It’s Real? Man Being Eaten By Lions
Nov.23, 2006 in
Accidents, Bizarre/Oddities, Video
This guy gets out of their car to take photos of a pride of lions!! Anyway, He did, He got attacked by lions and then got eaten.
This video footage is real. Don’t watch it, if you cannot withstand it.
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Tags: Bizarre/Oddities, Video
November 23rd, 2006 at 12:45 pm
Please take this off your website. This is not entertaining.
November 23rd, 2006 at 1:19 pm
It’s not supposed to be entertaining. It’s educational.
November 23rd, 2006 at 5:15 pm
Yes, now doubt this video will deter people from getting out of there cars whilst lion-watching, however, using the term ‘educational’ might be a stretch.
I guess, in this case, I’m thinking about the man’s family and how they must feel that their recorded terror is being used on a so-called ‘educational’ video.
I think there are other, more humane, ways to educate the public on the dangers of lion-watching.
November 24th, 2006 at 9:03 pm
looks fake to me - probably from a horror film.
note how there are no park rangers with guns.
November 26th, 2006 at 10:09 am
“note how there are no park rangers with guns”
What makes you think it was in a park?
November 30th, 2006 at 3:27 pm
You should take this off you website it is sick. Think about the little baby and his brother in the car. How would you feel if it was your family.
I think you would not be happy
November 30th, 2006 at 10:17 pm
i dont think its real, if you were filming something like that you wouldnt film the family in the car one by one youd be too shocked to film anything else except what the lions were doing it seems made up and the lions eating the guy at the end looks fake. sorry to disapoint you.
December 6th, 2006 at 6:22 am
This is a fake picture….I kno how lions attack with just one blow that man would have been flat on the ground.The lions r playing with him u could see it.And one thing is that if the animal was wild then the first thing ,it will aim for the neck to make its pray die first…
The other man came out of the car to chase the lions….lol is it possible??
December 7th, 2006 at 11:43 pm
There is actually video floating around that was taken from the dead guys camera. The lioness that ran off with it was shot and killed so that the camera could be recovered and it shows him taping a male lion eating a large animal. This guy walks right up to it thinking that nothing would happen, as if there might not be several other hungry lions waiting to get a piece; it is quite real.
I haven’t seen the entire video, but there is also footage of the lions dragging him further away, ripping out his intestines and then rangers showing up; it’s a lot worse than this one. It doesn’t show much interaction between the rangers and the family other than them carrying this guy away in what appears to be a white bed sheet.
December 8th, 2006 at 7:58 pm
where can I see that video
December 9th, 2006 at 1:19 am
complete fake, i work as a vet in a big cat sanctuary and this is not the behaviour of wild lions killing. Apart from the very obvious questions posed by the camerawork, you have to see the lack of urgency on the lions behalf. So ‘educational’ ‘voyeuristic’ or just plain daft this video does not deserve the attention its etting.
December 10th, 2006 at 4:27 am
To all that think it is fake … You’re idiots, especially the ones who try to act like they are lion experts… please.
Anyway, I have included the rest of the video.
December 12th, 2006 at 3:39 am
dude thats horrible
December 15th, 2006 at 9:25 pm
YOU BUNCH OF WHINNNNNING ASSS BASTARDS CANT EVEN WATCH A LITTLE SHOW WITHOUT CRYING AND SCREAMMMMMING FOR MAMA
December 15th, 2006 at 9:26 pm
IF YOU DONT LIKE IT DONT WATCH THE GODDAMM SHOW MORONS. AND STOP CYING LIKE BABY’S ~!
December 16th, 2006 at 6:16 pm
Ok the other video footage along with this one is on youtube.com search lion attacks i was watchin them yesterday u may av to sign up for it cuz its sick so they dont want kids seein it, but its the one of the bloke filmin the lion eatin sumthing and the rangers turnin up!
