Previous video in the series - th-cam.com/video/rkeISVl0ZC0/w-d-xo.html Hey everyone! As a reminder, this is a remaster (every Wednesday), as indicated by the line at the top of the description. BRAND NEW content is every Saturday at 11 am. Thank you all for your patience. Don’t worry, this process will be finished soon enough! Have a great week! - Sean
I really hope you don't change the intros, it's pretty solidly done now. I've been subbed forever and watch lots of these types of channels, but love that slow, bong noise in nice slow beat. Perfect.
The Channel Islands story is so sad. That poor woman was so happy to finally meet and talk with other people, but she was inadvertently killed by being exposed to a deadly disease.
I believe that was the third novel I ever read. Right after Jack London’s Call of the Wild and Robert Louis Stevenson’s Kidnapped. Thanks for the connection.
Honestly I’m glad John has a pretty happy ending, I’ve studied psychology and sociology at university and we cover feral children as it’s an interesting topic, you look at the socialisation a feral child has in their feral environment and how you socialise them into a human environment, the problems faced during that period, and basically if they can ever have even a somewhat normal life again. This doesn’t just cover children who grew up with animals but also includes children who were raised in confinement (extreme neglect), so 3 examples of feral children who grew up in the wilderness of some form would be Sanichar the wolf boy (inspired The Jungle Book but definitely not a fairytale) who was unable to properly grasp language and took a long time to learn to walk upright as he’d spent most of his life walking on all fours, Oxana who’d lived in a kennel with dogs, where she walked on all fours, communicated by barking/growling and had a very strong bond with her pack, it took a very long time to try and socialise her, teach her to speak, and walk upright, but she still requires a lot of adult supervision and still shows a lot of dog-like behaviours, and Victor of Aveyron who was found wandering the woods completely nude and covered in scars around age 12, he refused to be touched, washed, disliked human contact of any form and had violent outbursts, it took a long time to somewhat socialise him where he could be washed, didn’t have violent outbursts but he never managed to grasp language and never spoke a complete sentence. Properly socialising feral children who’d grown up in the wilderness proved extremely challenging for most cases, some have somewhat happy endings but not many. 3 examples of feral children who were brought up with extreme neglect and confinement would be cases like Anna who was found at 6 and spent most of her life in a dark room (died at 10 due to health issues), Genie who was kept in one room with no stimulation of any kind until 13, despite being rescued from this environment she has very limited language and became a ward of the state, and Daniella who was locked in her room until 7 but has never learned to speak, but socialisation wise is at least able to maintain eye contact and allow people to touch her. Considering how most feral child cases go, where the individual isn’t able to proper reenter society due to being developmentally delayed, psychologically not developed properly due to extreme neglect, where most have difficulties with language and interacting with people, John had a pretty happy ending. It sucks he ended up in that situation because of his father, but I’m really glad learning John was able to actually live his life as a free man, as with most cases the feral child ends up becoming a ward of the state in some capacity, unable to be fully independent people. And there we go, that’s my random knowledge on feral children that I literally never have anywhere to share.
I like your ideals..I was not taught how to communicate effectively, conflicts usually ended in violence and being told as a young child..that you can't/wont/ too stupid to try new things has definitely been a horrible obstacle to overcome! Everyday brings challenges for me..but I've since learned better tools to get through them! Abuse and neglect are lifelong demons for sure!
@@jenniferjoseph1560 Usually the closest individuals cause the most pain and trauma to others. One part of the solution can be to forgive oneself and the perpetrator. Nice to hear you keeping your head up learning tools and getting a better life.
I once visited a small island in the Bahamas. There was an old fisherman there who every day would bring a few buckets of fish ashore and dry them in the sun. He would then give the fish away. I asked him why he didn't sell the fish instead. He said "why sell that which was given to me?" I then said he worked for the fish. No, he said, "the ocean gave them to me." I went to the marina the next day and talked to some of the younger fishermen there. Did they all give their fish away? No, they said, they all sell their fish - except for the one old man. They said he had been in a shipwreck a decade ago and was the only survivor - having clung to floating debris for weeks at sea. How did he survive I asked. Only he knows, they said.
@@oxlip Hahaha you've been watching too much Scary Interesting. I thought the same. I hope he tells his story one day though, if it doesn't make it worse but he seems relatively level-headed
Yes I’ve heard of these stories too. Goes to show how unbelievably cruel and twisted Japs were back then. Literally willing to fight no matter what and absolutely refused any shred of evidence they would surrender. If you really want to see how sick t Japanese were, look up unit 731 and 1644. Truly disgusting people
Teruo Nakamura, prajurit Jepang keturunan Taiwan, ditemukan tahun 1974 di Morotai, Maluku. Hiro Onoda lebih terkenal di media karena keturunan Jepang asli dan lebih berpangkat.
Island of the Blue Dolphins is a bk based on the story of the Lost Woman of San Nicholas. There have been excavations done on the island & a massive amount of artifacts were found. Some of them they think came from her & they also believed they found one of her camps in a cave. Her story is a haunting one. How many people were or even are in her circumstances but were never found so their story is lost to us.
