*SOLVED* What REALLY Killed Ben Hildebrand in Jurassic Park?

[@guybrushthreepwood2014]

His legs are missing and hes way higher up than he was when he recorded his last moments. Later we see raptors jumping, trying to reach Erics mother who is also hanging from a tree. I always got the impression the raptors arrived and wanted to kill Eric. To save the boys life Ben wiggled around and made noises to attract the Raptors attraction. They ripped off his legs and bleeding out he climbed further up the tree, while succumbing to his wounds. In a climate like the one of isla sorna insects turn a corpse into a skeleton in a matter of days.

[@Kindpear_]

Wow I actually agree

[@M_u_t_e96024]

May just be a hole In the plot with the part where he went up higher. Otherwise makes perfect sense.. and it coulda not been the raptors somehow he coulda climbed up to try and un tangle before it happend.. -to add to that I think the raptors woulda left some bone leading me to believe a T rex or something reached up and chomped his lower half off

[@James.Oakleaf]

From Jurassic park 3 the musical you can see the raptors biting off his legs and I guess he died from dehydration, lack of food and the occasional compys had snacked on him

[@paradyne1T101]

🤔..Now that sounds plausible

[@neatgamer5999]

That makes sense

[@shirdarkbane789]

Suspension trauma is likely the other thing that killed him. Look at his harness. The flow of blood was cut from his legs via the femoral artery. This is actually a thing that OSHA safety personnel warn workers about when they are working in harnesses. So not only is the poor bastard dealing with internal trauma, but with the reduced blood flow from his legs going back to the torso, his blood goes bad and clots. So if the internals didn't kill him, the clots going straight to his heart after dropping Eric did. At that point, Eric leaves before the scavengers start to eat the boy's stepdad.

[@TheDogGeneral]

That's what I'm saying I think Ben got stuck in the trees and then couldn't get out the trauma from the crash the constriction from the chords he could have very well been so injured he could not get himself out

[@millo7295]

The difference in hight is just the T rex pen anomaly where things just change distance

[@rayrayray7494]

that might be good news means he didnt feel getting eaten lol

[@simonejoubert1105]

It's possible that maybe Ben couldn't unclip himself from the harness, he tried to climb up higher to untangle the parachute from the branches and while doing so a mid sized carnivore showed up and attacked him while Eric ran off. That seems plausible to me.

[@newatlantisrepublic6844]

I had an interview with Mark and he said he climbed up higher in an attempt to undue a knot in the parachute straps, which were higher up in the tree. Eric waited below but a mid sized carnivore came along and chased off Eric and then gobbled HIldebrands legs Solved

[@ShadowsLew]

Did I catch that right? You had the interview? *breathing intensifies*

[@TheDogGeneral]

I mean whether they rot it off or they were detached by a predator or whatever if they fell to the ground they wouldn't stay there for very long especially if they had some degree of meat still left on them they could have very well been adjacent to the corpse but again unless it had some relevant meaning to the plot of the movie wouldn't have really elaborated on

[@CSKaras]

There is the ceratosaurus....

[@jaimevalencia6271]

Source: trust me bro

[@TheDogGeneral]

@@jaimevalencia6271 made it work for Han Solo

[@sebastianderkits5816]

What if it was a mid sized carnivore like ceratosaurus? He was hanging and was still alive. All of a sudden while still alive, lets say a ceratosaurus came by. It saw the dying ben struggling and grabbed on to the legs. It was ripping, biting and throwing around ben until his legs came off and his body was dangling around wildly, which caused him to get catapulted up even higher into the trees.

[@Fatmus]

I think ceratosaurs could swallow him

[@darklordvader66]

Or a carno

[@HorriblePaleoartist]

@@darklordvader66 wait I thought it was created during Jurassic world's Paddock (If count the novel that is)

[@JamesS.254]

My thoughts as well, extra weight of predator pulling him down, and when his legs ripped of it caused his now even lighter body to catapult into the air with the ropes getting tangled on higher branches.

[@krismaddox1782]

@@HorriblePaleoartist actually Carno was created before Carnos were in the Lost World novel

[@aluminumsalmongames6277]

As someone who lives in a rather tropical area, my own theory follows the internal injuries one. In a hot and humid environment, decomp operates at an accelerated rate due to the nature of all of that bacteria having ideal conditions. I mean, a Uni over this way left a dead deer out and within ten days decomp and scavengers cleared it out. So. Dude died of internal injuries, legs fell off and were probably scavenged by raptors or other smaller critters. Body ended up higher from continued attempts at scavenging by flying dinos. Although with all the cords and foliage cover they couldn't really do more than yank at the parachute and lift his remains higher. Which also explains the state of his harness and the paracord being an absolute rats nest.

