The Gruesome Truth About Gibbeting: Explored

[@joannalynn3848]

This video was so professionally done it could be on tv. I truly appreciate it. Thank you very much. Very informative.

[@WellINever]

Thank you, Joanna! 😁🙏

[@wtconroe879]

I agree. Paul, you should consider pitching this to a TV network.

[@carolinerowles5951]

That's why I don't watch TV anymore, just KZbin, as Telly is rubbish now.

[@CivilEngineerWroxton]

In my opinion, all of his videos are TV production quality, but his style and cadence and subject matter make these videos even better than TV production quality. I thoroughly enjoy every one of them. I learn quite a bit here. 🤔😀

[@zanemob1429]

In fairness (though not go question the unquestionably great quality of this channel) TV sucks. Not saying much lol.

[@VillaFanDan92]

Always trust the testimony of someone nicknamed "Mad Thomas"

[@sarahpeterson2813]

It was the casual shrug after he said that phrase that did it for me

[@ShadeEmberi]

Well, he was called mad Thomas, not liar Thomas.

[@gnarthdarkanen7464]

Monikers and nicknames have their own weird context in society... BUT frankly, I'd be willing to at least hear a "Mad Thomas" through first... Experience has repeatedly taught me never even to entertain the conversation with anyone dubbed "Honest ______" and to avoid any eating establishment with the word "Mom's" or any variation included in it's name... I'll spare the conversation about the dubious acuity of witness testimony, even under the best of circumstances... BUT a nomenclature like "Mad Thomas" for the source can't be the worst aspect of it's consideration. ;o)

[@NiaJustNia]

@@gnarthdarkanen7464 He could be "mad" because he told the truth against the wishes of the aristocracy. That would be considered a pretty mad act

[@gnarthdarkanen7464]

@@NiaJustNia Could be. Lots of various reasons someone gets a moniker like that one. It rarely hurts to hear someone out and let their account carry its own merits. The story will either hold true to the evidence you can get, or it won't... It's not perfect, but it works better than dismissing out of hand... more often than not. ;o)

[@erikarnold4737]

Man, you click on one torture video and the algorithm just goes nuts with these things.

[@Alison-ku5ko]

O no…. 😩

[@SaanMigwell]

It's worse with the JWST videos. I watched on PBS Spacetime show, and now all I get are crappy AI "Science" channels that report on dates in the future.

[@saltymisfit6566]

We saw you would like to learn a little something from history would you be interested in this video and how to dispose of a body?? 😂

[@HateIncorporated]

Almost as if you are being indoctrinated, huh?

[@kiefmanning7394]

I think they got you by the giblets

[@raiderfandew]

Such a pleasure to watch a professionally done You Tube video that isn't click bait. I really appreciated the fact that I didn't have to wait through 3 or 4 commercials on the opening. Thank you, sincerely.

[@betweentheribs]

i know this'll probably never be seen but this channel is genuinely a comfort for me.. i love learning about history and this guy genuinely feels like an old teacher i had and was close with so its just a very comforting channel for me :) good video, good work, please never stop producing content

[@WellINever]

Thank you, Lung 🙏 I'm glad the show brings you comfort ☺ We've no plans of stopping any time soon 🙂

[@graham197103010]

I'm British and wasn't aware of the many definitions/meanings/ways of `gibbeting`😕. The vast number of places called Gibbet Hill there are in England is now truly alarming!😧

[@HighlanderNorth1]

👍 Well, there is one positive aspect of building the gibbet platforms in various locations spread out all over England. They later became the telegraph and telephone poles that made distant communication a reality! They say that 25% of the telephone poles still in use today in modern England, were once gibbet platforms! (Kidding, of course)😉

[@randyortonsbulge]

@@HighlanderNorth1 there is also a location in Fable 1 called that. Though that game was made by Brits.

[@natalieawdry993]

I feel exactly the same! I knew almost none of this and looked up Combe Gibbett because I've noticed him doing many videos on the Berks/Oxon border (where I used to live) and discovered that it's on the Berks/Wilts border where I now live. Looking forward to going for a walk up there.

[@bce1279]

We are such a nation of gibbets, I can't say that I am proud of my inherent gibbetness

[@BTSArmy-ge5gf]

your country would be better if you kept your history as your violent crime is on the rise due to your misplaced values

[@Itsa-Mess]

You're right on point with your joke about YT. The amount of animal abuse, fake rescue or presenting kids in wrong moments is also cruel... Great video, you are a really gifted storyteller 😊

[@ZentaBon]

So many videos where the animals are clearly being beaten too. I can read animal body language decently well, and it's easy to tell when an animal is terrified but they can look "cute" to someone who doesn't know.

[@Itsa-Mess]

​@@ZentaBon you're right, it makes me so mad everytime I see it. Too many times I tried to report it but nothing changes, YT cares more about if someone cusses, so now I try to avoid it 😑 Better be careful not to look too deep into it or it can mess with your head!

[@bennettcawley4630]

I dislike extremely the psychological "challenges". Isn't it funny to see a kid or an animal in distress, hehehe? Abhorrent.

[@UnfinishedRiot]

I never watch animal rescue videos because of the risk that they abused the animal in the first place

[@brewcrew5854]

thank u for that point i am so upset about the possibility poor helpless animals are put in water only to be "rescued" i also am not comfortable with these tiny kitties just aimlessly wandering in the middle of the street . i wish there was some undercover operatives that could weed out these horrible acts -if they exist ?

