When Animals Become Serial Killers

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  • @mndiaye_97
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      @Saturn-pt1gn ปีที่แล้ว +2

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      @lyricwatson1824 ปีที่แล้ว +2

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  • @14fluffies
    @14fluffies ปีที่แล้ว +17499

    "There are more tigers in the United States than the rest of the world." That is both horrifying and depressing.

    • @dreadcthulhu5
      @dreadcthulhu5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      It's true. At this point we are keeping them safe and alive in zoos. It's really the only way to keep them from going extinct due to humans over hunting them for herbal medicines and such.

    • @thewen
      @thewen ปีที่แล้ว +1748

      technically, there are more tigers in TEXAS than the rest of the world

    • @hellion6737
      @hellion6737 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Nah thats fascinating, white/black/latino/native people are more dangerous

    • @ItIsYouAreNotYour
      @ItIsYouAreNotYour ปีที่แล้ว +759

      @@thewen Florida man disagrees. He pops those out like ammo on a machine gun. Along with his side arm, the gater gat.

    • @pjrama1896
      @pjrama1896 ปีที่แล้ว +414

      And a good few of them are owned…by Carole *Fuckin’* Baskin!

  • @touremuhammad5983
    @touremuhammad5983 ปีที่แล้ว +3287

    “Generational trauma means you have an animal with the tools of a predator, but the mindset of prey.”
    A chillingly accurate description of most large primates, in fact.

    • @lordbalthosadinferni4384
      @lordbalthosadinferni4384 ปีที่แล้ว +18

      Bears are not primates.

    • @kissit012
      @kissit012 ปีที่แล้ว +62

      Primates are not predators by nature. Most truly powerful animals are peaceful creatures unprovoked

    • @seatbelttruck
      @seatbelttruck ปีที่แล้ว +211

      @@kissit012 Chimps, bonobos, and humans are predators by nature, and tarsiers are fully carnivorous. Predators aren't inherently less peaceful than non-predators, either. Many herbivores are plenty willing to kill, and pretty much any animal will eat meat opportunistically.

    • @rainpooper7088
      @rainpooper7088 ปีที่แล้ว

      @kissit012
      Primates may be more opportunistic than outright predatory, but no one can deny that most of them have the tools of a predator due to their intelligence alone.

    • @koldfire7253
      @koldfire7253 ปีที่แล้ว +96

      And then we have a hairless ape that has physically evolved into a prey, but has the mindset of a predator (yes I'm talking about humans)

  • @breya590
    @breya590 ปีที่แล้ว +2814

    "The monsters weren't the sharks."
    As someone who has lost loved ones to suicide, this is true.

    • @LisaDawson-vd3ks
      @LisaDawson-vd3ks 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +63

      Wow. Sorry for you losses.🙏

    • @christianrowe992
      @christianrowe992 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      🤗

    • @crimsonhakik1234
      @crimsonhakik1234 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +57

      No truer words every spoken. That was fucked.

    • @J.A.huscher
      @J.A.huscher 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +34

      I'm very sorry. I hope things are going better for you

    • @raymondjones7423
      @raymondjones7423 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +15

      We should all Thank God that Eagles and hawk aren't bigger. Can you imagine the equivalent of a flying tiger?

  • @Hollyclown
    @Hollyclown ปีที่แล้ว +1804

    What’s more terrifying of Gustav’s story is that researchers observing him witness many times Female Crocodiles easily submitting to him the moment he rolls up. Which means he may very well have generations of offsprings.

  • @Snowstar837
    @Snowstar837 ปีที่แล้ว +7499

    The part about the navy captain who took his life holding onto a toy sailor he treasured as a kid is legitimately one of the saddest things I've heard. 🥺

    • @41052
      @41052 ปีที่แล้ว +134

      I started crying

    • @Svensk7119
      @Svensk7119 ปีที่แล้ว +399

      Yes. And another aspect of this tragedy was how forgotten it was. It is entirely possible that without the movie Jaws, his name might not have been cleared. Robert Shaw's portrayal of Quint left us with the idea that the sharks were the only reason men died, but it was memorable. I think entire generations would have forgotten this completely without that film (mine included).
      Without that portrayal as reminder, would enough people have heard of it to make the Navy reconsider?

    • @monkeydance3894
      @monkeydance3894 ปีที่แล้ว +93

      If you want to hear more abt the story, Wendigoon made a great video on the US Indianapolis

    • @yaelz6043
      @yaelz6043 ปีที่แล้ว +80

      If it makes you feel better had he not been court martialed he would have continued serving in the navy that kept all of Asia working in slave/sweat shops and ensured that the neither rose up nor traded the goods they made without paying a cut.
      Oh and the people who unfairly Court martialed him continued to be influential and highly regarded for the rest of their lives.

    • @j.a.rathletics6883
      @j.a.rathletics6883 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@41052 😂

  • @gamerboy6787
    @gamerboy6787 ปีที่แล้ว +3323

    What the Navy did to one of their own, throwing Capt. McVay under the bus like that, was absolutely SHAMEFUL. Disgusting.

    • @zyncwargaming179
      @zyncwargaming179 ปีที่แล้ว +86

      Hey welcome to the world :D

    • @meadowsmama9423
      @meadowsmama9423 ปีที่แล้ว +156

      Unfortunately all branches do i mean look at the government who runs these agencies

    • @Cringe_Lord
      @Cringe_Lord ปีที่แล้ว +281

      The fact that the enemy that litteraly clapped his ship even tried to justify McVays actions really says something

    • @acephas3
      @acephas3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      @@highcountrydelatite Where was this??

    • @Rytonic69
      @Rytonic69 ปีที่แล้ว +180

      The same thing happened in 2020. The captain of the USS Theodore Roosevelt reached out for help because half his ship got infected with the virus and didn't want his sailors to suffer. Because his request went public, the Navy removed him from the ship for pretty much embarrassing the Navy in front of the whole world

  • @purplehaze2358
    @purplehaze2358 ปีที่แล้ว +1823

    Describing sloth bears as having "all the tools of a predator but the mindset of prey" alone managed to simply yet succinctly put into words why they're a terrifying animal far more effectively than I could in the span of an entire paragraph.

    • @beastmaster0934
      @beastmaster0934 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +41

      I’d honestly rather run into a grizzly bear, rather than a sloth bear.

    • @KuDastardly
      @KuDastardly 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +35

      Gotta love that dude's vocabulary. One of my favorite was "unsubscribe to life", but now there's "unaliving" lol!

    • @Debbie-henri
      @Debbie-henri 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +17

      His powers of description are first rate. Would make a wonderful poet as well

    • @mollusckscramp4124
      @mollusckscramp4124 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      @@Debbie-henri He would!

    • @FollowingFalcorn
      @FollowingFalcorn 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      Narrator: **
      Guy Commenter: **
      Random Lady Commenter: ** ah, yes, it's absolutely first-rate stuff. What an excellent poet this young man would be!
      😂😭 I literally cannot with this response. It's the most Boomer YT comment I've read all week, lmfao, and I'm cackling 🤣

  • @natashacampbell8450
    @natashacampbell8450 ปีที่แล้ว +847

    Yo...the story about Capt. McVay made tears well up in my eyes. The way, he was blamed, vilified, terrorized which ultimately led up to him taking his own life for something he didn't cause or couldn't fix is just wild...smh...I hate to he didn't get to experience his redemption. RIP Capt. I pray you found it🙏🏾
    So true the true monsters were not the sharks. They looked like the Capt. the sharks were just being sharks

    • @Rush47.
      @Rush47. ปีที่แล้ว +3

      if you cried about that you're not ready to life in this world

    • @natashacampbell8450
      @natashacampbell8450 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@Rush47. I've been lifeing, whatever that is for 44 years or do you mean LIVING? Be quiet...instead of trying to check me you should have been checking the autocorrect.
      If you felt nothing then fine but who tf are you to dictate my feelings?

    • @kyleguajardo
      @kyleguajardo 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +103

      Ignore the other comment.
      You're right, it is very sad and quite honestly disgraceful. Nobody deserves what happened to him, nevermind someone who was a military leader who tried to help his crew and went through the hell of the ocean that he did.

    • @Rush47.
      @Rush47. 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@kyleguajardo lmfao how do you get through the day when you're constantly crying and sobbing about life HAHAHA Weak weirdo

    • @FlyingFocs
      @FlyingFocs 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +60

      The fact that a group of people who were his enemies were like "there is NOTHING he could have done" really says something about the unfairness of the situation.

  • @silverbullet3699
    @silverbullet3699 ปีที่แล้ว +2211

    As soon as I heard "Took is own life holding a sailor figure from childhood" just absolutely destroyed me... honestly felt a genuine hit to my gut.

    • @roku3216
      @roku3216 ปีที่แล้ว +167

      Fffuuhhh, I know right? I will probably never forget that line, poor guy. I choked up.

    • @kampfgeist7703
      @kampfgeist7703 ปีที่แล้ว +155

      That part also hit hard. I hope he found peace he deserves it.

    • @dreadcthulhu5
      @dreadcthulhu5 ปีที่แล้ว +161

      Humans are the cruelest species. I've known this most of my life.

    • @heyysimone
      @heyysimone ปีที่แล้ว +139

      You ever hear something like that and youre whole body just feels like every nerve has come alive and your skin is buzzing uncomftably? Yeah, when he said that part it was like my stomach dropped and i had that feeling. I mean the enemy captain even said he couldnt have done anything. And those families sending hate mail and death threats? They suck too

    • @0816M3RC
      @0816M3RC ปีที่แล้ว +15

      @@dreadcthulhu5 Yes and you are one of them.

  • @hONdAK1DdA
    @hONdAK1DdA ปีที่แล้ว +14253

    You know it’s serious when a Casual Geographic video suddenly becomes just like a Mr Nightmare one.

