Abandoned On Uninhabited Island In 1704 ( 8 Years Alone )

[@nanoboi101]

Interesting side note: The ship he abandoned sank after all, proving his point that the ship was not sea worthy 😂 Respect to this man

[@richardcutt727]

He was the man who inspired Daniel Defoe to write Robinson Crusoe. Alexander Selkirk came from the little fishing village of Lower Largo in Fife Scotland.

[@kittybitts567]

That's interesting! I read Robinson Crusoe a couple of years ago and kept thinking how much Alexander Selkirk's story sounds like the book.

[@oceanmariner]

Quiet, no nagging, whining. The best 8 years of his life.

[@tonyjones7373]

Alas , all too true !!!

[@mariaefelices6543]

Heaven

[@AlaskanInsights]

a goat never talks back.

[@fish9905]

You can become a hermet, but all that peace wasn't easy he had to fend for himself can you?

[@oceanmariner]

@@fish9905 I have a housekeeper/cook. Much cheaper than a wife/girlfriend.

[@davidchosewood647]

The cats probably missed him after he left.

[@asdf9890]

Probably, but cats fortunately, don’t rely on us as much as dogs do. Still sad.

[@ENIGMAXII2112]

Was thinking the very same thing..

[@richardcutt727]

It shows that we do not need people but do need nature.

[@bowdezaufa2609]

This story actually proves the opposite. Solitary confinement is the ultimate torture for a human. We crave companionship. Nature only nourished him to stay alive. But he wasn't living....he was surviving. His drive to be reunited with human kind was what kept him motivated to stay alive.

[@fish9905]

We don't need people? Hermets are usually a choice not a need

[@stephenholmes1036]

​@@fish9905personal choice

[@ENIGMAXII2112]

@@bowdezaufa2609 But, before he slept at night, did he look back at his days when he was in that place of great solitude..? Or pehaps we can "surviving"... Did he think about his life past as he was now surrounded by many people. A number where he knew did not care for him..

[@stevenembree7669]

I envy the man. Ain't nothing out here except heartache.

[@dherman0001]

People who think like you almost always bring misery into their lives by making dumb choices. You may be the rare exception, but if you were, youd have already realized that and not made your low IQ statement. Sucks to be dumb.

[@ClovisPoint]

especially from women and religious fanatics ,both the bane of my life

[@dherman0001]

@ClovisPoint I agree, the climate and gender cultists are nuts.

[@ENIGMAXII2112]

@@dherman0001 Every thing has gone nuts now.. Wish we all could go back to the days before that coronavirus thing. Forget not to mention the days before "woke"..

[@waragainstmyself1159]

Disappointment, resentment, and heartache.

[@MomentsInTrading]

I enjoyed this. I’ve watched a few channels cover this story. Each has their own take, and all have been good.

[@glennredavid5741]

His name is Alexander Selkirk & the island's name was Más Afuera before being changed to Robinson Crusoe Island.

[@krt88nc]

in 1704, the sailor Alexander Selkirk was also marooned there, living in solitude for four years and four months.

[@steveinthemountains8264]

Don't underestimate the emotional support provided by cats!

[@kurtvanluven9351]

My favorite part.

[@stayfree6115]

And fresh meat 🥓

[@EricGiebel-hs7uv]

When it's time for me to go, I'll fade into obscurity and die alone. My cats will be fed generously and the buzzards shall be the beacon of my whereabouts

[@brianharleg4175]

Edward Abbey would have approved this message!

[@kocyszemaitis2310]

You must be Zoroastrian.

[@tr7b410]

See NDE-Near Death Experience of Jose Hernandez Atheist dies and is shocked by who he sees in heaven 3 million views.Spoiler alert,he didn't see Jesus or GOD.

[@BuzzSargent]

Excellent story. The trials that try men's souls!

[@ShirleyPearl-n9z]

Thank u for sharing a very interesting part of history .the resilience of this men was amazing 👍

[@SilentTalesStories]

Glad you enjoyed it

[@jimmorrison5493]

A statue of Alexander Selkirk stands proud just north of Edinburgh

[@coachtcrawely]

This was great ! Man vs Nature at its best !!!