[@CrackDCat]

After playing Ark and seeing the size of the virtual mosquitos and ants... you could probably half that time if it's their prehistoric cousins lol

[@shadownyxiancat750]

@@CrackDCat you are right on the bugs, it as canon bc we seen them in the Jurassic world extinction. Good eye

[@justinterrell7020]

A reason as to why I don’t believe the Pteranodon theory: prior to later events in the movie, they were locked in their cage. They escaped at the end of the movie because the cage wasn’t locked, and left the island. There’s nothing indicating they had free reign before that incident, so it couldn’t have been them.

[@taigalilly]

There were Pteranodons flying around at the end of The Lost World. Not all of them were stuck in the aviary. Though I also don't think it was them.

[@the_furry_inside_your_walls639]

Pretty sure the Pteranodon enclosure had a large hole in its cage that the Pteranodons could escape through.

[@Saintpentiousofficial]

@the_furry_inside_your_walls639 who would design that

[@octaviablackthorn9]

@@SaintpentiousofficialI doubt they did it on purpose

[@user-zg5ey5xo9i]

​@@SaintpentiousofficialDude.. seriously?

[@thenerdbeast7375]

It really is as simple as "he couldn't get down". He was tangled in the harness and couldn't get free, then was left to hang up there until dehydration took him. Then a tropical setting does what it does best and rotted away his body along with perhaps the occasional scavenging bird or climbing compy picked a piece here and there. I figured this out when I was 12 when the movie came out, was it really some big mystery.

[@Fallout3131]

Dehydration makes your legs fall off? His legs got ripped off

[@themonsterunderyourbed9408]

​@@Fallout3131 decomposition makes your legs fall off.

[@the_furry_inside_your_walls639]

@@Fallout3131 Right, because skeletons totally stay together after the muscles and sinews decay away.

[@joewiniecki3282]

Why wouldn’t Eric help him….

[@Schnipps]

@@joewiniecki3282 Raptors and other dinos would be attracted to the sounds

[@Teufeltusken]

If he was dangling from a branch that was flexed downward due to his weight, if his legs are removed, he will weigh less and hang higher. If his legs are pulled off, he would have been pulled further down by the weight of the attacker until the limb(s) tore off, and the flex of the branch would rebound, lifting him even higher, or even flicking him to another, likely higher, branch.

[@GreatestCornholio]

Yeh I was thinking the same. A large carnivore grabbed the legs and pulled hard, severing the legs. As soon as the legs went he was rubber banded up the tree and out of reach.

[@user-kz4ro9uq4q]

Chances are he did died from internal injuries and then a dinosaur just attacked him. So he was still killed by internal injuries. Most likely landed wrong in the tree and had sever impact, especially by the fact that he could of also had outside injuries as well due to how tight the strings could of been on him. Also depending on how server the injuries are, it could be 6 hours unless taken to hospital (looked online). Due to the environment, it could of been much less.

[@annabethsyndullacrump1424]

Except that any internal injuries would have also been afflicting Eric since he took the brunt of the impact into the jungle canopy.

[@ARuiz-eu3hk]

Remember kiddies. Like with power tools, but nature: WOOD CAN CUT THROUGH FLESH TOO.

[@CSKaras]

@@annabethsyndullacrump1424Nope, and here is why. First, Eric is smaller, so the chances of him taking damage is, too. If I drop a mouse down an elevator shaft through, it lands and is fine. If I drop a horse, it is dead on impact. Throw in other obstructions, mouse is still good but a little dinged and horse is dying already as it hits. Second, the harness and life vest he was still wearing would have protected Eric's front, along with his instinctive reflex to use his arms and tuck his legs for protection (it is possible Ben also told him to do so). Ben's legs would have tucked up, but been obstructed by Eric (potentially, even further protecting him) and his arms were still holding onto the parasail and the camera, thus keeping his body in an untucked position. Ben's body being bigger than Eric's also provided protection (similar to the man who died protecting a smaller, terrified woman by holding her and wrapping around her at the Aurora, CO Movie Theater attack). Third, the internal damage was likely inflicted from impacts to his back. Again, Eric's back is protected by Ben. However, Ben's back is completely exposed to hitting branches and other dense foliage. There is a potential for bludgeoning, punctures, gashes, and broken bones (vertebrae and ribs) as a result. A barracuda launched itself out of the water at a woman on a kayak in Florida and the impact collapsed one of her ribs. If a fish can do that, imagine what a tree (and some of those tropical trees are absolutely massive) can do. It is also possible for him to have broken a rib in one of the hits and it punctured a lung. All this to say, Eric would have been fine for a variety of reasons, and Ben would have died shortly after getting Eric loose. It was his final act to give the boy a chance. Oh, one final reason Eric would have been fine and Ben wouldn't have: plot armor. As for his legs, who knows.

[@annabethsyndullacrump1424]

@CSKaras you're ignoring the fact that in the video that Paul, Udesky, Amanda, Billy, and Alan watched, Eric didn't have a scratch on him. There is no way he wouldn't have been injured at all in that situation, so he had to have had internal injuries. And Eric wasn't that much smaller than Ben. Maybe came up to mid chest give or take. Eric's body in the harness covered the majority of Ben's torso so yes, he would have been more seriously injured than Ben if the latter had died from internal bleeding.

