The Man Who Vanished in Front of 134 People
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- Опубликовано: 27 янв 2022
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Lost in the desert, a man contemplates where his dead body could be discovered.
A search helicopter had flown past, failing to spot him in the scorching heat.
Burning his clothes, sleeping bag, even his backpack to try and signal anyone, he was left utterly alone.
He hasn't had any water, food or shelter for days.
He writes a note to his wife, abandoning all hope.
His eyes close and the night passes.
To his surprise, he awoke the very next day, his body having refused to let him die.
The average human can survive 8-21 days without food.
Without water, you can only live 3-4 days before succumbing to thirst.
Forced to survive in the desert for 10 days, Mauro Prosperi drank his own urine, consumed bats, and burned his possessions in hopes someone will find him. Let’s get into it!
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Cool I'll check it
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Just a suggestion, but talking about the Bootes void would be swag. i love ur vids!
Cool this fulfill the void that massdrop has created.
Yea
imagine surviving so long in a desert that a try-hard gets mad at you for simply living and accuses you of fabricating a story.
every wave game in a nutshell
Egyptians: Am I a joke to you?
Mauro: Survives
Founder of MDS: *Surprised Pikachu Face*
Right. Although he was without water all that time, he ate bats and lizards and managed to get just enough water and nutrients from that to stay alive. Also the human body goes into survival mode when in extreme conditions.
An easier question is imagine someone being mad at you over such a nonoffensive thing, in which case, welcome to internet culture.
I love his wife’s response to him on the phone. That’s basically the equivalent to, “When you get home, you’re gonna wish you died out there, cause you’re never gonna hear the end of this.” 😂
Lol 100%. You said that so well. 😆
🤣🤣🤣🤣
I feel like everyone who’s married has heard threats like this, I know I have, but not on this scale lol
Why not if she loves him she should 😤
It was funny 😁
What this video fails to mention is he returns to that hut he found with the bats every year to pay tribute
The real start of covid
Good man
@@joec7130 man this joke is wrong in at least 2 ways and i just added another by laughing at it.
Eatin out that bat bu$$i
Yeah the main point of this vid is the story of his survival not after and years later have already been rescued
What you left out is how Mauro trained for this run... He intentionally dehydrated himself and only drank a minimal amount of water during his training in Italy. He wanted to be as adapted to desert conditions as possible.
Good to know this thank you .
If you don't like the corny cartoons there are two excellent shows on people surviving and one is called I Survived and the other is called I Shouldn't Be Alive ...and they are here on the tube
Wow man is sure prepared, his preparation contribute to his life
@@KF-zb6gi He's very lucky he did
@@KF-zb6gi yea he was prepared the organizers were not. instead of flares that is kinda not visible in the day, they should've provided colored smoke grenade for daytime sos.
I'm phabbling to find out what became of this guy afterwards.
Imagine being lost in a harsh climate for 10 days with practically no food or water and some guy says, he wants you to believe in superman.
I never said that!
@@someguy2135 OH MY GOD
@@someguy2135 🤣🤣🤣🤣
@@someguy2135 I have proof u did. Not in video proof though
@@someguy2135
XD That got me-
"Well, we can't have a funeral without a corpse!"
She's a keeper. XD
Running through a desert is now in my top 10 things I never want to do in my life, this sounds like such a bad time lol
I never want to visit any other continent than Europe, Asia or parts of North America. Its like nature is telling you to not go there.
@@lolmanboss god it’s so true! I agree!
@@lolmanboss how very narrow-minded of you -_-
@@lolmanboss You are the tipe of person who thinks Africa is just a bunch of tribes
@@lolmanbossi would never want to go to europe either
The sand can act as a treadmill in a storm, it's uncommon but can carry you very far off course.
I feel like a bad person for giggling at the image of him being carried along like one of those Sailing Stones.
Just standing still, being pushed along with the storm in spirals, grumpy look on his face....
@@lostbutfreesoul Thats a great image that you just gave me with that description ngl. Then in cartoon fashion after getting out of the first one he gets caught in a second sandmil and he just rolls his eyes at it like its just a big inconvenience.
@@lostbutfreesoul 💀
@@chargedpanic5979 "This is fine."
Being an athlete might have gotten him into such a disastrous situation, but it is also most certainly one of the things that saved his life. Ordinary people of average fitness could not survive such an ordeal, but if anyone can do it, it's an endurance athlete.
