Imagine a less spectacular, but interesting weird cryptids..like a 30 cm descendent from ictiosaurs, who evolved and loocks to similar to fish who whas mystaked by a fish..or a 10 cm pterosaur with feathers who was confused to bird..xD
I'd like to say that the description of the row sounds quite similar to Saltasaurus, given the description of a long neck and bony plates, the only thing that denies the theory is the beak, but the beak part could have been an exaggeration or something else.
My father in law told me he saw a hoop snake when he was a boy in the Sierra Nevada mountains in spain. He was alone, he watched it roll down a hill. Freaked him out, He hates snakes and had never heard the term "hoop snake" but insists he saw it. He said he was upset than when he went home and told his family and no one believed him. He was much relieved when I told him it was, indeed, (kind of) a thing.
I read a book titled 'The wizard's beastiary', I believe. It detailed several theories about how such mythological animals could exist. The 'unicorn' was a large goat with a specially cultivated horn. The loch Ness monster, was speculated by the author, to possibly be a very large sea slug that had adapted to a fresh water environment. This explained it's ability stay underwater for extended periods (which pleisaurs couldn't do). And explained the 'bumpy protusions' on its head, (actually eye stalks).
I have a book as well that is similar that shows the bone anatomy of mythological animals and their flaws called "The Resurrectionist" and the cover image is a skeletal angel
There are actually some breeds of horse which have knots where a horn might have been in ages past. It has been theorized that some horses had horns at one point, but, much like the elephant and the rhino, those horns shrunk over time due to poaching.
@@hereticalpaintjobs depends on who you ask throughout history, in Christianity, an African religion? probably they would have seen Rhinos, in European cultures? less likely, but the problem with theories about the past is no one who lived then is alive now, makes cross referencing difficult.
The Hoop Snake would not necessarily need to have an actual stinger in order to wield a poisoned dagger. If it holds its tail spike in its mouth before striking, it could simply be depositing venom onto said tail weapon.
I love the concept of Skybeasts as ridiculous as they sound, huge creatures apparently lighter than air and exist in their own ecosystem as predators and prey.
Dude you ever read the book "Airship" ? Got a creature called a Sky Cat that's pretty cool and the sequel "Skybreaker" digs more into the idea of sky beasts
I always loved the Cryptozoologicon, it hugely influenced my first novel, "Jackie and Craig." I've always wanted volume II, even though it seems like it's never going to come :'(
@SomeFukinPeep I mean this book is just some fun exercise in speculative evolution. One of the people who worked on this is a very influential paleontologist.
FINALLY SOMEONE COVERED CRYPTOZOOLOGICON OTHER THAN EDGE I loved the book and its scientific attempts and takes on speculative cryptids and I'm excited for its 2nd book coming sometime soon!
As a New Jersey resident I have to wonder if the Jersey devil is in this book? Its a really interesting cryptid with a lot of different interpretations, some speculate that it was just a colonist who saw a crane in bad light and the legend caught on from there but there are a lot of different anthropological explanations as well Also, listening to Thought Potato is so chill that I don't skip his ads. Loving my new manta sleep mask btw lol
I checked out the book on the Barnes and Nobel website, and it doesn’t seem to. If you go to the BN website, they offer a preview of the first few pages and it has the table of contents. It has a lot of foreign names I don’t recognize. It did have Goatman but no Jersey Devil.
Ayyyy my guy! Glad to hear you enjoyed the video (and the ad). Unfortunately the Jersey Devil isn't in there... I wish that one was covered! Maybe part two? I'd also love to see some more from the Appalachia region covered (mothman?!).
@@ThoughtPotato for sure, a lot of the rural areas up there and even in south jersey/delaware valley have a crazy amount of folklore, I took an anthropology class about it a few semesters ago and we talked about how the jersey devil could have originally started as a rumor to discredit this one family, its very interesting stuff to think about how we weave these monsters into being... unless they're real to begin with🤔
@@ben-ty9jo The Jersey Devil could be an over interpreted recently undiscovered or completely undiscovered species of giant fruit or possibly giant carnivorous bat, possibly hunted to extinction or starved to death.
I mean, how do you define cryptozoology? We discover new species regularly, and a few myths like gorillas, giant squid, coelacanths and frilled sharks, along with numerous others turned out to be real. I guess a stubborn fixation on animals unlikely to be real based on local ecology? I feel like there needs to be separation between people believing in monsters, and people wanting to figure out if certain animals exists, or can exist in certain habitats.
That's a very good point. It's maybe too broad of a term at times, especially when it overlaps with mythology and folklore, which seems to (and maybe shouldn't) happen a lot.
