A man was seriously injured Friday evening after an agitated bull bison chased him through a campground and launched him several feet into the air in one of the wildest human-animal encounters you will ever see.
Incident at Bridge Bay Campground
The attack happened at Bridge Bay Campground, south of Fishing Bridge, and was captured on video by professional photographer Mike MacLeod. The unidentified man was reportedly walking with his grandson when the bison targeted them from roughly 100 yards away — well beyond the 25-yard minimum distance Yellowstone requires visitors to maintain from bison.
The video makes it clear this animal was already looking for trouble. Before the man and his grandson entered the picture, the bull had reportedly charged a group of children who were taking photos from a safe distance. The kids scattered, and the bison eventually stopped to wallow in a patch of dirt.
Then a white pickup truck drove past. For whatever reason, that apparently sent the bull right back over the edge. The bison was charging the truck, and the guy in the truck saw that happening, and he just kept going. The bison then went to where these two were hiding in the trees.
The footage shows the enormous animal barrel into the trees as the man desperately tries to stay on the opposite side of the trunks. For a moment, the bison becomes distracted and takes its anger out on a small sapling. But then it spots the man again.
The bull races after him, catches him with its horn and sends him flipping high into the air before he crashes onto his side. The bison hooked him with his left horn on his hip and tossed him in the air. He made a perfect flip and landed on his side. The bison was at least 6 feet tall, and the victim was several feet above him.
Even more terrifying, the bison does not immediately leave. Instead, it stands over the injured man, shaking its head while he remains on the ground. MacLeod stopped recording and ran toward the animal, yelling and trying to draw its attention away from the victim. Several other witnesses followed his lead, and together they managed to scare the bison away.
Yellowstone EMS soon arrived and took over. The man’s grandson later spoke with MacLeod, telling him his grandfather has some pretty significant injuries and is not out of the woods yet.
The National Park Service had not released an official statement or an update on the man’s condition as of Sunday morning. This incident is Yellowstone’s second reported human-bison incident of 2026. A 12-year-old visitor was injured June 26 near Mud Volcano, north of Fishing Bridge.
Original reporting: Fox News (HLL/CB) — read the source article.
