The day the birds attacked people

Surely on some occasions you have seen the fantastic movie "The birds" by Alfred Hitchcock .Allegedly based on a short story by the French writer Daphne Du Maurier, he told us the overwhelming story of how a small coastal town in the US, was suddenly engulfed in the brutal attack of the birds towards the population, a wonderful classic of the suspense genius, who always manages to terrify us for many times that we see her.

But did you know that Hitchcock didn't just rely on the writer's book? Did you know that what was presented in the movie really happened ?

The summer of 1961, when the birds turned against men

It was any Friday in the Monterrey Bay , south of San Francisco.On a Friday, August 18, 1961, when people prepared for the weekend.Shopping day, beach walks, games with the children in the parks… any summer day where the sun and tranquility flooded everything.But something happened.

Suddenly, the country's media began to report something inexplicable. "The seagulls have gone crazy" said, "They are attacking the population by throwing themselves at children and adults like real kamikaces." No one could believe what was being advertised on the radio or what they said on the television of the epoch.

The day the birds attacked people

The seagulls pecked with an excessive force to everyone who crossed their path, broke glass, and entered the houses, causing an overwhelming and incomprehensible panic.The authorities recommended that people seek refuge in their homes and that they did not go out for any reason. The attack lasted a whole day.

The next day, people left their homes again, some wounded, others terrified, and all with an expression of absolute dread to see the lifeless bodies of hundreds of seagulls on the floors of the small town.

Alfred Hitchcock's inspiration

Hitchcock I do not doubt it .I immediately call the authorities from his home in Scott Valley and asked for a report of everything that happened.He already had material for a new movie.He was particularly attracted to the fact that exactly the same thing happened that Daphne du Maurier told in his little story, an overwhelming story that nobody could give an explanation and that he gave him an unparalleled opportunity.

The day the birds attacked people

The newspapers said the attack was due to the fog, a thick fog that disoriented the birds.But to this version no one believed , he added another even more shocking.In the scientific magazine "Nature Geoscience", it was explained that the attack of the birds was due to the "amnesic toxin of mollusks" .It is a type of substance produced naturally by red algae and passed to mollusks and fish that feed on these algae.

When the seagulls fed these fish in turn They suffered an attack on their organisms that caused them great aggressiveness, lack of control, confusion and, finally, death.

True or not, something like that has not happened again.From what happened only Hitchcock He left us his wonderful and unforgettable film testimony.

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