Remains of Child Devoured by Piranhas in the Amazon

Remains of Child Devoured by Piranhas in the Amazon

You have probably all heard how Piranhas feed. This is what it looks like after a feeding frenzy.

Remains of a child apparently attacked and partially devoured by Piranhas was recovered from a river in the Amazon rainforest (probably not in Brazil). There is so little flesh left on his skeleton, you could literally hear his bones clacking.

At first it looks like the guy is just picking up a skeleton of someone. But then you notice the shoes, the hair, the skin on the face, the flopping arm with one hand not as necrotic, the thousand yards stare in the eaten eyes – that’s when you realize how bad the boy really got it.

The lady you can hear in the background crying really loud is the boy’s mother. As she cries, she screams: “My son!”

A friend from Brazil told me that Piranhas are timid scavengers that don’t take needless risks attacking live animals significantly larger than themselves. People who live in the Amazon often swim in lake with live Piranhas and never get attacked. It is likely that the boy drowned first, before he was devoured. The fishes probably did not start munching until they recognized him as dead flesh.

Nice collection of flip flops in the video:

210 thoughts on “Remains of Child Devoured by Piranhas in the Amazon”

  4. Yeah piranhas won’t touch a live human. I saw a documentary about them and this guy stuck his hand inside a tank full of piranhas and they seemed almost oblivious to the fact that his hand was in there. Then the guy threw a mouse carcass and in literally seconds, the mouse corpse was gone. So I agree with past commenters saying the child probably drowned before he became piranha bait. Poor kid

    3. yes i’ve seen those videos as well, the guy puts his hand in there ever so gently as to not disturb the piranhas. but does he twirl it around and egg the piranhas on? No. I don’t believe that there is some magical reason that piranhas will not attack something unless it’s already dead. This boy may very well have been alive when the piranhas started attacking him.

    1. I think you’ll see @ate wrote that it was in the amazon region but probably not Brazil, for that very reason I’d say. I slept in a hammock for three nights on a steamer cruising the Amazon River in Ecuador……I would definitely recommend it.

    2. I agree with you. Seemed to be rather fresh considering his bones all held together.
      Side note: how the hell do people actually function in flip flops. I’ve found them to be extremely uncomfortable and severely crappy at physically remaining on one’s foot.

      1. yeah I know what you mean they are fucking useless and very uncomfortable. That bit that goes between the toe always rubs… I only ever wear them if going down the beach, I can’t imagine wearing them for everyday life. The ones that slip on with the strap would be much better I imagine, not tried those though.

        1. Well where I live it is the middle of the wet season and reaching about 36 degrees with almost 100% humidity, daily and thongs (aka flip flops) are the go. If you wear enclosed shoes / socks your feet will be devoured by fungal infection in no time and no one will let you in their house for the smell of putridicity ! Not to mention just general comfort because your feet overheat and sweat like a bitch. I’m pretty sure, should you move to a tropical climate one day, you too would learn to LOVE the thongs !

      3. I live in Northern Cali and it gets SO HOT here in the summer-NEVER anything below 95…usually 97 to 106…but has gotten up to at least 110/111. In weather like that, unless you are going to work or wanna look cute for a date in some strappy-wedge sandals…flip flops become your best friends lol…I have every color you can think of-flat, wedge, bit of a heel…but the space between your toes does toughen-I have nice feet btw-pedicure every 2 weeks-but I find them extremely comfy now!

  11. When I was in college, we had five pet red bellied piranhas in a 300 gallon tank and fed feeder goldfish, earthworms and raw hamburger to them. If you use goldfish to feed them, it prevents them from growing too large for home tanks. They can get as large as dinner plates in the wild, but ours were about six to seven inches long as we stunted their growth with the goldfish. They do indeed pick carcasses clean to the bone leaving no flesh or organ tissue at all, therefore the tank had to be cleaned often. We had heard about other owners who would snip the fish’s lips off with nail scissors when they were small so the teeth would show all the time throughout their lives making them appear ridiculously menacing. I’ve never seen that, though. Their teeth are surgically sharp, like a shark’s, only much smaller. They also nipped chunks out of each others’ fins, which grow back. You could net them, hold them and use a pencil eraser to see the teeth. They are absolutely stunning creatures and I spent a lot of time watching and feeding them. Their bellies were more orange than red, though.

