I like the pictorials used to keep the people straight. There were a lot and I would’ve been confused. They were also cute in a story filled with horror.
Kathleen is very talented at visual story-telling. Not many people can inject humor into a story about death, despair, dire straits, and cannibalism and still have it be in good taste!
The three guys who stayed on the island were smart no matter how you look at it. An island with fresh water, possible fish and other sea creatures and I am sure they were starting to realize what would happen if they didn’t stay.
The way the story reads i'm thinking there was nowhere enough food to sustain them all.The ones who left on the boats -insane as that is- seem to think that was a better option
Not as smart as Henry Dewitt, the man that deserted the ship in South America. My dude must've had psychic powers, lol, he got off at the perfect time!
I’m studying marine biology and I am so appreciative that you put an emphasis on how important whales are! Most people don’t realise how important they are for our survival! Also they are just so beautiful 🥰🐋
I certainly never realized how crucial they are until this video! I mean, I know EVERY creature is part of the whole and has a role to play in the overall balance, but WOW. I had no idea whale poop could be so interesting! 😆
Lest we forget, even The Partridge Family tv show (1971) and Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home (1986) made features about the importance of whales and the Earth's ecology. Here is the original "Whale Song" th-cam.com/video/4hRyKux6sug/w-d-xo.html
@@OuchingTigerLimpingDragon Fun fact: that ambergris she mentioned ...? Sometimes a whale, especially a sperm whale, would throw it up, only for some to wash up on shore. As it is used in very high end perfumes, pound for pound (well, technically troy ounce ...) that stuff is equal in value to platinum. A few Kgs of the stuff can easily fetch five figures ... in USD ...
Even when dead, whales are invauable ... Studies using beached whales that sadly died before being rescued, that have been towed out to sea, and sunk in deep water using heavy chains, have shown to support entire micro ecosystems, including hag fish, but, more importantly, two, really deap sea sharks: the six gill shark, and the even rarer sleeper shark. Even the bones can support bacteria for a decade, or more ... Look up 'whale falls' ... really fascinating stuff. Most are sunk in place, but, very rarely, a natural one is found. Hence why I think all dead whales should be towed out to sea, then sunk, because it is the equivalent of at least a decade's worth of food, in one massive 'pulse' ... and, yes, just because animals down there, a mile or so under the sea, are 'spooky/creepy', especially as the live in permanent blackness, doesn't mean they're still not an important part of our ecosystem ...
The evolution of whales is also super interesting. It’s amazing how they came from being a little dog like creature to evolve into a big whale. The transition they made is simply astonishing.
I come back to these videos often. Because even though the stories are morbid and terrifying, Caitlin tells them so well with great humour that I could listen to them dozens of times.
One of the first rules for survival if you find yourself stranded at sea: If you find land where there's food and water? Stay put! Just staying there increases your survival chances significantly.
@@gobalbucs See, though, there's a big difference between the 1800's and the modern day. Nowadays, we have technology, fast ships, helicopters, and dedicated organizations that go find people when they're lost at sea. A retired coastguard member described three separate instances, two where the parties had died and one where they survived. The survivor stuck to a single island and was recovered in a few weeks. The other two had set out on rafts, one party dead well before the coastguard got there, and the other with only a single member left barely clinging to life (who died not long after). Back in the whaling era, they may have needed to leave the island. Nowadays, you sit your ass right down on that island and stay there. Catch fish, distill water, but DO NOT LEAVE.
Yes the boat people are dumb . The three men were smarter . Choosing to go open sea is like taking a lottery . A dumb lottery . And I KNOW FOR SURE They EAT THE BLACK GUys and killed them
@@gobalbucs that’s not true . Food and water on the island can be replenished. My grand parents were island people . They catch fish and birds Caine and go but they do come because they migrate and nest there. Insects are abundant . Make an island farm. Eat the mangrove worms . sea urchins , crabs . Seaweed . Fish ,coconut,shells . Leaves and not to mention you can make shelter or house out of the trees. Distill water. Rain will come and go but it will never run out of water to distill. My island people ancestors survived because I am here born to this day so sorry YOU ARE WRONG. you will have higher survival rate on an island than in open sea . DUH
@@hauntedshadowslegacy2826 no . You stay on the island because you will still have higher chance of survival. those 3 guys survived without eating anyone. I myself come from island people and visit islands . Open sea and unknown is very risky. even ask an expert . He will tell you stay on the island . I’d rather stay on island and die peacefully than live a life full of trauma from eating MY FRIEND and some black people . Yuck 🤮 no conscience
George Pollard Jr. was said to lock himself in his house and fast every year on the anniversary of the tragedy in honor of his crew mates. He did this until he died.
@Big Daddy Unrelated to the comment chain entirely..... And weirdly rude..... And it's not demonizing whites to point out that race relations at the time led to black sailors being valued less culturally, in a broad and real sense, than their white counterparts. And animal conservation isn't strictly environmentalist, especially not in any bad way; conserving animals and other natural resources is only sensible, and avoiding cruelty to a living thing can't be a bad goal.
To my recollection, the ship was covered in excess of the whale oil they were collecting and it is theorized the whale that attacked they most likely thought it was another whale plus it was mating season.
Self preservation. They would kill a predator that kept attacking just so it would stop attacking them. Don't anthropomorphize, it's dangerous to perpetuate those ideas, even as a joke, because it projects malicious intent on an animal that isn't malicious and is just trying to survive and stay safe.
Except that‘s not what she was saying: she was saying the whale was more aggressive due to trauma but probably still mistook the ship for another whale. You know, the way trauma survivors lash out at random people.
My boyfriend and I started watching "The Midnight Gospel" on NetFlix and I got excited because he pointed out that you were one of the characters talking about death as Death in the episode when he saw your name as a credit. Ahhh I stan! 💖
I didn't enjoy the Midnight Gospel at all, he kept speaking over everyone, especially Caitlin. His guests had super interesting things to talk about but his "plot" or whatever kept interrupting the conversation. Not that the visuals were bad in the slightest, sometimes it was so captivating that I was distracted from the speaking haha. I especially disliked the futile end.
@@XxXShevampXxX Midnight Gospel is two things at once, a crazily animated show ala 'Adventure Time' but for adults; while the dialog is discussions of strange and heavy subjects taken straight from a podcast. It basically requires two viewings, that way you can enjoy both elements without stretching your attention span to the breaking point.
My great great great grandfather was on the Essex. He was Owen Chase, the first mate on the ship. We still have family on Nantucket and Tuckernuck. We’re also related to the Coffins. Man were my ancestors fucked up.
humanity in general is and was even more fucked... but at least we got cool stories out of it. thanks for sharing, chaminar killz, it's pretty crazy that there's still living ancestors!
Meh... that's just a few ppl in your bloodline. We all have those. Atleast they're your ANCESTORS & not your recent or still- embarrassing-you-relatives down the road. And heck...you got to tell us something super interesting about your family! That's pretty neat!
"You can't even get your own childhood trauma right" "It's a beautiful day to enter the bowels of hell and face your fears" If it makes you feel better I was terrified of a statue of a bee at my local museum, it was about 2 feet long, and scared the ever living crap out of me. Seeing it as an adult is still terrifying... I have no clue why because I'm not scared of bees
This isn't a museum caused fear but one time when I was at the zoo on a school field trip a baboon ran full speed and jumped on the glass right at me. For years I was terrified.
I don't exactly consider myself superstitious or anything, but it's such a strange coincidence that the whale attacked them after they set that island ablaze.
Fun fact: the whale was saved by vegetable oil. The last thing we used whale oil for was cooking. Crude oil (and it's refined product) had taken over many whale oil's niches. Cooking oil was the last thing we used it for. When vegetable oil became a thing, combined with the lack of whales to hunt, whaling became utterly unprofitable and stopped in most of the world.
Olive oil became easier to get too. I don't know if olive oil harvesting hurts any animals, but it comes from a plant at least. Palm oil is killing tigers and many ecosystems, tho.
@@DatBrasss Depends on WHICH vegetable you're getting your oil from. There are several different plants that oil can be extracted from, and I'm reasonably certain that the rapeseed oil and sunflower oil in my kitchen has not inconvenienced any orangutangs. I'm guessing you're thinking of palm oil?
I just wanna point out how the historical record of the black sailors was "they died and were eaten." And the record of the white men were these detailed accounts of their deaths, and the sorrow everyone felt.
Breaking News: old-timey men racist as hell, monocles remain firmly in place. If the Black sailors had actually received some respect or dignity in death from a predominantly white crew and society, that would have been an unusual break from the cavalcade of indignities they were subject to as second-class citizens at home and at sea. The sailors probably didn't care as much about them, and lord knows the historical record of the time was solely kept by white men.
@@leeroyholloway4277 It's not just modern sensibilities - it was the sensibilities of the black people at that time too, who were also people who would have wanted to have their lives and deaths remembered. What we consider modern sensibilities at this point is often just the viewpoints that were already held by people who weren't listened to as much before the modern days.
@@worldseawave All very good points. I suppose I am referring the tendency of many people who like to use a historic event or norm (however misguided it might have been) as a chance to shine a light on their own virtue. Thank you for replying,
Non racists were scarce at the time, even then those who weren't racist were either outcast or hid it well. It was a matter of "the nail that sticks out, gets hammered back into place", if you think social outcasts have it bad now, imagine it back then.
What's scary about a dead body? Whales are scary (sometimes) because they are so huge that they could hurt you accidentally if you ever got too close to one.
A corpse can't vibrate your internal organs by making its natural sounds. Whales are terrifying huge. Beautiful from a distance but let's keep them at that distance
Then there's my joke. There's a guy sitting at the defense table in acourtroom, wearing a shirt that says on the back, Acme Exterminating Company. The judge is a beetle, the guards are praying mantises, the jury and spectators are various insects. The judges ask the defendant, "You are charged with nine million, eight hundred and fifteen thousand, nine hundred and thirty two counts of insecticide. How do you plead?"
So, I was on a plane once, sitting next to a woman who was reading "In the heart of the sea" and I said, "Pretty weird huh, how they all become cannibals in the end." She gave me a weird look. She was reading a romance novel.
I would be embarrassed in the moment but cherish it later when sharing it with my friends lol. Or an amazing ice breaker, by the reactions you'll instantly be the cool friend . 😂
Also, save the bones to make a very sharp spear. Human dead bodies can be an extremely good source of life saving resources. The bones being hollowed after the marrow is removed make the sharp spear also drain out the blood of the speared animal or human speared to facilitate the cleaning of the slaughtered animal.
