Does a real video show an elephant rescuing a man in Nepal during the flooding on Aug. 26, 2026? No, that's not true: While the clip is authentic and shows an elephant rescuing a man, it does not depict the flooding in Nepal. Instead, the video was filmed in India more than two weeks earlier.
The claim appeared in a post and video (archived here) by the @TonyGunk123 account on X on Aug. 26, 2026. It read:
In Nepal Elephants were saving people What an amazing world we live in
This is what the post looked like on X at the time of writing:
(Image source: post by @TonyGunk123 on X.)
The post is embedded below:
In Nepal Elephants were saving people What an amazing world we live in pic.twitter.com/ZkfQvJqhA5
-- Tony Gunk (@TonyGunk123) August 26, 2026
Versions of the same video appeared online in early August 2026, about two and a half weeks before the catastrophic flooding that hit Nepal and Tibet (archived here) on Aug. 26, 2026.
One of those clips (archived here) appeared on the @BanglaViews247 account on YouTube on Aug. 9, 2026. Translated from Bengali (archived here), the caption read:
Pet elephant saves owner amid floods in Assam, India | Bangla Views
Assam is a state in northeastern India that was hit by monsoon flooding (archived here) starting in July 2026.
The video is embedded below:
