An interesting Honorable Mention: When the platypus was first discovered, everyone thought it was a hoax, since it does look like a combination of at least three animals.
I love the fact that your channel is a combination between Paleontology, Cryptozoology, and Speculative evolution. I'd love to expand out to those subjects!
I've got some stuff in the works, getting back to my original point I wish I could start making things about cryptozoology and speculative evolution too but I feel like if I do the algorithm will bury my tiny 550 sub channel.
I remember that when I was little and I first saw the “image” of the Loch Ness monster, I thought it was a low quality photo of a goose or a duck that was less buoyant than usual
@@iflykaya I don’t know too many elephants that migrate from Africa to Scotland, do you lol Let me guess, you are going to argue that they were carried by swallows, and we are going to go on about the airspeed velocities of African and European swallows
**Seeing obviously fake fairies:** Aww how wholesome and harmless, but how did anyone believe it? "Believing in psychic phenomenas is part of an escape to the horror of the first world war" Shit.
Funny thing is I saw a goose flying backwards a few weeks ago 😶 Edit: Ok I've figured out it is an actual thing that sometimes when its windy Canadian geese fly backwards, so I guess im not crazy.
If you're interested in cryptids, might I suggest doing a video on America's "fearsome critters"? They're basically humorous creatures lumberjacks would tell eachother and passers-by. This includes famous beings like the jackalope, the hodag, and the hidebehind, but most are FAR more ridiculous, such as the squonk, the hugag, the axehandle hound, and the fur-bearing trout (which you showed at the end).
Are you sure jackalopes weren't inspired by rabbits that that horn-like growths coming out of their skulls? Also, the Al-Mi'raj is a mythical being that looks like a rabbit with a unicorn-like horn or horns. In fact, the rassellbock and Lepus Cornutus are fictional horned hares/rabbits.
As an Oregonian raised in the the early internet era, I was obsessed as a kid with the Pacific northwest tree octopus! Thank you for the mention of it, I've rarely heard any others bring it up before if ever! 🐙
I remember back in 4th or 5th grade we had a whole lesson about the tree octopus. The teacher acted like it was completely real and it just seemed like a completely normal lesson, but at the end day we had to take this quiz on it and we all ended up learning that it was fake and how not to trust everything on the internet. Honestly think that’s a great lesson, to like teach kids about being skeptical of what they’re told. It was really fun too. Was a great teacher.
I'm a fan of James May's (of top gear fame) attempt at making his own fake cryptid monster which both backfired (they LOST the dang props of the monster while in the middle of using it) but also exceeded his expectations when one of the crew's video went viral
Love this one! Do you think you could research the "ecosystem" of Viva Piñata: Trouble In Paradise? The biodiversity on Piñata Island would surely tickle a biologist like yourself!
My grandpa once made a fake skeleton of a small human, then he buried it in his school in THE EXACT spot where they were gonna dig it up for construction, then, he proceded to watch the world burn
Great video! There are a lot of fun alleged UFO hoaxes, Gulf Breeze comes to mind. While I always crave proof of the unknown, I do appreciate the artistry of a good hoax. Serios' thoughtography is another good one!
Should have mentioned Sir Arthur Conan Doyle lost a son in the war so one of the cousins claimed they had agreed to not reveal what they’d done for his sake. Not to disrupt his escape.
I almost made a cryptid hoax myself in the report of the "Beach Centipede" for this one I actually used the very long seaweed with small leaves and dragged it across the sand to make everyone think that a giant centipede has crawled by to make everyone think that the Beach Centipede is real..
As a child, I adored the idea of monsters that no one has ever really discovered. There was that sense of mystery that was exciting. Now I find the the explanations amusing even if it breaks my child heart every time.
Ooohh i remembered that tree octopus! But oddly I haven’t seen “anyone” talked about it since until now. Could you do Kasai Rex and some of the supposed dino cryptid next?
It's a shame, I thought you'd say something about the spirit being at the end. I have seen that video long ago. I would be interested in how it was done. PS: I found It. U have already done a Video for these. I love your TH-cam Channel!
Imagine spending your life writing detective stories disproving theories and coming up with simple explanations only to get fooled by cardboard cutouts. I bet A.conan Doyle would gladly erase this part of his life from history.
This tree octopus doesn't sound so far fetched. Many marine animals including octopuses can move on land to some degree. It's not so hard to imagine an octopus going out for a short hunt on land before returning to some body of water.
i thought the pacific northwest tree octopus story came to me in a dream, because i tried bringin git up once but nobody knew what i was talking about. that shows you, ms. jacobsen's 3rd grade class!
