This content details a chronological list of the most notorious man-eating animals throughout history, highlighting their devastating impact on human populations and the hunters who eventually brought them down.
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let's start with the most horrifying
maneaters on the list and slowly work
our way towards the stuff of nightmares
number eight the spotted devil of gapore
the spotted devil was the nickname given
to one of the most feared leopards to
have ever lived in the 1940s in the
state of Tamil Nadu India the leopard
would claim 250 Mi of jungle as its
personal hunting grounds but the reason
this leopard was so feared was for its
Proficiency in hunting humans now if
this isn't terrifying enough leopards
are nocturnal Hunters so any attack that
would be carried out would be in the
darkness of night where you would never
see it coming and 42 people across
multiple Villages would meet this
horrifying fate the spotted devil became
so feared that after a while people in
The Villages began to barricade their
doors after Sunset and refused to step
foot outside including to use the
restroom causing a Health crisis in many
villages and in its frustration the
leopard would begin to enter homes
through Windows roofs or by any means
necessary snatching people in the dead
of night and dragging them into the
forest to be devoured it wouldn't be
until the famous Hunter Kenneth Anderson
was called for help that the leopard
would finally be challenged Anderson was
a notorious hunter that specialized in
hunting big game animals especially
those that hunted humans it would take
him three nights to finally come face to
face with the cat where he would be
woken up in the middle of the night by a
stray dog that he befriended that night
when it began to violently shake with
uncontrollable fear and when Anderson
looked up at the roof he would catch a
glimpse of the devil before losing it in
the darkness he then began to actively
search for the cat and after a few
minutes had gone by he would be alerted
by a bark from the Stray Dog causing
Anderson to quickly turn around and
seeing the leopard charging straight at
him and in that instant he managed to
let let off three shots from his fori
caliber Winchester killing the cat in
its tracks after examining the body
Anderson would discover porcupine quails
lodged between the toes of the leopard's
foot an injury that prevented it from
hunting its natural prey resulting the
animal to turn to human flesh as for the
Stray Dog that Anderson befriended
during that hunt he would actually go on
to adopt him number seven the Tigers of
chaur this was a pair of Bengal tigers
consisting of an old tigress and her
young adult Cub which over the course of
5 years managed to accumulate 64
confirmed kills this all took place in
the kuma division in India from 1925
through 1930 the pair of tigers would
turn a 1,500 M mountain region into
their own personal hunting grounds this
terrain would include multiple Villages
which they actively hunted they would
alternate attacks from Village to
Village as this tactic allowed them to
to catch the villagers off guard and
after 3 years of pure hell the locals
began to reach out and seek the help of
Jim corbette Jim corbette was an
indian-born British Hunter who
specialized in hunting man-eating tigers
and leopards but to catch this pair of
tigers it would take corbette three
separate hunting trips that spanned over
a period of 2 years eventually on his
third trip on the 19th day he would
finally come face to face with a pair of
tigers he headed to the small village of
Kala AAR which was the last place the
Tigers were known to be there he began
to hang buffalo meat as bait in the
hopes that it would lure out the cats
while on post corbette would be alerted
by a companion that they had heard the
Lions nearby and before he knew it he
would turn a corner and catch himself
standing right in front of the Tigress
at a distance of 8 ft she was sitting
next to a large Boulder when corbette
would take the shot killing her and
putting an end to the attacks he would
then kill the young adult Cub shortly
after upon further investigation he
would discover that the Tiger Claws and
can9 teeth were broken and her front
teeth completely worn down causing her
to turn to humans as her primary source
of food number six Osama the crocodile
this was a terrifying crocodile that
lived on Lake Victoria in Africa from
the years 1991 through 2005 It is
believed that this one CR crocodile has
eaten over 83 people it's very difficult
to confirm these numbers since the
crocodile would often times attack
people that were fishing alone and of
course would consume them whole there
have been multiple instances where
pieces of clothing would wash ashore
from someone who had recently went
missing but sadly ripped pieces of
clothing were not the only thing to wash
ashore sometimes an arm or a leg would
too the locals have even reported seeing
children dragged from Shore after a
attempting to fill their buckets but the
horrifying nightmare doesn't stop there
the crocodile would even develop the
skill of capsizing boats by slamming the
boat from underneath sending the
fisherman flying into the water becoming
easy lunch this crocodile was such a
menace that he would often times Just
Launch himself vertically out of the
water and belly flopping directly onto
people's boats clamping onto fishermen's
legs and dragging them into the water
and out of all the people people this
crocodile attacked only 15 of them would
survive to tell the tale but thankfully
in 2005 the crocodile would finally be
caught where he was then killed and made
into luxury handbags number five the
man-eating leopard of Rudder prog the
first attack came in 1918 in Benji
Village in the Ruda prag District of
India this would Mark the start of a
bloody and gruesome Killing Spree that
would last eight long years leaving 125
people dead dead during this time period
very few people would even dare to step
outside of their homes after Sunset
fearing that the leopard would be
waiting for them outside as he often
would since he preferred the taste of
human flesh over anything else and when
people stopped going outside the leopard
began to adapt he would begin to break
down doors leap through windows and even
come in from the roof which were made