@@ThoughtPotato that’s the thing is most of the common cryptids don’t fall under mythological in the sense that I don’t think a Kappa or something more spiritual is usually considered but the Jersey Devil is supposed to be like a demonic monster thing and that clashes with others in its field which generally come up to be weird animals like an ape man or a flipper monster
I consider it cryptozoology if it's feasible for the creature to exist and to exist in the given location yet be unproven. If the creature has a biology unlikely to allow the creature to actually survive, then I consider it mythology. If the creature is a mix if common local creatures, its folklore. Another consideration is if it's a weird spirit realm creature that still interacts wtith humans. That's still folklore. And if its somehow a dinosaur in modern times its probably a corrupted source. I want to believe in dragons and fairies as much as I want to believe in Nessie and Bigfoot. Honestly, Bigfoot is the only one I think has a chance.
you define it by looking up the etymological roots. - it's the study of ''hidden creatures''. When we find enough evidence one - we hand it off to the ordinary zoologists.
@@thearmchairspacemanOG The etymology is often irrelevant to determine what we mean by a concept. What matters is what we really mean and what makes practical sense to be used as a concept. What do we even mean by "hidden creatures" regardless? Because cryptozoologians are always looking at folk tales and testimonies, that's their methodology, they're not searching with probes underwater. We don't call marine biologists that look for new species "cryptozoologians", ever. If it started now, it would get too confusing, unnecessarily.
native americans: wow look at these drawings of people our ancestors made! fascinating, it helps me feel connected w them :) white americans: actually it's of bigfoot
In my country Honduras there are 4 criptids. Sisimite: A smallish ape man whose feet are turned backwards (yep, that is right). "Zumbadora" snake: Serpent that bites de ground and strikes animals and people with its tail and body (Didn´t even belived this as a small kid I figured it is impossible for a snake for lift its whole body) Come Lenguas: A drake like creature which coils around livestock´s necks asfixiating them when the victims tongue´s sticks out the "Comelenguas " devours the tongue killing the animal. Timbo: Pig like creature that eats corpses from cementeries. Danto: Based in real Tapirs, but fantasized as larger, armored, with a horn and unable to make sharp turns (Basically a rhino imagined by people who have never seen one).
Aside from the fact that the neck of a pleisiosaur couldn't bend like that, a reptile that big couldn't live in such a cold place. That and no one could agree on what the hell the Loch Ness monster looked like.
Hoop snakes don't have venom glands in their tails. They have it in their mouth and biting their tail also has the benefit of coating the tail spike in venom for attacking
El Chupacabra = FrequentlyCoyotewithMangeitis Americansus, a different species from those in other areas. As for the Kelpie, I think it would be cuter to be an offshoot of the Shetland Pony that, due to its extremely harsh island environment, gradually adapted wading into the water and then submerging to eat seaweed and other water plants. At some point, these ponies, caught up by storms, were carried to the mainland and ended up in other bodies of water. These ponies generally wade in relatively shallow water, raising their heads to breathe through slightly tubular nostrils. They've also developed some type of sticky, water-repellent coating to protect their coats. The pony's winsome nature and large eyes attract children. As the pony has lived so much of the time underwater, it has lost its natural fear of a large cat leaping onto its back (which is why most untrained horses buck.) Having lost the natural bucking reflex, and having no fear of humans as predators, children can easily climb upon it and become stuck to its back. The "pony" then submerges to resume "grazing," unaware that its rider does not possess a natural snorkel. The pony does not consume its luckless rider, but this is accomplished by other water scavengers.
The thumbnail looks like the little snake my granddad saw fall off a train by our house. It grabbed its tail in its mouth like an ouroboros, landed in the middle of the road, and rolled away into the ditch. When he got out of his truck to take a look, thinking the snake was a strange rubber ring, the snake unfurled itself and slithered away.
Snakes do indeed tend to eat themselves like that. We don’t know exactly why, but we theorize it’s because of low body temperature or stress. A video of this: m.th-cam.com/video/puKevC5boFg/w-d-xo.html
5:29 I think that even an even more plausible explanation then the one given is that it's simply a hairless undiscovered species of canid, probably belonging to the genus Canis or Vulpes, that evolved to become sanguivorous. That seems a lot more likely then a large predatory marsupial, now I'm not saying that's impossible, but considering that the VAST majority of marsupials are endemic to Australia, and the most common chupacabra sightings taking place in Mexico, Puerto Rico, Texas, and Maryland, the marsupial idea seems less likely. again not saying it's bad, I just think that the undiscovered canid idea seems way more plausible
I think it's entirely possible that some bigfoot-like creature did exist at some point, but humans would've either hunted them to extinction or out competed them for resources
How is the physics of the Hoop Snake’s tail strike meant to work? If it’s rolling forward, on what is essentially its back, would it not be easier for it to unravel itself, and use its moment to launch its MOUTH forward rather than its tail? And considering that it’s…a snake, I think that it’s far more likely to inject venom via bite more than anything else.
We deployed to eastern Afghanistan at the foot of the Himalayan mountains and I saw video of guys shooting at a large bipedal, furry primate thing, and as the guys shot rounds at it, it just kept on walking without reacting.
Since the 70’s we’ve had satellites that can read a license plate but no images of Bigfoot, Nessie, African Dinosaurs, or Honest Young Earth Creationists.
Com’on y’all. I collect mental lapses of sense (Muslim and all non cannon Christians com’on). I had a response that a millipede was the walking snake in Eden. I corrected his misinformation on classification and pointed out the basic information of differences between Arthropods and Reptiles and never once called him bad names. Well fuck I do cuss but no obscene names.