    This child never stood a chance among a shoal/school of them, especially if they had not eaten in a few days.

    2. “…other owners who would snip the fish?s lips off with nail scissors…” WTF?!
      These retards should have their own lips clipped off with a carpet knife. Just like everone else who mutilates animals for their own entertainment.

      2. I would compare it to cropping a dog’s ears, also done for appearance. A Doberman Pinscher simply looks like it’s going to get in your ass with cropped ears and a tail. Without doing that, they look like any other dog. If you have a dog that large going in and out of your home, you had better crop that tail if you don’t want to clean up all your broken stuff that used to be knee high or endure bruises on your knees and shins from all the wagging.

        2. @Harumph, yup i had a red nose pitbull and that little shit used to wag his tail and slapped my little brother in the face. Also we didnt neuter him so he used to climb the fence and fuck the neighborhood beagle.

        3. That’s some fucked up reasoning in support of mutilation. Here’s an idea, if you’re going to get a pet make sure your home is pet friendly. Dogs use their tails for balance and communication. Ears are also an important part of communication for dogs plus they protect the inner ear. Do a little research before getting a pet and making recommendations to others!

          1. While I was in high school, many many moons ago, probably before you were born (1980), we bred our female AKC registered Red Doberman Pinscher with a champion sire and she gave birth to a flawlessly healthy litter of ten. Our veterinarian supervised the entire process from selecting and hiring the sire to stud, to facilitating the mating, to guiding us through the births, to docking the tails and removing the dew claws, to helping us sell the pups. There are standards within the AKC to maintain if you wish to sell registered versions of any breed in the U.S. Perhaps you should do your own research with respect to the Doberman Pinscher with this link, as well as the dozens of other breeds which require similar modifications to maintain AKC standards (second link).

            http://www.akc.org/breeds/doberman_pinscher/breed_standard.cfm

            http://images.akc.org/pdf/canine_legislation/position_statements/Ear_Cropping_Tail_Docking_and_Dewclaw_Removal.pdf

            I would argue without fear of contradiction, based on my experience as a breeder of large dogs, if you have one (80 pounds or bigger) with a baton sized tail (18 inches or longer), and you have an infant or a toddler, and they interact on a regular basis, you are putting your child in mortal danger as they can be struck down or at least concussed or blinded by your dog merely wagging its tail. This would render you unfit as a parent and DCS would like to pay you a visit and not only remove your child, but also take you to jail for his or her endangerment. In fact, our current police state would just love nothing more than to get their hands on you if that happened in your home.

            Many different animals get their tails docked, including sheep, cattle, and some work horses, therefore that procedure is not just for show. It is for the safety and overall health of the animal. Even chickens (laying hens) and turkeys get their beaks trimmed in order to prevent cannibalism and injuries from pecking within poultry farms.

            Don’t hate the messenger. We didn’t invent these standards, but we did indeed follow them to the letter in order to maintain the standards of the breed in our house per our veterinarian’s guidance and expertise.

    3. Your talking about pacus (pacoos not sure how it’s spelled) they’re a type of piranha. I used to have them too. We had 2 in the same tank as one albino and one black oscar. The pacus where like dogs. When we’d walk in with the bag full of goldfish they would go crazy flipping all over the place! Another thing that I loved to watch was how they would play with the oscars. When the oscars would be sleeping at one side of the tank the pacus would take turns swimming up super slow to them and once they got close enough they’d swim away super fast making a current to push the oscars around in

      2. I am not talking about the pacu, which do not have triangular-shaped razor sharp teeth. They have flat teeth, almost like a human and they can grow very large, up to three feet. Also, all piranha have pronounced underbites, which are lacking in the pacu. The pacu is great eating, while there really isn’t enough meat on a piranha to enjoy. Additionally, I believe they prefer a vegetarian diet as opposed to their flesh-eating cousins. While related to the piranha, pacus were not what we raised. 😉

        1. I was watching River Monsters and they had this thing called a wolf fish. It had insane teeth. That thing probably ate the kid. But i think its a predator fish and doesnt eat dead flesh but i could be wrong.

          1. Our planet’s waters indeed have amazing creatures, manowar96, from lowly sponges, tube worms, coral, and volcanic vent bacteria, to sharks, catfish, jellyfish, angler fish, whales, narwhals, to your namesake, the Portuguese Man o’ War.

