Grizzly Man Diaries – Animal Planet
August 6, 2008 by Healthy Shana
Have you heard of Timothy Treadwell? If not, you might have seen him around. He is the guy that spent his last few years building his relationship with bears. A relationship which lead to his untimely death. The Grizzly Man Diaries will be set against the Alaskan wilderness and will feature hundreds of hours of Timothy’s unseen footage from the decade before his death in 2003.
The first episode of of the 8-episode Grizzly Man Diaries series will air on Animal Planet on August 22nd.
Watch this 5 minute video from old episodes of Timothy Treadwell.
The BOTTOM line – it is obvious Treadwell struggled in his personal life and towards the end found something he valued more than protecting the life of a supposed friend. He created his own faith that nature/bears embraced him because he was a cuddly submissive friend not worth eating. Treadwell died and mostly pulled the trigger on is friends death because of his false beliefs in how nature viewed a troubled child who never grew up and found an escape living with bears. He should have known his false kindred spirit was not enough to protect himself or his “friend”. In the end more than he died; a woman, & multiple bears in the area died too. Now people are making money off of his reckless antics and beliefs that did more harm than good. It is sad he never found true peace and he never really helped the bears he lived with for such a short time(he could have done so much more if he only had a grip on reality). He was so dillusional the only “help” he accomplished was to help himself never face his own personal Demons. Nothing is gained by those who watch this biography of his last years unless you count putting money in Werner Herzogs’ pocket.
Thanks so much for your comment. It really puts it all into perspective.
Robert, you are an idiot. The amount of information gained by his study is invaluable. Both knew full well that what they was doing was dangerous, but went anyway.
What have you done that made a difference other than run someone down??