Did the Flatwoods Monster Exist?
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- Another cryptozoology video! Today we examine a rather strange and famous cryptid from West Virginia, the Flatwoods Monster. We will go over everything from owls to aliens to giant salamanders to psychology. Hope you enjoy!
Special thanks to Joe Nickell
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I miss when I was 14 and could actually believe in monsters. Now I just think "lol eyewitness testimony"
I remember being a little kid and watching alien conspiracy programs on TV and being scared. Now I know pyramids are just built with ramps, wheels and fibre-like ropes.
I would never miss being younger.
As a kid growing up in the 60's, I was always freaked out by TV series such as The Outer Limits and The Twilight Zone. As a result of watching them I truly believed monsters were real and that they exist out there in the world.
Right? I loved being scared
@@Riz_Rizen Also don't forget how whip can turn human being into highly efficent working machine.
Plot twist: it wasn’t a barn owl, it was a BASKING SHARK
these dummies... "flatwoods monster"
"Bigfoot" fuckin dummies they cant see the basking shark
Plot twist: it was Critical Amur instead who fapped in rage for likes.
@@davidamajako961 no I just type shitposty jokes instead of making uneeded and unfunny sexual jokes about someone who has more likes on a comment in a youtube video than myself
Lol.
Plot twist: it was a torn off piece of whale blubber
Imagine being a random barn owl defending her chicks, not knowing that humans will talk about you for the next century as some awe-inspiring alien monster.
I'd take the "awe-inspiring alien monster" over a furious mother-owl clawing at my face any day.
On second thought however: I think Trey is full of sh*t. For people like him It's either swamp gas or owls, but NEVER what people claim to have seen. Don't you just love how people are so up their own a** they want to tell you what to think, see or hear?
@@a-sheepof-christ9027 First off, Trey isn't telling people what to think, he is saying that he believes what they are thinking is incorrect, which is a good assertion in cases of paranormal sightings. The concept that people can be mistaken, lying, or deceived is far more plausible than, in this case, an alien creature appearing in the woods near a rural West Virginian town. We have proof that confirmation bias, hallucinations, and misidentifications are real, while evidence of aliens is inconclusive at best and laughable at worst.
Secondly, of course Trey thinks that these people are wrong. There are so many better explanations for cryptid and alien sightings than taking eyewitnesses at face value. Eyewitnesses are notoriously unreliable as evidence, changing their memory of events and warping them to fit what they think it should be.
Third, the only people full of shit in this story are those (like, I assume, you) who take random stories told by rather credulous people seriously and reject any evidence to the contrary. That, and the only people telling others how to think are those 'skeptics' trying to cash in on this event by blowing it out of proportion. You did hear Trey talk about how one of the conspiracy guys claimed that the adult eyewitness, Kathy May, changed her description of the creature from having 'drape-like folds' to being 'metallic' to fit other 'alien' sightings in the area around that same time, right? It's from about 10:00 to 12:25
Finally, you do know that you can curse on this site, right? There is no need to censor yourself. See: Shit, fuck, ass, dick.
@@austinvaldovino8303 Trey does not know anything, nor does he properly check his sources. This is evident in his videos on Bible history, in particular his confusion caused by the supposed differences between masoretic texts, the septuagint and the english translations instead of outlining the academic consensus: that the dead sea scrolls are held to be more "reliable" than the Septuagint, Vulgate, or Masoretic translations: the language used in some of the fragments being older than the use of the greek in the Septuagint LXX of ca 250 BC.
In the same way his information in this video is not only horribly redacted but also misinterpreted: which is the very conflation and misrepresentation you talked about. Unlike you, I dont think TH-cam-content-creators are a credible source for anything. Ill go with the Pentagon and Goverment officials who have spoken out on various sets of evidence in regards to unidentified aerial phenomena: which is very much linked to the eye witness accounts we hear from all across the world.
Not only is your analysis of the situation immature and lacking: but your premise and argument allow only for the weakest of conclusions. Fact is that we have a order of Phenomena: I will logically choose to give more credit to the first instance: and choose to believe most witnesses - than assume their account is wrong based on weak circumstantial evidence. You clearly have no clue about what you are talking about. And I find your opinion good for a laugh but nothing else.