          3. I know of another difference between the two species of fish. Pacus have eyes directly behind their mouths. Piranhas’ eyes are higher on the face than their mouths. I believe the main differences however, are the size of full grown adults and the degree of underbite. I hope that helps. I have only seen pictures of them without lips. They are as scary looking as an angler or monk fish like that. 😯

            I like Oscars, Jack Dempseys, too. 🙂

      1. No one is saying, don’t film it. I think he is saying it would have been much more appropriate to ensure the parents / siblings were not on the river bank to witness the devastation of an eaten son……..they will never get that image out of their mind now and that can’t be healthy…….

        1. I know Dutchy…
          but this is in S/America which aren’t nanny states like ours. So I suppose it’s the parents’ own choice to be present at the scene. And btw, if this kid had been a relative of mine, i would have wanted to see it. For 2 reasons: 1) gawking, and 2) being sure what had happened to it. After all, what’s the difference, bloating, floating, rotting, shot or splattered, most dead don’t look too appealing.

    1. Fuck,,, can you imagine seeing one of your loved ones like this? And those young kids looking at the body up close, look seemingly unfazed by the gnarly looking corpse in front of them,,, WTF ?

      1. I get the impression that this isn’t the first time the locals have seen a young ‘n pulled out of there in skeletal form.
        Makes my getting bitten on the foot by a pike in the local reservoir as a kid seem a bit tame !

          1. Well, my second surgery went ok. The plate removal made my wrist weaker though! And after all that crap, i noticed that they left some deep stitches in my forearm, and when i move my wrist a certain way, the whole forearm muscle moves back and fourth, and hurts like hell. So i have to go back to have it cut open, stitches removed, then scar tissue cut out, in order to detach the muscle from the skin.It sucks,,, but it is what it is! Some folks have it much worse off, so i really should not complain, like a little bitch!!! 😉 But i am glad to hear that you will be riding again come spring brother! 🙂

          2. Hell @dre I bet that is a pain in the ass! but as they say, time heals it all! That’s easy to say if you don’t have any broken bones… wish you the best bro! 😉

      2. Hey the big bad booz : how goes it ? I thought you must have still been trying to find your way home after new years eve, either that or you met a hawt teenage pornstar who has kept you busy for the past 9 days !

          2. Uh, Boozer, Boozer!! I know your in there! Open the fuckin’ door, you muther fucker! (knock, knock, knock)…..jk my darling. Just kidding…..

    1. Indeed! If that was one of my Boys, and i saw them like that, it would screw me up for quite some time. You would think that because we see this sort of stuff on a daily basis, that we would be desensitized by it. But when it,s your own family, or friend, i,m sure that it would still freak you out, bigtime. 🙁

  22. Actually, piranhas do attack live people if they make too much of a fuss into the water. That boy could be struggling to not drown, near the surface, which in turn attracted the piranhas. Would be a pretty horrible death.

    Most of the time, theres a piranha “bait” or scout that comes close to the target to check for agressiveness. If the piranha gets hurt or the target shows to be too much of a threat, the entire school backs up. If not, they start the frenzy.

  28. Now THIS is why i love piranhas! 😀 Although those little creature dont usually munch on larger preys than them… Something is altering their behavior in the Amazonas… probably the introduction of a different species in their eco-system?

    Anyways, either that lady had a “pinocchio” manequin for a son… or he was a walking pile of bones. 😆

  33. Fish food! Poor kid, I agree with every body else is saying this happen after death. The piranhas had a feast on him they would make good dinner guests, they would eat everything on their plates. I don’t think that guy needs much help taking kid carcass away. I think he’s is going to save it for decoration for next Halloween.

  41. Thats some crazy stuff, i always wondered how one would look…but damn Drowned in a river! So What’s worse… seeing your kid turn into a hideous bloater, or seeing the remains of your kid becoming the main course in natures menu? Uhmmm

  42. There’s a member of the Royals inner circle, can’t recall her name, but she’s fond of showing off her emaciated body in a bikini, in which she looks not dissimilar to this dude.
    I reckon she’d be right up a certain members street. 😉

  50. That poor mother. I could never imagine such a thing.

    It is interesting the way that man carries the deceased to the blue tarp. Bet that had to be a different kind of sensation, looking into the poor kid’s eyes.

    Wow. Best Gore really delivers.

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