The Most Horrifying Traps Used In The Vietnam War (*MATURE AUDIENCES ONLY*) The NVA Worst Traps

During the Vietnam War, one of the scariest things American soldiers had to deal with were the

traps

that both the North Vietnamese army and Vietcong gorillas set throughout the jungle. The Vietnamese were terribly creative in the

traps

they created and set to take. American troops even went so far as to carry poisonous snakes in their own backpacks just so that if the enemy killed or captured them, there was a chance that the American troops would die from the poisonous snakes in their own bags when they went out to loot. them and in today's video we are going to review the

most

frightening and

horrifying

traps

used

during the Vietnam War, so, as usual on this channel, viewer discretion is recommended.

There will be some photos and all kinds of fun stuff here. To review, but without further ado, let's jump right into this punji styx which is probably the

most

famous trap

used

during the Vietnam War, probably just because of how terribly simple the design of this trap is, the Vietnamese would dig a deep hole, sharpen a lot of sticks. and then they would place the sticks on the ground facing up at the bottom of the hole, then they would cover the hole with some kind of light material, whether it was a small tarp or just some leaves or some bamboo, something that would cover the hole but not support it. . the weight of a human that way, when an American soldier stepped on the trap, he would fall through it into the pit being impaled by the spikes below and although this trap was a very simple design as the war progressed, the Vietnamese They improved it enormously.

Even going so far as to cover the tips of the spear with human and animal feces like that, if an American soldier fell into the pit and was stabbed multiple times but managed to get out and survive, he would almost certainly die from an infection. soon. after they even made a different variation of the trap where instead of placing the spears on the ground facing up, the spears were used more like spikes and placed on the sides of the pit wall facing down that way If an American soldier fell, he wouldn't necessarily be stabbed on the way down, but it would be impossible for him to get out without being stabbed numerous times on the way out and they would always cover those traps with human or animal feces that way.

He was stabbed 10, 15, 20 times, just some minor cuts on the way out and then I had a whole body infection and if that's not horrible enough for you, here's another pit trap used by the Vietnamese that is arguably even worse Called a snake pit, it's exactly what you'd imagine it would be: the Vietnamese would once again dig a large hole in the ground, but this time, instead of filling the bottom with sharp sticks, they would fill it with a ton of bamboo vipers. and then they would cover the ground again. top of the hole so that no one could see it once you fell into the hole, although these highly venomous snakes would bite you several times immediately.

These snakes were so poisonous that we soldiers actually nicknamed them the two-step snakes because the venom was so powerful that you could

only

take two more steps after being bitten before collapsing and, to make it even more terrifying, these vipers were left in this hole sometimes for days, maybe even a week or two before an American soldier fell in there, so not

only

is it full of highly venomous snakes but it is full of highly venomous snakes that are starving and very agitated, so as soon as you fell into that pit you were going to be bitten many, many times, but unfortunately this wasn't even the only way vipers were used as traps by the Vietnamese, the Viet Cong gorillas carried vipers in their backpacks, so if they were killed or captured, there was a chance that when an American soldier reached into their bag to loot it, they would be bitten. a poisonous snake that died soon after, they would also tie these vipers to bamboo sticks and then hide them deep in their tunnel complexes, so that when an American soldier tried to crawl through the pitch-black dark tunnel, there would be a chance of They were bitten by a snake and died in the tunnel and I don't know about you guys, but I think I've had enough snakes, so let's move on to the next trap. canned grenade canned grenade was another incredibly genius, but simple design, they would remove the pin from a hand grenade and then slide the grenade down into a can, the can would hold down the firing pin lever so the grenade wouldn't explode, then they would tie a trip wire to the end of the grenade and then he would cross the line and tie it to a tree that way, when an American soldier would get stuck on the trip wire, he would take the grenade out of the can and set off the grenade because this trap It was very quick and easy to install. placed very often throughout the jungle, when patrolling through the jungle, the Vietnamese would set up a small base to spend the night with a campfire, they would eat their food and go to sleep and then when they got up the next morning to continue their patrol, they would sort of clean up a little bit around the base and then take the cans of the food they ate and use them to make grenades in the can traps around their little makeshift base and then they would leave so that when the troops If Americans stumbled upon their small base and snooped around trying to figure out if there was any information around, they would set off a couple of traps and then blow themselves up.

