The anaconda actually did not snap at the plane. It had no intent on attacking the plane. It just wanted to get a closer look at a HIGHLY RESPECTED COLONEL.
Many errors in story: See RUclips video, "Giant Snake Congo 1959" to see correct story. Year: 1959, Helicopter, not plane. Snake 50 FEET long with head 2 ft wide and 3 ft long. Snake prepared to strike as HELICOPTER hovered over it 25 to 30 feet in the air. TITANABOA, quite possibly, or a close cousin, is what the evidence suggests.
After only a few years of watching, I’m convinced that all fans of Joe love to watch him discuss crazy animals, martial arts, and survival situations with people
fans of JR are also fans of the same things/have similar interests in things discussed on the show. more news at 11 .....that's generally how being a fan of someone/something works
Correction: The heaviest snakes are anacondas. The longest snakes are reticulated pythons. I own an 18' reticulated python who's 100 lbs. An 18' anaconda would be much heavier.
@@JoseRodriguez-ey7ju hangin out, chilling.. you know, just bro stuff. Seriously though, she's very cool and laid back. My 2 daughters have both held her (10 and 13).
@@matt59firehonestly not as hot of a take as you would think, the TLDR of it is it would help recreate the steppe ecosystem in the Arctic to promote grasslands and also slow the thawing of the frozen soils.
Almost 20 years ago I visited a village 4 hours up the Rio Negro river outside of Manaus Brazil. One of the native villagers told us about an Anaconda that had climbed over the side of a small boat that was anchored near the shore…it was so heavy it tipped the boat over and sank it. The villagers ended up working together to kill it so it wouldn’t do it again or be a danger to their children. They unrolled the skin and it was just shy of 30 feet. It was as wide as my torso. It was amazing.
@@sdawg573If it was capsizing boats, which they probably can't afford to replace and are most likely their means of obtaining food. It's unfortunate but they have to remove a threat to their own survival.
Yeah but I call BS on the guys who took the pic. 100ft snake and they only take 1 pic and take off. BS, anyone would stay, take pics, look at it for awhile. OH ha ha, I just got to the part where the clip said its not true. Good now I can delete my post without sending it and nobody will ever know that I was going to comment before watching the whole cli
@@sandylynn7343 thats irrelevant in this comment. Seems like youre a musk fan ot something but this isnt a musk video nor does most on here care about him
I want to go hunt some in Florida soooo bad, but my buddies with boats are all PUSSIES!!!! LOL a bunch of country boys who love to hunt and fish and they're scared of those snakes.... I'M READY!!!
My grandmother is Brasilian and she said that in the 1930's and 40's while she was growing men WERE eaten by a large snakes. She is a no nonsense kind of person. She mentioned it very casually one day and when I asked her about it years later she confirmed and looked at me as of I was questioning common knowledge.
grandmas are really no nonsense kind of ppl. so i def believe her!!! imagine there have been alot of adult men/women ate by giant snakes. just has gone undocumented due to it happening in the middle of no where. especially down in the Amazon....
There was an episode of river monsters where Jeremy went swimming looking for one and right at the end of the episode he comes across one that’s curled up at the bottom of the river and it honestly looks like the biggest snake ever found. It is absolutely massive. Giant snakes are so cool.
@@jrporter50 lol said that at the same time i read your comment lol I'm apparently as mature as a teenage boy. I guess raising 2 boys has actually warped my ability to adult lol
I was visiting a tribe in the Amazon rainforrest back in 2016, Where some of the tribe people told me that they not to Long ago had a 36ft anaconda that attacked one of their cattle. And because one of the tribe members tried to separate the snake from the cattle it attacked her. The tribe lady showed me her scar and it was massive, i would say about 2ft in diameter on her shoulder. Ever since that day i started beliveing in giant snakes roaming the Amazon Rain forrest.
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The thing with a lot of reptile species, is they dont stop growing if they have enough food supply and an area big enough for them to function in. You see similarities in fish too where the fish wont grow bigger than a fish bowl- relative to its size so it still has room to swim. Its a weird phenomenon but it makes sense. Especially where the snake wouldnt have a ton of natural predators- or if someone brought a species from another country. Who knows, its an intriguing story
you're absolute right. Luckily there is still room for nature without humans in it and in those dense rainforest its possible that there are snakes bigger then we know. people just caught something and measures it and say this is the biggest animal while having no idea of bigger possibilties elsewhere. Then they put like a max size for that certain animal and limit other claims of bigger ones because they haven't been verified yet. So for those who doesn't need vertification its a higher possibilities that there are bigger snakes out there then that we have caught exactly the biggest living one. I mean scientist always make an indication of how many animals of certain species are alive while never knowing the nummer and having no idea how big they are
The WW2 story of the giant Congo snake spotted by the three airmen gets even crazier. When analyzed by some experts they estimate that if the snake in the photo is genuine, it would even dwarf the Titanoboa, a prehistoric species of Python that was said to be the largest snake in the fossil record. That's absolutely insane.
Actual calculations set it on 60 feet which would be roughly 20 feet longer than the biggest specimen ever found. The fishermen of the congo who saw this in real life(you can actually see some clips nowdays) say it's at least three times there boat but think it's bigger than that. There boats are 13 to 14 feet long. I researched some time ago abt the Congo in general, what ever lived there was massiv back in the 20th Reptiles Snakes spiders primates you name it it was there even sights of Dinosaures it's really fascinating to research local the sightings etc.
There are some places in the rain forest in CONGO that still remain undiscovered by human being but you can find local habitants call the Pygmées who reported to have seen some of the biggest animals humans ever witnessed "Giant Gorilla, Snakes, Crocodiles"
I was just about to comment about a freind of mine from Congo who’d tell us about those things and how they’re as tall as the trees if they’re stood up.. wild.
@@rudigernaseweis9811 Not really possible. The Titanoboa is the single largest ever found, from some 200 million years ago, and the difference is in both the deforestation of these places and also the Oxygen levels being much lower now than they were even some 200 years ago, let alone 200 million years ago.
Here in Manaus, the Amazon has a history that fishermen fish a snake in the 70s, and that snake was 17 meters long. Nowadays these fishermen have already died but the family members confirm the story until today. my grandfather tells me that there were several sightings in the 70s of a snake that exceeded 15 meters in the amazon river.
I love these chill relaxed conversations about giant snakes followed by Google searches, reminds me of when me and my uncle used to browse the web when I was like 8 looking for aliens bigfoot and weird animals.
The way Joe switches Forrest over so effortlessly from trying to explain something he's more passionate about at the moment to a crazy animal😂😂 "WHAT ARE YOUR THOUGHTS... ON GIANT ANACONDAS?"just all abrupt 😭
This is because Rogan is not a news anchor. He’s mostly just a regular guy. Either you get a highly polished interviewer who is just a scummy journalist, or you get a regular guy like Rogan who is not always so polished, but is only concerned with picking the brains of his awesome guests.
I talked to an American Missionary who was in the Amazon in the 50s and 60s and she said there is a tale of the “Boa Grange” through every tribe. She said one time she was cutting their way through the forrest. She got tired so she sat down and leaned against a log and the “log” moved. She said it was 3ft in diameter and didn’t stick around to see how long it was. She also said they were motoring down a tributary in a smaller boat and had to stop and weight for a snake to finish crossing the river. She estimated the river at that spot was 30 ft wide and couldn’t see its head on one bank and its tail on the other bank. She said “atleast” 50 ft on that one.
On an episode of river monsters the people in south america where jeremy was fishing were telling him about a different snake that was much larger than an anaconda. it wasn't myth or unusual to see it at all to them. they even showed him a burrow where one lives. they described as being about twice as wide and long as an anaconda. The people called it a Cobra Grande.
But no video documentation of one has ever appeared? Shocking. We have so many videos of millions of different species of much smaller things. An animal that large would need to eat either very often or very large meals and would have a huge effect on any ecosystem it existed in. If we know that goblin sharks and giant squid exist and have recorded evidence of them despite where they live, it’s safe to assume that we would have found a snake that large by now if it existed
@@themostdiabolicalhater5986 Well speaking that hear tribes are extremely remote and do t carry around phones to record such evidence. Very unlikely to be solid evidence.
I think its possible they are out there, but if it was on tv like "river monsters" its total bullshit. Tv is in the game of making money, not being real.
Belgian pilot Remy Van Lierde said that while flying over the wilderness of Katanga province (southeastern Belgian Congo) in 1959, he spotted and photographed a giant snake 15 meters long, describing it as having dark brown and green coloring, with a three-foot long head and a white belly. He also said that as he flew in order to have a closer inspection, the reptile rose up to about 3 meters, making it look like it would have attacked the helicopter if it had been within reach. And so came the legend of the giant Congo snake.
Many errors in story: See RUclips video, "Giant Snake Congo 1959" to see correct story. Year: 1959, Helicopter, not plane. Snake 50 FEET long with head 2 ft wide and 3 ft long. Snake prepared to strike as HELICOPTER hovered over it 25 to 30 feet in the air. TITANABOA, quite possibly, or a close cousin, is what the evidence suggests.
@cindy.4 Titanoboa 45ft to 50 ft estimated length lived in Columbia not Africa the largest snake in Africa is the African Rock python 19ft in total length.