People who arent athletes wouldnt even attempt the race
Yeah I think it's rotten that the creator of that endurance race had the nerve to think somehow the guy faked it .
He had several miracles finding the place where the Muslim holy man was buried ... and getting sustenance and fluids from the blood , organs and flesh of the bats ....
... and then finding the Oasis ... and drinking the fresh goat's milk from when those women found him .
Is that irony?
I would advise against rule #3. Drink when you feel thirsty and sip frequently. Coming from the perspective of Search and Rescue, there have been plenty of people found dead from dehydration when they actually still had a decent amount of water supply, but they pushed themselves to ration too much and their bodies just shut down.
That last part when they said its all fabrication
Dude, I saw other much more horrifying survival stories, like the woman who got lost in the Grand Canyon
and the Team of Boys that crashed on a Snowy mountain that results to Cannibalism...
Just appreciate that "If life dont want you dead, then its really not the end"
There's also a story I read in the Readers Digest 20ish years ago about a hiker that got lost in the Himalayas. He had a few candy bars and a sleeping bag. He survived for 42 days by melting snow in the sun for water. He was skeletal when they found him, but he survived.
Is all because the where no aliens in the story, those nuts are obssesed on that bullcrap to the point they underestimate humanity's willpower.
or the dude trapped under a rock who cut off his arm
Link to the second story
There's a case in my country where a bunch of kids skipped school to bathe in the river, accidentally got lost in the jungle for 40+ days. They were kids under 12 who cant hunt for themselves. around 4-5 of them survived iirc.
I love how much longer Brews videos are getting!
yuh the crew is fr going all out 💪💪
Darker roast of coffee
Couldn’t agree more.
Unfortunately by adding too much pointless fluff into this video. I don't care about this guy in the story meandering about life, I want to know the actual story.
@@Grey_Warden_Invasion that's how stories pull you in though. Authors do that all the time, they don't just tell the entire story in one go, otherwise that would be pointless and quite boring. Series are a thing
Despite what some people think, I'm pretty sure his story is legit. I mean there aren't too many people crazy enough already to take on the task of a marathon let alone an ultra marathon in some country thousands of miles away.
ON TOP OF THAT you'd have to be incredibly insane to put yourself through this kind of suffereing to make yourself look the way buddy did after his ordeal.
My way of thinking is that crazier and more detailed a story is, the more likely its true.
so there i was shitting and then my house blew up and all my limbs flew off and then regrew
very crazy
Yup, I had suspicions but he obviously did hydrate some from animal blood, plus later found the oasis spot. So saying it is impossible to survive more than a week without water is pointless if he did have some ways of hydrating.
@@im_a_cupp1494 ah yes a very detailed story indeed. /s
@@magnuskallas I mean dude is peak human already being a long distant marathon runner, his already able to endure more than normal humans so its not that far of a stretch to say he lived 7 days without water instead of 3-4 of normal people and he did eat bats too.
Ah so when he ate the bats he didn't get rabies 👁👄👁
It's not that the cuts were too shallow, he was so dehydrated that it thickened his blood too much for him to bleed out.
True yeah you're right .
Somebody said he used to practice for this run by drinking very little water to get himself acclimated to what it would be like in that heat with very little to drink .
They also said he makes a pilgrimage to that little spot each year where the Muslim wise man was buried .
@@gardensofthegods I didn't know that last little bit. That's great though.
that's interesting fact to know!
Much respect for the hard work that goes into these long vids! Love you guys
419th 👍
i was expecting a dude like, literally vanishing in thin air, but this was way better
So he didn't disappear in from of 134 people; he disappeared while completely alone. Minor difference.
The surviving Bats when they are grandparents must be like:
"Don't forget kids beware of the dieing bat eater, i was there to see it"
…although they now get their revenge
The man returns every year to pay tribute. It might be a baby bat spooky bedtime story to keep kids in bed at night.
😂😂😂 - poor beasts ! 🙈
@@katvalentine912 should be bedtime at day
I wouldn't go so far as to say he's Superman but this might make a great Batman origin story
He's showing up Ozzy Osbourne.
You, sir, have achieved comedy.
Hmm sounds more like Green Arrow, who’s basically Batman if he wasn’t depressed and an archer, so close enough
Loving the longer videos, even if they make the wait for new videos just that much longer.
Same!
man's said that you can't go 200 miles in a desert without water
willpower is a strong thing, you'd be surprised. i've had 2 grandparents stay alive for longer than anyone could've expected in order to see the newborn child that my mom and aunt birthed (separately).
