The Leopard of Rudraprayag was a male leopard, known to have killed over 125 people. It was eventually killed by hunter and author Jim Corbett. The first leopard victim was from the village of Benji and was killed in 1918. During the next 8 years, people were in dire fear of venturing alone during the night on the road between the Hindu shrines of Kedarnath and Badrinath as it passed through the territory of the Leopard. And few residents left their homes after dark either. The leopard, preferring human flesh, would break down doors, break through windows, scratch in the mud or cover walls of huts and drag the occupants out of them with its claws before devouring them. According to official records, the leopard killed more than 125 people. However, Corbett implies that the death toll was probably higher due to some of the deaths that were NOT reported and also people who died from bleeding or any loss of blood after the attack and not exactly at the time of the attack. Units of Gurkha soldiers and British soldiers were sent to track him down, but each time they failed. Attempts to kill the leopard with high potency gin and poison traps also failed. Several well-known hunters tried to capture the leopard with the British government offering financial rewards. They would just fail like the rest. On July 2, 1925, Jim Corbett tried to kill the leopard and, after 10 weeks of hunting, finally got the one killed on May 2, 1926. Corbett's notes revealed that this leopard, a leopard in addition to being male, was also "quite old " in matters of age he was in good condition, except for some wounds that were already healed but traumatically suffered on him by hunters after he just became a man eater. The leopard started hunting people eight years earlier, when he was still young; therefore, it was not old age that led him to hunt people. Corbett wrote that in his opinion human bodies that were not buried during disease epidemics were the main reason for the Rudraprayag and Panar leopards becoming man-eaters. At the end of the introduction to his well-known book Man-Eaters of Kumaon, Corbett wrote...
"A leopard, in an area in which its natural food is scarce, finds these bodies soon acquiring a taste for human flesh, and when the disease dies and normal conditions are established, it naturally, on finding its food supply cut off (scarce ; as already stated), leads to the killing of human beings. Of the two man-eating leopards of Kumaon, which between them killed more than five hundred and twenty-five human beings: one followed in the footsteps of a very severe outbreak of cholera, while the other it followed the mysterious illness that swept India in 1918, which at the time was called war fever. Today, we know it was obviously the well-known Spanish flu."
In Rudraprayag, there is a plaque that marks the spot where the leopard was shot. There is a fair held in Rudraprayag commemorating the death of the leopard. The leopard was the subject of a 2005 BBC Two TV Series hunt in the Rudraprayag episode The Man Eating Leopard which features an entirely fictionalized depiction of the hunt by Jim Corbett. The official record lists 125 people killed by the leopard.

Ross' habitat is in the savannah where Logan rules. Therefore, no one has dared to go and try to capture his precious horn. Leather can also be a rare gem, however, not even hunters dare face it.
Ross seems not to fear thunder and enjoys being greeted by "droplets of rainwater", as he puts it.
Ross is 75 years old.
Ross is one of the oldest animals in the Serengeti, the savanna where Logan dominated in 2014.

Illegal hunting of animals, also known as poaching, is quite common around the world. This cruel practice, in addition to reducing the population of several species of animals, increases the risk of environmental imbalance. Unfortunately, illegal hunting is still a reality in several countries. The reasons for this practice include the illegal trade in wild animals carried out by groups of traffickers, the use of animal skins to manufacture clothes and objects, and even the sale of animal body parts, such as the valuable horn of the rhinoceros and also of the buffalo.

However, animals are reacting more and more. In recent decades, attacks by African animals, for example, have seen a huge increase. Wild animals are turning against their aggressors and causing many deaths. Get to know some stories of hunters who definitely became game (and well done).

A white Bengal tiger that weighed between 225 to 320 kg was seen by Vladimir Markov while the beast was devouring a deer. Markov only had an unlicensed gun and some homemade bullets and was struggling to find something to feed on while he also knew that a white tiger's hide was worth fortunes. So, he decided to shoot the white tiger so that he could eat the deer instead and also get its hide. Bad idea. The bullet hit the animal's leg, which ran into the bushes.
Markov was convinced that he had scared off the tiger, but the story didn't end well that way. The animal followed Markov's scent as he was walking back to his cabin. The tiger waited for 2 days until Vladimir actually returned home. As soon as Markov returned, the animal attacked him. When investigators found Markov, all that was left of him were a few pieces of bone sticking out of his boots, a bloody shirt, a severed hand, and the head with face ripped from the skull.

