It’s been nearly two decades since Steve Irwin’s death, but interest in the conservationist remains high.
The television personality tragically died in September 2006 at the age of 44, when a stingray barb pierced his chest while filming in the waters off Port Douglas, Queensland.
While images of the event were captured, they were never made public. However, many online fans remain convinced they have seen it.
A user recently visited reddit and stated that they can vividly remember seeing the clip when they were children.
“I think I might have seen it online, a time when internet restrictions were a little looser and it was a little easier for a little kid to come across a tragic video if they really cared about what was happening,” the story read. publication.
It’s been nearly two decades since Steve Irwin’s death and many fans online believe they’ve seen footage of the tragedy. Pictured: Steve Irwin feeding a crocodile at the Australia Zoo.
One user recently took to Reddit and claimed that he vividly remembers seeing the clip: “I think I saw it online, back in the day when internet restrictions were a little looser,” the post read. Pictured: Steve with his wife Terri Irwin.
Many commenters on the post agreed that they had seen the same clip and had vivid memories of it.
“I remember seeing the same video, however it was on a national news broadcast but it cut off when I was about to get hit by the stingray,” one commenter wrote in response to the Reddit post.
“I remember it was in the news too, but there was a longer version floating around the web,” another Redditor wrote.
“The video shows him swimming with the rays, then you swim close and the video freezes and the incident is not shown but the text appears,” another recalled.
Another claimed to have seen the fatal blow, writing that in the supposedly televised footage, “we see the stingray bite pierce Steve’s shirt directly below his left pectoral muscle near his sternum.”
Memory of the video may be due to a phenomenon known as Mandela Effect.
The Mandela effect is a type of false memory that occurs when a large number of people remember the same misinformation.
Another claimed to have seen the fatal blow, writing that in the supposedly televised footage, “we see the sting of the lightning bolt pierce Steve’s shirt.”
It takes its name from a widespread false memory that South African President Nelson Mandela died in prison in the 1980s.
However, another theory involving a fake video emerged in the comments of the Reddit post.
In 2018, Steve’s widow, Terri Irwin, confirmed that the video of her husband’s death had never been made public, but that a fabrication had gone viral shortly after the tragedy.
However, in the comments to the Reddit post, another theory emerged involving a fake video. In 2018, Steve’s widow, Terri Irwin, confirmed that the video of her husband’s death had never been made public, but that a fabrication had gone viral shortly after the tragedy.
“After Steve’s death, 100 million viewers watched a video of his death that was posted on YouTube,” he told You Magazine.
‘That film was a complete invention that exploited people’s sadness. I have never seen the actual images. Why would there be?’ Terri said.
‘I know how my husband died and I was relieved the children weren’t on the boat like they used to be; “It would have been horrendous if they had witnessed it.”
While the video many fans remember seeing was fake, the ‘Wildlife Warrior’s’ tragic death was captured on film due to his production rule of never stopping filming, no matter what.
Copies of the tapes were given to Queensland authorities to assist with their investigation, but they were all destroyed in 2007.
The only remaining copy was given to Terri, who is said to have burned it without seeing the images.
Copies of the footage of Steve’s death were given to Queensland authorities to assist with their investigation at the time, but were all destroyed in 2007. The only remaining copy was given to Terri, who burned it without seeing the footage. Pictured left to right: Chandler Powell, Bindi Irwin, Terri Irwin, Robert Irwin