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Real Survival Stories

Man vs Beast: Half-Eaten Alive

Real Survival Stories

NOISER

Documentary, Society & Culture, Wilderness, Sports, History

4.8 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 4 December 2025

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

In July 2019, Colin Dowler is exploring the rugged natural beauty around the southwest coast of Canada. After a night camping in the forest, he’s cycling home… when an unexpected obstacle appears in the road up ahead. A tense, terrifying, drawn-out encounter ensues. In the blink of an eye, Colin will find himself on the wrong side of an unfair fight against one of the animal kingdom’s most powerful creatures…   A Noiser podcast production. Hosted by John Hopkins.   Written by Joe Viner | Produced by Ed Baranski | Assistant Producer: Luke Lonergan | Exec produced by Joel Duddell | Sound supervisor: Tom Pink | Sound design by Matt Peaty | Assembly edit by Anisha Deva | Compositions by Oliver Baines, Dorry Macaulay, Tom Pink | Mix & mastering: Ralph Tittley.   For ad-free listening, bonus material and early access to new episodes, join Noiser+. Click the subscription banner at the top of the feed to get started. Or go to noiser.com/subscriptions   If you have an amazing survival story of your own that you’d like to put forward for the show, let us know. Drop us an email at support@noiser.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Price tracking by Expedia.

0:02.0

You were made to use your Do Not Disturb mode.

0:06.0

We were made to track flight prices to out of office.

0:11.0

Expedia made to travel.

0:13.0

Available as a member benefit.

0:18.0

It's July 2019 in southwest Canada near the coast of British Columbia.

0:23.6

An unpaved road cuts a narrow path through the pines.

0:28.6

Tall grass grows along the verge and sprouts through cracks in the thinning gravel.

0:33.6

At first glance, you'd assume that nobody had come down this way in years, a forgotten logging road, slowly being reclaimed by the forest.

0:44.3

But on closer inspection, it seems somebody has been here, recently. A walker by the looks of it. A discarded backpack rests among the weeds and wildflowers.

0:57.0

Over there, a hiking pole, slightly bent and badly scratched, lies in the dirt.

1:03.0

There, a scrap of torn clothing.

1:07.0

And on the overgrown verge, some fifty feet further up the road, a pool of blood turns dark in the afternoon sun.

1:16.6

Clearly, something dreadful has happened here.

1:19.6

A short distance away, another drop of blood stains the ground.

1:24.6

Then another, and another. It forms a trail.

1:29.3

Frimson flecks dripped along the road, leading in the direction of the shore.

1:36.3

Down to where 44-year-old Colin Dowler is peddling for his life.

1:49.0

Each little rise they came over, each corner I went around and thinking, man, I've been peddling for so long.

1:51.0

That's got to be where I get to the hill,

1:54.0

where I can coast out of here, because I'm not sure how much longer I can do this.

1:58.0

Colling's bicycle weaves down the road.

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