@@bradywomack9751 wouldn't you like to see mokele mbembe as a grass dragon, water dragon or ground dragon type pokemon and Zuiyo Maru monster as a water ghost or dragon ghost type pokemon maybe a regional variant of hydreigon or lapras or dragalge or brand new pokemon alltogether
@@tijanamilenkovic3425 Yes. Crytids make great elements for storytelling and gaming. I think the romantic aura of this even having a minuscule chance of being real is what makes this so unresistable.
@@joshuasanford1110 I think it is important to debunk as many arguments for unproven animals, gods, etc. as possible. People who believe nonsense for bad reasons have been, and always will be, the most dangerous examples from our sad, credulous and unworthy species.
@@the-trustees nothing debunks them , no Matter how convincing your arguments are, its ignorants that Can’t see the bigger picture the real example of “your sad race”
@Naldinho Tiradentes Nice assertion. Since you have no evidence to support it, I need no evidence to dismiss it. I sure hope that wasn't your best "argument" because if it was... let's just say I'd empathize if you zealots weren't such lying, evil Dunning-Kruger poster children.
The elders tell us to leave these creatures alone for the sake of people involved and the future of the species not everything should be brought to the light
For the kelpie I would of suggested a missing link between the dolphin and its horse-like ancestors that had lung’s capable of spending long periods underwater.
Hearing someone claim bigfoot is a gigantopithecus is kind of ridiculous to me. Like, gigantopithecus was MUCH larger, distinctly lacked a bipedal gait for the most part, and was closely related to orangutans. It's like Grover just wanted an excuse to claim a prehistoric animal is still alive, and tried to draw similarities between it and a cryptid when, simply put, no such similarities exist. At least, no similarities that exceed superficiality.
I read this great book that speculates the evolutionary history of Bigfoot and it’s relation to humans along with being a really good book about survival and a commentary on modern life. I think it’s called devolution or something along those lines. Great read
My problem with the chupacabra is the fact I haven't seen one goat corpse... Don't you think at least one farmer would've took at least one photo of a goat corpse. For like idk evidence. If you show me a genuine photo of a goat completely dry, I'll start believing.
Nah but there are photos of drained goats though. Least i remember seeing one in an old cryptid show. Can't remember which but i it kinda doesn't matter since the operative word here is genuine & that's a lot harder to prove for really old photos. Not to mention that it's not like it's all that hard to either stab or drain a goat so even a properly genuine photo doesn't really prove anything other than that someone took a pic of a bloodless goat
Kelpies aren't shapeshifters, whoever told ye that was talking out of modern fiction rather than myth, they're aquatic and can mesmerize you, but they're horses.. always horses.
@@ThoughtPotato thank you! Already have science explanation pages for a handful of monsters including the thunderbird, kappa, cockatrice, basalisk, chupacabra, and Baku. It’ll be a novel with story and all but every chapter has a few monster science pages
Im still looking for this 4 to 5 inch tall/ wide very fast spider i seen in 2nd grade. It doesnt exist and ive never found proof it could be native to downriver Michigan
The fog has consumed. The fog has taken. The fog has claimed. The fog is all. The fog is here. The fog is now. The fog is my home. The fog is my prison. The fog is my tomb. In the fog, I am bound. In the fog, I am lost.
I feel so weird I can see dragonfly look like snake half bug. I was 10 year old scary run away like 5 min. I come again, but it gone. I don't know of my life.
The thing about most of these mythical creatures is that you'd have to believe that a single specimen has existed for more years than they should and for whatever reason, there are never any young ones spotted. When a myth gets older than even a drastically lengthened potential lifespan, it becomes clear that their mythical status is correct.
.....specimens that exist as possible sub surface entities wouldn't necessarily make its young ones explore the surface world, considering the underground world isn't the most explored area by humans it becomes even more likely. The only thing is the guesses of scepticism is just as good as the believers.
@@changsangma1915 There are more logical fallacies in your reply than there are sentences, so no reply is necessary. This is a courtesy to apprise you of this and i suggest/recommend that you search the web for "logical fallacies" and use that list to determine the specific ones in your reply.
@@the-trustees .... Pff Logical fallacy....very cute way to flex your bloated ego to say "your words mean shit cause I feel I'm always f* right". If it weren't for your prick attitude response I wouldn't be compelled to shit back. I guess some individuals just ask for it.
@@the-trustees ....what, no words to construct with your big brain moment you pull off?! cause well you must be so full of yourself that its the best form to keep that ego really high seated- staying silent. The treatment you need.
if universe is infinite or there are infinite universe then every imaginable creature exists somewhere. everything imaginable must exist someplace out there.
@@theultraatomicgamerThey don't suck blood though, if I remember correctly their saliva works to make it so the victim doesn't feel pain on the area which is then scraped by their teeth, then the blood which comes out is lapped up by the bats.
@@theultraatomicgamer Ah I see, that certainly is plausible, but the Chupacabra generally doesn't use the scrape method like vampire bats though. Maybe it could have pressurized fangs that allow it to suck up blood through the veins and arteries of its prey, and it somehow ends up in the stomach.