[@duartesimoes508]

Captain Kidd was gibbeted too, that's him at 5.42... He was neither a very malignant nor successful pirate. Above all he had bad luck, he was a Royal Navy Officer and never intended to be a pirate in first place; his story is worth reading.

[@EsteemedReptile]

Fortunately for him, he got a good deal in death as the Persona for Ryuji Sakomoto.

[@PS1-Hagrid]

Shouldn't have messed with shanks.

[@MrMickao]

Well spotted ! I saw this at the Docklands museum in London.

[@j0nnyism]

Yeah his crew was a motley poorly disciplined crew. Unfortunately he targeted ships from countries at peace with England making him a proper pirate

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[@ToniHunterOne]

"The things we did before KZbin". ~ Scathingly funny! I haven't looked up how long you've been doing these, I only just found you just a few days ago. After the first two I subscribed. You're the only channel of this type of reporting that I trust to be completely honest reporting to best of what must be comprehensive research on your part. Your story telling is marvelous. I only had one history teacher that would have rivaled you in his research of American History. Mr. Macilwayne. He made history come alive. He didn't regurgitate facts except at test time, at which he would give us on the projector all the facts we were by Board of Education required to know. We would go home and memorize and then reguritate on the test paper next day. I was the history itself that he taught us though class discussions were he would answer our questions about WHY certain events had occured. He would tell us about the personal back histories of historical figures, etc. Nothing was taboo in our discussions. It was like a private history club of 14 and 15 year olds.

[@MasqueradingDragon]

You know, I'd heard the word gibbet, but never really knew what it meant. How gruesome. Thanks for teaching me something new today!

[@addie_is_me]

I always learn a lot even from one simple topic. How great is WIN? So great! 😊

[@Boo-dawg.]

Gibbet sounds like something from inside a chicken that no one would want to consume. 🤭

[@carolinerowles5951]

@@Boo-dawg. I think the giblets make a lovely stock.

[@stephenlamley541]

Same i travel down a road called gibet hill on the way into a city. I'll have all manner of horrible images going through my twisted mind now.

[@addie_is_me]

@@stephenlamley541 No, think of it as history, be amazed it’s still there and be happy it was sort of a while ago. And when you go by it try to have a nice cookie with you or something. Lol

[@dominic.h.3363]

What always fascinates me about these things is how they relate to other things that happened the same time. Symphonies were written for orchestras when people were burned on the stake for being witches. And railroads could pass by a gibbeted body. It's just mind-blowing to consider.

[@martinasirillova7391]

Very interesting thought!

[@lucyxchan6808]

I think it's called historical dissonance, when people know that 2 things happened at the same time or in the same time frame, but fail to connect these 2 together...

[@dominic.h.3363]

@@lucyxchan6808 There is no term for this, because most people don't think about these things, it's natural to not connect things that don't share context. Just because they happened the same time, doesn't mean they are related, it's just an interesting factoid that they did. Dissonance is when you can't reconcile two things that share the same context, fit the same frame of reference.

[@Ted_Sheckler]

​@dominic.h.3363 your mind is blown that different things happen at the same time?

[@dominic.h.3363]

@@Ted_Sheckler If your mind isn't blown that manifestations of what we still consider high culture to this day and scientific progress happen in countries that are at the forefront of these examples of sheer eloquence, along examples of such barbarity that you'd place them half a millenium apart, that's a statement that says more about you than me...

[@thehappyhermit01]

As gruesome as the gibbeting was, even more unsettling to me is the fact that people flocked to see the sight.

[@laurieb3703]

And had picnics under them 😖

[@pageribe2399]

People flocked to hangings, burnings, drawing & quartering, and all manner of public executions throughout history. It's only been relatively recently that executions were removed from the public square. And, most of them were accompanied by picnics & parties of all sorts.

[@92up7]

And yet here we all are.. Have you seen channels of scary history or stories? The peeps in this channel would be showing up...

[@KyrieChii]

@@92up7 I think morbid curiosity is human nature (I've admittedly been fascinated by true crime since middle school & have regrettably searched my fair sure of uncensored crime scene photos).. But I think our reaction to the way previous generations viewed these things is because we've done everything we can to be as far removed from direct reminders of/exposure to our own 'mortality', as we can... ...Whereas say, those in the Victorian era, mostly still died (& were laid out for funerals) at their homes before burial (& rarely embalmed them). Plus I'd like to think we became at least _a little_ more enlightened as a society in regards to things like torture (I'm not suffering under the delusion that it's _much_ though).

[@ember9361]

@@KyrieChii i mean, add the fact these are convicted (allegedly) criminals of the worst kind and suddenly it makes a bit more sense. Do you not see people gleefully cheer about awful people's death? Say, Ted Bundy's execution was commemorated, rightfully so imo. People still to this very day behave similarly

[@Purplepig8]

I was playing Dragon Age: Inquisition recently and had the option of sentencing a prisoner to gibbet. I chose to do it because I didn't know what it meant and thought it was a funny word. I was very confused when most people disapproved of my decision.

[@aymuhspunj]

They did not vibe with the silliness.

