Imagine seeing a huge creature making a sound loud enough for the entire town to hear, but when you tell your friends and family no one has seen or heard anything. That's just terrifying in itself. How something that should be so noticable is only noticed by you.
What I also like about his creations is that he doesn't focus on the "horns, sharp nails, pointy teeth" formula of character design. He contorts what we usually see as average proportions of living beings, twisting them to surreal degrees of uncanniness.
I I’m late but I figured out why that siren head image is scarier that it seems, that blue light is lying to you, it’s not over towering over the town, it’s right near you, and you won’t know till it’s too late.
Maybe Siren Head is fascinating because sirens indicate that some disaster or emergency is taking place, and so seeing a creature that is part siren gives us the sense of incoming danger, or a frightening situation.
Yeah I think that’s it. It’s meant to trigger your fight or flight response, imo. The dead body looking body, the emergency siren, it comes together to form a thing that both shouldn’t exist and is telling you so.
Imagine there's a disaster coming to your town and your town's disaster alarm is sirenhead. Now you have the dilemma of even telling if the disaster is even coming or the fact that your local alarm is a monster
I like it because of the idea. I wouldn't expect to see an alarm siren as an alive creature of all things. Usually scary creatures (or the one I remember most) do resemble some sort of animal or human. But this is different, which is why I like it.
“Mom, there’s a weird man outside with a siren duct taped to his head... should I still go get the mail?” “Yes Jeremy, just go get the mail. I don’t care anymore.”
i like longhorse. he is good boy. he not only forewarns of danger, but will sometimes actively try to protect people either by pulling them out of harms way engaging with the more hostile monsters. so longhorse is somewhat of a creepypasta super hero
in case you want to see more, check out "Unnerving images with unnerving music." It's, like, ten minutes worth of staring at them with a million memes in the comments.
b...but a completely random person with no ties to trevor whatsoever made a draft of a sirenhead scp that wasn't even published.... therefore it MUST be an scp!!!!1!!!
@@KevlarCaviar Just because some dingledick made a sirenhead ripoff doesn't make sirenhead an scp There is a sort of connection to Trevors original creation in order for that man to even know who and what sirenhead is
The pic from him that scared me the most was the Skeleton horse but the one that was looking straight at you that was in your house, looking up at you from down stairs. Something about that- very unsettling
I feel the same. Especially with just being told that it warns you before tragedy. Like, what is about to happen? It is also mixed with what is stereotypically scary/creepy. I think it’s really cool and well done.
The same shit happened with Slender Man, and eventually he was used as an excuse for a murder based off of "lore" that had fucking nothing to do with the original creator or even the lore from content makers that eventually popularized him like the Marble Hornets crew. It's no wonder some people believe in a Flat Earth when some believe in an openly fictional character to the same degree they believe in demons or angels.
I actually make found footage art. Nowhere near as well as Trevor Henderson, but I’ve just recently started. I really appreciate how you mentioned that hiding things and using dark photos is both creepier and easier. Great video!
I feel like the siren head is not used properly honestly. The 'horror' of it comes from how it feels like a part of the environemnt, but at the same time is artificial and shouldnt be real. It should be slow moving, not like the fucking lanky king kong like rigs they use, where it runs and beats you like a bad gmod model. It also doesnt work as a direct thing, because lets face it, a lanky wooden boy bashing you isnt that unsettling, more just direct and blunt. I feel it would work better like long horse, where it was a bad omen of things to come, and plays into the whole siren idea, with how sirens playing due to or right before disaster. You can see this espicially with some sirenhead game mods, where they look and sound fantastic at a distance, thenwhen you get close, its back to janky long thing
I agree. He'd work better as a side character, just appearing and warning. Make it look like he is the instigator in the beginning but making it more clear that he is only warning the protagonist as the story progresses. It will kill you if you get too close but if you stay at a distance all is dandy. I do think that this kind of approac wouldn't work anymore as people already have an image in their head of what he looks like. I HATED the audio from the original clip. That shit is unnerving and creepy to me. But by now it's already lost that appeal and feel.
I thought of him more as a lure, something that kills by making people go towards it, be attracted to it. It wouldn't work in a game because you have the power of contextual realism, wherein you know that you have to escape. Also the name "Siren Head" implies to me something along the lines of an Amber Alert, making me think more of a "Crocotta" rather than a typical horror monster
I feel this. The character really works well as possibly even a background thing, not something ever directly addressed but just sort of part of the world, a clear sign that something is terribly off, but that the least of your concerns is the 40ft monster that seems to not care about your existence. A sort of Lovecraftian horror vibe instead of "seeing a rabid wolf in the forest at night" sort of response that is easily processed by our monkey brains. It's the rustle of the leaves that's the scariest, not the snarl or show of fangs, since we've long learned to dominate the latter but are still reduced to our base levels, basically no better at the situation than our ancestors, when we notice something wrong and wonder if danger lurks nearby.
Siren Head needed to not be a giant living creature but a golem/automaton of mechanical parts and metal, which like wind turbines and powerline towers can be unfathomably huge up close. A nightmare of megalophobia and mechanophobia. No fucking hilarious mouths, that's for sure.
Isn't that... The point of the video? Analyzing why it's scary and why it got famous? Also, I just find it hard to believe that someone would even be scared of this thing 😆😆
Yeah but I think Trevor’s getting more recognition but slowly like cartoon Cat and cartoon dog. It’s a slow process but I do think he’s gonna start to get a lot more recognition now!
@@Entropy101Q Yeah. I dont think him and his other monsters get enough recognition. I personally really love long horse waayy more than siren head. Hes creepy but also strangely adorable once you read his lore.
10:36 I'd be scared too if a adult white male had a tee-shirt over his head and duck taped a 'toy' siren onto his head and walked like a drunk grandpa asked me to end his sufffering.
This is good and bad at the same time, because I'm glad Trevor Henderson is getting the respect and popularity he deserves, but it's bad because only siren head is getting all this attention, and all of Trevor's other (and dare I say better) work is being thrown to the wayside, where only those who respect his work and aren't jumping on some bandwagon, or people that make shitty backstory videos, can find them.
Exactly. Yes, Siren Head's a little creepy, but there's nothing really special about it. Things like the Smile Room, or The Jitter (if that's even its name? It's a hand and an arm on a staircase, kinda like it's laughing. Just a nickname I gave it) seem more interesting to me.
For me why Siren Head is so terrifying isn’t how tall he is or something like that It’s that he makes those emergency sirens sounds I’m not sure why I’m so scared of that sound but it makes me kind of freeze in place and start crying I just don’t know lol Edit:Thanks for the likes :D and in my opinion it’s better if the Siren Head is more mysterious like the Backrooms we don’t really have that much information so it’s creepier/scarier
Coming back after three years. I never realized how good Siren Head could have been in something like "The Mist". Imagine hearing the sirens alerting you of the mist. But they're not ours.
Am I the only one who saw Siren Head in 2019? It wasn't even that popular back then and Siren Head was just a basic creation if Trevor Henderson like all the others. And now it's so dang popular
I like the certain aspect of mystery and confusion that comes with sirenhead, how does this siren thing appear in cave paintings? Where does it come from? Is it from another dimension, if it is a shapeshifter, does he also affect artistic representations of him? Perhaps the cave men saw him as a big tree, but the walls show a siren head because they were seen by modern day humans? Maybe it can move through time?
@@genericname2747 Maybe they should make a game where long horse warns you about a misfortunate and a disasterous event and you have to try to avoid the threat (for example, good boy. He is one of Trevor's creations).
It really isn't scary though? Realistically speaking this thing would go extinct if it was hostile like all the fan made lore implies, so why would anyone be scared of it? This is another example of the internet ruining legitimately creepy things.
@@Sykronium maybe, but uh. Thats the thing about fictional horror. Theres the first kind, where you actually get scared even knowing its fiction... and then theres fictional horror that doesnt do that.
sirenhead is actually EXACTLY like slenderman, because it went unnoticed for a long time until a popular youtuber played a video game based on it and it blew up.