from plants and once inside he would
grab the person and dragged them out to
the Dark Forest where he would devour
them after hundreds of people met this
fate units of girka and British soldiers
were sent in to track that animal down
but failed miserably the British
government even offered a handsome
reward to anyone who could manage to
kill the cat and many well-known and
famous Hunters stepped up for the task
and failed as well but on the 2nd of May
1926 the legendary Hunter Jim corbette
would personally take this task on for
himself this would lead him on a 10-week
hunt Through the Jungle where he would
track the cat down and shooting it dead
completing a task that many thought was
impossible and after examining the body
corbette would discover that there was
nothing inherently wrong with the cat
well nothing that would prevent it from
hunting its regular prey since it did
have some bullet wounds from Hunters who
had recently missed its vital organs but
other than that it was fine corbette
came to the conclusion that the cat had
developed a taste for human flesh when
it was still very young you see a calora
outbreak occurred years prior and many
people who died from the disease would
be taken to grave sites where they were
left un beared and to a young cat this
would have been easy food but when the
disease inevitably slowed down the
bodies did too causing the cat's food
supply to dwindle down so naturally the
cat began to hunt and consume the food
that it had always eaten number four the
man-eating Lions of Sabo if there was
any man-eating animal on the list that
you might have heard of this would
probably be the one the savoo maneaters
were a pair of male lions in the savoo
region of Kenya these Lions would Target
construction workers who were working on
the Uganda and Kenya Railway between
March and December of
1898 the pair of lions would stock the
campsites and strike in the dead of
night by grabbing workers from their
tents and dragging them out to devour
them it's said that anywhere from 28 to
138 people met this fate around 30
Indian workers and an unknown amount of
native African workers for some reason
no one kept records of the African
workers that went missing that's why
there's such an enormous disparity in
the fatality count and when the attacks
first began only one of the Lions would
enter the camp at night taking one
victim to be split among the pair But as
time went on the pair of lions would
become a lot more bold with both of them
going into camps and each of them
claiming a victim for themselves these
attacks would be carried out on an
almost daily basis with all the workers
personally knowing someone who had one
missing it wouldn't be until hundreds of
workers abandoned the job site which
caused the entire project to come to a
complete stop that the officials were
finally forced to find a solution
sending in around 20 Indian soldiers to
hunt the pair of lions down where they
would go on to completely fail but on
December 9th 1898 Colonel John Henry
Patterson would catch one of these Lions
approaching Camp he would go on to tag
it with a high caliber rifle on the back
leg and aaring it off just for it to
return back the same night where
Patterson would tag it once more
piercing its heart the second line on
the other hand was an absolute tank he
managed to survive getting shot nine
times with three different guns across
an 11-day period and it wouldn't be
until Colonel Patterson yet again placed
the final shot on its head that the lion
would finally be stopped today these
lions are proudly displayed at the Field
museum in Chicago number number three
Gustav Gustav is a large Nile crocodile
from Burundi Africa he is rumored to
have killed anywhere from to 300 people
on the banks of the rosi river and in
the connecting Lake of tanganika all the
locals in Burundi claim to know someone
that has been taken by Gustav or someone
who has simply vanished without a trace
a few locals have even been attacked by
him and were lucky enough to live to
tell the tail their bodies left covered
in scars from the encounter but here's
the terrifying part not only only is
Gustaf a Maneater who takes every
opportunity he can to devour humans he
is also not a typical size for a n
crocodile in fact he is much much bigger
being the largest n crocodile to have
ever been recorded here's an image of
your average siiz Nile crocodiles and
here is Gustav scientists have
speculated that his unusually large size
prevents him from hunting his regular
prey so he had to resort to other means
Gustav is easily identified by the scars
across his body the scars that were left
after being shot multiple times with an
AK-47 after multiple attempts on his
life the locals are now convinced that
his height is so thick that it actually
makes him bulletproof to this day there
have been multiple attempts to capture
him but have all ended in failure and as
far as we know he still roams The River
To This Day number two the panar
Maneater the panar Maneater was a male
leopard who was responsible for over 400
fatal attacks which were all carried out
in the darkness of night this leopard
single-handedly terrorized the villagers
in the panar region in alur District of
India during the early 20th century
years would go by with the leopard
having his way and picking villagers off
with ease the locals grip with fear
refused to even step outside of their
homes after Sunset the leopard would
eventually adapt to this and began to
snatch the villagers from inside of
their homes dragging them into the
jungle to devour them the leopard was so
efficient in hunting humans that the
government eventually had to step in and
offer some assistance the best way that
they knew how they called upon Jim
corbette the legendary Hunter who had a
reputation for killing maneaters as we
already covered some of his stories on
this list but to kill this elusive
animal it would take corbette multiple
hunting trips before he would ever even
get a glimpse of the cat corbette would
travel for days on foot through the
dense Indian Forest to reach an area
where the leopard was known to hunt and
on his journey he would even contract
malaria and that was still not enough to
stop him once he finally reached the
village where the leopard was last seen
he would set up a base on top of a tree
but not before tying up a small goat 30