Flying rods are my favorite because I remember actually STUDYING them as a kid. Just the concept of Rods and Mega Rods (giggity) is so cool to me, giant flying insects(?) that are so fast they're imperceptible.
'Flying rods " are the product of early generation slow shutter digital cameras which could not cspture single point in time mages of moving.objects which they can only register as a smeared image. So called flying rods are just slow shutter speed smeared images of birds with the multiple wings being the flapping of multiple bird wing beats per second.
Why do people assign Bigfoot/sasquatch to various prehistoric animals? We have no idea what happened to neanderthal. They just disappeared. Why not admit neanderthal could have full body hair and admit they could very well still walk the wilds?
i'd be careful there. the skinwalker is a bit of a contentious subject due to its history of being appropriated by people who don't understand the cultural connotations of it. same goes for the wendigo
@@kaelang12 both skinwalker and wendigo need to be pokemon maybe a duo of legendary pokemon with skinwalker being dark, dark normal, dark psychic or dark fairy type and with wendigo being dark ghost, ice dark, ice ghost, ghost fighting, dark fighting or ice fighting type
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Imagine a less spectacular, but interesting weird cryptids..like a 30 cm descendent from ictiosaurs, who evolved and loocks to similar to fish who whas mystaked by a fish..or a 10 cm pterosaur with feathers who was confused to bird..xD
I'd like to say that the description of the row sounds quite similar to Saltasaurus, given the description of a long neck and bony plates, the only thing that denies the theory is the beak, but the beak part could have been an exaggeration or something else.
My father in law told me he saw a hoop snake when he was a boy in the Sierra Nevada mountains in spain. He was alone, he watched it roll down a hill. Freaked him out, He hates snakes and had never heard the term "hoop snake" but insists he saw it. He said he was upset than when he went home and told his family and no one believed him. He was much relieved when I told him it was, indeed, (kind of) a thing.
YOU'RE awesome
I love this story so much! 😊
There are salamanders filmed doing this
I had a pet king snake that swallowed itself once. I had to put hand sanitizer on it
@@jessicahay9305 Yikes. Poor little gpt too hungry.
I read a book titled 'The wizard's beastiary', I believe. It detailed several theories about how such mythological animals could exist.
The 'unicorn' was a large goat with a specially cultivated horn.
The loch Ness monster, was speculated by the author, to possibly be a very large sea slug that had adapted to a fresh water environment. This explained it's ability stay underwater for extended periods (which pleisaurs couldn't do).
And explained the 'bumpy protusions' on its head, (actually eye stalks).
Oh man I wish I could find that book!
I have a book as well that is similar that shows the bone anatomy of mythological animals and their flaws called "The Resurrectionist" and the cover image is a skeletal angel
There are actually some breeds of horse which have knots where a horn might have been in ages past. It has been theorized that some horses had horns at one point, but, much like the elephant and the rhino, those horns shrunk over time due to poaching.
Wasn't the unicorn just the rhino but explained very very badly?
@@hereticalpaintjobs depends on who you ask throughout history, in Christianity, an African religion? probably they would have seen Rhinos, in European cultures? less likely, but the problem with theories about the past is no one who lived then is alive now, makes cross referencing difficult.
The Hoop Snake would not necessarily need to have an actual stinger in order to wield a poisoned dagger. If it holds its tail spike in its mouth before striking, it could simply be depositing venom onto said tail weapon.
I love the concept of Skybeasts as ridiculous as they sound, huge creatures apparently lighter than air and exist in their own ecosystem as predators and prey.
Dude you ever read the book "Airship" ?
Got a creature called a Sky Cat that's pretty cool and the sequel "Skybreaker" digs more into the idea of sky beasts
@@r.connor9280 No but thanks. I'll look into that.
9:36 I legitimately burst out with laughter at that much needed clarification.
Haha I’m glad someone caught that!
Did he just segway from the Chupacabra into a NordVPN sponsorship ad?
...That's a talent right there. 😂
"A large Opossum" may be the best describtion ever given to the Cubachabra
I always loved the Cryptozoologicon, it hugely influenced my first novel, "Jackie and Craig."
I've always wanted volume II, even though it seems like it's never going to come :'(
How are sales going?
@@dubuyajay9964 Decent! They go in and out, I guess like everyone who isn't Stephen King lol
@@thoughtfuldevil6069 Are you in Barnes and Noble?
@@thoughtfuldevil6069 What’s it about?
Interesting to see all the different work C. M. Kosemen did
Even to this day, we're still discovering many new species every year.
Big foot anit real kieth.
And they are small weird fish, shrews, frogs, butterflies, bacteria, etc. They aren't goddamn cryptids.
I want something like New Guinean Thylacine or Malagasy hippo
Not another lizards or bugs though
@SomeFukinPeep I mean this book is just some fun exercise in speculative evolution. One of the people who worked on this is a very influential paleontologist.
New species of LITTLE creatures, not big ones like those in the video.
