The Spooky History of Ghosts
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 15 ต.ค. 2024
- Explore the fascinating history of ghosts and uncover the ancient origins of ghost stories from around the world! In this video, we dive deep into the myths and legends that have shaped our beliefs in the paranormal for centuries. From ancient Egypt to modern Europe, and beyond, we'll investigate how cultures across the globe have described spirits, hauntings, and supernatural phenomena.
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Sources/Recomended Reading:
Bottéro, Jean (2004). "Religion in Ancient Mesopotamia". Translated by Teresa Lavender Fagan. University of Chicago Press.
Davisson, Zach (2020). "Yurei: The Japanese Ghost". Chin Music Press Inc.
Lebling, Robert & Tahir Shah (2014). "Legends of the Fire Spirits: Jinn and Genies from Arabia to Zanzibar. I.B. Tauris.
Morton, Lisa (2017). "Ghosts: A Haunted History". Reaktion Books.
"A History of Ghosts, Spirits and the Supernatural." 2024. DK.
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The best thumbnail so far 👌 for a ghost related video 😂😂
That thumbnail is gold (was gold when it had a dog)
As in golden retriever
Medieval wojak
Gold is thumbnail that
At least it's not nudity, looking at you mister Dr. Justin Sledge with his cereal bowl featuring a very naked Lilith!
crankin dat soulja boy
Obvious name for the series of religious specters: Holy Ghosts!
Not bad!
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That thumbnail is so spooky Filip, was almost too scared to watch. Great content as always!
Perfect for a rainy Sunday afternoon!
Together with Justin Sledge and Angela Puca you are the perfect triptych for my misty autumn afternoon.
When I was a kid, I had a book called the Very Scary Almanac that contained facts and figures, like the most prolific serial killer, the number of times Dracula and Frankenstein have appeared in movies, etc. The book contained the very same Pliny the Younger ghost story in its pages as an example of one of the earliest of the form. I like the idea that I was reading about both the most morbid of topics, as well as ancient Greek philosophy, as an eight year old😂
Sounds like a great book!
Spooky-tube, I like it. I definitely tune in for this genre.
The Egyptian one is similar to what are called bhuta in India, basically spirits who were not given proper burial rites. They also become very associated with the cremation grounds and in certain Tantras there are methods presented to control them
No bhutas are considered to be the spirits of the persons who died unnaturally or lived a sinful life, alongside those who didn't receive a proper funeral.
Interesting! I was just listening to the History of Persia podcast-and under the ancient Persian era around Darius the Great, a big hunk of modern India as well as Egypt were under their control back then, so there was bound to be some blending and mixing of cultures.
Persia and India are incredibly important in history of all kinds, not just religious/spiritual.
This is a strangely relatable video. I have seen some weird stuff that I can't explain but I don't let it get to me. I never expected to encounter this topic here, but I'm glad that you covered it with such an unbiased approach.
Japanese ghost stories sounds good, I have to see that.
This channel has taught me much.
Good plan! We do not know what some of these things are, at all, so it’s best not to engage, let it terrify you, etc. Heck, I’d rather hang out with that ghost from the Ring than have Trump as President with his evil plan. 😂✌️
Thanks for your on going context, informative and entertaining.
Amazing vid! Love the spooky vibes
My favorite topic. Thanks Filip ❤
It took me about 10 minutes to figure out that you were saying "deceased person" and not "diseased person" 😅
Great video! Very spooky
Hello, I thoroughly enjoyed this video ! Very informative and interesting.
I really appreciate all your work. Good video
Best ghost thumbnail 😍 can haunt me any time 🥹
Ghosts have always fascinated me. I'm not necessarily superstitious, and I believe most proof is phoney. But at the same time I'm always on the lookout for experiences. I've had two in my life, and I'm not sure how real they were.
Same! I had one spooky experience (I was even with someone else who saw it too!) but I don't know what to make of it
That thumbnail ghost the cutest in existence.
Currently reading Short Ghost Stories anthology and needed a scholar analysis.I throughly enjoyed your video 👻
Awesome presentation. keep up the Deconstructing
•••Movie suggestions•••
I am an art-house cinema geek, so this won't be the usual jump-scare sort of films, it's all older Japanese films, available on Criterion.
