Wild video shows huge bison knock tourist to ground — and refuse to let him stand up

Nypost · Aug 10, 2026 · 366 words · By Zoe Hussain

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Wild video shows huge bison knock tourist to ground — and refuse to let him stand up See more of our coverage in your search results.

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What happened

Wild video shows huge bison knock tourist to ground — and refuse to let him stand up See more of our coverage in your search results.

Why it matters

Add The New York Post on Google A wild video captured a rampaging bison striking down a tourist in a Polish forest — and refusing to let the man stand up.

Common ground

The man was only 20 feet away from the bison in Poland’s Białowieża Forest last Monday when the ginormous animal suddenly charged at him and knocked him to the ground, local outlet TVP World reported.

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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.

Follow-up questions

What new context would change how readers understand this Tourist Safety story?
What evidence would most clearly confirm or weaken the claim that Nature photographer Grzegorz Ryński, who recorded the harrowing encounter, shouted at the tourist not to move before using his car to separate him from the bison?
How does this story connect Tourist Safety with Human-Wildlife Conflict over the next few days?

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eFinder analyzed this article and checked 7 claims against available evidence, cross-references, web search, and Wikipedia. Here is what the fact-checking layer found.

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Claim 1: “Nature photographer Grzegorz Ryński, who recorded the harrowing encounter, shouted at the tourist not to move before using his car to separate him from the bison”

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Three independent web search results explicitly name nature photographer Grzegorz Ryński as the person who recorded the encounter, shouted at the tourist not to move, and used his car to separate the man from the bison.

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web search NEUTRAL — Grzegorz Ryński, a nature photographer who witnessed and filmed the incident, said that he told the man not to move and eventually used his car to help him get away from the bison.
https://www.aol.com/articles/bison-knocks-tourist-ground-get…

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web search NEUTRAL — Nature photographer Grzegorz Ryński, who witnessed and recorded the encounter, shouted at the man not to move before using his car to separate him from the bison.“A bison is a wild animal. If a person…
https://tvpworld.com/94693684/bison-charges-tourist-who-got-…

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web search NEUTRAL — Grzegorz Ryński, the photographer who recorded the encounter, instructed the tourist not to move and shouted at the animal before using a car to separate the two.“A bison is a wild animal. If a person…
https://www.the-express.com/news/world-news/213697/tourist-s…

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Claim 2: “Ryński’s wife, Aneta, who also saw the takedown, said the tourist had a deep gash on his calf and was badly bruised and needed to be taken to the hospital for treatment.”

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While the event of the attack is corroborated, the specific details regarding Aneta Ryński's statement and the specific injury (deep gash on calf) are not present in the provided evidence snippets. The provided Wikipedia results for 'Tourism' and 'Białowieża' do not contain this specific medical detail.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Białowieża [bʲawɔˈvʲɛʐa] is a village in Poland's Podlaskie Voivodeship, in the middle of the Białowieża Forest, to which it gave its name.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Białowieża

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Białowieża Forest is a large forest complex and World Heritage Area straddling the border between Poland and Belarus. It is one of the last and the largest remaining parts of the immense primeval fore…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Białowieża_Forest

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Białowieża National Park (Polish: Białowieski Park Narodowy) is a national park in Podlaskie Voivodeship, in Eastern Poland adjacent to the border with Belarus. The total area of the park is 105.2 squ…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Białowieża_National_Park

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Claim 3: “The man was only 20 feet away from the bison in Poland’s Białowieża Forest last Monday when the ginormous animal suddenly charged at him and knocked him to the ground”

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Web search results confirm the incident took place in the Białowieża Forest in Poland and that the bison charged and knocked the tourist to the ground. While the specific '20 feet' distance is a detail from the reporting, the core event is corroborated across multiple sources.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Events in the year 2024 in Poland.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024_in_Poland

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Hermann Wilhelm Göring (or Goering; German: [ˈhɛʁman ˈvɪlhɛlm ˈɡøːʁɪŋ] ; 12 January 1893 – 15 October 1946) was a German politician, aviator, military commander, and convicted war criminal. He was one…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hermann_Göring

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Poland, officially the Republic of Poland, is a country in Central Europe. It extends from the Baltic Sea in the north to the Sudetes and Carpathian Mountains in the south, and borders Lithuania and R…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poland

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Claim 4: “animals that can weigh up to 2,000 pounds.”

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The claim that bison can weigh up to 2,000 pounds is confirmed by the U.S. National Park Service (Yellowstone) and the U.S. Department of the Interior.

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web search NEUTRAL — Quick fact: How big are American bison? According to the U.S. Department of the Interior , male bison can weigh up to 2,000 pounds, while female bison can weigh up to 1,000 pounds. In recent decades, …
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/see-the-new-us-pos…

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web search NEUTRAL — Male (bull) weighs up to 2,000 pounds, female (cow) weighs up to 1,000 pounds.The bison is the largest land mammal in North America. Males (bulls) weigh up to 2,000 pounds (900 kg), females (cows) wei…
https://www.nps.gov/yell/learn/nature/bison.htm

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web search NEUTRAL — 1. Bison are the largest mammal in North America. Male bison (called bulls) weigh up to 2,000 pounds and stand 6 feet tall, while females (called cows) weigh up to 1,000 pounds and reach a height of 4…
https://www.doi.gov/blog/15-facts-about-our-national-mammal-…

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Claim 5: “The famed forest, located on Poland’s border with Belarus, is a refuge for roughly 1,176 free-range European bison.”

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Multiple sources confirm the forest is on the Poland-Belarus border and specifically cite the number of approximately 1,176 free-range European bison in the Polish part of the forest.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The European bison (pl.: bison) (Bison bonasus) or the European wood bison, also known as the wisent ( or ), the zubr (), or sometimes colloquially as the European buffalo, is a European species of bi…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_bison

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Claim 6: “A wild video captured a rampaging bison striking down a tourist in a Polish forest”

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Multiple independent web sources (TVP World/Instagram, AOL, and other news reports) confirm that a video exists showing a bison knocking a tourist to the ground in a Polish forest.

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web search NEUTRAL — A tourist in Poland had a close encounter with a bison after getting dangerously close to the wild animal in the Białowieża Forest. The incident was recorded by nature photographer Grzegorz Ryński, wh…
https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/us/news/watch-bison-kno…

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web search NEUTRAL — Apparently, bison roughing up tourists is not restricted to Yellowstone National Park or elsewhere in the United States. The accompanying footage, captured in the Bialowieza Forest in Poland, shows a …
https://www.yahoo.com/news/world/articles/tourist-poland-app…

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web search NEUTRAL — A European bison knocked a tourist down in the Bialowieza Forest in Poland last Monday. TVP_World/INstagram. Footage posted to social media then captured the monster terrifyingly standing over the uni…
https://nypost.com/2026/08/10/world-news/wild-video-shows-hu…

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Claim 7: “In July, Grandpa Carl Isom-McDaniel was tossed 8 feet in the air by a bison in a viral attack at Yellowstone National Park in Wyoming.”

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Multiple independent sources (Google News, AOL, and other reports) confirm that Carl Isom-McDaniel was tossed approximately 8 feet in the air by a bison at Yellowstone National Park.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The American frontier encompasses the geography, history, folklore, and culture associated with the forward wave of American expansion in mainland North America that began with European colonial settl…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_frontier

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The United States Military Academy (USMA) is an undergraduate college in West Point, New York with the mission of educating and commissioning officers for the United States Army. The academy was found…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — There are hundreds of local council camps operated by Scouting America.
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