{"id":12273,"date":"2025-11-22T12:22:27","date_gmt":"2025-11-22T12:22:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/?p=12273"},"modified":"2025-11-22T12:22:27","modified_gmt":"2025-11-22T12:22:27","slug":"man-who-narrowly-survived-bear-attack-reveals-the-horrifying-sound-he-heard-before-passing-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/?p=12273","title":{"rendered":"Man who narrowly survived bear attack reveals the horrifying sound he heard before passing out"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dan Bigley was on a fishing trip in Alaska when a meeting changed his life forever. He accidentally came between a bear and her cubs and was dragged into the forest. Bigley passed out several times as the bear attacked him, and now, he reveals the horrifying last sound he heard before it all went pitch black.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Dan Bigley loved the outdoors, fishing, hiking, and all that comes with it. One time, as he had just gotten into a relationship with a woman named Amber, his friend asked if he wanted to go fishing.<\/p>\n

<\/div>\n

Speaking to the\u00a0Black Rifle Coffee Company<\/a>, Bigley recalled, \u201cI said to Amber, I was like \u2018Well, hey, I\u2019ll call you when I get off the river. Little did we know I would have less than 12 hours left to see.\u201d<\/p>\n

On the second day of the trip, Bigley suddenly found himself about 30 feet from a large brown bear. He was used to handling bear encounters, but this meeting took a horrifying turn.<\/p>\n

<\/div>\n

The bear, whom Bigley recalled as \u201cagitated,\u201d wouldn\u2019t leave them alone. As they backed away and felt safe, the bear appeared. This time, right in front of them, the bear had cubs. She appeared out of nowhere at \u201cmissile speed,\u201d and attacked.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ll never forget her eyes, kind of burning yellow with fury and her mouth agape,\u201d Dan recalled. \u201cBefore I\u2019d even his the ground, she had a hold of my legs and was pulling me out of the bushes.\u201d<\/p>\n

Dan Bigley survived bear attack<\/h2>\n

Speaking with\u00a0NPR<\/a>, he further elaborated on what happened.<\/p>\n

\u201cShe drug me off into the woods and stood over the top of me with front claws digging into either shoulder and her head directly over mine. That\u2019s when she cocked her head sideways and bit down across my face,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Bigley explained how he remembers the \u201cpitiful screaming sound that sounded like the sound of a dying animal,\u201d before realizing it was he who screamed. However, the sound he heard next, right before passing out, was even worse: the sound of his own skull crunching before losing consciousness.<\/p>\n

Luckily, Dan was helped by his friend and some fishermen, who took him to safety. He became permanently blind \u2013 but it could\u2019ve been much worse.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m blind and I\u2019m happy,\u201d Dan Bigley told NPR.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Dan Bigley was on a fishing trip in Alaska when a meeting changed his life forever. He accidentally came between a bear and her cubs and was dragged into the forest. Bigley passed out several times as the bear attacked him, and now, he reveals the horrifying last sound he heard before it all went…<\/p>\n

Read More “Man who narrowly survived bear attack reveals the horrifying sound he heard before passing out”<\/span> »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12274,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12273","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12273","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12273"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12273\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12275,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12273\/revisions\/12275"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/12274"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}