December 16th, 2006 at 6:19 pm
And if ur sayin ur an expert and tht lions dont attack like that i think u will find it is impossible to know wot the lions or anyother animal is thinking at the time if u go to youtube u will even see a real video of a zebra tryin to drown a lion people would of said thts imposible but remember this is fkin wild killing macines they do wot they gota do and they do it how they want to u cnt say they wont attack like tht and they do not go for the neck first the grab wot they can!
December 16th, 2006 at 6:31 pm
There is even a video of a animal expert feedin lions then they jump an start eatin him! but he survives it, i do agree the video on here do look fake cuz of the filmin all the kids an tht! if my mate was gettin eaten wouldnt u start the car up and tried runnin them over? surely gettin hit with a car is better than eaten by lions..
December 18th, 2006 at 8:56 am
You lot are wired just watch the film then go if you dont like it.
stop complaining1
December 22nd, 2006 at 1:43 am
this is real thing. But his family could save his life. just start the cars engine and drive closer to the lions and the lions will run away. as you see the end of the video the lions run away when cars arrive. but too late to save that man live.
December 30th, 2006 at 5:58 pm
You guys are hilairious (probs spely that wrong) keep up the slanging matchs, oh yeah and the vid is real, its a real video of a fake lion attack.. the other dudes right, for those who watched in and are comlaining…what did you think you were gonna see???…idiots..oh dear have entered the slanging match
January 6th, 2007 at 5:18 pm
The full version shows a lot more, I think it would be pretty hard to fake your intestings being pulled out by wild animals. If you realy dont like the video why would you watch it in the first place, we are all as curious as each other. Anyway, what the f**k did he think would happen getting that close to lions having lunch. What a numpty!
January 12th, 2007 at 6:03 am
A fake, but a good fake(apparently).
January 14th, 2007 at 7:29 pm
http://www.vidilife.com/index.cfm?f=media.play&vchrMediaProgramIDCryp=18D49782-4301-4354-AF4D-F thats the link for the whole video, well an extended version with the man getting eaten’s fottage included, what gets me is there are two cars there why dont they charge the lions?
January 14th, 2007 at 7:42 pm
Also if you dont believe its real look up traces of death on wikipedia or pit durnet the blokes name on IMdb
January 26th, 2007 at 4:35 am
Anyone who thinks that is a fake is a complete f***in moron!
January 27th, 2007 at 8:19 am
Its the real deal. Check out a more indepth video at the address below:
http://www.sparkvideos.com/lionseatmanvideo.shtml
January 31st, 2007 at 4:31 pm
i think its95% real.you can also see this video at http://www.bigducky.com
February 18th, 2007 at 12:04 am
He totally ignored a health hazard & safety risk which trumatized every 1 who watched him leave this world….
February 23rd, 2007 at 5:23 pm
It’s a fake, taken from a 1970s Italian schlock horror movie I saw at a party. I forget the name, but it’s a portmanteau film with several stories of which this was not the sickest.
March 15th, 2007 at 3:51 pm
I think its real and agree that they would have saved him if they had drove there cars at them or at least beeped their horns. I would rather get squashed by a car than have several lions eat me. Also someone said why is there no park rangers around. There does not have to be a park ranger close if you have you own car in a park. I was in Kruger national park in a hired jeep last year and I never seen any rangers. Incidentally I came across some lions and one of then started trying to chew my back tyre until I has the sense to drive off.
March 16th, 2007 at 2:20 pm
It doesnt play.
March 16th, 2007 at 5:47 pm
crashkidd34: thank you for the tip.
I replace the video from youtube, instead of google, initially hosted
April 1st, 2007 at 9:58 pm
Well, in my opinnion, the guy/girl saying this is not a “human” way to educate, well…lets define “human” ina bit diff way: Creature hat is on top of the chain, domains the world, also destroys the world itself, the wild life in it, the forests, so we humans destroy the world, you just like to think about people, , the world is more than just that, if the mother of the cow youre eating could think and talk what you think she will say to you?, think about it silly, we get what we give, so is ok by me, i wouldnt have a problem if my family gets owned by some savage animal, cus 1- we dont live near them, so it would be our fault invading their spaces, 2-we kill them, even for fun, we even pay to kill them,a son cant say faking lion ate my father (as an insult), cus the worst part is that we know what we do, and we still do it, they dont think, they are pure instincts, go look some animal cruelty videos, and about the educationla purpose, again, we get educated…but we practice what we learn? sorry but i think its better doing it the hard way, if animals could debate, people would lose
April 1st, 2007 at 10:04 pm
oh and i forgot, uhm, the horrofyed family in this footage….didnt get paid for it, for selling the film i mean? lol i think they did, if this whole thing is real of course
April 3rd, 2007 at 4:00 pm
Obviously fake! Staged with pet lions!
