DRKNT640 hahaha there's an owl out there that makes TH-cam videos about hairless ape men that shine light from a long metallic arm in the middle of the woods at night.
My uncle rescued and fed an injured baby barn owl once. Now it occasionally shows up and shows its appreciation by jumpscaring him randomly at night. One thing it does is that it can fly silently so you would walk out the door, turn around to lock the door, then when you turn around *THERES A BIG FUCKING OWL SITTING ON THE FENCE WITH GLOWING EYES STARING RIGHT AT YOU* .
I can totally see this happening. When I was a teenager one night I saw the family cat sitting in the open window in a darkened room in silhouette and for a second it looked like the head of a black creature with glowing yellow eyes unnaturally close together was looking at me through the window. My brain completely misread what it was looking at and it scared the shit out of me till I realized what I was looking at a second later.
"They aren't aliens, just penises". -Trey the Explained, 2016 This quote will be remembered in history books. Also, kids will use your amazing quote at the wrong time, and people will look at them like they are crazy. But they are not crazy. Just enlightened.
Mesopotamia invented a form of beer, and Lilith is sometimes shown with owls. Combine drunk people and owls and you get something weird no matter what time period.
+kumagawa i have to change my name because sam flatman thinks my name is stupid misogi For our local owls in my area... Barn owls are most likely to hiss... and Barred click like mad crazy. I worked in a wildlife sanctuary for a while and I got to tend to the owls. The Great horned owls would shy away quietly... until you got the hose out. They loved dancing in the hose water. It was pretty weird and yet charming.
as somebody that has grown up in the boonies I can confirm that owls are indeed terrifying as hell. The first time I heard an owl screech I was so scared it made me cry, I was 5.. Another time, there was an owl that had an affinity for stealing peoples hats. it would wait in the trees near a local park and during the late evening it would swoop down to snatch the hats of anybody walking by. fucker got me twice, but only managed to get my hat once, it was not pleasant or gentle either. years later some hikers found its nest, FILLED with hats.
I have had an owl literally make me piss myself because of that fucking hissing sound. Was going to my shed in my backyard and next thing I know I hear that fucking hissing and see only 2 bright glowing eyes. I knew it was an owl because I came back a few hours later with a flashlight and got a better look to find a big fucking owl.
When I was like 7 I thought flatwoods monster, mothman, and enderman were gonna come take me in my sleep. Ironically I have a Hedwig plush next to my bed.
The weirdest part of the story for me is the sickness suffered by the witnesses after seeing the monster. Now of course this could be attributed to being the symptoms of a kind of hysteria. Not too far a stretch either considering once I was so stressed by college that I developed a rash on my hands and feet out of nowhere. I just wish I had the ability to go back in time and look at the even from an objective standpoint.
This is why the PokeDex is so important. It would have easily identified it as an owl. Instead, the scared human didn't know what it was. Thus, disinformation flourishes. Professor Oak tried to warn us.
Another thing about owls is that their wings are completely silent, they don't make a distinctive flapping sound when they fly. So a hissing barn owl, late at night, swoops down on the kids, they might think it was floating or levitating just to how quit the owl's flight is. Really the more I think about it the more a defensive mother barn owl makes the most sense.
I just started viewing your channel this year, but it singlehandedly has reignited my pastime of a passion with paleontology and cryptozoology! I've even had some eye-opening discussions with my family about the true nature of dimetrodon and other animals! Your work is great, keep it up! And take all the time you need for your content, I'd prefer an amazing video over a rushed one any day :)
I always wondered when I heard the owl explanation why someone who's lived in an area with owls wouldn't recognize an owl when they saw one. The barn owl threat display makes a lot of sense though coupled with the fact they were already spooked and only saw it for a few seconds, and that noise it makes. Good gawd I knew it was coming and it still freaked me out.
+King of Feral Imps yeah we need to replace his face with an owl and him saying "there aint aliens there just penises" XD XD LOLOLOLO1!!!11111!1!!1!!!1!!!
Quick question: Do barn owls dip low like that while displaying aggression or is that a great horned owl thing? Barn owls are not considered "true owls," but great horned owls are, FWIW. Answer: Because I love wildlife _and_ because Google is my friend, I searched for barn owls engaged in threat displays. There are pictures of barn owls dipping their heads _and_ holding out their wings to look bigger. The fanned tail and wings really resemble the cowl of the Flatwoods monster, more so in some pictures than in others, but the resemblance is undeniable. I'm convinced both mothman and the Flatwoods monster were owls. Have a look if ya like: www.google.com/search?q=barn+owl+threat+display&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiD1birj9jeAhVuIDQIHcfEDwIQ_AUIDigB&biw=1280&bih=670#imgrc=s7h_1SWvGEXwhM:
The Chupacabra of Puerto Rico was more than likely a wild skinny dog that would sometimes stand on it's hind legs to scope out it's prey ie.goats et al. So this explanation of the FW Monster makes total sense.