    • @jasonramirez1064
      @jasonramirez1064 ปีที่แล้ว +74

      Or horror stories

    • @despairinglakepasta1412
      @despairinglakepasta1412 ปีที่แล้ว +43

      YOOOOOOOOOOOOO IKR

    • @PR0KZi
      @PR0KZi ปีที่แล้ว +91

      My god I was thinking the same thank god you mentioned this

    • @jorgenitales5882
      @jorgenitales5882 ปีที่แล้ว +212

      Shit gets real when Casual Geo puts on the ominous music and doesn't crack jokes.

    • @mikeycohen4966
      @mikeycohen4966 ปีที่แล้ว +117

      Especially when he talks normal and doesn’t use slang

  • @HKLesterol
    @HKLesterol ปีที่แล้ว +630

    If you make a part 2 of animal serial killers, add the story of the Japanese brown bear ' kesagake' that was 12ft tall who hunted and killed 7 people but the number was allegedly 12 in total. The story of the last seven victims is pretty gruesome and what the villagers / Japanese govt. did to try and stop him is pretty interesting

    • @christianlink4433
      @christianlink4433 ปีที่แล้ว +19

      i was expecting that to show up, maybe in the next one

    • @crystalfire7x
      @crystalfire7x ปีที่แล้ว +32

      Let's not forget the Leopard of Panar and the Njombe Lions.

    • @harimauindia5775
      @harimauindia5775 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      Sankabetsu bear?

    • @ninnik
      @ninnik 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +10

      Oh, is this the bear that inspired Yoshihiro Takahashi to write Ginga Nagereboshi Gin?

    • @harimauindia5775
      @harimauindia5775 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      @@ninnik ?

  • @sonicstar917
    @sonicstar917 ปีที่แล้ว +901

    *[Timestamps]*
    00:15 - The Ghost and the Darkness
    04:03 - USS Indianapolis
    06:28 - The Sloth Bear of Mysore
    08:13 - Ramree Saltwater Crocodiles
    10:26 - Gustave, the Maneater of Burundi
    13:25 - Rabid Hyenas of Malawi
    14:30 - The Champawat Maneater

    • @youdontknowme9184
      @youdontknowme9184 ปีที่แล้ว +36

      I like how everything else has fancy names and then there's Gustave

    • @SugarLillies_Yt
      @SugarLillies_Yt ปีที่แล้ว +25

      @@youdontknowme9184 Gus the Gator 💀

    • @sylviaryan1901
      @sylviaryan1901 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      Doc the Croc

    • @jerricaleonard2123
      @jerricaleonard2123 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      You might wanna use plural for the penultimate story because there's no way only one infected hyena harmed so many people.

    • @TheOGgUeRiLlaMoDe
      @TheOGgUeRiLlaMoDe 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      If I remember correctly they made a movie about the Lions in Tsavo I know who was in in I just forget the name of it.

  • @impofstpete727
    @impofstpete727 ปีที่แล้ว +2415

    The Man-Eater has a bigger story. The Royal Army attempted to hunt it down by using a broad sweep consisting of more than 400 men. Somehow the tiger managed to evade them and even looped behind their lines. A dissection after it was killed showed some unusual features. Several parts of its brain that were linked to pattern development and reasoning were much more developed than normal meaning it knew what it was doing and was learning new attack methods. Additionally its teeth and claws were much more worn down than they should have been which would have limited its hunting options. Finally its stomach was larger than normal which would have accounted for why was so prolific.

    • @KitsuneFyora
      @KitsuneFyora ปีที่แล้ว +316

      Sounds like that big boi was a bit smarter than it's peers

    • @genodedemon5109
      @genodedemon5109 ปีที่แล้ว +210

      @@KitsuneFyora and hungry

    • @GreedyOrange
      @GreedyOrange ปีที่แล้ว +219

      @@KitsuneFyora gal,
      big gal
      with an appetite of one too :p

    • @kinglolmon6453
      @kinglolmon6453 ปีที่แล้ว +64

      So that tiger is actually a abnormally tiger 🐅

    • @TheWillvoss
      @TheWillvoss ปีที่แล้ว +18

      None of this is true. I was there.

  • @Defeateddragon
    @Defeateddragon ปีที่แล้ว +2730

    You know it’s wild when he has to put a warning in the video

    • @megansstallion818
      @megansstallion818 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      ​@Be Straight don't do it he's gonna steal your info

    • @karnage2948
      @karnage2948 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Yep

    • @witheredjr2887
      @witheredjr2887 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      You know what you sign up for this video

    • @johnej8286
      @johnej8286 ปีที่แล้ว +25

      Fr like everyone in his audience knows how harsh nature is, if he needs a warning then DAYUM💀

    • @witheredjr2887
      @witheredjr2887 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@johnej8286 you right

  • @JQ_23
    @JQ_23 ปีที่แล้ว +238

    I remember hearing the story about Gustave , from what I remember it became a man eater cause of fights or wars that happened in Africa between 2 groups , whenever people got killed the dead bodies would get tossed into the river were the Crocs are and that's how the croc known as Gustave developed a taste for human flesh , that's when he started going after live people to eat

    • @audreydimmel6674
      @audreydimmel6674 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +14

      I think you're referring to the Rwandan genocide. Not sure if Gustave was living in Rwanda at that time, but crocs can travel far and maybe he moved after the genocide ended. Interesting theory. Also terrifying, because it implies that he would not have been the only one eating the bodies. 😨😱

    • @JQ_23
      @JQ_23 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

      ​@@audreydimmel6674i think there were other fights that happened way before the Rwandan genocide that happened , so I think he's been eating people way before that ......who knows maybe he's not the only biggest croc around over there , Gustave def was more in a sense popular cause they could recognize him by the scars that he has and supposedly he killed and ate 200 to 300 hundred people including the already dead people that he ate , so it might be way more people than estimated

    • @ouroboros6125
      @ouroboros6125 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

      @@audreydimmel6674 Maybe Gustave didn't just have NordVPN. But also a travel visa. He is nothing if not resourceful.

  • @markisshano7334
    @markisshano7334 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +38

    Out of all these stories, the Tsavo Maneaters are by far one of my favorites, and the film based around the story amplifies this statement. Because imagine being a worker working on this railroad before your back end meets a lion's jaws, that would be one of the most terrifying things to see before you end up getting past tensed.

  • @TheRealGuywithoutaMustache
    @TheRealGuywithoutaMustache ปีที่แล้ว +490

    14:11 It’s pretty damn impressive how the hyena’s bite is enough to rip off an elephant’s leg... They’re strong to say the least

  • @stevenbrown7042
    @stevenbrown7042 ปีที่แล้ว +4965

    I had a teacher in elementary school who served in the army during Vietnam. He told us a story about an encounter with a tiger. They were patrolling through the jungle when the bushes rattled and a tiger ran right between the middle of the platoon. Didn’t kill or injure anyone directly but one of the soldiers suffered a major mental breakdown. He had to be sent back state side and was discharged. The tiger wasn’t trying to attack so they first thought it was running due to an imminent ambush but nothing happened after so they must have accidentally got too close and spooked it themselves.

    • @hemanthnair1290
      @hemanthnair1290 ปีที่แล้ว +569

      I think the general stress of jungle patrols in the Vietnam War (constant fear of VC ambush, landmines, losing friends) would have been piling up anyway. The tiger was probably just the straw that broke the camel's back.

    • @Replied_ByMeatr1der5
      @Replied_ByMeatr1der5 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@bamidele4383 This where the inspiration for Medusa came from. Nature can freeze you

    • @Pixel3572
      @Pixel3572 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@bamidele4383 being shot or exploded seems like a much better death than being eaten alive

    • @manowa3395
      @manowa3395 ปีที่แล้ว +216

      Traumatized by a traumatized Tiger 🐅

    • @marissabuoncora4013
      @marissabuoncora4013 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@bamidele4383 me too!!

  • @Jacquestopus
    @Jacquestopus ปีที่แล้ว +67

    For anyone interested, the story of the murderous lions was turned into a movie back in the 90s starring Val Kilmer and Michael Douglas called The Ghost and the Darkness. It's actually a really great movie.

    • @Paloma-wl1ul
      @Paloma-wl1ul 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      I watched it when I was a child. In VHS tape. It was terrifying, imagine it happening in real life 😢

  • @TeamChaosPrez
    @TeamChaosPrez ปีที่แล้ว +81

    you should've mentioned the sankebetsu brown bear incident! during the period of time where hokkaido in japan was being explored and settled, there was one bear that absolutely terrorized one of the villages that cropped up. it kept coming back for five days, killed seven people, and it took several hunters and gunshot wounds to take it down.

  • @goldiegoose8975
    @goldiegoose8975 ปีที่แล้ว +2814

    Was originally expecting CG's regular joking banter, but got hit with a video with the atmosphere of a creepypasta reading. And I loved it.

    • @Bacteriophagebs
      @Bacteriophagebs ปีที่แล้ว +23

      Major Mr. Ballen vibes.

    • @Akashathesilentassassin
      @Akashathesilentassassin ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Same

    • @Marvelfanatic3658
      @Marvelfanatic3658 ปีที่แล้ว

      Ok

    • @thedoomslayer5863
      @thedoomslayer5863 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      Creepypasta is childs play and literally nothing compared to stories of monsters like the ones in the video that actually existed and actually did kill us and sow fear into the minds of men.
      Just that tigers roar in the video alone spooked the shit out of me more than any creepy pasta or horror movie ever could

    • @highbread817
      @highbread817 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      ​@thedoomslayer5863 yeah how many ppl do creepypasta characters kill? 1? 3? 5?
      Still doesn't have much on lions killing a hundred + men and a group of sharks taking out hundreds of US sailors
      A single crocodile eating a hundred men? Wild. Dude is beyond any horror movie creation
      Don't even get me started on the bears

  • @Legault397
    @Legault397 ปีที่แล้ว +1206

    The worst part about the scapegoating of Captain McVay came out decades later: There were people much more directly responsible for the lack of response and enormous death toll who were known to the navy, but not punished in order to save face. From Wikipedia:
    "The vessel's failure to arrive on schedule was known at once to Gibson, who failed to investigate the matter and made no immediate report of the fact to his superiors."
    "Declassified records later showed that three stations received the signals but none acted upon the call. One commander was drunk, another had ordered his men not to disturb him, and a third thought it was a Japanese trap."

