I love how there wasn't even any fanfare about the platypus, nobody told stories about it killing people just by looking at them or attacking people by the river, it's literally just so absurd that people couldn't believe it when they heard descriptions
@@veerlevanmerwijk7862 In France's National Museum of Natural History, the platypus skeleton they have has saw marks on the beak, from scientists back then seeing one for the first time, and trying to show it was just sculpted wood.
It's not too shocking that people doubted venus flytraps at first. They're only found within a 90 km radius of a city in North Carolina. They're really easy to find in stores, but they're actually quite rare in the wild.
The Kraken in scandinavien folk lore isn't actually described as a giant squid but more as a giant whale-crab hybrid. The description of the Kraken as we know it in pop culture today came about in the 18th century.
Two types of giant squid. The giant squid, and the ultra mega giant squid. Both are good examples of why fishermen of old didn't bother learning how to swim, and just gave up as soon as they unfortunately entered the ocean!
There must be colossal squid out there that grew to abnormal size. The video mentions the average size of colossal squid is 14 meter max. I bet there are few squid out there that can grew up to 50 feets or larger
There’s also the cyclops (are they cryptids?) which was believe to have been a misinterpretation of an elephant skeleton. It’s not only possible to arrange their bones into a massive humanoid shape (including fingers and toes), the hole in their skull which was for their trunk was mistaken for an enormous eye socket. Jackalopes are believed to have been rabbits that had a virus that caused keratin filled tumors to grow on their bodies that were mistaken for horns.
I thought jackalopes were literally just a taxidermy prank that a few people decided must have been based off a cryptid or real creature Edit: also I've heard of that explanation for cyclops but there's also the birth defect called cyclopia which is what it sounds like, a genetic mutation where whatever animal is born with 1 eye in the middle instead of 2. Id like to think that was the inspiration simply because the term cyclopia was named after cyclops and it would be amazing if the birth defect inspired a legend which would later become the namesake of the defect.
@@HappyMatt12345 The legend of the jackalope predates the taxidermy prank, and it was probably based on the tumor rabbits. The prank just made the myth popular again.
I feel like the reason people found giant squids so unbelievable is that when people heard records/legends of them attacking boats, people forgot to take into account boats used to be much smaller. So when people heard stories they thought of krakens attacking giant boats of their own modern time. But a giant squid grabbing into a small boat is more believable especially since they grab onto objects to stay afloat before death.
they weren't as big as cruise ships or oil tankers, but they were far larger than almost any civilian ship today. the reason it wasn't taken serious is because the stories of it sinking SHIPS (not boats) or grabbing sailors off he deck are well beyond the capability of a giant squid
There are SO many more animals you could have mentioned here. The flagship species for Cryptozoologists is the Okapi, which was first described by native tribes as a "Pygmy Giraffe".
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The mermaid myth predates the first sighting of a manatee by Western sailors by thousands of years, and there are fish-tailed humanoids (often dieties) in African, Indian and Asian cultures; so I don't see how this myth couldve been inspired by manatee sightings. Interestingly though, until Florida and the surrounding sea were explored it was manatees that were considered apocryphal. These early manatee fables were most likely inspired by sailors catching glimpses of overweight mermaids.
Yeah, I remember reading about mermaids in A thousand and one nights, which is a muslim compilation of stories. Not a chance europeans traveling westwards came up with the idea as it's usually told.
Another possible source for the sea-serpent could be heavily decomposed whale or dolphin body's, as their skeletons are rather serpentine. If their dead bodies washed ashore, or was tossed around by the waves, it could easily be mistaken for something else.
The real problem with putting the Komodo on this list is that it only exists on a couple small islands in Indonesia. So it doesnt really make sense to attribute the "dragon" mythos to it when most of the countries that have dragon legends couldnt possibly have encountered it.
@@overlorddante you don't understand my point. If the chupucabra was just a misidentified dog with mange, does that mean the chupucabra exists? No, it doesn't, it means there was misidentification. So, if manatee is on the list, manatees were never cryptids to my knoeldge--they're on here for mermaids. But, just because manatees exist does not mean mermaids exist. Mermaids are not real cryptids. manatees are real animals. There's a pretty big difference between a real cryptid (as in an animal with doubt to its existance confirmed to actually exist) and misidentification (an animal with doubt to its existance confirmed to be something else entirely)
Every time I see an oarfish I think of the one on animal crossing I named tony and carry around in my pocket and randomly show off when I have people on my island.
