Welcome back to Scary Bear Attacks! Today's episode takes us to Santa Monica, California. Yes! I am not joking. Not the town of today but a century and a half ago. Before the freeways and high rise buildings of today, Santa Monica was a seaside bear haven and yes, some of those bears were Grizzly bears.

In 1853 the area may have had about 100 people and was starting to be farmed by Mexican settlers. The local plant life was an assortment as diverse as box elder and maple to salt bush and manzanita. The temperatures were very steady without a frost and rarely going above 90 degrees. This is the perfect environment for many different plant species and animals. One of those animal species that thrived in the area were brown bears.

Andy Sublette was 46 years old on December 19th and enjoyed hunting bears and many other animals in the a ...