Big Brain Prison Escapes
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Much respect to Shiratori. They should have made him an engineer or something that would allow him to use his exceptional skills. The soup thing was brilliant.
he became a construction worker, that's a job that allows him to use such skills.
@@themenacingpenguin.7152yeah
probaly just laying bricks...@@themenacingpenguin.7152
Im a welder, worked my whole life on metal, i couldn’t imagine that would work.
he could have been a security consultant like Stallone's character in the Escape Plan movies, evaluating prisons for vulnerabilities.
Fun fact: Shiratori was completely innocent of the initial murder charge that put him in Aomori Prison and was forced to confess
Wikipedia only lies when there is a political reason for it. For example when it comes to Israel and it's people.@@Israelisnotourfriend
@@Israelisnotourfriend Wikipedia shouldn’t be seen as silly & unreliable, as it is!
Wikipedia has easily accessible citations.
The information on the site is generally as accurate/inaccurate
as the information you’d find in any traditional encyclopedia
. . .but the fact that you can so easily check the citations so easily,
makes Wikipedia a great resource for finding information,
& for identifying how trustworthy you should consider whatever particular information you’re referencing
@@Alulim-EriduI don’t know, after all Wikipedia is the internet, the internet tends to be shifty
@@tonygarol7769hello
What proof is there that he was innocent?
13:12 That cut was *HILARIOUS* whether or not it was intended 🤣🤣🤣
Request DENIED.
It probably was lmao
Lmąo 😂
XDDD😊
I didn't see anything, which one?
“Let’s rock, everybody let’s rock. Everybody in the whole cell block, come dance and do the jailhouse rock.” Elvis Presley
That was also sung by the Blues Brothers
Overated and talentless
TCB
Crocodile Rock
About Alcatraz, one guy (can't remember the name) DID escape by swimming all the way to the mainland, but the water was so cold he was hypothermic and passed out on shore where he was easily found and captured.
I have a friend that swims from shore to alcatraz and back every year no wet suit does it for cancer benefit
@@mikeyoung490 That's cool. I hope he raises a lot for that great cause. If he hasn't heard of him yet have him look up Terry Fox. I could tell you about him but I doubt you'd believe me.
@@mikeyoung490Your friend must be a pretty strong dude to do that every year then!
@@zzzmeta4555and a trained swimmer so more efficient.
@@Donovarkhallumand plenty of lard.
They say Bumpy Johnson aided in the escape from Alcatraz
-It was recorded (I believe by the coastguard)
that there was a boat seen anchored in the bay that night, just sitting there for hours with it’s lights off.
The story is that they were men sent by Bumpy Johnson, who were sent to wait out in the bay that night,
to pick up Frank & his fellow escapees.
It wouldn’t have been out of character for Bumpy Johnson to help out a buddy who he had been incarcerated with.
Bumpy Johnson was in jail with Frank, but had been released some time before the escape.
Alexander Pierce and his escapees had to resort to cannibalism. only in extremely pure desperation would someone do that. anyway, this series taught me more history than school which is amazing.
@@brucememechanreal
these videos are fun facts not history.
@@imnotyourfriendbuddy1883they’re history fun facts
bumpy johnson sounds like an std
"there is no record of what he requested for his ESCAPE FROM TUNNEL 57 1964"
That is exceedingly jarring, especially with the differing audio quality.
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@@TemplarBlonic Honestly, it made that spot of dark humor even funnier to me. Just enough info to get your brain to connect the dots, then MOVING ON.
Narrator says it’s not possible to navigate the waters off Alcatraz island let alone in the dark, but remember they hold the Escape from Alacatraz triathlons where triathletes are required to swim from Alcatraz to the main San Francisco shore. I think they made it.
another exceptional non violent escape artist is steven jay russell who managed to escape prison on four occasions, he's nickenamed houdini and even has a movie made based on his life (i love you phillip morris)
I always thought Yoshi was one of the greatest escapist
Indeed he is. He escaped 4 Japanese prisons 4 times
How do you think he evaded taxes for so long?