[@CSKaras]

​@@annabethsyndullacrump1424 Go back and rewatch the scene carefully. Eric has a big abrasion on the bridge of his nose, a huge abrasion or cut on his left forearm several on his hands and a quick glimpse of some on his legs (as well as Ben's legs). He is also wearing a 3/4 sleeve shirt, which may have helped him. Also, once they hit the canopy, the fall would go from a glide at a forward-downward angle and turned into free-fall straight down as the glider failed and crumpled. What's more, the glider and rigging would have got caught up in the trees and slowed the overall fall, but Ben would have even more opportunity for traumatic injury due to the fact that he was hooked directly into the rigging. Eric, being attached to Ben's harness, would have been less impacted by the glider and rigging getting wrenched this way and that as they fell through the branches.

[@InvisibleRR]

i agree with the raptors because we see the eggs near the site of his body...

[@drizzet11]

while i agree with you about what happened i feel that saying if his legs rotted off they would have been there still is wrong they most likely would grabbed by something and carried off or pulled far enough away that they would not have been easy to spot even more so since if i remember right the raptor nest was fairly close

[@kevinschneider9335]

How does Ben have internal injuries and Eric just some scratches if Eric is in front of Ben, taking the brunt of the impact from the trees?

[@annabethsyndullacrump1424]

Good point. I hadn't thought of that one. If Ben had massive internal injuries from the tree limbs, Eric would have had far worse injuries and likely would have died while still attached to Ben.

[@yasirstaine6108]

Chances are that The raptors maye have done it and as he tried to climb higher he died....also i dont think the pteranodons killed him bc they were still in thier giant bird cage at that time.

[@annabethsyndullacrump1424]

@@yasirstaine6108 Unlikely that the raptors killed him otherwise the sail would have been torn and unusable when Billy used it to save Eric in the bird cage.

[@shirdarkbane789]

That's actually an easy answer. What father wouldn't sacrifice themselves to protect their kid? Ben used himself as a shield for Eric so the boy wouldn't be as badly hurt. All Ben would need to do is twist so he took the brunt, not Eric.

[@annabethsyndullacrump1424]

@shirdarkbane789 you're forgetting Eric was attached to Ben via a harness, so Ben couldn't twist himself to take the brunt of the impact even if he wanted to. It's kind of like trying to lick your own elbow. Physically impossible.

[@Andrypro23]

To me, it’s pretty obvious that the matter of his corpse being found much higher from the point where it landed is a consequence of bad writing and inconsistency in the movie. They probably didn’t even notice that when they filmed it

[@the_furry_inside_your_walls639]

Inconsistency and Jurassic Park go hand in hand, unfortunately. Let's not forget the infamous cliff edge on the side of the fence that Rexy comes from in the first film, or the insane distance that Stark travelled from the mercenary party in Lost World... just to take a piss.

[@tededwards5709]

@@the_furry_inside_your_walls639 the hole Lex and Alan climb down is not the same hole the T-Rex broke through, but just a part of the fence that collapsed when the T-Rex came through. A lot of the fence collapsed when the T-Rex broke through it.

[@disbeafakename167]

What happened to the crew on the boat?! Landing on a dino infested island is pretty clearly deadly, but WHATS IN THE WATER?!

[@hint0122]

That's what I have always wanted to know

[@bonesboutiqueshop]

It was most likely the spino, as it can swim!

[@bunnyninja4127]

I thought the pterodactyls killed the boat crew

[@hint0122]

@@bonesboutiqueshop maybe, but keep up with a speed boat?

[@BanditoGames]

There are other water dinosaurs that Hammond had created other than the mosasaurus. It was most likely that. People like to speculate the flying dino or the spinosaurus. But the spino would be too small to swim that far out in the ocean and the flying dinos would be to easy to spot in that short amount of time

[@DelainaTheJurassicFan]

My theory is that Velociraptors killed Ben, and then Compys were picking at his body after his death. Absolutely epic video today, Shadows! Loved it! Amazing theories! Keep up the great work! Edit: Can you please do a video about the supposed brutal death of Peter Ludlow from the Lost World?

[@JuicyGeuce]

@benroraff8400 Compies can EASILY climb trees. We see them hopping, which would take an increased amount of strength in their legs to do so rather than just walking. With their downwards facing front claws and their extreme light weight, they could scale up the bark of a tree and probably fall onto Ben from the branch that the parachute got snagged on. As we have seen in JP2; they remember who had hurt them. In the late first/early second act of The Lost World, Dieter Stark zaps a compy with an electric prod. Later on in that movie when he goes for a wee, he tries to do that again. Now remembering this specific thing as a threat, they kill him.

