Roanoke’s point about campfires being a safe haven is no joke. There are stories about wounded soldiers on the Eastern Front during The Great War being dragged away by wolves. Creatures that are opportunistic hunters do not exclude humans, especially if they perceive you as slow or weak. However, polar bears are the only creatures that actively hunt humans.
There is one thing. In most wendigo tales I have heard, they can mimic human voices to lure people to them. It's possible that he actually heard Tim's voice from the wendigo and wasn't just hallucinating.
Yeah, that's something I've heard about a lot in tales of them (also supposedly your not even supposed to say it's name as it could attract unwanted attention which is smthn I find interesting) and a few other beings. The beings in question are usually potrayed as quite cunning even in their feral state which is always interesting
@@rozu7772 I've also seen applied to the beasts described here in some stories, though I think that also depends on who's telling the story and what region and everything
I'm a swimming teacher for kids with special needs, anyway I was working about three weeks ago with one of my groups who were swimming on their backs so for the more anxious students we offer physical support. I was supporting on of the girls in my class and i started softly singing Dory's "just keep swimming" song from Finding Nemo, i supported her to where she was going to and before I could turn to go support another student when the little girl grabbed my arm and while looking me straight in the eyes she just said " if I promise to listen really well and work hard will you please stop singing?" the little girl is five years old and completely willing to make me question all my life choices.I also was teaching about four years ago when a new student was stood staring at me from poolside, when I got him in the water I asked him if everything was alright and he just asked "are you a boy or a girl? because you have a deep voice like boy but you have long hair and boobies" (for the record I am a man I just like having long hair and at the time was quite overweight). My point is that children are entirely capable of causing existential dread without even knowing about it.😅🤣
As someone who grew up in the North Country, two things. 1: Yes, there are indeed bears up here, but they are very very rare, at least outside of the Adirondacks. In my 24 years up here, ive never seen a wild bear. More often than anything, the most dangerous things around here are the deer that run out into the road at night, though there are coyotes and coy wolves. 2: A hunter arguing with a law enforcement officer about getting the most out of hunting season is more common than you would think. Granted, a body was hanging from a tree in front of Josh, but people take hunting season very seriously up here.
"When You stare into the woods at night you wonder what's staring back" Me living in rural Florida wondering what isn't staring back. I know shining a flashlight into those woods is ONLY going to ruin my night.
I have a friend who recently moved to northern Florida. They have a black bear that keeps breaking into their backyard at night. Just goes right through the wood fence. LOL
As someone that’s from upstate NY, yeah, there could possibly be animals up here that we don’t know about. A wolf was discovered a couple years back in the Adirondack mountains, the first seen in the state since the early 1900’s. Since 2000, we’ve realized that we still have bobcats and mountain lions up here. Both big cats were believed to have been hunted into extinction, in this area, of the country a long time ago.
This reminded me of a story from Savannah, Ga, back in 2010, a Coyote was found in Savannah that weighed ~64 pounds(over double what the normal weight of a Coyote is), coyote typically weigh between 25 to 30 pounds, when they went to DNA test this Coyote, it was found to have Canadian grey wolf DNA. Is it possible that there is a population of grey wolf still in Georgia we don't know about? Could be considering the mountainous north and with roughly 66% of Georgia covered in dense pine forest there, potentially, could be.
Piggy backing off of scarlet rain, TWRA, still doesn't want to acknowledge cougars roaming most of Tennessee, as well as that black bears are migrating to areas they normally don't stay. So gov agencies determining where animals are at is always a hit of miss thing.
Yeah it is possible if the population is low enough and or only move through the zone instead of living their, and are quite shy toward human, and human not really looking for them tend to help. The problem with many cryptid is that they genrally don't fit any of those criteria. An animal aggressive enough to hunt humans would probably be discovered and tracked quickly, as people would actually go to the great length to get it.
We had a bear casually sauntering through the suburbs recently, I'm sure if I hiked more I'd see more animals, but even the regular animals out there can be hidden
So your state has rediscovered known animals that were only nearly eliminated by humans... Interesting its almost like were the terrors of the natural world or something ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Seeing the "wendigos" climbing the church at the end of the film reminded me of that one cinematic from WoW of the worgen climbing the cathedral in Gilneas.
@@dmolegend1699 Late to the response, but yeah that's why I put the word in quotation marks. They don't look like wendigos at all, not even the more deer-like appearance that people often mistake the wendigo for.
Thing with cats is, cats don't NEED to be social in the way we think "social" works. Cats get pretty much all of their information, as well as share said information through scent. Cats can have massive territories, in fact, my highschool biology teacher actually put a tracking collar on his female cat and found that while she was out and about for up to a week at a time, she was roaming up to 22 miles. So that's why I say your cat is never "lost", it knows exactly where it is.
Animals that brachiate (move from branch to branch) have forward facing eyes, because being able to judge how far the branch you're trying to grab is, is very important for not falling out of the tree and coming to a messy gravity-fueled end.
@@joshuagross3151 I'm saying that we don't have forward-facing eyes because we're predators, humans have forward-facing eyes because we used to be tree-dwelling primates. It just *helped* us become predators when we finally started walking upright.
If it hadn't been for wendigo I'd been home safe a long time ago Where did you come from where did you go? Where did you come from OH DEAR CHRIST WHAT IS THAT HELP PLEASE
I really like Kevin Durand (the actor who plays the sheriff), he was great in "the Strain". That was a super underated show and the books they were based on were great.
Yeah, Kevin Durand is a really good character actor. I also thought that the deputy was being played by DJ Qualls at first, but then looked it up and realized it's Lukas Haas and I never realized just how much they look alike until now.
The guy who played the bartender is a really awesome guy, met him on set of the Stakelander, he encouraged me to chase my dream of becoming a film maker when I met him. I’ve achieved my dream so I hope he’s doing good and still acting and writing.
That opening part about the wondering if anything is staring back when looking at the woods from your house, GOD relatable. I live with like...maybe a 20 foot deep stretch of trees between me and the people that live behind me, and I still look out there and wonder that.
Children, and sometimes the elderly, drowning with no one noticing until it is too late is referred to as "quiet drowning." Kids are often told to keep quiet, even when something is seriously wrong. So, in fear of being scolded or getting in trouble for "being loud" or "making noise" they just don't flail or cry out. Pretty nasty stuff. I think in the instance of the elderly quiet drowning, it usually just has too do with them not having the strength, or in other cases mental ability, to alert others to their near aquatic end.
You touch on a very scary topic when it comes to children remaining silent for fear survival in situations and where they're being neglected or abused, because what you say is very real.
I drowned, had to be resuscitated, I didn't get a chance to make much noise because I couldn't break the surface with more than my fingers after I went under. Sometimes there's just nothing you can do.
@@PricelessBinkey1337 I was floating holding on to a beach ball, was about 7 years old. I floated into the deep end and tried to kick to go back but slipped off the ball and I didn't know how to swim. Dense bones don't help. I stayed up for just a moment but already had water over my mouth and got no sound out before I sank. I kicked off the bottom to try to surface and yell but only my fingers broke the surface. I tried twice more before things just sorted faded out. Then I woke up coughing on the side of pool thanks to CPR.
Hell, I live in the middle of nowhere and if it's quiet out at night, it's for a very good reason. There is something out there making all the critters shut up. Not saying it's a Wendigo, but bears, wolves or coyotes are a possibility.
Same man, I live in the middle of nowhere too at the edge of a massive forest near CO and the deserts in NM, and there is always noise either in the plains or the trees. It’s far scarier when you hear nothing compared to hearing deer walk around or elk bugle
@@thevortex6754 I'll tell you what makes a racket, Little birds in the brush. Chicadees and the like flitting through the brush make enough noise to make it sound like a moose in stomping through. LMAO I agree though, nothing more disconcerting than silence, especially when it suddenly gets quiet.
It's always unnerving going on a hike in the day time, hearing the critters call and move around. Then it'll just get dead silent with that feeling of being watched, absolutely hate that. Makes me get the hell out of there since I'm not messing with whatever is staring me down
I'm in Australia I just default to somethings waiting to get me, wanna go for a swim? crocs, wanna go for a hike? snakes, wanna go for a drive? kangaroos ( if you didn't know roos will yeet themselves at a car going 100kmh (60mph ish) and they're jacked)
@Roanoke Gaming IKR the idea of not knowing what's hunting the area is even more terrifying (P.S. Small towns are an ideal place to live. i wanna move to a rural woodland area myself one day)
12:20 a family in my parents' congregation lost their toddler to a pool drowning and it scarred all the young parents. Both my parents were neurotic about pool safety my whole life and beyond. My mom once called my over a dozen times over 3 hrs when I was 21 and having dinner at my boyfriend's house with my 2yo son bc in was on the news a child had drowned in the Las Vegas and my mom instantly assumed it was mine (18yrs on and now she gives me guff about being neurotic about health bc hypocritical dementia is endemic in the boomers). This was in 2004 when the population of Las Vegas was over 2 million. But none of the other parents that had young kids at the time when the Duras kid drowned ever had pools even tho it's been almost 40yrs since his death.
