Papillon is still alive. The latest update was in July 2025. He is still being held in the Casteller facility for “problem bears”, and is the last bear remaining there after bear JJ4 was transferred to a more open sanctuary. Protesters were gathering outside Casteller and calling for Papillon’s release in late July.

https://www.iltquotidiano.it/articoli/casteller-nuova-protesta-degli-animalisti-liberate-papillon/

Noted discrepancies as mentioned in Werner Herzog’s film:

Herzog didn’t mention WHY Treadwell and Amie went back, and only later do we learn that there is A VERY SUPERFICIAL REASON (but within a popularized idea of of Treadwell as ‘irrational’) WHY he went back. Are you aware of that so-called “reason”? : To see ONE bear he had not seen!! Certainly his dismissers would LIKE that one. But his fans? What have his fans thought? (anyone know where i can find out?)

Sounds like a load of BS on that curious allegation alone. But wait, there’s more.

Treadwell DOCUMENTS, ON FILM, HUMANS THROWING ROCKS at a large grizzly knowing full well that Treadwell is around. (Is there a park ranger with them? This source claimed that rangers are the ones who lead tourists, etc. into that park; do some go alone or in groups, without a guide??)

Treadwell begins to get famous (i.e. Letterman Show) and begins sharing his story with Alaskan kids (the kids of area big game hunters??). He’s promoting nuances and the animals’ easy-goingness, so i can just imagine one of these kids then SHAMING their adults who like hunting them.

Having lived in Alaska for about one year, i can attest to the VERY VIOLENT ways of settlers living in Alaska. I recall that, in 1986-87, on TWO occassions, someone SHOT UP the local newspaper offices of at least one Achorage, AK newspaper. “The Last Frontier” mentality runs rampant, kind of like “the Texas mentality” (of Manly Men).

Finally, Herzog mentions that the bear who ACTUALLY killed Treadwell and Amie, was NOT a regular bear in the area. He doesn’t go into details, but no one else that i noted, mentions this!!

My feeling, not having proof, is that this unknown bear was A PROBLEM BEAR that was captured elsewhere and then freed nearby to where Treadwell was. Freed by professional hunters and/or park rangers (recall the collusion to bomb nonviolent musician Judi Bari, by the oakland police and the f.b.i.), after being likely ‘hyped up’ and abused by these cowardly ‘Manly Men’, and freed on a very empty stomach.

Like Judi Bari, Treadwell was a charismatic challenger to the status quo. He was challenging the war-stuck mindset of professional hunters and established society’s RIGID FEAR by talking to their (?) kids about nuances! He was openly flaunting the rules!

(What kind of other dismissive comments can you find about Tim, made by The Established?)

Basically, he was becoming a THORN IN THE SIDE of not only the macho Manly Men, but also the park service.

And then i read, here, for the first time in my investigation, that ANOTHER like Tim was killed JUST *AFTER* him! :

“Vitaly Nikolayenko, another grizzly man who was coincidentally killed just weeks later in 2003”

That NO ONE that i can initially find EVEN DISCUSSES these discrepancies SURE SOUNDS LIKE A COVER-UP!!

And then, how about “the number”, 13. His 13th time going there. 13 summers. In the u.s.a., the number 13 is BAD LUCK. How curious that he was killed on his 13th summer.

All this moves me to question the establishment’s conclusions!!!