The horrifying tale of Alfred Packer: Colorado's Cannibal
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 29 ก.ย. 2024
- April 1874. Present day Colorado. A half-starved weather-beaten Alfred Packer came limping into the Los Pinos Indian Agency seeking refuge. Feet covered in rags he claimed he had a harrowing story to tell.
The man was ushered in and given food which he vomited up almost as soon as he got it down. Too long without he explained, asking instead for whiskey. Anything that would calm his stomach and hopefully his trembling hands.
Finally, Alfred spoke. Said he had been a guide up in the mountains for some prospectors. They hit some bad weather and worse luck. He himself got snow-blinded and the other five would-be miners abandoned him.
For the next two months this survivor somehow scrapped by - living by his wits, surviving the hellish winter, and making it to civilization all on his own, with almost no supplies.
An amazing tale of endurance, for sure. There’s just one catch - Alfred Packer didn’t seem all that malnourished. Matter of fact, the man seemed pretty well fed. And his story? Well, it had holes.
Who was Alfred Packer? Was he truly guilty of the crimes that would see him spend nearly two decades behind bars? And what’s human flesh taste like, anyway?
Pass the chianti and crack open the fava beans as we delve into the life and times of the Colorado Cannibal, Alfred Packer. #wildwest #history #western
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I am an old cop, who worked as a gunsmith on the side. I can assure you there was indeed a single shot "revolver" it was built as a target pistol by Colt in the early 1900's. The cylinder was not round as most, but pretty much flat with the frame, it would "revolve" to insert the round then go back into battery for the single shot at the target. It was a slick looking unit based on the Bisley frame and was said to be a tack driver by those who invested in one for their target shooting. Where there needed to be a fairly good gap for the cylinder on a revolver, this unit had a very tight fit to insure better velocity of the round and the flat piece where the cylinder would have been was very solid in comparison to the revolver version of the firearm.
So?
It's called a colt camp perry
Are you sure you're not referring to the Ruger Hawkeye?
Colt Camp Perry. I've seen them covered on Forgotten Weapons
Lake city Colorado (which is right by lake Sancristoball on the Gunnison) has a pizza place called "Packers" where you can have "The Packer special" made with "Al's 5 favorite kinds of meat."
Yeah I kinda lost my appetite a little when I saw that on the menu.
man meat :(((
I'll have to stop by sometime.
Your channel is really great. No idea why you don’t get more views. I’m sure you’ll get some traction soon
Thank you
I'm 40 years old and my parents would say this when I was a kid. I don't remember if they ever gave it to us but I know I've heard both my parents say they use to be give Castor oil on many of occasions
Great upload thank you for sharing
Thank you for listening
The movie "Ravenous" is based on Packer.
Ruger Hawkeye is a single shot revolver chambered in .256 magnum.
Randomly found this channel and I must say I enjoyed it very much... definitely earned a sub from me...
Besides, us JOSH'S gotta stick together...lol
Great content so far and I can't wait to peruse your playlist.
Be seeing you around the tube 👍😉
Hell yeah
Never seen such a clear photo of Alfred Packer before. I’ve seen this photo before, but never this large and clear and fresh looking.
He looks a tad like Manson - and I find that creepy and disturbing.
Just saying is all.
Fun fact.... the Colorado University cafeteria is named after him.... for real
New sub from your Quanah P. Story! Oh my God the 1st time I've ever found your Podcast! Your Filipino slurs had me rolling... Not that I'd ever utter a racial slur... But I hope most people can enjoy a good joke! About to binge watch, thank you!
Same
Thanks again.
Yeeeaaa! Taste like pork 🤢🤢🤮🤮🤮
We humans can be sick individuals
I believe I would just have to starve. Obviously I’ve never been in such a situation, and might surprise myself, but I’m slightly nauseous just hearing this story.
I’m leaning to the theory of luring them away from civilization to kill and rob them.
I wonder if the movie Ravenous was based off this case
I would assume at first he wanted to be in on a new strike with these would be prospectors. I think he wanted to rob the final 5 after being scorned during the trip, & probably did kill them, then ate their frozen meat when the provisions ran out. But what the hell would I know?