I 100% percent agree with her fears, don’t get me wrong I know you were stating a joke (a very good one). But I honestly fear both those things too 😅 Underwater caves are incredible scary to even think about and whales are massive
I read "Moby Dick" after college and before marriage and family, while I thought I was some sort of intellectual or something. It was actually a great read, given that there was no test at the end.
"and we haven't even gotten to the cannibalism yet" may just be my new favorite phrase ever. I'm going to sprinkle that into every conversation possible!
What I'm getting from this is that HP Lovecraft's depiction of the horrors of 19th and early 20th century New England fishing communities is not entirely unfounded.
The book is really intense. I used to tell my class about this incident when I taught this part of American History. It definitely holds their attention as you can imagine.
this is my first time checking out your channel. Excellent. Intriguing story, great presentation and much appreciated morbid comic relief especially when dealing with such horrific circumstances. I will be subscribing.
Read Typee, Melville's account on how he was stranded on an Island and remained a year with cannibals. A beautiful true story, and the very first book of true anthropology… Despite these people being cannibals and eternally going at war against their neighboring tribes he cannot help to admire them and love their sense of community and gentle manners.
Also, az we've learned from Caitlyn, cannibals are rarely the "Ah, yes, I'll just eat the first person I see" type, but treat it more as a ritualistic thing.
The first time I encountered Owen Coffin was the dedication to the title track of Mountain's album "Nantucket Sleighride"; a song & album I have loved since I first encountered.
My third great grandmother owned a boarding house in New Bedford near what is now the whaling museum. Her husband, my third great grandfather, had a photography business. Her boarding house became a very popular place for the elite to visit for dinner. She usually had three times as many people for dinner than she had overnight guests. Among her frequent guests were Samuel Clemons and Herman Melville. I have unpublished photos of each visiting my 3rd great grandmother for dinner. I am a huge fan of both authors. A great many people were involved in whaling. While Nantucket was a busy whaling port, New Bedford was the Whaling capital. Whaling was actually conducted throughout the New England coast. Oh and Nickerson and Chase were relatives of mine. Whaling of course is banned in most oceans but you can still see whales fairly close up by going on a whale watching tour. The best location in New England waters is Stellwagen Bank off the coast of Provincetown. I strongly recommend going on a tour based out of Provincetown. Make your reservation in advance and get into the parking lot before 7 am though as Provincetown in summer is impossible to find parking at, especially weekends. I live near a harbor in Florida now. I get the privilege of seeing whales up close almost daily from October through March every year. In warmer months I have to go out to the beach to see them which is three miles away. Little known fact: Whaling began as a result of indigenous people finding beached whales and harvesting from their corpses. This evolved into going out in crude boats to tow in dead whales floating in the water which in turn evolved in not waiting for them to die on their own. Little known fact #2: Within the last few years living whales have been discovered that were born before Herman Melville was born. He was born in 1819. One whale a few years ago was found with a harpoon stuck in it that was estimated to have been nearly 200 years old. Whales are believed to have very good memories. While there are few humans alive in the United States who remember when we had a whaling industry, many whales in the world's oceans remember when tall ships chased them and killed their friends and relatives. Despite this whales generally are gentle around humans when they have every reason not to be.
O ... surely we have to watch this again eh? One of the greatest displays of humorous chivalry EVER! Here it is... th-cam.com/video/WDlZ_SXx5gA/w-d-xo.html
And the finale... of course... Moby Dick smashes the "six-fingered whaleboat" to smithereens, (did he eat the Captain?) and leaves the whalers to their cannibal fate... (dramatic music...) th-cam.com/video/kBC5Z_bH74U/w-d-xo.html
One of the best headstones I've ever seen was that of a sailor on a whaling ship, can't remember the name or dates, sometime in the 1800's, but the epitaph read simply "whale, whale, whale, they finally got me." It was somewhere in New England, I want to say Connecticut. It makes me happy to know that people back in the day liked puns too.
There is a headstone in the old graveyard in Key West that reads: I told you I was sick! My second favorite after: Lester More, shot by a .44, no less, no more.
@@bauerhans-christian5616 boot hill that's my favorite as well. Other than one I read I think somewhere in southern California Which stated something along the lines of as you are now so once was as I am now so you will be.
I really enjoy your videos. They have made me unafraid of death and have helped me decide how to let my body go so that it is much easier for my loved ones. You are lovely and I thank you!
I got lucky and had a teacher who was really passionate about history, half the time we were in that class we didn’t feel like we were doing any work, just having conversations about the subject.
Yeah I wish schools would teach more real history like these moments that are lost to hearing about topographic maps, and landmarks, like come on we learn this every year.
I remember a Lesbian author describing Jodie Foster performance in 'Silence of the Lambs': Her : "Her kidneys aren't the only thing I wouldn't mind eating ..." Me: "Hang on ... it was a liver that Dr. Lector described eating, not kidneys ..." My brain: - that is not what she meant, yah doofus ... -- Me "Ohhhhh ... naughty ... but nice ..." Yeah, me and my brain have conversations like that ... I think I have been social isolated a tad too long ...
nigelft No doubt the "dining out" will resume with a vengeance after Covid isolation, with lesbians& men alike ordering the same delicate dish,...which surely won't be kidneys or liver nor will it require silverware.🤗
@@FGC-ku4ez Yes, and the historical record should show a dramatic spike in CO2 levels and a shortage of O2 when the whale population was almost completely decimated due to Phytoplankton dying off due to not having enough whale shit to munch on... If they could have eaten bullshit in stead , this video could have fed the oceans for years...
A funny thing about Moby Dick is that it starts with the sentence : "Call me Ishmael". I once wrote that into a word processor (I think it was MS Word), and the spell-checker 'corrected' it to "Call me fish-meal" - which seemed humorously appropriate, given the subject of the story.
Can you imagine being the ships coming across these guys?? The sea is scary enough without bringing "live skeletons sucking the marrow out of their dead crewmates" aboard.
I'm surprised they took them in and didn't kill those guys. I imagine them to look like zombies or ghosts and during the time, people did believe those things existed.
This always happened with shipwreaked crew's. With the British Navy " the men would draw straws in the evening " and upon sunrise " if there was no ship sighted , then the crew mate would be sacrificed . sailors eating their crew mate's is nothing new ...
@JLE8811 no, they went on hiatus, there's a couple newer videos, and I think maybe some content available to members. Sounds like they have some big things they've been working on, hopefully coming soon
Lessons learned: - whale poop will save us all - Pollard needed to grow a shiny new spine - of course the black men all died first . . . :/ - when it doubt, stay on the freaking Henderson Island. Where there's water and shade, if nothing else
Yeah I did not understand that at all period even if there were no longer any birds or eggs to eat they could have fished and with a water source they could have stayed there as long as necessary
@@kens97sto171 Not very resourceful, were they? I think they were more afraid than anything else. And since they had to be strong to sail, you'd think they would be able to climb palms for coconuts or other edible fruits. Weren't there pineapples and bananas in those parts?
Great presentation, thank you for sharing. Great details. Everyone stay safe, warm, happy and healthy. From Henrico County Virginia. From Henrico County Virginia
@@RickaramaTrama-lc1ys why would anyone deserve to go through the trauma of starvin n eating their dead lads amidst a water desert? Those folks were just doin what they could to get a little bit o money! Not that I dont think the whales were havin a walk on the park, but desirin something so devilish upon human beings is a whole nother level of hypocrisy
I honestly feel bad for Thomas Nickerson. He was only 14 years old when he had to endure the trauma of watching his fellow crew members starve, die, and cannibalize one of the men. I don't know the logistics of a teen in a starvation situation but I genuinely thought Thomas would die. Still that poor kid.
This is on a par with the la dam fail where they had boy scouts marking the sights of bodys located with white flags ,only found out about this today , those poor kids having to live with that memory the rest of their lives .lol
Ahhh... that explains a lot! As a decendant of Capt. George Pollard (totally unaware of the cannibal thing thank you) and as a decendant of a survivor of the later ill fated Donner party I'm beginning to think it's best to go camping alone. 😅 Loved your video. It was enlightening to say the least. 🎉👍
I wonder if in severe rabbit starvation cases if refeeding syndrome is a problem. It is for more traditional starvation recovery, a potentially fatal problem.
@@ShavaChihera goat and lamb are inexpensive in some parts of the world as well and are quite lean and tasty. If it isn't moving, I eat it. If it's moving, I get a bite on the run. Moooooooooooooooooo!!! Maybe that bull was a bad idea... ;)
Honestly Pollard didn't end up so bad, he was known to be a friendly, jolly guy on Nantucket, relatively well liked and seemed to enjoy his night watchman gig, apparently he even ended up acting as a kind of detective on the island. Every year on the anniversary of the sinking he'd lock himself in his house and fast for the day
Wow. What an amazing video and so well done. You do such an amazing job. I was transfixed by the whole thing. Your delivery and production is delicious! Marvelous job. Thank you for doing this and educating and entertaining us. Instruction and delight, indeed!
Where were they supposed to bury him? Burial at sea was the norm, they couldn't very well have a rotting body onboard for weeks or months. Also, if you know you are dying, you probably won't be too concerned with food.
It's really not that far-fetched to believe that he'd rather he died than possibly suffer on for a few more days before inevitably dying anyway. At this point we can't really tell.
Caitlin, I know you've already talked about cannibalism in this video, but I hope you make a video about the uruguayan students stranded in the Andes in 1972. You briefly mentioned it in the Donner party video, but I think there's a lot more to say about it and it is all very well documented. As a Uruguayan I can tell you it forever changed the way we face the idea of survival cannibalism. I recommend the documentary "Stranded", by the BBC. Love your content!
I read the book Alive when I was in the fifth grade. My teacher understood my dark fascination after a few creative writing stories I wrote raised eyebrows. Interesting fact: my school banned Little Red Riding Hood from the library the same year.
Thank you so much for your content! Love it!! Also, love that you gave a shoutout to my hometown as one of the places you used to transport bodies to/from yay!! 🎉
@@michaelmiller9107 Are you a vegetarian..if not do you kill or do you have someone murder for you? Those whales lived lives of freedom till that fateful day. How's was the quality of life for the animals that you eat?