Manatees like to eat seaweed but it sometimes gets stuck on there head and being a bit chubby was a sign of beauty so sailors thought that it was a chubby woman with curly hair and a fish tail and i find that hilarious xD
I really don’t buy the “lonely sailor seeing a sea cow” explanation for mermaids. Those things _do not_ look like women, even at a distance, even if you’re lonely and tired and drunk, even if you like fat girls (which is a fairly recent historical misconception; the ideal female body type in most cultures is usually a moderate one, not excessively thin or fat), not even if you have monochromatic vision. They look like some tuskless gray walrus or giant seal, _not_ like girls. You might just as easily say that angels are misidentified birds; not all mythical beings are based on sightings that people honestly misconstrued for something else; some are just made up to represent something about the beliefs and desires of the people who made them, and some people swear on their life that they really saw them (which should make you doubt the sincerity of anyone who swears on his life about something) because _stories are fun_ and supposedly true stories are more engaging because they might be relevant to you. With that in mind, I think mermaids were collectively invented to express the worldview of sailors and fishermen. Because the stereotype of their being lonely is quite true, as they spend a lot of time around only men; they personify their ship as being like a woman, they personify the sea as a woman, they personify luck as a lady, and they make up stories about beautiful women in the ocean, an appealing fantasy to men who spend so much of their lives on the ocean without women.
For thos interested in this topic, there is a great book that explains the most famous myths of the ocean, including the giant squid and other Seemansgarn. It's called Gibt es Geisterschiffe wirklich? by Olaf Fritsche. Don't know if there is a english version, but for those who speak german, I highly recommend this book, despite the maybe a little misleading title.
What's the source on manatees being the origin of mermaids? Because I've heard it many times before, but it seems more likely that it'd be a dolphin. Mermaid tails are depicted more like dolphin tails than manatee ones.
I'm not convinced about the manatee/mermaid thing. Like, the explanation that 'somebody just saw them from far away and was lonely' doesn't seem to make sense, because it's assuming that no one ever saw a manatee up close in all that time. I don't know what a better answer is, but I don't think this one holds up.
I don't know why seeing one up close would debunk the idea, have you never seen something far away and been completely wrong about what it was and only later realize what it actually was up close? Having seen something up close in no way means we'll never ever misidentify it as something else.
@@hedgehog3180 But when you see something from far away and say "Huh, weird, what is that, a woman with a fish tail?" and then you see a manatee, you say "Oh, no, it was just a water cow."
Well, Columbus wrote about mermaids he saw during his certain journey. The description is a lot like that of a sea cow. He also noted that he expected them to look more beautiful. As for other mermaids, it is possible that the myths are caused by multiple different events being lumped together.
@@emrecan7316 Its worth noting that until very recently it was pretty easy to make things up for no good reason and have a lot of people believe you. Sailors in particular had the advantags of travelling to far away places outside the reach of many of the people they would meet in between journeys. Travelling overseas before the internet was like going to another world, if you hadn't been yourself you could only rely on second and third hand stories to form ideas about what those places were like. Imagine if you'd been on a journey to another country, taking months or possibly even years to arrive and someone asks you: "how was the trip?"
Did you know: there are actually several species of carnivorous plants, not just the venus fly trap. The official flower of Newfoundland, the pitcher plant, is one of them
How crazy did the first guy to find a parrot sound, he finds a parrot then the parrot copies the guys words goes back to his friends and says a bird just spoke to me lol
Actually other birds do that too, Starlings for example will also copy human speech and Corvids will all attempt to do so but have a very hoarse voice so it doesn't sound great. Most decently intelligent songbirds will be capable of this and if they live with humans will just naturally do it over time. Parrots are just one of the few that you can legally keep as pets as most Corvids in Europe are protected from domestication by EU animal laws.
I just think everyone was drunk, starving, hallucinating, or capping in the olden days haha "DUDEEEE ITS TENTACLES ALMOST DRAGGED OUR BOAT UNDER"... one tentacle was checking out the boat
To be fair back in I think it was between 1880-1900 there was a colossal squid that was found washed ashore in thimble tickle bay, Newfoundland…It was 55ft long so they do get bigger than 43ft/13m
Or they were in the conditions you mentioned and just happened to see a horny whale showing off it’s dong and thought it was a sea monster. (Moby’s Dick you might say)
I think they're more just horror stories, the equivilant of modern urban legends that people told each other to scare each other, possibly to mess with new sailors but also to explain why so many ships sunk because before modern steel ships with engines, radio and radar a lot of ships sunk and were never heard from again.
“Unlike other species on this list nobody mistook the platypus for some existing mythical monster because frankly even things out of myth don’t look as weird as the platypus” -5:29 You didn’t need to absolutely destroy our boi like that lol
I wouldn't blame people for thinking platypus is a hoax. It's one of the strangest animal on earth. Most of the combination of their "skills" feels like RPG custom character that's has the most niche build ever.
The funny thing is that they're the mammal that most closely resemble ancestral mammals, poison is likely to be an ancestral trait in mammals as we've found evidence of poison canals in mammalian fossils. It just disappeared in the vast majority of mammals because apparently poison is a disadvantage for larger animals.
All the shots of the Komodo Dragon’s were ordinary Monitor Lizards which Komodo’s are part of the same family but much bigger and drip venomous saliva.
