For several years, a story has been going on the network about a pair of Polish fishermen who caught a huge fish, who allegedly eaten the SS officer during the Second World War. We checked whether such a catch really took place.
If you believe the publications on the Internet, then it was in the Polish city of Krosno-Odzhansk. There, two men allegedly caught catfish weighing 200 kg and about 4 m in size, in the womb of which human bones and a metal icon with Nazi symbols were found. According to the examination, the remains belong to the soldier who served on the side of Germany in the Second World War. Soma allegedly was about 100 years old.
Similar notes in the media appeared back in April 2015. For example, they are still published on the sites of television channels "Star" And "Ren-TV", V "Petersburg diary" -the official publication of the Government of St. Petersburg, in RIA News Crimea", As well as on the portal "Checheninfo". But most of all, the story diverged through social networks, where the number of records on this topic is calculated at least several hundred until 2022. For example, there are posts on the Twitter account #MDK for April 20, 2015 and in the tiny community On VKontakte for January 9, 2022. In addition, VKontakte is widespread by video with this plot and a covered with the logo of the TV-3 television channel. So, in the public "Book of Records (+Facts)" it Collected More than 5300 likes and 256,000 views. There is a video in groups "IGGS Hunting, fishing, mushrooms of Udmurtia" And Best Video, but there are more modest results: 19,000 and 71,000 views, respectively.
In some media and posts, they referred to the World News Daily Report (WNDR) website, where the news is I went out As early as April 10, 2015. There the material is accompanied by three photos: the first is captured by a carcass of fish and a fisherman holding its tail fin, on the second - a metal icon in the form of a coat of arms of Nazi Germany, and on the third - fragments of the human skeleton. The signatures indicate that the icon from the belly turned out to be a German SS cockade in the form of an eagle of the times of Nazi Germany and that it was usually worn on a front cap. Under the picture of human remains, it is written that more than a dozen half -digested bone fragments were found and that these are mainly parts of the human neck and skull.
Below are our translation of the main part of the article:
On April 6, Alfons Bzhozovsky and Marek Zdanovich caught fish in the area of the Odra River in the Bubr River, and their catch stunned: a giant catfish of 12 feet (3.68 m) and a weight of 413 pounds (187.5 kg).
But their joy quickly grew into bewilderment, and then disgusted when the animal was opened to the animal. In addition to a large number of undigested fish, they found an old metallic sign of distinction of the times of Nazi Germany, as well as dozens of fragments of human bones.
The fishermen immediately turned to the police, whose employees began an investigation to determine the origin of the remains.
The examination allowed the authorities to establish that the bones belong to the man of the Caucasian race at the age of about 20, who died many decades ago. In turn, the biologists who examined the fish confirmed that this huge copy was probably from 90 to 110 years, which makes it one of the oldest soms ever found.
Further analysis of the finds and bones showed that they were really swallowed by fish in the 1940s and that, most likely, these are the remains of the German SS officer, killed during the occupation of Poland. However, a group of forensic experts who conducted the study could not determine whether the man was killed by a catfish or he was already dead when the animal was eaten.
“We have only a few fragments of bones, and most of the skeleton is absent,” said Dr. Patek Loiko. - We do not have enough grounds to determine the cause of death, but we are almost sure that the bones belong to the German SS officer. A SS cockade was found in the form of an eagle, as well as two buttons and a sheet from the same form. Unfortunately, apparently, over the past years, many bones and artifacts have erupted in a natural way, and DNA in the bones was damaged by gastric juice, so formal identification is currently impossible. ”
However, this whole story is an invention. The fact is that the WNDR website specializes in the publication of fake news. This is indicated both in the slogan of the publication: “What Facts Don’t Matter” (“Facts do not matter here”) and in Disclaimer: “Wndr takes all responsibility for the satirical nature of its articles and for the fictional nature of their content. All the characters appearing in the texts on this site are completely invented, even if they are based on real people, and any similarity between them and any people, alive, dead or undead is an ordinary miracle. ”
This is not the first time we are talking about the inventions of this satirical portal. For example, fables have already come to us O a pensionerwho taught dozens of cats to steal jewelry, About the old womanwho gave birth to 101, About the girl, arrested for thousands of calls to his ex, and About the married coupleIn which the husband pretended to be deaf for many years.
And all three photos mentioned above accompanying the World News Daily Report material, but they illustrate other stories. So, the picture with a fisherman and a huge catfish was actually taken in February 2015 in the River Delte in Italy. Fish Caught Dino Ferrari, and his twin brother Dario helped him. According to Sportex Italia (sponsor Ferrari), the weight of the catfish was 280 pounds (127 kg), and the length was 8 feet and 9 inches (2.67 m). In addition to the photo, there is also a video with this fish.
Bones from another photo relate not to the times of World War II, that is, to the middle of the 20th century, but to the beginning of the XVII century. The picture captures the remains of a girl for about 14 years, Found In 2012, at excavations in Fort James in Jamstown, Virginia. According to scientists from the Smithsonian National Museum, there are characteristic features on the bones of skull and lower leg that confirm the practice of cannibalism in the fort during the hungry winter of 1609-1610 - during which about 80% of colonists died. The cause of the death of the girl could not be determined, since the remains make up less than 10% of the full skeleton.
A photo with Nazi symbols of the Second World War has been going on the network since at least 2009. Then it was indicated that the icon Exhibited At the auction by Dotta AUCTION CO. Inc. In the town of Bushkill.
Thus, the media and some users of social networks fell on the hook of a satirical publication and have been spreading a fictitious story for several years.
Image: Sportex Italia. Source
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