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1- Kwaidan
2- Onibaba
3- Empire of Passion (some explicit nudity)
4- Kuroneko
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The Japanese ghost related traditions and folklore is absolutely fascinating I find.
I hope these suggestions can please at least a few people on this community. 😊
Ghost Brothers was SO GOOFY but I loved it. Constant laughs, if you're looking for something ghost related that'll have you rolling look it up
Yep, that was my fave, hands down.
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5:00 I've always had this question with regards to dragons. People will say dragons exist in many cultural stories, but are the various myths (in their original form) really that similar? People will then try to make all sorts of connections as reasons for why "dragons are everywhere." I've considered this especially for the broad categories of Eastern vs Western dragons.
Is it possible that we've tried to connect them together for so long that we've tweaked them a bit in form to make them fit and all be dragons? I think that's the case.
I do not believe multiple areas thought up dragons and that different things grouped with dragons are totally and utterly not similar.
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Yes, that's a good point for that discussion as well. This is also one of the biggest criticisms against some forms of Perennialism and Jung, that it only works if we assume that possibly unconnected things are similar because they appear so on the surface, whereas they are often more culturally specific.
Nagas have existed in Hindu culture for thousands of years.
I think a lot of that weird categorising every legendary monster as a dragon, comes from those 90's kids books that described dragon taxonomy. I still find people declaring that wyverns don't have four legs, as if it were a fact, out in the wild even to this day.
Love this. I’m also curious about the creepy rituals and lore they referenced in the movie of midsommer.
While marching in the Halloween Parade in Greenwich Village in NYC a few years ago, I took a series of photographs with my cell phone. Upon reviewing the photos, strange anomalies in the form of ghostly faces were plainly visible, a number of whom appeared to be leering. In two of the photos, the anomalies had completely taken over the images, entirely blotting out the costumed revelers that I had been attempting to photograph. There are things that happen that we cannot entirely explain, for sure.
I had another video on pause on my divice and went to the other room. Suddenly I heard a familiar voice start talking in the other room... about ghosts. How very apt and spooky 👻🫣. Guess I'm watching this now. Don't mind if I do 😂.
I honestly really love your videos and find them extremely helpful. I would like to request if possible kindly do more long in-depth series/videos on Eastern religions and traditions especially non Abrahamic.Please also cover eastern philosophers and mystics.Not just major tradition and religion like hindusim and Buddhism but also minor cultural and religious groups.
He has done a number of videos on this region. But yes!
12:00 I once played the ghost of Odysseus' father in a children's community theater play lol
Hahaha, it was the Jinn episode that actually got me watching and subbing to this channel. Zero regrets, though I often wish that there was more info on other cultures on the ground beliefs (like Jinn) from the academic POV.
Arabs believed that a person who's been killed, his soul shapes into a bird like figure and keeps hovering over his body and screaming "اسقوني" which means "give me water" or a more general meaning "give me that which satisfies my thirst" in this context it refers to the blood of that persons murderer, basically it keeps hovering over the dead body until revenge is taken, this form of the soul is called "هامة" "hamah"
32:41 Ah! Houdini! Love him! He broke up a lot of awful scammers abusing folks in mourning.❤
The Spooky Truth 🤷🏻♀️😁💯
Wasn't gonna click, but then I saw the channel it was from and changed my mind also I thought when you said deceased, I keep hearing "diseased"...
Well @esoterica should for sure call his eso-scare-ica
OMG, your thumbnail is Priceless!!! ☀️
Nice, complete video! Thumbnail helped me convince a friend that it wasn't "spooky"
Spiritualism, specially in its French variety (also known as "Kardecism") is still hugely popular in Brazil, where it is highly syncretized with Catholicism. Many popular soap operas and films have been produced based on Kardecist lore and so-called psychographic writing by a very popular medium, Chico Xavier. In Brazilian culture, revenant souls are called "almas penadas" (souls in pain is a possible translation) and a common way to get rid of one is to get a Mass said for them.
It's still popular in the UK too
I confused this with a internet historian video lol, still watched 😅
" Ghosts.
**GhoOoooOooOosTsss**
What *is* ghosts..?