Like The Great Escape
According to a documentary I watched a few years ago a member of the Anglin family supplied a photograph to the FBI that the family recieved in 1992 that supposedly showed the brothers, taken about thirty years after their escape, that forensic analysts confirmed was both the correct age and on film only available before 1995 (the manufacturer went out of business), and facial recognition software gave better than a 95% probability of BOTH the men in the picture being one of the brothers, but analysis of the photo's background, and plants in the picture, concluded it was taken either in southern Brazil or Argentina, and Argentina has no extradition treaties with the USA while Brazil only has a limited treaty.
Can't quite recall which book and/or documentary it was but the things you mention line up with what I remember learning. It's likely due to embarrassment that the F.B.I. insist that they died. After all, multiple people have made the swim from alcatraz to the mainland, just for sh*ts & giggles...
The first one, wow that’s amazing… . Cheers to this guy! He should have his own movie
Shiraori was no only a genius escapee, but also a rebel against the harsh Japanese prison conditions.
BTW: Seeing the first part of this clip, I have realized it's no wonder that Japanese prison-themed movies from the 1970s and 80s were so focused on brutality, fictionalized as the plots are. Thanks, Simple History.
Should have never been released
@@mjphoto45Jesus was not killed nor Jesus was crucified
Jesus was not killed nor Jesus was crucified
@@LisaHack-hq3dv What kind of daft response is that???
Amazing how the more prison guard beat prisoners, the more, and more violently, those prisoners attempt escape.
Weird.
“Tonight is going to be a jailbreak, somewhere in the town! Tonight is going to be a jailbreak, so don’t you be around! Tonight is going to be trouble, I’m going to find myself in! Tonight is going to be trouble, so woman stay with a friend. BREAKOUT!” Thin Lizzy
In 1962 one inmate, John Paul Scott, did successfully escape from Alcatraz by swimming to Fort Point, whereupon he was discovered and captured. He was exhausted and suffering from hypothermia, but survived. Prior to this in 1945 another prisoner, John K. Giles, escaped aboard a ferry while disguised as an Army soldier, but was apprehended at Angel Island.
"they added 3 years to his term of life in prison"
What 😂
It's very stupid, I agree, but in many places a life sentence is around 30 years. Hence people being given multiple life sentences. But yes, it's idiotic...
I laughed that the last meal joke was cut short gjgj @13:11
The Kangaroo disguise is the most ridiculous thing
Great video.
Moondine Joe who was Fremantle prison's greatest escapee had some great descendants.
Douglas Thomas made several escapes in the late 970s despite having only one leg.
Brendan Abbott, The Post Card Bandit. He was taking selfies long before the camera phone. He took them out the front of a police station and then mail the selfie to the police commissioner.
He's retired to the old folks' home at Casuarina Correction Centre these days. He had a good run though.
bro put some time stamps on these long ones
Usually a commenter does it. Hint, hint
Another channel, KentoBento made a much more in depth and story driven video about Shiratori, that has many important notes about Shiratori's ingenuity and cunning. Like how while he was digging the tunnel, when the guards were watching he would look upwards, tricking them into thinking he was failing to come up with an escape plan. And about the wire from the bucket being from bathing time and not just some bucket in his cell like this animation shows.
Drugs alcohol pork not allowed
“I just gotta get out of this prison cell, someday I’m going to free loooorrrd!” Queen
Only three?
I 100% endorse this big brain title
Fun Fact: Moondyne Joe actually was mining and took of his clothes and made it look like he was resting on the pile of rocks and escaped through his own hole that he mined and it was at Fremantle prison in Perth i see his hole all the time
The West Germans escaping was by far the most incredible story. I wish the narrator had mentioned that wall that divided Germany stood until 1989. I was 14 can can remember when the fall was announced on American news. Remember the song 99 Luftballons by Nena? It was about balloons being mistaken for UFOs, the government puts it military on high alert which causes surrounding countries to do the same and war breaks out again, over balloons LOL. This sounds like it could really happen these days.
Escaping to the East?
meanwhile my rimworld prisoners smash down any door they see hoping it leads outside, not realizing half my colony is behind it waiting for them.
Escapists are actually pretty smart if you think about it. You have to have a big brain to come up with these escape plans
I like to think we are...
@@kynaston1474 lmao 🤣😂
They have lots of time on their hands.