This is so rough for me. I LOVE scary movies, and this channel has helped me find SO MANY new scary movies. It's awesome. The problem is, that I start watching a summary of a movie and then decide halfway through that the movie sounds freakin' great, and I want to go see it before I see any more spoilers. So I've half-watched about half of the videos on this channel so far, and this one is gonna have to stay half-watched for about a week.
I like watching these videos on movies I haven't seen. Honestly probably more than watching the movies themselves. And I've never had my enjoyment of a movie lessened by knowing how it ends beforehand. Actually I kind of like the certainty of knowing what the final "image" I guess of the story will look like and watching all the pieces fall into place as I expect them to. Maybe that's just an anxiety/trauma thing lol
I'm a gardener so I end up with loads of bugs around by default. I like to tell people that 'We think of our homes as our territory, seperate and sterile. Mother nature made no such agreement."
I'm so excited you covered Dark Was The Night! I was completely obsessed with this movie for a while and watched it over and over again. Eventually it hit me. Just like in the death of his son, our hero the sheriff did everything right and still loses. Sometimes that happens in life. It sucks but there are no guarantees.
I loved this movie, too! It's definitely a lesser known flick, but it's actually really good, and I always recommend it. It was also cool to see the main guy, Kevin Durand, get to play the good guy. He's the bad guy in nearly every other show/movie he's in. These creatures definitely aren't the classic Wendigo, which are described as extremely thin (always hungry with a hunger they can't satiate), and was probably invented as a cautionary tale of the dangers of cannibalism.
@jeremydevine5844 Right? Kevin Durand was amazing in this. I felt like I traveled his path of grief during this movie. Even though the film was a little ponderous, barely lit, and ended in such futility, it still grips me. The casting was perfect, the timing well done and directing seemed spot-on to me. I hope Mr. Durand gets more lead protagonist roles in the future.
That's what it is usually. I think this was just an 'alternate' take on the legend, whereas the actual legend usually tends to veer towards the supernatural.
It was a mix of a cautionary tale and maybe an explanation for why people would go as far to cannibalize their fellow humans before deeper knowledge of the brain, anatomy, etc reasons why people would cross that line
Partially yes. Windigo are from my culture. Our traditional beliefs require that we be buried with our entire bodies, so even if your leg was amputated, you need to be buried with it. This is because your spirit has to cross the jiibay miikaan or jiibay ziibii, the spirit road or spirit river, this is what we call the Milky Way. You have to walk or paddle to the west still in the form of your body, until you get to the other world in the west, and no one knows what happens there. By consuming a person, you're making it harder for them to reach the afterlife, and that's unforgivable, especially if they are trapped here. It's so disrespectful and selfish. Our culture has always been based upon 7 principles that do not permit that kind of behavior. And that extends into cannibalism being done solely to feed yourself, you aren't trying to feed everyone, elders would sacrifice themselves to reduce the number of people to feed first, and to then betray that honorable sacrifice with such a desecration is unthinkable. So, all this selfishness and darkness, the possible damnation of souls who can't cross over, this is what choosing the act of cannibalism is to us, so that means you're opening yourself up to evil. That's why the windigo spirit can enter those people. They're opened up. And that leads to ravenous and insatiable hunger and it causes madness and they change into something no longer human. So it's as allegorical and spiritual as it is health based. Our teachings tend to have more than one lesson in them.
Look the old tropes are long dead, but that doesn’t mean seeing my favorite science TH-camr being an absolute unit in a sponsored add will ever not make me smile.
You mentioned black bears, they are supposedly very timid compared to other bears and will usually run the other way. But yes, there are often lots of animals around we aren't even aware of. And you never know when one might be in a mean mood.
@@joshuagiehll3737 I'm up in MN; I can think of only one black bear attack in my lifetime up here; it's suspected the woman was "that time of the month" and the blood scent caught it's attention - it probably assumed she was injured and an easy target. Her husband was able to fight it off before it did much harm - I don't think he had any weapons better than tree-branch clubs. It could have easily taken them both; but it's timidity caused it to run away when faced with any resistance. Of course they have to be timid; many lone predators are much larger; and the ones that aren't usually run in packs. We don't have wild boars up here (that I know of, never heard of one); but I know that even they tend to be much more aggressive than black bears.
It's strange how the wendigo mythology was altered by Europeans when they settled in northeastern America. Even the physical description changed from the Indigenous tales of pale humanoids with elongated limbs to creatures with animalistic features that feature more often in European folklore.
Used to work at an Apiary (bee farm), we had black bears attacking hives at least once a week. Just because you don't see them doesn't mean there isn't a ton of them out there.
Besides the Manhattan Virus from *Crysis 2* and the *Crysis: Legion* novelization that expands on that game, I think you could also cover *The Quarry* and its take on the popular werewolf myth. It'd be neat to see you breakdown what could be happening on a cellular level during this explicitly supernatural transformation.
33:17 They don't need to be fully endothermic, lots of reptiles are actually warmer than ambient temperature. Some like Argentine Tegus can ramp their metabolism up during the breeding season in order to incubate their eggs faster / travel to find a mate. Then you have large lizards, sea turtles and crocodilians who have what's known as gigantothermy, where the movement of their muscles generates so much friction that they end up being functionally endothermic (when active) without actually having the increased metabolic demands of a bird or mammal. Furthermore, plenty of reptiles can handle the cold, some even thrive in it such as Tuatara (which would just die if you tried to keep them in ideal temperatures for a human, anything above 14* C is dangerous to them). Behavior such as brumating, which is hibernating with half the commitment, is frequent for Canadian snakes and turtles. Alligators have been known to survive extremely cold conditions so long as their noses don't get covered in ice, and reptiles can actually survive extreme cold far better than mammals, they just can't do anything while cold. Iguanas in Florida often freeze solid during cold snaps and they only end up dying if they stay cold so long they die of thirst and can't go and drink. Unlike mammals where they get bodies outright when they get too cold, reptiles just turn into ice cubes and vibe. It's kinda crazy. I live up in rural Canada and power has gone out and I had to literally thaw out my sister's pet bearded dragon, he was perfectly fine and is still living a happy life years later So for a reptile that presumably weights over a hundred kilos and is fairly active and noticeably is quite intelligent, it shouldn't have any trouble surviving in Maine. On the dinosaur hypothesis, the average temperature for many areas in the Cretaceous was actually very similar to Maine with annual averages around 12 * C, with seasons being far less extreme but climate not actually being tropical as is commonly shown in a lot of media. Think British Columbia or Louisiana and less Africa for late Cretaceous climate. Also on the intelligence thing, reptiles have a bit of a cheat code there. Their neurons are smaller and this they can have very dense brains that are proportionally much smaller, which has a multitude of benefits such as being a less likely target to be damaged and being able to exchange information across their brains much faster than in something like a primate or cetacean. My sister works in evolutionary biology and sends a lot of cool papers on reptile intelligence. They are a lot smarter than is usually given credit, so it wouldn't take much for one to rapidly reach the point seen in the movie.
Love your posts. Can you please do the Future Predators from Primeval, the Cryptids from Call of Duty Ghosts Extinction, and the Eliskni from Destiny. I would love to hear on how each of these species would develop and evolve in their respective environments
@@expendableexplosive550 they don't have a species names. In the show they ate just referred to as Predators or Future Predators and are bats from the future
@@Blasted2Oblivion Extinction Mode is the one and only time call of duty had aliens to fight instead of zombies. Cryptids is a species of aliens. Just like the Future Predators in Primeval the Cryptids is just the names we use for the aliens due to not actually knowing they're real species names
For some reason, of all the things people might say, hearing Roanoke say that there are some humans who are really good people even though there are plenty who are monsters has done the most to give me hope for humanity recently. As if just hearing someone else say it was enough to vindicate to me that this is still true and it is still the current state of humanity.