@@michaelmiller9107 Mmmm, yes. I, too, relish on the misery of people who had no way to fathom the impact the industry they worked in would have 150+ years in the future . There was a 14 year old _kid_ among them. Did he really deserve that? Don't get me wrong, it's horrible that whaling even existed in the first place, but to think of people that probably didn't know any better and endured terrible conditions in the open ocean just to make a living, deserve tragedy and trauma, is just as inhumane to me.
I’ve watched her since I was like 14, and she influenced me to go to mortuary school. I’m going to start at PIMS next year, and I’m currently working as a funeral attendant ♥️
Good for you!!! I'm going to school for it☺️ I've been wanting to work in the funeral field since I was 13 (I'm nearly 31), it's always been a dream of mine! Originally, I wanted to study to become a medical examiner, though. I feel like being a mortician is more reachable. It takes 12-14 years to become a medical examiner. That's so much schooling!
Definitely a tragic tale for all involved. They really should've listened to Captain Pollard. He wanted to go back to get more boats in the beginning and the first mate disagreed. He wanted to go to the Society Islands and the same thing happened. He really should've put his foot down. At least eight survived! I can't imagine the trauma they had to live with afterwards. Excellent visuals and presentation!
@@SitaraAleu Likely a different country's mission. Also, note that no one really hunted in the Offshore Ground. But yeah, it's almost borderline fucking COMEDIC that Owen Chase went on to have a successful career when his bad advice got them into this mess.
There was a margarine factory up until 1999 right next to where my apartment is now. Back in 1960s, some journalists unearthed a story about how the factory made margarine from all kinds of fats available, including corpses of horses and stray cats. In Finnish, a colloquial for for a cat is 'katti'. The name of the factory was 'Paasivaara', or 'Boulder hill'. But the word 'vaara' also means 'danger' in addition to meaning 'hill'. And to this day, in the Finnish language Donald Duck magazine, Donald works at the margarine factory of 'Kattivaara' ('cat hill' -- or 'cat danger').
@@biothehaz4rd Did you hear anything, yet? Is Dee still alive? Is anyone responding? Where is everybody? Where am I? Who am I? I'm blubbering, forgive me.
Sit right back and you'll hear a tale a tale of a fateful trip. That started from Nantucket shores aboard the small Essex. (sound of thunderclap) A white whale started getting rough the Essex got tossed If it wasn't for the turtles and the hard baked bread All food would be lost All food would be lost The crew set sail on the water of uncharted open sea. Where they were rescued one fine day, But many would starve many would be ate.
How many times do humans have to be told not to F**K with nature. The fact is that us humans are earth's parasites and just messing this planet and its animals up but we will pay dearly and then it would be too late. The Covid19 pandemic is just a taste of what nature has in store for us as Karma is surely a bitch.
I learned from this video that if I ever end up in a situation where I have to eat othe people to survive I should always eat the bone marrow. I hope I will never need that knowledge...
@@middleC17 I was thinking it too lol. But because I was thinking about what parts would be best if you had to just eat like a moose or something stuck in the woods or whatever. You'd wanna go for the most nutritionally dense bits, with an animal you'd probably wanna be eating liver and brain too, but uh... Those things are probably gonna kill you from a human, so I guess marrow it is.
@@bryntendo polar bear liver can kill you because of the vitamin A, and human brain can give you kuru, but human liver is fine, and kuru is only a problem if the brain is already infected, and it takes ages to manifest anyway, so short term you would be fine
"When killing to survive, it's easiest to kill whatever and whomever you are least attached to, cattle before horses, dogs before people, strangers before acquaintances, acquaintances before friends, friends before family." -Daniel James Brown.
@@newprojects7847 Remember the part about whaling oil jump-starting the industrial revolution. Plus, they seriously did not consider that whales were in danger of being over hunted at that time. Even "Moby Dick" tries to prove that the population of whales is not affected by whaling.
read it a 3rd time as a 50 year old. immersed myself over an entire summer. Took the time to research all the references he made. Mind completely blown. Melville is one of the great geniuses in human history. Cant believe the audio is only 22 hours. BTW - The sharks were not "waiting". They attacked the sailors standing on the whale carving it up. Imagine standing on a piece of floating whale meat in the middle of a shark feeding frenzy fighting against time and 100 sharks ripping your whale raft to shreds as you try to carve up pieces and tie them to a rope to be hauled on board the ship.
Actually it was their own stupid choices that destroyed their lives. Nobody in those times ever heard the word "ecosystem" and none of their contemporaries thought of anything in the natural world as anything except something to be used up for human purposes. You're trying to apply modern concepts to a past where they simply did not exist and render unfair judgements. Undertaking years-long dangerous journeys half-way around the world when alternatives to whale-oil lamps is a horse of a different color and that's just plain *stupid.*
El Bearsidente - Most people understand that “Mother Nature” is just a figure of speech used to personify natural phenomena rather than an actual being. It’s kind of like referring to the ocean as a “she,” which is exactly what you did in your next comment.
David Morris They ALL had names, she put them up and said it multiple times.. Did I hear wrong or are you joking around and or being sarcastic? Sorry just asking..
On one hand, Tahiti didn't AFAIK practice cannibalism to the same extent as the rest of Polynesia. On the other, given the diseases the whales brought to Tahiti, maybe it was for the best.
That's what I was thinking when the one sailor got off in Ecuador. He might have seen that the leader was weak, and out in the open sea that spells danger nowadays nevermind back then.
@Jacquan Brown The irony, though, is that cannibalism was historically commonplace in Europe during times of war and famine. We might end up seeing an uptick on food shortages in the next few decades over there as well as other places not on the innovative-farming side of things (no, I'm not referring to Africa, simply because of the fact that they're one of the leaders of farming innovation as a whole.)
While searching for “Tiny Healthy Houses,” Your channel was recommended! I really enjoyed your whale 🐳 of a Tale 📚, but I am beginning sense the algorithm which led me to you is paranormally skewed by haunted coders? 😜
At 69 I have watched A LOT of documentaries - I just love them, finding the REAL story so much more interesting than a Hollywood version. After watching this fantastic video I immediately watched two more and have no doubt I will watch all of her documentaries. Bravo to a team who has the ability to make any subject matter exciting and endlessly fascinating.
About fifteen years ago I met a young women whose great, great, great (maybe a fourth great in there) grandfather was one of the Essex's survivors, Owen Chase. His story is still told in her family, including his keeping extra food in the house so he wouldn't run out. I guess there's no easy way to put that kind of experience behind you.
fun fact, animal fat is super important to your daily consumption. Especially if you're trying to lose weight and trim those muscles. Fat and animal protein satisfies a calorie content the body needs, that cannot be obtained through a purely vegetarian diet. Like our dear mortician lady said, it makes the meat happy
@@StoicVeR Vegan diets exclude animal fat and protein and so are very difficult. However, vegetarian ("lacto-vegetarian") diets do include ample animal protein and fat, from milk products. So there's no problem staying strong and healthy on a traditional vegetarian diet.
It would be awesome if it were only part of history.. Unfortunately whaling still goes on today. And it's not much different from the painful way the poor beings died then.
@Milena Shvedova They don't have intelligence on par with a human. Though compared to all other animals, whales are probably the smartest ocean animals aside from Octopuses.
Now that's the ultimate horror story and very well done. Your back catalog of videos always bring me back and they are so well done, I especially like your video of lake superior, thanks for posting and always look forward to another history lesson.
I thought it was a real album why you gotta mislead me like this :((( If you want country metal go listen to Killdozer: “God hears pleas of the innocent” “Twelve point buck” “Uncompromising war on art under the dictatorship of the proletariat” “Intellectuals are the shoeshine boys of the ruling elite” (Great albums go listen. Archers of Loaf the Speed of Cattle is some good faux country sludge)
Having a tortoise myself, I feel so bad for those little (or really not so little) guys. They're such gentle animals, they can seem "chill" when they're actually very frightened or actively suffering. They didn't have food, the habitat they needed, or the surprisingly involved care turtles/torties need to be healthy and happy.
First time on your channel. Your narratives are wonderful and your personality is adorable! The ‘Betty Page’ haircut suits you. Thanks for the education and chuckles.
"It's bad luck to kill a whale, for every whale has a soul of womens that died at sea" The lighthouse movie refrence. Whale, got shot: I need to speak to the Captain! >:(
“Go back to Nantucket for repairs? No way! The Society Islands?! There’s cannibals there! Much better to keep going out onto the open ocean with limited food and supplies.” Good old Owen Chase, just full of great advice for an indecisive captain to rely on . Seriously, man -Owen Chase is canceled.
The whale may have witnessed them murdering his family and decided to seek revenge. They are very intelligent creatures, live in family groups, and process loss much like us. Most of us would have sought revenge as well.
Maybe it was accompanying his mate and (calf? whale baby?) and maybe they hurt or slaughtered the mate so he took revenge because they don't have anything else to live for. Mammals think alike.
@@strawberryshortcake8382 hate to break it to yeah, dolphins, orcas, and other intelligent animals are the same. Dolphins rape humans, gang up and attack sharks for no reason, attack spotted dolphins just cause they have spots (yes dolphins are racist) Orcas are just assholes, they team up and bully smaller animals just cause they can. So no, humans aren't the fucking worst, get over it
@@Breached18 yeah but whales don't wage war with each other over even what is essentially nothing humans do so yeah in that regard whales hell even all other non arthropod animals are better than humans because unlike us they don't fight each other for pretty much no reason we humans can wage war upon each other for the stupidest reasons and even drag animals who wouldn't even be there otherwise into our conflicts so yeah because of that we're the real assholes when animals do those sort of things even if they're intelligent it's still only out of instinct for us it's not even instinct driving us it's just our own agendas or something like that instinct is hardly ever truly involved
@UCWdEjXva8ja9X67tVha2V-Q I'm not saying humans are useless by any means in fact we are capable of pretty amazing things like you said but sometimes a good bit of the effort put into that stuff can be put on hold for an undeterminable amount of time because humans are pretty much at each other's throats almost all the time and even when a war is finally over and there is finally peace that peace can only last for so long before another war starts and the whole mess caused by humans fighting each other starts up all over again we may try to deny it but war is so deeply rooted in human nature that it has pretty much become a part of our culture and for some people even a way of life
Girl you are absolutely the best I read the original the language took a while to get thru about 55 years ago You have another fan Keep up keeping up Daniel S😊
I like the pictorials used to keep the people straight. There were a lot and I would’ve been confused. They were also cute in a story filled with horror.
