a whole other level. My wife studied them for 20 years and says it's more about learning how to survive because real wild bears if they catch you slipping will kill and eat you 100 percent of the time. She spent 4 days in a tree at one point because a large boar was hunting her. Add that to the fact in Katmai it is against the law to carry a firearm. Biggest bears in the world live on Katmai.
@@world-strider possibly; because as I can imagine people can get forgetful since this is a real--like true life & unheard of story and people leave stunned, shut--down--shocked. Im glad that you really didn't choose to go into capturing the actual gruesome brutality-harshness, terror-horror of it. You held back gory details.. just barely, lightly, merely hesitantly touched on the detailed-possibilities of what obviously ocurred. And that measured amt was still too INTOLERABLE to withstand; to bear.
I commend you for the great narration and the format of your content, not having to rely on fancy editing of sorts, just pure, quality dialogue. I hope it stays like that. I'd like to underline one aspect of the story. The key word here is "erratic". It's not about the size of the bear, however amazing, but behavior, and the same thing could be said of humans. The most dangerous creature is not a big one but an erratic one. That bear found himself awake in season when he wasn't supposed to, and acted according to his circumstance.
The bear that turns to man eater is usually the old bear, the injured bear or a bear that’s mother has taken humans it learns everything from mother up to 2yrs old
Bears especially the Grizzlies are Sacred Animals to Mother Nature they are it's Protectors and Guardians the Human for the Bear is a vermin a nemesis for Mother Nature
I was surprised there were brown bears in Japan but considering the Kamchatca Peninsula on the Russian coast is home to the biggest brown bears in the world is very close.
This is absolutely the most unbelievable story I've ever heard. If it wasn't for bad luck they wouldn't have had any luck at all. That bear does seem like something from the Twilight Zone.
Honestly, 750 lbs. sounds impressive, but it's actually rather low-end for a nine-foot tall bear. In late autumn, bears go into what's known as a hypertrophic state - which is just a fancy way of saying they eat as much as they can manage. It's an all-encompassing compulsion for them - an adaptation to ensure that they're good and fat before winter hibernation, and the wait through spring until new food sources become available. If they don't hit a certain level of satiety, they may not go into hibernation. Their metobolism "knows" they won't make it through the winter, and they instead desperately seek out any and all food sources left, in hopes of putting on that extra weight. It makes them bold to the point of near-madness and, in my neck of the woods, black bears (much smaller than hokkaido bears) will take on full-grown moose to eat, if easier prey is unavailable, and have occasionally torn through doors or windows of homes - usually to get at the pantry, which puts up less of a fight, but this is still perilous territory, and the bears know it. It sounds to me like the bear in this story was underweight (maybe due to illness, previous injury, age... who knows?), and went seeking a prey source that was abundant. The description of head-bites sounds consistent with typical bear predation. Brains have a lot of fat content - so it was eating the nutritional parts first (much as bears do with salmon), to maximize what it consumed in a dangerous situation. It sounds like this bear wasn't "deviant" or "bloodthirsty;" simply desperate. Still scary, though! A good reminder that we're a part of nature too, and subject to its laws when the chips are down.
Very interesting, thank you for sharing. That makes a lot of sense, and I could see how a desperate bear would be drawn to new human development in the area as a potential food source.
@@world-strider Huh! I never thought of that angle! Perhaps some of the development overlapped its previous foraging grounds. It sounds like the village itself had been there awhile, but it may have been driven off its original territory. Again, who knows? But it's not an unreasonable guess.
Very well said but as you know, a lot of humans are stupid and are oblivious to danger because they listen to other stupid people and take what they say as being facts😂👍
I remember reading the Wikipedia article of this story one cold winter night and being absolutely chilled to the bone from the tale, you did a great job retelling it and in a very proffesional way! I wish there was more information on the story! Don’t suppose you being in Japan can dig up more? 😁 Also that Forestry Workers book, is it in English? And if so, where can one acquire it?
Thanks for the feedback! It is a remarkable story, isn't it? For this video I was just looking to tell the main story, but I was able to find some Japanese resources in the process, so perhaps I will do a follow up video at some point. As for the Forestry Workers account, unfortunately it doesn't look like it was ever translated into English. The Japanese book is called 慟哭の谷. Quite a shame, as the story is certainly worth translating into other languages!
@@gregorygrayson8044 There is bear movies though. I watched one called Grizzly about a giant bear that goes around killing people. If I remember correctly they end up killing it with a laws rocket. Yes its that big. Lol
Years ago i visted my parents in new jersey, bears were knocking over the garbage cans. Anout a mile away from their house was a game /forest reserve with hiking trails. 3 guys from the city went hiking and a bear chased them and caught one and promptly ate him.. this was in new new Jersey hardly a remote area.. just before that i was hiking around..
I remember that. They were told the bear was there but hiked on anyway. When confronted, they separated and ran, opposite of what you should do. Unfortunate.
We not gonna mention this guy doesn’t even have 1k subs, yet he held our attention for 40 minutes and left me with a really cool story? Most channels with below 1k subs usually have the audio quality from Walmarts own range, and are more grainy than my local bakers full grain loaf.
Often times a man-eater is found to have some sort of injury that keeps them from being able to hunt their usual prey, maybe an infected tooth or some other injury.
Interesting. Yes, I have heard similar things as well. Maybe something about the Kesagake's previous injuries made it difficult to access his normal food sources. Thanks for the input!
@@kasperkjrsgaard1447 so what should the rest of the world do isnt there some wolfe culling in the scandinavics when the population grows over a certain number.
A 750 lb brown bear is the size of an inland grizzly in the US in MT or northern ID. Kodiak browns can and do routinely grow to double that weight. A Siberian brown was said to be the largest ever but this has been disputed topping out at an absurd 2330lbs!! Over a ton of bear mass!! The strength and intelligence of these amazing mammals are legend. As strong and stealthy Siberian tigers are, a Kodiak brown would win 9 out of 10 times as the Siberian tiger grows to 800 to 1000 lbs MAX. Kodiak browns are 500 to 600lbs heavier. Their power is unmatched in nature when fully employed.
the biggest Siberian tigers in modern times have been recorded at a weight of no more than 253kgs. however hunting records wich had accounts of 800lbs tigers wich was false. hunting records tend to have exaggerated numbers. real avaragr weight for a Siberian tiger is 400-450lbs and tipping out at 600lbs in my opinion.
Thank you,,,,The first time I heard of this story, my wife and I had gone to our favorite yakitori-ya,,,maybe 6 or 7 years ago On the obligatory TV above the counter, there was an NHK special on this incident. We were both fascinated! It was an incredible story,,,,Obviously it was in Japanese, and the parts I could not understand, my wife - Japanese, filled me in. The bear itself was a huge beast and the Japanese gave it an almost a mystical image.... A little like the shark in Jaws. I teach English a couple of days a week up in the mountains, in rural towns north of here. Several times, I have seen bears walking through fields!! The Asian Blacks are nowhere near the size of this beast, but I am still a little twitchy walking from car parks to class!! Again, thank you for this video!
Thank you for the comment. I too never forgot the tale after first stumbling upon it online. I couldn’t believe I had never heard it back in the States! I have hiked all over Japan and seen almost every wild animal imaginable, but I’m kind of ashamed to say I’ve never seen a black bear here! Maybe one of these days.
If that one woman had thrown a pot of boiling water on the bear instead of putting out the fire she would have saved her kids. A pot of boiling water is a lose your mind kind of pain.
