Hope you enjoy this Halloween special. And, if you do, let me know what other horror movies that are "based on a true story" I could look at for next year!
Eye for an eye, Scotland did justice right. They tormented numerous innocents and so they went out in a gruesome agonizing way as they shouldve.@@LysetteZara
I have to say your knack for avoiding over-dramatizing stuff fits really well with folklore like this. Felt like a nice summary of such an old story, especially focusing more on the legacy rather than if it was real or not. I'd definitely watch more if you were testing the waters with this at all.
I've been in Sawney Bean's cave! It was very spacious, it could have housed 45 people. I didn't stay long, because I've seen too many horror movies but it wasn't too spooky. It had a lovely view of Ailsa Craig, a granite island where they used to quarry stone to make curling stones.
As a scot myself i grew up learning of the legend of sawney bean and his incestuous family. Please do more of these videos even the nightmare on elm street has some real life inspiration
THAT story freaked me out when I read about it! Reportedly, children of the Hmong people from Laos who escaped to America from communist genocide suddenly refused to go to sleep at night because "something horrifying" was trying to kill them in their dreams. Then, when they inevitably fell asleep, their families would find them dead the next day. Wes Craven (same guy who made "The Hills Have Eyes") was inspired by this to make "A Nightmare on Elm Street". I guess he really liked making horror films inspired by true events!
This folktale was used to influence British popular opinion against the Scotts. What type of people could spawn a savage clan like this, is how the propaganda worked.
It would not be shocking that Sawney Bean was based off of fictional accounts by the english in order to make the scots appear as some sort of mythical and negative beings, as they have a history of doing things like these with other groups (I.E, The Irish) in order for them to appear superior compared to other groups. But, nonetheless, the possibility to think about this being real on the first place is chilling.
Always a treat, your videos. I must negotiate a point about the original version of The Hills Have Eyes though. The gas station operator advised the family to stay on the main road, but they were dead set on checking out a plot of land and veered off into the desert, whereupon antics ensued. He was no party to intentionally luring them into a trap.
@@somejetdude yes; in both original TCM and remake pretty much everyone the protagonists interact with is a freak. Technically speaking, the gas station attendant in the original Hills Have Eyes is ALSO part of the family, being Papa Jupiter's dad; he's just not in cahoots with them and their feral ways.
As someone who was born and grew up in Ayrshire, South West Scotland, the story is supposed to be based there, near Turnberry Hotel. This is not really a really a busy area then or now, so I have difficulty believing that anyone could amass 5000 bodies. So I suspect like the story it has all been made up. Nevertheless, the Scottish tourist board down there has made the Sawney Bean cave a macabre tourist spot. I remember reading that the story apparently also gave the idea for the 'Sweeny Todd', The butchering barber in London as well.
Thanks for another great episode! I guess the moral of the story is: you reap what you sow. And Bean, whether a fictional character or real, died as he lived. Except for the fact that he wasn't eaten by his executioners.
I have to imagine that all of them would be quite chipper, seeing their familiar demise. like, imagine the terror of not knowing how this essentially foreign culture is about to snuff you out (hanging, live burial, oubliettes, etc) but then suddenly it's like you're back home again, and you say to your executioner: "We're not so different, you and I."
Truly fascinating and a horror! I have never heard that story. It probably is just a folklore boogeyman story, but it is a great one! Thanks for a bonus upload, FH. ❤
Love the original 1977 version. It recently came to a small theater for a weekend. I definitely went and seen it! It was just as great now as it was when I seen it last!
The narrator of this channel is great. Great job in covering the detail of all the accidents and etc posted here. Fantastic content and I hope you never change a thing here.
The cave was in Ayrshire, near to the border with Dumfries hire. The cave show was Snibs Cave which was close to Sawney Beans cave. Great story though & very enjoyable to watch as always. Keep up the great works.
Nice that some of the horror movies have a actual basis in reality. Most movies nowadays that are "based on a true story" are it takes place on earth and earth is a real place therefore it's a "true" story.
