Bizarre story of disabled bear that walks like a human and bends over like an old man

Shocking images person emerged of a two-legged achromatic carnivore roaming successful the mountains of West Virginia.

Kirk Price, an experienced outdoorsman successful the state, captured the carnivore walking astir connected its lone 2 legs with a way camera helium acceptable up.

Price, who shared respective videos of the carnivore past September, said the country it was traversing 'has immoderate of the steepest terrain successful the Appalachian mountains' yet observed that it had 'no occupation getting around'.

Price told USA Today that helium believed the carnivore is simply a antheral and astir 8 years old.

He added that helium archetypal recovered retired astir the carnivore successful 2018, saying the carnal was 'smaller past and has astir doubled successful size since primitively spotted'.

'At that constituent helium was already walking astir by himself and was not a cub,' helium explained. 'A cub usually stays with their parent until adjacent to 2 years old.'

Price said helium has lone seen the carnivore erstwhile successful person, but helium and respective others person seen it galore times implicit the years from photos and videos taken from his way camera.

'He's precise (elusive) and is seldom spotted successful person,' Price said. 'He lives successful the mountains. Believe it oregon not helium moves astir rather a bit. He has astir a five-mile radius.'

Price described his one-and-only brushwood with the two-legged carnivore successful a YouTube video from 2022.

He explained that helium had been grooming his dogs to drawback bears. In galore states, this is illegal, but successful West Virginia, hunters tin bid their dogs twelvemonth round.

Training their dogs involves driving astir until they get the scent of bear. The huntsman than lets them escaped truthful they tin pursuit the carnivore up a tree. 

When a carnivore is successfully 'treed', the huntsman gathers up his dogs and goes to find the adjacent target. If it had been hunting season, the huntsman would past necktie up his dogs earlier shooting the carnivore up successful the tree.

Price said that 1 time portion helium was grooming his galore hounds, they came up connected a bear. He said that helium rapidly got a notification connected his GPS indicating that the carnivore was treed.

But erstwhile helium caught up to his dogs, helium saw thing unbelievable.

'I commencement making my mode up the elevation to wherever the carnivore is and arsenic I get person I tin archer conscionable by the dependable of it that the carnivore is connected the ground,' helium said successful the video.

'I get up to it and I cannot judge what I see. There is simply a carnivore connected its hind legs moving astir similar a sasquatch. It was bizarre,' helium added, arsenic footage played of the dogs surrounding the defenseless animal.

Price 'firmly believes' that the carnivore was calved with lone 2 legs and didn't person an mishap astatine the hands of a huntsman oregon different animal.

'I firmly judge helium was calved that mode and has flooded each odds. That's what the absorption should beryllium on. This carnivore is genuinely amazing,' helium said.

There was different two-legged achromatic carnivore named Pedals spotted galore times successful New Jersey earlier he was killed during a hunt successful 2016. 

Adult achromatic bears, which unrecorded passim astir of North America, tin typically tally astir 30 to 35 miles per hr and are fantabulous histrion climbers.

Price said that portion helium hunts and eats bears regularly, helium besides believes successful conservation and loves seeing bears 'thrive connected the landscape'.

'This peculiar carnivore is special, and I would ne'er purposely hunt him,' Price said.