@@myview5840 true
draw pride in a mouse as us humans have harder troubles but we can do it. careful planning and conviction, means how to escape large governments mousetraps and mazes, you'd be surprised if you want to survive
you observe your surroundings. i'm sure any human to plot freedom just to taste it.
if smart enough would use salt to melt iron keeping it moist
The best prison escape ever made was the Long Kesh in Ireland, 37 IRA prisoners escaped dressed up as prison officers and smuggled in guns. Then simply walked out.
Nice! I'll have to look into that one. Any books/documentaries you suggest? I may dislike how many civilians were injured/killed but also understand & agree with the desire for home rule of a united Ireland.
“He had a scuffle with a farmer over some food that ended in the man being stabbed and killed”
“The court recognized that in all four of his prison escapes and recaptures, he never used violence in any way”
???
"During his escape attempts". By that point he was on the run for two years
The one thing that puzzles me is the Japanese guy in the "high security prison" where he dug a tunnel to escape, whilst under armed guard by no less that 6 guards at a time, managed to dispose of all the earth whilst digging? I mean, when digging compacted earth, when dug up it takes up about 3 times the room it would if it were undisturbed. Where the heck did he put the loose earth? And no this isnt the great escape? lol
He could've disposed of the dirt in a corner
@@vinniehatcher664 Thats the best you got? I sense a troll.
You spread it out across the whole floor. No one will notice a few extra cm of dirt evenly spread across, esp if packed down
@@johnrice1943 The amount of dirt removed would be several feet thick when piled into a small solitary confinement cell. The story is bullshit, there's no way he could have moved the dirt anywhere or reinforced the tunnel to prevent its collapse.
@@sumelaryea plus how did they not notice that his plate was getting scratched up by the dirt? He was going slow with the digging, that tunnel took him months or years whatever it was.
Could have been enough time for the dirt to compact and the tunnel didn’t need support since the dirt above would slowly settle, but then he still would have had to put dirt somewhere, I’m gonna do some research on this one
the 1962 Alcatraz Escape. is referenced in cod black ops 2 in mb of the dead as an entire area
The original reasons given for the closure of Alcatraz was that in was in poor physical condition, would have cost too much to repair and maintain and that it was not in keeping with modern penal theories. I think it’s most likely that with the escape of Morris and the Anglins, the government had lost its claim to an escape-proof prison and hence the original reason for its existence.
Funny how I’ve just found this and a terrorist escaped from jail yesterday in Wandsworth London
They gotta stop putting walls so close together so they can't be scaled so easily.
I love your channel keep up the great stuff
The last escape with the helicopter always makes me laugh. in interviews with the prison guards, they stated the very first thing that their commander yelled was "LOCK THE GATES" as John Killick flies off in a helicopter from the exercise yard. His girlfriend Lucy also wasn't the pilot, she booked a scenic flight and hijacked it by pulling a gun on the pilot. Honestly one of THEE greatest escapes of all time.
7:36.....yo you just said he murdered a farmer
31:33 The first case of someone making a “fur suit,” but not for some convention. 😄
Goddamn, those wives and girlfriends were Ride or Die.
Guy who disguised himself as a kangaroo 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾😂
Man escapes 4 times like its nothing lol
And then there is Napoleon escape, rallying all troops sent to capture him without firing a shot 🗿
1:59 thank you for finally showing his eyes
Plot twist, they were circling a large food depot full of delacassies
Great video!
Love how the cannibal story shows a warm sunny Australian when in fact it was freezing where they were
now i cant unsee it, a friend just said the person in the intro scene at 0:00-0:05 looks kind of like Capitan Price lol
Ahh yes the big brains
Henri Charrière aka. Papillon a frenchman was another one that could pulled out multiple houdinis from max prisons.
