The anaconda actually did not snap at the plane. It had no intent on attacking the plane. It just wanted to get a closer look at a HIGHLY RESPECTED COLONEL.
Many errors in story: See RU-vid video, "Giant Snake Congo 1959" to see correct story. Year: 1959, Helicopter, not plane. Snake 50 FEET long with head 2 ft wide and 3 ft long. Snake prepared to strike as HELICOPTER hovered over it 25 to 30 feet in the air. TITANABOA, quite possibly, or a close cousin, is what the evidence suggests.
I love these chill relaxed conversations about giant snakes followed by Google searches, reminds me of when me and my uncle used to browse the web when I was like 8 looking for aliens bigfoot and weird animals.
@@matt59firehonestly not as hot of a take as you would think, the TLDR of it is it would help recreate the steppe ecosystem in the Arctic to promote grasslands and also slow the thawing of the frozen soils.
My grandmother is Brasilian and she said that in the 1930's and 40's while she was growing men WERE eaten by a large snakes. She is a no nonsense kind of person. She mentioned it very casually one day and when I asked her about it years later she confirmed and looked at me as of I was questioning common knowledge.
grandmas are really no nonsense kind of ppl. so i def believe her!!! imagine there have been alot of adult men/women ate by giant snakes. just has gone undocumented due to it happening in the middle of no where. especially down in the Amazon....
After only a few years of watching, I’m convinced that all fans of Joe love to watch him discuss crazy animals, martial arts, and survival situations with people
fans of JR are also fans of the same things/have similar interests in things discussed on the show. more news at 11 .....that's generally how being a fan of someone/something works
Yeah but I call BS on the guys who took the pic. 100ft snake and they only take 1 pic and take off. BS, anyone would stay, take pics, look at it for awhile. OH ha ha, I just got to the part where the clip said its not true. Good now I can delete my post without sending it and nobody will ever know that I was going to comment before watching the whole cli
The thing with a lot of reptile species, is they dont stop growing if they have enough food supply and an area big enough for them to function in. You see similarities in fish too where the fish wont grow bigger than a fish bowl- relative to its size so it still has room to swim. Its a weird phenomenon but it makes sense. Especially where the snake wouldnt have a ton of natural predators- or if someone brought a species from another country. Who knows, its an intriguing story
you're absolute right. Luckily there is still room for nature without humans in it and in those dense rainforest its possible that there are snakes bigger then we know. people just caught something and measures it and say this is the biggest animal while having no idea of bigger possibilties elsewhere. Then they put like a max size for that certain animal and limit other claims of bigger ones because they haven't been verified yet. So for those who doesn't need vertification its a higher possibilities that there are bigger snakes out there then that we have caught exactly the biggest living one. I mean scientist always make an indication of how many animals of certain species are alive while never knowing the nummer and having no idea how big they are
Almost 20 years ago I visited a village 4 hours up the Rio Negro river outside of Manaus Brazil. One of the native villagers told us about an Anaconda that had climbed over the side of a small boat that was anchored near the shore…it was so heavy it tipped the boat over and sank it. The villagers ended up working together to kill it so it wouldn’t do it again or be a danger to their children. They unrolled the skin and it was just shy of 30 feet. It was as wide as my torso. It was amazing.
@@sdawg573If it was capsizing boats, which they probably can't afford to replace and are most likely their means of obtaining food. It's unfortunate but they have to remove a threat to their own survival.
Correction: The heaviest snakes are anacondas. The longest snakes are reticulated pythons. I own an 18' reticulated python who's 100 lbs. An 18' anaconda would be much heavier.
@@JoseRodriguez-ey7ju hangin out, chilling.. you know, just bro stuff. Seriously though, she's very cool and laid back. My 2 daughters have both held her (10 and 13).
Here in Manaus, the Amazon has a history that fishermen fish a snake in the 70s, and that snake was 17 meters long. Nowadays these fishermen have already died but the family members confirm the story until today. my grandfather tells me that there were several sightings in the 70s of a snake that exceeded 15 meters in the amazon river.
@@sandylynn7343 thats irrelevant in this comment. Seems like youre a musk fan ot something but this isnt a musk video nor does most on here care about him
I want to go hunt some in Florida soooo bad, but my buddies with boats are all PUSSIES!!!! LOL a bunch of country boys who love to hunt and fish and they're scared of those snakes.... I'M READY!!!
I was visiting a tribe in the Amazon rainforrest back in 2016, Where some of the tribe people told me that they not to Long ago had a 36ft anaconda that attacked one of their cattle. And because one of the tribe members tried to separate the snake from the cattle it attacked her. The tribe lady showed me her scar and it was massive, i would say about 2ft in diameter on her shoulder. Ever since that day i started beliveing in giant snakes roaming the Amazon Rain forrest.