Is **this** ghosts?.."
Haha, Filip (Lets talk religion) Ain't the same my man!
A strange example is in the Old Testament where a witch summons up the prophet Samuel's spirit from the Underworld, which seems to contradict some OT passages suggestive of there being no continued existence after death.
That thumbnail almost gave me a heart attack, man. Very irresponsible of you to be posting such spookiness.
Ka is a wheel. "The man in black fled across the desert, and the gunslinger followed."
I'm glad for your videos .. god made you for me , Thanks Felix !
As usual, amazing video! Such an interresting topic. I would love to see a video about Brazilian african-derived religions such as Umbanda, Quimbanda and Candomblé. Spirits of ancestors are an integral part of this religions, such as the ´´Pretos Velhos´´ who are spirits of former enslaved people that come back to share their knologe and help with our problems .
Not watched all this yet and you might get onto it,but in Shakespeare's day I think ghosts were generally seen as spirits from Purgatory, I don't think those in Heaven or Hell would usually come back.
👻 From me and the ghost that is supposed to haunt my building according to several tenants, thank you!
@31:33 Toasts to the toe knuckle synovial fluid
I'm watching this in a house where I've had a couple of paranormal experiences...
Not the smartest thing lmao
Name suggestion: The Ghosts of God. Would also make a pretty good band name, lol
I was asking my friend a couple days ago about ghost history and what religions or cultures had them
Thank you!
Do ghosts, if they exist, have lifespans? In all the stories ghosts we encounter are relatively modern, from the 1800s at the farthest. Yet we never see ghost of a Gaelic tribesman, a pre-Columbian native American, or Egyptian peasant even though they existed far before us
Anatomically modern humans have existed for 80 000 years. Out entire known history is just a tiny sliver of that time. If we assume that rate of ghosts occuring stays the same throughout the years, then over 99% of ghosts existing should be of paleolithic hunter gatherers. Yet we never see those?
There was a famous sighting of a whole troop of ghostly Roman soldiers in York in around the 1960s, which was founded by the Romans
33:30 It sounds like you’re trying to back out of Religiontube Goes Ghosthunting :( lol
Great video! I really want to do a hungry ghost festival now
While you quickly explained the Church's position on ghosts, I find it a bit underwhelming that you only glossed over the islamic world, and did not even mention anything about judaism (ancient and / or rabbinic). The fact that these traditions are so old and possibly going back to ancient Mesopotamia means that religious authorities probably had to deal with such stories.
"What's Under the Bed? With Filip Holm" 🤔🤷♂️
"Witches & Ouijas" ? 😆
The name for this series should be the Weird Season.
Now you gotta do goblins
I was looking forward for a mention of Zhong Kui, daoist deity that exorcises ghosts and controlls 80,000 demons
Spooky season!
He sounds like Pelie from Midsummar 🖤
I love it!
I grew up experiencing paranormal and paradoxes most of my life. Explaining the context of my life tho is a mess and a half that normally gets misinterpreted....but I am always seeking answers and piecing together concepts on how the metaphysical all really works.
If a single hyper-dimensional entity has the capability of phasing in and out of my reality and able to both warp the circumstances or perceptions of that reality...just imagine the ramifications of that form of manipulation on a global scale....We would literally be living in a massive petri dish where they could tamper the sample of life in which we are experiencing......but also I hard speculate in multiverse theory...could we be the ones phasing between parallel realities? Creating subtle mandela effects while entities going the opposite flow in time and space could be perceived differently? Even within the forms of matter? Could death be the horizon and not the end? Could there be different variants of reality in which we're constantly shifting between while the base matter remains within the cognitive system of each reality automated to the articulation of how being comes into those realities?
Think about dreams....and memory....we always come to self realization in the middle of events a dream (or at least I do) and that's how I came into realization when I was a child...trailed off from elsewhere.....I don't believe I was "starting out" as a new being rather being acclimated to my current form of being...so in a sense reincarnation from either other realities or previously this one forwards or backwards in time...speaking of....if time is even linear (which I don't think it is as more anomalies occur in my life to make me question everything). Could life be just a macrocosm of dreams (life as a whole) filled with a microcosm of dreams (the dreams themselves within life)? I've definitely experienced some very vivid and archetypal and prominent dreams that have left huge impressions on my entire life, some of which have been tied to sleep paralysis and paranormal, but I often wonder if the dream realm is a separate place and time or a re-connection to past/future lives of an eternal presence?
