Snowboarder Girl Chased by Bear Video is Fake
“'Snowboarder Girl' Being Chased by a Bear?”
Summary
The widely shared clip of a snowboarder being pursued by a bear is not genuine; it was created as part of a viral “social experiment” and features a person in a bear costume, with unrealistic audio cues. Fact‑checking organizations and major news outlets have confirmed the footage is fabricated.
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- Three sentenced for 'man in bear suit' insurance scam
Three men have been sentenced in California for an insurance scam using someone in a bear costume to stage fake attacks on luxury cars. Viral video handed to insurers as evidence seemed to show a bear in a 2010 Rolls-Royce Ghost in Lake Arrowhead ...
- Three people sentenced to jail for bear-suit insurance scam in California | Los Angeles | The Guardian
As part of the investigation, the state’s insurance department asked a California department of fish and wildlife biologist to review the videos. The scientist determined that “it was clearly a human in a bear suit”, a press release at the time stated.
- Bear‑suit scammers in LA County convicted in insurance fraud scheme - CBS Los Angeles
Investigators believed it was a person dressed as a bear and showed the videos to a biologist at the California Department of Fish and Wildlife.
- Does This Video Show 'Snowboarder Girl' Being Chased by a Bear? | Snopes.com
In addition, while Murphy initially indicated that this was real footage of a bear chase, there are several aspects of the video that invite skepticism. For one thing, the audio is unrealistic. The bear's intermittent (and ominous) growl appears to be at the same volume regardless of its distance from the snowboarder.
- Video of snowboarder chased by bear was part of viral video ‘social experiment’ - National | Globalnews.ca
The video, which has been viewed over eight million times, showed a woman strapping on her snowboard, extending a selfie stick and cruising down a hill while listening to music. Midway through the video, a bear appears in the background — ...
- Bears really do chase skiers—but is this video fake? | National Geographic
A grizzly bear surveys its surroundings in the Fishing Branch River Valley. ... A young woman clips into her snowboard. She doesn’t notice the animal looming on the slope behind her.
- Video of Snowboarder Chased by Bear Goes Viral, But Is It Real? - Men's Journal
A video purporting to show a snowboarder being chased by a charging bear in Japan has gone viral, bringing many to claim it is a fake.Sep 2, 2022 1:02 PM EDT
- Is the video of a bear chasing a snowboarder down a mountain real or fake? | The Independent | The Independent
'Yes the video is real! I didn't know anything was happening at the time but it's so scary to watch it back now!'
- That video of a bear chasing a snowboarder is totally fake | Mashable
A video of a snowboarder being chased by a bear has been making its way across the Internet, but a closer look at the video proves that the bear is comically bad.
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