Honestly can’t blame the kids, If I was very interested in aliens and walked out at night with a flashlight and saw and heard that i’d probably think it would be a alien
The biggest issue I have with that theory is that I looked, but I can't find a picture of a barn owl ducking down like the Great Horned owls. And from what I understand, there are behavior differences between the two species of owls. But let's just say barn owls do that, if you noted with the great horned owls when they duck forward, their feet disappear. However, the arms could just be chalked up sticks sticking off the branch the owl was sitting on. I personally doubt the monster was a great horned owl since the head shape is all wrong and the eye shine of great horned owls is two toned with red in the center and yellow around it, but the red is the more prominent part. Another theory I suggest is that the odd head shape was due to the same tree that made the body shape, pinnacling right behind the owl's head.
I'd imagine the branch the owl was on was curved and what they mistook for the potential 'body' was the tree, itself. So it would make complete sense for the end of the branch to be mistaken for a limb and for the witness to just assume there was one on the other side that they just can't remember. I'm pretty sure that's why the body seems to go straight down and connect to the ground with notch lines or whatever running straight down it, according to the drawings.
Now Trey, your original explanation did not really convince me, but looking at these details, yes I could see that making the children think they saw what they did.
yay! guys we solved the case! high fives all around! we got our own paranormal investigating community here, with this much combined brain power there is nothing we can't solve! you too trey, great job on the video and you deserve just as much credit as everyone else
People saying it's an owl clearly did not read any research nor read what the witnesses were saying. Witnesses say it's metallic, and is there a metallic, 10 foot tall barn owl laying around? There is even is a big round spaceship beside it. The witnesses are country people so they definitely know the difference between a barn owl at night and a metallic alien space suit.
Ishtar represents the mother, the eyes, her gaze. Your mother staring at you will cause self consciousness. These are the eyes that are always watching you.
It all makes sense now! The head like you said was the owl'a defense posture, and its "terrible claws" were the legs and talons of the owl. When it supposedly hovered towards them, it was an owl who was gliding without flapping it's wings. The sickness some of the eyewitnesses experienced was an effect called the Nacebo Effect. This is basically when a person believes they are sick to the point where they actually begin to feel real physical pains. The people who were sick were so scared to the point where they believed they were falling ill to the point of actual harm.
We have quite a few neighborhood owls and I’ve become so used to that sound honestly I think it probably scares visitors more that we ignore the sound rather than explain it.
I totally believe it was an owl, but who the hell would be traumatized enough by owl that they would need to be hospitalized by it and thats not even including the mustard gas like poisoning symptoms? I think there must of been some kind of gas seeping out of a hole in the ground or something, that way they would be disoriented and then boom spooky owl . being poisoned + creepy owl + meteor = spooky traumatizing leaf alien.
The owl is one of my favorite types of birds. Reason 1: I find their big eyes and stubby little beaks to be super cute. Reason 2: Even with this cuteness, they were the most likely cause of two of the most well-known cryptid sightings on the east coast and I love that. Reason 3: If reality was a video game, they would be some of the best assassins around.
My g’ma Kathleen and Uncles Eddie and Freddie were the ones who ran up the hill to investigate and my g’ma had a black type oil drops on her clothes, also the smell made them sick, there was a fire ball, the tree the ‘thing’ was by died. You can still visit the spot and the tree is black. My uncles to this day still tell the same story.
Except for when the monster was 10 feet. Or 12 feet. I literally just saw another comment claiming it was just 7 feet. Funny how frightened kids have no idea how big something is at all. And considering the owl was probably branched on the tree they mistook for the body, it would only really need to be at or slightly above eye level to throw them off and make them think it's huge. Also, you'd be kind-of amazed how much traumatic experiences can mess with someone. If you've ever had to cram for a big test or something and stressed out over it, then you're probably aware of how easy it is to feel sick or just catch something while your body's out of whack.
@@EspionageTV How do you "know"? Were you there? Did you actually see it or talk with the eyewitnesses? Or are you just claiming that somehow being a resident of the general area magically makes you an expert on every single thing that happens in it without any proof or context at all?
@@dracocrusher I've watched a few you tube videos in my days I never comment. this story way bigger than I really ever imagined it was. Born and raised in flatwoods played and hunted all over the sighting land my grandparents land. Since a child I have been told the truth from the people who were there close friends. At that time flatwoods was not like it is today. Very very small place not even a town, I wouldn't have called it a town. Since then this place has grown rapidly. ? From farm land to a large town. Yes I 100% know the truth. I wouldn't say publicly. Now knowing how big and how much curiosity is involved in the Flatwoods Green Monster it is astonishing. A story known world wide that happened in my back yard. I will say that as a kid I seen and witness very strange things in that small general area that I've never seen anywhere else.