7:12 “The first written reports of him come from a time nearly 100 years after he was said to have lived…” And the Christians are like, “Yeah? So what?”
I’ve never really heard much about The Hills Have Eyes, except the title, but I now understand why the two titans Hange captures in Attack on Titan were named Sawney and Bean.
I like this type of historic story analysis very much when done in your down-to-earth style. I would love seeing more videos like this from you, if it’s something you’d feel like doing. Happy Halloween 🎃
Have a spooktacular day! There's quite a lot of horror films based on true stories; Amityville Horror, The Exorcist, The Entity... even, surprisingly, The Birds (Alfred Hitchcock)
There may not have been an actual person named Sawney Bean but very likely there were feral types in rural medieval Scotland. Then they migrated to Appalachia and became feral there.
Likely also an inspiration for the Murfree Brood in Red Dead Redemption 2. A murderous, inbred, cannibalistic clan that’s take their victims to a cave.
I wonder if the legend of Sawney Bean also inspired the 1972 horror film 'Death Line' (called 'Raw Meat' in the U.S.). Starring Donald Pleasence, it's about the investigation into the disappearance of a man at Russell Square Tube station. Eventually we learn that during the construction of the line in the 1890s, a cave-in trapped a number of workers, who were unable to be rescued, and they have been living in the Underground ever since, interbreeding and resorting to kidnapping people and cannibalising them.
I'd heard of The Last House on the Left but never knew what it was about and just Googled the plot. X_X holy shit how did that movie make it to production??? That's some deep and triggering nightmare fuel.
Amazing how even though you have just been born you already have a grasp on the language good enough to comment on the internet, as well as knowing how to use a computer and the internet.
One day Wes Craven was in the library and he came across a book called, "The Encyclopedia of Mayhem and Murder". In this tome was the story of Sawney Bean Family. I wish my library had as many fun books!
Hope you enjoy this Halloween special. And, if you do, let me know what other horror movies that are "based on a true story" I could look at for next year!
The Entity
Next year? It's a great idea for a regular upload!
Awesome! Thank you sir. What a treat! Happy 🦇
Amityville
Haunting in Connecticut! I just watched that last night!
"They were unfit to stand trial."
magistrate: "So, we'll just skip right to the execution!"
Which is fair.
@@ptonpc I can't tell if you're joking or not
I can stand behind that
Eye for an eye, Scotland did justice right. They tormented numerous innocents and so they went out in a gruesome agonizing way as they shouldve.@@LysetteZara
@@biggiezoinks7583 allegedly
I have to say your knack for avoiding over-dramatizing stuff fits really well with folklore like this. Felt like a nice summary of such an old story, especially focusing more on the legacy rather than if it was real or not. I'd definitely watch more if you were testing the waters with this at all.
I've been in Sawney Bean's cave! It was very spacious, it could have housed 45 people. I didn't stay long, because I've seen too many horror movies but it wasn't too spooky. It had a lovely view of Ailsa Craig, a granite island where they used to quarry stone to make curling stones.
Seany Bean did not exist , he was nothing more than English propaganda to make us Scots out to be savages, nothing more than folklore.
I've also been and was eaten alive by midges.
I believe they still do produce curling stones, there.
😂@@reverendjames9842
As if I needed more reason to be creeped out by caves...
Who knew Mr. Bean was a cannibal
It explains a lot
It makes sense. Mmmm long pig.....
😂
That's why he could only mumble. His mouth was always full of delicious human meat.
@Dayvit78 i know the feeling
Happy Halloween from Australia, Fascinating Horror! Thank you for this treat 🎉
Mmm BBQ human.. mmmmm.....
As a scot myself i grew up learning of the legend of sawney bean and his incestuous family. Please do more of these videos even the nightmare on elm street has some real life inspiration
oh i’d love to hear that one!