Either way, I refuse to believe it's all in my head. Whether it be the time dilation, witnessing ghosts and poltergeist activity with witnesses, sleep paralysis, seeing the space between space and hearing sounds between sounds, seeing a UFO one time....nothing is ever as it seems....because there's more beyond the enfolding of reality's seams...if I can only just see beyond and find the clarity to pass between these realms seamlessly can I find the meaning of it all (I'd say life but this goes beyond life). I also refuse to believe I have a materialist disorder like schizophrenia that's causing this. It's all caused from external sources unless the truth is solipsistic, where the external reality would then technically all be internal.
GIVE US BACK THE OLD THUMBNAIL
My kids are going to see that thumbnail and watch this 😂
Ghosts are one of the most fascinating ways cultures express their collective fears, hopes, and unresolved questions about death. It's amazing how different societies interpret these supernatural beings - from vengeful spirits seeking justice to souls just trying to find peace. Ancient Egypt's focus on the *ka* and *ba* highlights how even thousands of years ago, people believed that death was complex and required respect, which is something we tend to gloss over in today's fast-paced world. Modern ghost culture, though more commercialized, still taps into deep, primal fears about what happens after we die. Maybe ghosts are how we keep the mystery alive.
Spookytube sounds dope #spookytube
I think ghost stories are more universal than any established theologies 😂 ghosts are seemingly everywhere
if you have ghosts, you have everything
Shit gets WILD! Never would've believed it had I not dug and dug, absolutely refusing to 'spit it out'... alotta liars out there though is the thing. Certainly easy to see why people think it's total bulls__t honestly. A very, very subtle & seamlessly integrated layer of reality...
I liked the previous thumbnail more 😅🤣🤣
Please make a video on satan and witches
The American Haunting uses these techniques to explain the pioneers and colonists witch hunt style issues withing history. Remembering what has happened during the change of freedom of worship and building of the United States.
16:00 a story in The Grateful Dead motif?
Clicked solely for the thumbnail.
The ghost on the thumb is too scary.
"Revenants and Reverence"
Bro really going for the simpleton spooky title and thumbnail for another October 🙄 very original. Puts me off wanting to watch it like all the other creators that just use the same trope repeatedly.
Southeast Asia has a very rich ghost culture too. I would also like to see a video on Thailand's ghost culture for this year's spooky season.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghosts_in_Thai_culture
No the thumbnail old thumbnail of spooky dog has been replaced
SpookyTube
Stop scaring me bro 😱
Sorry!
Spookytube
Clearly the best working title is BooTube
The Fox Sisters have a modern-day copycat. It became a big thing here on TH-cam because the person who was faking the pops worked at the house featured in those lame Conjuring movies. People would go throw a lot of crazy stuff to fool people into giving them money.
"Egyptians believed that the most important thing you could do in your life was die"
I can't believe youtube allows such GRAPHIC and TERRIFYING thumbnails
I once saw a cutie walking at night so I offered them a ride to the end of the road.
They came in but were dead silent the whole time. And when I got to the end of the road they disappeared. Rude!
Didn't even wait for me to stop the car before they ghosted me. Was it my car karaoke? They looked like a Matchbox 20 would totally have been their jam.
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Filiiiipppp 👻👻👻 ❤❤
I like Spooky Tube
behind-the-veil tube
It's time to give some loving attention to old fashion ghosts this month . In our sensation seeking times everything needs to be 'Demonic' to get views. ' By doing so, we give every benign haunting by the innocent family ghosts a bad name.
Since Purgatory doesn't appear in Jewish or Christian holy writ, what are the (pagan?) origins of this mythological place?
Arab has ghoul too i think
* is a wicked ghost *
I want to ask that my mother had an experience of magic mirror when she was a child, reply me plz so I can continue I hope you will
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Day of the dead has old Zapotec traditions not Aztec
woof!
These are pests in comparison to Rakshasas - many of whom possess strength equivalent to 100,000 elephants