The World's Tallest Man: Robert Wadlow 8'11" aka the Alton Giant (1936) | British Pathé
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- Robert Pershing Wadlow, also known as the Giant of Illinois and the Alton Giant, was an American man who gained fame as the tallest person in recorded history.
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Tallest Man in History - Robert Wadlow 8ft11". Born in 1918, Robert is still to this day known as the tallest person in medical history. When the Pathe cameras went to film him in 1935, he was a mere 8′ 1 1/2″. When they returned the next year, he was 8ft4″. By the time of his death at just aged 22, he had grown to 8ft11''. In this clip, he is surrounded by his family and even though his father was 6ft, none of them stand much above his waist. Video is from 1936.
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a mere dwarf of 6ft
@@tamircohen1512 listen at 0:44
lmao
The women are out of reach from him 😅
Women on dating sites
A dwarf ain't 6 ft so disrespectful. XD
Am I the only one who laughed at the reporter's subtle humour?
- "And incidentally seem to be quite beyond the reach of young women"
- "A mere dwarf of 6ft"
Not that subtle, only REALLY dry!
+Zuhab Wasim "....he scores a duck.", is a pun, 'a Duck' or 'Out for a Duck' in Cricket is when the batter gets struck out First-Bowl.
British humour :)
6ft isn't short, but being above 6ft is normal. Atleast here in scandinavia.
@@222MovieMan wanna cry hard, im 5"5 a boy too
@@samuelraditya7921 how old are you and where are you from?
Tall man. Short video.
😂😂😂👍🏽👍🏽
Storm44Gaming slenderman can tower over this dude. Slender man can be about 15 ft
True
I'm the 400th like.
Cman theslenderman.fandom.com/wiki/Slender_Man the wiki says 6-15 feet
A true friendly giant. Sad story too, dead at age 22 as a result of an infected blister cased by one of the braces he required just to stand.
@@borianatam8556 any scientific evidence to back up that claim boriana lol
He would've definitely ended up on a wheelchair in later years.
@@caffreys1979 Yeah he had gigantiam meaning his growth hormone would've kept him growing untill he died, he could've easily been 9ft tall. Not too sure bout 10ft.
Rihand Parde In a Table instead
@@maaw7648 I'd like to think today with modern medicine doctors would have been able to manage his condition. It was said he had an overactive pituitary gland.
He sure was a unique character. Apparently, he was very kind, gentle, and soft-spoken. I would have loved to stand next to him!
Rest In Peace.
There's another video of Robert giving a speech in his hometown. Exactly what the speech was for or what he said is unclear because sadly there's no audio. But as always, the "Young Gentle Giant" towers above the crowd!
He wasn’t able to be soft spoken, his voice was so deep it almost seemed like he was yelling when he spoke.
@@jesbinjmy father is a 6’5 barrel chested man whose voice is in the basement. Even when he’s quiet, he’s not. 😆
I miss him so much. We used to play soccer in our high school. 😢
@@joshuasante538lies
What interests me most about Robert is that he was almost perfectly in proportion. Yes he had huge hands and feet but they were aligned with the rest of him. Many people with pituitary tumors, Marfan syndrome etc., display disproportionately long limbs, facial features and/or other body parts. Robert looked exactly like a regular man, just an extra third in size all over.
Perfectly proportioned? He was all legs.
All over? Johnny Sins aint got nothing on Robbo then
I didnt know Albert Einstein is still alive
@@kevinhawley8724 and arms. His wingspan was 9'5
That’s because you couldn’t see his “disproportionate feature” which was wrapped up like a garden hose in his sock
No one will ever be this tall again because there is now a way to stop gigantism.
Back in the days of Robert Wadlow they could've stopped him from growing. But the surgery was very dangerous so Roberts parents decided to let things happen naturally.
+Hank Hill what a sad world we live in. :(
+Mr.UA-cam I dont think there was a treat ment back then.
+Hank Hill But there are a lot of people without access to health services......
As cool as the novelty is. He probably suffered from a lot of pain. :(
I grew up in his home town and my mother went to school with Robert Wadlow. He was never treated as a freak in his home town and had a well-deserved reputation as a gentleman
He was jsut so immensley tall it's ridiculous. Would have loved to have stood next to him.