FINALLY SOMEONE COVERED CRYPTOZOOLOGICON OTHER THAN EDGE
I loved the book and its scientific attempts and takes on speculative cryptids and I'm excited for its 2nd book coming sometime soon!
When will it be out?
@@LowTierLurker Cryptozoologicon 2 is very early into the works as of some few months
Very little artworks from that 2nd book volume had made it online including "The Ropen", "Trunko" and "Hagan creature"
@@enriqueramirez0615 WAIT
Hagan?
@@navybluegacha2119 that the name of a cryptid that was wash up on a beach.
As a New Jersey resident I have to wonder if the Jersey devil is in this book? Its a really interesting cryptid with a lot of different interpretations, some speculate that it was just a colonist who saw a crane in bad light and the legend caught on from there but there are a lot of different anthropological explanations as well
Also, listening to Thought Potato is so chill that I don't skip his ads. Loving my new manta sleep mask btw lol
I checked out the book on the Barnes and Nobel website, and it doesn’t seem to. If you go to the BN website, they offer a preview of the first few pages and it has the table of contents. It has a lot of foreign names I don’t recognize. It did have Goatman but no Jersey Devil.
Ayyyy my guy! Glad to hear you enjoyed the video (and the ad). Unfortunately the Jersey Devil isn't in there... I wish that one was covered! Maybe part two? I'd also love to see some more from the Appalachia region covered (mothman?!).
@@ThoughtPotato for sure, a lot of the rural areas up there and even in south jersey/delaware valley have a crazy amount of folklore, I took an anthropology class about it a few semesters ago and we talked about how the jersey devil could have originally started as a rumor to discredit this one family, its very interesting stuff to think about how we weave these monsters into being... unless they're real to begin with🤔
@@ben-ty9jo The Jersey Devil could be an over interpreted recently undiscovered or completely undiscovered species of giant fruit or possibly giant carnivorous bat, possibly hunted to extinction or starved to death.
Everyone always forgets that the Loch Ness is home to large eels. The Hoop Snake was something new to me.
I mean, how do you define cryptozoology? We discover new species regularly, and a few myths like gorillas, giant squid, coelacanths and frilled sharks, along with numerous others turned out to be real.
I guess a stubborn fixation on animals unlikely to be real based on local ecology? I feel like there needs to be separation between people believing in monsters, and people wanting to figure out if certain animals exists, or can exist in certain habitats.
That's a very good point. It's maybe too broad of a term at times, especially when it overlaps with mythology and folklore, which seems to (and maybe shouldn't) happen a lot.
@@ThoughtPotato that’s the thing is most of the common cryptids don’t fall under mythological in the sense that I don’t think a Kappa or something more spiritual is usually considered but the Jersey Devil is supposed to be like a demonic monster thing and that clashes with others in its field which generally come up to be weird animals like an ape man or a flipper monster
I consider it cryptozoology if it's feasible for the creature to exist and to exist in the given location yet be unproven.
If the creature has a biology unlikely to allow the creature to actually survive, then I consider it mythology.
If the creature is a mix if common local creatures, its folklore. Another consideration is if it's a weird spirit realm creature that still interacts wtith humans. That's still folklore.
And if its somehow a dinosaur in modern times its probably a corrupted source.
I want to believe in dragons and fairies as much as I want to believe in Nessie and Bigfoot.
Honestly, Bigfoot is the only one I think has a chance.
you define it by looking up the etymological roots. - it's the study of ''hidden creatures''.
When we find enough evidence one - we hand it off to the ordinary zoologists.
@@thearmchairspacemanOG The etymology is often irrelevant to determine what we mean by a concept. What matters is what we really mean and what makes practical sense to be used as a concept.
What do we even mean by "hidden creatures" regardless? Because cryptozoologians are always looking at folk tales and testimonies, that's their methodology, they're not searching with probes underwater. We don't call marine biologists that look for new species "cryptozoologians", ever. If it started now, it would get too confusing, unnecessarily.
native americans: wow look at these drawings of people our ancestors made! fascinating, it helps me feel connected w them :)
white americans: actually it's of bigfoot
11:28 "no amphibious horses"
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There's also carabao or water buffalo in my country and in most southeast asia
@@archravenineteenseventeen Neither of them are horses, carabao is a type of cow 🐄 and hippopotamus is closer to the pig 🐷, whale 🐋 and dolphin 🐬 😂
@@tijanamilenkovic3425wrong - Hippopotamus, if you go by naming convention, as opposed to actual genetics, are absolutely water horses.
I live near those bigfoot drawings in California. Seeing a statue of it at the local reservation without knowledge of the drawings is a bit shocking
In my country Honduras there are 4 criptids.
Sisimite: A smallish ape man whose feet are turned backwards (yep, that is right).
"Zumbadora" snake: Serpent that bites de ground and strikes animals and people with its tail and body (Didn´t even belived this as a small kid I figured it is impossible for a snake for lift its whole body)
Come Lenguas: A drake like creature which coils around livestock´s necks asfixiating them when the victims tongue´s sticks out the "Comelenguas " devours the tongue killing the animal.