I had a good laugh picturing the guy in the kangaroo suit 😂😂
I've been watching you're videos for a while now, and I swear I hear sound effects from a game I used to play but I'm not sure which one
Old Medal of Honor on PS1
I have another suggestion for your war stories: can you talk about USAF PJ William Pitsenbarger during the Vietnam War? He was a MOH recipient posthumously
Lol the title 👍
Escaple Plan Checklist:
1). Russian girlfriend
2). Helicopter
18:08 Thats not how toilets work, even the dirtiest ones. 🚽
im so happy i started to watch your videos, a year ago my brain was the size of a peanut, i mean it still is but my peanut got a lumped which was smarter
Another fact about Shiratori is that he had abilities such as flexibility, strength, and could climb walls. He was able to break his cuffs which is why he specially designed cuffs, he could climb walls, he could dislocate his body and go through small spaces. Luckily for him, he was innocent and was released on good behavior then got to see his daughter :)
I would add the springing of Éamonn De Velera from Lincoln prison
i seen the story thanks for explaining too
1:40 in THOSE days? Doesnt seem much better today 💀
When i saw this story whole i was absolutely fascinated with shiratori
oof, imagine not being caught because your attempt was stupid, but because you were so convincing that a bored guard accidentally made you stop
Shiratori is the epitome of "patience is a virtue."
Yoshie Shiratori : Keter Class
Could you imagine being sent to jail for 7 years over a few pairs of shoes?
Most girls these days would get life for sure LOL.
"When there is a will there's a way" Shiratori probably
I live in Tasmania, and yes, this part of the story is true. Ironically, the escapees were surrounded by heaps of edible plants and animals throughout, and also the local Aborigines were friendly and would probably have helped them to survive. A cruel irony indeed.
I was honestly thinking couldn't they forge why are they eating each other
Pierce went from stealing shoes to killing and eating people
In a unnamed Ohio city a Mexican guy (with help) somehow unscrewed and squeezed through a vision window. He walked out with whoever was visiting him and was never seen again.
Me encanta este canal ya que de niño veía muchos documentales de guerra con mi padre , ha pasado el tiempo y mi padre me abandonó pero ver estos vídeos me ayuda a seguir amando la historia
Lo importante no es lo que te pasa en la vida, lo que importa es cómo vives. Mantente fuerte, amigo mio.
@@byewhobayou8868Eso es verdad
Awww poor you daddy left you and your sad
Pobrecito
A week and they are eating each other but they are getting through quite a lot in a short time.
Request for making video on all WWII Naval Battles
*Tunnel 57 ? Hello ? !*
Absolutely 💯
Simple history should do a documentary on our astronaut friend
man i could sleep all day to his voice
Great title 👌
"A growing number of criminals due to the abolition of the death penalty"????
Thank you for giving us the solution to our crime problem. I knew it was actually a simple problem to solve. I think we should start with politicians and media.
Ill second this.
Never heard of no hagoma bear before
People swim to and back from Alcatraz, just not at night. One regular event is called the Alcatraz Invitational Swim, so the last sentence about the escape from that prison was incorrect.
When one says "big brain prison escapes" it usually means "small brain security measures"
I wonder how many prison break movies would take these cases as inspiration 🤔
This looks good…
@Freedom-hg3fs I am the definition of an annoying orange
The folks of the WWII generation were definitely amazing.
This guy just eating people 😂😂
21:10 Minor animation mistake, that's An M1 Carbine, not a Bolt-action rifle, M1 is a straight-pull to chamber.
Respect.
At least the Tasmanian Cannibal got to coexist with Thylacines....
Guard: leaves the keys 🔐 on his belt
Prisoner: yeah this Big Brain 🧠 time
El Chapo
Whoa whoa. The extremely cold Pacific ocean? Try the Atlantic
I beleive that same night of the Alcatraz escape, a truck was stolen from the area in which they were to have landed
ima go to jail and throw the most devious griddy, shocking the guards and then escaping. ez
When he went on to “randomly stab and kill the farmer” reality tells you his no hero, and was locked up for a reason.
Prison breaks give me faith in humanity
Anyone else like the rust sound effects?
If they were so big brain, how did they get caught in the first place?
How did we go from 7 years incarceration for just stealing shoes to people walking out of establishments with carts full of stolen items & no repercussions too their actions?!?!
It’s called liberalism… it’s a poison on society
Democrat run cities and/or policies. It’s not a federal crime, so it’s left to local governments to decide how to handle crimes, and for too long the voters have consistently voted for the clowns in office!
Who puts thier chair against the bars?
Thomas cooks☠️ 12:30
Anyone else here listened to the first story and was sad that Kento Bento isn't uploading anymore.