The giant Congo snake was in a hole or depression which could have been a bai of mineral rich area, a salt lick and my guess is the snake made full use of the abundance of game to achieve such a size. This has also been observed for anacondas in the Amazon basin... staking out salt licks for prey.
Fossilized snakes have been found in South Australia that mesured up to 60 feet, but they were extinct long before the arrival of humans. The cave where the snakes (and many other mega-fauna fossils) were found is open to the public and has some of the bones are on display. I been there a couple of times, well worth the visit.
@@DrGooseDuckman i’ve personally seen live snakes that were easily over 700ft long with the head about 15 x 20‘ it tried to attack me but I just hit it with a spinning backfist
Forest actually has it backwards The anaconda has been clocked as the heaviest snake in the world whereas the reticulated python has been clocked as the longest snake in the world
100% correct. burmese and retics are the 2 longest. anaconda heavisets and by far strongest. also have more teeth and larger teeth so the bite it self hurt a lot more. also has a different profile head. so ur 100% correct.
There are massive snakes and other animals in Central and East Africa. I was very interested in his story about the Colonel flying over Belgian Congo. I spent six months there a few years ago working private security and witnessed crazy large animals. Kane rats that were 3 ft long (I have pictures lol). One of my other partners from the US witnessed a snake that was over 40 feet in length crossing the road in front of one of his vehicles where he couldn't see either the head or tail for quite some time crossing the road which was 30 feet wide itself. There is quite a bit there left to be explored.
@Sam Kostos you should have listened to the video before you commented. He referenced a story from 80 years ago where a Belgian Colonel had seen a 50 foot snake from his aircraft.
A reticulated python was once measured officially 33' And a anaconda was guest to measure 33' but weighed over 440 with a 44in girth . The anaConda is known as the heaviest snake and a reticulated python the longest
Many errors in story: See RUclips video, "Giant Snake Congo 1959" to see correct story. Year: 1959, Helicopter, not plane. Snake 50 FEET long with head 2 ft wide and 3 ft long. Snake prepared to strike as HELICOPTER hovered over it 25 to 30 feet in the air. TITANABOA, quite possibly, or a close cousin, is what the evidence suggests.
Brazillian here. Boiúna is the name of the "giant anaconda." It had been a legend among the tribes of that region long before it was known among modern societies. The interesting fact about the stories is their almost mystical intelligence and aggressiveness, both in African and South American mythology.
@@caspar_gomez makes sense.. back in the day insects were big as well.. man it would be awesome to time travel to this but maybe in a safe bubble so they wouldn't eat me 🤣
This is how grandiose rumors get started when it comes to things like this. It was already impressive enough that the snake captured in that pic was thought to be about 50 ft. But when he described it before looking it up, it was 100 ft long, and struck at the low flying plane, when what really happened was it lifted it's head and got into a position to strike. It might not be intentional, but it just shows how easily stories get changed.
right, lol, dude just casually doubles the size of the snake and most don't even seem to have picked up on that detail. Imagine how much inaccurate info gets spewed on these podcasts.
Titanoboa, discovered by Museum scientists, was the largest snake that ever lived. Estimated up to 50 feet long and 3 feet wide, this snake was the top predator in the world’s first tropical rainforest. It was also the largest known predator on the planet between the extinction of dinosaurs 65 million years ago and the first appearance of Megalodon ~23 million years ago. Descendants of this snake could easily still be alive. Especially if not intruded upon by humans.
I just seen a show on History channel with a 50 ft anaconda, it wasn't a titanoboa, I forget the name of the show, but they analyzed this video n said this was real. But believe what u will I guess, it looked real, and bc of the bump in the middle of the snake they determined it to be an anaconda
You are just parroting the false narrative you have been force fed. Before the stranglehold of the environmentalists you could get actual facts. In the late 70’s, right before the peak logging of the rainforest in the 80’s, it was recorded that the logging was made harder because the forest grew back so fast that they had to keep clearing to keep the roads out clear enough to allow the massive logging vehicles to pass back through. Just to be clear, those rigs were massive and should’ve been able to muscle their way through. Satellite imagery photos, videos all over
Whats crazy is sometimes, you just come across that giant that there may only be a few examples of ever. I saw a guy bring in about a 13 pound bass in texas and it one of those moments you realize some things are just straight up naturally rare and special.
The 10lb one my nephew caught in Utah looked like a freak of nature. Then I moved to Florida where 10lb is almost common status. And there have been a few over 20lb. It's just like they are not naturally ever gonna get over 8 /lbs most of them but some freaks just get big
I love how much info I get from him but translated in a way that I'm just hearing stories from a friend. He's so passionate about his life and experiences and you can see the excitement and I truly believe everything he says he's done. Bravo to you sir for being an incredible person and sharing your stories with us 🙏❤️
As someone that lives in sub-saharan Africa (Uganda) close to the Congo border there are reports of sightings by fishermen of giant snakes especially in lake Albert. I mean over 30 feet and they feed on crocs.
Exactly, the African rock python lives in the Congo and grows over 6 meters. So In the Congo they should grow well over 6 meters because of the environment. And the African rock python is capable of swallowing a human! This guy just should stop running his mouth
I think there is always the possibility of single individuals being way above average e.g. due to acromegaly (to much growth hormone: mutation, a benign tumor,...), and that should especially be possible with animals that grow all their life. So between "all a hoax" and "such a species exists" there is the middle ground of "it is possible that somebody encountered one freakishly long snake because that snake was a freak".
@@bradleywalker8642 I actually meant 30 meter. There are rumors about snakes that big living in the Amazon delta. Cryptozoologists talk about two giant species called Succuriju Gigante and Cobra Grande. But there is absolutely no scientific evidence that they exist. Still, the local tribes believe in them. But I myself find a snake of 30 meter ridiculous. It would be cool in a kind of scary way. But no. I don't believe it. But a 10m Anaconda. That I can believe. The official record is 8.45m. But i find it ridiculous to think that humans have seen the biggest Anaconda there ever was. And with gigantism a la Wadlow, I believe a 10m Anaconda is not only possible, but very probable.
As a young black kid growing up in the inner city (East Brooklyn, NY) , seeing Ice Cube fight those huge ass Anacondas scared the Be-Jesus outta me. That thing come by my house imma kill it 😂
I've always wondered about the giant snakes in the Amazon. Before the internet was available to the public I used to read a lot of books about all of the weird mysterious things around the world. There are actually hundreds of stories about this stuff and not everything made it onto the internet even today.
@@Axzuin I can show you a giant snake right here in America if you want. Ill give you my address Sorry Im an idiot and its more like all I could show you is a 2 inch earthworm...
I remember running into a bunch of these snakes when I went looking for blood orchids in the Amazon. They’re a flower that blooms once every 7 years for 2 weeks and they’re the key to long life, unfortunately the anacondas were eating them and grew to enormous sizes. They ate half the crew including one guy who betrayed us by caring more about the flowers the money he’d make than his friends. Luckily he got eaten in the end. Never got those flowers though. This was around 2004 I believe. Overall the experience kind of sucked. Personally I’d give it 25 out of 100.
I live in North Australia, and we didn't SEE this snake , but on leaving our property, We came across a kangaroo that had been half digested and thrown back up . Iv seen lots of fur dissolved by snakes and this was dead on. But also the foot wide track in the dirt leading off to the bush was somewhat discerning.
The longest reticulated python was captured in the island of Sulawesi Indonesia in 1912, and holds the Guinness world record at 32 feet. The largest anaconda on video was from National geographic sources where police in brazil are trying to capture this 26 foot long behemoth, only for 2 of them to get bitten. There have been reports of giant snakes throughout history, and their true sizes may never be confirmed...although it is not outside the realm of speculation that 30+footers were once common, just a 100 years ago. Due to habitat destruction and the excess growth gene being terminated, they do not reach their true size potential...Although as the climate gets hotter, we may see giants once again if their habitats are left undisturbed.
@@rockyn3193 As they are coldblooded they need to absorb heat to properly function, including for their digestion. Warmer enviroments expands the areas they can hunt for food, they can be more mobile, and they will digest their prey quicker. So if there is enough sufficient prey it will allow them to grow bigger on average.
@@Jdoe-eu5yw that was the case for invertebrates because their spiracles and what not can't pull oxygen efficiently at larger masses without higher oxygen content. If you look at where the largest species and individual snakes of the world are clustered, it is around the tropics.
Forrest has it the other way around. Anacondas are wider and heavier than retics but don’t grow quite as long. The longest snake in captivity is a reticulated python named Medusa at 25 ft long.
Many errors in story: See RUclips video, "Giant Snake Congo 1959" to see correct story. Year: 1959, Helicopter, not plane. Snake 50 FEET long with head 2 ft wide and 3 ft long. Snake prepared to strike as HELICOPTER hovered over it 25 to 30 feet in the air. TITANABOA, quite possibly, or a close cousin, is what the evidence suggests.
Add to this the fact that many areas of the world are actually still unexplored. Having access to aerial and satellite Images gives us the impression that we explored those areas (especially heavily wooded areas) but there are actually just a couple of roads and millions of square miles that barely anybody walked through in the history of mankind, let alone exhaustively explored. There are woods in south america, the size of spain, that nobody ever really explored. There is just one Highway in the middle and that's it.