Respects.
Use the word "children" instead of "child", and your meaning will be clearer.
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There are plenty of studies that seem to prove that “mind over matter” has a lot of truth to it. Just look at the placebo effect.
The wife is a boss her lines are so badass.
I can't imagine how guilty Giovanni felt when his friend went missing, he must have felt so much relief when he was found
Patrick Bauer tried to deflect blame, that's why he said that the whole story is fabrication.
So conspiracionists are ok with the idea that aliens build pyramids but not the fact that a man survived almost two weeks in a desert?
Aligns well. The disbelief in human abilities is consistent there
well, it's the ones that disbelieve alien, that also don't believe in this
Every minute or two those helicopters should point in the direction of th camp with some instrument, so if they miss a runner that runner will have an idea of where to head.
An ultra marathon in the Sahara? That's manlier than I care to be.
Cant believe i found this channel by accident, cant imagine a life without it
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@@dusk7919 huh?
@@MrIvory124 "can't imagine life..." ? ........ok 😆 ....🤔😒😞sorry just sad lol ... 😔 I personally can't imagine life without my kids, or socks...... 😂
The best things happen by accident.
@@dusk7919 oh if you wanna brag like that sure.. you know some people don't have kids. ...or socks... :P
This is the first Brew video I've seen in a long time and man, I can't tell you how good it is to see a person depicted WITH a nose and not Voldemort style. That used to be disturbing. Glad your illustrators listened and fixed that lol. Now I'm gonna binge the videos and try to find the first one where noses were drawn haha.
Please update us on this, i'd love to know but don't have the attention span to find out 😂
Did you find it?
id never run in a desert. the heat alone would be too much.
And no interesting sites or anything to look at to make the time go faster .
Some of my family would go running or jogging on the local track field where you're just running in a big oval shape over and over again which I thought was so incredibly boring .
When I used to run and jog I would go all through the most attractive neighborhoods with all kinds of Beautiful Homes and Gardens and trees to look at
The best friend and wife are amazing! Thank you for sharing this story
Yeah his story has a good chance of being completely true other ppl have survived on blood when there's no drinkable water around just the hot hot sun and blood and time
I remember watching a documentary on a tribe in Chad whose territory had run out of water, they were surrounded by hostile tribes, so they couldn't travel through another tribe's territory to get to the water sources. They were living off the blood of their animals, they'd spear their cattle in the neck, drink from the artery spout, and then seal it up with grass and mud so the animal survived. That was their life.
@@bethyngalw that's brutal but also very understandable
@@bethyngalw from what I learned decades ago that's what the Massai Warriors do all the time .
We were taught that they only live off of spearing their cows and drinking the blood .
I don't know if they're still like that I learned this way back in the late 1980s .
They are a very good looking tribe , tall like models ... long lean bodies .
@@gardensofthegods I've never seen or heard of Maasai doing that, but they may well do, depending on how accessible water is at a given season. They are very handsome, yeah, from what I've seen.
This story could work as a nice film, sort of a character study of how this ordeal changed him. I imagine like Christian Bale as the main character
They really should make a movie of this or at the very least it should have been an episode on the TV shows
I Shouldn't Be Alive
or
I Survived .
There's a fair amount of those episodes here .
“Where’s batty?!”
I admire his survivability. But at the same time, no compass?? He went south so long, is it harder to base your direction based on the sun at that time in Morocco? Its closer to the equator than areas with abnormal sunlight so besides the sandstorm I can't see why that wouldn't be one of the first things to consult
24:30 he bring compass
You're right I totally missed that part somehow, thanks for pointing it out! That makes him having gone so far South even more confusing
what i get for half paying attention while watching ig
Compasses aren't infallible. There are stories of them not working properly. Plenty of experienced wilderness survivalists get lost, even with their compass.
@@fjolliff6308 Fair, but the sun is still a decent indicator of direction in that area no?
I have actually personally survived 6 days without water (or food) in 95f weather, oh and I was spitting into a bucket when i was not sleeping and well....I survived....
@duck getting tortured did I suppose
Hugs and peace
dang. I don't know what you went through. But you are loved. Be well. God bless you.
Eight ... can you please tell us about your ordeal the circumstances and what happened ?
"Depending on your commitment to your family" -- I suppose he meant those words innocently. Honestly it revolts me that any family man or woman would take such crazy risks.