Nightmare on elm Street is if I'm not mistaken based on sudden death syndrome cases in Asia during the Vietnam war
@MorinoRavenberg yeah that's 100% correct
THAT story freaked me out when I read about it! Reportedly, children of the Hmong people from Laos who escaped to America from communist genocide suddenly refused to go to sleep at night because "something horrifying" was trying to kill them in their dreams. Then, when they inevitably fell asleep, their families would find them dead the next day. Wes Craven (same guy who made "The Hills Have Eyes") was inspired by this to make "A Nightmare on Elm Street". I guess he really liked making horror films inspired by true events!
As a Edinburgh native, I can only say the Bean clan seems like your average East Lothian lot.
Nah, the Bean family had better cooking. *rim shot*
As a complete foreigner coming home to Fife from a night out in Edinburgh, I am very amused.
1:22 "Following horror movie convention..."
That was perfect. Had me rolling.
Me too!
Was?
Same here 😂😂😂😂!
@@Die-Angst Ja, wirklich.
This folktale was used to influence British popular opinion against the Scotts. What type of people could spawn a savage clan like this, is how the propaganda worked.
Only the wildlings..
Yip your definitely right.
@@lynnybee6328 You're...
Scots.
Fake news before the modern age for sure
Still best intro / background music ever
Glass pond check out the hourlong version. A good thing to play whilst taking adverse personnel action
Yes it is. It's a very good one. I remember when I first heard it.
Ｌｏｖｅ Ｉｔ !
Another appropriate Halloween horror story. Chilling, frightening, eerie and macabre.
It would not be shocking that Sawney Bean was based off of fictional accounts by the english in order to make the scots appear as some sort of mythical and negative beings, as they have a history of doing things like these with other groups (I.E, The Irish) in order for them to appear superior compared to other groups. But, nonetheless, the possibility to think about this being real on the first place is chilling.
Was?
Perfect morning for a fascinating horror episode! Wooooo!!
Oh what a nice treat! I was not expecting FH to upload but I love it. ❤ Happy Halloween! 🎃 👻 🖤
You spoil us 🥺💚
really appreciate how you cover how it might not even be real instead of sensationalizing the story like other channels sometimes do
Always a treat, your videos. I must negotiate a point about the original version of The Hills Have Eyes though. The gas station operator advised the family to stay on the main road, but they were dead set on checking out a plot of land and veered off into the desert, whereupon antics ensued. He was no party to intentionally luring them into a trap.
I was coming to say exactly this! Still, great video overall.
Is it Texas chainsaw massacre where the gas station or mechanic ends up being one of the family?
@@somejetdude yes; in both original TCM and remake pretty much everyone the protagonists interact with is a freak. Technically speaking, the gas station attendant in the original Hills Have Eyes is ALSO part of the family, being Papa Jupiter's dad; he's just not in cahoots with them and their feral ways.
It's a phase that I've always seen but never actually looked up. Thanks for this summary.
As someone who was born and grew up in Ayrshire, South West Scotland, the story is supposed to be based there, near Turnberry Hotel. This is not really a really a busy area then or now, so I have difficulty believing that anyone could amass 5000 bodies. So I suspect like the story it has all been made up. Nevertheless, the Scottish tourist board down there has made the Sawney Bean cave a macabre tourist spot. I remember reading that the story apparently also gave the idea for the 'Sweeny Todd', The butchering barber in London as well.
The Ayrshire coastal path would have been the main route between the north of Ireland and Scotland.
What a treat (no tricks)! Well told, FH.
This was a really good episode. Had never heard of "Mr Bean" 🤣so this was genuinely "fascinating".
Thanks for another great episode! I guess the moral of the story is: you reap what you sow. And Bean, whether a fictional character or real, died as he lived. Except for the fact that he wasn't eaten by his executioners.
I have to imagine that all of them would be quite chipper, seeing their familiar demise. like, imagine the terror of not knowing how this essentially foreign culture is about to snuff you out (hanging, live burial, oubliettes, etc) but then suddenly it's like you're back home again, and you say to your executioner:
"We're not so different, you and I."
Was not expecting this! Nice!
