Forrest Galante on the Myth of Giant Anaconda's in the Amazon

Taken from JRE #1927 w/Forrest Galante:
open.spotify.com/episode/5j9z...

[@cpw2k217]

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.

[@darksu6947]

That's solid advice. Based granny.

[@mertmunson1417]

Bahahahahahahahaha!!!!!!!!

[@RogueReplicant]

The Walmart specimens of today are waaaay heavier and more aggressive, although dumber, than those of 25 years ago.

[@ZionMarleyPR]

Bah dum tsch 🥁

[@Memnarch]

@@RogueReplicant That makes it even scarier…

[@jamesperrie1393]

Yes, Forrest is back again, one of the best guests on Rogan.

[@natureisallpowerful]

In with you on that mate 👍

[@DirtyRezzDog]

Exactly what I was thinking. Gonna be a good episode

[@BlueCollar1212]

Dude he isn’t on here nearly enough

[@maxfarris7492]

I'm waiting on Brian Muraresku

[@BogeyBoys28]

@@maxfarris7492 100% agree. These two talking is so interesting

[@christophzeit6282]

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.

[@junaidjaved5109]

you got me for 90% of ur comment 🤣

[@pink-link.]

Many errors in story: See KZbin 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.

[@Evastories608]

​​@@pink-link.You sure it's not just a story?

[@josem9093]

To pay his respects 🤣🤣🤣

[@bobbob9619]

@@Evastories608 3 different people confirmed the story and honestly who would want to go in the congo to check.

[@CoolistBeans]

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.

[@MistahmiZheJAH]

Same with me….. going into America online web browser at night, *because of dial up * lol. But those were the day’s…. 97/98ish.

[@gss6531]

How old are you now 9?

[@fraskf6765]

​@@gss6531said the child with the husky picture calmly.

[@gss6531]

@@fraskf6765 It's a photo of my own dog.

[@kevingibson2519]

Forrest is easily one of my favorite guests. Plus Joe’s reactions to crazy animal stories are hilarious.

[@lore2587]

He should have him more often, the last time was like what 3 years ago

[@andresmith7545]

Have you seen Elon Musk meets Post Malone 😆 it’s hilarious!! 👽

[@hahab9379]

Joe purrs like said animal everytime

[@badboybullterriers4104]

More like rogan 15 years ago.

[@badboybullterriers4104]

@@SuperTed. U mean he shave his neck, neckbeard?

[@theonewhostandsaboveall6826]

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

[@gucciusmaximusi5099]

And DMT

[@bobafett4457]

You have just figured out that now???

[@TheSpencer033]

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

[@Amor1990]

Fantasy

[@elizaleroux9173]

And getting high..

[@maxwelltoste-ingram3066]

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.

[@youknow2849]

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

[@rauntche]

It's not unheard of.

[@juliang-c4882]

So how old is she now?

[@maxwelltoste-ingram3066]

@@juliang-c4882 she would have been 94. She passes 3 yrs ago.

[@codyferrell1896]

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....

[@mwinvictus9672]

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.

[@SilvioGrandal-gc8ep]

Holy crap! God Bless man!

[@sdawg573]

why kill it man. those vreatures should be preserved

[@TheExtremeIRON]

​@@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.

[@moniqueengleman873]

Wow that's an amazing story. Those experiences are. Priceless

[@MikeHawk-di2de]

@@sdawg573r u acoustic

[@miguelstein8431]

No politics, no social justice topics, just good content. Love this guy

[@gamesthatiplay9083]

Until you see the clip where he's talking about woolly mammoths reversing climate change.

[@kaycred3361]

Yea but as soon as he does.the left leaning ppl call him a far right misinfo spreader

[@matt59fire]

@@gamesthatiplay9083 Wooly mammoths can reverse climate change? lmao what

[@chaseburger3121]

@@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.