Don't drink Caster Oil.
Lesson learned.😳😳
No thank you!! Haha
We taste like chicken. Because everything that’s disgusting is always describe as tasting just like chicken.
He's only a swastika on the forehead away from being Charlie mansons doppelganger 😂
Finally Josh,for a whole long weird story of killings&eating each other,would you consider something not touched on at all!aborted fetuses!Were these human beings,or not worh consideratiin too?😮
Wendigo
I’ve heard we taste like pork. In other words, yummy!
I have epilepsy and I’m a rig welder
I believe he found himself in a rough situation and decided to hunt his fellow man. I believe he killed more than Bell, based on what you've mentioned of his past behavior. Seems consistent with his pattern of sociopathic thinking. I further believe that he continued to insist on his semi-innocence because he couldn't even acknowledge to himself the horror of what he had done, and of what he really was, deep in the quick of him. You may indeed be right that he killed one of them only, but I would not excuse him due to insanity. He was capable of rational thought and attempted to conceal his crime(s). Sociopathy isn't the kind of insanity that excuses a crime, especially a crime like this.
What s a Come to Jesus movement?Important or subject of ridicule&foolish allegory?
Strange,Alfred bornnear Pittsburgh&same city the serial kidnapper of girls lived years before being caught.
He sure looks like Charles Manson in this photo. Really enjoy your style of story telling LOL. Great job!
I love the way you present " history stories "
This guy's good. 🎯🍻🐎❤
Looks like it wasn’t such a Schpadoinkle Day for Alfred in real life lol
Nice Hat!
At least you can name your snowman bob...
You looking at my eye??????
At least the tattooist didn't misspell his last name as "Pecker". You do know there is a diner on the UC campus at Boulder named The Alfred Packer Grill. I ate there a few times during my last sojourn across the country in the '70's but found nothing unusual about the food.
There was a Federal building that named their cafeteria after him as well. That is until it was found out what his “claim to fame” was.
It was renamed shortly thereafter.
I mentioned this in a previous thread were I encouraged a story about this and somebody called BS. I sure hope that he reads this.
Cheers. 🇨🇦
I recall the guys from South Park making a musical about this very topic...
Cannibal!
Fantastic episode. Really well told and presented. You mentioned Cannibal. I'll raise with Ravenous.
Hey man, I've subscribed and I've been listening to multiple of your videos.. love them.. I was gonna tell you about cannibal the musical but you just mentioned it lol.. I've been laughing this whole video and my wife thinks I'm deranged now lol.. I just wanted to make sure you knew the movie existed.. great stuff.. keep it up 👍
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Welcome aboard, Joe!
HUNGER. Interesting there is modern song called "Cannaba" lol. Gots to be hard rock.
I was laughing my ass off when you started talking about not liking the cold as you get older. I split my time between CA and my house in Colorado Springs. When I was in CO this past Nov - Jan, I was freezing my ass off. And I am a guy who spent 2 and half years in Korea (it gets very cold there!) but ...I was much (much) younger. Great episode!
R David I'm a California native too, spending most of my time either in Marysville, Roseville, or the Bay Area. I was with the 1/9th Inf at Camp Greaves back in 79-80, and our DMZ mission was from November to the end of February, so I spent quite a few nights either on the south barrier fence, or at GP's Collier & Oullette freezing my nuggets off. Brother it was COLD !
You ever work in -55?
This gave me information I haven’t heard yet. Like the waiter story. Peak historical content 👌
Dear WWE (not the Undertaker wrestler with a tombstone kind) I want to say thank you for doing these videos on the Wild West. I'm English but I was born on the 4th July. No joke. I was. That and the fact I've always felt akin to America is why I feel more American than British or English.
These tales of the Wild West need to be kept alive in the same way the Native Americans pass down their history by word alone. The Wild West forged America in the way the Victorians of old London forged my birth country.
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Greetings from Louisiana, my friend!
Josh, you have created fantastic and superior content! Dang, it is addictive.
