Hi all - plenty more in person videos coming over the next few weeks. Things to look out for in this video: 1) The annoying fly at the beginning. 2) The sound of the peacocks! Thanks for watching and your support as always!
Weve peacocks at Tutbury. They roam not only around the castle but the village as well and you can hear the cries everywhere, even in the Drs surgery as they often sit on the roof.
If I lived back then and thought I had the slightest chance of ending up in the Oubliette, I’d hide something sharp on myself and slit my wrists and throat so I wouldn’t suffer so long. I heard the peacocks. They always sound like “yeow, yeow”! 😄🦚
Thirty years ago, when I was in college, I paid almost $300 a month for a 6'x9' room (really, a closet) in an old house. No kitchen, no lavatory or bath, no place for a bed. 😦
I visited Warwick Castle a very long time ago. Seeing those torture areas, has never left me. Knowing people were put through that kind of treatment, brings a change to your understanding of human capacities for cruelty. I’ve never forgotten the feeling.
I had never heard of an oubliette until I visited the dungeon at Warwick castle. Even the video doesn't communicate the abject horror of it. When you stand within the dungeon and realize you're looking down into a dungeon within a dungeon, the brain can barely process the reality of what you're seeing.
@@SpyZ86 most oubliettes were built in or around privies intentionally, so that the prisoners were subjected to the waste of the castle to add to their punishment. Often times on the upper levels of the castle so that the prisoners could hear and smell the food/life of the castle while they putrefied slowly.
Okay, so how big was it? Dimensions? How did they open the grate at the top? At some point, all the bodies and refuse would pile up and you couldn't fit anyone down there anymore. They must have had to clear it out, once in a while.
@@norwegianblue2017 'No room to sit or lie down' was how it was described. It is a hole in the ground. Oubliette's are usually bottle shaped. So you can't climb up.
Imagine just standing next to the oubliette... countless people where shoved down there, screaming so loudly their voice broke, and the entire chamber just smelling like rotten flesh... People back then were sick in the head...
Life was cheap, and death was everywhere. It was considered a form of entertainment. We watch movies with people dying all the time, but we rationalize it as "make-believe".
A friend works at the castle in the maintenance dept and he told me they get asked many times by people if they can go down through the locked grate ,unfortunately no one is allowed to go down past the grate due to health and safety regulations.... 👍
For goodness sakes --- just allow some adventurous person to go down on a ladder and take a few photos and come back up --- are we supposed to believe that no one has been down there since ...?
I just answered my question -- see "Secrets Of Great British Castles S1E3 - Warwick (S1E3) at 17 minutes.... the host lowers himself into the oubliette with a camera
@@borscm I found that episode, and actually once you're inside it kind of opens up a bit. It seems like you'd be able to stretch out but there definitely would be no even floor to lay down on and raw sewage would be raining down from above. It was miserable but not quite as claustrophobic as advertised. Of course it would have been pitch black also.
OMG! 🥶 I'm nearly having an anxiety attack just sympathizing with what those poor prisoners must have went through. There are worse things than death. 😥
To be in the actual space where such unspeakable cruelty, agony and abject terror took place would be too much for me. I don't envy you this day!! Glad for the content as always!
I usually hate vlog-type of videos here on RUclips, but I have to surprisingly say that you are quite literally the only one that I seem to not mind doing them? You have such a calming presence about you- makes learning about history that much more interesting and awesome! 😃. Keep up the good work!
Thanks for showing how terrible it is. I have a new found respect for life, as we are past that era and live a peaceful and respectful life. People were savages back then, killing so brutally, forgetting someone in a hole in the ground, is tragic and heartbreaking.
I wanna move to your planet... This one here's as barbaric as it's ever been....'peaceful riots', continued slavery, despot governments, sex and child slaves and mass murders/genocide at the tip of the iceberg. What time's the spaceship departing?
@@archiedavis5365 secret society governments who abuse, torture and kill children, wars raging everywhere etc... things haven't changed that much sadly ...
