This is the shocking moment an influencer came face to face with a brown bear while filming a video from the beast’s lair.
Stefan Jankovic, 31, from Serbia, shared two clips of the terrifying experience on social media after he narrowly escaped the predator’s home.
In one of the images, the Instagram star can be seen panicking, huddled in the depths of a muddy cave as he looks up at the entrance above him.
But when the camera pans, a giant bear is seen staring at him before slowly making its way down the slope towards its nest.
Jankovic continues to film the tense moment as the carnivore continues to climb down the hole and head towards the social media icon.
In a shocking video, Stefan Jankovic captured the moment a brown bear stared at him as he sat in its den.
Jankovic filmed the tense moment when the bear approached him and sniffed his head.
The brown bear takes a few more steps towards him as it sits with its legs stretched out in front of him before its furry muzzle approaches Jankovic’s face.
As the man tries to get out of the den and sneak away from the predator, he stops when the bear starts sniffing his head.
With a shocked expression on his face, Jankovic remains completely still as he lets the bear continue to sniff his head and his camera.
The TikTok user finally manages to get out of the narrow den and get past the bear.
But in a second clip, a brave Jankovic can be seen perched on a tree as two curious bears prowl the ground around him.
In the footage, one of the bears can be seen scratching at the base of the tree as it looks at Jankovic.
“You won’t believe what happened to me,” Janovic says in the clip, according to a translation by the Daily Star.
“I spend 24 hours in the woods and a bear attacks me. It’s waiting for me and there’s another one.”
The social media star did not explain how she got into the situation with the bear, but posted the video with the title On the Edge of Life.
It was not immediately clear where the footage was filmed or whether the animal was a wild bear or one kept in a sanctuary.
Both shocking clips had racked up more than 182,000 views on X, formerly Twitter, by Monday morning and left viewers with divided opinions on the incident.
One wrote: ‘Looks like he got out alive this time, but next time nature will do its part.’
Another said: ‘Maybe the next edition of the famous tale “Goldilocks and the Three Bears” should add “Don’t try this at home.”‘
A third said: “If it’s not fake, it’s very lucky it didn’t end up in pieces.”
Another added: “No, you can tell the bears know him. Otherwise they would have smashed his head in.”