0:24
Speaker A
2:35 - 2:59
"what doesn't make any sense was the claw, it started from the front and ripped back. It came out and jumped over top of my artery and vein, reinserted, and finished cutting around the back. Had it gone right through, I would have been dead probably in 15 seconds. And then I was on the ground. So I sat up right into the mouth of the bear and my entire head in its mouth."
“what doesn't make any sense was the claw, it started from the front and ripped back. It came out and jumped over top of my artery and vein, reinserted, and finished cutting around the back. Had it gone right through, I would have been dead probably in 15 seconds. And then I was on the ground. So I sat up right into the mouth of the bear and my entire head in its mouth.”
- Speaker
- Speaker A
- Timestamp
- 2:35 – 2:59
- Community
- Alaska News
- Location
- Kenai Peninsula
- Captured at
- June 15, 2026
From the transcript
But what doesn't make any sense was the claw, it started from the front and ripped back. It came out and jumped over top of my artery and vein, reinserted, and finished cutting around the back. Had it gone right through, I would have been dead probably in 15 seconds. And then I was on the ground. So I sat up right into the mouth of the bear and my entire head in its mouth.
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