Here's more proof that the world just can't get enough of a good bear story.
Remember the tale of John Steitz? We reported last month about how Steitz, a hiker from Minneapolis, was napping along the Superior Hiking Trail near Beaver Bay when he dreamed about a playful puppy licking his face. Then Steitz awoke to find a black bear standing over him.
The bear ran away, Steitz was OK, and his story continues to have legs. Thursday night, it garnered a short segment on the Canadian radio news show "As it Happens," which airs on the CBC and Minnesota Public Radio News.
In recounting the tale, host Jeff Douglas noted that it was kind of like "that old joke about the guy who dreamed he was eating a giant marshmallow, and he woke up and his pillow was gone."
Steitz told us Friday that after the article appeared in the News Tribune and on duluthnewstribune.com, he was interviewed by radio shows in Seattle and in Iowa. An item appeared online on Huffington Post, and apparently even on a news site in the Netherlands; Steitz doesn't speak Dutch, so he wasn't sure what that story said.
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He said it's been fun, and also -- as he's watched the story spread -- "a wake-up call to how the Internet works."