    • @Cybermat47
      @Cybermat47 ปีที่แล้ว +254

      Hell, the Japanese captain who sank the ship - who **lost his family to the bomb that the ship delivered** - did more to help McVay than his own superiors.
      The scapegoating of McVay may have had something to do with the fact that his father had reprimanded a junior officer who, by WWII, was in command of the entire US Navy.

    • @Shark_Rock
      @Shark_Rock ปีที่แล้ว +103

      @@Cybermat47oh that’s fucking dirty.

    • @donsolos
      @donsolos ปีที่แล้ว +61

      ​@@Cybermat47yeah that certainly would make the decision easier for him. Especially if he was disciplined bad enough that it's remembered

    • @nobodybroda3826
      @nobodybroda3826 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +78

      @@Cybermat47 Sounds about right, good people have little defense against higher ups who wanna save themselves or have a bone to pick. The military is filled with goosesteppers and people that let power control them. And before anyone says anything, I'm military.

    • @Cybermat47
      @Cybermat47 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +55

      @@nobodybroda3826 I don’t think anyone hates the system of the military more than people who serve in the military lol

  • @KellyCalKelsey
    @KellyCalKelsey ปีที่แล้ว +100

    It’s so weird to see you so serious, I’m honestly impressed at the fact you’re able to be so entertaining no matter the tone.

  • @cali5ive124
    @cali5ive124 ปีที่แล้ว +28

    I remember learning about the USS Indianapolis in boot camp. I heard that when some sailors were picked up, they had been in the ocean so long, that when they were pulled up skin was coming off of the sailors.

    • @Rush47.
      @Rush47. ปีที่แล้ว

      could be

    • @LiveFreeOrDie2A
      @LiveFreeOrDie2A หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      “Japanese submarine slammed two torpedoes into her side, Chief. We was comin’ back from the island of Tinian to Leyte. We’d just delivered the bomb. The Hiroshima bomb. Eleven hundred men went into the water. Vessel went down in 12 minutes.
      Didn’t see the first shark for about a half-hour. Tiger. 13-footer. You know how you know that in the water, Chief? You can tell by lookin’ from the dorsal to the tail. What we didn’t know, was that our bomb mission was so secret, no distress signal had been sent. They didn’t even list us overdue for a week. Very first light, Chief, sharks come cruisin’ by, so we formed ourselves into tight groups. It was sorta like you see in the calendars, you know the infantry squares in the old calendars like the Battle of Waterloo and the idea was the shark come to the nearest man, that man he starts poundin’ and hollerin’ and sometimes that shark he go away… but sometimes he wouldn’t go away.
      *Sometimes that shark looks right at ya. Right into your eyes. And the thing about a shark is he’s got lifeless eyes. Black eyes. Like a doll’s eyes. When he comes at ya, he doesn’t even seem to be livin’… ’til he bites ya, and those black eyes roll over white and then… ah then you hear that terrible high-pitched screamin’. The ocean turns red, and despite all your poundin’ and your hollerin’ those sharks come in and… they rip you to pieces.*
      You know by the end of that first dawn, lost a hundred men. I don’t know how many sharks there were, maybe a thousand. I do know how many men, they averaged six an hour. Thursday mornin’, Chief, I bumped into a friend of mine, Herbie Robinson from Cleveland. Baseball player. Boson’s mate. I thought he was asleep. I reached over to wake him up. He bobbed up, down in the water, he was like a kinda top. Upended. Well, he’d been bitten in half below the waist.
      At noon on the fifth day, a Lockheed Ventura swung in low and he spotted us, a young pilot, lot younger than Mr. Hooper here, anyway he spotted us and a few hours later a big ol’ fat PBY come down and started to pick us up. You know that was the time I was most frightened. Waitin’ for my turn. I’ll never put on a lifejacket again. So, eleven hundred men went into the water. 316 men come out, the sharks took the rest, June the 29th, 1945.
      Anyway, we delivered the bomb.”

  • @tronkgonk2808
    @tronkgonk2808 ปีที่แล้ว +902

    this feels alot more serious than usual and it makes sense

    • @badjoke2356
      @badjoke2356 ปีที่แล้ว +31

      Yeah you can hear difference in the tone of his voice.

    • @Gongall
      @Gongall ปีที่แล้ว +8

      It's meant to be spooky for Halloween, not necessarily serious

    • @Smollchanel
      @Smollchanel ปีที่แล้ว +2

      I prefer the normal videos

  • @dinomarr850
    @dinomarr850 ปีที่แล้ว +1448

    There was a Maneater here in Sweden in the 1800s called the Gysinge Wolf. It was a wolf that was raised in captivity in a small remote village and when it grew too big they released it into the wild. Since the wolf had never learned to hunt, it eventually set it sights on the village children since they were considered easy prey...resulting in the death of around 12 children i think. In one instance a little girl had to hide inside a chickencoup while she watched her baby brother get devoured by the wolf. They eventually caught and killed the wolf after a few weeks but this wolf was one of the reasons that made Sweden pretty much eradicate the wolf population here. I might have gotten some details wrong but look it up if you want to know more. A truly horrendous tale!

    • @AD_Ministry
      @AD_Ministry ปีที่แล้ว

      sounds like people failed the animal and it came back to bite them no pun intended so the country ignorantly killed off a species because people screwed up sounds about right humans can't do nothing wrong

    • @dinomarr850
      @dinomarr850 ปีที่แล้ว +209

      @@AD_Ministry Indeed, i dont blame the wolf at all. The whole story is just a tragic tale about what happens when you mess with wild things...

    • @dracosol4415
      @dracosol4415 ปีที่แล้ว +270

      That’s… dumb. Not the wolf killing the children but the fact that an animal that HUMANS RAISED have been simply left into the wild with no idea how to hunt and because of that incident that could’ve been avoided if people were a tad bit smarter they decided that EVERY WOLF must be eradicated. We truly are our greatest enemy, feel bad for the kids and the wolves that died from human stupidity

    • @svennoren9047
      @svennoren9047 ปีที่แล้ว +68

      It has an wikipedia page: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolf_of_Gysinge
      It is not clear if the wolf, captured as a pup in 1817, was released or escaped on its own four years later.

    • @maykay.jaykayman9647
      @maykay.jaykayman9647 ปีที่แล้ว +72

      And as usual, it was from the hands of human influence to begin with.

  • @cyberrex7071
    @cyberrex7071 ปีที่แล้ว +30

    I remember seeing a wiki page about The Wolves of Ashta, a pack of six, man eating wolves that killed around 17 children in Ashta, Madhya Pradesh in 1985. There were two adult males, one adult female, one subadult female and two pups. From what I remember on the page, all the wolves except the pups were killed and they couldn’t find any evidence as to why they started hunting humans.

  • @jona_hehe3768
    @jona_hehe3768 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +32

    11:00 ok any crocodile that eats fully grown hippos has my respect

    • @ChristopherMosley-dj3kt
      @ChristopherMosley-dj3kt 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      Fear and respect 😮

    • @DinnerForkTongue
      @DinnerForkTongue หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      Fear, respect, admiration and curiosity. A croc that big would be trouble even for a fully grown bull elephant.

  • @gabrielleriley2028
    @gabrielleriley2028 ปีที่แล้ว +1968

    My great Uncle was one of the few survivors of the Indianapolis, and only ever spoke of it once that I know of. I asked him why he didn't want to come to the lake (I was really little at a family reunion then) and all he ever said was that he held onto his best friend's hand as long as he could, and he was scared sh*tless of going back in there and never coming out. He refused to get in open water of any kind and would only take sponge baths sitting on a bucket in the bathtub with less than 8 inches of water.

    • @MidnightDrake
      @MidnightDrake ปีที่แล้ว +258

      Im sorry to hear about that man, my Grandfather was also a survivor of the USS Indianapolis' sinking. Wish I got to know him, because he died after my birth. He was there when I was born, but uh.. Yeah, I never saw him again other than in pictures.

    • @melissaharris3890
      @melissaharris3890 ปีที่แล้ว +192

      Some phobias are understandable.

    • @maddog7999
      @maddog7999 ปีที่แล้ว +206

      true PTSD in its strongest form

    • @ownlydown5933
      @ownlydown5933 ปีที่แล้ว +48

      Shoooo man. Your uncle And his friend. Man that's just idk. Gruesome..

    • @exxor9108
      @exxor9108 ปีที่แล้ว +102

      That story was much more heart-wrenching than terrifying if I'm being honest. And its understandable that he wouldn't ever go into open water again. I wouldn't ever wish PTSD like that on anybody.

  • @kennethmcdonald2987
    @kennethmcdonald2987 ปีที่แล้ว +734

    My late father in law had history with both the Indianapolis and Ramree tragedies .He lost several friends and relatives in the Indianapolis sinking and he knew a couple of survivors also .He was a former POW of the Japanese during his service .Both of these had a huge and traumatic effect on him for the rest of his life .There are legitimate and horrifying reasons for the expression war is hell .

    • @zZWolfyZz
      @zZWolfyZz ปีที่แล้ว +51

      War is worse than hell hell is supposed to be where bad folks go after death war affects everyone good bad old and young indiscriminately

    • @saenekokun2723
      @saenekokun2723 ปีที่แล้ว +24

      I hope he lives a good life after war, it must very much damaging him :(

    • @sneakysasquatch6014
      @sneakysasquatch6014 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      War is inhuman

    • @blenderpain8249
      @blenderpain8249 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@sneakysasquatch6014 Yet it is the most human thing. I've yet to see other animals do that. Sure, there are battles/fights but I've never seen any other species go to war.