[@Anglisc1682]

Origins is better

[@nancyharman4795]

Until I just watched this video, I assumed "gibbet" was a synonym for "gallows" -- boy, have I had an eye opener tonight. And I suddenly flashed back to "Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves" and tried to recall, is THIS what happened to Robin's father in the film? I seem to remember a hanging cage, wondering what was going on, but I never connected it with a gibbet until just now... And that begs the question of whether he was dead or alive when they hung the cage from the ruined castle. 😳

[@mike7652]

​@@Anglisc1682In your opinion.

[@georgeide2337]

@mike7652 I understand that entertainment can be subjective, but there are still objective aspects that can be evaluated. Inquisition's attempt to appeal to a wider audience resulted in a more streamlined experience, but the increased grinding became tedious. The game often feels like busywork, despite its well-written main story and great characters. While personal preferences can elevate a game's subjective rating, an objective review requires a critical examination of both games' elements.

[@margaritagerman]

You are my favorite history channel. I so appreciate the work, honesty, and attention to accurate detail. You talk about awful things, yes, but you don't make it a joke or a circus. We so need to learn from history. We need to stop repeating the same monstrous acts in the name of public safety. You are a treasure. Thank you.🧐

[@kaytlinjustis5643]

I knew about gibbits, from a pirate book that spoke about Captain Kidd and how his corpse was hung for all civilization to see after he was hanged by the noose for being a pirate, and saw it again in the 2nd Pirates of the Caribbean movie. Just goes to show that humanity doesn't need any imagination for gruesome ends - we provide too much ourselves! Thank you for this educational video. History may be gruesome, cruel and disturbing, but we as a people NEED to learn History so we dare not repeat it!

[@jstringfellow1961]

The General History of Pyrates! I have that book. I read it and shake my head, I just can't understand the rank cruelty in the hearts and souls of humans.

[@de868]

We will repeat it eventually

[@someguy8273]

I can think of a few people who could use a good gibeting.

[@krashd]

Dundee's most infamous son, supposedly Kidd was actually a privateer and was only killed as a pirate because after ending a war with the Dutch (I think?) Britain didn't want them to know it had commissioned him to sink their ships. Though there's also evidence he was a pirate and enjoyed it.

[@HeathsHarleyQuinn]

It is in the first Pirates movie as well

[@StamfordBridge]

Great vid, but I’m surprised there was not more talk of the psychological torture of being gibbeted alive. Exposed to the elements, uncomfortable and unable to sleep, one slowly thirsted and starved to death in public view, knowing one’s body would remain and decompose where it is.

[@raulfernandez57]

"I can't move, and I won't scream."

[@mcleodmichael1]

hard to look your best that way fer sure.

[@handlmycck]

5:05

[@David-uf8ex]

Depends what their crime was , if it was theft it’s terrible if it’s child murderers bring it on

[@StamfordBridge]

@@handlmycck ?

[@liammurphy2725]

'The things we did before KZbin' Yep...still watching the corpses rotting in the gibbet.

[@zxbzxbzxb1]

It was more entertaining than Mrs Browns Boys no doubt

[@miguelm6794]

"The things we did before KZbin..." this line wants to be a meme.

[@Tiochfaidh]

​@@zxbzxbzxb1As an lrish woman I concur

[@wendio5437]

I have only watched this one video, but that was one of the best videos I’ve watched on KZbin. So professional and you are a great story teller. I was hooked instantly, as I love history.

[@CrowSkeleton]

Gosh, I thought the notion of being chased by the classic 'ghost in chains' was scary, but being harassed by a spectre bringing the *entire gibbet* along to make a point is terrifying!

[@fishingmasterstudios9481]

kinda reminds you of the cursed/bound and chained spirits from A Christmas Carol

[@pimpozza]

Soooo disturbing! Mankind has and always will be so cruel.. 😥 Expertly produced and narrated, thank you for all your hard work Paul

[@truth4004]

@Rockwell Rhodes Maybe they want to get rid of us since we're a lost cause. lol

[@spiritoftheforest6204]

Now it's just the government that dispose of us

[@Parapon3ra]

Nature, red in tooth and claw. Brutal, indifferent, merciless. Nature created mankind in its image.

[@mattwasmyname]

No, we will evolve and become better. May take 1000 years but I have faith in humanity.

[@susanmccormick6022]

@@Parapon3ra No.Nature is a cruel mother,but hoomans are far more cruel.Just look at the Gladiators,slaves,abused children & adults,animals set to fight each other in the name of sport,horse & dog racing,sport hunting & the amazing way they have of inventing torture ways & machines.

[@Tawny6702]

I went to a torture museum in Spain once and it was said that the convicted were put in these cages alive until they died! But the very worst execution was where a person if convicted of perversion was hung upside down with legs spread apart while he was sawn from the groin cowards with a tree saw like implement, it said that being that they were upside down the brain would keep on functioning until the sawing was as far down as the chest bone until they died from the shock or had passed out…..Truly horrific!

[@stopgotdamndeletingmycomme8642]

They should bring that back instead of trying to normalise peds under the 🌈

[@highflyer449]

I mean you could probably go into shock pretty quickly

[@Tawny6702]

@@highflyer449 I would have thought so too, even from the mere thought of what was going to happen you!

[@alastor8091]

We build a time machine and send the Furries back in time to Spain.