But he jst speaks random things here and there, clearly retics are longer anacondas are heavier but he says the opposite, and the indian rock python arent the monsters maxing out at 12ft, he makes some basic errors every now and then
@@aurochsxx5932He also said Leopards are bigger than Jaguars, which is very false. He said that Hyena has the highest bite force of any mammal which is also false
I lived in the Amazon for a few years (French Guiana). I’ve seen a molted snake skin longer than 30’ a lot longer. I hike bathing in a river ai had a snake break the surface beside me and the head was bigger than my midsection. The natives report anacondas more than 60’ and one type over 100’. They also report a spider big enough to take kids and dogs
There are lots of reports of people meeting gigantic Anacondas in Amazon. There is a friend of my father, who lived there for a couple of years working as a missionary in the 90’s that saw things (animals) that no one would believe if tell them.
In 1990 my dad had a missionary visit our church and he had pics of a 60' anaconda that villagers in tbe Amazon had killed. It was 2 feet thick and took hours to kill.
@Retarded Games I can't, it was in 1990 taken with a Polaroid camera a few years earlier and the missionary brought them. I was 13 years old. Based on his age back then, he has long passed. My dad has passed as well so I can't ask him who the missionary was. Sorry bro
Absolutely love when Forest is on. Joe has been a roll lately. He has had some good guests. Sam and Colby freaked me out a bit. And the guests before them were good and the ones after have been great.
That area of the congo that the monster snake was seen has a history of giant serpents that I think dates back to when Europeans first started venturing over there. Think there was an old story of a group of noble people going out to slay such beasts in that area.
Thanks Joe for yet another great podcast. My favorite all time. Just binge watched all of Forrest’s videos on Discovery. Dude is nuts but hands down the best since Steve Irwin.
When I was 12 I was living with my mother along with some of my siblings in Birmingham Alabama for the summer and the local library had a reptile snake day. The library had a showing with a reptile specialist that brought several different reptiles plus several species of snakes. One of the snakes was a Albino Burmese Python it was a beautiful golden yellow and orange over 10 feet I want to say it was around 12-13 feet long. When the reptile specialist was done showing off the albino python they asked if anyone wanted to hold the Python. I definitely did but I was quite young and small cause I was Chronically ill at the time but my older brother went with me to the library reptile show so with my brothers help and the help of the reptile specialist I was able to hold the Albino Burmese Python. I'll never forget how awesome and powerful that snake felt even though it was very calm and relaxed at the time. I've always been very into animals and knowing about the wild I loved animal/wilderness documentaries and even went to a special Rain Forest class for two years. So when I was able to hold that beautiful animal I was so amped.
I think he has the details of the WW2 story a bit mixed up -- the colonel was not flying during WW2, but rather, decades later (1959) when the photo was taken. Another tidbit -- later in the podcast they were taling about Japanese holdouts that never surrendered....there were many of them. The last one we know of was indeed in 2000s. Great podcast! One of my favorites!
I lived in Iquitos. Peru in the late 1970's and spoke with several reliable people who had experienced extremely large snakes. There is much unknown in the jungle.
Bro is it just me or did Forrest get some things wrong in this episode. Considering hes a wildlife expert these were some hard mistakes to make aswell.
@@jamz17eah, 30-50 foot anacondas, pythons being the heaviest snake etc. he mixed the retic and anaconda size and weight. Green anacondas are the heaviest at 500 pounds, while retics are the longest at 33 feet confirmed.
Only issue I have is Forrest mixed up the stats / records about reticulated pythons vs anaconda. The reticulated python is the longest snake and the anaconda is the heaviest. One reason the anaconda is able to be so heavy is because it is semi-aquatic.
I saw this episode and I always giggle at how scared Joe is of animals. He’s right they can kill us, but a part of me feels like he’s projecting the hunted feeling of a hunter. I lived in the NorCal woods for a year amongst bears, mountain lions, coyotes…but I did what the yoga teacher he mentioned did in a way of a person that is Native to this land. I projected respect, peace and asked the ancestors to hold me and I was fine 😸. Alone in the woods and fine.
@@HighFeelineCalifornia grizzly bear was hunted to extinction 100 years ago, and most of the other predators that pose real dangers to humans as well, or nearly. youre safe in the wilderness today because you have been made safe. "Grizzly man" thought he was safe and treated wild bears like they were his puppies. Then one ate him and his girlfriend. There's a difference between fear and a healthy respect. Also just at a glance, I simply don't believe you could survive for a year in the wildness, you look and sound like you were probably smoking weed behind Wawa
I had a friend here in Canada who would always tell a taller tale, always one upping everyone. I only believed a little bit of it but he told his professor about seeing a mountain lion while out deer hunting and the professor came out and was able to record the first sighting here in Ontario since they had gone extinct a hundred or more years earlier. So sometimes there is merit to extraordinary claims
Still my favorite guest of all time. Im one of those JRE viewers that slowly stopped watching over the years, havent watched a full JRE episode in over 2 years tbh (except for protect our parks lol) But I will always tune in and watch the entire episode if Forrest is on. His knowledge and work is just so fascinating to me and I appreciate his insight every time. His passion for knowledge about mother nature is something I will never grow tired of
He has it backwards. Anacondas are heavier (foot for foot) than reticulated pythons, and reticulated pythons grow longer than anacondas. The weight difference is especially true in the wild. Captive retics tend to be obese. The longest captive retic was just over 25 ft. There is a commonly accepted record of 32' 9" for a wild reticulated python, but I don't know how it was verified. The record is from 1912 in Sulawesi (which is where the largest wild retics are consistently found).
Then go do it, man! Exploring the world's deepest reaches and discovering and studying different incredible animals and ancient/old cultures/civilizations sounds like an incredible way to live. I believe in you and I'd love to see you have enough experience to share said experiences on platforms like RUclips. We need many more people like Forest, remember whether you believe you can or you can't your right.
@@ricardosantiago6273 yeah i'm definitely waiting for winter to end so i can go back to exploring on foot. i'v already planned multiple multi day hikes and once i am able to walk those without a problem i'll sell all i have and leave to just wander the world. i hope to find some amazing places and people!
Problem with huge animals is they need the habitat to support that size and it's becoming increasingly more scarce. Also finding animals is incredibly difficult. I'm a nature photographer (birds) and finding what you are looking for takes a ton of time and luck. I spent some time in a remote part of the Ecuadorian Amazon. Largest anaconda I saw was like 4 ft.
Also, more and more, those remote areas have human beings. They more than likely have livestock. And you know what human beings with livestock do when there is a huge anaconda? They go out and kill it. Long before it's had a lifespan to grow so big. I very much doubt a snake can grow to 50 feet before a human ends it
People really underestimate how much luck is needed. You could miss the shot of your career solely because you're looking at some mildly interesting interaction between 2 birds you photographed before and didn't have your head turned 90 degrees to the right to catch that moment something huge slithered in the distance.
Years ago a guy named Don Starkwell paddled from Winnipeg Canada to down the Amazon with his son/sons. I saw him on a talk show a few years later, he was plugging a book and was making the rounds. A very believable guy, I thought, and he said that when they were paddling down the Amazon that they came across a 2 foot diameter and 50 foot long anaconda.
Most people (like Starkwell, apparently) don't realize how long 50 feet really is. He probably saw a huge 20-something foot snake at a distance and thought "that must be 50 feet long"!
Forrest is the best. If people didn't know he has a great podcast with two of his friends called the wild times. Highly recommended and a very slept on podcast.
Love Forrest, but retics are consistently longer than green anaconda's and Annie's are consistently heavier per size of the animal. Annie's are the heaviest, and retics are the longest. I have kept retics and burms for years and in captivity retics can regularly reach 20 feet plus and it's not unheard of at all. A 20 foot anaconda is an absolutely massive specimen for the species.
I got lost for an afternoon in the Amazon forest. Best worst experience of my life. I cried tears of joy when I finally found my way back to camp, after essentially hiking in circles for 5 hours. The jungle has a life of its own. A matrix of animal pathways leading everywhere and nowhere- super hard to get your bearings. Started leaving markers on trail branches, and by process of elimination eventually found my way back.
Can you imagine how scare that snake must have been? Probably been to big for anything to mess with it for years. Decades even, now there’s this ginormous eagle owl thing swooping down on it multiple times.
I saw the photo on the Discovery channel in the 90's. It was different than the enhanced picture you showed. The original photo was taken with a (rudimentary) Brownie box camera. You could not distinguish the snake from the jungle until it was outlined then it looked like it could be a behemoth. I became interested in large snakes encounters when I saw a 14 ft diamondback three hours west of Austin close to the Pecos River. It was 1977 October night on a ranch road. The snake stretched across the road three feet from a 14 ft wide gate. I chased it with my pick up into a fenced corner; at which point, it raised up headlight high and came straight for my bumper. I backed up a few feet then it dropped and veered off into a cedar. The diamond pattern was at least 6 inches wide. The next year my Biology prof laughed at the story. He quoted a figure of 6 ft from a study. I have figured out that these professionals quote each other, but it is the common man who spends 300 days a year in the back country who have these unusual encounters, not the Biologist. Closing with the Giant Squid, for the last 300 years they have made their way into novel and folk lore. Now they are on mass and social media when thought by most to be fantasy, so I keep an open mind.
