JACKSON, Tenn. (WBBJ) – A Jackson resident reported a black bear sighting over the weekend in the Crystal Cove neighborhood in north Jackson.<\/p>\n
Jonathan Chung said he was sitting on his porch when the bear crossed his yard.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was a very short experience, I was just sitting over there on the porch, and I see something big and black flash across the yard, and it was about halfway across by the time I realized what it was, and then it jumped the fence shortly thereafter, it was here and gone in five seconds,\u201d Chung said.<\/p>\n
\u2018Not in my yard\u2019<\/p>\n
Chung said he had seen bears before, but not in his own yard.<\/p>\n
\u201cNot in my yard, I\u2019ve seen them in Yellowstone but not here,\u201d Chung said.<\/p>\n
Chung fosters cats and adopts ones that struggle to find a good home. Video from the encounter showed cats in the yard at the time of the sighting. Chung said he was not concerned for their safety.<\/p>\n
\u201cI was nervous in the time I had to be, but I didn\u2019t feel like it would bother the cats, and it was booking it pretty hard, I\u2019m assuming from the golf course, so I didn\u2019t really worry about them,\u201d Chung said.<\/p>\n
What to do if you see a bear<\/p>\n
The Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency said bears spotted in West Tennessee are often just passing through and typically avoid people. Wildlife officials advise residents who spot a bear to keep their distance, not approach it, not feed it, and not attempt to take a close-up photo.<\/p>\n
Copyright 2026 WBBJ. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"JACKSON, Tenn. (WBBJ) – A Jackson resident reported a black bear sighting over the weekend in the Crystal…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":764083,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[79,201],"class_list":["post-764082","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-science","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/764082","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=764082"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/764082\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/764083"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=764082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=764082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=764082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}