His HORRIFYING Ordeal In Colorado Mountains

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This is an educational and historical look at one of the most notorious cases in Colorado history, the story of Alfred Packer and his party's winter survival expedition in the mountains. In it, we examine both the conveyed version of the events, given by Alfred, and the eventual findings of two separate juries. In particular, the specific law changes required a separate trial after Colorado's statehood. This is a survival story in the mountains like almost no other.
Writing and research by Rich Firth-Godbehere
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@thequarkchronicles2486 6 месяцев назад

You missed my favorite part of this story-the UC Boulder has a dining hall literally named after this cannibal!! In 1970, a group of students proposed the name “Alferd Packer Memorial Cafeteria” as a joke about how bad their food was; they gained a lot of momentum & eventually got it approved by the Board of Regents! Story is that the administration saw this as a concession to the increasingly rowdy student body, in the hopes that this would appease them enough that they wouldn’t join the nationwide Vietnam War university protests… otherwise I can’t see why they’d approve this move. The Alferd Packer Memorial Cafeteria was given the official slogan: “Have a friend for lunch!” Absolutely bizarre and unhinged bit of history. I love it

@KingRumar 6 месяцев назад

This comment should be pinned

@ErikaTBus 6 месяцев назад

That's morbidly hilarious. Thanks for sharing it!

@apokalypthoapokalypsys9573 6 месяцев назад

If I lived in the USA I'd love to eat there just for the heck of it.

@davemccage7918 6 месяцев назад

This sounds too good to be true.

@snakeygirl4296 6 месяцев назад

Honestly morbid humor when talking about this guy is sort of expected. He’s a pretty pathetic guy who resorted to cannibalism because he had no clue about the region. Dude lied to become a guide and nature handed his ass to him for it. Shame the innocents traveling alongside him had to suffer from his selfish schemes.

@Stormcrow7 6 месяцев назад

Fella has almost a million subscribers and yet, unlike other creators, engages on the comment section with us. Kudos!

@ScaryInteresting 6 месяцев назад

Cheers!

@skuhlemeyer 6 месяцев назад

I notice that too and that means a lot to me

@CharlieKellyEsq 6 месяцев назад

Urmom engages with the comment section too😘

@suryadas6987 6 месяцев назад

Yes! Great content and great content creator! 😎👍💯

@JinX-so5yv 6 месяцев назад

@@ScaryInterestingHi bro,love your vids,there are many story tellers,mr.Ballen etc but you're my favourite,I can see the story as it happens.Love it

@Anikthias 6 месяцев назад

I live about 20 minutes outside Montrose. Whether he intended to mislead his group or not, attempting to cross those mountains, in the winter, with the equipment available back then and with little experience in the area is completely insane and in my opinion definitely criminal. This is an area which gets some of the coldest temperatures in Colorado, and in which it is common to see people still skiing the backcountry in late May! The terrain is formidable and otherwordly, even compared to the rest of Colorado... Chief Ouray must have thought they were out of their minds!

@KnightsWithoutATable 6 месяцев назад

I agree with this. Going up there was walking towards death in those conditions, guide or not. Knowing that you weren't a guide puts it at manslaughter. Consecutive sentences seems excessive, but he did escape jail and flee for 9 years, so you get the book thrown at you for that in that era instead of an additional charge.

@WhitneyDahlin 6 месяцев назад

@@KnightsWithoutATablemy question is why would someone help him escape prison?

@KnightsWithoutATable 6 месяцев назад

@WhitneyDahlin they believed he was going to be lynched by a mob instead of justice being brought. I am curious about it too. He did have a lot of money on hand before they grabbed him. Maybe he stowed some away and traded the location of that to some one that mostly believed him, after being let out of course.

@raging_n00b50 6 месяцев назад

Chief Ouray's inner monolgue - "These morons think they are manifestly destined to possess our land by God....God is literally telling you via the wind and rain to turn back!" 😂

@snakeygirl4296 6 месяцев назад

@@raging_n00b50 always listen to the natives. They know the dangers of the region better than anyone. The amount of times westerners screwed themselves because they ignored natives advice is ridiculous.

@crono3231 6 месяцев назад

You know this is one of my favorite channels to get notified of an upload. Only creator that has a pretty respectful subscriber base / views, still involved in the community, responds / takes feedback, constructive criticism and still cares about the viewers. I hope you find continued success and remain humble and true to who you are. Thank you for entertaining / educating us.

@ScaryInteresting 6 месяцев назад

Comment sections can get pretty wild, but you're absolutely right. Most commenters here are awesome, which I'm very thankful for. And thanks for your kind words!

@jxn1056 6 месяцев назад

I absolutely agree 😍

@sendthis9480 6 месяцев назад

FYI: “community” is where you live. This is a RU-vid channel. If you need to exaggerate and give it cutesy little nicknames…maybe you’re not as sincere as you think you are.

@thegriffin88 6 месяцев назад

@@ScaryInteresting I hope one day you collect a bunch of these stories into a book or something. My whole family is completely into stories like this, the obscure creepy bits of history.

@raekkk1038 6 месяцев назад

If their was 3 bullets left in the revolver I’m inclined to believe him especially since a bullet fragment was in Shannon’s hip, not head. However, he could have used the axe on everyone sleeping and when Shannon woke up he had to use the pistol.

