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this gives me actual chills

Holy, shite. That’s literally all I have to say that’s what I was thinking the whole time while listening to this recording.

I remember this playing on a megaphone during our final FTX in basic training, bring back memories 😅😅

"Boots" is one of my favorite poems and I was aware of Taylor Holmes' reading if the poem. I'm glad more people are being exposed to it. It's a really erie poem.

Remember this is the guy who also wrote the jungle book 👌🏼

I can hear already the gunfire…

“Don’t, let, your, eyes, drop they will get atop of you” is a brutally haunting phrase

Just the marching would make the men go crazy. Marching. Every. Day. Knowing what they’re marching to. Wow.

Everyone's been saying it, but the 28 years trailer employed this poem masterfully, whoever put it together needs to get a special treat for themselves. Taylor holmes' reading is genius, Extremely eerie and moving.

This was on my playlist and popped up while it was completely dark in my room 😭😭😭😭😭

Happiest soldier during the Second Boer War:

28 years brought me here. I never, never ever, had an idea how someone could bring up pure agony in art. Now I know. I shall pick up writing again

This is brilliant 👏 😢

Intense. Taylor Holmes really did bring this poem to life.

That's a coincidence that I watching this video exactly 12 days later

Can someone explain me why there people saying that thats poem is somehow correlated with torture methods and militar alienation? I don't get it, it was used to torture someone? Or its just because talk about how military totally despersonificate people? (Sorry ny rusty English, its not my native language)

The fact that this audio is so well preserved for being from 1915 is insane to me

A tiktok edit of Star Wars The Clone Wars used this as a sound, and I had to investigate it's origins. Absolutely devastating. Wish we learned from this.

Thank you for posting this

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Where are my SERE folks?

They used this for SERE training in Nam, it was to train the troops for anti interrogation and torture means

I'm also here because of 28 years later but when you picture actual war and genocide (Palestine) it's so much more chilling

They put women and children in death camps...

The audio is from a poem called "boots" which was talks about what happened during the second Boer war. The war was fought between the British and the free states of Transvaal and Oranje. The British marched over 60.000 troops into the South African desert for years, and more than 20.000 British soldiers died in battle. However, the British killed and injured more than 50.000 African and Boer (part Dutch part African) soldiers, killed 20.000+ women and children in concentration camps. Another 20.000+ soldiers were also put in concentration camps. Ironically, this poem was made to portray the horror the British faced during those times.... Also one of the few times colonists massacred other colonists.

Putting aside the fact this was used brilliantly in _28 Years Later's_ trailer, there's something rather unsettling by how Holmes screams in the end, as if he himself is also becoming taken over by the madness of war.

this guy killed this reading, incredibly eerie.

Timeless Masterpiece.

"Art should comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable."

It's no wonder this poem has been used in SERE school (Survival, Evasion, Resistance, and Escape), where they teach military personnel how to deal with capture and possible torture.

Real horror movie song.

I feel the nails-like-scraping cringe in the back of my skull at the climax of the reading of this poem.

Damn, that's terrifying.

Goose bumps. ALL OVER ME! There's no discharge, FROM THE WAR!

For any of my fellow soldiers still marching. Have a listen. And look up and around. The noise is fading, it's almost over. We did it. 💜🤯🙃

That is absolutely terrifying, I got goosebumps all over

THERE'S NO DISCHARGE IN THE WAR

All I picture is a guy in a trench in France rocking back and forth reciting this as artillery lands all around him, machine guns rip through the air above him. He's shell shocked and terrified. As an empath this is extremely powerful and captures a glimpse of a reality that the men recording this genuinely had no clue would happen to millions of young men across Europe in less than 3 years.

Liebestraum No 3 is the most beautiful classical piano piece ever.

While this mix is fantastic, the original with the fuzzy audio is even creepier. Still an amazing version where each word is easier to hear.

Add me to the “28 Years Later” pile.

A poem about how two colonizers fought each other over land and resources that weren't theirs and how sad it made them...

There’s no way this isn’t a woman

Thank you for posting this clean recording.

Brings you back to Orwell - lessons are never learnt.

I remember when I had listened to this and asked my stepfather if this was was what war was like during Iraq, he said that being a soldier can be one’s hell if not mentally prepared, fast forward to now where 28 yrs later dropped the trailer and I asked him about what he thought of the trailer, he told me he liked it but the audio freaked him out, and a couple days ago, he told me that he didn’t tell me the real problem of war when I asked what it was he said, “Humanity is the will tear itself apart to remain on top of itself, both physically but mostly mentally.” I never felt more creeped out in my life.

19 days at Stone Bay iykyk

Does the 40 thousand million number have any significance?

Gosh I am so glad that 28 years later chose this as its audio as it is quite possibly one of if not the greatest poems I’ve ever heard (it’s able to capture a chilling sense of dread and insanity I’ve never seen in a poem before)

I can't stop listening to this!