@@DraconisMarchVII Thanks. It's not propaganda that has been very successful at fooling me before, but usually human stupidity and malice. Often times I have thought that surely I have seen the worst humanity has to offer by now, only to be proven wrong eventually by seeing someone even stupider or even more evil than the stupidest and/or most evil people I've ever seen. I just need to work on remembering that those people tend to be the exception, not the rule, no matter how numerous those types of people may seem.
This movie has some serious themes going on. The heartbreaking story of what happened to their kid and the trauma that caused is a constant undertone of sorrow mixed with monster/action movie. Dang!
I waited awhile to say this because I didn't want to immediately after finding this channel but... Roanoke Gaming has become my top 3 favorite channels. The content is exactly what I crave - breaking down science fiction and fantasy elements. It's not just the content though. His personality I'm finding is a breath of fresh air. He makes references that I get, he thinks in a way I appreciate, and he's overall a positive dude (on the videos at least). Thanks Roanoke, I was having a rough day but I got a few laughs from the video.
What he said about the guy trying to pick a fight with the Sheriff is absolutely true. I grew up in a town of that size and the was a regular occurrence.
This was a surprisingly good movie. I watched it cuz I like the dude that plays the sheriff, he was also in The Strain which is also an amazing show. Only a few fast forward moments.
I like how they added the stomach being the weak spot of the creature when some variants of the wendigo myth had its heart being the only way to kill it so that was a good part on the director's side
Great to see you again posting more explain videos Can you do something on the anaconda or the alligator from lake placid I know it just an oversized animal But I just wanna hear you talk more scientist talk
@@tjdoescosplay Yep. My father gave it to me for Christmas one year after I'd asked for Lake Placid. He sorta had a brain fart & picked up Primeval instead. Wasn't even upset, it's still a good watch.
05:54 As someone who lives in Upstate NY (well, Central NY but basically the same thing) the number of confirmed sightings of Black Bears has actually increased as of the past few years. I'd have to look into it cause I don't know the exact reason they've been sighted more, just that they have
My favorite part of these dissections is not necessarily the biology but your opening thesis always being one of evolutionary psychology-why we fear certain things and how their basis often pertains to our physiological limitations or historic dangers we’ve had to contend with over the course of our species’ existence, how these similar concerns are why certain creatures and themes show up independently in cultures across the world, how before modern science we may have recognized odd phenomena but were without the means to accurately identify its cause, but that that same lack of scientific understanding did not automatically mean total incompetence, as folk wisdom and superstition sometimes results in desirable outcomes even if faith or reason is misplaced. It’s this marrying of history, psychology, sociology, and biology that makes for a well-rounded comprehensive video series that I look forward to every time there’s a new upload.
As someone who lives in upstate NY (read: basically anything not NYC or Long Island), there's hardly a clearing in the state that is natural. Some places are open because there are towns and cities in them, or corn fields, or cow pastures, but everything- EVERYTHING that doesn't absolutely need to be completely clear is COVERED in forest. A few years back, there was a literal black bear that just came down out of the hills and was walking through the backyards of a suburban neighborhood. There's hills on either side of where I live that are just forest. The only reason you don't see mountain lions and bears and stuff more often is because A- big stuff knows towns are dangerous and avoid them, or B- like in the case of coyotes, skunks, racoons, and possums, it's super freaking easy to hide and just avoid people. The evidence is all around- I smell skunks that have been hit by cars dozens of times a year, but I've never seen one in my life. I've seen a racoon exactly once, possum exactly once. Every once in a while a cottontail rabbit will show up. It's wild.
Huh. Nice timing on this one. I’m running a session of Monster of the Week in a couple hours set in an upstate NY small town in the woods with something stalking hikers and prowling the town at night… this just gave me a TON of ideas for potential explanations for a lot of what was planned. Thanks!
While you're already way past this, might as well look into the Appalachian Trail's feral men. It's an old legend about people who were lost in the hills of the Sierra Nevada way back in the turm of the 20th century. Rather than _rudimentary_ cannibalism or death, they survived by completely reverting to an animalistic tribe. There are plenty of stories all across the Trail pertaining to hikers being chased by wild-eyed savages. People die or disappear on that trail all the time as well.
Hey you should check Guillermo del toro cabinet of mysteries there are some creepy aliens there that are really interesting. Episode 2 the autopsy in particular. I love your videos
Let's goooo. I was wondering where this video had gone for so long that I was starting to gaslight myself into wondering if it had ever existed at all.
They are quite literally just fighting hunters from RE, was a pretty interesting movie and a very unique take on the wendigo that I quite honestly enjoyed.
I love all your videos there is a netflix show called cabnet of curiosities episode 3 has a interesting alien parasitic being. i think it would make a great video thanks for the content
Watched a few of your videos, and I've enjoyed them. You might have fun with Troll Hunter. It's a Norwegian "found footage" style film about a dude who works for the Norwegian government to manage the trolls in the region.
Hey Roanoke, would you be interested in covering the game "prey" from 2017? I know you're more of a movie guy at the moment , but there's some super crazy astrophysics and xenobiology to pick apart. Seems like it'd be right up your alley.
It’s at the part where he talks about reptiles “at one point one of them stood on two legs *mark zucker* and started walking around like humans j while keeping reptilian traits”
I just watched this a couple days after this video dropped, and found surprisingly entertaining. Appreciate you bringing this to our attention. Keep up the good work
Yooo I love that you covered this movie! I really enjoyed it, especially Kevin Durand who is so often wasted as throw away bad guys or canon fodder side characters. It's not perfect or anything, but I grew up in a small mountain town in the woods, one of those everybody-knows-everybody places, and this movie gave me weird nostalgia for it. 😆
I watched this movie a few years back purely because I wanted something with Durand in a leading role since love his stuff. He knocks out of the park in this movie as the broken down sheriff and proved why he should have more leading roles.
Ayyy this is a wonderous occasion of being able to see justice for our boi roanoke in teh form of a originally taken down videa. Truly the man-emperor is with you wonder who all has come to re-watch/watch this now that is possible
I'm not Roanoke but I feel it is a mix of the two, leaning more toward fake stuff. I have a fantastic example actually. Jackalopes (rabbits with deer antlers)are 100% not real. However, there is a disease carried by ticks that can cause antler like growths at the bite location on an animal. Rabbit hair is thinnest and easiest to move through on their heads so a tick would prefer that area. Tick bites it's head, antler like growth sprouts and BOOM. The jackalope legend is born.
@@ctdaniels7049 The case of the chupacabra is really interesting, because in the US it's been explained away as dogs and coyotes with mange, but in Puerto Rico and other Central American countries, the chupacabra is some monstruous reptilian abomination, there is no way a mangy dog would be mistaken for that
I was kinda surprised you didn't use the Mira Sorvino "I think we have" clip from Mimic after asking why we haven't seen this creature before. Also, I think you missed a trick there talking about a group of colonists who disappeared, Roanoke.
As someone who lives in Southern Ontario, bears and predators were never really an issue but deer and moose are. The most common thing that happens is people getting lost. The wendigo myth did originate here so we've got that going for us at least. #TeamWendigo
How do you figure out what thing to breakdown next? I'd never even heard of this movie, and a fair few others you had broken down the creatures of... and every time you break one down, i kinda wanna see the movie used lol
I love this movie. Kevin Durand is amazing. Thank you for referencing that story from England. No one ever knows what I'm talking about when I bring it up...
11:55 That happened to me when I was 6. Fell into the deep end while my mom and sister were distracted with the hot tub. Everything's blue-green, then tunnel vision and purple-green-black static. I managed to just walk over to the shallow end, but have had an aversion to water since.
Damn Roanoke, I think you need to change your name to Swolnoke! Preparing yourself for when the Wendigo shows up?! No force multipler for you! More importantly, thank you for what you do and great analysis as always!
Paleontologist here: I thought it might be a good idea to clarify some of the aspects he ruminates about regarding the tyrannosaur line so people don't get confused. First, Tyrannosaurus Rex is a North American species only. It existed in a defined range in North America on Laramidia. The family group tyrannosauridae is more diverse, but there is no current evidence of them appearing on Antarctica. Antarctica is actually the only continent we do not find a tyrannosaur line on as it split from Pangea during the Jurassic, several tens of millions of years prior to the ancestral line that develops into tyrannosaurs are defined. We do find large theropods on Antarctica, such as Allosaurus and Crylophosaurus. We have, however, found tyrannosaurs in the Arctic, aka the far north of what would be North America around modern Alaska and Canada, such as Nanuqsaurus hoglundi. This little guy (little for tyrannosaurs) is being cross-referenced to help us determine how dinosaurs in Antarctica might have adapted and evolved to better suit the cold. Second, we currently have no direct evidence suggesting Tyrannosaurus Rex was feathered. We know that many families, genus, and species of theropods were feathered, but the fossil record for feathers is still limited. What we do have for several tyrannosaur species of North America, such as Daspletosaurus, which is an ancestor to Tyrannosaurus Rex, are skin impressions. We know that, ancestrally, this group had varied scales of different shapes on the legs, chest, belly, flanks, tail, and face. We do not have back skin impressions currently and the forearm bones (ulna) do not have the divots seen in animals that support primary feathers. We also know that tyrannosaurs, and especially Tyrannosaurus Rex, had dermal scutes on the face along the nose and above the eyes. Now, this is not to say that all tyrannosaurs lack evidence (see Yutyrannus huali from China), but we just don't have direct evidence for those found in North America.
