GRUESOME FINDS at Deadman's Island - Hovercraft History Hunters 

Medical professional here. For those who are curious, I had a ton of fun ID'ing them for you guys! 13:35 - fragment of a fibula 19:10 - 1st metatarsal 21:00 - fragment of a tibia 21:23 - femur 22:45 - fibula (not a child's, luckily!) 24:14 - humerus 24:25 - scapula (mostly intact) 24:57 - skull fragment (hole is the foramen magnum) 26:28 - pelvis (pubis, likely male) 26:56 - femur 27:10 - humerus and ulna (very likely from the same arm!) 27:14 - fragment of a femur (most definitely a child's) 27:21 - fragment of a pelvis 27:30 - a horse's 3rd metatarsal 27:50 - femur (that one could have possibly been a preteen/teenager's or just someone very petite) 28:03 - fragment of a tibia (that one's from a pretty damn big dude) 28:12 - 2nd rib 28:13 - fragment of a humerus 28:35 - fragment of a tibia 28:45 - fragment of a radius 28:54 - femur 31:01 - mandible 32:00 - tibia 32:02 - radius and femur (someone very short) 32:10 - mostly ribs and tibias, child's mandible 32:41 - fibula, rib, and mandible 32:54 - fragment of a femur 33:00 - humerus 33:04 - tibia 33:09 - two ulnas 33:18 - rib and tibia 33:23 - ulna 33:30 - skull, scapula, or pelvic fragment (I'm unsure, but leaning toward pelvis because it's so thick) 34:19 - various ribs, tibias, radiuses, ulnas, fibulas, femurs, humeruses, and mandibles (including a child's) 34:40 - part of an ulna (the radius and ulna look quite twisty and odd, especially if they're in pieces) 34:49 - tibia 35:00 - tibia 36:20 - humerus 37:29 - mandible, deformed (syphilis vs congenital vs other) 37:35 - mandible, likely congenital deformation 38:43 - fragment of a sacrum (the holes are for a large network of nerves to pass through. Not sure about arthritis, though. It's so damaged I don't think anyone could tell) Thank you so much for putting this up, guys! I found it fascinating and I hope that ID'ing some of the remains helps give a little human identity back to these poor souls. May their next life be better than the last.

Two types of people in this world "I'm not touching that" and "It's not gonna hurt you"

I’d feel pretty good someone was lookin at my bones thinking bout who I was

I’m british and live near Kent but I’ve never heard of dead mans island ! I never knew a place like this could be in the UK. This is amazing

It's heartbreaking. That there's no value in them, that they're not in a museum, that they're not reburried, that their remains are strewn about with debris and trash washed up in the surf. They had no value when alive, and no value when dead. I am thankful to have seen this. It definitely brings more awareness to it, and to how things used to be. There are quite a few bones that don't look adult here. I wish some of those kids had found and made better lives for themselves. But I suppose we all end up bones in the end.

The people buried there have rested in peace, they are in a place no one disturbs and have slowly returned to nature , I'd rather be buried there than in a cemetery by a busy road in a town.

This is crazy. Never saw anything like this on RU-vid before.

So sad, all those lost souls. You're right Si, they deserve a burial :(

Great video, Si. Thank you for shedding light on this dark part of history and for giving those poor people a voice in the modern age. They should not be forgotten.

How horrible those prison ships must have been and it's so sad to think that children were in them.

Am I the only one who also felt sad for the horse?

Why am I watching someone try to piece together two pieces of someone’s skull like a puzzle..

I'm super happy that they're so respectful when it came to the bones, they made sure they put them back where they were found.

Crazy to see how bones are helping the creatures have a home & how bones don't decay for centuries

I think there should be a paranormal investigation of this place mate.

A constant reminder how short life is and how fast a few hundred years can be in a grand scheme of time. Enjoy your time on earth people.

Thank you for teaching me something new. I'm sure it was a little uncomfortable for you at first but this was an important story to be told, for those of us who weren't very familiar.