    • @sneakysasquatch6014
      @sneakysasquatch6014 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@blenderpain8249 I guess it is in our nature as humans

  • @829ikuzo
    @829ikuzo ปีที่แล้ว +28

    That last black and white picture of the man with the tiger wasn't the man eater of champawat, it was the bachelor of powalgarh, (who wasn't a man eater but was really big, which is why people were trying to get him as a trophy.) They were both killed by the same person, Jim Corbett. There's an old book he wrote on all the different man eating tigers he hunted called 'Man-Eaters of Kumaon', its a super interesting read, definitely recommend it.

  • @TheGbelcher
    @TheGbelcher 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +14

    Dude, the voice actor they hired to play the lion food part pretty much killed it. He probably has his pick of true crime documentaries at this point.

  • @timothypachonka8642
    @timothypachonka8642 ปีที่แล้ว +256

    The fact the sub commander testified and was ignored is the saddest part. Indianapolis was alone when it was detected, as the delivery mission was so secretive. The enemy absolved McVay, but someone had to go under the bus, right? Sad tale for a good man.

  • @katrinajacksonmiller9038
    @katrinajacksonmiller9038 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +36

    Holy shit, that was terrifying. It has the atmosphere of a creepypasta reading but tells a story that teaches us that wild animals should be left alone, not to be kept as pets.

  • @khizaramin860
    @khizaramin860 ปีที่แล้ว +30

    I have seen hundreds if not thousands of sponsor spots to this day but this was the best of all
    My man you absolutely had no right to create that kind of suspense around the story before introducing the sponsor. Love the creativity

  • @ghost-hn2lh
    @ghost-hn2lh ปีที่แล้ว +725

    when he actually puts a warning on his videos that’s when you know it’s about to get wild

  • @MidoriOfTheShuinsen
    @MidoriOfTheShuinsen ปีที่แล้ว +515

    The Captain of the USS Indianapolis is one of the stories from WW2 that hurts the most. When even an enemy commander says that there was nothing to be done, then blaming the captain was just petty foolishness.
    I sincerely hope that every person who sent him hate mail and death threats got what they deserved for causing a good man to break.

    • @svennoren9047
      @svennoren9047 ปีที่แล้ว +48

      The mission was so top secret that no-one realized the ship had gone missing. The survivors were found by coincidence by a scout plane.

    • @lekhaclam87
      @lekhaclam87 ปีที่แล้ว +53

      The people sending him hate mails and death threats were most likely relatives of the dead sailors. They probably didn't know he was screwed over.

    • @thelastboyscout9623
      @thelastboyscout9623 ปีที่แล้ว +38

      I've been in the Marine Corps for several years and it happens more than you think. It's honestly disgusting how political it gets.

    • @braydengeis7666
      @braydengeis7666 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      @@lekhaclam87 That doesnt make it any better lashing out because of grief is just sad and pathetic

    • @lekhaclam87
      @lekhaclam87 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @@braydengeis7666 I was not justifying their action, just pointed out where the hatred most likely came from.

  • @hoolz750
    @hoolz750 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    "In Harm's Way: The Sinking of the USS Indianapolis and the Extraordinary Story of Its Survivors" is an amazing book for any military historian fans out there.
    Love this channel. Very entertaining.

    • @LiveFreeOrDie2A
      @LiveFreeOrDie2A หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      “Japanese submarine slammed two torpedoes into her side, Chief. We was comin’ back from the island of Tinian to Leyte. We’d just delivered the bomb. The Hiroshima bomb. Eleven hundred men went into the water. Vessel went down in 12 minutes.
      Didn’t see the first shark for about a half-hour. Tiger. 13-footer. You know how you know that in the water, Chief? You can tell by lookin’ from the dorsal to the tail. What we didn’t know, was that our bomb mission was so secret, no distress signal had been sent. They didn’t even list us overdue for a week. Very first light, Chief, sharks come cruisin’ by, so we formed ourselves into tight groups. It was sorta like you see in the calendars, you know the infantry squares in the old calendars like the Battle of Waterloo and the idea was the shark come to the nearest man, that man he starts poundin’ and hollerin’ and sometimes that shark he go away… but sometimes he wouldn’t go away.
      *Sometimes that shark looks right at ya. Right into your eyes. And the thing about a shark is he’s got lifeless eyes. Black eyes. Like a doll’s eyes. When he comes at ya, he doesn’t even seem to be livin’… ’til he bites ya, and those black eyes roll over white and then… ah then you hear that terrible high-pitched screamin’. The ocean turns red, and despite all your poundin’ and your hollerin’ those sharks come in and… they rip you to pieces.*
      You know by the end of that first dawn, lost a hundred men. I don’t know how many sharks there were, maybe a thousand. I do know how many men, they averaged six an hour. Thursday mornin’, Chief, I bumped into a friend of mine, Herbie Robinson from Cleveland. Baseball player. Boson’s mate. I thought he was asleep. I reached over to wake him up. He bobbed up, down in the water, he was like a kinda top. Upended. Well, he’d been bitten in half below the waist.
      At noon on the fifth day, a Lockheed Ventura swung in low and he spotted us, a young pilot, lot younger than Mr. Hooper here, anyway he spotted us and a few hours later a big ol’ fat PBY come down and started to pick us up. You know that was the time I was most frightened. Waitin’ for my turn. I’ll never put on a lifejacket again. So, eleven hundred men went into the water. 316 men come out, the sharks took the rest, June the 29th, 1945.
      Anyway, we delivered the bomb.”

  • @NotAFanOfYouBreathin
    @NotAFanOfYouBreathin ปีที่แล้ว +18

    Your content is my new addiction. So thank you! Neat fact about the Lions in the beginning, they were the Ghosts in the Darkness. There was a movie made about the lions of Savo (spelled wrong I'm sure) called the Ghosts in the Darkness and it was my favorite movie growing up.

  • @Super_Panda_BS
    @Super_Panda_BS ปีที่แล้ว +581

    Fun animal fact: Spiders have very large brains for their size, some spiders have brains that take up 80% of their body. Spider brains can also take on very interesting shapes, existing not only in the spiders head, but spilling into other body cavities and legs. These large brains are important for spiders for executing activities like web building or hunting.

    • @jacktheomnithere2127
      @jacktheomnithere2127 ปีที่แล้ว +34

      there's a fact about one of my favourite creatures i didn't know about.

    • @katie7748
      @katie7748 ปีที่แล้ว +28

      As interesting as this is, I don't think I'll ever not be terrified of them. During a camping trip when I was maybe 4 years old, I put my hand in my jacket pocket. Something felt weird so I pulled my hand back out to look. There was a big black b@stard clamped onto my thumb. I screamed and shook it off. I can't be sure, but that might be why I'm so d@mn scared of them. I don't even like seeing the word typed out, which is why I avoided using it. Pathetic, I know lol
      Still a cool fact, though. Oh, and just for the record, I don't kill them. I make my husband or one of my kids trap them and put them outside.

    • @ciarenkruger8347
      @ciarenkruger8347 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      @@katie7748 I respect the hell out of you. I adore spiders but my best friend was arachnophobic. It took me years to convince him to not just kill them on sight and let me relocate them. I know how difficult it can be. Well done.

    • @ifabforfun
      @ifabforfun ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @@katie7748 I woke up on the top bunk of my bunk bed just as this big spider was repelling down from the ceiling, right over my face. I rolled out of the top bunk like it was a normal bed, not sure how I made it over the rail so easily and that right there is the moment I blame lmao.

    • @Estherbethe1...
      @Estherbethe1... ปีที่แล้ว

      ✨🔥💖🔥✨🤓

  • @crocowithaglocko5876
    @crocowithaglocko5876 ปีที่แล้ว +570

    I like how he made this video serious because of the content covered
    It’s a pretty nice change of tone

  • @HappyBirddi
    @HappyBirddi 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    One of my favorite moments in film ever is in Jaws where Quint recounts the USS Indianapolis, it's an utterly chilling moment of realism in that movie

    • @LiveFreeOrDie2A
      @LiveFreeOrDie2A หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      “Japanese submarine slammed two torpedoes into her side, Chief. We was comin’ back from the island of Tinian to Leyte. We’d just delivered the bomb. The Hiroshima bomb. Eleven hundred men went into the water. Vessel went down in 12 minutes.
      Didn’t see the first shark for about a half-hour. Tiger. 13-footer. You know how you know that in the water, Chief? You can tell by lookin’ from the dorsal to the tail. What we didn’t know, was that our bomb mission was so secret, no distress signal had been sent. They didn’t even list us overdue for a week. Very first light, Chief, sharks come cruisin’ by, so we formed ourselves into tight groups. It was sorta like you see in the calendars, you know the infantry squares in the old calendars like the Battle of Waterloo and the idea was the shark come to the nearest man, that man he starts poundin’ and hollerin’ and sometimes that shark he go away… but sometimes he wouldn’t go away.
      *Sometimes that shark looks right at ya. Right into your eyes. And the thing about a shark is he’s got lifeless eyes. Black eyes. Like a doll’s eyes. When he comes at ya, he doesn’t even seem to be livin’… ’til he bites ya, and those black eyes roll over white and then… ah then you hear that terrible high-pitched screamin’. The ocean turns red, and despite all your poundin’ and your hollerin’ those sharks come in and… they rip you to pieces.*
      You know by the end of that first dawn, lost a hundred men. I don’t know how many sharks there were, maybe a thousand. I do know how many men, they averaged six an hour. Thursday mornin’, Chief, I bumped into a friend of mine, Herbie Robinson from Cleveland. Baseball player. Boson’s mate. I thought he was asleep. I reached over to wake him up. He bobbed up, down in the water, he was like a kinda top. Upended. Well, he’d been bitten in half below the waist.
      At noon on the fifth day, a Lockheed Ventura swung in low and he spotted us, a young pilot, lot younger than Mr. Hooper here, anyway he spotted us and a few hours later a big ol’ fat PBY come down and started to pick us up. You know that was the time I was most frightened. Waitin’ for my turn. I’ll never put on a lifejacket again. So, eleven hundred men went into the water. 316 men come out, the sharks took the rest, June the 29th, 1945.
      Anyway, we delivered the bomb.”

