OKAY NO MORE REUPLOADS. Its alive, and so am I. It was re-uploaded because my editing software messed up some of the audio transitioning multiple times throughout the video. Some of you may have noticed it, but it really bugged me personally. Also, here's all the songs I used for this video: th-cam.com/video/S2fhp52riek/w-d-xo.html
The creepiest thing about it isn't even the short, it's how everybody who remembers it remembers it differently, yet, the end result is the same (a wizard in a clock who takes a child to a weird world.)
Thats pretty common. Just talk to your friends about an event that happened in your childhood together and everybody will remember details or entire scenarios that the others dont remember at all / really differently. For example who was there / where it happened /...
Yea there’s definitely a confabulation affect going on. Ppl who remember it probably combined their own memory of the show with some books or other animated shorts they might’ve seen around that same time.
@@MischieviousJirachi it's actually really common. The human mind is highly unreliable. The more vividly you remember something, the more likely that you're misremembering.
Mischievious Jirachi Fun fact: Your most vivid memory probably never happened or you remembered it wrong. I remember watching Family Guy and I had a clear memory that one of the side characters wore a navy blue bikini. Years later I watched the same episode and the side character actually wore a black bikini.
I remember seeing this short as a kid. During the beginning of this video, it seemed rather familiar, but didn’t stir any memories. As we got to the end of the video, and all the details were being given, I could remember things about it as well. Pinwheel was one of my favorites growing up, and after watching the full video on AAA’s channel, I remembered it entirely. The original person seeking the video sure got frightened easily, as the story is pretty good, and gives a good lesson, and the girl (Sally) wasn’t really that scared of the wizard, either.
When I was maybe four, I saw a horror version of Snow White, set in a post-apocalyptic world. It scared me shitless. Years later, I learn it's a cheesy indie animated film called "Happily Ever After," full of cheesy '80s animation. I tried watching it in college for nostalgia's sake, but it was just too stupid. Isn't it funny how our perceptions are so different as children?
@@lizzychrome7630 I mean, when you are kid, everything in the world is scary. It doesn't help that the imagination is extremely high during those years.
Often times something with cheap effects such as old old stop motion is nightmare fuel for young children, this has happened to me many times when I saw something as a young child and was terrified by the animation style warping my memory of it in the future, making me think it’s much more terrifying than it actually is, this happened to me with robot chicken episodes I saw at age 7 and some other things I don’t really remember the name of
Imagine the happiness in that dude, like after 5 years some random person messages you and says "hey i found what you were looking for" such a wholesome story from such a horroristic beginning
Michael Howe was actually pretty spot on, the only detail he got wrong was the shoes instead of gloves. But yeah, the rest were way off; I’m pretty sure the second guy was thinking of an entirely different cartoon
To be fair. The op said they were sick so they probably only remember faintly what it was considering they also probably saw this in mid 1980s (based off time of original release along with when pinwheel was airing) the second person just sounds like a troll though
Pretty sure there wasn't a single clockman, it was an amalgamation of different pieces of media, elegant sally was just the missing piece from the mismatched memories that made up clockman.
I can honestly relate, and I think those redditors had it right all along. He remembered this cartoon while he was mad sick with flu (and presumably fever) I remember being about 6-7 years old and similarly mad sick with flu. I'm talking 105-106 temperature shivering underneath a blanket fever. I actually had to go to the hospital to get covered in ice because I was getting delirious - but that's besides the point. Anyway at the time my brother was watching Air Bud on the TV while I was in the depths of my fever nightmare. I still remember near the end of the movie when everyone is cheering for him for winning the tournament match or whatever. The fever twisted that moment in time for me and it felt like they were screaming and cheering for HOURS. I still occasionally get shivers when I hear a cheering crowd, so strong is the fever dreams of a child to imprint a totally normal situation in shades of nightmarish horror.
Imagine being the guy who stumbles on this mystery and then just finds it on youtube. Came late to the game and then just cracked the case wide open that easily.
literally under the name "pinwheel clock man." maybe they renamed it but god if they didnt then the entire internet deserves a slap on the wrist for not literally just googling it
aaa uploaded the english version and added the keywords 'pinwheel clock man' to it after they realized people were looking for it with that title. i promise it was much more elusive before the discovery!
This happened to me with some weird McDonald's audio tape from the 80s. Sadly most of it still appears to be lost, but the theme song of the tape was found and preserved on TH-cam.
BRO I'm the daughter of the artist that painted the image at 19:13 , that caught me off guard xD His name is Michel Duguay if you want to see more of his stuff
Ok but that description of the short where the clockman does a dance when he comes out of the clock is hilarious to me. Like imagine waking up in the middle of the night and seeing some random old dude breakin' it down at the foot of your bed
Funny how one person contacted many members of Pinwheel's production team for a period of years and never got anywhere, yet another was able to find the short just by visiting an archive website and clicking on a TH-cam link.
This is hilarious. I lived pinwheel. And this was an episode I taped on VHS, and watched over and over and over. I wish I would have been on that board, I could have solved it that night. It also has the Garfield Christmas special and the IT miniseries on lol. I was an odd kid.
I love this video because it makes you feel as if you are apart of the search, and tells you the failures and successful leads, creating this sort of thrilling vibe.
Memories are so strange. We can remember some details perfectly, but others get twisted and altered by time and are mind itself. It's crazy, if I had a dollar every time I saw something or heard something from the past only to have it be totally different than what remembered I'd be rich.
Nickelodeon has a lot of lost media. They have a bad habit of erasing their own shows’ existence, especially when they cancel perfectly good and promising shows.
Right up there with the early BBC guys. "Nobody is ever going to care about this weird kids scifi show. Burn all the negatives, we need space." This why we're missing *a lot* of early Dr. Who eps. A lot of the ones we've found were "rescued" from the big burn by studio employees who were "given them as a bonus".
@@leviathanchan1915 I mainly watch music videos, jazz backing tracks, anime, and gaming videos. I am baffled as to why TH-cam thought this to be so important rather than recommend, I don't know, more DanPlan.
Lost media interest me a lot yet has a very eerie atmosphere along with it. The fact something just turns up “lost” and slips through the cracks of the internet, memories and the creators itself is pretty unsettling. Best way I can describe it but idk anyone that can hit the nail right in.
These days your phone is tracking your every step, people putting pictures of dinner online, everything is so wired and connected. And then you have some project that probably took a bunch of people weeks to make, producers for the show getting it on air, FCC reviewing it or something, and just ??????? no one can remember it? No one has a copy? It's wild. It's fun to dig into mysteries.
I went through something like this lol. When I was little I watched a video of a “dancing man with no eyes” that haunted me until I got older and turned out it was just 2D from gorillaz..
OH goodness this is great XDD i watched the Clint Eastwood vid as a child and i loved it,...i thought it was just some random animated short, but just 8 years later i found out Gorillaz is a band and now it's one of my favorites
Yeah. I love following these mysteries, but I never get into the actual digging. I get anxious contacting people I don't know, but I think the stories behind why things go missing is fascinating.
Yes thank you for recycling GamerFromMars content... now can you do some harder work and discover or find new mysteries we haven’t seen or anyone hasn’t tackled yet?
I know ... I have a sibling who's close to my age. We watched a lot of TV growing up, and when I talk about those shows this sibling often corrects details I misremember. It's amazing how certain I can be about a detail that never existed.
Musician Wren Recently my mom got a game with 3 crash bandicoot games remastered, and I thought we already got it for the same game, she claimed it was for a different console, I think it was around the same time we got the game
It honestly scares me a little that our memories can be so wrong or completely off the mark that it's almost like a memory of a memory (if that makes sense lol) There are so many things from childhood that I was certain about and then when I rewatch or hear about it again later it'll turn out to be completely different than I remember. Also the further we get from childhood the more our memories become fuzzy and it kind of scares me to think I might be misremembering some of my favorite memories
His memories weren't that altered, he just remembers what impacted him as a child. The same way a kid and an adult would process the same thing in totally different ways.
@@lws7142 Saved them? Saved them from what exactly? As far as I know they just occupied the country for 23 years. Thousands of people fled the country to the west because of it. Jan Palach burned himself alive to protest against the occupation! Doesnt sound to me like the kind of stuff people do when you supposedly save them.