[@brushstroke3733]

That's a perverse method of killing/torture. I guess the irony was lost on the hypocrites who gave and carried out this sentence. People who think sh!t like this should be brought back for any crime are sick and as bad as those they seek to punish. May Christ enlighten your hearts.

[@MrsBrit1]

I remember seeing the gibbets used at Warwickshire Castle many years ago. This was before they started the silly acted out horror house kind of thing in the dungeons. Honestly, I think it was better as a somber place and was pretty terrifying just being a torture chamber and dungeon with gibbets hanging, the hole, and all sorts of torture devices on display. Knowing those items hade bene used on actual people in history is about as scary as that place can get! I remember the person talking in the dungeon saying one in particular had been made specifically for one criminal (a murderer, I think) who was put into it alive. He barely fit inside the caging. He was left to starve to death and rot away for his heinous crime(s), with birds picking at him long before his death. Monstrous devices!

[@kellyshomemadekitchen]

Oh, my!

[@truth4004]

Inhumane.

[@BADMONTESS]

I visited Warwickshire castles dungeon in 1999. What a sad soul deafening place. If I recall correctly the floor is a cobblestone. Down the floor center ran a pitched to the drain perhaps 4" wide trough. They said that was meant to carry the blood from the tortured to the opening in the wall base that emptied into who knows where. There were scratch marks on the walls with dates etc. The middle of the stair treads were worn down perhaps an inch or more. I had the thought of how many foot steps it would have taken to wear down the stone like that, had to have been many a tortured soul and the torturers. Humans, the have and the have nots...

[@terencejay8845]

@@BADMONTESS It was the 'oubliette' in the lowest dungeon floor that had me shivering. Thrown in there, with the small grate above, and essentially forgotten.

[@BADMONTESS]

@@terencejay8845 Ah, thats what it is called, thanks. The blood trough actually ran into that through the lower part of the wall. You walk around the narrow wall and there behind it is the metal grate. Didn realize the floor grate was to the ceiling of a lower dungeon. The guides said thats where some bodies were disposed of. I didnt understand it was a completely separate dungeon area. I would have liked to had a chance to go down there. Bet it would look like a "hell on earth" room. Were there torture devices down there too? I looked up the word 'oubliette' as you may also have done. French word meaning "to forget". The torturing had to be so sadistic, they had ways to keep a person alive for days while undergoing a torture.

[@DeidreL9]

I’ve loved this channel right from the beginning, and you’re just going from strength to strength, it’s wonderful to see. And the thing I love most is your humour and compassion is shining through when a lot of KZbinrs start sounding quite jaded. This video, oh good grief, I’ve often wondered exactly what this was. Horrific! Ah, the good old days, when a human bits tobacco bowl was a useful trinket. 😮 Thank you for another fantastic video❤️

[@Dieci-9]

The quality of this video is just incredible. Everything being so detailed and the host's voice are just perfection. I am already ready to binge a whole lot of these videos.

[@laurenceperreault801]

So happy that you talked about La Corriveau! As a Québécoise, it is part of my folklore. I teach her story to my French students each year!

[@shannonreed9808]

Interesting, i have a small park nearby called Gibbets marsh, and being my Town is fairly famous for smuggling, this makes complete sense. As for tales of ghostly sightings, i remember well my father talking about seeing a willow the wisp across the park, moving towards a small wooden gate by the railway track, and seemingly going through it. At around 14 yrs old (1984) my best mate and myself decided we would walk through the park at around 10 pm, talking about my dads little story and believing it to be completely false.. We ourselves witnessed near on exactly the story my father had told me, we ran so fast home, laughing in fear the whole way 😅. Great video 👍.

[@notmyname3883]

Will'o'the wisp.

[@StarshineSquirrel]

You remind me of my favorite author, the late Brian Jacques, who similarly was a great storyteller. I appreciate the sensitive way you handle these otherwise macabre topics. Keep up the excellent work!

[@icarusbinns3156]

Definitely an artist of words, the both of them! Funny that you mention Jacques, I’m just starting the Flying Dutchman books! And saving to purchase the Redwall series again (a foul ex threw all of them away)

[@KendallLindsey]

Redwall ❤

[@icarusbinns3156]

@@KendallLindsey Definitely read this as the warcry, darling 🐭

[@LaurieAnnCurry]

We had all of Jacques books, signed by him, and lost them in a house fire. Even as adults, my kids mourned those books as they were cherished favorites.

[@addie_is_me]

It’s true. This crew and/including or ruled by, Paul, have a wonderful way of telling about horrible or very sad things in palpable ways. I don’t think I could have listened to this topic, even if my mother told me about it, maybe my grandma.

[@susanrobinson910]

Well Paul, interesting subject… Thanks so much for maintaining your humour whilst talking about yet another ghastly episode of Horrible Things People are Capable of doing to Each Other!

[@BTSArmy-ge5gf]

justice is eye for eye, sadly we've forgotten that so cruelty runs amok

[@PetalsMaster]

An ancestor of mine, highwayman Spence Broughton was gibbeted on Attercliffe Common, Sheffield. He was imprisoned in York for crimes commited there but then sent on to Sheffield to answer for the crime of robbing a postal boy. He was gibbeted for over 30 years being the last person to be gibbeted at that place. Nearby Broughton lane is named after him and the local pub, The Noose and Gibbet.