This was an interesting story; I'd only really heard about the Asian black bears in Japan and how they're known to construct nests in trees which is something that's also quite fascinating. This tale reminded me of some articles I read about the Sloth bears of India. They're a smaller bear that primarily eats fruit and insects but are known to be aggressive/defensive to humans. One of the articles supposed that their aggression was likely due to the natural predators it has to contend with. (Tigers, leopards, and wolves) Essentially when it's startled or confronted it goes into immediate fight mode. On a side note, they're a very unique-looking bear and the only one to routinely carry their cubs on their back.
Read Keneth Anderson’s book called Man Eater he had to hunt and kill a few rogue bears in India because they were such a menace. Hi also hunted some very deadly man eating tigers and leopards too saving many lives at the risk of his own.
Was thinking exactly the same, and found out that there IS a movie! Yellow fangs 1990, Japanese movie. Haven´t checked it out yet, but will! Also there seems to be a manga-story too, and the bear clearly inspired some other stories too like the monster bear in Ginga nagareboshi Gin etc. I´d love to see a more recent horror movie about it though.
I would imagine that the bear's aggression came from being injured by the people. a hurt brown bear is the last thing I'd want to deal with. especially when it's aware the injury was caused by humans.
There have also been certain monstrous crocs that have killed multiple people after finding that the are easy to catch and eat. One of the largest was hunted after it ate multiple fishermen and women who were doing the laundry in the water.
When i was 13 back in 1963 i was picking blueberries. The blueberry bushes were about 4 to5 ft tall. I was picking and humming a tune to myself when suddenly a black bear stood up on the other side of the bush and looked eye to eye with me. We were both about the same height so i assume he/she was young like me. maybe 5' 2" at the time. Well i turned loose with a blood curdling scream and the bear and i both turned and ran. After that Uncle Vernon went with us carrying his rifle. We got some nice blue berry pie .
Sometimes bears do not get enough to eat during the summer months. When the weather turns cold, in their desperation bears will sometimes attack whatever and whoever happens to be walking by. Unfortunately humans are easy prey.
Thank you for the input. I agree that desperation must have played a role in this, and a human settlement like the one he attacked must have been too tempting a potential food source.
I cannot believe how many people spout the "bears don't want to eat you" nonsense. Look up deadly bear attacks there is a list and in nearly every one the person is found in the bears stomach. Also they eat your limbs and organs while you're alive. They don't kill you first because you aren't a threat.
When you start debating if your Bear or a Polar Bear is bigger you're already in very dangerous territory. I'm guessing too that these people probably mostly had smaller caliber rifles and even muzzle loaders.
thank you for doing the research and sharing the story. amazing story! encountered this video while studying about bear for hiking preparation in tohoku.
Thank you, I’m glad it interested you. Somehow, Tohoku is one of the few places in Japan I have never been. When are you planning on doing your hike? I’d love to go there someday!
@@world-strider i am planning somewhere in September. somehow im still weighing to go somewhere in nagano or tohoku. but seems like if i wanna go hike in these area, there is quite a chance of bear sighting. 😬
Very good presentation. A historical note. The biggest brown/grizzly bears, bigger than Kodiak bears, were the California grizzlies. Plenty of food, easy climate, and no enemies as the Indians and Spanish were understandably terrified of them. Until the Americans with firearms,
World Strider These kind of things are hard to nail down, of course, as the last California bear was killed about 1920 or so. I think the estimates were made from trophy rugs, I'm not sure. Some of the opinions were based on food sources, weather, and such. It does make sense. The coastal grizzlies in Alaska are significantly bigger then the mountain bears, and the Kodiak bigger yet. Whatever, they are all huge and can be vicious.
Once i was tracking a bear that had been paying recurring visits to my garden. I never saw it, but it always left a trail of destruction. One day I started going after it, a bit carelessly, carrying my bow, acting on a tip from a neighbour. I had been following its clear tracks for over a mile, i thought i was getting close to a possible den, when all traces disappeared at the riverbank. When I thought I had lost all signs of its passage, that bear jumped from a bush, grabbed my nokia phone from my backpocket with its huge claws and broke all my sudoku records in ‘games’. Bears are véry smart.
I have seen a couple polar bears at zoos and they are big, but years ago I went to a small zoo and I was not prepared to see the brown bear that they had. They had the old iron bar cages and I did not feel safe. The one they had was much bigger than any other bear I had ever seen.
The Berdan rifle is a Russian rifle created by the American firearms expert and inventor ... The Russian Berdan I (M1868) and Berdan II (M1870) rifles of .42 caliber .. The .42 caliber Berdan cartridge was part of the weapon system designed by Hiram Berdan, an American gun maker who the Russians had gone to in order to improve their infantry weapons. Physically the cartridge appears as did many rounds of the day. A lubricated paper wrapped .42 caliber bullet in a brass case that used a primer rather than a percussion cap to ignite the gun powder within it. At the time of its introduction the Berdan rifle cartridge was one of the more powerful cartridges in military service. The bullet weighed about 386 grains and was made of 99% lead and 1% antimony. The powder charge varied by cartridge: 77 grains for the rifle cartridge and 69.5 grains for the carbine cartridge. Cartridge types can be determined by their color.
Great video and great story. I had read about it but this more informative. Would love to hear more stories about animals who act like this. So interesting and well made.
This is crazy. We live in Alaska and have big brown bears around our cabin all summer on the Kenai Peninsula. They never cause any problems, they're very shy.
Sitka ....👍 They're walking garbage dumpsters. Lol . In the continental states, they have DNA on all of em and destroy any who've ever had human food because they'll keep coming back for the easy meal.
Wear medieval amour and ar500 armour. Wield a spear, a sword, a dagger, and a deadly gun. Pretty simple. You’ll be slower, but tankier. And your hunger for the hunt will increase. Since you know you’re protected from fangs and claws. I never see hunters wear armor. Would be interesting to see a fully armored man with different weapons vs a grizzly bear. One thrust with a thrown spear, a few shots with a deadly gun, a few cuts and thrusts with a sword, a few stab wounds with a dagger. Would be interesting.
You are a great storyteller. I love scary stories like this, the man eating lions of Tsavo is one of my favorites and the movie was great. It make you scared for no reason to go outside, and I live I live in the middle of the USA! When we go camping, I am afraid of skunks, lol, so I couldn’t imagine something big and hairy that could kill you. Thank you for this story.
I didn't even know Japan had brown bears. Let alone large aggressive brown bears. That is so facinating. This story is insane. I couldn't imagine how scary it must have been to live during that time.
Polar Bears are generally quite a bit larger than Kodiak Bears (aka Alaskan Brown Bears) and Grizzly Bears. In saying that, both the Kodiak and Grizzly can grow to enormous sizes.
All animals circle back. Deer do it to dog hunters all the time. It's part of their instincts and will to live. Bears have a sense of smell a 100 times better than ours. That's why he knew which house to go to...
New subscriber who has trouble sleeping. A nice video to listen too and if I close my eyes and just lay there and listen, I dont feel like Im missing the visuals of the video.
They had to be terrified.paper thin walls.the bear can hear and listen for them from the shadows outside without them knowing.it sounds like the thin walls had a hard time keeping in sound and revealing exactly what part of the house the occupants were at .this plays a huge role in this attack.alot of the accounts mentioned the speed of and the surprise to them it was,there is know where you can go or hide or any door you can lock that would barely slow him down.theres almost nothing u can do to keep a determined bear out of a cabin,or home..if I was them the first thing I build is a bear safe room or cellar.they remind me of a chimpanzee,or ggorilla..there is no door or structure they can't breach.when a mad chimp was after a cop.he ran to his car thinking he was safe.the chimp ripped both locked car doors off the car.