I was watching a program about cryptids like mermaids, and it was stated that if there were really mermaids they'd have no body hair and be large and fat. The way they put this to a computer generated image made me think that if this was a genuine mermaid it might as well be a manatee.
@@Periwinkleaccount A small relative of the giraffe that lives in the Congo like gorillas. It's like what happens if you put a giraffe and zebra in a blender. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Okapi
For the Mermaid cryptid, beluga whales were also commonly mistaken for humans. Search up the underbelly and skeleton of one and you could see resemblance!
People found large beaked skulls in caves high up in a certain mountain range, and so for years it was said griffins lived there. In fact, the bones turned out to be those of protoceratops - a dinosaur something like a triceratops, but without the horns.
2:25 imagine just chilling hanging out when some strange technologically advanced creature beyond your comprehension comes down, shines a laser at you, then just leaves like nothing happened
In early America the Grizzly bear was considered a legend until more Europeans started encroaching onto their habitat. A gaint beast that only got more angry after you shot it was pretty hard for some people to believe
Where did you read that? The grizzly bear is a subspecies of the brown bear, and brown bears still exist in Europe (they even existed in Britain until humans caused their extinction there).
Bonus cryptic that actually turned out to be real, the remora. I want to say it was the Roman's or the Greeks that thought just one could stop an entire ship if it latched on to it. For those that don't know what removals are, they're the fish that have a suckered on their head which they use to attach to bigger fish.
I personally don't find how the manatee could have been mistaken for the mermaid. Mermaids were supposed to dwell in turbulent waters, lay around on rocks, comb their hair, and be very vocal. Manatees like calm fresh water, don't came out of the water, and are rather quiet. Mermaids sound more like seals or sea lions.
bruh i feel like God was just using his last remaining parts to create the Platypus, the leftovers that he couldn't quite match up so he left them for the very last.
Fun fact: if a squid takes too big of a bite of something it can give itself brain damage because of the esophagus going through it’s brain Kinda like when you swallow something a little too big and get that small pain in your chest/throat but instead of an uncomfortable feeling you get brain damage
I like to think that there was an even larger cephalopod species than the giant or colossal squid, but it became extinct due to byproducts of human industrial activity before they could be properly scientifically documented.
Not an expert on the topic but as far as I know that makes no sense because humans never shared the earth with dinosaurs, they were already extinct by the time even the primitive humans came to be
what, from when we were psuedo-rodents? It'd be more plausible to have all the memories of your great granddad then to remember something like that. Not to mention that'd be some shitty genetic memory seeing as dinosaurs did not breathe fire
What if the manatees (or dugongs, which actually have tails in a shape closer to that of a mermaid and have had the finger of blame pointed upon them more as the cause of said sightings) were sighted from a distance and had some seaweed on them (not far-fetched considering they are slow-swimming animals that eat seaweed, maybe some got tangled upon their heads or was stuck out from the side of their mouths or something) and was mistaken for hair? Some of the things I love about legends is how misidentification, whether deliberate or unintentional, can supposedly "transform" the appearance of something to resemble another and convince onlookers that that's what they saw. Like the right looks can end up giving rise to legends themselves, even changing the way we view the world. It's remarkable!
Half of these aren't even cryptids, they're just folklore or mythological beings. Cryptids are largely America's answer to how other cultures have their own myths & legends, because America as a nation is so young. Conflating cryptids with actual mythology is just disrespectful
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As someone who loves biology and enjoys debunking cryptids, I believe Cryptozoology is still a valid and needed area of study. It is the role of a cryptozoologist to deduct whether these creatures are real, in doing so are able to learn more about the animals we have, and stamp out misinformation. Cryptozoology cross-references so many other fields that I believe it's likely to have pressed on scientific advancements. The earliest submarines were used to catalogue creatures never before seen, in definition, cryptozoology
Obviously, if a video has "cryptid" in the title, some monsterfucker in the comment section has to appear and talk about mothman. It's like an internet rule now
The oddest things about the kraken is that if it was a giant squid that means on multiple reports giant squids appeared close to the surface of water which i dont think they usually do
I wouldn't be surprised if sea serpent legends came about from misidentifying pods of humpback whales tbh. I could imagine how someone who didn't know what a whale was could see a pod of them surfacing and mistake it for one massive serpentine entity, this would align better with the way they were depicted kind of bobbing/slithering up and down through the water in drawings as well.
I love how there wasn't even any fanfare about the platypus, nobody told stories about it killing people just by looking at them or attacking people by the river, it's literally just so absurd that people couldn't believe it when they heard descriptions
I mean, can you really blame them? That thing defies everything I believe, and I'm not even religious
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I heard people even thought the creature was put together to prove it was real when someone brought it to Europe. That's how hard it was to believe.