@gabrielbruce1977 6 месяцев назад

I looked up the sketch. While part of me knows I probably shouldn't have, because that's a difficult image to forget, Randolph was a capable artist who clearly left details out for his own sake, and I can't say I blame him

@StrangeScaryNewEngland 6 месяцев назад

Yup. I had to just look it up as well. I'm sure every detail was accurate as he didn't have a time limit on sketching them. If it was a colored sketch, it would actually be sickening. Something about them being stripped to the bone besides the head, hands, and feet, is extremely disturbing to look at. Because it's not natural.

@gabrielbruce1977 6 месяцев назад

@@StrangeScaryNewEngland It's disturbingly attentive and human. Packer was METHODICAL in his butchering and that's probably the worst part.

@abdulhassan3118 Месяц назад

He was innocent though @@gabrielbruce1977

@hazeltade3679 6 месяцев назад

So many stories of people dying in the US from really early in the US to the old west could have just been avoided if they listened to Natives that tried to help

@erismana2105 6 месяцев назад

Along with so many other things Natives tried to tell them

@annakeye 6 месяцев назад

The arrogance of whitey and his attitude towards "the savage".

@theTOASTYsupreme 6 месяцев назад

If the people who have lived there for generations think it's a bad idea, it's probably a bad idea lol

@StrangeScaryNewEngland 6 месяцев назад

Yup!! I wrote the same thing in my comment earlier. Idiots. The ones who didn't listen, that is. Complete idiots.

@SwedeProof 5 месяцев назад

Exactly!! It's unfathomable how idiotic these folks were for not trusting Native American's advice and their (obvious) experience with surviving brutal winters in the mountains. Dunno just how guilty/partially guilty/or tall-tale teller this guy was. Having all that money is suspicious...hmm.

@TheArmidillionAire 6 месяцев назад

Dude 100% did it. Why make up a bunch of different stories to cover up what was supposedly self defense? Reminds me of a murder case where the killer said they cut themselves doing some miscellaneous task. Eventually it was disproven, and he was like "actually, I cut myself cooking." The detective just looked at him and said "nobody lies about cutting themselves cooking."

@EllesGhost13 6 месяцев назад

Tbf the justice system and bias meant people would change stories Theres usually more to it

@hezsurnarcissus1460 6 месяцев назад

Exactly

@rl7012 6 месяцев назад

I don't get it, of course people can lie about how they got cuts, why does the detective say that nobody lies about cutting themselves cooking? If a killer accidentally cut himself while killing someone, why wouldn't he blame it on a cooking injury instead?

@Batmann_ 6 месяцев назад

@@rl7012 The point was that the person originally lied saying that they cut themselves doing some misc task. They LATER confessed "ok, you got me, I actually cut myself while cooking". The point being, who tf would lie and cover up cutting themselves whilst cooking? It really doesn't serve any rational/normal purpose. Hence, it was obviously another lie. I think you missed the first part where it was originally claimed to happen during something that wasn't cooking.

@rl7012 6 месяцев назад

@@Batmann_ Ok, got it now. Thanks.

@PressAtoJ 6 месяцев назад

I'm from Colorado, and growing up we actually had a little rhyme about Alfred Packer. Couldn't be more excited that it's you particularly covering this! Also, the rhyme: I was hungry I was starving And there wasn't any game My friends all died In the Hell outside Wouldn't you have done the same? Poor Alfred Packer, poor Alfred Packer

@emiliaEA0304 3 месяца назад

you had a rhyme for children about a cannibal?

@PressAtoJ 3 месяца назад

@@emiliaEA0304Yeah. We also had one about the black plague, one about cutting off the tails of blind mice, there was one about a guy who fell off a wall and died, one about a baby falling out of a tree, an old man going to bed and not getting up again.. Children's rhymes are real dark.

@luanagardner1815 2 месяца назад

So true haha!@@PressAtoJ

@abdulhassan3118 Месяц назад

lol touche @@PressAtoJ

@grapeshot 6 месяцев назад

I heard him say he wanted a piece of them but this is ridiculous.

@shroom- 6 месяцев назад

😂😂

@AndrewF77 6 месяцев назад

I got started in this genre with Mr. Ballen and That Chapter but Scary Interesting is fast becoming my favorite. The narration, story telling and detail is excellent and thank you for your videos!

@catcando1131 6 месяцев назад

I was just sitting here thinking pretty much this exact thing!!! Save for That Chapter. Should I look this up?

@MaryDoyle-xl2ri 6 месяцев назад

👍👍❤️

@boo2764 6 месяцев назад

@@catcando1131it’s a fav of mine so I’d say yes. He does cover more recent crime though. I also recommend Well I Never, it’s good and covers older crime plus the narrator’s brilliant

@WouldntULikeToKnow. 6 месяцев назад

Coffeehouse Crime too

@evantambolang3052 6 месяцев назад

Mr.Ballen is suck at this kind of thing since he tend to over-exagerrated the stories by adding unnecessary details that most likely didn't happened, too lazy to put a real picture and only using stock picture instead, and not giving proper conclusion to the story and he just like "thanks for watching don't forget to subscribe" kind of bs

@toscadonna 6 месяцев назад

I think Alfred planned to take everything these guys had for himself to include their lives. Who is dumb enough to go against Chief Ouray’s guidance? Only someone who has evil, nefarious plans. Packer knew he wasn’t a very good guide. He knew taking these men into the mountains and half starving them would make them weak enough to be easily robbed and killed. He ate them probably out of necessity and laziness. It’s far harder to hunt game than it is to kill half starved people, plus, once you get high enough into the mountains, there is no game above the tree line.