@HalfExotic Well, the short animation the video speaks of is from 1976. During this time Czechoslovakia was occupied by soviet forces ( and a few others ) from 1968 to 1991.
This case remind me the infamous creepypasta story "Candle Cove" more than any other lost media case that I have ever seen until now. It's like a real life Candle Cove with a good ending, lol
And after all that, *_it was on TH-cam_* Edit: wtf i have literally no memory of writing this?? I thought I was watching this video for the first time but apparently I've watched it before.
The most amazing part to me every time I watch this is just how spot on Michael Howe's description was Man was a small child when it aired and still got a damn near perfect retelling of the story from memory
When people come together like this, it is awesome. The internet can be a vast and scary place (even if it is not an actual place per say) but there are some people that are nice and helpful.
The second guy who said the wizard had a bowler hat and a black turtle neck and a wicked smile got the wizard mixed up with Bowler Hat Guy from Meet the Robinson's. Because the Bowler Hat Guy had the exact description and there are certain shots throughout the movie that make the Bowler Hat Guy look like he has green skin when really he has white skin.
TheDirewolf 1234 I like how the guy went to all these different people involved with pinwheel and the cartoon, but some random guy finds it on TH-cam first
this is what I love about the internet. there are 10 to even 20 years old conversations archived for you to find. mysteries that span over multiple years and sites, scouring every nook and cranny of the internet just for a video. it's truly a sight to behold.
hey, it’s important to preserve animation. maybe it’s not a big cultural game changer, but animated media gets lost super easily and most people who are interested in it want as much of it to be preserved as possible. i think it’s pretty neat that it got found :)
Classica Filme Just type reverse convolutional database search in your brain and let it do the work... you will start to remember weird old things very clearly. Eventually every single abstract memory will link itself with it's source(s) and with some well defined words or representations.
I listen to the story of clockman so much. There’s just something about the way people worked hard to solve a mystery that’s so satisfying as a tale from the internet.
Isn't it crazy how this weirdly ominous yet seemingly innocent short film could have such an effect on a person's life? I'm telling you, what you see as a child really does a number on you. It's insane that it took so long xD
Alex & Rah When I was 3, I went to a daycare at this lady’s house who had the children watch TV sometimes for entertainment. I remember watching this one anime that left me with very odd yet fascinating feelings. I barely have any memories of the show since I was so young and I will never be able to find what show it was, but those feelings will always stick with me. So many shows I’ve seen as a child that I cannot remember that well will always come back to me ever so often and I will remember these feelings I don’t know how to explain
It's so interesting to see how people mix, blend or warp details of past events in their memories. Interesting, and frankly scary, given how many trials and historical events often rely on human memory. Thanks for taking the time to sort through all of these old threads, and give us a timeline of this discovery. It was really interesting to follow!
the scariest part is how easily things can just get lost to time...there's stuff from my childhood that i vividly remember but there's no physical evidence of them ever having existed, just the memories in my mind. it's really eerie for some reason
@@r4ndom7000 yo sameee, i remember telling my older sister some part of our childhood when we play together and she said that it never happened and i was so confused because im 100% sure it happened.
yoda apologist I used to play a game with my sister and one day the disk just disappeared and now I am the only one in my whole family that remembers its existence
Short films are always the creepiest because you have to condense a story into a short period of time, so you have to find creative ways to tell that story visually. Listening to the beginning already gave me the creeps.
Meanwhile, I was terrified as a child by seeing part of "Fantastic Planet". For years, I thought it couldn't possibly have been as creepy and surreal as I remembered. And then I found it again, and it was even *weirder*.
Honestly, I have never heard of that great search for the clock man to begin with that's why i am not surprised why random people who uploaded or watched it on TH-cam didn't notify anyone about the supposedly lost media
The short was uploaded on TH-cam on 2017 by AAA Animations, not knowing about the whole search for it. Then months later after being uploaded it was viewed and revealed to be clockman.
