When Horror Movies Become Real Life (Nope) 

Knowing that a smile from a chimp is a sign of aggression that picture of the chimp holding the baby and smiling got a whole hell of a lot scarier.

Moral of the story: Just because you love animals and nature, doesn't mean animals and nature have any cosmic obligation to love you back.

Unlike the bear guy, Steve Irwin always had security and emergency support nearby. Yes, he too believed he can handle animals safely. But he always respected their danger capabilities. Which makes it only more tragic that he did pass away.

For those who misunderstood, Moe didn't attack his owner. Other chimps did. Poor Moe was also traumatized after seeing what other chimpanzees did to Davis

The whole "the animals didn't go rogue, they went animal" always reminds me of "the water isn't 'shark-infested', that's their home. It's human infested."

She was trying to replace her daughter that died in an accident. That whole situation was beyond screwed up. Her husband practically begged her to re-home Travis.

The two scariest things about the Travis incident, at least for me: 1. You can HEAR Travis in the 911 call... made worse by the operator thinking it was a prank and not taking it seriously at first. 2. If it wasn't for her forgetting the attack, the last visual memory Nash would ever have would have been an enraged chimpanzee tearing her apart.

The Moe story always makes me feel so sad for Moe. He was so scared, he was in freeze mode. They tried to do what was best for him, even kept visiting him. But Moe knew only humans and never knew chimp culture or witnessed their cruelty. Poor ape, he was traumatized that day too. 😢😔😣

If you want to be really mad, look up the chimpanzee Lucy, who some 1960s "scientists" literally raised as if she were their human daughter. They taught her to dress herself, make tea, use silverware and furniture. When she became sexually mature, her psychotherapist "father" gave her a playgirl magazine to see if she was aroused by human men (she was). He then tried to introduce her to a male chimp, and she was terrified because she'd never met another chimp before. When she turned 12 and was too strong and dangerous to continue living with them, they just took her to a preserve in Gambia. Even though the people working there said she was not a good fit for rehabilitation and instead should go to a chimp retirement home where she could safely continue to live like she had all her life with all the food, magazines, toys, and tea that she was used to (but maybe not the gin and "alone time" with porn mags and a vacuum cleaner). But her "parents" left her there and returned to the US after a few weeks, and her "dad" published a book about the experiment of raising her that same year that they abandoned her. It was a university student that stayed at the center for years to try and help her assimilate. She never did. She never showed attraction to the male chimps or got a mate. She didn’t want anything to do with the other chimps and was clearly depressed. She refused to eat and would sign "hurt" to the student. It took almost a decade for her to actually begin to integrate with the chimps. A year after she did finally start to live with them, her dead body was found. The student thinks it may have been poachers that killed her (since her hands were missing). If it was, she would have probably just walked right up to them to say hello.

Sir, i'm a wildlife vet and ethologist working for the World Animal Protection and the UNESCO biospheres and my colleagues and myself are all talking about how professional, mature and honest the way you present things is . You have our sincere consideration.

Worst part about the Travis the Chimp incident? Sandra's husband wanted Travis to go to a chimp sanctuary. After her husband died, Sandra basically went against his wishes because "Travis was all she had".

The entire moral of NOPE is “Don’t exploit dangerous creatures for entertainment and profit.” Even the horses in that movie back that up.

I feel so bad for Travis. What a miserable life. No other chimps near him, no real socializing, fed junk food, denied him the right to live like a normal chimp. It WAS inevitable and it WAS caused by Sandy. Took years of mistreatment that came to a brutal head. I’m so glad Charla survived.

It's crazy that Jason Coates is the only one in these stories who made the sensible decisions yet he's the only one that got charged and served jail time.

I used to be a zookeeper, just reptiles and birds so no big mammals, but there's still a message that gets drilled into every new keeper: No matter how much you love the animal and no matter how much it seems to love you back, never turn your back on it

Missed a detail about the James St. Davis incident, particularly about Moe. A few years after the attack, he broke out of his enclosure and escaped into the wilderness. Even with search parties dispatched, the chimp was never found again. Edit: Actually, it's way more likely Moe was killed by the sanctuary owners or other chimps, and they may be using "he escaped" as a cover-up. That's even more terrible, if true.

