Scariest part of that video.."do you want to die?" Shakes head to indicate no whilst smiling, "you need to put your mask on now okay?" nods in agreement, smiling still. "You know you will die if you do not put your oxygen mask on, so put it on now" nods head again, smiling, looks of brief panic show he is acutely aware of how serious his lack of being able to react to what he shows he know is his own survival, despite feeling some euphoric sense of left helpless too. "we have put the mask in your hand now, so put that on now as you are going to die if you don't" He smiles painfully whilst you can see how much hes trying to move his arm to do so, but cannot react and is a type of paralysed to then have the crew ensure he is immediately masked and brings him back to total safety. He even commented afterwards something to how he knew he was in grave danger and trying to do what he should and did know was so simple and yet he was just not really there, in some lucid fuzzy dream state feeling absolutely fine in contrast hence his smiling. It was a video ive rewatched over time and it is one of the creepiest things ive ever seen, the look of both euphoric terror is just nothing but chilling.
"As soon as someone manages to dissappear, we aliens gets blamed. It frustrating. We are very grateful for Simon to offer some reasoning into issue; we are not that interested in what humans have." 😊
@@damenwhelan3236 Because when neither is _that_ interested in what the other _have_ , it makes for better friends. If friendship is possible at all, that is... Xenophobia is not an only human trait. Especially in leaders, who can loose their position if things change. Which they always do, but perhaps not within their lifetime... which the lead can make shorter if the leader is less than competent. Hmm... it's complicated; sentient life, is it not.
I think it might be a new record... 6 seconds into reading the script and Simon has already gone off on a tangent! Never change Simon, it's hilarious edit: Canadian here, technically we would copy the Brits for lieutenant, so we would say left-ten-ent, but mostly commonly I hear the American pronunciation because we watch American movies and TV and copy it from there. I think our military still insists on the British pronunciation though
That's nothing; one time it took him over ten minutes to get through the intro on a blain braze video, blamed it on Danny, and like 90% of it was just him constantly going off like that!!!
Sweet summer child. Know you of the coccaine fueled benders that were the channel Buisness Blaze? Oh those days when Danny was chained to the radiator in the basement alone.....feeding fact boi scripts.....delivered to us from the castle whistler. The neon sign...oh the neon....and the yelling, the script slapping, the OGBBs remember the epic Blaze.
Twilight zone - "The Odyssey of Flight 33" is a time travel airliner story from 1961. You can see elements of this episode in every time travel flight story
Flight 19 is featured in the 1977 science-fiction film Close Encounters of the Third Kind. In the film's opening, the aircraft are discovered in the Sonoran Desert, in pristine condition with full fuel tanks, one of several mysterious events that imply extraterrestrial activity. In the film's ending scene, the crew return to Earth from the alien mothership, seemingly the same age as at their disappearance. Flight 19 made an appearance in the 2006 direct-to-DVD movie Scooby-Doo! Pirates Ahoy!.
Lol I obviously don’t believe the alien theory but sometimes I feel like Simon forgets aliens species would also have scientists that would absolutely be interested in studying other species. I long for the day Simon gives his “that would be like studying individual ants” speech to an entomologist.
The issue is, ants are right outside. A new species was discovered recently by a TH-camr nearby his house because nobody spends money to go ant exploring. Aliens would have had to invest an inordinate amount of time and energy to study us ants tho. It would be the equivalent of an entomologist taking a flight around the world a few dozen times in a row to study one ant species.
I can't remember who it was now, but years ago someone did a real deep dive into this. They were also former military and had some access that most wouldn't get. IIRC, he actually found all the information for the radio transmissions and the actual reports from the incident. He said that several radio stations on the East coast picked up the transmissions and some even got a bearing on them. By the time they vanished, it looked like they were about to come over Georgia. His theory is they all crashed into the Okefenokee Swamp. I've been in there a few times and I can totally see something as small as a flight of Avengers disappearing in there. Probably not as likely as they crashed into the sea, but a bit more interesting. As for the Mariner, yeah, they had a habit of blowing up. So that bit is pretty much solved. The one that interests me is the one found in the Florida swamps. I think I may have a hypothesis on that. In the late 40's into the 50's, a LOT of American WWII aircraft were given to South and Central American nations for their militaries. Quite a few served into the 70's and 80's. At the same time, there was a growing warbird community in Florida where a bunch of retired officers were buying the planes they flew in the war. Given that there were a lot of WWII aircraft flying in the area, and no one really would notice one occasionally landing in the middle of nowhere and flying off again. Plus the number of them in other nearby nations still flying, I can easily see that as either early drug runners or something the Cuban/Soviet government would use to get personnel or items in or out of the US. That would explain why the bird was there, give reasons for the crash (No accurate maps, flying low at night without lights, ran out of fuel, etc..) and explain why the Navy and US Government wouldn't speak about it. Why would they admit in the 60's that other nations were making it to the US undetected with WWII equipment?
The U.S. government used Cuban expatriate pilots in Africa during the mid-60s. Surplus TBMs would make satisfactory training planes for them. Especially since they were to fly old B-26's, and T-28s (a plane designed immediately after WW2 as a trainer, but adapted to light strike duties). And since was at least somewhat hush-hush at the time, the government probably wouldn't be in a big hurry to come forward, if this was the origin of the wrecked plane.
In one of the pirates of the Caribbean movies, they get to Davy Jones locker by traveling through a massive whirlpool (like they get sucked in one side and spit out the other side) so maybe (depending on your age) you may have conflated that?
Hey guys, the background music is becoming a little less 'background' and a bit more 'annoying'. I've noticed this on a few of your recent videos. Any chance of dialing the music back to 'background'? Thanks.
There is a movie from 1989 called Millennium about planes that were just about to crash being taken to the future, then they would be replaced by dummies, then the plane was being sent back to finish the crash. I remember seeing it as a kid, but I think I was too young to really understand everything.
Sounds a bit like Heinlein. "To Sail Beyond the Sunset" involved (among many things) going back in time and taking people right at the moment of death, bringing them into the future, and letting them basically live forever with new technology. It was only one family doing this, and only for key members. There was also a bit about helping medics in WW2 by taking wounded people through a wormhole into the future to fix them up then bringing them back, which supposedly explained "miraculous healing" during the London Blitz.
In millenium they were taking the passengers of the crashing planes to repopulate the future after some disaster caused the near extinction of humans iirc. chris kristofferson and his magnificent beard played the lead.
John Varley wrote a book in the 80s about a future society dying of pollution that was coming back in time to abduct people off doomed airplanes to try to repopulate the world with healthy people. They left behind lab-produced body parts to throw investigators off the fact that passengers and crew had gone missing. The book is awesome. The 1989 movie they made from it starring Cheryl Ladd and Kris Kristofferson not so much.
That concept of a plane taking off in the past and landing in the future was originally done in the original twilight zone show. A plane takes off in WW1 and during a dogfight he disappeared and reappeared 40 years later. It was a very good episode, I recommend watching it for sure, it was definitely very entertaining!
