Most dangerous water in the world that has a ‘100% fatality rate if entered’ can be found in UK

The dangerous river is located in the north of England

Imagine living here for so many years and not knowing that the UK is home to the ‘world’s most dangerous river’.

At first glance, the Bolton Strid just looks like any other river, a narrow passage surrounded by a bit of greenery. However, the tight water stream – located up the River Wharfe in North Yorkshire – apparently has a ‘100 percent fatality rate if entered.’

Why is The Strid so dangerous?

One of the world’s most dangerous rivers

Credit: Twitter/Bolton Abbey Estate

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Basically, if you get in that water you’re f**ked.

YouTuber jack a snacks visited the Strid in 2021 and stuck a camera down there to figure out why it’s so hazardous.

When it gets to about 3ft deep, the content creator noted that ‘it’s chaos down there’.

After filming for an hour and a half, he was ‘constantly fighting [against the current], trying to stop it from ripping [the camera] out of my hands.’

“You can see a cliff edge emerge here, waiting to pull you beneath it,” Jack explained.

How deep is The Strid?

The UK river is said to have a ‘100 percent fatality rate’ (YouTube/Tom Scott)

Jack a snacks went and measured the deepest part of the river, coming in at 65 metres, or 213 feet, which, according to the Yorkshire Bylines, is the equivalent of ’15 double-decker buses stacked on top of each other’.

Stories about the Strid’s lethal nature started back in medieval times when the ‘Boy of Egremont’ and his dog were allegedly pulled in.

Since that first medieval death, there have been numerous others, including 19^th century picnickers, an artist in 1934, and a newlywed couple in 1998.

Then, in 2010, an eight-year-old called Aaron Page fell in, his body getting dragged downstream.

This infamous part of the river has even been immortalised in poem by William Wordsworth over the years, as well as American author Gertrude Atherton.

What the bottom of the Strid looks like (YouTube/jack a snacks)

Explaining the power of the river, YouTuber Tom Scott – who made a video about the Strid – said: “There are certainly rivers that have taken more lives, and there are rapids and waterfalls that few boats could sail, but generally you can see them coming.

“This is just an innocent-looking stream in the middle of some woods, you could jump over it, people occasionally do, but if you miss that jump, it’ll kill you.

“Those banks are actually overhangs – there isn’t any riverbed just below the surface, it’s a deep, boiling mass of fast and deadly currents.

“There are claims that falling in has a 100 percent fatality rate; there’s no way to confirm that, of course, because ‘local person doesn’t die in river’ doesn’t make the news, it has claimed a lot of lives.”