Has anyone ever heard of the High-Finned Sperm Whale? I found it once in a list of cryptids but I've never actually seen anything beyond some speculative art of the cryptid. Never any actual information on where it originates from.
That mermaid is upstairs at Harvard museum of natural history in Cambridge, mass. I saw it a few weeks ago. Edit - it wasn't destroyed 3:07 is the photo of exhibit I'm referring too with article mounted behind it.
@@baneofbanes Are you talking about Sir Conandoyle? If so... well sure. But isn't it quite ironic that someone who has made a living writing some of the MOST brilliant Detective stories couldn't tell a hoax when he saw it? XD It's just funny.
I thought Sheepsquatch was just a joke for Fallout 76. Apparently at some point there was a "mystery" in our area called the dog boy but there's nothing about it anywhere that i can.
Houdini vs Doyle is a pretty interesting story. Doyle was a believer in the paranormal, his name (as the inventor of the world's best detective) often lending credibility to claims that otherwise would not have been taken seriously. Houdini on the other hand was a skeptic, following an experience where a spiritualist who promised and failed to summon his dead mother, spent some time discrediting false mediums. He was really the first "stage magician debunker", a tradition followed later by people like James Randi.
This reminds me of a funny news from Indonesia a few years back Some people claimed that a "fairy folk" (fey, ghost, female demons or whatever their other names) appeared on the seashore, so many people comes to see It's a thrown sexdoll
I made myself a Fijimerman. It's patterned after the one at the Alligator farm in Hot Springs,Arkansas. He sits in an aquarium on red felt on top of my refrigerator.
3:46 Has anyone here watched the How to train your dragon series? Ok, I have a point here and it might be connected in some way. So the Loch Ness Monster was found in Scotland, still unproven to have truly existed. And it was recorded a long time ago. What if people decided to use Nessie as an inspiration for dragons in httyd? Plus, the berk’s people have a Scottish accent, except for a few but my point is, what if this sighting was the inspiration for dragons? Just a thought.
I feel like the tree octopus could actually have inspired people to protest against logging, so, hey, save the pacific tree octopus and save a tree :=)
9:28 we were actually showed this website in 6th grade (as an example of false information) I believe it until the teacher revealed it was false.... I'm not a clever man
Ce serait cool quand même que des cryptides, comme Nessie et Bigfoot, existent dans notre monde... D'un côté, ces deux là ont en quelques sortes déjà existé : Nessie est un membre des Plésiosauridés, qui aurait pu hypothétiquement survivre à l'extinction du Crétacé, et Bigfoot est un Gigantopithecus, qui aurait migré lors de l'ère glacière et évolué au climat nord-américain (je suis plus convaincu pour le deuxième) !! Oui, je suis Français
I remember doing some assignment for school involving the tree octopus, we were asked if we believed the article was real or not and to give reasons why. As someone who really enjoyed (and still does) animal documentaries i just laughed at the stupidity of it, I belive my answer was something along the lines off "No, because octopuses have not evolved any of the traits needed to be a land dwelling creature." To be honest I never thought it was an actual "cryptid" I thought it was something the school made up since it was printed out.
Piltdown Man was quite the hoax in terms that it was intentionally fabricated, but I think the Nebraska Man has a far more hilarious debunk. (and proves the desperateness of finding missing links)
An interesting Honorable Mention: When the platypus was first discovered, everyone thought it was a hoax, since it does look like a combination of at least three animals.
Doof before that, a beaver stuck with a duck beak, no perry the beaver stuck with a duck beak!!
You bring a live platypus and they go "Gotta admit, that's pretty impressive - how did you do the beak?"
Can you really blame them?
They're a freaking mobile source of omelets
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Lame...
Explain?@@clintelkins9630
I love the fact that your channel is a combination between Paleontology, Cryptozoology, and Speculative evolution. I'd love to expand out to those subjects!
Ye I thought of the same thing, it's really cool
This comments ganna blow up🙂
@@safwanrahman8781 Oh, Well in that case... Subscribe to Paleo Analysis! 🤣
@@PaleoAnalysis sure but make more interesting videos like the ones ur making😉
I've got some stuff in the works, getting back to my original point I wish I could start making things about cryptozoology and speculative evolution too but I feel like if I do the algorithm will bury my tiny 550 sub channel.