[@mattcliburn]

I love how the background music makes me think of Dino Crisis. Still waiting on that remake lol 😢

[@ShadowsLew]

Same, I LOVE Dino Crisis, Hence why I use Dino Crisis OST :)

[@dominickchase3814]

Classic

[@oldmanmorgan5088]

Love Dino crisis, good to see I’m not the only one who appreciates it

[@RayHardman7567]

If you buy some handheld cameras today, they warp the terrain so it doesn't look very steep or high. Just imagine how a grainy camera from 20 years ago would distort hight perception and depth. It doesn't look that high, and Eric falling made it seem not far, but Ben was recording a foot or two above Eric's head, so that's just added distortion. As for Ben dying, I just assumed it was the raptor's that ate him. Or his lower half. After all, they did land in the middle of the raptor's nesting grounds.

[@Valarius_J]

There is no way Ben died from internal injuries during the descent. Any branches that were hit on the way down would have hit Eric first and dumped most of the kinetic energy into him because Eric was tethered to Ben in the front. Seeing that Eric is more or less fine and able to run away means that nothing bad enough happened on the way down to kill Ben. The Pterodactyls also couldn't have been responsible for the attack as they were trapped into the aviary until towards the end of of JP3. In the scene where the survivors escape the aviary, there is a scene where Miss Kirby closes a gate behind her and leaves. However, at the end of the scene, we are very specifically shown she did not lock it securely and it is opened up again from the inside. This is how the pterodactyls got out of their cage to fly away in the ending. Before that they were trapped inside. The simplest answer is probably the right one: It's a continuity error because the movie was written during film. These scenes were filmed not in chronological order like most movies. It was probably raptors that or other taller theropods that killed him / scavenged the corpse. The change in height is just a continuity error.

[@michaellilly965]

Assuming not from fall damage and that they went straight forward and not possibly down.

[@sharondornhoff7563]

@@michaellilly965 The repeated jerks on his harness during the crash could have ruptured his spleen.

[@senshidoKB]

I have a crazy thought on how Ben ended up higher, the weight of the raptors as they ripped his legs off pulled the branches he is hanging from down then as the legs came away the branches spring back up catapulting his now much lighter corpes higher into the tree where the cords got caught on other branches.

[@ameliapotter627]

I love JP3 so much…it might even be my fave Jurassic movie (very controversial, I know) and yet I have NEVER noticed that Ben’s legs were missing 🤯 I always assumed that the compys nibbled at him till there was pretty much nothing but his skeleton left, since bigger carnivores would have done damage to the bones. But clearly I need to rewatch this movie again cause I’m usually super aware of little details in movies…I’m actually baffled how I’ve never noticed Ben’s missing legs 😂

[@ShadowsLew]

Thats's why I am here :)

[@annabethsyndullacrump1424]

Except the compys can't climb trees and Ben was too high up for them to reach even by jumping. However, I also never noticed Ben's legs were missing until now.

[@jimbowlan5804]

Why would it be controversial if we all liked the same dhit movie discussion would be boring as hell

[@sharondornhoff7563]

Why assume the scavengers in question had to be InGen creations? Plain old-fashioned birds and insects could've picked him bare.

[@Iron_Elite]

Hate how these movies don't go in depth by showing flashbacks on how things played out.

[@ShadowsLew]

Petition for me to Direct the Next Jurassic Movie ;)

[@unusual4958]

I feel like the ambiguity was stronger.

[@DirtyDan77]

Couldn't disagree more. Mystery and allowing the audience's mind to fill in the gaps is one of the greatest tools of a story teller.

[@tomesofawesome8041]

My thoughts was death by T-Rex. In the first and second film. T-Rex is often known for tossing people up and mid air biting. My thoughts was that the T-rex tosses him up to eat him, the parachute catches the wind, and launches him back up into the air, and T-Rex only bites off from the waist down. Your theory makes more sense though as he doesn't have any tooth marks. True.

[@nabuchodonosormcgalapatram6941]

The fact that he lost his legs might also be because they fell off while he was decomposing, and why they were not on the ground when he was discovered could be explained by the really active environment that is a forest, where corpes disappear in a matter of days due to scavengers, or because they were covered by debris during a storm, storm that could also explain why he was higher than on the video and also completemy entangled...

[@ShadowsLew]

*Solved* Where was the Spinosaurus During Jp2? kzbin.info/www/bejne/aZ7NYX2EeamSas0

[@vissenmetluca]

The spino was the main dino in jp3 (I guess you mean jp2😅)

[@Going4Broke2528]

People always say "Why did Ben and Eric go to Sorna if there were dinosaurs there" like that was at any point public knowledge. If it weren't for the incident in San Diego, I doubt the masses would have any knowledge dinos existed prior to the opening of Jurassic World, as Jurassic Park was not public knowledge. Hammond called in Alan Grant and the rest to show them his creations BEFORE he revealed their existence to the rest of the world. As far as Ben knew, he was taking his step-son to a perfectly safe, tropical island alongside a trained professional.

[@orionparish9858]

There's a major plot hole here. Because Eric was out front, he took the brunt of coming back down. If Ben had internal injuries, Eric would have far worse. Yet he only had scratches and bruises. Here's a better idea: They were both fine. But before Ben could unclip, the raptors came looking to see what was causing all the noise. Ben was an easy meal, and Eric ran.