@@losteden6390 too true. Only improvement's been enhancing the methodology and lethality of atrocities.... not at all surprising since, at the time of the first detonation of a nuclear weapon... nearly half of the involved scientists were concerned that the hydrogen in the atmosphere could be ignited to the point of spontaneous burn... destroying the global atmosphere.... but it was done anyway... Clandestine powers dealing in death have no regards for life.... Hell's not even half full.
I worked in the Water/Sewer industry for over 25 years and I’m all too familiar with confined spaces. Some sewer manhole or water meter pits were bigger than others…but the small and cramped ones freaked me out a little. I couldn’t wait to get the hell outta there. All confined spaces are dangerous. This one in the castle makes me feel very claustrophobic just watching it. Makes me very anxious.
I have been searching on and off for footage of oubliettes on RUclips for a couple years now and this is some great and pretty clear footage. Wish you would have shown the dungeon more and talked about it a bit longer
It's nice to put a face to the voice. It's also an interesting variation on the usual channel content doing these kinds of videos although I watch and enjoy all of them on this channel and on the Untold Past.
2:39 - So were they given water? You say "starved"/"starvation" a lot and imply prolonging the torture was key _(but also "sped up" by the conditions?)_ and while starvation can take months, dehydration only takes days... do you have any details on that/how long they usually lasted before succumbing?
I thought you were going down into it to give us a true size comparison. It looks like they cleaned it out? Is it too tight to get in now due to general human size differences ? Though there were some pretty big medieval knights.
@@lumpenomewr I've been there and seen it. There's no way anyone would go down there without special equipment and helpers. The whole dungeon is grim beyond words.
@@gilgameshofuruk4060 well that’s kind of my point… his title is pure click bait. I thought “finally someone got a look inside the oubliette.” There are many videos just like this one about oubliettes, but his title claims that he went inside of it. He made his title like that purely for views. It was a deliberate act to get people to click. Click bait sucks and so do the people who do it.
You would die of thirst, long before you would starve to death. Most humans cannot live beyond 72 hours without some form of liquid nourishment, although there have been some rare cases where individuals have survived 5 days, but they all succumbed to either brain damage or renal failure or both.
As close as you can get! It did make me laugh how someone had thrown some sweetener packets down the oubliette, if you notice the pink bits of litter. Shame the prisoners didn't have any of that!
Geeze....just that stairway almost gave me a panic attack (as a claustrophobic). What an absolute horror trip that must have been for prisoners to be marched down that passage tot he dungeon. I can imagine some not even being aware of their ultimate fate as they're led down that stairway and passage. I can't imagine the feeling they must have felt when it became known just what there fate was going to be. It must be an amazing experience to walk that same path in person.
Same here. I once climbed up a very narrow and cramped spiral staircase in Italy. After a few minutes it got very weird. I had the same feelings with this, almost like being buried alive. I doubt that anyone has ever lifted that iron grate and gone down into that place.
A very interesting, if somewhat disturbing video my friend. What an awful way to die! What was also good about this video is that we got to put a face to your videos. You have a very distinctive voice and it was nice to be able to put a face to that voice! ☺
If your gonna put in your title that your going down into the oubliette, you should probably go down into the oubliette. Not just to the entrance. We were expecting to see some pics or something from beyond the entrance. That’s going down into the oubliette. Good history lesson but there are lots of videos done about this particular oubliette. It would be awesome to actually see into the thing, like beyond the top of the opening. No one has done a vid with that footage and that’s what we were expecting here based on the wording of the title.
When we were kids we used to dream about living in an oubliette. We lived in an old shoe box in the middle of the road. We used to 'ave to get up out of shoebox at twelve o'clock at night and lick road clean wit' tongue.
You post some of the most fascinating videos on history I've seen for a long time yet if that's you all through this, why can't you narrate like you speak in front of the camera? When narrating you pause in the most bizarre places!