This man needs an award for this.
I hope he learned a lesson to appreciate his boring life. When lifes boring then you know that its safe.
considering what his wife told about him, nah! he'd soon miss the enjoyment of such risky situations than be scared from it
An acquaintance of mine almost got lost in the same desert. He used to drive an old jeep from Belgium to Senegal, through the Sahara, to sell them to the Senegalese, invest the money in African cultural wares (musical instruments and such) that he would ship back to Belgium, sell, pocket profits, buy another old jeep, rinse and repeat. But the last time he undertook that venture he got into car trouble, leaving him stranded in the middle of the Sahara. In the end he was saved by the blue men of the desert, the Tuareg nomads.
That’s one dangerous desert!
As a desert dweller I can say confidently that there is no realistic weight or size that could undermine the value of a flare.
A flare could be the size and weight of a toddler and it would be worth it.
The sands are blinding and obscure even massive things, a magic firestick that makes you visible in all but the worst conditions saves lives. The idea that the event planners chose to save on weight by making the flares useless ( doubly so in desert conditions) is just plain criminal.
If you have the choice between a water bottle and a flare: TAKE THE FLARE!
Take an InReach.
They didn't see his flare in the daytime so it was really not helpful .
@@gardensofthegods That's why 15 pieces of flare is the bare minimum, but you're encouraged to have more.
His story kind of says the opposite: take the water. If you can’t take both then don’t go into the desert at all, that’s my opinion at least.
Brew u never fails to make stories more engaging and emotional, I feel like u could tell me a fictional horror stories and I would believe it
Wow! Loving the long videos brew
Dang your last couple of videos have been really interesting and well told. Keep up the good work man.
Brew has got me through rough times, thanks brew!
And good on your resilience too 💪
Thanks Giles!
What an amazing feat of endurance!
And a great endurance of feet!
You know that the measurement of the foot was always depending on the ruler at the time - and that's the only reason that they figured that Napoleon was so short because the size of his foot measurement was smaller than everybody else's 😆
Er 🤏 ity bity a rolly pollean?
He looked like a husk zombie.
@@loganroufs9705 lol
It wasn't the sand that stopped his bleeding but the extreme dehydration and the ability of the blood to coagulate. Thick blood doesn't like to flow much and can become solid easily due to lack of water in it.
But its okay for him to believe it, since he was delirious due to the same dehydration. Glad he survived, because I wouldn't have survived even the first day or even a first kilometer (insert what the f is a kilometer meme).
this story was so mooving to me... family is the most valuable thing.
Another helpful survival tip: One needs a lot more water when eating starches & sugars, and much less water when eating fats & proteins.
The latter being the bats, snakes, and lizards?
Alternate timeline version of how covid started
Not that I needed any others, but this is a good reason to not venture into deserts.
Hey, deserts aren't all bad. I live in a desert and don't want to live anywhere else. Humidity is my kryptonite. Granted, I don't live in an extreme desert. Idaho is just enough desert in my book.
@@Listrynne Idaho, the land where you move into with your parents when you're still on the elementary school and until the last year of high school, you're still known as "the new kid around".
@@Neomalthusiano depends on which part of Idaho. I live in the second most populated area (SE Idaho, specifically Bonneville and Jefferson counties) and I never had that problem. It might be partly because my mom was born and raised in Rigby though. If you're out in what passes for rural to Idahoans I'm sure it's much different to my experience.
Amazing history! I am glad that there is uplifting videos now!
Great content, I really enjoyed this story.
Thanks I'll use this when I get lost in the desert.
Man, I'd really love to hear the follow-up of Mauro's story from when he got back home.
I rode atvs in dunes as a kid, you dont get how much harder it is until you do it.
Dude, this sounds like the origin story of how all vampires were created; I mean getting lost, blighted by storms, equipment not working and your pleas for help being ignored. All to culminate in finding the tomb of a holy-hermit, and consume the innards of the bats inside as if it were 2nd nature. Only for your next chance at salvation to be covered by another storm - and to make it home fine in the end after all that? I'm not sure this guy's entirely human.
Brew: No, not that quiz...
Me: Yes, i want that quiz.
Another wonderful video thank you brew!
“and survived by eating bats”
*wait a minute… this sounds familiar*
cue L4d music
@@CommissarChaotic left 4 dead?!
@@girlinawolfhoodiewolf2426 yes?..
Batman???
Sounds like the set--up for a zombie movie.