Its due to a Hyperplasia (gigantism of sorts) I believe. Anyway we have a full size figure of him in Copenhagen if you are interested in doing a comparison and taking some pics :o)
Amoroussparkle Oh wow, haha i'll have to go there someday just for that
Amoroussparkle been there!
yay! :P
but I'm all ready short. Q____Q
he was ridicously tall, oh man
i have problems being 6'1" living in Mexico, his life must have been a nightmare
Being 6'1" isn't even a prpblem. If anything that's average American height right there.
you don't know where i live, to put on perspective, most doors on houses are either 2, or they are 6'5" doors or they are 5'8" doors, yeah, it's an old town and most old houses are the ones with the 5'8" doors and you guessed it, most of the town houses are old houses.
Oh I understand now that would make some problems.
Average height is 5'9"
False, by far, false. Average Americans may not be more than 1.72.
When I was a young boy my grandfather told a story of meeting him. I always thought he was kidding me until I was older and read of him. His heart was as big as his size. May he continue to rest at peace.
Robert Pershing Wadlow was one of the few names I remembered from reading the Guinness book of Records as a kid.......Sadly died aged only 22....and he was still growing.....R.I.P.
yep
Yes, there is no telling how much taller he would have grown, had he not been killed by the infection. Thing is, he likely would have died soon anyway, due to his heart's continued growing (which kills most afflicted with Acromegaly at a young age, when no treatment of the tumor is attempted). Had he lived say as long as Andre the Giant (46 years old), he may have reached well over 10 feet tall, if his organs had not failed first. I have Acromegaly, and it sucks! Got it as an adult, so my head, lower jaw, hands and feet are freakishly large. All my best to all afflicted with this insidious disease.
"Every time young Robert goes through a doorway he 'scores a duck'." - Lol, why do I find this so funny?
Because you are thinking of him getting it on with a Mallard.
A duck is a cricket term for scoring zero 🦗
I learned about Robert when was a kid in the late 70's from the guinness book of records. For some reason he stuck out the most for me but this is the first video I have seen of him AND he still had 7 more inches to grow, wow!
steve Humphrey Me too! When I read your comment I had to check and make sure you weren’t my brother because I thought we were the only ones who poured through the book. This story stood out for me too. The Siamese twins is another one.
So he would be 9’6
@@Cytise91 No. He ended up a smidgen over 8'11". The video said he was 8'4" at the time of filming. He grew seven more inches in the last four years of his life.
"A mere dwarf of 6 feet." - lol
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@@jordyvillanueva9471 1 83
@@AFT_05G
Actually his Father was 177cm like 5'10
He looked much healthier at 8'4", if he stayed that height that wouldve been great for him.
Yeah
He never stopped growing, even when he died he was still growing
@@CapSuperM even when he died?
@@blackben8695 yes
@@blackben8695 He even kept growing in his coffin. His coffin weighed more than 1,000 pounds!
it really hurts to hear that he died at a young age 😔
Rest in Peace Robert Wadlow 🌹
He 8’11. Obviously hes not gonna make past 30yo.
if he lived longer i think he woudl've been hurt longer
@@johankaruyan5536I really wish he was alive and didn't get hurt. He deserve to be a basketball player!
May he rest in peace.
The way he ducked under that door really put things in perspective for me. It felt straight out of a science fiction/fantasy movie.
So Robert Wadlow grew up to be 2.72m tall. For comparison, the average adult male is 1.75m. Robert Wadlow was almost a whole metre taller than most men
It's always funny hearing Robert Wadlow's name, it makes me remember the stories my Great grandmother used to tell me about him. I'm a Chicago native and my family has lived here for 4 generations. When Robert was about eight, he and my great grandmother used to play. Even though at the time he was about 5"3 or 5"4
I think when Robert was 8 years old he was 6ft-6""
@@garychambers5850 people with giantism usually grow very fast at the puberty . Around 12-13 and they don’t stop growing. Imagine if our growth plates were opened forever that’s what giantism means. Keep growing and growing and growing endlessly. If his body could even sustain it he could even reach 10m tall at some point.
He could pick ur grandmother up with one finger lol
When Robert Wadlow died, his mother insisted that he be buried encased in concrete so that no one could mess with his body. She also had every single piece of clothing or furniture he had used destroyed so no one could buy or sell it and profit from his size. The only exception is that his shoes still exist.