[@dustinscroggins6256]

You’re weird

[@ashh9666]

Forrest is genuinely one of the best guests he gets on here

[@Marshmobilise]

Yeah cuz he’s not a quack he’s an actual man of science trying to expand the boundaries of knowledge

[@peacelife]

He has his own podcast too

[@unknown5150variable]

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

[@gavincross8802]

Facts

[@lokichomp2856]

@@Marshmobilise snake wasn't even 50ft. forrest is a bullshiter

[@MonsPubis7]

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

[@diazclemenza3591]

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

[@trevisfxx]

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.

[@DesignCourse]

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]

what are you doing with an almost 20 foot snake??

[@R.R2916]

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.

[@DesignCourse]

​@@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).

[@iggi3985]

@@JoseRodriguez-ey7ju Waiting for the day that he gets on the news on the day it breaks out and eats a child.

[@benevolent2077]

@@DesignCourse 🤣😂

[@marszxc]

Love how Joe’s brain goes seamlessly from what makes you feel excited to what do you think about giant anacondas

[@ryanwoods4368]

His random zags from whatever to badass animal topics is what I enjoy most - before and now.

[@Treaxvour]

And the guest just rolled with it like nothing

[@skicatguy]

but the guest was the one that brought it up?? lol

[@skicatguy]

@@Treaxvour but he was the one that brought it up..makes sense

[@youdontmatter1831]

@@skicatguy ur so desperate to argue with strangers on the internet you tagged 2 diff ppl lol how sad

[@Zebula1918]

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.

[@pink-link.]

Many errors in story: See KZbin 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.

[@richardhincemon]

​@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.

[@macnobleza06]

Can we ask the well respected colonel?

[@jameshoffa7085]

yeah that was in the video. thanks professor.

[@alexadey3413]

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.

[@Ishment]

Forest is one of the few people I can watch intently for an entire podcast. He’s just a fascinating dude

[@JMW_JMW_JMW]

"What are your thoughts on giant anacondas?" - That's my favorite pick up line at the bar.

[@F8...]

🤣

[@shawnsdr3406]

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.

[@kirkwann9675]

I'll try it tonight!

[@deanwilliams433]

@@shawnsdr3406 doesn't matter had sex :D

[@kingsosa8671]

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

[@thephilosopher7173]

Im not an alcoholic, but man I love drinking a couple of glasses of whisky on a Monday morning.

[@derekfisher867]

Have you seen Elon Musk meets Post Malone 😆 it’s hilarious!! 👽😂

[@erdbeertage4851]

😂😂😂😂😂

[@artur583]

"I'm not an adrenaline junkie, I don't go sky diving, but I do get thrill of dodging bears n anacondas tho"...😑😆

[@TheRealAbraxas]

He just likes spending time with wildlife. Skydiving isn’t wildlife related.

[@younglin_slayer6683]

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.

[@danielteixeira3417]

​@@paulfeasal6024 Dude wtf are you talking about show me pleeaasee

[@viktoriyaserebryakov2755]

The tribe people told you 36ft?

[@nubbyg9096]

@@viktoriyaserebryakov2755 they don’t use feet as measurements

[@viktoriyaserebryakov2755]

@@nubbyg9096 Duh.

[@redbaron5308]

How did she escape though. If it had a bite that large there’s just no way she escaped. Unless she got absolutely lucky

[@ChrisBrown-ud3ng]

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.

[@skyler2762]

I love how primal it is to be fascinated by big animals. It’s always been cool and always will be

[@sandylynn7343]

Look up “Joe Rogan asks Elon Musk HARD Questions about Cobalt Mining for TESLA Batteries!” thank me later

[@lordfarquar9215]

Its natural human instinct we are always going to wonder and be amazed in the world around us

[@lordfarquar9215]

@@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

[@Sam-pr9rr]

@@lordfarquar9215 chill

[@BrassBashers]

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!!!

[@BlueCollar1212]

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]

That's what she said 😀

[@shellyseats5630]

@@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

[@pricklycats]

@@jrporter50 that's what I said when I met a girl on a dating app and found out she's trans

[@gwildordipkin6504]

I have a giant anaconda between my legs and it stinks. Get it I have a giant smelly dong?

[@leelurface]

Just watched that video on Reddit under another diving with a massive Anaconda video.