  • @ahedgehog1879
    @ahedgehog1879 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +21

    This video was actually fantastic. The horror genre of storytelling really suits you. Please do more things like this!

  • @reneberthet9168
    @reneberthet9168 ปีที่แล้ว +847

    You are the David Attenborough of our generation. Netflix should fund a nature series with you voicing it. Thanks for carrying us through these crazy times.

    • @tyrellthiel2201
      @tyrellthiel2201 ปีที่แล้ว +19

      This dude is way better than Attenborough. Unlike Attenborough, he actually cares about context.

    • @TashaBryanUK
      @TashaBryanUK ปีที่แล้ว +5

      🍻 I said the same thing a couple years ago!
      I could watch listen to both all night long.

    • @Hugo-yz1vb
      @Hugo-yz1vb ปีที่แล้ว +10

      But Attenborough is also the Attenborough of our generation so what should I do-

    • @TashaBryanUK
      @TashaBryanUK ปีที่แล้ว +14

      @@Hugo-yz1vb ... and my mums gen. Attenborough should talk to this young man - keep the love of nature alive for the next gen. In case they don't believe these black force animals existed once.

    • @ghosthippie8465
      @ghosthippie8465 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      @@tyrellthiel2201 Wait whats the issue with attenborough? I thought he was chill

  • @proteus69
    @proteus69 ปีที่แล้ว +1018

    My step-dads father was one of a few marines that were asked to switch ship assignments right before the USS Indianapolis took off and was sunk. I got to go to the premier of a documentary they released a while back, interviewing the remaining survivors to tell their story. It was harrowing. They said that there were so many sharks beneath them, that they could walk along their backs. The most horrific thing that's never really brought up was when the sailors were finally rescued, they were so waterlogged that their flesh would rip right off their arms when they were pulled into the ship.
    In addition to dehydration, salt poisoning, and exposure, most were covered in tar and oil from their ship, blinding a lot of men.
    Some of the men would simply give up, and sink beneath the waves to allow themselves to be eaten by sharks as well.
    Funny thing is that the captain of the Japanese submarine was actually officially made a member of the survivors group.

    • @zsyhan15
      @zsyhan15 ปีที่แล้ว +67

      Holy crap. Im imagining it and its not a good sight.

    • @stevenslantrellious8322
      @stevenslantrellious8322 ปีที่แล้ว +17

      Damn

    • @bravebeanyo565
      @bravebeanyo565 ปีที่แล้ว

      Man what kind of life can one expect to live after survivng something like that. Death would be better.

    • @GeoGamerArtistVlogger
      @GeoGamerArtistVlogger ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Dang dude 👀

    • @kyleguajardo
      @kyleguajardo 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Makes it all the more disgraceful how the captain was treated after everything that happened.

  • @alienangel777
    @alienangel777 ปีที่แล้ว +18

    I love the way you seamlessly incorporate your ads into your entertaining and informative content!

    • @mindyourbusinessxoxo
      @mindyourbusinessxoxo 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Right? I was looking for this comment. The NordVPN cut-in almost killed me from laughter. If I wasn't already their customer, that would've made me sign up😂

  • @mandymayne154
    @mandymayne154 ปีที่แล้ว +29

    Oh my goodness I'm blown away and horrified at the same time. I thank God I don't live anywhere near these animals. So heartbreaking for the victims.

  • @Infinight_Mage
    @Infinight_Mage ปีที่แล้ว +502

    Fun fact: The second story about the sharks was featured in the movie Jaws as a story told by one of the protagonists, Quint, a character that had sailed on the Indianapolis. His account is nearly identical to the one CG tells.

    • @TheLalacream
      @TheLalacream ปีที่แล้ว +33

      And the first story got a whole movie adaptation (the ghost and the darkness)

    • @LG-universe
      @LG-universe ปีที่แล้ว

      Neat

    • @LG-universe
      @LG-universe ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@TheLalacream Wow didnt know that. I can see the parallels now.

    • @jeremywilson8313
      @jeremywilson8313 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@TheLalacream I love the movie, i cant tell what part I loved the most but I do recal that baboon scene made me nearly soil my pants first time I watched it.

    • @cchastant8251
      @cchastant8251 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@TheLalacream
      I remember that one. They didn't mention them being maneless, though. And the lions used certainly weren't maneless, which is likely why it's not mentioned.

  • @apt-rex7539
    @apt-rex7539 ปีที่แล้ว +664

    It’s crazy to see how animals would be like if they really acted how people think they do

    • @Poukko
      @Poukko ปีที่แล้ว

      we already see it with chimps, it is not a pretty sight to see

    • @bassforhire555
      @bassforhire555 ปีที่แล้ว +25

      @im sacred Is it? Is it really??

    • @TheRadioknight
      @TheRadioknight ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@bassforhire555 bot just report

    • @bassforhire555
      @bassforhire555 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@TheRadioknight Yeah, I know. Sometimes you just gotta get that impotent rage out there

    • @TheRadioknight
      @TheRadioknight ปีที่แล้ว

      @@bassforhire555 ah okay couldn't tell

  • @OR56
    @OR56 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +98

    The first story with the lions. There is a very good movie that was originally a book about that story, called “The Ghost and The Darkness” those were the names given to those lions. They also found the lions den. And it was FULL of human bones and no other kinds. These lions had been eating nothing but humans for YEARS. The taxidermied lions are on display in a museum in Chicago if I remember correctly. And it is said that if you make eye contact with the lions, you will feel a strange, inexplicable fear. Even in death, we still know these lions are evil. The natives said that the lions were physical incarnations of Satan. And I don’t really disagree.

    • @natalkumar6132
      @natalkumar6132 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      Saw it after watching the episode on history buffs.

    • @Cordray.
      @Cordray. 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

      I don’t understand why they let the lions kill off the people like that, those lions killed 135 innocent humans, and the lions got away with it. No one was able to kill off the lions.

    • @OR56
      @OR56 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +11

      @@Cordray. They didn't let them. They were trying to kill them the whole time, but the lions were simply so good at it, it took them that long to kill them. The movie is very good, and if you can find it, I would recommend you watch it.

    • @Cordray.
      @Cordray. 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      @@OR56 I still can’t believe the lions were smarter than the humans though. May the people that lost their lives to those monsters may rest in peace.

    • @OR56
      @OR56 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      @@Cordray. Weren't smarter, just better at their "job", and knew how to deal with humans. Didn't mean they were smarter.

  • @sackfu7952
    @sackfu7952 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    Wow, spooky campfire stories AND factual and potentially educational stories about animals? It's like two of my favorite weirdly specific things rolled into one and it weirdly works.

  • @claytongiampaolo7848
    @claytongiampaolo7848 ปีที่แล้ว +3587

    That lion growl with the screaming was actually scary af

    • @angelareyna5488
      @angelareyna5488 ปีที่แล้ว +258

      That was from the movie about it. The Ghost and the Darkness. Awesome movie.

    • @upsimusic479
      @upsimusic479 ปีที่แล้ว +85

      i shat myself

    • @smoshcom100
      @smoshcom100 ปีที่แล้ว +124

      Regret the headphones

    • @isitsheen1064
      @isitsheen1064 ปีที่แล้ว +24

      ​@@angelareyna5488agreed. One of my favorite movies.

    • @Inoffensive_name
      @Inoffensive_name ปีที่แล้ว +115

      There's a Russian woman who managed to call her mom to say goodbye while being eaten alive by a bear. The audio logs were saved. If you have the stomach... it's a horrifying experience.

  • @GummyCat777
    @GummyCat777 ปีที่แล้ว +887

    5:42 wow.... it sucks that he survived such a horrible event just to be put in this situation. Even the person who sunk his ship spoke up.

    • @hawwwkx
      @hawwwkx ปีที่แล้ว +135

      Like he said, the true mosnters aren't the sharks here. They at least have a good reason to act like this, but not the families. Yes they're hurting, but so is the survivor. I bet you can shut them up if you let them imagine their lost children or family being put in his position. Survived a horrific event, gets probably ptsd and then on top of that years of harrassment and reminders to keep the ptsd fresh.
      I bet the shark attack felt long if put in their shoes, but the survivors being harassed probably felt like eternity

    • @pedrovargas2181
      @pedrovargas2181 ปีที่แล้ว +72

      The actual monster there was the US government-sponsored kangaroo court.

    • @chrisbillig4277
      @chrisbillig4277 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Now you know why church was invented.
      There's a old saying why fight your opponent with both hands. If your opponent ties his own behind his back..
      Devil attacks the mind..
      De fang de claw yourself..
      I'll do whatever I want without risk..

    • @ellendaniels8715
      @ellendaniels8715 ปีที่แล้ว +60

      He likely already blamed himself for everyone’s death already, he didn’t need America to tell him he was a murderer and a coward- he thought he was one too. I hope his family is ok:(

    • @felisasininus1784
      @felisasininus1784 ปีที่แล้ว +39

      ​@@chrisbillig4277 What the heck are you talking about?

  • @supermushroomariojenkins1717
    @supermushroomariojenkins1717 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    Great vid, you make me interested in nature videos again. My grandparents used to watch a lot of the old PBS nature shows and I remembered watching with them. Brings back good memories. Interesting yet elementary with the collective knowledge on predators and behaviors, but still amazes me in how logical they are. The Predator PEMDAS: Go for the weak, fuel up for bigger game if the need arises.

  • @skillonidas2262
    @skillonidas2262 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    My grandfather was a part of that crew of the ship that was sunken. He never talked about it with us kids. I only know stories from my dad from childhood.

  • @thenitpickchannel9993
    @thenitpickchannel9993 ปีที่แล้ว +382

    Bruh Gustavo is like a horror villain or a mythological being the way he’s described. Almost like a story to keep children out of dangerous waters but he actually existed.