Väinö Myllyrinne (27 February 1909 - 13 April 1963) was a finnish giant
In 1962, just a year before his death, he was measured by doctors at 2.48 m (8 ft 1.5 in). He had a 290 mm (11.4 in) hand span, the greatest known.
"He had a 290 mm (11.4 in) hand span, the greatest known."
- can you verify a) the measurement b) that it's a record?
- I'm highly doubtful Wadlow did not exceed this!
I was always amazed about seeing his pictures-but when I saw him on film-WOW!!And I really wish I could see someone that tall in person!
if u like to meet im 5’3” 😝
slender man origin
@@aos8986 he was 8'11 of course he's going to weigh a lot. Doesn't mean he was fat
You don't have to be light to be slender...
fat slenderman
but not really
@@aos8986 i'm 90kg and slender
Dang! He was only 17 in this?!
Yeah. He died really young though, at about only 20 years old
+kingkhanmsk1 Wikipedia says 22 years old
Human Being yep, 22 that's it. he had a genetic mutation, which made him grow a lot but had the side effect of a very short life span.
+kingkhanmsk1 Not a genetic mutation, but a tumour on his pituitary gland in the brain, the area which sends out growth hormones and make people grow taller/more mature in teenage years. The tumour cause the pituitary gland to increase in size, sending out massive amount of growth hormones throughout the body. This causes an abnormal and fast growth rate in young children who are not fully matured, and they grow to incredible heights. This condition is called "Acromegalic gigantism". When the condition occurs in an allready matured person, the condition is simply known as "Acromegaly", and cause hands, feet, browridge, cheeks, chin to grow larger. In the end, and untreated, it is a very dangerous disease since also the organs get enlarged. Most people with the condition don't tend to live to an old age, and during Roberts lifetime it wasn't very safe to surgically remove the tumour, so they let it be which made Robert grow even taller by every day. Today, if the condition is discovered, it is often possible to remove the tumour but the condition could still re-occur.
17 more like 67
I read about him when I was a kid. The book told how much he ate for breakfast, and the one thing I remember is "23 eggs".: )
This is the most impresive record to me.
The tallest man I knew stood 6 foot 7 inches tall, and he looked like an absolute giant, like tall to the point that he would turn heads whenever he entered a room with people who hadnt seen him before, you just don't see people that big very often. But to think this guy was about 2 and half feet taller is just unfathomable to me I cant even imagine it
My best buddy was 6'7". Big all-around with a thick black beard and blooming voice. It was fun going places with him because people looked a little fearful. He was a big pussycat though and fun to tease. Had a terrific sense of humor
@@nicholasschroeder3678 "was 6'7" "had a terrific sense of humor" is he....still alive? There's a lot of past tense going on there.😅
@@arnarnie6844 oh, I hope so. He was a work buddy, and after I left we kinda lost touch. We did a lot of drinking together, and I really couldn't keep up with him. But we had a hell of a lot of fun. Good memories. We played a lot of silly pranks on him at work. He'd rage and bellow, and we'd roar, but he never hurt anybody. A gentle giant. But he sure didn't look it.😁
I'm 6'4" and this is just barely entry level for taller than normal guys. Always do a double take when I see someone taller though, I'm not used to looking up at people lol
I go to school where he used to go
or did you? vsauce music plays
@@NovaBoi7 Yeah now I did since I graduated lol
He wasn't fully grown here. He is 8.4" that's 2,54 cm
His record height is 2,72 at the age 22
He was 8'11 when he died
wow imagine meeting this guy....amazing
My God he is a Titan!
This guy was so tall that he is used as a size comparison on some other UA-cam videos including a few that compare to such things as elephants and statues!
Wow this is awesome
I realize only now he probably lived in constant pain since early age. The best portrait is the song Giant of Illinois by Handsome family but as covered by Andrew Bird, listen to it and you will shed a tear or two.
It's sad that he died at such a young age.
0:28 - not beyond the reach at all, they get to stand up, everybody wins!
After 9 years I find this video
i was growing up tall myself, when i was 14 i was 5'4 , then i hit my growth spurt when i was 15 and grew up to 5'7 , now im 24 and im 5'8 and a half
He should have played Basketball.D But poorly his bones wouldn`t make it...