Timbo: Pig like creature that eats corpses from cementeries.
Danto: Based in real Tapirs, but fantasized as larger, armored, with a horn and unable to make sharp turns (Basically a rhino imagined by people who have never seen one).
"..The answer is a resounding; maybe."
lmao that was a pretty good build-up.
Aside from the fact that the neck of a pleisiosaur couldn't bend like that, a reptile that big couldn't live in such a cold place. That and no one could agree on what the hell the Loch Ness monster looked like.
For kelpies, I'm impressed they didnt just say "moose without antlers"
With every video of yours, my library grows larger and weirder...
What a treat this channel is
Hoop snakes don't have venom glands in their tails. They have it in their mouth and biting their tail also has the benefit of coating the tail spike in venom for attacking
So, an interesting thing I found out is that one time in history, there was a hoop snake "sighting" in my county
Huh, that is interesting!
What’s a hoop snake?never mind just came to that part😂
C.M. Koseman making Sky Rods a real thing
Hirohiko Araki in 2002 “I’m a four parallel universes ahead of you”
El Chupacabra = FrequentlyCoyotewithMangeitis Americansus, a different species from those in other areas. As for the Kelpie, I think it would be cuter to be an offshoot of the Shetland Pony that, due to its extremely harsh island environment, gradually adapted wading into the water and then submerging to eat seaweed and other water plants. At some point, these ponies, caught up by storms, were carried to the mainland and ended up in other bodies of water. These ponies generally wade in relatively shallow water, raising their heads to breathe through slightly tubular nostrils. They've also developed some type of sticky, water-repellent coating to protect their coats. The pony's winsome nature and large eyes attract children. As the pony has lived so much of the time underwater, it has lost its natural fear of a large cat leaping onto its back (which is why most untrained horses buck.) Having lost the natural bucking reflex, and having no fear of humans as predators, children can easily climb upon it and become stuck to its back. The "pony" then submerges to resume "grazing," unaware that its rider does not possess a natural snorkel. The pony does not consume its luckless rider, but this is accomplished by other water scavengers.
The thumbnail looks like the little snake my granddad saw fall off a train by our house. It grabbed its tail in its mouth like an ouroboros, landed in the middle of the road, and rolled away into the ditch. When he got out of his truck to take a look, thinking the snake was a strange rubber ring, the snake unfurled itself and slithered away.
Snakes do indeed tend to eat themselves like that. We don’t know exactly why, but we theorize it’s because of low body temperature or stress.
A video of this: m.th-cam.com/video/puKevC5boFg/w-d-xo.html
5:29 I think that even an even more plausible explanation then the one given is that it's simply a hairless undiscovered species of canid, probably belonging to the genus Canis or Vulpes, that evolved to become sanguivorous. That seems a lot more likely then a large predatory marsupial, now I'm not saying that's impossible, but considering that the VAST majority of marsupials are endemic to Australia, and the most common chupacabra sightings taking place in Mexico, Puerto Rico, Texas, and Maryland, the marsupial idea seems less likely. again not saying it's bad, I just think that the undiscovered canid idea seems way more plausible
I think it's entirely possible that some bigfoot-like creature did exist at some point, but humans would've either hunted them to extinction or out competed them for resources
I definitely agree with that
Gigantopithicus
You should check out Bob Gymlan he has some interesting videos on Bigfoot
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@@JustSomeDude42 gigantopithicus is more like king kong then big foot though
The " bat " type of chupa Cabral could be vampire bats.
I love the Kelpie explanation!!
How is the physics of the Hoop Snake’s tail strike meant to work?
If it’s rolling forward, on what is essentially its back, would it not be easier for it to unravel itself, and use its moment to launch its MOUTH forward rather than its tail?
And considering that it’s…a snake, I think that it’s far more likely to inject venom via bite more than anything else.
I feel like a lot of chupacabra sightings are probaby just coyotes with mange or something like that
I hope there's a sequel to this video, cause this is interesting!
11:42 So basically how ancestors of whales start evolving.
Commenting for the algorithm gods, love your stuff.
Much appreciated, the gods be praised!
We deployed to eastern Afghanistan at the foot of the Himalayan mountains and I saw video of guys shooting at a large bipedal, furry primate thing, and as the guys shot rounds at it, it just kept on walking without reacting.
What a fantastic video, god I want that book
Thank you! It’s so good.
Since the 70’s we’ve had satellites that can read a license plate but no images of Bigfoot, Nessie, African Dinosaurs, or Honest Young Earth Creationists.
Com’on y’all. I collect mental lapses of sense (Muslim and all non cannon Christians com’on). I had a response that a millipede was the walking snake in Eden. I corrected his misinformation on classification and pointed out the basic information of differences between Arthropods and Reptiles and never once called him bad names. Well fuck I do cuss but no obscene names.
@@bradywomack9751 wouldn't you like to see mokele mbembe as a grass dragon, water dragon or ground dragon type pokemon and Zuiyo Maru monster as a water ghost or dragon ghost type pokemon maybe a regional variant of hydreigon or lapras or dragalge or brand new pokemon alltogether
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Yes. Crytids make great elements for storytelling and gaming. I think the romantic aura of this even having a minuscule chance of being real is what makes this so unresistable.