The Dybbuk box, or Dibbuk box (Hebrew: קופסת דיבוק, romanized: Kufsat Dibbuk), is a wine-cabinet claimed to be haunted by a dybbuk, a concept from Jewish mythology. The box gained notoriety when it was auctioned off on eBay by owner Kevin Mannis, who created a story featuring Jewish Holocaust survivors and paranormal claims as part of his eBay item description. Mannis' story was the inspiration for the 2012 horror film The Possession.

In 2021, Mannis told Input magazine that the Dybbuk Box story was entirely fictional.

In 2003, writer and furniture refinishing business owner Kevin Mannis purchased the cabinet from the yard sale of a local attorney in Portland, Oregon and began developing a backstory. According to Mannis, "The carving in the back of it is my carving. The stone that was in the box is something that is a signature creation of mine also. Make no mistake, I conceived of the Dybbuk Box – the name, the term, the idea – and wrote this creative story around it to post on eBay." Mannis' auction description included a story claiming the cabinet was previously owned by a survivor of the Holocaust in Poland who said it contained the malicious spirit of a dybbuk, and that the box had paranormal powers and was responsible for his bad luck and nightmares. Subsequent owners retold Mannis' story when reselling the item and amplified it with their own claims of "strange phenomena".

One owner, Jason Haxton, Director of the Museum of Osteopathic Medicine in Kirksville, Missouri, launched a website that consolidated claims about the cabinet called dibbukbox.com that reportedly received hundreds of thousands of hits and created what has been described as an "internet legend". In 2004, Haxton sold the rights to the story to a Hollywood production company. The subsequent film The Possession, produced by Sam Raimi, was released in 2012. Haxton later gave the cabinet to Ghost Adventures star Zak Bagans to display in his museum. In 2018, fans of rapper Post Malone claimed his spate of bad luck was caused by his contact with the cabinet.

According to author Allan S. Mott, "we embrace such stories because they tap into our own fears and prejudices". Mott said the story "taps into our belief that out in the world there is a supernatural evil that will attack anyone regardless of how good they are. They allow people to make some sense of a chaotic world.” Folklorist Jan Harold Brunvand noted that the story features "a supernatural angle" and "first-person narrative"; a variation on typical urban legends. Cal State anthropology professor and folklore specialist Elliott Oring criticized claims about the cabinet, saying, “Go through [the story and] you will see areas that seem to require suspending critical functions". Arizona minister and author Rev. Jim Willis opined that the story was most likely "a very elaborate hoax,” but that his opinion "takes all the fun away” from the popular urban legend.

Chris French, head of the Anomalistic Psychology Research Unit at Goldsmiths' College, said the box's owners were "already primed to be looking out for bad stuff. If you believe you have been cursed, then inevitably you explain the bad stuff that happens in terms of what you perceive to be the cause. Put it like this: I would be happy to own this object."

In 2014, skeptical author Brian Dunning investigated the dybbuk box legend and determined that,

The whole idea of the box being inhabited by a dybbuk (דיבבוק) [sic] is nonsensical, according to what a dybbuk is supposed to be. The Encyclopedia Mythica describes it as "a disembodied spirit possessing a living body that belongs to another soul" and usually talks from that person's mouth. An important 1914 Yiddish play The Dybbuk was about the spirit of a dead man who possessed the living body of the woman he had loved, and had to be exorcised...Nowhere in the folkloric literature is there precedent for a dybbuk inhabiting a box or other inanimate object.