On top of being in that horrible place, remember that in medieval times there was an incredible fear of ghosts, demons and the devil. They would come for you down there. Makes the place even worse.
And that area is currently lit with lighting. Imagine that place lit with torches and then total darkness as you’re thrown in. That hole is truly terrifying! Just a horrible way to die.
When Emperor Joseph II in 1780 suspended the death sentence in Austria and Hungary, it was replaced by „eternal dungeon“. Later one historian described this new sentence as „death sentence passed out gradually“. You were sent to some „nice“ castle or fortress, and there you were confined to a small cell without daylight. Your ankles and wrists were always bound by heavy chains. Another chain was coiled around your waist, and that chain was forged to the wall of your cell. Your sleeping bunk consisted of raw wooden planks with some straw on it and, if you were lucky, some old thin blanket. A bucket for your „business“, a barrel with water and some kind of simple chair were also in your cell. The only light would come from a smelly tallow lamp. From 5:30-9:00 you had to work, which often meant to sew sacks or knit ropes. Breakfast consisted of some soup, dry bread and water. From 9:30-12:30 you had to work again. Lunch was nearly the same as breakfast, but this time combined with some cooked vegetables. Afterwards you would have some resting time, sand from 14:00-17:30 your daily work continued, with dinner the same as breakfast. After this, your lamp was lit off, and you were chained to your sleeping bunk. Prisoners sentenced to this fate weren’t allowed to talk, and the prison wards strictly were forbidden to talk to them. Every three months you would see daylight at least-but with very unpleasant circumstances: you were taken out of your cell to the central courtyard to receive a very harsh whipping, which mostly was at least 50 strikes with a stick or a whip. After this you would be immediately brought back to your cell.
I was last at Warwick Castle in September 2000...and I knew as soon as I saw the thumbnail that you were there at the oubliette. I remember that oubliette/dungeon and ghost tower in particular. It made me SO uncomfortable....but the castle is AMAZING. I highly recommend a visit if anyone gets the chance!
"However, the tiny chamber that is described as the oubliette, is in reality a short shaft which opens up into a larger chamber with a latrine shaft entering it from above. This suggests that the chamber is in fact a partially back-filled drain."
They really knew how to build to last in those days, the grandure and steadfast longevity of the architecture never ceases to amaze me. Castles, priories, cathedrals; millennia old buildings that often took centuries build, outlasting todays cheap new builds - marvellous ❤
Umm, your title is misleading. You didn’t go down the oubliette… you were OUTSIDE of the oubliette. Anyone can visit the castle and do that. Your title is CLICK BAIT!!! I thought your video would be different than all the others and actually show the inside of it. Low brow man…. Low brow.
Interesting but too much repetition telling us about it. I would say the most brutal torture/executions were of those of Babington and his conspiritors. Such was the outcry from the public about its horrific brutality, that Elizabeth the first stopped it in favour of hanging for some of the conspiritors. An excellent account on RUclips is "Inside the Tower : The Babington Plot".
Saw a similar very small torture room in a French castle so it seems they were are regular thing during construction of these fortresses. Demonic stuff.
Ok..... i _know_ that voice! Aren't you my TheUntoldPast guide I always let lead me down England's most brutal and infamous tortures and executions and the horrors of the Nazis and the retributions they themselves eventually got? If so, wow! - it's cool to have a face to go with that unmistakable voice, haha :)
Hi all - plenty more in person videos coming over the next few weeks. Things to look out for in this video: 1) The annoying fly at the beginning. 2) The sound of the peacocks! Thanks for watching and your support as always!
Good to see you in front of the camera UTP! Great series too!
Weve peacocks at Tutbury. They roam not only around the castle but the village as well and you can hear the cries everywhere, even in the Drs surgery as they often sit on the roof.
If I lived back then and thought I had the slightest chance of ending up in the Oubliette, I’d hide something sharp on myself and slit my wrists and throat so I wouldn’t suffer so long. I heard the peacocks. They always sound like “yeow, yeow”! 😄🦚
Click bait title… you didn’t go down the oubliette.
