Top 10 Worst Man eaters in history
Most large predatory animals can, and will, see humans as suitable prey, under the right circumstances; however, true “man eaters”, that is, individual animals that prefer human flesh over any other food, are very rare. This list is a selection of some of the worst cases of man eaters recorded in history.
10. The lions of Njombe
We start this list with the worst case of man-eating lions in History. It was not a single man eater, but an entire pride that preferred human flesh over any other kind of food. It happened in 1932, in Tanzania near the town of Njombe. A large pride of lions went into a particularly brutal killing spree. Legend has it that the lions were being controlled by the witch doctor of a local tribe, named Matamula Mangera, who sent them into rampage as revenge against his own people after being deposed of his post. The tribesmen were so terrified of the man-eating lions that they wouldn’t even dare speaking of them, believing that a simple mention would cause them to appear. They begged to the tribe chief to restore the witch doctor to his post, but he refused. The lions kept attacking and, eventually, took over 1,500 human lives (some say over 2000); the worst lion attack in History, and one of the worst cases of animal attacks ever recorded. Eventually, George Rushby, a famed hunter, decided to put an end to the attacks. He killed 15 lions, and the rest of the pride eventually abandoned the area, finally ending the nightmare. But, of course, the locals were convinced that the lions left only because the tribe’s chief finally agreed to restore Matamula Mangera to his old job.
02.Two Toed Tom
08.Kesagake
The bear then returned to the Ota family farm, and sent armed guards to keep watch Kesakage will attack. But this strategy leaves a gap in another house that is not protected, and Kesagake take advantage of this vulnerability, attack the family home mauling Miyoke and everyone in it. Although some people managed to escape, two children were killed and so was a pregnant woman, who according to witnesses who survived, pleading for the life of her baby to the predator. Of course, it was all in vain; Kesagake kill him too. When the guards realized their mistake and returned home Miyoke, they found the bodies of two children, women and the fetus she is carrying all lying around the blood that covered the floor. Only in two days, Kesagake has killed six people. The villagers were terrified and most of the guards leave their posts for fear.
07. The Jersey Shark
06.The Bear of Mysore
Another version says that this bear was a female lion who had been killed by humans, and his mate became a killer for revenge. However, most experts now believe that the bear may be injured by man, and the results become aggressive. The bear attacked three dozen people in the state of Mysore India. Typical Sloth Bear, he would rip the victim's face with claws and sharp teeth, and those who survive are often left damaged. 12 of the victims died, three of them eat, something very unusual.
05.The Beast of Gevauden
02.The Champawat Tigress
10. The lions of Njombe
We start this list with the worst case of man-eating lions in History. It was not a single man eater, but an entire pride that preferred human flesh over any other kind of food. It happened in 1932, in Tanzania near the town of Njombe. A large pride of lions went into a particularly brutal killing spree. Legend has it that the lions were being controlled by the witch doctor of a local tribe, named Matamula Mangera, who sent them into rampage as revenge against his own people after being deposed of his post. The tribesmen were so terrified of the man-eating lions that they wouldn’t even dare speaking of them, believing that a simple mention would cause them to appear. They begged to the tribe chief to restore the witch doctor to his post, but he refused. The lions kept attacking and, eventually, took over 1,500 human lives (some say over 2000); the worst lion attack in History, and one of the worst cases of animal attacks ever recorded. Eventually, George Rushby, a famed hunter, decided to put an end to the attacks. He killed 15 lions, and the rest of the pride eventually abandoned the area, finally ending the nightmare. But, of course, the locals were convinced that the lions left only because the tribe’s chief finally agreed to restore Matamula Mangera to his old job.
02.Two Toed Tom
Two Toed Tom is a very wild man-eater, and today it is difficult to know which part of the story is real, and which are myth. Two Toed Tom is a male giant crocodile that roamed the marshes on the border of Alabama and Florida around 1920. He lost all the fingers except the two of the fingers on his left hand, and leave a trail that is very recognizable in the mud, so he was nicknamed 'Two Toed Tom' by the local community. It is said that he had lost his toes in an iron trap.
