Pigs Eat Humans Far More Often Than People Would Expect

Exactly how often pigs and hogs eat their owners is unknown, but there are several documented cases of it happening. There's also no way to know for certain if the pigs might have attacked and then killed the person before consuming them. Sometimes weighing as much as 770 pounds, a farmyard pig overcoming and killing a human is not out of the question. But in most cases, it's thought the person likely experienced a medical emergency and died in the pig enclosure, after which time the pigs consumed them, or were otherwise intentionally fed to the animals.

An urgent medical emergency is likely what happened in 2012 when an Oregon farmer named Terry Vance Garner was eaten by his pigs. All that was left were Garner's dentures and a few assorted body parts, BBC News reports. One year later, in 2013, a mob boss was fed to the pigs by his rivals, reportedly while he was still alive, and in 2014, a 2-year-old Chinese child was tragically killed and eaten by an over-protective sow, according to the Daily Mail. That capacity for pigs to make (almost) all of a human body disappear has not gone unnoticed by criminals. In 2003, two Michigan residents were convicted of double murder. Their victim's bodies were never found, and it's believed that hogs ate them.