Ramree Island: Animal House of Horrors or Urban Legend?

It isn’t a very big or important place. Not many people live there, either historically or today. It isn’t a tourist destination or a tropical paradise: it doesn’t even appear all that different from the mainland. Under normal circumstances, no one outside of Myanmar would have ever heard of Ramree Island.

But, just like many previously unremarkable places, war came to visit Ramree in 1945, and with it came one of the most horrifyingly gruesome stories in the history of warfare: an entire regiment of Japanese troops disappeared into a jungle swamp, mostly never to be seen again. What killed them was not the British soldiers pursuing them, but by Mother Nature, particularly one of her most dangerous predators: the saltwater crocodile.

The idea of hundreds of soldiers being eaten alive by gigantic beasts leftover from the era of the dinosaurs, what the Guinness Book of World Records called “the deadliest animal attack in human history,” is so horrifying that it defies belief. In fact, many people DON’T believe it: they say the story is impossible, that it is a work of complete fiction.

True or not, the story has defined the outsider’s perspective on Ramree Island ever since, all you have to do is scour the Internet to show that. As for whether or not you believe it, we’ll tell the story, and then you can decide for yourself.

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