The Gruesome Truth About Gibbeting: Explored 

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Man, you click on one torture video and the algorithm just goes nuts with these things.

i know this'll probably never be seen but this channel is genuinely a comfort for me.. i love learning about history and this guy genuinely feels like an old teacher i had and was close with so its just a very comforting channel for me :) good video, good work, please never stop producing content

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This video was so professionally done it could be on tv. I truly appreciate it. Thank you very much. Very informative.

I'm British and wasn't aware of the many definitions/meanings/ways of `gibbeting`😕. The vast number of places called Gibbet Hill there are in England is now truly alarming!😧

That was excellent. There's a Gibbet at Caxton, in Cambridgeshire. The roundabout where it stands is called Caxton Gibbet. After the body is hauled upon the gibbet, one can go into McDonalds for a Sausage and Egg McMuffin and a coffee. I'd welcome a return to gibbeting. There are some certain politicians I'd like to see on them.

As gruesome as the gibbeting was, even more unsettling to me is the fact that people flocked to see the sight.

You're right on point with your joke about YT. The amount of animal abuse, fake rescue or presenting kids in wrong moments is also cruel... Great video, you are a really gifted storyteller 😊

I knew about gibbits, from a pirate book that spoke about Captain Kidd and how his corpse was hung for all civilization to see after he was hanged by the noose for being a pirate, and saw it again in the 2nd Pirates of the Caribbean movie. Just goes to show that humanity doesn't need any imagination for gruesome ends - we provide too much ourselves! Thank you for this educational video. History may be gruesome, cruel and disturbing, but we as a people NEED to learn History so we dare not repeat it!

I was playing Dragon Age: Inquisition recently and had the option of sentencing a prisoner to gibbet. I chose to do it because I didn't know what it meant and thought it was a funny word. I was very confused when most people disapproved of my decision.

Captain Kidd was gibbeted too, that's him at 5.42... He was neither a very malignant nor successful pirate. Above all he had bad luck, he was a Royal Navy Officer and never intended to be a pirate in first place; his story is worth reading.

What always fascinates me about these things is how they relate to other things that happened the same time. Symphonies were written for orchestras when people were burned on the stake for being witches. And railroads could pass by a gibbeted body. It's just mind-blowing to consider.

The smell alone would have been unimaginable for the people living close to one of these...but I can't begin to fathom the damage done to little children! The nightmares caused by the clianging sounds...🥺. Poor babies!

I went to a torture museum in Spain once and it was said that the convicted were put in these cages alive until they died! But the very worst execution was where a person if convicted of perversion was hung upside down with legs spread apart while he was sawn from the groin cowards with a tree saw like implement, it said that being that they were upside down the brain would keep on functioning until the sawing was as far down as the chest bone until they died from the shock or had passed out…..Truly horrific!

"The things we did before RU-vid". ~ Scathingly funny! I haven't looked up how long you've been doing these, I only just found you just a few days ago. After the first two I subscribed. You're the only channel of this type of reporting that I trust to be completely honest reporting to best of what must be comprehensive research on your part. Your story telling is marvelous. I only had one history teacher that would have rivaled you in his research of American History. Mr. Macilwayne. He made history come alive. He didn't regurgitate facts except at test time, at which he would give us on the projector all the facts we were by Board of Education required to know. We would go home and memorize and then reguritate on the test paper next day. I was the history itself that he taught us though class discussions were he would answer our questions about WHY certain events had occured. He would tell us about the personal back histories of historical figures, etc. Nothing was taboo in our discussions. It was like a private history club of 14 and 15 year olds.

'The things we did before RU-vid' Yep...still watching the corpses rotting in the gibbet.

You know, I'd heard the word gibbet, but never really knew what it meant. How gruesome. Thanks for teaching me something new today!

The quality of this video is just incredible. Everything being so detailed and the host's voice are just perfection. I am already ready to binge a whole lot of these videos.

You are my favorite history channel. I so appreciate the work, honesty, and attention to accurate detail. You talk about awful things, yes, but you don't make it a joke or a circus. We so need to learn from history. We need to stop repeating the same monstrous acts in the name of public safety. You are a treasure. Thank you.🧐

There’s an old tale describing the adventures of some Christian seafarers whose ship was wrecked on a remote and unknown island, and who set out to explore it in some trepidation thinking it may be inhabited by hostile savages or worse still, cannibals. The first thing they set eyes on as they moved inland was the rotting corpse of a man hanging in a gibbet. Nothing could have given them greater relief or comfort, for it proved that Christians had been there before.