As psychology student I can tell you, raising a chimp as a human never ends well developmentally seeking. Just look at the problems Lucy had when returned to her own kind.

I honestly don't know why people think owning a literal black airforce with thumbs is a good idea.

She probably doesn't remember because our brains have a thing where they say "fuck that" to trauma sometimes and forces us to forget it, sort of as a way to protect itself. Lets be honest, her brain made a smart move there. Edit: Here's one thing we can learn from this; If you're gonna fuck around with animals, remember that they're WILD animals and would gladly maul you in the worst most painful and traumatizing ways possible, no matter how attached they are to you.

Ngl I feel bad for Moe. Even though he was a chimp and therefore COULD kill his owner, he actually got a more healthy treatment and still loved what are basically his parents, so seeing them getting gored by his own kind and being unable to do anything is sad.

Jason casually having a better understanding of what chimps are capable of than any of the weirdos who claimed to handle the animals is pretty telling.

The fact that a chimp’s already creepy smile is a sign of aggression adds a whole level of terror.

As someone who grew up in Alaska, I would like to add that "bear spray" is more of a seasoning than a deterrent. Also, a Park Ranger offered Treadwell a Rifle and insisted that he take it, which he didn't do. In Alaska, you step out of the vehicle and into the food chain. So be prepared.

Travis was such a tragic character. These animals don't stand a chance: they're taken out of their natural environment, domesticated until they can never be released back into the wild, yet never truly tamed and so inevitably become too wild for human society. And then they're stuck in limbo, usually in the care of people who don't respect them as animals and cannot provide them with what they need to truly be happy.

“The bear that was found guilty for only being a bear”…. Love that you said that, people really need to understand it

Travis was a well behaved monkey until he reached adulthood and sexual maturity They didn't take that testosterone seriously. Sandra's husband actually asked her to send Travis to a sanctuary when he was dying because he was afraid she wouldn't be able to handle him alone but she couldn't give him up. It was a mess all around

One of the many upsetting points in here was that officer(s) were denied therapy. Had it been a human who had done those things, they totally would’ve been provided counseling. Another round of applause for our healthcare system. I can’t even begin to imagine the PTSD from that, nor do I want to.

The girlfriend in the Grizzly Man death (Amy Huegenard) didn’t “just scream,” and she stayed with him while he was being attacked despite him yelling at her to leave and try to escape. She likely used a frying pan to try beat the bear off her boyfriend (there were sounds they thought were a frying pan being hit swing around, but as it’s just audio, it’s unclear, but probably not the guy being mauled by a underfed grizzly). She easily could have choose to run as her boyfriend told her to do, but stayed and attempted to help get him away from the bear, and was killed as well.

I think it's weird that certain people always want wild animals as pets. I'm still at the "took baths with him."

Fun Fact about starving bears, they will devour their own kids to preserve themselves and Timothy knew they were killing their babies and still didn't take that as a hint to skedadle.

I'm a bit surprised you went over the story of Timothy Treadwell but not that of Siberian girl Olga Moskalyova back in 2011. That's the one that made me swear never to go near bears. It gives me goosebumps every time my daughter who lives in Montana tells me she's going camping.

Travis' berserk smile while holding that baby is a different kind of nightmare altogether, seeing what he have done to the lady. 1:00

This is what I love about the original two jurassic park movies, they are not heroes, villians, or monsters, they are just animals, plain and simple.

My dad actually hunted around the area where Timothy camped at...Not only did Timothy set his camp up on a bear trail, he set it up near a narrow part of a river, where the biggest and oldest bears would go to catch fish, since it was easier than fishing on a wider area of the river. That, and he chose a time of year where both berries and salmon were scarce...

That movie NOPE haunts me. The chimp stuff, the psychopath aging child star, the horse sacrifices… I guess it’s probably the best horror movie I’ve ever seen. But it wounded me.