@@lumpenomewr it was close enough for me!
'I Went Down The Oubliette!' but you didn't go down it...
Unless Monty Burns pulled the lever.🤣😁
Yes. He also said "We are now inside the oubliette" but he was at the locked entrance grate.
@@KutWrite Thanks for the tip. I won't bother to watch it if they don't actually go in.🤷♂️
A person can’t go down into it. It’s far too small and probably dangerous.
@@gplito so he shouldn’t have said he went down it
In New York City that’s called a studio apartment and will set you back $2500 a month.
Truth! If you can make it there, you’ll make it anywhere!
@IPO: 🤣🤣🤣
Truth! 😂😂😂
Oh my Lord, I'm reading your comment at 3 am cause can't sleep, and got such a huge belly laugh!
Thirty years ago, when I was in college, I paid almost $300 a month for a 6'x9' room (really, a closet) in an old house. No kitchen, no lavatory or bath, no place for a bed. 😦
So you didn’t actually go down the oubliette………..
He’s a liar … a clickbait and a d-head!
NEAR it though!
Yeah just like every other video I seen.... Here's a picture of the opening.... Didn't even bring his flashlight to shine inside
I visited Warwick Castle a very long time ago. Seeing those torture areas, has never left me. Knowing people were put through that kind of treatment, brings a change to your understanding of human capacities for cruelty. I’ve never forgotten the feeling.
Yes and these were 'God Fearing ' people.
The church has a lot to answer for.
@@gazza2933 or they said they were God fearing. Saying and doing are not always the same thing
@@scroungasworkshop4663 No, people have a lot to answer for.
@@stever4181 OK, people of the church have a lot to answer for. 👍👍
It’s creepy to think of how many people lost their lives right there.
Horrible way to go
They were probably the most horrible people in society... and that was back then
@@DomesticTrutheror simply brave souls who spoke up against the church and whatever organized government at the time
@@DomesticTrutheractually many of them were O'Carroll's ex-allies, warriors wgo fought for them and got death instead of getting paid.
I had never heard of an oubliette until I visited the dungeon at Warwick castle. Even the video doesn't communicate the abject horror of it. When you stand within the dungeon and realize you're looking down into a dungeon within a dungeon, the brain can barely process the reality of what you're seeing.
Ironically enough, new evidence shows that the Warwick oubliette was in fact remnants of a latrine system rather than a dungeon.
@@SpyZ86 most oubliettes were built in or around privies intentionally, so that the prisoners were subjected to the waste of the castle to add to their punishment. Often times on the upper levels of the castle so that the prisoners could hear and smell the food/life of the castle while they putrefied slowly.
You didn’t go down the oubliette.
Lying bastard 😂
I was trying to peek inside 🧐
Okay, so how big was it? Dimensions? How did they open the grate at the top? At some point, all the bodies and refuse would pile up and you couldn't fit anyone down there anymore. They must have had to clear it out, once in a while.
The smell..
I'm super curious now myself off to explore and learn.
Yeah, a little sketch or diagram showing the proportions relative to a human would have been nice. Otherwise, it just looks like a hole in the ground.
@@norwegianblue2017 'No room to sit or lie down' was how it was described. It is a hole in the ground. Oubliette's are usually bottle shaped. So you can't climb up.
Yes, mediocre video.
They said the same thing three times and didn't even climb in.
Imagine just standing next to the oubliette... countless people where shoved down there, screaming so loudly their voice broke, and the entire chamber just smelling like rotten flesh... People back then were sick in the head...
Life was cheap, and death was everywhere. It was considered a form of entertainment. We watch movies with people dying all the time, but we rationalize it as "make-believe".