The unofficial episode of I Shouldn't Be Alive that I didn't know I wanted. With all due respect to that marathon runner lost due to the sandstorm, he was remarkably foolhardy and stubborn. He really had all the guardian angels - and local Tuaregs - on his side to survive at all. Your tips for desert survival are on-point, in line with what I've read about for decades in various survival lit and resources.
Also: Mauro should have brought a stillsuit, stilltent, sand compactor and a fremkit. Because of course I have to make a reference like that. ;-)
Thank you for the video!
Lowkey really enjoyed this longer episode, keep up the amazing work Brew Crew 💞
I'm crying when I see Mouro speak with his wife... It's so touch me
I listen to most videos like this without watching but Brew’s animations have me hooked on physically watching as I listen.
Thanks for the videos, Brew and crew!
If you prefer the format where they are like mini movies , real movies , then you might want to see the episodes of 2 TV shows here that are very well done ; one is called
I Survived
and the other is called
I Shouldn't Be Alive .
Some of these stories are mind-blowing , but there's two of them where we're thinking they didn't tell the whole truth where some people didn't survive .
@@gardensofthegods thank you for the suggestions!
@@Laura_Jane you're welcome
"sane insanity- some call it resilience, but resilience is getting knocked down and being able to get back up. But with insanity, when you get knocked down you never land." -Cinzia Pagliara
That's a powerful quote.
Love your videos but especially love the longer format of this one. Great work!
Sandstorm lasting 8 hours, thats gotta be on killer remix.
The detailed illustrations have noses now, awesome
I thought that the 20 bats would fly around him instead of him eating those 20 bats 😀👍
Right ? Like the bats guide him to an oasis or something lol
@@flayrekapperz7862 exactly like animal companions
surprised there are bats in desert, what do they eat, there are very few insects and no fruits.
@@yoppindia Well, their diet is just basically insects lol.
When he caught the first one it would have screamed and woke all the other bats up so there's no way he ate 20 in a row without waiting for them to roost again
i wish there could be a new brew video every day
4:10 and also probably because since it’s a desert the landscape would change enough that the route may have been completely overridden in a couple days
Thanks for the long video brewbious!
7:21 the longer you look at this map the worser it gets
Love the content and the longer videos
The really important thing in survival is keeping your mind together.
I'm not sure if I've ever been that engaged with a video. Well done
Wow, I know I couldn't survive that.
your videos are improving and improving
A true couple will always riff on one another. 🥰
Mauro experienced what happens in Gerudo Desert when you don't follow the specific path and end up lost forever.
For strangers that’s a ultra marathon , for us Moroccans it’s called a afternoon walk
Question:why is so much land unclaimed and is just pure desert?
@@kel3729 unclaimed ? Is it part of The Moroccan kingdom 🇲🇦
@@kel3729 and no Morocco is not just desert the more you go to the north , you will find green arrears and mountains and even snow in parts like ifran. That’s where 80 % of people live.
Yea I get it but I think there are not so much buildings in that part they have so much space
@@kel3729 it's a desert dude, crops can't grow, it's 40°C in the day and 0°C or minus at night, there's no water, sand moves so much that entire dunes can move meters in one day.
It's much more hostile to human life than you think
Great video again, ... BUT in 23:14, the island of Corsica is not Italian. It was declared to be in/before WW2, but there was an oath to France anyway ...
i dunno about anybody else, but the fact that the realistic drawings of people have noses now, my nightmares have completely melted away
I just love this channel
Brew, i think youd make a good host for a scp series, just throwin ideas at ya c:
April 20th: found a ton of green. Nice.
This was a great addition to my acupuncture appointment.
Thank you for the tips
Yep heard this before but thanks for the cinematic
Cinzia's mum became her grandmother.
That was clever!
Great video, very interesting.
When a local gives you advice, you hold onto that for dear life, literally!
YOU KEEP CHANGING THE COVER FOR THIS POST OVER AND OVER AGAIN
Thanks for making another entertaining video
When I was younger, I heard about an Italian lost in Algeria. Thanks for the explanations.
Crazy good story, it should be a movie
What happen to the friend that went back to look for him?
"How a Handful of Sand Accidently saved a Man's Life" *WE DONT TALK ABOUT BRUNO*
For reals, whats that all about ??
@@AV-dd1tf Its a song from a film.
This was Gods message to Mauro: "Don't EVER abandon your family over your childish passion. *EVER"*