@lolcakekakelol 6 месяцев назад

To me, that just dosen't make any sense. First of all, all the men who followed Alfred was stupid enough to go against Chief Ouray’s advice, why would it be a stretch to say Alfred was equally stupid? And what a lousy plan that would be anyway. If he was a terrible guide, why would he deliberately set the men on a doomed journey across the mountains? Why would he expect to be at an advantage in that situation? Seems like that would be the riskiest plot of all time, relative to whatever loot those men would have had on such a journey. I also think that he might not have had the strenght to hunt in his condition. Perhaps he could have hunted game once he had eaten enough to regain his strenght, that's possible, and i can understand why someone would judge him for not avoiding further cannibalism. But to assume that he was a full-blown psychopath, who both carefully crafted a plan to kill and rob those men, while also being insanely stupid if he was truly aware of the danger involved, with his minimal experience as a guide. I mean, i don't know what happend. But his story, or something akin to his story seems a whole lot more plossible. Just assuming that he was satan himself because (like many others in this world who isn't deliberate cannibalistic, corpse-looting murderers) he was a bit lazy and greedy, just seems like a massive stretch, and a contradicting one at that. With all due respect.

@posticusmaximus1739 6 месяцев назад

They were GREEDY and stupid. They were so afraid of losing out on the minin opportunities that they took the risk and big Al basically got away with it

@ucantSQ 6 месяцев назад

You underestimate the arrogance of the white man. The warnings of the locals only drives them on with greater madness, and often to their peril.

@montananerd8244 6 месяцев назад

I agree overall, but don't wild sheep & goats often live or at least graze above the line? I've never seen one in the actual forest, just on high, rocky points. The Sheep eater Shoshone people actually lived very close to the Rocky Mountain treeline in MT/WY as well, they were peaceful and avoided the warrior tribes down below that way. Altho our Rockies are lower than the ranges in CO.

@mommy2libras 5 месяцев назад

I have a hard time believing this version. First, this guy was a crappy guide, they all knew it and all that went with him did so willingly. Second, it would be ridiculous to think that he'd deliberately put himself in danger of being lost just to rob some guys. Third, he may have been bad at gambling but I think even he understood the odds of him being able to simply take out what? 6 or 7 others guys who were strong and rough enough to live on the trail and trudge through storms? Even he knew that would end badly for him if he tried.

@Celebrindal333 6 месяцев назад

I always assumed the movie Ravenous was based on the Donner Party tragedy but clearly it took A LOT of inspiration from this incident. Robert Carlyle’s character Col. Ives bears a striking resemblance to Alfred’s pictures, clearly not by accident. Absolutely fascinating! The movie is even more well done than I originally thought. Mixing this story, that of the Donner Party and even Wendigo lore from the First Nations people.

@sf6947 6 месяцев назад

Ravenous is so good!

@homeygfunkoffacherryfruitl4971 6 месяцев назад

I was just thinking the same thing when I saw his picture. Fascinating stuff.

@cinderellaashtray6165 6 месяцев назад

Fuck yeah Ravenous!

@saltpeter7429 6 месяцев назад

Easily one of my favorite movies of all time. The soundtrack is brilliant, and the cast is unbeatable.

@cinderellaashtray6165 6 месяцев назад

@@saltpeter7429 the soundtrack is unforgettable

@whitetigergurl12 6 месяцев назад

fun fact about Alferd (he likely misspelled his name when he signed his confession) - CU Boulder has a cafeteria named after him! it was the first time that students were allowed to choose a name for a school structure, and the Alferd Packer Grill won in a landslide (or an avalanche, if you will). After that we were never allowed to name anything again lol. the school has now embraced it, though - the Alferd Packer Grill has different sections for different food, which are named things like Al's Lodge and El Canibal (the Mexican food counter).

@alexn5743 6 месяцев назад

I'm glad Mines didn't prevent such things. We named a tower Mordor. The two towers sandwiching it are named after unfortunately named donors however. So in combination it's Gaylord Mordor Syphilis

@lolz6449 6 месяцев назад

I have binged your entire channel in the past week. Its really unparalleled. Thank you so much for your work.

@SeemsLogical 6 месяцев назад

There is one channel who is similar to this channel: Archie's Archives Archie does cover similar stories but he seems to cover Russian and Soviet Russian scary mystery stories. Most of his involve mountain climbing as lots of tragedy happens in the mountaineering community. It is a very deadly sport. But there's also stories not related to the mountains. He has one about a Soviet elevator malfunctioning, killing 47 people and then by the next day they just cleaned it all up and swept the whole event under the rug. Didn't even reach out to the families of the deceased or compensate the injured or maimed survivors. I think one newspaper published the story but the writer met with an unfortunate case of bad luck afterwards. I don't know if you will enjoy Archie more but he does seem to cover stories none of the other channels cover.

@lolz6449 6 месяцев назад

@SeemsLogical thank you for the tip! I am always looking for excellent and horrifying channels

@LamaMama26 4 месяца назад

I like the cave and diving vids a lot!