[@ENIGMAXII2112]

Or man working WITH nature..

[@dietrichess9997]

I really enjoyed this, thank you! I am now going to re-read Robinson Crusoe. Alexander Selkirk was a large part of the inspiration for Defoe's book. I recommend the book to anyone who enjoyed the story of Alexander Selkirk. Also, if I'm having trouble committing to a project, like cleaning up my back garden or yard, or getting rid of junk, it is inspiring to read or hear about people (real or fictional) like Selkirk or Crusoe, who had to seriously tuck in and get things done! 🙂

[@SilentTalesStories]

Thank you ☺️

[@mickey1849]

@@SilentTalesStoriesSelkirk was on the island for four years four months, knucklehead. Not "8" as you claim. Why don't you put a little more effort into your work? Before Selkirk, there was a South American Indian who had been on the island for 7+ years. Like Selkirk, he also possessed a special talent that enabled him to survive. He was an excellent thatcher; and so was able to make all sorts of things for his survival, like a roof, walls, bed, baskets, traps, etc. Selkirk was able to do something quite similar because he knew how to tan hides (his father was a tanner of hides). The wild goats on the island provided all the hides he needed. The Indian's ordeal seems worse, because he was there nearly double Selkirk's time. Like Selkirk, he was also marooned on the island. Very little is known about him or his experience. But both of them possessed what we would recognize as a critical survival skill. Selkirk was an expert at tanning hides and the Indian was an expert thatcher of plant material. The presence of many goats on the island provided everything else they needed.

[@freeagent8225]

How many live on their own deserted islands here in the cities ?

[@spidermoose]

But it feels even more lonely between people in a city as on a deserted island and on the island you have at least your freedom.

[@freeagent8225]

So true.

[@briseboy]

1. Selkirk was on the island 4 years, not 8. 2. Dampier was not in command of ship which rescued him, but only mate. Pirates knew those islands, and they did have mountain elevations that receive snow. And commenters really have to be moronic urbanites to claim no survival now. Spiny lobsters, shellfish, fur seals, goats, rats, feral cats ( which tend to be much smaller than well-fed domestic cats) are all edible, as were the large numbers of seabirds, eggs, chicks on those islands.

[@gailbjgoraard7556]

So where did the feral cats and goats come from?

[@blackdogleg]

Seafarers will stock islands in order to have depots where they an resupply. ​@@gailbjgoraard7556

[@mikedon5205]

I was wondering about the snow

[@chloeew4627]

@@gailbjgoraard7556probably ran away from da pirates 😂

[@m.w.wilson234]

@@gailbjgoraard7556 probably whalers stopping for fresh water replenishment and fresh meat (looking for a seal, maybe a hog or some such), goats were kept penned up on board on some vessels as a source of milk, cats were kept aboard and hunted mice and rats, probably the one or other may have been let go, jumped overboard or could have been left there by previous colonizers who had decided to return to wherever they came from or go somewhere else.

[@SimulatedScribes]

Thank you for uploading this incredible story.

[@SilentTalesStories]

your welcome :)

[@Citykarwar]

Watching this video just cant imagine the days of pain he went through and a confident thought flow taking him back to the civilization. Greatest video ever i have gone through. The resilience making him just superb. Thanks for bring up such an historical importance video.

[@peterderidder9922]

Nice story ! The message of this movie is never to give up hope ! you you must struggle for life because there always could becomme better times in youre life ! 😉

[@bernardzamostny3382]

The images of cold and snow Selkirk had to endure on Juan Fernández Island also known as Isla Más a Tierra is a bit misleading as the island is located at 33°38′00″S 78°51′00″W with an annual mean of 15.7 °C (60 °F) Higher elevations are generally cooler, with occasional frosts but no accumulation of snow.

[@udontknowhoiambutiknowhereuliv]

Thank you for that. I’ve been wanting to look it up on gogle earth but didn’t know how to spell the name.