"Cute in a story filled with horror" is going to be the title I put on my next personal journal.
Look out Edward Gordy. The illustrations were great!
I was so scared for that smiling kid.
@@Donteatacowman Especially when he could have been such a tasty morsel! :-0
Kathleen is very talented at visual story-telling. Not many people can inject humor into a story about death, despair, dire straits, and cannibalism and still have it be in good taste!
The three guys who stayed on the island were smart no matter how you look at it. An island with fresh water, possible fish and other sea creatures and I am sure they were starting to realize what would happen if they didn’t stay.
The way the story reads i'm thinking there was nowhere enough food to sustain them all.The ones who left on the boats -insane as that is- seem to think that was a better option
Not as smart as Henry Dewitt, the man that deserted the ship in South America. My dude must've had psychic powers, lol, he got off at the perfect time!
What happened to Henry Dewitt?
Stranded on an island with two strong, virile sailors...
@@aquariandawn4750 yummy
I’m studying marine biology and I am so appreciative that you put an emphasis on how important whales are! Most people don’t realise how important they are for our survival! Also they are just so beautiful 🥰🐋
I certainly never realized how crucial they are until this video! I mean, I know EVERY creature is part of the whole and has a role to play in the overall balance, but WOW. I had no idea whale poop could be so interesting! 😆
Lest we forget, even The Partridge Family tv show (1971) and Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home (1986) made features about the importance of whales and the Earth's ecology. Here is the original "Whale Song" th-cam.com/video/4hRyKux6sug/w-d-xo.html
@@OuchingTigerLimpingDragon
Fun fact: that ambergris she mentioned ...? Sometimes a whale, especially a sperm whale, would throw it up, only for some to wash up on shore. As it is used in very high end perfumes, pound for pound (well, technically troy ounce ...) that stuff is equal in value to platinum. A few Kgs of the stuff can easily fetch five figures ... in USD ...
Even when dead, whales are invauable ...
Studies using beached whales that sadly died before being rescued, that have been towed out to sea, and sunk in deep water using heavy chains, have shown to support entire micro ecosystems, including hag fish, but, more importantly, two, really deap sea sharks: the six gill shark, and the even rarer sleeper shark. Even the bones can support bacteria for a decade, or more ...
Look up 'whale falls' ... really fascinating stuff. Most are sunk in place, but, very rarely, a natural one is found. Hence why I think all dead whales should be towed out to sea, then sunk, because it is the equivalent of at least a decade's worth of food, in one massive 'pulse' ... and, yes, just because animals down there, a mile or so under the sea, are 'spooky/creepy', especially as the live in permanent blackness, doesn't mean they're still not an important part of our ecosystem ...
The evolution of whales is also super interesting. It’s amazing how they came from being a little dog like creature to evolve into a big whale. The transition they made is simply astonishing.
I come back to these videos often. Because even though the stories are morbid and terrifying, Caitlin tells them so well with great humour that I could listen to them dozens of times.
Saaaaaame I've seen the Linda Hazard video like 15 times
I put this one on to put myself to sleep more times than I'd like to admit, too.
Me too
Dec. 24, 2024
I'm back for the billionth time 😂😂 when it's good it good 👍
Now to go watch her episode of Midnight Gospel ☺️ again 😊
One of the first rules for survival if you find yourself stranded at sea: If you find land where there's food and water? Stay put! Just staying there increases your survival chances significantly.
The food and water ran out-that was the problem, and that was why those three boats left to begin with.
@@gobalbucs See, though, there's a big difference between the 1800's and the modern day. Nowadays, we have technology, fast ships, helicopters, and dedicated organizations that go find people when they're lost at sea. A retired coastguard member described three separate instances, two where the parties had died and one where they survived. The survivor stuck to a single island and was recovered in a few weeks. The other two had set out on rafts, one party dead well before the coastguard got there, and the other with only a single member left barely clinging to life (who died not long after). Back in the whaling era, they may have needed to leave the island. Nowadays, you sit your ass right down on that island and stay there. Catch fish, distill water, but DO NOT LEAVE.
Yes the boat people are dumb . The three men were smarter . Choosing to go open sea is like taking a lottery . A dumb lottery . And I KNOW FOR SURE They EAT THE BLACK GUys and killed them
@@gobalbucs that’s not true . Food and water on the island can be replenished. My grand parents were island people . They catch fish and birds Caine and go but they do come because they migrate and nest there. Insects are abundant . Make an island farm. Eat the mangrove worms . sea urchins , crabs . Seaweed . Fish ,coconut,shells . Leaves and not to mention you can make shelter or house out of the trees. Distill water. Rain will come and go but it will never run out of water to distill. My island people ancestors survived because I am here born to this day so sorry YOU ARE WRONG. you will have higher survival rate on an island than in open sea . DUH
@@hauntedshadowslegacy2826 no . You stay on the island because you will still have higher chance of survival. those 3 guys survived without eating anyone. I myself come from island people and visit islands . Open sea and unknown is very risky. even ask an expert . He will tell you stay on the island . I’d rather stay on island and die peacefully than live a life full of trauma from eating MY FRIEND and some black people . Yuck 🤮 no conscience
George Pollard Jr. was said to lock himself in his house and fast every year on the anniversary of the tragedy in honor of his crew mates. He did this until he died.
I wonder what day the anniversary was... Since this takes place over a few months
@@StonedtotheBones13 probably the day it sunk, if I had to guess. Or maybe the day they came back home. Good question tho🤔
@@StonedtotheBones13 11/20 according to Wiki
@Big Daddy idk why you're telling me I didn't make the video
@Big Daddy Unrelated to the comment chain entirely..... And weirdly rude..... And it's not demonizing whites to point out that race relations at the time led to black sailors being valued less culturally, in a broad and real sense, than their white counterparts. And animal conservation isn't strictly environmentalist, especially not in any bad way; conserving animals and other natural resources is only sensible, and avoiding cruelty to a living thing can't be a bad goal.
I thought the story was interestimg and well told the humor was outstanding.I'm black 77 years old and injoyed every minute,Gus Jenkins!
Gus Jenkins!
Are you related to leeroy
Glad you enjoyed, Gus Jenkins!
Ditto~!!!
Bro my names Gus no way
To my recollection, the ship was covered in excess of the whale oil they were collecting and it is theorized the whale that attacked they most likely thought it was another whale plus it was mating season.
Nah. Sperm whales and orcas can have vendettas. Orcas are still taking out boats
@@Old-Thunder69 What vendetta did Moby have?? They killed his kind?
Killed em' en masse.
I reckon they're smarter than that. They know what a whale is and what isn't.
@@DemstarAus But with the ship covered in Whale oil it smelled like a competing whale and he didn't swim up to check it out he just attacked.
I wasn't even that entirely grossed out by the cannibalism thing until I realized they didn't have fires and had to eat them raw.
evan atchison, Well, at least they had some salt, for seasoning ya know!
You are so right because uncooked human flesh is disgusting
how do u know
The meat was heated on flatstones, basically cooked in the sun. They did cook the meat before eating it.
...Oh, shit...
“Tortoises are flying everywhere.” Aw man, I hate when that happens.
Man, that sucks. Lost three tortoises that way...
That may have been a screensaver I saw at CompUSA.
Who knew Super Mario Brothers was inspired by Moby Dick?
She is so hilarious!
PLEASE COME TO ROCHESTER New York!!!!!!!! The Kodak theater! (Once covid is over of course) PLEASE!!!!!!
I want “and we haven’t even gotten to the cannibalism yet!” on a t-shirt.
I bought my brother one in the same vein that said "It's all fun and games until somebody gets sacrificed to Satan."
OMG YESSS!!!!
That'd be perfect for me at kindergarten drop off next year. 🤭
I'd buy it tbh
Yes yes yes yes!!!!
"it wasnt whale revenge, it was a whale that was pissed at all the random slaughter of its family"
Sounds like whale revenge to me bud.
Self preservation. They would kill a predator that kept attacking just so it would stop attacking them. Don't anthropomorphize, it's dangerous to perpetuate those ideas, even as a joke, because it projects malicious intent on an animal that isn't malicious and is just trying to survive and stay safe.
If that ain’t revenge idk what is
Much deserved revenge from the point of view of the whales 🐳
Except that‘s not what she was saying: she was saying the whale was more aggressive due to trauma but probably still mistook the ship for another whale. You know, the way trauma survivors lash out at random people.
@@raylast3873 sounds like whale revenge to me boss 🤷♂️
My boyfriend and I started watching "The Midnight Gospel" on NetFlix and I got excited because he pointed out that you were one of the characters talking about death as Death in the episode when he saw your name as a credit. Ahhh I stan! 💖
I instantly recognized her voice in that episode aswell. A surprise, but a welcome one to be sure.
Her episode is my fave
I didn't enjoy the Midnight Gospel at all, he kept speaking over everyone, especially Caitlin. His guests had super interesting things to talk about but his "plot" or whatever kept interrupting the conversation. Not that the visuals were bad in the slightest, sometimes it was so captivating that I was distracted from the speaking haha. I especially disliked the futile end.
I've never heard of "The Midnight Gospel". Probably because I'm bout fed up with Netflix and haven't used it in a while. Is it interesting?
@@XxXShevampXxX Midnight Gospel is two things at once, a crazily animated show ala 'Adventure Time' but for adults; while the dialog is discussions of strange and heavy subjects taken straight from a podcast.
It basically requires two viewings, that way you can enjoy both elements without stretching your attention span to the breaking point.
My great great great grandfather was on the Essex. He was Owen Chase, the first mate on the ship. We still have family on Nantucket and Tuckernuck. We’re also related to the Coffins. Man were my ancestors fucked up.
Yeah, most if not all ancestors of modern man are fucked.
humanity in general is and was even more fucked... but at least we got cool stories out of it. thanks for sharing, chaminar killz, it's pretty crazy that there's still living ancestors!
I give the average person 2 steps from crazy in their family tree
Meh... that's just a few ppl in your bloodline. We all have those. Atleast they're your ANCESTORS & not your recent or still- embarrassing-you-relatives down the road. And heck...you got to tell us something super interesting about your family! That's pretty neat!