@DanielWolfe 6 месяцев назад

I find it interesting in your choice of ambient music. For caves and/or cave-diving, the ambience is the feeling of darkness, dread, and imminent danger waiting to happen posed by the fact that both areas is part of the under world never to be seen by sun light. For the history of mankind that occurred years and years, the ambience is the feeling a nostalgia and a timeless tale of people who have long since died; for some they are waiting to be discovered, and for others they were never seen or heard from again, never to be found by the present day humanity. Only God knows their last known location before they died. And the third rather eerie form of ambience is the feeling of inevitable fates and impossibilities that are just beyond our imagination. Conclusion: the choice of ambient music varies from story to story, but thats the feeling I experience when hearing these stories. You did an excellent job with it in my honest opinion. 👏

@Cookieboy70 6 месяцев назад

The way you not only tell, but visualize the story as well with intense images and eerie background music....it's just so captivating, I am always terrified, but glued to the video.

@Tessutine 6 месяцев назад

I spend 90% of my free time listening to youtube storytellers and painting - and Sean, you're my absolute favourite channel!! Love your work so much, thank you for everything you do

@syrthdr09sybr34 6 месяцев назад

Everything just lines up too perfectly for his own survival, he always came up on top every step of the way and always with perfect timing. If you have any doubts about him being guilty, just look at the way he was spending the money he stole. Zero guilt or remorse and plenty of celebration. People usually show their worst side in tough circumstances, and this guy was already a crappy individual before all of this went down.

@justkittensbeingkittens5892 6 месяцев назад

Yep he would’ve 100% told someone and tried to get in contact with families if he didn’t kill them all.

@petyrbaelish1718 6 месяцев назад

I think he was guilty of murdering the others, but irrespective of that, it is no surprise he spent all their money on drinking and going out. If he had been marooned in the freezing mountains for 2-3 months and surviving off human flesh, the second you get back you would get drunk and indulge in immoral ways. You would almost be celebrating your survival and certainly trying to forget about your ordeal, after potentially cheating death. So I don't think him spending their money on drink and gambling proves that much about him really.

@gildedpeahen876 6 месяцев назад

Some people show their best side in tough conditions though too. It can bring out the hero or the villain in any of us.

@pogo9876 6 месяцев назад

So, you're telling me you took "Psych 101" in high school. And now you think you're some sorta "armchair expert". Lol. That second paragraph of yours-That's not an acceptable way to judge one's guilt. People are strange and everyone is an individual. We feel, react and respond differently. You can't expect to make that comment and have it be true not knowing anything else about that person. You'd really have to know what's "normal" for that particular individual.

@l.e.miller1208 6 месяцев назад

I have the opposite thought. If he committed a crime like this on purpose he wouldn't be openly spending the money like that. It's possible he was in shock from the trauma and just went wild with the cash as a result.

@3EyedFox 6 месяцев назад

I think he was definitely responsible for their deaths by negligence and took their tragedy as an opportunity to enrich himself. A selfish man desperate for power through money and the respect of others. Were the deaths premeditated? No. Definitely not smart enough for that. He just oversold his usefulness to serve an overgrown ego. But were his actions consistently opportunistic, self-serving, cowardly, and without remorse? Absolutely.

@sock9674 6 месяцев назад

Agreed

@Steampunkkids 6 месяцев назад

This right here! That is the theory most consistent with who Alfred was.

@littlebear274 5 месяцев назад

He probably was looking for an opportunity to steal from them, too. Not necessarily by leading them astray and killing them, but he most likely was just hoping for a chance to come up somehow.

@leonardomichua 3 месяца назад

He definitely wasn’t doing things other than to benefit himself The dude killed his team and was then seen partying and gambling. That doesn’t look like a dude that was doing what was best for his men You’d think if he was doing things for his men that he’d be in a sort of depressive state, but he was the complete opposite It’s almost like he was glad they died and were gone

@Phoenix-mh5eo 2 месяца назад

I have a hard time believing the murder of multiple men at once was not premeditated (by the legal definition). Maybe it wasn't his plan from the very beginning, but NO WAY did he kill multiple men like that without some level of premeditation even if only earlier that same day.

@AidanPatko 6 месяцев назад

Easily one of my favorite storytellers on RU-vid. Keep up the amazing work, man.

@KittyNoodlesPPC 6 месяцев назад

The hunters who testified claimed there was plenty of food in the area, and that even an unexperienced hunter would have been able to hunt enough game to survive, to the point that cannibalism would have been a conscious choice rather than an act of desperation. But Alfred by his own admission had no idea what he was doing as a guide, and the men in his group disliked him because he was lazy and argumentative. Combine all of that with his diagnosis of epilepsy, and I think it makes perfect sense that Alfred genuinely didn't think hunting was an option, either because he was so inexperienced, or because he had already (intentionally or otherwise) sabotaged a number of hunts with his behavior and/or the symptoms of his illness, or both.

@mp9228 2 месяца назад

This is unlikely, as many books from the late 1800s state that unpressured deer around this time period could very nearly be walked up to and shot. If a group member was sabotaging the hunts of a truly starved group he likely would have been executed or abandoned

@plantemor 6 месяцев назад

I would bet a lot that the last story Alfred told was the closest to the truth. Only difference is that him and Shannon switched roles in his story. He seemed so eager to throw shannon under the bus in most iterations and i believe it is becauee Shannon was the one to continuously call him out and see right through his bullshit. I believe that when shannon was out for a bit, alfred saw his chance to kill the others, whom he percieved as lesser threats to himself and when shannon came back and attempted to fight him, he killed him too. I have seen this pattern of behavior in narcissistic people before. They retell a story of something that happened and they cast themselves in the roles of other people and give these people all the narcissistic traits that the narcissist displays. I have had one of these in my life and the person would regularly tell people stories that were so clearly half truths. Caught the person a few times retelling stories about them and me and woukd switch things around where things i had said suddenly were things they said while things they had said became things i supposedly had said. It was very fucked up. The person would become ansxious and enraged when i called them out in front of other people. Alfred steikes me as such a person too. Only worse since, you know, he killed and ate people.

