Comments on: Liver-Eating Johnson https://www.damninteresting.com/liver-eating-johnson/ Fascinating true stories from science, history, and psychology since 2005 Wed, 21 Apr 2021 14:34:12 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.2 By: Andy https://www.damninteresting.com/liver-eating-johnson/#comment-73754 Wed, 21 Apr 2021 14:34:12 +0000 https://www.damninteresting.com/?p=366#comment-73754 great story! except its apparently all fiction, as records show he was in the military during the time he was supposedly slaughtering Crows. Apparently this whole “legend” began when he killed Sioux warrior and had a bit of his liver left on his knife, so Johnson asked if anyone “wanted a bite”.

]]> By: Kijoki https://www.damninteresting.com/liver-eating-johnson/#comment-73642 Sat, 02 Jan 2021 21:26:09 +0000 https://www.damninteresting.com/?p=366#comment-73642 Loving the comments! You’ll find more fiction in here than in the article itself!

]]> By: JarvisLoop https://www.damninteresting.com/liver-eating-johnson/#comment-73636 Tue, 22 Dec 2020 00:24:37 +0000 https://www.damninteresting.com/?p=366#comment-73636 I had not heard of John Johnston before, and I must now read more.

If you want to read about another man who led an incredible life, I suggest Simon Kenton. He was featured in “The Frontiersmen” by Allan Eckert.

(Final note: My mother’s maiden name was Hatcher. I might be distantly related to John Hatcher.)

]]> By: Bruce https://www.damninteresting.com/liver-eating-johnson/#comment-73611 Wed, 02 Dec 2020 04:26:17 +0000 https://www.damninteresting.com/?p=366#comment-73611 To M D Garrison. Please tell us more about John and his marriage etc thanks

]]> By: James Chimera https://www.damninteresting.com/liver-eating-johnson/#comment-73566 Fri, 30 Oct 2020 08:31:59 +0000 https://www.damninteresting.com/?p=366#comment-73566 To M. D. Garrison, please give more details! Are all the stories made up, including the Blackfoot wife and the Crow revenge, or are some of them true?

]]> By: M. D. Garrison https://www.damninteresting.com/liver-eating-johnson/#comment-73223 Thu, 30 Jan 2020 03:10:01 +0000 https://www.damninteresting.com/?p=366#comment-73223 I am his great great great nephew. He made up these stories to scare off natives to stop messing with our family.

]]> By: jhendo https://www.damninteresting.com/liver-eating-johnson/#comment-72648 Thu, 29 Nov 2018 06:10:01 +0000 https://www.damninteresting.com/?p=366#comment-72648 For all of you saying this guys was an embarrassment, your ignorance is the embarrassment. He didn’t murder anyone. The Crow sent warriors out to kill him one at a time over the course of 24 years after killing his family. He was continually ambushed… but was badass enough to defeat everyone. A far cry from you social warriors who curl up and wimper at any wiff of offense.

]]> By: Dan https://www.damninteresting.com/liver-eating-johnson/#comment-72112 Wed, 24 May 2017 02:00:04 +0000 https://www.damninteresting.com/?p=366#comment-72112 sulkykid – why American won the revolutionary war. The British diet = tea and crumpets. The American diet = raw squirrel meat and whiskey.

]]> By: Landon Sawyers https://www.damninteresting.com/liver-eating-johnson/#comment-71777 Tue, 04 Oct 2016 19:49:05 +0000 https://www.damninteresting.com/?p=366#comment-71777 He ate the livers because the crows believed that you would need your liver in order to go to “crow heaven” so that was better revenge than just killing them.

]]> By: Bree https://www.damninteresting.com/liver-eating-johnson/#comment-40025 Mon, 05 Oct 2015 02:13:19 +0000 https://www.damninteresting.com/?p=366#comment-40025 The liver-eating thing is weirdly ritualistic. Did this guy actually want revenge, or was he just looking for an excuse to start a career as a serial killer?

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