Did The Iron Maiden Actually Exist?
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- čas přidán 2. 10. 2021
- What was the iron maiden, and how did the iron maiden work? The medieval torture device, a human-sized sarcophagus filled with spikes, seems almost too gruesome to be true. According to 19th-century scholars, the iron maiden caused a slow, painful end, as people bled from shallow wounds while their torturers opened and closed the contraption's doors to impale them. Sharp spikes lined up with the eyes, causing blinding pain.
It might be featured in multiple torture museums, but did the iron maiden exist?
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What is your favorite Iron Maiden song?
Fear of the dark
The Trooper
run to the hills
All of them! How about a top 3? The Trooper, Rhyme of the Ancient Mariner, and Hallowed Be Thy Name.
Wasted Years and The Evil That Men Do
A previous commenter stated how he'd like this narrator to read his eulogy at their funeral, and I really can't explain how perfect I've found that idea......
I did that haha on one of the videos from like a year an a half ago haha I think it’s still a top comment on there 🤣
EXCELLENT idea!
Same omg
I'd prefer John Cleese for that job, however this guy would suit as well.
Is it Stephen Colbert?
“Put them in the Iron Maiden.”
“Iron Maiden? EXCELLENT!”
“EXECUTE THEM!”
“Bogus.”
Oof
@@eoincoll384 it’s from bill and ted's excellent adventure
@@nervigeskind3131 k
😂😂
Dammit, I wanted to write this lol
In Jamaica I went to the museum once and they had this iron cage in a human form. It wasnt completely enclosed it was like bands of iron wrapped around the head and torso with spikes on the inside. They said it was used to torture enslaved Africans who had been caught after running away. This reminded me of that. Humans have been so awful to each other over the course of history.
That is the one indisputable fact.
Wow
Them people are wicked
True
@@siobhanair2659 not all people Many allow themselves to be caught up in the frenzy of the moment
iron maiden is still rocking out to this day. dudes have the best album covers in metal.
Senjutsu sucked though.
@@rodycaz8984 yes. It does. Yes, it does my friend.
Yeah
My favourite
'bring your daughter bring your daughter to the slaughterrr!!!!'
The Maiden puns are fabulous.
I was just about to say the same thing
Me too
Love the dog...
@@cheriemistry he was the best doggo.
@@Exspazament 🥺 he sure was…
The sad fact is that people were, and still are, tortured, and sometimes tortured to death. But this does not require any kind of specialized equipment. If you have someone captive and rendered helpless, any object, including the torturer’s hands and feet, can be a torture device.
Torturer starts using feet to torture someone. the person with a foot fetish: *MORE*
but we want it to be more painful, so we make devices.
Hands and feet are boring. A good device is supergluing tacks, bent paper clips or glass to the end of a massage gun. A hammer does a lot of damage too. You can do a lot with vinegar, salt and sandpaper (and enough sedatives) that regular hands and feet are just... Not enough.
Considering the other medieval torture methods, the iron maiden sounds tame by comparison.
My thoughts exactly. Sure, the Iron Maiden is interesting...but compared to something like the Brazen Bull or Judas Cradle....I think most would choose the Maiden.
@@DragonsOfSnow omg...the Brazen Bull is the most horrifying thing I've ever read about.
Exactly. If given the choice i think most people that would be tortured would actually choose the iron maiden.
Especially since it was invented for museums and never actually used for torture...
Pretty cool that this device was named after the band Iron Maiden
Ikr
Yes indeed 🤘
Ikr? The band was so popular that they named it iron maiden
Kinda like the band Europe had an entire continent named after them
@@AA-BB lol
Seems like the device was hardly ever used to kill anyone. But it did attracted tourists. Man, this was something.
These videos are always the perfect lengths for my work breaks!
Same
I remember seeing these "Iron Maiden" torture devices in several medieval torture museums throughout tourist cities in the US as a teen. One museum had a disclaimer on a plaque out in front of the device saying that no one is certain they were ever actually used. This adds clarity to that. Great video!
I feel like the video topics they’ve been putting out lately are better than normal
I agree 100% and noticed that too!
definitely
Agreeded
So you're telling me that Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure was not historically accurate?
IMPOSSIBLE!! 😰😮😫😩🥺🤯🤬 (it's one of my favorite movies of all time).
I can’t believe it
Me too ?!
“The Iron Maiden didn’t exist during medieval time.” Wait a minute whaaaaat? 1:15
His side comments and voice is hilarious as f*ck! Hahahaha! Well, been here in this channel when it still had 800K subs. 😏
For all the band references today I wish I could give you two likes.
Kkkkkkk
“Dr.Wily asserted that these mechanical devices…”
Help me, Megaman!
My favorite Weird History narrator right here. Even when talking about grim topics, he still somehow makes it light hearted and not as grim
Of course iron maiden's real. I have all of their albums.
If you're an Iron Maiden fan and your first inclination wasn't to listen to Iron Maiden upon seeing this video, or don't plan to listen to them later, are you truly a fan?
Number of the beast 666
@@bryanrose4850 The one for you and me.