@@EspionageTV "Since a child I have been told the truth from the people who were there close friends." So people who supposedly knew the group who thought they saw a monster just said "Hey, my friend said he saw an alien" and that was enough for you to just believe it? "Yes I 100% know the truth." It seems like you're just buying into a second-hand source without any actual evidence. You're looking at someone who knew a guy who mistook a thing for something else and just assuming that makes it true. Trust me, as someone whose heard some crazy bullshit from people, that's not nearly enough to go on as proof. My dad once knew a crazy person who hallucinated seeing tiny versions of himself that crawl around, but that doesn't mean it's real by any stretch. You live in redneck county like me long enough and you quickly learn you can't trust people for crap on stuff like this, you need to actually look at the accounts and evidence to come to an actual conclusion.
It's really fun to creep out friends with the crazy sounds owls make. Some are cute, such as with the Barred Owl and screech owls, but some are absolutely "alien" and harsh on the ears. In fact, all members of the genus tyto make those horrid hissing or twittering sounds as their typical call. The White-Fronted Scops Owl's call sounds a lot like a UFO, to me at least. So basically, any mysterious sound you hear in the forest could be an owl.
Okay, initially I was always thinking in regards to the Flatwoods Monster: 'this is either an elaborate hoax, or these people are dumb as fuck to be spooked by an Owl!' but upon seeing the weird shape and hearing the terrifying sound that it makes when threatened, I don't blame the witnesses at ALL for being scared of that and assuming it was alien in nature! Jesus Christ!
This is like my new favorite channel. I love these kinds of videos but they're usually "10 unidentified globsters!1!!" and I have to scrounge up whatever research I can to see what they could have been (because I don't believe in all these mystical undiscovered monsters in the sea and on land). Thank you very much, Trey, for doing research, including all the 'facts' and information, and reaching a logical conclusion.
Honestly, owls have always terrified me! They have huge eyes, are amazing predators, have huge talons and look extremely unlike other birds, no wonder people mistake them for monsters!
it is actually funny that when you first see owls do that pose you might think it is a silly tactic to make a human get scared since trying to look bigger isn't really working and won't convince anyone and at the same time an owl doing that pose caused a public hysteria among thousands of humans and created an urban legend
I believe you are (sarcastically) referring to the "acrid gas" the group claimed to have experienced. I think that can be explained as fog combined with mass hysteria.
idk if thats a fair counter argument. that would be possible to understand if all the sightings were in dark lighting to better explain the possibility of misunderstanding what was seen. this doesnt explain the height, clothing, hands, or the hovering detail of the monster which had been consistently depicted across its range of different areas of its sightings. or the fact of the fireball landing it was associated with. "a metalic robe with warped spiraling hands, 10 feet tall and hovering" that depiction means it was a full body witness theyre describing, you dont see a 10 foot entity hovering and confuse it for a owl, its harder to believe a owl consistently flys at the same altitude to be confused for a lurking entity and not give the illusion away by its flapping wings. I just cant entertain the owl theory makes sense, it would only make sense with non full body sightings from afar, and only maybe. youre showing the picture of the monster and saying confusing it for its head breaks the story apart. "look, i have its head, fake" nah, there's a large list of distinct traits of the stories that werent even touched upon here, and the biggest point of this video breaks apart easily in my opinion, this video can not tolerate the idea of a full body witnessing. or defend that the visual illusion would retain its integrity upon the flapping of the owls wings...but worst, under the conditions of the full body sightings i just can not entertain what this video has to offer.
There's something hilarious about the idea of an Alien visting Mesopotamia, then comes back 4000 years later, gets lost, and winds up in West Virginia. That is REALLY getting lost.
I'm looking forward for the Tyrannosaurus Video ^^ Wow, that owls. They look really impressive when doing this. Nice you put the spoopy barn owl hissing again xD
Trey, i have to say that this is really one of the best channels on youtube, the fact that you are always staying open minded and always choose great topics for videos! Great work on this video btw!
Yes, exactly! Owls make crazy noises and are spooky looking at night. They fly silently and can coast very easily. Obviously noone at the original sighting had gone camping before.
I love that you show an image of a deity with bird-feet and owls next to her. Meaning those viewers were on the road to the conclusion you came to accept.
Owls: yo wtf I just saw a monkey but it had no hair, cryptid confirmed
DRKNT640 hahaha there's an owl out there that makes TH-cam videos about hairless ape men that shine light from a long metallic arm in the middle of the woods at night.
Man don't insult me! D: those things are creepy.
AND REAL. I'm telling you, those things are real.
Man Owl, Where’s Owl Man?
[Also Your 2nd Sub, Just From That Comment]
I lauphed hard AF
Hmm, there is a lot of those cryptids without hair. Brrrr....
Based on the evidence from this video and the mothman video, there is only one conclusion. Owls are aliens.
+Logan Register woah.... Looks like something I should watch :0
+Logan Register I've heard of that. it's creepy
+Dzanh Nguyen oh my god you moron, owls aren't aliens, they're penises!