Truly fascinating and a horror! I have never heard that story. It probably is just a folklore boogeyman story, but it is a great one! Thanks for a bonus upload, FH. ❤
Never? Not even now after you heard it in this video?
@ I had never heard of a Scottish clan of in-bred cannibals prior to this morning when I listened to this video. Better?
Ah! A very special episode of FH! The perfect addition to Halloween here in the U.S. Nicely done, as always!
Ooooh bonus video, very nice thank you
The reason it didn't "hit" in '77 was that was smack dab in the middle of a movie release called "A New Hope: IV" (Star Wars), it was popular.
Excellent Halloween Treat FH! Happy Halloween indeed! Love to see another one of these for next year!! 🎃🎃🎃
Love the original 1977 version. It recently came to a small theater for a weekend. I definitely went and seen it! It was just as great now as it was when I seen it last!
Excellent video. Thanks for the little bonus. As someone else mentioned, you could delve into other inspiration stories.
I knew it was going to be a great day when a bonus episode of Fascinating Horror showed up in my feed!! Thank you!!!👍
The narrator of this channel is great. Great job in covering the detail of all the accidents and etc posted here. Fantastic content and I hope you never change a thing here.
Thanks! I get so excited to see you post!!
Having explored side roads throughout Appalachia, this film became so relatable.
As the holidays get closer, I wait eagerly. Still, this was great. ❤
Good MORNING 🌞🌄!
The hills also have flies
The Bills Have Files
Black flies matter
The Hill Valley has McFlys
The Pills have a Surprise
The Film has Supplies
Still have spike strip phobia and I’m a LEO who’s used them. We call them stop strips.
ACAB
That's cool, myself I'm a VIRGO
@@coconutsmarties lol!
The cave was in Ayrshire, near to the border with Dumfries hire. The cave show was Snibs Cave which was close to Sawney Beans cave. Great story though & very enjoyable to watch as always. Keep up the great works.
Was? So it's not anymore?
In college I attended a Sean Bean Halloween Haunch party. Good times.
Did every body dress up as Boromir?
4:52 partially cannibalized sounds worse than being fully cannibalized. *Edit;* never mind, I thought she was still alive.
Great video! The Bean family was mentioned on Infamous Murders 😮!
More like, "Them hills have teethe! Happy Halloween Everyone!
Happy Halloween to you. 👻🎃
😂😂
The Sawney Bean story seems unlikely to me, 5000 victims is too much to be believable.
Not really. I mean they were supporting keeping alive 40+ people.
Even without the absurd body count, the legend of Sawney Bean fails due to the complete lack of evidence.
It was anti Scottish propaganda by the English.
English propaganda, as they seen The Scots as savages.
"I once caught a fish that was THIS big!"
spooktacular video as always
Nice that some of the horror movies have a actual basis in reality. Most movies nowadays that are "based on a true story" are it takes place on earth and earth is a real place therefore it's a "true" story.
Except that there's absolutely no evidence that the Bean clan ever existed.
7:12 “The first written reports of him come from a time nearly 100 years after he was said to have lived…”
And the Christians are like, “Yeah? So what?”
I literally watched this movie last night, spoooooooky
I really liked this deviation from the usual format. It's actually pretty cool to hear the inspirations for fictional tales.
Good evening!
Happy Halloween! It feels fitting to celebrate with some fascinating horror.
Awesome. Halloween time. Great job😊
@0:20 I've met Michael Berryman at conventions, and after being freaked out by his many performances it was a trip just how sweet he is!
Been obsessed with the Beane family legend since I first read about it in the early 80's. Doesn't get much more depraved and decadent than this gem.
Sawney Bean? Never knew I’d find out where that Attack on Titan reference came from.
I sat through this entire video wondering why that name sounded so familiar to me. So happy you pointed this out!
i was searching for this comment.
Same. I had that "oh shit" moment
Who is in AOT?
@@Harry-rm5is it's an anime
The original Last House on the Left was fantastic!
Was?