Lol this made me laugh out loud because I bet even people that don’t consider themselves fans but like rock STILL thought of Iron Maiden immediately upon seeing title.
About to listen to Senjutsu shortly. Just have to scroll through the comments now. :)
They are best live tho :(
Love the band references!! You rock!!🤘
🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸
Here’s a drinking game, take a drink for every Iron Maiden pun in this video!!
"Did the iron maiden actually existed?"
Steve Harris: * Sweats profusedly *
_Eddie has joined the chat_
Hiiiiji
KID: Dad, what's an Iron Maiden for?
DAD: It is the reason why we have a saying of "Skeleton in the closet".
I love how your are dropping IM song titles throughout the video. Classic!!!
the topics are A1 this month ❤️ keep it up!
These stories are quite interesting thanks for uploading 👍
Would love more content on other devices used throughout history!
Maybe
iTunes is the most torturous thing we have these days
@@AA-BB iTunes? more like Tiktok and Twatter.
Both the band and the device!🤘
The subtle (mostly) humor you use is fantastic. Keeps it interesting for somebody that isn't already into this stuff. 👍👍
I was really hoping there would a few Iron Maiden references, you didn't disappoint.
Greatest band of all time ever! Their new album Senjutsu is the best!
Check out the video for The Writing on the Wall. See if you can decipher the meaning. It's very relevant to today, and uses the book of Daniel to tell the story.
I thought I heard a few!!
LOL!!! Senjutsu sucked!
Lol
Thats it im going to binge all album, even book of souls and the final frontier that i didnt heard as much as the others, then give the newest album a try only heard the demo for now!
@@rodycaz8984 i dont know only heard the single but it didnt aound like shit, is it something in the mix that displeased you?
Ofc they did, one of the greatest heavy band ever!
Man I love this channel. Keep pushing
Your voice man is awesome. Love your videos and your voice work and I'm sure lot of people work on these. Hard to sleep without a weird history video. 🙌🏻
As bad as the Iron Maiden was the Brazen Bull was worse, and it's inventor really really wished he hadn't invented it. Look it up to find out why.
I looked it up. He had to test out his own sick creation lol...
If it was real
Is this what "The Chokey" took inspiration from in Matilda?? Ms. Trunchbull = Iron Maiden?
Wow.... i genuinely never knew this! Thank you so much, highly informative and to the point.
One thing i didnt understand, was one ever used?
And never forget that "Iron Maiden is gonna get ya, no matter how far!"
woah! I recently talked about this with a friend of mine! I really love your videos! Can you make one about common missconceptions about different historical periods? Like ancient greek, medieval times, etc?
I feel like if the people of the medieval times knew of these, they would have perpetrated the myth just in hopes that the people having fear of them, would deter people from doing what would bring punishment from the device.
They had plenty of ways to scare people into submission back in the middle ages.
@@MrSupernova111 Exactly, but that is why I said they would only use the Iron Maiden as a myth. They were a bit more civilized than people believed.
@@collectingonthecheap56353 . I especially agree with that last part. Cheers!
That makes no sense, since there were real devices way more cruel that this one.
And people weren't being punished for specific "crimes", one could get a betting while other could be killed on the spot. for doing the same thing, given that the peasents were mainly slaves and own their lives to the lord of the land.
My Battalion (2/162 Infantry) was quartered in the Iraqi Olympic Training complex during OIF II in '04.
Across from Saddam's prize basketball gymnasium in central Baghdad.
That's no joke about the torture implements. The room that became my hooch had a bare bedframe with a car battery charger wired up to it, and there were bullet holes and blood stains along the walls in the rooms, and eye hooks bolted in. For chaining people up.
Thanks for making this video. You're a real Trooper.
This was so scary, I won't be able sleep tonight. I'll have Fear of the Dark.
Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaah me too same here
I hope you find piece of mind.
@@daughters4life55 I'll probably end up just running for the hills or playing with madness.
@@machinegunjackmcgurn804 hurry or it will be to late! It's 2 minutes to midnight!
I clicked on this so damn fast I wasn’t sure what the topic was at first, but oh do I love the references.
Great video! Love all the Iron Maiden puns
Another great video! Thank you! I don't know about anyone else, but the captions were way off on my end... 😅!💖
Yeah they certainly were
@@eoincoll384It was like 2 shows in 1... 😅
Captions seem fixed now! Yay! 💖
Loved this video! You should do a video on the actual band Iron Maiden! :)
I remember seeing a coffin-like box in a museum in Hobart, Australia in which an incarcerated person was supposed to stand for however long they were sentenced to, with the idea that they would think about their behaviour and that would bring on change - it was used at a time when solitary confinement for such purposes (one of the ideas behind Port Arthur penal colony) was a thing'. All it tended to do was destroy people mentally. I wonder if the myth iron maiden was inspired from that and then physical pain added for the sake of gruesomeness.
New to your channel..
Awesome love History
Especially weird History
Thankyou how wonderfully unique 😊
What do you mean "existed"? I grew up 20 minutes away from a castle that has one in it to this day!