@rachelhansen2417 6 месяцев назад

I fully agree. It’s far too convenient for him to genuinely be the victim.

@Kareena1988 6 месяцев назад

He was a psychopath...

@0037kevin 5 месяцев назад

@plantemor I have seen this type of behavior from narcissists before with my own eyes. Perhaps your description of this coworker whom performed this juxtaposition with you was actually the good guy, and in the retelling YOU have switched places with them? Wouldnt that be something? I dunno, I'm just messin with you

@plantemor 5 месяцев назад

@@0037kevin my dude, I fucking WISH that this person had just been a shitty coworker and not my first serious relationship with a much older man when I was an insecure teenager 8'D I like your version better xD

@0037kevin 5 месяцев назад

@@plantemor I'm sorry to hear that. I hope you know I was joking. Maybe you can replace bad memories with my version of the story?

@shannonhill3356 6 месяцев назад

Bro, your pace is brutal and the quality stays the same. Keep that grind my dude, you easily became top tier channel material the first time I happened upon one of your videos 1-2 years back. Love to see someone be a successful master of their craft. Aces in their places, baby! Hell yeah.

@poutinedream5066 2 месяца назад

And now some asshole made a channel called scaryinteresting1 trying to confuse people and poach all this creator's hard work. They actually have rounded up a few hundred subs already and it's infuriating. I did see alot of people in the comments calling him/her out- so hopefully the plan wont work.

@mikkoleinonen9846 6 месяцев назад

Fun fact, this is the story that inspired great 1999 movie "Ravenous". Glad to hear that the real Packer didn't actually turn into a flesh craving vampire thing.

@abysscallstoabyss55 6 месяцев назад

Cannibal the Musical! 👌 A film made in school by Trey Parker and Matt Stone (creators of South Park) Watch it! Good stuff! 🍻

@HaeravonFAQs 6 месяцев назад

Ravenous is an excellent, underrated movie that was hamstrung by bad advertising. You should watch Atun-Shei Films' two videos on it, great stuff.

@antthomas7916 6 месяцев назад

I kind of figured that it was based off this story. Alfred was too similar to Col. Ives.

@iainbanks7415 6 месяцев назад

That is a great movie, watched it again lately. Well worth watching

@BrettonFerguson 6 месяцев назад

@@abysscallstoabyss55 Or, instead of watching movies, we could build a snowman. We could call him Tom or name him George. He'll have a happy face, a happy smile, a happy point of view. If you build me a snowman, then I'll build one for you. We can name him Bob or we can name him Beowulf! We can make him tall, or we can make him not so tall. Snowman! Snowman! Snowman! SNOOOOOWMAAAAAAN!!!!!

@txominabel6353 6 месяцев назад

I just wanna say I love your work, your videos and the Stories Keep it up

@MaryDoyle-xl2ri 6 месяцев назад

👍👍❤️

@classyflashy9473 6 месяцев назад

Best story teller ever, would listen to your stories hours on end.

@jamesondenhartog8109 6 месяцев назад

Hey friend. Your work is stellar. I’m a once upon a time filmmaker/film school graduate that has settled into a regular job which I really don’t like. I’ve always loved documentaries and it seems like it’s the only thing I could do that doesn’t involve a team of people. I’m astounded that you (assuming) do all of this yourself. My main question is how the hell do you animate map routes the way you do? I don’t think people realize how intricate some of this editing really is. Lots of assets and elements going on. Would love it if you could steer me towards some helpful tutorials. Thank you and keep up the great work man.

@Youser999 6 месяцев назад

It's a shpadoinkle day whenever Scary Interesting uploads a new video 😉

@stuartgmk 6 месяцев назад

😊

@erikadehn347 6 месяцев назад

I bet Alferd's horse let just about anyone ride her. 🙄

@copisetik5984 6 месяцев назад

@@erikadehn347 That there is a trapper horse!

@ricstormwolf 4 месяца назад

I was looking for a Cannibal the musical reference as soon as I heard the name Alfred Packer 😂

@stuartgmk 4 месяца назад

🤣🤣@@ricstormwolf

@BlackOrderAlchemist 6 месяцев назад

"Cannibal! The Musical" is the best version of this story :y 10/10 recommendation to all

@gracie1312 6 месяцев назад

Spadoinkle

@Chlormis 3 месяца назад

Worth mentioning that it's by Trey Parker and Matt Stone, filmed during their time at university

@jadeybabes33 6 месяцев назад

I really love these older times stories you tell. So fascinating! Also its cool seeing how your channel has grown since I first started following.

@MaryDoyle-xl2ri 6 месяцев назад

👏👏❤️

@karlshaner2453 6 месяцев назад

What is worse then being a murderer, is blaming one of the victims for what you had done!

@jackspring7709 6 месяцев назад

Exactly.

@flash_flood_area 6 месяцев назад

Like Chris Watts did... although Watts was worse for lying that his wife killed her own babies.