We have flag bombs. The NVA and VC loved to fly flags and they knew that we troops loved to capture enemy flags. souvenirs to take home, so when they were forced to abandon a base or a location, they would often attach the flags with some type of explosive, so that when the American troops began to remove the flag, the charge would be activated and this idea led them to create a very similar trap known as a souvenir hand loss trap where the NVA would intentionally tamper with anything they thought an American troop would consider a war trophy, for example a Vietnamese soldier might intentionally leave behind a nice cool knife. on a table at the base. go out and then tie a rope to the end of that knife and the other end of the rope to a grenade in a can that way, when the American soldier picked up the knife to take it back to base with them, it would set off the grenade. along with anyone else around me, the next one is probably the one that scares me the most just because it's so quick, easy and cheap to set up and so hard to detect, it's just terrifying, cartridge trap, that's what they called it.

The trap was terrible because it was very difficult to detect a cartridge or a round of ammunition that was placed in a piece of bamboo and lowered into a shallow hole in the ground, at the bottom of the piece of bamboo there was a board and a nail . Every time someone stepped on the shell trap, the weight of that person's foot would drive the nail into the primer, turning the nail into a firing pin and firing that bullet upward through the unsuspecting victim's foot, it was like a makeshift Claymore. super cheap. All you needed was one. bullet, a nail and some bamboo and the weight of that person's foot would lower the cartridge towards the firing pin or the nail would cause the bullet to fire in the foot and that bullet would not stop in the foot if you are lucky that it happened through the top of your foot and go right in front of your face and miss you, but there was a good chance that bullet would land right under your chin.

Now I think what makes this one so scary is just that it would be so fast and out of nowhere you're just walking through the jungle and suddenly you're gone another sharp and horribly primitive bamboo trap it was the bamboo whip the whip consisted of a long piece of bamboo with sharp spiked tips attached to the end, one end of the bamboo would be tied to a tree and then bent back along the side of another tree creating like a bow, putting the bamboo under a ton of stress , it would then be connected to a tripwire holding the bamboo spikes in that location, so that when an American soldier activated the tripwire, it would release all that tension in the piece of bamboo and send it flying forward over a hundred miles per hour directly into the chest of that American soldier, impaling him.

With multiple foot-long spikes, another very similar wire trap is the mace. The mace consisted of a 40 pound ball made of wood or metal or sometimes even clay, and then tons of spikes were attached to it, sometimes these spikes are made of bamboo again or occasionally even metal spikes, the The ball or mace would be placed high on a tree, hung there with a large piece of rope, and then the rope would be attached to a tripwire placed so that when an American soldier tripped on that cable, the mace would swing back. down impaling his chest, so not only would a 40 pound ball hit you in the chest, you would also be impaled by several foot long spikes, what was even scarier about this is that while this one could distinguished from metal to make it even more effective, this trap could be made entirely from resources found in the jungle, they would make a huge ball of mud and then stick a bunch of sharp spikes into that ball and leave it out in the sun to the mud would harden holding the spikes in place, then all you had to do was fix it with the rope, put it on the tree and set the tripwire and wait for a terribly unlucky American soldier to trip over the tripwire much like The tiger trap was basically the same design where it was hung from a tree and attached to a trip wire, but instead of a giant ball with spikes, it was a human-sized board loaded with bricks and filled with spikes. metal spikes, so while it worked almost identically to the mace, where once tripped over the tripwire it would swing from the tree impaling the American soldier, the mace would only boost you in one area, maybe your chest, maybe your head, maybe your legs, but human size.

The board was completely covered in spikes, so the tiger trap would impale you from the top of your head to the tips of your toes with these spikes, making it one of the most gruesome traps used in the whole Vietnam War, but that's all the traps I have. For you guys today in this video, be sure to let me know in the comments section below which trap was your least favorite. I guess which trap scares them more. Definitely, the cartridge trap is one in which only the bullet is underground. I know it sounds. It's weird that you have super venomous snakes, giant death balls flying from the sky, but for me, I think the fact that the cartridge trap is so easy to hide is like you can actually keep your eyes open for a giant bowling ball. of the death that hangs on it. a tree and traps like that, the giant pole with spikes on the bottom would be hard to spot but definitely possible, but you're talking literally, it just needs to be a little bigger than the size of a bullet and it's buried underground like you.

You're not going to detect the cartridge trap, you're going to step on that thing and you'll never know what hit you and that's freaking scary, but I hope you enjoyed this video. Be sure to let me know in the comments section of any other cheats. which I may have missed and if you want to watch the second part of this video, I'll try to find more cheats to share with you here on the channel, but anyway I hope everyone has a fantastic rest of the day. Thanks for Watch the video and I'll talk to you later.