Dolly Madison Agreed!!
"You can't even get your own childhood trauma right"
"It's a beautiful day to enter the bowels of hell and face your fears"
If it makes you feel better I was terrified of a statue of a bee at my local museum, it was about 2 feet long, and scared the ever living crap out of me.
Seeing it as an adult is still terrifying... I have no clue why because I'm not scared of bees
THE GIANT MOTH MODEL AT THE PEABODY MUSEUM. I'D FORGOTTEN ABOUT THAT. Ugh, I refused to even walk under it, it gave me the creeps.
There was a giant squid replica statue hanging above the sea exhibit at the Ventura County Natural museum that still freaks me out.
To be fair to you- I’m not afraid of a normal sized bee but would probably be scared of a 2 foot bee.
This isn't a museum caused fear but one time when I was at the zoo on a school field trip a baboon ran full speed and jumped on the glass right at me. For years I was terrified.
My museum childhood fear was an old diver with the big bulbous headgear model.
I don't exactly consider myself superstitious or anything, but it's such a strange coincidence that the whale attacked them after they set that island ablaze.
Caitlin's 'Cool Aunt' vibe is real strong in this video, and I'm loving it.
Have you watched PushingUpRoses? She has big cool aunt energy too.
Fun fact: the whale was saved by vegetable oil.
The last thing we used whale oil for was cooking. Crude oil (and it's refined product) had taken over many whale oil's niches. Cooking oil was the last thing we used it for. When vegetable oil became a thing, combined with the lack of whales to hunt, whaling became utterly unprofitable and stopped in most of the world.
Unfortunately, vegetable oil is killing the orangutan.
expect Japan
And Iceland
Olive oil became easier to get too. I don't know if olive oil harvesting hurts any animals, but it comes from a plant at least. Palm oil is killing tigers and many ecosystems, tho.
@@DatBrasss Depends on WHICH vegetable you're getting your oil from. There are several different plants that oil can be extracted from, and I'm reasonably certain that the rapeseed oil and sunflower oil in my kitchen has not inconvenienced any orangutangs. I'm guessing you're thinking of palm oil?
I just wanna point out how the historical record of the black sailors was "they died and were eaten." And the record of the white men were these detailed accounts of their deaths, and the sorrow everyone felt.
Breaking News: old-timey men racist as hell, monocles remain firmly in place. If the Black sailors had actually received some respect or dignity in death from a predominantly white crew and society, that would have been an unusual break from the cavalcade of indignities they were subject to as second-class citizens at home and at sea. The sailors probably didn't care as much about them, and lord knows the historical record of the time was solely kept by white men.
@@leeroyholloway4277 It's not just modern sensibilities - it was the sensibilities of the black people at that time too, who were also people who would have wanted to have their lives and deaths remembered. What we consider modern sensibilities at this point is often just the viewpoints that were already held by people who weren't listened to as much before the modern days.
@@worldseawave All very good points. I suppose I am referring the tendency of many people who like to use a historic event or norm (however misguided it might have been) as a chance to shine a light on their own virtue. Thank you for replying,
Non racists were scarce at the time, even then those who weren't racist were either outcast or hid it well. It was a matter of "the nail that sticks out, gets hammered back into place", if you think social outcasts have it bad now, imagine it back then.
@@leeroyholloway4277 exactly
love that she's afraid of whales but casually drive a body across the country by herself 😂
What's scary about a dead body? Whales are scary (sometimes) because they are so huge that they could hurt you accidentally if you ever got too close to one.
Dead people don’t have a 20 ton tail that can kill you 😂
A corpse ain't gonna drag you to the depths
A corpse can't vibrate your internal organs by making its natural sounds. Whales are terrifying huge. Beautiful from a distance but let's keep them at that distance
a dead body doesn't have an absolutely terrifying call.
”Obviously, when someone *harpoons* you, you don’t stick around.” Truer words have rarely been spoken.
Well, you DO ... STICK around.
@@ownpetard8379 Like when someone points a crossbow towards you:
*You bolt* 🤣
@@bjoardar You may or may not bolt, but you are very likely to be cross.
😏😏😏
I mean, we can't argue with her there can we?
your honor, the whale would like to plead self defense
th-cam.com/video/yV-efQUNCAc/w-d-xo.html
Prosecutor: "Goddamit!! They got us!"
Or insanity from witnessing several of their species being killed off. 🤷🏼♀️ Either way I think we can plead 'Not guilty'.
PLS
Then there's my joke. There's a guy sitting at the defense table in acourtroom, wearing a shirt that says on the back, Acme Exterminating Company. The judge is a beetle, the guards are praying mantises, the jury and spectators are various insects. The judges ask the defendant, "You are charged with nine million, eight hundred and fifteen thousand, nine hundred and thirty two counts of insecticide. How do you plead?"
Caitlin- I'm terrified of whales
Also Caitlin- Save the whales!
Also also Caitlin- Listen to this awesome, horrifying tale of whaling!
A true queen.
Proving once more that just because you are afraid of something, doesn’t mean you should kill it/get rid of it. True queen indeed ❤️
Like Drag queen? Or actual queen?
Take the whalepill
she'll make a fine politician
@@Gatsu_Gambinodoes it matter?
I been putting off watching this video for more than a year now. I'm glad I came back to it. Caitlin your work is second to none!
So, I was on a plane once, sitting next to a woman who was reading "In the heart of the sea" and I said, "Pretty weird huh, how they all become cannibals in the end."
She gave me a weird look.
She was reading a romance novel.
🤣🤣
I would be embarrassed in the moment but cherish it later when sharing it with my friends lol. Or an amazing ice breaker, by the reactions you'll instantly be the cool friend . 😂
*Pffft* You should've said, "I'm sorry. That happens in the sequel."
Well, in novels like that they do often eat each other, in a sense.
Yeah, Twilight....
What I learned today: when eating a starved man, crack the bones open and eat the marrow.
Also, save the bones to make a very sharp spear. Human dead bodies can be an extremely good source of life saving resources. The bones being hollowed after the marrow is removed make the sharp spear also drain out the blood of the speared animal or human speared to facilitate the cleaning of the slaughtered animal.
Don’t forget the Brain, it’s mostly fat.
@jason mcallister whalers. and I doubt they had tackle for fishing.
@jason mcallister Worse, many of them did not know how to swim.
Useful knowledge. Ya never know.
Things Caitlin is afraid of:
- Underwater Caves
- Whales
I'm sensing a pattern
I 100% percent agree with her fears, don’t get me wrong I know you were stating a joke (a very good one). But I honestly fear both those things too 😅
Underwater caves are incredible scary to even think about and whales are massive
Whitney S Cthulhu!
Ahh, thalassophobia!
just wait until you hear about whales that live in underwater caves!
Me toooooo
I read "Moby Dick" after college and before marriage and family, while I thought I was some sort of intellectual or something. It was actually a great read, given that there was no test at the end.
I know I read it in school but barely remember it
"and we haven't even gotten to the cannibalism yet" may just be my new favorite phrase ever. I'm going to sprinkle that into every conversation possible!
"Speaking of cannibalism... 😉" shall be mine!
As you should.
I want it on a shirt 😂
@@m.l.t.6568 Speaking of cannibalism, what did you eat for lunch 😂😂
What I'm getting from this is that HP Lovecraft's depiction of the horrors of 19th and early 20th century New England fishing communities is not entirely unfounded.
You can be both paranoid and right sometimes it seems
hey_there And extremely racist. **aggressively sips tea**
@@SourEggz that too. I was trying to ignore the huge elephant in the room
@@alekandhisdogs Agree. Grew up in New England.
Not just Lovecraft. A whole English class of New England writers found inspiration in all the strangeness, all the way up to Stephen King.
“Have you thanked your whale poop today” *party air horn*
Air horn? That's a whale fart!
Love Caitlyn...so damn funny😂
That and "Mocha Dick!" had me rollin 😂
I love the sound effects for when someone dies on the boat... lmao
"Tortises are flying around". I have never heard, and do not ever expect to hear, this particular sentence again.
I guess you don’t play Super Mario Bros? There are flying tortoises all over the place.
@@lakeireland Mystery solved.
she's afraid of whales, but is raising funds to help them, respect to you :D
Keep your friends close and your enemies closer I guess
@@pninasimmer5723 hmmm is dat breaking bad reference???
She's afraid of revenge whales knocking her door.
What have you done for whales?
Fear and respect are often found together
There's a movie from 2015 called "In the heart of the Sea" where some of these events were accurately depicted (including the cannibalism part)
And Chris Hemsworth, aka Thor, played Owen Chase.
Which was based on a book! By Nathaniel Philbrick
Any streaming services that have it?
The book is really intense. I used to tell my class about this incident when I taught this part of American History. It definitely holds their attention as you can imagine.
@@renworksfornow Just checked, apparently it's on Netflix, but it might be relevant to your geographic zone
this is my first time checking out your channel. Excellent. Intriguing story, great presentation and much appreciated morbid comic relief especially when dealing with such horrific circumstances. I will be subscribing.
The irony is they avoided safe havens because they FEARED cannibalism.
The captain should really have stopped listening to that idiot....
To be fair, back then cannibalism was often the topic of horror stories and was the stuff of nightmares to sailors.
-Irony joins the chat...-
kinda contradicted less than minute later 18:10 if they're just hoping to get somewhere picking a target isn't really meaningful
Good call. Hypocrisy at it's finest
I loved this longer form. It really felt like you were taking us along for the story and I was totally enthralled. Thanks so much Caitlin!
You said exactly what I was feeling/thinking, but much better than I could have said it. She's definitely an excellent storyteller!!
"Better to sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunk Christian." Herman Melville, Moby-Dick
He probably knew both in real life.
Never slept with a cannibal but I have slept with a few drunk Christian ladies and I can say I've never had a bad time with the Christian ladies
There's an island called Sentinelese to remove all doubt. Have a safe trip.
Read Typee, Melville's account on how he was stranded on an Island and remained a year with cannibals.
A beautiful true story, and the very first book of true anthropology…
Despite these people being cannibals and eternally going at war against their neighboring tribes he cannot help to admire them and love their sense of community and gentle manners.
Also, az we've learned from Caitlyn, cannibals are rarely the "Ah, yes, I'll just eat the first person I see" type, but treat it more as a ritualistic thing.