[@kurtvanluven9351]

@@udontknowhoiambutiknowhereuliv I believe the island belongs to Chile (corrected HT/ AdBass59)

[@AdBass59]

@@kurtvanluven9351 It belongs to Chile....I've actually been there.

[@kurtvanluven9351]

@@AdBass59 I'll fix.

[@kurtvanluven9351]

@@AdBass59 That is so cool. Bet there are still cats there.

[@ilovetrump3209]

I enjoyed this story, Thank you for it! This story is an example of the indomitable spirit and willingness to survive and thrive when faced with no other choice. Again it was very enjoyable and again I thank you for sharing it!

[@SilentTalesStories]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@denisestinnett4414]

Obviously no one commenting on the lack of snow in Pacific islands hasn’t been to Hawaii aka the Big Island. It snows on top of Mauna Kea occasionally. Everybody gets all excited and goes up there for fun. 🌈❄️

[@petervanwyngaard4788]

Thought snow odd too

[@denisestinnett4414]

@@petervanwyngaard4788 on another note..you have a very Dansk sounding name! My maiden name was Clausen.

[@cristianpopescu78]

As a child I have readed Robinson Crusoe 20 times or more... Great Video!

[@SilentTalesStories]

Thank you 😁

[@KevinBowden-f3f]

Daniel Defoe, hero of mine, His life is just extraordinary, how he could have harvested so many life times of knowledge is remarkable, His Moll Flanders - he was the soul of the woman at those times. Crusoe, likewise, how could he gathered so much knowledge ( no internet, and books were for the rich) Robinson Crusoe, with scrap heap challenge mindset,S.A.S survival techniques, I have had a fascinating morbid pursuit of the story and the real history. I hope the situation never is put on me. Isolation is not a horror - I had the honour of getting through tough with a black Labrador, who was funny and sarcastic beyond belief. I will leave it here.

[@cristianpopescu78]

@@KevinBowden-f3f Indeed! Absolutely!

[@lawrencejump7391]

Don't forget swiss family Robinson.

[@Mikdeelow]

Remember, RC was the only man that had all his work done by Friday.

[@Phil-ry6qk]

Daniel Defoe met with Alexander Selkirk in the Llandoger Trow, a pub in King Street, Wesh Back, Bristol . Selkirk told him the story of his marooning and it gave Defoe the ideas for 'Robinson Crusoe''. The pub is still there in spite of it being smaller than it used to be, courtesy of the Luftwaffer in WW2. The flat-bottomed sailng barge which plied the Severn Bristol, Gloucester and the Wye Valley was called a Trow. The Wye is tidal for about ten mlies inland to the village of Llandogo. The trows would sail down the Wye with cargo (timber) across the Severn Estuary and up the River Avon to the Wesh Back dock in Bristol and rest-up in the pub,hence the 'Llandoger Trow' name.

[@mickey1849]

Cool history!

[@AGalahcalledSammi]

If only he had seen a few episodes of Gilligan's Island.

[@wisconsinfarmer4742]

probably could have used a trunk full of Lovie's foofy wraps for a pillow.

[@SteveBrownRocks2023]

MARY ANN! 😍. YEAH!

[@peteshour768]

Excellent narration.

[@SilentTalesStories]

Thank you kindly!

[@billwoods7157]

All said and done the island seemed an infinitely better bet.

[@patrickgleason2066]

Dry land would be my preference also.

[@Clyne-sv4hd]

A great Scottish man fae lower largo in Fife.....died aged 45years old in Ghana....🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🙏

[@c602]

Must have worn out the Thesaurus on this one!😂

[@davidwhite4874]

This chap was the inspiration for Defoe's Robinson Crusoe.

[@chrisdorhn915]

It’s almost certain Dafoe read the published pamphlet about his experience.

[@BunnyShelia]

In 2024 with all the social, political and gender nonsense, that deserted island looks pretty good.

[@paulcowderoy6403]

Wow, that was great, thanks!

[@TroyFutureExpat]

This video was on my page. You did a great job. Interesting story as well. New subscriber. Glad he made it back to civilazation and continued to thrive.