A friend works at the castle in the maintenance dept and he told me they get asked many times by people if they can go down through the locked grate ,unfortunately no one is allowed to go down past the grate due to health and safety regulations.... 👍
For goodness sakes --- just allow some adventurous person to go down on a ladder and take a few photos and come back up --- are we supposed to believe that no one has been down there since ...?
I just answered my question -- see "Secrets Of Great British Castles S1E3 - Warwick (S1E3) at 17 minutes.... the host lowers himself into the oubliette with a camera
@@borscmprobably haves skeletons there if e ererything is true
It was never meant for health and safety 😂😂😂
@@borscm I found that episode, and actually once you're inside it kind of opens up a bit. It seems like you'd be able to stretch out but there definitely would be no even floor to lay down on and raw sewage would be raining down from above. It was miserable but not quite as claustrophobic as advertised. Of course it would have been pitch black also.
It literally gave me chills to watch this video and imagine what that would be like. It never cease to amaze me at how cruel humans can be.
Literally?
To think that guy who went and got himself stuck in Nuttyputty cave was even in a worse condition, **voluntarily.**
Wouldn’t dehydration get them before starvation?
Yes I don’t know why they say starvation?
OMG! 🥶 I'm nearly having an anxiety attack just sympathizing with what those poor prisoners must have went through. There are worse things than death. 😥
To be in the actual space where such unspeakable cruelty, agony and abject terror took place would be too much for me. I don't envy you this day!! Glad for the content as always!
Right I got chills thinking of it. Wild to see the exact places.
Well you did not went down the oubliette.
I think he was speaking figuratively... but no he didn't go down.
I worked there in the early/mid nineties and we had fun exploring at night in the dark after the medieval banquets were done.
That must have been so cool but maybe a little creepy
@@JauntyCrepe a lot of fun! Lol
Dude, as a long time follower, these field trips are AWESOME.
More to come! Heading out on a few trips over the next few weeks! Thanks for your support!
Misleading title. You were never in the oubliette. 😞
I usually hate vlog-type of videos here on RUclips, but I have to surprisingly say that you are quite literally the only one that I seem to not mind doing them? You have such a calming presence about you- makes learning about history that much more interesting and awesome! 😃. Keep up the good work!
Why do you hate vlog type videos? What do you prefer?
I dont like how he talks though.
@@ZorlacSkater lmfao well aren’t you an up-beat positive person 😂😂😂😂😂
Also don’t forget bullshitting viewers with click bait
Thanks for showing how terrible it is. I have a new found respect for life, as we are past that era and live a peaceful and respectful life. People were savages back then, killing so brutally, forgetting someone in a hole in the ground, is tragic and heartbreaking.
Not much different from the life of a non-muslicm in some of the middle eastern countries
I wanna move to your planet...
This one here's as barbaric as it's ever been....'peaceful riots', continued slavery, despot governments, sex and child slaves and mass murders/genocide at the tip of the iceberg.
What time's the spaceship departing?
@@archiedavis5365 secret society governments who abuse, torture and kill children, wars raging everywhere etc... things haven't changed that much sadly ...
@@losteden6390 too true. Only improvement's been enhancing the methodology and lethality of atrocities.... not at all surprising since, at the time of the first detonation of a nuclear weapon... nearly half of the involved scientists were concerned that the hydrogen in the atmosphere could be ignited to the point of spontaneous burn... destroying the global atmosphere.... but it was done anyway...
Clandestine powers dealing in death have no regards for life.... Hell's not even half full.
“Back then”? Auschwitz had oubliettes. The Russians are just as cruel to Ukraine as anything wise in history.
I worked in the Water/Sewer industry for over 25 years and I’m all too familiar with confined spaces. Some sewer manhole or water meter pits were bigger than others…but the small and cramped ones freaked me out a little. I couldn’t wait to get the hell outta there. All confined spaces are dangerous. This one in the castle makes me feel very claustrophobic just watching it. Makes me very anxious.