@posticusmaximus1739 6 месяцев назад

Reminds me of another Colorado murderer: Chris Watts. His wife strangled the kids and then he strangled the wife.

@josh.y 6 месяцев назад

@@posticusmaximus1739and then tried to blame the wife

@flash_flood_area 6 месяцев назад

@@posticusmaximus1739 She did not strangle the kids. She was already dead by his hands, when he loaded her body into his truck. Then he drove the kids, plus their mother's dead body, to the company location where he smothered the children and disposed of all three bodies.

@TrevorsMailbox 6 месяцев назад

You went from 0 to 100 in just a year. Dude you put in the work and now you've got ~780k subs... See you in a year when you have 10 million and your own TV show.

@WYO_Dirtbag 2 месяца назад

999k

@JulieCaptivatedinFl 6 месяцев назад

The BEST part of being retired is sitting in front of my screen waiting for a Scary Interesting video to drop.

@Wolfsong27FlyHalfFullHeart 6 месяцев назад

Alfred most definitely killed those men, if it was Shannon that did it then why would Alfred be preoccupied with stealing their wallets? You’d rather take their clothes or supplies rather then money

@nic6715 6 месяцев назад

On the contrary, why would you just leave the money? I mean 10 grand (in todays money) is an amount that anyone could use.

@Wolfsong27FlyHalfFullHeart 6 месяцев назад

@@nic6715 I understand it could be useful but that’s if you’re in your senses, if I was delirious from the cold temperature I’d rather burn the money to keep myself warm then keep it in the case of survival, creed comes second to survival

@nic6715 6 месяцев назад

@@Wolfsong27FlyHalfFullHeart He was in a forrest so although it was winter I doubt that fire was a problem.

@marknava7433 6 месяцев назад

This has been one of my favorite videos. Living on the western slope of Colorado my entire life, it was easy to picture where all of these events happened at the time and how near they were to modern towns!

@wire_hall_medic8470 6 месяцев назад

"The sky is bluuuuue and all the leaves are green My heart's as warm as a baked po-ta-to"

@abysscallstoabyss55 6 месяцев назад

Yeeeeeeees! 🍻 “ I think you know exactly what I mean, when I say it’s a shpadoingle day!”

@alanam.1615 6 месяцев назад

Cool

@shroom- 6 месяцев назад

i absolutely love your channel, your voice is extremely soothing. keep up the amazing work.

@KillingDeadThings 6 месяцев назад

To steal from a film called, The Last Confession of Alexander Pearce. "A Full Belly is prerequisite to all manner of good. Without that, no man knows, what hunger will make him do".

@ScaryInteresting 6 месяцев назад

Great quote

@karakreativevlog 6 месяцев назад

He lied a lot during the whole ordeal, first just starting off with how good of a guide he would be for them. They were alone for a long time in the mountains. I'm sure there was resentment building between them. He was the cause of a lot of their distress and problems, and I'm sure the others knew or realized this. Perhaps he killed them, thinking they were going to kill him, so he struck first. And because he was so inept at hunting, he had to eat one of them to survive. It seems he had a real hatred for Shannon, so he probably ate him out of spite, too. There's even a musical about this event called "Cannibal! The Musical". I'm sure that'll get a Broadway revival soon.

@jbaker7311 6 месяцев назад

I think the story Packer told was a mixed variation of lies and some truths. I believe it was a lot more lies than the truth. Too many elements that don't stand up to scrutiny IMO.

@missywink1504 6 месяцев назад

I watched, 'Cannibal, The Musical' years ago; it was hilarious!

@modestalchemist 6 месяцев назад

best musical

@ianmacfarlane1241 6 месяцев назад

"Ate him out of spite"😂

@ae2948 6 месяцев назад

@@AelliJuniper Alfred's version is that Shannon sent him up a mountain, and when he came back he found Shannon had killed the other 4 men. So we'd have to believe that the other man somehow killed 4 men, kept their bodies by the fire, and let Alfred waltz back into camp. The truth is probably a variation on that - but with Alfred doing all the killing - one by one as they returned from scouting or foraging missions of their own - smashing them in the head because its quieter than shooting.

@scottbartlett4853 6 месяцев назад

I grew up in Littleton Colorado, Packer's grave is right along Prince St and quite a few times was attempted to be dug up. The solution was to cover the grave with concrete which as far as I know was successful. His tombstone was damaged so a corner of it is missing to this day. Lovely spot under a pine tree I might add.

@Ilke2gofst 6 месяцев назад

Your story telling abilities are incredible and your intro music is my absolute favorite. I look forward to your videos every week.

@smaakjeks 6 месяцев назад

Alfred: "I'd like to have you for dinner!" Group: "Oh, how lovely! Yes, please!"

@KingJudahpat 6 месяцев назад

Basically; Especially when they believed him about that route lol.

@megansimplystitch 6 месяцев назад

I really enjoy Scary Interesting videos so much. It's not just that these are true/factual accounts of strange & unusual occurrences. The audio storytelling is excellent. But, it's the actual photos, diagrams & maps that keep me fully engaged throughout the video.

@williams2187 6 месяцев назад

I feel like you’ve blown up over the last year and it’s great to see. I’m not sure when you started the channel but it feels like a year ago you had a relatively small following when I subscribed, because my gf and I love your videos so we’ve watched consistently since then. I’m curious as to how many subscribers you were at in January vs. now, but either way I’m glad to see that you’ve had a lot of success and that your hard work is paying off. You deserve it man👍🙌

@jeffabbett2724 6 месяцев назад

I impatiently wait every week for Scary Interesting & Mr.Ballen...