[@jefflawrence5835]

New species: Northern green anaconda 26 footer! Big boy!

[@fisherm.7310]

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.

[@8ootyL1CK3R]

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

[@saveit4last]

I'd say that "American missionary" was over exaggerating her accounts of what she actually "saw"

[@reservoirfrogs2177]

All these sightings, nothing found

[@fpsgamer2975]

​@@8ootyL1CK3R lmao 0 proof but ok bub

[@fpsgamer2975]

Literally impossible as titanboa was only 50ft and that was bc increased oxygen

[@connerdunn2106]

Forrest has his own podcast. The wild times. Its great.

[@TheEncouragementKid]

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

[@BiggestMarph]

noted. thanks dude!

[@xpreame3406]

Rogan should have him on monthly, maybe biweekly. He tells the best stories and has so much experience in the wild.

[@glock19aog21]

Nah nah nah ... he's gonna be like Mike baker every fucking day feels like 🫤

[@venomousgas3300]

Yet has no idea what the difference between Venomous and Poisonous is. This guy is a joke, and giant anacondas are not a myth. P.S. My profile name is intended to highlight the difference.

[@rachidvanheyningen]

Wild recognize wild

[@bossaudio12]

@@venomousgas3300 he knows the difference you water brain, troll better

[@natureisallpowerful]

@@glock19aog21 🤣who Mike Rogan..

[@trevmma]

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

[@pink-link.]

Many errors in story: See KZbin 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.

[@mausolos8]

Great questions. Great answers. Very interesting.

[@turkeysandwich421]

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

[@vikramr7582]

yes

[@sadssadsa5944]

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.

[@eugenecrawley4897]

Look up “Joe Rogan asks Elon Musk HARD Questions about Cobalt Mining for TESLA Batteries!” thank me later 🙏

[@wahlm3030]

Pound for pound the boa constrictor is the strongest, the Burmese is the 3rd longest anaconda is 2nd

[@mylesbartunek5920]

Yessir

[@ralphieruffgem7017]

Podcast that never gets old

[@mijo91]

Jamie has one of the best jobs ...just chilling looking up facts listening to the best convos in history

[@merkinert3773]

Joe has retained a ten year old boy's passion for things like this, and I love it!

[@fhetty]

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.

[@rudigernaseweis9811]

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.

[@RDGikTv]

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"

[@DESTRAKON]

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.

[@zaynes5094]

@@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.

[@rudigernaseweis9811]

@@zaynes5094 yeah I know but the myths and sightings are still funny to research

[@MARTINespartano1]

Forrest Galante is awesome. Great synergy with JR

[@Sioolol]

This dude: "I am not an adrenaline junkie" Also this dude: Literaly explains how exited he is for dangerous things

[@dracojay2596]

Lol he makes it seem like you HAVE to risk your life to be an adrenaline junkie

[@TheDominiqueBallou]

@@dracojay2596 but he explains risking his life w dangerous predatory animals 😂😂😂

[@TheAoalec14]

Excited*

[@firsttofi8471]

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 😭

[@Unzdostres]

Haha I thought the same thing!

[@theoutlaw486]

Classic Rogan

[@americandissident9062]

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.

[@legionmeta]

I read this as soon as he said it, and I completely get you lol

[@dco1019]

lol @ that rogan switch up.. " thats all fine and dandy buh wattabout those mythical giant bush snakes th0?"

[@TheRealBDouble]

Forrest always has the coolest stories

[@RandomOne1999]

This aged well

[@chungusu]

Forrest coming on the podcast again is such a relief. Makes work so much easier listening to this interesting stuff

[@dannyg3849]

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

[@bobcat4589]

Im so glad you had him back on the podcast, he was my favorite last time around.

[@trackinggod8087]

When I was a kid, a missionary from the Amazon brought a snake skin to our church. It stretched across the front of the church. The church had two long pews and a center aisle and an aisle on each side. I realize that skins stretch when dried. However, that would me a close to 30 foot snake in my mind.