The bone at 39:03 is a human sacrum (five vertebrae that fuse together by the time we reach our teens). The human body is amazing!

It would be cool if they could get DNA from those teeth and track down close relatives for burials or just remembrance.

I need to move to a place that has some ACTUAL history so I can do stuff like this. Oldest stuff I find is circa 1970

Hi there Si - So I would imagine that witnessing this was a very moving experience. How very disturbing that knowing that some of these souls were children doing their best to survive during desperate times . Thank you Si for bringing this to light and sharing.

This is sad. To think anyone let alone a child’s bones are scattered in mud to be washed away and forgotten with no dignity in life or death. You have made us remember times were very very hard and living was hard and unforgiving even for young babes

I've just come across your video, and I'm absolutely in awe of what you do. You've gone to these places of historical interest, and used an everyday point of view. Thank you so much for the way you've done this, treated the site with respect, and not just took everything you found as a sort of trophy. I'm hooked. Please keep the vids coming. Love it 👍

Looks quite mundane in the summer sunlight but imagine being there in the winter with the sea mist swirling around! That's one creepy place!

I was really impressed by the amount of respect you showed for those unfortunate people.

Sorry just browsing through your old videos, wow Steve with short hair, and the hovercrafting looks so much fun My convict 4th great-grandfather was on a prison hulk for a short time before being transported to Australia. The finds on the island may be gruesome but also a bit interesting, thank you for showing us this bit of history

I think that it would be interesting to find one of those labs that do ancient DNA and see if they can be identified through something like Ancestry DNA or other services.

You Guessed it Guys - The Last Bone you showed is the Sacral Vertebra (yes they are fused in the body), the little holes are where the Sacral nerves would have come out and attach to tissue. This bone is just before the Coccyx (tail bone). Thanks !

Love how the bloke is chugging down on a dart while he takes the hovercraft for a “test run”. Authentic. 🚬

What a hard, cruel life those people must have led. This leaves me sad that they aren't able to find any dignity even in death.

Important to share the history. That way we never forget. It's always bothered me when I see an improper burial of any creature, especially human. There definitely needs to be some type of memorial erected for such loss of life. Thank you for sharing Sci!

Fascinating video guys! Something very melancholy about it. I agree those exposed remains should be given a final resting place. They lived such sad unlucky lives.

The bones you discover around the 37-38 min mark appear to be from someone who may have had some type of syndrome, looking at the over elongated jaw line and shortened mandible with maligned teeth. Would not surprise me if people with disability would be in this lot. God rest their souls.

27:34 - Tiny crab tries to run for it. Gets squashed under giant hunk of wood. Then trod on. RIP little guy. :( We didn't even know his name. :'(

The spare rib banter... priceless 😂

One of my early ancestors was deported from Quebec to Australia after the french uprising against the British. He spent three years there then some how made it back to Quebec! I would not want to go to sea on one of those wooden boats, yikes

At 25:33 'That's mental' putting a skull back together :D lol

Just found your channel today- much love from Rhode Island, USA!

Hi. I’ve just found these videos and have been binge watching for the weekend. My 5th great grandfather was imprisoned on the hulk ship fortitude. He was sentenced to 14years for stealing 5 Bushels of wheat in 1834! He had 5 children to feed and ended up being transported to New South Wales. So glad he never ended up on this island.

The teeth are in remarkably good shape for what I would have imagined. Thank you for showing this .

Oh Si, what have you done to me? This is truly heartbreaking! It gives new meaning to Les Mis. I wish you could have lit the candle in respect, but you did report the remains though so that’s good. Take Care.

I agree that the bones should be collected and reinterred in a graveyard. Not just for the sake of those who died but also to prevent the bones from washing up in other areas of the mainland.

Part of the ship. Part of the crew.

To be forgotten is more painful than death itself. All of this bones reminds us that someday we also gonna join them but hopefully we buried in proper way.