Maybe some of those creatures are animals with low population or too dangerous that's why authorities are keeping them a secret, or something?
The chupacabra is a coyote with mange also half dog and half coyote hybrid.
"Always seem to evade capture" After just showing a coelacanth, a former cryptid that we have since captured
@Thought Potato can you make a video about Brazilian cryptids? I just think some of them are very cool and deserve a video of their own
I love that idea. I'll see what I can do!
The nordvpn segway from the chupacabra was something else
As far as Nessie goes, the surgeon who took the infamous photo of Nessie admitted as he was dying that it was a piece of wood only 18 inches long. 🤪
Y u here if u don't believe sheep
@@joshuasanford1110 I think it is important to debunk as many arguments for unproven animals, gods, etc. as possible. People who believe nonsense for bad reasons have been, and always will be, the most dangerous examples from our sad, credulous and unworthy species.
@@the-trustees naw all cryptids real why u think the government try to cover everything up think moron
@@the-trustees nothing debunks them , no Matter how convincing your arguments are, its ignorants that Can’t see the bigger picture the real example of “your sad race”
@Naldinho Tiradentes Nice assertion. Since you have no evidence to support it, I need no evidence to dismiss it. I sure hope that wasn't your best "argument" because if it was... let's just say I'd empathize if you zealots weren't such lying, evil Dunning-Kruger poster children.
The problem with these myths is that, like the Paterson film, people come out on their death beds the film and pictures are fakes...
The elders tell us to leave these creatures alone for the sake of people involved and the future of the species not everything should be brought to the light
For the kelpie I would of suggested a missing link between the dolphin and its horse-like ancestors that had lung’s capable of spending long periods underwater.
How do you have less thank 200k? Your videos are amazing!!
Hearing someone claim bigfoot is a gigantopithecus is kind of ridiculous to me. Like, gigantopithecus was MUCH larger, distinctly lacked a bipedal gait for the most part, and was closely related to orangutans. It's like Grover just wanted an excuse to claim a prehistoric animal is still alive, and tried to draw similarities between it and a cryptid when, simply put, no such similarities exist. At least, no similarities that exceed superficiality.
I read this great book that speculates the evolutionary history of Bigfoot and it’s relation to humans along with being a really good book about survival and a commentary on modern life. I think it’s called devolution or something along those lines. Great read
It’s funny to me that my first introduction to sky fish is from Jojo’s bizarre adventure
I like to thing of chupacabras as Large vampire bats that lost their wings and adapted a semi-bipedal, standard quadruped gait
Cupacabra is definitely fake. There's 3.9 million people on an Island that is 100 by 30 miles wide
Why not tell the story of the two criptids that turned out to be real. The maned wolf and the fox-cat.
I hope the second volume releases in my lifetime
My problem with the chupacabra is the fact I haven't seen one goat corpse... Don't you think at least one farmer would've took at least one photo of a goat corpse. For like idk evidence.
If you show me a genuine photo of a goat completely dry, I'll start believing.
Nah but there are photos of drained goats though. Least i remember seeing one in an old cryptid show. Can't remember which but i it kinda doesn't matter since the operative word here is genuine & that's a lot harder to prove for really old photos. Not to mention that it's not like it's all that hard to either stab or drain a goat so even a properly genuine photo doesn't really prove anything other than that someone took a pic of a bloodless goat
@@virutech32 that's totally true
@@rottenredhead6009 chupacabra needs to be a dark, dark normal, dark ghost or dark poison type pseudolegendary pokemon wouldn't you say
I wasn't sure who was he talking about untill he assured me it wasn't the dog
Kelpies aren't shapeshifters, whoever told ye that was talking out of modern fiction rather than myth, they're aquatic and can mesmerize you, but they're horses.. always horses.
I’m currently writing a book, that deals in scientific evolution of cryptids and mythical creatures in the modern world
Sounds super interesting to me
@@ThoughtPotato thank you! Already have science explanation pages for a handful of monsters including the thunderbird, kappa, cockatrice, basalisk, chupacabra, and Baku. It’ll be a novel with story and all but every chapter has a few monster science pages
He Took Photographs...,... But We Got a Painting...(?)!-It Looks Like An Old Blue Oyster Cult Album Cover!
9:36 "*pictured on the right" fucking sent me
Im still looking for this 4 to 5 inch tall/ wide very fast spider i seen in 2nd grade. It doesnt exist and ive never found proof it could be native to downriver Michigan
Forrest Galante mentioned that the Chupacabra were basically inbred descendants of 4 Tasmanian Tigers that escaped from a zoo in the Bronx
Now that sounds interesting...
@@ThoughtPotato I think it was said on the Joe Rogan Podcast.
Where were they for 70 years then?
A hoop snake?! I'd totally own one of these!
How do you spell that turtle dinosaur's name?
I thought it was Mokele-mbembe
The fog has consumed.
The fog has taken.
The fog has claimed.
The fog is all.
The fog is here.