[@cristalmala]

It's so wonderful to have Forrest back on the podcast. Work is made much easier by listening to this fascinating material.

[@Swope00]

Oh nahh the xqc comments

[@JimmyJones666]

That emoji really ruined your statement...

[@feeljoshu]

How u get that emoji??? Need that

[@Anubis8315]

Goofy ahh emote

[@chinopopapill5848]

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[@marksamuelsen2750]

I’m a 69yo disabled veteran and retired Corporate Pilot and I’ve watched your show on & off for awhile. Recently I started watching everyday. I appreciate your point of view and the way you let me know what it is. Keep it going! Thanks

[@jordyvandenborre1966]

What a king

[@morbidlyobeserobocop3038]

Ok.

[@olafspetzki]

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".

[@palmarolavlklingholm9684]

Sounds about right. But I still have severe doubts about a 30 meter snake.

[@bradleywalker8642]

​@@palmarolavlklingholm9684 You mean 10 meter or 30 feet. There's definitely no 30 meter snakes.

[@palmarolavlklingholm9684]

@@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.

[@adrianfytr35]

I love seeing that picture. It's one of the first cool things I saw on the interwebs.

[@jaylen8822]

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 😂

[@bblwarrantydepartment981]

I only remember JLo. Are you sure there was snakes in that movie ?

[@kendrickwright7237]

Look up “Joe Rogan asks Elon Musk HARD Questions about Cobalt Mining for TESLA Batteries!” thank me later 🙏

[@RoyalFizzbin]

Wasn’t John Voight (spelling?) doing an awful accent in that movie?

[@natelarrieu7437]

@@RoyalFizzbin lol yes with his ponytail

[@sbrlwgb2739]

Damn nature you scary

[@SP-td9xj]

This dude always brings it when he comes on the podcast, always got great stuff!

[@dustywagon298]

This dude looks like he loves anacondas. You nommsayin’ 😉

[@slurm1130]

Fr I wish he was a regular haha, but it’s nice for him to come back with so much to say.

[@SP-td9xj]

@@dustywagon298 😂😂😂😂

[@meowmeowYaYa]

MAAAAAAAAAANNNNNNNNNNNNNNN every episode whit forrest is always super duper intresting, please do more eps whit this legend :=)

[@timothyvolkers5343]

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.

[@Tapecutter59]

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.

[@XxCarterGamingxX]

Where?

[@Gutwrenched]

@@XxCarterGamingxX Australia

[@DrGooseDuckman]

Try 43ft. I've even tried to manipulate the search into showing me anything near that size and it just ain't happening.

[@89crowley]

Wrong way round 😂

[@Gutwrenched]

@@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

[@GUNNER_MAVERICK]

100 feet turned out to be 50 feet when evidence was produced. Love the way how confidently cook up things

[@rahultripathi7929]

They found it

[@g3tt36ag]

How

[@natureisallpowerful]

Up there with the best of Joe rogans guests. Alive or extinct is a great programme

[@Katz_Pajamas]

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.

[@neonmoon9205]

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.

[@Lazerspike]

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.

[@toprap88]

Man I love listening to Forrest, You should have more scientists and animal guys like him. These are the best shows

[@josemendez3269]

Have you seen Elon Musk meets Post Malone 😆 it’s hilarious!! 👽

[@ricodelavega4511]

yes, less meatheads and paranoid types like bravo and schnabel, and more wilderness people.

[@chrisg4rr377]

David Attenborough: Hello Joe. Joe Rogan: Dave, have you ever tried DMT?

[@timvanmonero2720]

my all time favorite was Joe Rogan Experience #1272 w/Lindsay Fitzharris. Her story telling. crazy kzbin.info/www/bejne/iGaveKWtmKiag5o

[@cro3678]

fr. nature is so harmonious it makes it one of the most interesting topics

[@joaoklein1002]

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.

[@kerstin6527]

So they are not real?

[@caspar_gomez]

@@kerstin6527 they probably were at one time and oral legend passed on

[@kerstin6527]

@@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 🤣

[@mattheffelfinger8263]

Could've been immediate descents of the Titanoboa. Anacondas are the distant relative, but it makes you wonder about that middle species.

