262: What if you were mauled by a grizzly bear?

This Is Actually Happening

Wondery

True Crime, Tiah, Documentary, Society & Culture

4.6 • 9.9K Ratings

🗓️ 24 January 2023

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

While hunting in the Canadian wilderness, a man accidentally comes between a grizzly bear cub and its mother and a terrifying a fight for his life ensues that will change him forever.

Today's episode featured Jeremy Evans. You can find many more details about Jeremy and this story in his incredible memoir, 'Mauled: Lessons Learned from a Grizzly Bear Attack', published by Rocky Mountain Books. To contact Jeremy you can reach out to his Publicist at [email protected] or contact Jeremy directly at [email protected]

Producer: Whit Missildine, Andrew Waits

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Content/Trigger Warnings: very graphic bodily injury, graphic description of blood and medical situations, attempted suicide, violence inflicted on a child, explicit language

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0:08.7	This is actually happening features real experiences that often include traumatic events.
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0:18.6	I was sitting there thinking, do I just lay here and die or do I kill myself and I'll
0:34.5	let it end with because there's no way I'm making it out like this.
0:48.0	From Wondery, I'm Whit Missildine.
0:51.2	You are listening to this is actually happening.
1:00.9	Episode 262.
1:25.4	I grew up with a large family with four siblings born and raised in Calgary, Alberta.
1:32.8	We were very outdoorsy people.
1:35.6	We did a lot of traveling, hiking, fishing, hunting.
1:40.1	My earliest memory of hunting was my dad and a good friend of his down in Wyoming, Antelope
1:46.9	Hunting.
1:47.9	Long days of walking through the desert, looking for antelope eating junk food and on
1:54.4	that very same trip, I harvested a jackrabbit.
1:59.4	It was both the size of me, learning how to skin it and cooking it up on the stove, on
2:05.0	the back of our old 1980 Chevy truck with a camper on the back.
2:12.4	All the hunting I've done was just with my father.
2:14.4	It was both the only time he worked out of townlots and around hunting season he'd be
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