Thank you
Ravenous is a bad a$$ movie, it doesn't have to be completely "historically accurate" to be bad a$$ lol
We had a butcher here back in the 30's who killed his wife and the tinker who he found her in bed with. He butchered both and ground them up mixing their flesh with pork and sold the meat in town as sausage. It was discovered when a lady was eating the sausage and found a long fingernail from the woman in her sausage patty. Those who had the sausage said it was good sausage so I guess it does sort of taste like pork.
Yikes
Tha is the same story in evert town
Love the way you tell your podcasts the wacky banter proper entertaining . Stories never heard before there well good Love to buy you a coffee anytime your in London 😜
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Ok, now I've eaten my dinner I can watch this episode lol
Castor Oil... My Grandpa used to say if you ain't hungry after a day's work you must be sick so a dose of Castor Oil will fix you right up..
Trust me... my appetite greatly improved from then on no matter how hungry I wasn't!!
I bet!
I love these! I've been inspired to think about doing my own TH-cam channel ❣️
Dude, if you used more profanity, I’d swear you where recording an east bound and Down skit.
It must have been so easy back in the 19th century to just change your name and be never found. Not like they had ID and Social Security Numbers.
Exactly
As a Minnesotan who sounds like a rural Norwegian, that comment hit home.
Lol Norway in the house who also love this channel and he s style and awesome humor Greetings CZ 75 Shadow ✌🏻🇧🇻
At least his first name wasn’t Fudge.
I love the lengthy tangent on the legality of cannibalism. Also just a couple years ago a Grand Junction Colorado funeral home was busted for illegally selling the bodies without consent of the families.
That's crazy
I happened on to an article about that. Freaky. Funeral homes are corrupt. Big business. I lived in GJ, for a spell.
Imagine the types of people looking to buy body parts…. Why? For what? It is not a bag of weed or something simple to find on the black market. Lol where would you even meet someone that has the in for body parts. Creepy as hell.
My best friend this is his great relative on his dads side boone helm read the newpaper at there family reunion and on his moms side his great grandfather was war eagle that made souix city iowa theres a statue thats his grave over souix city iowa highway just look up war eagle statue
They say “until you are dead, dead, DEAD so you can tell the judge to “go to hell, hell, HELL”
There s also a temporal lobe type epilepsy &migraine combined where they can have see bright lights as your friend had,or called an aura.
I hope you wont confuse the word cavalry with a more solemn word,cavalry where your Saviour &mine died for a debt He didnt owe.
Dont confuse those please.
DrBob😊
Yeah, Packer took the entirely wrong route if he was heading near Breck. Just follow the damn Colorado(Grand) River. He went entirely way too far south.
Brother I wish I knew you personally., Saying nothing freeky just saying..
Your a HOOT.
Thanks so much for this episode Josh…I’ve been waiting for it.
You did a fantastic job as usual.
Goddamn, I love your channel!
Cheers Josh. 🇨🇦
Union troops occupied Nashville shortly after the battles of Fort Henry and Fort Donelson in February of 1862 and held it until the end of the war. There were several Federal forts that ringed the city.
Thanks!
I think Charles Manson is Alfred Packer reincarnated. LOL Seriously I don't think he killed all of those men.
Our line of thinking is the same concerning waitstaff and so forth. The easy I look at it they are doing something I couldn’t/ wouldn’t do myself so for that alone they deserve my courtesy.
When u got to the pt of Alfreds death I was left hanging - i really thought u were going to say Alfred packed up and moved to the spirit realm or something like that. My theory is that after gettin 'leaded' 2 many times, his boozing and brawling not helping either - all this led to a thunderstorm in his mind the very worst case for someone w epilepsy as a result of the poor conditions - this along with the poor choices made leading to starvation would have caused the storms of electrical charge to dampen his grip fog his focus and loose control of the tenuous hold on his sanity he had left - thats his state of mind which was probably playing tricks on him w audio if not visual hallucinations and a paranoid fear that he must get the others before they get him - wasnt too hard on him bc AP had enough of these pansies crap talking down on him, bustin his chops, shunning him etc - the perferct storm of crae
Three times the same word in the sentece is clearly Hanging Judge Parker out of the Indian territory...Ludwig
Alifred is most upstanding morman there ever lived
I do believe the reason why the judge would reapeat hung until dead three times is that the hangman had three chances to try to hang a prisoner. There is a story in Canada of a prisoner who was sentenced to hang. The first try the trap door wouldn't open. They removed him and tested the trap door and it worked. They tried again and the trap door wouldn't open. Again they teated it and it worked. On the third try, no surprise, the trap door didn't open and the prisoner was consequently released.