Nul Lacamee You're right! They're alien penises! :O
Turns out owls are the real monsters after all.
the barn owl hissing was the most terrifying thing I have ever heard
Owls are fucking scary, man. At night, even hearing a calm owl is spooky.
My uncle rescued and fed an injured baby barn owl once. Now it occasionally shows up and shows its appreciation by jumpscaring him randomly at night. One thing it does is that it can fly silently so you would walk out the door, turn around to lock the door, then when you turn around *THERES A BIG FUCKING OWL SITTING ON THE FENCE WITH GLOWING EYES STARING RIGHT AT YOU* .
@@Autechltd That's terrifying.
I think it’s beautiful:)
Legit. If I heard that noise whilst in the dark woods... dude.
people say dinosaurs with feathers aren't scary, yet they got terrified by one (the barn owl)
+Raph Tor KARMA
Beautifully put
Owls are pretty spooky if you aren't familiar with them. In fact, ALL modern birds of prey are like this. They're pretty much flying Velociraptors.
Dinosaurs = Birds
Aliens = Birds
Munch Master does that mean dinosaurs are ALIENS from OUTER SPACE?! :O (obvious sarcasm)
I n d e e d
Munch Master
people=birds
Oviraptor Fan according to Star Trek Parasaurs are aliens... only episode I’ve ever watched
Basking sharks = Birds.
"I'm not saying it was owls
But it was owls."
owliens
Bigfoot is gonna turn out to be a misidentified owl as well isn't it...
Owls should be nicer to people.
Turns Out... BigFoot Is A Basking Owl.
Cool why are owls the "go to" explanation that skeptics use?
Dang owls always ruining my cryptid hunting dream
Wow your pretty BRAVE
Austin łBrave Boył well mothman hasnt been debunked yet so keep hunting
First it was mothman, then the banshee, now flatwoods
If he's Brave, then I'm MIGHTY
Ahem I'll leave
Mothman-owl
Flatwoods montster-owl
chupacabra- im sure he'll say owl
bigfoot- just chewy from Star Wars.
River-Side Acrocantho-Sirachas no no no, the chupacabra is obviously a BASKING SHARK!!!
Bigfoot: 13 owls in a costume
Mongolian death worm-a _really long_ burrowing owl
Morbid Manatee 13 owls and 1 very confused weasel
River-Side Acrocantho-Sirachas you forgot the Hopkinsville goblin being an owl.
I can totally see this happening. When I was a teenager one night I saw the family cat sitting in the open window in a darkened room in silhouette and for a second it looked like the head of a black creature with glowing yellow eyes unnaturally close together was looking at me through the window. My brain completely misread what it was looking at and it scared the shit out of me till I realized what I was looking at a second later.
I experienced a similar thing twice. My cat was in fact my own sleep paralysis demon.
Yeah I know that feeling but for me it's both my dogs and my cat
Nah, you just saw your cat’s TRUE form then it realized you were looking at it and it shaped back to a cat.
"How is the hissing and gliding toward the person explained?"
Have you . . . ever SEEN an owl, Mr. Coleman? Or, you know, any bird at all.
wana know something more funny, istar was represented also as an... wait for it... owl.
I noticed that! Holy crap was that weird!
"They aren't aliens, just penises". -Trey the Explained, 2016 This quote will be remembered in history books. Also, kids will use your amazing quote at the wrong time, and people will look at them like they are crazy. But they are not crazy. Just enlightened.
In the light these owls are quite cute and cuddly. In the dark among the woods... I'd run for my life.
So would everyone
That hissing though. Terrifying indeed. Almost like it's not from Earth.
Agree Mr Zaragoz Rex.
Mesopotamia invented a form of beer, and Lilith is sometimes shown with owls. Combine drunk people and owls and you get something weird no matter what time period.
Bob MiLaplace -_- get that theistic crap out of here lol
Owls... you monsters
+Esteban Cota XD
Owls well!
+TREY the Explainer wtf man the jump scare X3 5:19
+TREY the Explainer I just realized that Owls are really good at debunking! I guess instead of lawyers! We need, OWLS! Great vid Trey!
ymckaack hockey lol
jesus christ that hissing owl almost made me shit myself
IKR
+kumagawa i have to change my name because sam flatman thinks my name is stupid misogi
Sounds like a robot snake!
+kumagawa i have to change my name because sam flatman thinks my name is stupid misogi
For our local owls in my area... Barn owls are most likely to hiss... and Barred click like mad crazy. I worked in a wildlife sanctuary for a while and I got to tend to the owls. The Great horned owls would shy away quietly... until you got the hose out. They loved dancing in the hose water. It was pretty weird and yet charming.
KitsuneNeko they sound like some pretty cool animals, though they still make one of the scariest sounds that i ever heard
+kumagawa i have to change my name because sam flatman thinks my name is stupid misogi
I KNOW, wtf was that?