I often go through your videos as i work the graveyard shift and there's always so much to learn. Your chapter names are killing me btw who is your monster and what does he do? Lol I appreciate you Roanoke
Apes such as gorillas and chimps knuckle-walk, and giant anteaters do too! But those are all 'fingers', not toes on the hind feet. I don't think there are any critters that walk on the knuckles of their toes like these things do.
Giant anteaters and possibly extinct giant sloths knuckle walk/ed to protect their claws from wear and tear. That's the only real world examples of something like that we know of though.
Your comment about the social capacities of antient animals, made me remember of the most unfairly names dino: oviraptor, the egg thief. They found one that seemed to be walking towards a nest with eggs and gave that name. After it was named, they found a fossil of one keeping a nest of eggs, that looked exactly like the first ones, warm like a chicken.
Roanoke, I greatly respect you as a TH-camr for putting your ads in the beginning and using the chapter mechanic. Not interested in all the ads and it's nice to quickly skip them if I feel like it.
I would love an episode on Wendigos from Until dawn because they’re the closest depiction to what the ‘original’ wendigo looked like. I especially would love to see you try to scientifically explain their constant state of hunger and yet constant strength because how?
@@adrianchannelle8651 true. But I would still be interested in the biology of it. Like the toughened skin and whatnot. I mean he covered Krampus which is entirely mythical creature with no scientific explanation and that was a fun episode!
In Europe you need 10,000 people to declare yourself a town. In the US they have 10 people and go "Yep, town". Topsham used to be a town, but there's only 3,000 people living there now, so it's currently a small village.
When I lived in France, I felt like it was the opposite. Even municipalities with a few thousand people were a "ville" and you'd need less than a thousand to be a "village" and a few dozen is the upper limit to a "hameaux".
@@gardenvarietysquid1389 Those are the official EU guidelines. There are exceptions; eg a settlement the size if a town can be granted city status due to a cathedral. But everyone colloquially calls it 'town'. Historically, a place would have been a town, but a decline in population would make it officially a village. Socially, everyone would call it a town though due to the history.
I believe the horse owner is a stable master or horse breeder. Where the horses are would be a stable or riding hall. It could also be called a stud farm or an equestrian facility. If its larger You call it a ranch.
i watch your videos all day but at some point it just keeps replaying them and telling me iv never seen them and i can still watch it all fine, best channel ever
28:18 They look like gorillas not Panda bears, they still look like hunters. I'm pretty sure gorillas even hunt baboons, it might have been apes, but all the primates eat each other, nature is nuts.
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Roanoke’s point about campfires being a safe haven is no joke. There are stories about wounded soldiers on the Eastern Front during The Great War being dragged away by wolves. Creatures that are opportunistic hunters do not exclude humans, especially if they perceive you as slow or weak. However, polar bears are the only creatures that actively hunt humans.
I mean, some humans actively hunt humans but I see your overall point.
@@Blasted2Oblivion I was only referring to wildlife, humans hunting humans is just population control (joking, for the most part)
@@Ostyak_01 it’s the “for the most part” part that’ll get a 3 letter agency involved🤣
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ahem.....tigers.....
There is one thing. In most wendigo tales I have heard, they can mimic human voices to lure people to them. It's possible that he actually heard Tim's voice from the wendigo and wasn't just hallucinating.
Yeah but he died before they came to the town so they wouldn't know what he sounds like.
Yeah, that's something I've heard about a lot in tales of them (also supposedly your not even supposed to say it's name as it could attract unwanted attention which is smthn I find interesting) and a few other beings. The beings in question are usually potrayed as quite cunning even in their feral state which is always interesting
There's a surprising amount of supernatural or mythical monsters that can mimic people's voices. Real scary stuff.
@@aeiztaloraezi7687 The name thing is for skinwalkers I think.
@@rozu7772 I've also seen applied to the beasts described here in some stories, though I think that also depends on who's telling the story and what region and everything
Roanoke trying to explain magic based creatures is my favorite kind of video
But is it magic?!
@@RoanokeGaming Ayo, you can't do that!
@@hilltop9524 nah he can because he's a chad
That's racist.
He's basically Batman but for biology
I'm a swimming teacher for kids with special needs, anyway I was working about three weeks ago with one of my groups who were swimming on their backs so for the more anxious students we offer physical support. I was supporting on of the girls in my class and i started softly singing Dory's "just keep swimming" song from Finding Nemo, i supported her to where she was going to and before I could turn to go support another student when the little girl grabbed my arm and while looking me straight in the eyes she just said " if I promise to listen really well and work hard will you please stop singing?" the little girl is five years old and completely willing to make me question all my life choices.I also was teaching about four years ago when a new student was stood staring at me from poolside, when I got him in the water I asked him if everything was alright and he just asked "are you a boy or a girl? because you have a deep voice like boy but you have long hair and boobies" (for the record I am a man I just like having long hair and at the time was quite overweight). My point is that children are entirely capable of causing existential dread without even knowing about it.😅🤣
As someone who grew up in the North Country, two things.
1: Yes, there are indeed bears up here, but they are very very rare, at least outside of the Adirondacks. In my 24 years up here, ive never seen a wild bear. More often than anything, the most dangerous things around here are the deer that run out into the road at night, though there are coyotes and coy wolves.
2: A hunter arguing with a law enforcement officer about getting the most out of hunting season is more common than you would think. Granted, a body was hanging from a tree in front of Josh, but people take hunting season very seriously up here.
I live in a heavily forested Mid-Atlantic state. I see black bears every so often.
@@antonkovalenko364just how "mid" Mid-Atlantic are we talking? You mean Virginia? North Carolina?
@@MoonieLovesAnime Where WV, Ohio, and Kentucky intersect. I bought a mountainside there, and have deer roaming my yard constantly.
Probably because some people feed their families via hunting
Its the only time they have their 2nd amendment rights 😂
"When You stare into the woods at night you wonder what's staring back"
Me living in rural Florida wondering what isn't staring back. I know shining a flashlight into those woods is ONLY going to ruin my night.
All those pairs of little reflections...
@@Blasted2Oblivion ahhh yes "little"
I have a friend who recently moved to northern Florida. They have a black bear that keeps breaking into their backyard at night. Just goes right through the wood fence. LOL
@@Aeryn4John wait until he realizes that gators climb trees and fences way better then you'd think
@@Strawberrymilkdrink They also run at like 20 mph or so.
As someone that’s from upstate NY, yeah, there could possibly be animals up here that we don’t know about. A wolf was discovered a couple years back in the Adirondack mountains, the first seen in the state since the early 1900’s. Since 2000, we’ve realized that we still have bobcats and mountain lions up here. Both big cats were believed to have been hunted into extinction, in this area, of the country a long time ago.
This reminded me of a story from Savannah, Ga, back in 2010, a Coyote was found in Savannah that weighed ~64 pounds(over double what the normal weight of a Coyote is), coyote typically weigh between 25 to 30 pounds, when they went to DNA test this Coyote, it was found to have Canadian grey wolf DNA. Is it possible that there is a population of grey wolf still in Georgia we don't know about? Could be considering the mountainous north and with roughly 66% of Georgia covered in dense pine forest there, potentially, could be.
Piggy backing off of scarlet rain,
TWRA, still doesn't want to acknowledge cougars roaming most of Tennessee, as well as that black bears are migrating to areas they normally don't stay. So gov agencies determining where animals are at is always a hit of miss thing.
Yeah it is possible if the population is low enough and or only move through the zone instead of living their, and are quite shy toward human, and human not really looking for them tend to help. The problem with many cryptid is that they genrally don't fit any of those criteria. An animal aggressive enough to hunt humans would probably be discovered and tracked quickly, as people would actually go to the great length to get it.