I have been searching on and off for footage of oubliettes on RUclips for a couple years now and this is some great and pretty clear footage. Wish you would have shown the dungeon more and talked about it a bit longer
Save yourself 4 minutes- he doesn’t go down the Oubliette, he must’ve Oublietten to ?
It's nice to put a face to the voice. It's also an interesting variation on the usual channel content doing these kinds of videos although I watch and enjoy all of them on this channel and on the Untold Past.
These kinds of tortures really remind me of what beasts us human beings really are towards one another. It is absolutely sickening.
You’d think the smell of rotting bodies would overwhelm the entire castle and they’d have to clean them out after the death.
2:39 - So were they given water? You say "starved"/"starvation" a lot and imply prolonging the torture was key _(but also "sped up" by the conditions?)_ and while starvation can take months, dehydration only takes days... do you have any details on that/how long they usually lasted before succumbing?
I thought you were going down into it to give us a true size comparison. It looks like they cleaned it out? Is it too tight to get in now due to general human size differences ? Though there were some pretty big medieval knights.
Click bait title
@@lumpenomewr I've been there and seen it. There's no way anyone would go down there without special equipment and helpers.
The whole dungeon is grim beyond words.
@@gilgameshofuruk4060 well that’s kind of my point… his title is pure click bait. I thought “finally someone got a look inside the oubliette.” There are many videos just like this one about oubliettes, but his title claims that he went inside of it. He made his title like that purely for views. It was a deliberate act to get people to click. Click bait sucks and so do the people who do it.
@@lumpenomewr Yeah, I'm just corroborating your point.
Yeah I'm sure they'd be OK with that...😅😅😅
Dying of thirst happens faster than starvation. One would not last long after being thrown into that horrible place.
That’s what I was thinking. 3 days without water they say. 3 mins without air 3 weeks without food. Merciful that’s it’s only 3 days I think..
I think that being in such a tight claustrophobic space, not being able to move freely, even 3 days could seem a very long time.
@@Vulpes10 Indeed. It would seem like an eternity.
You would die of thirst, long before you would starve to death. Most humans cannot live beyond 72 hours without some form of liquid nourishment, although there have been some rare cases where individuals have survived 5 days, but they all succumbed to either brain damage or renal failure or both.
Would not stay overnight there.. the souls of those tortured men might be around…
Such a treat to see the in-person videos. Thank you for your uploads
I thought you was going down as the title suggests 😁
As close as you can get! It did make me laugh how someone had thrown some sweetener packets down the oubliette, if you notice the pink bits of litter. Shame the prisoners didn't have any of that!
Yes i thought he was going down inside too,
It says in the title you went down. I didn't see you go down ?
Didn't see you go down?
There's that robotic delivery again...
You don't look anything I imagined!! 😊💕🇬🇧 By the way, REALLY enjoy your channel!😍
Thanks for your support as always Ailie! :)
@@TheFortress.... Always darling .....you must do an incredible amount of research/work! 😘💕
Geeze....just that stairway almost gave me a panic attack (as a claustrophobic). What an absolute horror trip that must have been for prisoners to be marched down that passage tot he dungeon. I can imagine some not even being aware of their ultimate fate as they're led down that stairway and passage. I can't imagine the feeling they must have felt when it became known just what there fate was going to be. It must be an amazing experience to walk that same path in person.
Hahaha. Panic attack lol. I felt the same way. I can’t imagine people do those things to another person. Sick
Same here. I once climbed up a very narrow and cramped spiral staircase in Italy. After a few minutes it got very weird. I had the same feelings with this, almost like being buried alive. I doubt that anyone has ever lifted that iron grate and gone down into that place.
@@gplito Try watching it again with your left eye closed.
Bait and switch !! You didn't go IN it ... you just pointed to it !
A very interesting, if somewhat disturbing video my friend. What an awful way to die! What was also good about this video is that we got to put a face to your videos. You have a very distinctive voice and it was nice to be able to put a face to that voice! ☺
When are you posting the video where you go down the Oubliette?