For some reason, that reminds me of psyduck lol
@@veerlevanmerwijk7862 In France's National Museum of Natural History, the platypus skeleton they have has saw marks on the beak, from scientists back then seeing one for the first time, and trying to show it was just sculpted wood.
It's not too shocking that people doubted venus flytraps at first. They're only found within a 90 km radius of a city in North Carolina. They're really easy to find in stores, but they're actually quite rare in the wild.
Nah I have seen them in giant green houses that the public can walk around at parks.
@@evangingerson1271 That really isn’t the wild then.
What? They are all over where I live in Brazil!
@@pliskin101 not originally
@@pliskin101 really?
The Kraken in scandinavien folk lore isn't actually described as a giant squid but more as a giant whale-crab hybrid. The description of the Kraken as we know it in pop culture today came about in the 18th century.
Hey I know this
I can't even visualize that.
“But we’re not Scandinavian are we”
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@@eckiefleckie4938 haha, I got that reference!
There are actually 2 types of giant squid, the giant squid and the colossal squid, the ones with the giant eyes are the colossal squids.
Funny enough another theory is sailors saw whale penis and thought it was a tentacle
Two types of giant squid. The giant squid, and the ultra mega giant squid. Both are good examples of why fishermen of old didn't bother learning how to swim, and just gave up as soon as they unfortunately entered the ocean!
There must be colossal squid out there that grew to abnormal size. The video mentions the average size of colossal squid is 14 meter max. I bet there are few squid out there that can grew up to 50 feets or larger
@@treeroo5006 what the hell 😂
@@treeroo5006 really pffft hahaha they saw whale dongs and got scared of it lol
There’s also the cyclops (are they cryptids?) which was believe to have been a misinterpretation of an elephant skeleton. It’s not only possible to arrange their bones into a massive humanoid shape (including fingers and toes), the hole in their skull which was for their trunk was mistaken for an enormous eye socket.
Jackalopes are believed to have been rabbits that had a virus that caused keratin filled tumors to grow on their bodies that were mistaken for horns.
I thought jackalopes were literally just a taxidermy prank that a few people decided must have been based off a cryptid or real creature
Edit: also I've heard of that explanation for cyclops but there's also the birth defect called cyclopia which is what it sounds like, a genetic mutation where whatever animal is born with 1 eye in the middle instead of 2. Id like to think that was the inspiration simply because the term cyclopia was named after cyclops and it would be amazing if the birth defect inspired a legend which would later become the namesake of the defect.
@@HappyMatt12345 The legend of the jackalope predates the taxidermy prank, and it was probably based on the tumor rabbits. The prank just made the myth popular again.
@@Not_a_Lizard_ lumberjacks used it to prank new hires
Chupucabra as well - a bear with mange fits perfectly with 'wierd skinny long legged creature that occsdionally kills goats'
Woah thanks for the info
I feel like the reason people found giant squids so unbelievable is that when people heard records/legends of them attacking boats, people forgot to take into account boats used to be much smaller. So when people heard stories they thought of krakens attacking giant boats of their own modern time. But a giant squid grabbing into a small boat is more believable especially since they grab onto objects to stay afloat before death.
Oh to be a fly on that wall. Watching ancient peoples panicking at a big ass red squid grabbing at their boat 😂😂😂😂😂
@@carolineyuen3247
Or a green one with the breathe of 1,000 rotting corpses…
This is the kind of stuff that makes me want to never set foot in the ocean. Ever.
they weren't as big as cruise ships or oil tankers, but they were far larger than almost any civilian ship today.
the reason it wasn't taken serious is because the stories of it sinking SHIPS (not boats) or grabbing sailors off he deck are well beyond the capability of a giant squid
no giant squid ever attacked any boat of any size, because they cannot survive at the surface. they would implode long before reaching it.
"The platypus was once considered a cryptid" is a fact I plan on telling everyone I know
The Platypus is a real animal a Mammal lay 🥚
I mean have you ever seen a platypus? There is no proof they actually exist
@@LuisRivera-jk1vo -he’s onto us. Send perry.-
@@teathesilkwing7616 Ahh, Perry the formerly nonexistent cryptid!
*it still is, that thing is disgusting*
There are SO many more animals you could have mentioned here.
The flagship species for Cryptozoologists is the Okapi, which was first described by native tribes as a "Pygmy Giraffe".
A group of whales could easily be seen as the coils of a huge seaserpent. Especially if you have never seen a whale before.
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you missed the Okapi: it was once conisdered a forest spirit and its existence was considered very cryptid like, until it was properly documented.
Wait, i just knew this animal exist. Never heard of them.
Bruh I once told my teacher about seeing one at a zoo and she thought I was capping (this was in elementary school)
Wait a minute aren't those extinct? Or endangered either way they look pretty rare.