People like Luis Elizondo, who were formerly Pentagon officials actually agree that the evidence points to a very clear picture of us "not being alone". Now he had a official position in a goverment body: you are a random person on youtube. I think I will take someone with credibility over your opinion any day. Just last year the Pentagon released multiple sets of Data that confirm atleast 3 UFO sightings: Ill drop you a link from cnn. But you can read about the information from better sources. edition.cnn.com/2017/12/18/politics/luis-elizondo-ufo-pentagon/index.html
There are also people like former Israeli Space Security Chief Haim Eshed, who albeit being less credible, still held a position in a official goverment body and chose to come forward with the fact that >aliens are real/in contact with our goverments
@@a-sheepof-christ9027 in my personal opinion, shut up
@@GrogFrog1 Shut up and look at the evidence I provided. There are enough credible eyewitnesses: high ranking marines, soldiers, sailors, air force and navy pilots, police officers, firemen. All sorts of people who's job it is to be particularly somewhat objective in a life-threatening situation.
Fact is: there are credible sightings of aliens everywhere. Even the bible speaks of "Cherubim and their Opaninn" in Ezekiel 1:4 and of "Fallen Angels and their offspring" in Genesis.
Scared or aggressive barn owls actually fold their wings together above their head and lean their head down to appear larger. It would have looked just like a pointed ace of spades head.
Yes! I was hoping Trey would get to that. Owls puff up to be quite big, and totally resemble the shape of the monster's head.
Really, who needs monsters when nature goes this hard?!
And the face would be in the middle, much like the description of the monster
@@benny_lemon5123 well this defence technic was highly effective!
Let's not forget how creepy owls can be as well as their strange connection to aliens it could all be a dirty little alien trick 🤔🤯🤣 but nah fr it had to be a owl cause ion see the practicality of a handicap alien with a government is for a
The owls are not what they seem.
this serie should be called ¨it was an owl¨
A TERROR OWL!
yeah
God, I love being an owl!
+Juanignacio molina sossa it probably was a owl but mixed with the gas and the fact it was dark it might have looked more monsterus than it really was. watch Sherlock episode 2 season 2 to get what I talking about
+Spider Doctor hut what if mothman faught owlman?
(dc with its funny names)
Barn Owl: I created the Mothman
Brown Owl:I created the Flatwoods Monster
Basking Shark: I created *every* globster
Both owls: Woah
exodus K take the joke and laugh
3 Seals In A Line: haha we kept it up for centuries
@exodus K r/WOOOOOOOOOSHHHHH!!!!
Later
Eel creates a loch ness monster
tbh if you ever saw those barn owls with freakishly long legs, trying to intimidate you and hissing at you, in a dark place, you would know how scary those fluffy bois are...just look them up
West Virginia
Mountain monsters!
Take me home
Cryptid roads
I saw its face
In the darkness eyes were glowing
The stranger makes me assume that it's home is far away
dammit i love my home state! Mothman AND the flatwoods monster? 😍
Lol yeah owl on a stump
@@juicy_rickys_world3273 are you sure you don't got an scp foundation out there
@@juicy_rickys_world3273 All of you are MIB agents, we know
One extra thing is that if you've ever driven along and spotted a barn owl in your headlights they are really spookily reflective. That or I've seen aliens eating mice
aliens love mice, they taste like chicken
Obviously aliens
The visitors from "V"
@@tzackaria7wait, how do you know?
Confirmation bias makes you interpret aliens are barn owls.
must have been fun being an owl in West Virginia in the 50s-60s
yeah
Agreed
i mean the looming threat of atomic animation aside yeah
“Hey hey David cmere guess what I did last night some small place crashes and I was checking it out right. Then these kids showed up right. so I’m just chilling there and then they come flash a light at me scaring the shit outta em then I ran off and they are just like Ooooh it’s an alien Oooh!”
“ Heh dominant species my ass
oops...not sure if that was auto correct or just dyslexia
Plot twist: The Flatwoods monster was Trey the Explainer. He never shows his face, so it can't technically be disproven.
Trey is a barn owl we all know that
Have you ever seen em in the same room? I think not
but he has! he's some rather young dude
Are you stupid?
HE IS A FRIGGIN DIPPERSAURUS!
@@MrJDozzo Barn owls don't exist; they're all basking sharks
Honestly, if I hade worked myself all up, then taking a stroll through a dark wood with only a flashlight, and then a friggin owl (an animal with a famously scary hiss) hissed at me, you'd probably see me come running out with some incoherent stories too.