Soooo disturbing! Mankind has and always will be so cruel.. 😥 Expertly produced and narrated, thank you for all your hard work Paul

Your channel has an absolute charm that I have yet to find elsewhere!

I have only watched this one video, but that was one of the best videos I’ve watched on RU-vid. So professional and you are a great story teller. I was hooked instantly, as I love history.

Great vid, but I’m surprised there was not more talk of the psychological torture of being gibbeted alive. Exposed to the elements, uncomfortable and unable to sleep, one slowly thirsted and starved to death in public view, knowing one’s body would remain and decompose where it is.

I’ve loved this channel right from the beginning, and you’re just going from strength to strength, it’s wonderful to see. And the thing I love most is your humour and compassion is shining through when a lot of RU-vidrs start sounding quite jaded. This video, oh good grief, I’ve often wondered exactly what this was. Horrific! Ah, the good old days, when a human bits tobacco bowl was a useful trinket. 😮 Thank you for another fantastic video❤️

I used to live in Coombe, took many walks by The Gibbet. I remember the Crown & Garter in Inkpen very well. In fact I attended primary school in Inkpen. This brought back so many memories! Thank you! My uncle used to tell me stories of Dick Turpin who made a name for himself as a Highwayman. I’m not sure that Dick Turpin was even in the Berkshire area but my uncle made good stories out of it!

This video is so well done! I'm glad to see it getting the recognition it deserves. For once, the algorithm is doing good work.

Sadly, humans are no less barbaric or entertained by torture and destruction. Just in different forms.

Interesting, i have a small park nearby called Gibbets marsh, and being my Town is fairly famous for smuggling, this makes complete sense. As for tales of ghostly sightings, i remember well my father talking about seeing a willow the wisp across the park, moving towards a small wooden gate by the railway track, and seemingly going through it. At around 14 yrs old (1984) my best mate and myself decided we would walk through the park at around 10 pm, talking about my dads little story and believing it to be completely false.. We ourselves witnessed near on exactly the story my father had told me, we ran so fast home, laughing in fear the whole way 😅. Great video 👍.

Love the production style. Its like the sort of video we were shown at school

Gosh, I thought the notion of being chased by the classic 'ghost in chains' was scary, but being harassed by a spectre bringing the *entire gibbet* along to make a point is terrifying!

You remind me of my favorite author, the late Brian Jacques, who similarly was a great storyteller. I appreciate the sensitive way you handle these otherwise macabre topics. Keep up the excellent work!

"At the centre of humanity lies cruelty" Ian Brady (extract from police statement, 1966)

So happy that you talked about La Corriveau! As a Québécoise, it is part of my folklore. I teach her story to my French students each year!

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I remember seeing the gibbets used at Warwickshire Castle many years ago. This was before they started the silly acted out horror house kind of thing in the dungeons. Honestly, I think it was better as a somber place and was pretty terrifying just being a torture chamber and dungeon with gibbets hanging, the hole, and all sorts of torture devices on display. Knowing those items hade bene used on actual people in history is about as scary as that place can get! I remember the person talking in the dungeon saying one in particular had been made specifically for one criminal (a murderer, I think) who was put into it alive. He barely fit inside the caging. He was left to starve to death and rot away for his heinous crime(s), with birds picking at him long before his death. Monstrous devices!

Well Paul, interesting subject… Thanks so much for maintaining your humour whilst talking about yet another ghastly episode of Horrible Things People are Capable of doing to Each Other!

Very Informative and professional! Enjoy your channel so much!!

Human creativity for cruelty never fails to fascinate me, that includes the fascinated by cruelty. Probably most of us watching this video included.I see this video has been viewed many times. Very spooky indeed.

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This is only the first video of yours that I’ve seen…..but halfway through, I’m already subscribing! You’re an amazing storyteller! This could be broadcasted on TV and compare to full documentaries! Thank you so much for the effort you clearly put into your content 🤗

As always presented in a very classy manner. I love your videos. Please keep them coming....

This video has been in my 'watch later' file for probably a year while I worked up the courage to watch it. Now I subscribed.

I've only just discovered your channel but just want to say thank you for such interesting videos. Your presentation plus narration are perfect and have just the right tone to be not too sombre or sensational. Great balance, we need more presenters like yourself.