You’d be interested in the people of South Sentinel Island who are primitive, violent, people who the government of India (who possesses the island) has banned from receiving visitors. For the safety of the would-be visitors.
@@spiritmatter1553 yes they are what is referred to as "no contact " people on account that they don't seem to have had any contact with or real knowledge of the outside world. I genuinely hope such people are just left alone to live their lives.
i got weirdly emotional about the ending of that last story. after fighting in a war for 30 years, losing every last of his comrades and even then fighting on in isolation - not only did he survive but he went on to reunite with his brother and live out the rest of his days in peace. cant imagine a better ending
yes I got emotional about this story too....there is something so poignant about it. Despite the atrocities committed by the Japanese against British and Australian POWS during the war, I still admire this lone soldier who fought on years after the war ended. That sense of duty and dedication is vanishingly rare in 2023 in any walk of life.
@@clarsach29- My husband feels like you do. I, however, don't. I think it's indoctrination akin to brainwashing. It's not like that man loved his country that much. He, like the others, were terrified that their "beloved" country would do some horrible to their family members. The stuff the Japanese did in WW2 even shocked the Nazis. When you can make a Nazi recoil in horror, that's saying something.
Random I know, but please don't ever change your intro music... Something so amazing about the piano in the beginning to the deep bass right after makes everything so haunting. Love it 🙏
I particularly enjoyed your introduction to Onoda-san's story, it gives listeners a good way to think about it from his perspective at first. For Juana Maria of Nicoleño, I first heard her story reading the book "Island of the Blue Dolphins" vaguely based on her story in elementary school and it scared me, same with "Hatchet" where a kid is in a small plane crash and has to survive alone, and "Maroo of the Winter Caves" where a young girl and her younger brother have to trek across a mountain in blizzard conditions to save their family at the end of the last Ice Age. Now I love survival horror both true stories and fiction. And the other video about Ana Blackjack! I love your channel, it's gripping and detailed without being gross and tabloid-exploitative.
It took me about 10 seconds to know who you were talking about in your Japanese soldier story. But you told to beautifully and brilliantly that it was as if I was hearing it for the first time. Well done. I'm still looking for a copy of the book that was written by the soldier. Keep up the great work.
Been binge-watching your channel and finally subscribed. Modern horror movies got nothing on the stuff you find, man. Can't count how many of your videos made my hands shake and just utterly terrify me. Keep it up.
This channel is the most interesting on TH-cam. I get so emotionally involved with each story. The pain and suffering people in these videos endure. Very professionally edited and told. Simply brilliant. Thank you very much.
He basically felt that modern Japanese culture was too alien and strange for him. He spent most of the rest of his life arguing for Japan to reject its alliance with the USA, De-Westernize, and return to its traditional, martial roots.
That woman story is heartbreaking... How did she felt being the last of her people... The language that no one else will ever speak or hear... Thier stories... Their believes their costumes... All lost forever
The first kid really did return to monke. The famous story of the Japanese soldiers that fought for many years after WWII ended. I love that one it’s so interesting.
The last story- I am from the Philippines, I can assure you that, that story travels our islands well, children tell other children about this like a ghost story. happy to have heard it here.
Thanks for the way you told the last story. Many people I know are very biased while hearing a story about any conflict, immediately taking sides. While the loyalty and dedication is what really matters here (or stubborness as others could say).
I love your posts. Even when the content scares me I love how calmly you narrate. I am claustrophobic so those underwater caving videos are my stuff of nightmares. Thank you.
I appreciate you, Sean! I'm sure this job/hobby can be very frustrating and difficult at times, and I appreciate that you do your research and even link sources in your description!
thank you for talking about the events in Uganda leading up to and including the civil war. I am Canadian, and I don't know about other English speaking G20 nations, but my education on the entire continent of Africa was very limited. We did spend some time on the Rwandan genocide and apartheid in South Africa, but literally if it didn't happen in Rwanda or South Africa I never heard about it...)
love every second of this content, keep it up! I've been bingeing all your videos for about 3 days and can't get enough. Thank you so much! The coverage and vast knowledge you have on each story is truly compelling and although I am a new viewer, these topics will never get old as I am a dedicated case file fanatic and recreational scuba diver (even tho this vid doesn't have that in there). Always teaching me new things! Thank you Sean!
I’ve heard about this before on a history documentary. Even though I’ve heard it before, I still really enjoyed your version of it. You had a lot more details than the other version I heard. Love your videos. It’s hard to imagine what it must have been like fighting for so many years. Mentally that must have been awful.