What I'm saying is: No wonder those kids saw friggin monsters.
especially in the context of investigating a crash site I thinkits understandable there are contradicting reports as eye witness accounts can be dubious
One time a friend and I went for a multi hour long drive just talking, smoking, and drinking soda. We were out past dark and found ourselves on some back roads and ended up coming to a T intersection where we could turn left or right. But right in front of us, eerily illuminated by the car's headlights, was a partially caved in small home/shack near the road but otherwise in a field of tall grass/reeds. And I can't really explain it but seeing that image filled me with this odd sensation of dread. And not even the logical part of my brain that knew it was just because it was night time and oddly illuminated couldn't help. I quickly asked my friend to get back to the highway. In my case it wasn't alien, but surpernatural. Still freaks me out when the image pops into my head today.
100% correct. This story is easily debunked.
I was snorkelling in the Dominican Republic as a kid and I came around the corner of a shallow reef’s rocks and saw a massive monster with a disfigured face. I seem to remember it having scary teeth and that it moved quite fast. I only got a glance before I swam away as fast as I could back to shore.
Turns out I was probably looking at a manatee and my kid brain turned it into a monster either during my encounter or shortly after. It was in an estuary as well.
Although seeing a wild manatee is pretty amazing as well since the population is small and spread out across the whole Caribbean.
Also, as a kid I was scared of basically any larger aquatic thing. Like salmon in the rivers where I live, seals, ect. So when I saw the manatee I was already on edge from being scared of sharks or other large things.
Something unknown and potentially dangerous? Better bring the kids."
golf clap for mom of the year.
Terrible parents raise fantastic researchers
33:15 where is his underjawline? Where is his chin? lol other than that great artwork
I mean gotta have something to throw at it if it chases you
she only needed to run faster than little johnny to survive
Looks to me like a nun wearing Elton John glasses.
Silkendrum lmfao
Yo word bra.😖🙂😯
The real conspiracy
Right? Lmao
They say. If you hear a piano playing. It's already to late to run.
That poor owl must have been so frightened. All of sudden humans arrive and start screaming as loud as they can.
Owl Mom knows how to react to dangerous sights around kids--keep the two apart, with force if needed. If only Human Mom realized that...
So an owl broke tree tops and burned the land? Yeah...okay.
@@rutherglen7226 The treetops weren't broken and nothing was burned,
@@Speed001 I know right. Imagine being so gullible
@@Speed001 they said they found burned tree tops how do you know it isn't true
"How was your trip, Zoltar?"
"A mob of primates discovered me stuck up a tree after having crashed my intergalactic vehicle... boy, was my face red!"
Lol
"It happens. Drink later this rotation?"
13:40: "I'm not saying Mothman and the Flatwoods Monster are the same creature."
25:40: "This was an owl, too."
To be fair brown owls and barn owls are not the same 😜
Real or not, you gotta admit the design is badass.
Like an Ethereal from Xcom.
specially for the time
It looks like a angry penis
I Was a Teenage TeenWolf true
I do not think that the design is bad or ass; I think the design is pretty cool.
On the subject of barn owls - in the Monster Quest episode that talked about Flatwoods, they found that the tree where the 'monster' was seen was dead and hollow. They interpreted it as the tree being killed by the monster; I interpret it as being a very good nesting site for a barn owl.
Maybe the tree made it look like it looked
Maybe the tree was the barn owl and the monster hollowed it out, and the monster was also a barn owl that ate the monster
They WOULD go for the most ridiculous explanation wouldn't they? Much prefer this one. Kudos, inspector Werrf1!
A few years ago I heard a noise coming from my back bedroom. I turned around in my chair and checked to see where my two cats were but they were on the couch sleeping.
I stood up and went into my hall and opened my bedroom door which hadnt been opened in months (at least), expecting something scary.
I looked over towards where the bed was and saw a completely black, skinny human like abomination (about 3 feet tall) crouching, staring right at me. I near shat myself. I felt all dizzy like my world was crashing in on itself. I closed the door with my literally trembling hand, something that doesnt happen to me, ever.
After a few seconds, as I was a sceptic, I opened the door and stared at the corner. There was a slim line of light bouncing from the window onto the bedpost which diffused over the entire post making it look like two eyes. The darkest shadows were indeed in the shape of a human. When I switched on the light I could easily see what had caused it. Simply, me expecting to see something and then seeing something and freaking out all caused by a couple of strange shadows and a tiny amount of light hitting the bedpost XD
I laughed at how my brain made me see a small demon thing with glowing eyes. Freaking scary though. But I can imagine how those that are religious in nature would swear that they had seen a demon.
The brain can be so much fun sometimes.
The brain can have a mind of it's own, sometimes.
@@eyecomeinpeace2707 Totally... so weird :)
*it was a basking shark*
@@patrykrebalski2238 XD Entirely possibke
I honestly cracked up so hard 😂😂😂
I am the QUEEN of scaring myself sh!tless. Maybe I should write my own horror movie 🤔
I love the irony of the cryptid just being a barn owl protecting her young, while a mother decided to trespass her neighbour’s land with her and other parents’ kids to check out something they believed to be potentially dangerous.