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Keep up the great work this was facisnating and the production is top notch! Thank you!

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"The things we did before RU-vid." That's just brilliant!

Your videos are seriously among the most professional and interesting of all of RU-vid. You're attire is so very dapper and it makes me want to go to the mall and find a tailor that will make a few suits for me that are exactly like the ones you wear. And the stitching and detail work is of very high quality. I used to make clothes for my daughter and have made a couple of evening gowns for her and dance costumes, so I definitely know what quality in the detail work of clothing looks like. Your attire definitely has that quality. Ever since the very first time I watched one of your videos, I noticed that and was immediately riveted by your narration and story telling style. And the fact that you actually go out to many of the locations that are included in your stories makes the realism of the story come right through the screen. Your channel is among my top three favorite. Thank you for your wonderful presentation and rich detail that you put into every video. I do love stories that are set in the UK and western Europe. The history and story of gibbeting is something I knew very little about and you brought it out in all its macabre glory. Just as you said at the very beginning of the video; it's absolutely amazing and shocking what humans have proven to have the sadistic ability to do to each other. It's a never-ending mill of slaughter, torture, and mass killing. I'm definitely not a nihilist, but I do see the full truth of just what mankind as a whole is capable of. So gibbeting is just another chapter in that never-ending mill of deadly misery. Your telling of this macabre practice is an example of why your channel is one of my favorites. You cover subjects and stories that no other channels cover; and even if anyone else does cover these subjects and stories, they just do a cursory glance at them. Please continue finding and covering the deep, dark crevices of the minds of we humans; the Bible calling our mind "....the Bottomless Pit...." when examined as a collective whole. That's quite a fitting term for it. We never cease to think up everything there is to know. More thanks are due here, as I thank you for being very consistent, thorough, complete, and your cadence is perfection. Take care and God bless.

Just found your channel tonight and subscribed. I'm actually a descendant of William Jobling so it's always fascinating to hear about him. He allegedly murdered a magistrate but there was another man drinking with him at the time apparently who was the true murderer.

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Well, I never! Seriously slaying it on video quality! Very well edited and as always, you were fantastic. I love the footage and framing of you walking through visual examples💓

You need your own tv show, I could watch these forever. Keep up the great content! ❤ 🇨🇦

This was very interesting! My parents visited this gibbet, I believe, atop a hill. People were hanggliding off the hill. I'm subscribing due to the professional and welldone video!

I almost didn't watch this video because I thought it would be grotesque and not educational, but then I gave it a go. I'm so glad I did, it was fascinating.

This video was incredibly well-made. I really wasn't expecting you to suddenly be next to an actual gibbet. That is what we refer to as a "gangster move".

I live near Halifax and there is a Gibbet street there, a much feared form of punishment, very few people aware of the gruesome connection, even made it’s way into a popular rhyme, although gibbet in this case was a guillotine From Hell, Hull and Halifax, Good Lord deliver us!

Really good work old chap. Liked and Subscribed.

Honestly this channel is so well done.

Love your videos. Always well told and educational.

Indeed,Paul,the things we did!Super stuff!

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La Corriveau is still talked about when you visit Old Québec City on the Ghost tours since she is well known in Québec folklore. She was condemned in 1763 by a British military tribunal of 12 officers near the plains of Abraham outside the Citadel of Québec. An important note is that New France was now under British control when the French lost the war of Québec city in 1759 for this was not a French practice to execute someone and put them in a gibbet. Her dead body was hung in a Gibbet across the St Lawrence River in Lévis for 40 days at the crossroads where all the local folk would see her every day. In 1851, her 'cage' was dug up from the Lévis cemetery during construction and stolen from the church. Here comes the fun part, P.T. Barnum acquired the cage and La Corriveau's body, then later, it was put on display at the Bostom Museum with two words: "From Québec." In 2013 the cage was repatriated to Lévis, Québec and put onto public display. It is now in the Musée de la Civilisation in old Québec City where you can visit it to this day. People, however, still say that the crossroads in Lévis where her body was put on display holds a dark foreboding presence. People of all ages detour the area since it creeps everyone out with the heaviness and chills that the area carries...

You sure have a great way of telling a story. I listen to Mr. Ballen and I'd be proud to add you to my inventory of story tellers.

Extraordinary videos. So wwll-narrated. Compelling and just the right bit of creepiness! Subscribed.