That guy doesn't deserve sympathy. He lured those men to their deaths.
There is a movie loosely based on this story called Ravenous and it's pretty good.
We both know Texas hunting and fishing "laws" require we take full coolers with snacks and drinks
I can't look in his eyes, he has the most terrifying eyes I've ever seen
Dude, you're hilarious... if it ever comes up, I owe you a beer for the chuckles... good story telling.
I wonder if he was hungry when they took the picture 🤔
Lol
Funny😂! Really😊.
Yeah Packer was strictly self serve. No obnoxious waiters necessary.
Just watched this for the second time. Great video. But if you were a motorcycle rider from Louisiana you’d love Arkansas just like I do. Thanks for the great work
It’s AL-FERD, not Alfred. Really, Alferd is the correct pronunciation
No, it’s not. That’s a very common misconception regarding him. It is indeed Alfred.
I think you'd make it through a cold spell, you sound about 19 and a third
"Chelation" is pronounced key-lay-shin.
Cheers!
“Salt lake soaker” “Mormon marinaters” 😭😭😭😭
He looks like a Bushwacker from the 1860’s! 😮
Hell yeah! Here we GO!
Probably what the movie Ravenous was based on.
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Mad to think that this man would of been within living memory for my great grandmother who I used to visit before she died when I was young.
Crazy huh?
Packer was a great man who set new standards in the culinary arts.
You say you can't pronounce epilepsy or calvary, yet you say veeeery 🤣
You truly do have the best Wild West channel on TH-cam! You have proved the average working man can produce better content than many who have a PhD’s! God bless you, and keep up the good work!
Thanks man!
You are very welcome. Thank you for your informative passion for our great history, and the great comedic aspect of your presentation style.
I couldn't agree more!
Josh is very entertaining and informative!
Maybe he was Boone Helm's long lost cousin
Or he could have dropped the R and went by Al fed
Love your content brother been tuned in for a long while now keep ‘em coming
Thanks man
By the way, Harmann from my home town of Hannover disposed all his victims in our river Leine. It was never explicitely proven he made human flesh sausages, it was just said they were secured "just to be sure...". It was never said he also ate his victims.
Thanks for your awesome Channel, Josh, highly appreciated. It doesn't get more american than this!!!
First time I heard of Alfred Packer was a dedication to him by Cannibal Corpse on Butchered at Birth album...
I remember that band from i was a youth but that i dont remember cool✌🏻
it's like Pringles once you pop
I enjoy all your story telling .You just tell it like it is don’t stop.
Thanks
He looks like Charles Manson, interesting episode.
So, yeah. This one had me looking up the details and for sure this guy killed them in their sleep and all at once then the forensics showed he made a bit of a pig of himself too eating hundreds of pieces of meat off the bodies. I kinda felt bad for him at the start too. 😂
Crazy story, huh?
Josh, know where you can find sympathy? Between shit and syphilis in the dictionary.
Sounds about right
Psycho just took a while take full effect . You are hilarious enjoy your take on things
Hey, thanks!
Extremely well done. Thank you Josh.
Calvary it reads, not cavalry,also called Golgotha outside Jerusalem
I know, i just can't say it right
Definitely the best guy I've heard in a long while. Here, have a sub.
Thanks! Welcome aboard!
He kinda looks like Kris Kristofferson
This was a shpladoinkle podcast!
I now live in Florida for 27 years.
Good job 👍 u hilarious and good content👀
dead (going)
dead (going)
DEAD (gone)
They call human meat long pig, because it tastes like pork.
And you would know that how?!?!
Love these stories! Great narration. Jus so you know arkansas is pretty awesome.. lol thank you for these stories keep me entertained at work all day
I love pork.
Same tbh