"The owls are not what they seem."
-Twin Peaks
Uncivilized Elk 1 year later and I still love your videos
What r u doing here go make me more AT videos
I'm definitely going with the Owl Solution here.
th-cam.com/video/M8el_P4yvfc/w-d-xo.html
Hey didn't expect to see you here also I really love your videos
Wow you like Cryptids? (P.S Love your Adventure time vids)
oh hey it's the aliens from majora's mask that tried to steal cows
Indeed, officially the design of those aliens is inspired in the Flatwoods monster
HAHAHAHAHA!
That part of the game scared the shit out of me
even today
Lolololol
Barn Owl: I’m the best cryptid fuel!
Brown Owl: No I’m the best cryptid fuel!
???: Amateurs...
Both Owls: What?
Decomposing Basking Shark: AMATEURS!!!!!!
What about the true cryptid E.L. WALLACE
diseases animals : YOU DARE CHALLANGe ME
Sith Inquisitor E.L Wallace was a fake name used by a Man In Black
"what is the flatwood monster?"
A random owl wearing a Majora's mask in the flatwood.
It's funny because they were the inspiration for the aliens in Majora's Mask :)
Wearing a majora's mask upside-down even, what a silly owl...
ok
BARN OWL 2, HUMAN 0
+The Red Raptor OWLS YEAH, WHO CARE ABOUT HUMANITY.
+The Avidon hooo cares about humanity
YEAH
Attack of the Owls 2
The owl menace , the attack of the owls , revenge of the owls , a new owl , the owl strikes back , return of the owl , the owl awakens
Owl wars
* Inhale * *west Virginia* *mountain mama*
Stop
TAKE ME HOME
I'm taking you to MY HOME!
Country roooooaads
You need the live in West Virginia pass to sing that. Sir I’m gonna need to see your live in West Virginia pass.
Just a minor correction: “Galaxy” wasn’t a comic book, it was a literary magazine that published short fiction by sci-fi authors like Ray Bradbury and Robert Heinlein.
Yeah.. seems like it could have been a little high brow for children’s reading? Likely not a direct influence on the kids, but still exemplary of 1950s pop culture’s alien fixation.
@cate rivers I started reading those short stories and serials when I was 9. Huge influence on my world view and expectations for the future.
@@Catandgoose- They'd have seen the covers, at least. Big-headed, big-eyed, aliens who skip leg day were common on SF magazines and comic books.
"Short and quick video."
**33 minutes long**
i've heard that about you
I really love how 100% of the cryptids/monsters investigated in this series so far has always turned out to be a barn owl.
Like, 100% of the time has been barn owls fucking with people. I am actually beginning to think that the Chupacabra and the Jersey Devil are also barn owls.
He's only talked about 2 cryptids...
baranguirus Yes. 100% of 2 is 2. So there's nothing wrong with my math.
yeah I love that as well. I also like to belive that the mothman owls and this owl are apart of the same family. I think if more people knew that barn owls eyes glow red at night in bright light there would be less of these spooky encounter.
+Luigi Gaskell People keep getting that wrong.
Mothman was a Snowy Owl, not a Barn Owl.
Also the Chupacabra has been confirmed to be a coyote/wolf hybrid.
Hoshimaru57 Wasn't the chupacabra coyote diseased and suffering from mange causing it's fur to fall off?
It was the neighbor tired of kids trespassing on his lands so he disguised himself as a spooky monster to scare them off.
Darn meddling kids!!
Makes perfect sense? 🤔
Sounds like the plot of a Scooby Doo episode
The idea of The Village had to come from somewhere...
The best and sensible sounding explanation yet.
Can we take a moment to appreciate how beautiful and mysterious owls are? It's actually a great testament to their uniqueness and elegance that humans repeatedly mistake them for a great scary monster in the dark
They're definitely beautiful, interesting, and kind of ominous, ¿but what about them is mysterious? I mean, at one point they might have been because people were very superstitious, but we know tonnes about owls now.
Mother Barn owl: “Hippity hoppity, get off my property!”
Maybe the owl was looking out of the trees hole and thats why she looked like she was having a large body.
This is actually pretty dang smart
Hey are large birds.
And the point at the top of the head is just the cusp where the sides of the hole come together.