[@beatrixdobson4795]

Just found your channel tonight and subscribed. I'm actually a descendant of William Jobling so it's always fascinating to hear about him. He allegedly murdered a magistrate but there was another man drinking with him at the time apparently who was the true murderer.

[@cecemepls0]

This is only the first video of yours that I’ve seen…..but halfway through, I’m already subscribing! You’re an amazing storyteller! This could be broadcasted on TV and compare to full documentaries! Thank you so much for the effort you clearly put into your content 🤗

[@KyrieChii]

Same here! And he made me laugh repeatedly while covering a subject I can't usually find the humor in, definitely subscribing. ^^

[@christianorthodoxy4769]

That's a awesome picture* my friend, one of the Best' I've seen so far. Blessings to you ok

[@curiouslyme524]

Gruesome history. Yes, humans are cruel beyond measure. Thank you for enlightening us via your expertly done video.

[@andreyradchenko8200]

Considering the kind of people that ended up sentenced and the antics that got them in such a predicament, I wouldn't call it cruel. Modern 'humane' treatment of even the most depraved serial killers is much worse, because it's an insult to their victims and the victims' friends and families - especially in countries without a death penalty.

[@brushstroke3733]

​@@andreyradchenko8200 Forgiveness isn't for the person forgiven, it's for the person forgiving. Forgiveness frees the heart, while holding on to hatred and blamr is like holding a red hot coal with the idea of throwing it at the offender. Fault the sin, not the sinner.

[@jessemcdonald5124]

I just discovered this channel and I'm impressed. Ever on the search for great history channels and found yet another

[@pauliedibbs9028]

Your channel has an absolute charm that I have yet to find elsewhere!

[@ninjacrumbs]

I immediately subbed, not because of your narrative - which is sound - rather the excellent framed and lighting of your shots. I await to watch more!!

[@GaisSacredCreations]

La Corriveau is still talked about when you visit Old Québec City on the Ghost tours since she is well known in Québec folklore. She was condemned in 1763 by a British military tribunal of 12 officers near the plains of Abraham outside the Citadel of Québec. An important note is that New France was now under British control when the French lost the war of Québec city in 1759 for this was not a French practice to execute someone and put them in a gibbet. Her dead body was hung in a Gibbet across the St Lawrence River in Lévis for 40 days at the crossroads where all the local folk would see her every day. In 1851, her 'cage' was dug up from the Lévis cemetery during construction and stolen from the church. Here comes the fun part, P.T. Barnum acquired the cage and La Corriveau's body, then later, it was put on display at the Bostom Museum with two words: "From Québec." In 2013 the cage was repatriated to Lévis, Québec and put onto public display. It is now in the Musée de la Civilisation in old Québec City where you can visit it to this day. People, however, still say that the crossroads in Lévis where her body was put on display holds a dark foreboding presence. People of all ages detour the area since it creeps everyone out with the heaviness and chills that the area carries...

[@treehugger3615]

When you think of it, the guillotine was by far the most humane method of execution.

[@kelvinallen2624]

There’s an old tale describing the adventures of some Christian seafarers whose ship was wrecked on a remote and unknown island, and who set out to explore it in some trepidation thinking it may be inhabited by hostile savages or worse still, cannibals. The first thing they set eyes on as they moved inland was the rotting corpse of a man hanging in a gibbet. Nothing could have given them greater relief or comfort, for it proved that Christians had been there before.

[@susanmccormick6022]

Kelvin Allen: Oh man,that says it all!

[@sandywhite9796]

Christians should not be cruel..so sad

[@ThePointlessBox_]

Youre naive if you think this is exclusively an act done by christians Others have even done worse

[@Michelles222]

@@sandywhite9796 They truly could not be Christians, I don't care what they said and called themselves Christians. For a true Christian would not do what these people did. No matter what century they were in.

[@sharpright6887]

@Susan McCormick. How so?

[@LadyMysanthrope]

I almost didn't watch this video because I thought it would be grotesque and not educational, but then I gave it a go. I'm so glad I did, it was fascinating.

[@mackinacisland3825]

I thought the same thing.

[@OceanSwimmer]

Excellent content and presentation, as usual. New subscriber 🌺 Thank you for making history interesting; as a youngster it was my least favorite subject. Now I appreciate it for the lessons it teaches us. Thank you for the professional and interesting presentation. 🌻

[@AnOldFashionedWoman]

I don't think the gentleman tapped on the shoulder by a skeletal figure needed a new place to relieve himself, he probably needed a fresh pair of trousers. xD

[@CivilEngineerWroxton]