[@SilentTalesStories]

Thanks and welcome 😁

[@Semprini537]

Hard times, hard men, hard destiny. I went lost near my village, collecting mushrooms, when the dusk arrived i started to panic, easyly. And i was on domestic terrain, no snakes,no wolves, but at night, we modern humans, we are lost. All cows are black at the nighttime

[@MomentsInTrading]

I just subbed. I notice this video has 10x your other videos. If you want a good story to cover- Research the one where the ship gets stuck on a reef or rock, they only have 3 long boats, so they make a huge makeshift raft for a bunch of people. The raft ends up floating away and the people on it- Fight, go crazy, starve, eat each other, and some get rescued. It’s an amazing story. It’ll be a big video like this one.

[@mattjeffreys101]

What do you use for the image creation? They are incredible!! Great video

[@SilentTalesStories]

Thank you Matt 😁 I use midjouney

[@asdf9890]

Wow, when he tamed the cats, I thought that may be the point I just stay there…if it were dogs, no question!

[@mickey1849]

What about rabies?

[@tahall5646]

This was very good, but I would have appreciated a map indicating the location of the island.

[@wisconsinfarmer4742]

33 south latitude off the coast of Chile

[@byron8657]

In order to be strong learn to walk alone! Miyamoto Musashi

[@ammaryohanan9584]

I always thought about such a probability...living like Robinson crossou.

[@missfriscowin3606]

Great nighttime story. Thanks. Subscribed 👍

[@SilentTalesStories]

Thank you ☺️

[@matthewoffenbacher6548]

Great story ❤

[@TalmageL-pn2pv]

Food water and shelter , I would have settled in and enjoyed it.

[@SilentTalesStories]

Perfect 😁

[@arthurthomasware5004]

I enjoyed the story yet found the title misleading. He didn't spend eight years alone. In this story it was four.

[@curtsiekert]

Not in cat years...

[@mickey1849]

Yes. Four years four months. There was a South American Indian marooned there for nearly eight years before Selkirk ever set eyes on the island. Very little is known about him or his experience. But he was an expert at thatching, which greatly aided his survival, as he was able to thatch a hut with walls and a roof and a door, among other things.

[@LiftOffLife]

Alone does not mean lonely.

[@edwardlutz935]

Where do i sign up!

[@maxmcgraw3571]

All I can say is: WOW

[@sunnybeaches1331]

Thank you for reminding me of this story! Quite unexpected but very welcome! For those who love the sea and deserted islands, try the Chagos Archipelago in the (BIOT) British Indian Ocean Territory. I spent 6 years there, off and on, from 1991 until 2007. The Islands there, except for Diego Garcia, are UNIHABITED and to me, QUITE BEAUTIFUL!😂 I am now "old" but my memories of those islands in the Indian Ocean are as clear to me as a moving picture. Islands like these at 7 degrees South Latitude are unlike anything you will ever experience. The fish and wildlife are in charge and YOU are just a PUNY HUMAN! I LOVED IT! I KNEW GOD EXISTED, I had to believe because the place OVERWHELMS you. You have no choice. God and you get real close. Is quite personal. I THANK Him for ALLOWING me the PRIVILEGE of seeing the world without Mans hand messing it up!

[@kurtvanluven9351]

We are part of nature. There is a learning curve.

[@mickey1849]

Man's hand subject to the Devil, of course.

[@seanstewart6893]

😊you must have been very happy their, it's a dreame of mine to go to a deserted island for 6 months ill try these ones,

[@seanstewart6893]

❤😊

[@gregforrester4851]

The fact is he abandoned the ship on his own volition he regreted it no doubt soon after.

[@udontknowhoiambutiknowhereuliv]

Most likely he did, but the question is was he right? Did it end up sinking? Cause if it did he would have regretted staying on the ship a whole lot more than being marooned on the island.

[@marvlb]

I could never leave my cats

[@kurtvanluven9351]

:(

[@billwalsh388]

10:36 Why is there a portrait in the middle of the forest?