We had a bear casually sauntering through the suburbs recently, I'm sure if I hiked more I'd see more animals, but even the regular animals out there can be hidden
So your state has rediscovered known animals that were only nearly eliminated by humans... Interesting its almost like were the terrors of the natural world or something
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Seeing the "wendigos" climbing the church at the end of the film reminded me of that one cinematic from WoW of the worgen climbing the cathedral in Gilneas.
I miss cata :( Good Times!
Technically there not wendigos
@@dmolegend1699 Late to the response, but yeah that's why I put the word in quotation marks. They don't look like wendigos at all, not even the more deer-like appearance that people often mistake the wendigo for.
Thing with cats is, cats don't NEED to be social in the way we think "social" works. Cats get pretty much all of their information, as well as share said information through scent. Cats can have massive territories, in fact, my highschool biology teacher actually put a tracking collar on his female cat and found that while she was out and about for up to a week at a time, she was roaming up to 22 miles. So that's why I say your cat is never "lost", it knows exactly where it is.
My cat had dementia
@@AC-hj9tvok, maybe YOUR cat is lost
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Animals that brachiate (move from branch to branch) have forward facing eyes, because being able to judge how far the branch you're trying to grab is, is very important for not falling out of the tree and coming to a messy gravity-fueled end.
It's also a trait of predatory mammalian species -- cats, wolves, bears, people.
@@joshuagross3151 I'm saying that we don't have forward-facing eyes because we're predators, humans have forward-facing eyes because we used to be tree-dwelling primates. It just *helped* us become predators when we finally started walking upright.
I always prefer my gravity fueled endings on the cleanish side.
Roanoke: But what is this creature and where did it come from?
Me: *Where did it go? Is it the infamous Cotton-Eyed Joe?*
Damn that cotton eyed joe
Truly they are a cursed species
If it hadn't been for wendigo
I'd been home safe a long time ago
Where did you come from where did you go?
Where did you come from OH DEAR CHRIST WHAT IS THAT HELP PLEASE
@@lithuaniaball i had the music playing in my head
@@lithuaniaball take my goddamned like. 🤣🤣🤣
As an Australian I can safely say that we have these in Australia and have named all of them Craig.
fark yeah Craig is a mad lad, he's great at copying celebrity voices
Good mate to have a beer with on a Friday night
Named one Rob once, punched my schnoz, stole my durries and then fucked off to maccas
Yea you dont count
Most important question: where do they sit on the food chain with drop bears?
I really like Kevin Durand (the actor who plays the sheriff), he was great in "the Strain". That was a super underated show and the books they were based on were great.
Yeah, Kevin Durand is a really good character actor. I also thought that the deputy was being played by DJ Qualls at first, but then looked it up and realized it's Lukas Haas and I never realized just how much they look alike until now.
I would love it if Roanoke covered the creatures in The Strain.
I liked “The strain” but the ending left much to desire tbh. felt kinda rushed
Kevin Durand was fantastic in this. The emotional range this man can carry just with his face is fire!
The guy who played the bartender is a really awesome guy, met him on set of the Stakelander, he encouraged me to chase my dream of becoming a film maker when I met him. I’ve achieved my dream so I hope he’s doing good and still acting and writing.
That opening part about the wondering if anything is staring back when looking at the woods from your house, GOD relatable. I live with like...maybe a 20 foot deep stretch of trees between me and the people that live behind me, and I still look out there and wonder that.
Children, and sometimes the elderly, drowning with no one noticing until it is too late is referred to as "quiet drowning." Kids are often told to keep quiet, even when something is seriously wrong. So, in fear of being scolded or getting in trouble for "being loud" or "making noise" they just don't flail or cry out. Pretty nasty stuff.
I think in the instance of the elderly quiet drowning, it usually just has too do with them not having the strength, or in other cases mental ability, to alert others to their near aquatic end.
You touch on a very scary topic when it comes to children remaining silent for fear survival in situations and where they're being neglected or abused, because what you say is very real.
It's kind of difficult to make noise when you are drowning... you know, cuz no air.
I drowned, had to be resuscitated, I didn't get a chance to make much noise because I couldn't break the surface with more than my fingers after I went under. Sometimes there's just nothing you can do.
@@Dinidan care to elaborate? Like did you just get really weak?
@@PricelessBinkey1337 I was floating holding on to a beach ball, was about 7 years old. I floated into the deep end and tried to kick to go back but slipped off the ball and I didn't know how to swim. Dense bones don't help. I stayed up for just a moment but already had water over my mouth and got no sound out before I sank. I kicked off the bottom to try to surface and yell but only my fingers broke the surface. I tried twice more before things just sorted faded out. Then I woke up coughing on the side of pool thanks to CPR.
Hell, I live in the middle of nowhere and if it's quiet out at night, it's for a very good reason. There is something out there making all the critters shut up. Not saying it's a Wendigo, but bears, wolves or coyotes are a possibility.
Same man, I live in the middle of nowhere too at the edge of a massive forest near CO and the deserts in NM, and there is always noise either in the plains or the trees. It’s far scarier when you hear nothing compared to hearing deer walk around or elk bugle
@@thevortex6754 I'll tell you what makes a racket, Little birds in the brush. Chicadees and the like flitting through the brush make enough noise to make it sound like a moose in stomping through. LMAO
I agree though, nothing more disconcerting than silence, especially when it suddenly gets quiet.
It's always unnerving going on a hike in the day time, hearing the critters call and move around. Then it'll just get dead silent with that feeling of being watched, absolutely hate that. Makes me get the hell out of there since I'm not messing with whatever is staring me down
I'm in Australia I just default to somethings waiting to get me, wanna go for a swim? crocs, wanna go for a hike? snakes, wanna go for a drive? kangaroos ( if you didn't know roos will yeet themselves at a car going 100kmh (60mph ish) and they're jacked)
I live in the middle of the Canadian outback if it's a errie quiet winter night going outside is a death sentence
I remember seeing this film on one of me and my mates movie randomizer Nights. I think this was the first film depiction of the wendigo I've seen
This was an awesome movie, I loved how they built up the suspense by showing glimpses of the creature throughout and not spoiling it
@Roanoke Gaming IKR the idea of not knowing what's hunting the area is even more terrifying (P.S. Small towns are an ideal place to live. i wanna move to a rural woodland area myself one day)
Go play a game called " until dawn" have fun
@@RoanokeGaming what is movie name
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12:20 a family in my parents' congregation lost their toddler to a pool drowning and it scarred all the young parents. Both my parents were neurotic about pool safety my whole life and beyond. My mom once called my over a dozen times over 3 hrs when I was 21 and having dinner at my boyfriend's house with my 2yo son bc in was on the news a child had drowned in the Las Vegas and my mom instantly assumed it was mine (18yrs on and now she gives me guff about being neurotic about health bc hypocritical dementia is endemic in the boomers). This was in 2004 when the population of Las Vegas was over 2 million. But none of the other parents that had young kids at the time when the Duras kid drowned ever had pools even tho it's been almost 40yrs since his death.
This is so rough for me. I LOVE scary movies, and this channel has helped me find SO MANY new scary movies. It's awesome.
The problem is, that I start watching a summary of a movie and then decide halfway through that the movie sounds freakin' great, and I want to go see it before I see any more spoilers. So I've half-watched about half of the videos on this channel so far, and this one is gonna have to stay half-watched for about a week.
I like watching these videos on movies I haven't seen. Honestly probably more than watching the movies themselves.
And I've never had my enjoyment of a movie lessened by knowing how it ends beforehand. Actually I kind of like the certainty of knowing what the final "image" I guess of the story will look like and watching all the pieces fall into place as I expect them to. Maybe that's just an anxiety/trauma thing lol
I'm a gardener so I end up with loads of bugs around by default. I like to tell people that 'We think of our homes as our territory, seperate and sterile. Mother nature made no such agreement."
Killer one-liner.
I'm just gonna steal this, thanks
Ho, I love that. I love your quote so very much!
Hey Mother Nature. Allow me to introduce you to Hydrochloric Acid, Napalm, and ze Flammenwerfer.
Mother Nature better step down or Iam summing the military industrial complex to car Jack that old bird
I'm so excited you covered Dark Was The Night! I was completely obsessed with this movie for a while and watched it over and over again. Eventually it hit me. Just like in the death of his son, our hero the sheriff did everything right and still loses. Sometimes that happens in life. It sucks but there are no guarantees.
Great movie, and I love how the guy from Stargate was the main character.
@@tutt4 Didn't he play Barry Burton in one of the Resident Evil movies?
