A huge amount of fake news and all sorts of stuffing is walking around the network. What for? It's all about money, folks. And the fatter and more believable these fakes are, the more they are watched, the more he says them, and the more actively they share them with each other.
Today we want to tell you about a video that has gained wild popularity, as a result of which, at the time of writing, it has been viewed more than 2.1 million times! This video was filmed by a snowboarding girl named Kelly Murphy during a descent in Hakuba Park. The girl was allegedly chased by a bear, which she safely did not notice because of the headphones she was wearing. Kelly claims she only noticed the bear while watching the video.
While all the world's online publications began to broadcast about this video, the majority of users unequivocally put forward a verdict for this video - a fake. However, despite the fact that this really looks like a fat fake, few people were able to provide at least a couple of solid evidence. But there is Umkra for that! Let's watch this video and finally find out if it's true or fake.
Here is the same video that was posted by Kelly Murphy on her YouTube channel
"OMG! After watching my snowboarding video, I saw a bear chasing me!!! I almost got eaten!!! This was filmed yesterday at the Hakuba 47 park in Japan. Be careful people!!!", - says the description of the video
Now let's look at the credibility of this video:
1. Accidentally recorded video or staged
From the very beginning of the video, the girl deliberately makes it clear to the audience that she is not just wearing headphones, but music is playing in them, for which she furiously hums Rihanna's song called "Work" throughout the entire video. "Kelly" does not know the words of the song, except for its title, which is also its chorus, the girl replaces the rest of the text with the classic "na-na-na-na", which suggests that the girl sings not for pleasure, but for in order to denote an enthusiastic listening to music
Many viewers might not notice the headphones on the girl’s head, while others might not understand that these are headphones not to keep their ears from getting cold, but to listen to music, but the author of the video cuts off these two options from the very beginning
From a directing point of view, this moment looks quite thoughtful, which suggests that the whole scene was staged.
2. Who is this girl?
Kelly Murphy's profile was created on April 5, 2016, i.e. 5 days before she posted her sensational video
Having only 3 videos on a channel, of which one is wildly popular, is pretty weird, isn't it?
Since we are used to writing about such sensations and have experience with working in social networks, we can say with confidence that such profiles are created specifically for news stuffing
The girl’s channel does not have a photo, which is rather strange, since in 99% of cases, after the attention of world news outlets and getting wildly popular, people tend to publish their photos and screenshots with the headlines of articles about themselves on Instagram and Facebook, so that on this wave to get even more attention. And where, by the way, are the other pages of the girl in social networks? They simply don't exist
Not only is there no other photo of the girl, but also on the video itself, her face is as closed as possible, which makes it almost impossible to establish her identity.
3. Was there a bear?
Not only does the bear look superimposed on the video, but it also runs in the wrong direction all the time. If the bear was just jogging, then nothing strange, but does the bear keep its eyes on the victim when heading towards the victim? There is only one moment in the video when the bear runs exactly towards the girl while looking exactly at the camera, but after a second disappearance behind the Kelly hat, he looks again and runs somewhere in the wrong direction
Many users have also recognized the bear's roar as the sound of a similar beast in The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim. We do not claim, but the sounds are really similar. You can listen to the sound of the bear roar from the game
4. And finally, the most iron proof
The video shows how none other than our beloved brown bear is running after the girl. But the trouble is, not far from Hakuba, the place where the girl allegedly rode, only small black bears are found, and the brown bear shown in the video is found in Japan only on the island of Hokkaido. It must be that the bear's hatred for this girl really knows no bounds, because his habitat is almost 1.5 thousand km from Hakuba. In addition, to get off the island and climb Hakuba, the bear would have to use the ferry
So it's just plain fat fake!
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American snowboarder Kelly Murphy appears to have been born wearing a shirt. Resting a few days ago at the famous ski resort "Hakuba 47" in Japan, the athlete almost became a victim of the largest and most ferocious bear. (website)
The most interesting thing is that the snowboarder did not notice the bear chasing her. Only when she got to the hotel, she looked at the videos received that day and was horrified indescribably.
In the video below, snowboarder Murphy can be seen getting on her snowboard and filming herself from the front. The American woman has headphones on her head, and she is humming something, so it is obvious that the girl is listening to music. Suddenly, a large grizzly appears in the background, which sets off on the trail of the athlete when she begins to move down. The animal growls ferociously and rushes at full speed, periodically falling into the frame. The spectacle, to put it mildly, is truly eerie.
At some point, the predator almost overtakes its potential prey, but Kelly manages to break away on another steep slope, and the grizzly is hopelessly behind. Satisfied and happy with her descent, the snowboarder slides down, not having the slightest idea that she just managed to walk unscathed on a razor's edge. If Murphy had not filmed herself with a GoPro action camera, she, and many Internet users along the way, would never have known about this amazing incident.
But the bear could well catch up with the snowboarder
Returning to a warm and safe hotel, the American watched the footage in the evening and was shocked that she was chasing a bear. According to the snowboarder, this discovery turned out to be so frightening that she is now not sure if she will ever be able to play this sport again. At least, from now on, she definitely won’t listen to music during such descents. True, how this can save from a ferocious grizzly is not clear ...
Some regulars world wide web assume that the video was edited. According to such commentators, the growl of the bear on the recording is too loud, while the sounds of the wind are heard suspiciously quietly. Of course, it is possible to “draw” a bear on a video in our age of advanced technology, however, if it is really a fake, why did the American need to deceive millions of Web users? Is it really for the sake of such dubious and undeserved fame?
By the way, the management of the resort, as it became known, did not receive any from Murphy. But this is not a reason to doubt the sincerity of the girl.