Jasper did actually die in the bear attack, because one ten-year-old child against two grown-ass bears? No way in Hell.
The rest of the story is David's false memory of it, which was altered by the pills that we see in "Better Than You".
As for why he can’t rest in peace, well, Cameron Campbell never took his mutilated body out of the stuffed corpses of the two bears that killed him.
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Abby's Stupid Camp Camp Headcanon Book
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