People know how owls look like...this is not an owl
And maybe the tree had moss on it, and older trees tend to have really furrowed, cracked-looking bark, which could be what made that lady think it was wearing a green dress.
the auto-generated captions are nearly perfect, you're a good speaker
Edit: it's been two years? I thought this comment was like 6 months old lol
Michael Stevens probably has a word for this feeling
TRUE.
him and Safia Nygaard have beautiful dictation, making the auto generated captions perfect or near perfect
skeleleton boi and moistcr1tikal
I have been on a dinner with my wife and she is very green and fluffy
@Boco Corwin yes she's called autocrrect and predictive text I hate it
I kept seeing owl jokes that had me wheezing on every video so I had to find the source.
I’m not disappointed
That female owl is so creepy even in the picture. No wonder they were scared to death.
Many otherwise-familiar animals are eerie and scary under certain conditions. Animals known from books, movies, or television would be doubly so.
if they were "scared to death" why didn't they die? death usually involves dying
What is the Flatwoods monster?
A monster that lives in Flatwoods
Tap Gaming
Best description we’re gonna get.
Aka me
Tap Gaming that’s what I thought I honestly thought it was a small bug though
Nah, it was a flying barn owl ontop of a brown owl holding a decomposing basking shark with its feet.
makes sense
According to fallout 76 the flatwoods monster is a zetan alien who always skips leg day
I know I'm late to the party here, but I think it's also important to remember how shadows work, If you shine a flashlight on a barn-owl, from some distance, while 10 feet below, the resulting shadow on the tree or foliage behind it will definitely be a large spade-like shape.
The MonsterQuest version kind of reminds me of Squidward, or rather one of those uncanny valley "photorealistic" Spongebob characters images you'll find online.
Holy shit it's Muscular Squidward!
"I'm going to do a much shorter, quicker video..."
This video: 33 minutes
Please ignore that statement, I was being stupid. The 100,000 subscriber video is not longer than this one XD
Can you do the black beast ofExmoor
Hunter Hayes I'll look into it
Thanks and you do great videos
Hunter Hayes thank you ;)
Welcome😊
You're an intelligent space faring civilization, with an understanding of the universe which dwarfs humanity's. Given Earth's proximity to other potentially habitable planets we can speculate that you've seen other intelligent beings en route to Earth... so what do you do when you arrive on Earth and encounter Humans? Shriek loudly and fly directly at them... suuuure.
Vossler Gardia space gopniks
Little did you know that alien is an unstable one, and just escaped an asylum on their planet
+Zak Prom Given that interstellar distances are vast and any timely travel requires great speeds, the spacecraft would be huge and bright objects that are easy to spot. As in, dozens of kilometers long flying at something like 0,1C. That kind of object arriving in the solar system, slambreaking hard and parking at Earths orbit would not remain undetected, and the passengers would be counted in millions instead of a couple.
It is an extremely safe bet that there are no technologically advanced aliens within our radio bubble or we would be bombarded by constant astronomical information about those civilizations.
"Dude, what was that? Why would you just rush them shrieking like that?"
"I'm SORRY, okay? I just get so excited when we encounter new species."
"We've discussed this so. many. times. You are NOT part of the landing party ever again."
"Awwwwww maaaaaaaan."
@@MoonlightCircus 😂*WHEEZE* that was amazing
This is the only cryptid that genuinely scares me. It just looks so weird.
You getting Lovecraftian vibes too?
Wow they made West Virginia from Fallout 76 into a real place
Every single drawing of the flatwoods monster looks like what you would draw if someone were describing an Alien Space Nun to you. Alien Space Nuns exist, dude. That's why every eyewitness drawing or painting looks almost the same.
So I suppose that the reason they come to earth is... peregrination?
Alien space nuns 2 was better
The Bene Gesserit strikes again
I think that TREY the explainer is the flatwoods monster and is trying to hide his existence by using this video to trick people. I'm onto you!
or he is peridot ¤-¤
Spoilers:it's an owl
I think you just tried to copy my comment, which I made on his previous video, and which he actually replied to
Mercury Reborn No I didn't. Why would I even bother doing that? It's a pretty obvious comment to make so why are you surprised by it?
The “hood” could just be the wings that were in that shape, this could explain why wings were missing
13:40
Trey: "I don't mean that they're the same creature..."
Moments later
Trey: they're both owls
Hey idiot! It's Major Donald E. KEYHOE not Keyhole!
Ha trey that is the funniest comment ever. Oh you're far funnier than that and even more awesome.