Minor correction: longest snake in the world is the reticulated python. It is the snake that most commonly reaches 6 meters (20 feet) and the world record length specimen was 32 feet long (9 meters). The Anaconda though, is the heaviest snake with the heaviest ever being a monstrous 27 footer that weight in at about 500lbs.
Many errors in story: See RUclips video, "Giant Snake Congo 1959" to see correct story. Year: 1959, Helicopter, not plane. Snake 50 FEET long with head 2 ft wide and 3 ft long. Snake prepared to strike as HELICOPTER hovered over it 25 to 30 feet in the air. TITANABOA, quite possibly, or a close cousin, is what the evidence suggests.
Ilove when Rogan instantly cuts through 50% of the added SPICE his guest just threw at him, without rubbing it in and embarrassing him... Fact is, we all tend to sensationalize our stories
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My Grandmother used to say "never hang out with wild animals larger than you" and honest to God I have not been in a Walmart in 25 years. True story.
That's solid advice. Based granny.
Bahahahahahahahaha!!!!!!!!
The Walmart specimens of today are waaaay heavier and more aggressive, although dumber, than those of 25 years ago.
Bah dum tsch 🥁
@@RogueReplicant
That makes it even scarier…
Yes, Forrest is back again, one of the best guests on Rogan.
In with you on that mate 👍
Exactly what I was thinking. Gonna be a good episode
Dude he isn’t on here nearly enough
I'm waiting on Brian Muraresku
@@maxfarris7492 100% agree. These two talking is so interesting
Forrest is easily one of my favorite guests. Plus Joe’s reactions to crazy animal stories are hilarious.
He should have him more often, the last time was like what 3 years ago
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Joe purrs like said animal everytime
More like rogan 15 years ago.
@@SuperTed. U mean he shave his neck, neckbeard?
The anaconda actually did not snap at the plane. It had no intent on attacking the plane. It just wanted to get a closer look at a HIGHLY RESPECTED COLONEL.
you got me for 90% of ur comment 🤣
Many errors in story: See RUclips video, "Giant Snake Congo 1959" to see correct story. Year: 1959, Helicopter, not plane. Snake 50 FEET long with head 2 ft wide and 3 ft long. Snake prepared to strike as HELICOPTER hovered over it 25 to 30 feet in the air. TITANABOA, quite possibly, or a close cousin, is what the evidence suggests.
@@starseiteYou sure it's not just a story?
To pay his respects 🤣🤣🤣
@@Evastories608 3 different people confirmed the story and honestly who would want to go in the congo to check.
After only a few years of watching, I’m convinced that all fans of Joe love to watch him discuss crazy animals, martial arts, and survival situations with people
You have just figured out that now???
fans of JR are also fans of the same things/have similar interests in things discussed on the show. more news at 11
.....that's generally how being a fan of someone/something works
Fantasy
And getting high..
I'm here for the variety. You dint get this other places.
Correction: The heaviest snakes are anacondas. The longest snakes are reticulated pythons. I own an 18' reticulated python who's 100 lbs. An 18' anaconda would be much heavier.
what are you doing with an almost 20 foot snake??
Ty I was gonna jump on here and correct him myself, but you got it. Yes, green anacondas the heaviest, and main land reticulated the longest.
@@JoseRodriguez-ey7ju hangin out, chilling.. you know, just bro stuff.
Seriously though, she's very cool and laid back. My 2 daughters have both held her (10 and 13).
@@JoseRodriguez-ey7ju Waiting for the day that he gets on the news on the day it breaks out and eats a child.
@@DesignCourse 🤣😂
No politics, no social justice topics, just good content. Love this guy
Until you see the clip where he's talking about woolly mammoths reversing climate change.
Yea but as soon as he does.the left leaning ppl call him a far right misinfo spreader
@@gamesthatiplay9083 Wooly mammoths can reverse climate change? lmao what
@@matt59firehonestly not as hot of a take as you would think, the TLDR of it is it would help recreate the steppe ecosystem in the Arctic to promote grasslands and also slow the thawing of the frozen soils.
You’re weird
Almost 20 years ago I visited a village 4 hours up the Rio Negro river outside of Manaus Brazil. One of the native villagers told us about an Anaconda that had climbed over the side of a small boat that was anchored near the shore…it was so heavy it tipped the boat over and sank it. The villagers ended up working together to kill it so it wouldn’t do it again or be a danger to their children. They unrolled the skin and it was just shy of 30 feet. It was as wide as my torso. It was amazing.
Holy crap! God Bless man!
why kill it man. those vreatures should be preserved
@@sdawg573If it was capsizing boats, which they probably can't afford to replace and are most likely their means of obtaining food. It's unfortunate but they have to remove a threat to their own survival.
Wow that's an amazing story. Those experiences are. Priceless
@@sdawg573r u acoustic
Forrest is genuinely one of the best guests he gets on here
Yeah cuz he’s not a quack he’s an actual man of science trying to expand the boundaries of knowledge
He has his own podcast too
Yeah but I call BS on the guys who took the pic. 100ft snake and they only take 1 pic and take off. BS, anyone would stay, take pics, look at it for awhile.
OH ha ha, I just got to the part where the clip said its not true.
Good now I can delete my post without sending it and nobody will ever know that I was going to comment before watching the whole cli
Facts
@@Marshmobilise snake wasn't even 50ft. forrest is a bullshiter
I love how primal it is to be fascinated by big animals. It’s always been cool and always will be
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Its natural human instinct we are always going to wonder and be amazed in the world around us
@@sandylynn7343 thats irrelevant in this comment. Seems like youre a musk fan ot something but this isnt a musk video nor does most on here care about him
@@lordfarquar9215 chill
I want to go hunt some in Florida soooo bad, but my buddies with boats are all PUSSIES!!!! LOL a bunch of country boys who love to hunt and fish and they're scared of those snakes.... I'M READY!!!
Love how Joe’s brain goes seamlessly from what makes you feel excited to what do you think about giant anacondas
His random zags from whatever to badass animal topics is what I enjoy most - before and now.
And the guest just rolled with it like nothing
but the guest was the one that brought it up?? lol
@@Treaxvour but he was the one that brought it up..makes sense
@@skicatguy ur so desperate to argue with strangers on the internet you tagged 2 diff ppl lol how sad
My grandmother is Brasilian and she said that in the 1930's and 40's while she was growing men WERE eaten by a large snakes. She is a no nonsense kind of person. She mentioned it very casually one day and when I asked her about it years later she confirmed and looked at me as of I was questioning common knowledge.
There's a video from Brazil where it shows a group of men cutting a village women that went missing out of a giant snakes stomach, pretty easy to find
It's not unheard of.
So how old is she now?
@@juliang-c4882 she would have been 94. She passes 3 yrs ago.
grandmas are really no nonsense kind of ppl. so i def believe her!!! imagine there have been alot of adult men/women ate by giant snakes. just has gone undocumented due to it happening in the middle of no where. especially down in the Amazon....
There was an episode of river monsters where Jeremy went swimming looking for one and right at the end of the episode he comes across one that’s curled up at the bottom of the river and it honestly looks like the biggest snake ever found. It is absolutely massive. Giant snakes are so cool.
That's what she said 😀
@@jrporter50 lol said that at the same time i read your comment lol I'm apparently as mature as a teenage boy. I guess raising 2 boys has actually warped my ability to adult lol
@@jrporter50 that's what I said when I met a girl on a dating app and found out she's trans
I have a giant anaconda between my legs and it stinks. Get it I have a giant smelly dong?
Just watched that video on Reddit under another diving with a massive Anaconda video.
"What are your thoughts on giant anacondas?" - That's my favorite pick up line at the bar.
🤣
Yeah and then when she says..luv them..are you packing one? You look down at your shoes and say have a nice night Ma'am.
I'll try it tonight!
@@shawnsdr3406 doesn't matter had sex :D
😂
I was visiting a tribe in the Amazon rainforrest back in 2016, Where some of the tribe people told me that they not to Long ago had a 36ft anaconda that attacked one of their cattle. And because one of the tribe members tried to separate the snake from the cattle it attacked her. The tribe lady showed me her scar and it was massive, i would say about 2ft in diameter on her shoulder. Ever since that day i started beliveing in giant snakes roaming the Amazon Rain forrest.
@@paulfeasal6024 Dude wtf are you talking about show me pleeaasee
The tribe people told you 36ft?
@@viktoriyaserebryakov2755 they don’t use feet as measurements
@@nubbyg9096 Duh.
How did she escape though. If it had a bite that large there’s just no way she escaped. Unless she got absolutely lucky
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What a king
Ok.
Forrest has his own podcast. The wild times. Its great.
yeah it is! i wish it was done face to face most of the time i still really like it animal of the week is awesome haha
noted. thanks dude!
Joe has retained a ten year old boy's passion for things like this, and I love it!