@@Zikeal-d4l They’re endangered not extinct (hopefully they won’t be)
Guy: Oarfish are the closest to sea serpents
Sea snakes: Am I a joke to you
Frilled sharks: well hello😈
The mermaid myth predates the first sighting of a manatee by Western sailors by thousands of years, and there are fish-tailed humanoids (often dieties) in African, Indian and Asian cultures; so I don't see how this myth couldve been inspired by manatee sightings. Interestingly though, until Florida and the surrounding sea were explored it was manatees that were considered apocryphal. These early manatee fables were most likely inspired by sailors catching glimpses of overweight mermaids.
Yeah, I remember reading about mermaids in A thousand and one nights, which is a muslim compilation of stories. Not a chance europeans traveling westwards came up with the idea as it's usually told.
Not manatees but dugongs. A close relative.
By beauty standard at that time, overweight is beauty
Actually the base of the mermaid is the seal.
@@calyco2381 This was never true
i mean, how would someone in North America see a gorilla in the wild though? a grizzly bear would be much more plausible.
He didn't say gorillas were the explanation to bigfoot, but that gorillas themselves were once cryptids, like the platypus once were too
@@TheAsj97 I wonder: Seen my comment?
Alright
@@wasquash Was that meant to be answer to what i wrote?
@@loturzelrestaurant they weren’t replying to you, they replied to the commenter
Another possible source for the sea-serpent could be heavily decomposed whale or dolphin body's, as their skeletons are rather serpentine.
If their dead bodies washed ashore, or was tossed around by the waves, it could easily be mistaken for something else.
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@@idioticed4379 Oh no
SCP-682 is a decomposing whale corpse it looks horrifying
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Manatees and Komodo Dragons are less of cryptids that actually exist and more of cases of misidentification, which I don't think is the same thing
I disagree. all cryptids could very well be misidentified unknown animals...which is kinda the point.
The real problem with putting the Komodo on this list is that it only exists on a couple small islands in Indonesia. So it doesnt really make sense to attribute the "dragon" mythos to it when most of the countries that have dragon legends couldnt possibly have encountered it.
@@overlorddante you don't understand my point. If the chupucabra was just a misidentified dog with mange, does that mean the chupucabra exists? No, it doesn't, it means there was misidentification. So, if manatee is on the list, manatees were never cryptids to my knoeldge--they're on here for mermaids. But, just because manatees exist does not mean mermaids exist. Mermaids are not real cryptids. manatees are real animals. There's a pretty big difference between a real cryptid (as in an animal with doubt to its existance confirmed to actually exist) and misidentification (an animal with doubt to its existance confirmed to be something else entirely)
Komodo dragons are actually pigmy Of megalania
@@nathanpapp432 excellent point
I’d say a frilled shark is the more likely candidate for sea serpent
I always thought the Moray eel, but the Frilled Shark would make any fisherman poop his pants.
@@mrhugh. might not be the biggest, but it’s appearance and razor sharp teeth are terrifying
Oarfish
@@loganbly1071 frilled shark
@@zaneviper Its most likely an Oarfish since its size is more probable to be a serpent than a frilled shark
Every time I see an oarfish I think of the one on animal crossing I named tony and carry around in my pocket and randomly show off when I have people on my island.
Oh hi, wof fandom, right?
@@pickledfeet77 yep! Hi fellow wof fan =3
@@pickledfeet77 wait, how did you even know they were a WOF fan!?
@@phoebusapollo8365 I've seen some of their videos
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The Little Mermaid would definitely have a different tone if Ariel looked like a manatee.
I think dugong looks more like a mermaid than manatees, their body more streamline and the fluke looks more like a fish than a paddle.
Manatees like to eat seaweed but it sometimes gets stuck on there head and being a bit chubby was a sign of beauty so sailors thought that it was a chubby woman with curly hair and a fish tail and i find that hilarious xD
@Funny Valentine have a source? That sounds like it would have been really hard to accomplish….
I heard Buzz Aldrin once banged a martian, and I have no doubts about that. No edits!
Oh shoot you’re right
@@callmesilver2683 But you have a point too 🤔
I really don’t buy the “lonely sailor seeing a sea cow” explanation for mermaids. Those things _do not_ look like women, even at a distance, even if you’re lonely and tired and drunk, even if you like fat girls (which is a fairly recent historical misconception; the ideal female body type in most cultures is usually a moderate one, not excessively thin or fat), not even if you have monochromatic vision. They look like some tuskless gray walrus or giant seal, _not_ like girls.
You might just as easily say that angels are misidentified birds; not all mythical beings are based on sightings that people honestly misconstrued for something else; some are just made up to represent something about the beliefs and desires of the people who made them, and some people swear on their life that they really saw them (which should make you doubt the sincerity of anyone who swears on his life about something) because _stories are fun_ and supposedly true stories are more engaging because they might be relevant to you.