While I ran across your earliest revisions, I did think "Well, I've seen this before... blah"... I gave it a chance... AND I'm SOOOOoooo glad I did. The updates/upgrades are great. You're doing a great job, and sometimes I find myself wishing other channels would do the same upgrade and redo events more often... well.... "at all" would be something of a start... lolz. Another fine update/upgrade... Thanks for this. Keep it up!!! AND there's a "First ever 100% survival ditch at sea, for airliners... OCT. 16, 1956 Stratocruiser... with Cap'n Ogg acting on information from the 1955 disaster which broke in half and killed four (4)... Hope that's enough to go on... Hope you enjoy the research... I'd LOVE the clarification (as simple as it seems) WHY Ogg decided to circle around the Pontchartrain until dawn, rather than make a run for coastline and alert the Coast Guard on his way... Either way, EVERYONE SURVIVED... largely due to Ogg's decisive action, so "yay"... I'd just like to know more about what went into it... Good luck!!! Looking forward to your next!!! ;o)
I know that ultimately Japanese honor culture is the cause for hiroo onada's story, but he killed 30 civilians after the war ended, and he repeatedly and intentionally failed to listen to official instructions to surrender. If that's not a crime, I don't know what is
He sounds like a very brainwashed or not bright individual. Like I could get this for a couple years but decades with nothing and he had not realized things might have changed??
@@blackslade1524you do realize honor is subjective right? They find suicide honorable. In our culture in the west suicide is not honorable and is seen as cowardly
Not long after the beginning of the 3rd story, I figured out that the story was about Hiroo Onoda, the Imperial Japanese Army intelligence officer who was the last of his unit to hold out and fight in the mountains of Lubang Island, in the Philippines. And who did not agree to surrender until 1974, almost 30 years after the end of Second World War. Absolutely fascinating story!!
@@jenniferjoseph1560 I think somehow Clockwork Orange already did it and possibly someone before them - I do enjoy inventing things though! Have a wonderful day ^_^
this video is old. but i LOVED that you covered the true story that the book "Island of the Blue Dolphins" is based on!!! i've never heard it talked about before outside of my own research. living a short trip away from the channel islands makes it an extra special story to me; thank you for covering it!
@@KellyfromMemphisDD214 I mean, he did destroy a lot of shit and kill a lot of innocent people. There isn't really any honor in that much blind patriotism. I don't get how you can put your whole being into a country like that. He shouldn't really be seen as a hero, I'm surprised he wasn't punished for 18 years of that shit.
@@seventeenseventythirteen7465 that's because you grew up in a cosmopolitan society that champions individuality and values personal liberty. early 20th century japan was the exact opposite of literally everything i just said. it is fair to say that you, nor i or almost anyone else that's watched this video, could imagine the circumstances of Mr. Onoda. really, put thought into that. his entire life was built around a propagandized loyalty to his nation and the devout worship of a divine emperor. seriously, did you watch the video? the japanese were taught emphatically that the americans and their ilk were subversive and evil in every aspect, and again, this is the early 20th century. they've never met an american at that point except in war, they have zero reason to believe what their eternal enemy has to say over their own people, their own commanders. of COURSE you don't get how one could put their whole being into a country like that. but the people in the legal system in the 70s lived through these things, they understood these nuances, they understood punishing a soldier who was born and raised to fight _for fighting_ would be profoundly misguided. also, as he genuinely and completely believed the war was still taking place, his actions were pardoned under international laws regarding warfare.
A friend of mine had his arm ripped off in a motorbike crash. It was reattached successfully but most amazingly, it was the first surgery ever when surgeons reattached the nerves!! So he did regain sone use of them. He was constantly in pain but happy to have one arm, albeit withered.
“Fate” isn’t just about the end, a death, it’s about what they had to endure. The horrible fate of those people having their entire culture, language, and people die. And the woman having to endure loneliness and complete isolation, maybe after having lost a son. The Japanese guy losing 30 years of his life in horrible conditions and some of the soldiers and locals dying where they didn’t need to. In other videos people have gone through horrific accidents and survived but had to live with the trauma and possible life-long and career ending injuries. Other videos show where the time before they died was horrific and they suffered. Or others have had to witness the deaths of loved ones and be helpless to save them. I think it’s perfectly fitting. It can also be about overcoming extreme hardships (although some clearly didn’t live to get through it) but it’s ultimately about highlighting what they went through and suffered where no one should have or want to.
@@ScaryInteresting ya pick up quality with new content not higher quality with content you have already put out. Imo it’s how most YT creators do it. Go look at ones with over million subs and watch 1st video too there latest videos. You do have great content don’t get me wrong as I watch all your videos.
See, i think that rather than the Isolation being unbearable, i think its more the overwhelming thought that you are NOT alone that breaks people who are lost and alone.
Imagine if several Nazi soldiers were ordered never to surrender, then got stranded on an island making them "fight" for the Third Reich until decades after the war had ended. That's basically the third story, in case you don't know much about the Japanese Empire.
@@shamone805 He's plagiarising Mr Ballen. Just go watch his channel. Far better story teller, and he's the one actually compiling these stories and writing them in the way you're hearing them told by this thief.
I grew up on the pacific coast right near the Channel Islands. I grew up with the story of the Island of the Blue Dolphins as one of the most important and well-known books at my school. I always found it so moving. Thank you for adding the clarification about how what many of us thought was the case might not have actually been accurate.