The thing with a lot of reptile species, is they dont stop growing if they have enough food supply and an area big enough for them to function in. You see similarities in fish too where the fish wont grow bigger than a fish bowl- relative to its size so it still has room to swim. Its a weird phenomenon but it makes sense. Especially where the snake wouldnt have a ton of natural predators- or if someone brought a species from another country. Who knows, its an intriguing story
you're absolute right. Luckily there is still room for nature without humans in it and in those dense rainforest its possible that there are snakes bigger then we know.
people just caught something and measures it and say this is the biggest animal while having no idea of bigger possibilties elsewhere.
Then they put like a max size for that certain animal and limit other claims of bigger ones because they haven't been verified yet.
So for those who doesn't need vertification its a higher possibilities that there are bigger snakes out there then that we have caught exactly the biggest living one.
I mean scientist always make an indication of how many animals of certain species are alive while never knowing the nummer and having no idea how big they are
The body stops growing in fish, internals no. They die faster in confined spaces due to this. HUGE misconception
There a thing called stunted growth
Thats what I also experienced with my fishes
The WW2 story of the giant Congo snake spotted by the three airmen gets even crazier. When analyzed by some experts they estimate that if the snake in the photo is genuine, it would even dwarf the Titanoboa, a prehistoric species of Python that was said to be the largest snake in the fossil record. That's absolutely insane.
Actual calculations set it on 60 feet which would be roughly 20 feet longer than the biggest specimen ever found. The fishermen of the congo who saw this in real life(you can actually see some clips nowdays) say it's at least three times there boat but think it's bigger than that. There boats are 13 to 14 feet long. I researched some time ago abt the Congo in general, what ever lived there was massiv back in the 20th Reptiles Snakes spiders primates you name it it was there even sights of Dinosaures it's really fascinating to research local the sightings etc.
There are some places in the rain forest in CONGO that still remain undiscovered by human being but you can find local habitants call the Pygmées who reported to have seen some of the biggest animals humans ever witnessed "Giant Gorilla, Snakes, Crocodiles"
I was just about to comment about a freind of mine from Congo who’d tell us about those things and how they’re as tall as the trees if they’re stood up.. wild.
@@rudigernaseweis9811 Not really possible. The Titanoboa is the single largest ever found, from some 200 million years ago, and the difference is in both the deforestation of these places and also the Oxygen levels being much lower now than they were even some 200 years ago, let alone 200 million years ago.
@@zaynes5094 yeah I know but the myths and sightings are still funny to research
Forrest coming on the podcast again is such a relief. Makes work so much easier listening to this interesting stuff
Crazy thing is that he used to be one of my great rugby teammates 3-4 years ago . He’s a dog outside and inside the field
Here in Manaus, the Amazon has a history that fishermen fish a snake in the 70s, and that snake was 17 meters long. Nowadays these fishermen have already died but the family members confirm the story until today. my grandfather tells me that there were several sightings in the 70s of a snake that exceeded 15 meters in the amazon river.
The biggest anaconda was 6,5m long dude.
Dang
I love these chill relaxed conversations about giant snakes followed by Google searches, reminds me of when me and my uncle used to browse the web when I was like 8 looking for aliens bigfoot and weird animals.
Same with me….. going into America online web browser at night, *because of dial up * lol. But those were the day’s…. 97/98ish.
How old are you now 9?
@@gss6531said the child with the husky picture calmly.
@@fraskf6765 It's a photo of my own dog.
Im so glad you had him back on the podcast, he was my favorite last time around.
The way Joe switches Forrest over so effortlessly from trying to explain something he's more passionate about at the moment to a crazy animal😂😂 "WHAT ARE YOUR THOUGHTS... ON GIANT ANACONDAS?"just all abrupt 😭
Haha I thought the same thing!
Classic Rogan
This is because Rogan is not a news anchor. He’s mostly just a regular guy. Either you get a highly polished interviewer who is just a scummy journalist, or you get a regular guy like Rogan who is not always so polished, but is only concerned with picking the brains of his awesome guests.
I read this as soon as he said it, and I completely get you lol
lol @ that rogan switch up.. " thats all fine and dandy buh wattabout those mythical giant bush snakes th0?"
I talked to an American Missionary who was in the Amazon in the 50s and 60s and she said there is a tale of the “Boa Grange” through every tribe. She said one time she was cutting their way through the forrest. She got tired so she sat down and leaned against a log and the “log” moved. She said it was 3ft in diameter and didn’t stick around to see how long it was. She also said they were motoring down a tributary in a smaller boat and had to stop and weight for a snake to finish crossing the river. She estimated the river at that spot was 30 ft wide and couldn’t see its head on one bank and its tail on the other bank. She said “atleast” 50 ft on that one.
And there's a thermacline in the Mariana trench that holds huge sharks 🦈 called megalodon
Which can destroy medium sized vessel's of 24m - 50m
I'd say that "American missionary" was over exaggerating her accounts of what she actually "saw"
All these sightings, nothing found
@@8ootyL1CK3R lmao 0 proof but ok bub
Literally impossible as titanboa was only 50ft and that was bc increased oxygen
this dude starts out by saying he's not an adrenaline junkie then proceeds to explain how much of an adrenaline junkie he is. i love it
Im not an alcoholic, but man I love drinking a couple of glasses of whisky on a Monday morning.
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"I'm not an adrenaline junkie, I don't go sky diving, but I do get thrill of dodging bears n anacondas tho"...😑😆
He just likes spending time with wildlife. Skydiving isn’t wildlife related.
This dude always brings it when he comes on the podcast, always got great stuff!
This dude looks like he loves anacondas. You nommsayin’ 😉
Fr I wish he was a regular haha, but it’s nice for him to come back with so much to say.
@@dustywagon298 😂😂😂😂
On an episode of river monsters the people in south america where jeremy was fishing were telling him about a different snake that was much larger than an anaconda. it wasn't myth or unusual to see it at all to them. they even showed him a burrow where one lives. they described as being about twice as wide and long as an anaconda. The people called it a Cobra Grande.
But no video documentation of one has ever appeared? Shocking. We have so many videos of millions of different species of much smaller things. An animal that large would need to eat either very often or very large meals and would have a huge effect on any ecosystem it existed in. If we know that goblin sharks and giant squid exist and have recorded evidence of them despite where they live, it’s safe to assume that we would have found a snake that large by now if it existed
@@themostdiabolicalhater5986 Well speaking that hear tribes are extremely remote and do t carry around phones to record such evidence. Very unlikely to be solid evidence.
@@themostdiabolicalhater5986 I don't believe you know how vast the Amazon Jungle is. There are numerous uncontacted tribes, and unmapped biomes.
@@themostdiabolicalhater5986 reptiles do not need to eat very often. There metabolism slows down.
I think its possible they are out there, but if it was on tv like "river monsters" its total bullshit. Tv is in the game of making money, not being real.
Man I love listening to Forrest, You should have more scientists and animal guys like him. These are the best shows
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yes, less meatheads and paranoid types like bravo and schnabel, and more wilderness people.
David Attenborough: Hello Joe.
Joe Rogan: Dave, have you ever tried DMT?
my all time favorite was Joe Rogan Experience #1272 w/Lindsay Fitzharris. Her story telling. crazy ruclips.net/video/R5LGrwcCgM8/видео.html
fr. nature is so harmonious it makes it one of the most interesting topics
Belgian pilot Remy Van Lierde said that while flying over the wilderness of Katanga province (southeastern Belgian Congo) in 1959, he spotted and photographed a giant snake 15 meters long, describing it as having dark brown and green coloring, with a three-foot long head and a white belly. He also said that as he flew in order to have a closer inspection, the reptile rose up to about 3 meters, making it look like it would have attacked the helicopter if it had been within reach. And so came the legend of the giant Congo snake.
Many errors in story: See RUclips video, "Giant Snake Congo 1959" to see correct story. Year: 1959, Helicopter, not plane. Snake 50 FEET long with head 2 ft wide and 3 ft long. Snake prepared to strike as HELICOPTER hovered over it 25 to 30 feet in the air. TITANABOA, quite possibly, or a close cousin, is what the evidence suggests.
@cindy.4 Titanoboa 45ft to 50 ft estimated length lived in Columbia not Africa the largest snake in Africa is the African Rock python 19ft in total length.
Can we ask the well respected colonel?
yeah that was in the video. thanks professor.
The giant Congo snake was in a hole or depression which could have been a bai of mineral rich area, a salt lick and my guess is the snake made full use of the abundance of game to achieve such a size.
This has also been observed for anacondas in the Amazon basin... staking out salt licks for prey.
Fossilized snakes have been found in South Australia that mesured up to 60 feet, but they were extinct long before the arrival of humans. The cave where the snakes (and many other mega-fauna fossils) were found is open to the public and has some of the bones are on display. I been there a couple of times, well worth the visit.
Where?
@@CarterNKMozak Australia
Try 43ft. I've even tried to manipulate the search into showing me anything near that size and it just ain't happening.
Wrong way round 😂
@@DrGooseDuckman i’ve personally seen live snakes that were easily over 700ft long with the head about 15 x 20‘ it tried to attack me but I just hit it with a spinning backfist
Forest actually has it backwards The anaconda has been clocked as the heaviest snake in the world whereas the reticulated python has been clocked as the longest snake in the world
yes
100% correct. burmese and retics are the 2 longest. anaconda heavisets and by far strongest. also have more teeth and larger teeth so the bite it self hurt a lot more. also has a different profile head. so ur 100% correct.
