Halloween Special: The "True Story" of The Hills Have Eyes | Fascinating Horror

[@FascinatingHorror]

Hope you enjoy this Halloween special. And, if you do, let me know what other horror movies that are "based on a true story" I could look at for next year!

[@ComingWithTheClouds]

The Entity

[@TheScaryTruthCatalyst]

Next year? It's a great idea for a regular upload!

[@dottiegillespie8067]

Awesome! Thank you sir. What a treat! Happy 🦇

[@divinemischief4655]

Amityville

[@RileyLulich]

Haunting in Connecticut! I just watched that last night!

[@korbell1089]

"They were unfit to stand trial." magistrate: "So, we'll just skip right to the execution!"

[@ptonpc]

Which is fair.

[@LysetteZara]

​@@ptonpc I can't tell if you're joking or not

[@donnguyen3795]

I can stand behind that

[@biggiezoinks7583]

Eye for an eye, Scotland did justice right. They tormented numerous innocents and so they went out in a gruesome agonizing way as they shouldve.​@@LysetteZara

[@gantmj]

@@biggiezoinks7583 allegedly

[@muchasgracias6976]

"The women were burned". So they became, erm...baked Beans?

[@isabellind1292]

Lol! It's preposterous to think an incestuous clan of cave-dwellers operated a cannibalistic enterprise in the Scottish highlands. I think the British were trying to distract from all the public "hangings & drawings & quarterings" of anyone who turned their back on the king...testy-testy!

[@tinag4262]

Omg. That's too funny! 😂

[@MaiAolei]

Too soon!

[@margojohnson4224]

Good one 😊

[@RobinBoBobbin]

😂

[@petadewar4720]

I've been in Sawney Bean's cave! It was very spacious, it could have housed 45 people. I didn't stay long, because I've seen too many horror movies but it wasn't too spooky. It had a lovely view of Ailsa Craig, a granite island where they used to quarry stone to make curling stones.

[@lynnybee6328]

Seany Bean did not exist , he was nothing more than English propaganda to make us Scots out to be savages, nothing more than folklore.

[@reverendjames9842]

I've also been and was eaten alive by midges.

[@SuzD0n]

I believe they still do produce curling stones, there.

[@celieboo]

😂​@@reverendjames9842

[@jenniferbrewer5370]

As if I needed more reason to be creeped out by caves...

[@Faris_V5]

I have to say your knack for avoiding over-dramatizing stuff fits really well with folklore like this. Felt like a nice summary of such an old story, especially focusing more on the legacy rather than if it was real or not. I'd definitely watch more if you were testing the waters with this at all.

[@Cyphyxia]

As a scot myself i grew up learning of the legend of sawney bean and his incestuous family. Please do more of these videos even the nightmare on elm street has some real life inspiration

[@LightBlueVans]

oh i’d love to hear that one!

[@MorinoRavenberg]

Nightmare on elm Street is if I'm not mistaken based on sudden death syndrome cases in Asia during the Vietnam war

[@PRCOM]

​@MorinoRavenberg yeah that's 100% correct

[@Fortaker]

THAT story freaked me out when I read about it! Reportedly, children of the Hmong people from Laos who escaped to America from communist genocide suddenly refused to go to sleep at night because "something horrifying" was trying to kill them in their dreams. Then, when they inevitably fell asleep, their families would find them dead the next day. Wes Craven (same guy who made "The Hills Have Eyes") was inspired by this to make "A Nightmare on Elm Street". I guess he really liked making horror films inspired by true events!

[@nopcshere6097]

@@MorinoRavenberg Actually, it was inspired by a series of deaths of Samoan children who had suffered night terrors.

[@JM8T]

Who knew Mr. Bean was a cannibal

[@bobbymac9877]

It explains a lot

[@ptonpc]

It makes sense. Mmmm long pig.....

[@thodempire5365]

😂

[@Dayvit78]

That's why he could only mumble. His mouth was always full of delicious human meat.

[@mikefoehr235]

​@Dayvit78 i know the feeling

[@Dreenaxx]

Something else to note: when Irish and Scottish settlers came to America between 1500-1700s, many settled in the Appalachian mountains. There are many similar legends in Appalachia about incest, cannibalism, and people living in caves. To this day, people are warned of spooky things that happen in the forests and hills of Appalachia

[@megwhite6295]

Apparently Appalachia and Scotland used to be attached back in the days of Pangaea too, which could explain some of their similarities as well!