[@kennethmacgregor-Gregorach]

If his legs had fallen off, there's no reason why they'd still be there, scavengers could easily have picked them up, and eaten them.

[@patrickdoss25]

I love when they find Ben’s body and Paul says “I’m sorry about Ben” to Teá Leone she doesn’t give an eff about him and worries about the kid.

[@bull420840]

What makes you think that the legs would still be laying under the body if they rotted enough to fall off and not picked up and carried off by the first scavenger to come along.

[@annabethsyndullacrump1424]

Which would likely be the compys since I believe they were the only scavengers InGen created.

[@sharondornhoff7563]

@@annabethsyndullacrump1424 Pretty much any meat-eating animal will chow down on dead meat if it's just lying there. Easier than hunting.

[@annabethsyndullacrump1424]

@@sharondornhoff7563 depending on how long the dead animal has been laying there. Most predators won't touch a rotting carcass

[@annabethsyndullacrump1424]

Typically, only scavengers such as hyenas, vultures, procompsognathus, etc. will eat off a carcass even if it is rancid as hell. Their stomachs can take the toxic bacteria that exists in a rotting corpse.

[@michaelrodriguez3327]

Pretty sure that raptors were the main cause. Since he was already dead when they found it. They started ripping him off and they accidentally pulled the parachute up where they gave up since the body was so high up the ground

[@annabethsyndullacrump1424]

And left the paraglider unscathed? Not possible. And we know it's intact because Billy used it to rescue Eric in the bird cage when he was taken to the pteranodon nest.

[@343guardian5]

Directors: Dude, we should like.... Have Ben's skeleton later found to add suspense to our film and make it seem more scary! The community: Tearing apart several years of data analysis to determine the director's tremendous creativity and secret behind Ben's death

[@aintsam9952]

I’m more curious about what happened to the guys on the boat within the mist.

[@Exile_Sky]

The simplest solution is often the correct one. A larger predator came by and in the process of ripping the legs off flung the body into the tree. The fliers weren't released until later in the movie, and while rapors could have the leg part, they would have had a hard time moving the body. You also have to remember he was dead and larger predators are followed around by all sorts of carion feeders because dinos eat like sharks. It would explain why the body is so absolutely picked clean.

[@NightFuryLover31]

I have to admit, this was something I was scratching my head about for a ling time. Contributing factors makes more sense than one cause. I actually didn't even notice his legs were gone.

[@dubdundee4239]

I always thought of the Jurassic park 3 raptors as deinonychus because of how different they look physically like how they have that hump on the sides of their heads and how the male jp3 raptors have quills

[@annabethsyndullacrump1424]

Fun fact, the raptors in the Jurassic series were actually designed from Utahraptor which had only just been discovered when Jurassic Park 1 was being filmed.

[@Casual_guy1234]

@jessecrump1424 wrong, the velocorapters in jp are velicoraptor mongolius, aka dyonicus, you would know if you read the novel

[@annabethsyndullacrump1424]

@Arthur_Morgan59 and yet, they are not. Velociraptor Mongoliansis was about the size of a chicken and had a relatively flat skull. Deinonychus was about the same size and had a completely different body shape. The Velociraptors in Jurassic Park are Utahraptors. You would know that if you'd read the prologue to Raptor Red by Robert T. Bakker, who consulted on Jurassic Park. They literally talk about the JP raptors being Utahraptors.

[@annabethsyndullacrump1424]

And I have read Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton. And nowhere in the book does it mention that the raptors are V. Mongoliensis and Deinonychus. I actually own the book in hardback minus the dust jacket.

[@Casual_guy1234]

@jessecrump1424 I might be wrong but they explain it when they meet wu

[@orphious885]

Or... Maybe Ben weighed a lot more when he still had legs and flesh, and the branch that he was snagged on bowed a lot under his weight. If (a) carnivore(s) came along and bit off his legs, he'd weigh significantly less. Who's to say the branch didn't spring back a bit with only half a person left on it? As for the tangled lines, if I was tangled in a tree seeing a sharp-toothed dinosaur trudging with purpose in my direction, I'd probably be panicking and trying to climb my rigging too.

[@HeatherNickless-vt8zr]

I think it was part of the "jump Scare" joke for that particular scene when Grant and the Kirbys found Ben's parachute, that is why his remains was set very high up in the tree than what the cam video showed; you remember when Ellie Sadler found Rey Arnold's severed arm in JP 1, that was that kind of joke then too.😅

[@Subhashkpatelmd]

I feel like JP3 has the darkest or most mysteries or theories out of the franchise.