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Pound for pound the boa constrictor is the strongest, the Burmese is the 3rd longest anaconda is 2nd
Yessir
There are massive snakes and other animals in Central and East Africa. I was very interested in his story about the Colonel flying over Belgian Congo. I spent six months there a few years ago working private security and witnessed crazy large animals. Kane rats that were 3 ft long (I have pictures lol). One of my other partners from the US witnessed a snake that was over 40 feet in length crossing the road in front of one of his vehicles where he couldn't see either the head or tail for quite some time crossing the road which was 30 feet wide itself. There is quite a bit there left to be explored.
"Belgian congo" doesn't exist anymore.
@Sam Kostos you should have listened to the video before you commented. He referenced a story from 80 years ago where a Belgian Colonel had seen a 50 foot snake from his aircraft.
@@andrewheaton3202 I'm familiar with the photo. That doesn't change the fact that the country no longer exists. The borders it defined are gone.
You must be out of your mind .. what’s Belgian Congo ?
whenever i see a "maximum" length or weight for an animal, i add about 20-25 percent because there is no way we have caught the biggest ones
A reticulated python was once measured officially 33' And a anaconda was guest to measure 33' but weighed over 440 with a 44in girth . The anaConda is known as the heaviest snake and a reticulated python the longest
Many errors in story: See RUclips video, "Giant Snake Congo 1959" to see correct story. Year: 1959, Helicopter, not plane. Snake 50 FEET long with head 2 ft wide and 3 ft long. Snake prepared to strike as HELICOPTER hovered over it 25 to 30 feet in the air. TITANABOA, quite possibly, or a close cousin, is what the evidence suggests.
Brazillian here. Boiúna is the name of the "giant anaconda." It had been a legend among the tribes of that region long before it was known among modern societies.
The interesting fact about the stories is their almost mystical intelligence and aggressiveness, both in African and South American mythology.
So they are not real?
@@Kerse97 they probably were at one time and oral legend passed on
@@caspar_gomez makes sense.. back in the day insects were big as well.. man it would be awesome to time travel to this but maybe in a safe bubble so they wouldn't eat me 🤣
Could've been immediate descents of the Titanoboa. Anacondas are the distant relative, but it makes you wonder about that middle species.
@@Kerse97 Nobody knows whether they are real or not, there's no way to know, most of the Amazon has not been explored on foot
This is how grandiose rumors get started when it comes to things like this. It was already impressive enough that the snake captured in that pic was thought to be about 50 ft. But when he described it before looking it up, it was 100 ft long, and struck at the low flying plane, when what really happened was it lifted it's head and got into a position to strike. It might not be intentional, but it just shows how easily stories get changed.
right, lol, dude just casually doubles the size of the snake and most don't even seem to have picked up on that detail. Imagine how much inaccurate info gets spewed on these podcasts.
50ft is still absurd
Titanoboa, discovered by Museum scientists, was the largest snake that ever lived. Estimated up to 50 feet long and 3 feet wide, this snake was the top predator in the world’s first tropical rainforest. It was also the largest known predator on the planet between the extinction of dinosaurs 65 million years ago and the first appearance of Megalodon ~23 million years ago. Descendants of this snake could easily still be alive. Especially if not intruded upon by humans.
I just seen a show on History channel with a 50 ft anaconda, it wasn't a titanoboa, I forget the name of the show, but they analyzed this video n said this was real. But believe what u will I guess, it looked real, and bc of the bump in the middle of the snake they determined it to be an anaconda
It was discovered by minors
Easily??
You are just parroting the false narrative you have been force fed. Before the stranglehold of the environmentalists you could get actual facts. In the late 70’s, right before the peak logging of the rainforest in the 80’s, it was recorded that the logging was made harder because the forest grew back so fast that they had to keep clearing to keep the roads out clear enough to allow the massive logging vehicles to pass back through. Just to be clear, those rigs were massive and should’ve been able to muscle their way through. Satellite imagery photos, videos all over
@@debbylou5729whoah. Tell more!
This story was in one of my history books from when I was in elementary school. It has stuck with me throughout all of these years.
love when rogan has a guest you have never heard of then give them a chance and they turn out to be one of your faves. forrest is one such guest
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@@andresmith7545
No
@@andresmith7545ok
Whats crazy is sometimes, you just come across that giant that there may only be a few examples of ever. I saw a guy bring in about a 13 pound bass in texas and it one of those moments you realize some things are just straight up naturally rare and special.
The 10lb one my nephew caught in Utah looked like a freak of nature.
Then I moved to Florida where 10lb is almost common status. And there have been a few over 20lb. It's just like they are not naturally ever gonna get over 8 /lbs most of them but some freaks just get big
@@allenjohnson4462 Yeah I couldn’t imagine a bass that big, my dad and I damn near break into tears catching 8lbs or bigger
Let's hope it was put back or the world loses that special......
@@chesterfieldthe3rd929it’s food
@@Mrikeepgettinmoneyagain did you go to school?
Glad they finally brought Forrest back on. Super interesting guy and work he does.
New species: Northern green anaconda 26 footer! Big boy!
I love how much info I get from him but translated in a way that I'm just hearing stories from a friend. He's so passionate about his life and experiences and you can see the excitement and I truly believe everything he says he's done. Bravo to you sir for being an incredible person and sharing your stories with us 🙏❤️
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As someone that lives in sub-saharan Africa (Uganda) close to the Congo border there are reports of sightings by fishermen of giant snakes especially in lake Albert. I mean over 30 feet and they feed on crocs.
Exactly, the African rock python lives in the Congo and grows over 6 meters. So In the Congo they should grow well over 6 meters because of the environment. And the African rock python is capable of swallowing a human! This guy just should stop running his mouth
I don't think he's saying anything bad on rock pythons. They're just bullshitting n he got his snakes mixed up..who knows.
This dude: "I am not an adrenaline junkie"
Also this dude: Literaly explains how exited he is for dangerous things
Lol he makes it seem like you HAVE to risk your life to be an adrenaline junkie
@@dracojay2596 but he explains risking his life w dangerous predatory animals 😂😂😂
Excited*
I think there is always the possibility of single individuals being way above average e.g. due to acromegaly (to much growth hormone: mutation, a benign tumor,...), and that should especially be possible with animals that grow all their life. So between "all a hoax" and "such a species exists" there is the middle ground of "it is possible that somebody encountered one freakishly long snake because that snake was a freak".
Sounds about right. But I still have severe doubts about a 30 meter snake.
@@palmarolavlklingholm9684 You mean 10 meter or 30 feet. There's definitely no 30 meter snakes.
@@bradleywalker8642 I actually meant 30 meter. There are rumors about snakes that big living in the Amazon delta. Cryptozoologists talk about two giant species called Succuriju Gigante and Cobra Grande. But there is absolutely no scientific evidence that they exist. Still, the local tribes believe in them. But I myself find a snake of 30 meter ridiculous. It would be cool in a kind of scary way. But no. I don't believe it. But a 10m Anaconda. That I can believe. The official record is 8.45m. But i find it ridiculous to think that humans have seen the biggest Anaconda there ever was. And with gigantism a la Wadlow, I believe a 10m Anaconda is not only possible, but very probable.
Any one notice how Forrest is comfortable now making quips with Joe?, I hope to see more of him he's one of my favorite guests
I don’t understand how he gets basic verifiable facts about the animals he’s talking about wrong consistently. Weird.
No, only you notices, no one else noticed. You are so smart.
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@@taahasiddiqui1071 you're a blast at gatherings I can tell
@@ciara8294 rather depressing factoid, sucks even more that it's true and we will legitimately never be able to stop it
As a young black kid growing up in the inner city (East Brooklyn, NY) , seeing Ice Cube fight those huge ass Anacondas scared the Be-Jesus outta me. That thing come by my house imma kill it 😂
I only remember JLo. Are you sure there was snakes in that movie ?
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Wasn’t John Voight (spelling?) doing an awful accent in that movie?
@@RoyalFizzbin lol yes with his ponytail
Damn nature you scary
I've always wondered about the giant snakes in the Amazon. Before the internet was available to the public I used to read a lot of books about all of the weird mysterious things around the world. There are actually hundreds of stories about this stuff and not everything made it onto the internet even today.
Can you recommend any books. I would recommend Three Halves of Ino Moxo
@@myriadplanes it's been over 20 years so I don't remember the name of the books. It really shouldn't be hard to find them though.
@@Axzuin I can show you a giant snake right here in America if you want. Ill give you my address
Sorry Im an idiot and its more like all I could show you is a 2 inch earthworm...
Jamie has one of the best jobs ...just chilling looking up facts listening to the best convos in history
I remember running into a bunch of these snakes when I went looking for blood orchids in the Amazon. They’re a flower that blooms once every 7 years for 2 weeks and they’re the key to long life, unfortunately the anacondas were eating them and grew to enormous sizes. They ate half the crew including one guy who betrayed us by caring more about the flowers the money he’d make than his friends. Luckily he got eaten in the end. Never got those flowers though. This was around 2004 I believe. Overall the experience kind of sucked. Personally I’d give it 25 out of 100.