Your videos are seriously among the most professional and interesting of all of KZbin. You're attire is so very dapper and it makes me want to go to the mall and find a tailor that will make a few suits for me that are exactly like the ones you wear. And the stitching and detail work is of very high quality. I used to make clothes for my daughter and have made a couple of evening gowns for her and dance costumes, so I definitely know what quality in the detail work of clothing looks like. Your attire definitely has that quality. Ever since the very first time I watched one of your videos, I noticed that and was immediately riveted by your narration and story telling style. And the fact that you actually go out to many of the locations that are included in your stories makes the realism of the story come right through the screen. Your channel is among my top three favorite. Thank you for your wonderful presentation and rich detail that you put into every video. I do love stories that are set in the UK and western Europe. The history and story of gibbeting is something I knew very little about and you brought it out in all its macabre glory. Just as you said at the very beginning of the video; it's absolutely amazing and shocking what humans have proven to have the sadistic ability to do to each other. It's a never-ending mill of slaughter, torture, and mass killing. I'm definitely not a nihilist, but I do see the full truth of just what mankind as a whole is capable of. So gibbeting is just another chapter in that never-ending mill of deadly misery. Your telling of this macabre practice is an example of why your channel is one of my favorites. You cover subjects and stories that no other channels cover; and even if anyone else does cover these subjects and stories, they just do a cursory glance at them. Please continue finding and covering the deep, dark crevices of the minds of we humans; the Bible calling our mind "....the Bottomless Pit...." when examined as a collective whole. That's quite a fitting term for it. We never cease to think up everything there is to know. More thanks are due here, as I thank you for being very consistent, thorough, complete, and your cadence is perfection. Take care and God bless.

[@Richardbutticus]

Paul, you’re a true artist of the oratory persuasion, sir.

[@llouie4999]

I was vaguely familiar with the practice from seeing the first Willow film as a kid but it felt extra horrifying how this was used so very recently - thank you for the videos

[@carolinerowles5951]

I was thinking of Willow too.

[@TubeRadiosRule]

My first knowledge of the practice was the mention of it during Saruman's dialogue with King Theoden at Isengard, in Tolkien's "The Two Towers". Read it back when I was 7, and looked it up in the encyclopedia afterwards (this was long before there was such a thing as the internet).

[@jonathantan2469]

There's a photo of a gibbet in a 1920s National Geographic article about Afghanistan. It was a metal cage suspended from a pole & apparently was still used to execute condemned criminals.

[@WinstonVanCoon]

I'm in the Willow boat, Louie. The scene of Val Kilmer trapped inside a rusty cage is what I saw. Now, 36 years later, I've learned about gibbets.

[@GreyGooseBurberry]

@@WinstonVanCoon Same. I def need to watch that movie now, I probably saw it once as a kid in late 80’s/early 90’s. And what a treasure, Disney + has a new Willow series which premiered last year. If I hadn’t watched this and been a comment reader, I wouldn’t have known!

[@BadgerOfTheSea]

Love the production style. Its like the sort of video we were shown at school

[@RickGrimes-n9z]

I just found your channel today and I can't stop watching I am hooked on your show you are a magnificent presenter

[@JamesWilliams-gp6ek]

I absolutely love your story telling. Every post is a macabre masterpiece.

[@elvenkind6072]

Yay, another video from "Well, I Never". Even better then the gibbet description I am currently listening to, was the hat and the whole outfit in the beginning of the video. I'm so envious, and wish I knew where and how to get that ultra-English style. 🙂 Wishing a great weekend for you all, and hoping this stubborn winter soon give up, from Alv and my black cat Lucis, in Bergen, Norway.

[@scottmccloud9029]

You sure have a great way of telling a story. I listen to Mr. Ballen and I'd be proud to add you to my inventory of story tellers.

[@TedsHoldOver]

This video is so well done! I'm glad to see it getting the recognition it deserves. For once, the algorithm is doing good work.

[@Dawn-dc2nl]

As always presented in a very classy manner. I love your videos. Please keep them coming....

[@carilandry4742]

I was suggested this video and I am now a real fan. Absolutely stunning video quality and and amazing host! I can't wait to binge watch your videos!!!

[@rinanona2348]

Well, I never! Seriously slaying it on video quality! Very well edited and as always, you were fantastic. I love the footage and framing of you walking through visual examples💓

[@davidames9098]

Great video. I love your cadence of speech. You should definitely be recognized and prized for your narrating skills.

[@ferrisulf]

This was very interesting! My parents visited this gibbet, I believe, atop a hill. People were hanggliding off the hill. I'm subscribing due to the professional and welldone video!

[@dax138]

Very Informative and professional! Enjoy your channel so much!!

[@The-nn6kr]

I used to live in Coombe, took many walks by The Gibbet. I remember the Crown & Garter in Inkpen very well. In fact I attended primary school in Inkpen. This brought back so many memories! Thank you! My uncle used to tell me stories of Dick Turpin who made a name for himself as a Highwayman. I’m not sure that Dick Turpin was even in the Berkshire area but my uncle made good stories out of it!

[@applicationuser9764]

"The things we did before KZbin." That's just brilliant!

[@StallionStudios1234]

Now you just have to tell your team. The right positive tone can motivate them. Here we go. With a big pitch, you need a little charm. Its a hit! You have seen it everywhere. With Grammarly getting the tone just right! Its great to use while eating fries and ketchup.

[@ianrumbolt]

Love the videos. I found this especially interesting. For the past 14 years I've been living in St John's Newfoundland Canada. The city of St. John's was settled by the English in the late 1790's. On the east side of St. John's harbour is signal hill where stands the English fort that protected the entrance to the harbour, and just below the fort is "Gibbet Hill" where the English Gibbeted the bodies of criminals, usually pirates for all ships entering the harbour to see. Another form of punishment used by the English in St. John's was to put criminals in a barrel, close them up, roll them to the edge and push them over the very steep and rocky Gibbet Hill where they'd tumble down into Deadman's Pond. I would assume that's how the pond got its name.

[@emilkoch4098]

Excellent work on your video by the way!! Nicely done, very professional. Good enough to be on national tv in my opinion.