@Nunya310 6 месяцев назад

Surprises me you don’t have more subs…absolutely love these stories on this channel! Keep up the good work 👍🏼

@FlyToTheRain 6 месяцев назад

really glued to this one, nice job!

@ljenk5 6 месяцев назад

Thanks Sean for everything you do, appreciated!!

@morianblackmore5422 6 месяцев назад

Appreciate all the content you make for us! Love the consistency 👌

@mattmarsh3614 6 месяцев назад

This is one the better and most enjoyable channels ive found in a long time...keep up the good work

@jakubhejduk4560 6 месяцев назад

I don't know where you find these stories but they are so impressive. What's more, they are very well written and narrated by you. Thank you and keep up the good work!

@muffshroomh6203 6 месяцев назад

Very spooky, lived in Colorado all my life and the contrast between the beautiful nature and the stories the haunt them always blows me away. Keep at it man!

@bw7754 6 месяцев назад

Lived in Telluride, CO for 5 years. This was awesome to learn more about the area

@mooseing22 4 месяца назад

The paintings & photos used in this story are absolutely stunning. A big thank you to the creater for putting their research and thought into this.

@mayaa.1405 6 месяцев назад

I love your channel! Thanks for sharing these stories with us.

@j.p.6932 6 месяцев назад

17:17 If he was that remorseful and didn’t want to be reminded of it, why did he steal the identity of one of his victims?

@user-hk3hl2kz4z 6 месяцев назад

He had poor moral character (agreed to be a guide endangering the lives of others for his own profit), motive as far as his constant questioning of how much money his victims had and his instant spending of their money on pleasures would suggest to me he murdered them. How he managed just 18 years behind bars is crazy

@skriddle 6 месяцев назад

ooh, right on time! excited for this one, thanks for the hard work!

@XxJustinxx88 6 месяцев назад

I LOVE when I get to work and see a new Scary Interesting video! Always top tier content and quality.

@aku9399 6 месяцев назад

In the case of defensive wounds on the men, along with the injury on Bells forearm. Wonder if could have been caused by one or two of the men defending themselves against Bell. If that’s the case. It wouldn’t be in conflict with either the autopsy or Alfred’s side of the story.

@Soma_109 6 месяцев назад

Already knew this story heard it from a few different sources but still wanted to hear your narration. You often cover a lot of lesser known details.

@Shy-Girl69 6 месяцев назад

Another brilliant video! I'm always excited for a new video and story! ❤️

@ralphwaldopicklechips242 6 месяцев назад

I love these older tales! Keep em coming please!

@JakeRobinson99 6 месяцев назад

There is movie about this called cannibal the musical

@abysscallstoabyss55 6 месяцев назад

Shpadoingle! 🍻

@JEMA333 6 месяцев назад

truly my favorite content creator since ive become an adult. i appreciate every video that has unique content and no retold stories

@amberrodriguez851 6 месяцев назад

I like the way you tell stories! Not too fast and not too slow.

@Thermodynamicool 6 месяцев назад

What an interesting story.. I've watched a lot of your videos and really enjoy them. I find myself wondering how it's possible that you don't have more subs?! You're one of my favorite channels since I found you a few months ago. Thanks!

@kyleyocius6402 6 месяцев назад

Outstanding work again by my favorite scary story teller on RU-vid

@astronart8622 6 месяцев назад

Honestly, I don't know how to feel about this case. On one hand I feel somewhat bad for the guy because starvation and harsh survival conditions can make you go insane. BUT I also feel like he went to cannibalism way too quickly, especially when those hunters said there was plenty of game to hunt

@shanenice5380 6 месяцев назад

Makes u around?why they didn't hunt

@bugsbunny8691 6 месяцев назад

Yes, but he was lazy and would have probably figured "why Hunt when I have plenty of meat already. I hate lazy people.

@AlmarWinfield 6 месяцев назад

Why didnt any of the men hunt? Be careful what you believe during court trials, the state may have just picked people that said exactly what they wanted whether or not it was actually true

@astronart8622 6 месяцев назад

@AlmarWinfield if they were actually suffering from starvation, it can cause weakness but it's still odd that they didn't try

@AlmarWinfield 6 месяцев назад

@@astronart8622It sucks when the only person who survived to tell the tale is a habitual liar lol

@SeedsnStems63 6 месяцев назад

Thanks for accompanying on yet another day of work

@faythblanton1278 6 месяцев назад

I just recently found you, now I'm going through all your videos, absolutely love them!

@missywink1504 6 месяцев назад

I learned about this story watching, 'Cannibal, The Musical', by Trey Parker and Matt Stone.

@isaacjamesbaker 6 месяцев назад

You're a great storyteller my dude!

@JGV_IX 6 месяцев назад

This channel and these videos are the highlight of my week! Really really appreciate all the hard work you do to give us this super interesting and quality content 👌🏻 Warm regards from sunny South Africa 🇿🇦

@MaryDoyle-xl2ri 6 месяцев назад

👍👍❤️

@user-by9wj2hu9i 3 месяца назад

This channel is truly captivating and compelling. I greatly appreciate your exceptional videos and intriguing stories. Thank you for providing such remarkable content that keeps me hooked.