An episode of the radio show Quiet, Please! called "One for the Book" told a similar tale in 1948. I wouldn't be surprised to learn the premise was used before that. The TZ version seems to have been inspired by a passage in the memoirs of RAF Air Marshal Sir Robert Victor Goddard about an experience he had in 1939.
My favorite triangle story is about an aircraft on approach to Miami International that allegedly disappeared from radar. Of course the crash crews were alerted and authorities informed. Then according to the story, the plane reappeared on radar two minutes later exactly where it had been. The plane landed normally- but every timepiece on the aircraft, including the plane's chronometer- were two minutes slow. Probably BS, but great story nonetheless.
The mis-aligned time frames actually happens every time an airplane flies, although on a much smaller (nanosecond) timescale! In the Hafele-Keating experiment back in the 70s, they placed atomic clocks on planes, flew the planes around the world in opposite directions, and then compared them to a control clock that had stayed still, with a resulting time difference between the flying clocks and the ground clock of around half a microsecond, and was one of the more recent proofs of Einstein's theory of relativity.
The audio is quieter on quite a few of his recent videos. weirdly, its at the proper youtube volume in some of the meme clips, which is really annoying as I have turned the volume up to hear Simons dulcet tones and get deafened by the volume ramp up in the clips.
One thing I've never seen talked about in any coverage of Flight 19 that I would like to see is what the searchers were initially thinking in those early days, particularly after the Martin Mariner disappeared essentially RIGHT after Flight 19 did. Considering this happened in the shadow of WW2, I can't help but wonder if some of them thought they might've been under attack.
That's the one that bugs me. The Martin Mariner had a range of 3,000 miles. Even at top speed, that's 15 hours of endurance. You run out of gas, you glide down and land on the water.
@ostlandr "landing on the water" isn't some nice glide like on a runway. At that speed, water is hard as ****, and planes are almost certain to break-up. (Yes, Cpt Sully was EXTREMELY lucky.)
The Martin Mariner was a flying boat, designed to land in the ocean, with one of its missions to pick up crash survivors. The bottom of its fuselage was essentially a boat hull. Indeed most long distance passenger aircraft prior to WWII were flying boats also. @@pathemeleski
Yeah, by all accounts Taylor was an excellent pilot and flight instructor, but a quite poor navigator. And apparently also completely unwilling to listen to others in that regard, as several radio transmissions between the planes were heard, where other pilots tried to turn him in the correct direction. Just too bad, that they chose to follow orders and followed him to their deaths instead of following their own navigation for a safe return.
I’m not even two minutes into the video and am upset about Manifest all over again 😂 I loved the idea and the places they were taking it throughout the seasons but the ending was so unsatisfying 😭
There's definitely an error with the balance of the audio channels. Simon's audio is low, but other audio, like the intro chime are normal volume. The editor screwed up and someone didn't preview this before it uploaded.
Yeah, it's been a problem this channel has had for a good while now, after I've turned the sound up enough to hear Simon, the transition music blows my ears out. I don't mind him having a blind writer, but having a deaf sound guy is a bit of an issue. please try to upvote any comments you see about this
As someone who has worked a lot of crashes, if an old plane was found in the swamp, I am sure someone would say something about flight 19. Thats just the kind of conversation a bunch of board men have sitting around waiting for the equipment to show up an clean up the mess.
defected? So they switched sides and worked for the enemy? That - is troubling, I mean recruiting canisters is hard as it is, very few pass basic training...
“The land is broken!” Poor Charlie, Charlie’s brain is what’s broken and he went in the sea. “Assumption is the mother of all f*ck ups” I like that. Wise man, David’s grandad.
Why does his voice is so low? I need to crank the volume up for this video and I found myself being jumpscared when going into another video with good sound volume
I tried to listen to this on Apple Podcasts and it appears that the last episode on the bank robbery was accidentally reposted under this title. Great show, definitely the occasional editing error, figured I’d mention it
If studying military history has taught me anything, it is that there's nothing so simple and mundane that military people can't fail at it. Apparently including basic aircraft maintenance and day one of flight school navigation problems.
Very few Naval Aviators have cool callsigns like in Top Gun -- like in every other social group, you don't get to name yourself, you're nicknamed by your peers, and it's almost always based on something embarrassing/mildly insulting/a pun on your name. See youtuber Ward Carroll, retired F-14 RIO (the same job as Goose in Top Gun), who is known in the Navy as "Mooch" because one time he didn't have any cash on him and had to ask his pilot to buy him a beer. He's had a guest in a few videos, a retired Admiral named"Slapshot" -- the guy was a middlin' hockey player. That's the best case scenario.
The British pronunciation of the French word "lieutenant" (as "lef-tenant") is the official pronunciation as used by the Canadian Armed Forces, but the American pronunciation of "loo-tenant" (which is closer to the original French pronunciation) is sometimes heard outside of the military
The difference is due to the English version being based on Norman French, and the separate evolution of French, in France, after they diverged in the 11th Century.
Are these videos getting quieter? With attached speakers and full volume I still gotta struggle to hear these and I feel like that didn't used to be an issue.
14:57 As an IT in the US Navy, I fully love & appreciate that Simon understands naval traditions, regardless of country. The hero we both want & need on TH-cam 🫡
19:23 OK, Brain Boy, it's time to get serious. During my military years, I sat through countless hours of various classes on land navigation. As I gained more experience and I progressed through the ranks, I was responsible for training others in the many different skills needed to be an effective soldier, including the dreaded land navigation courses. And anyone who has ever run a patrol should know that the leader isn't the only one who has the planned route on his map. When done correctly, there will be at least one soldier who is responsible for keeping track of the patrol's distance traveled, another soldier constantly double-checking the azimuth (direction) being traveled, etc. Everyone in the patrol should have a really good idea of exactly where the patrol is, and where it's headed. So I'm absolutely shocked that military aviators wouldn't have been cross-checking each other's navigation solutions. To me,, that's the truly unusual part of this story.
The flight leader got disoriented, didn’t trust his instruments or other flight crews, and he panicked. The only reason this became a “mystery” was the family of the flight leader couldn’t accept that he got himself and the whole flight killed.
A similar conspiracy has been swirling around since 1956 when a B-25 went down into the Monongahela River in near Pittsburgh. It's undisputed that the plane went down and 4 of the 6 crew survived (two drowned during their swim to shore), but the plane itself has never been recovered. So, of course, there has to be a conspiracy where the government came and retrieved the plane in the middle of the night because it was carrying aliens/UFO/top secret weapons/captured Soviet agents, etc. Every decade or so someone tries to do some fundraising to get the equipment to find the plane, but it doesn't go anywhere, leading to even more speculation about searches being thwarted by a giant conspiracy. The most recent attempt did use some sonar, etc., but no results.
That sounds ridiculous. - The military transports some super secret stuff for the government - The plane crashes - They are super secret and claim they can't find it. It's the guys who own the thing. Why would they need to hide stuff. All it takes is "yeah, we come to take our plane back. No, you can't look, super secret" and it'll be fine. They don't need to retrieve the plane clandestine at night, they could do it officially during the day and simply be regular secretive about it.