Nah. He made the character and the original images. He didn't create the universe that Sirenhead exists in. The creepypasta community did. He comes off as chasing clout. Look at characters like the Rake, Fleshgait, the Russian Sleep Experiment story...etc. Trevor is the only one behaving this way. Don't make SPC and creepypasta shit if you don't want it to be in the SPC and creepypasta universe.
Faded Paths the SCP foundation is a fandom consisting of thousands of cryptids. I would recommend looking up some scp related media on TH-cam or just going straight to the scp website
Lil Porky The backrooms are based on this picture of an empty, oddly uncomfortable room. The interesting thing about it is it tends to invoke the feeling of a dream in a lot of people-very familiar yet off.
Being an OG siren head fan, I am really happy that more people are learning about it. However, I am also worried that the fear is going to get sucked out of it by stuff like that. Edit: Thanks for the recognition, glad some people agree with me.
I think the reason why Siren Head is so scary to a lot of people is because of what it represents: the siren. We associate the sound the siren makes as the coming of something dangerous and ominous - usually leading to some sort of tragedy or disaster. This is the fear the Siren Head taps into and that's what makes it both so scary and interesting to us.
Solar Sands isn't the fist individual to find Siren head amusing. But to anyone who wants to see an unnerving image of Siren head - watch the "Mighty Siren Head" music video. I don't see how anyone could make Siren head appear any more disturbing! There was also a perfect Siren Head scary short - but I unfortunately can't find it anywhere. Lastly I felt compelled to say that anything with such a long lanky figure should definitely be able to run like the wind. Furthermore Siren head is likely incredibly light for its size being that it possesses a near-skeletal frame. This is one instance where the phrase "just skin and bones" can be applied literally! :)
I think what's so terrifying about it. The siren aspect, but also the scale of it. It's huge, it's creepy. What would humans do if a huge creature, screaming like a siren would appear, stomping around and causing disaster
Out of all this guys art siren head is one of the only ones that doesn’t actually scare me and just intrigues me. All the other ones give me a visceral and fluttery feeling that makes me want to walk away and click on something else. But siren head I just want to know about and look at
Siren Head isn't even that scary to begin with. Since he's a meme material now, I can't take the fear too seriously. The "cursed image" videos that depicts Trevor Henderson's art combined with Monster Inc. theme song or All-Star by Smash Mouth mixed with fear and hilarity, almost like I'm watching a horror comedy film.
I think JonTron said it best in his old video '6 Scary Things in Videogames' "Stuff popping out at you is a bore fest of snores, subtlety is where it's at."
I’ll call it more unnerving than scary, i mean, juts hits in the nuclear or emergency state sirens, i love how it makes me feel the loudest sound from far away, just seeing the siren head from far away doesn’t make me scary of him, it makes me feel like, ok, life changes now don’t mind about a second ago when i didn’t notice him, and even more hidden in the mist of the winter morning
At it's best, it's an amazing monster. There's a lot of layers to it. It can be the modernized fear of atomic weapons, where the civil defense siren is the single most horrific invasion of normal life and the natural environment imaginable, one which, on the day it goes after you, it's much faster than you can ever hope to escape. It can be the fear of bots, as it may-or-may-not have the ability to control radios and phones, faking the voices of others in order to hunt down it's target, make them do what it wants so that it can get them. It's an impossibly tall human, body emaciated to the point it blends in with trees and telephone poles, it's head viciously replaced with a piece of technology that represents government, authority, warning (which one can't know to be real or manipulation), and communication. And it's not singular, you can kill as many of them as you want but there might still be more. It's a daylight fear, one that is best used not as a sudden fright, but as something that was always present, something that you watch coming when it charges, completely unable to stop it. It's the internet's now, so 99% of what can be found on it is crap, but that 1%, the 0.2%, is horrifying. And I love it.
The original Sirenhead post that Trevor made is pretty eerie. It’s a shot of the desert, the backstory that it’s a Polaroid photo from a road trip. It hits you like “That’s a weirdly thick pole. I wonder why-WAIT, THOSE ARE LIMBS WHAT THE HELL!”
It really helps to be vague and leave room for the imagination to fill in the blank, because what's in our head is what's the most real to us. That's why darkness is scary because our head starts imagining what could be in the dark. Less is often more in this case
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Most public work creepypasta i feel succumb to "over-explanation" , where so much is elaborated on that really only the original is even remotely scary. The backrooms is another example, the original image is such...something. Yet I feel completely unaffected by everything else. Same here, original sirenhead is decent and in dark shadows kinda "oh shit" but the more people worked on them the more it is just slenderman but siren
I mean I read a story following the pure fear of the unknown of the backrooms. It was first hand story of somebody going in there with a few friends. It made the back rooms a lot scarier of a concept. Being trapped in a maze of psychological horror and unknowns beings. But I can see how it could be ruined with a bunch of people explaining exactly how it works
@@RealityRogue there are a lot of good scps about being trapped in something you can't escape really. There's the stairs, the tower in the forest I can't remember, the grandpa, that house that leaks creatures, etc Way spookier
I mean Long Horse is just warning you that something dangerous is going to happen or is nearby, and also he smells like cinnamon, wich isn’t bad at all.
Sirenhead's ability to scare me is like a 1/10 but that long horse thing is probably an 8 The lore of it appearing on tragedies only makes it scarier. Imagine being in a car crash or being chased by some horny weirdo and getting violated in the woods then seeing that shit come out of the ground or a well while you're slowly dying Sirenhead's lore makes it laughable and even kinda cute 😆 I just hope it doesn't become the next Sans and have a ton of those... Fanarts
1:37 this is the one that gets me the most. For a still image it just feels so sudden, like you just moved your flashlight over it and it's there. It's a god damn fight or flight moment. How fast does it move? Can you run or are you just frozen? Are you able to freeze? Maybe it's because it's a cave or something but this one is my favorite because it makes me really uneasy just thinking about the situation.
The whole thing involving Siren Head being on cave paintings is a similar situation to the pokemon Meloetta. I think the monster inspired the thing it's based off of in the universe they're in. Like I believe Siren Head did exist long before sirens in universe, but he likely inspired the design of the siren in universe
@@n.c.herping6435 yes, and besides that, they also tried to show movement as well, thats why some drawings look odd. They just added more limbs to portrait movement.
I agree that the scares that take a bit to notice are always better. To me it makes it seem more realistic, like you don't know you're in danger until it's too late kinda thing. It also just gives the image a more unsettling and natural feeling because everything seems normal and fine until you take a closer look.
My lore about him is... A retired Federal Signal worker found an EOWS 612 at an abandoned power plant. He tried to get it... But the siren and him fell into a radioactive substance
The idea of Siren Head was scary in the beginning when it was relatively unknown. The idea of coming across such an alien entity that should NOT exist while out in the woods alone is chilling.