Its so surreal to hear that researches only found out the girl from the channel islands story stayed to take care of her son. I remember learning about that in 4th grade in 2008 (I live off the coast of the islands).
I know what you were trying to do with that last story but I don't think it worked. I couldn't figure out why you weren't saying who he was or where he was from but pretty soon realized you were talking about Japanese soldiers. I don't think obscuring the details really adds to the story and in fact it becomes a distraction. I'm saying this as a fan of your channel, I'm not trying to be a typical comment crank!
I always like being right, but looking back when you had just a few thousand subscribers and I kept saying your channel was gonna blow up and be a huge success, I like it even more because you absolutely 💯 earned it, brother.
I've been binge watching your content and I love this one, just one quick point. The first image you used for No.2 is the wrong Channel Islands, that's an image of the island of Jersey in the Channel Islands between France and Britain, not the Channel Islands in California. Doubt you'll see this but I felt I had to point it out as Jersey is actually my home, so I got excited for a second!
they left her alone on an island, she most likely would have died getting older and older but she was strong and remained bright and pure, and all we remember her by is some name given, that is disgusting.
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Hey everyone! As a reminder, this is a remaster (every Wednesday), as indicated by the line at the top of the description. BRAND NEW content is every Saturday at 11 am. Thank you all for your patience. Don’t worry, this process will be finished soon enough! Have a great week! - Sean
Your a Amung us reference
You too bro 💯
Thanks ☺️
I really hope you don't change the intros, it's pretty solidly done now. I've been subbed forever and watch lots of these types of channels, but love that slow, bong noise in nice slow beat. Perfect.
ok
The Channel Islands story is so sad. That poor woman was so happy to finally meet and talk with other people, but she was inadvertently killed by being exposed to a deadly disease.
There is a book based on the second story called "Island of the blue dolphins". I read it as a teen in school. Its really good
There's a 1960s movie too. It's waaaay too upbeat though--among other issues 🐬
I believe that was the third novel I ever read. Right after Jack London’s Call of the Wild and Robert Louis Stevenson’s Kidnapped. Thanks for the connection.
I remember my teacher in about 4th or 5th grade reading that to our class. I always liked that book and still own a copy.
My 4th grade teacher read it to us and it's still one of my favorite books from school
Indeed. I still have my copy! Movie good too. They made her child her brother to be PG lol
Honestly I’m glad John has a pretty happy ending, I’ve studied psychology and sociology at university and we cover feral children as it’s an interesting topic, you look at the socialisation a feral child has in their feral environment and how you socialise them into a human environment, the problems faced during that period, and basically if they can ever have even a somewhat normal life again.
This doesn’t just cover children who grew up with animals but also includes children who were raised in confinement (extreme neglect), so 3 examples of feral children who grew up in the wilderness of some form would be Sanichar the wolf boy (inspired The Jungle Book but definitely not a fairytale) who was unable to properly grasp language and took a long time to learn to walk upright as he’d spent most of his life walking on all fours, Oxana who’d lived in a kennel with dogs, where she walked on all fours, communicated by barking/growling and had a very strong bond with her pack, it took a very long time to try and socialise her, teach her to speak, and walk upright, but she still requires a lot of adult supervision and still shows a lot of dog-like behaviours, and Victor of Aveyron who was found wandering the woods completely nude and covered in scars around age 12, he refused to be touched, washed, disliked human contact of any form and had violent outbursts, it took a long time to somewhat socialise him where he could be washed, didn’t have violent outbursts but he never managed to grasp language and never spoke a complete sentence. Properly socialising feral children who’d grown up in the wilderness proved extremely challenging for most cases, some have somewhat happy endings but not many.
3 examples of feral children who were brought up with extreme neglect and confinement would be cases like Anna who was found at 6 and spent most of her life in a dark room (died at 10 due to health issues), Genie who was kept in one room with no stimulation of any kind until 13, despite being rescued from this environment she has very limited language and became a ward of the state, and Daniella who was locked in her room until 7 but has never learned to speak, but socialisation wise is at least able to maintain eye contact and allow people to touch her.
Considering how most feral child cases go, where the individual isn’t able to proper reenter society due to being developmentally delayed, psychologically not developed properly due to extreme neglect, where most have difficulties with language and interacting with people, John had a pretty happy ending. It sucks he ended up in that situation because of his father, but I’m really glad learning John was able to actually live his life as a free man, as with most cases the feral child ends up becoming a ward of the state in some capacity, unable to be fully independent people.
And there we go, that’s my random knowledge on feral children that I literally never have anywhere to share.
This is why I read comments.
Psychological and mental issues are the results of some kind of traumatic experience. It's a weird coping mechanism.
Interesting, thanks 🌹
I like your ideals..I was not taught how to communicate effectively, conflicts usually ended in violence and being told as a young child..that you can't/wont/ too stupid to try new things has definitely been a horrible obstacle to overcome! Everyday brings challenges for me..but I've since learned better tools to get through them! Abuse and neglect are lifelong demons for sure!