[@EShirako]

@@megwhite6295 Yeah, the mountain ranges were related once upon a day WAY back. Like...literally the same during some era, then the land masses separated, so they're LITERALLY the same mountain ranges.

[@SkyWongsuwan]

You beat me to it.

[@XXSkunkWorksXX]

Ever read 'A Walk in the Woods' by Bill Bryson? - plenty of strange goings-on as he and his crazy friend Stephen Katz hike the entire Appalachian Trail from ChickenShit, Georgia through to The Stand, Maine. Plenty of juicy stroies of murders, many bears, mad axemen and women called Beulah ...

[@redrustyhill2]

So scotts are in fact troglodytes?

[@Runeinc]

As a Edinburgh native, I can only say the Bean clan seems like your average East Lothian lot.

[@jonathancarlson6127]

Nah, the Bean family had better cooking. *rim shot*

[@t.fairuz29]

As a complete foreigner coming home to Fife from a night out in Edinburgh, I am very amused.

[@bradsanders407]

Lot of sister-wives and brother-husbands going on there huh?

[@XXSkunkWorksXX]

There was also Young-Young McGurk from Govan who ate Jamesie Cotter for porking his teenage daughter!

[@kanivea]

1:22 "Following horror movie convention..." That was perfect. Had me rolling.

[@celieboo]

Me too!

[@reneedennis2011]

Same here 😂😂😂😂!

[@galdavonalgerri2101]

@@Die-Angst Ja, wirklich.

[@JimmyMatis-h9y]

lol ty. I missed it the first time.

[@MegCazalet]

I don’t get it. A play on “convention” as in “gathering” or “meet-up”? It is a horror movie convention, or trope, for a group to split up. Probably a /woosh for me.

[@toddabowden]

Still best intro / background music ever

[@mkervelegan]

Glass pond check out the hourlong version. A good thing to play whilst taking adverse personnel action

[@thestars386]

Yes it is. It's a very good one. I remember when I first heard it.

[@tenmilesky7331]

Ｌｏｖｅ Ｉｔ !

[@erictroxell715]

I love it too.

[@hingeslevers]

​@@mkerveleganwhere can I find it?

[@htos1av]

The reason it didn't "hit" in '77 was that was smack dab in the middle of a movie release called "A New Hope: IV" (Star Wars), it was popular.

[@bradsanders407]

Im so glad i wasnt alive then. What a terrible time for movies.

[@lingricen8077]

And Rocky but you calling it ‘A new hope iv’? lol dumb zoomer

[@jonjacobjingleheimerschmid3798]

​@@bradsanders407living in that time I thought it sucked! Knew we were on the cusp of great things... Now living in the time of great things, I long to return to the seventies... Little how we appreciated the simpler time we lived in!

[@censusgary]

The movie was not called “A New Hope” in 1977. It was called “Star Wars.”

[@XXSkunkWorksXX]

@@bradsanders407 WHAT? The 1970s was the best damn decade by far for gritty, hard hitting films in Hollywood. Either you are trolling or know piss-all about movies.

[@honeybadgerdontcare3112]

I’ve never really heard much about The Hills Have Eyes, except the title, but I now understand why the two titans Hange captures in Attack on Titan were named Sawney and Bean.

[@User5411Valekona]

Yes!!!

[@lorisan-9059]

Years later and I’m still discovering AOT Easter eggs . Thanks for another one!

[@ezzyfan3116]

Happy Halloween from Australia, Fascinating Horror! Thank you for this treat 🎉

[@ptonpc]

Mmm BBQ human.. mmmmm.....

[@merri-toddwebster2473]

The Donners could have told them: Never take the shortcut....

[@sanvobun]

really appreciate how you cover how it might not even be real instead of sensationalizing the story like other channels sometimes do

[@BennyLlama39]

I would say *Banjo music intensifies* but being Scotland, it's *Bagpipe music intensifies.* 😀

[@harrisonhanson2998]

Ikr! & instead of hearing it in Scotland you’d be hearing the banjos in the Appalachian mountains of WV

[@ayyyitscookie]

fun fact: in Attack on Titan, Hange names her two captive titans Sawney and Beane

[@cherryhazard8002]

It would not be shocking that Sawney Bean was based off of fictional accounts by the english in order to make the scots appear as some sort of mythical and negative beings, as they have a history of doing things like these with other groups (I.E, The Irish) in order for them to appear superior compared to other groups. But, nonetheless, the possibility to think about this being real on the first place is chilling.

