Dec 24, 2019
In episode 19, Jen & Nilo share true stories of harrowing encounters with the world's largest land predator in Canada, Alaska, Norway, and Russia. They also discuss two animal horror films: Unnatural and Wild Beasts. In the latter, a variety of animals get high on PCP and rampage through an unnamed German city; listen to learn more about a tiger tearing up a train, elephants rampaging on a runway, and the film's centerpiece, in which a polar bear busts in on a children's ballet class.
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Sources:
I Was Prey, episode 1.4
Sabrina Shankman, Meltdown: Terror at the Top of the World, InsideClimate News: 2014.
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/xd537z/polar-bear-man-full-151
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-44996873
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2011/aug/05/polar-bear-mauls-british-death
https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/one-hunter-dead-two-injured-after-nunavut-polar-bear-attack
https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2016/12/trouble-in-polar-bear-capital/510839/