Dave: What a good summary. I have not seen someone actually spell out the truth of this bear, and the poor airman from Eielson. The story of this bear showed up on the Elmendorf AFB newspaper about three weeks after the bear had been killed, and we were all amazed (here in Anchorage), since three of us had registered to hunt brown bear on Montegue Island at the say time that the airman shot the bear over on Hitchenbrook. Anyway we were all very happy the young man had shot the bear. The Elmendorf newspaper described everything..the airman and his buddy walking up a creek, spotting a big bear, shooting it with the .338 (several times) and then the dead bear. Then, the next spring, the bear was alive again...growing in size. Then the horrid two-photo emails from friends and family in Oklahoma, California, Ohio, and all over the place. One of my brothers sent me the email-photos of this bear this past fall and I had to tell him it was an e-mail-myth. Now the bear was a man eater, 1600+ pounds, and a world record. After the second or third year, all the facts had been morphed into something else. And here it is today, March 17, 2004 and it is still going!!

A group of us here in Anchorage looked closely at the first two or three sets of photos showing the poor man's bare leg bone, attributed to the man eater bear shot by the airman, and we all concluded that it looked like a scavenger had eaten the mans leg meat (like a coyote, or wolf, or wolverine), but not a bear...a bear would have eaten the bones if given enough time.

Anyway, this myth needs to be deBUNKED!!

Where did the picture of the body come from!!
Undignified to a dead human, and repulsive to watch!

WOW
REALY COOL i saw it as wall paper on a guys computer and he told me that three humans remains were found inside the bear im LOL over the replies .im glad i asked
i love a good folk story run wild.
thanks folks