    • @Broomer52
      @Broomer52 ปีที่แล้ว +19

      In a similar story with the horror monster being human (arguably) was Tarrare a French peasant who according to surviving autopsy reports after his death was basically a mutant (and not the X Man kind) his entire body was structured in such a way that it focused everything on the singular purpose of eating, with extremely enlarged Stomach, Intestines, Throat and Mouth. He was said to have such a large sagging mouth that he could fit a dozen eggs in his mouth with no issues, and could eat a quarter of a cow by himself as a 13 year old kid, you’d think he’d be fat but he was actually only 100 pounds as an adult because his body processed and burned through the food inhumanly fast that when he wasn’t fat on food he had large stretched out flaps of skin. He was kicked out because his family were poor peasants and his parents could not afford to feed him. He would resort to eating trash and becoming a street performer just to sate his unending hunger. Even this wasn’t enough because he eventually found himself in the care of doctors wanting to see what was wrong with this bottomless pit of a man who was never not hungry. The list of things he ate was a full course meal meant for 12 all on his own, a living real that he ate whole, a cat that he snapped in half, drank it’s blood, ate whole and later coughed up its hair like an owl, and (all this food not being enough) he would regularly sneak out to drink blood from patients, nearly eat cadavers, eat trash and a 4 month old baby. I may not be a doctor but they these people were looking over a demon.

    • @JackieOwl94
      @JackieOwl94 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      There are theories in historical circles about how leviathan from the Bible was likely a saltwater crocodile, just like the “dragon” St. George fought in his tale was likely a Nike monitor.

    • @Rhobeni
      @Rhobeni ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@Broomer52 Found the (fellow) Sam O Nella fan.

    • @LightingBoy_
      @LightingBoy_ ปีที่แล้ว

      Gustavo Fring?!!?!!!

    • @Broomer52
      @Broomer52 ปีที่แล้ว

      @Ludvig Renström pretty sure it was never disproven

  • @learsitiger9990
    @learsitiger9990 ปีที่แล้ว +2996

    I have been researching about Gustave for some time now but this is the first time that I've heard about Gustave using NordVPN. I've never considered that angle before. Thank you for this new information.

    • @clowndude9488
      @clowndude9488 ปีที่แล้ว +125

      Now That's what I call very useful information who knew that he was using NordVPN

    • @miketobias1821
      @miketobias1821 ปีที่แล้ว +21

      Pretty funny 😃😃😁

    • @lord_vader6545
      @lord_vader6545 ปีที่แล้ว +59

      THAT EXPLAINS EVERYTHING!

    • @qrautztreestick5641
      @qrautztreestick5641 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      @@lord_vader6545 fr

    • @teddyzchannel3749
      @teddyzchannel3749 ปีที่แล้ว +18

      @@itsAmeOFP then Gustav had no money without the sponsor and died because he couldn’t buy robux. It all makes sense.

  • @Baldwin-iv445
    @Baldwin-iv445 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    To me, the story of the ghost and the darkness proves that evil exists in all species.

  • @Handall88
    @Handall88 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Me before the video: "I wonder if he'll cover the Tsavo maneaters..."
    Me 5 seconds into the video: "...well that was quick."

  • @greenlightning2539
    @greenlightning2539 ปีที่แล้ว +1314

    I went on a school sponsored trip to Northern india. It was a part of our AP history class. We were taking a tour of a farm on the outskirts of the city and as I came around a corner in one of the animal pens a tiger slapped me on the chest. I walked away but needed quite a few stitches, the farmer simply told us to ignore it until it chose to leave. When it did, a group of cubs were with it. I never respected gentle warnings more in my life.

    • @Blue0010
      @Blue0010 ปีที่แล้ว +28

      What if it decided to take you as it's own? Your reaction would be?

    • @greenlightning2539
      @greenlightning2539 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@Blue0010 fight till it gets off of me or kills me, more likely the latter but you never know.

    • @greenlightning2539
      @greenlightning2539 ปีที่แล้ว +216

      @@Blue0010 I think she was getting ready to give birth when she swiped at me. Probably didn't have the energy for a mauling. Hence the cubs at the end.

    • @Blue0010
      @Blue0010 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@greenlightning2539 I meant if it took you as its own child

    • @greenlightning2539
      @greenlightning2539 ปีที่แล้ว +110

      @@Blue0010 Oh, I misunderstood, my bad. It was a high school (age 15-18 for non-american reference.) i highly doubt It would have looked at me as its cub. however, if it did, I wouldn't be sure how to react. I'd be honored and disturbed............ question mark......... maybe.

  • @alezot6141
    @alezot6141 ปีที่แล้ว +712

    The Tsavo brothers, or as they are nicknamed "the Ghost and the Darkness", may have been a terrifying story. But they were tame housecats, compared to the lions of Njombe. 😬
    Story goes that in the Njombe District in southern Tanzania, humans exterminated the natural prey of lions to protect livestock from the rinderpest virus. So a pride of lions started preying on people instead. Unlike the Tsavo brothers, the Njombe pride attacked mostly during the day, instead using nights to move up to 20 miles to the next unsuspecting village; even worse, the mothers passed down to their cubs how to hunt and eat humans. In the end, the region was terrorized by three generations of lions that, between 1932 and 1947, killed up to 1,500 (!) people.

    • @ThyN00bly
      @ThyN00bly ปีที่แล้ว +45

      The Lions of Njombe sound terrifying, just wish I could read about it instead of a watching movie.

    • @Alondro77
      @Alondro77 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      See, that's why you BEFRIEND the lions! Then they only eat a FEW of you! Mostly the weak ones you don't need anyway... >:3

    • @Estherbethe1...
      @Estherbethe1... ปีที่แล้ว +2

      😬

    • @pepethefrog6809
      @pepethefrog6809 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      And then we went on a killing spree like we always do, and made lions an endangered species in the 2000s, they're now at "Vulnerable" but their population is still decreasing.

    • @salt7625
      @salt7625 ปีที่แล้ว +33

      And this folks is why we should care about what we do to our environment, the lions don't eat you if they don't have to!

  • @savagefurya1312
    @savagefurya1312 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    The 1st story: 'The Ghost and The Darkness' staring Val Kilmer. Excellent movie! The story about the Indianapolis, I 1st heard about from the movie 'Jaws'. I had asked my grandfather about it once and he said that he knew a bunch of the men who were on the Indianapolis when it went down. Only 1 he knew survived. And that's all he would say about it.

  • @viribusunitis8617
    @viribusunitis8617 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    The ad transition was a work of genius. Love your content, keep up the great work!

  • @chainsawgood123
    @chainsawgood123 ปีที่แล้ว +395

    This video unlocked a primal fear I've never felt before, that maybe my ancestors haven't felt in centuries. We tell so many horror stories about the supernatural that sometimes it's easy to forget how absolutely terrifying real animals can be.

    • @zakattack1362
      @zakattack1362 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      fax

    • @thestarseeker8196
      @thestarseeker8196 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      look behind you

    • @ZerglingLover
      @ZerglingLover ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@thestarseeker8196 my couch?

    • @Slateproc
      @Slateproc ปีที่แล้ว +4

      The earth is one massive vibe check that we've been lucky enough to avoid for the most part

    • @thestarseeker8196
      @thestarseeker8196 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@ZerglingLover there is no couch
      there never was

  • @unknownvariable9239
    @unknownvariable9239 ปีที่แล้ว +2473

    Well-constructed and educational. A creepy topic that could have been sensationalized. I swear Casual Geographic never disappoints

    • @snowballthepro2926
      @snowballthepro2926 ปีที่แล้ว +25

      This is in my opinion his best work. It feels like it came straight from National Geographic or Netflix.

    • @davidstepney5394
      @davidstepney5394 ปีที่แล้ว +24

      He may be Casual Geographic in name, but he will always be Hood Nature at heart.

    • @nicolaezenoaga9756
      @nicolaezenoaga9756 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@davidstepney5394 Was that tje old name? I can't remember.

    • @heavenlykitsune8383
      @heavenlykitsune8383 ปีที่แล้ว

      @Be Straight e

    • @jacobsmith1997
      @jacobsmith1997 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Sort of is tbh, calling them serial killers is pretty sensational lol

  • @alantaylor3281
    @alantaylor3281 ปีที่แล้ว +2016

    I am a Navy veteran. That one horrible miscarriage of Justice with Captain McVeigh actually fills me with shame for the disgusting scapegoating perpetrated on the captain. I actually feel a helpless rage when I come across this story. I remember vividly when I first came across the story and it was watching Jaws in the theater when I was about 16 years old.

    • @acid_tongue_4315
      @acid_tongue_4315 ปีที่แล้ว +121

      Its crazy you type this, a comment just two above you says that the captain was done dirty, because even enemy commanders commented that nothing could be done, but people still blamed the captain. The dude got death threats apparently, when it doesnt seem to be his fault :/

    • @acid_tongue_4315
      @acid_tongue_4315 ปีที่แล้ว

      I fucking misread ur comment Im such a dumbass 💀
      I am so sorry thank you for ur service ;-;

    • @a.u.t.057
      @a.u.t.057 ปีที่แล้ว +101

      @@acid_tongue_4315 I mean what hell could he have done, his ship was hit and sinking in shark infested waters.

    • @ancientatomicimmortality4016
      @ancientatomicimmortality4016 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @Acid_tongue _ And they refused to give him any escort destroyers to protect them in case of a sub attack, which was against Navy protocol, but they arrogantly shrugged him off as being paranoid. We foolishly just assumed the Japanese were defeated & had nothing left like they were gonna just lay down without a fight. Cpt. McVeigh knew they wouldn't & begged them to reconsider & when he turned out to be completely right they scapegoated him instead of having the balls to admit they were wrong.

