{"id":30773,"date":"2026-07-09T16:03:06","date_gmt":"2026-07-09T16:03:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/?p=30773"},"modified":"2026-07-09T16:03:06","modified_gmt":"2026-07-09T16:03:06","slug":"catholic-deacon-killed-in-bear-attack-left-heartbreaking-final-message-to-father","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/?p=30773","title":{"rendered":"Catholic Deacon Killed in Bear Attack Left Heartbreaking Final Message to Father"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"PDq2pG_selectionAnchorContainer\" data-start=\"15\" data-end=\"149\">A Catholic deacon and experienced outdoorsman, Anthony Pollio, 33, is believed to have died in a bear attack at Glacier National Park.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"151\" data-end=\"380\">Before his death, Anthony left an emotional voicemail for his father during a hiking trip, describing his adventure and ending with the words, <strong data-start=\"294\" data-end=\"314\">\u201cLove you, Dad.\u201d<\/strong> His father said it was the last message he received from his son.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"382\" data-end=\"635\">Anthony was found dead along the Mt. Brown Trail with injuries consistent with a bear attack. His family described him as fearless and passionate about nature, trail work, hunting, and serving his church. Authorities continue investigating the incident.<\/p>\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>A Catholic deacon and experienced outdoorsman, Anthony Pollio, 33, is believed to have died in a bear attack at Glacier National Park. Before his death, Anthony left an emotional voicemail for his father during a hiking trip, describing his adventure and ending with the words, \u201cLove you, Dad.\u201d His father said it was the last&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/albotips.com\/?p=30773\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;Catholic Deacon Killed in Bear Attack Left Heartbreaking Final Message to Father&rdquo;<\/span> &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":30774,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30773","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\/30773","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=30773"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30773\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30775,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30773\/revisions\/30775"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/30774"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}