Great stuff. Air boat looks like a blast ! Thanks for taking us along on your adventures

@ 11:54 Nolet Schiedam Holland. Genever bottle, genever, the British call it Gin. Late 17th begin 18th century. As a man born in Schiedam, its a nice artifact

Thank you for sensitively showing us this,I never knew it was there, my 3rd GG was on Convict Hulk in Portsmouth, he got transported on the Oriental Queen to Tasmania for stealing Peas.

That hovercraft thing looks like SO much fun! I'd love to go on an adventure like this.

Your channel is getting better and bigger. Nice drone footage and new ideas. I like the hovercraft usage. Great job.

This is glorious. Amazingly interesting and very well done. I'm hooked on your channel now ❤

Men are such kids!Its nice to see a more playful version of mudlarking!Keeep the fun coming lads and the history lessons. After seeing more it is actually very sad and shocking.Hope these lost souls are finally at rest....

Epic video, Thanks, May they all rest in piece

"pick it up" Steve "I don't want to pick it up" PICK IT UP Steve picks it up

The wooden stakes tell anyone with a boat, that when the tides out this will be dry land. So if you come across the too of some wooden stakes, it let's you know that at some point in the day, this is dry land.

Go back at night and see what you hear or see, that would be a great video.

You are right, there are no words to describe what you have found. You have shown respect for these people, and we thank you for it. Your videos are amazing, I enjoy your narrative and bits of history.

Happy you found so many great bottles. Can't believe the government doesn't take some action to remove the remains of these unfortunate people and give them a decent burial somewhere.

at least the snails on the island have plenty of calcium

I am so glad my Great-great-great grandfather and Great-great-great grandmother were both transported to Australia and not left to die on those dreadful bloody prison 🙏🙏😭😭

Si I think it would be nice if the hovercraft guys came out and collected up the exposed bones and put them in a new grave. Bless you guys for showing us some history of Britain

Very interesting. I was hunting along the Ouachita River in Arkansas after a flood event and came across a human pelvic bone and a femur. I was told by the guys that I hunted with who were locals that it is not uncommon to come across old bones uncovered by flood waters. Could be American Indians or European Settlers. No one could say for sure. I left them where I found them. Not much else to do.

Looks like so much fun to drive that, I’m a little jealous Edit: As the video goes on it hit me that all those people are unclaimed, no one knows who they are (well who they were) what there life was life, etc. It’s really sad to see this...I really hate that this happened to tons of people and no one will ever know who those people are. Hell that could be some of out relatives bones on that island or even in the video. I respect you for putting the bones back down around the same place. Edit 2: I did some research and they were buried in coffins, they were unmarked and 6 feet under the mud

The feckin ciggy butts made me laugh my feckin ass off. What a throw-back ass 😂🤣😂

Hello Si, hope you all had some fun after looking at all of those bones. It’s so depressing knowing that people of war were not properly buried. Such as life and we know back in the day it wasn’t easy to find them. Have a fantastic week ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️💜

That was a moving day, poor souls, can emagine how the past suddently came very close, may they rest in peace. Thank you for this inlightning and yet grusome story. Be safe 👍❤

That wall you found is most likely a ww1/ww2 installation that would make sense of the shrapnel you found nearby

I was up there yesterday with my dog. You can’t actually get to the island itself but you can glimpse it in the distance. It’s along the Saxon Shore Way, less than 5 minutes from where we live.

This is very sad. I am with you on giving these people a proper place of rest.

Hi Si I watched your latest video you did on Deadmans Island and I agree with what you said about all those bones of people being removed and reburied somewhere else. They were human too after all and they deserve to have a proper burial instead of just being left on an island. It was very sad to see the jawbones of children too and I know they were all prisoners but they need to be buried properly somewhere else. Deb

Never heard about this! Thank you for telling their story. Si you are so interesting!