    • @hectorzero8545
      @hectorzero8545 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@a.u.t.057 when horrible things happen humans have a tendency to try to find a way to blame it all on someone so they can pretend is was avoidable so it won't be as scary. It leads to things like persecutions and inquisitions

  • @NeverlandSystemPunkGirlChloe
    @NeverlandSystemPunkGirlChloe ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Totally stumbled into your vids by accident and I LOVE them. I am half through binging all YT shows me. Love your work!!!

  • @KuDastardly
    @KuDastardly 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    There was another similar gruesome story regarding sailors stranded at sea, one survivor of a ship sunk due to bad weather said that he found this sailor floating in a donut tube, and when he tried to pull him up onboard only to find the bottom half missing. I think the Slothbear was an inspiration for The Bite of '83!

  • @ScoopedKiwis
    @ScoopedKiwis ปีที่แล้ว +1571

    Timestamps
    0:00 - intro
    0:15 - Tsavo lions
    4:03 - Indianapolis whitetip attack
    6:28 - Anderson sloth bear attack
    8:10 - Ramree saltwater crocs
    10:25 - Gustavo
    12:18 - sponsor
    13:25 - the Malawi hyena
    14:30 - the Champawat tiger
    16:24 - end
    Saw there was another comment like this but this one is more specific
    *edit: spelling mistake

    • @parth6626
      @parth6626 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      I accidentlly spoiled everything in the video but still thanks

    • @ebonyblack4563
      @ebonyblack4563 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Appreciated.

    • @WardofSquid
      @WardofSquid ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Based

    • @JacobPDeIiNoNi
      @JacobPDeIiNoNi ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Sponsor really is the biggest maneater of all

    • @misswintertime
      @misswintertime ปีที่แล้ว +2

      It’s spelled Gustavo, according to google. Just FYI if you want to search for more!

  • @RB-fp8hn
    @RB-fp8hn ปีที่แล้ว +421

    Many (not all, though) of those railway workers from India were indentured labors. The lives and experiences of these workers form a large body of absolutely fascinating literature in India. As a kid, I was introduced to Mombasa, the Black Mamba, and various aspects of east, central, and south-central African culture and wildlife through these writings. One novel in particular is very well known. It's called "The Moon Mountain": the story of one such railway worker whose journey starts in Mombasa, then takes him through a long and complex journey starting with the lion attacks you discuss in this video, all the way to South Africa. And yes, the protagonist gets to see Mount Kilimanjaro, the moon mountain. I have read that novel maybe ... 15 times ... and I will still read it when I get a chance, now that I am almost 40 years old.

    • @PahadiSher
      @PahadiSher ปีที่แล้ว +4

      can you please name the book? I would love to read it.

    • @RB-fp8hn
      @RB-fp8hn ปีที่แล้ว +11

      @@PahadiSher Chaand'er Paahaad. It's a Bengali novel.

    • @PahadiSher
      @PahadiSher ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@RB-fp8hn Thanks.

    • @sumayyahadetunmbi4347
      @sumayyahadetunmbi4347 ปีที่แล้ว

      oh interesting

  • @lordedmundblackadder9321
    @lordedmundblackadder9321 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    At 2:10 or so you talked about hearing the Sikh scream - but actually he didn’t. He made no sound as he was dragged away, which is honestly even more terrifying.

    • @7sargun
      @7sargun หลายเดือนก่อน

      damn as a sikh that is scary

  • @JennJenification
    @JennJenification 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    This is fascinating. Your subjects always are. That's why I love your channel, and your delivery is the best. Happy New Year and thanks. :)

  • @ancientatomicimmortality4016
    @ancientatomicimmortality4016 ปีที่แล้ว +2259

    RIP to Cpt. McVeigh...a TRUE war hero & it fills me with anger & sadness our own scapegoated him knowing he did NOTHING wrong. He even warned them it was foolish to not have any destroyers escorting them in case of an attack & they shrugged him off as paranoid. It's sad the Japanese sub Cpt. that sank the Indianapolis had more honor & morality than the US Navy who knew they screwed up but didn't have the balls to admit it.

    • @GeoGamerArtistVlogger
      @GeoGamerArtistVlogger ปีที่แล้ว +52

      Agreed!

    • @clicheguevara5282
      @clicheguevara5282 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      If you want another crazy Navy coverup story like this, check out the USS Liberty.

    • @CombatSportsNerd
      @CombatSportsNerd ปีที่แล้ว +175

      Exactly! When your own enemy admits that there was literally nothing that could’ve been done and they still get ignored you know the people calling these shots are truly evil

    • @t-rexnut3091
      @t-rexnut3091 ปีที่แล้ว

      And nothing has changed since. The people in charge today are just as bad, if not worse, than them.

    • @setsers1
      @setsers1 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      YES! For That, Fuck The Navy.
      Totally Incompetent

  • @ohmygodpleasehalp3984
    @ohmygodpleasehalp3984 ปีที่แล้ว +638

    I got a chance as a student to speak with 2 of the survivors of the USS Indianapolis. Incredible guys, horrible situation.

    • @rory8182
      @rory8182 ปีที่แล้ว +70

      The fact that the guy who took out the ship said "yeah that captain was boned, nothing he could do" and the guy still got court martialed

    • @CaptainDCap
      @CaptainDCap ปีที่แล้ว +15

      @@rory8182 And yet people still believe their governments want what's best for them.

  • @MM-ts9jy
    @MM-ts9jy 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I had not seen a video of yours with such a serious, almost horror-like tone. I love it.

  • @jocularitch1231
    @jocularitch1231 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Thanks for doing these videos, man. You're a great story teller

  • @Jellybean2575
    @Jellybean2575 ปีที่แล้ว +352

    The first story is a movie called a ghost and the darkness. As a South African I can personally say up close lions awaken a primitive fear in people, no matter how experienced you are.

    • @Aphirium
      @Aphirium ปีที่แล้ว +22

      Which is based on the actual story. It was insane and the movie was great!

    • @megaoldskool76
      @megaoldskool76 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Great movie! Shout out to Henry Cele! May he RIP

    • @Nutmeg142
      @Nutmeg142 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      The real Ghost and the Darkness are mounted in the Field Museum in Chicago. I grew up there and have seen them several times.

    • @crazynutreviews2647
      @crazynutreviews2647 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Got pretty close during a drive through the Kruger park in January. Now, they were largely sleeping, but the few times they yawned and I saw their teeth...

    • @thedoomslayer5863
      @thedoomslayer5863 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      No shit. There's some fears BAKED into our brains from birth. Like the roar of a tiger. Millions of years taught us that sound meant death was coming. And many of us learned that lesson the hard way.
      Take the most macho man today (I said today because there was a time we hunted these hunters and competed with them and killed them back) and he would shit bricks at the sight of one even in a cage

  • @Howboutno1
    @Howboutno1 ปีที่แล้ว +565

    "The lions had licked the skin off his cheeks"
    *OH HELL NO*

    • @straightfromthepsychward
      @straightfromthepsychward ปีที่แล้ว +51

      which ones 😨

    • @1NumNum
      @1NumNum ปีที่แล้ว +22

      @@straightfromthepsychward 😳

    • @SuperSaiyanD48
      @SuperSaiyanD48 ปีที่แล้ว +49

      Spiked tongues, remember?

    • @manowa3395
      @manowa3395 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@straightfromthepsychward Aw hell naw shawty licking his cheeks off

    • @sonicstar917
      @sonicstar917 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      @@straightfromthepsychward Facial cheeks.

  • @paulmcwilliams8641
    @paulmcwilliams8641 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    You should look up Jim Corbett, who wrote lots of books about man eating cats when he served as a commissioner in India. He thought that it was injuries that made many animals turn to hunting humans. He also thought that once they had tasted human flesh, they shunned their normal prey thereafter. I believe I read somewhere that in Fiji, where cannibalism was an acceptable practice for captured competitive tribesmen, the word for these unfortunate souls translated into English as "Long Pigs".

  • @savagegang3574
    @savagegang3574 ปีที่แล้ว

    I Really Really Need More Of This Type Of Content, This Is My Type Of Netflix & Chill Content I Love To Learn.

  • @Leo-ok3uj
    @Leo-ok3uj ปีที่แล้ว +1250

    0:00 Disclaimer
    0:13 Lions
    4:02 Sharks
    5:38 Americans
    6:28 Sloth Bear
    8:13 Crocodiles and Jungle
    10:26 Gustavus
    13:23 Hyenas
    14:30 The Maneater of Champawat

    • @samuelhunter4631
      @samuelhunter4631 ปีที่แล้ว +232

      I like how you put Americans as a category...that Captain was done DIRTY fr

    • @TheRibottoStudios
      @TheRibottoStudios ปีที่แล้ว +148

      I like that you added in the Americans. Because what those people did to him was worse than the sharks. At least the sharks made it quick. This was just long and drawn out. Awful.

    • @zeroxblossom5670
      @zeroxblossom5670 ปีที่แล้ว +39

      “Americans”

    • @wontrespond8064
      @wontrespond8064 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      ​@@zeroxblossom5670 true, USA politics

    • @shvvagier4951
      @shvvagier4951 ปีที่แล้ว +39

      Ah yes my favourite animals, the americans

  • @MilkenGamer42
    @MilkenGamer42 ปีที่แล้ว +408

    I remember learning about Gustav in high school. Allegedly, he survived a rocket launcher blast. I still think he's the most badass creature to ever walk this earth.

    • @petersteffes5408
      @petersteffes5408 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      @@highcountrydelatite elaborate bro

    • @Nintendonicke
      @Nintendonicke ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Would have been ironic if they used a Carl Gustaf.

    • @angusdelaney905
      @angusdelaney905 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      No fucking way, not even an elephant can survive a direct hit from a rocket

    • @MilkenGamer42
      @MilkenGamer42 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      @@angusdelaney905 probably not a direct hit, but being within blast radius is possible

    • @joshuasingh560
      @joshuasingh560 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      I believe a human life is the most valuable and important one out of the entirety of the animals kingdom, that being said an crocodile that is hard core enough to hunt hippos is a true wonder of nature

  • @darnell16player
    @darnell16player ปีที่แล้ว +3

    The Ramee island story is what gets me! Sure I know Ballen has covered it but having a different story teller on it sure makes it fresh in that way

  • @stephanieharness3049
    @stephanieharness3049 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I really like this style of content. This is great work!

