The Beast of the Earth, but it's based upon this book called The Man-Eaters of Sabo and
basically takes place like in 1898 and there is this British colonel whose name was John
Henry Patterson who basically was sent to, I think it was Kenya, it wasn't Kenya at that
time but I think it was that area, to go build a railroad from Kenya to Uganda and the labor
that he was working with were coolies and Muslims. These are the people who were like
the masons creating the railway. Is that coolies, is that, what is that? They're cool people.
Indians, Indians from India. Oh. Like from India. Okay. And so they're building this
railroad or whatever and then all of a sudden men started disappearing from the camp and
it was these two man-eating lions that were taking these men from the camp and these lions
were three feet tall and about approximately ten feet long. So they're like jumping? From
head to rump, ten feet long. And I, oh man, how much do they weigh? I don't remember how
much they weighed but they're pretty heavy. They're pretty big lions. And over the course
of about a year they basically consumed about three hundred people, three hundred workers.
And they would hunt basically these people like every night. So every night a man was
being pulled out of his tent and being eaten. And so this guy, you know, he's just kind
of heading up this project of this railway but then he has to focus his attention on
killing these lions because they're killing his workers. And so he's very brave, he's
like well I'm the leader here, I'm going to take care of this. So he's trying to hunt
them down but these lions are very unique. They're manless lions, of course they're eating
men and they're very cunning. Like he couldn't capture them, he couldn't shoot them, he couldn't
find them. And their attack patterns were always different. So sometimes you could hear
them coming because they would roar together and they're like, they would say the devils
are coming, the demons are coming. They would roar and then they would come and he would
be like on top of a tree like scouting them out. He would sleep during the day so he can
stay awake during the night to shoot them with his, I think it was called the three
oh three double bearer shotgun. And he would just constantly fail because one guy would
be dragged out. So they would try all these different things, they would put like a hedge
about the camp and it was like a hedge of thorns. And they'd just plow right through
it, grab a man out of his tent and just literally yank him through that hedge. And in fact later
on when they finally killed the tigers you could see all the scars on the tigers from
the hedge of thorns, they just did not care. And so yeah these lions over the span of
like a year killed like 300, I think it was, oh no I'm sorry, that number's wrong. It's
135 men but still that's a lot. And so this is happening, so sometimes they would roar
and come into the camp or sometimes they just wouldn't announce it at all. Sometimes they
would take the carcass far away, sometimes they would only take it a couple yards and
you can hear them eating the individual or whatever. But this happened like for an entire
year every night. So you just imagine these guys are working and then when nightfall comes
it's just like one of us is going to disappear tonight. You know what I mean? Because these
lions are coming in and just consuming people. Why was that happening? Well there's a couple
theories why. And one of the theories was that, because after they captured, after this
guy Colonel John Henry Patterson killed them, because he killed both of them, they examined
the bones and they examined the animals or whatever. And one of them had like tooth decay
on one of his fangs, I don't know if you call them, they're not canines because they're
not dogs. I think you call them fangs. They're fangs, right? Cats. So on his lower right
fang he had tooth decay and basically the top tooth was digging into his brain. Oh.
And so because of that he wasn't able to chew on the hide of an ox or its typical prey.
And so it turned to a weaker animal such as man. That was one of the theories. The second
theory was that basically the coolies and the Muslims, they're very wicked people. And
they would like rob each other and kill each other and so like leave their carcass somewhere
and they got a taste for man meat basically. And that's why they started hunting men. But
you know Pastor Thompson basically said this and I agree with him 100% is that it's just
God sending lions among them. And I think the reason for that was because first and
foremost they're Hindus and they're Muslims which are just, it's a false religion. And
then two, they're very violent and murderous people. And I'm not just talking about like
in general, I'm talking about this particular group. This group of like workers. Yeah because
what happened was, is one of the cameras dead? What happened was, when it first started
the lions would come in and they took someone and then one of the workers said, oh lions
you know took so and so or whatever. And Colonel John Patterson was like nah he's lying. Lions
don't usually do that right? Yeah he's like lions don't do that. It's one of the guys
he probably murdered his coworker or whatever because it was something that was common.
So he cried lion. Yeah exactly. But he was telling the truth though. He was lying. But
what I'm saying is that Patterson knew that it was commonplace for these coolies and Muslims
to kill each other. So it kind of shows the kind of atmosphere they had there. They were
very violent. Not only were they thieves but they were murderers so they were willing to
kill each other for their bounty. For gain. And then aside from that I mean it seemed
as though like the solution for these guys for any problem they had was murder. Because
like they wanted to stop working for Patterson. So I was like well let's just kill him. So
they conspired to kill the Colonel. And this guy was really brave and someone told him
like hey they're conspiring to kill you. Just want to let you know you probably shouldn't
go to work tomorrow. Don't go to work tomorrow. You shouldn't go to work tomorrow because
they're trying to kill you. He's like I'll be fine. And he went to work and they told
him like hey they're waiting for you. You know they're laboring but they're waiting
for you. Talk about these people. The coolies and the Muslims. So he goes up. He walks up
to them and he basically looks at them. They're kind of like looking at each other like all
right we're going to jump this guy. And then he just like rebukes them all. And he's like
you guys are a bunch of idiots. You guys can't kill me. If you kill me you're going to be
hung by the government. And he basically scared them. But this happened a couple of times.
So it kind of shows you like the type of individuals they were. They were just like
violent you know murderous people where they're just willing to take people's lives. And so
I don't think it's the tooth decay. I don't think it was the fact that they got taste
for human meat because of the corpses that could have been part of it. I think the main
reason is just God is just judging these men these coolies these Hindus these Muslims because
they're so wicked. And it's biblical. Yeah. Let me read you this verse. It says in Leviticus
26 verse 21. And if you walk contrary unto me and will not hearken unto me I will bring
seven times more plagues upon you according to your sins. I will also send wild beasts
among you which shall rob you of your children and destroy your cattle and make you few in
number and your highway shall be desolate. So God's saying like I'll send animals to
come kill you if I have to.