The fog is now.
The fog is my home.
The fog is my prison.
The fog is my tomb.
In the fog, I am bound.
In the fog, I am lost.
Dude in the thumbnail is being attacked by snake wheel lol
As for Bigfoot,
*Rhinopithecus Canadensis.*
I feel so weird I can see dragonfly look like snake half bug. I was 10 year old scary run away like 5 min. I come again, but it gone. I don't know of my life.
I've always been fond of kelpies.
The thing about most of these mythical creatures is that you'd have to believe that a single specimen has existed for more years than they should and for whatever reason, there are never any young ones spotted. When a myth gets older than even a drastically lengthened potential lifespan, it becomes clear that their mythical status is correct.
.....specimens that exist as possible sub surface entities wouldn't necessarily make its young ones explore the surface world, considering the underground world isn't the most explored area by humans it becomes even more likely. The only thing is the guesses of scepticism is just as good as the believers.
@@changsangma1915 There are more logical fallacies in your reply than there are sentences, so no reply is necessary. This is a courtesy to apprise you of this and i suggest/recommend that you search the web for "logical fallacies" and use that list to determine the specific ones in your reply.
@@the-trustees .... Pff Logical fallacy....very cute way to flex your bloated ego to say "your words mean shit cause I feel I'm always f* right". If it weren't for your prick attitude response I wouldn't be compelled to shit back. I guess some individuals just ask for it.
@@the-trustees ....what, no words to construct with your big brain moment you pull off?! cause well you must be so full of yourself that its the best form to keep that ego really high seated- staying silent. The treatment you need.
🐍Honestly, the hoop snake would be interesting, its like a real life pokemon-📕
Please could you do the ecosystem of the Abyss from Made in Abyss?
as soon as i heard the name C.M Kosemen i knew this would be good
To me, cryptids are just modern mythical creatures.
I must buy this book!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1
at 13:00 I thought this man was about to reveal the cryptid Sonic the hedgehog 😂😂
Holy moly he's right I am matter! 😨😱
Iv heard of a legend of a killer tribe of killer apes called blood monkeys
I have the book and explore these critters.
if universe is infinite or there are infinite universe then every imaginable creature exists somewhere. everything imaginable must exist someplace out there.
Love the videos
Thank you
You're welcome
How would the chubacabra suck blood so effectively? What's the mechanism?
Easy, just look at vampire bats
@@theultraatomicgamerThey don't suck blood though, if I remember correctly their saliva works to make it so the victim doesn't feel pain on the area which is then scraped by their teeth, then the blood which comes out is lapped up by the bats.
@@diegoquezada3193 Yes that what I was talking about.
@@theultraatomicgamer Ah I see, that certainly is plausible, but the Chupacabra generally doesn't use the scrape method like vampire bats though. Maybe it could have pressurized fangs that allow it to suck up blood through the veins and arteries of its prey, and it somehow ends up in the stomach.
My guess is that it doesn't suck blood, rather the blood pooling is a natural process of something dying.
The chupacabra is real. But not that creature as described. It looks like a thick, furry black snake with a cat-bat on the end.
I'm skeptical about alot but I know sasquatch exist.
For the Hoop Snake, perhaps the “stinger” simply coats itself in the venom found in the mouth? That’s my hypothesis anyway.
Oh, I like that! It would make a lot of sense
I had a coloring book as a kid with mythology one was amphibians aka hoop snake
Video idea werewolf biology...
Flying rods are my favorite because I remember actually STUDYING them as a kid. Just the concept of Rods and Mega Rods (giggity) is so cool to me, giant flying insects(?) that are so fast they're imperceptible.
'Flying rods " are the product of early generation slow shutter digital cameras which could not cspture single point in time mages of moving.objects which they can only register as a smeared image. So called flying rods are just slow shutter speed smeared images of birds with the multiple wings being the flapping of multiple bird wing beats per second.
@@captainsensiblejr. Well yeah I know that now but as a kid it was still an unknown thing, and I did like an elementary school project on them
You guys ever visit the crypto zoology museum?
Just judging by a name I fought it was some kind of crypto currency related game with NFT animals
Why do people assign Bigfoot/sasquatch to various prehistoric animals? We have no idea what happened to neanderthal. They just disappeared. Why not admit neanderthal could have full body hair and admit they could very well still walk the wilds?
Let’s go cryptozoologicon
Ancient astronauts theorists say
I'd add The Skinwalker being adapted, as I'd imagine it would be some kind of predatory feline which could mimic the sounds of its prey.
i'd be careful there. the skinwalker is a bit of a contentious subject due to its history of being appropriated by people who don't understand the cultural connotations of it. same goes for the wendigo
@@kaelang12 both skinwalker and wendigo need to be pokemon maybe a duo of legendary pokemon with skinwalker being dark, dark normal, dark psychic or dark fairy type and with wendigo being dark ghost, ice dark, ice ghost, ghost fighting, dark fighting or ice fighting type
Cryptozoologicon Ex Mortis
i mean if snakes can fly they can probably w h e e l as well
the internet have ruined the word cryptozoo to me