Brenden Scott ^^ why thank you :)
+TREY the Explainer Glad you caught that. But you didn't catch the fact that Galaxy is a science fiction magazine, NOT a comic book. Also, cover dates on magazines (including comics) are a month early. The original reason was so that they'd stay on magazine racks longer. (So the August issue would have come out in July, but remained on the racks through August.)
edlaprade Cool, thanks for the correction. It popped up when I searched "Scientific Comic Books 1952" so I just assumed
+TREY the Explainer Make a Video about 'Tehran UFO 1976'.
Except for the meteor reports(confirmed by a government agency though) the whole time I watched I was thinking cold war test pilots. The smell was burning fuel. The mysterious glow that only 1 kid mentions was the burning wreck. The monster was the pilot, tangled in the trees by his parachute, suffering/dying from decompression injury. The bottom half of the body is the parachute an his face is bloated and red with blood from sudden decompression from the cockpit. Possibly swollen around his goggles causing the glowing eyes effect.
That sounds horrifying. Much more scary than the fabricated alien story
My dude I think you've been reading too much Lord of the Flies
I like this theory, it's thinking outside the box, but the problem is no one ever found a body or reported noticing broken tree branches or blood drippings. Still a much more terrifying image.
That's both creepy and super sad
@@just_going_mads reminder, Cold War. The US never let stuff like this be widely known, you'd be surprised at how fast and efficient the clean up crews for stuff like that were.
Hell even things as small as AK47s were hidden to the extreme. When the first AK47s were deployed they were kept in bags that hid them and after being fired every single shell casing had to be gathered and hidden. So the US cleaning up a secret jet crash and dead piolet wouldn't be to far off the wall.
Having heard a barn owl hiss at night before, I can say it is absolutely a terrifying experience, and with the glowing red eyes due to flashlight reflection and the meteor putting ideas in their head, I have absolutely no doubt that a barn owl scared the sh*t out of those kids! Really great video, thank you!
I was once looking for my runaway dog in the woods at night. I was using my phone's flashlight and was very stressed. Suddenly a pair of blue, gleaming eyes along with white sharp teeth looked back at me in the darkness. I was petrified and I asked the thing (literally) "what are you?" I thought it was either a wild boar or something unexplained.
Turned out it was just a black pitbull type dog who after encountering me run to it's owner, no barking or growling whatsoever. And my runaway pup went straight home and miraculously was not hit by any car.
Honestly the first thing that comes to my mind when I hear about a burning smell that irritates eyes and throat is skunk.
Actually, that makes a lot of sense
I really think could try people would be able to tell a skunk smell and it does not cause convulsions
@@jessicacanfield5408 you know what causes convulsions? Panic. And you know what could be really confusing to children while they're panicking? A somewhat familiar smell. Your sense are *so easily* manipulated, don't trust them. Try telling someone you're drinking wine with that the wine has a fruity/flowery/... Aroma, and they'll probably enthusiastically agree with you. And now imagine 6 children that are scared to death talking about something they've barely seen in the dark.
@@siali8683 I have never heard of panick causing convulsions
You know what regularly preys on skunks because they can't actually smell them? Yup. Owls. Mama hoot-hoot brought some stinky dinner home to the babies, and then some dumb humans showed up, so she told them to get lost.
The flatwoods monster is actually ... ... ... Danny devito
😲😲
:)
No u
The trash man strikes again!
Ah, because we cannot comprehend the form of his magnum song we see a fireball
I read about this in the 80s. When I was a kid. I had reoccurring nightmares for years about it being in my closet.
Yea I’m not sleeping tonight
is that when you came out of the closet?
The 50s were a bold and empowering time for women. You could be either a beautician, or a teacher.
or the ugly broads could be a scary ten foot tall space alien barn owl
imagine the owl's expression when it saw the kids and their mum screaming and running away XD
"what the heck man i was just investigating too"
Probably stoic.
It just wanted to invite them into its labyrinth and do dance magic
BARN OWLS! (*shakes fists*)
THOSE DARN WILY BARN OWLS STRUCK AGAIN!
They were only obeying their master basking sharks...WHO WAS BEING MANIPULATED BY E.L. WALLACE
The original story makes it sound like a large owl considered they didn't even see the bottom half.
why do the drawings look like a grunt from halo....
The green body and skirt she described remind me of the Martian from looney toones
Rodrigo Amorim actually yeah, how has no one pointed that out?
It actually might be based on the Flatwoods Monster , the resemblance is extremely close 😦
Beepin,boopin,looney tuning
Yeah very close descroption
Marvin the Martian was interviewed over this and is quoted as saying, "no, no, I wouldn't go to the Earth, I am still trying to perfect the aludium pew 36 explosive space modulator to destroy it, it obstructs my view of Venus"..