That last story really is the "The worst person you know you just made a good point" meme

I agree, siding with PETA is a feat. They are almost extremists when it comes to animals, but for them to condemn that foundation was a good idea.

"Denied therapy." Damn that's cold. I didn't know we lived in a world where you can tell someone they're not allowed to have basic mental health services.

Worst part about Timothy, he was right He genuinely had a connection and a trust with the bears he lived near, it’s just that the bears that killed him and his girlfriend weren’t from that area and weren’t familiar with Timothy

I have a lot of respect for Roy though… glad he didn’t want his tiger killed.

Considering Suzie had attacked humans, or tried to, wouldn't she have been put down anyway if Jason hadn't shot her? Either way, I side with Jason. Wild animal threatening my pet baby? Yeah, it's going down same as if it threatened me. I'm surprised he didn't counter sue Chimp Party for emotional trauma; one would think Jason would have an easy win there!

Moral of the story: "Chimpanzee" and "pet" should never belong in the same sentence unless this sentence warns against keeping these violent primates as pets.

The fact that bro told them not to hurt the tiger does deserve some respect

Some people really think it's like Disney land out in the wild 💀

An additional note to this already horrific story. Travis was given a dose of anti-depressants by his caregiver, Sandra, without a doctor's/vet's evaluation. So Sandra just gave doses based off of her own beliefs on what she thought he needed. It's speculated that the attack on Sandra's friend, Charla Nash, was caused by Travis having heavy, negative side effect to the meds, causing hysteria. Sandra was negligent and had the choice to call for professional help when Travis was having his breakdown. Instead, she called Charla to help her control Travis. Sad fact, supposedly Charla often felt uneasy around Travis and only helped as much as she did over the years to support her friend, Sandra. Charla Nash lost both her eyes and cannot see anymore. The eyes you see in her most recent photos are glass eyeballs. If you listen to the 911 call when this attack was occurring, it was incredibly haunting. The screams of Charla in the background while Sandra was losing it over the phone. Rest in peace to Travis and a long, peaceful life for Charla. I pray that no one ever does what Sandra does, ever again.

Yep. We were friends with the family of the woman who was attacked. Thankfully her brain protected her, she can't remember what happened because it was so traumatic her brain forcefully shut off those memories forever. She's been well taken care of by the family of those who owned the chimp financially, they are paying for everything. She's thankfully happy and living a good life.

"I genuinely hope none of you got laid" haha I was thinking the same thing 🤣😂 12:07

The last story was frightening but so glad they ended up okay. Absolutely crazy that someone would get into trouble for defending their friends and dog from a group of crazed chimps.

One of the worst crimes against an animal performer I've ever heard of is the sad tale of Sultan, the tiger that played Ra, the black tiger from the movie Beastmaster. Sultan was actually a plain old regular vanilla box-standard tiger, but the filmmakers wanted him to look more unique, or I guess you could say "cooler" so they dyed the big cat actor black. Wouldn't be so bad except the dye they used was toxic and caused the big cat's health to deteriorate until he passed away two years later... Moral of the story: 1. Hollywood executives are pure evil. 2. If you want a tiger in your movie, don't mess with the fur colour! The fact it's a tiger commands respect enough!

The birthday cake incident was so horrific. Chewed his fingers and genitals off, ripped his face off all that. People think it's made up when I tell that story because Rogan talked about it. This story and Charlotte nash the reason I don't believe in keeping wild animals in suburbs. This content is top tier. Also I don't know what you do to your videos to make them fit the screen so big but it's fucking awesome I wish everyone would do it.

Gotta love the channel for the fact that you're not describing actions of wild animals as crazy or otherwise abnormal but simply them being what they are and doing what they do by nature. People really like to forget that the only abnormal act of a wild animal is when it treats a human like their friend. Especially after everything that humanity has done to those animals in the past, I just can't help but think that absolutely every animal dislikes us by default (and rightfully so).