@garoldticker4402 6 месяцев назад

Been watching you since you were a very small channel and have to say, what separates you from other channels like this is simply your wording and pacing is just right for telling theese kind of spooky tales. And your voice literally matches the name of the channel. Scary, but interesting. Keep it up man your work is fantastic. You're a Talented story teller. (oh and your editing and choice of visuals is awseome)

@joanhoffman3702 6 месяцев назад

You have a good voice for narrating these stories, and I really liked the illustrations you used. It added more to the storytelling. Also, many years ago, I heard that the cafeteria of the Denver campus of Colorado University was named after Packer. I don’t know if it still is.

@angelagreen3642 6 месяцев назад

Your content is awesome. Thanks for all you do. ♡

@Carburetors_and_calamaties 6 месяцев назад

This took place just a couple miles from my house. Im so glad to see you do a story on this. We were taught all about him in school

@youtubemusicowesmemoney8470 6 месяцев назад

As I watched this video and read the comments of the movies that may have been based on them. Good times, indeed! But… “Cannibal! The Musical “ was the first live action movie made by Trey Parker and Matt Stone. It’s as insane as it sounds and from their commentary, it was the U of Colorado’s cafeteria; the Alfred Packer Grill, that gave them the inspiration for a musical version of the event.

@kiduzi9507 6 месяцев назад

I remember seeing your videos who-knows how many months ago thinking wow I'm surprised his channel isn't huge. I see you growing a lot, good work man, I love the vids

@miamimercenary9623 5 месяцев назад

I love the Weird History and Nutty History channels, each of which posts a video 2-3 times a week, but this is becoming my favorite. Really happy the algorithm led me here

@Horologist-zu5vq 6 месяцев назад

Always on the edge of my seat. Thanks again!

@jaypriole142 6 месяцев назад

Colonel Ives, is that you? Seriously. Now I want to watch Ravenous again.

@abysscallstoabyss55 6 месяцев назад

Cannibal the Musical! 👌 A film made in school by Trey Parker and Matt Stone (creators of South Park) Watch it! Good stuff! 🍻

@SirBrittanicvs 6 месяцев назад

SHPADOINKLE!

@abysscallstoabyss55 6 месяцев назад

Fudge, Packer?

@kingkaikey2203 6 месяцев назад

I love the fact that I can come here and watch a video and or visit the podcast and have the content there as well! Keep it up Man!❤

@Darwinsfinch78 6 месяцев назад

Dude the horrible fates you do is the best

@ebs2874 6 месяцев назад

With the way many of these men treated and thought of him it's no surprise that there would be a certain amount of bad blood between them. Anyway regardless of whether he did it or not (he probably did at least some of the killings) he did not receive a fair trial. He was so ill in prison that they were told he would die there if not released, but that was ignored. I've been to Lake City and seen the marker they put up for the victims. It's a big rock with a plaque bearing their names. They also have a post from the original site in the town itself and a museum with artifacts and newspaper clippings. Not to mention the "Packer Saloon & Cannibal Grill," which does a pretty good veggie burger. Packer himself is buried in Littleton but I haven't been there yet.

@MarvinHartmann452 6 месяцев назад

Hey, Scary Interesting, I have a suggestion for a future story: You should do the story of Swift Runner, another older history that happened in Canada. The informations are relatively easy to find and I'm sure people will like it, if you didn't did it already. Thank you.

@vickigrove8549 6 месяцев назад

I live in Littleton and I've seen Alferd Packer's grave. It's encased in cement to protect it from vandals. I'm glad to know more of the story of his life and that he ultimately was a changed man. Thank you for sharing it!

@pbibbles 6 месяцев назад

This story is actually the first movie Trey Parker and Matt Stone made in film school, before making South Park. It's called, in true Trey Parker fashion, "Cannibal! The Musical."

@copisetik5984 6 месяцев назад

It's a shpedoinkal day!

@bhanunihale4576 6 месяцев назад

My dumbass thought "ATE" was an abbreviation 🤦

@briani50 2 месяца назад

Do you mean acronym?

@oaphle6612 6 месяцев назад

Been here since 50k channel is growing fast! Keep up the great work!

@Justin_Saves 5 месяцев назад

Awesome video 👍thank you for your hard work. I just recently discovered your channel and I'm enjoying every minute of it.

@modestalchemist 6 месяцев назад

Shpadoinkle!

@Sluglove Месяц назад

THE BEST MOVIE EVER MADE

@talbino7821 6 месяцев назад

This is the first story on this channel in which I have absolutely no sympathy or empathy for anyone involved - apart from Cheif Ouray - who, surprise surprise, was right all along 😄 I don't know how anyone in their right mind would think they could take on the ravages of winter weather in the mountains armed with a couple of rifles and one week's packed lunch 🤣 I'm glad we live in more enlightened times, lol.

@druidia9 6 месяцев назад

Don't know if it still bears the name, but the University of Colorado had a cafeteria called the Alferd Packer grill.

@tdebirds 6 месяцев назад

I adore your narration, keep it up!

@MISTERKIC 6 месяцев назад

Keep narrating great stories. No face reveals needed unless you choose to.❤

@sendthis9480 6 месяцев назад

“Face reveals”?!?! Are you 12?

@MISTERKIC 6 месяцев назад

@@sendthis9480Since you asked, no. But have been on YT long enough to know "some" awesome narrative content creators have done that. I personally hope he never does. Enjoy your tweens.😂 😂❤