If your gonna put in your title that your going down into the oubliette, you should probably go down into the oubliette. Not just to the entrance. We were expecting to see some pics or something from beyond the entrance. That’s going down into the oubliette. Good history lesson but there are lots of videos done about this particular oubliette. It would be awesome to actually see into the thing, like beyond the top of the opening. No one has done a vid with that footage and that’s what we were expecting here based on the wording of the title.
No one’s allowed to, so he likely clickbaited to make his stand out among the others.
I saw the oubliette but did NOT go down it. You don’t have to lie.
Disappointing ... was led to believe that you would actually stand inside the oubliette.
I hear it didn't even have wi-fi.
Where's the part were you "went down" ? I must have missed it.. :(
We’re just staring at a hole in the ground with a grate over but people were actually put in there and left to die. I couldn’t imagine the agony.
When we were kids we used to dream about living in an oubliette. We lived in an old shoe box in the middle of the road. We used to 'ave to get up out of shoebox at twelve o'clock at night and lick road clean wit' tongue.
You had a shoebox? We used to DREAM of having a shoebox!
You post some of the most fascinating videos on history I've seen for a long time yet if that's you all through this, why can't you narrate like you speak in front of the camera? When narrating you pause in the most bizarre places!
Yey! Another great video. Thank you! This is on my places I want to visit list. I'm signed up for emails from the place 😁
On top of being in that horrible place, remember that in medieval times there was an incredible fear of ghosts, demons and the devil. They would come for you down there. Makes the place even worse.
I want a dime for everyone below who says "So you didn't go down The Oubliette".
“So you didn’t go down the Oublliette”.
Thanks for that! Do you do the voiceover in the video too...sounds a bit different from when you talk to camera.
And that area is currently lit with lighting. Imagine that place lit with torches and then total darkness as you’re thrown in. That hole is truly terrifying! Just a horrible way to die.
Its almost worst that you have bars to look out because that would mess with your sanity and you would want to get out. My heart is broken
Wouldnt they die of dehydration long before starvation??
When Emperor Joseph II in 1780 suspended the death sentence in Austria and Hungary, it was replaced by „eternal dungeon“. Later one historian described this new sentence as „death sentence passed out gradually“.
You were sent to some „nice“ castle or fortress, and there you were confined to a small cell without daylight. Your ankles and wrists were always bound by heavy chains. Another chain was coiled around your waist, and that chain was forged to the wall of your cell. Your sleeping bunk consisted of raw wooden planks with some straw on it and, if you were lucky, some old thin blanket.
A bucket for your „business“, a barrel with water and some kind of simple chair were also in your cell.
The only light would come from a smelly tallow lamp.
From 5:30-9:00 you had to work, which often meant to sew sacks or knit ropes.
Breakfast consisted of some soup, dry bread and water.
From 9:30-12:30 you had to work again.
Lunch was nearly the same as breakfast, but this time combined with some cooked vegetables.
Afterwards you would have some resting time, sand from 14:00-17:30 your daily work continued, with dinner the same as breakfast.
After this, your lamp was lit off, and you were chained to your sleeping bunk.
Prisoners sentenced to this fate weren’t allowed to talk, and the prison wards strictly were forbidden to talk to them. Every three months you would see daylight at least-but with very unpleasant circumstances: you were taken out of your cell to the central courtyard to receive a very harsh whipping, which mostly was at least 50 strikes with a stick or a whip. After this you would be immediately brought back to your cell.
I was last at Warwick Castle in September 2000...and I knew as soon as I saw the thumbnail that you were there at the oubliette. I remember that oubliette/dungeon and ghost tower in particular. It made me SO uncomfortable....but the castle is AMAZING. I highly recommend a visit if anyone gets the chance!
Punctuation serves a useful purpose! As does editing!
Try using them! It makes for a much better article.