@@Mrkabrat THATS WHO IS WAS I’ve been rockin my brain this whole video trying to remember where he’s from
I loved this movie, too! It's definitely a lesser known flick, but it's actually really good, and I always recommend it.
It was also cool to see the main guy, Kevin Durand, get to play the good guy. He's the bad guy in nearly every other show/movie he's in.
These creatures definitely aren't the classic Wendigo, which are described as extremely thin (always hungry with a hunger they can't satiate), and was probably invented as a cautionary tale of the dangers of cannibalism.
@jeremydevine5844 Right? Kevin Durand was amazing in this. I felt like I traveled his path of grief during this movie. Even though the film was a little ponderous, barely lit, and ended in such futility, it still grips me. The casting was perfect, the timing well done and directing seemed spot-on to me. I hope Mr. Durand gets more lead protagonist roles in the future.
I’ve always thought the wendigo was a cautionary tale about cannibalism and the diseases that can affect the brain after cannibalisation
That's what it is usually. I think this was just an 'alternate' take on the legend, whereas the actual legend usually tends to veer towards the supernatural.
It was a mix of a cautionary tale and maybe an explanation for why people would go as far to cannibalize their fellow humans before deeper knowledge of the brain, anatomy, etc reasons why people would cross that line
Partially yes. Windigo are from my culture. Our traditional beliefs require that we be buried with our entire bodies, so even if your leg was amputated, you need to be buried with it.
This is because your spirit has to cross the jiibay miikaan or jiibay ziibii, the spirit road or spirit river, this is what we call the Milky Way. You have to walk or paddle to the west still in the form of your body, until you get to the other world in the west, and no one knows what happens there.
By consuming a person, you're making it harder for them to reach the afterlife, and that's unforgivable, especially if they are trapped here. It's so disrespectful and selfish. Our culture has always been based upon 7 principles that do not permit that kind of behavior.
And that extends into cannibalism being done solely to feed yourself, you aren't trying to feed everyone, elders would sacrifice themselves to reduce the number of people to feed first, and to then betray that honorable sacrifice with such a desecration is unthinkable.
So, all this selfishness and darkness, the possible damnation of souls who can't cross over, this is what choosing the act of cannibalism is to us, so that means you're opening yourself up to evil.
That's why the windigo spirit can enter those people. They're opened up. And that leads to ravenous and insatiable hunger and it causes madness and they change into something no longer human.
So it's as allegorical and spiritual as it is health based. Our teachings tend to have more than one lesson in them.
You can eat most of a human, it's just the internal organs, brain and bone marrow that need to be avoided. in an apocalyptic scenario of course.
@@buuam7555 Alright Hannibal
Look the old tropes are long dead, but that doesn’t mean seeing my favorite science TH-camr being an absolute unit in a sponsored add will ever not make me smile.
You mentioned black bears, they are supposedly very timid compared to other bears and will usually run the other way. But yes, there are often lots of animals around we aren't even aware of. And you never know when one might be in a mean mood.
I live in PA blackbears in general tend to ignore people or run away from them. Unless it's a momma bear with cubs then you should stay away.
@@joshuagiehll3737 I'm up in MN; I can think of only one black bear attack in my lifetime up here; it's suspected the woman was "that time of the month" and the blood scent caught it's attention - it probably assumed she was injured and an easy target. Her husband was able to fight it off before it did much harm - I don't think he had any weapons better than tree-branch clubs. It could have easily taken them both; but it's timidity caused it to run away when faced with any resistance. Of course they have to be timid; many lone predators are much larger; and the ones that aren't usually run in packs. We don't have wild boars up here (that I know of, never heard of one); but I know that even they tend to be much more aggressive than black bears.
20:30 - It looks less like a goomba (from the movie), and more like a tree creeper (a speculative primate like arboreal Dromaeosaur) from primeval
Primeval is a goated series rip Stephan 10 year old me never recovered from that.
Idk, looks like a skinny version of the Hunter B from the Resident Evil 3 remake
I always loved wendigo stories.
Same! Perfect camping stories
Same here!
Play " until dawn" it's a video game on ps4
It's strange how the wendigo mythology was altered by Europeans when they settled in northeastern America. Even the physical description changed from the Indigenous tales of pale humanoids with elongated limbs to creatures with animalistic features that feature more often in European folklore.
@@RoanokeGaming Wendussy stories are indeed the most interesting ones.
Used to work at an Apiary (bee farm), we had black bears attacking hives at least once a week. Just because you don't see them doesn't mean there isn't a ton of them out there.
always gotta remember we look sick and diseased to most animals because of the visible skin, so most things avoid us like the plague
Guarantee you that if you start blasting the bears, you won't see them returning
Watching again because the copyright bullshit is over! So glad and happy you stood up against greedy crooks.
Besides the Manhattan Virus from *Crysis 2* and the *Crysis: Legion* novelization that expands on that game, I think you could also cover *The Quarry* and its take on the popular werewolf myth. It'd be neat to see you breakdown what could be happening on a cellular level during this explicitly supernatural transformation.
The quarry would absolutely be an amazing video
Oh snap I almost forgot about the Manhattan Virus.
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They don't need to be fully endothermic, lots of reptiles are actually warmer than ambient temperature. Some like Argentine Tegus can ramp their metabolism up during the breeding season in order to incubate their eggs faster / travel to find a mate. Then you have large lizards, sea turtles and crocodilians who have what's known as gigantothermy, where the movement of their muscles generates so much friction that they end up being functionally endothermic (when active) without actually having the increased metabolic demands of a bird or mammal.
Furthermore, plenty of reptiles can handle the cold, some even thrive in it such as Tuatara (which would just die if you tried to keep them in ideal temperatures for a human, anything above 14* C is dangerous to them). Behavior such as brumating, which is hibernating with half the commitment, is frequent for Canadian snakes and turtles. Alligators have been known to survive extremely cold conditions so long as their noses don't get covered in ice, and reptiles can actually survive extreme cold far better than mammals, they just can't do anything while cold. Iguanas in Florida often freeze solid during cold snaps and they only end up dying if they stay cold so long they die of thirst and can't go and drink. Unlike mammals where they get bodies outright when they get too cold, reptiles just turn into ice cubes and vibe. It's kinda crazy. I live up in rural Canada and power has gone out and I had to literally thaw out my sister's pet bearded dragon, he was perfectly fine and is still living a happy life years later
So for a reptile that presumably weights over a hundred kilos and is fairly active and noticeably is quite intelligent, it shouldn't have any trouble surviving in Maine.
On the dinosaur hypothesis, the average temperature for many areas in the Cretaceous was actually very similar to Maine with annual averages around 12 * C, with seasons being far less extreme but climate not actually being tropical as is commonly shown in a lot of media. Think British Columbia or Louisiana and less Africa for late Cretaceous climate.
Also on the intelligence thing, reptiles have a bit of a cheat code there. Their neurons are smaller and this they can have very dense brains that are proportionally much smaller, which has a multitude of benefits such as being a less likely target to be damaged and being able to exchange information across their brains much faster than in something like a primate or cetacean.
My sister works in evolutionary biology and sends a lot of cool papers on reptile intelligence. They are a lot smarter than is usually given credit, so it wouldn't take much for one to rapidly reach the point seen in the movie.
You know I'd love to see a collaboration between you and wendigoon or maybe even the lore lodge. I honestly think that'd be incredibly interesting
Dream matchup. Roanoke, Lore Lodge, Wendigoon and then throw Nerd Explains in there for a little extra fun
Love your posts. Can you please do the Future Predators from Primeval, the Cryptids from Call of Duty Ghosts Extinction, and the Eliskni from Destiny. I would love to hear on how each of these species would develop and evolve in their respective environments
I think your list is fantastic with the exception of the future predators as I don’t know what those are.
There are cryptids in call of duty ghosts? I'm gonna have to go back to that one. I don't remember anything like that. Any tips on where to start?
@@expendableexplosive550 they don't have a species names. In the show they ate just referred to as Predators or Future Predators and are bats from the future
@@Blasted2Oblivion Extinction Mode is the one and only time call of duty had aliens to fight instead of zombies. Cryptids is a species of aliens. Just like the Future Predators in Primeval the Cryptids is just the names we use for the aliens due to not actually knowing they're real species names
@@aaronmartinez840 that would be why I never saw it. Never did anything but the story.
For some reason, of all the things people might say, hearing Roanoke say that there are some humans who are really good people even though there are plenty who are monsters has done the most to give me hope for humanity recently. As if just hearing someone else say it was enough to vindicate to me that this is still true and it is still the current state of humanity.