Coming from Spotify. I think there was a mistake in uploading. I think it's the Baker Street Robbery uploaded again. (or my Spotify is weird again) Love the content. 💚
The USMC is the Navy. Look at the USMC Seal. It clearly says Department of the Navy. "No Man Left Behind" isn't the motto of any of our Armed Services, it's a philosophy held by all four. The USMC's motto is Semper Fidelis. The Navy's motto is Non Sibi Sed Patriae. Civilians really need to leave the military jokes to those who have actually served. You are uninitiated and unproven. You have no right to poke fun at those who have volunteered to serve until you've made the same level of sacrifice they have.
@@cancermcaids7688 wrong. We live in a Constitutional Republic. Ancient Greece was a Democracy. In a Democracy, the ruling elite make decisions based on the opinions of an elite. You'd do well to actually know what you're talking about, Scooter.
A little post-production suggestion: the background music is a little loud and distracting, particularly around the 24 minute mark. Simon is reading out fairly rapidly and quietly, so I think it'd be better to either boost his mic level slightly, or else dial the music down so he can be more clearly understood. My hearing isn't the best though, so maybe it's just me. I've not really noticed this in his other videos so perhaps this slipped under the radar, or maybe his mic feed had to pass through a wormhole, ...
Hi!! i was listening on spotify and it seems that last episode was reuploaded instead of this episode its titled this one but its the audio from the baker street robbing one
This is one of my all time favorite channels! I’m subscribed to, I think, 9 or 10 of your channels and watch them almost everyday. But there’s something special about decoding the unknown. The music, editing and all the writers, especially Ilza, (no offense other writers you guys are great too) just works so well on this channel. Keep up the great job everyone!
The music and the sound effects (ie: this is the only one I watch that has a "lol subscribe and smash that bell" sound effect and I don't understand why) are very much louder than Simon lately. Not sure what's going on but I respectfully hope they fix it! At least other Simon channels I watch are better about it!
The music is normal volume. Simon's audio track is very low. I'm guessing you turned up the volume so you could hear him and then you get blasted by the other audio.
There are a bunch of WWII Avengers and Corsairs somewhere on the seabed in the Pacific. After the end of hostilities the lend-leased aircraft were subject to a few rules. This was that the aircraft needed to be paid for or, disposed of. They were built only for the war. The Royal Navy Carriers in the Pacific Theatre were told to take the dispose option rather than bring the aircraft back to the UK. So, they just pushed a lot of them off the back of the carriers. Could be something for one of Simon's videos.
Same with trucks and any thing that civilians could use US army did the same thing Didn’t want to flood the market with trucks that would put ford out of business Worst thing they still had to pay for it
0:00: 🛩 Introduction to the podcast episode about Flight 19 disappearance and a mention of the show Manifest. 4:27: 🛸 He is discussing the conspiracy theories about the disappearance of Flight 19 and will explore the most likely explanation. 7:35: 🧭 The speaker discusses how being able to locate oneself based on the position of the sun is a basic skill for aviators. 11:36: 🔍 The Navy launched a search after the Avengers Last Broadcast was replaced by music, resulting in the disappearance of Flight 19 and a flying boat. 14:25: 🛩 A pilot experienced compass malfunctions and was new to flying over the Bahamas. There are reports suggesting he may have been unfit for duty. 17:32: 🛩 There are claims of wormholes in the Bermuda Triangle that allow instant travel for aircraft and ships. 20:49: 🔍 The speaker questions the government's cover-up of Flight 19's disappearance in the Bermuda Triangle. 24:16: 🔍 He believes that a group of individuals broke away from the main group in 2013 to find out who was on board a downed aircraft, but their information request was denied. 27:55: 🔍 The Disappearance of Flight 19 in the Bermuda Triangle was likely an unfortunate accident caused by pilot error, not mysterious forces. Recap by Tammy AI
Another big reason to doubt the existence of the 'Bermuda Triangle' is Lloyds of London. They are the insurers of choice for thousands of ships that cross the ocean. And they don't consider the area of the 'Triangle' to be anymore dangerous than many other places in the ocean. Which is reflected by the rates they charge for ships sailing in that area. Because if an abnormal number of ships disappeared there, they would probably not be selling insurance to vessels sailing there.
Just turned data on to tell you I downloaded this episode on Spotify, but instead of playing this, it was playing the last episode about Baker Street robbery
Hey Simon! I love your videos, but would you mind turning your mic up? I have some issues hearing you clearly when you get farther away from it, and I want to hear what you're saying! Thank you
I have a hearing problem as well and I find the music is way too loud and drowns out most of what he is saying. I put the closed captions on but I would rather listen to the story rather than have to read it.
When you consider the area around there was used extensively by the USN during the war to train pilots, its not too much of a surprise that an Avenger was found in the swamps with a couple of bodies onboard.
Simon, _'Manifest'_ is simply riffing off two episodes of _'The Twilight Zone,'_ one where a W.W. I fighter lands at an Air Force base in the 1960s with a very puzzled pilot and another where a jet airliner travels in time.
Several cartoons in the 80s and 90s put the Triangle down to monsters, though the monsters were usually either hoaxes or subservient to some regular villain. Rescue Rangers and DuckTales come to mind.
Oh! I had thought I was remembering a book cover of some kind with a Kraken-like thing pulling planes out of the air like King Kong! Probably a cartoon then, and not nearly as cool as my mental image.
So weird. I was listening to this on Spotify. A few minutes into the podcast, i realized that it was still about the robbery on baker street. 🤷🏻♀️ But when i looked at the title, it was about Flight 19.
The video with the guy doing the shapes on low Oxygen was Dustin from Smarter Everyday. Its trippy how low oxygen (hypoxia) makes him go from a functional adult to a clueless toddler. You can see him start to struggle at about 5:28 th-cam.com/video/kUfF2MTnqAw/w-d-xo.html
I remember watching a short documentary on the Triangle what suggested that some of the more mysterious [to some] disappearance there were caused by eruptions of methane from the ocean floor. This is a known phenomena, and supposedly [too lazy to look up a citation for you] there are a few spots around the worlds Oceans where it is warned to be aware of these occurrences. Methane burst up, and it changes water's density, making ships fall through the water as if through a much thinner fluid. The doc showed a video of a large naval ship [no, not a carrier, duh] that was struggling to get to the edge of a roiling patch of ocean water, it's bow half on proper water, the stern tilting dangerously downward. They said the ship just bare;y made it and the crew were very ill from the methane fumes. When this happens, the methane rises freely in a column and can reach above 10,000 feet. If a plane was flying low, say, seeking landmarks for guidance, the engine will stall due to a lack of oxygen. The occupants might endure briefly, but then again, they are going to crash while getting poisoned and going loopy, also from a lack of oxygen. The doc even claimed that not every disappearance is due to this, but that it has happened in that area and is known of, so why not chalk up some of these losses to the Earth saying f*ck off and stop messing up the sea, humans... I have always thought Flight 19 was simply lost due to pilot error, and maybe Methane or CM issues. and just HOW does a compass suddenly fail to work mid flight... That seems too suspicious to me. Can anyone, especially an aviator, explain this sort of failure? A COMPASS? A magnetic device goes haywire? Maybe the metahne made the magnets drunk, like poor Lieutenant Taylot was the nigh before the doomed flight? I like Leftenant, but being American, I cannot use it because the US is boring when it comes to language and pronunciation.