@@maxotto9877 oh but your version of "morality" is the correct one I suppose? 🙄
The first time I encountered Owen Coffin was the dedication to the title track of Mountain's album "Nantucket Sleighride"; a song & album I have loved since I first encountered.
My third great grandmother owned a boarding house in New Bedford near what is now the whaling museum. Her husband, my third great grandfather, had a photography business. Her boarding house became a very popular place for the elite to visit for dinner. She usually had three times as many people for dinner than she had overnight guests. Among her frequent guests were Samuel Clemons and Herman Melville. I have unpublished photos of each visiting my 3rd great grandmother for dinner. I am a huge fan of both authors. A great many people were involved in whaling. While Nantucket was a busy whaling port, New Bedford was the Whaling capital. Whaling was actually conducted throughout the New England coast. Oh and Nickerson and Chase were relatives of mine.
Whaling of course is banned in most oceans but you can still see whales fairly close up by going on a whale watching tour. The best location in New England waters is Stellwagen Bank off the coast of Provincetown. I strongly recommend going on a tour based out of Provincetown. Make your reservation in advance and get into the parking lot before 7 am though as Provincetown in summer is impossible to find parking at, especially weekends.
I live near a harbor in Florida now. I get the privilege of seeing whales up close almost daily from October through March every year. In warmer months I have to go out to the beach to see them which is three miles away.
Little known fact:
Whaling began as a result of indigenous people finding beached whales and harvesting from their corpses. This evolved into going out in crude boats to tow in dead whales floating in the water which in turn evolved in not waiting for them to die on their own.
Little known fact #2:
Within the last few years living whales have been discovered that were born before Herman Melville was born. He was born in 1819. One whale a few years ago was found with a harpoon stuck in it that was estimated to have been nearly 200 years old. Whales are believed to have very good memories. While there are few humans alive in the United States who remember when we had a whaling industry, many whales in the world's oceans remember when tall ships chased them and killed their friends and relatives. Despite this whales generally are gentle around humans when they have every reason not to be.
I’m from New Bedford mass! I went to New Bedford high where our mascot was a whaler 😂
Amazing post, thank you for sharing.
So cool! Thanks for sharing!
Amazing information. Thank you for taking the time to add all this. I had no idea that whales could live so long, nor be id'ed at being that old.
@@keekmiranda BOOO! Hilltoppers all the way!
16:31 Why do I feel like the whale was thinking “ my name is indigo Montoya , you killed my family. Prepare to die”
HAHAHAHA!!! ilmao! Wonderful observation. Ain't it so!?!
😂😂
Literal lol
O ... surely we have to watch this again eh? One of the greatest displays of humorous chivalry EVER! Here it is... th-cam.com/video/WDlZ_SXx5gA/w-d-xo.html
And the finale... of course... Moby Dick smashes the "six-fingered whaleboat" to smithereens, (did he eat the Captain?) and leaves the whalers to their cannibal fate... (dramatic music...) th-cam.com/video/kBC5Z_bH74U/w-d-xo.html
One of the best headstones I've ever seen was that of a sailor on a whaling ship, can't remember the name or dates, sometime in the 1800's, but the epitaph read simply "whale, whale, whale, they finally got me." It was somewhere in New England, I want to say Connecticut. It makes me happy to know that people back in the day liked puns too.
Ah what a great find lol
There is a headstone in the old graveyard in Key West that reads: I told you I was sick!
My second favorite after: Lester More, shot by a .44, no less, no more.
@@bauerhans-christian5616 boot hill that's my favorite as well. Other than one I read I think somewhere in southern California
Which stated something along the lines of as you are now so once was as I am now so you will be.
@@bauerhans-christian5616
Spike Milligan has "I told you I was sick" on his gravestone. It's in gaelic.
"Beneath this sod lies another one."
I really enjoy your videos. They have made me unafraid of death and have helped me decide how to let my body go so that it is much easier for my loved ones. You are lovely and I thank you!
Man if this was the type of stuff history teachers taught, and in this way, i'd listen all day every day.
for real. i hated history so much in HS, now i love it. and its actually my job.
Yep!
Not me this girl got on my nerves
I got lucky and had a teacher who was really passionate about history, half the time we were in that class we didn’t feel like we were doing any work, just having conversations about the subject.
Yeah I wish schools would teach more real history like these moments that are lost to hearing about topographic maps, and landmarks, like come on we learn this every year.
Caitlin: "...and instead of super Nintendo, he ate you."
Me: go on..
I love the way she tells the story.
LMAO. K, so I was a bit slow. Took me a sec, then I got it.
I remember a Lesbian author describing Jodie Foster performance in 'Silence of the Lambs':
Her : "Her kidneys aren't the only thing I wouldn't mind eating ..."
Me: "Hang on ... it was a liver that Dr. Lector described eating, not kidneys ..."
My brain: - that is not what she meant, yah doofus ... --
Me "Ohhhhh ... naughty ... but nice ..."
Yeah, me and my brain have conversations like that ... I think I have been social isolated a tad too long ...
nigelft No doubt the "dining out" will resume with a vengeance after Covid isolation, with lesbians& men alike ordering the same delicate dish,...which surely won't be kidneys or liver nor will it require silverware.🤗
Caitlin: and so after causing the extinction of an entire species of tortois the ship was capsized by a vengeful whale
Me: look at god
LOOK AT GOD hahaha
whale meat is GOOD.
@@FGC-ku4ez Yes, and the historical record should show a dramatic spike in CO2 levels and a shortage of O2 when the whale population was almost completely decimated due to Phytoplankton dying off due to not having enough whale shit to munch on... If they could have eaten bullshit in stead , this video could have fed the oceans for years...
lmao #TeamWhale
Nature usually finds a way to balance the accounts.
I think with the behavior of Orcas sinking only luxury yachts it's pretty safe to say that whale knew what it was doing when it attacked the ship.
A funny thing about Moby Dick is that it starts with the sentence : "Call me Ishmael". I once wrote that into a word processor (I think it was MS Word), and the spell-checker 'corrected' it to "Call me fish-meal" - which seemed humorously appropriate, given the subject of the story.
👍😂❤💯
That Herman Melville was a damn genius. He must have envisioned future autocorrect.
"Call me Fishmeal" was the first line of the MAD Magazine parody of Moby Dick.
How many ship are buried in the ocean (?) to be honest we do not know
@@lizardog Interesting. I wonder if that's where they got the idea.
The description of the whale killing is so heartbreaking.
Because it was... And today the Japanese are still doing it. Google it.
I’m currently sobbing over it. Whales are so gentle.
@@critically.panned lmao imagine sobbing over animals hunting each other. You'd probably faint over wolves bringing down a bison.
@@kylelapointe2289 but this isn't animals hunting each other??
@@pix_d20 at what point during evolution do you say human's stopped being animals?? (This will be interesting)
Can you imagine being the ships coming across these guys?? The sea is scary enough without bringing "live skeletons sucking the marrow out of their dead crewmates" aboard.
I'm surprised they took them in and didn't kill those guys. I imagine them to look like zombies or ghosts and during the time, people did believe those things existed.
@@mareofmaers3590 me too actually, but tbf they all knew how dangerous the sea was and probably just took pity on them.
@@mareofmaers3590 The law of the sea. Both the written law and the apocryphal law.
especially when they're reluctant to give up said bones
This always happened with shipwreaked crew's. With the British Navy " the men would draw straws in the evening " and upon sunrise " if there was no ship sighted , then the crew mate would be sacrificed . sailors eating their crew mate's is nothing new ...
Gawd I miss this channel and it's in depth history! Really hoping to see our beloved mortician again someday!
Is this a dead channel?
@JLE8811 no, they went on hiatus, there's a couple newer videos, and I think maybe some content available to members. Sounds like they have some big things they've been working on, hopefully coming soon
Lessons learned:
- whale poop will save us all
- Pollard needed to grow a shiny new spine
- of course the black men all died first . . . :/
- when it doubt, stay on the freaking Henderson Island. Where there's water and shade, if nothing else
Yeah I did not understand that at all period even if there were no longer any birds or eggs to eat they could have fished and with a water source they could have stayed there as long as necessary
@@kens97sto171
Not very resourceful, were they?
I think they were more afraid than anything else.
And since they had to be strong to sail, you'd think they would be able to climb palms for coconuts or other edible fruits. Weren't there pineapples and bananas in those parts?
Also, you can't demonetize Mocha Dick.
And fish.
and turtles were fastfood back in the day.
"I'm doing a video on this." Yes, yes you are, and we are all here for it.
It's like the story times we used to have as children :)
So they resorted to cannibalism because they were scared of cannibalism.
To eat or to be eaten, that is the question
When becoming so obsessed with stopping perceived monsters from hurting yourself or anyone around you that you become the real monster.
@@shadowmatrix0101 couldn't have said it better myself.
@@shadowmatrix0101 that's an interesting assessment
Donnie Montoya naturally
Great presentation, thank you for sharing. Great details. Everyone stay safe, warm, happy and healthy. From Henrico County Virginia. From Henrico County Virginia
I'm amazed ANYONE survived; that's incredible. This mission was such a dramatic failure that they all seemed completely doomed.
Some might say "They deserved it"~!!
@@RickaramaTrama-lc1ys yes and they do
@@RickaramaTrama-lc1ys why would anyone deserve to go through the trauma of starvin n eating their dead lads amidst a water desert? Those folks were just doin what they could to get a little bit o money!
Not that I dont think the whales were havin a walk on the park, but desirin something so devilish upon human beings is a whole nother level of hypocrisy
Especially with that colossal wuss of a captain.
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The tortoises flying across the screen was absolute class 😂😂
I honestly feel bad for Thomas Nickerson. He was only 14 years old when he had to endure the trauma of watching his fellow crew members starve, die, and cannibalize one of the men. I don't know the logistics of a teen in a starvation situation but I genuinely thought Thomas would die. Still that poor kid.
he wasnt big enough to eat
This is true but no less disturbing
This is on a par with the la dam fail where they had boy scouts marking the sights of bodys located with white flags ,only found out about this today , those poor kids having to live with that memory the rest of their lives .lol
Human flesh, I was told don't ask who tastes a lot like pork.
@@thetruth3768 Yes, he had some meat on them thar bones. Trust and believe! taste like pork, eat the meat suck on the bones, yum yum time baby.