[@izzynicholson6851]

what i think happend was 50 or so comepese came and started to eat his legs after they were done they try to get higher up but he gets them off with his hands he woud not have to hold the pareshute so he gets them off and went further up the trees and died of blood loss

[@Anon12077]

With the amount of videos and speculation there is about the deaths in JP3, I’m starting to think a lot of it really is just explained by poor writing. This film wasn’t helmed by the original team, and the script wasn’t even finished when the film started filming. I think the reality is that there’s a lot of oversight here

[@Dark_Kevlarian]

It's also important to know that Pterodactyls actually cannot fly, they can only glide very exactly like bats. This is why bats and Pterodactyls hang from higher elevations (cave ceilings/cliff walls) when resting so that they don't have to climb anything in order to take flight again. So a Pterodactyl attack doesn't really add up in a thick jungle canopy either.

[@Teufeltusken]

Bats absolutely can fly.

[@therealnickynurotic8930]

​@@Teufeltuskenthey can take of can't they and flap , isn't that flying ?

[@SlothOfTruth]

Are pterodactyls and pteranodons the same though?

[@SlothOfTruth]

@@therealnickynurotic8930 Bats *can* fly, but their wings aren't strong enough to take off. That's why they hang upside down on ceilings in caves.

[@andresdeleon5160]

Ben Hildebrand died from his injuries and his body is eaten by scavenger animals including compsognathus.

[@annabethsyndullacrump1424]

Compys were the only scavengers. And if Ben died from injuries sustained in the impact with the trees, Eric would have gotten far worse since he was in front of Ben and would have taken the brunt of the damage instead of getting scrapes and cuts.

[@jakckamfkakdkakskfksmcs]

It was the raptors that killed Ben in that movie

[@geckoraptor9397]

I Always wondered about it i thought he broke his spine And could not move but this makes more sense really nice video :)

[@annabethsyndullacrump1424]

Broken spine is highly probable. From a branch that whipped back at him as they came to a stop but I would think a similar injury would have happened to Eric since he was attached to the harness Ben was wearing instead of suffering minor abrasions and lacerations.

[@TechReviewbyIrdi]

Slingback tumble after the limbs snapped. Explains the wrapped cords and height back into the tree.

[@d0nKsTaH]

IT DOES explain his missing legs. They simply rotted off and fell down onto the ground. Small scavengers (maybe even those Raptors) ate them.

[@Wolfbane1677]

People forget T-Rex is a scavenger in fact a few big dinos are and who to say every dino isn't a scavenger? My point is Ben could have died from internal bleeding and then eaten by a carnivore. Hell vultures eat dead meat all the time so who to say dinos can't?

[@gpheonix1]

my face when shadows misspelled their

[@mustang198626]

raptors could have grabbed his legs and when they ripped off, the branches sprung back and he was launched higher

[@sbro17]

I’d say something had a grip on his legs and the bone detached from the socket thus slingshotting his much lighter torso up higher and the parachute caught on a higher part of the tree

[@project_Notorious]

I think the answer is more obvious then what we think, eric would pull the parachute raising ben higher into the trees to try to prevent him from getting eaten while eric looked for help, Afterwards a dinosaur would eat his legs but wasn’t able to reach the rest of his body. this seems like the most reasonable explanation. 🤷‍♂️ i know im 3 months late but i feel like the theory is the most accurate one we got in this case. Great video i love the JP franchise, sucks we never got a openworld game that plays like the last of us but in a jurassic formate

[@TheOtherGuys2]

I'm gonna vote for Compies. He climbed up into the tree to disentangle himself, and got attacked by a swarm of them. Munch munch munch, explains why the body is intact mostly, but eventually the legs fall off and are carried away by either Raptors or Compies.

[@cypressgold]

Honestly could have been any number of dino that just tried eating them. Got ahold of the legs, ripped them off and in doing so flung the body higher into the entangled mess above.

[@COUNTSAMINCULA]

The raptors killed him.

[@Billythabob]

How did he get higher then because the raptors are like 10 feat tall

[@COUNTSAMINCULA]

@@Billythabob raptors can jump high

[@Billythabob]

I noticed that 3 seconds after posting that reply lol

[@emmayates9294]

The Raptors are called the achillibaters

[@laidbacklouie2089]

Wasn't the mom who released the flying dinosaur when they were stuck in the giant bird cage way after the body was found? Even in the credits they were flying to a new island but because the gate was left open

[@ShadowsLew]

Let's not forget Pteranodons were in the Franchise BEFORE Jp3, as we see them in the end of The Lost World Jurassic Park, with Buck and Doe :)

[@annabethsyndullacrump1424]

Accidentally, I believe. I think Amanda thought she had completely closed the gate in the rush to get to the boat.

[@annabethsyndullacrump1424]

@@ShadowsLew And Junior.

[@xBloodxFangx]

There are no flying dinosaurs. Pterosaurs are flying reptiles

[@marekvanda8876]

4:35 what a sound! not everyone knows what it's about!