@@Mace907 I think its more like; take an Imagine Dragons song, like Believer or Thunder. Objectively they're pretty decent songs. However, they got played over and over and over and over to exhaustion and now everyone hates them. Same thing here. Slenderman ain't scary anymore and neither is Sirenhead, both for the exact same reason: oversaturation. We know them, they're everywhere, they're dancing to whatever meme song is hot right now... terror exists in the enigma. To understand a threat is to remove the fear of the threat. Wolves were once this horrible monster that prowled the dark... until someone found their pups and realised they were just animals too and now we have dogs. Bears were these massive terrifying beasts of teeth and claws and hunger that could rip a man to shreds... who we now know to be a bunch of goofballs and scared of cats. We still have respect for them as predators and threats to ourselves, but we are no longer terrified of them. We know what they are, how they hunt, how they behave when not hunting, how to avoid being hunted or angering them, and how they can be killed if push comes to shove. There is no longer any mystery, thus there is no true terror. Well, except for wolves. There are a few videos taken by hikers who got surrounded by wolves. There is terror there. The reason? Wolves never let you see the entire hunting pack. You'll see one dart in front of you, then hear another behind you. You turn and see a glimpse of it disappearing into the brush, only to hear movement from a direction the wolf *didn't* move in. You know you are surrounded. You have no idea how many wolves are around you. The mystery combines with the imminent threat and creates terror. How do the hikers react? They're scared alright, but they're also pretty calm. They *know* this behaviour, been informed of what to do if it happens. They know that the wolves aren't hunting them, in truth they are trying to scare the hiker off. The right thing to do is to stop and slowly walk back the way you came. Sure, they're scared, they know one wrong move could see the pack attack them, but really the wolves are far more interested in whatever they were *actually* hunting, usually a deer. They know if they were actually hunting the hiker, the wolves would *never* let themselves been seen. They would just attack and that would be the end of it. Hikers know that this behaviour means the wolves are treating you as a *rival* predator, not prey, and are simply trying to look big and tough to scare you away. Thus, the terror is gone. There is no more mystery, just facts you can act upon. The more you know, the less fear you have. Fear, *terror*, comes from not knowing, from not having a plan. As such, we know too much about these creepy pasta monsters and so there is no more fear. We know Sirenhead is slow and cumbersome, hunting by ambush. We know how it lures prey, the sounds it makes and the voices it will mimic. We know it is still an organic creature, vulnerable to bullets and fire. The lore is too comprehensive. Furthermore, we see it everywhere. In music clips, memes, even a dating sim. We defeated our fear with humour, a very common thing for humans to do, and thus it holds no terror for us anymore. We see past the shock to the silliness behind it and thus the power it holds over us is gone. So yes, in short, a horror monster is indeed scarier the more obscure it is. *That's* *the* *point*
Thank you so much for making a video about Trevor Henderson and his work! He's one of my favourite artists and i'm honestly really glad he's getting a lot of recognition nowadays :)
This makes me realize that Steven King’s stories aren’t as scary as they used to anymore. But R.L Stine still has his horror feeling, and also H.P Lovecraft. Despite being dead. By my opinion H.P Lovecraft is the best at writing horror stories. He has this imagination like no other, because his creatures aren’t things you would imagine from under your bed, wanting to kill you. Or a monster in the closet or basement that wants to eat you alive. His creatures are out of this world. Literally. While, Trevor Henderson’s creatures are Bizarre than how you would expect a monster to be. Trevor’s Monsters fit with the atmosphere and environment they are in. Creating that Nightmare feeling you don’t want to have ever again. I would pay to see a battle against H.P Lovecraft and Trevor Henderson. If Lovecraft was still alive though.
what i love about hp lovecraft is the sense of helplessness and smallness he often leaves you with. it truly is so terrifying to feel like you will meet some kind of terrible fate to something so huge and otherworldly that no one could possibly fight back. that why i think junji ito is also scary (other than the disturbing body horror he does so well)
@@_peepee_ you can appreciate the art while not ignoring the artists shitty opinions. There's also contradicting accounts on if he changed his view points just before he died. He died at like 30 something so I'd like to think he eventually would have grown out of those shitty mindsets if he had more time to live.
Have you ever read a goose bumps book? Like recently? They’re like jump scares if they were in book form. I remember reading the scare crow walks at midnight and every chapter would end with some thing that promised to be scary but turned out to be something normal like confusing a broom for being a scare crow hand it’s really stupid.
The worst camp camp memes ever In Stine’s defense, his books are for kids. Kids can’t really take things like Atmosphere. As for Lovecraft, he had a terrible life. Even though he was super racist, I feel bad for him.
@@ChillyFrost_ Buy that sort of decor, you need one per window. I have some in storage for when I visit someone else. I MUST see that creature in the foreground of any window.
I think sirenhead blew up so much because it’s extremely memorable. A lot of these other design are all pale, fleshy, unusual proportions, somewhat skeletal... They blend together a little bit, especially with prevalence of already popular creepypasta monsters, critters from the Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark books, and SCPs. Sirenhead is (at least in my experience with horror art) quite unique and I’ve not seen anything else quite like it. It’s also a matter of personal preference. I don’t find sirenhead particularly creepy (I also share more of the fascination reaction, like I want to read all about it in a monster encyclopedia) but I find long horse even less scary, especially considering it’s potentially infinite body. I just find it kind of goofy.
To me, Long Horse is way scarier because of the lore behind it. Ot doesn't just appear everywhere. It appears in tragedies And based on the images used in this video, it only appears in scary places where you wouldn't want it to be Sirenhead is just some skinny tall guy that's probably gonna get treated lile how Sans was treated... With those type of fanarts
Your first paragraph doesn’t make sense lol. So siren head, a monster that is known for being skeletal and somewhat fleshy, stands out from the rest of the monsters that are skeletal and fleshy... but I totally agree with the second paragraph.
Oh shit, i figured out whats going on here. The eyes are very blurry when the whole image is shown (8:23), but are clearly visible after he zooms it in (8:27). My guess would be that this is an editing "error", wrongly set width to length ratio or something like that... lol, this was image was in the back of my mind for several days... "If the others are not in the picture, then where ARE they?"
@@kedarunzi9139 same with slenderman. You see him, you can here the static, he closes in on you. This is the end. You hear. Something familiar. So eerie. th-cam.com/video/oKJZypn4Erw/w-d-xo.html
Internet: makes Sirenhead a meme rather than treating it like a creepypasta Trevor: No you can't just do that It supposed to be creepy Internet: Haha go brrr
So basically summerizing the video, horror is somewhat just like music; the worst and stupidest effortless work gets all the views and the most fantastic, beautiful works gets to be underrated. Damn the internet has no taste.
People are actually starting to fangirl over Siren Head.... welp, there goes the sense of genuine interest and mystery around this creature! Now it’s on par with slender man and Jeff the killer!
6:12 tbh the creepiness of the creatures itself in like most of those examples makes up for it not being super hidden, i think if everything was hidden itd get old fast, i think the fact that that creature in this case is just RIGHT THERE and heading straight for you adds a lot to the creepiness, which it wouldnt have it it was hidden, also its just impressive to still be creepy even without having to make it super subtle and hidden
7:02 That image is perfect to me, it’s terrifying, and looking to find the added image makes it more, eerie. And when you do find it, your not sure if that’s the image, this piece made me be still a solid minute
Imagine seeing a huge creature making a sound loud enough for the entire town to hear, but when you tell your friends and family no one has seen or heard anything. That's just terrifying in itself. How something that should be so noticable is only noticed by you.
And then they all think you're lying so you take your friend out to the woods so siren head could eat him and you can prove him wrong
There's a short film here on TH-cam that actually does that really well! It's called "The Bells" and its posted by Virat Pal!
Definitely spooky.
its a really cool concept but i think it has been so overdone that it isnt scary anymore
Or they see it as just a regular siren pole. You can see it clearly has muscle tissue and organic parts, but nobody else seems to notice.
*Long lanky scary character:*
Exists
Internet every few years:
"I can milk you"
Any idea how I get Lamp Post Man (original character, do not copy) popular on tumbler?
"I can milk you" is now my favourite threat. How confusing, how out of place
Is it a rule 34 reference?
@@Yora21 make him *edgy*
@@funguy398 its a markiplier quote
What I also like about his creations is that he doesn't focus on the "horns, sharp nails, pointy teeth" formula of character design. He contorts what we usually see as average proportions of living beings, twisting them to surreal degrees of uncanniness.
AKA body horror
@@neostephenism and uncanny valley
I I’m late but I figured out why that siren head image is scarier that it seems, that blue light is lying to you, it’s not over towering over the town, it’s right near you, and you won’t know till it’s too late.
The unknown and unnatural
And it’s fucking terrifying
The long horse is truly terrifying and Solar that single note music gave me the chills
Yeah but he is a good boy
Do you two want long horse as a pet?
The music is Forest World from Yume Nikki btw.
thatboredguy who wouldn’t?