I remember that when I was little and I first saw the “image” of the Loch Ness monster, I thought it was a low quality photo of a goose or a duck that was less buoyant than usual
I love how this makes so much sense.
now i can't unseen
I heard somewhere that a lot of Nessie sightings are actually elephants swimming in the lake with their trunks sticking out of the water.
@@iflykaya I don’t know too many elephants that migrate from Africa to Scotland, do you lol
Let me guess, you are going to argue that they were carried by swallows, and we are going to go on about the airspeed velocities of African and European swallows
@@researcherchameleon4602 Well you see, there are these things called humans that like to move wild animals around.
**Seeing obviously fake fairies:** Aww how wholesome and harmless, but how did anyone believe it?
"Believing in psychic phenomenas is part of an escape to the horror of the first world war"
Shit.
“Pictured here looking extremely normal” man that’s great hahaha
I'm actually also a cryptid, I'm a colony of ants and a lobster in the shape of a person.
My classmates call me lobster man.
@@Elijah_Yinkledoink Lobster-Man, Lobster-Man
Half a Lobster and half some Ants!
I knew it, no real humen is so awesome!
@PKMN-Trainer Gold I know have an official theme song.
Kinda like Zoidberg from Futurama
There's a hilarious cryptid called the "Goofus" which is a backwards flying bird
So that means that hummingbirds are Goofus birds because they are the only birds who can fly backwards :)
@@YahyeAli123 lol, I think the type of bird was some kind of north American duck
Yeah I’ve Watch something about that
I’ve read about that
Funny thing is I saw a goose flying backwards a few weeks ago 😶
Edit: Ok I've figured out it is an actual thing that sometimes when its windy Canadian geese fly backwards, so I guess im not crazy.
If you're interested in cryptids, might I suggest doing a video on America's "fearsome critters"? They're basically humorous creatures lumberjacks would tell eachother and passers-by. This includes famous beings like the jackalope, the hodag, and the hidebehind, but most are FAR more ridiculous, such as the squonk, the hugag, the axehandle hound, and the fur-bearing trout (which you showed at the end).
Are you sure jackalopes weren't inspired by rabbits that that horn-like growths coming out of their skulls? Also, the Al-Mi'raj is a mythical being that looks like a rabbit with a unicorn-like horn or horns. In fact, the rassellbock and Lepus Cornutus are fictional horned hares/rabbits.
I've been having the most delightful 10 minutes googling all of these critters that I've never heard of before, so thanks for the laughs
hoop snakes
Don't forget manbearpig, which so many people didn't believe was true despite Al Gore telling us super duper cereally that it was real
The tree dwelling Octopus is a brilliant idea, really shows that you don't have to go too far to be creative
As an Oregonian raised in the the early internet era, I was obsessed as a kid with the Pacific northwest tree octopus! Thank you for the mention of it, I've rarely heard any others bring it up before if ever! 🐙
I love how you can stay so serious and straight making this video. Love your content 👍
Tree Octopus? That's clearly a Squibbon
I remember back in 4th or 5th grade we had a whole lesson about the tree octopus. The teacher acted like it was completely real and it just seemed like a completely normal lesson, but at the end day we had to take this quiz on it and we all ended up learning that it was fake and how not to trust everything on the internet. Honestly think that’s a great lesson, to like teach kids about being skeptical of what they’re told. It was really fun too. Was a great teacher.
I’m really glad you talked about the Tree Octopus. They’re still using it to teach students about how to properly research in schools.
I'm a fan of James May's (of top gear fame) attempt at making his own fake cryptid monster which both backfired (they LOST the dang props of the monster while in the middle of using it) but also exceeded his expectations when one of the crew's video went viral
Imagine a tree octopus falling onto yer head all of a sudden while yer hiking in the woods
I was expecting the Hodag to be on this list, but since it's not then that means it isn't a cryptid which means it's real!
There is also a Hodag challenge,
Hashtag Hodag on Twitter 100 times on a thread or eles it’s coming and eating all your cheese
wut
1:36 everyone looks so disappointed except Tony 😂
Love this one! Do you think you could research the "ecosystem" of Viva Piñata: Trouble In Paradise? The biodiversity on Piñata Island would surely tickle a biologist like yourself!
You should do a biology of monster hunter!
I lost it when saw the fur bearing trout 🤣
Conman suing a conman was the best part >_
Can’t wait for the 30 minute episode about sheepquach
My grandpa once made a fake skeleton of a small human, then he buried it in his school in THE EXACT spot where they were gonna dig it up for construction, then, he proceded to watch the world burn
The tree octopus is how my school first talked about fake news
I think you're giving some information and inspiration to the people that made Cryptozoologicon: Volume I.