There was an oil rig that burst through a gas pocket and dropped through the gas infused water like a stone, men jumped overboard with full life jackets on and just sank due to the lack of buoyancy. The rig itself was buried in the depresion the rupture caused and was never recovered. There is footage of the rig going under and its bloody terrifying. The water around the rig looks a bit like when you shake and then open a carbonated drink. Gas hydrates from underwater landslides could also ignite if a hot aircraft engine flew through a cloud of the stuff so its definitely a valid theory.
Theres also the little fact, that Bermuda Triangle afficionados always conviniently forget. That statistically no more ships, airplanes etc disappear in that stretch of ocean than in any other stretch of ocean on the planet. And a LOT of the "mysterious" disappearances cited by the Triangle folks were outside the Triangle area, some several 100 miles away. And, oh, the entire thing started as a joke article in a sci-fi magazine!
I am SO glad to see someone mention the methane thing! I was going to comment about it myself. I remember seeing something about it many years ago now and I'm surprised it's never popped up in one of these vids about disappearing ships and planes.
@@meetoo594 that sounds terrifying! Do you remember where the rig was located? I kind of want to look up more about it. Morbid curiosity you know, heh.
Please would someone clip the part where Simon was talking about how when the plane crashes in the ocean they all just died and then he said sorry sarcastically. I need that in my life!
Canadian here. So officially we’re supposed to use the British spellings for things but we consume a lot of American media and we have a lot more influence from French than most anglophones here want to admit. This is why we spell like Brits, sound like Americans, and just throw French words in to keep it spicy. We use the American pronunciation of lieutenant at least where I’m from (Calgary, Alberta).
the tbm is a torpedo bomber so its unlikely that they were operating at an altitude requiring oxygen. the really odd things are that with a crew of 3, there were 15 others on the flight which means there were 14 others who couldve had a watch. also each other aircraft had 2 compasses which means 10 others that couldve still been working. why taylor didnt just give lead of the flight to one of the other aircraft with a functioning compass is bizarre.
For anyone wondering, Simon was thinking of the SmarterEveryDay video where he demonstrated the effects of hypoxia.
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Scariest part of that video.."do you want to die?" Shakes head to indicate no whilst smiling, "you need to put your mask on now okay?" nods in agreement, smiling still. "You know you will die if you do not put your oxygen mask on, so put it on now" nods head again, smiling, looks of brief panic show he is acutely aware of how serious his lack of being able to react to what he shows he know is his own survival, despite feeling some euphoric sense of left helpless too. "we have put the mask in your hand now, so put that on now as you are going to die if you don't" He smiles painfully whilst you can see how much hes trying to move his arm to do so, but cannot react and is a type of paralysed to then have the crew ensure he is immediately masked and brings him back to total safety. He even commented afterwards something to how he knew he was in grave danger and trying to do what he should and did know was so simple and yet he was just not really there, in some lucid fuzzy dream state feeling absolutely fine in contrast hence his smiling. It was a video ive rewatched over time and it is one of the creepiest things ive ever seen, the look of both euphoric terror is just nothing but chilling.
I came here to say the same thing
"As soon as someone manages to dissappear, we aliens gets blamed. It frustrating. We are very grateful for Simon to offer some reasoning into issue; we are not that interested in what humans have." 😊
"Except the buthole, right guys?"
"We're sorry about him..."
“It’s ok, we all have that one jackass.”
😂😂😂
Then why come?
@@damenwhelan3236 Because when neither is _that_ interested in what the other _have_ , it makes for better friends. If friendship is possible at all, that is... Xenophobia is not an only human trait. Especially in leaders, who can loose their position if things change. Which they always do, but perhaps not within their lifetime... which the lead can make shorter if the leader is less than competent. Hmm... it's complicated; sentient life, is it not.
My prediction before watching the episode: it crashed into the ocean and no one has found it because the ocean is really big and full of water
4:35 - Chapter 1 - What was flight 19
11:00 - Chapter 2 - The search
15:55 - Chapter 3 - The bermuda triangle
21:05 - Chapter 4 - Government cover up
27:40 - Wrap up
Thanks!
I think it might be a new record... 6 seconds into reading the script and Simon has already gone off on a tangent! Never change Simon, it's hilarious
edit: Canadian here, technically we would copy the Brits for lieutenant, so we would say left-ten-ent, but mostly commonly I hear the American pronunciation because we watch American movies and TV and copy it from there. I think our military still insists on the British pronunciation though
correct, we say leffffffffffffffffffffffffffffftennent
Yup it's left tenant because they are seldom right 😅
That's nothing; one time it took him over ten minutes to get through the intro on a blain braze video, blamed it on Danny, and like 90% of it was just him constantly going off like that!!!
Sweet summer child. Know you of the coccaine fueled benders that were the channel Buisness Blaze? Oh those days when Danny was chained to the radiator in the basement alone.....feeding fact boi scripts.....delivered to us from the castle whistler. The neon sign...oh the neon....and the yelling, the script slapping, the OGBBs remember the epic Blaze.
@@jessiesratrods1210 Whaddya mean WAS chained??? Still is last I checked, except these days he's got company!
Twilight zone - "The Odyssey of Flight 33" is a time travel airliner story from 1961. You can see elements of this episode in every time travel flight story
Yeah, I remember that one! Honestly one of my favorite Twilight Zone episodes.
Is that one I haven’t seen? Every once in a while I see an episode that I either don’t remember or haven’t seen yet.
@@whome4642 Depends. Have you ever seen an episode where the pilot and co-pilot look out the cockpit window and see dinosaurs?
Flight 19 is featured in the 1977 science-fiction film Close Encounters of the Third Kind. In the film's opening, the aircraft are discovered in the Sonoran Desert, in pristine condition with full fuel tanks, one of several mysterious events that imply extraterrestrial activity. In the film's ending scene, the crew return to Earth from the alien mothership, seemingly the same age as at their disappearance.
Flight 19 made an appearance in the 2006 direct-to-DVD movie Scooby-Doo! Pirates Ahoy!.
Right !!! Forgot about that ! Now i have to watch the movie again !!!
@@blueguy12345which one, Scooby Doo Pirates Ahoy?
@@ProbablyNotLegit Haha nice. Didn't see that one. Another one to add to my backlog lol
Now I need to watch Close Encounters again. It's been a while and I learned a lot in the meantime that would give me some context.
I'm definitely interested to learn Simon's take on this. I love his pragmatic responses to the ridiculous conspiracies.
Lol it's gonna be, "They crashed into the gigantic ocean!"