April 8th, 2007 at 12:30 am
Um no it’s not staged this is the Pit Durnet footage from Traces Of Death. Traces is known from only having actual death footage (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traces_of_Death). Everyone and their father knows that…. well I guess he would know if he wasn’t devoured by lions first.
April 20th, 2007 at 9:07 am
I’m a pro cameraman with many years behind a movie/video lens.
As to whether this is real or fake, a few things bother me:
1. Whoever was shooting the attack, also took cutaway shots of
the kids and the wife (?) looking on in horror. This strikes me as
bizzare in the extreme. What kind of cameraman would pan away from the horror of the attack to get cutaway footage? Maybe a cameraman who was shooting a fake and trying to make it look real.
2. In some shots, the victim looks like a dummy - especially when the head rises up after a lion pulls up the body.
3. The footage itself. Isn’t it odd that a cameraman could calmly shoot his friend being eaten by lions? Everybody must have been in shock, and I doubt in any state to operate a movie camera.
I would go with a mixture of real footage of a lion mauling and fake footage added. I could be totally wrong of course.
BTW - the camera that the man was using and the one the lion grabs and carries off, is an old wind up 16mm camera called a Bolex.
April 25th, 2007 at 2:46 am
This is so sad. I feel compassion for the family and yet realize that there is no way this is a real film footage. Torn. I guess it shows how disgusting we have become as humans to enjoy so much the depravation of other people… as long as it is no one we know.
April 26th, 2007 at 12:32 am
i once ate a lion, i was on a safari, i decided to get out the rover and have a nice picnic, i was eating my bologna sandwich when a lion came up thinking i wasn’t going to do anything, so i lunged at it bit his neck, and ate it.
wasn’t that bad either, i packed some for the road and then i left.
April 26th, 2007 at 12:33 am
yes that is a true story
April 28th, 2007 at 6:10 pm
if its real or fake. i have to say
i didnt like it. im not exactly upset or laughing im more in shock. i dont think its”"educational”" . everyone knows not to walk straight up to lions or infact get out of the vehicle when around them I thought evryone was educaded enough to know they are dangerous without seeing his. but then again maybe it will help people to realise as it certainly has a strong impact. sooo im not very sure what i think of it.
April 29th, 2007 at 6:50 am
just watch and shut up there are more horribles things going on on the world
May 1st, 2007 at 3:26 am
Quote from nicci: everyone knows not to walk straight up to lions
Evidently, you’re wrong. At least one person didn’t know not to do such a bone stupid thing as that. That’s one less stupid person in the world.
I feel bad for the poor bastard’s family, but not for him. Yes, if I were so stupid as to do that, I wouldn’t want anyone feeling bad for me. If one rolls the dice against nature, they’d better be prepared to face the consequences.
Kudos to Hitokirib for making some other good points about man versus nature!
May 1st, 2007 at 5:59 am
How can a lion eating a man be educational i felt sorry four his family thay had to sit there and watch that it shocks me everytime i see it.
May 9th, 2007 at 8:16 pm
this is old one, real video, old old old, i see many years ago the complete, noyt sure but the car was a a renault 4 (where the childrens are) , the way humans act and the screm, are real. try go get the original one
May 10th, 2007 at 12:27 am
now that i know how to work this thing you guys are all stupid this aint a fake and no there aint a more human way to to teach that lions are dangerous than to wacth a guy getting eatin by one
May 18th, 2007 at 6:11 pm
It’s from a Mondo film. It is so fake it’s not funny. He doesn’t struggle, his intestines are pulled out as soon as he’s down. It was a dummy. They probably covered it with stuff the lions like so they would lick and play with it. Name of the stupid Mondo is Ultime Grida Dalla Savana.