Ahhh... that explains a lot! As a decendant of Capt. George Pollard (totally unaware of the cannibal thing thank you) and as a decendant of a survivor of the later ill fated Donner party I'm beginning to think it's best to go camping alone. 😅 Loved your video. It was enlightening to say the least. 🎉👍
you have 14 thumbs up at this moment. Even though you are not a descendant.
@@flyingtoaster1427 how do u know
@@mackerel9875 you had to ask.
@@flyingtoaster1427 yeah good point
and lemme guess…your grandpa was on the plane that fell in the andes
FYI: Starvation through a diet high in protein but devoid of fat is called "rabbit starvation" because rabbit meat is also extremely lean.
They also have high protein diet with almost no fat
I wonder if in severe rabbit starvation cases if refeeding syndrome is a problem. It is for more traditional starvation recovery, a potentially fatal problem.
I shall start eating rabbit steak fajitas then.
@@ShavaChihera goat and lamb are inexpensive in some parts of the world as well and are quite lean and tasty.
If it isn't moving, I eat it. If it's moving, I get a bite on the run.
Moooooooooooooooooo!!!
Maybe that bull was a bad idea... ;)
@@spvillano haha I already eat goat from the local Asian market. That good to know.
Honestly Pollard didn't end up so bad, he was known to be a friendly, jolly guy on Nantucket, relatively well liked and seemed to enjoy his night watchman gig, apparently he even ended up acting as a kind of detective on the island. Every year on the anniversary of the sinking he'd lock himself in his house and fast for the day
I'm generally surprise no-ones made a tv-series about him with that set up.
@@AliceT3aHere in 2024 and I bet someone eventually will.
Lesson Learned: If you're starving and have to resort to cannibalism, make sure to suck out the marrow.
You are spot on, we are only doing what was designed by nature
A definite life hack.
in my own experience.....yes , that is true
Oooh is that what people mean when they crotch chop and say "suck it"?
They are concerned for your health in case of an emergency. So considerate.
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Wow. What an amazing video and so well done. You do such an amazing job. I was transfixed by the whole thing. Your delivery and production is delicious! Marvelous job. Thank you for doing this and educating and entertaining us. Instruction and delight, indeed!
the black sailor ""refused"" his last ration and ""was buried at sea"".... god. sure. of course! 🤦
*defaming dead people without evidence*🤔
Ya cause everybody is so racis. Shut up
Where were they supposed to bury him? Burial at sea was the norm, they couldn't very well have a rotting body onboard for weeks or months. Also, if you know you are dying, you probably won't be too concerned with food.
It's really not that far-fetched to believe that he'd rather he died than possibly suffer on for a few more days before inevitably dying anyway. At this point we can't really tell.
hailey elaine sigh. I don’t think the word “racism” was a thing lol. That’s a luxury we’re afforded now. I’m the wrong one though, I know
“I don’t have to tell you how important whales are...”
Um, no, Spock and Captain Kirk did that YEARS ago!!
Good God, that movie BLEW!
Robert Hibbert Sounds like someone doesn't like Italian food.
Scotty : Captain ! there Be Whales here
I thought of Star Trek, too!
I really really really wish there was a way to like this comment like a thousand times. Not a day goes bye that I do not think of that movie
Caitlin, I know you've already talked about cannibalism in this video, but I hope you make a video about the uruguayan students stranded in the Andes in 1972. You briefly mentioned it in the Donner party video, but I think there's a lot more to say about it and it is all very well documented. As a Uruguayan I can tell you it forever changed the way we face the idea of survival cannibalism. I recommend the documentary "Stranded", by the BBC.
Love your content!
That sounds very interesting and I hope Caitlin will take your suggestion.
My parents are from Uruguay and they have told me this story. It's chilling. They were a student rugby team, from memory
I saw the movie about it and read up about the incident later.
Thankfully, they only ate those who were already dead.
PLEASE Caitlin, do it!
I read the book Alive when I was in the fifth grade. My teacher understood my dark fascination after a few creative writing stories I wrote raised eyebrows. Interesting fact: my school banned Little Red Riding Hood from the library the same year.
Thank you so much for your content! Love it!! Also, love that you gave a shoutout to my hometown as one of the places you used to transport bodies to/from yay!! 🎉
"You can't even get your own childhood trauma right!" is an iconic quote and I will use it for e v e r y t h i n g
That's on the true true!👏😈
“I got laid”
“You can’t even get your own childhood trauma right.”
VoiD i can't tell if that's a joke and just really really dark or what.....
Veronica Thomas really really dark joke
So... none of it would've happened if Pollard had the balls to tell Chase, "No." And that he's the captain, they do what he says?
It still might have happened but it would have been a lot less stupid.
SERIOUSLY after the first shitty call why was he still listening to that dude??
Or after that one it would have been "Because your last idea was so great? NO!"
they should just totally stab Pollard!
So sad, the description of the hunt. Poor whale, big majestic soul coming to such a terrifying and painful end.
Completely and utterly heartbreaking. Those murderers got what they deserved.
Yeah. Makes me sick to my stomach.
@@michaelmiller9107 Are you a vegetarian..if not do you kill or do you have someone murder for you? Those whales lived lives of freedom till that fateful day. How's was the quality of life for the animals that you eat?
@@brianpeck4035 uhhh... yes?
@@michaelmiller9107 Mmmm, yes. I, too, relish on the misery of people who had no way to fathom the impact the industry they worked in would have 150+ years in the future . There was a 14 year old _kid_ among them. Did he really deserve that?
Don't get me wrong, it's horrible that whaling even existed in the first place, but to think of people that probably didn't know any better and endured terrible conditions in the open ocean just to make a living, deserve tragedy and trauma, is just as inhumane to me.
Just love your presentations. Your knowledge and sense of humor of a morbid subject is awesome.
I’ve watched her since I was like 14, and she influenced me to go to mortuary school. I’m going to start at PIMS next year, and I’m currently working as a funeral attendant ♥️
Good for you!!! I'm going to school for it☺️ I've been wanting to work in the funeral field since I was 13 (I'm nearly 31), it's always been a dream of mine! Originally, I wanted to study to become a medical examiner, though. I feel like being a mortician is more reachable. It takes 12-14 years to become a medical examiner. That's so much schooling!
"An 85 ton, murderous whale." "Boo."
I cannot tell you how hard that little pan down and boo made me laugh
Same
I died
Damn, I so glad we live in a time where people aren’t sacrificed for economic reasons. Oh wait!?!
jwbarnhartmusic You nailed that one!!😂
Go stand in the corner
Haha
Oh dang. That hurt.
jwbarnhartmusic Someone’s gonna need some ice for that burn. 😆😆😆
This is one my of favorite videos on the internet. Whenever im bored I’ll watch this.
Definitely a tragic tale for all involved. They really should've listened to Captain Pollard. He wanted to go back to get more boats in the beginning and the first mate disagreed. He wanted to go to the Society Islands and the same thing happened. He really should've put his foot down. At least eight survived! I can't imagine the trauma they had to live with afterwards. Excellent visuals and presentation!
Seriously, how did experienced sailors like Chase NOT know about the mission in those islands if it had been there for decades by that point??
@@SitaraAleu Likely a different country's mission. Also, note that no one really hunted in the Offshore Ground. But yeah, it's almost borderline fucking COMEDIC that Owen Chase went on to have a successful career when his bad advice got them into this mess.
Story is a lie. But a good one.
Th@@daveken9936 this is a historical event. Look it up.
My favorite one from Caitlin. Her biography was really well done too. Thank you Caitlin Doughty !!
I'm so old that i remember, circa 1959-60, reading "whale oil" in the lists of ingredients of some brand of margarine and canned dog food.
There was a margarine factory up until 1999 right next to where my apartment is now. Back in 1960s, some journalists unearthed a story about how the factory made margarine from all kinds of fats available, including corpses of horses and stray cats. In Finnish, a colloquial for for a cat is 'katti'. The name of the factory was 'Paasivaara', or 'Boulder hill'. But the word 'vaara' also means 'danger' in addition to meaning 'hill'. And to this day, in the Finnish language Donald Duck magazine, Donald works at the margarine factory of 'Kattivaara' ('cat hill' -- or 'cat danger').
@@jannepeltonen2036 I remember when margarine was said to be healthier than butter. I went back to eating butter.
dee, please tell me you're still alive and doing well.
@@rawrxd2113 Leaving a comment her just in case they actually respond
@@biothehaz4rd Did you hear anything, yet? Is Dee still alive? Is anyone responding? Where is everybody? Where am I? Who am I? I'm blubbering, forgive me.
This is Gilligan's Island written by Edgar Allen Poe.
A 2-year tour? A 2-year tour?
Sit right back and you'll hear a tale
a tale of a fateful trip.
That started from Nantucket shores
aboard the small Essex.
(sound of thunderclap)
A white whale started getting rough
the Essex got tossed
If it wasn't for the turtles and the hard baked bread
All food would be lost
All food would be lost
The crew set sail on the water of uncharted open sea. Where they were rescued one fine day,
But many would starve
many would be ate.
How many times do humans have to be told not to F**K with nature. The fact is that us humans are earth's parasites and just messing this planet and its animals up but we will pay dearly and then it would be too late. The Covid19 pandemic is just a taste of what nature has in store for us as Karma is surely a bitch.
They should do a Gilligan's Island Movie- Haunted Addition.
@@dayaautum6983 you forgot 🎵s and also 🎶es and maybe a 🎼 .
Despair not: 🎼🎼🎼🎼🎼🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶🎵🎵🎵🎵🎵 there's enough where that came from!
I just tripped over this fantastic video and realized the author wrote one of my very favorite books. Good job!
I learned from this video that if I ever end up in a situation where I have to eat othe people to survive I should always eat the bone marrow. I hope I will never need that knowledge...
I disturbed myself by thinking "they should be eating the bone marrow" before she even said it. I have no idea why I knew that. =/
@@middleC17 😒🤫
@@middleC17 I was thinking it too lol. But because I was thinking about what parts would be best if you had to just eat like a moose or something stuck in the woods or whatever. You'd wanna go for the most nutritionally dense bits, with an animal you'd probably wanna be eating liver and brain too, but uh... Those things are probably gonna kill you from a human, so I guess marrow it is.