@@deste7453 nice I so badly want to use it in a video but have no clue howwwww
Maybe Siren Head is fascinating because sirens indicate that some disaster or emergency is taking place, and so seeing a creature that is part siren gives us the sense of incoming danger, or a frightening situation.
Yeah I think that’s it. It’s meant to trigger your fight or flight response, imo. The dead body looking body, the emergency siren, it comes together to form a thing that both shouldn’t exist and is telling you so.
Imagine there's a disaster coming to your town and your town's disaster alarm is sirenhead. Now you have the dilemma of even telling if the disaster is even coming or the fact that your local alarm is a monster
This just killed me because my nickname is Disaster
I like it because of the idea. I wouldn't expect to see an alarm siren as an alive creature of all things. Usually scary creatures (or the one I remember most) do resemble some sort of animal or human. But this is different, which is why I like it.
6:40 pp
Long horse is giving me serious goosebumps something about makes me so unsettled
same, but at the same time it intrigues me so much
In my opinion, long horse is the cutest one! (Mostly personality-wise)
@שחר ליפשיץ fair enough. I love horror and it takes something really spooky to get to me, let alone give me goosebumps
But it means well
@@1dr_wall769 and smells good. good but spooky boi
I’m glad Trevor is getting more exposure, I’ve loved his art for years.
super8ben saaame I really hope people appreciate him more and not just the little spin offs
Don't get it tho, he's good friends with Jack Stauber. He should've been getting famous years ago.
Thats what I tell people too
same! he’s a huge inspiration for me.
Is he the one responsible for MarbleHornets?
“Mom, there’s a weird man outside with a siren duct taped to his head... should I still go get the mail?”
“Yes Jeremy, just go get the mail. I don’t care anymore.”
Did Jeremy tell that story in class today
Wtf happened between Jeremy and his mom
@@DavidSJr who knows ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
@@DavidSJr Jeremy spoke in class today
I miss jeremy
i like longhorse. he is good boy. he not only forewarns of danger, but will sometimes actively try to protect people either by pulling them out of harms way engaging with the more hostile monsters. so longhorse is somewhat of a creepypasta super hero
He is the Pokémon absol but creepier
yes he is good boi.
But he spoomkey
Thanks longhorse
He’s a good boi who is just trying to help
"long horse"
*instant flashbacks to lady rainicorn*
I am umfamiliar with this matter; pray tell.
@@tubegerm6732 its a character from adventure time who speaks korean
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Salvador Dhali my dude, he used to paint long animals too
Trevor Henderson: Makes genuine terrifying monsters
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Chillin haha coronavirus goes brrr
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Hehe funny dancy boy rititititi
This reminds me of HaHa Poor
Long horse is nonhostile?
READY THE FAN ART GUYS HES FRIENDLY
As if that ever stopped R34
That just makes it not scary. I'd prefer he be 'evil' because that infinite body and hair on his back creeps me out
@@llama6394 same.
@@llama6394 but it also subverts expectations, you'd think such a thing would be hostile, but no, he good boi
Some of these paintings are legitimately terrifying and unsettling yet I can’t take my eyes off them
Same
Same, kinda regretting not looking away from some of them lmaoo
in case you want to see more, check out "Unnerving images with unnerving music." It's, like, ten minutes worth of staring at them with a million memes in the comments.
Who would win?
The Virgin Siren Head
*VS*
The Chad Long Horse
Chad Long Horse ofc
Long boi
The super Chad cartoon cat
Lady rainicorn
The Gad Milkwalker Ambassador
it's honestly kind of jarring when your tone shifts around from interesting analysis of the art to "Bro this isn't scary, i'm not scared!"
Alain Arduain how is siren head scary just slap his ass and tell him his mommy misses him
It was 4 minutes of "bro this isnt scary." out of an 11 minute video.
alright now say it with me folks:
SIREN HEAD IS NOT AN SCP THE CREATOR SAID SO!
*_He's not a SCP, he's not a SCP!_*
b...but a completely random person with no ties to trevor whatsoever made a draft of a sirenhead scp that wasn't even published.... therefore it MUST be an scp!!!!1!!!
@@KevlarCaviar Just because some dingledick made a sirenhead ripoff doesn't make sirenhead an scp
There is a sort of connection to Trevors original creation in order for that man to even know who and what sirenhead is
@@lachelnderhund My dude, I was being extremely sarcastic and I have no idea how that went over your head.
@@KevlarCaviar lmfao
5:28 I thought the street horse kinda looked like a worm on a string but with legs
thanks now i can't get that image out of my head,
yummy
worm off the string
@@miru8144 what sins will he commit
its [redacted] time babey!!!
The pic from him that scared me the most was the Skeleton horse but the one that was looking straight at you that was in your house, looking up at you from down stairs. Something about that- very unsettling
I feel the same. Especially with just being told that it warns you before tragedy. Like, what is about to happen? It is also mixed with what is stereotypically scary/creepy. I think it’s really cool and well done.
@@mary_dolly either a house-fire or something even worse
I cannot believe how many people I've had to tell 'it's not real' and 'it was made by Trevor Henderson'
"its not real"? to people really think siren head like.. actually exists?? lol
@@sokkvabekkr5973 you'd be surprised
The same shit happened with Slender Man, and eventually he was used as an excuse for a murder based off of "lore" that had fucking nothing to do with the original creator or even the lore from content makers that eventually popularized him like the Marble Hornets crew. It's no wonder some people believe in a Flat Earth when some believe in an openly fictional character to the same degree they believe in demons or angels.
@@fluidthought42 True dat.
I mean Trevor Henderson crafts his lore good...I mean what we see of Siren Head is just what we perceive, imagine what it’s true form is...
Is it bad that I laughed at the clip of sirenhead moving at unbelievable speeds multiple times?
I fucking lost it at the jurassic park edit
I died when he closed lined the guy in fallout and then proceeded to curb stomp him.
The Jurassic Park edit is terrifying but also funny but also terrifying
no
Nah, i also died laughing at that clip for a while
I actually make found footage art. Nowhere near as well as Trevor Henderson, but I’ve just recently started. I really appreciate how you mentioned that hiding things and using dark photos is both creepier and easier. Great video!
With that profile picture, I think you're not lying. You still have potential to make "found footage" art.
I just clicked onto your channel to see if you had any videos and your profile picture just scared me half to death
I feel like the siren head is not used properly honestly. The 'horror' of it comes from how it feels like a part of the environemnt, but at the same time is artificial and shouldnt be real. It should be slow moving, not like the fucking lanky king kong like rigs they use, where it runs and beats you like a bad gmod model. It also doesnt work as a direct thing, because lets face it, a lanky wooden boy bashing you isnt that unsettling, more just direct and blunt. I feel it would work better like long horse, where it was a bad omen of things to come, and plays into the whole siren idea, with how sirens playing due to or right before disaster. You can see this espicially with some sirenhead game mods, where they look and sound fantastic at a distance, thenwhen you get close, its back to janky long thing
I agree. He'd work better as a side character, just appearing and warning. Make it look like he is the instigator in the beginning but making it more clear that he is only warning the protagonist as the story progresses. It will kill you if you get too close but if you stay at a distance all is dandy.
I do think that this kind of approac wouldn't work anymore as people already have an image in their head of what he looks like. I HATED the audio from the original clip. That shit is unnerving and creepy to me. But by now it's already lost that appeal and feel.
I thought of him more as a lure, something that kills by making people go towards it, be attracted to it. It wouldn't work in a game because you have the power of contextual realism, wherein you know that you have to escape. Also the name "Siren Head" implies to me something along the lines of an Amber Alert, making me think more of a "Crocotta" rather than a typical horror monster
I feel this. The character really works well as possibly even a background thing, not something ever directly addressed but just sort of part of the world, a clear sign that something is terribly off, but that the least of your concerns is the 40ft monster that seems to not care about your existence. A sort of Lovecraftian horror vibe instead of "seeing a rabid wolf in the forest at night" sort of response that is easily processed by our monkey brains. It's the rustle of the leaves that's the scariest, not the snarl or show of fangs, since we've long learned to dominate the latter but are still reduced to our base levels, basically no better at the situation than our ancestors, when we notice something wrong and wonder if danger lurks nearby.
