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[kitsune_tsuki]

This weekend I went to Powell's for the first time in forever and a friend was all, "Hey, lol, Hawaiian ghost stories!" because she lives to mock me and my choice in entertainment, always. And then I maybe bought the book and read a little bit of it and discovered The Drowning Pool in Waimea Falls Park on Oahu. The author says he spoke to a

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[cairea]

That man-eating crocodile in the movie, just fyi and to completely ensure your good night's sleep forEVER, is based on a real serial killer crocodile in Burundi. His name is Gustave and he's about sixty-some years old and over twenty feet long at this point, and his acknowledged kill count is over three hundred people. Despite intense efforts to catch and kill him, he's still at large right now.

[kitsune_tsuki]

I know, right? I saw that in the wiki entry about the movie and I was like, "Oh, well then. I guess I'll definitely not be going there. Or, like. Near any sort of lake or river or other watery den of evil ever, just to be safe." (Humans, I get, but the fact that he's been known to hunt hippos that really gets me.)

I love that Gustave has his own wiki entry - especially this part regarding an attempt to catch him in 2002:

Faye and a documentary team attempted to capture Gustave in 2002 using an enormous trap, but the crocodile not only avoided it, but seemed to taunt the team as well.

I need to track down the documentary they made of that, it sounds fascinating.

[cairea]

The part that gets me is the part where he doesn't eat the people he kills. He just kills them because. I mean, holy shit. (Though, yes, hippos, wtf Gustave. Only elephants and cape buffalo would be worse.)

[kitsune_tsuki]

Oh, geez. YES. I forgot about that part. I imagine him to be a little like the Hannibal Lecter of the animal world. Or possibly some other notorious serial killer. (I would not be surprised if he moves on to elephants one day, but. Yeah. Horrimazing.)

[delicatale]

See, see, I want that story so bad, because Steve? Steve is a believer? That is SO ADORBS and I want him to be scared, come on, the guy's never scared.

[nova437]

Now I'm imagining Steve living in Perfection, Nevada. XD