Thank you for covering this topic, you're quite the trooper there! 🤪
Iirc there was an earlier version of the iron maiden that was basically a wooden statue of a woman that had spiked arms which would 'embrace' the victim, which was where the 'maiden' came from.
wow i cant believe they named this after such great musicians, history truly is amazing
Interesting critical analysis of the historical existence of the Iron Maiden. It reminds me of an article I read years back arguing that there were no actual Medieval ball and chain maces, but rather they were the products of artistic license, mostly from Victorian Era writers and artists.
Wonderful entertainment, as always! Many thanks 😊😊
I love all the Iron Maiden song references good job
Thank you for this video ! 😊🌷
A+ video!
Fascinating history, what a unique and crazy idea!
Thanks so much for this! 🗺️
Hell yeah they do! And they’ve had one of the best careers of _Heavy Metal_ music industry.
I just want to say, as a big Maiden fan, I appreciate all the Iron Maiden references in the script!
The subtitles are about the wrong topic, they are about living in Buckingham palace
What
Wow that is a lot of Iron Maiden puns!
You would have to be a real trooper to survive the iron maiden. The evil that men do lives on and on, but if you're going to die, die with your boots on. You wouldn't be running free any longer, as you need to be quick or be dead because only the good die young. What a strange world in which killers use a flash of the blade and exploit a fear of the dark. And btw, don't waste your time always searching for those wasted years!!
If you understand that, UP THE IRONS!!🤘
Also, great video Weird History!
Being for forced to listen to Iron Maiden is also torture
I genuinely appreciate the numerous references to Iron Maiden song titles and/or lyrics throughout this video 🤣🤘
Ah, that subtle wasted years joke! That was the first Iron Maiden song I learned on guitar awesome guitar intro.
Love your song references!!!
So many Iron Maiden song lyrics and band references in this episode. I love it!
Interesting I remember that device being used and referenced in the movie Tommy...
That is really interesting! Thanks for the history lesson.
I believe to recall seeing an iron maiden in the Rothenburg ob der Tauber's torture museum back in the '60s when my father was stationed in Germany. Little did I know, it was just to scare me - which it did.
i love the announcer's dea pan delivery of the 'run to the hills' line 😆
Great topic
Yeah it is isn't it
When I was a kid I used to watch kung fu movies and remember the iron maiden being in a movie called The Five Deadly Venons.
I very well appreciate the usage of the band Iron Maiden in this very well done
4:35 Wasted years... nice iron maiden reference bro
I lost count how many Iron Maiden song reference you put into this video
It can be uttered that the spiky interior made the Iron Maiden quite a cozy place....if you're a masochist, that is.
That IBM dig was good
I've seen the one in Rothenberg. Cool museum as well.
The amount of Iron Maiden (band) puns in this video gives me so much serotonin.
Yes. And they’re legendary! Saw them in Vegas in September 2013!
All the Iron Maiden puns are great lol
I have that book, Curious Punishments of Bygone Days, and it is full of interesting stories. Stocks, Pillories, whipping at the cart’s tail, wooden horse, and ‘ducking’. Also, a chapter on ‘bilboes’, yes that is with a ‘b’. These are essentially metal stocks. Good stuff
I love all the references to the band in this video. Most notably Run to the Hills and Wasted Years.
People who invent this stuff should be the first one to use it. On themselves.
Didn't that happen to the guy who made the brazen bull?
Hear me out: what if you had an iron maiden in your house, but you open it up and it's a wardrobe? Plenty of spikes to hang stuff on.
Narrator had a BLAST jamming in as many Iron Maiden references in there as he possibly could
*Immediately thinks of ' Run to the Hills'* edit: I wrote that before seeing his reference haha. History is full of myths...like the idea Vikings wore horned helmets!
This is probably my favorite show on CZcams
Excuse me. You telling me, the Hungarians just punished Elizabeth Bathory for nothing in the 16th century? And you refer for other devices that are similar to the description of Iron Maiden, but not called Iron Maiden. Maybe, because it was on different languages but the concept was just as same.
*DO A VIDEO ABOUT ED GEIN! THE GHOUL OF PLAINFIELD!*
K?
I really want to see you do a video on bushido. There's a great book on the topic by Oleg Benesch. It's actually a really interesting history, and bushido was taken from some other older concepts and retroactively applied to samurai. Nitobe's book was the first mention of bushido as we know it today, and it's basically his fault that people believe this is the true way of the samurai.
7:56
for starters, remember Terminator Arnie's biker spiked jacket.
Then there's the case of that depraved & obscene monster known as
''The Beast Of Jersey'', a serial rapist & child-rapist who wore a hideous mask,
& a spiked coat with spiked wrist-bracelets so that his victims couldn't fight him off.
This monster terrorized the beautiful Jersey Island from 1957 to 1971 when he was arrested.
Perhaps it's only me, but I find a strong similarity between the Beast of Jersey & pre-Nightmare Freddy.
Yes! It just released a new album!
Weird history convinced bill.and.ted of their need to be in the Iron Maiden.
love to see a video of "the torture rack"
The torture museum in rotenburg is a definite recommend!
Talking about a few "wasted years"! Lmao nailed the reference ❤️
His monotone voice is just so perfect for puns