@@jenniferjoseph1560
Usually the closest individuals cause the most pain and trauma to others. One part of the solution can be to forgive oneself and the perpetrator.
Nice to hear you keeping your head up learning tools and getting a better life.
I once visited a small island in the Bahamas. There was an old fisherman there who every day would bring a few buckets of fish ashore and dry them in the sun. He would then give the fish away. I asked him why he didn't sell the fish instead. He said "why sell that which was given to me?" I then said he worked for the fish. No, he said, "the ocean gave them to me."
I went to the marina the next day and talked to some of the younger fishermen there. Did they all give their fish away? No, they said, they all sell their fish - except for the one old man. They said he had been in a shipwreck a decade ago and was the only survivor - having clung to floating debris for weeks at sea. How did he survive I asked. Only he knows, they said.
damnnnnnnnnnnn what do you think it means man? sounds like cannibalism or something to me idk
@@oxlipwtf
@@oxlip Hahaha you've been watching too much Scary Interesting. I thought the same. I hope he tells his story one day though, if it doesn't make it worse but he seems relatively level-headed
So what 😂 Aquaman saved him 🤣
What a pointless story you just told
I've always heard of Japanese soldiers who didn't know the war was over but I never knew there was a case in Indonesia.
That’s funny to me, because that was the most famous on. I didn’t know there were other cases.
Yes I’ve heard of these stories too. Goes to show how unbelievably cruel and twisted Japs were back then. Literally willing to fight no matter what and absolutely refused any shred of evidence they would surrender. If you really want to see how sick t Japanese were, look up unit 731 and 1644. Truly disgusting people
As an Indonesian myself I didn't know that either even though our country was their biggest territory.
Teruo Nakamura, prajurit Jepang keturunan Taiwan, ditemukan tahun 1974 di Morotai, Maluku. Hiro Onoda lebih terkenal di media karena keturunan Jepang asli dan lebih berpangkat.
There was also one in Guam who didn't surrender until 1972.
After binging Scary Interesting and Mrballen: “live your life paranoid enough to not be included in their videos”
Literally 😅
Watch Fascinating Horror next.
THAT CHAPTER should also be on your list
Solid advice! Throw common sense in there and you will avoid becoming zombie snacks!
This channel is WAY better and much more consistent than Ballen is. His content really fell off!
Babe wake up, A Collection of Horrible Fates #7 just dropped
But you have memory loss in shark infested waters.
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No, digested.
If you want to make money in this economy you need to be divested in multiple shark waters.
Scary Interesting Gang stand UP ☠️💥
I’m up I’m up
Island of the Blue Dolphins is a bk based on the story of the Lost Woman of San Nicholas. There have been excavations done on the island & a massive amount of artifacts were found. Some of them they think came from her & they also believed they found one of her camps in a cave. Her story is a haunting one. How many people were or even are in her circumstances but were never found so their story is lost to us.
You’d be interested in the people of South Sentinel Island who are primitive, violent, people who the government of India (who possesses the island) has banned from receiving visitors. For the safety of the would-be visitors.
@@spiritmatter1553 yes they are what is referred to as "no contact " people on account that they don't seem to have had any contact with or real knowledge of the outside world. I genuinely hope such people are just left alone to live their lives.
The last one about the Japanese soldier is a well known account.
@@spiritmatter1553 they aren't violent
@@spiritmatter1553 the idea of calling any vulnerable community violent when the US exists is comical
i got weirdly emotional about the ending of that last story. after fighting in a war for 30 years, losing every last of his comrades and even then fighting on in isolation - not only did he survive but he went on to reunite with his brother and live out the rest of his days in peace. cant imagine a better ending
Amazing story.
yes I got emotional about this story too....there is something so poignant about it. Despite the atrocities committed by the Japanese against British and Australian POWS during the war, I still admire this lone soldier who fought on years after the war ended. That sense of duty and dedication is vanishingly rare in 2023 in any walk of life.
@@clarsach29- My husband feels like you do. I, however, don't. I think it's indoctrination akin to brainwashing. It's not like that man loved his country that much. He, like the others, were terrified that their "beloved" country would do some horrible to their family members. The stuff the Japanese did in WW2 even shocked the Nazis. When you can make a Nazi recoil in horror, that's saying something.
Hits differently when you know that it was a Japanese imperial shooting and killing Filipino locals
Don’t feel anything for him. The Japanese were unlike any of soldiers in their brutality. He tormented locals for decades
Random I know, but please don't ever change your intro music... Something so amazing about the piano in the beginning to the deep bass right after makes everything so haunting. Love it 🙏
agreed!
Even tho it’s remastered Wednesdays, I still get super excited to watch any past content that you posted. That’s Enjoyable your channel is
Every video he’s posted for the last 2 months have be “remastered” aka quick TH-cam checks
Although I know all the stories in this episode, it is good to once again hear them being retold in a different way with more details.
I particularly enjoyed your introduction to Onoda-san's story, it gives listeners a good way to think about it from his perspective at first.