"now, alot of people blame Sandra for the event... and i'm one of them" had me rolling on the floor xD

That last story made me kinda mad. Dude served jail time and missed the birth of his kid for doing what literally any rational person would have done. Man is a hero in my book

My aunt was a showgirl in Vegas till the early 80s. She became very close to Sigfried and Roy because she had no fear and would pet the tigers like they were poodles. She says they loved their tigers, even the inbred ones that were too stunted to be trained. Of all the crazy stuff she experinced in those years she said she felt safer hanging with Sigfried and Roy's tigers than the guys in the casinos.

You know, if Travis was allowed to get his pent-up energy and emotions out instead of being locked and drugged in a house, he probably would have been fine. Animals are not humans, and they can't survive like humans do. As someone who has a lot of exotic pets, you have to let your pets be what they are. You also have to take extreme caution when their routine gets interrupted or emotional trauma is present. They will never behave like a human. Even I'm at fault for almost killing my tarantula while rehousing her. I had to dig her out of her burrow, and despite handling her multiple times with no issue, she was stressed and proceeded to jump out of my hand. If I hadn't caught her, she would have splattered on the ground. Even after catching her, she skittered up my arm, and I had to remain still while she crawled all over me until she calmed down. Instead of catching her in a cup, like I should have done, I figured I could handle her and then put her into a cup for safe keeping. I didn't take into account that I just tore her house up and forced her out of her environment as when I usually handle her, I coax her out very slowly so she can adjust comfortably to being manipulated. It's not her fault for freaking out. It's my fault as her caretaker for not accounting for her emotional distress and what she might do, and that's just a spider! Imagine a tiger, chimp, or bear being put in an uncomfortable situation and having no way to communicate. They're going to lash out, regardless of who's around them. An animal is only as manageable as its needs and desires allow. Instinct WILL kick in when things are abnormal for the animal, and they will respond how they would respond in the wild. Domestication can only happen when the animal is calm and happy. Anything else, and you should expect a wild animal to behave like a wild animal. Even if you've raised a tiger from a cub. You're only its caretaker and WILL become food or a target of aggression if it needs to.

This video game me the chills. And the last story made me so angry. Jason was doing what any rational person would when faced woth a wild dangerous animal.

So they arrested someone for defending not only themself, but his friends (including his dog), but decided to tranquilize a chimpanzee when they get more pissed off by it? Yeah, I can see why this is the only time i side with PETA

My man here has sparked a massive resurgence in zoology studies for me. Much thanks; we need more content creators like you.

I lived in Anchorage, Alaska. Back around 1981 or so, there was a classified newspaper ad selling a chimpanzee for $100. For a brief moment, it seemed like a good idea. Thank goodness I never followed up on that ad.

Poor Travis.. people see him as this savage monster when his only crime was having a mental illness from being stuck in an unnatural lifestyle. He obviously had emotions, he just shouldn't've been living a life like that.

I didn't know Suzie was Travis's mother. That adds a whole new layer of tragedy to these stories. They should have been living in the wild together, or at the very least a real sanctuary, and instead.... heartbreaking.

Let me get this straight, a man gets 30 days in jail and charged with a felony for defending the life of his dog, his friends, and himself, against one of the most homicidal life forms on the face of the Earth that was a clear and present danger, what the actual f***.

I waited to watch Nope before playing this video. Finally saw it today. This was worth the wait. I only knew a few of these stories (Travis, Roy, and the bear guy). There are too many damn people trying to tame wild animals that kill things for a living.

I feel so bad for Travis tbh, and any inclosed wild animal for that matter. They don't know anything, they've been raised differently then what they're supposed to be raised and then they start feeling a certain way which they can't express since they're in a house. Then they get killed and they don't even know what they did wrong...

The last one was so upsetting. Jason and his friends were attacked by three chimpanzees and yet he was charged for doing what I and honestly any person would do. Absolutely mind boggling.

You hit the nail on the head about Travis being the ultimate victim. I'm pretty desensitized to a lot of things, but this story always hits my emotions because he was like a giant kid. He wasn't happy and did what animals do and he, as well as his victim, paid the price. It's just sad story all around.