[@HogMan2022]

What a great video! New subscriber, here. 🙋

[@SilentTalesStories]

thank you so much :)

[@bowdezaufa2609]

I know this story...his name wasnt Alexander it was Tom Hanks actually...and he befriended a volleyball named wilson. Wild story.

[@TheOldseaview]

You just need fresh water, fish and coconuts!

[@tattie278]

And Netflix 😳.

[@drummerboy1390]

After eight years of fish and coconut, I’d be desperate for a a Donner Kebab and a Diet Coke.

[@COFFEE-e3p]

WHAT KIND OF COCONUTS ARE YOU REFERRING TO MATE ??

[@johnmurryvlogs8603]

Excellent 👍

[@ABosch-lg2pr]

I think you mean palmetto trees, not pimento. We still make things out of palmetto but we eat pimento loaf.

[@wisconsinfarmer4742]

The only botanical match I could find was the alspice tree which has the climatic range of citrus. and I knew that was not the tree he used.

[@markthomas4083]

I have to wonder if I am related to Captain Thomas? Lots of military in my family tree.

[@poutinedream5066]

Stranger things have happened 🤷🏽‍♀️.

[@biulaimh3097]

An introvert would have no problem mentally. In fact, he/she would be in their element. An exrovert, being needy and annoying, would go mad.

[@grantfranke1]

I think no one is entirely either an extrovert nor introvert. We all need people just in different measures. I lived many years in the isolated Mozambique bush. One quickly realizes just how important others are.

[@petervanwyngaard4788]

Such flowery prose !

[@johnchaparro5393]

The island of San Fernsndes. Off the coast of Chile?

[@ianking-jv4hg]

Eight years alone? Go back to hollywood you fiction ! Alexander Selkirk was marooned on "Màs a Tierra Island in Sept. 1704 and "rescued" in Feb. 1709. Four (4) years and four (4) months. The island now is known as "Robinson Crusoe's Island" after Daniel Defoe's novel of that name. i'd like to read "A Narrative of the Adventures of A. Selkirk and Others". William Dampier was another adventurous man who discovered and documented, Came to Australia's nth/west coast (Jan. 1688 and Aug.1699) 82 yrs before J.Cook came to the east coast in 1770. There are some good reads if that's your thing.

[@bigsteve777able]

story is good but doubt island with palm trees as shown at the start would have snow and frost.

[@Eid_Ali]

I wouldn't wanna go back. I would have stayed with the cats talking to Wilson.

[@sheilafoster6213]

You have cats what more do you want.

[@mickuljatheseagull]

Pronounced "Le" tenant not "Loo" tenant. British Army "Left" tenant, Royal Navy "Le" tenant. And American military "Loo" tenant.

[@RedcoatsReturn]

A wonderful story! 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏 Gripping in suspense and in great details too 😊👍👍 I subbed of course…and thanks for telling this great story to me 😉

[@SilentTalesStories]

Thank you so much ☺️

[@carinya18]

Those interested in this story will be interested in the story of Tom Neale in the book “An island to oneself” True story of his time on Suwarrow island

[@1129DSJ]

These days they would leave you in New York !!!!

[@mariaefelices6543]

Bible ,,cats , food water HEAVEN TO ME I like alone with jesus .

[@kurtvanluven9351]

The basis of Robinson Caruso.

[@ArcanusLibero]

I think you need a maritime historian. William Dampier recovered Selkirk. Selkirk had been abandoned by the crew because of Selkirk violence. Selkirk was the second man William Dampier had gone back for. Dampier is has over 200,000 words in the dictionary that he gets credit for (Words that say Damp next to them are from William Dampier). Dampier circumnavigated the globe at least 6 times. Selkirk was the model for the book Robinson Crusoe.

[@EricGiebel-hs7uv]

I bet he didn't have to knock out an accessed tooth with an ice skate. But who put the cats on the island.? Best friend island!!! For me anyway

[@MrDominickpal]

A great accomplishment as it really was. It doesn't need the exaggerations about the weather! Not cold!

[@frankmiller95]

Absolute stupidity. No single person can be "at the helm" of two vessels simultaneously. One person might be in command, but definitely not "at the helm." Fuck me dead.

