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Cocaine Bear, also known as Pablo Eskobear (sometimes spelled Escobear) or Cokey the Bear, was a 175-pound (79-kilogram) American black bear that fatally overdosed on cocaine in 1985. The cocaine had been dropped by a group of Colombian drug smugglers in the wilderness in Tennessee, United States.
- 11 Olaf The Tourist
- 10 Vest
- 9 Andrew C. Thornton
- 8 Elsa The Tourist
- 7 Tom The Paramedic
- 6 Beth The Paramedic
- 5 Detective Bob
- 4 Ponytail
- 3 Peter The Wildlife Inspector
- 2 Liz The Park Ranger
Olaf is the only main character who dies in Cocaine Bear with the attack happening off-screen. After Elsa’s death, it was assumed Olaf (whom his wife called Kristoffer) had also been killed by the Cocaine Bear, but the tourist managed to escape somehow. Olaf ultimately meets up with Sari and helps her find her daughter Dee Dee. Still terrified from...
Vest is one of three teenagers who have been stealing from the park, even threatening O’Shea Jackson Jr.’s Daveed with a knife (until he beats them up). Vest is attacked by the Cocaine Bear while inside Ranger Liz’s office. It is a long, drawn-out sequence with some great tension as the terrified people inside the cabin wonder where the wild beast ...
Andrew C. Thornton is a character used to recreate some of the real-life story of Cocaine Bear with the movie opening with the ex-narcotics officer and drug smuggler, gleefully tosses pounds of cocaine from his plane. But when he gets ready to jump, Thornton ends up hitting his head on the plane door, knocking himself out before he’s pulled from th...
Not long after Thornton is found dead, a pair of tourists, Elsa and her husband Olaf (a couple of names that recall Disney’s animated Frozen), are hiking Blood Mountain. They’re happy together, discussing their future child when they spot a bear. They make the mistake of thinking the Cocaine Bear is cute before she notices them. Elsa and Olaf make ...
Tom the EMT was only trying to help when he walked into the chaos of the earlier cabin massacre. He and his coworker, Beth, managed to rescue Liz, but they didn’t expect the Cocaine Bear to come after them. Tom does his best to stop the feral creature from killing him while in a moving vehicle, but the black bear eventually wins out, and Tom is tor...
Like Tom, Beth, a paramedic, was panicked that the Cocaine Bear would hurt them. Beth was in charge of driving the ambulance, so she couldn’t exactly defend herself from the rampaging bear, but she did the best she could to get herself, Tom, and Liz out of the park and to safety. Unfortunately, the Cocaine Bear was relentless in her attack. Between...
Perhaps the most tragic death in the movie comes with the demise of Detective Bob who was one of the most likable Cocaine Bearcharacters. Bob was immediately on the case to find the cocaine and take down the organized crime figures behind it. Unfortunately, this puts him in direct contact with Eddie and Daveed, who are keen on grabbing the duffel b...
There are a few key Cocaine Bear deaths that are not actually the fault of the bear which solidifies the theme of Cocaine Bear's endingthat the animal is not really the villain of the story. Ponytail is the second of the three teenagers to die and it is one of the funnier and more unexpected deaths in the movie. While trapped inside the park ranger...
Another memorable sequence from the movie comes when the bear confronts several of the main characters and forces them up a tree to hide. Peter is the wildlife inspector visiting the part who initially seems like an obnoxious character who the audience will be happy to see go. However, when he and the others come across the lost children and the hu...
Liz the park ranger is a memorable character in Cocaine Bear. She doesn’t like when people think she isn’t cut out for her job, and has a crush on Peter the wildlife inspector. She also proves her toughness by surviving her first encounter with the bear. Though injured, she returns to the cabin for more ammunition to kill the bear only for it to tr...
- Colin Mccormick
Mar 13, 2023 · A medical examiner concluded the 200-pound bear had died of acute cocaine intoxication after ingesting about three to four grams of cocaine. “It’s enough to kill anybody,” the investigator...
Feb 20, 2023 · Unfortunately, Cocaine Bear did die. Contrary to its much larger and menacing onscreen counterpart, the real bear (AKA Pablo Eskobear) was a 175-pound American black bear. On September 11, 1985, former narcotics officer turned drug dealer Andrew Thornton II smuggled a 400-kilo batch of cocaine from Colombia into the US.
Feb 24, 2023 · The 40-year-old died from the fall, and the plane, itself, later crashed into a mountain in western North Carolina.
- colin.mcevoy@hearst.com
- Senior News Editor, Biography.Com
Feb 28, 2023 · News World Americas. Cocaine Bear: True story of infamous bear who consumed duffel bag of cocaine and got Hollywood treatment. Animal overdosed after it ate 70 pounds of drugs thrown out of...
The bear, who died sometime after consuming the cocaine, was found three months later in northern Georgia alongside 40 opened plastic containers of cocaine. The bear is currently on display at the Kentucky for Kentucky Fun Mall in Lexington, Kentucky, which named the creature "Cocaine Bear" in 2015. Creative liberties