Hey Paul! Have just discovered your interesting and informative channel. Great content: a welcome break - for us fans of olde-worlde cryme - from witless American sensationalism, with their grating accents and sloppy enunciation. Your research is impressive, the presentation careful and engaging. Thanks for no recourse to daft audio or visual effects, and no polemics. Good man! Keep it up. Dear Internet viewers: listen to this bloke.

Paul, you’re a true artist of the oratory persuasion, sir.

You are so very good at telling spooky stories! Thank you for your hard work!😊

Excellent work on your video by the way!! Nicely done, very professional. Good enough to be on national tv in my opinion.

Horrific, but very interesting and well told! Got my sub, thanks for an entertaining vid

Very nicely done. You are so articulate & your videos are always interesting. Cheers!

Love the videos. I found this especially interesting. For the past 14 years I've been living in St John's Newfoundland Canada. The city of St. John's was settled by the English in the late 1790's. On the east side of St. John's harbour is signal hill where stands the English fort that protected the entrance to the harbour, and just below the fort is "Gibbet Hill" where the English Gibbeted the bodies of criminals, usually pirates for all ships entering the harbour to see. Another form of punishment used by the English in St. John's was to put criminals in a barrel, close them up, roll them to the edge and push them over the very steep and rocky Gibbet Hill where they'd tumble down into Deadman's Pond. I would assume that's how the pond got its name.

Very good. Subscribed

Gruesome history. Yes, humans are cruel beyond measure. Thank you for enlightening us via your expertly done video.

I was vaguely familiar with the practice from seeing the first Willow film as a kid but it felt extra horrifying how this was used so very recently - thank you for the videos

Well I never, that was truly fascinating. Love your content and delivery.

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Another great and very informative video as always. Thanks for the humor. Love the channel. Thank you so much.

Listening to this while doing my work -- how gruesome. Thank you for the video (also I love your voice, very soothing).

What's surprising is that people continued to commit crimes even when they knew the horrific punishments. The capacity for human cruelty is unlimited.

The best Documentary host EVER. Please make more

Yay, another video from "Well, I Never". Even better then the gibbet description I am currently listening to, was the hat and the whole outfit in the beginning of the video. I'm so envious, and wish I knew where and how to get that ultra-English style. 🙂 Wishing a great weekend for you all, and hoping this stubborn winter soon give up, from Alv and my black cat Lucis, in Bergen, Norway.

Very interesting. I knew of gibbetting but never understood how popular it was. Great story telling as always

Excellent content and presentation, as usual. New subscriber 🌺 Thank you for making history interesting; as a youngster it was my least favorite subject. Now I appreciate it for the lessons it teaches us. Thank you for the professional and interesting presentation. 🌻

As macabre as this video was, it was very informative and interesting. Well done. I will certainly watch more of your videos as you have a very good storytelling voice which is addictive to listen to. 🏁👏

I was gripped from start to finish. This was so professionally edited and narrated 👌. I’ve just subscribed and am looking forward to watching all your previous and future episodes Paul .

Love your sense of humour. You added quite a bit of entertainment value due to how you made this presentation.

❤just found you , and so interesting. Love your voice. Thank you ❤

Very well done!! Nice vid

I just discovered your channel and have subscribed. Lots of informative information presented in a similar way I like to teach history in my classes: in story form and with passion. Thank you.

A rather grim, but fascinating subject. I thoroughly enjoyed this excellent video.

Interesting loved the narration.

Just stumbled across your channel! I love your aesthetic!🎩

I live quite close to Combe Gibbet and regularly go over Walbury Hill so recognised it instantly. I grew up in Rye which is famous for a gibbet (although the original site is now a car park), after a grisly murder was committed by a local butcher called John Breads. Breads' skull and the gibbet which contains it are still held to this day in the town hall but for a long time they were on display at the Tourist Information Centre. My mum used to work there and would always see it hanging in one of the cabinets by the door whenever I used to go meet her after getting off the school bus. It was quite easy to imagine it swinging on a cold, misty marsh by the rivers with crows and gulls pecking at it. There was also a legend that old women of the town would take the bones and boil them down for soup but whether this is true or not, remains to be seen. Either way, it always intrigued me but creeped me out at the same time.

As usual, well made and superbly presented. Thank you. Peace be unto you.

Only just discovered this channel, thank you this was very interesting

Great video and info

What a documentary! Well done, sir!

I do love your sense of humor Paul, “ what we did before RU-vid”. The gibbed does seem unusually cruel.