Anywhere I can read about this? Seems very far fetched, not saying you're lying but it's a little hard to believe
@@09jadeen there's a full documentary about it you should check out
Bro this is literally the movie "Anacondas : the hunt for the blood orchid"
I would rate it null out of infinity
@@09jadeen it's a documentary called Anaconda. Ice Cube actually put the money up to fund the film and expedition.
I live in North Australia, and we didn't SEE this snake , but on leaving our property, We came across a kangaroo that had been half digested and thrown back up . Iv seen lots of fur dissolved by snakes and this was dead on. But also the foot wide track in the dirt leading off to the bush was somewhat discerning.
You mean concerning. Discerning doesn’t mean what you think it means.
@@richardtherichard26 you mean disconcerting*
@@BANANA42k no I didn’t. HE probably meant disconcerting. But that and concerning both fit. While discerning, does not.
@@richardtherichard26 you’re cool
@@richardtherichard26 disconcerting
The longest reticulated python was captured in the island of Sulawesi Indonesia in 1912, and holds the Guinness world record at 32 feet. The largest anaconda on video was from National geographic sources where police in brazil are trying to capture this 26 foot long behemoth, only for 2 of them to get bitten.
There have been reports of giant snakes throughout history, and their true sizes may never be confirmed...although it is not outside the realm of speculation that 30+footers were once common, just a 100 years ago. Due to habitat destruction and the excess growth gene being terminated, they do not reach their true size potential...Although as the climate gets hotter, we may see giants once again if their habitats are left undisturbed.
What does heat have anything to do with size?
@@rockyn3193 As they are coldblooded they need to absorb heat to properly function, including for their digestion.
Warmer enviroments expands the areas they can hunt for food, they can be more mobile, and they will digest their prey quicker. So if there is enough sufficient prey it will allow them to grow bigger on average.
Big if
@@chesterfieldthe3rd929 huge If
@@Jdoe-eu5yw that was the case for invertebrates because their spiracles and what not can't pull oxygen efficiently at larger masses without higher oxygen content. If you look at where the largest species and individual snakes of the world are clustered, it is around the tropics.
Forrest has it the other way around. Anacondas are wider and heavier than retics but don’t grow quite as long. The longest snake in captivity is a reticulated python named Medusa at 25 ft long.
Many errors in story: See RUclips video, "Giant Snake Congo 1959" to see correct story. Year: 1959, Helicopter, not plane. Snake 50 FEET long with head 2 ft wide and 3 ft long. Snake prepared to strike as HELICOPTER hovered over it 25 to 30 feet in the air. TITANABOA, quite possibly, or a close cousin, is what the evidence suggests.
Add to this the fact that many areas of the world are actually still unexplored. Having access to aerial and satellite Images gives us the impression that we explored those areas (especially heavily wooded areas) but there are actually just a couple of roads and millions of square miles that barely anybody walked through in the history of mankind, let alone exhaustively explored. There are woods in south america, the size of spain, that nobody ever really explored. There is just one Highway in the middle and that's it.
For YEARS I Appealed to the Gods to have this man back on JRE!! Fascinating fella. Can't wait to dig into the whole pod
Did you appeal to the snake god?
please stay away from me..that poor bug you have is super transmittable!
The only gods you need to pay reverence to is the old god Apollo. Thank you for coming to my TEDTalk
@@DerpMuse 😁🤭🤭
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Forrest is the future of Conservation entertainment. Plus he is doing a super job on the "extinct" animal area!!! Thanks Joe!!!
But he jst speaks random things here and there, clearly retics are longer anacondas are heavier but he says the opposite, and the indian rock python arent the monsters maxing out at 12ft, he makes some basic errors every now and then
@@aurochsxx5932He also said Leopards are bigger than Jaguars, which is very false. He said that Hyena has the highest bite force of any mammal which is also false
I lived in the Amazon for a few years (French Guiana). I’ve seen a molted snake skin longer than 30’ a lot longer. I hike bathing in a river ai had a snake break the surface beside me and the head was bigger than my midsection. The natives report anacondas more than 60’ and one type over 100’. They also report a spider big enough to take kids and dogs
This is why i love reading comments. That's extraordinary! Scary af
Just fuck that. Nope. Hell no.
A fucking spider??
People are definitely exaggerating but holy hell even if it's not 50 ft a regular visit from 30ft snakes will scare shit out of anyone .
I don't buy the spider part though the odd snake that size I can believe.
There are lots of reports of people meeting gigantic Anacondas in Amazon. There is a friend of my father, who lived there for a couple of years working as a missionary in the 90’s that saw things (animals) that no one would believe if tell them.
I hate when lucky people like him does that ... Just say it , there's a bunch of weirdos about there like myself that would believe him.
In 1990 my dad had a missionary visit our church and he had pics of a 60' anaconda that villagers in tbe Amazon had killed. It was 2 feet thick and took hours to kill.
@@nater6789 provide those pictures please
@Retarded Games I can't, it was in 1990 taken with a Polaroid camera a few years earlier and the missionary brought them. I was 13 years old. Based on his age back then, he has long passed. My dad has passed as well so I can't ask him who the missionary was. Sorry bro
Absolutely love when Forest is on. Joe has been a roll lately. He has had some good guests. Sam and Colby freaked me out a bit. And the guests before them were good and the ones after have been great.
@JoeRogan-.. 😂🤡
Jimmy from Brightinsight is on next.
Anytime Gillis is on, it’s an instant “play” from me lol
@@ReqDef more like "touch" myself you queer.
Sam and Colby freaked you out? By talking about imaginary stuff?
That area of the congo that the monster snake was seen has a history of giant serpents that I think dates back to when Europeans first started venturing over there. Think there was an old story of a group of noble people going out to slay such beasts in that area.
Forest is one of the few people I can watch intently for an entire podcast. He’s just a fascinating dude
Up there with the best of Joe rogans guests. Alive or extinct is a great programme
Thanks Joe for yet another great podcast. My favorite all time. Just binge watched all of Forrest’s videos on Discovery. Dude is nuts but hands down the best since Steve Irwin.
When I was 12 I was living with my mother along with some of my siblings in Birmingham Alabama for the summer and the local library had a reptile snake day. The library had a showing with a reptile specialist that brought several different reptiles plus several species of snakes. One of the snakes was a Albino Burmese Python it was a beautiful golden yellow and orange over 10 feet I want to say it was around 12-13 feet long. When the reptile specialist was done showing off the albino python they asked if anyone wanted to hold the Python. I definitely did but I was quite young and small cause I was Chronically ill at the time but my older brother went with me to the library reptile show so with my brothers help and the help of the reptile specialist I was able to hold the Albino Burmese Python. I'll never forget how awesome and powerful that snake felt even though it was very calm and relaxed at the time. I've always been very into animals and knowing about the wild I loved animal/wilderness documentaries and even went to a special Rain Forest class for two years. So when I was able to hold that beautiful animal I was so amped.
This is the best guest on JRE. I love this guy.
I think he has the details of the WW2 story a bit mixed up -- the colonel was not flying during WW2, but rather, decades later (1959) when the photo was taken. Another tidbit -- later in the podcast they were taling about Japanese holdouts that never surrendered....there were many of them. The last one we know of was indeed in 2000s. Great podcast! One of my favorites!
I remember going to the same junior school as this guy in Zimbabwe. It's amazing where life takes peoples dreams💪🏾❤️
I lived in Iquitos. Peru in the late 1970's and spoke with several reliable people who had experienced extremely large snakes. There is much unknown in the jungle.
Would love to go on the JRE and talk animals one day 🎉
I like your channel
Bro is it just me or did Forrest get some things wrong in this episode. Considering hes a wildlife expert these were some hard mistakes to make aswell.
Both of these fake Joe Rogan accounts lmaooo
@@jamz17eah, 30-50 foot anacondas, pythons being the heaviest snake etc. he mixed the retic and anaconda size and weight. Green anacondas are the heaviest at 500 pounds, while retics are the longest at 33 feet confirmed.
I love all these scam comments
It’s great that Forrest can make joe laugh more than some comedians
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hahaha right
tbh a lot great jokes just fly over Joe's head. Just watch his Theo interviews.
Only issue I have is Forrest mixed up the stats / records about reticulated pythons vs anaconda. The reticulated python is the longest snake and the anaconda is the heaviest. One reason the anaconda is able to be so heavy is because it is semi-aquatic.
I saw this episode and I always giggle at how scared Joe is of animals. He’s right they can kill us, but a part of me feels like he’s projecting the hunted feeling of a hunter. I lived in the NorCal woods for a year amongst bears, mountain lions, coyotes…but I did what the yoga teacher he mentioned did in a way of a person that is Native to this land. I projected respect, peace and asked the ancestors to hold me and I was fine 😸. Alone in the woods and fine.
No.