For Juana Maria of Nicoleño, I first heard her story reading the book "Island of the Blue Dolphins" vaguely based on her story in elementary school and it scared me, same with "Hatchet" where a kid is in a small plane crash and has to survive alone, and "Maroo of the Winter Caves" where a young girl and her younger brother have to trek across a mountain in blizzard conditions to save their family at the end of the last Ice Age. Now I love survival horror both true stories and fiction. And the other video about Ana Blackjack!
I love your channel, it's gripping and detailed without being gross and tabloid-exploitative.
Wow forgot Hatchet
It took me about 10 seconds to know who you were talking about in your Japanese soldier story. But you told to beautifully and brilliantly that it was as if I was hearing it for the first time. Well done. I'm still looking for a copy of the book that was written by the soldier. Keep up the great work.
Been binge-watching your channel and finally subscribed. Modern horror movies got nothing on the stuff you find, man. Can't count how many of your videos made my hands shake and just utterly terrify me. Keep it up.
This channel is the most interesting on TH-cam. I get so emotionally involved with each story. The pain and suffering people in these videos endure. Very professionally edited and told. Simply brilliant. Thank you very much.
This collection of isolated people and their stories is incredible! I hope you tell more
Dude finally gets to return home to the country he was so loyal to for 30 years, and then pops off to live in Brazil? lol
He basically felt that modern Japanese culture was too alien and strange for him. He spent most of the rest of his life arguing for Japan to reject its alliance with the USA, De-Westernize, and return to its traditional, martial roots.
My new addiction. Thank you very much, Sean. You are amazing!
That woman story is heartbreaking... How did she felt being the last of her people... The language that no one else will ever speak or hear... Thier stories... Their believes their costumes... All lost forever
The first kid really did return to monke.
The famous story of the Japanese soldiers that fought for many years after WWII ended. I love that one it’s so interesting.
The last story is truly astonishing. He held out for 30 years!?!?!?!?
Yea held out for 30 years murdering my innocent countrymen
@@mr.bubbles8351he thought he was still fighting for his country
@@wolfzmusic9706 He was protecting his country from a bunch of poor rice farmers; in a remote part of the Philippines?
The last story- I am from the Philippines, I can assure you that, that story travels our islands well, children tell other children about this like a ghost story. happy to have heard it here.
Thanks for the way you told the last story. Many people I know are very biased while hearing a story about any conflict, immediately taking sides. While the loyalty and dedication is what really matters here (or stubborness as others could say).
I love your posts. Even when the content scares me I love how calmly you narrate. I am claustrophobic so those underwater caving videos are my stuff of nightmares. Thank you.
That last story is incredible. I thought these stories of Japanese fighters still thinking they were at war were a myth until now
Second story is my favourite book - island of the blue dolphins. Amazing story!
Man, that woman who was stuck alone was so kind and sweet.
I appreciate you, Sean! I'm sure this job/hobby can be very frustrating and difficult at times, and I appreciate that you do your research and even link sources in your description!
thank you for talking about the events in Uganda leading up to and including the civil war. I am Canadian, and I don't know about other English speaking G20 nations, but my education on the entire continent of Africa was very limited. We did spend some time on the Rwandan genocide and apartheid in South Africa, but literally if it didn't happen in Rwanda or South Africa I never heard about it...)
These videos are so very interesting and yet so tragic. I’m totally addicted to watching. Please continue to make more. I’m a huge fan💛💛💛
Great video I’ve heard that last story before but I really enjoyed the way you told it! Thank you for sharing
When the second story starts without the person in the first one dying you just know that the person in the second story is screwed
😂😂😂
love every second of this content, keep it up! I've been bingeing all your videos for about 3 days and can't get enough. Thank you so much! The coverage and vast knowledge you have on each story is truly compelling and although I am a new viewer, these topics will never get old as I am a dedicated case file fanatic and recreational scuba diver (even tho this vid doesn't have that in there). Always teaching me new things! Thank you Sean!
What an amazing channel this is! By chance found it and subscribed. I'm so glad I did. Thank you for these uploads.
Love this channel! I was hooked with just one
Episode.
I’ve heard about this before on a history documentary. Even though I’ve heard it before, I still really enjoyed your version of it. You had a lot more details than the other version I heard. Love your videos. It’s hard to imagine what it must have been like fighting for so many years. Mentally that must have been awful.
the intro piano music slaps, moment i hear it i know who im watching.
its nostalgic especially as i have been a fan of the series
While I ran across your earliest revisions, I did think "Well, I've seen this before... blah"... I gave it a chance... AND I'm SOOOOoooo glad I did. The updates/upgrades are great. You're doing a great job, and sometimes I find myself wishing other channels would do the same upgrade and redo events more often... well.... "at all" would be something of a start... lolz.
Another fine update/upgrade... Thanks for this. Keep it up!!!
AND there's a "First ever 100% survival ditch at sea, for airliners... OCT. 16, 1956 Stratocruiser... with Cap'n Ogg acting on information from the 1955 disaster which broke in half and killed four (4)...