He has four half-meter long, and people claim that he was not a normal crocodile, but the devil sent from hell to terrorize them. Tom made himself famous by eating dozens of cows, mules and, of course, people, especially women who are washing clothes in water. Because Tom is often attacked, many farmers trying to kill Tom, but the bullet only a small effect and did not managed to kill Tom. One farmer even tried to kill him using dynamite, This farmer has been chasing Tom for twenty years, but always failed, so he decided to throw a bucket of 15 dynamite into the lake where Tom is located.this Farmer think the problem is over.But Untill now,we didnt know the continue of this story
08.Kesagake
Recorded the most dangerous wild animals in Japan are Japanese Giant Hornet, which kill an average of 40 people per year. However, the largest predator, and most powerful in the land of Japan is Brown Bear, and, perhaps the most brutal in history is a bear attack that occurred in the village Sankebetsu, Hokkaido, in 1915. At that time, Sankebetsu first is a village with a population of very little and are in the wild. The area was inhabited by brown bears, including a huge male bear, known as Kesagake. In the past, Kesagake come to eat the corn harvest Sankebetsu to local residents. It felt a disturbance, he was shot by two villagers and fled to the mountains, she was reportedly injured. The villagers believe that, after being shot, the bear would be afraid of people and away from crops. They were wrong.
On December 9, 1915, Kesagake appear again. He entered the Ota family home, where the farmer's wife was caring for her baby alone. The bear attacked the baby, kill the baby, then after the farmer's wife. He tried to defend himself by throwing firewood into the beast, but finally Kesagake dragged into the forest. When people arrived, they found the floor and walls are splattered with blood. Thirty people went into the forest, determined to kill the bear and save the poor woman. They found Kesagake and shot him again, but they failed to kill him. The animal ran away and they found the partially eaten body of a woman who had been buried under the snow, where a bear has to save a woman's body they will be for consumption later.
The bear then returned to the Ota family farm, and sent armed guards to keep watch Kesakage will attack. But this strategy leaves a gap in another house that is not protected, and Kesagake take advantage of this vulnerability, attack the family home mauling Miyoke and everyone in it. Although some people managed to escape, two children were killed and so was a pregnant woman, who according to witnesses who survived, pleading for the life of her baby to the predator. Of course, it was all in vain; Kesagake kill him too. When the guards realized their mistake and returned home Miyoke, they found the bodies of two children, women and the fetus she is carrying all lying around the blood that covered the floor. Only in two days, Kesagake has killed six people. The villagers were terrified and most of the guards leave their posts for fear.
Shark attacks occurred in 1916, at that time little is know about the type of shark that attacked, and some scientists even claim that the shark is not dangerous at all. This is one of very few real cases 'sharks eat people', known as shark attacks and most familiar as an isolated incident. It all happened along the coast of New Jersey, the first victim was a young man named Charles Vansant who was attacked in a very shallow water while swimming with his dog, some people, including his family, witnessed the attack, and coast guard rushed to rescue the boy.
The shark is very resilient and seem to follow the movement of the guard lifeguard on the beach. Shark teeth are cut Vansant femoral artery and one of his legs torn sharks they will be, he is spending a lot of blood and finally died in place before he can be brought to the hospital. Five days later, another man, Charles Brother, was attacked by the same shark while swimming far from shore. Initially reported by witnesses that a red boat was upside down, in fact, the 'red boat' is a bloody boat Brother. The shark bit off his leg. He was dragged back to shore, where his body is destroyed seems 'cause fainting woman', but it was too late, he was dead when he reached the shore.
Although sharks have been seen for several days, scientists who were informed of the attack claiming that it was not a shark attack, and said that the culprit might be the killer whale or sea turtle! The next attack occurred not at sea, but in a river near the town of Matawan. Once again, people reported seeing a shark in the river, but they were ignored, until on 12 July, an eleven-year-old boy was attacked while swimming and was dragged down the water. Some townspeople rushed to the river, and a man named Stanley Fisher jumped into the water to find the remains of the boy, but he was also attacked by a shark and died from the wounds which caused shark attack. The latest victim was a young child, nearly 30 minutes after the attack on Stanley Fisher. Although he was seriously injured, he was the only survivor.
The shark is very resilient and seem to follow the movement of the guard lifeguard on the beach. Shark teeth are cut Vansant femoral artery and one of his legs torn sharks they will be, he is spending a lot of blood and finally died in place before he can be brought to the hospital. Five days later, another man, Charles Brother, was attacked by the same shark while swimming far from shore. Initially reported by witnesses that a red boat was upside down, in fact, the 'red boat' is a bloody boat Brother. The shark bit off his leg. He was dragged back to shore, where his body is destroyed seems 'cause fainting woman', but it was too late, he was dead when he reached the shore.
Although sharks have been seen for several days, scientists who were informed of the attack claiming that it was not a shark attack, and said that the culprit might be the killer whale or sea turtle! The next attack occurred not at sea, but in a river near the town of Matawan. Once again, people reported seeing a shark in the river, but they were ignored, until on 12 July, an eleven-year-old boy was attacked while swimming and was dragged down the water. Some townspeople rushed to the river, and a man named Stanley Fisher jumped into the water to find the remains of the boy, but he was also attacked by a shark and died from the wounds which caused shark attack. The latest victim was a young child, nearly 30 minutes after the attack on Stanley Fisher. Although he was seriously injured, he was the only survivor.