This will probably make going to sleep more difficult... but I'd rather hear animal _facts_ than go around spouting ignorance. Thanks, as always, for sharing with us.

Props to Roy for telling them not to kill the tiger as he was literally bleeding/stroking out. Tigers gonna tiger, he understood that.

Reality is often scarier than fiction

Honestly, I always felt uneasy seeing chimps in movies or shows wearing clothes and being treated like human kids. It just never sat well with me. I much preferred to learn about chimps by watching them in a wildlife documentary in their natural habitat. My gut feeling had been right all along.

I read a bit more about the whole Timothy Treadwell incident And the worst part about it is the fact that the death could've been COMPLETELY AVOIDED EVEN WITH HIM GOING TO THAT CAMPSITE Treadwell actually planned to leave and go back to California earlier but and I quote from the Wikipedia article about his death: "After an argument with the airline ticketer over the price of altering his return ticket, Treadwell and Huguenard made the decision to return to their campsite on September 29 for an additional week."

Yeah, I remember the Tredwell(?) documentary called Grizzly Man, and they pretty much said that he and his girlfriend got brutally merced by the bears. Even as a kid, I didn't feel bad for them getting their Darwin Awards. My dad was lucky the bear he encountered in the wild was scared of him as he was of it, and they just fled from each other. Anyone with a single brain cell knows not to fuck with the wild animals that can make you past tense.

The thought of keeping primates as a pet or be in close contact with one unnerves me and maybe for a good reason. Mostly its because they have a resemblance to us but with more hair and solve problems better than some humans. "Makes a special kind of people to make Peta the good guy" mate that's gold.

I was at a zoo with a large, enclosed habitat with several chimpanzees. Two were fighting & I asked a zoo keeper standing next to me what happens if one gets hurt. She said ‘They can tear the arms off a person, so unless it’s life threatening, we don’t go in there.” …Fair enough.

you will never watch Curious George the same way again

I remember all of these, the last audio recording of Timothy Treadwell when he was being attacked/mauled is so haunting and sends chills down my spine.. People need to leave wild animals to their own devices and stop trying to make them pets. Neverr ends well. Love your vids btw! =)

Some “fun” facts about the bear guy, Tim that op didn’t mention, and got a little wrong: 1.) It wasn’t Rangers who found their bodies, it was a pilot who flew Tim back and forth to the bears, and their bodies weren’t alone when he found them, they were still being eaten. 2.) Tim knew the bear that killed them, and he didn’t like the bear. I believe he nicknamed it Grumpy, because he was an old bear, and didn’t care for Tim. Grumpy was also missing teeth, and the ones he wasn’t missing were just stumps. 3.) Going off of #2, because Grumpy’s teeth were so bad, he couldn’t kill Tim and his gf as fast as other healthier bears could, which means Tim’s and his gf’s deaths were slow and painful. 4.) In the recording (transcription) Tim told his gf to run, but she refused and tried to help him as he was attacked first. It would have been futile for her to run though as there was nowhere to go. They were too deep in the woods where the only way in or out was a small plane with a small runway in the middle of nowhere, and she didn’t have the radio. 5.) When the pilot found their bodies Grumpy was chewing on Tim’s rib cage, and he had already buried some of their remains for later. 5.) Grumpy was killed and their body parts were exhumed for burial, but not all of them were found. So little was found that altogether they could fit into one casket. .) This could have been avoided had Tim decided to leave when he originally wanted to because they were there during bear’s preparation for hibernation where they become desperate to eat as much as possible, and Grumpy with his messed up teeth was especially desperate.

I love this guy. Now that school is back I can ruin everyone’s favorite animal. The look in their faces when I tell them stuff is hilarious

I really like the level of thought you put into these more complex situations, you break it down without basis and it’s much appreciated.