Hope that's enough to go on... Hope you enjoy the research... I'd LOVE the clarification (as simple as it seems) WHY Ogg decided to circle around the Pontchartrain until dawn, rather than make a run for coastline and alert the Coast Guard on his way... Either way, EVERYONE SURVIVED... largely due to Ogg's decisive action, so "yay"... I'd just like to know more about what went into it...
Good luck!!! Looking forward to your next!!! ;o)
This series is really important and extremely well done!! I really hope that you continue it. ❤️🇨🇦
I know that ultimately Japanese honor culture is the cause for hiroo onada's story, but he killed 30 civilians after the war ended, and he repeatedly and intentionally failed to listen to official instructions to surrender. If that's not a crime, I don't know what is
He sounds like a very brainwashed or not bright individual. Like I could get this for a couple years but decades with nothing and he had not realized things might have changed??
Honor should be above else it's why the whole world is in a state of degeneracy.
@@blackslade1524you do realize honor is subjective right? They find suicide honorable. In our culture in the west suicide is not honorable and is seen as cowardly
I didn't think that I could become as paranoid as these videos have made me.
Absolutely great, really polished and great sound. You're really doing some great work, really glad you're working so hard!
My boi !!! Hope all is well, Thanks for the upload
Not long after the beginning of the 3rd story, I figured out that the story was about Hiroo Onoda, the Imperial Japanese Army intelligence officer who was the last of his unit to hold out and fight in the mountains of Lubang Island, in the Philippines. And who did not agree to surrender until 1974, almost 30 years after the end of Second World War. Absolutely fascinating story!!
Yea it's so fascinating that they kept murdering innocent filipinos for almost 30 years
At the beginning of the segment it has Hiroo Onoda's name in the bottom left corner (09:54).
Island of the Blue Dolphins is a children's book inspired by the second story.
These stories are like eye forceps!
Just wild!!!
Great vid thx for sharing with us!
Alot of people would benefit from eye forceps! Lol I think you have a potential invention!
@@jenniferjoseph1560 I think somehow Clockwork Orange already did it and possibly someone before them - I do enjoy inventing things though! Have a wonderful day ^_^
@@igitha..._ thank you! And I 100% agree!
this video is old. but i LOVED that you covered the true story that the book "Island of the Blue Dolphins" is based on!!! i've never heard it talked about before outside of my own research. living a short trip away from the channel islands makes it an extra special story to me; thank you for covering it!
Ah yes, story of Hirō Onoda
Honorable AF
@@KellyfromMemphisDD214 I mean, he did destroy a lot of shit and kill a lot of innocent people.
There isn't really any honor in that much blind patriotism. I don't get how you can put your whole being into a country like that. He shouldn't really be seen as a hero, I'm surprised he wasn't punished for 18 years of that shit.
@@seventeenseventythirteen7465 that's because you grew up in a cosmopolitan society that champions individuality and values personal liberty. early 20th century japan was the exact opposite of literally everything i just said. it is fair to say that you, nor i or almost anyone else that's watched this video, could imagine the circumstances of Mr. Onoda. really, put thought into that. his entire life was built around a propagandized loyalty to his nation and the devout worship of a divine emperor. seriously, did you watch the video? the japanese were taught emphatically that the americans and their ilk were subversive and evil in every aspect, and again, this is the early 20th century. they've never met an american at that point except in war, they have zero reason to believe what their eternal enemy has to say over their own people, their own commanders. of COURSE you don't get how one could put their whole being into a country like that. but the people in the legal system in the 70s lived through these things, they understood these nuances, they understood punishing a soldier who was born and raised to fight _for fighting_ would be profoundly misguided. also, as he genuinely and completely believed the war was still taking place, his actions were pardoned under international laws regarding warfare.
@@the-letter_s ignorance isn't an excuse
@@mr.bubbles8351 approximately 0 thought went into that comment
Your channel has some really interesting content, thanks for sharing these stories.
A friend of mine had his arm ripped off in a motorbike crash. It was reattached successfully but most amazingly, it was the first surgery ever when surgeons reattached the nerves!! So he did regain sone use of them. He was constantly in pain but happy to have one arm, albeit withered.
You have such a fascinating channel. I love it.
Some of these aren't horrible fates, all respect. They're glorious stories of overcoming extreme hardships and I need that right now.
Is there necessarily a difference?
“Fate” isn’t just about the end, a death, it’s about what they had to endure. The horrible fate of those people having their entire culture, language, and people die. And the woman having to endure loneliness and complete isolation, maybe after having lost a son. The Japanese guy losing 30 years of his life in horrible conditions and some of the soldiers and locals dying where they didn’t need to. In other videos people have gone through horrific accidents and survived but had to live with the trauma and possible life-long and career ending injuries. Other videos show where the time before they died was horrific and they suffered. Or others have had to witness the deaths of loved ones and be helpless to save them.
I think it’s perfectly fitting. It can also be about overcoming extreme hardships (although some clearly didn’t live to get through it) but it’s ultimately about highlighting what they went through and suffered where no one should have or want to.