Owls are taking over.
Or maybe salamanders/koolasuchus are beginning to rise up.
+Sakunto Paksi no no no only owls
Oh Nuts!
The dinosaurs are planning to retake the Earth from the foolish mammals.
they've always been in control you just didn't know about it till now.
Gene Lemon is my favourite uhh
Member of The Beatles
Let me offer a tentative defence of Mrs May.
It seems likely that the children were extremely frightened by the meteor and she took them into the wood to calm them down by demonstrating that there was nothing scary there.
Not the best plan and it backfired, but understandable.
Hadn't thought of that!
I'm glad you actually looked for the sources. Most people don't bother these days and most institutions don't bother uploading sources anymore, leading to false claims.
Always check your information and news sources or else confirmation bias sets in here as well.
There was an owl in my town that was confused with a ghost. Everyone was afraid of it, then someone just shoot her, and noticed they killed an owl.
Randomista that’s fucked
Aww :( people fear what they dont know.
Sure it wasn't a basking shark
Guy shot at an owl thinking it was a ghost?
@@lookinaturmom what else are you going to do? Throw a crucifix?
Trey video title: “Did X Cryptid Ever Exist?”
Me: I’m gonna take a shot in the dark and say no
I kind of wish Trey would make more videos on cryptic creatures, even if they’re not common. I enjoy them highly.
"Terrible claws"? That's settled! It was a Deinonychus! XD
I see what you did there :)
XD Paleohumour! =P
My god... They're back.😶
XD
Poké Radar Shiny Patch "Jurassic fart"
Car salesman: *slaps West Virginia* This mountain momma can fit so many cryptids in it(bad joke lol)
just found your channel and I love the depth and the research that goes into your videos! I especially enjoy the drawings you put in; they look lovely :)
i never regret clicking one of these videos, always well made and pleasant, i hope you keep up the great work!
I would love to see a video about:
- Kongomato
- Mokele mbembe
- Chupacabra
- Wendigo
- Orang pendek
- Nessie
- Sasquatch
- Jersey devil
- the devil from Devon
.... and the list goes to a 289 :D
Spoilers: they're all owls
xD
They are all owls
The Wendigo can easily be explained as a clever way that Indigenous peoples prevented cannibalism during times of famine by spreading the idea that doing so would curse the person who had engaged in it. (i.e. them turning into a Wendigo or being possessed by a Wendigo spirit.)
Magic Burd its a russian baby bear
"Alright, I know what you paleo-fans are about to say..."
"WABLEFLAHGJONDLEFIJES"
1:58 Ah yes, I loved how Jeremy Renner played Blue in Jurassic World, people still think it was CGI.
Whenever I see the Flatwoods monster all I see is a nun.
“Dang, West Virginia, What’s up with your monsters?” Is my new favorite phrase.
I'M NOT SAYING IT'S OWLS, BUT IT'S OWLS
No, it was just a failed marketing ploy by Todd Howard.
It just works!
As someone who has heard a barn owl, I can safely say that they sound nothing like you'd expect.
It's clearly a basking shark
You fool...you poor fool....another victim of the manipulations of E.L. WALLACE
Sith Inquisitor the Mastermind of all Crypids
Nice pfp
it was actually a white bellbird
14:05
Trey: let's get down to business
Me: to defeat the huns!
Okay okay okay
cold war times - aliens
2000s - ninjas
2012 - zombies
2019/2020 - ????
I NEED TO KNOW
War
Lizard people
fricka being allowed to go outside is the 2019/2020 myth
2020 is just a jumanji game ._.
You’ll see
Who could ever dislike Trey’s videos? He puts in so much hard work and all of his content is so unique. I don’t know who wouldn’t enjoy gaining interesting knowledge from a great narrator and skilled researcher. I’ve never watched one of his videos and thought it was bad, and I’ve seen a lot of them. Sure some are more exciting/interesting and more serious and more well-researched than others, but I like that he has variety. Remember people, variety is the spice of life and knowledge is one of the greatest tools one could have.
11:59 "Mom says it's my turn on the xbox"
So you're telling me THE Hollywood Actor, Jeremy Renner wasn't a Velociraptor? Nice try, FBI. I'm Totally "convinced".
Joking aside, I love your content. Keep it up.
Now that you mention pop culture, I think Back to the Future refenced this state of mind people had in the 50s, since they play on that idea in Part 1. When Marty appears in '55 and drives into the shack and emerges wearing the hazmat suit and the farm family thinks he's an alien and starts shooting at him. And then also when he terrorizes his dad while wearing the suit and calling himself Darth Vader, his dad had a sci fi book right next to his bed.