[@fiberpoet6250]

Seems on brand for the Brits They also made up cannibal stories of many of the indigenous areas around the world that they colonized. It serves as a justification for their crimes

[@cleocatra9324]

It’s also possible this is real because serial killers and cannibals have existed.

[@MsSteelphoenix]

I'm not a horror-movie kind of person (nightmares!) but hearing how stories evolve is fascinating stuff. Excellent video.

[@margeebechyne8642]

Being a girl of suburbia, I found that story (and any story) about being stranded in a wilderness setting already disturbing. The idea there might be people like that lurking out there made this a real horror story for me. Thank you for the backstory that inspired it. Happy Hauntings!!!

[@JimmyMatis-h9y]

NGL the thought of living in suburbia scares me more 🤭

[@margeebechyne8642]

@@JimmyMatis-h9y LOL There are required survival skills . . .

[@crochambeau]

Always a treat, your videos. I must negotiate a point about the original version of The Hills Have Eyes though. The gas station operator advised the family to stay on the main road, but they were dead set on checking out a plot of land and veered off into the desert, whereupon antics ensued. He was no party to intentionally luring them into a trap.

[@RoseThorn1987]

I was coming to say exactly this! Still, great video overall.

[@somejetdude]

Is it Texas chainsaw massacre where the gas station or mechanic ends up being one of the family?

[@crochambeau]

@@somejetdude yes; in both original TCM and remake pretty much everyone the protagonists interact with is a freak. Technically speaking, the gas station attendant in the original Hills Have Eyes is ALSO part of the family, being Papa Jupiter's dad; he's just not in cahoots with them and their feral ways.

[@vtwannabe974]

Pretty sure the newest remake (2006?) the gas station attendant DID send them to the freaks on purpose

[@crochambeau]

@@vtwannabe974 I haven't seen the remake, somehow this shift in plot angle does not surprise me.

[@c0mpu73rguy]

1:12 Looks like a regular bush to me.

[@ellenbryn]

Joshua Trees add a suitably otherworldly touch to the scenery in some of the desert shots. it's weird when they're so familiar, but to most people they wouldn't be

[@theinventor3986]

As someone who was born and grew up in Ayrshire, South West Scotland, the story is supposed to be based there, near Turnberry Hotel. This is not really a really a busy area then or now, so I have difficulty believing that anyone could amass 5000 bodies. So I suspect like the story it has all been made up. Nevertheless, the Scottish tourist board down there has made the Sawney Bean cave a macabre tourist spot. I remember reading that the story apparently also gave the idea for the 'Sweeny Todd', The butchering barber in London as well.

[@alistairthow1384]

The Ayrshire coastal path would have been the main route between the north of Ireland and Scotland.

[@isabellind1292]

Eeeks!💈🔪👿The demon barber of Fleet Street!

[@markc7955]

Ayr here. Yup got it in one. I too believe it's made up. He probably moved to girvin from the next town over. The locals don't like that lol. Got to be at least 6 generations until you are from their

[@nlwilson4892]

There are lots of stories that start with a truth but get exaggerated. If you consider that his children grew to adulthood, that possibly some of the women were captured rather than bred, then work out how many years it would take to get to 45 adults (accounts aren't clear if the 45 number were all adults). You've got quite a period of time there. But I suspect there would still need to be some exaggeration.

[@bahn2452]

I speculate that maybe it was 5,000 bones and not bodies but was changed over time.. I

[@horrido666]

This folktale was used to influence British popular opinion against the Scotts. What type of people could spawn a savage clan like this, is how the propaganda worked.

[@coconutsmarties]

Only the wildlings..

[@lynnybee6328]

Yip your definitely right.

[@resnonverba137]

@@lynnybee6328 You're...

[@resnonverba137]

Scots.

[@keithdavison2960]

Fake news before the modern age for sure

[@yurilouback6331]

As often, reality is way scarier than fiction. There were so many modern cannibal serial killers. Imagine how many there must have been in the past, when "the Law" barely existed.

