The Angstloch - History's Most BRUTAL Execution Method?

[@stefanholmstrom68]

When I was a kid we lived next to Turku castle in Finland and I still remember how scary it was to look down into the "kuiluvankila" (could be translated to gap/crevice prison). It was used for 200 years for so called "confession prisoners" (tunnustusvanki). The prisoners were kept in this 8 meter (26 feet) deep hole until they confessed. In those times it was important to confess, even if you already were considered guilty, as confessing meant you might be excuted but save your soul. Another nasty Angstloch I've been to was in Cesis castle in Latvia, you could actually climb down into this quite big dark cell through a narrow hole (there were lamps, of course) and it made me feel really anxious being done there.

[@andrewgalindo6959]

Gnarly. I would not want to die that way. That is really terrible.

[@nautifella]

I was watching a documentary on Irish castles and they had a segment on a castle in County Cork. During a renovation in the 70s the construction crew was cleaning out the oubliette and found human remains. Most of the bones were dated to the 16th & 17th centuries.... _MOST_ of them. One was found wearing a watch from 1939. The textiles found with the body also dated to around the same period. A search of people reported missing came up with three or four probable leads, two of which had relatives still living in the area. The siblings of both men had thought that they had just moved to Canada or the States and started a new life. DNA testing was still twenty or more years away. But I hope they identified the man and gave him a proper burial.

[@JustnHouse]

Incredible channel & I'm dead impressed by your research (pun intended!). Seriously though, it's truly fascinating, whilst being beyond comprehension - us humans & our malevolence, limited only by our imaginations. Again, GREAT channel.

[@Juliett-we7tc]

Why are we humans, as a species, so drawn to intentionally harming each other, and so drawn to creating the most horrific ways to do just that? Some other species may attack or kill one another, but we are the only ones who do it just for pleasure or entertainment purposes.

[@Frankie5Angels150]

Look up what chimps do to one another and get back to us.

[@Archangels1]

Enforcing the law.

[@leachimy24]

Its mostly used to scare off other criminals.

[@HailAnts]

The nazis used a larger version of this in concentration camps. It was as deep but much larger around. They would toss multiple people into this over a period of time and watch as the victims succumbed to horrible feral instincts such as cannibalism.

[@theemporersnewclothes]

Food for the algorithm

[@Michael-r2c8k]

These were only done to the common people

[@Juliett-we7tc]

Leave it to us Germans, we sure are a unique bunch. 😁😁

[@audreymaqks]

😂😢😮

[@KC9UDX]

Stalin: "Hold mein Bier"

[@Juliett-we7tc]

@@KC9UDX do I have to give it back? 😁😁

[@rudrashakti108]

Your people are the superior master race. You sound brainwashed by the banking elites of a certain tribe that control your country. No doubt you believe you should take in as many Muslims as possible to atone for what you believe are your sins. Wake up. Or you will lose your country. Oh and you feel guilty for being German for nothing. There was no ho-st, but America and Japan and Russia and later on China committed far worse sins. Either way never feel guilty for your race and national and cultural heritage.

[@tripperm10011972]

I wanted to create a drinking game where you have to take a drink when oubliette is said in one of these torture videos, but then realized a worldwide shortage of alcohol would result.

[@RandomMakingEncounters]

I think I only counted seven in this video… I have to go lie down now…

[@SuparmanSiwalan]

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