Dang... I was close: "PLANE CRASHED!" Hahaha
Lol I obviously don’t believe the alien theory but sometimes I feel like Simon forgets aliens species would also have scientists that would absolutely be interested in studying other species. I long for the day Simon gives his “that would be like studying individual ants” speech to an entomologist.
We also see some period-era aviators wandering out of the mothership at the end, no doubt the pilots and crew.
The issue is, ants are right outside. A new species was discovered recently by a TH-camr nearby his house because nobody spends money to go ant exploring. Aliens would have had to invest an inordinate amount of time and energy to study us ants tho. It would be the equivalent of an entomologist taking a flight around the world a few dozen times in a row to study one ant species.
I can't remember who it was now, but years ago someone did a real deep dive into this. They were also former military and had some access that most wouldn't get. IIRC, he actually found all the information for the radio transmissions and the actual reports from the incident. He said that several radio stations on the East coast picked up the transmissions and some even got a bearing on them. By the time they vanished, it looked like they were about to come over Georgia. His theory is they all crashed into the Okefenokee Swamp. I've been in there a few times and I can totally see something as small as a flight of Avengers disappearing in there. Probably not as likely as they crashed into the sea, but a bit more interesting.
As for the Mariner, yeah, they had a habit of blowing up. So that bit is pretty much solved.
The one that interests me is the one found in the Florida swamps. I think I may have a hypothesis on that.
In the late 40's into the 50's, a LOT of American WWII aircraft were given to South and Central American nations for their militaries. Quite a few served into the 70's and 80's. At the same time, there was a growing warbird community in Florida where a bunch of retired officers were buying the planes they flew in the war.
Given that there were a lot of WWII aircraft flying in the area, and no one really would notice one occasionally landing in the middle of nowhere and flying off again. Plus the number of them in other nearby nations still flying, I can easily see that as either early drug runners or something the Cuban/Soviet government would use to get personnel or items in or out of the US.
That would explain why the bird was there, give reasons for the crash (No accurate maps, flying low at night without lights, ran out of fuel, etc..) and explain why the Navy and US Government wouldn't speak about it. Why would they admit in the 60's that other nations were making it to the US undetected with WWII equipment?
i remember they found a crash site in a swamp and i think it was four jets that had gone missing or something, so they figured that's what they found
Or the story of the found aurcraft & body & Pentagon phone call were made up out of whole cloth!
Fake news! It was obviously aliens ...swamp aliens! ;)
Your version sounds plausible enough for me.
The U.S. government used Cuban expatriate pilots in Africa during the mid-60s. Surplus TBMs would make satisfactory training planes for them. Especially since they were to fly old B-26's, and T-28s (a plane designed immediately after WW2 as a trainer, but adapted to light strike duties).
And since was at least somewhat hush-hush at the time, the government probably wouldn't be in a big hurry to come forward, if this was the origin of the wrecked plane.
When I was a child, I thought the Bermuda Triangle had a massive whirlpool that ate ships and planes.
In one of the pirates of the Caribbean movies, they get to Davy Jones locker by traveling through a massive whirlpool (like they get sucked in one side and spit out the other side) so maybe (depending on your age) you may have conflated that?
@katla_phc good thought, but I am 40. My childhood fantasies predate that.
That's what I thought too. Damn, all the lies we were told growing up. Smh
Hey guys, the background music is becoming a little less 'background' and a bit more 'annoying'. I've noticed this on a few of your recent videos. Any chance of dialing the music back to 'background'? Thanks.
I’m glad it’s not just me. The music on this channel especially is so repetitive and annoying to me.
I think there’s a problem with their use of compression. Or they simply aren’t using any.
It's almost getting to the point of being unwatchable. Background music is way too loud and repetitive.
I agree.
Sorry could you speak louder ? I couldn't hear you over the music
There is a movie from 1989 called Millennium about planes that were just about to crash being taken to the future, then they would be replaced by dummies, then the plane was being sent back to finish the crash. I remember seeing it as a kid, but I think I was too young to really understand everything.
Sounds a bit like Heinlein. "To Sail Beyond the Sunset" involved (among many things) going back in time and taking people right at the moment of death, bringing them into the future, and letting them basically live forever with new technology. It was only one family doing this, and only for key members. There was also a bit about helping medics in WW2 by taking wounded people through a wormhole into the future to fix them up then bringing them back, which supposedly explained "miraculous healing" during the London Blitz.
@@rhov-anionwhat? Is this a theory or something I've never heard this before
In millenium they were taking the passengers of the crashing planes to repopulate the future after some disaster caused the near extinction of humans iirc. chris kristofferson and his magnificent beard played the lead.
John Varley wrote a book in the 80s about a future society dying of pollution that was coming back in time to abduct people off doomed airplanes to try to repopulate the world with healthy people. They left behind lab-produced body parts to throw investigators off the fact that passengers and crew had gone missing.
The book is awesome. The 1989 movie they made from it starring Cheryl Ladd and Kris Kristofferson not so much.
That concept of a plane taking off in the past and landing in the future was originally done in the original twilight zone show. A plane takes off in WW1 and during a dogfight he disappeared and reappeared 40 years later. It was a very good episode, I recommend watching it for sure, it was definitely very entertaining!
An episode of the radio show Quiet, Please! called "One for the Book" told a similar tale in 1948. I wouldn't be surprised to learn the premise was used before that. The TZ version seems to have been inspired by a passage in the memoirs of RAF Air Marshal Sir Robert Victor Goddard about an experience he had in 1939.
But he did reappear In The Great War at the end to save his friend from the Germans.
My favorite triangle story is about an aircraft on approach to Miami International that allegedly disappeared from radar. Of course the crash crews were alerted and authorities informed. Then according to the story, the plane reappeared on radar two minutes later exactly where it had been. The plane landed normally- but every timepiece on the aircraft, including the plane's chronometer- were two minutes slow. Probably BS, but great story nonetheless.
The mis-aligned time frames actually happens every time an airplane flies, although on a much smaller (nanosecond) timescale! In the Hafele-Keating experiment back in the 70s, they placed atomic clocks on planes, flew the planes around the world in opposite directions, and then compared them to a control clock that had stayed still, with a resulting time difference between the flying clocks and the ground clock of around half a microsecond, and was one of the more recent proofs of Einstein's theory of relativity.
0:51 totally agree, Simon! Manifest was a brilliant concept poorly executed.
Yeah, I was so stoked for that. I think, I made it 7-8 torturous episodes, then I just gave up.
By far my favorite Whistleverae channel. Wish there was more content.
Is it just me or is the recording too quiet? I've got the volume all the way up and still need captions. No problems on other channels.
The audio is quieter on quite a few of his recent videos. weirdly, its at the proper youtube volume in some of the meme clips, which is really annoying as I have turned the volume up to hear Simons dulcet tones and get deafened by the volume ramp up in the clips.
Thought it was just me lol. That Why meme was loud asf
Yeah, it's a big problem recently, try to like all comments mentioning it and _maybe_ he'll notice.