"They're not aliens, they're just penises." XD
XD
+River-Side Acrocantho-Sirachas This has to be remembered! Oh, who am I kidding of course it will be xD
XD
XD
+River-Side Acrocantho-Sirachas Quote of the day... >.
as somebody that has grown up in the boonies I can confirm that owls are indeed terrifying as hell. The first time I heard an owl screech I was so scared it made me cry, I was 5.. Another time, there was an owl that had an affinity for stealing peoples hats. it would wait in the trees near a local park and during the late evening it would swoop down to snatch the hats of anybody walking by. fucker got me twice, but only managed to get my hat once, it was not pleasant or gentle either. years later some hikers found its nest, FILLED with hats.
I just love how Trey burned a Cryptozoologist while reading his own comment. xD
;)
TREY the Explainer Best reply ever.
Quick question, do you plan on making more videos on Cryptids?
Velociraptors of Skyrim Just made one (͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
TREY the Explainer That's what I get for using Google Plus. XD
Velociraptors of Skyrim XD
01:57
That noise+Me=A new pair of pants
Lol
LOL
Lol wtf 🐻
Now we know how they get the Slenderman noise.......
+IDaBomb26 Try that when you walk into the barn behind your house at 9pm.
I have had an owl literally make me piss myself because of that fucking hissing sound. Was going to my shed in my backyard and next thing I know I hear that fucking hissing and see only 2 bright glowing eyes. I knew it was an owl because I came back a few hours later with a flashlight and got a better look to find a big fucking owl.
When I was like 7 I thought flatwoods monster, mothman, and enderman were gonna come take me in my sleep. Ironically I have a Hedwig plush next to my bed.
That's how they get you, them owls.
If Endermen scare you, don't research shadow people
The weirdest part of the story for me is the sickness suffered by the witnesses after seeing the monster. Now of course this could be attributed to being the symptoms of a kind of hysteria. Not too far a stretch either considering once I was so stressed by college that I developed a rash on my hands and feet out of nowhere. I just wish I had the ability to go back in time and look at the even from an objective standpoint.
Imagine the historical event as a pokemon random encounter:
Wild Owl appears!
Go Human!
Owl uses Scary Face
Human Flinches!
Player runs away safely!
Lol
XD
It's super effective!
Human was scared shitless and fled!
A Wild Owl suddenly appeared!
"HHHEESSSSSSSSSSSSSSS!!!!!"
You Got The Fuck Away!!!
This is why the PokeDex is so important. It would have easily identified it as an owl. Instead, the scared human didn't know what it was. Thus, disinformation flourishes.
Professor Oak tried to warn us.
I want a pet owl named Flatwoods
GhostRiderCash get two. name the other one mothman
its weird how there are so many folk tales of monsters in West Virginia
So Trey, have you considered doing a paleo profile on a terrorbird?
Those owls sound terrifying not only because of how alien their hissing sounds, but also because it remind me of the modems of old times.
If there's one thing I learned from watching this series is that BARN OWLS ARE FUCKING HORRIFYING HOLY SHIT!
these aren't just owls.
They're OWLIENS!!!
dun dun DUN!!
The angry hiss of that Barn Owl scares many people here, I hope they put it up on (Dinosaur) Raptors.
"The owls are not what they seem."
- The Giant
Another thing about owls is that their wings are completely silent, they don't make a distinctive flapping sound when they fly. So a hissing barn owl, late at night, swoops down on the kids, they might think it was floating or levitating just to how quit the owl's flight is. Really the more I think about it the more a defensive mother barn owl makes the most sense.
I just started viewing your channel this year, but it singlehandedly has reignited my pastime of a passion with paleontology and cryptozoology! I've even had some eye-opening discussions with my family about the true nature of dimetrodon and other animals! Your work is great, keep it up! And take all the time you need for your content, I'd prefer an amazing video over a rushed one any day :)
+Jayneal Jimenez Thank you so much for this comment, it really makes me remember why I make my videos :)
I am so happy to inspire you :D
I always wondered when I heard the owl explanation why someone who's lived in an area with owls wouldn't recognize an owl when they saw one. The barn owl threat display makes a lot of sense though coupled with the fact they were already spooked and only saw it for a few seconds, and that noise it makes. Good gawd I knew it was coming and it still freaked me out.
We need to take that meme of the guy saying "aliens" and replace it with "owls."
+King of Feral Imps lol
LMAO ! So true 😂😂
+King of Feral Imps yeah we need to replace his face with an owl and him saying "there aint aliens there just penises" XD XD LOLOLOLO1!!!11111!1!!1!!!1!!!
LOL LOL YES !!
+King of Feral Imps www.memes.com/meme/909759
Spread this sun'ma bitch, else my hard work will be useless.
welp, its official, an west Virginia monsters were... owls
Quick question: Do barn owls dip low like that while displaying aggression or is that a great horned owl thing? Barn owls are not considered "true owls," but great horned owls are, FWIW.