Great video! There are a lot of fun alleged UFO hoaxes, Gulf Breeze comes to mind. While I always crave proof of the unknown, I do appreciate the artistry of a good hoax. Serios' thoughtography is another good one!
Its easy to tell the two Charles' apart. Dawson doesn't have Darwin's awesome beard.
True
I thought the Loch Ness monster was a whale giving its snake some air
Where do you know how a whales *love stick * looks like 🤨🤔
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@@Juan-lq2jy Clickbait videos
@@Juan-lq2jy animal documentaries
@@Juan-lq2jy actually I think from casual geographic
I’m still a firm supporter of the Hoop Snake
Tree octopus for the win! Love that you are talking about this one =)
Should have mentioned Sir Arthur Conan Doyle lost a son in the war so one of the cousins claimed they had agreed to not reveal what they’d done for his sake. Not to disrupt his escape.
I almost made a cryptid hoax myself in the report of the "Beach Centipede" for this one I actually used the very long seaweed with small leaves and dragged it across the sand to make everyone think that a giant centipede has crawled by to make everyone think that the Beach Centipede is real..
I remember learning about the tree octopus in computer class to teach us not to trust everything on the internet
"Not to be confused with the WAY COOLER Charles Darwin" 😂
It's very satisfying everytime i watch your video.
As a child, I adored the idea of monsters that no one has ever really discovered. There was that sense of mystery that was exciting. Now I find the the explanations amusing even if it breaks my child heart every time.
4:40 He didn't fake the footprints, he himself got fooled by the footprints.
The tree octopus was hilarious 😆
yes yes yes! the tree octopus, always a favorite of mine! it might as well be a modern fearsome creature!
I simply love your videos, themes and narration
Tree octopus would be a cool animal.
Also, would love to see more videos on cryptids.
I find jackalopes quite charming.
Ooohh i remembered that tree octopus! But oddly I haven’t seen “anyone” talked about it since until now.
Could you do Kasai Rex and some of the supposed dino cryptid next?
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It's a shame, I thought you'd say something about the spirit being at the end. I have seen that video long ago. I would be interested in how it was done.
PS: I found It. U have already done a Video for these. I love your TH-cam Channel!
The Fresno Nightcrawler, it's already here on the channel! XD
After watching Future is wild: Yow, that Squibbon is out of it's timeline.
I had to read that exact tree octopus website once a year for 5 years straight in elementary school
I think that the people that did fake stuff for the Loch Ness monster wanted popularity not knowing that the Loch Ness monster does exist.
1:35 what are you talking about? that’s a real sea serpent right there
A video about Alien Biospheres would be cool
This video was pretty good and I love it very much
Imagine spending your life writing detective stories disproving theories and coming up with simple explanations only to get fooled by cardboard cutouts. I bet A.conan Doyle would gladly erase this part of his life from history.
A lie will go around the world several times while the truth is still lacing up it’s boots.
Sounds like a quote from Terry Pratchett's book "Making Money" :)
I love your video’s can you do more cryptids please
'Pacific Northwest Tree Octopus' is my new band name
The Pacific Northwest Tree Octopus is so endangered that most people don't even believe it's real, what a tragedy.
I love this channel :)
Thank you!
This tree octopus doesn't sound so far fetched. Many marine animals including octopuses can move on land to some degree. It's not so hard to imagine an octopus going out for a short hunt on land before returning to some body of water.
Or being picked up by a waterspout and deposited in the tree
i thought the pacific northwest tree octopus story came to me in a dream, because i tried bringin git up once but nobody knew what i was talking about.
that shows you, ms. jacobsen's 3rd grade class!
I remember cryptic videos being a big deal back in 2008
If I remember correctly, the Loch Ness Photo was also cropped in a way to make the silhouette seem bigger than it actually is.
I think I was taught about the tree octopus in 2nd grade, I can't remember if the teachers told us it was fake, I really, REALLY, hope they did though
Has anyone ever heard of the High-Finned Sperm Whale?
I found it once in a list of cryptids but I've never actually seen anything beyond some speculative art of the cryptid. Never any actual information on where it originates from.
Nope haven't herd of it
That mermaid is upstairs at Harvard museum of natural history in Cambridge, mass. I saw it a few weeks ago. Edit - it wasn't destroyed 3:07 is the photo of exhibit I'm referring too with article mounted behind it.