One thing I've never seen talked about in any coverage of Flight 19 that I would like to see is what the searchers were initially thinking in those early days, particularly after the Martin Mariner disappeared essentially RIGHT after Flight 19 did. Considering this happened in the shadow of WW2, I can't help but wonder if some of them thought they might've been under attack.
That's the one that bugs me. The Martin Mariner had a range of 3,000 miles. Even at top speed, that's 15 hours of endurance. You run out of gas, you glide down and land on the water.
@ostlandr "landing on the water" isn't some nice glide like on a runway. At that speed, water is hard as ****, and planes are almost certain to break-up.
(Yes, Cpt Sully was EXTREMELY lucky.)
The Martin Mariner was a flying boat, designed to land in the ocean, with one of its missions to pick up crash survivors. The bottom of its fuselage was essentially a boat hull. Indeed most long distance passenger aircraft prior to WWII were flying boats also.
@@pathemeleski
Destin on the SmarterEveryday 157 video is what Simon is referencing when talking about the hypoxia testing chamber and blocks.
9:48 *Cartman's voice* "Screw you guys; I'm going home!"
They got lost, ran out of fuel and crashed into the sea. The Martin Mariner had a fuel leak and blew up.
No spoopy Bermuda Triangle BS, Taylor was just bad at his job and got a bunch of people killed.
Stop making sense. You’re ruining the story for all the dopes who buy into nonsense.
Naw it was the Russians
@@TheKnizzineDont u mean.... ALIENS??!!
Yeah, by all accounts Taylor was an excellent pilot and flight instructor, but a quite poor navigator. And apparently also completely unwilling to listen to others in that regard, as several radio transmissions between the planes were heard, where other pilots tried to turn him in the correct direction.
Just too bad, that they chose to follow orders and followed him to their deaths instead of following their own navigation for a safe return.
The irony that interruptions to Simon’s about planes could have been avoided by switching his device to flight mode…..
I’m not even two minutes into the video and am upset about Manifest all over again 😂 I loved the idea and the places they were taking it throughout the seasons but the ending was so unsatisfying 😭
a less conspiratorial mystery video suggestion is the eleusinian mysteries. love this channel so much and would love to see this
That's Smarter Everyday that has the altitude effects video, not Veritasium as far as I know. But they're both great science channels!
Just me or is the audio very low volume?
There's definitely an error with the balance of the audio channels. Simon's audio is low, but other audio, like the intro chime are normal volume. The editor screwed up and someone didn't preview this before it uploaded.
I've had this trouble with a few recent videos on this channel. Thought maybe my hearing was going in my middle age!
Yeah, it's been a problem this channel has had for a good while now, after I've turned the sound up enough to hear Simon, the transition music blows my ears out. I don't mind him having a blind writer, but having a deaf sound guy is a bit of an issue. please try to upvote any comments you see about this
It’s clear as a bell, your device is junk.
Not everyone. It's not the channel.
Well I might be sick with Covid, but at least I’m finally early to a Simon video, and it’s Decoding the Unknown as well!
As someone who has worked a lot of crashes, if an old plane was found in the swamp, I am sure someone would say something about flight 19. Thats just the kind of conversation a bunch of board men have sitting around waiting for the equipment to show up an clean up the mess.
Oooh, late-night DTU after a stressful week. Very much welcome!
One problem with WW2 planes is that their oxygen canisters could become defected and turn the oxygen into causic soda.
Another problem is they kept being shot down or blown up.
defected? So they switched sides and worked for the enemy? That - is troubling, I mean recruiting canisters is hard as it is, very few pass basic training...
@@cancermcaids7688 who knows for sure how high they went
Didn't that happen to one of the pilots at the battle of Midway?
“The land is broken!” Poor Charlie, Charlie’s brain is what’s broken and he went in the sea.
“Assumption is the mother of all f*ck ups” I like that. Wise man, David’s grandad.
the land is broken? oh yeah, that's called islands
Why does his voice is so low? I need to crank the volume up for this video and I found myself being jumpscared when going into another video with good sound volume
I tried to listen to this on Apple Podcasts and it appears that the last episode on the bank robbery was accidentally reposted under this title. Great show, definitely the occasional editing error, figured I’d mention it
Replying in hopes it boosts the concern
Aliens! They used a wormhole to steal the podcast!
If studying military history has taught me anything, it is that there's nothing so simple and mundane that military people can't fail at it. Apparently including basic aircraft maintenance and day one of flight school navigation problems.
Very few Naval Aviators have cool callsigns like in Top Gun -- like in every other social group, you don't get to name yourself, you're nicknamed by your peers, and it's almost always based on something embarrassing/mildly insulting/a pun on your name. See youtuber Ward Carroll, retired F-14 RIO (the same job as Goose in Top Gun), who is known in the Navy as "Mooch" because one time he didn't have any cash on him and had to ask his pilot to buy him a beer. He's had a guest in a few videos, a retired Admiral named"Slapshot" -- the guy was a middlin' hockey player. That's the best case scenario.
The British pronunciation of the French word "lieutenant" (as "lef-tenant") is the official pronunciation as used by the Canadian Armed Forces, but the American pronunciation of "loo-tenant" (which is closer to the original French pronunciation) is sometimes heard outside of the military
The difference is due to the English version being based on Norman French, and the separate evolution of French, in France, after they diverged in the 11th Century.
Are these videos getting quieter? With attached speakers and full volume I still gotta struggle to hear these and I feel like that didn't used to be an issue.
Dang this is an old story I remember from my childhood. Nice to see DTO drilling down on some Bermuda Triangle stories.
If Taylor managed to lose five US planes, does this make him an Axis ace?
14:57 As an IT in the US Navy, I fully love & appreciate that Simon understands naval traditions, regardless of country. The hero we both want & need on TH-cam 🫡
19:23 OK, Brain Boy, it's time to get serious. During my military years, I sat through countless hours of various classes on land navigation. As I gained more experience and I progressed through the ranks, I was responsible for training others in the many different skills needed to be an effective soldier, including the dreaded land navigation courses. And anyone who has ever run a patrol should know that the leader isn't the only one who has the planned route on his map.
When done correctly, there will be at least one soldier who is responsible for keeping track of the patrol's distance traveled, another soldier constantly double-checking the azimuth (direction) being traveled, etc. Everyone in the patrol should have a really good idea of exactly where the patrol is, and where it's headed.
So I'm absolutely shocked that military aviators wouldn't have been cross-checking each other's navigation solutions.
To me,, that's the truly unusual part of this story.
The flight leader got disoriented, didn’t trust his instruments or other flight crews, and he panicked.
The only reason this became a “mystery” was the family of the flight leader couldn’t accept that he got himself and the whole flight killed.
The Bermuda Triangle has points where magnetic north and true north allign and causes compasses to go haywire.
The north pole is a dot on a map...it has no effect on compasses.