Belgian pilot Remy Van Lierde said that while flying over the wilderness of Katanga province (southeastern Belgian Congo) in 1959, he spotted and photographed a giant snake 15 meters long, describing it as having dark brown and green coloring, with a three-foot long head and a white belly. He also said that as he flew in order to have a closer inspection, the reptile rose up to about 3 meters, making it look like it would have attacked the helicopter if it had been within reach. And so came the legend of the giant Congo snake.
Many errors in story: See RU-vid video, "Giant Snake Congo 1959" to see correct story. Year: 1959, Helicopter, not plane. Snake 50 FEET long with head 2 ft wide and 3 ft long. Snake prepared to strike as HELICOPTER hovered over it 25 to 30 feet in the air. TITANABOA, quite possibly, or a close cousin, is what the evidence suggests.
@cindy.4 Titanoboa 45ft to 50 ft estimated length lived in Columbia not Africa the largest snake in Africa is the African Rock python 19ft in total length.
The giant Congo snake was in a hole or depression which could have been a bai of mineral rich area, a salt lick and my guess is the snake made full use of the abundance of game to achieve such a size. This has also been observed for anacondas in the Amazon basin... staking out salt licks for prey.
Yet has no idea what the difference between Venomous and Poisonous is. This guy is a joke, and giant anacondas are not a myth. P.S. My profile name is intended to highlight the difference.
There was an episode of river monsters where Jeremy went swimming looking for one and right at the end of the episode he comes across one that’s curled up at the bottom of the river and it honestly looks like the biggest snake ever found. It is absolutely massive. Giant snakes are so cool.
@@jrporter50 lol said that at the same time i read your comment lol I'm apparently as mature as a teenage boy. I guess raising 2 boys has actually warped my ability to adult lol
Forest actually has it backwards The anaconda has been clocked as the heaviest snake in the world whereas the reticulated python has been clocked as the longest snake in the world
100% correct. burmese and retics are the 2 longest. anaconda heavisets and by far strongest. also have more teeth and larger teeth so the bite it self hurt a lot more. also has a different profile head. so ur 100% correct.
I talked to an American Missionary who was in the Amazon in the 50s and 60s and she said there is a tale of the “Boa Grange” through every tribe. She said one time she was cutting their way through the forrest. She got tired so she sat down and leaned against a log and the “log” moved. She said it was 3ft in diameter and didn’t stick around to see how long it was. She also said they were motoring down a tributary in a smaller boat and had to stop and weight for a snake to finish crossing the river. She estimated the river at that spot was 30 ft wide and couldn’t see its head on one bank and its tail on the other bank. She said “atleast” 50 ft on that one.
A reticulated python was once measured officially 33' And a anaconda was guest to measure 33' but weighed over 440 with a 44in girth . The anaConda is known as the heaviest snake and a reticulated python the longest
Many errors in story: See RU-vid video, "Giant Snake Congo 1959" to see correct story. Year: 1959, Helicopter, not plane. Snake 50 FEET long with head 2 ft wide and 3 ft long. Snake prepared to strike as HELICOPTER hovered over it 25 to 30 feet in the air. TITANABOA, quite possibly, or a close cousin, is what the evidence suggests.
The WW2 story of the giant Congo snake spotted by the three airmen gets even crazier. When analyzed by some experts they estimate that if the snake in the photo is genuine, it would even dwarf the Titanoboa, a prehistoric species of Python that was said to be the largest snake in the fossil record. That's absolutely insane.
Actual calculations set it on 60 feet which would be roughly 20 feet longer than the biggest specimen ever found. The fishermen of the congo who saw this in real life(you can actually see some clips nowdays) say it's at least three times there boat but think it's bigger than that. There boats are 13 to 14 feet long. I researched some time ago abt the Congo in general, what ever lived there was massiv back in the 20th Reptiles Snakes spiders primates you name it it was there even sights of Dinosaures it's really fascinating to research local the sightings etc.
There are some places in the rain forest in CONGO that still remain undiscovered by human being but you can find local habitants call the Pygmées who reported to have seen some of the biggest animals humans ever witnessed "Giant Gorilla, Snakes, Crocodiles"
I was just about to comment about a freind of mine from Congo who’d tell us about those things and how they’re as tall as the trees if they’re stood up.. wild.
@@rudigernaseweis9811 Not really possible. The Titanoboa is the single largest ever found, from some 200 million years ago, and the difference is in both the deforestation of these places and also the Oxygen levels being much lower now than they were even some 200 years ago, let alone 200 million years ago.