[@ameliawilder28]

You need your own tv show, I could watch these forever. Keep up the great content! ❤ 🇨🇦

[@oatsroasted6759]

This channel is awesome!! I don't read what the story is about. Push play and listen. The stories he teaches us have been pushed aside on the plate like cauliflower. Here we learn how screwed up society really was. Thank You for history lessons. Some I've heard of but you gave us more details. Other lessons I've never heard of until now.

[@Peace-tk3gr]

'was' screwed up? Okay 😂

[@oatsroasted6759]

@@Peace-tk3gr you're right, "is" I'm not perfect by a long shot. Many times what I watch on the news or you tube leaves me scratching my head. My wife time after time tells me don't try to figure it out. You'll have more questions than answers. She's right.

[@travisbrunner2922]

I like cauliflower...

[@oatsroasted6759]

@@travisbrunner2922 figure of speech. Mom said I was a goofy kid growing up. I would eat my vegetables without being told. Past 40 years I've been growing my own vegetables. Taste better than canned or frozen.

[@susanmccormick6022]

Oats Roasted:Was,don't you mean still is?

[@nosmallo]

I live quite close to Combe Gibbet and regularly go over Walbury Hill so recognised it instantly. I grew up in Rye which is famous for a gibbet (although the original site is now a car park), after a grisly murder was committed by a local butcher called John Breads. Breads' skull and the gibbet which contains it are still held to this day in the town hall but for a long time they were on display at the Tourist Information Centre. My mum used to work there and would always see it hanging in one of the cabinets by the door whenever I used to go meet her after getting off the school bus. It was quite easy to imagine it swinging on a cold, misty marsh by the rivers with crows and gulls pecking at it. There was also a legend that old women of the town would take the bones and boil them down for soup but whether this is true or not, remains to be seen. Either way, it always intrigued me but creeped me out at the same time.

[@Jannie-]

I was gripped from start to finish. This was so professionally edited and narrated 👌. I’ve just subscribed and am looking forward to watching all your previous and future episodes Paul .

[@historyismetal2187]

This channel needs to pop up on my home page all the time, this is great

[@chrissandi9613]

Hey Paul! Have just discovered your interesting and informative channel. Great content: a welcome break - for us fans of olde-worlde cryme - from witless American sensationalism, with their grating accents and sloppy enunciation. Your research is impressive, the presentation careful and engaging. Thanks for no recourse to daft audio or visual effects, and no polemics. Good man! Keep it up. Dear Internet viewers: listen to this bloke.

[@Cloudberry46]

A rather grim, but fascinating subject. I thoroughly enjoyed this excellent video.

[@weescamp]

I've only just discovered your channel but just want to say thank you for such interesting videos. Your presentation plus narration are perfect and have just the right tone to be not too sombre or sensational. Great balance, we need more presenters like yourself.

[@carolmayhardie]

Very interesting. I knew of gibbetting but never understood how popular it was. Great story telling as always

[@OneSockFellOff]

Keep up the great work this was facisnating and the production is top notch! Thank you!

[@thurayya8905]

When I was 20, I had the fortune to visit England for two brief weeks (spending one week sick in bed). I knew little to nothing of British history. After, visiting the tower (boy, someone was afraid) with six foot deep walls, I vowed to change that. When I went to write a paper for college, I wanted to write about the tower, but had trouble narrowing the subject matter. My professor told me to pick something that fascinated me. She told me later that none of her students had ever before written about torture and punishment in the Tower of London.

[@Another_taco.Yes_please]

Very nicely done. You are so articulate & your videos are always interesting. Cheers!

[@flamenebula1856]

There was a village pub in Caxton Cambridgeshire called Caxton Gibbet, the pub sadly burnt down some yrs ago but the gibbet is still on the roadside on what was a crossroads but now a roundabout, it's somewhat creepy knowing people were hanged & gibbeted there

[@grahambell4310]

And now there's a McDonald's...

[@rhys1264]

Listening to this while doing my work -- how gruesome. Thank you for the video (also I love your voice, very soothing).

[@updownstate]

This video has been in my 'watch later' file for probably a year while I worked up the courage to watch it. Now I subscribed.

[@gordonm1935]

Horrific, but very interesting and well told! Got my sub, thanks for an entertaining vid

[@lyndraski4152]

This is a very well done production. I'm a little surprised gibbeting went on so late in history. Sounds more like something they'd do in 12th century Britain. It's very macabre and disturbing to local residents. Plus it makes the criminals well-known and remembered, almost putting a halo over their heads much later - seemingly having the opposite effect of what the prosecutors wanted.

[@EnderPearlRs]

This video was incredibly well-made. I really wasn't expecting you to suddenly be next to an actual gibbet. That is what we refer to as a "gangster move".

[@StallionStudios1234]

This was a great video to watch while eating fries and gravy from KFC. Yum yum yum!

[@donnariahi2975]

I do love your sense of humor Paul, “ what we did before KZbin”. The gibbed does seem unusually cruel.

[@josephvanwie6706]

Cruel? It's diabolical!

[@thegreencat9947]

I was thinking the very same thing. Gotta have some entertainment.

[@nightstalker_fm4728]

Best recommendation youtube ever gave me. Amazing Video Truly Informative Historical content

[@sharonmichaud8304]

Love your videos. Always well told and educational.

