"Oh, you thought that too, didn't you? No? What an angel you are!"

I said, expressing skepticism about the story, reported in the NYT, about a grizzly bear in Alaska that "terrorized a man for days."

Now, I'm seeing the Daily Mail report, "Alaska gold miner is accused of making up story about bear stalking him for four days":

Now, however, locals are questioning his version of events after going to the cabin where he was rescued but finding no evidence of the days-long battle he described. Other local miners who were interviewed by The Nome Nugget went to the cabin where Jessee was rescued but found no bear tracks. They did however find the ATV and attached trailer that Jessee said the bear pushed into the water. They think he simply crashed the ATV but was too embarrassed to admit it, so made up the story after being rescued....

'There’s no hair, no tracks, no scat, nothing. He made a fool of us. We found out that his story didn’t match what we found.'... 

Thanks to reader Scott for sending me that link and for making one of the cleverest comments ever back on the original post, processing the elements of the NYT-reported story from the perspective of the bear:

I thought the guy was lost or something. Maybe he was dehydrated and couldn't make it back to his camp. I tried to help him for days, but he just wandered around wasting his energy screaming at me and waiving that useless little pistol around. Jackass even took a few shots at me. Good thing he couldn't shoot straight 'cause I'm a pretty big target. I finally got tired of his antics and drug him down to the river so he could at least get a drink and maybe someone would find him. He was fighting like crazy and ended up hurting himself. Eventually someone did find him so I just went back about my business thinking there goes a few days I'll never get back.

In his email with the link, Scott wrote, "The bear apparently made the whole thing up."