  • @LocustWarlord
    @LocustWarlord ปีที่แล้ว +516

    Gustave and the Tsavo Lions were probably the most terrifying of them all. One of the lions was shot several times at close range with a rifle and even as it was in it's death throes it STILL tried to kill the guy who shot it.
    Gustave has a kill count of allegedly 300 plus and is borderline unkillable given the scars on his body indicate that people have tried and failed. Unlike most of these animals listed, Gustave *might still be out there*

    • @spingus_bingus987
      @spingus_bingus987 ปีที่แล้ว +59

      It's reported that, while unlikely, Gustave may have survived a blast from a rocket launcher that barely missed him. He's surprisingly durable. His skin had gotten so thick that the only widely available gun in that area (an ak-47) wouldn't even pierce his hide. The only effective way to get Gustave to get away wa to drop a live grenade in the water, which shows just how intelligent this reptile is.

    • @orinaoz8686
      @orinaoz8686 ปีที่แล้ว +45

      r we sure gustave is a normal croc? he seems way too powerful to have gotten those mutations in a handful of generations.

    • @ConstantChaos1
      @ConstantChaos1 ปีที่แล้ว +43

      Allow me to make the hyena slightly more terrifying, unlike in humans, hyenas have a relatively low mortality from rabies meaning it didn't necessarily die, it might have just recovered from the disease and kept living its life

    • @blake3631
      @blake3631 ปีที่แล้ว +19

      @@spingus_bingus987 yeah, no. There's tough, and then there's 'take a weapon that rips apart tanks' fantasy. Regardless of surviving a close impact (which he likely wouldn't), there would be the countless sharpnel that would imbed and infect him, which is lethal in the wild.
      Additionally, his size would make it pretty hard to miss him, so the whole 'he could still be out there' thing is bogus.

    • @nuggetgod2618
      @nuggetgod2618 ปีที่แล้ว +42

      @@blake3631 the whole "he could still be out there" thing isnt bogus, yes the rpg would've killed him, but how do we know someone even shot him with an rpg?, the real question should be "how the hell did he get that big" because normal crocodiles DONT get that big, oh and also most crocodiles are pretty much immune to diseases.

  • @thepumpkinlord643
    @thepumpkinlord643 ปีที่แล้ว +588

    “The true monsters of this story weren’t the sharks”
    A true statement about the world we live in
    Also if these videos have taught me anything its that sharks are puppies compared to dolphins

    • @2049571
      @2049571 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      I think he meant humans

    • @CT--xj5jf
      @CT--xj5jf ปีที่แล้ว +18

      @@2049571 it’s sort of obvious

    • @metallord6960
      @metallord6960 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      @griffy ye Yo, if you want to promote someone's channel then be up front about it. Don't tell people "Hey, click this link to see something scary" if it's just some food channel.

    • @gidi3250
      @gidi3250 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      @@metallord6960 it's a bot

    • @Totalinternalreflection
      @Totalinternalreflection ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Dolphin; violate your anus
      Shark; eat your torso
      American war machine; nuke your city

  • @screech9416
    @screech9416 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    The sloth bear looks so uncanny that detailed descriptions of wild dog attacks unnerve me less

  • @evanrs85
    @evanrs85 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    We need another story like this!! Loved the narration!!!

  • @jamaul1391
    @jamaul1391 ปีที่แล้ว +53

    What's even more scary about tigers is that, when you see them note that they've been watching you for the last 30 minutes, I saw this one video with a guy in an elephant's back and as they were going through what looks to be a rice field, you hear the tiger roar, and the thing is, you don't see it until it literally leaped of the grass and over the elephant and almost taking off one of the guys hands with one quick swipe, like it ran through the bushes but you couldn't see or hear it, only it's roar, it's fur might look like one of the worst camouflage but it's actually one of the best

    • @alejandroelluxray5298
      @alejandroelluxray5298 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      For us is visible, but for many animals, that orange that makes it stand out for us, is completely green. This means that, for many animals tigers hunt... They are like ghosts before they strike, that perspective is simply horrifying

  • @gudboah4688
    @gudboah4688 ปีที่แล้ว +189

    The story of the man-eating lions of Tsavo is probably the scariest story I’ve ever heard. I think what makes the story so scary is that it taps into the primal fear of man.

    • @thestarseeker8196
      @thestarseeker8196 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      People very very very easily forget today that there's a reason we made it out of the bush

    • @alansalgado2740
      @alansalgado2740 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      There’s a movie on it. The Ghost and the Darkness

    • @Gr8tBlueHeron
      @Gr8tBlueHeron ปีที่แล้ว +10

      If you haven't read John Patterson's "The Man-eaters of Tsavo" I highly recommend it. At the beginning of the film Ghost and the Darkness it says "even the most unbelievable parts of this story are true.". Well, it's more like "ONLY the most incredible parts are true." Patterson recounts it in such a matter-of-fact way, but the horror of the incident is not diminished.

    • @gabrielvasquez5167
      @gabrielvasquez5167 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      I think whats scarier was the companies disregard for han life. No one helped them and those poor men suffered alone. No creature is scarier than a human.

    • @lisacarr8654
      @lisacarr8654 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@alansalgado2740 it's my favourite film I got put voted to name either of our leonbergers tsavo. My son was all for watching it until told him it's a true story and happened then got a big nope from him

  • @misterjoshua5720
    @misterjoshua5720 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    The single best ad transition I've seen since your last one. Well done.

  • @JuanPeron007
    @JuanPeron007 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Wow man. This was sooo well done. Thanks for the info and the art

  • @IlluminateRanch
    @IlluminateRanch ปีที่แล้ว +335

    This video certainly was different. He stopped using his usual censors like "chalk outline" "unalive" and "statistic" for the most part. The whole thing has a completely different atmosphere from anything else that's been made on this channel, and I love it.

    • @beastmaster0934
      @beastmaster0934 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      That’s when you know shit is about to get dark.

    • @SakuraMoonflower
      @SakuraMoonflower ปีที่แล้ว +19

      He did say "Took (x number) of people off the census" which of course is a euphemism we understand the meaning of. But other than that, he was incredibly respectful of the fact that the families of the deceased and who endured these terrors are very much alive and traumatized by what happened- and he was being very empathetic to that fact while creating this video. :)

    • @metallord6960
      @metallord6960 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      ​@The Owl Yo, if you want to promote someone's channel then be up front about it. Don't tell people "Hey, click this link to see something scary" if it's just some food channel.

    • @zacharyseiders5793
      @zacharyseiders5793 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Halloween, got to make these scary animals scary.

    • @JoshuaIfidi
      @JoshuaIfidi ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @@SakuraMoonflower expect the sponsor transition lmao that shit was vile

  • @smith9747
    @smith9747 ปีที่แล้ว +152

    The Tsavo lions also got a really good movie adaption called "The Ghost and the Darkness", starring Val Kilmer and Michael Douglas. It's a great 90s flick that really captures how scary it must have been for those being hunted by these two lions and gives them even a mysterious, unnatural aura.

    • @TheLalacream
      @TheLalacream ปีที่แล้ว +5

      I remember watching it as a kid, had it on a good old vcr XD. Freaked me tf out, but I still watched it again from time to time.

    • @RipOffProductionsLLC
      @RipOffProductionsLLC ปีที่แล้ว +4

      There's also a video on them by Bob Gymlan that is fantastically narrated and illustrated

    • @stirling84
      @stirling84 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Loved this too as a kid but honestly had no idea it was a true story. Pretty damn amazed to have learned this and will probably go watch it again tonight

    • @jenniferroach4153
      @jenniferroach4153 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      I just commented this, I’m glad someone else remembered and pointed it out. Very good movie and I’m not a movie person.

    • @flyboy6392
      @flyboy6392 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Those lions are now actually taxidermy in the Field Museum in Chicago, I used to see them every time we went!

  • @DarioT1210
    @DarioT1210 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Hope for a part 2 next Halloween. Brown Bear of Sakebeksu, Lions Of Njome, so many more stories about man eaters in history out there. Great episode and channel

  • @danielh3668
    @danielh3668 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    That advert transition was a work of art on its own
    Of course, great video as usual

  • @dproduzioni
    @dproduzioni ปีที่แล้ว +482

    When he said "the true monsters of the story... weren't the sharks" I realized that this is true for most of Casual Geographic stories...

    • @alexsookhoo9919
      @alexsookhoo9919 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      I can see casual geographic actually loves animals, something I appreciate a lot, humans are usually the worst monsters.

    • @itsjustme8947
      @itsjustme8947 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Nothing has killed more humans than humans and the worst motivator of those deaths has always been religion.

    • @cmcapps1963
      @cmcapps1963 ปีที่แล้ว

      Yeah, it's usually chimps.
      Just kidding. Yeah, the captain's treatment was brutal.

  • @ElazarYershovFilms
    @ElazarYershovFilms ปีที่แล้ว +816

    Gustave was a real one. Terrifying and gigantic, full of raw power.

    • @victoriamilk2865
      @victoriamilk2865 ปีที่แล้ว +73

      Yeah, it's really chilling since he also has nord vpn

    • @lifeexists317
      @lifeexists317 ปีที่แล้ว +25

      @@victoriamilk2865 yea he gave 3 options but we all know he had nord vpn

    • @dodowhisperer2114
      @dodowhisperer2114 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      Fr, there's footage of him near a group of hippos and they were scared shitless

    • @starlight0313
      @starlight0313 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@dodowhisperer2114 wait are you actually u/DodoWhisperer1?

    • @khatunkona7897
      @khatunkona7897 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      "Was"?

  • @filipemecenas
    @filipemecenas 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    I used to watched "when the animals atack" you are the best modern version of it , thanks