As a young black kid growing up in the inner city (East Brooklyn, NY) , seeing Ice Cube fight those huge ass Anacondas scared the Be-Jesus outta me. That thing come by my house imma kill it 😂
The way Joe switches Forrest over so effortlessly from trying to explain something he's more passionate about at the moment to a crazy animal😂😂 "WHAT ARE YOUR THOUGHTS... ON GIANT ANACONDAS?"just all abrupt 😭
This is because Rogan is not a news anchor. He’s mostly just a regular guy. Either you get a highly polished interviewer who is just a scummy journalist, or you get a regular guy like Rogan who is not always so polished, but is only concerned with picking the brains of his awesome guests.
When I was 12 I was living with my mother along with some of my siblings in Birmingham Alabama for the summer and the local library had a reptile snake day. The library had a showing with a reptile specialist that brought several different reptiles plus several species of snakes. One of the snakes was a Albino Burmese Python it was a beautiful golden yellow and orange over 10 feet I want to say it was around 12-13 feet long. When the reptile specialist was done showing off the albino python they asked if anyone wanted to hold the Python. I definitely did but I was quite young and small cause I was Chronically ill at the time but my older brother went with me to the library reptile show so with my brothers help and the help of the reptile specialist I was able to hold the Albino Burmese Python. I'll never forget how awesome and powerful that snake felt even though it was very calm and relaxed at the time. I've always been very into animals and knowing about the wild I loved animal/wilderness documentaries and even went to a special Rain Forest class for two years. So when I was able to hold that beautiful animal I was so amped.
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my all time favorite was Joe Rogan Experience #1272 w/Lindsay Fitzharris. Her story telling. crazy ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-R5LGrwcCgM8.html
I love how much info I get from him but translated in a way that I'm just hearing stories from a friend. He's so passionate about his life and experiences and you can see the excitement and I truly believe everything he says he's done. Bravo to you sir for being an incredible person and sharing your stories with us 🙏❤️
Forrest Galante is back and he's back with a bang, one of Joe's most interesting podcast guests. The giant Congo snake story is pretty wild yet believable.
The picture has yet to be confirmed as a hoax. So maybe it is real. But then there is this thing with perspectives. It could possibly be a real picture of a 5meter snake. if taken from the right angle. But then again that would mean that the witnesses were lying through their teeth. And why would a respected person do that?
Forrest has it the other way around. Anacondas are wider and heavier than retics but don’t grow quite as long. The longest snake in captivity is a reticulated python named Medusa at 25 ft long.
Many errors in story: See RU-vid video, "Giant Snake Congo 1959" to see correct story. Year: 1959, Helicopter, not plane. Snake 50 FEET long with head 2 ft wide and 3 ft long. Snake prepared to strike as HELICOPTER hovered over it 25 to 30 feet in the air. TITANABOA, quite possibly, or a close cousin, is what the evidence suggests.
It is very difficult to estimate sizes like length and distance when you are up in the air like that. If you get the idea that things around it are bigger than they really are (like bushes or trees) you will think something near it is twice as big as it really is.
Thanks Joe for yet another great podcast. My favorite all time. Just binge watched all of Forrest’s videos on Discovery. Dude is nuts but hands down the best since Steve Irwin.
I have been in love with tropical places ever since i was a child. I now moved to Philipines, and was so happy to see for the first time a wild giant monitor lizard. I am in love with this place. I was in Peru and very close to visiting the Amazon, but alas it was not meant to be. One of the great regrets of my life
Fossilized snakes have been found in South Australia that mesured up to 60 feet, but they were extinct long before the arrival of humans. The cave where the snakes (and many other mega-fauna fossils) were found is open to the public and has some of the bones are on display. I been there a couple of times, well worth the visit.
@@DrGooseDuckman i’ve personally seen live snakes that were easily over 700ft long with the head about 15 x 20‘ it tried to attack me but I just hit it with a spinning backfist
When I was a kid, a missionary from the Amazon brought a snake skin to our church. It stretched across the front of the church. The church had two long pews and a center aisle and an aisle on each side. I realize that skins stretch when dried. However, that would me a close to 30 foot snake in my mind.
Bro is it just me or did Forrest get some things wrong in this episode. Considering hes a wildlife expert these were some hard mistakes to make aswell.
@@jamz17eah, 30-50 foot anacondas, pythons being the heaviest snake etc. he mixed the retic and anaconda size and weight. Green anacondas are the heaviest at 500 pounds, while retics are the longest at 33 feet confirmed.
That area of the congo that the monster snake was seen has a history of giant serpents that I think dates back to when Europeans first started venturing over there. Think there was an old story of a group of noble people going out to slay such beasts in that area.
Brazillian here. Boiúna is the name of the "giant anaconda." It had been a legend among the tribes of that region long before it was known among modern societies. The interesting fact about the stories is their almost mystical intelligence and aggressiveness, both in African and South American mythology.