@@KleioChronicles Well said.
The first homie literally returned to monke. Fascinating.
That last one got me.
Wow! Always giving us incredible videos! Great job thank you
Love your videos, been watching you for a couple months now I've been hooked, keep up the great work!
very excited for the NEW horrible fates and not reuploads!
Plenty more on the way!
For real, these "remasters" are getting old af
Sean lazy af
@@connorbarris7827 Wouldn't redoing older work to improve its quality be the opposite of lazy? I like that he's doing it
@@ScaryInteresting ya pick up quality with new content not higher quality with content you have already put out. Imo it’s how most YT creators do it. Go look at ones with over million subs and watch 1st video too there latest videos. You do have great content don’t get me wrong as I watch all your videos.
See, i think that rather than the Isolation being unbearable, i think its more the overwhelming thought that you are NOT alone that breaks people who are lost and alone.
Dude you're sooo good at this!
Didnt ever think i will see my country in one of these. Ugandan here.
Great job Sean.
I did enjoy this video and I will give it a like.
yooo This was referenced in ARCHER like forever ago! Thats so crazy.. I didnt realize that bit was actually based on a true story. Wow...
Keep up the good work you’re my new favorite since mr ballen never posts anymore
Imagine if several Nazi soldiers were ordered never to surrender, then got stranded on an island making them "fight" for the Third Reich until decades after the war had ended. That's basically the third story, in case you don't know much about the Japanese Empire.
Is it just me that listening to these helps me sleep 😳
Good timing. I needed something to get me through this long day
....a single man fighting WW 2 for 30 years alone...🤯
Wow, these were pretty epic stories. I've not heard the one about the lady on the island. Incredible.
Hiroo's story is incredible.
Great job Brother🌹
Awesome job buddy!! Keep it up! 🥰
I love this collection!
Hi Sean, love these vids, especially with the twist of not knowing the exact fate in each story 👍 💕
Thanks so much . Love yr channel Sean ...
One of my favorite voices on TH-cam 🥇
You and Mr Ballen be making me scared to even step outside
Pressed like before the vid even started, easy listening and terrifying
These story's are allways pure gold standard, cool channel 👍
@@shamone805 He's plagiarising Mr Ballen. Just go watch his channel. Far better story teller, and he's the one actually compiling these stories and writing them in the way you're hearing them told by this thief.
@@sheikyerbouti39
Yeh man I lov mrballen and is the go to story channel
That is the wrong Channel Islands in the photo. Those ones are in between UK and France. Nice content. Keep up the good work!
Oh hell no! Imagine willingly staying at war and never going home? That’s like being sentenced to work with out pay.
I grew up on the pacific coast right near the Channel Islands. I grew up with the story of the Island of the Blue Dolphins as one of the most important and well-known books at my school. I always found it so moving. Thank you for adding the clarification about how what many of us thought was the case might not have actually been accurate.
This is the first time I'm seeing someone covering a story from my country, Uganda. Thank you
Such an incredible channel... Your title doesn't disappoint! 🇨🇦🍁
Its so surreal to hear that researches only found out the girl from the channel islands story stayed to take care of her son. I remember learning about that in 4th grade in 2008 (I live off the coast of the islands).
The auto generated captions capitalised Among Us at the start of the vid 💀
The channel islands story is actually in a book! It's called the island of blue dolphins. It's a really good book and I really recommend it.
One of my favorite channels fr!
I know what you were trying to do with that last story but I don't think it worked. I couldn't figure out why you weren't saying who he was or where he was from but pretty soon realized you were talking about Japanese soldiers. I don't think obscuring the details really adds to the story and in fact it becomes a distraction. I'm saying this as a fan of your channel, I'm not trying to be a typical comment crank!
Keep it coming! Your channel is my guilty pleasure :v
Love this channel! Keep up the good work. Hope you're around for a while!
Great Video!
Humans are adaptable animals, we do what we can to survive. The second story is very sad...
After 30 years of refusing to surrender and then finally being relieved from duty by a superior the narrator said he surrendered after 30 years lol
He refused to surrender to the enemy. His superior relived him of duty. Not the same thing.
@@JesseJ588 umm, that’s exactly what i was getting at. lol
I always like being right, but looking back when you had just a few thousand subscribers and I kept saying your channel was gonna blow up and be a huge success, I like it even more because you absolutely 💯 earned it, brother.
I've been binge watching your content and I love this one, just one quick point.
The first image you used for No.2 is the wrong Channel Islands, that's an image of the island of Jersey in the Channel Islands between France and Britain, not the Channel Islands in California.
Doubt you'll see this but I felt I had to point it out as Jersey is actually my home, so I got excited for a second!
any being that can kill and eat an otter doesn't deserve oxygen
Hi Sean, will you please make a video on what happened to Emilia Earhart. Please
Found your channel recently. Great content!
Love this channel ❤️
they left her alone on an island, she most likely would have died getting older and older but she was strong and remained bright and pure, and all we remember her by is some name given, that is disgusting.