[@JimmyMatis-h9y]

same as now. ppl don't change, law or not. serial killers feel compelled to kill so law enforcement isn't a deterrent

[@yurilouback6331]

@JimmyMatis-h9y It kinda is. The fear of consequences/punishment stops many people from doing bad thing. Given how in old times it was way easier to get away with commiting crimes, there were probably many serial killers around.

[@nlwilson4892]

@@yurilouback6331 Yes, and no. The prospect of getting caught isn't going to stop a serial killer. However, in the past they'd have got away with it for much longer. It is only in the latter part of the last century that psychologists and police started to understand that some people kill out of compulsion rather than a motive against an individual, and they will keep on killing at regular intervals until they are stopped.

[@redrustyhill2]

​@JimmyMatis-h9y the law actually keeps many crazies from acting on their impulses

[@Ruminatinghafez]

​@@yurilouback6331 the punishments were wild though, enough to deter even if the chances of being caught are lower

[@scottyerkes1867]

Another appropriate Halloween horror story. Chilling, frightening, eerie and macabre.

[@aileencastaneda3724]

Oh what a nice treat! I was not expecting FH to upload but I love it. ❤ Happy Halloween! 🎃 👻 🖤

[@barbararoden2757]

I wonder if the legend of Sawney Bean also inspired the 1972 horror film 'Death Line' (called 'Raw Meat' in the U.S.). Starring Donald Pleasence, it's about the investigation into the disappearance of a man at Russell Square Tube station. Eventually we learn that during the construction of the line in the 1890s, a cave-in trapped a number of workers, who were unable to be rescued, and they have been living in the Underground ever since, interbreeding and resorting to kidnapping people and cannibalising them.

[@AverageOhioGamer]

You spoil us 🥺💚

[@corbindioxide6253]

Perfect morning for a fascinating horror episode! Wooooo!!

[@TacticalBurritoSystem]

I'm listening to "Shock Value: How a Few Eccentric Outsiders Gave Us Nightmares, Conquered Hollywood, and Invented Modern Horror" by Jason Zinoman, and there is a whole section about Wes Craven's time growing up and his influences.

[@lyedavide]

Thanks for another great episode! I guess the moral of the story is: you reap what you sow. And Bean, whether a fictional character or real, died as he lived. Except for the fact that he wasn't eaten by his executioners.

[@recurvestickerdragon]

I have to imagine that all of them would be quite chipper, seeing their familiar demise. like, imagine the terror of not knowing how this essentially foreign culture is about to snuff you out (hanging, live burial, oubliettes, etc) but then suddenly it's like you're back home again, and you say to your executioner: "We're not so different, you and I."

[@stormbourbon8379]

@0:20 I've met Michael Berryman at conventions, and after being freaked out by his many performances it was a trip just how sweet he is!

[@holly541]

He is truly a sweet man in real life

[@Venmaylove]

I met Michael Barrymore at a pool party. I passed out. Don't remember much.

[@pauliewogmastercertifiedli535]

I liked that xfiles made him a good guy who is a saint

[@DrtyALGreen]

We we're driving through backwoods Kentucky as there is a part that there are no interstates going north to Pittsburgh from Nashville. There was a HUGE boulder in the middle of the road. We hit it and it sucked into the wheel well and was scraping the tread from the tire. My wife was sure it was an ambush when we had to stop to fix it. She was on guard as I had to jack the car up to get the suspension uncompressed to drop the tire. I'm not convinced it wasn't a set up and we got lucky because I'm a fairly large man and my wife was loud about us having blunt weapons and pocket knives.

[@MelanatedHomesteadher]

😮

[@fiberpoet6250]

I live in east TN and rock falls happen on those rural mountain roads from time to time. I doubt it was an ambush, but if you do see rocks on the road, definitely get outta there cuz more rocks are likely to fall They dynamite the mountains around the interstates every so often to cause controlled rock falls. The rural mountain roads are not kept up like that unless it’s falling a lot in an area

[@Rudyelf1]

Blunt weapons you say? Oh no, don’t hit me with the Swisher Sweet. (Little bit of stoner humor.)

[@steve3291]

This was a really good episode. Had never heard of "Mr Bean" 🤣so this was genuinely "fascinating".