He doesn't have to jump to dunk
I think there are vids of him playing as a kid
John H yea kid 2m tall :D i would like to be standijg next to him in that time...
@MrGeneral It's a stereotypical joke my guy, calm down
This guy hi dont even need to jump when hi play basket
Yeah
He literally didnt have to being 8' 11"
Perfect!
Impressive!!
I wonder if I'm the only person who's bothered the guy didn't make it to 9 feet tall.
lmao the dad is like "i dunno how he got the tall"
One hundrets years ago they have HD and now a half of youtube films are 240p.
I remember seing a picture of him in the guiness book when i was like 10 years old, and I never forgot his name, i’m not sure why.
Rest in Peace Robert
Karl Pilkington would've loved this man.
On June 27, 1940 Robert’s height was measured at an incredible
8ft, 11.9 inches
8'11.1
To think he would grow another 7 inches taller than he is in the video.. amazing.
His shoes are now on display at Pike Place Market in Seattle, in the Giant Shoe Museum.
I’m related to him!!! He’s my grandpas moms cousin!!
Cool
Wow
Wow!, How tall are you?
@@elbrantzreinhardt6214 your dumb
@@bogan9396 agree
Robert father: damnit! My son is high
thanks :P
Inolvidable Robert Wadlow ❤
4,11 girls after watching this video: Oh my god if my man isn't at least 8,4 he's not my man
I just can't imagine seeing someone that tall walking around.
Not gonna lie,I'd be terrified
Theres super tall people walking around everywhere, everyday, in all parts of the World. Some taller than others.
I went to a Block Party in Queens NY a few years back. Tons of people there. I've never seen so many giant men
and Giant women all in one place! I remember walking into a woman...Dam, my face was looking at her belly..thats how tall she was..
Tons of giant men..
I have seen tall people in my life... just not this tall. But def tall enough where they had to crouch a little bit due to hitting the top of door frame.
0:21 RPW was from Alton, Illinois, which is near St. Louis, yet 500 km from Chicago.
Interesting theory Chris, particularly about the bigger beds. We all know when you keep Goldfish in a small bowl they stay very small.
Yet when you put them in a big pond like they do in Japan they grow
to about a foot (30cm) long. Genetics of course plays a large part, like Sudanese are very tall yet live in a impoverished area. Islanders are big in every way yet may eat only fruits and fish.
He’s as tall as Jack Skellington
Someone who finished high school, apparently it's quite rare nowadays. I guess finishing high school has become some extraordinary feet for some of the kids today.
wow nine years ago
I may be a legend
Have the videos on youtube I cant watch becuase of the long dragged out commercials. Too bad. There are tons of great topics but the commercials ruin it.
vsause sent me here
*sauce*
spit facts
You too,
Finally someone who gets me.
Beyond the reach of young women! Literally! Touché!
Robert Wadlow had a shoulder height of around 7'7". Shame he died so young. I often wonder that if he lived to 25-30, would he have been over 10ft tall?
More like 7'5"/7'6"
Shoulder Height....
Wadlow had
a BIG Head!
Must've been hard for him to walk :\
He's one tall guy!
The original tape was obviously not in HD at all. I guess somebody re-rendered it to HD.
Can you imagine him being a foot taller, (9'11) and not having any bone or muscle problems where he would be just as quick and flexible as people of normal stature but proportionate for his size? And then, imagine him body building and strength training and trained in Martial Arts and in the Army, I bet he could take on a bear!
Blaze_007 possible but he's one in a trillion and he wouldn't live long. We r not meant to be that big will take many thousands of years to evolve I think. Has to be gradual I would imagine. It's the old heart u have to think about. Heart strain kills any at any age
@Emre Eves you'll never know for sure
Maybe they were or are guys some guys taller then Robert in Amazon rainforests or Africa
Because there is no media coverage there
@Emre Eves
No because Guinness world record hasn't explored all of Africa or all of the Amazon rainforest
So yeah we will never know for sure who really is the world's tallest man
@Emre Eves there could be we'll never know for sure
All we know about this is that Robert is the tallest known man that the media knows of
@Emre Eves
And I forget to mention men that are giants could live in caves,forests,mountains etc too
So thats icing on top for the likelihood of media ever discovering them even if there was media coverage in places like that which there isn't in the first place
So yeah we will never know for sure
All we know is the Robert is tallest man that the media knows of
He was just very tall. That's it. Doesn't tell you anything at all about who he was as a person. People can be so shallow!