You didn’t go down it... but you told us the same thing 3 times in 4 minutes
I misspelled “ little ceasers “ on Google and spelled “ little ease “ and now I’m here lol
I love the in person video, keep up the great content 😊
People were so cruel back then
"However, the tiny chamber that is described as the oubliette, is in reality a short shaft which opens up into a larger chamber with a latrine shaft entering it from above. This suggests that the chamber is in fact a partially back-filled drain."
Have you ever listened to yourself?
You mean you went by the oubliette.
With no water, one would die in 3-4 days. Some of the occupants may have drank rat blood to extend their lives. Horrible way to die.
I have been following you for quite a while now on your other channels as well. Now I see what you look like, as before it was just a voice.
How does it smell in that space? Pretty musty, I’d imagine, even if it hasn’t been used in awhile.
Very damp in the dungeon, it is a lot colder too!
it feels like every video about a torture device is "THE MOST BRUTAL..."
Why not drop a camera on a line down the hole to show the actual cramped space?
Wow, that's awful. Truly terrifying!
Thank you, & happy St George's day 👏🏻👏🏻🥃
Leap castles oubliette took days and wagons full of bones to "restore"😬
Errrrr......I must have missed you going down it.
I thought you were actually going in… so disappointed
As close as you can get without being arrested and thrown in a cell with a playstation and 3 meals! Haha!
@@TheFortress great video!! I loved it
I thought you were going inside? I’m extremely disappointed. 🙂
Thank you for providing a visual on this!
I’m sorry what’s the name again ?
Love this style of video from you! Keep it up 👏
They really knew how to build to last in those days, the grandure and steadfast longevity of the architecture never ceases to amaze me. Castles, priories, cathedrals; millennia old buildings that often took centuries build, outlasting todays cheap new builds - marvellous ❤
But you didn't go in the oblete.
Where is the part where you went down it?
Went there 4 years ago, one of the best castles I have ever visited (Arundel still holds the top spot for me).
What a great video I love history and learn a lot from you
Stop and take a moment to give thanks that you weren’t born in the Middle Ages
The modern oubliette defies my expectations of dungeon, lack of torture chamber
Been subscribed to your channel for a while , nice to put a face to the voice . You do great historical videos. :)
Fantastic and very interesting video...👍👍
Many thanks!
the comfy chair was feared most in france
I like how you just repeated the same information over and over to fill time
Were the grates there when it was in use or were they added later? 4:21
Contrary to the title, you did not seem to go down into the Oubliette, but only to the locked entrance to it.
Umm, your title is misleading. You didn’t go down the oubliette… you were OUTSIDE of the oubliette. Anyone can visit the castle and do that. Your title is CLICK BAIT!!! I thought your video would be different than all the others and actually show the inside of it. Low brow man…. Low brow.
Not only did you not go down it, but you also said “We are now in the oubliette” and you weren’t, you were stood outside the entrance.
Interesting but too much repetition telling us about it. I would say the most brutal torture/executions were of those of Babington and his conspiritors. Such was the outcry from the public about its horrific brutality, that Elizabeth the first stopped it in favour of hanging for some of the conspiritors. An excellent account on RUclips is "Inside the Tower : The Babington Plot".
Saw a similar very small torture room in a French castle so it seems they were are regular thing during construction of these fortresses. Demonic stuff.
Ok..... i _know_ that voice! Aren't you my TheUntoldPast guide I always let lead me down England's most brutal and infamous tortures and executions and the horrors of the Nazis and the retributions they themselves eventually got? If so, wow! - it's cool to have a face to go with that unmistakable voice, haha :)
I certainly am! Hello and welcome to my second channel! :)
@@TheFortress well dang! Nice to meet you over here and I will definitely subscribe. 😊👍
Just watching this for a few minutes almost gave me an anxiety attack.
Horrid.
New heading: 'I didn't go down the Oubliette'. But 'I looked down an Oubliette'.
I went down an oubliette, I mean Juliet.
Just found your channel, new subscriber....Warwick Castle is beautiful, but the oubliette!....how scary! That dungeon gives me the creeps.