[@tylerfrederick246]

Ob, man! That gave me chills! How do you do it, tell a scary story without all that core and over sensationism? Just telling a folklore without the gore was scary.

[@EXROBOWIDOW]

Yikes! As a Californian, we were taught about the Donner Party in our history classes in school. That one is a cautionary tale, and deals with what people will do to survive when their poor planning has landed them in a deadly situation. But there is no record of the survivors ever again resorting to cannibalism.

[@Badficwriter]

I am haunted by the story of what happened to the Donner's native guides, who tried to flee, and were hunted down and eaten.

[@EXROBOWIDOW]

@@Badficwriter I never heard that part. But I've never read an in-depth account of what happened.

[@Madamegato]

Yeah, that one was nutty. I think this particular story, though, he's right about the English embellishing to make the Scots out to be backward inbred monsters. Seems to fall right in line with what people would do with any culture they encountered where they needed to dehumanize them in order to conquer them (or try).

[@MCS7000]

The Donner Party killed the native guides first because they were inferior to the whites. Racism at its worst.

[@aeddiefarmer]

@@EXROBOWIDOW There's a great episode of the podcast You're Wrong About on the Donner party which goes through the whole series of events.

[@Human-hs8sp]

It's a phase that I've always seen but never actually looked up. Thanks for this summary.

[@SuzanneEvans99]

As I've just finished watching every video this channel has uploaded it's a real treat to get two new videos in the space of a few days, keep up the great work ❤️ your content!

[@dinascharnhorst6590]

What a treat (no tricks)! Well told, FH.

[@jh6031]

Ah! A very special episode of FH! The perfect addition to Halloween here in the U.S. Nicely done, as always!

[@ericisbananaman]

Ooooh bonus video, very nice thank you

[@Krommer1000]

Was not expecting this! Nice!

[@joannewilson1162]

I listen to a lot of true crime podcasts, and some of the things that people do to one another just blows my mind. I have never heard the story before tonight, but I think there’s probably a lot more truth in it than we are comfortable admitting… great storytelling by the way. I love your videos.

[@rewarddrawer]

I'll tell you what, the only thing I would like more than your April Fools special would be a "based on a true story" special.

[@Bintexas]

Truly fascinating and a horror! I have never heard that story. It probably is just a folklore boogeyman story, but it is a great one! Thanks for a bonus upload, FH. ❤

[@Bintexas]

@ I had never heard of a Scottish clan of in-bred cannibals prior to this morning when I listened to this video. Better?

[@isabellind1292]

@@Bintexas Consuming human flesh can be hazardous/deadly to your health and especially organs like the brain which can result in acquiring Prion disease (incurable) which will turn the brain into a blob of swiss cheese. So, if there's any truth to this savage cannibal clan, they might have stuck their own feet in their mouth and gone stark, raving mad by their own undoing.

[@MortalDemon-x6i]

Excellent Halloween Treat FH! Happy Halloween indeed! Love to see another one of these for next year!! 🎃🎃🎃

[@TaxationWithoutRepresentation]

The narrator of this channel is great. Great job in covering the detail of all the accidents and etc posted here. Fantastic content and I hope you never change a thing here.

[@thestars386]

4:52 partially cannibalized sounds worse than being fully cannibalized. *Edit;* never mind, I thought she was still alive.

[@rickymcginnis7300]

There is an island off of Baha Mexico that people were just that, partially canibalized. I wish I could provide a link but the locals would capture unsuspecting visitors,bind them to the ground,then cut strips of flesh from them as they were still alive...

[@fourstringbuck]

Wow! What an unexpected treat! Thanks! Best channel on the web!

[@nopcshere6097]

When I went to the ‘Edinburgh Dungeon’ back in 2015, part of the live action ‘exhibitions’ in the Dungeon included meeting Sawney Bean and his evil family. Just as you’re about to be ‘eaten’, a group of soldiers led personally by the then King of Scotland come to the rescue. This was the first time I ever heard of Sawney Bean. I had no idea that ‘The Hills Have Eyes’ was inspired by the ‘family’ of Sawney Bean.

[@mkervelegan]

Still have spike strip phobia and I’m a LEO who’s used them. We call them stop strips.