Answer: Because I love wildlife _and_ because Google is my friend, I searched for barn owls engaged in threat displays. There are pictures of barn owls dipping their heads _and_ holding out their wings to look bigger. The fanned tail and wings really resemble the cowl of the Flatwoods monster, more so in some pictures than in others, but the resemblance is undeniable. I'm convinced both mothman and the Flatwoods monster were owls.
Have a look if ya like: www.google.com/search?q=barn+owl+threat+display&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiD1birj9jeAhVuIDQIHcfEDwIQ_AUIDigB&biw=1280&bih=670#imgrc=s7h_1SWvGEXwhM:
The Chupacabra of Puerto Rico was more than likely a wild skinny dog that would sometimes stand on it's hind legs to scope out it's prey ie.goats et al. So this explanation of the FW Monster makes total sense.
Can confirm, my own dogs will sometimes stand on their hind legs when scanning the environment outside the window.
that soud souns abit like the jurasic park dilophosaurus
Yep
I think the sound designers used owl noises for the diliphosaurus
+thegamingchip850 dilophosaurus sorry typo
+thegamingchip850 they did. In the novel Dilophosaurus sounded like a owl
You could explain the "claws" as the tree branch the owl was probably sitting on
Wow, that explains so much! Even why the creatures apparently resisted bullets - aiming at the "body" would completely miss the actual owl!
Well that covers it well. Would be a pleasure collaborating with you sometime Trey, keep it up :)
+World of MONSTERS Thank you and let me think about it ;)
God, finally I find someone on TH-cam who is not filled with hysteria when discussing/explaining these things! Subscribed!
4:30 And that's how religion works. I guess......
+Armin Reindl Edgy.
Brother Malachai " whoever's opinion differs from mine is edgy" god I hate you people
Whoever replies a comment from a year ago is edgy
@@gooby8953
What am i if i reply to a comment 4 years ago?
gangsta?
Honestly can’t blame the kids, If I was very interested in aliens and walked out at night with a flashlight and saw and heard that i’d probably think it would be a alien
The biggest issue I have with that theory is that I looked, but I can't find a picture of a barn owl ducking down like the Great Horned owls. And from what I understand, there are behavior differences between the two species of owls. But let's just say barn owls do that, if you noted with the great horned owls when they duck forward, their feet disappear. However, the arms could just be chalked up sticks sticking off the branch the owl was sitting on. I personally doubt the monster was a great horned owl since the head shape is all wrong and the eye shine of great horned owls is two toned with red in the center and yellow around it, but the red is the more prominent part. Another theory I suggest is that the odd head shape was due to the same tree that made the body shape, pinnacling right behind the owl's head.
I'd imagine the branch the owl was on was curved and what they mistook for the potential 'body' was the tree, itself. So it would make complete sense for the end of the branch to be mistaken for a limb and for the witness to just assume there was one on the other side that they just can't remember. I'm pretty sure that's why the body seems to go straight down and connect to the ground with notch lines or whatever running straight down it, according to the drawings.
Now Trey, your original explanation did not really convince me, but looking at these details, yes I could see that making the children think they saw what they did.
yay! guys we solved the case! high fives all around! we got our own paranormal investigating community here, with this much combined brain power there is nothing we can't solve! you too trey, great job on the video and you deserve just as much credit as everyone else
+Eddie Becerra Thank you Eddie :), I agree great work everyone! It really shows what we can accomplish together
No problem man :D
Wow, that’s probably the most effective use of a “puff up to look bigger and scarier than you actually are” tactic of all time.
That hissing is on the same level as a Tasmanian Devil growl in terms of horrifying-ness!
1:14 by that shape it could also have been Marge Simpson. There, mystery solved, no need for further investigation
Owls... Owls never change. BUT FOR REAL DAMN OWLS BACK AT AGAIN WITH BEING SCARY
People saying it's an owl clearly did not read any research nor read what the witnesses were saying. Witnesses say it's metallic, and is there a metallic, 10 foot tall barn owl laying around? There is even is a big round spaceship beside it. The witnesses are country people so they definitely know the difference between a barn owl at night and a metallic alien space suit.
lmfao
Owl again i'm pretty sure even creepypasta character is owl.
The owl would also explain why there’s not a lot of eyewitness accounts about the bottom or body of the cryptid
Owls. It's always the owls. Also, good to see a new video!
+SirClawedfrog Thank you!
+SirClawedfrog Sorry for the wait
TREY the Explainer Hey, I know video editing takes a while. Don't worry about it.
SirClawedfrog :)
+SirClawedfrog I really appreciate you understanding :)
Ishtar represents the mother, the eyes, her gaze. Your mother staring at you will cause self consciousness. These are the eyes that are always watching you.
"It was an owl"
"THEN EXPLAIN THE HISSING AND GLIDING!"