Siren Head needed to not be a giant living creature but a golem/automaton of mechanical parts and metal, which like wind turbines and powerline towers can be unfathomably huge up close. A nightmare of megalophobia and mechanophobia.
No fucking hilarious mouths, that's for sure.
@@Joghurt2499 it's cool until people think it's the ONLY sound it makes. Siren Head makes tons of odd sounds at complete random.
When I first heard about siren head, i thought he had an actual siren (Greek creature) as its head
Lol 🧜♀️
So you thought of a normal human head? or the whole body of a siren as a head? It doesn't make sense to me.
Wait, how? His head was the sexy part of the greek siren or just the woman?
Like the head of a siren (basically a human woman) or there's just an entire creature mounted on a thin slender body
idk which would be worse
My mom says he looks like a creature that's local to our area
Called: "The Marty Mission Man"
The sheer amount of times he says "I don't think he's scary" just makes it seem like he's terrified and is trying to cover it up Lol
Isn't that... The point of the video? Analyzing why it's scary and why it got famous?
Also, I just find it hard to believe that someone would even be scared of this thing 😆😆
I definitely feel like Long Horse needs more recognition
Same
We need to make a subreddit for purely: *L O N G H O R S E*
Long horse is baby
Yeah but I think Trevor’s getting more recognition but slowly like cartoon Cat and cartoon dog. It’s a slow process but I do think he’s gonna start to get a lot more recognition now!
I love long horse because it looks like it's smiling
Im glad you're showcasing trevor in general -- his stuff is so good
@@Entropy101Q Yeah. I dont think him and his other monsters get enough recognition. I personally really love long horse waayy more than siren head. Hes creepy but also strangely adorable once you read his lore.
@@Entropy101Q
That's the most frustrating part.
Ppl love his work, yet many of them didn't even know him.
When even Junji Ito calls your work *scary,* you know you've succeeded as a horror artist.
10:48
That poor kid, he just wanted to take nice stroll through the neighborhood, instead he was confronted by this....thing
I read that as "Comforted" and i was like "aw, how nice"
@Ibrahim Ghanem
Lolsame
10:36 I'd be scared too if a adult white male had a tee-shirt over his head and duck taped a 'toy' siren onto his head and walked like a drunk grandpa asked me to end his sufffering.
LMAO
i think you mean 11:50 ? and same lmao
@@jayheretoslay the...the video's 11:29 minutes long???
(am i missing a joke?)
@@user-nw3ol7fk1i I was tired when I made the comment thanks for pointting it out I'll fix it
@Medic Yes
“First you see this creature, then you see the others.” I am looking but I am not finding and I’m scared.
Behind it. Only the eyes.
Look at the creature right, glowing eyes? Now look around. That wasnt just random camera noise those are tens of eyes
This is good and bad at the same time, because I'm glad Trevor Henderson is getting the respect and popularity he deserves, but it's bad because only siren head is getting all this attention, and all of Trevor's other (and dare I say better) work is being thrown to the wayside, where only those who respect his work and aren't jumping on some bandwagon, or people that make shitty backstory videos, can find them.
Exactly. Yes, Siren Head's a little creepy, but there's nothing really special about it. Things like the Smile Room, or The Jitter (if that's even its name? It's a hand and an arm on a staircase, kinda like it's laughing. Just a nickname I gave it) seem more interesting to me.
The Man with the Upside Down Face is SUPER underrated.
Let people like what they like pls
lord of lewding People should know about his other creations.
It's sad cuz they are making shit content with his job
For me why Siren Head is so terrifying isn’t how tall he is or something like that
It’s that he makes those emergency sirens sounds I’m not sure why I’m so scared of that sound but it makes me kind of freeze in place and start crying
I just don’t know lol
Edit:Thanks for the likes :D and in my opinion it’s better if the Siren Head is more mysterious like the Backrooms we don’t really have that much information so it’s creepier/scarier
Same, i'm super scared of siren noises
Well maybe because it is associated with war? :( I don’t like these sounds either
I’m not sure lol I’m never had a traumatic experience with this noise
It’s just really scary..
It reminds me when i was 9 and hearing those kinds of sounds in my ears.
It was like i was almost deaf or some shit
Sirens are supposed to trigger your fight, flight, or freeze reflex so that’s probably why
Coming back after three years. I never realized how good Siren Head could have been in something like "The Mist". Imagine hearing the sirens alerting you of the mist. But they're not ours.
Am I the only one who saw Siren Head in 2019? It wasn't even that popular back then and Siren Head was just a basic creation if Trevor Henderson like all the others. And now it's so dang popular
yeah lmao
Me too, although I found long horse first
yep
I’ve know about Trevor for a long time, I just didn’t know who he was (like I saw his drawings and such)
I got in a few months before this craze, courtesy of the Trevor Henderson Subreddit.
Honestly yeah, the lore behind Siren Head is kinda wack, needs some fixing. Hope Trevor see’s this so he can create the perfect little abomination
I like the certain aspect of mystery and confusion that comes with sirenhead, how does this siren thing appear in cave paintings? Where does it come from? Is it from another dimension, if it is a shapeshifter, does he also affect artistic representations of him? Perhaps the cave men saw him as a big tree, but the walls show a siren head because they were seen by modern day humans? Maybe it can move through time?
UH WAS NOT EXPECTING TO FIND YOU HERE HI
@@skybots1062 yeah but sirens werent a thing back in cavemen times, so how would sirenhead shapeshift into one
@@skybots1062 that caveman thing was fuckin stupid. It doesn't fit with the wwii/cold war aesthetic it kinda gives
almost none of the lore on Sirenhead is from the creator's vison. There's not much more to Sirenhead then what's on his "fact sheet" Trevor created.
7:02 I paused that for a couple of minutes to look for the monster myself, and... I'm not disappointed!
Thats siren head! Creepy!
Why are people so obsessed with siren head when the beauty of “ Long horse” exists
I think it's because Siren Head is mean, and Long Horse is a nice fellow. You can't make a horror game about a nice horse that has a long neck
Generic Name I think you’re right siren heads a meany and long horse is just a nice gentleman
@@genericname2747 Maybe they should make a game where long horse warns you about a misfortunate and a disasterous event and you have to try to avoid the threat (for example, good boy. He is one of Trevor's creations).
@@mariehawthorne3464 that's a brilliant idea. I'd play that game
@@mariehawthorne3464 You genius!
Everybody gangsta til the 5G tower in the forest starts blaring Astronomia.
That’s what happens when Sirenhead isn’t careful
Everybody gangsta till Slenderman wannabe walks down the streets
how the fuck does this remotely even look like a 5G tower
medieval version?
Oh my god please leave me alone
I like the idea that Siren Head is some kind of weird mid-western cryptid that follows tornadoes or something. But yeah, amazing art.
Sirenhead: Being talked about by an ‘Hourglasshead’.
stop
No don't stop
Bully
Bruh
The what
All jokes aside, it did give me a little joy in my heart to see Cow Cat again, even if only for a second.
Who the fucc is that
Don't bully long horse, he is a good boy he tells you when bad stuff about to happen
Edit:spelling
I actually wholeheartedly agree with your opinions
wack
He did a good job, same here.
Wack?
wack
wack wack
Yeah, a good way to show that you're not scared is to say that every 20 seconds, really inspires confidence
It really isn't scary though? Realistically speaking this thing would go extinct if it was hostile like all the fan made lore implies, so why would anyone be scared of it? This is another example of the internet ruining legitimately creepy things.