I'm wondering why after it became apparent the bear was returning to the village why they didn't build a baited bear trap. Big piece of meat in the trap, the bear walks in, the trap door snaps shut and the bear is caught. Even the hunter and the government didn't think of it but it should be the first thing done.
They certainly could have used better tactics, I agree with you there, but remember they did try to lure the bear in with previous victims corpses to no effect.
Most towns don't have the money to hire a bearologist but those who do are far ahead after every known bear within the town limits has been tranquilized and blood drawn for analysis and DNA sample to be kept on file with a fresh ear tag number for easy identification in the future. Incidents are quickly noted and bear to be killed is specifically determined from DNA without wiping out the bear population in a guessing game. The old saying, a fed bear is a dead bear could have been the motive for the bear prying into houses where the human occupant is thought to be contesting the bear's new food supply. Always instant death for the human.
Hokkaido resident here. Thanks for telling this story. It has fascinated me for years. How about telling the story of Enomoto Takeaki and Republic of Ezo, Kaiyō Maru.
"A 5-6' pole/walking stick is more effective than a firearm. When it comes to a bear deterrent. In my opinion. A cattle prod, bear spray and a few other options can be attached to the head of the pole. It's extremely useful." There's a certain region in India. Where it's said that,"approximately 100k people have been killed by Tigers. In the last 100 years or so, I believe?'"
Bryce McQueen, yes this was my comment about walking sticks. Scrolling down, I saw your comment. Locals well familiar with bear contact use these very sturdy walking staffs. Now I would be interested in more information about stories of successful use of them as deterrents.
Port lock Alaska 100s of incidents, people missing, people killed, mutilated in strange incidents, bodies of murdered people washing down river so feared the people just left the town abandoned in the 50s to this day its the most feared place in Alaska. What happen bears or bigfoot?
Thank you for the suggestion, I very well may! I have a couple of other video ideas in the works about similar subjects as well, so check back if you're interested!
Hey bro, just found your channel and I like your style and content. Great job! Watching from South Africa, where we have surprisingly few animal attacks haha
@@world-strider Nope, very few. I can think of like five in the last 30 years. We don't have areas where big animals come into human territories, with the exception of St Lucia, where there are hippos, crocs and sharks super close to the humans chilling on the beach. Maybe a few captive lion attacks, or the odd poacher, but that's more self-defense.
The only reason this bear was able to go on this spree was the incompetence of the villagers. All it took was one drunk with basic knowledge of hunting to take out the bear. How useless do you have to be to not be able to track a wounded bear in the SNOW? Not only that but SIXTY men with rifles? Bunch of stooges.
@@normanbraslow7902 Yeah the expansion is terrible and that's the reason it survived so long with a few wounds. But a whole army of guys shooting 6.5 should have no issue with a bear.
Also The Polar Bear is the biggest carnivour aka bear in the world.... Why u hear the Kodiak is because they consider the Polar bear as an aquadic mammal by some experts. So im ganna have to call ya out on your misinformation. This bear is considered to almost reach the kodiak in size, but the kodiak gets much much larger then the black grizzy as this bear is referred as. Other than that great information man
It was 9 people that lost their lives to that monster. Two of them later died to their injuries and they are just as much victims of this incident as the others. And if the bear hunter who killed the bear is to be believed, the victim count would be 12 as that bear had escaped him after killing 3 women years prior to this incident
@@world-strider Greetings from Slovakia. Just quick about background. 20 years ago population of brown bears was something like 200-300 pieces at whole country. Now it is around 2400-3000. Hunting is prohibited and even there is some illegal hunters, the fee for killing bear is around 50 000 USD or 3 years jail. Now encounters are on daily basis. Most of them is peaceful or with small injury only. Yesterday encounter was different. Bear hunts this man and attack from behind on his neck. He didn't eat him just made him fatal injuries. This time is breeding season so male bears are very aggressive. People are refusing to work in woods. Price for wood hitting all time high. So because male bear needs territory and they are over populated, strong male bears pushing younger bears or female bears with chubs to the edge of cities. There is recorded video one hunter made during night. He counted 38 bears during one hour at corn field right behind village. Hiking is adrenaline sport now and not recommended to anyone.
@@jozko3275 I didn't know anything about that! That does sound terrifying. I have mixed feelings on issues like this because although I believe protection and conservation efforts are important, especially with so many species going extinct, obviously more bears means more danger to humans. Perhaps the authorities in Slovakia can find some sort of middle ground?
You are lying, I am from Slovakia as well and the bear is no man eater. The poor man was just out of his luck as he must have scared the bear significantly. The man was not eaten, just bitten but the man died after the attack.
@@jozko3275 2400-3000?? Are you crazy??? You must be a stupid hunter or whatnot as the population of brown bear in Slovakia is around 1200-1400. No, the bear did not hunt the man at all geez, he was attacked because the man had surprised him. How can you tell that he was attacked from behind? Because of the wound on his neck? But it does not mean it was an attack from behind.
I'm surprised the bear's injury isn't focused on as a main cause. once he was shot, he would be totally enraged. dealing with hurt brown bears is very difficult.
Definitely. After hearing a lot of similar comments I am now of the same opinion. My lack of knowledge of bear behavior initially was the only reason for the omission. Thanks for the input!
Ghost in the darkness type story. They say that wolves did horrific killings in korea, also. you might check that out. They say they had to annihilate all wolves from there. Should be a good movie made about these tragic historical events.
I keep this story in mind when my buddies and I go on bear hunts and we would frequently talk about it when camping out. It’s the reason we only hunt bears during the season. They are one of the ultimate hunting trophies and every bear we execute reminds the animal kingdom that mankind is the top of the food chain and that a single man with a lit match let alone a high caliber rifle can destroy an entire species or ecosystem if they put their mind to it. You hear horror stories about bears and wolves and cougars and now in the modern age of hunting, standing and staring down over a dying bear whimpering and gasping for breath. There is a sense of satisfaction in it.
All species of bear will go into “surplus killing”. They’re so strong and uncontested that they’ll start swatting off multiple people. This behavior is generally common between young inexperienced bears or bears waking up early from hibernation. It’s an anxiety response since bears don’t know what to do once they’ve woken up before their wake date. I like to call it wake date lol. But very rarely do bears behave like this. In all my years of hunting and being outdoors I’ve only come across ONE small black bear in predatory (I’m gonna eat you) mode. Was very eerie and surreal. There was also another example of a black bear killing a few people at a hot springs in Alaska. The black bear mauled 5 people killing 2 of them. May the trucker who gave his life to try to save a strangers Rest In Peace. A real hero. Anyways awesome video man. If you like these kind of stories you should check out The Lions of Tsalvo by Bob Gymlan. He does a fantastic job of telling the story and I’d really like you to give a rundown on the story as well.
Thank you for your input! A lot of comments seem to say this behavior is really normal for bears, but I tend to think, like you said, that although it isn’t unheard of, it only happens under specific and somewhat rare conditions. I have heard of of the Tsavo lions, but I’ll admit I haven’t read that book. Sounds like I should!
That's what I thought when I first heard the story! I'll admit that since most of the story was collected and pieced together decades after the fact, we can't be certain of all the details, but animals are capable of amazing things so you never know. I personally believe at least the main points of the story are real.
Love Sapporo beer and Asian Japanese culture. Beautiful art, style and cuisine. This incident is the most brutal bear attack in history. At least from what I found. A terrible tragedy
I don't know if this is the same species of bear, but in India this bear was chasing and killing a bunch of people by a stream! Made the grizzly look somewhat tame!! Sheer terror!
