--- title: Viral Video: Bear Walks Upright Like Human in New Jersey Suburb description: This is both wildly entertaining and extremely unsetting canonical: https://time.com/3087552/bear-walking-upright-in-new-jersey/ author: Samantha Grossman article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-08-06T21:01:25.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:12:14.694Z og:title: Watch a Bear Casually Stroll Around New Jersey Like It's a Person og:description: This is both wildly entertaining and extremely unsetting og:url: https://time.com/3087552/bear-walking-upright-in-new-jersey/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltbc9856c5c91bc4f9/69869ea0f983e7c96d04f21c/screen-shot-2014-08-06-at-4-32-47-pm.png?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Screen Shot 2014-08-06 at 4.32.47 PM og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Watch a Bear Casually Stroll Around New Jersey Like It's a Person twitter:description: This is both wildly entertaining and extremely unsetting twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltbc9856c5c91bc4f9/69869ea0f983e7c96d04f21c/screen-shot-2014-08-06-at-4-32-47-pm.png?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Here's a Bear Casually Strolling Around New Jersey Like It's a Person by [Samantha Grossman](https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/) ## Samantha Grossman Aug 6, 2014 9:01 PM UTC  by [Samantha Grossman](https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/) ## Samantha Grossman Aug 6, 2014 9:01 PM UTC What’s this? Oh, you know, just a giant bear walking upright like a human. The bipedal creature is seen in the video above just going for a stroll, occasionally pausing to do things like peek into a trash can. According to the [video description](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JuMw-tTaWCY#t=11), the bear was seen in Jefferson Township, NJ. A Facebook user near Green Pond, NJ, posted an additional — and slightly more unnerving — video of the bear hanging out in a backyard and terrorizing a neighborhood dog: ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3087552/bear-walking-upright-in-new-jersey/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3087552/bear-walking-upright-in-new-jersey/"},"headline":"Here's a Bear Casually Strolling Around New Jersey Like It's a Person","datePublished":"2014-08-06T21:01:25.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:12:14.694Z","description":"This is both wildly entertaining and extremely unsetting","url":"https://time.com/3087552/bear-walking-upright-in-new-jersey/","keywords":["Newsfeed","New Jersey","animals","viral","Bears"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltbc9856c5c91bc4f9/69869ea0f983e7c96d04f21c/screen-shot-2014-08-06-at-4-32-47-pm.png?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Samantha Grossman","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltbc9856c5c91bc4f9/69869ea0f983e7c96d04f21c/screen-shot-2014-08-06-at-4-32-47-pm.png?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Screen Shot 2014-08-06 at 4.32.47 PM","caption":"","creditText":"","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3087552/bear-walking-upright-in-new-jersey/","name":"Here's a Bear Casually Strolling Around New Jersey Like It's a Person"}}]}] ```