Episode 221: Dan Bigley's Fight To Survive

Not Today

True Crime, Society & Culture, Comedy

4.4 • 933 Ratings

🗓️ 11 March 2025

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

On July 14th 2003, Dan Bigley was wrapping up a day of fishing with his friend John when moments from the safety of their car, the pair unknowingly put themselves between a furious mama grizzly bear and her three cubs. The bear focused in on Dan and charged at him at full speed. Before Dan could even process what was happening, the bear was already on him. The mauling that Dan endured was beyond brutal. After the attack, Dan’s fight to survive was had only just begun.

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0:00.0	Hey, I'm Steph.
0:01.0	I'm Alex.
0:01.6	And this is not today.
0:20.1	And we're live.
0:21.2	Hello.
0:22.1	How are you?
0:22.9	Great.
0:23.3	How are you?
0:24.0	Good.
0:24.6	We're back at it again.
0:26.2	Of course.
0:27.2	What's the topic this week?
0:28.7	We're talking about someone who got mauled by a bear.
0:31.2	Oh, God.
0:32.0	Yeah.
0:32.8	They keep doing this.
0:34.6	They do.
0:35.4	Bears tend to do certain things like mall people when they get too close to
0:40.5	them. Yeah. Is this a polar bear or? No, grizzly bear. Okay. But this is just kind of like a wrong
0:46.1	place, wrong time kind of situation. It's not even like they were seeking out bears or provoked it.
0:50.8	It's just like, yeah, you were in the wrong place, and that's no one's fault.
0:55.1	Unfortunately.
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