@@cthulhu7156 It isn't. I just think people who repeat they're not scared too often usually get scared too often
It got annoying after awhile yeah
@@cthulhu7156 if you saw that irl you would shit yourself dude.. don’t try to act like you wouldn’t either because anyone would
@@Sykronium maybe, but uh. Thats the thing about fictional horror. Theres the first kind, where you actually get scared even knowing its fiction... and then theres fictional horror that doesnt do that.
Never heard about this thing. It’s scariness didn’t even cross my mind, I just love the thing’s design. This guy is genuinely talented
sirenhead is actually EXACTLY like slenderman, because it went unnoticed for a long time until a popular youtuber played a video game based on it and it blew up.
Who is this youtuber you are speaking of?
@@snowblub prolly pewds
@@user-ts9sw7rl1z prolly
@@snowblub proll
why did i think it was cory kenshin😔
Remember guys! Siren Head is not an SCP! Trevor wants it to be his own thing, and we should respect his choice. Thank you!~
Nah. He made the character and the original images. He didn't create the universe that Sirenhead exists in. The creepypasta community did. He comes off as chasing clout. Look at characters like the Rake, Fleshgait, the Russian Sleep Experiment story...etc. Trevor is the only one behaving this way. Don't make SPC and creepypasta shit if you don't want it to be in the SPC and creepypasta universe.
@@kimjong-un1900 but it's not an SCP
What's an SCP i know i sound dumb
Faded Paths the SCP foundation is a fandom consisting of thousands of cryptids. I would recommend looking up some scp related media on TH-cam or just going straight to the scp website
@@kimjong-un1900 scp=/=creepypasta
Among us: becomes popular 2 years later
Siren head: becomes popular 2 years later
Coincidence I think not
when the 5g tower sus
This is why I find The Backrooms more anxiety-inducing.
Sirenhead for me is a creature from either of the World Wars. I find it more entertaining.
Uh oh. I fell out of my gaming chair and noclipped through reality, and ended up in the backrooms
Brandon Potenberg
I could summarize my opinion on the backrooms, but your reply is nice out of context
What are you talking about?
Lil Porky The backrooms are based on this picture of an empty, oddly uncomfortable room. The interesting thing about it is it tends to invoke the feeling of a dream in a lot of people-very familiar yet off.
@@snowyyzoe No, I'm talking about the last 2 sentences. What does Sirenhead have to do with the world wars?
Can’t wait for the trevor fandom to start making yaoi of long horse and big Charlie making out in a forest
Being an OG siren head fan, I am really happy that more people are learning about it. However, I am also worried that the fear is going to get sucked out of it by stuff like that.
Edit: Thanks for the recognition, glad some people agree with me.
Thanks for putting that terrifying image in my head.
I thought the thought of there being Bridge Worm vore is scary.
Luckily for you I found long horse on e621.
Oh no
I think there's already Yaoi of Siren Head and Long Horse, and it fucking terrifies me
7:01 Solar Sands: “This image I was staring at for a solid 10 minutes looking for the oddity”
Me: *immediately finds it*
Same
Slenderman made love to a siren, that's how this was made
Go home slender man youre drunk
No... Just...No
Im gonna kill myself now! :D
LMFAO
Yes! Thats why he said arise my siren head son!
I think the reason why Siren Head is so scary to a lot of people is because of what it represents: the siren. We associate the sound the siren makes as the coming of something dangerous and ominous - usually leading to some sort of tragedy or disaster. This is the fear the Siren Head taps into and that's what makes it both so scary and interesting to us.
Exactly!!
Yes!
Solar Sands isn't the fist individual to find Siren head amusing. But to anyone who wants to see an unnerving image of Siren head - watch the "Mighty Siren Head" music video. I don't see how anyone could make Siren head appear any more disturbing!
There was also a perfect Siren Head scary short - but I unfortunately can't find it anywhere.
Lastly I felt compelled to say that anything with such a long lanky figure should definitely be able to run like the wind. Furthermore Siren head is likely incredibly light for its size being that it possesses a near-skeletal frame. This is one instance where the phrase "just skin and bones" can be applied literally! :)
I think what's so terrifying about it. The siren aspect, but also the scale of it. It's huge, it's creepy. What would humans do if a huge creature, screaming like a siren would appear, stomping around and causing disaster
I actually like the siren and it is in fact not that scary. The thing is: him being some sort of a radio station with arms and legs is just hilarious
2 years later and its cool that a photo i took to be included in Trevor's art project has been thrown into this video! hell yeah!!!!
solar sands: hm this street horse is intriguing
me: oh no, worm off a string. what sins will he commit
hmmst, yes, I find this funny sewer monster intrigueisting
He's on a quest to commit every single sin
"arson"
Out of all this guys art siren head is one of the only ones that doesn’t actually scare me and just intrigues me. All the other ones give me a visceral and fluttery feeling that makes me want to walk away and click on something else. But siren head I just want to know about and look at
Siren Head isn't even that scary to begin with. Since he's a meme material now, I can't take the fear too seriously. The "cursed image" videos that depicts Trevor Henderson's art combined with Monster Inc. theme song or All-Star by Smash Mouth mixed with fear and hilarity, almost like I'm watching a horror comedy film.
Me too
Then the SCP Foundation is for you! Scary monsters combined with intriguing lore is everywhere in the SCP franchise!
I think JonTron said it best in his old video '6 Scary Things in Videogames' "Stuff popping out at you is a bore fest of snores, subtlety is where it's at."
I’ll call it more unnerving than scary, i mean, juts hits in the nuclear or emergency state sirens, i love how it makes me feel the loudest sound from far away, just seeing the siren head from far away doesn’t make me scary of him, it makes me feel like, ok, life changes now don’t mind about a second ago when i didn’t notice him, and even more hidden in the mist of the winter morning
At it's best, it's an amazing monster. There's a lot of layers to it. It can be the modernized fear of atomic weapons, where the civil defense siren is the single most horrific invasion of normal life and the natural environment imaginable, one which, on the day it goes after you, it's much faster than you can ever hope to escape. It can be the fear of bots, as it may-or-may-not have the ability to control radios and phones, faking the voices of others in order to hunt down it's target, make them do what it wants so that it can get them. It's an impossibly tall human, body emaciated to the point it blends in with trees and telephone poles, it's head viciously replaced with a piece of technology that represents government, authority, warning (which one can't know to be real or manipulation), and communication. And it's not singular, you can kill as many of them as you want but there might still be more. It's a daylight fear, one that is best used not as a sudden fright, but as something that was always present, something that you watch coming when it charges, completely unable to stop it.
It's the internet's now, so 99% of what can be found on it is crap, but that 1%, the 0.2%, is horrifying. And I love it.
The original Sirenhead post that Trevor made is pretty eerie. It’s a shot of the desert, the backstory that it’s a Polaroid photo from a road trip. It hits you like “That’s a weirdly thick pole. I wonder why-WAIT, THOSE ARE LIMBS WHAT THE HELL!”
What he can potentially do is far more frightening than how he looks.
i wonder if it hits differently for people who grew up in tornado country. The heavy clouds and green sky and the sirens blaring.
8:21 “First you see the creature, but then you start to notice the others.” WHAT OTHERS OH NO
Where are them
Next to the creature you'll see some slightly glowing eyes
@@bishopnickle2207 THANK YOU A LOT
Immediately to the left of the main creature, there’s eyes that seem to be further back in the woods.
also eyes at the far left
It really helps to be vague and leave room for the imagination to fill in the blank, because what's in our head is what's the most real to us. That's why darkness is scary because our head starts imagining what could be in the dark. Less is often more in this case
Imagine Siren Head just playing: THE FITNESS GRAM PACER TEST
@Maria Alonso eat your cereal
Alright, you asked for it.
The FitnessGram Pacer Test is a multistage aerobic capacity test that progressively gets more difficult as it continues. The 20 meter pacer test will begin in 30 seconds. Line up at the start. The running speed starts slowly but gets faster each minute after you hear this signal. A single lap should be completed every time you hear this sound. Remember to run in a straight line and run as long as possible. The second time you fail to complete a lap before the sound, your test is over. The test will begin on the word start. On your mark. Get ready!… Start.
