Gene Moe Crazy Bear Attack true story

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This is a little bit different than
what I normally would share. Normally,

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we like to share like weird things, like even what you did was a

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little bit different, but scary things
that happen to people, like maybe a

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ghost or a paranormal thing, or
an intruder in their house. So I

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have a little bit different approach to
this. I found this story. It's

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one hundred percent true story, documented
story. This guy's like a legend around

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the scene for this. His name
is Jean Moe oh right. Like I

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said, this is a true story
based on a guy named Jean mo Bear

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attack. Kodiak Island sits on the
severe but beautiful south coast of Alaska,

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USA Chris Cross with some sparkling rivers
and ice cold bays. The island is

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famous for its salmon, which in
the summer months bring fishermen from all around

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the world. But this place is
also famous for another reason. The northern

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half of the island is carpeted with
dense mountainous forest and populated with forest bears,

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but not just any bear, the
Kodiak bear. The Kodiak bear is

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the biggest carnivore in the world on
average, slightly larger than the polar bear.

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Kodiak bears belong to the brown bear
family, which is common throughout Alaska

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and North America. But it's their
distinctive diet that makes them so massive.

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All but a whole bunch of salmon, these mighty animals are lucky enough to

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have their own high protein superfood right
at their doorstep. This allows them to

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get extra huge, and they are
basically bodybuilders of the animal world. In

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peak season, the adult males can
weigh as much as fourteen hundred pounds,

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and they stand nearly ten feet high
it when on two legs. That's roughly

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as heavy as a grand piano and
half as tall as a giraffe. Not

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subthing you'd want to get into a
tussle with, but that's exactly what happened

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to veteran hunter Gene Mo on November
one, nineteen ninety nine. Gene had

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been hunting along the ridge of the
Code Woods, just as he'd done for

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many years. He'd seen plenty of
bears before and even had some frightening encounters,

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but nothing had prepared him for the
epic battle he was about to have

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with the biggest man eater on the
planet. As he made his way through

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the forest, he noticed several deep
gouges along the barks of trees. These

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gouges are so big one might think
they'd been made by a chainsaw, not

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an animal. However, Jane knew
this was a bear's way of marking his

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territory and made sure to get a
far away from this as quickly as possible.

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But it wasn't that simple. Jean
had just spent all day stalking deer

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at the trail hook, and it
took him around in a wide circle that

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when he eventually caught up with his
prey, he was put right back in

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the beast's territory. Unfortunately, by
that point he was too caught up in

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the hunt to notice. This was
his first big mistake. The sky was

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growing dark, but he was able
to hunt down the deer. It was

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a long, hard day of hunting. He leaned his rifle against the log

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and started skinting the deer next to
the stream. This was his second big

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mistake, because the scent of the
blood and gore went into the summer evening

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breeze. It wasn't long before that
scent reached the sharp nostrils of a nearby

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Kodiak bear. That's the thing about
bears some of the best hunters in the

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food chain, but they will be
just as happy to steal someone else's lunch.

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Jean was about to go from hunter
to hunted. One minute, he

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has been over trimming the deer.
The next he heard a sound that would

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stay with him the rest of his
life, a roar so loud it shook

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the trees nearby. The bear came
out of the forest with a force of

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a steam train, knocking Jean hard
to the ground. It began clawing his

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throat and eyes with vicious, sharp
calls. He was engulged in the bears

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a massive bulk its fur filled his
mouth and eyes. He was completely disoriented.

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He couldn't see, he couldn't breathe, he couldn't even scream. Luckily,

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he still had his knife with him, and he jabbed again and again

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into the creature's thick hide, but
to no avail. The bear got ahold

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of his arm and jaws and crunched
down. The pain was all encompassing,

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but somehow he had the presence of
mind to keep jabbing and kicking the animal.

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Jean was wearing big, heavy mountain
boots, and they probably saved his

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life because he was able to kick
the half ton creature off him. He

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got up fast and look now.
The sensation of being able to see and

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breathe overwhelmed him more than the pain
was. But just for a moment,

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he wondered if he had died,
But this thought did not last long.

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His heart sank when he looked over
and he saw his gun was still leaning

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against the log where he'd left it
because it was too far away. He'd

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never reached it before. The bear
was on top of him again. If

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the bear got him on the ground
again, he knew he wouldn't be getting

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back up ever again, so he
turned away from his weapon and staid.

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Started jabbing his other weapon into the
creature's neck, but the muscles of the

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bear's neck were too thick. They
were like tree roots, and he only

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managed to get gashes. The blood
was spilling onto the moss. The massive

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bear lunged at Jean with all his
might. Again, Jean was lucky.

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Like a prize bowl fighter, he
stepped aside on the very last second,

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the very last moment, and the
bear missed him by centimeters. Taking advantage

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of this moment, he jabbed the
sharp blade out as deep as the bear's

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back, where he knew where the
vertebrae was. The blade went in and

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the bear let out a crazy war
Obviously badly wound, the bear moved away,

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circling around him. Jean didn't dare
to move. He wiped the blood

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from his eyes as he realized he
only had one good arm. His other

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arm had been crushed useless. He
could start to feel the pain kick in.

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He was in severe agony, and
he had lashes all across his body.