May 26th, 2007 at 2:59 pm
Its not real. It is a clip from a film called Savage Man Savage Beast, it starred an actor called Pit Durnet and was directed by Antonio Climati and was produced in 1974. A Japanese film company first pasted it off as real then the americans picked it up. There are a 101 dicussions about this topic on the net.
The claims of Faces of Death, Traces Of Death and similar cheap and nasty video series are not always to be believed. As with most American stuff, they are full of shit
October 31st, 2007 at 12:44 pm
JacobTheAmish: I believe you are wrong. Savage Man Savage Beast came out in 1975 not 1974. This footage of Pit Durnet being eaten alive was include as real. The film you refer to from 1974 was a film in which Durnet starred (in real life he was an actor). Look up his imdb profile where it clearly states that the actor “Pit Durnet” died 1975 in Nimibia, eaten by lions.
The footage IS REAL. Pit Durnet after 1975, well there is nothing after that. Jacob Im sorry but you are an idiot for believing the urban legend of the Japanese passing it as real.
Its sad that a man died in front of his family but even more sad that morons like you, Jacob, think its fake.
October 31st, 2007 at 1:03 pm
Just to be sure I did some more searching, and its sad, but this footage is REAL.
The 1974 film directed by Antonio Climati was a documentary film in which this footage was first shown to the world under an Italian title. The english international title “Savage Man Savage Beast” came out in 1975. But it was till 1993 that the footage of Pit Durnet being eaten alive was made famous when it was included in Traces of Death.
Pit Durnet seems to have been a small time actor and part of Climati’s film crew. He made the mistake of getting out of a car and then…
In Durnet’s IMDB profile it clearly states that this man died in Febuary 1975 in Wallasee, Nimibia.
October 31st, 2007 at 2:52 pm
The Faces of Death scene is a re-enactment of Climati’s original. This is were the problem rest: The oringinal is sometime confused with the faked.
To be fare, according to the wikipedia article for “Ultime Griddalla Savan”, which is the original Italian title, the lion attack is suspected of being faked but not proven. It also confuses the matter by refering to Pit Durnet as “Pit Dernitz” - which I believe is his true name.
November 4th, 2007 at 7:26 am
This is actually REAL. To all who may be suprised. Watch the end of Traces of Death for the backround story. This video was used in a law suit against the safri park who made the cars without anti-lock mechanisms. This video is part of the reason for why safri cars are now locked and tracked. I worked on the case.
November 18th, 2007 at 9:04 pm
I’ve been a biologist for the Smithsonian in Washington DC for the last 20 years. My wife showed me this video and I cant get over all the argument about this. To make it simple: A lion attack would have been much more vicious than what you see here. The lions are clearly playing, i’ve dont it myself. An attacking lion would have charged the man much harder and there would have been much less of a fight.
But you dont see much of the fight anyways because the camera work is all shot for effect like they do in hollywood fight scenes. Anyone should be able to look at this video and at least see that much.
STAY IN SCHOOL!
Dr.B
December 3rd, 2007 at 10:44 pm
ha ha!! that guy is just a fucking idiot! hes either gay or retarded! nobody should feel sorry for the guy kuz it was his stupid fault!
December 8th, 2007 at 4:53 am
what make me think that this video is fake : where is the testimony of the victim’s children and the other witnesses around the scene, anyone can try to seach a testimony on internet and will find nothing like that !!
December 14th, 2007 at 11:21 am
Wow. I don’t mean to insult people but the number of folks who actually think this is real footage is a little alarming. I can see how some of you would be fooled because it does look somewhat real in spots, but the entire thing was staged.
It’s a good fake but a fake nonetheless. It was a complete and utter hoax done back in the 70s. Any so-called “real” information you dig up on the ‘net is all part of the hoax.