[@punksci6879]

ACAB

[@coconutsmarties]

That's cool, myself I'm a VIRGO

[@jenniferryersejones9876]

@@coconutsmarties lol!

[@thehorrorist3471]

Been obsessed with the Beane family legend since I first read about it in the early 80's. Doesn't get much more depraved and decadent than this gem.

[@CoffeeNerd2]

Having explored side roads throughout Appalachia, this film became so relatable.

[@thisoldetruck278]

I knew it was going to be a great day when a bonus episode of Fascinating Horror showed up in my feed!! Thank you!!!👍

[@vivalapita8484]

8:48 ::looks at ALL of recorded understood history with side eye::

[@sig9girl]

Love the original 1977 version. It recently came to a small theater for a weekend. I definitely went and seen it! It was just as great now as it was when I seen it last!

[@Danyaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa]

The Sawney Bean story seems unlikely to me, 5000 victims is too much to be believable.

[@kenosabi]

Not really. I mean they were supporting keeping alive 40+ people.

[@ianmacfarlane1241]

Even without the absurd body count, the legend of Sawney Bean fails due to the complete lack of evidence.

[@Runeinc]

It was anti Scottish propaganda by the English.

[@lynnybee6328]

English propaganda, as they seen The Scots as savages.

[@jeepliving1]

"I once caught a fish that was THIS big!"

[@jessicawilliams3849]

Sawney Bean? Never knew I’d find out where that Attack on Titan reference came from.

[@Coldpizza22]

I sat through this entire video wondering why that name sounded so familiar to me. So happy you pointed this out!

[@Wreapar]

i was searching for this comment.

[@ay-dionne]

Same. I had that "oh shit" moment

[@Harry-rm5is]

Who is in AOT?

[@strayiggytv]

​@@Harry-rm5is it's an anime

[@samanthakelly4710]

Excellent video. Thanks for the little bonus. As someone else mentioned, you could delve into other inspiration stories.

[@elliottprice6084]

An extra episode of FH is always welcome. And is Sawney Bean a distant ancestor of Blackadder?? 😁

[@tamlandipper29]

You're thinking of the clan MacAdder.

[@cveg1910]

Thanks! I get so excited to see you post!!

[@FascinatingHorror]

That's great to hear. Thanks for watching!

[@cadillacdeville5828]

Good MORNING 🌞🌄!

[@ronatola]

The guy on the movie poster- so iconic. I saw it in my mind's eye as soon as I read your title. Scary thing is - he looks like that all the time.

[@mmd195401]

When an entire family is fed up with people.

[@Magnumscrotus]

One of the best videos in a while. Great introduction.

[@belialofeden]

The hills also have flies

[@RealGrooveRandom]

The Bills Have Files

[@mikefoehr235]

Black flies matter

[@CommissarChaotic]

The Hill Valley has McFlys

[@RealGrooveRandom]

The Pills have a Surprise

[@EhnTeePee]

The Film has Supplies

[@tristenjacob6081]

cant believe i missed this post. love your stuff, bravo

[@vustvaleo8068]

plot twist: Mr. Bean is their surviving descendant.

[@WulfilaBelmont]

I love folklore. Great work! :)

[@shinoyagami2144]

Good evening!

[@annaselbdritt7916]

The placing of the legend in the historical context of anti-Scottish sentiment was really great. I think that assessment is probably right.

[@Tilly-bd4hc]

More like, "Them hills have teethe! Happy Halloween Everyone!

[@Bintexas]

Happy Halloween to you. 👻🎃

[@KATHIESHOES]

😂😂

[@isabellind1292]

@@KATHIESHOES The hills are just outside your window. At least you can shut your drapes so they can't see you.🏡👀 🎃HAPPY HALLOWEEN🎃

[@ecabe1793]

I love this! I’m fascinated by the inspirations for horror stories.

[@valdenv]

I really liked this deviation from the usual format. It's actually pretty cool to hear the inspirations for fictional tales.

[@lareneandpipsqueeksully]

I love my birthday being on Halloween ❣️❣️ Happy Halloween everyone ❣️

[@flywheelshyster]

Excellent

[@cazmorgan2330]

Thanks for doing this video, the remake is one of my favourite horror films and the original is very scary too. Never knew it was inspired by a story right here in UK.

