{"id":88682,"date":"2026-04-22T14:16:03","date_gmt":"2026-04-22T14:16:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/2026\/04\/22\/video-shows-black-bear-attacking-a-hiker-on-mount-wilson\/"},"modified":"2026-04-22T14:28:20","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T14:28:20","slug":"video-shows-black-bear-attacking-a-hiker-on-mount-wilson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/2026\/04\/22\/video-shows-black-bear-attacking-a-hiker-on-mount-wilson\/","title":{"rendered":"Video shows black bear attacking a hiker on Mount Wilson"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div data-element=\"story-body\" data-subscriber-content=\"\">\n<p>Video captured on Mount Wilson in the Angeles National Forest shows a black bear attacking a hiker. <\/p>\n<p> <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/reels\/DXU78XOkoZ9\/\">Video<\/a>Posted on Instagram Monday by Eric Chiu, it shows a hiker walking toward a black bear (which appears to be brown) and making noises with bells to try to get the bear to move away. <\/p>\n<p>Instead, the bear attacks the pedestrian just before the video stops. The passenger and the person making the recording apparently described it as spotless.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I thought this guy was crazy and I hoped nothing would happen to him,&#8221; Chiu said. <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nbclosangeles.com\/news\/local\/video-bear-charges-at-hiker-on-mount-wilson-trail\/3879569\/\">nbc los angeles<\/a>. &#8220;To be honest, I&#8217;m not sure what was going through his mind, because the last thing you would think is that someone would actually walk toward a bear. And at that point, I was a little concerned for his safety.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The video was recorded by Chiu&#8217;s stepmother, who saw the bear from a distance, she wrote in the caption.<\/p>\n<p>No one was injured by the bear and it was a &#8220;false allegation,&#8221; Chiu wrote.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Video captured on Mount Wilson in the Angeles National Forest shows a black bear attacking a hiker. VideoPosted on Instagram Monday by Eric Chiu, it shows a hiker walking toward a black bear (which appears to be brown) and making noises with bells to try to get the bear to move away. Instead, the bear<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":88725,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[5722,1312,1615,21045,12678,1442,610,7935],"class_list":{"0":"post-88682","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bible-verse","8":"tag-attacking","9":"tag-bear","10":"tag-black","11":"tag-hiker","12":"tag-mount","13":"tag-shows","14":"tag-video","15":"tag-wilson"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88682","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88682"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88682\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":88726,"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88682\/revisions\/88726"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/88725"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}