Read about him. He was a great guy!
Nothing wrong with being interested. Gray clouding interests is very boring to me. Difference between making a circus out of somebody for exploitation, and mere curiosity
@@garychambers5850 Too bad he didnt live longer. Looked like a interesting person, but i hope he lived the best aslong as he was here! Must have been exciting life in a sense.
He was 8ft 4 there at 17. He grew 7 inches in 5 years until he died at 22 at a final height of 8ft 11. The poor guy
This was made when I was born
Now it all makes sense. Slender man was born in 1918.
Hell yeah
He was not from chicaga, he was from Alton IL and is buried here in Oakwood cemetery.
Chicago u mean
No. As a citizen of the Great State of Southern Illinois, I use the term to identify myself as one who supports the separation of us from Springfield north.
+William Perkins all goods
Thank you.
William Perkins ikr i was at his grave it strectes out to 2 graves i wonder how many people it took to lower him in to the ground
imagine a mobile robert wadlow in a street fight
His 2 hanging balls will always be the target of the enemy
@@dennisaguilar4400 😂😭😂
Girls will still be like "not tall enough"
robert waldlow biggest man ever in universe
It is eleventhirty in the morning and I am gonna put this on facebook.
A mere dwarf at 6 foot? wow that really put it into perspective for me :o... it took me a while to get every time he goes through a doorway he scores a duck X)
He should of been a bodybuilder in the wwe. He'd win EVERY match.
tossing guy's around like tiny ragdolls 🤪🤪
Am I the only one who realizes that he has long legs than a long upper body?
Wow!!
So sorry he died so young, 💔.
2,74 meters, if you watch this in Europe
The only guy in history who probably(unconfirmed though) was taller, was Feodor Makhnov, whose height had been advertised as 9'3" at his shows. Contrary to Robert Wadlow, Feodor was very strong.
Both Robert and Feodor were taller than Space Marines(7'0'' - 7'6''), and even Primaris Space Marines(8'6" averagely). Primarchs(~10') and Emperor of Mankind(12' - 14') are considerably taller though.
Wadlow once carried his father in the chair his father was sitting in up the stairs. He was in his early teens then, and far from full grown.
In the 1500s, there was another man from Liverpool called John Middleton, nicknamed “The Childe of Hale” who was alleged to have been 9’3” and had to sleep with his feet hanging out the window of his cottage.
GIANT FOREVER ❤️
This guy is also the tallest boy scout too at 7 feet 4 inches when he was 13.
Imagine if he still alive and be
A Basketball player
Or
A football player
Or
A one who kill Bruce Lee with one kick
He could not do any sports because of his legs and when your over 8ft your prob will have a lot of leg pain by just walkiing
In college, he stood by the basketball hoop and drop all the balls passed toward him.
I think he’d be pretty op in Para Olympic volleyball.
I wonder how long his coffin is🤣
10 feet, it took 20 men to carry it
@@anarrangementofpixelsonapl1931 i feel bad for him :((((((((I am 14 and i am 6.3 i think i am going to end up like him :((((((( I get bullied in school because of that.I am already taller than my dad he his 6.2 :(((((((
Nope Nope you are not going to end up like him. He was 7’7 at 14
you got it kid.
he was born in 1918 died when he was 22, hes height when he died was 8ft11 and he was still growing, but it put loads amount of pressure on his heart thats how he died.
READ Genesis chapter 6
But the Nephilim were the sons of angels. This obviously does not apply here. :/
The Bible is a bad fantasy book.
if he'd been trained up, made to go to the gym and work out he could have been one hell of a tank XD
u could, but it will took you ages (10 years to gain a 5kg muscle mass) long arms, legs are the worst to pump
i was thinking starting him up as a kid :P
When he goes through the door he looks like lady dimitrescu from resident evil Village but a boy version
Dude had a swag to him
My teacher Rachel wadlow is his cousin not joking
Hmmm... this video was made in 1936. And you say *YOUR* teacher is his cousin... Something doesn't add up here.
I know is she a never ageing person
+MrAntieMatter you never know..
You are right... her teacher could have totally been 100 years old.
+MrAntieMatter *facepalm*
Robert Wadlow is really Jehovah.