The men from this village sound highly incompetent, how could they have the bear in their sights on several occasions and fail to kill it. 50 armed men all missed? If even 10 of them hit their target the bear would surely be killed
Hokkaido is also the native lands of the Ainu, a non Asian native Indians of Japan. The Japanese mercilessly ethnically cleansed the Ainu and annihilated their culture and did forced migration into Hokkaido during the late 1800's to dilute them out of existence, maybe the Bear was a nature demon manifesting, sort of like the 'Man Eaters of Tsavo'?
This remind me of a man eating tiger that attacked people from all silencers this tiger attacked and killed a man from a boat it swin up the river to the boat and sneak up on the man without warning this particular tiger is still at large to this day
Tigers, especially those in South Asia, have been known to be man-eaters! I'm not sure which incidence you're talking about, but I have also heard this.
Kinda don't really feel as much sympathy for people getting fucked up by animals as I do for animals being abused and tormented by people... IT is usually the people getting it wrong and being careless but it's next to never an animal looking to be fucked up....
To address some of the bigger questions in the comments:
Several commentators have asked about the guns the villagers were using. Although I haven't been able to find out all the types of guns used, in my research I learned that the hunter who ended up finally killing Kesagake, Yamamoto, was using an M1870 Russian Berdan II Infantry rifle. So, apparently Russian guns taken from the Russo-Japanese War were available. I think we can assume that similar firearms of the time were present as well, although I can't say for sure.
Many have asked to see the bear, but unfortunately no images survive. The best we have is the model they made of Kesagake that is shown in the video and on the Wikipedia page. At least that gives an idea of his size!
This is incredibly tragic and sooo heartbreaking, the power of a wild animal is to us, superhuman, but sadly I wonder are animals fighting back, this is not the1st killer behaviour of animals for the sake of killing, 2 I can think of, te movie the ghost and the darkness about the 2 lions, the gombe war where a chimp broke 1 human child's neck, another tore apart a human baby, and they brutally broke off into 2 groups and fought like human alot of the original footage can be found on RUclips, but you will never ever look at chimps the same way again for the rest of your life, I adored them, now I see them as pure evil, or potential evil waiting to come out, humans have done so much damage 💔 😢. I also wanted to add, I LOVE JAPAN ❤ 💞🕊🌻🇦🇺✌🤗.
If they were using military full metal jacket ammunition, I'm not surprised at the mere wounding. A bullet like that will only put a hole in the bear, and would not mushroom or expand, and that's what is what would kill the bear.
@@normanbraslow7902 Berdan was an American Civil War General. The one rifle he mentioned used by one of the better equipped hunters was a early bolt action that completely lacked locking lugs. So it would be limited in its power charge. Paper patched Lead Spitzer bullets were popular at the time. If that's what the best equipped man had that the poorer men were probably using muzzle loaders, maybe even smooth bored.
The misfire leads me to believe there were some cap and ball rifles that were used. The cartridge rifle used by Yamamoto typically does not misfire. Probably a hodge podge of guns. But cartridge rifles were expensive compared to outdated cap and ball and it doesn't sound like a very wealthy village. Even that M1870 is old compared to what was being used in 1915. That's a big round used in the M1870 being .42 caliber. Would surely kill a bear. Not only that, if they were cap and ball, they only get one shot before the bear is out of sight,
Louis Lamboley All good points.
This true story reminded me of the one about the two Tsavo lions. For those that don't know who the man-eating Tsavo lions are, back in 1898, for nine months, two lions terrorized the Southern Kenyan region. It started after the British was constructing a railroad bridge over the Tsabo River. The two lions worked together as a team to cleverly trap and kill people! The way the 2 male lions worked together with thought-out plans to capture people was just unheard of!! By time their reign of killing was over, it was said that they had eaten 135 men!!! The lions are now in the Field Museum in Chicago. There was a movie made about them called, The Ghost and the Darkness.
Yes, also an amazing story!
They made a movie about this not long ago
That was a pretty decent movie ...considering
Yes this actually sounds a bit too much like THE GHOST AND THE DARKNESS,similar era as well??
@@raypratt3611 The Ghost and the Darkness is based on the Tsavo lions dude
Anyone that's ever hunted a bear will attest to their high intelligence, they literally will circle back on you and it's a little scary to find they've been hunting you !
I have been hunting it can be scary up in a stand and a bear starts up your tree
Bears are not stupid for sure! They seem to figure, "if I'm going down, I'm taking down however many humans I can before I go".
A wounded bear, is a dangerous bear!
Instinct is powerful, when survival is at risk.
Anyone who has ever hunted deer, knows how they can outsmart a human being, seemingly with ease.
Lol agreed . But this ain't a channel of high IQ bud.
Thank you for your service in the bear human war.
Kill more please.
I will stay in a place they don't live.
A while back I was tracking a bear in the snow..the bear figured out it was being tracked and walked backwards in its tracks for about 50yrds. Then it jumped tree to tree until it reached the cedars, and tiptoed where the snow was spotty! Not only was that intelligent, but that was reasoning!
This video was amazing ignore rude comments saying it was too long I enjoyed how informative and thorough you were!
I appreciate the kind words. You can't please everyone, as they say.
Loved you mentioned the Kodiak Brown Bear, I lived on Kodiak Island where they’re exclusively found.
Kodiak bears are generally pretty easygoing, you can fish alongside them in peace sometimes. But they will attack people, I know two people who’ve had run ins with them. One had a gun and killed the bear in self defense. The other… he didn’t have a gun (or at least a strong enough one) and got his leg munched on. He survived though!
Hungry bears are unpredictable creatures and can go ‘rogue’. Combine that with the fact larger bears are basically bulletproof to smaller caliber firearms, and you’re in for a bad time.
Thank you for the input. It's in line with what I have generally understood about the behavior of big bears in general. They can be dangerous in certain circumstances, but they don't typically hunt down and eat humans, which is why I found this story to be so fascinating. Thank you for watching!
Very few people actually live on Kodiak and they dont live there year round. It is a fishing community that is alot different than anywhere else on earth
You're full of crap too 😂 you don't live on Kodiak and the problem is people fail to respect them and there space. There's no such thing as a rogue. The bear went bear and you are just meat and bone.
My wife is a wildlife biologist and used to work in the field. This means spending weeks to months in Katmai National park studying grizzlies. Usually alone until I met her. Bears near city centers or large populations of people tend to be pretty used to people however real wild bears In the wilderness are a whole other level. My wife studied them for 20 years and says it's more about learning how to survive because real wild bears if they catch you slipping will kill and eat you 100 percent of the time. She spent 4 days in a tree at one point because a large boar was hunting her. Add that to the fact in Katmai it is against the law to carry a firearm. Biggest bears in the world live on Katmai.
@Grace Jaye national park division of the government. Unfortunately Alaska kinda screwed up 😂
This was incredibly well produced!!! How do you only have 24 subscribers?!?
Glad you enjoyed it! Thank you for the kind words.
@@world-strider possibly;
because as I can imagine people can get forgetful
since this is a real--like true life & unheard of story and people leave stunned, shut--down--shocked.
Im glad that you really didn't choose to go into capturing the actual gruesome brutality-harshness, terror-horror of it.
You held back gory details.. just barely, lightly, merely hesitantly touched on the detailed-possibilities of what obviously ocurred. And that
measured amt was still too INTOLERABLE
to withstand; to bear.
He was a little bit giggly and this was a tragic story .
He's up to 899 today with my sub. 12/15/21
I commend you for the great narration and the format of your content, not having to rely on fancy editing of sorts, just pure, quality dialogue. I hope it stays like that.
