Video: The story of an Englishman who spent 9 years on a desert island
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
Recently, many foreign and Russian media published news about the miraculous rescue of the Englishman Adam Jones, who spent 9 years on a desert island after a ship wreck. They managed to find him only after a child from Minnesota accidentally saw a giant sign. SOSallegedly laid out by Adam on the coast, in pictures from Google Earth … To many, this happy end story seemed fictional, and this is not without reason …
The reputable fact-checking publication snopes.com has published a rebuttal with a clear explanation of how and where the pictures were taken, and also provided other information about how the media had previously covered this news feed. It turned out that this news first appeared in the newspapers in 2014, and then it was not about Adam Jones, but about … Gemma Sheridan.
So, the first to write about the history of modern Robinson was the online edition Newshound in March 2014. It was then that a story was told about a traveler who, having gone on a sea voyage, survived a ship wreck, ended up on an island, lived there for many years, and then one fine morning heard the hum of an airplane overhead. Humanitarian aid was dropped from the plane onto the island, among the things were a walkie-talkie, a minimum supply of food, water and a first-aid kit. The hero of the story then turned out to be a girl named Gemma, they wrote that she spent five years alone on a deserted island.
The Newshound article described how the girl managed to survive. In particular, it was said that once she managed to find eight wild goats on the island, and over time she was able to kill them and eat their meat.
Recently, the media began to replicate an identical story with the only difference that a man became its main character, and the time of his stay on the island increased to nine years. All other details remain the same: goat hunting for meat, SOS sign in Google Earth pictures, rescue plane. Interestingly, even the story about Adam first appeared in the Linkbeef edition in August 2015, but by some accident it was again “taken out”, shaken and launched into circulation.
There are many moments in the history of both Gemma and Adam that are difficult to believe. So, the fate of Adam was dramatized as much as possible: in the articles about him you can find information that he and his friends planned to cross the Atlantic Ocean and the Panama Canal on the way from Liverpool to Hawaii. However, having approached the Pacific Ocean, the ship was caught in a storm, Adam ended up in a rescue boat, drifted on the water for 17 (!) Days until he landed on an uninhabited island. Here he miraculously survived: he assembled a hut from the wreckage of a yacht, found a way to save rainwater, tried to build a bow and arrows for hunting wild goats, but fate smiled at him, and one of the goats fell into a trap of its own accord, entangled in a thicket of bushes.
The story of a long-term stay on the island, no doubt, does not stand up to criticism, but there remains a mysterious photo from Google Earth, which, as evidenced by the snopes.com resource, is original. True, it was not done on a deserted island in the Pacific Ocean. The picture was first published in 2010 by Amnesty International as an illustration for an article on the problems in Kyrgyzstan.
The site NewsHound itself, which launched the duck about saving Gemma, is an entertainment resource that often posts fake news to gather views. The details of life on the desert island were taken from a 2013 article in the Daily Mail about a daring experiment by volunteer Ed Stafford, who spent 60 days on a desert island in the Pacific.
The story of a nine-year life on a desert island turned out to be a fiction, but in life there are situations that are cooler than any fantasy. Englishman Brandon Girmshaw lived 40 years on a desert island - and this is the real truth!
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