[@EthanDarke]

The most dangerous thing in any film happened to him, the frighteningly fatal Off-Screened to death

[@theunslombard9213]

Maybe shortly after the fall they got attacked by some predator, and Ben told Eric to run away, but obviously being alone and scared Eric would go back to see what happened to Ben. Maybe he came back to see Ben dead and missing his legs from the predator attack, and Eric didn't want things to eat Ben because you know being sentimental and stuff, so maybe Eric moved Ben further up the tree to stop things from eating him further

[@therealxyris]

I learned so many things from this like that he didn’t have any legs and I didn’t notice him so high up

[@lorrainemace1983]

Thanks for this I have always been very confused about how Ben actually died in this movie 🎥

[@braktorveilleux2623]

AHHH the dino crisis song you thought we woudnt notice :P

[@ShadowsLew]

You got me ;)

[@lucyheartfilia609]

Ooooorrr it was bad camera angel lol but I do like how far you can go with evidence to come up with an explanation

[@johnjoseph2010]

3:54 or a monsoon flung his body around and got caught higher in the tree... I agree he was more likely alive when the raptors rip-off his legs, but he was too weak to climb higher into the tree and the raptors would give up after he died from blood loss. A monsoon could get strong enough winds to fling his body higher into the tree.

[@sandiekelley8513]

Another thought on how he got higher in the tree. Raptors grab his legs and hang and yank on them pulling him lower as the branches bend. When his legs detach the branches don't have them pulling down so they spring up and yank his body up where it gets snagged higher in the tree till being dislodged by her. His body thus falls back down to hang lower than it was before. Face to face with her.

[@SnowWolf90]

I didn't really think about it until now but aren't the raptors supposed to be hyper intelligent? So if they were smart, wouldn't they have had a few guarding the nests?

[@Marcus_awesome_gaming]

5:53 I like the theory of the Raptors eating him, but there’s one problem and it’s that the dinosaurs on Isla Sorna have common sense. For example, the Raptors only attacked the humans when they stole the eggs and Spinosaurus mostly only attacked humans when Cooper shot at the Spinosaurus or when they injured the spinosaurus Fin after they were trying to leave on the plane. So there would be no real reason for the Raptors to attack him. I also like the theory of the pteranodons but how would they even get out of their cage? But if the pteranodons did get out of the cage, then I do believe that they would’ve eaten him, but for me, the most likely answer is probably bugs coming to eat him.

[@robrice7246]

Do you know about the JPIII Book: Survivor? I believe it does provide an explanation regarding Ben's death.

[@icecream-bozo1]

wow you read that comicbook too because that says exactly in it and I can proove it

[@Anderson12690]

Finally found you again!! Watched your content ((oddly enough this vid was the first I watched)) and was fully into it. Lost and forgot the name of your channel and now here I am again, can’t believe I’m saying this but…tanks KZbin

[@ShadowsLew]

Welcome back!

[@marcusfranconium3392]

What solved if one read the crighton books one knows how each character dies. the movies where weak watered down plots of the books .

[@ELBigBossMK23]

Gory, gory, what a hell of a way to die He ain't gonna jump no more

[@FeedTheGoat88]

Great theory. It couldnt be the Pteranodons as arent they still in the bird cage? They only get released when the gate is left open.

[@ShadowsLew]

No, there are indeed other Pteranodons on Isla sorna, Think back to the end of the Lost World. We see them then.

[@FeedTheGoat88]

@@ShadowsLew ahhh yeah!

[@justinterrell7020]

Forgot about that one. But that’s a bit of a plot hole in and of itself; the Pteranodon at the end of Lost World didn’t leave the island, but the others who were caged did? Unfortunately the third movie is a bit of a mess and is notorious for not explaining the things it sets up.

[@necrochemical5572]

hard to believe the internal injuries thing, since Eric was up front. What hit Ben would surely have hit Eric first, absorbing the impacts. So Eric would have died of those injuries, and Ben would have survived.

[@Parzy_Plays]

I've always had a little problem with the pterosaur theory as, you don't see any anywhere when they're on the air strip or anywhere else. up until you hit the aviary scene and then you see lots of them. Even then they accidently left the gate open, and this was loads of scenes after they find Ben's body. can someone please explain where the pterosaur theory came from, I'm genuinely curious.

[@wheatley_the_weasel]

Why is there a photo of Oppenheimer in Jurassic Park?

[@redfa1nt567]

Maybe his legs just fell off due to gravity/decomposition, then scavenging animals scattered them away from where they fell

[@Thatgamer1110]

No one remembers The certasaurous

[@andrewshelf9958]

I do

[@Mxllxrd_MC]

My Theory: The spinosaurus found Ben while he was still alive and grabbed him and bit his legs off then flung him higher into the tree, as Ben tended to his wounds he died of blood loss and was eaten by the insects

[@MachinegunnNick]

I love it when I hear Dino Crisis music in these videos

[@rcdune7132]

I still wanna know what killed the people in the boat....

[@mshourba27]

Oh my god I always wondered to I just thought taradacyl??