I'd like to underline one aspect of the story. The key word here is "erratic". It's not about the size of the bear, however amazing, but behavior, and the same thing could be said of humans. The most dangerous creature is not a big one but an erratic one. That bear found himself awake in season when he wasn't supposed to, and acted according to his circumstance.
Thank you and I am glad you enjoyed it. Also, I completely agree with you analysis. Thank you for your insight!
The bear that turns to man eater is usually the old bear, the injured bear or a bear that’s mother has taken humans it learns everything from mother up to 2yrs old
Bears especially the Grizzlies are Sacred Animals to Mother Nature they are it's Protectors and Guardians the Human for the Bear is a vermin a nemesis for Mother Nature
I was surprised there were brown bears in Japan but considering the Kamchatca Peninsula on the Russian coast is home to the biggest brown bears in the world is very close.
Yeah it surprised me too. And I couldn’t believe their size!
This is absolutely the most unbelievable story I've ever heard. If it wasn't for bad luck they wouldn't have had any luck at all. That bear does seem like something from the Twilight Zone.
Honestly, 750 lbs. sounds impressive, but it's actually rather low-end for a nine-foot tall bear.
In late autumn, bears go into what's known as a hypertrophic state - which is just a fancy way of saying they eat as much as they can manage. It's an all-encompassing compulsion for them - an adaptation to ensure that they're good and fat before winter hibernation, and the wait through spring until new food sources become available. If they don't hit a certain level of satiety, they may not go into hibernation. Their metobolism "knows" they won't make it through the winter, and they instead desperately seek out any and all food sources left, in hopes of putting on that extra weight. It makes them bold to the point of near-madness and, in my neck of the woods, black bears (much smaller than hokkaido bears) will take on full-grown moose to eat, if easier prey is unavailable, and have occasionally torn through doors or windows of homes - usually to get at the pantry, which puts up less of a fight, but this is still perilous territory, and the bears know it.
It sounds to me like the bear in this story was underweight (maybe due to illness, previous injury, age... who knows?), and went seeking a prey source that was abundant. The description of head-bites sounds consistent with typical bear predation. Brains have a lot of fat content - so it was eating the nutritional parts first (much as bears do with salmon), to maximize what it consumed in a dangerous situation. It sounds like this bear wasn't "deviant" or "bloodthirsty;" simply desperate. Still scary, though! A good reminder that we're a part of nature too, and subject to its laws when the chips are down.
Very interesting, thank you for sharing. That makes a lot of sense, and I could see how a desperate bear would be drawn to new human development in the area as a potential food source.
@@world-strider Huh! I never thought of that angle! Perhaps some of the development overlapped its previous foraging grounds. It sounds like the village itself had been there awhile, but it may have been driven off its original territory. Again, who knows? But it's not an unreasonable guess.
So you saying stay away from bears …
@@faraznoor6802 Generally a good policy! =D
Very well said but as you know, a lot of humans are stupid and are oblivious to danger because they listen to other stupid people and take what they say as being facts😂👍
I remember reading the Wikipedia article of this story one cold winter night and being absolutely chilled to the bone from the tale, you did a great job retelling it and in a very proffesional way! I wish there was more information on the story! Don’t suppose you being in Japan can dig up more? 😁
Also that Forestry Workers book, is it in English? And if so, where can one acquire it?
Thanks for the feedback! It is a remarkable story, isn't it?
For this video I was just looking to tell the main story, but I was able to find some Japanese resources in the process, so perhaps I will do a follow up video at some point. As for the Forestry Workers account, unfortunately it doesn't look like it was ever translated into English. The Japanese book is called 慟哭の谷. Quite a shame, as the story is certainly worth translating into other languages!
@@world-strider I’ll be on the lookout for that follow up video then 😁 shame about the book! Really hope someone translates it some day!
@@world-strider I’m surprised there’s no movie about this
@@gregorygrayson8044 There is bear movies though. I watched one called Grizzly about a giant bear that goes around killing people. If I remember correctly they end up killing it with a laws rocket. Yes its that big. Lol
Years ago i visted my parents in new jersey, bears were knocking over the garbage cans. Anout a mile away from their house was a game /forest reserve with hiking trails. 3 guys from the city went hiking and a bear chased them and caught one and promptly ate him.. this was in new new Jersey hardly a remote area.. just before that i was hiking around..
I remember that. They were told the bear was there but hiked on anyway. When confronted, they separated and ran, opposite of what you should do. Unfortunate.
@@kathycasey9153 exactly, I heard of this incident as well.
We not gonna mention this guy doesn’t even have 1k subs, yet he held our attention for 40 minutes and left me with a really cool story? Most channels with below 1k subs usually have the audio quality from Walmarts own range, and are more grainy than my local bakers full grain loaf.
Really appreciate the kind words. Not all my videos have such good audio quality, however!
I love how genuine he is in his story telling...you can tell he finds it hard to go into detail about the maulings
He has no details about the maulings. It was 100 years ago.
The bear didn’t have to be smart , the competition wasn’t that stiff.
Often times a man-eater is found to have some sort of injury that keeps them from being able to hunt their usual prey, maybe an infected tooth or some other injury.
Yes I have heard of bears getting porcupine quills in their paws or in their mouth/face area and turn to eating whatever they can get.
Interesting. Yes, I have heard similar things as well. Maybe something about the Kesagake's previous injuries made it difficult to access his normal food sources. Thanks for the input!
Maybe he just loved the violence of attacking humans.
@@Veldtian1 Yep because once they find out that humans are all bark with no bite unless they're armed, it's a done deal for humans😂👍
The man eaters of tsavo would like to know your location.
When in, or near Bear country you NEED to be armed accordingly, forget the consequences, save your life!!
Only in america apparently. The rest of the world manages without.
@@kasperkjrsgaard1447 so what should the rest of the world do isnt there some wolfe culling in the scandinavics when the population grows over a certain number.
@@adler1964
If there’s too many wolfes in a certain region or territorie the wolf will migrate. It’s as simple as that.
A 750 lb brown bear is the size of an inland grizzly in the US in MT or northern ID. Kodiak browns can and do routinely grow to double that weight. A Siberian brown was said to be the largest ever but this has been disputed topping out at an absurd 2330lbs!! Over a ton of bear mass!! The strength and intelligence of these amazing mammals are legend. As strong and stealthy Siberian tigers are, a Kodiak brown would win 9 out of 10 times as the Siberian tiger grows to 800 to 1000 lbs MAX. Kodiak browns are 500 to 600lbs heavier. Their power is unmatched in nature when fully employed.
the biggest Siberian tigers in modern times have been recorded at a weight of no more than 253kgs. however hunting records wich had accounts of 800lbs tigers wich was false. hunting records tend to have exaggerated numbers.
real avaragr weight for a Siberian tiger is 400-450lbs and tipping out at 600lbs in my opinion.
Thank you,,,,The first time I heard of this story, my wife and I had gone to our favorite yakitori-ya,,,maybe 6 or 7 years ago On the obligatory TV above the counter, there was an NHK special on this incident. We were both fascinated! It was an incredible story,,,,Obviously it was in Japanese, and the parts I could not understand, my wife - Japanese, filled me in. The bear itself was a huge beast and the Japanese gave it an almost a mystical image.... A little like the shark in Jaws. I teach English a couple of days a week up in the mountains, in rural towns north of here. Several times, I have seen bears walking through fields!! The Asian Blacks are nowhere near the size of this beast, but I am still a little twitchy walking from car parks to class!! Again, thank you for this video!
Thank you for the comment. I too never forgot the tale after first stumbling upon it online. I couldn’t believe I had never heard it back in the States!