[@justme-xy6xs]

In college I attended a Sean Bean Halloween Haunch party. Good times.

[@jeepliving1]

Did every body dress up as Boromir?

[@621pw]

I never got to see the film but in our house when I was growing up we all referred to the highly regarded (and often considered to be the World's best) football/soccer referee Pierluigi Collina as 'The Hills Have Eyes' and obviously I imagine this was due to his resemblance to Michael Berryman on the film poster. In retrospect perhaps a bit unfair, unkind or downright wrong but in my mind instilled some kind of legendary status, respect and/or god-like status. So this lowdown of the legend that inspired the movie and my ignorant self-perpetuation of said referee's doppleganger is much appreciated.

[@dangerousandy]

Morning y’all

[@wryalways985]

As the holidays get closer, I wait eagerly. Still, this was great. ❤

[@essiebessie661]

Hello from Florida.

[@nonna_sof5889]

Home of the legendary cannibal, Florida Man.

[@1trschaefer78]

This is great story telling! Thanks you for sharing.

[@ryuzakitodoroki2604]

Make more videos like this

[@elaineduff2289]

They were from Dumfries and Galloway, not East Lothian,,I have lived in both these places and they are beautiful x

[@harleyquinn3589]

Blessed Samhain to all ❤

[@BobbyEngelsNatsarim]

You pagans are silly

[@harleyquinn3589]

@BobbyEngelsNatsarim I'm Bahá'hi, fool 😆 try harder

[@Badficwriter]

The oldest documented cannibals in caves were at Moula-Guercy, France. Archaeology says the neanderthals living there ate other neanderthals. Supposedly there are traces in other neanderthal places, but that location is the best documented. A grotesque note in a paper suggests that, since firefighters say burned human flesh smells stinky, neanderthal fondness for it may mean they had poor senses of smell.

[@ferretyluv]

That’s a spurious conclusion. Durians also smell terrible yet it’s a popular fruit. Do Asians have a poor sense of smell?

[@averycheesypotato]

Some people like stinky cheese. Then again, if you were starving to the point that you resorted to cannibalism, the smell is the least of your worries. But more accurately, if they butchered the meat first it would be very different from the scene of a building fire. Cooked human flesh is said to smell no different than pork. Pork doesn’t stink because it is first butchered, the whole body is not cooked intact. I know burning hair and eyeballs smells bad, but doubt Neanderthals cooked those parts

[@pangorban1]

Good to see an episode that differs from the usual stories featured.

[@l-l]

spooktacular video as always

[@kiryuandgodzillagirl]

two for the price of one this week

[@jonestowndixiecups782]

I would watch a whole series of these!!

[@kyler_funk]

No sleep gang

[@dalhousieDream]

👋🥱

[@SarahLovesBoobahandErEr]

The original Last House on the Left was fantastic!

[@Torgo-and-the-Lucifer-Cat]

His last words were, "it STILL tastes better than HAGGIS!!"

[@ferretyluv]

I don’t understand why anyone would think haggis tastes bad. It tastes amazing.

[@Torgo-and-the-Lucifer-Cat]

@ferretyluv just joking friend, I've never had but want to try. Erin go bragh, from a Buckley

[@averycheesypotato]

You could make haggis from a person though. The components are all there. Would only taste a little off, I’m sure

[@Torgo-and-the-Lucifer-Cat]

@averycheesypotato we should make a Scottish movie called "soylent haggis", ....the taste would vary from person to person, of course....

[@markc7955]

East lothian? Sourh Ayrshire or possibly Dumfriesshire. It's just down the coast from me. From the title I thought it would be about him.

[@Devil-Made]

7:12 “The first written reports of him come from a time nearly 100 years after he was said to have lived…” And the Christians are like, “Yeah? So what?”

[@EXROBOWIDOW]

Some of the accounts of Jesus Christ were written by people who spent three years with him. Others were written by people who knew people who had spent three years with him. Not the same as having people from another culture write stories about people from a culture they looked down on.

[@cuddlepaws4423]

I kind of remember seeing the film as a kid. I don't remember much apart from the guy with the long bald head because he looks so weird. Likewise, I think lots of stories, like most, are perhaps based on a pinch of truth with a lot of here say and embellishment added as time goes on. Stories like these are like quantum events, where they are simultaneously in two states at once, true and not true.