Bruh, the trauma that Travis already had being separated from his mom early, and then the poor treatment and drugs...no wonder all that happened. Him and Moe hurt my heart. Kudos to Roy though for not blaming the tiger. He at least seemed to care. And that Missouri joint? Yeah, that's very Missouri. And they had another scandal during the lawsuit with PETA. They got caught hiding a chimp named Tonka and basically faking his death, saying he had been euthanized for heart failure and cremated, but he was found alive in another city.

I sincerely believe that part of being a true animal lover is having an appreciation for every side of them... Which includes respecting the danger they bring.

The whole messed up thing about Travis’ owner. Even after he attacked and mutilated her friend, even after they had to put Travis down….. SHE STILL TRIED TO GET ANOTHER CHIMPANZEE TO RAISE Thankfully she’d been denied. But say it with me….. 🤦‍♂️

I watched that Gordy scene and it actually gave me chills what a terrifying yet extremely realistic scene of carnage and blood shead

"Chimp activity followed" is a CHILLING sentence...

Honestly, I feel bad for both the bear and Timothy's girlfriend. The girlfriend has expressed how uncomfortable she was during the trip and even wanted to leave. I'm sorry for Timothy's family but he more or less got his girlfriend and the bear killed. With love comes respect and if you really love an animal, you leave it the eff alone...

Even as scary as the animals are due to their nature, I can’t help but feel bad for em being in situations they have no right being put in because of how much the blame often gets put on them rather than people being dumb. I’m glad over here we agree it’s people’s fault at least.

The Simpsons actually joked about the Zigfrid and Roy tiger attack... 10 years before it happened!

I remember being excited that I got the reference in theaters, and telling my folks about it. Later I watched an interview where Jordan Peele talked about a specific scene as an indictment of our fascination with gruesome spectacles, and realized I was the type of person being criticized. What a fantastic movie, seriously. It does so fucking much on so many levels.

I remember going down a rabbit hole years ago about the James Davis story. Even read an interview he did. Pretty sad considering it wasn't even Mo who did any of the damage. If I remember correctly, the chimps actually escaped from their cage while watching them have the cake with Mo. It also wasn't the first time they escaped... which calls into question how that place was run. If you're serious about keeping animals in cages make sure the locks cannot be broken. Also, I believe Mo escaped into the woods after that incident and was never found again.

That transition from "Telling his friends how much fun he was having" to "Rangers found his multilated corpse" gave me chills

Respect to the Tiger trainer for saying not to put the cat down at least. People will never learn there are certain animals that are never meant to be domesticated.

4:26 I remember hearing about that . That messed me up finding out a chimp was capable of tearing off a human, really any face, and why would anybody want that as a pet? I wept for Her. I'm glad she's better. It is complicated. Once you start giving an animal meds, you gotta know, it's only a matter of time. Plus, he was family. No one can really deny that. I understand putting down dogs and horses. I would think with a chimp, it's a little different

I remember when roy got attacked by the white tiger. I had respect for Roy that he did not blame the animal. That Roy was pretty much dying and asking people not to hurt the tiger says a lot about Roy's character.

Moe, the chimp's story has a sad ending. The sanctuary where he was living claimed he ran away into the woods. They said they searched but couldn't find him. The couple who owned him never believed that story because Moe had always lived in a house with people. They didn't think it was plausible that he would decide to return to nature. They were always suspicious that he was killed in some sort of accident and the sanctuary covered it up. Poor Moe.

That camera pan from behind the set while you hear Gordy on his rampage gives me chills.

with the bear guy the tape was given to his ex who he still was good friends with, and she's vowed to never listen to it, with a german documentary guy telling her she should destroy the tape after he listened to it

I feel sorry for Jason. Obviously, he was the only one doing the right thing in the situation, only to be effed over by American law. You may shoot a human on American soil and get a pat on your shoulder for it, but a chimpanzee gets you 30 days in jail.

"It takes a special type of people to make PETA the good guy." Yup.

While I, like you, don't condone what Sandra did, thank you for taking the time for putting a bit of compassion to her stupidity. Her actions cost a life but may have been a sign of her own distress. Still far from okay, but most RU-vidrs would have condemned entirely.

being denied therapy post trauma is crazyyyy