I want tree octopus to be real
AH YES!.... the time when 2 little girls managed to BAMboozle one of the Greatest Detective story novelists to have ever lived. Classic! X D
Last I checked writing novels doesn’t make you an expert in anything.
@@baneofbanes Are you talking about Sir Conandoyle? If so... well sure. But isn't it quite ironic that someone who has made a living writing some of the MOST brilliant Detective stories couldn't tell a hoax when he saw it? XD
It's just funny.
Talk about De Loys' ape too!
I thought Sheepsquatch was just a joke for Fallout 76. Apparently at some point there was a "mystery" in our area called the dog boy but there's nothing about it anywhere that i can.
Amazing video
There is an episode of The X-Files about the Fiji Mermaid. It’s actually quite grotesque.
am i the only one who finds the pacific northwest tree octopus looks like at the squibon in the future is wild series?
I always climax when I see you upload a new video...
One more upload I would splurt it all over my phone.
Good video 💚💚💚
Thanks for stopping by!
man i wish i can catch a fish when trolling
the Tree Octopus I bet was the base of the squids from Squidbillies
Houdini vs Doyle is a pretty interesting story. Doyle was a believer in the paranormal, his name (as the inventor of the world's best detective) often lending credibility to claims that otherwise would not have been taken seriously. Houdini on the other hand was a skeptic, following an experience where a spiritualist who promised and failed to summon his dead mother, spent some time discrediting false mediums. He was really the first "stage magician debunker", a tradition followed later by people like James Randi.
Hey can you make a video on the cryptid(s) that’s the most likely to exist
This reminds me of a funny news from Indonesia a few years back
Some people claimed that a "fairy folk" (fey, ghost, female demons or whatever their other names) appeared on the seashore, so many people comes to see
It's a thrown sexdoll
why the loveland frogman so caked up tho?!
I made myself a Fijimerman. It's patterned after the one at the Alligator farm in Hot Springs,Arkansas. He sits in an aquarium on red felt on top of my refrigerator.
3:46
Has anyone here watched the How to train your dragon series?
Ok, I have a point here and it might be connected in some way. So the Loch Ness Monster was found in Scotland, still unproven to have truly existed. And it was recorded a long time ago. What if people decided to use Nessie as an inspiration for dragons in httyd? Plus, the berk’s people have a Scottish accent, except for a few but my point is, what if this sighting was the inspiration for dragons? Just a thought.
I feel like the tree octopus could actually have inspired people to protest against logging, so, hey, save the pacific tree octopus and save a tree :=)
Honorable mention : the Hodag.
Wait, wouldn't Barnham's giant have been a violation of copyright?
Let's not forget about Pigfoot and Turkey Neck. LOL
I didn't know the Piltdown man wasn't real until just now, I guess I just missed that point in time where it was debunked
Not sure that it counts as a cryptid, and definitely not real at all, but theres the flying spaghetti monster which is a funny concept
9:28 we were actually showed this website in 6th grade (as an example of false information) I believe it until the teacher revealed it was false.... I'm not a clever man
more of these please
Ce serait cool quand même que des cryptides, comme Nessie et Bigfoot, existent dans notre monde... D'un côté, ces deux là ont en quelques sortes déjà existé : Nessie est un membre des Plésiosauridés, qui aurait pu hypothétiquement survivre à l'extinction du Crétacé, et Bigfoot est un Gigantopithecus, qui aurait migré lors de l'ère glacière et évolué au climat nord-américain (je suis plus convaincu pour le deuxième) !! Oui, je suis Français
A French American Theropod, neat
Bonjour
i actually learned about the tree octopus in school
I remember doing some assignment for school involving the tree octopus, we were asked if we believed the article was real or not and to give reasons why. As someone who really enjoyed (and still does) animal documentaries i just laughed at the stupidity of it, I belive my answer was something along the lines off "No, because octopuses have not evolved any of the traits needed to be a land dwelling creature." To be honest I never thought it was an actual "cryptid" I thought it was something the school made up since it was printed out.
They are all the creations of E. L. Wallace!
Is the tree octopus from late 90's, or early 2000's? I feel like I remember that one personally, but only vaguely.
The best prank ever
The tree octopus reminds me of the house hippo
Just like a true Scientist! He follows the evidence, or the lack thereof 😉
7:55 GOOSE
Piltdown Man was quite the hoax in terms that it was intentionally fabricated, but I think the Nebraska Man has a far more hilarious debunk. (and proves the desperateness of finding missing links)