With that in mind, I think mermaids were collectively invented to express the worldview of sailors and fishermen. Because the stereotype of their being lonely is quite true, as they spend a lot of time around only men; they personify their ship as being like a woman, they personify the sea as a woman, they personify luck as a lady, and they make up stories about beautiful women in the ocean, an appealing fantasy to men who spend so much of their lives on the ocean without women.
Ah, so like a personification of a man’s love of the ocean?
Or... delirium.
Maybe because of the boob like face y'know..
@@TheKamiBunny Honestly, poetry is pretty close to delirium.
Seriously, every time I hear that I think those sailors have to be either the dumbest folks ever or getting REALLY desperate. 😂
For thos interested in this topic, there is a great book that explains the most famous myths of the ocean, including the giant squid and other Seemansgarn. It's called Gibt es Geisterschiffe wirklich? by Olaf Fritsche. Don't know if there is a english version, but for those who speak german, I highly recommend this book, despite the maybe a little misleading title.
What's the source on manatees being the origin of mermaids? Because I've heard it many times before, but it seems more likely that it'd be a dolphin. Mermaid tails are depicted more like dolphin tails than manatee ones.
The manatee one is such a ridiculous speculation that has no grounding in reality, why is it pushed so hard like a fact?
I'm not convinced about the manatee/mermaid thing. Like, the explanation that 'somebody just saw them from far away and was lonely' doesn't seem to make sense, because it's assuming that no one ever saw a manatee up close in all that time. I don't know what a better answer is, but I don't think this one holds up.
I don't know why seeing one up close would debunk the idea, have you never seen something far away and been completely wrong about what it was and only later realize what it actually was up close? Having seen something up close in no way means we'll never ever misidentify it as something else.
@@hedgehog3180 But when you see something from far away and say "Huh, weird, what is that, a woman with a fish tail?" and then you see a manatee, you say "Oh, no, it was just a water cow."
Well, Columbus wrote about mermaids he saw during his certain journey. The description is a lot like that of a sea cow. He also noted that he expected them to look more beautiful. As for other mermaids, it is possible that the myths are caused by multiple different events being lumped together.
@@emrecan7316 Its worth noting that until very recently it was pretty easy to make things up for no good reason and have a lot of people believe you. Sailors in particular had the advantags of travelling to far away places outside the reach of many of the people they would meet in between journeys.
Travelling overseas before the internet was like going to another world, if you hadn't been yourself you could only rely on second and third hand stories to form ideas about what those places were like.
Imagine if you'd been on a journey to another country, taking months or possibly even years to arrive and someone asks you: "how was the trip?"
Did you know: there are actually several species of carnivorous plants, not just the venus fly trap. The official flower of Newfoundland, the pitcher plant, is one of them
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How crazy did the first guy to find a parrot sound, he finds a parrot then the parrot copies the guys words goes back to his friends and says a bird just spoke to me lol
Actually other birds do that too, Starlings for example will also copy human speech and Corvids will all attempt to do so but have a very hoarse voice so it doesn't sound great. Most decently intelligent songbirds will be capable of this and if they live with humans will just naturally do it over time. Parrots are just one of the few that you can legally keep as pets as most Corvids in Europe are protected from domestication by EU animal laws.
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I just think everyone was drunk, starving, hallucinating, or capping in the olden days haha "DUDEEEE ITS TENTACLES ALMOST DRAGGED OUR BOAT UNDER"... one tentacle was checking out the boat
To be fair back in I think it was between 1880-1900 there was a colossal squid that was found washed ashore in thimble tickle bay, Newfoundland…It was 55ft long so they do get bigger than 43ft/13m
Or they were in the conditions you mentioned and just happened to see a horny whale showing off it’s dong and thought it was a sea monster. (Moby’s Dick you might say)
I think they're more just horror stories, the equivilant of modern urban legends that people told each other to scare each other, possibly to mess with new sailors but also to explain why so many ships sunk because before modern steel ships with engines, radio and radar a lot of ships sunk and were never heard from again.
Actually the whole toxic protein thing has been reevaluated and it’s found out they actually do have "venom" and not just their toxic "spit"
As soon as I saw the word Cryptid the first thing that popped into my head was V.V. Argost saying "Greetings and bienvenue"
“Unlike other species on this list nobody mistook the platypus for some existing mythical monster because frankly even things out of myth don’t look as weird as the platypus”
-5:29
You didn’t need to absolutely destroy our boi like that lol
"manatees are great, play a vital role in their ecosystem , and must be protected" I LOVE THIS GUY😭
I wouldn't blame people for thinking platypus is a hoax. It's one of the strangest animal on earth. Most of the combination of their "skills" feels like RPG custom character that's has the most niche build ever.
The funny thing is that they're the mammal that most closely resemble ancestral mammals, poison is likely to be an ancestral trait in mammals as we've found evidence of poison canals in mammalian fossils. It just disappeared in the vast majority of mammals because apparently poison is a disadvantage for larger animals.