[@angelasnow01]

As a serial killer and forensic enthusiast, how am now I just finding this channel?! Binge watching and sharing the hell out of this channel! Fantastic work!

[@frostedbutts4340]

As a serial killer I love this channel too, lots of great inspiration

[@hikermit7317]

Wait what

[@brandonandujar2289]

White woman moment

[@meganruddock7574]

😂

[@Dravoth]

Also a serial killer here. Love this channel. Have a live one in my basement gibbet as I type this

[@joanneentwistle7653]

Imagine two young ladies eating cake under a gibbet....we tend to be much more picky eaters these days! Thank you for this episode, presented to us with just the right amount of dry humour!

[@ElleSimon-wi1cm]

What's surprising is that people continued to commit crimes even when they knew the horrific punishments. The capacity for human cruelty is unlimited.

[@schwaaard]

For sure. There may be a small percentage of the population that would actually weigh the pros and cons of, say, murdering someone, and decide not to because of the punishment. But it would seem that, overall, most folks either wouldn’t do a crime even if they could get away with it, and others would do it with no hesitation. I guess if wickedness is in your heart, consequence is irrelevant.

[@olivierdastein2604]

Not surprising. Gruesome punishment (including death penalty) are known to not deter people. And it makes total sense. If the threat of, say, spending the next ten or twenty years of your life in a prison isn't enough of a deterrent, nothing will. "Normal" people, even of they were tempted to commit a crime, would balk at the prospect of spending a large chunk of their life in prison. People who do either don't care about the consequences, don't think about them, or simply believe that they aren't going to be caught.

[@jeannerogers7085]

It's not the fear of the punishment that deters, but higher probability of being caught.

[@Voodoorai]

*That seems like punishment for everyone* 🤔How awful to see your loved one in there slowly dying and then still being there long after their dead, right near where you live.

[@marykrueger6039]

Another great and very informative video as always. Thanks for the humor. Love the channel. Thank you so much.

[@AceOfSuds]

If my history teacher sounded like you sir, I would have aced every test he gave! Riveting explanations on this! You have a gift!

[@nichhodge8503]

This is the first video from your channel I’ve ever seen and I found it bloody interesting so I’ve subscribed to your channel. I knew gibbeting was used in the Caribbean islands for pirates and slaves but I never knew it happened so much here in England

[@WolfgangVonKempelen838]

Human creativity for cruelty never fails to fascinate me, that includes the fascinated by cruelty. Probably most of us watching this video included.I see this video has been viewed many times. Very spooky indeed.

[@thesolocreative3538]

Honestly this channel is so well done.

[@magiegainey5036]

You are so very good at telling spooky stories! Thank you for your hard work!😊

[@tomsparks6099]

Sadly, humans are no less barbaric or entertained by torture and destruction. Just in different forms.

[@sharonmichaud8304]

Now murderers, child molestation get time in prison. 3 meals a day plus snacks, free education. Think they need to bring back the gibbet.

[@adamb89]

I got serious "A Famous Historian" vibes from Monty Python and the Holy Grail. 14:00 I love ghost stories that end like that lol. Like the ghost goes "Awwww dammit they made it home, I can't touch 'em now."

[@billybobobenner]

Really good work old chap. Liked and Subscribed.

[@petuniawigglebottom3392]

Love your sense of humour. You added quite a bit of entertainment value due to how you made this presentation.

[@TheSwordofTheGentiles]

My great great great grandfather's grandad was gibbeted alive...they were feeding him...how cruel...still I can think of a few offences were this may still be seen as...humane...great video sir

[@asmith7276]

And if not so much 'humane', at least very much 'deserved' in certain cases.

[@lilyw.719]

How do you know? And what did your ancestor do to deserve that? Some people would deserve such a thing. Pedophiles and people who are cruel to children and animals, also rapists and people who tortured others to death.

[@leahmurray666]

I can understand people feeding them, trying to help. It would be hard to watch these people starving to death over months ( unless they really deserved it) and crying out. So people feed them. But really it's just prolonging the awful death. If they wanted to help they should've stuck in knife in their throat to make it quick

[@Manticorn]

I didn't believe my family when they said we were Captain Kidd's descendants, but I found the records and they don't lie. They did this to his corpse and I had no clue this existed. He had two daughters one of which I am descended from. Even the worst criminals have family, who don't deserve to go through this sort of thing. Terrible.

[@TheSwordofTheGentiles]

@@lilyw.719 how do I know. Same way I know 2 were deported to Oz, unfortunately my family on my father's side had a very interesting occupation...Scottish, my nan has records of all of them, that's how I know, why was he gibbeted, m rder r bbery

[@RUDI-UK]

"At the centre of humanity lies cruelty" Ian Brady (extract from police statement, 1966)

[@margueritemazzeo2904]

Yeah..he was the child killer of The Moors Murders in the 60s..along with Myra Hindley..

[@Anna4ali]

❤just found you , and so interesting. Love your voice. Thank you ❤

[@snubbedpeer]

Gibbeting seems a little risky: the intention was to subdue, but you had to calculate carefully not to end up with rebellion instead. Great storytelling! 👍

[@basbleupeaunoire]

Another marvelous video. As much true crime and macabre stuff as I've seen and read, I didn't know about gibbeting!

[@yeseniah7373]

What a documentary! Well done, sir!