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He knew if that bear came back
for another attack, he would must

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certainly die. He looked into the
bear's eyes just that moment the bear came

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in. It was moving slowly.
This time, the bear jumped forward Jean

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actually without thinking, dropping his knife. Instead, he took his good arm

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back up into a wide arc,
and he brought it down with all the

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strength he had left in his body. His fist hit the bear in the

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nose so hard it broke several several
bones in his hand. But the bear

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went down. It bounce at once, then its enormous head came to rest

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on a patch of moss. He
wondered if it was even still alive.

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He hobbled over to grab his rifle
he meant to end the beast, His

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hands were just too weak, covered
in blood and numb. They heard so

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bad he couldn't even use it.
Fortunately, the animal was already dead.

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But Jean's incredible story does not end
there. He knew he was losing a

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lot of blood and needed to get
off the island and get to a hospital

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as quickly as possible. He had
to find the strength to get down the

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beach where his friend had a boat. The trip was anything but easy.

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Coming down off that mountain was the
hardest thing he'd ever done. Three or

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four times Jeans clapped to the ground
into the moss, but every time he

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found the shit strength to get back
up and continue. Eventually he reached the

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shore. His friend helped him get
to nearby cabin where they were able to

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call for help. It took Gene
a month rehab, two skin grasps,

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and over five hundred and fifty stitches, but he made a full recovery.

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But in the end he came out
better than the bear, which was later

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recovered. Till this day, Geene
mo has that bear hanging on his wall.

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Holy crap, I told you to
dude, legend is it? He?

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Oh? Wow. Yep, everybody
just believe that he ended it.

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Yes he did. It's this is
a true story. Yep, massive huge

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bear and he did survive. Yes, see he was able to defeat the

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bear. That is crazy. Yeah, I had to go back and look.

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I think he was an older fellow
when he accomplished this too. He

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was in a spring chicken exactly.
Massive bear. Yeah, I mean Kodiak

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bears are ridiculous. Like I remember
seeing one I was a kid at like

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a children's museum exhibit, Like they
had like a stuffed one nuts. I

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think this is an amazing story,
and it's not like a typical story we'd

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share. But I probably didn't do
as good a job as reading it as

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it lived up in my head.
But I thought, man, like this

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is absolutely insane. Can you imagine
how terrifying this would be. Oh,

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bears are monsters like we talk about
like crazy ghosts and goblins and whatever else

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you talk we talk about. But
the fact of the matter is like out

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there in the woods, that's like
the danger most deadly thing to worry about.

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There's the reason why all of our
old stories of things in the woods

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that will kill you exist, and
it's because of freaking Kodiak bears, and

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see I was at a familiar til
I started my research here. The Kodiak

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bears are actually bigger than polar bears. Yeah, it's a salmon, dude,

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they just live off that salmon.
So they're monsters. Like they're huge

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and so like, yeah, just
to fight one in close combat. He

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punched it to death? Is that
way he did there? I think I

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don't know if he punched it to
death, but I think it was like

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the final blow, like you hit
its head on that rock afterwards or something.

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But he also had all the multiple
chats he got in there still like

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a final thing. It's him punching
it. Yeah, online you can actually

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should I should have saved this picture. It's the bear was on his feet

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tall. It's a huge bear,
but it's yeah, it's on his wall.

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Oh lord, that's crazy. Yeah, And what would you say to

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Geneo right now? If you could, I would get this autograph. When

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I heard this story, I wasn't
like I got to share this on the

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show. That's crazy, not exactly
scary, but put yourself in his shoes

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though, I mean, he's terrifying. Really if he's thinking that's the real

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thing that you can run into for
sure, there's no debate. Oh yeah,

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and like I said earlier, he
couldn't do it again if he tried,

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right, Like, what would you
likelihood he could succeed it defending off

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this bear again in this scenario,
Like, obviously he would be more prepared

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next time. But let's just say
he goes back to the same scenario again.

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Yeah, what's the likelihood he would
survive? You think this is next

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to nothing? That's what it is
for everyone, literally everyone on the planet

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in that same situation. It is
next to nothing to survive. Like everything

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had to line up perfect for this. Yeah, I call him gene legend.

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Yeah what do you think? Yeah, that's a good name for him,

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gene Legend. Wow. I just
thought it was crazy. The detail,

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like his hand was completely smashed.
Yeah he was like just the article

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on to bud more details, but
his arm was smashed in his hand and

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he's bleeding to death at this point
yo slowly Yeah oh yeah, yeah,

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that's crazy. The various stories about
this summer even longer for him. So

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I tried to get something like in
the middle, right, sum it up

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in a way that was good.
Yeah, hopefully everybody enjoyed that one.

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That was a fun one for me. I'd like to watch a movie about

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that guy. Gean Mo, note
that down. Everybody listening, gene Mo.

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Wow, yeah, thanks for listening. Live out there. We've got

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people commenting all across social media.
Let us know what you thought of that.

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Samon good protein. Yes, yes
they are. Somebody said he wouldn't

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have had a scratch if he fought
the bear. I I don't know,

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don't believe that. Jeff Townsend Media
sees you good night, And the question

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is do I stay here? Will
you be back? Are you gonna come

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back? Will you be back?
Are you coming back?