[@ApotheNZ]

@@kerstin6527 Nobody knows whether they are real or not, there's no way to know, most of the Amazon has not been explored on foot

[@jsmooth5674]

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.

[@themostdiabolicalhater5986]

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

[@lsw876]

@@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.

[@MrKushinator420]

@@themostdiabolicalhater5986 I don't believe you know how vast the Amazon Jungle is. There are numerous uncontacted tribes, and unmapped biomes.

[@yourt00bz]

@@themostdiabolicalhater5986 this is a fallacy which only is plausible to the kind of person surprised by the biomass of insect populations. He even mentions “low density” in the video

[@yourt00bz]

@@MrKushinator420 there’s been cities that were only Habited centuries ago for this ends of years reclaimed totally by jungle very quickly. At Some point science went from “investigating the unexplained” to “explaining the uninvestigated” when fools like this rushed into occupy it.

[@randomlyfactual1943]

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.

[@davida4375]

Came here to say this

[@blurp6023]

Yup

[@pink-link.]

Many errors in story: See KZbin 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.

[@randomlyfactual1943]

@@pink-link. I would rather go for a severe case of human error.

[@michaelellis2086]

I’m a very big fan, and I hope you’re having a good life Mr. Rogan!

[@NC19]

Glad they finally brought Forrest back on. Super interesting guy and work he does.

[@andrewheaton3202]

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.

[@samkostos4520]

"Belgian congo" doesn't exist anymore.

[@andrewheaton3202]

@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.

[@samkostos4520]

@@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.

[@oliviermaniraguha8870]

You must be out of your mind .. what’s Belgian Congo ?

[@spjr99]

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

[@XxXx-sc3xu]

watching this tomorrow hell yea

[@alexpetana5563]

😭

[@Bruce1983]

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

[@andresmith7545]

Look up “Joe Rogan asks Elon Musk HARD Questions about Cobalt Mining for TESLA Batteries!” thank me later 🙏

[@evanray8413]

@@andresmith7545 No

[@sandylynn7343]

@@andresmith7545ok

[@THEREALTARZANN]

Would love to go on the JRE and talk animals one day 🎉

[@benk3716]

I like your channel

[@jamz17]

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.

[@Rryan8065]

Both of these fake Joe Rogan accounts lmaooo

[@Rryan8065]

@@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.

[@logank444]

I love all these scam comments

[@AlphaNovemberTango]

I have been in love with tropical places ever since i was a child. I now moved to Philipines, and was so happy to see for the first time a wild giant monitor lizard. I am in love with this place. I was in Peru and very close to visiting the Amazon, but alas it was not meant to be. One of the great regrets of my life

[@flockzee]

Forrest Galante is my favorite dude to come to this podcast

[@maxlu9373]

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.

[@pink-link.]

Many errors in story: See KZbin 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.

[@passeddown9979]

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

[@lebumjames1373]

I don’t understand how he gets basic verifiable facts about the animals he’s talking about wrong consistently. Weird.

[@taahasiddiqui1071]

No, only you notices, no one else noticed. You are so smart.

[@ciara8294]

Look up “Joe Rogan asks Elon Musk HARD Questions about Cobalt Mining for TESLA Batteries!” thank me later 😮

[@passeddown9979]

@@taahasiddiqui1071 you're a blast at gatherings I can tell

[@passeddown9979]

@@ciara8294 rather depressing factoid, sucks even more that it's true and we will legitimately never be able to stop it

[@Jeremy-ql1or]

It is very difficult to estimate sizes like length and distance when you are up in the air like that. If you get the idea that things around it are bigger than they really are (like bushes or trees) you will think something near it is twice as big as it really is.

[@lildoughboy2085]

Thank you joe!! MORE FORREST and MORE GRAHAM

[@tylerstickle49]

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 🙏❤️

[@johnpaul3470]

Have you seen Joe Rogan asks Elon Musk HARD Questions about Cobalt Mining for TESLA Batteries 🔋

[@rebeccacarter1914]

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.

