Bear Chasing Person Down Hall

About

Bear Chasing Person Down Hall refers to a viral video of a person in a bear costume chasing someone down a narrow hallway, filmed from the perspective of the person being chased. The video was originally uploaded by a Russian TikToker in March 2021. Over the course of the following year the video gained viral spread as people attached ominous music over it and reuploaded it across the web, often referring to the bear as Freddy Fazbear IRL from Five Nights at Freddy's.

Origin

On March 16th, 2021, Russian TikToker^[1] @egorquiet posted a video showing a person in a bear costume chasing them down a narrow hallway as they yell in fear, gaining over 1.7 million views in just under a year (shown below). This is the original upload. The bear costume is based on the character "Bear" from the Russian animated series Masha And The Bear.

The video was duetted hundreds of times following as TikTokers used the green screen effect to make it look like they are running from the bear (examples shown below).

Spread

The video quickly inspired edits where people place various audio clips over the footage to enhance the horror aspect of the clip. For example, on March 24th, 2021, YouTuber^[2] Amatokid posted an edit putting FNAF ambience music over the clip, gaining over 71,000 views in 11 months (shown below).

On March 29th, YouTuber^[3] Neon Flashsparkotron posted a higher quality crop of the original video, gaining over 1.3 million views in a similar span of time (shown below).

On September 21st, TikToker^[4] @felix_staykids posted a version of the video originally by a now-deleted TikToker placing Banjo Kazooie-like music over the clip (shown below).

On Febrauary 7th, 2022, YouTuber Meepception posted a compilation of green screen memes showing various people running down the hall away from the bear, gaining over 1,000 views in four days (shown below).

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