[@homebrewznz3482]

Must have been horrible.. no nagging.. no bills..no whining

[@marktweet7395]

Didn’t know it snowed here

[@jamiepreston1490]

Drop me off. I would have no problem being dropped off on a island by myself. None what so ever.

[@ks-eq3yx]

Really? Without the internet?

[@Seadog..C5]

Soon we will all talk like robots. ... mispronunciations and everything

[@wisconsinfarmer4742]

Robinson Crusoe Island 33 south latitude rough climate equivalent of the Carolinas 33 north Lat is approx state lines between the two. Winters easily survivable. he lucked out, goats cats sea lions.

[@vidviewer100]

the pictures of heavy snow on the beach of a pacific island ....the story has lost all credibility

[@wisconsinfarmer4742]

no. Only the picture loses credibility.

[@pbryan1967]

Captain William … Captain Thomas … ? We’re they characters in a kiddie show?

[@TomBTerrific]

Today I think few would survive this kind of situation.

[@danieldevault716]

No internet, no tv. No toilet paper?

[@SilentTalesStories]

totally agree Tom :)

[@Markham12thcentury]

@@danieldevault716 No rubber dog poop from China either. What ever on Earth will classist Americans who like to complain about people who "Only work" do when they can't buy cheap plastic crap from China at their Walmart? All those jobs lost to Americans has to pay off somehow. Open a Walmart on this island.

[@wisconsinfarmer4742]

In the USA alone there are at least two million who could do it. half a percent probably could do it. In the usa that would be almost two million.

[@mr.hanger]

Fun fact: All the cats were named "Wilson".

[@wisconsinfarmer4742]

you win

[@Sapioso]

Solitude? Working towards it. A house needs to be built beforehand. Without it I’d probably fall asleep and be incapacitated by something poisonous before the first sunrise.

[@wisconsinfarmer4742]

usually one's own thoughts are most poisonous thing they will encounter on those islands.

[@Sapioso]

That’s only true if you don’t think past that thought.

[@webleypug]

This is a hagiography of Alexander Selkirk. Though a great tale of survival, in reality Selkirk was a terrible human. He beat up family members (including mom & dad), was a drunken brawler, & committed bigamy. Author Daniel Defoe fictionalized much of Selkirk's experiences.

[@sunnybeaches1331]

I LOVE telling this story to young people and THEN I tell them it is all TRUE! It's hard to believe! I was a captain on an oilfield supply boat and had to put a VERY unruly crewman off (at HIS REQUEST) on an UNMANNED oil platform. He was there for several days before being flown by helicopter back to shore in Louisiana! Needless to say, he was FIRED and never returned to MY vessel!😂

[@panatypical]

If I had the survival skills, living on an island with a bunch of cats would be ideal for me,

[@andrewemery4272]

He was Scottish. They get on your nerves after a while.

[@hodaka1000]

Nobody teaches a cat to dance

[@douglascfrench466]

He spent four years alone

[@MrCEO-1]

Is this a movie?

[@kenmay1572]

Good grief the Island has an airstrip

[@mplate1792]

Not all pictures fit the timeframe.

[@taliesin8192]

WRONG ! The "british" Anything was not invented until 1st. May 1707AD by the so-called Act of Union (of English parliament to the Scottish).

[@andretim75]

it is hard to bear watching this random selection of pictures run by. Most of those have nothing to do with the time of 1704 ! Please -- spare us with so much "wrong" and "false" visual information !!!!

[@lawrencejump7391]

Hey chill out, it was a good story.

[@derekwalker6727]

Someone's who has made a history video. Needs to do research, one minute england is at war with the Spanish , but the British Navy is the one doing the fighting. Alexander Selkirk is a Scotsman from Fife

[@nickinurse118]

So much more sensible to turn to God, rather than to talk to a soccer ball.

[@sheilafoster6213]

I would rather talk to a soccer

[@Malama_Ki]

1.25x if you don’t want to catch the Valium droop

[@robertoates4091]

Palm trees and seals? Palm trees and ice and snow?