06.The Bear of Mysore
Although Sloth often persecuted people in India, they very rarely eat the victim. In fact, they rarely eat meat at all, and prefers to eat termites and fruit, and very fond of honey. However, there is a Sloth Bear who became killer evil.There are some very odd stories about the origins of Mysore Killer Bear; some people say the bear is a stud and at first he kidnapped a girl to be her partner. The girl was rescued by villagers and the bear is inserted into the hole of torture.
Another version says that this bear was a female lion who had been killed by humans, and his mate became a killer for revenge. However, most experts now believe that the bear may be injured by man, and the results become aggressive. The bear attacked three dozen people in the state of Mysore India. Typical Sloth Bear, he would rip the victim's face with claws and sharp teeth, and those who survive are often left damaged. 12 of the victims died, three of them eat, something very unusual.
One of the most infamous man-eaters, as well as the most mysterious of all. This beast (some claim there were actually two of them) terrorized the French province of Gevauden from 1764 to 1767. Although often claimed to have been an unusually large wolf, the truth is the Beast was never really identified. It was said to be larger than a wolf, with a reddish coloration and an unbearable smell, as well as teeth bigger than those of a normal wolf. The creature killed its first victim (a young girl) in June of 1764. This was the first of a series of very unusual attacks, where the beast would target humans, specifically, ignoring cattle and domestic animals. 210 humans were attacked; 113 victims died, and 98 were devoured. The attacks were so frequent and brutal that many believed the creature to be a demonic being sent by God as punishment; others thought it was a loup-garou, a werewolf.
Although the mainstream view is that the “Beast” was probably just a large wolf (or a couple of wolves, since some reports mention two beasts instead of one), the fact remains that the description of the creature doesn’t seem to fit a normal European wolf, which was abundant and well known to people at the time. Some experts believe that the Beast may have been a hyena, possibly escaped from a menagerie. Although often seen as cowardly scavengers, hyenas are actually very powerful predators and they often prey on humans in Africa and some parts of Asia. (A man eating hyena terrorized Malawi quite recently, forcing hundreds of people to leave their villages). Just like the beast of Gevauden, hyenas are noted for their formidable teeth and strong odor, and they are also bigger and more powerful than average wolves.
he beast managed to evade hunters and even the army, exhibiting the man eater’s legendary cunning, but it was eventually killed in 1767 by local hunter Jean Chastel. Legend has it that Chastel used a silver bullet to kill the creature, but this is probably a myth. Upon opening the creature’s stomach, Chastel found the remains of its last human victims, confirming the animal as the dreaded man-eater.
06.The Ghost and the Darkness
In 1898, the British started the construction of a railway bridge over the Tsavo river in Kenya. Over the next nine months, the unfortunate railway workers became the target of two man-eating lions (now known to have been brothers). These lions were huge, measuring over three meters long, and, as is usual among lions from the Tsavo region, they were maneless. At first, the two lions snatched the men from their tents, dragging them to the bush and devouring them at night. But soon they became so fearless, that they wouldn’t even drag their victims away and would start feeding on their flesh just a few yards from the tents. Their size, ferocity and cunning were so extraordinary that many natives thought that they were not actually lions, but rather demons, or perhaps the reincarnation of ancient local kings trying to repel the British invaders (the belief of dead kings being reborn as lions was once very common in Eastern Africa). The two man-eaters were nicknamed The Ghost and The Darkness, and workers were so afraid of them that they fled by the hundreds out of Tsavo. The railway construction was halted; no one wanted to be the next victim of the “devil lions”.
Eventually, the Chief Engineer in charge of the railway project, John Henry Patterson, decided that the only solution was to kill the man eaters. He was very close to being killed by the lions but, eventually, he managed to shoot the first one in December of 1989, and two weeks later, he managed to shot the second one. By this time, the lions had killed 140 people. Patterson also found the man-eaters’ lair; a cave near the Tsavo river bank, which contained the remains of many human victims, as well as pieces of clothes and ornaments. This cave still exists today and, although many bones have been exhumed, it is said that many still remain inside. Some experts have recently claimed that the lions only ate about 35 of their human victims. But this doesn’t mean they didn’t kill many others; like other man eaters, they were often said to kill even when not hungry. Today, the Tsavo man-eaters (or rather, their stuffed pelts) can be seen in the Field Museum of Chicago, although Kenyan authorities have expressed interest in building a museum completely dedicated to them, in which case the Ghost and the Darkness could return to Tsavo once again.