A similar conspiracy has been swirling around since 1956 when a B-25 went down into the Monongahela River in near Pittsburgh. It's undisputed that the plane went down and 4 of the 6 crew survived (two drowned during their swim to shore), but the plane itself has never been recovered. So, of course, there has to be a conspiracy where the government came and retrieved the plane in the middle of the night because it was carrying aliens/UFO/top secret weapons/captured Soviet agents, etc. Every decade or so someone tries to do some fundraising to get the equipment to find the plane, but it doesn't go anywhere, leading to even more speculation about searches being thwarted by a giant conspiracy. The most recent attempt did use some sonar, etc., but no results.
That sounds ridiculous.
- The military transports some super secret stuff for the government
- The plane crashes
- They are super secret and claim they can't find it.
It's the guys who own the thing. Why would they need to hide stuff. All it takes is "yeah, we come to take our plane back. No, you can't look, super secret" and it'll be fine. They don't need to retrieve the plane clandestine at night, they could do it officially during the day and simply be regular secretive about it.
How deep is the mud in the river bottom?
@@ostlandr That I don't know, but I know a nearby tunnel is only at 70 feet down. So potentially deep enough to swallow a plane.
Coming from Spotify. I think there was a mistake in uploading. I think it's the Baker Street Robbery uploaded again. (or my Spotify is weird again)
Love the content. 💚
I have always found Flight 19 an interesting topic. However, I never thought of the lack of oxygen idea. Thank You Simon
Does anyone else remember the classic Dr Who story Time-Flight (1982), where Concordes were transported to Prehistoric time via a time warp?
"No man left behind" is more of a Marine thing. I think the Navy motto is "No beer left undrunk" or something to that effect. ✌🏼
The USMC is the Navy. Look at the USMC Seal. It clearly says Department of the Navy. "No Man Left Behind" isn't the motto of any of our Armed Services, it's a philosophy held by all four. The USMC's motto is Semper Fidelis. The Navy's motto is Non Sibi Sed Patriae. Civilians really need to leave the military jokes to those who have actually served. You are uninitiated and unproven. You have no right to poke fun at those who have volunteered to serve until you've made the same level of sacrifice they have.
@@cancermcaids7688 wrong. We live in a Constitutional Republic. Ancient Greece was a Democracy. In a Democracy, the ruling elite make decisions based on the opinions of an elite. You'd do well to actually know what you're talking about, Scooter.
A little post-production suggestion: the background music is a little loud and distracting, particularly around the 24 minute mark. Simon is reading out fairly rapidly and quietly, so I think it'd be better to either boost his mic level slightly, or else dial the music down so he can be more clearly understood. My hearing isn't the best though, so maybe it's just me. I've not really noticed this in his other videos so perhaps this slipped under the radar, or maybe his mic feed had to pass through a wormhole, ...
Totally agree. I’ve had to put captions on a few videos on his other channels as well due to the “background “ noises (can’t quite call it music 🤔).
Hi!! i was listening on spotify and it seems that last episode was reuploaded instead of this episode its titled this one but its the audio from the baker street robbing one
Yup same- I was crazy confused at first.
This is one of my all time favorite channels! I’m subscribed to, I think, 9 or 10 of your channels and watch them almost everyday. But there’s something special about decoding the unknown. The music, editing and all the writers, especially Ilza, (no offense other writers you guys are great too) just works so well on this channel.
Keep up the great job everyone!
I love this channel too but for some reason I find the music really distracting. Maybe it’s just me.
The music and the sound effects (ie: this is the only one I watch that has a "lol subscribe and smash that bell" sound effect and I don't understand why) are very much louder than Simon lately. Not sure what's going on but I respectfully hope they fix it! At least other Simon channels I watch are better about it!
I agree about the music, too loud. I noticed it a few videos ago, making it unbearable to watch
Please sort out the sound!
Music is waaaaay to loud!
The music is normal volume. Simon's audio track is very low. I'm guessing you turned up the volume so you could hear him and then you get blasted by the other audio.
Seems like there’s been mixing issues on this channel for awhile. I can’t even listen because the music is so loud and distracting.
A+ video!
Awesome topic and analysis!
Great work! Cheers!
I'm Australian, & have always said 'aeroplane' & 'lef-tenant', & thought these were also the British pronunciations.
There are a bunch of WWII Avengers and Corsairs somewhere on the seabed in the Pacific. After the end of hostilities the lend-leased aircraft were subject to a few rules. This was that the aircraft needed to be paid for or, disposed of. They were built only for the war. The Royal Navy Carriers in the Pacific Theatre were told to take the dispose option rather than bring the aircraft back to the UK. So, they just pushed a lot of them off the back of the carriers.
Could be something for one of Simon's videos.
Same with trucks and any thing that civilians could use
US army did the same thing
Didn’t want to flood the market with trucks that would put ford out of business
Worst thing they still had to pay for it
simon please sort your mic levels out, had to turn my volume way up and then the intro played and I woke up the local cemetery
🤣🤣🤣
0:00: 🛩 Introduction to the podcast episode about Flight 19 disappearance and a mention of the show Manifest.
4:27: 🛸 He is discussing the conspiracy theories about the disappearance of Flight 19 and will explore the most likely explanation.
7:35: 🧭 The speaker discusses how being able to locate oneself based on the position of the sun is a basic skill for aviators.
11:36: 🔍 The Navy launched a search after the Avengers Last Broadcast was replaced by music, resulting in the disappearance of Flight 19 and a flying boat.
14:25: 🛩 A pilot experienced compass malfunctions and was new to flying over the Bahamas. There are reports suggesting he may have been unfit for duty.
17:32: 🛩 There are claims of wormholes in the Bermuda Triangle that allow instant travel for aircraft and ships.
20:49: 🔍 The speaker questions the government's cover-up of Flight 19's disappearance in the Bermuda Triangle.
24:16: 🔍 He believes that a group of individuals broke away from the main group in 2013 to find out who was on board a downed aircraft, but their information request was denied.
27:55: 🔍 The Disappearance of Flight 19 in the Bermuda Triangle was likely an unfortunate accident caused by pilot error, not mysterious forces.
Recap by Tammy AI
As a canadian, i was taught that “leff-tenant” is the proper pronunciation here!
Unironically 5 seconds after the intro he goes on a tangent. This is why I'm subscribed
Another big reason to doubt the existence of the 'Bermuda Triangle' is Lloyds of London.
They are the insurers of choice for thousands of ships that cross the ocean. And they don't consider the area of the 'Triangle' to be anymore dangerous than many other places in the ocean. Which is reflected by the rates they charge for ships sailing in that area. Because if an abnormal number of ships disappeared there, they would probably not be selling insurance to vessels sailing there.
Manifest was an awesome show. Couldn't watch the final season because they moved to a steaming platform. I was not a happy camper about that.
Just turned data on to tell you I downloaded this episode on Spotify, but instead of playing this, it was playing the last episode about Baker Street robbery
This one was very enjoyable. Simon's personality was perfect in this. Seemed less smug than in some
I'm probably shouting into the abyss. But I normally listen on Spotify and when I started it, it played the previous episode
Always a good listen!