It all makes sense now! The head like you said was the owl'a defense posture, and its "terrible claws" were the legs and talons of the owl. When it supposedly hovered towards them, it was an owl who was gliding without flapping it's wings. The sickness some of the eyewitnesses experienced was an effect called the Nacebo Effect. This is basically when a person believes they are sick to the point where they actually begin to feel real physical pains. The people who were sick were so scared to the point where they believed they were falling ill to the point of actual harm.
Are you going to do the Jersey devil in a video ?
Trey, are the Navy videos that have been released of ufo’s are those owls or basking sharks?
Mothman is an owl, flatwoods is an owl... BIGFOOT'S GOTTA BE AN OWL!!!
I want Trey to start showing how Bigfoot's a bear and then go into a bunch of videos about it so we'll just have Bear/Owl/Basking Shark fanart.
Bigfoot is an owlbear, obviously
tiderboy Bigfoot is an ancient giant non flying owl in a gorilla suit
We have quite a few neighborhood owls and I’ve become so used to that sound honestly I think it probably scares visitors more that we ignore the sound rather than explain it.
whats the song at 0:03
socom coyote DARUDE SANDSTORM
socom coyote You shitty piece of human vomit
Its Quirky Dog lol
On top of that, there is such thing as a black barn owl that is a rare mutation that looks strikingly like the description
Owls 1 : Humans 0
Great job, momma owl!
I totally believe it was an owl, but who the hell would be traumatized enough by owl that they would need to be hospitalized by it and thats not even including the mustard gas like poisoning symptoms? I think there must of been some kind of gas seeping out of a hole in the ground or something, that way they would be disoriented and then boom spooky owl . being poisoned + creepy owl + meteor = spooky traumatizing leaf alien.
"They ain't aliens, they're just penises" - TREY the Explainer 2016
The symbol of Ishtar is The Owl and is often depicted as being surrounded by them. Owls are Gargoyles and Strix.
Looks like peridot (from Steven universe)
The owl is one of my favorite types of birds.
Reason 1: I find their big eyes and stubby little beaks to be super cute.
Reason 2: Even with this cuteness, they were the most likely cause of two of the most well-known cryptid sightings on the east coast and I love that.
Reason 3: If reality was a video game, they would be some of the best assassins around.
Loch Owl Monster to the next vídeo ;D
Well now putting everything together, that seems absolutely terrifying, no wonder how some of them passed out of pure panic.
Trey- I'm not saying it was owls
My g’ma Kathleen and Uncles Eddie and Freddie were the ones who ran up the hill to investigate and my g’ma had a black type oil drops on her clothes, also the smell made them sick, there was a fire ball, the tree the ‘thing’ was by died. You can still visit the spot and the tree is black. My uncles to this day still tell the same story.
ive learnt that owls are 17 feet tall, the smell will make you sick and they glow
Except for when the monster was 10 feet. Or 12 feet. I literally just saw another comment claiming it was just 7 feet. Funny how frightened kids have no idea how big something is at all. And considering the owl was probably branched on the tree they mistook for the body, it would only really need to be at or slightly above eye level to throw them off and make them think it's huge.
Also, you'd be kind-of amazed how much traumatic experiences can mess with someone. If you've ever had to cram for a big test or something and stressed out over it, then you're probably aware of how easy it is to feel sick or just catch something while your body's out of whack.
@@dracocrusher I'm Fisher from flatwoods wv I know the truth. Not an owl.
@@EspionageTV
How do you "know"? Were you there? Did you actually see it or talk with the eyewitnesses? Or are you just claiming that somehow being a resident of the general area magically makes you an expert on every single thing that happens in it without any proof or context at all?
@@dracocrusher I've watched a few you tube videos in my days I never comment. this story way bigger than I really ever imagined it was. Born and raised in flatwoods played and hunted all over the sighting land my grandparents land. Since a child I have been told the truth from the people who were there close friends. At that time flatwoods was not like it is today. Very very small place not even a town, I wouldn't have called it a town. Since then this place has grown rapidly. ? From farm land to a large town. Yes I 100% know the truth. I wouldn't say publicly. Now knowing how big and how much curiosity is involved in the Flatwoods Green Monster it is astonishing. A story known world wide that happened in my back yard. I will say that as a kid I seen and witness very strange things in that small general area that I've never seen anywhere else.
@@EspionageTV
"Since a child I have been told the truth from the people who were there close friends."
So people who supposedly knew the group who thought they saw a monster just said "Hey, my friend said he saw an alien" and that was enough for you to just believe it?
"Yes I 100% know the truth."
It seems like you're just buying into a second-hand source without any actual evidence. You're looking at someone who knew a guy who mistook a thing for something else and just assuming that makes it true. Trust me, as someone whose heard some crazy bullshit from people, that's not nearly enough to go on as proof. My dad once knew a crazy person who hallucinated seeing tiny versions of himself that crawl around, but that doesn't mean it's real by any stretch. You live in redneck county like me long enough and you quickly learn you can't trust people for crap on stuff like this, you need to actually look at the accounts and evidence to come to an actual conclusion.