[@hopenotfound1675]

I think the colonel was well respected

[@kabohakevin4103]

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.

[@jorritkoperdraad5611]

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

[@ericbiondo619]

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.

[@AnthonyPolanco]

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

[@lilwater7358]

Did you appeal to the snake god?

[@Clyde]

please stay away from me..that poor bug you have is super transmittable!

[@DerpMuse]

The only gods you need to pay reverence to is the old god Apollo. Thank you for coming to my TEDTalk

[@owenhunt]

@@DerpMuse 😁🤭🤭

[@arielshummer3822]

Look up “Joe Rogan asks Elon Musk HARD Questions about Cobalt Mining for TESLA Batteries!” thank me later 🙏

[@erikholmes6924]

My favorite guest

[@jaquineali-el1797]

Turns out he was right lol new species confirmed

[@Whatorwellsaid21]

This is the best guest on JRE. I love this guy.

[@MrHermit12]

Forrest is one my favorite guest on JRE. Always look forward to it.

[@bwalters9762]

I love the NBC slam

[@3_0_0_0]

This guy is a great guest

[@kevinb314]

I love how he snuck in that cheeky “performance anxiety” line when talking about the snake shrinking

[@dylonabubo7513]

I love when Forrest gets on the podcast 💯 prolly my favorite guest on it

[@danielnightingale8478]

Very interesting guy love his storeys

[@sublimzz]

Joes fake laugh kills me. “Haaaa haha”

[@coreyw2124]

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.

[@09jadeen]

Anywhere I can read about this? Seems very far fetched, not saying you're lying but it's a little hard to believe

[@Coltwollsch]

@@09jadeen there's a full documentary about it you should check out

[@justinzwahr6726]

Bro this is literally the movie "Anacondas : the hunt for the blood orchid"

[@ChampionsClub2030]

I would rate it null out of infinity

[@falcor200]

@@09jadeen it's a documentary called Anaconda. Ice Cube actually put the money up to fund the film and expedition.

[@heroblue2]

I always enjoy Forrest and his adventures.

[@Infotokev]

I live in Austin too. Forrest, what is up? And hey Joe, let's grab lunch and talk about a new podcast. Cheers

[@iclark2400]

Forrest Galante is back and he's back with a bang, one of Joe's most interesting podcast guests. The giant Congo snake story is pretty wild yet believable.

[@palmarolavlklingholm9684]

The picture has yet to be confirmed as a hoax. So maybe it is real. But then there is this thing with perspectives. It could possibly be a real picture of a 5meter snake. if taken from the right angle. But then again that would mean that the witnesses were lying through their teeth. And why would a respected person do that?

[@johannesdolch]

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.

[@nullnvoid3559]

These two together make for some of the best conversations.

[@Willgesmenuts]

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.

[@marceloblu4104]

it will be interesting if you can bring the Royal Rife story to your podcast

[@jcfishingwrld]

Bass fishing talk on JRE!!

[@turnerharrismusic]

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.

[@JNB520]

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

[@salvagemonster3612]

It was discovered by minors

[@JohnDoe-qz1ql]

Easily??

[@debbylou5729]

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

[@zack3799]

​@@debbylou5729whoah. Tell more!

[@fishingpro64]

It’s great that Forrest can make joe laugh more than some comedians

[@eugenecrawley4897]

Look up “Joe Rogan asks Elon Musk HARD Questions about Cobalt Mining for TESLA Batteries!” thank me later 🙏

[@john-doe842]

hahaha right

[@Owl90]

tbh a lot great jokes just fly over Joe's head. Just watch his Theo interviews.

[@byeofficer]

He’s awesome! I have a 16’ 200* albino burm. She’s such a gentle giant. But I play with the deadly danger noodles too

[@vernefits1953]

i still remember that movie with JLO. she was amazing (the anaconda)

[@Faelge]

A Belgian RAF pilot once spotted a 50ft snake in Congo in 1959, not during WW2, pilot was Col. Remy Van Lierde