I heard it tastes like chicken :-)
@@bryntendo polar bear liver can kill you because of the vitamin A, and human brain can give you kuru, but human liver is fine, and kuru is only a problem if the brain is already infected, and it takes ages to manifest anyway, so short term you would be fine
"When killing to survive, it's easiest to kill whatever and whomever you are least attached to, cattle before horses, dogs before people, strangers before acquaintances, acquaintances before friends, friends before family." -Daniel James Brown.
All my friends will die before anyone touches my horses
Sad Pumpkin 😂
Yeah that’s incorrect. Keeping my dogs and horses alive are top priory.
@@TheSonWhoCums6669 There are even some family members I’d sacrifice before my dog 😂
@@michellerobin5461 Oh definitely
I'm so sad about how they would kill the whales - it sounds so painful and slow and traumatic
There's no way to kill whales immediately with the kind of technology they had. They shouldn't have killed any whales at all though
That's what makes the whale attack kind of cathartic
Humans = dumb torture monkeys
@@newprojects7847 Remember the part about whaling oil jump-starting the industrial revolution. Plus, they seriously did not consider that whales were in danger of being over hunted at that time. Even "Moby Dick" tries to prove that the population of whales is not affected by whaling.
@@MegaMementoMori Moby Dick also tries to prove that whales are fish. Let's not take Melville as any kind of biological authority for the time.
read it a 3rd time as a 50 year old. immersed myself over an entire summer. Took the time to research all the references he made. Mind completely blown. Melville is one of the great geniuses in human history. Cant believe the audio is only 22 hours. BTW - The sharks were not "waiting". They attacked the sailors standing on the whale carving it up. Imagine standing on a piece of floating whale meat in the middle of a shark feeding frenzy fighting against time and 100 sharks ripping your whale raft to shreds as you try to carve up pieces and tie them to a rope to be hauled on board the ship.
When you destroy a islands natural ecosystem and then proceed to have Mother Nature destroy your life
You kill the wales from the sea and then the sea kills YOU
You've been VECTORED
Actually it was their own stupid choices that destroyed their lives. Nobody in those times ever heard the word "ecosystem" and none of their contemporaries thought of anything in the natural world as anything except something to be used up for human purposes. You're trying to apply modern concepts to a past where they simply did not exist and render unfair judgements.
Undertaking years-long dangerous journeys half-way around the world when alternatives to whale-oil lamps is a horse of a different color and that's just plain *stupid.*
El Bearsidente - Most people understand that “Mother Nature” is just a figure of speech used to personify natural phenomena rather than an actual being. It’s kind of like referring to the ocean as a “she,” which is exactly what you did in your next comment.
@El Bearsidente Figure of speech. It's not that deep man.
Also, "the black dude dies first" is an older trope than I thought.
At least that one guy had some foresight and dipped!😅
My exact first thought.
ROFLOL right !!😆😆
David Morris “Oh you’ll be fine”
CN#6: _”Did you even read the book?!”_
David Morris They ALL had names, she put them up and said it multiple times.. Did I hear wrong or are you joking around and or being sarcastic? Sorry just asking..
So they avoided closer islands bc of cannibalism, which lead to cannibalism 🧐 ...sounds like a weak captain lead to their downfall
On one hand, Tahiti didn't AFAIK practice cannibalism to the same extent as the rest of Polynesia. On the other, given the diseases the whales brought to Tahiti, maybe it was for the best.
That's what I was thinking when the one sailor got off in Ecuador. He might have seen that the leader was weak, and out in the open sea that spells danger nowadays nevermind back then.
@@Tareltonlives Thank goodness on behalf of the Tahiti. Amen to that!
@Jacquan Brown The irony, though, is that cannibalism was historically commonplace in Europe during times of war and famine. We might end up seeing an uptick on food shortages in the next few decades over there as well as other places not on the innovative-farming side of things (no, I'm not referring to Africa, simply because of the fact that they're one of the leaders of farming innovation as a whole.)
While searching for “Tiny Healthy Houses,” Your channel was recommended! I really enjoyed your whale 🐳 of a Tale 📚, but I am beginning sense the algorithm which led me to you is paranormally skewed by haunted coders? 😜
At 69 I have watched A LOT of documentaries - I just love them, finding the REAL story so much more interesting than a Hollywood version. After watching this fantastic video I immediately watched two more and have no doubt I will watch all of her documentaries.
Bravo to a team who has the ability to make any subject matter exciting and endlessly fascinating.
About fifteen years ago I met a young women whose great, great, great (maybe a fourth great in there) grandfather was one of the Essex's survivors, Owen Chase. His story is still told in her family, including his keeping extra food in the house so he wouldn't run out. I guess there's no easy way to put that kind of experience behind you.
Ah, important note: if resorting to cannibalism, remember to break the bones to get fat from the marrow. Hadn't heard that one before!
Its why animals bones go into soup/stew. Adds fat and flavor.
It's also why wolf's jaws r so strong. To break the bones to get the marrow.
I hope I don't need to use that advice EVER
fun fact, animal fat is super important to your daily consumption. Especially if you're trying to lose weight and trim those muscles. Fat and animal protein satisfies a calorie content the body needs, that cannot be obtained through a purely vegetarian diet. Like our dear mortician lady said, it makes the meat happy
@@StoicVeR Vegan diets exclude animal fat and protein and so are very difficult. However, vegetarian ("lacto-vegetarian") diets do include ample animal protein and fat, from milk products. So there's no problem staying strong and healthy on a traditional vegetarian diet.
I feel really bad for the whales,, i know whale oil is a big part of history but the killing process sounds so violent and painful for them :(
It would be awesome if it were only part of history.. Unfortunately whaling still goes on today. And it's not much different from the painful way the poor beings died then.
What happens to whales and sharks is more disturbing to me than the cannibalism
@Milena Shvedova They don't have intelligence on par with a human. Though compared to all other animals, whales are probably the smartest ocean animals aside from Octopuses.
@@Andre-id9dl this is SO something a human would say lmao
@@kg7219 am I lying?
Now that's the ultimate horror story and very well done. Your back catalog of videos always bring me back and they are so well done, I especially like your video of lake superior, thanks for posting and always look forward to another history lesson.
“Long Haul Corpse Trucker” is one of the most underrated country-metal albums of all time
Do you mean Country-Metal?
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@@xp7575 notice it was edited so it’s probably not what he said originally ya blockhead.
I thought it was a real album why you gotta mislead me like this :(((
If you want country metal go listen to Killdozer:
“God hears pleas of the innocent”
“Twelve point buck”
“Uncompromising war on art under the dictatorship of the proletariat”
“Intellectuals are the shoeshine boys of the ruling elite”
(Great albums go listen. Archers of Loaf the Speed of Cattle is some good faux country sludge)
Hush up and take my money...
I’m just. The idea of tortoises chilling out on the ship is amusing me
Tortoises had no food. So, "chilling" is relative.
also... tortoises can't swim so..... capsized boat = bad
ninja-tortoises?
Having a tortoise myself, I feel so bad for those little (or really not so little) guys. They're such gentle animals, they can seem "chill" when they're actually very frightened or actively suffering.
They didn't have food, the habitat they needed, or the surprisingly involved care turtles/torties need to be healthy and happy.
I am also just.
The shark picture you used is one my marine bio teacher took! Shout out to Joanne Jarzobski
First time on your channel. Your narratives are wonderful and your personality is adorable! The ‘Betty Page’ haircut suits you. Thanks for the education and chuckles.
Moral of the story:
Hunting whales gives you really bad karma.
Also they set that island on fire for no good reason.
@@generationfallout5189 uh, it was a mostly peaceful campfire that got out of hand!
"It's bad luck to kill a whale, for every whale has a soul of womens that died at sea"
The lighthouse movie refrence.
Whale, got shot: I need to speak to the Captain! >:(
It's like the ghost whale in japanese myths that gives u bad karma
*Sorry for bad English
chaos: The other moral is that if you are drifting in a lifeboat, you go towards the nearest land, period.
“Go back to Nantucket for repairs? No way! The Society Islands?! There’s cannibals there! Much better to keep going out onto the open ocean with limited food and supplies.” Good old Owen Chase, just full of great advice for an indecisive captain to rely on . Seriously, man -Owen Chase is canceled.
Maybe Owen Chase is a Tiktok star from the future and went back in time to troll everyone on that ship.
Is it just me each time i here Nantucket his blank was so long keeps
Arceus help us it was just a joke , friend.
Camaro 1968 that was the joke.
Scaredof Dark right!? Poor Nantucket... the limericks have just ruined their reputation
The whale may have witnessed them murdering his family and decided to seek revenge. They are very intelligent creatures, live in family groups, and process loss much like us. Most of us would have sought revenge as well.
Amen. U can’t blame the whale. Humans are way worse then any animal
Heck we are the worst animal. We’re pathetic really.
Maybe it was accompanying his mate and (calf? whale baby?) and maybe they hurt or slaughtered the mate so he took revenge because they don't have anything else to live for. Mammals think alike.
@@strawberryshortcake8382 hate to break it to yeah, dolphins, orcas, and other intelligent animals are the same. Dolphins rape humans, gang up and attack sharks for no reason, attack spotted dolphins just cause they have spots (yes dolphins are racist)
Orcas are just assholes, they team up and bully smaller animals just cause they can.
So no, humans aren't the fucking worst, get over it
@@Breached18 yeah but whales don't wage war with each other over even what is essentially nothing humans do so yeah in that regard whales hell even all other non arthropod animals are better than humans because unlike us they don't fight each other for pretty much no reason we humans can wage war upon each other for the stupidest reasons and even drag animals who wouldn't even be there otherwise into our conflicts so yeah because of that we're the real assholes when animals do those sort of things even if they're intelligent it's still only out of instinct for us it's not even instinct driving us it's just our own agendas or something like that instinct is hardly ever truly involved
@UCWdEjXva8ja9X67tVha2V-Q I'm not saying humans are useless by any means in fact we are capable of pretty amazing things like you said but sometimes a good bit of the effort put into that stuff can be put on hold for an undeterminable amount of time because humans are pretty much at each other's throats almost all the time and even when a war is finally over and there is finally peace that peace can only last for so long before another war starts and the whole mess caused by humans fighting each other starts up all over again we may try to deny it but war is so deeply rooted in human nature that it has pretty much become a part of our culture and for some people even a way of life
Girl you are absolutely the best I read the original the language took a while to get thru about 55 years ago
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Daniel S😊