And that's if you survived being shipped off to Australia and that's a big IF. The conditions on those ships were terrible. I can't imagine what it was like seeing the bones and jawbone with some teeth still attached. That's so nice of you guys to volunteer to help with the collection of the bones and maybe putting them all in one place. People should never be treated like they're a nuisance of society, even if they do unlawful things. The severe criminals are the ones that should go to prison but not ones that are trying to feed themselves and they are starving in their family. Starving so they steal things to feed their family. But putting children with adults is never a good idea in the criminal system. It's like Alcatraz, you wouldn't find any remains of children there, but that was built in 1934, a whole different time frame. Thank you for showing respect, I appreciate that. I was going to mention to you in the last video that I watched of how much Steve reminds me of my late hubby or he could be his brother because his mannerism, and just things that he does like putting together that VW Bug, my hubby owned a Bug back in 67or 68 and then in this video, you show a picture of Steve motocross racing and guess what? My hubby used to do the same thing. Isn't that amazing how similar they are? Thank you for another great video!!😊🌊

I love your idea of finding the bones and making a grave for them, with a small ceremony. Life was so cruel back then. I am glad you were guys were respectful

When did they start using the prison hulk's? Two of my Great Great Granddad's were sent to America in the mid 1700's as child prisoners. Both ended up fighting against there country of birth in the American revolution.

This was so interesting. I love learning about the history and appreciate u telling and showing me. Personally I don't think the bones need to b rebuired because they r turning back into nature. Nature is living on them and they r being eroded. Also I appreciate the respect u showed when handling the bones.

Equal parts sadness with facination on our shared history. So many layers of history, left a jumble.

Si the funniest video was when you found the grenade and that soldier walked right up to it and picked it up it was hilarious,love your videos!

OMG! Right before you showed the I'm assuming is a pile of bones, an ad popped in of a Ghost for Organ donors. That was weird. Lol

These human remains deserve more dignity than this. They need to be gathered and put in a mass memorial on that Island so they won't become curiosities for thrill seekers. So sad. Thanks, Simon for showing us this despicable situation.

Incredibly interesting! Would love to go on a lark like this! Well done, gents!

Interesting there are no complete skulls, probably rolled off with the tidal currents. Imagine these bones in their best moments of life, young, handsome and full of joy.

Truly sad. But it was a very educational video. Thank You.

Defo on my list to get out to dead mans island. Maybe a a collab

Steve, “not die.” Precedes to smoke with gasoline can. . . 😅

Really informative video of our past.

I'm surprised as to how well preserved the bones are seeing as they are so old and in the water 🤔

You know when I read "Hovercraft" I really was terrified y'all were gonna be riding around on an island and looking for artifacts while on those Hoverboard things that were popular a few years back.

Great video! Very interesting and sad at the same time! Those were harsh times back then.

You really need to make this a tourist thing. I would LOVE to do this!!

"What I'm about to show you is a bit gruesome so you might want to look away" *proceeds to put it as the thumbnail*

Quite an archeological oddity, that island. I concur, the bones should be gathered and reburied somewhere safe. Thanks for bringing this to our attention, Si. A sad situation! Love the hovercraft footage, though!

Omg Si, this is unreal!

I want somebody to care for me as much as you cared for those bones.

Thank you for being so respectful si.. you could hear in your voice you were extremely moved! I never new this place existed.. loving your channel.. x

Incredibly sad, but informative! I agree with a mass grave monument.

Wow....this was pretty cool man. Really been getting into your uploads as of late. GREAT JOB---Great Music

This title was the most accurate title I’ve ever seen. This is, in fact, and Island of Deadmen, an Island for Deadmen. It was distressing, honestly. Going to have to learn more about this island.

37:29 one side of the jaw bone where the teeth should be is perfectly smooth like there wasn't any teeth grew on it

Looking forward to more.

This is the second time I’ve watched this learning the history and the reason for its existence helps to understand considering the times were harsh then.

I read that boys as old as 10 years old if caught pickpocketing, were put on those prison ships as well! Wow, incredible!