{"id":27667,"date":"2025-05-15T17:27:04","date_gmt":"2025-05-15T17:27:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/?p=27667"},"modified":"2025-05-15T17:27:04","modified_gmt":"2025-05-15T17:27:04","slug":"chilling-plea-for-help-as-man-allows-snake-to-eat-him-alive-while-recording-the-entire-thing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/?p=27667","title":{"rendered":"Chilling plea for help as man allows snake to eat him alive while recording the entire thing"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The man who allowed himself to be swallowed by a snake made a chilling plea on camera while the stunt was unfolding.<\/p>\n

For a 2014\u00a0episode<\/a>\u00a0of Discovery Channel’s\u00a0Eaten Alive<\/em>\u00a0series, US conservationist\u00a0Paul Rosolie donned a carbon fibre armour suit<\/a>\u00a0fitted with breathing apparatus that was covered in pig’s blood to attract a 20-foot green anaconda – one of the largest\u00a0serpents<\/a>\u00a0in the world – as a documentary crew watched on nervously.<\/p>\n

He was\u00a0inspired to do so<\/a>\u00a0after witnessing first-hand the destruction of precious Amazonian jungle via of poachers, deforestation and illegal logging, and wanted to raise awareness.<\/p>\n

Faced with the humongous predator, Rosolie, who has since appeared on\u00a0The\u00a0<\/em>Joe Rogan<\/em><\/a>\u00a0Experience<\/em>\u00a0twice to talk about his gnarly travails, had his arm chomped at to begin with, before the heavy scaled coils engulfed him.<\/p>\n

An hour later it was time to be eaten, and that’s when he really started to panic.<\/p>\n

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Paul Rosolie wore a custom-made suit to protect himself from the snake (Discovery Channel)<\/cite><\/div>\n

“Stand by guys, I’m starting to feel like she’s consuming me,” cried out Rosolie, who’d ‘felt the bone flex’ in his arm during constriction, despite the protective suit.<\/p>\n

“Guys, my face is down. I’m calling it, I need help!”<\/p>\n

Luckily, he survived to tell the tale. Though if the experiment was successful, the\u00a0consequences would have been pretty grim<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The star went on to\u00a0write<\/a>\u00a0about his\u00a0Eaten Alive\u00a0<\/em>involvement for The Guardian that same year, with particular focus on his disappointment over seeing the sensationalist footage that aired to the world, and not the conservation-heavy material they’d shot to accompany it.<\/p>\n

“I am still at a loss to describe the sinking sensation I felt when I saw the final cut,” Rosolie shared.<\/p>\n

“The show that the editors had cobbled together contained very little ecological science, and included just the faintest mention of conservation (without any visual context). It was a crippling end to a project I had put so much into.<\/p>\n

“The entire reason I went through with the show – stunt included – was because I thought it would be a chance to showcase the complex importance of the west Amazon and its creatures to a wider audience.”<\/p>\n

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Paul Rosolie has since reflected on the stunt (ANDREJ IVANOV\/AFP via Getty Images)<\/cite><\/div>\n

Rosolie continued: “If you look at\u00a0Eaten Alive<\/em>\u00a0purely as a viewer, as most people must, it is difficult to dispute Salon\u2019s\u00a0take<\/a>\u00a0when they said, ‘So, to recap: no redeeming conservation message and no actual eating. What exactly was the point of this?’<\/p>\n

“What aired had very little to do with what my team and I actually experienced and filmed in Peru. It wasn’t easy reconciling this schism – between what I had worked so hard on and what the final televised product was. Why was all this left out? That’s a question for Discovery at this point, since we lobbied daily for it.<\/p>\n

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“In the end we were forced to face the fact that how the footage was used in the actual product, was not our prerogative, but Discovery’s.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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