December 22nd, 2007 at 1:17 pm
It’s on youtube, the other part to this. Just type in lion attack on youtube and it should be there somewhere.
January 30th, 2008 at 1:55 am
As staged as this video is, its effect eclipses any response that a genuine death scene would illicit. Anyone capable of a little research will find the truth about “Pit Durnet” and how this clip was lifted from “Savage Man, Savage Beast”.
To anyone viewing a film like “Traces of Death”, this clip will be as real as their mind will allow them to believe it is. The viewer obviously wants to witness macabre, ghastly scenes so they will validate it for their own purpose. People still believe “The Texas Chainsaw Massacre” and “The Blair Witch Project” are true as well. Go figure.
The posts about this clip that attest to its authenticity also contain misspellings, profanity and elementary school grammar. Its sad but amusing to see how the public at large will demonstrate such feeble-mindedness.
February 12th, 2008 at 9:32 pm
O Bless us with thy wisdom, almighty SevenOneSeven. It pleases us feeble-minded folk to see that thou art “amused” by our misgivings. Now go fucketh thyself!
March 1st, 2008 at 1:44 pm
i saw this in faces of death and it looks pretty fucking fake to me!
March 12th, 2008 at 10:05 pm
This is real and everybody knows it. Not all of us can be like the cro.Hunter. The education on this is what you saw.”Don’t take your stupid ass out your car. Now just wait for the next stupid ass to do the same thing.”Trust a wild animal.
March 27th, 2008 at 8:19 am
This video is real. i have seen the other video’s on you tube that show more, like his body parts laying all over the ground. Also the lions ripping off the meat of his bones. its very sad. look it up yourself.
April 11th, 2008 at 5:11 am
As far as I can tell that part of the world (southern Angola) was a warzone when it was supposedly shot. Portugal was ending 14 years of bush war - independence was granted later in 1975. No ‘whiteys’ would have been running around loose in the bush without military escort - capable of shooting simba. Also, the number plates don’t jell. The steering wheel is on the left side of the vehicles - not on the right as used in SWA/Namibia, Botswana and other neighbouring countries.
April 14th, 2008 at 6:35 pm
You really are retards. This scene is from the movie: Ultime grida dalla savana, a movie showing scenes about hunting.
Quoted from Wikipedia: The inclusion of several staged or scripted scenes has made the film, which claims to consist of purely authentic footage, a target for critical condemnation. Numerous scenes have been proven fake, including the anti-fox hunting campaign involving the fictional “Wild Fox Association” and the murder of the indigenous men by mercenaries. During another wildlife rally, the fabrication of the scene is apparent with the presence of Italian porn star Ilona Staller. The lion attack on Pit Dernitz is also suspected of being a fabrication.[1][2]
This is so obvious a fake scene.
May 11th, 2008 at 2:39 am
This is a staged scene from ultime grida dalla savana -_-
May 16th, 2008 at 7:32 pm
If this is in fact real, the person who filmed this should be shot. If I were there I would have thrown this person to the lions my self. After emptying my .454 Casull at the lions of course. If this is a legitimate video, it should be a Darwin Award winnner, all be it disturbing. I mean…. who in their right mind gets out of the car filming these things with no weapon, etc…????? KLE
June 12th, 2008 at 1:53 am
u guys r mad….just watch nd forget abt it..y u wanna think abt it…like its fake or real…nothing is gonna happn..
July 19th, 2008 at 6:21 pm
appeared to be well fed,non-threatened lions, very comfortable around humans. Not at all displaying the hunt/attack behaviours of a pride. people in the cars were lion handlers you can see lions looking at them for cues and rewards of antelpoe meat(the noticably bloodless flesh they were chewing) also a biggie, lack of blood on man none on lions faces,clothing stays intact. the amazing bloodless tourist maybe? finaly Lions do not knock down prey and begin eating it. They kill it first by crushing the larnyx or jugular
oh and the lioness who made off with the camera film,I heard she worked for the insurance company ,to keep it from being shown in court for the families claim