This is the shocking moment an influencer came face to face with a brown bear while filming a video from the beast’s den.
Stefan Jankovic, 31, from Serbia, shared two clips of the terrifying experience on social media after he narrowly managed to escape the predator’s home.
The panicked Instagram star could be seen in one piece of footage cowering in the depths of a muddy cave while peering up towards the entrance above him.
But when he turns the camera around, a giant bear is seen staring down at him before it slowly makes its way down the slope and into its nest.
Jankovic continues to film the tense moment as the carnivore carries on climbing down into the hole and towards the social media icon.
In shocking footage, Stefan Jankovic captured the moment a brown bear eyed him up while he sat in its lair
Jankovic filmed the tense moment as the bear approached him and sniffed his head
The brown bear takes a few more steps towards him as he sits with his legs stretched out in front of him before its furry snout edges closer to Jankovic’s face.
As the man attempts to climb out of the lair and sneak past the predator, he is stopped in his tracks when the bear begins to sniff his head.
With a stunned expression on his face, Jankovic sits completely still while letting the bear continue to smell his head and camera.
The TikToker eventually makes it out of the cramped den and past the bear.
But in a second clip, a brave Jankovic can be seen up a tree as two curious bears linger on the ground around him.
One of the bears in the footage can be seen clawing at the base of the tree while gazing up at Jankovic.
‘You won’t believe what happened to me,’ Janovic says in the clip, according to a translation by the Daily Star.
‘I spend 24 hours in the forest, and a bear attacks me. It’s waiting for me, and there’s another one.’
The social media star did not explain how he got into the situation with the bear, but posted the video with the title On the Edge of Life.
It was not immediately clear where the footage was filmed, or whether the animal was a wild bear or one kept in a sanctuary.
Both of the shocking clips had racked up over 182,000 views on X, formerly Twitter, early on Monday and left viewers opinions on the incident divided.
One wrote: ‘It looks like he got out alive this time, but next time nature will do its part’.
Another said: ‘Maybe the next edition of the famous tale “Goldilocks and the 3 Bears” should add “Don’t try this at home”.
A third said: ‘If not fake, he’s incredibly lucky not to have ended up torn into pieces’.
One more added: ‘Nah, you can tell the bears know him! He would have gotten his head snapped otherwise’.
[Notigroup Newsroom in collaboration with other media outlets, with information from the following sources]