Don't let rampant misanthropism, antinatalism, and depopulation propaganda fool you: human existence has many joys and is a net good for the world.
@@DraconisMarchVII Thanks. It's not propaganda that has been very successful at fooling me before, but usually human stupidity and malice. Often times I have thought that surely I have seen the worst humanity has to offer by now, only to be proven wrong eventually by seeing someone even stupider or even more evil than the stupidest and/or most evil people I've ever seen. I just need to work on remembering that those people tend to be the exception, not the rule, no matter how numerous those types of people may seem.
This movie has some serious themes going on. The heartbreaking story of what happened to their kid and the trauma that caused is a constant undertone of sorrow mixed with monster/action movie. Dang!
I waited awhile to say this because I didn't want to immediately after finding this channel but... Roanoke Gaming has become my top 3 favorite channels. The content is exactly what I crave - breaking down science fiction and fantasy elements. It's not just the content though. His personality I'm finding is a breath of fresh air. He makes references that I get, he thinks in a way I appreciate, and he's overall a positive dude (on the videos at least). Thanks Roanoke, I was having a rough day but I got a few laughs from the video.
Yeah he's a gem.
He's like the smart older brother/cousin you never see outside of family functions but love to be around 😂
😮😊😮😊😊
What he said about the guy trying to pick a fight with the Sheriff is absolutely true. I grew up in a town of that size and the was a regular occurrence.
This was a surprisingly good movie. I watched it cuz I like the dude that plays the sheriff, he was also in The Strain which is also an amazing show. Only a few fast forward moments.
He was also in Mystery, Alaska. It's one of my favorite hockey films.
I like how they added the stomach being the weak spot of the creature when some variants of the wendigo myth had its heart being the only way to kill it so that was a good part on the director's side
I know this video is archaic by internet standards but as someone from Dorset you actually nailed both of those counties
Great to see you again posting more explain videos
Can you do something on the anaconda or the alligator from lake placid I know it just an oversized animal
But I just wanna hear you talk more scientist talk
Yes!
@@RoanokeGaming Primeval (2007) is also a good "oversized animal" film about a huge croc in Africa! 🐊
@@sirenofthesea7802 wasn’t that one inspired by a urban myth about gustave the oversized man eating croc
@@tjdoescosplay I think I heard that too
@@tjdoescosplay Yep. My father gave it to me for Christmas one year after I'd asked for Lake Placid. He sorta had a brain fart & picked up Primeval instead. Wasn't even upset, it's still a good watch.
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As someone who lives in Upstate NY (well, Central NY but basically the same thing) the number of confirmed sightings of Black Bears has actually increased as of the past few years. I'd have to look into it cause I don't know the exact reason they've been sighted more, just that they have
True, another central NYer here, had one seen swimming to an island in a lake near me.
What part of Central NY are you from? I'm from Syracuse(Well closest city to me)
@Derek Mensch Albany is probably the closest larger city but that's still over an hour drive for me. Not too far from the sacandaga lake tho.
@@redyeti34 Syracuse is about a 40 minute drive south of where I live so I get that. And thats just because the highway is straight past where I live
The questions asked in the beginning are a big part of why I want to get night vision and just go hiking/camping far into the woods sometime
Take friends. Humans are a pack species. Go alone and you're more tantalizing as prey.
My favorite part of these dissections is not necessarily the biology but your opening thesis always being one of evolutionary psychology-why we fear certain things and how their basis often pertains to our physiological limitations or historic dangers we’ve had to contend with over the course of our species’ existence, how these similar concerns are why certain creatures and themes show up independently in cultures across the world, how before modern science we may have recognized odd phenomena but were without the means to accurately identify its cause, but that that same lack of scientific understanding did not automatically mean total incompetence, as folk wisdom and superstition sometimes results in desirable outcomes even if faith or reason is misplaced. It’s this marrying of history, psychology, sociology, and biology that makes for a well-rounded comprehensive video series that I look forward to every time there’s a new upload.
As someone who lives in upstate NY (read: basically anything not NYC or Long Island), there's hardly a clearing in the state that is natural. Some places are open because there are towns and cities in them, or corn fields, or cow pastures, but everything- EVERYTHING that doesn't absolutely need to be completely clear is COVERED in forest. A few years back, there was a literal black bear that just came down out of the hills and was walking through the backyards of a suburban neighborhood. There's hills on either side of where I live that are just forest. The only reason you don't see mountain lions and bears and stuff more often is because A- big stuff knows towns are dangerous and avoid them, or B- like in the case of coyotes, skunks, racoons, and possums, it's super freaking easy to hide and just avoid people. The evidence is all around- I smell skunks that have been hit by cars dozens of times a year, but I've never seen one in my life. I've seen a racoon exactly once, possum exactly once. Every once in a while a cottontail rabbit will show up. It's wild.
Never heard of this one, gotta look it up. Thanks, Roanoke.
And it should be a corral, the horse pens.
Ahhh yes thats the name 🤣
@@RoanokeGaming Traditionally the man in charge of raising and caring for the horses is called the Master of the Horse, or horse master if you prefer.
@@ornu01 Beastmaster if multiple animals
Huh. Nice timing on this one. I’m running a session of Monster of the Week in a couple hours set in an upstate NY small town in the woods with something stalking hikers and prowling the town at night… this just gave me a TON of ideas for potential explanations for a lot of what was planned. Thanks!
Oh yeah so many fun ideas to use.
While you're already way past this, might as well look into the Appalachian Trail's feral men. It's an old legend about people who were lost in the hills of the Sierra Nevada way back in the turm of the 20th century. Rather than _rudimentary_ cannibalism or death, they survived by completely reverting to an animalistic tribe.
There are plenty of stories all across the Trail pertaining to hikers being chased by wild-eyed savages. People die or disappear on that trail all the time as well.
Hey you should check Guillermo del toro cabinet of mysteries there are some creepy aliens there that are really interesting. Episode 2 the autopsy in particular. I love your videos
Thanks for the suggestion! I'll check that out
@@RoanokeGaming the first episode has a pretty neat creature
Oddly, after watching that episode I did think I wonder if Roanoke will cover this 🤔 lol
It has returned!
Let's goooo. I was wondering where this video had gone for so long that I was starting to gaslight myself into wondering if it had ever existed at all.
Hey I just rewatched this movie a few weeks ago. I think it's pretty decent but could have been much better with a higher CGI budget.
It was definitely one of those low budget bangers
They are quite literally just fighting hunters from RE, was a pretty interesting movie and a very unique take on the wendigo that I quite honestly enjoyed.
I mean maybe umbrella had a lab nearby? They can't seem to keep their labs secure
Shin Godzilla analysis, please! That's also an interesting monster to talk about.
Gotta watch it!
@@RoanokeGaming plz do then
Back to watch this twice. Cus copyright abuse activates my almonds.
I milk my almonds for coffee creamer.
I love all your videos there is a netflix show called cabnet of curiosities episode 3 has a interesting alien parasitic being. i think it would make a great video thanks for the content
Watched a few of your videos, and I've enjoyed them. You might have fun with Troll Hunter. It's a Norwegian "found footage" style film about a dude who works for the Norwegian government to manage the trolls in the region.
Hey Roanoke, would you be interested in covering the game "prey" from 2017? I know you're more of a movie guy at the moment , but there's some super crazy astrophysics and xenobiology to pick apart. Seems like it'd be right up your alley.
Fuck yea 🤘
I love how there’s random mark zuccuburg images when he’s explaining reptiles
It’s at the part where he talks about reptiles “at one point one of them stood on two legs *mark zucker* and started walking around like humans j while keeping reptilian traits”
I just watched this a couple days after this video dropped, and found surprisingly entertaining. Appreciate you bringing this to our attention. Keep up the good work
Was looking for this vid the other day, so happy to hear you got it back :3
These never get old, the little jokes and references are what I live for.
I absolutely love Kevin Durand in this. I’ve liked him ever since The Strain (have you done a video on that one yet?).
Yooo I love that you covered this movie! I really enjoyed it, especially Kevin Durand who is so often wasted as throw away bad guys or canon fodder side characters. It's not perfect or anything, but I grew up in a small mountain town in the woods, one of those everybody-knows-everybody places, and this movie gave me weird nostalgia for it. 😆
I watched this movie a few years back purely because I wanted something with Durand in a leading role since love his stuff. He knocks out of the park in this movie as the broken down sheriff and proved why he should have more leading roles.
Commenting after the copyright strike to bring more traffic via the algorithm.