@@FiSH-iSH OMG YES
MY SCHOOL NIGHTMARES ARE COMING BACK
No...your wrong
**Pornhub intro noises**
@@thegreatnani1 lmfao imagine if people in the replies start asking you if you take requests
Most public work creepypasta i feel succumb to "over-explanation" , where so much is elaborated on that really only the original is even remotely scary. The backrooms is another example, the original image is such...something. Yet I feel completely unaffected by everything else. Same here, original sirenhead is decent and in dark shadows kinda "oh shit" but the more people worked on them the more it is just slenderman but siren
It's because you're being so exposed to it it doesn't really have the same effect
Anuel
I’m glad you understand
I mean I read a story following the pure fear of the unknown of the backrooms. It was first hand story of somebody going in there with a few friends. It made the back rooms a lot scarier of a concept. Being trapped in a maze of psychological horror and unknowns beings. But I can see how it could be ruined with a bunch of people explaining exactly how it works
@@RealityRogue there are a lot of good scps about being trapped in something you can't escape really. There's the stairs, the tower in the forest I can't remember, the grandpa, that house that leaks creatures, etc
Way spookier
“The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown”
― H.P. Lovecraft
8:22 "First you see this creature, then you see the others."
Me, furiously searching for 2 months: WHERE ARE THEY???
Seriously, I don’t see _anything_
The only thing i see is a tall slender humanoid next to a tree in the far back of the middle of the picture with white eyes
Saaaame
it’s super subtle and you’ll most likely see it when you turn up your brightness. there’s a bunch of eyes next to that creature
@@alexxela172 OH MY GOD THANK YOU
**Sees Long Horse rolling down the streets**
Oh boy, it's suicide time!
I mean Long Horse is just warning you that something dangerous is going to happen or is nearby, and also he smells like cinnamon, wich isn’t bad at all.
Hey why do I have a gun in my mouth?
Nio D:
I wanna pet it. It seems nice
*N E C K*
Me: Mom can we have siren head?
Mom: No we already have siren head at home
Siren head at home: 13:26
Didn't get me.
yeah okay, 2015 unfunny joke
Where’s the funny?
Honestly, I'm just disappointed
Can you explain
Bro why aren't we focusing on Long Horse? That shit's unsettling.
Because he’s a good boy
@Marcus Chorn cause he is a good boy
@Marcus Chorn he good boi
@Marcus Chorn hes a bad omen, not an actually hostile entity. He just says "ayo cheif evacuate the area shits boutta go down"
Sirenhead's ability to scare me is like a 1/10 but that long horse thing is probably an 8
The lore of it appearing on tragedies only makes it scarier. Imagine being in a car crash or being chased by some horny weirdo and getting violated in the woods then seeing that shit come out of the ground or a well while you're slowly dying
Sirenhead's lore makes it laughable and even kinda cute 😆
I just hope it doesn't become the next Sans and have a ton of those... Fanarts
1:37 this is the one that gets me the most. For a still image it just feels so sudden, like you just moved your flashlight over it and it's there. It's a god damn fight or flight moment. How fast does it move? Can you run or are you just frozen? Are you able to freeze? Maybe it's because it's a cave or something but this one is my favorite because it makes me really uneasy just thinking about the situation.
The whole thing involving Siren Head being on cave paintings is a similar situation to the pokemon Meloetta. I think the monster inspired the thing it's based off of in the universe they're in. Like I believe Siren Head did exist long before sirens in universe, but he likely inspired the design of the siren in universe
Hold up.
What! Meloetta based off lore >:0 that’s interesting
That sounds so crazy, it just might be true
What the fucl does that pokemob have to do with this subject
I mean cavemen don’t really makes detailed art they just get like berries and smudge them on their fingers. It’s all about general form to them
@@n.c.herping6435 yes, and besides that, they also tried to show movement as well, thats why some drawings look odd. They just added more limbs to portrait movement.
I agree that the scares that take a bit to notice are always better. To me it makes it seem more realistic, like you don't know you're in danger until it's too late kinda thing. It also just gives the image a more unsettling and natural feeling because everything seems normal and fine until you take a closer look.
3:40
Henderson merely *suggested* lore for his *own* creation? That’s so fucking humble and I love it
What about a whole character sheet of information is “merely suggested” lore I’m-
My lore about him is...
A retired Federal Signal worker found an EOWS 612 at an abandoned power plant. He tried to get it... But the siren and him fell into a radioactive substance
I’ve never been more thankful that siren head was created, Trevor Henderson deserves his recognition.
The idea of Siren Head was scary in the beginning when it was relatively unknown. The idea of coming across such an alien entity that should NOT exist while out in the woods alone is chilling.
Wow dude yeah the hipster music album WAS better when nobody knew it
@@Mace907 I think its more like; take an Imagine Dragons song, like Believer or Thunder. Objectively they're pretty decent songs. However, they got played over and over and over and over to exhaustion and now everyone hates them.
Same thing here. Slenderman ain't scary anymore and neither is Sirenhead, both for the exact same reason: oversaturation. We know them, they're everywhere, they're dancing to whatever meme song is hot right now... terror exists in the enigma. To understand a threat is to remove the fear of the threat.
Wolves were once this horrible monster that prowled the dark... until someone found their pups and realised they were just animals too and now we have dogs. Bears were these massive terrifying beasts of teeth and claws and hunger that could rip a man to shreds... who we now know to be a bunch of goofballs and scared of cats.
We still have respect for them as predators and threats to ourselves, but we are no longer terrified of them. We know what they are, how they hunt, how they behave when not hunting, how to avoid being hunted or angering them, and how they can be killed if push comes to shove. There is no longer any mystery, thus there is no true terror.
Well, except for wolves. There are a few videos taken by hikers who got surrounded by wolves. There is terror there. The reason? Wolves never let you see the entire hunting pack. You'll see one dart in front of you, then hear another behind you. You turn and see a glimpse of it disappearing into the brush, only to hear movement from a direction the wolf *didn't* move in. You know you are surrounded. You have no idea how many wolves are around you. The mystery combines with the imminent threat and creates terror.
How do the hikers react? They're scared alright, but they're also pretty calm. They *know* this behaviour, been informed of what to do if it happens. They know that the wolves aren't hunting them, in truth they are trying to scare the hiker off. The right thing to do is to stop and slowly walk back the way you came. Sure, they're scared, they know one wrong move could see the pack attack them, but really the wolves are far more interested in whatever they were *actually* hunting, usually a deer. They know if they were actually hunting the hiker, the wolves would *never* let themselves been seen. They would just attack and that would be the end of it.
Hikers know that this behaviour means the wolves are treating you as a *rival* predator, not prey, and are simply trying to look big and tough to scare you away.
Thus, the terror is gone. There is no more mystery, just facts you can act upon. The more you know, the less fear you have.
Fear, *terror*, comes from not knowing, from not having a plan.
As such, we know too much about these creepy pasta monsters and so there is no more fear. We know Sirenhead is slow and cumbersome, hunting by ambush. We know how it lures prey, the sounds it makes and the voices it will mimic. We know it is still an organic creature, vulnerable to bullets and fire. The lore is too comprehensive.
Furthermore, we see it everywhere. In music clips, memes, even a dating sim. We defeated our fear with humour, a very common thing for humans to do, and thus it holds no terror for us anymore. We see past the shock to the silliness behind it and thus the power it holds over us is gone.
So yes, in short, a horror monster is indeed scarier the more obscure it is. *That's* *the* *point*
Thank you so much for making a video about Trevor Henderson and his work! He's one of my favourite artists and i'm honestly really glad he's getting a lot of recognition nowadays :)
Finally, I been waiting for a Trevor Henderson video. I love his art.
i'm SO glad you brought up that scene in hereditary, i've been thinking about it since the first time i saw it
People making practice animations with siren head: yes he is not real
Chills: *as you can see, this video shows real life siren head*
This makes me realize that Steven King’s stories aren’t as scary as they used to anymore.