5:18 legitimately scared me; I wasn't prepared to hear the sound again... It just came out of nowhere!
the hissing owl reminds me odlf Darth Vader!! XD XD LOLOLOL
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DARTH VADOWL! O_O
This is such a perfect video.
It has facts and logic.
It has humor.
It has heart.
And most importantly, it has lots of phallic shaped content. 👀
As well as giving proper credit, let alone to fans.
1:58 I Am Your Father!
2:38 E.T. Phone Home!
It's really fun to creep out friends with the crazy sounds owls make. Some are cute, such as with the Barred Owl and screech owls, but some are absolutely "alien" and harsh on the ears. In fact, all members of the genus tyto make those horrid hissing or twittering sounds as their typical call. The White-Fronted Scops Owl's call sounds a lot like a UFO, to me at least. So basically, any mysterious sound you hear in the forest could be an owl.
5:07 Quote of the year, my friend.
Actually, you should make that a shirt.
Okay, initially I was always thinking in regards to the Flatwoods Monster: 'this is either an elaborate hoax, or these people are dumb as fuck to be spooked by an Owl!' but upon seeing the weird shape and hearing the terrifying sound that it makes when threatened, I don't blame the witnesses at ALL for being scared of that and assuming it was alien in nature! Jesus Christ!
It's always fucking owls
This is like my new favorite channel. I love these kinds of videos but they're usually "10 unidentified globsters!1!!" and I have to scrounge up whatever research I can to see what they could have been (because I don't believe in all these mystical undiscovered monsters in the sea and on land). Thank you very much, Trey, for doing research, including all the 'facts' and information, and reaching a logical conclusion.
but the ball of fire what was that
+Logan Sinclair It never existed
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+TREY the Explainer can you do the Mokèlé-mbèmbé cryptid
it could have been a meteor that just happened to fall at the same time...
Anthony Rios Yup ;)
Honestly, owls have always terrified me! They have huge eyes, are amazing predators, have huge talons and look extremely unlike other birds, no wonder people mistake them for monsters!
Owls 2, World's elite cryptozoologists 0
True damn owls
it is actually funny that when you first see owls do that pose you might think it is a silly tactic to make a human get scared since trying to look bigger isn't really working and won't convince anyone and at the same time an owl doing that pose caused a public hysteria among thousands of humans and created an urban legend
Wow so owls can shoot you with toxic gas. Didn't know that.
I believe you are (sarcastically) referring to the "acrid gas" the group claimed to have experienced. I think that can be explained as fog combined with mass hysteria.
Possibly in combination with a mundane, but foul smelling, object nearby. They where on a farm, so I can suggest on possible candidate.
Gravitythief and proof???
idk if thats a fair counter argument. that would be possible to understand if all the sightings were in dark lighting to better explain the possibility of misunderstanding what was seen. this doesnt explain the height, clothing, hands, or the hovering detail of the monster which had been consistently depicted across its range of different areas of its sightings. or the fact of the fireball landing it was associated with. "a metalic robe with warped spiraling hands, 10 feet tall and hovering" that depiction means it was a full body witness theyre describing, you dont see a 10 foot entity hovering and confuse it for a owl, its harder to believe a owl consistently flys at the same altitude to be confused for a lurking entity and not give the illusion away by its flapping wings. I just cant entertain the owl theory makes sense, it would only make sense with non full body sightings from afar, and only maybe. youre showing the picture of the monster and saying confusing it for its head breaks the story apart. "look, i have its head, fake" nah, there's a large list of distinct traits of the stories that werent even touched upon here, and the biggest point of this video breaks apart easily in my opinion, this video can not tolerate the idea of a full body witnessing. or defend that the visual illusion would retain its integrity upon the flapping of the owls wings...but worst, under the conditions of the full body sightings i just can not entertain what this video has to offer.
Yours is just speculation,not proof.
Is there a way to prove the presence of an owl on a specific tree decades ago?
2:39 E.T.? is that you?
There's something hilarious about the idea of an Alien visting Mesopotamia, then comes back 4000 years later, gets lost, and winds up in West Virginia. That is REALLY getting lost.
I'm looking forward for the Tyrannosaurus Video ^^
Wow, that owls. They look really impressive when doing this.
Nice you put the spoopy barn owl hissing again xD
Joe Nickell came up with this idea a decade plus ago
This explanation is more awesome than the myth itself! I love how animals can play off human superstitions, like they're batman or something!!
Trey, i have to say that this is really one of the best channels on youtube, the fact that you are always staying open minded and always choose great topics for videos! Great work on this video btw!
+Hunter Bickford :D Thanks man ;)
Yes, exactly! Owls make crazy noises and are spooky looking at night. They fly silently and can coast very easily. Obviously noone at the original sighting had gone camping before.
Thanks for giving me nightmares and Owlphobia, TREY!
Jesus that was terrifying
I love that you show an image of a deity with bird-feet and owls next to her. Meaning those viewers were on the road to the conclusion you came to accept.