{"id":26697,"date":"2026-05-20T14:55:19","date_gmt":"2026-05-20T14:55:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/?p=26697"},"modified":"2026-05-20T14:55:19","modified_gmt":"2026-05-20T14:55:19","slug":"catholic-deacon-killed-in-bear-attack-left-heartbreaking-final-voicemail-for-father-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/?p=26697","title":{"rendered":"Catholic Deacon Killed in Bear Attack Left Heartbreaking Final Voicemail For Father!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"qMYqUG_convSearchResultHighlightRoot\">\n<div class=\"\" data-turn-id-container=\"485c790c-44f7-4e74-9935-565c95d21251\" data-is-intersecting=\"true\"><span style=\"font-size: 1.0625rem;\">Anthony Pollio, a 33-year-old Catholic deacon, is believed to have died in a bear attack at <\/span><span class=\"hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline\" style=\"font-size: 1.0625rem;\"><span class=\"whitespace-normal\">Glacier National Park<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 1.0625rem;\"> after going hiking alone on May 6. Before his death, he left an emotional voicemail and final text to his father saying, \u201cI love you, Dad.\u201d Investigators believe Anthony encountered a grizzly bear and used all of his bear spray before the fatal attack. His father described him as fearless, experienced outdoorsman who loved adventure, travel, and serving his church in Florida. Anthony had spent weeks traveling across the country visiting famous national parks before arriving in Montana. If confirmed, his death would be the first fatal bear attack in Glacier National Park since 1998.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/zdgbSfLPnyA?si=KplPhHcgcXE7pbe1\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anthony Pollio, a 33-year-old Catholic deacon, is believed to have died in a bear attack at Glacier National Park after going hiking alone on May 6. Before his death, he left an emotional voicemail and final text to his father saying, \u201cI love you, Dad.\u201d Investigators believe Anthony encountered a grizzly bear and used all&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/albotips.com\/?p=26697\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;Catholic Deacon Killed in Bear Attack Left Heartbreaking Final Voicemail For Father!&rdquo;<\/span> &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":26698,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26697","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\/26697","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=26697"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26697\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26699,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26697\/revisions\/26699"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/26698"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}