Simon: Christ! Why do we live like this??!! (Regarding his repeated notifications) 😂😂😂 you are legend!
Hey Simon! I love your videos, but would you mind turning your mic up? I have some issues hearing you clearly when you get farther away from it, and I want to hear what you're saying! Thank you
I have a hearing problem as well and I find the music is way too loud and drowns out most of what he is saying. I put the closed captions on but I would rather listen to the story rather than have to read it.
Background music is wonderful ... unless you "forget" to keep it in the background and have it overpowering the voice of the narrator.
When you consider the area around there was used extensively by the USN during the war to train pilots, its not too much of a surprise that an Avenger was found in the swamps with a couple of bodies onboard.
The really neat thing about Manifest is that the more of it you watch, the worse it gets.
Excellent as always! However I can say that 12.9 is massive! I have one and love it, but its got to be hard to read on over an AIR
great episode! loved the heist one, as well
Something weird is going on with the podcast feed. I downloaded an episode titled “Flight 19” but it had the audio of the previous episode
Simon, _'Manifest'_ is simply riffing off two episodes of _'The Twilight Zone,'_ one where a W.W. I fighter lands at an Air Force base in the 1960s with a very puzzled pilot and another where a jet airliner travels in time.
And then he goes back and saves old Leadbottom.
Several cartoons in the 80s and 90s put the Triangle down to monsters, though the monsters were usually either hoaxes or subservient to some regular villain. Rescue Rangers and DuckTales come to mind.
Oh! I had thought I was remembering a book cover of some kind with a Kraken-like thing pulling planes out of the air like King Kong! Probably a cartoon then, and not nearly as cool as my mental image.
So weird. I was listening to this on Spotify. A few minutes into the podcast, i realized that it was still about the robbery on baker street. 🤷🏻♀️ But when i looked at the title, it was about Flight 19.
Young Simon solves the mystery of the Bermuda Triangle in three words, “Release the Kraken!”
This has to be the quickest opening line to tangent ratio of all the Simon-verse.
Hey Simon and team, wanted to let you know that the audio version of this is playing the Baker bank heist audio :)
You should have decoding the unknown on a network somewhere pitch the show to some networks Simon
Not on American TV. They're way too invested in the woo, because most Americans are actual 1980s glass sorters.
Damn... Simon taking the show Manifest to task 😂
The video with the guy doing the shapes on low Oxygen was Dustin from Smarter Everyday. Its trippy how low oxygen (hypoxia) makes him go from a functional adult to a clueless toddler.
You can see him start to struggle at about 5:28
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Simon’s rants (ie: iPad notifications) are so fucking relatable ❤
"Why do we live like this?" Over a minor notification notice might be one of your best lines.
2:24 Simon Decoding us straight Into the Shadows 😅
I remember watching a short documentary on the Triangle what suggested that some of the more mysterious [to some] disappearance there were caused by eruptions of methane from the ocean floor. This is a known phenomena, and supposedly [too lazy to look up a citation for you] there are a few spots around the worlds Oceans where it is warned to be aware of these occurrences.
Methane burst up, and it changes water's density, making ships fall through the water as if through a much thinner fluid. The doc showed a video of a large naval ship [no, not a carrier, duh] that was struggling to get to the edge of a roiling patch of ocean water, it's bow half on proper water, the stern tilting dangerously downward. They said the ship just bare;y made it and the crew were very ill from the methane fumes.
When this happens, the methane rises freely in a column and can reach above 10,000 feet. If a plane was flying low, say, seeking landmarks for guidance, the engine will stall due to a lack of oxygen. The occupants might endure briefly, but then again, they are going to crash while getting poisoned and going loopy, also from a lack of oxygen.
The doc even claimed that not every disappearance is due to this, but that it has happened in that area and is known of, so why not chalk up some of these losses to the Earth saying f*ck off and stop messing up the sea, humans...
I have always thought Flight 19 was simply lost due to pilot error, and maybe Methane or CM issues.
and just HOW does a compass suddenly fail to work mid flight... That seems too suspicious to me. Can anyone, especially an aviator, explain this sort of failure? A COMPASS? A magnetic device goes haywire? Maybe the metahne made the magnets drunk, like poor Lieutenant Taylot was the nigh before the doomed flight?
I like Leftenant, but being American, I cannot use it because the US is boring when it comes to language and pronunciation.
There was an oil rig that burst through a gas pocket and dropped through the gas infused water like a stone, men jumped overboard with full life jackets on and just sank due to the lack of buoyancy. The rig itself was buried in the depresion the rupture caused and was never recovered. There is footage of the rig going under and its bloody terrifying. The water around the rig looks a bit like when you shake and then open a carbonated drink.
Gas hydrates from underwater landslides could also ignite if a hot aircraft engine flew through a cloud of the stuff so its definitely a valid theory.
I remember watching a Channel 4 documentary on this, probably in 1990's.
Theres also the little fact, that Bermuda Triangle afficionados always conviniently forget. That statistically no more ships, airplanes etc disappear in that stretch of ocean than in any other stretch of ocean on the planet.
And a LOT of the "mysterious" disappearances cited by the Triangle folks were outside the Triangle area, some several 100 miles away.
And, oh, the entire thing started as a joke article in a sci-fi magazine!
I am SO glad to see someone mention the methane thing! I was going to comment about it myself. I remember seeing something about it many years ago now and I'm surprised it's never popped up in one of these vids about disappearing ships and planes.
@@meetoo594 that sounds terrifying! Do you remember where the rig was located? I kind of want to look up more about it. Morbid curiosity you know, heh.
I love the short video title.
Are you implying Discord is a buggy hell and never does what it's supposed to do? Noooooo 😱
Idk if it's my app but the wrong episode was uploaded into the podcast version
Oooh this will be an interesting one! 🥰
Please would someone clip the part where Simon was talking about how when the plane crashes in the ocean they all just died and then he said sorry sarcastically. I need that in my life!
Gotta love when you get that notification letting you know Fact-boy posted a video
This episode on Apple Podcasts has the same title as this but the audio for the baker street bank robbery
Canadian here. So officially we’re supposed to use the British spellings for things but we consume a lot of American media and we have a lot more influence from French than most anglophones here want to admit. This is why we spell like Brits, sound like Americans, and just throw French words in to keep it spicy. We use the American pronunciation of lieutenant at least where I’m from (Calgary, Alberta).
Wait, it's over!😯 This was a short episode. I had plans on what I was doing while listening to this! Now I have to put on something else.😢
the tbm is a torpedo bomber so its unlikely that they were operating at an altitude requiring oxygen.
the really odd things are that with a crew of 3, there were 15 others on the flight which means there were 14 others who couldve had a watch. also each other aircraft had 2 compasses which means 10 others that couldve still been working. why taylor didnt just give lead of the flight to one of the other aircraft with a functioning compass is bizarre.
I would assume the way Lieutenant is said has a great deal to do with the attitude toward the French at the time the word was adopted.
The oxygen deprivation video isn’t dr Muller from Veritasium, but Destin Sandlin from Smarter Every Day. It’s a great video.