Excellent
Thanks for the Halloween treat! (dances to creepy intro music)
More about Horror movie origins would be soo cool :)
two for the price of one this week
I’ve never really heard much about The Hills Have Eyes, except the title, but I now understand why the two titans Hange captures in Attack on Titan were named Sawney and Bean.
Yes, yes. Please keep doing this.
Well this is perfect for Halloween because this is scary
Thanks for the real horror Halloween 🎃 story!
Happy Halloween 🎃
plot twist: Mr. Bean is their surviving descendant.
Morning y’all
No sleep gang
👋🥱
Great video
I like this type of historic story analysis very much when done in your down-to-earth style. I would love seeing more videos like this from you, if it’s something you’d feel like doing.
Happy Halloween 🎃
Happy Halloween 🎃👻🕸️🍬
Good to see an episode that differs from the usual stories featured.
Nothing like watching this before school
Feeling peckish?
Make more videos like this
It wasn't in East Lothian at all. It happened in Ayrshire on the opposite coast. East Lothian is East Coast. Ayrshire is on the west coast.😊
Imagine people being so horrified by your actions that you become a legend that changes through the ages.
Have a spooktacular day!
There's quite a lot of horror films based on true stories; Amityville Horror, The Exorcist, The Entity... even, surprisingly, The Birds (Alfred Hitchcock)
I would say, "..... based on existing myths", instead of, ".... based on true stories".
Happy Halloween!
Hello from Florida.
Home of the legendary cannibal, Florida Man.
Excellent. 🎉.
There may not have been an actual person named Sawney Bean but very likely there were feral types in rural medieval Scotland. Then they migrated to Appalachia and became feral there.
I love my birthday being on Halloween ❣️❣️
Happy Halloween everyone ❣️
Ancient urban legend.
Oh it’s on 😂soon as I saw the title. Thanks . Happy Halloween 🎃
Blessed Samhain to all ❤
You pagans are silly
@BobbyEngelsNatsarim I'm Bahá'hi, fool 😆 try harder
If you've ever tried Scottish cuisine, you'll understand why Bean turned to cannibalism.
I'd sooner eat haggis before human flesh if those were my only two options.
Yeahhhh!!!!!!
💥💥Crazy storie, cannibalism is scary to think about.
Likely also an inspiration for the Murfree Brood in Red Dead Redemption 2. A murderous, inbred, cannibalistic clan that’s take their victims to a cave.
Likely? Maybe. Possibly. Theoretically.
I . . . Hold up. Five THOUSAND?? That's actually fucking nuts.
I wonder if the legend of Sawney Bean also inspired the 1972 horror film 'Death Line' (called 'Raw Meat' in the U.S.). Starring Donald Pleasence, it's about the investigation into the disappearance of a man at Russell Square Tube station. Eventually we learn that during the construction of the line in the 1890s, a cave-in trapped a number of workers, who were unable to be rescued, and they have been living in the Underground ever since, interbreeding and resorting to kidnapping people and cannibalising them.
I'd heard of The Last House on the Left but never knew what it was about and just Googled the plot. X_X holy shit how did that movie make it to production??? That's some deep and triggering nightmare fuel.
There's an adult version called "the hills have thighs", on the same dvd as "Texas chain letter massacre"....😊
Oh yes! You promised and delivered. Happy Halloween!
Sawney Beane and his clan made an appearance in the 2000AD comic in the strip "Brigadoom."
I even heard that this story inspired the "Wrong Turn" films.
It's like a historical kill count!
Many thanks for the Halloween special. Today's my birthday so it's perfect!!
Happy Birthday!
@jenniferryersejones9876 thanks 😊
Amazing how even though you have just been born you already have a grasp on the language good enough to comment on the internet, as well as knowing how to use a computer and the internet.
@Die-Angst I'm a fast learner 😂
One day Wes Craven was in the library and he came across a book called, "The Encyclopedia of Mayhem and Murder". In this tome was the story of Sawney Bean Family. I wish my library had as many fun books!