Trust is not something that should just be given freely. You learn to trust someone by them proving themselves overtime until you can know that they can be relied upon by you, and then subsequently others can rely on them by your word. That said, meeting someone out on the trail, and just assuming they know where they are going, and what they are doing, can get you into trouble. In this well known case, Alferd packer had lied his way into a group of pioneers saying he was a guide, but in reality, he knew the area no more than any of them. This lead to a situation where four men would go missing, and somehow, Alferd survived the harsh conditions. But considering his story was full of holes, he would be questioned but even to this day, nobody truly knows what happened.
Thank you for watching Roanoke Tales and I hope you enjoy Real Horror: The Colorado Cannibal – Alferd Packer
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9mm?? No no we shoot monsters with .400 smithandweston
Alfred packards story sounds a bit like colonial Ives from the movie ravenous
Smh that Chief was too good for them
I'm loving the new channel and I love the informative and fun manorism of your videos
You covering a part of Colorado's history makes me happy in ways it's difficult to explain. I didn't even remember hearing about this aside from my mom since we both grew up in Colorado, but I always considered cannibalism unbelievably cowardly and/or absurd. Like if you are extremely malnourished in child birth and, for some reason not in the hospital, and you're gonna die but need you and your newborn alive, then I guess you can eat your umbilical cord and placenta if you need the nutrients, but it wouldn't even be that god and you'd puke it back up from it being revolting in texture and taste with a lot of metallic slime as inner blood.
Definitely need more videos like this from u based on real events and historical stuff
Didn't they make a movie very loosely based on this guy?
I'm of the belief that Packer did think he could get them there but when he realized he got his team lost, decided to then kill them after being cooped up for so long and seeing all their stuff. It makes the most sense to me since the bodies did have scraps for shoes indicating they'd been traveling for a while and, when they found a place with decent game, they decided to set up camp and stay there for bit. He figured they'd all die anyways so he ended them, took their stuff, and tried to scram, but since he's an idiot he had to wait a bit because he didn't know how to traverse the land thus leading to his cannibalism. Either way, dude ate the forbidden beef and then went back for seconds.
bruh packer secretly a genius or the people of the past incredibly stupid…
I wish this was a series on Spotify too so I had something to listen to while I walk to work
I had no idea family dollar was around in 1883 😂😂
I like that his town in the 1840s has modern buildings and is captured in coloured photography. Also unless he had money I doubt his depression was getting treated in America. Given his epilepsy he wouldn't hold a job to afford the medication for both
Looks like they took away the notification options for this channel…
I can binge every video you've made, over the period of a solid year at least.
And never once does YouTube show this channel as a "related videos"
The algorithm truly be broken
SCHPADOINKLE!
They did not have a Shpadoinkle day.
This video is great but it does conflict with a lot of the information I saw in a documentary from the 1990s about this subject . Alferd Packer was a gentle man who loved singing, building snowmen, eating fudge and spending time with his horse Liane. He truly was a shpadoinkle individual.
Enjoyed listening to this
Growing up in littleton colorado, we would go to the local cemetery where Alfred Packer was buried and the grave cemented in. The reason for the cement was to keep people from digging it up and desecrating the body.
Ravenous
Never really payed much mind to your creepypastas but this is way more interesting. Real horror has always disturbed me more than anything that can be made up. Definitely looking forward to the donner party
Now stories from the big brother Roanoke. Told in his typical bro style. I'm in!
It’s probably easier to eat a person than people would like to think if you hungry and got nothing you gonna do what you gotta do especially if the dude is already dead
A good book semi-related to this is Jared Diamond's Collapse. The book goes through some major societal collapses throughout history. One thing that keeps coming up with all of these case studies is how quickly evidence of cannibalism appears. Seems like it's in some way ingrained as an extreme stress response for humans (like a lot of animals I guess)
I like this. I mean I like the way you tell stories, I hope you are doing well
I guess his last name was about the human meat he was packing around
Great work on the video. I like how you still give your opinion on things, jokes about things while still giving information well and specifying things (specially translating how much the money was worth). Always enjoy your job dude, keep up being great and cheers from Brazil :>
I like to imagine that the first thing he said whenever someone asked what happened to the rest of the party was "First of, i didn't eat then" and people were like "Hm….yeah, i sure fucking hope not"
Woah this happened to come out the day I rewatched Cannibal the Musical
I almost feel bad for this guy he sounds like a bumbling dolt. His seizures back then must’ve been terrible also I don’t consider you to be a guide if you yourself get lost.
I’m not sure if you use that as a source for this video but the patron saint of true crime Herald sector has a book about this case called Man eater also there’s the classic if inaccurate movie cannibal the musical
I like this alot keep em coming:D
"Fudge, Packer?"… god I love Cannibal: The Musical ….
Such a crazy story. Well done.
Sheesh we were born in the wrong time concerning money
So intense. Great content thou.
Fun facts:
Nutritional value of humans are pretty low – and human flesh resembles veil in taste!
Great video! Good format, and I like the real history scary stories a lot
If I’m lost in the wilderness with someone and I die NATURALLY, they have my full permission to eat me
Everyone should check out Cannibal! The Musical. Written and directed by Trey Parker and Matt Stone. It's pretty funny
I love this longer form video, the longer the better
I absolutely loved this!! More of this please. It’s nice to break from makeup and murder formats. (Mean it with absolutely no hate btw)
There's a movie loosely based on him called Cannibal! The Musical
Man it's so cool to see you doing other types of content. I'm a sucker for true crime and historical events or people so I bet loads of people just like me look forwards to your content dude! Thanks for keeping up putting out content.