[@AstrideCommunityFearo]

Maybe he died to internal bleeding then the tree grew so it made him higher

[@monkeycat48]

I’m not gonna lie I may have not have known Ben, but that would’ve been cool to have him as my stepdad. For him to go out that way that was just so tragic like literally. I never really got too much into how he died. I mean I never thought about it at all. My guess was the reason he was much further up in to the trees that may be the pteranodons did bring him up to the tree possibly maybe they ripped his legs off they could do that. But either way, maybe it was the velociraptors that chewed his legs off and he probably maybe with only strength he had he managed to get further up in the tree to try and stop the blood loss. Unfortunately, that was enough to have him succumb and maybe the parasites of the jungle decided to consume his remaining flesh but either way, my moneys on both the pteranodons are probably the pteranodons because they could still rip legs off limbs off you never know. My guess is the pteranodon probably held them up to the tree maybe got entangled after his death ripping his skin off his head, leaving him half of skeleton. It’s possible the pteranodon may be tried to get his body out, but couldn’t because it was too entangled. Couldn’t take it anywhere in the trees where are they were was not a very good spot to be. So that’s how I believe been probably succumbed to a horrible death. The part about where he suffered injuries in the script, then dies as Eric is all on his own. They make it seem like he died there but, however, if you all remember if anyone remembers the story of John Chapman from the battle of tukar ghar? Anybody who has seen that US 24th squadron combat controller face off against many Al-Qaeda operatives by himself by drone footage. You would notice that the first time he goes down is seal team brothers in arms thought he was dead. Didn’t have time to stick around like Ben he passed out like John Chapman both passed out and sooner or later they came to then died. I’m sorry I had to bring John Chapman into this but it’s just something that had to be told because it makes sense that Eric probably thought he died. And then suddenly maybe sometime later he did come to but however, he ended up getting consumed in the most brutal way. I literally had a tear in my eye watching this when I was a kid. I literally just couldn’t believe this character was killed off. I never knew him that well, but clearly he was a compassionate, caring, lovable man it’s just really sad. How is death was just horrific. I think what I found even more depressing was the fact that when they’re rolling up the parachute and yeah, I can guarantee you they’re probably not gonna have time for a ceremony for him. We know they’re not gonna have time to recover his body so they just leave his body. They’re just sad like completely sad

[@hunter-ironprime]

Or the velociraptors pulled of with legs when they were biting at them

[@williamtufts3600]

The raptors grabbed his legs and their weight pulled the branches down. Then when his legs popped off the bent branches sling shoted his body higher.

[@Mortal-Knite]

**Early Spoiler Alert comment before you watch to the point of my comment was talking about** I'm going with the Raptors eating his legs. Because their nest is not that far from where he died.

[@jdrodriguez2357]

Rain, the rain water filled the canopy after (could be before) he was dead and had his legs eaten. Which pulled him up higher. The rain either evaporated or maybe a small hole formed to cause the water to leak out.

[@francisco3992]

To me raptor apeared, but also big dino, big dino got Ben by the legs (like the t-rex couple in jp2), elevated him but got stuck by parachute in the tree, so big dino just got the legs and leave.

[@samwindham3102]

you are doing some good telling of plots then explain in the first movie when the t-rex pushed the car over the side with the 2 swinging on the cable .the car goes over and yet it ends up on the other sice of the tree which is impossiable .

[@jasongivens6749]

Easy explanation.... two raptors grabbed his legs and weighed down the tree limbs. When his flesh ripped loose he catapulted into the tree canopy tangled in cables and what was left of his legs rotted off. EWW

[@wulfheort8021]

Hildebrand, that dude has a very cool last name, it means "battle-sword".

[@aboomination897]

How about the raptors pulled on the legs and he was flung back up high by the tension in the parachute's cords, until his body finally got stuck?

[@jacobdrolet4262]

Amazing video of what really happened to Ben in Jurassic Park 3,fantastic job.

[@Suigeneris999]

I remember watching a video that talked about how you can die by hanging from a tree with a parachute. So I just guessed that’s how he died and then had his body eaten by raptors.

[@davidcolantuono3622]

I don't think the Raptors killed Ben. After all, they never targeted any of the cast until Billy took two of their eggs. So, unless Ben managed to steal one of the Raptor eggs while still entangled in the parasail (hardly possible), they would have had no reason to target him.

[@victoriasteel6930]

Huh, yeah that theory makes sense. I always thought that it was simply that he climbed higher and died of his own injuries. Due to the length of time he's mostly skeletonised, so without anything holding his legs up they drop. The bones then get grabbed and thats how they find him.

[@MushuaThePotato]

Plot twist he has no legs because of film budget

[@xtoshix2]

love the dino crisis save room theme

[@MrGabrielJude]

I always thought they were too low to the ground under the canopy for pterodactyls to get him, figured Raptors saw him in the tree, jumped at his legs while alive, snagged his legs and as the legs yanked off it caused his body to be sling-shotted higher in the tree.

[@aldariontelcontar]

I always figured his legs are missing because they simply fell out after flesh (skin, muscle and tendons) had rotten away. Raptors will have eaten the bones.

[@TheTrumpReaper]

6:10 OK, I know he is saying "main cause", but it sounded at first as though he said "main course", which would work as well. 🤤☠️