@@caspar_gomez makes sense.. back in the day insects were big as well.. man it would be awesome to time travel to this but maybe in a safe bubble so they wouldn't eat me 🤣
I think there is always the possibility of single individuals being way above average e.g. due to acromegaly (to much growth hormone: mutation, a benign tumor,...), and that should especially be possible with animals that grow all their life. So between "all a hoax" and "such a species exists" there is the middle ground of "it is possible that somebody encountered one freakishly long snake because that snake was a freak".
@@bradleywalker8642 I actually meant 30 meter. There are rumors about snakes that big living in the Amazon delta. Cryptozoologists talk about two giant species called Succuriju Gigante and Cobra Grande. But there is absolutely no scientific evidence that they exist. Still, the local tribes believe in them. But I myself find a snake of 30 meter ridiculous. It would be cool in a kind of scary way. But no. I don't believe it. But a 10m Anaconda. That I can believe. The official record is 8.45m. But i find it ridiculous to think that humans have seen the biggest Anaconda there ever was. And with gigantism a la Wadlow, I believe a 10m Anaconda is not only possible, but very probable.
This is how grandiose rumors get started when it comes to things like this. It was already impressive enough that the snake captured in that pic was thought to be about 50 ft. But when he described it before looking it up, it was 100 ft long, and struck at the low flying plane, when what really happened was it lifted it's head and got into a position to strike. It might not be intentional, but it just shows how easily stories get changed.
right, lol, dude just casually doubles the size of the snake and most don't even seem to have picked up on that detail. Imagine how much inaccurate info gets spewed on these podcasts.
Ilove when Rogan instantly cuts through 50% of the added SPICE his guest just threw at him, without rubbing it in and embarrassing him... Fact is, we all tend to sensationalize our stories
Minor correction: longest snake in the world is the reticulated python. It is the snake that most commonly reaches 6 meters (20 feet) and the world record length specimen was 32 feet long (9 meters). The Anaconda though, is the heaviest snake with the heaviest ever being a monstrous 27 footer that weight in at about 500lbs.
Many errors in story: See RU-vid video, "Giant Snake Congo 1959" to see correct story. Year: 1959, Helicopter, not plane. Snake 50 FEET long with head 2 ft wide and 3 ft long. Snake prepared to strike as HELICOPTER hovered over it 25 to 30 feet in the air. TITANABOA, quite possibly, or a close cousin, is what the evidence suggests.
I remember running into a bunch of these snakes when I went looking for blood orchids in the Amazon. They’re a flower that blooms once every 7 years for 2 weeks and they’re the key to long life, unfortunately the anacondas were eating them and grew to enormous sizes. They ate half the crew including one guy who betrayed us by caring more about the flowers the money he’d make than his friends. Luckily he got eaten in the end. Never got those flowers though. This was around 2004 I believe. Overall the experience kind of sucked. Personally I’d give it 25 out of 100.
There are massive snakes and other animals in Central and East Africa. I was very interested in his story about the Colonel flying over Belgian Congo. I spent six months there a few years ago working private security and witnessed crazy large animals. Kane rats that were 3 ft long (I have pictures lol). One of my other partners from the US witnessed a snake that was over 40 feet in length crossing the road in front of one of his vehicles where he couldn't see either the head or tail for quite some time crossing the road which was 30 feet wide itself. There is quite a bit there left to be explored.
@Sam Kostos you should have listened to the video before you commented. He referenced a story from 80 years ago where a Belgian Colonel had seen a 50 foot snake from his aircraft.
Then go do it, man! Exploring the world's deepest reaches and discovering and studying different incredible animals and ancient/old cultures/civilizations sounds like an incredible way to live. I believe in you and I'd love to see you have enough experience to share said experiences on platforms like RU-vid. We need many more people like Forest, remember whether you believe you can or you can't your right.
@@ricardosantiago6273 yeah i'm definitely waiting for winter to end so i can go back to exploring on foot. i'v already planned multiple multi day hikes and once i am able to walk those without a problem i'll sell all i have and leave to just wander the world. i hope to find some amazing places and people!
Just to clarify, the Reticulated python is the LONGEST and the Anaconda is the most MASSIVE, or heaviest species. Keep the content coming though love these two ✌️
Many errors in story: See RU-vid video, "Giant Snake Congo 1959" to see correct story. Year: 1959, Helicopter, not plane. Snake 50 FEET long with head 2 ft wide and 3 ft long. Snake prepared to strike as HELICOPTER hovered over it 25 to 30 feet in the air. TITANABOA, quite possibly, or a close cousin, is what the evidence suggests.