But R.L Stine still has his horror feeling, and also H.P Lovecraft. Despite being dead.
By my opinion H.P Lovecraft is the best at writing horror stories. He has this imagination like no other, because his creatures aren’t things you would imagine from under your bed, wanting to kill you. Or a monster in the closet or basement that wants to eat you alive. His creatures are out of this world. Literally.
While, Trevor Henderson’s creatures are Bizarre than how you would expect a monster to be. Trevor’s Monsters fit with the atmosphere and environment they are in. Creating that Nightmare feeling you don’t want to have ever again.
I would pay to see a battle against H.P Lovecraft and Trevor Henderson. If Lovecraft was still alive though.
what i love about hp lovecraft is the sense of helplessness and smallness he often leaves you with. it truly is so terrifying to feel like you will meet some kind of terrible fate to something so huge and otherworldly that no one could possibly fight back. that why i think junji ito is also scary (other than the disturbing body horror he does so well)
too bad lovecraft is suuuper racist haha
@@_peepee_ you can appreciate the art while not ignoring the artists shitty opinions. There's also contradicting accounts on if he changed his view points just before he died. He died at like 30 something so I'd like to think he eventually would have grown out of those shitty mindsets if he had more time to live.
Have you ever read a goose bumps book? Like recently? They’re like jump scares if they were in book form.
I remember reading the scare crow walks at midnight and every chapter would end with some thing that promised to be scary but turned out to be something normal like confusing a broom for being a scare crow hand it’s really stupid.
The worst camp camp memes ever In Stine’s defense, his books are for kids. Kids can’t really take things like Atmosphere. As for Lovecraft, he had a terrible life. Even though he was super racist, I feel bad for him.
Okay, Long Horse has sent shivers down the shivers I already had on my spine.
8:12 This is one of the only pictures I find extremely unsettling, the atmosphere is just creepy
Agreed because I mean just imagine opening up your blinds and that thing is just there
Agredd
@@ChillyFrost_
Buy that sort of decor, you need one per window.
I have some in storage for when I visit someone else. I MUST see that creature in the foreground of any window.
I think sirenhead blew up so much because it’s extremely memorable. A lot of these other design are all pale, fleshy, unusual proportions, somewhat skeletal... They blend together a little bit, especially with prevalence of already popular creepypasta monsters, critters from the Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark books, and SCPs. Sirenhead is (at least in my experience with horror art) quite unique and I’ve not seen anything else quite like it.
It’s also a matter of personal preference. I don’t find sirenhead particularly creepy (I also share more of the fascination reaction, like I want to read all about it in a monster encyclopedia) but I find long horse even less scary, especially considering it’s potentially infinite body. I just find it kind of goofy.
Exactly, and especially true with your second point. Iirc Trevor has a bloody long horse plush lmao
To me, Long Horse is way scarier because of the lore behind it.
Ot doesn't just appear everywhere. It appears in tragedies
And based on the images used in this video, it only appears in scary places where you wouldn't want it to be
Sirenhead is just some skinny tall guy that's probably gonna get treated lile how Sans was treated... With those type of fanarts
Your first paragraph doesn’t make sense lol. So siren head, a monster that is known for being skeletal and somewhat fleshy, stands out from the rest of the monsters that are skeletal and fleshy... but I totally agree with the second paragraph.
I think its because the siren. Its catchy and you familiar with it
5:31
"all these details that scream-"
*worm on a string*
No one:
Solar sands repeatedly: *I'm not scared*
8:27 "... Then you see the others"
There's MORE?
I can't find any other creature and it's seriously freaking me out...
It's the slightly glowing eyes in the background
@@mehdiradenen4849 OH MY GOD I SEE IT THANK YOU BUT NOT THANK YOU IN SCARED
are those really eyes or just grain artifacts...?
Oh shit, i figured out whats going on here. The eyes are very blurry when the whole image is shown (8:23), but are clearly visible after he zooms it in (8:27). My guess would be that this is an editing "error", wrongly set width to length ratio or something like that...
lol, this was image was in the back of my mind for several days... "If the others are not in the picture, then where ARE they?"
siren head is honestly terrifying but it’s almost.. too interesting to let your fear push you away.
You cannot have monster creatures in the 21st century, Earth’s horniness is simply too great. Just look at what happened to SCP-1471.
_Humanity??????_
we live in a soceity
What happened to SCP-1471?
@@bgdhfytgy135 don't even think about it, unless you want death.
Milk stole dad Lewd uwu
@@VeraVemaVena tell me please. I've been under a rock for the past 10 years.
Siren head when it sees a person that hasn’t been rick rolled: You know the rules and so do I.
o h n o
In this situation, siren head would probably just rick roll the person and leave him alone afterwards. Like a monster.
@@dragonslayer2582 Too true man, i always do that
Honestly, this guy's lore would be so much better if his gig was just rickrolling people
@@kedarunzi9139 same with slenderman.
You see him, you can here the static, he closes in on you. This is the end.
You hear. Something familiar. So eerie. th-cam.com/video/oKJZypn4Erw/w-d-xo.html
The concept of your channel exists in my head as “Nile Red but with less science and more jokes” and that’s a compliment
Yay I'm glad you're talking about this amazing thing
Uwu
Internet: makes Sirenhead a meme rather than treating it like a creepypasta
Trevor: No you can't just do that It supposed to be creepy
Internet: Haha go brrr
That's not how that meme goes
@@mambaramba
- Nooo you can't just mess up the meme!!1!1!
- Haha joke go brrrr
no, you didn't use the meme right
@@petarmitkov1056 neither did you
Would you rather kids thinking that it’s real and trying to summon it at 3 am
“Long Horse” is the funniest and best name I’ve ever heard
*Slenderman:* _"Finally, a worthy opponent, our battle will be legendary..."_
Reddit moment
Sirenhead is a joke compared to Slenderman, come on...
Артур К Lol how? Slenderman doesn’t even do anything
13:47
It would've been messed up if he got ran over because you made him into a monster using duct tape
oh c'mon! not you again!
What's with the broken timestamp?
So basically summerizing the video, horror is somewhat just like music; the worst and stupidest effortless work gets all the views and the most fantastic, beautiful works gets to be underrated. Damn the internet has no taste.
8:26 Holy shit it took me a while to see the others. I love that image
I don’t see shit... >_
WHERE. I MUST KNOW.
where are they
@@sortagoodish8491 looking very closely (with your brightness up) you can see more pairs of eyes to the left of the main creature at about elbow level
@@Jayberisk3793 thnx! I see it now :)
People are actually starting to fangirl over Siren Head....
welp, there goes the sense of genuine interest and mystery around this creature! Now it’s on par with slender man and Jeff the killer!
Don’t you love how the internet ruins *L I T R E L Y E V E R Y T H I N G*
Dont be jealous cause you cant get that good siren head
@@goblinmorganson516 commit yes
thats what happens to spooky shit
Siren head fangirls be like:
Mmmmhh..~ *✨S I R E N S✨* 😩💦
6:12 tbh the creepiness of the creatures itself in like most of those examples makes up for it not being super hidden, i think if everything was hidden itd get old fast, i think the fact that that creature in this case is just RIGHT THERE and heading straight for you adds a lot to the creepiness, which it wouldnt have it it was hidden, also its just impressive to still be creepy even without having to make it super subtle and hidden
7:02
That image is perfect to me, it’s terrifying, and looking to find the added image makes it more, eerie. And when you do find it, your not sure if that’s the image, this piece made me be still a solid minute
I wasn't expecting someone else to remember the good old "You'll shit bricks" images from like a decade ago :P
People saying “iT s aN sCP”
People saying :”it’s anomaly it was never meant to be and scp”
True not all anomalies belong to the scp universe
"the slenderman of 2020"
There better be 8 year olds today telling stories around a campfire about it then
Well not this year but when we can