I have hiked all over Japan and seen almost every wild animal imaginable, but I’m kind of ashamed to say I’ve never seen a black bear here! Maybe one of these days.
If that one woman had thrown a pot of boiling water on the bear instead of putting out the fire she would have saved her kids. A pot of boiling water is a lose your mind kind of pain.
This was an interesting story; I'd only really heard about the Asian black bears in Japan and how they're known to construct nests in trees which is something that's also quite fascinating. This tale reminded me of some articles I read about the Sloth bears of India. They're a smaller bear that primarily eats fruit and insects but are known to be aggressive/defensive to humans. One of the articles supposed that their aggression was likely due to the natural predators it has to contend with. (Tigers, leopards, and wolves) Essentially when it's startled or confronted it goes into immediate fight mode. On a side note, they're a very unique-looking bear and the only one to routinely carry their cubs on their back.
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Read Keneth Anderson’s book called Man Eater he had to hunt and kill a few rogue bears in India because they were such a menace. Hi also hunted some very deadly man eating tigers and leopards too saving many lives at the risk of his own.
This has the making for one hell of movie
Yeah, it has all the right elements!
I'm thinking the same thing!
I was thinking the same. 🙀
Was thinking exactly the same, and found out that there IS a movie! Yellow fangs 1990, Japanese movie. Haven´t checked it out yet, but will! Also there seems to be a manga-story too, and the bear clearly inspired some other stories too like the monster bear in Ginga nagareboshi Gin etc. I´d love to see a more recent horror movie about it though.
Bears like this one are called "Rogues". They will act out of the normal as known to animal biologists.
I would imagine that the bear's aggression came from being injured by the people. a hurt brown bear is the last thing I'd want to deal with. especially when it's aware the injury was caused by humans.
You’re a very good storyteller, thank you.
Thank you, and thanks for watching.
Fantastic story teller, handled delicately with respect to the victims. New subscriber. Thank you!
Glad you liked it! I’ll try to keep the content coming!
Japan has brown bears? Damn, news to me.
I believe they also have a black bear.called the sun bear.
That is exactly what I thought! You don't normally associate brown bears with Japan.
@@lesleyboeder1798 *moon bear, ir asiatic black bear. The sun bear lives in indonesia.
As anyone told the story about the Japanese soldiers who were killed by crocodiles
Helmet For My Pillow touches the subject.
A very interesting story, and one that I am considering covering in a video soon. Can I credit you for the suggestion?
You don’t know about the conquest of the Ainu by the Japanese?
The history is similar to that of native Americans - tragic.
There have also been certain monstrous crocs that have killed multiple people after finding that the are easy to catch and eat. One of the largest was hunted after it ate multiple fishermen and women who were doing the laundry in the water.
I'm going to do a video on an infamous crocodile attack in the near future. Stay tuned!
When i was 13 back in 1963 i was picking blueberries. The blueberry bushes were about 4 to5 ft tall. I was picking and humming a tune to myself when suddenly a black bear stood up on the other side of the bush and looked eye to eye with me. We were both about the same height so i assume he/she was young like me. maybe 5' 2" at the time. Well i turned loose with a blood curdling scream and the bear and i both turned and ran. After that Uncle Vernon went with us carrying his rifle. We got some nice blue berry pie .
Sometimes bears do not get enough to eat during the summer months. When the weather turns cold, in their desperation bears will sometimes attack whatever and whoever happens to be walking by. Unfortunately humans are easy prey.
Thank you for the input. I agree that desperation must have played a role in this, and a human settlement like the one he attacked must have been too tempting a potential food source.
I cannot believe how many people spout the "bears don't want to eat you" nonsense.
Look up deadly bear attacks there is a list and in nearly every one the person is found in the bears stomach. Also they eat your limbs and organs while you're alive. They don't kill you first because you aren't a threat.
I always have a 12 ga. Loaded with high velocity slugs at the ready while camping and hiking.
When you start debating if your Bear or a Polar Bear is bigger you're already in very dangerous territory. I'm guessing too that these people probably mostly had smaller caliber rifles and even muzzle loaders.
Human life is more important than animal life.
Maybe , maybe not .
Seems a bit simplistic to me.
thank you for doing the research and sharing the story. amazing story! encountered this video while studying about bear for hiking preparation in tohoku.
Thank you, I’m glad it interested you. Somehow, Tohoku is one of the few places in Japan I have never been. When are you planning on doing your hike? I’d love to go there someday!
@@world-strider i am planning somewhere in September. somehow im still weighing to go somewhere in nagano or tohoku. but seems like if i wanna go hike in these area, there is quite a chance of bear sighting. 😬
Very good presentation. A historical note. The biggest brown/grizzly bears, bigger than Kodiak bears, were the California grizzlies. Plenty of food, easy climate, and no enemies as the Indians and Spanish were understandably terrified of them. Until the Americans with firearms,
Really??
As someone who is from California, I always knew grizzlies were huge, but was never able to confirm if they were in fact the biggest.
World Strider These kind of things are hard to nail down, of course, as the last California bear was killed about 1920 or so. I think the estimates were made from trophy rugs, I'm not sure. Some of the opinions were based on food sources, weather, and such. It does make sense. The coastal grizzlies in Alaska are significantly bigger then the mountain bears, and the Kodiak bigger yet. Whatever, they are all huge and can be vicious.
America should nuke Kodiak Island.
This is just a fact.
Big Foot Nukes may be a bit of an overkill. Like squashing a bug with a sledge hammer.
Once i was tracking a bear that had been paying recurring visits to my garden. I never saw it, but it always left a trail of destruction. One day I started going after it, a bit carelessly, carrying my bow, acting on a tip from a neighbour. I had been following its clear tracks for over a mile, i thought i was getting close to a possible den, when all traces disappeared at the riverbank. When I thought I had lost all signs of its passage, that bear jumped from a bush, grabbed my nokia phone from my backpocket with its huge claws and broke all my sudoku records in ‘games’. Bears are véry smart.
You’re lucky to still be alive! I don’t think anyone should hunt a bear without a rifle!
"This is a real grizzly story." I see what you did there.
You are a great teller of the story, not many can hold my attention. 😻
Glad to hear you enjoyed it. Thank you for watching!
I have seen a couple polar bears at zoos and they are big, but years ago I went to a small zoo and I was not prepared to see the brown bear that they had. They had the old iron bar cages and I did not feel safe. The one they had was much bigger than any other bear I had ever seen.
what zoo was that
The Berdan rifle is a Russian rifle created by the American firearms expert and inventor ... The Russian Berdan I (M1868) and Berdan II (M1870) rifles of .42 caliber ..
The .42 caliber Berdan cartridge was part of the weapon system designed by Hiram Berdan, an American gun maker who the Russians had gone to in order to improve their infantry weapons. Physically the cartridge appears as did many rounds of the day. A lubricated paper wrapped .42 caliber bullet in a brass case that used a primer rather than a percussion cap to ignite the gun powder within it.
At the time of its introduction the Berdan rifle cartridge was one of the more powerful cartridges in military service. The bullet weighed about 386 grains and was made of 99% lead and 1% antimony. The powder charge varied by cartridge: 77 grains for the rifle cartridge and 69.5 grains for the carbine cartridge. Cartridge types can be determined by their color.
Great video and great story. I had read about it but this more informative. Would love to hear more stories about animals who act like this. So interesting and well made.
Thank you for watching and for the feedback! I'm definitely thinking about making some more videos on similar topics.
This is crazy. We live in Alaska and have big brown bears around our cabin all summer on the Kenai Peninsula. They never cause any problems, they're very shy.
