The Full Story of the Giant Congo Snake Photo

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[peterplotts]

I saw the Arthur Clarke episode years ago and remember the pilot saying the snake's head was comparable in size to that of a mature horse. The scientific consensus is that this was "one big f**king snake."

[bigcat]

It is, frankly, absolutely insane to try to use modern satellite imaging to find the location of a photograph from over 60 years ago, in a region as changeable as the central african wilderness. There is absolutely no chance that the location, if it is indeed a real photograph of a real Congo site, is still identifiable to the area as it was back then.

[hennies]

I have an uncle who worked his whole life in Africa in every country more than once for the UN, setting up boreholes for clean running water. He has been by the gorillas. He was by the pygmies seen the cannibals and manny manny different tribes. He was known as the "Waterman, " and nobody touched or harmed him because he supplied clean water to their families and elders.
He always said that if you want to see something 10X its size, it will be in the Congo. Remember, at that time, there were no Chinese or other countries that needed rare earth metals for cell phones, so Africa was still in good shape. He used to pick up the snakes by the tail and through them out of his tent. He was a 6ft3inch well-built South African and an amazing man.
RIP Uncle.

[elvinmah]

This is the Yacummama. Thought to be 100 foot. Not only that, the Congo spider is thought to be 5 feet, and biggest crocodile is 50 feet. The congo is scary

[geekinthegarden]

Whoever said that the camera details were incorrect because of the two measurements of 45mm and 6 by 6 only demonstrated that they know nothing about cameras and photography.

6x6 is an indication of the size of the negative and a 40mm is the focal length of the lens, this size is known as medium format and has a crop factor when comparing it to 35mm formats of 0.55.

This means that a 45mm lens on a 6x6 camera would have about the same field of view as a 25mm lens on a 35mm negative/sensor size, putting it as a wide angle lens.

[wildworld]

I was really looking forward to this video and you didn't disappoint. Well researched and greatly presented. The image has really stuck with me for many years and I could never really make up my mind. Hopefully, that color footage will be released one day. Thanks again for another great video!

[insomniatv]

Good video, I had heard of this story before but never this detailed. It kinda reminds me of the story about the Roman general Regulus and the giant snake. I dont know if you're familiar, but if I remember correctly...the romans were in africa and crossing a bridge and this giant snake jumped up from the water and took a man down and drowned him. Long story short, they eventually kill the snake and send the 120 foot skin back to Rome to hang up somewhere. Anyways, when the empire collapsed the skin was lost. Interesting story.

[renevalice]

I wouldn't underestimate what's in the Congo, Amazon, and such. Whether it's an 1800's journal of a 30ft Great White, or reports of a 35 ft crocodile in the phillipines, the growth of animals can be shocking.

[kabohakevin]

I worked at a sand mine in Uganda mpigi district in a swamp known as Lwera. We heard stories of a giant python known as "Jaja(grandpa) Lwera" that was said to kill cattle and people. One day we hired sand prospectors to look for new sand deposits as in the area where the dredge was situated the sand was depleted. They came back half an hour later wet and panting frantically. Claimed a giant snake had knocked over their canoe before they scampered back to shore. They also said it had the girth of a cow and a head as big as a pigs head. Of course as a person with interest in snakes and knows African rock pythons don't exceed 20 feet I was doubtful. The fact that they declined the agreed pay as long as we didn't compel them to go back and complete their job made me wonder.

[dwade]

The helicopter pilot who saw the snake was a high ranking and well respected man. I believe him.

[fullonsociopath]

Animals that spark natural phobias are almost always overestimated in size. I've had people swear up and down to me about seeing "tarantulas bigger than dogs". I'm a spider and snake keeper, so this happens when people find this out. I don't argue, or try to refute their stories. Unless and until you actually get close for a measurement, its way too subjective. To my mind, if current keepers can't get snakes past the 30 ft mark regularly, when meals are appropriately provided, temperatures are meticulously regulated, and the animals are parasite free, it doesn't seem very likely that wild animals will trounce those measurements to the extent that people claim sightings for. I'm not an expert, and this is only an opinion. Thanks for the video.

[nibs]

Snakes are one of the few creatures that continue to grow for their entire lives, so if this particular snake was, for an unknown reason, exceptionally old - it would be correspondingly much larger than normal. It could also be a completely new species. I suppose one could search for shed snakeskin in the area, but it would require someone who doesn't mind poking about the territory of "a snake that could swallow a man whole".

This story is old, and has never been revealed as a "hoax". The fact that the pilot was a respected officer, and sought experts to examine the photograph to assist in identifying the creature, lends to it's credibility.

[leroidelaforce]

in 2005 they mistaken this bones as croc fossils, and when they studied a new specie of Snake, "BREAKING THE RECORD OF TITANOBOA" in India in a mining area, it was 50 feet long and named "Vasuki Indicus" And was declared as "The king of serpant" The Titanoboa lost its title for being the biggest snake, but it lived 47million years ago, but this could possibly this.

[Fish-pilv]

I’m not at all claiming this as true, I’m not sure if I even believe the snake is real, but the Congo river is 700ft deep in some places. Maybe there is a large snake species that lives deep in the river, and still isn’t identified

[ssj_junior]

There’s another Chanel called wartime stories that has a video about a giant snake that was spotted by some soldiers, but it was seen in honduras.

[walkerbeswick]

The Congo rainforest has an incredible ecosystem and there have been sightings of giant snakes all across the world and in the fossil record there are enormous snakes growing far larger then the ones we have today it is very well possible that there is some sort of huge snake unknown to us yet

[Spidersauce]

Cool photo but the pilot said he made 6 passes at the area, why not take more than one picture? a different angle or showing the snake move positions between the pictures could have given it much more credibility

[equarep]

Amazing video! Interesting pieces of lost media and the backstory of this image is wild! I always thought it was a normal sized snake that people thought was way bigger

[flufff]

Great stuff, you mentioned a lot of sources and bits of info I haven’t heard brought up before when this photo is discussed.

[Tara-sfuu]

No comment on the size but I just wanted to say that as a keeper of pythons, boas, and ratsnakes, I disagree that it would be odd for a snake to raise part of its body up as described. It's commonly called telescoping.