Then his father wrote a book about an alien who facilitated a relationship.
You have a fantastic channel, thank you for all the effort you put into all you do, it’s excellent! I believe in none of this and only watch anything involving Giorgio Tsoukalos for humor but it’s very interesting to see what stuff people have cooked up on this channel.
So I guess technically, they did at least find a dinosaur living in their woods...
*amphibian
He's talking about the owl
Oh...I thought he was talking about the oil from that guy's truck....>.> I mean.....
...Fossil Fuels
I’m finding a lot of channels I watch that I didn’t know liked Cryptozoology in the comment section today
@@TrickShotKoopa *Stem-mammal
My brother’s bf claims to have seen a ghost-like floating creature when he was younger that seemed to have a white mask, glowing eyes, and a large black body. I told him it sounds like it was probably a barn owl... so yeah, people mistake barn owls for monsters all the time.
Mr Shambleface 😱😱
No they don't, owls are pointed at to dismiss people's experiences. Skeptical and unimaginative people who consider themselves too smart to believe in the paranormal, those are the only ones who think a relatively small bird can be mistaken for a large humanoid.
@@TomYawns have *you* seen a barn owl in otherwise complete darkness?
believing in the paranormal is dumb tho
Mr Shambleface wait wait wait hold up his best friend or...???
The dude speaking seems to really put alot of research in these vids which is really apreciated dude 😀😀😀
Remember when you see some clothes hanging in your chair in the night and for some reason it looks like a demon or a monster of some kind? Well, its the same thing here plus the alien from the comic book and the creepy nature of the forest.
I have an idea for a independent movie simply called "Flatwoods" about this encounter, however the majority of the movie is going to be build up and Character development, in the movie, the monster will be real but I would mostly try to at the same time, make it just ambiguous enough for the audience to think that maybe it was fake and the witnesses hallucinated it. Thoughts?
If I had the money for it XD
Make perspective a important point of the film, and how perspective changes events from person to person.
As an aspiring director, I love this idea.
Stonestreamdubs make a script and try to sell it?
Turns out they all were using acid for the first time
The smell wasn't the grass it was field onions small grass like vegetation all over that has onion like roots they stink like muddy onions lol it's pretty strong if u step on it even more so
who do u work for? ........pandacat
Field onions are also commonly known as onion grass.
Ramps or leeks are wild and stink as well.
That has to be it. West Virginians don't know what wild onions smell like.
I think you missed the mark on that statement.West Virginia has an average of seven ramp festivals every spring the first was in 1937.
It really is a good design. I'm surprised there isn't a Flatwood Monster Pokemon. I've been to the museum they have, and interestingly they don't really have any representations of the "reptile" version. I wonder if there is a reason for that? If I ever go back I'll have to ask. Of course, if I go back it will mostly be to eat at a local sandwich shop called The Spot, again.
The irony of the monster being a good mom and one of the investigators being a crappy mom. 😂
Some suggestions:
Mokele-Mbembe
Ropen
Kongomato
Onza
Chupacabra
Big Apes (Bigfoot, Skunk Ape, De Loy's Ape, Yeren, Alma, Yeti, Orang Pendek)
Nessi
Champ
Tasmanian Tiger
Mapinguari
Ahool
Vampire Beast (Beast of Bladenboro)
Thunderbird
Ogo Pogo
Jersey Devil
Michigan Dogman/Brayroad Beast
Giant Camelspiders
Beast of Exmoore
I predict that all of them are owls.
+Armin Reindl XD
lmao even big foot is
Armin Reindl
Is it that me someone that is very skeptical and doesn’t believe in crypted, believes in Bigfoot and co. Purely because how many sightings there are and how far apart each place is from each other like Bigfoot/the Sasquatch and the Yowie (Australian big foot) America to Australia that’s too far apart
So... the giant menacing barn owl is a basking shark?
WE HAVE ONE IN HERE IN MICHIGAN...ughhh
Please do the Jersey Devil next!!!
or the chewpercabra sorry I probably butchered the spelling
+DTinaglia Studios It was a owl.
+Aidan Cantwekk he's done that
+Gerry Warner no
+valcan321 The Jersey devil's description looks more like a Pterosaur than anything else.
any monster: is seen
barn owls and basking sharks: allow us to introduce ourselves
Coming back to rewatch this after the 1 million subscriber face (and AWESOME fashion) reveal. I just keep seeing his contagious smile as I listen. It's awesome!