In his Closer Look column in Skeptical Inquirer online, in January 2019 investigator Kenny Biddle reviewed the Dibbuk Box he found on display in Zak Bagans Haunted Museum in Las Vegas. His conclusion, following careful investigation of the cabinet's construction and history, was "Despite what various owners would have us think, the infamous dibbuk Box is not a [haunted] Jewish wine-cabinet from Spain but instead a minibar from New York." Biddle also wrote that he believes Mannis created the dybbuk box story "from whole cloth", and that "This elaborate story that started the entire legend was not an account of real supernatural events, but instead a fictional backstory he came up with to sell an ordinary and incomplete mini bar." Biddle's claim of the box and its legend being fraudulent is backed up by a screen capture of a Facebook post made by the originator of the legend, Kevin Mannis, to the "Haunt ME" page. The post, dated October 24, 2015, states:

I am the original creator of the story of The Dibbuk Box which appeared as one of my Ebay posts back in 2003... How about this – if you or anyone else can find any reference to a Dibbut [sic] Box anywhere in history prior to my Ebay post, I’ll pay you $100,000.00 and tattoo your name on my forehead.

In 2021, Mannis admitted to writer Charles Moss that the box was his own creation: "I am a creative writer. The Dybbuk Box is a story that I created. And the Dybbuk Box story has done exactly what I intended it to do when I posted it 20 years ago... Which is to become an interactive horror story in real-time”, and that he "added new elements to the Dybbuk Box story over the years to help evolve it, keep it relevant and interesting".

Sometimes humans get a bit cocky. After all, our big brains and ability to produce advanced technology put us head and shoulders above other animals, especially when it comes to killing power. Nobody can contest the fact that humans are the apex predator on planet Earth, but now and then nature reminds us that, when you strip away all our technology, we are nothing more than week, naked apes.

One such event occurred in Sankebetsu, Japan, between December 9 and 14, 1915, when a brown bear awoke early from hibernation and proceeded to terrorize the local population for five days.

The incident began when Kesagake, a huge Ussuri brown bear, appeared near the Ikeda homestead, in mid November, and spooked the family horse. When the bear reappeared, the Ikeda men went after it and managed to wound it with gunfire. Thinking the bear would now fear humans, they decided not to track it further.

However, as it turned out they were terribly mistaken. Kesagake returned to the area on December 9, where he entered the Ota family home. The woman of the house, Abe Mayu, was caring for a neighbor’s child, Hasumi Mikio, when the bear attacked. Kesagake first bit Mikio in the head, killing him, and then proceeded to attack Mayu, dragging her off into the forest. Rescuers later described the inside of the house as looking like a “slaughterhouse.”

The next day, 30 men attempted to track the bear. It wasn’t long before they came upon Kesagake. One man managed to hit the animal, forcing it to retreat. They found Mayu’s remains, her head and parts of her legs, cached in a snow bank, not far from where the attack occurred.

The no doubt shaken search party realized they had a man eater on their hands. They hatched a plan to kill the beast, by setting a trap for it at the Ota house, assuming it would return again in search of food. A group of 50 guardsmen were stationed at the Miyoke house, 300 meters away.

Sure enough, that night the man eater returned. Another villager managed to score a hit, and the bear withdrew. The villagers took off after their quarry, and the guardsmen stationed at the Miyoke house joined them.

Kesegake showed the cunning seemingly inherent to a man eater, eluding his hunters and circling back to the Miyoke house. The bear crashed through the front window and proceeded to maul everyone inside, including a pregnant woman who reportedly begged for her life. Yayo, the homeowner’s wife, managed to escape and tell the returning guardsmen what had occurred. The guards surrounded the house, but in the fear and confusion of the moment they missed their shots and Kesagake managed to escape again. After the attack, only veterans of the Russo-Japanese War remained at their posts; the rest fled.

A sniper team was assembled by regional authorities after the attack on the Miyoki homestead, but the marksmen could not find the beast. Finally, locals turned to a famed bear hunter named Yamamoto Heikigachi to kill the man eater. They had approached him after the initial attacks, but he refused. He had traded his gun for the bottle, in true washed-up-hero fashion, but after the Miyoke house attack he agreed to hunt down Kesagake.

With a local guide, Yamamoto managed to track the bear and killed it with two shots, one to the heart and one to the head. The bear weighed in at 340 kg (749lbs) and measured 2.7 meters (almost 9 feet) in length. A necropsy performed later found human remains in the bear’s stomach, confirming that this was indeed the infamous Kesagake.

All told, Kesagake was responsible for seven deaths, six during the attacks and one victim who died later. It remains to this day the worst bear attack in Japanese history. In the wake of the attacks, villagers abandoned the area, leaving it to the bears and the ghosts of the past.