All the shots of the Komodo Dragon’s were ordinary Monitor Lizards which Komodo’s are part of the same family but much bigger and drip venomous saliva.
Local name for platypus in my language is "Duck-mouth mole"
Quite capturing the weirdness.
Lol, what language is that?
@@nicholasoneal1521 ^
The only reason nobody recognized the platypus was because none of them were wearing fedoras
Scp 1000 bigfoot:am i joke to you?
I was watching a program about cryptids like mermaids, and it was stated that if there were really mermaids they'd have no body hair and be large and fat. The way they put this to a computer generated image made me think that if this was a genuine mermaid it might as well be a manatee.
Tittle says " 7 cryptids that turned to be real animals" Shows only 6 and one plant.
Hehe
I'm surprised you forgot to mention the Okapi.
What is that?
@@Periwinkleaccount A small relative of the giraffe that lives in the Congo like gorillas. It's like what happens if you put a giraffe and zebra in a blender. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Okapi
@@TylerRakstis for some reason it reminds me of the extinct quagga
@@TylerRakstis giraffes them selfs are cryptics to cus of unicorns same with rhinos and I guess okapi fits there to
Apparently lizards are flying creatures that breathed fire nice to know
For the Mermaid cryptid, beluga whales were also commonly mistaken for humans. Search up the underbelly and skeleton of one and you could see resemblance!
So mermaids are manatees.
I'd still kiss one
Totally.
So long as we keep it at that
I put all your videos in my watch later. Good videos, thanks for making them
The Okapi was also once thought to be a myth, thought to be an unicorn
People found large beaked skulls in caves high up in a certain mountain range, and so for years it was said griffins lived there. In fact, the bones turned out to be those of protoceratops - a dinosaur something like a triceratops, but without the horns.
2:25 imagine just chilling hanging out when some strange technologically advanced creature beyond your comprehension comes down, shines a laser at you, then just leaves like nothing happened
Awesome channel. Love your topic pics. Keep it up 👍
In early America the Grizzly bear was considered a legend until more Europeans started encroaching onto their habitat. A gaint beast that only got more angry after you shot it was pretty hard for some people to believe
Where did you read that? The grizzly bear is a subspecies of the brown bear, and brown bears still exist in Europe (they even existed in Britain until humans caused their extinction there).
Bears also exist in Europe. Russia especially.
This was a really good video!
Bonus cryptic that actually turned out to be real, the remora. I want to say it was the Roman's or the Greeks that thought just one could stop an entire ship if it latched on to it. For those that don't know what removals are, they're the fish that have a suckered on their head which they use to attach to bigger fish.
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I personally don't find how the manatee could have been mistaken for the mermaid. Mermaids were supposed to dwell in turbulent waters, lay around on rocks, comb their hair, and be very vocal. Manatees like calm fresh water, don't came out of the water, and are rather quiet. Mermaids sound more like seals or sea lions.
Colossal Squid is the most terrifying creature when you swim
platypus is when god started to get lazy, and just started putting in together whatever stuff he gets his hands on.
bruh i feel like God was just using his last remaining parts to create the Platypus, the leftovers that he couldn't quite match up so he left them for the very last.
Fun fact: if a squid takes too big of a bite of something it can give itself brain damage because of the esophagus going through it’s brain
Kinda like when you swallow something a little too big and get that small pain in your chest/throat but instead of an uncomfortable feeling you get brain damage
Delightful informative high quality narrative content.
It's not that they were THOUGHT to be cryptids, they WERE categorized as cryptids.
I like to think that there was an even larger cephalopod species than the giant or colossal squid, but it became extinct due to byproducts of human industrial activity before they could be properly scientifically documented.
It not surprising that at least a few cryptids turned out to be real
Why this channel is so gooooood
Fake kraken: GET OUTTA MY TRENCH REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
Real kraken: henlo, am sick.
For dragons, I like Carl Sagan's theory that they are a genetic memory of dinosaurs.
You so realize that idea in psychology is mostly regarded as fake right?
Not an expert on the topic but as far as I know that makes no sense because humans never shared the earth with dinosaurs, they were already extinct by the time even the primitive humans came to be
Most dragons are just lizards and snakes.
what, from when we were psuedo-rodents? It'd be more plausible to have all the memories of your great granddad then to remember something like that. Not to mention that'd be some shitty genetic memory seeing as dinosaurs did not breathe fire
@@josepablobonillajimenez6297 humans currently share the earth with dinosaurs cus birds are dinosaurs.
I just realized the video is 1 week old, and when I’m writing this comment. ONLY 1 PERSON HAS COMMENTED?!?
Just realized how stoked the guys who discovered Komodo dragons must have been
"There is a squid out there that is so massive it can pull entire ships down into the deep"
"Woah! There is a giant squid! This cryptid is real!"