03.The Panar Leopard
The leopard is the smallest of the true “big cats”, but that doesn’t make it any less deadly than its bigger relatives. As a matter of fact, the leopard is perhaps our oldest predator; leopard bite marks have been found in the fossil bones of our hominid relatives, suggesting that the spotted cat was already dining on our ancestors over three million years ago. But although any adult leopard may see humans as suitable prey under the right circumstances, only a few of them become actual man-eaters, preferring human flesh over any other food. The deadliest man-eating leopard of all times was the Panar leopard. This male leopard lived in the Kumaon area of India during the early XX century. He was most active in the Panar province, where he killed over 400 people, being the second most prolific man eater in recorded history (after #2 in this list).
It seems that the leopard had been injured by a hunter, and rendered unable to hunt wild animals, so it turned to man-eating to survive. He was finally killed by famous hunter and conservationist, Jim Corbett, in 1910. Although the Panar leopard is the most infamous of all, there were others that were just as feared. The Kahani man-eater, for example, killed over 200 people, and the Rudraprayag man-eater, who stalked and killed pilgrims en route to a Hindu shrine, killed 125 people before he, too, was shot by Jim Corbett. Smaller, more agile and, some say, more cunning than lions or tigers, leopards were considered to be among the deadliest animals in the world by big game hunters. One of them claimed that “if the leopard was the size of a lion, it would be ten times more dangerou
The Champawat was a Bengal Tigress that was allegedly responsible for more than 400 deaths (they say the exact figure was 436) in Nepal and India in the 19th century. In animal attacks history it has remained the most notorious maneater tiger of all time. The story of this tiger is: The tigress actually belonged to Nepal, it was driven into the Indian region by the Nepalese Army after it had accounted for more than 200 people in Nepal. She started to prey on people in the Kumoan district of India. According to the villagers of that region the Tiger was fearless and would roam freely near the villages. It used to try to break into the huts of the villagers apart from roaring and terrorizing them.
The villagers then wrote a letter to Jim Corbett, a famous man-eater hunter as well as an ardent conservationist, urging him to get rid of the menace. Although Mr. Corbett was a famous tiger hunter he had his own set of rules. No matter how many requests he got, Jim Corbett would never kill a tiger if he felt the animal was not a man-eater and whatever the deaths it was responsible for were due to other reasons. The day Jim Corbett brought down the Champawat tigress was after the big cat made its final kill, a 16 year old girl out gathering wood. Later examining the tiger Jim Corbett found the upper and lower canine teeth on the right side of her mouth were broken. According to Jim Corbett the vital canine teeth loss had prevented the tiger from preying on her natural food and had been the cause of her becoming a man-eater. The successful hunt of Champawat made Jim Corbett an instant hero in the hearts of the villagers. You could see a stone plaque in the village even today which gives you the details of how Jim Corbett tracked the man-eater down and killed her.
01.Gustave
All the man-eaters in this list are gone; their killing sprees are just frightening memories by now. All of them… except for one. In the African, conflict-ridden country of Burundi lives the greatest man-eater of our times, a male Nile crocodile measuring six meters long and weighing around one ton. He is the largest Nile crocodile alive, as well as the largest individual predator in the entire African continent, and according to the natives and to Patrice Faye (a French naturalist who has spent years trying to capture the man-eater), he has killed over 300 people by now! Although still alive and active, the crocodile (nicknamed “Gustave” by Faye) has already become a legend. (There’s even a movie loosely based on his story, although it is quite bad).
Natives say he kills for fun, not just for food; that he kills several people in every attack, and then disappears for months, or even years, only to reappear later in another, different location to kill again. No one can predict when or where he will appear next. He is also said to have a monstrous appetite, and rumor has it that he killed and devoured an adult male hippopotamus (an extremely dangerous and powerful animal that most crocodiles avoid). Gustave’s body armor carries countless scars made by knives, spears and even firearms. A dark spot on the top of his head is the only remaining trace of a bullet wound that was supposed to put and end to his reign. But all hunters (and even, once, a group of armed soldiers) have failed to kill him.
Faye himself tried to capture Gustave by building a huge underwater trap, but, although the crocodile did show up, he never approached the cage. He just swam around it, “as if mocking his would-be captors”. Said to be over 60 years old, Gustave is probably too experienced and smart to be fooled, so it seems likely that he will continue with his depredations and perhaps, soon, claim the title of the most prolific man eater for himself. Things have changed a lot since the times of the Champawat tigress; Patrice Faye no longer wants to kill Gustave. He wants to protect him from human retaliation; by capturing Gustave alive and keeping him in a safe enclosure, Faye hopes to save human lives as well as the man eater himself, and perhaps use him as breeding stock to help the conservation of the Nile crocodile as well. The enclosure has already been built in the Ruzizi National Park of Burundi, waiting for the capture of the greatest man eater of our times.
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