yard away to hopefully lure out the cat
hours would go by while he waited at his
post and as it began to get dark the
birds would be the first to give him a
sign as they would begin to act out in
complete fear and soon after he began to
hear something brushing against the
bushes right next to him and all he
could do was sit and wait and this would
go on for a few minutes but eventually
whatever was in the bushes slowly worked
its way towards the small goat and
killing it and in the complete darkness
corbette was forced to guess where the
monster could be taking a shot towards
the direction of the goat followed by an
angry Grunt and for a second the scenery
lit up from the shot seeing the cat
falling backwards and hearing it run
back into the forest the villagers were
persistent and convinced Cor bet to
track the animal down that night instead
of waiting for the morning like he
wanted he told them that the only way he
would do it is if they promised to hold
their ground if they came across the
Beast as they would be the only source
of light that he would have they agreed
and promised they would then begin to
track the blood trail left from the cat
following the trail Through the Jungle
when out of the darkness the cat would
emerge charging straight at them with
the local villagers running for their
lives and in their Panic they began to
trip over one another dropping the
Torches to the Jungle floor and in the
chaos corbette would take multiple shots
at the leopard and killing it he would
go on to write in his book that if the
locals had not fallen down and tripped
over each other he would have been left
standing there in the complete darkness
and the cat might have been the one
walking away instead of him number one
the devil of India this is the single
deadliest animal to have ever lived and
would make one Hunter an absolute Le
Legend the devil of India was a Bengal
Tigress responsible for an estimated
436 deaths which she acquired in Nepal
and the kumal division in India from the
late 19th and early 20th century the
Tigers was even entered into the
Guinness Book of World Records for
holding the largest number of fatalities
by a single animal the killings first
began in Western Nepal where the
villagers were tormented and eaten for
three long years Hunters would
eventually be sent in to track the
animal dam down but she would prove to
be too elusive eventually the nepes Army
was called in and they would succeed in
scaring her away forcing her across the
border and into India where she would
continue to hunt for humans in the kuma
District rotating her kills between
multiple Villages picking anyone off who
would venture into the woods and since
all the kills were done in broad
daylight this would leave the villagers
completely paralyzed with fear
preventing them from working and leaving
their homes this nightmare would last
for a dreadfully long 4 years but
eventually a handsome reward would be
offered to any man who can manage to
kill the Beast many welln and famous
Hunters would attempt this task but
would all return home with a taste of
defeat but in 1907 a young and unknown
31-year-old Hunter would take this
Challenge on for himself and
surprisingly he would refuse the money
as he accepted the task simply to help
he would begin this hunt with a 4-day
trip on foot through the dense jungle
before reaching the town where the
animal was last seen on arrival he would
be shocked to discover a ghost town
since everyone was locked inside of
their homes with the locals claiming
that the animal had been roaring in the
nearby jungle for the last few days the
young Hunter would then proceed to the
site where the last victim was taken
discovering nothing but a few of the
victim's bones while investigating word
of a new attack reached the village it
was from the neighboring town the hunter
quickly set out on foot once again but
by the time he reached the town he would
discover that a newer ATT attack had
just taken place he would reach the new
attack site and began to follow the
trail of blood seeing nothing but a
small glimpse of The Tigress on the
horizon but he was forced to abandon the
pursuit since Nightfall was but moment
away the following morning the hunter
came up with a plan he instructed the
villagers to make Loud Noises by
screaming and banging pots as he began
to walk through the dense jungle and
working his way to the grasslands at the
edge of the forest the villagers would
begin to make noise too soon the hunter
was was left with no choice but to run
as fast as he could through the dense
jungle slipping and falling on rocks and
Roots trying his best to get to the edge
of the forest before the Beast once he
finally arrived and out of breath he
feared that he might have missed her he
waited for a moment catching his breath
and she appeared walking out of the
forest like he predicted he would ready
his rifle and take the shot wounding the
animal on the back leg as the giant cat
began to climb over a rock the hunter
took his second shot and missed with the
cat over the Rock and out of sight the
only option left was to track her down
once he climbed over the rock to see
where the animal had gone she would
instantly appear standing on top of
another rock where she would begin to
charge him head on and in that instant
the hunter would let off his third shot
sending the animal from a complete
charge to collapsing onto the floor
laying on the grass she would take her
last last and final breath upon
inspecting the body the hunter found
that the Tiger's top and bottom jaw were
completely broken a hunter long ago
before she was ever a Maneater attempted
to kill her for sport permanently
injuring her preventing the animal from
hunting and eating her natural prey
resulting in her having to resort to
eating humans as a means of survival but
after seven long years and devouring
over 430 people the nightmare would now
come to an end the people from countless
Villages would finally have true peace
and their normal lives returned to them
and for the young Hunter who killed the
Beast he would go down in history as one
of the most prolific Hunters to have
ever lived he would be remembered for
generations and would even have the
first national park in India named in
his honor this 31-year-old unknown
Hunter was no one other than Jim corbette
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