This is the person that gets eaten because he thinks animals are friends
@@tekmusik4021 nah still alive
@@tekmusik4021your wrong
@@HighFeelineCalifornia grizzly bear was hunted to extinction 100 years ago, and most of the other predators that pose real dangers to humans as well, or nearly. youre safe in the wilderness today because you have been made safe. "Grizzly man" thought he was safe and treated wild bears like they were his puppies. Then one ate him and his girlfriend. There's a difference between fear and a healthy respect. Also just at a glance, I simply don't believe you could survive for a year in the wildness, you look and sound like you were probably smoking weed behind Wawa
I had a friend here in Canada who would always tell a taller tale, always one upping everyone. I only believed a little bit of it but he told his professor about seeing a mountain lion while out deer hunting and the professor came out and was able to record the first sighting here in Ontario since they had gone extinct a hundred or more years earlier. So sometimes there is merit to extraordinary claims
Oh yeah mountain lions are in Ontario for sure
The MNR in my region also said we don’t have coyotes but I’ve seen them in the flesh
CDFW said no wolverines here. 2 of my friends saw one. About a year later, a mile or so from one sighting, DFFW caught one on a trail cam.
Still my favorite guest of all time. Im one of those JRE viewers that slowly stopped watching over the years, havent watched a full JRE episode in over 2 years tbh (except for protect our parks lol)
But I will always tune in and watch the entire episode if Forrest is on. His knowledge and work is just so fascinating to me and I appreciate his insight every time. His passion for knowledge about mother nature is something I will never grow tired of
The best . JRE
He has it backwards. Anacondas are heavier (foot for foot) than reticulated pythons, and reticulated pythons grow longer than anacondas. The weight difference is especially true in the wild. Captive retics tend to be obese. The longest captive retic was just over 25 ft. There is a commonly accepted record of 32' 9" for a wild reticulated python, but I don't know how it was verified. The record is from 1912 in Sulawesi (which is where the largest wild retics are consistently found).
There’s two type anacondas yellow and green. I think ones smaller so maybe talking about the smaller one.
@@Snickerszn Correct, but he is referring to the larger greens. Yellows rarely exceed 12' or so. I believe they max out about 16'.
@@Snickerszn wrong. 4 types of anacondas. the green or yellow anaconda which all know about. the spotted anaconda and the beni anaconda.
Yep - Pythons are longer and thinner and Anacondas are thicker and heavier.
@@sadssadsa5944 hmm maybe i should change my name to Beni Anaconda
I think the colonel was well respected
I just watched the first two episodes with Forrest few days ago. And here is a new episode! Such a humble guy, great guy.
I love how he snuck in that cheeky “performance anxiety” line when talking about the snake shrinking
i honestly think Forrest is a fascinating human! also the only reason i click on these videos. he does exactly what i would love to do with my life!
Talk about animals on RUclips?
Then go do it, man! Exploring the world's deepest reaches and discovering and studying different incredible animals and ancient/old cultures/civilizations sounds like an incredible way to live. I believe in you and I'd love to see you have enough experience to share said experiences on platforms like RUclips. We need many more people like Forest, remember whether you believe you can or you can't your right.
@@ricardosantiago6273 yeah i'm definitely waiting for winter to end so i can go back to exploring on foot. i'v already planned multiple multi day hikes and once i am able to walk those without a problem i'll sell all i have and leave to just wander the world. i hope to find some amazing places and people!
My brother working in Andies east slope Peru's oil fields, saw one well over 30 feet long.
Problem with huge animals is they need the habitat to support that size and it's becoming increasingly more scarce. Also finding animals is incredibly difficult. I'm a nature photographer (birds) and finding what you are looking for takes a ton of time and luck. I spent some time in a remote part of the Ecuadorian Amazon. Largest anaconda I saw was like 4 ft.
That’s mad disappointing, 4 feet ?!
Thank God. The world does not need titanboas
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Also, more and more, those remote areas have human beings. They more than likely have livestock. And you know what human beings with livestock do when there is a huge anaconda? They go out and kill it. Long before it's had a lifespan to grow so big. I very much doubt a snake can grow to 50 feet before a human ends it
People really underestimate how much luck is needed.
You could miss the shot of your career solely because you're looking at some mildly interesting interaction between 2 birds you photographed before and didn't have your head turned 90 degrees to the right to catch that moment something huge slithered in the distance.
I love when Forrest gets on the podcast 💯 prolly my favorite guest on it
Years ago a guy named Don Starkwell paddled from Winnipeg Canada to down the Amazon with his son/sons. I saw him on a talk show a few years later, he was plugging a book and was making the rounds. A very believable guy, I thought, and he said that when they were paddling down the Amazon that they came across a 2 foot diameter and 50 foot long anaconda.
He probably meant 50 inches long not 50ft
@@googleuser3163 probably not 😂
Most people (like Starkwell, apparently) don't realize how long 50 feet really is. He probably saw a huge 20-something foot snake at a distance and thought "that must be 50 feet long"!
Yep and in the mines that the blew up to open up shafts before exploring showed a huge 50-75 snake bet your ass those huge snakes are out there
So someone in completely new environments assessment of what they saw not what they actually measured and documented is to be believed as solid truth?
100 feet turned out to be 50 feet when evidence was produced. Love the way how confidently cook up things
Forrest is the best. If people didn't know he has a great podcast with two of his friends called the wild times. Highly recommended and a very slept on podcast.
Love Forrest, but retics are consistently longer than green anaconda's and Annie's are consistently heavier per size of the animal. Annie's are the heaviest, and retics are the longest. I have kept retics and burms for years and in captivity retics can regularly reach 20 feet plus and it's not unheard of at all. A 20 foot anaconda is an absolutely massive specimen for the species.
You are correct on all points. I’m sure he just got confused or miss spoke though.
“I have never been an adrenaline junkie, but I like to shoot bears with darts.” ok, Forest 😂
But definitely one of the coolest JRE guests.
I got lost for an afternoon in the Amazon forest. Best worst experience of my life. I cried tears of joy when I finally found my way back to camp, after essentially hiking in circles for 5 hours. The jungle has a life of its own. A matrix of animal pathways leading everywhere and nowhere- super hard to get your bearings. Started leaving markers on trail branches, and by process of elimination eventually found my way back.
@@KidFresh71whoah. Please tell more!
Can you imagine how scare that snake must have been? Probably been to big for anything to mess with it for years. Decades even, now there’s this ginormous eagle owl thing swooping down on it multiple times.
@@johnnyjericho8472 ?
I saw a 20 ft. Anaconda once in captivity wrapped around a tropical tree wring at 200 lbs. Was more than an impressive sight
Did you give a big hug and kiss 💋😵💫😳😆
@@effdonahue6595 Ha, it was in a Plexiglass showroom
@@effdonahue6595 i would. love anacondas. yellow anacondas is so gorgeous
@@sadssadsa5944 yer in luv 🔥
@@effdonahue6595 absolutely. Love snakes. Will get some dwarf retics when I move to philippines
I saw the photo on the Discovery channel in the 90's. It was different than the enhanced picture you showed. The original photo was taken with a (rudimentary) Brownie box camera. You could not distinguish the snake from the jungle until it was outlined then it looked like it could be a behemoth. I became interested in large snakes encounters when I saw a 14 ft diamondback three hours west of Austin close to the Pecos River. It was 1977 October night on a ranch road. The snake stretched across the road three feet from a 14 ft wide gate. I chased it with my pick up into a fenced corner; at which point, it raised up headlight high and came straight for my bumper. I backed up a few feet then it dropped and veered off into a cedar. The diamond pattern was at least 6 inches wide. The next year my Biology prof laughed at the story. He quoted a figure of 6 ft from a study. I have figured out that these professionals quote each other, but it is the common man who spends 300 days a year in the back country who have these unusual encounters, not the Biologist. Closing with the Giant Squid, for the last 300 years they have made their way into novel and folk lore. Now they are on mass and social media when thought by most to be fantasy, so I keep an open mind.
Fantastic story ..Yes story..
Minor correction: longest snake in the world is the reticulated python. It is the snake that most commonly reaches 6 meters (20 feet) and the world record length specimen was 32 feet long (9 meters).
The Anaconda though, is the heaviest snake with the heaviest ever being a monstrous 27 footer that weight in at about 500lbs.
Came here to say this
Yup
Many errors in story: See RUclips video, "Giant Snake Congo 1959" to see correct story. Year: 1959, Helicopter, not plane. Snake 50 FEET long with head 2 ft wide and 3 ft long. Snake prepared to strike as HELICOPTER hovered over it 25 to 30 feet in the air. TITANABOA, quite possibly, or a close cousin, is what the evidence suggests.
@@starseite I would rather go for a severe case of human error.
This guy is really fun to listen to and has a lot of knowledge about nature
A Belgian RAF pilot once spotted a 50ft snake in Congo in 1959, not during WW2, pilot was Col. Remy Van Lierde
I love when Joe has these kind of topics on the show it's so interesting
Ilove when Rogan instantly cuts through 50% of the added SPICE his guest just threw at him, without rubbing it in and embarrassing him... Fact is, we all tend to sensationalize our stories
Forrest Galante is my favorite dude to come to this podcast
Forrest is one my favorite guest on JRE. Always look forward to it.
Rogan should have him on monthly, maybe biweekly. He tells the best stories and has so much experience in the wild.
I was literally just thinking yesterday that I'd love to see Forrest back on the show