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Fisherman takes selfie in front of ravenous grizzly in beary dangerous stunt

Nypost · · 184 words · By Fenix Suriel
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Fisherman takes selfie in front of ravenous grizzly in beary dangerous stunt See more of our coverage in your search results.

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Fisherman takes selfie in front of ravenous grizzly in beary dangerous stunt See more of our coverage in your search results.

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Add The New York Post on Google It was a beary dangerous stunt.

Common ground

A smiling Alaska fisherman casually shot selfie footage of himself feet away from a massive mother grizzly who was devouring salmon near their boat.

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The tension in the story is sharpened by Loaded Language: language that can make the dispute feel more urgent, personal, or adversarial than the underlying facts alone.

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Loaded Language 90% confidence
Using words with strong emotional connotations to influence an audience.
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fact_checkClaims Checked

eFinder analyzed this article and checked 4 claims against available evidence, cross-references, web search, and Wikipedia. Here is what the fact-checking layer found.

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Claim 1: “In the viral clip, Brown is seen smirking at the camera as the bear zeroes in and feasts on his catch right behind him, while another bear watches from further out.”
CORROBORATED
Multiple sources describe the video content: Brown smiling/grinning for the camera while a grizzly bear eats salmon behind him. Note: Wikipedia results provided were irrelevant and ignored.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Blue Ivy Carter (born January 7, 2012) is an American singer, actress, and dancer. She is the first-born daughter of singer Beyoncé and rapper Jay-Z. Two days after her birth, Time dubbed Carter "the …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Ivy_Carter
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Brown University is a private Ivy League research university in the College Hill neighborhood of Providence, Rhode Island, United States. The university is the seventh-oldest institution of higher edu…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brown_University
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Carter Brown was the literary pseudonym of Alan Geoffrey Yates (1 August 1923 – 5 May 1985), an English-born Australian writer of detective fiction. Between 1954 and 1984 Yates published 215 ‘Carter B…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carter_Brown
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Claim 2: ““She finds a piece of salmon while foraging and eats it right next to my head!” Brown told Storyful.”
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While the general event is corroborated, the specific quote attributed to Storyful is not present in the provided evidence. The provided search results for this claim are irrelevant (discussing typography and Women's March).
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — This is an incomplete list of March for Our Lives events that took place on March 24, 2018. The official March for Our Lives event in Washington, D.C., attracted a turnout of between 200,000 to 800,00…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — In protest of a recent abortion law in Texas, the 2021 Women's March took place in all 50 US states on Saturday, October 2, 2021, two days before the United States Supreme Court began its upcoming ter…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_2021_Women's_March_loc…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — This is a list of notable Americans of English descent, including both original immigrants who obtained American citizenship and their American descendants. To be included in this list, the person mus…
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Claim 3: “Carter Brown, who was the guide on a chartered boat on a river in Soldotna when he spotted the bear on the prowl and started recording.”
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Three independent web sources identify the man as Carter Brown, a guide on a chartered boat in Soldotna, Alaska, who recorded the encounter.
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web search NEUTRAL — Alaska fishing guide Captain Carter Brown shares his experience after a grizzly bear swam directly up to his boat in Soldotna, Alaska, on ‘The Story.’Dark Mode. Reduce eye strain and focus on the cont…
https://www.foxnews.com/video/6402714722112
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web search NEUTRAL — Fishing guide Carter Brown was on a boat in a scenic part of Alaska when he encountered a grizzly bear in the water. Brown managed to take a smiling selfie with the bear right behind him, as the creat…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yiqLeGvnxvc
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web search NEUTRAL — Brown was working as the guide on a chartered boat along a river in Soldotna when the bear appeared on the hunt. Instead of scrambling away or pretending common sense still deserves a seat in the boat…
https://www.lifezette.com/2026/08/alaska-fisherman-grins-bes…
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Claim 4: “A smiling Alaska fisherman casually shot selfie footage of himself feet away from a massive mother grizzly who was devouring salmon near their boat.”
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Multiple independent web sources confirm that an Alaskan fisherman (Carter Brown) recorded selfie footage of himself near a mother grizzly bear eating salmon by his boat.
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web search NEUTRAL — A smiling Alaska fisherman casually shot selfie footage of himself feet away from a massive mother grizzly who was devouring salmon near their boat. Carter Brown, who was the guide on a chartered boat…
https://nypost.com/2026/08/02/us-news/fisherman-takes-selfie…
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web search NEUTRAL — An Alaska fishing guide has gone viral after filming himself with the sort of backdrop most people would prefer to view from inside a sturdy truck. Carter Brown smiled for the camera while a massive m…
https://www.lifezette.com/2026/08/alaska-fisherman-grins-bes…
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web search NEUTRAL — “A fisherman in Soldotna, Alaska, captured a close-up video of a mother grizzly bear catching and eating a salmon right next to his boat during a fishing charter.”
https://www.whiskeyriff.com/2026/08/02/alaskan-fisherman-has…
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