Thanks for being so thorough in your videos!
Ayyy this is a wonderous occasion of being able to see justice for our boi roanoke in teh form of a originally taken down videa. Truly the man-emperor is with you wonder who all has come to re-watch/watch this now that is possible
Hey Roanoke, what are your thoughts on cryptids? Possible or people just seeing crap in the woods that isn't there.
I'm not Roanoke but I feel it is a mix of the two, leaning more toward fake stuff. I have a fantastic example actually. Jackalopes (rabbits with deer antlers)are 100% not real. However, there is a disease carried by ticks that can cause antler like growths at the bite location on an animal. Rabbit hair is thinnest and easiest to move through on their heads so a tick would prefer that area. Tick bites it's head, antler like growth sprouts and BOOM. The jackalope legend is born.
@@Blasted2Oblivion Same with chupacabra sightings--turns out dogs with mange look really scary. And sad. :(
@@ctdaniels7049
The case of the chupacabra is really interesting, because in the US it's been explained away as dogs and coyotes with mange, but in Puerto Rico and other Central American countries, the chupacabra is some monstruous reptilian abomination, there is no way a mangy dog would be mistaken for that
@@ctdaniels7049 rescue the pups
I was kinda surprised you didn't use the Mira Sorvino "I think we have" clip from Mimic after asking why we haven't seen this creature before. Also, I think you missed a trick there talking about a group of colonists who disappeared, Roanoke.
Ha!
Love your videos. They're part of the reason I'm in university to study genetics. Thnks for all you do :)
Let's goooooo Roanoke beat the case
As someone who lives in Southern Ontario, bears and predators were never really an issue but deer and moose are. The most common thing that happens is people getting lost. The wendigo myth did originate here so we've got that going for us at least. #TeamWendigo
I LOVE WENDIGO STORIES FAM
Me as well!
lol "Jim is basically Amy" I love how you're still referencing that character lmao
Which character?
Victory for Roanoke!!
And welcome back good video I'll add another view and comment to.
How do you figure out what thing to breakdown next? I'd never even heard of this movie, and a fair few others you had broken down the creatures of... and every time you break one down, i kinda wanna see the movie used lol
Roanoke trying to throw off new people about his alien/monster/creature foot fetish makes me smile. Don't worry newbies he's harmless. 😅
So far...
its back
I love this movie. Kevin Durand is amazing. Thank you for referencing that story from England. No one ever knows what I'm talking about when I bring it up...
You actually do a really good job recapping movies with a good helping of humor
Yeah, I can't believe anyone would object to the review portions.
The cut to Zuckerberg was hilarious 😂
He is just lonely
Is he tho 😏
The wendigo or Roanoke?
@@rafaelalodio5116 yes
@@rafaelalodio5116 the wendigo
@@RoanokeGaming 12:35 he's called a rancher an the other word you couldn't remember was a correll..
11:55 That happened to me when I was 6. Fell into the deep end while my mom and sister were distracted with the hot tub. Everything's blue-green, then tunnel vision and purple-green-black static. I managed to just walk over to the shallow end, but have had an aversion to water since.
A sheriff crying in the playground with a dark past” really spoke to me. Made me feel at home.
Gonna have this on repeat for a whole day to celebrate the victory
Damn Roanoke, I think you need to change your name to Swolnoke! Preparing yourself for when the Wendigo shows up?! No force multipler for you!
More importantly, thank you for what you do and great analysis as always!
So enhancer in this case means additive and multiplier means multiplicative, so what would be exponential? Maybe like a force augmenter?
Paleontologist here: I thought it might be a good idea to clarify some of the aspects he ruminates about regarding the tyrannosaur line so people don't get confused.
First, Tyrannosaurus Rex is a North American species only. It existed in a defined range in North America on Laramidia. The family group tyrannosauridae is more diverse, but there is no current evidence of them appearing on Antarctica. Antarctica is actually the only continent we do not find a tyrannosaur line on as it split from Pangea during the Jurassic, several tens of millions of years prior to the ancestral line that develops into tyrannosaurs are defined. We do find large theropods on Antarctica, such as Allosaurus and Crylophosaurus. We have, however, found tyrannosaurs in the Arctic, aka the far north of what would be North America around modern Alaska and Canada, such as Nanuqsaurus hoglundi. This little guy (little for tyrannosaurs) is being cross-referenced to help us determine how dinosaurs in Antarctica might have adapted and evolved to better suit the cold.
Second, we currently have no direct evidence suggesting Tyrannosaurus Rex was feathered. We know that many families, genus, and species of theropods were feathered, but the fossil record for feathers is still limited. What we do have for several tyrannosaur species of North America, such as Daspletosaurus, which is an ancestor to Tyrannosaurus Rex, are skin impressions. We know that, ancestrally, this group had varied scales of different shapes on the legs, chest, belly, flanks, tail, and face. We do not have back skin impressions currently and the forearm bones (ulna) do not have the divots seen in animals that support primary feathers. We also know that tyrannosaurs, and especially Tyrannosaurus Rex, had dermal scutes on the face along the nose and above the eyes. Now, this is not to say that all tyrannosaurs lack evidence (see Yutyrannus huali from China), but we just don't have direct evidence for those found in North America.
I often go through your videos as i work the graveyard shift and there's always so much to learn. Your chapter names are killing me btw who is your monster and what does he do? Lol I appreciate you Roanoke
The claws curling so the creature is running on the knuckles makes so much sense. Are there any examples of this in reality?
Apes such as gorillas and chimps knuckle-walk, and giant anteaters do too! But those are all 'fingers', not toes on the hind feet. I don't think there are any critters that walk on the knuckles of their toes like these things do.
Giant anteaters and possibly extinct giant sloths knuckle walk/ed to protect their claws from wear and tear.
That's the only real world examples of something like that we know of though.
Chalicotheres
The wendigo in this movie is STRONGLY reminiscent of Gatorclaws from Fallout 4's Nuka-World DLC
Thanks now i can't unsee the truth.
Your comment about the social capacities of antient animals, made me remember of the most unfairly names dino: oviraptor, the egg thief.
They found one that seemed to be walking towards a nest with eggs and gave that name.
After it was named, they found a fossil of one keeping a nest of eggs, that looked exactly like the first ones, warm like a chicken.
Roanoke, I greatly respect you as a TH-camr for putting your ads in the beginning and using the chapter mechanic. Not interested in all the ads and it's nice to quickly skip them if I feel like it.
I would love an episode on Wendigos from Until dawn because they’re the closest depiction to what the ‘original’ wendigo looked like. I especially would love to see you try to scientifically explain their constant state of hunger and yet constant strength because how?
Agreed
Wendigos are supposed supernatural spirits that possess people.. Trying explain them through conventional science may not be possible.
@@adrianchannelle8651 true. But I would still be interested in the biology of it. Like the toughened skin and whatnot. I mean he covered Krampus which is entirely mythical creature with no scientific explanation and that was a fun episode!
@@ladyhelio26 That could work.
In Europe you need 10,000 people to declare yourself a town. In the US they have 10 people and go "Yep, town".
Topsham used to be a town, but there's only 3,000 people living there now, so it's currently a small village.
In Europe, there's not really much room for small townships everywhere. America is vast.
When I lived in France, I felt like it was the opposite. Even municipalities with a few thousand people were a "ville" and you'd need less than a thousand to be a "village" and a few dozen is the upper limit to a "hameaux".
@@gardenvarietysquid1389 Those are the official EU guidelines. There are exceptions; eg a settlement the size if a town can be granted city status due to a cathedral. But everyone colloquially calls it 'town'.
Historically, a place would have been a town, but a decline in population would make it officially a village. Socially, everyone would call it a town though due to the history.
@@joshuagross3151 We had townships in England. They were parts of greater parishes. They exist physically, but not officially.
America, fuck yea 🤘
I believe the horse owner is a stable master or horse breeder. Where the horses are would be a stable or riding hall. It could also be called a stud farm or an equestrian facility. If its larger You call it a ranch.
i watch your videos all day but at some point it just keeps replaying them and telling me iv never seen them and i can still watch it all fine, best channel ever
28:18 They look like gorillas not Panda bears, they still look like hunters. I'm pretty sure gorillas even hunt baboons, it might have been apes, but all the primates eat each other, nature is nuts.
I’m not as far north as these folks but my parents are and they get bears going in there yard at least a few times a year so the ‘take a gun’ checks
It's "force multiplyer". Get it right. Teehee
Came to watch just cuuz.
Oh yea this is doing numbers