Don't get complacent zaz!
Sitka ....👍 They're walking garbage dumpsters. Lol . In the continental states, they have DNA on all of em and destroy any who've ever had human food because they'll keep coming back for the easy meal.
They're shy....until they're not.
Go look at how many people in north America have bears break into their houses and eat them alive.
It happens alot.
Wear medieval amour and ar500 armour. Wield a spear, a sword, a dagger, and a deadly gun. Pretty simple. You’ll be slower, but tankier. And your hunger for the hunt will increase. Since you know you’re protected from fangs and claws. I never see hunters wear armor. Would be interesting to see a fully armored man with different weapons vs a grizzly bear. One thrust with a thrown spear, a few shots with a deadly gun, a few cuts and thrusts with a sword, a few stab wounds with a dagger. Would be interesting.
There's a saying here in the Kentucky, if you're going rabbit hunting and there's bear in the woods be on for bear.
Well told sir! Thank you for the unexpected history and zoology lesson!
Thank you for watching! I am by no means an expert, but I am glad you took something from the video.
You are a great storyteller. I love scary stories like this, the man eating lions of Tsavo is one of my favorites and the movie was great. It make you scared for no reason to go outside, and I live I live in the middle of the USA! When we go camping, I am afraid of skunks, lol, so I couldn’t imagine something big and hairy that could kill you. Thank you for this story.
People also forget that this brown bear was unusally dark in coloration
Bears are known to. Get more dangerous when being shot. Plus the factor it didnt hibernate its was a disaster from the start
I didn't even know Japan had brown bears. Let alone large aggressive brown bears. That is so facinating. This story is insane. I couldn't imagine how scary it must have been to live during that time.
I know, right!? Crazy stuff.
Polar Bears are generally quite a bit larger than Kodiak Bears (aka Alaskan Brown Bears) and Grizzly Bears. In saying that, both the Kodiak and Grizzly can grow to enormous sizes.
I couldn't find out it that was true conclusively from my research. Good to know!
My dad used to tell me once an animal tastes human blood like that they just are never the same...😳😬
All animals circle back. Deer do it to dog hunters all the time. It's part of their instincts and will to live. Bears have a sense of smell a 100 times better than ours. That's why he knew which house to go to...
More videos World Strider, your a good story teller, thanks for an amazing story...!
Glad you enjoyed it! I have other similar videos if you haven’t checked them out yet.
New subscriber who has trouble sleeping. A nice video to listen too and if I close my eyes and just lay there and listen, I dont feel like Im missing the visuals of the video.
Glad to hear it!
They had to be terrified.paper thin walls.the bear can hear and listen for them from the shadows outside without them knowing.it sounds like the thin walls had a hard time keeping in sound and revealing exactly what part of the house the occupants were at .this plays a huge role in this attack.alot of the accounts mentioned the speed of and the surprise to them it was,there is know where you can go or hide or any door you can lock that would barely slow him down.theres almost nothing u can do to keep a determined bear out of a cabin,or home..if I was them the first thing I build is a bear safe room or cellar.they remind me of a chimpanzee,or ggorilla..there is no door or structure they can't breach.when a mad chimp was after a cop.he ran to his car thinking he was safe.the chimp ripped both locked car doors off the car.
Stare the bear in the eye and yell really loud, "I mean buisness buddy"
Humans talk a lot. Bears mean business. Big difference.
@@heidimisfeldt5685 why didn't you correct my spelling as well Heidi?
I'm wondering why after it became apparent the bear was returning to the village why they didn't build a baited bear trap. Big piece of meat in the trap, the bear walks in, the trap door snaps shut and the bear is caught. Even the hunter and the government didn't think of it but it should be the first thing done.
Yes!
They certainly could have used better tactics, I agree with you there, but remember they did try to lure the bear in with previous victims corpses to no effect.
Doesn’t seem to be the smartest bunch
I think that you have to consider the Era and how remote the town was.
Most towns don't have the money to hire a bearologist but those who do are far ahead after every known bear within the town limits has been tranquilized and blood drawn for analysis and DNA sample to be kept on file with a fresh ear tag number for easy identification in the future. Incidents are quickly noted and bear to be killed is specifically determined from DNA without wiping out the bear population in a guessing game. The old saying, a fed bear is a dead bear could have been the motive for the bear prying into houses where the human occupant is thought to be contesting the bear's new food supply. Always instant death for the human.
Hokkaido resident here. Thanks for telling this story. It has fascinated me for years. How about telling the story of Enomoto Takeaki and Republic of Ezo, Kaiyō Maru.
Glad you enjoyed it, and that is a fantastic suggestion. I will definitely make a video on it at some point. Thanks!
"A 5-6' pole/walking stick is more effective than a firearm. When it comes to a bear deterrent. In my opinion. A cattle prod, bear spray and a few other options can be attached to the head of the pole. It's extremely useful."
There's a certain region in India. Where it's said that,"approximately 100k people have been killed by Tigers. In the last 100 years or so, I believe?'"
Bryce McQueen, yes this was my comment about walking sticks. Scrolling down, I saw your comment. Locals well familiar with bear contact use these very sturdy walking staffs. Now I would be interested in more information about stories of successful use of them as deterrents.
The Champawat Tiger killed around 436 people in India and Nepal.
In the sundarbarns yes, so bad there poor people
Port lock Alaska 100s of incidents, people missing, people killed, mutilated in strange incidents, bodies of murdered people washing down river so feared the people just left the town abandoned in the 50s to this day its the most feared place in Alaska. What happen bears or bigfoot?
100% bears.
1 rogue bear of grizzly size could take out a settlement if it really wanted imagine a whole family of them.
Wish there was more info lol interesting
A very fascinating story. You should tell the one about the man eaters of Tsavo.
Thank you for the suggestion, I very well may! I have a couple of other video ideas in the works about similar subjects as well, so check back if you're interested!
Why hasn't someone made this story into an anime? I would be the perfect artform to portray this event.
Most definitely agree with you!
Most bears of what ever type can kill with a single swing of a claw !🤗❤️🇺🇸
Hey bro, just found your channel and I like your style and content. Great job! Watching from South Africa, where we have surprisingly few animal attacks haha
Thanks for watching! Really? Are you being sarcastic? I would have thought there’d be at least some animal attacks in that part of Africa haha.
@@world-strider Nope, very few. I can think of like five in the last 30 years. We don't have areas where big animals come into human territories, with the exception of St Lucia, where there are hippos, crocs and sharks super close to the humans chilling on the beach. Maybe a few captive lion attacks, or the odd poacher, but that's more self-defense.
The only reason this bear was able to go on this spree was the incompetence of the villagers. All it took was one drunk with basic knowledge of hunting to take out the bear. How useless do you have to be to not be able to track a wounded bear in the SNOW? Not only that but SIXTY men with rifles? Bunch of stooges.
Yeah I think it's safe to say they didn't really know what they were doing. The bear was exceptional, though, it must be said.
Using military ammunition is worse then useless for big game.
Not the brightest bunch
@@normanbraslow7902 Yeah the expansion is terrible and that's the reason it survived so long with a few wounds. But a whole army of guys shooting 6.5 should have no issue with a bear.
@@normanbraslow7902 there is a saying-Africa is littered with the graves of hunters who used military ammo.
Also The Polar Bear is the biggest carnivour aka bear in the world.... Why u hear the Kodiak is because they consider the Polar bear as an aquadic mammal by some experts. So im ganna have to call ya out on your misinformation. This bear is considered to almost reach the kodiak in size, but the kodiak gets much much larger then the black grizzy as this bear is referred as. Other than that great information man
Great story telling. Subscribed! Thank you.
