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In February 1945, close to a thousand Japanese soldiers were driven into a mangrove swamp on Ramree Island, off the coast of Burma. Almost none came out. The legend says saltwater crocodiles devoured them by the hundreds — a slaughter so infamous it landed in the record books as the worst animal attack in human history.
But is that what really happened?
This week on Destination Terror, we walk into the swamp the way the legend tells it — the screaming in the dark, the gunfire, the vultures at dawn — and then turn the lights on and look at what the records actually say. What we find is quieter, stranger, and somehow harder to shake than the monster story. Watch your step.
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