The Kraken legend is more than believable. A giant squid would be bigger than some Viking long ships.
lol
i hope this channel booms, it's been a while to see an informative channel such as this. most watered down.
I turn into a Cryptid when I go into my room
i won't deny that at a certain point of drunkness i would make up with a manateee
well shit I guess I'm enter my cryptids phase now, really good video you deserve more attention!!!
What if the manatees (or dugongs, which actually have tails in a shape closer to that of a mermaid and have had the finger of blame pointed upon them more as the cause of said sightings) were sighted from a distance and had some seaweed on them (not far-fetched considering they are slow-swimming animals that eat seaweed, maybe some got tangled upon their heads or was stuck out from the side of their mouths or something) and was mistaken for hair?
Some of the things I love about legends is how misidentification, whether deliberate or unintentional, can supposedly "transform" the appearance of something to resemble another and convince onlookers that that's what they saw. Like the right looks can end up giving rise to legends themselves, even changing the way we view the world. It's remarkable!
You forgot about the sacred Vietnamese turtle,as it turns out that the sacred turtle was real and it looks like a huge soft shelled turtle.
Half of these aren't even cryptids, they're just folklore or mythological beings. Cryptids are largely America's answer to how other cultures have their own myths & legends, because America as a nation is so young. Conflating cryptids with actual mythology is just disrespectful
there was an actual scientific report and study of a type of cephalopod that was bigger than a giant squid but no one ever saw it except that one time
Every animal was a cryptid at first.
The "mermaids = manatees" thing is only a hypothesis.
Probably your dad for how you never saw or knew of him
The singing of the manatees is quite charming.
2:50 thats actually a chimera not a dragon.
I find it hard to believe that a mermaid could ne mixed up that easily.
0:53 I got you man I’m right here
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Hey don't forget the chupacabras the goat eater is actually a hairless dog
You mean Chupacabras?
@@Burn_Angel Aloha.
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I used the reportbutton as it was originally intended;
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Just this week, i got 1 Covid-Denier-Channel (yes, the entire thing,
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@@Burn_Angel I'm just saying: Its not just do-able but Fun to kick some Racists in their lower backs.
@@loturzelrestaurant Sorry, I'm not an SJW. And if you ask me, I'll tell you to mind your own business.
There are already many restrictions on how we can talk in a lot of pages like this, to the point I can't even write the word "shit" here in the comments sometimes. If you want to do something about racist people, go to third world countries and preach to the people openly, don't try to do the easy thing and cancel random users on TH-cam, because it only makes you look like an asshole.
As someone who loves biology and enjoys debunking cryptids, I believe Cryptozoology is still a valid and needed area of study. It is the role of a cryptozoologist to deduct whether these creatures are real, in doing so are able to learn more about the animals we have, and stamp out misinformation. Cryptozoology cross-references so many other fields that I believe it's likely to have pressed on scientific advancements.
The earliest submarines were used to catalogue creatures never before seen, in definition, cryptozoology
But any time a cryptozoologist actually find something they become a regular zoologist
"In the name of Celeste, is that a sea monster?!"
"Oh nah, that's just whale d*"
5:46 It's just a platypus. They don't do much, you know.
I could literally hear this comment in my brain lol. Phineas and Ferb was my childhood.
The reason why monsters dont exist is because when scientists see one, they call it an animal
When I was little my dad and I were at the beach and an oarfish literally came up by our legs. Scared me shitless
6:13
Spot the odd thing out!
Lol I love how in one picture of a sea serpent the mouth is huge and an a other it's tiny.
I just wish that mothman was real... I want to marry him
Moth man is just an moth that in distance look like a human moth
@@marcobraga6394 please, stop destroying my dreams
Obviously, if a video has "cryptid" in the title, some monsterfucker in the comment section has to appear and talk about mothman. It's like an internet rule now
@@CU-games i dont care
@@baldchara So mothman triggers you but not Bigfoot? K
Mermaids in history: beautiful fish women that kill seaman if they get to close
Mermaids in real life: WaTer cOw
The oddest things about the kraken is that if it was a giant squid that means on multiple reports giant squids appeared close to the surface of water which i dont think they usually do
It’s good to see Kermit got a narrating job after the Muppets reboot sucked so much
A muppets reboot? Never heard that.
I do not believe ppl were dumb enough to think a manatees, a water elephant looking animal, was a humanoid.
Southeasterners: wait,komodo is cryptid?
We live with them
bug spray? ❌
venus fly trap? ✔️
Imagine how many more animals from the past are considered now as myths, over-exaggerated/misconcepted in terms of details, or fake
I wouldn't be surprised if sea serpent legends came about from misidentifying pods of humpback whales tbh. I could imagine how someone who didn't know what a whale was could see a pod of them surfacing and mistake it for one massive serpentine entity, this would align better with the way they were depicted kind of bobbing/slithering up and down through the water in drawings as well.