Thank you and glad you enjoyed it!
It was 9 people that lost their lives to that monster. Two of them later died to their injuries and they are just as much victims of this incident as the others. And if the bear hunter who killed the bear is to be believed, the victim count would be 12 as that bear had escaped him after killing 3 women years prior to this incident
This story is amazing. I came here because today one man was killed in woods by bear near my home. Now we are all scared by this maneater nearby.
Wow, that's scary stuff. May I ask what country you are in? Stay safe!
@@world-strider Greetings from Slovakia. Just quick about background. 20 years ago population of brown bears was something like 200-300 pieces at whole country. Now it is around 2400-3000. Hunting is prohibited and even there is some illegal hunters, the fee for killing bear is around 50 000 USD or 3 years jail. Now encounters are on daily basis. Most of them is peaceful or with small injury only. Yesterday encounter was different. Bear hunts this man and attack from behind on his neck. He didn't eat him just made him fatal injuries. This time is breeding season so male bears are very aggressive. People are refusing to work in woods. Price for wood hitting all time high. So because male bear needs territory and they are over populated, strong male bears pushing younger bears or female bears with chubs to the edge of cities. There is recorded video one hunter made during night. He counted 38 bears during one hour at corn field right behind village. Hiking is adrenaline sport now and not recommended to anyone.
@@jozko3275 I didn't know anything about that! That does sound terrifying. I have mixed feelings on issues like this because although I believe protection and conservation efforts are important, especially with so many species going extinct, obviously more bears means more danger to humans. Perhaps the authorities in Slovakia can find some sort of middle ground?
You are lying, I am from Slovakia as well and the bear is no man eater. The poor man was just out of his luck as he must have scared the bear significantly. The man was not eaten, just bitten but the man died after the attack.
@@jozko3275 2400-3000?? Are you crazy??? You must be a stupid hunter or whatnot as the population of brown bear in Slovakia is around 1200-1400. No, the bear did not hunt the man at all geez, he was attacked because the man had surprised him. How can you tell that he was attacked from behind? Because of the wound on his neck? But it does not mean it was an attack from behind.
Very interesting one of the worst bear attacks in recorded history. Thanks
Glad you enjoyed it!
I'm surprised the bear's injury isn't focused on as a main cause. once he was shot, he would be totally enraged. dealing with hurt brown bears is very difficult.
Definitely. After hearing a lot of similar comments I am now of the same opinion. My lack of knowledge of bear behavior initially was the only reason for the omission. Thanks for the input!
Ghost in the darkness type story. They say that wolves did horrific killings in korea, also. you might check that out. They say they had to annihilate all wolves from there. Should be a good movie made about these tragic historical events.
Thank you for the suggestion. I will definitely consider that for a future video!
I don’t blame him after what he witnessed at such a young age.
Wow! I give this guy credit for just standing and being patient enough to tell the story!
I keep this story in mind when my buddies and I go on bear hunts and we would frequently talk about it when camping out. It’s the reason we only hunt bears during the season. They are one of the ultimate hunting trophies and every bear we execute reminds the animal kingdom that mankind is the top of the food chain and that a single man with a lit match let alone a high caliber rifle can destroy an entire species or ecosystem if they put their mind to it.
You hear horror stories about bears and wolves and cougars and now in the modern age of hunting, standing and staring down over a dying bear whimpering and gasping for breath. There is a sense of satisfaction in it.
Great video. Thanks.
Glad you enjoyed it!
re-read it on wikipedia and just yesterday went to the Hokkaido page. Terrifying.
All species of bear will go into “surplus killing”. They’re so strong and uncontested that they’ll start swatting off multiple people. This behavior is generally common between young inexperienced bears or bears waking up early from hibernation. It’s an anxiety response since bears don’t know what to do once they’ve woken up before their wake date. I like to call it wake date lol. But very rarely do bears behave like this. In all my years of hunting and being outdoors I’ve only come across ONE small black bear in predatory (I’m gonna eat you) mode. Was very eerie and surreal.
There was also another example of a black bear killing a few people at a hot springs in Alaska. The black bear mauled 5 people killing 2 of them. May the trucker who gave his life to try to save a strangers Rest In Peace. A real hero.
Anyways awesome video man. If you like these kind of stories you should check out The Lions of Tsalvo by Bob Gymlan. He does a fantastic job of telling the story and I’d really like you to give a rundown on the story as well.
Thank you for your input! A lot of comments seem to say this behavior is really normal for bears, but I tend to think, like you said, that although it isn’t unheard of, it only happens under specific and somewhat rare conditions. I have heard of of the Tsavo lions, but I’ll admit I haven’t read that book. Sounds like I should!
Makes you wonder how many people the bear ate before they noticed he started eating people
You honor the people hurt and killed by telling their story.good work.
Thank you for watching!
I can't be the only one that thinks most of this is not true right?
That's what I thought when I first heard the story! I'll admit that since most of the story was collected and pieced together decades after the fact, we can't be certain of all the details, but animals are capable of amazing things so you never know. I personally believe at least the main points of the story are real.
Love Sapporo beer and Asian Japanese culture. Beautiful art, style and cuisine. This incident is the most brutal bear attack in history. At least from what I found. A terrible tragedy
6:06 = definitely my favorite pronunciation of “brown bear” ever. All kidding aside, great content! Subscribed!
Glad you enjoyed it, as well as my pronunciation haha
I don't know if this is the same species of bear, but in India this bear was chasing and killing a bunch of people by a stream! Made the grizzly look somewhat tame!! Sheer terror!
Scary stuff! Definitely a different species of bear, though.
Thanks so much for the great video. Great story telling. What a monstrous bear.
Thank you for watching! Glad you enjoyed it.
The men from this village sound highly incompetent, how could they have the bear in their sights on several occasions and fail to kill it. 50 armed men all missed? If even 10 of them hit their target the bear would surely be killed
Yeah they definitely seem that way. But who knows, the shock of facing such a bear might have simply made them panic.
Considering tigers eat over 400 people a year, thats impressive.
Bob Gymlan has a very in-depth video on this incident, but it’s not for the faint of heart as he goes in depth into the details
there was a deer hunter shot a bear was hunting him in Alaska the bear was 12ft to the shoulders and weighed 1600lbs.
More like this please mate
I'll do my best! Thank you for watching.
The story of Vladimir Markov and an Amur tiger also reminds me of this. Don't steal a tigers kill, and if you shoot it...you better kill it.
Hokkaido is also the native lands of the Ainu, a non Asian native Indians of Japan. The Japanese mercilessly ethnically cleansed the Ainu and annihilated their culture and did forced migration into Hokkaido during the late 1800's to dilute them out of existence, maybe the Bear was a nature demon manifesting, sort of like the 'Man Eaters of Tsavo'?
This remind me of a man eating tiger that attacked people from all silencers this tiger attacked and killed a man from a boat it swin up the river to the boat and sneak up on the man without warning this particular tiger is still at large to this day
Tigers, especially those in South Asia, have been known to be man-eaters! I'm not sure which incidence you're talking about, but I have also heard this.
The almighty algorithm brings us together boys.
Kinda don't really feel as much sympathy for people getting fucked up by animals as I do for animals being abused and tormented by people...
IT is usually the people getting it wrong and being careless but it's next to never an animal looking to be fucked up....
On the whole, the power dynamic certainly is skewed in our favor, so I tend to agree.
This story is insane I was reading about this randomly and everything about this is nuts
Enjoyed your video. Saw another video regarding this attack, you were right on w/the original video I saw