It’s interesting how a lot of people remembered the little girl as a little boy- it just goes to show that the kids watching this (some of them boys) really put themselves into the story- like the clock man was coming after them 🥺🥵
I mean to be fair, based on the context: Since the OP misremembered some details because both people haven’t seen the short who knows how long. I can’t blame them for misremembering the child’s gender.
@@lindinle Nobody was talking about trans people, you're the only one? Sounds like you're just weirdly obsessed with us, cos all that was brought up was that a lot of male people who watched the short seemed to misremember the girl character as a boy. They're saying that since the viewer was male, they're misremembering the character's gender because they themselves were male and kinda default to that. Quiet down and quit being weird. It's infecting your brain and you're seeing problems where there are none. Go take a break from TH-cam and Twitter.
It's amazing that the film was ever found given how completely inaccurate the first two descriptions were. The other shorts that were ruled out seemed closer to the descriptions than the actual film ended up being. - the child was not a boy - the room was not dark at all - the clockman's skin is pale white and not greenish/blue - the clockman did not take the child on a scary adventure, just straight to his house - no claymation or dolls at all - no closing or creaking open of the bedroom door - the clock doesn't open like a door leaving a big dark hole (it transforms into a regular window) - no irish riverdancing - no turtleneck or bowler cap, or cleanshaven face Meanwhile, Michael W Howe's description was exact in every detail aside from the red shoes. And considering how extremely minor the segment with the clock actually is in the film, I'm wondering if Commander Santa and the 4chan anon were actually remembering these other films and just mixing it with their vague memories of the small clock segment in Sally. Funny how it was Commander Santa's detailed descriptions that got everyone interested in the clockman search, and almost all of his descriptions were wrong.
There are a variety of factors that likely lead to the massive differences between the three descriptions. The only real similarity between the separate viewings is that the were all very young. The known variables are: × One person was sick, which could have caused him to be unable to clearly distinguish the features of the short (his senses were in disarray from the sickness, and he could have gone into a daze during parts of the short). × Two people only saw it once, while the third saw it multiple times. Since the former two could not reconfirm the memory, only their first impressions and remembrance of the trauma they experienced allowed them to remember, whereas the third person had the chance to analyze and commit to memory much of the short's actual content. × All of them were terrified by the short, but their levels of trauma caused by the short may have been different. Trauma can very much warp memory and understanding of the traumatic memories just as much as it can leave the person with permanently clear remembrances of the memories. Additionally, any nightmares about the short could have influenced the memories of the viewer, ending up 'blended'. This is a big reason as to why witnesses can only get a case so far (be it the prosecution's side or the defense's), as even non-traumatic memories can be very malleable/misremembered. Overall, there are a lot of interesting facets to this case, but it's actually not all that strange for the accounts to be so wildly different.
OKAY NO MORE REUPLOADS. Its alive, and so am I. It was re-uploaded because my editing software messed up some of the audio transitioning multiple times throughout the video. Some of you may have noticed it, but it really bugged me personally.
Also, here's all the songs I used for this video: th-cam.com/video/S2fhp52riek/w-d-xo.html
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Ayyy man
😏😏
Have you ever heard of rocket powers pilot being only viewable at a place called the Paley Center
I miss Mumkey Jones
I like how the biggest twist was that it wasn't a creepypasta.
Omegagreen Labs i was low key disappointed
Smells Like Candle Cove Spirit
Huh
i liked that twist
It's not a twist if everyone knows
this is the most extreme version of when you finally find a song from just a couple lyrics
Like when I was trying to find Cross My Heart by A Teens.
More like a single word.
Or a video you haven't seen since you were 5.
I'm the 666th like, and the 6th comment. I arrived on 6pm, 6 days after the original comment was posted.
I find it necessary to comment on your pfp,,
“We are going to find Clock Man TONIGHT”
5 years later
And they DID get him the next time. The end.
I am your thousandth like
I was your 2k like I kept liking it and disliking it to see it change in numbers lol
hmmm big oof right there
Typical destiny player
“WE ARE GOING TO FIND CLOCKMAN TONIGHT”. Narrator:”They would not find clockman that night”
@Mister lopa Lopah thank you
Narrator: It would take five years to find it.
"But clockman... found them, tonight."
Your pfp is cursed
"But Commander Santa...did not, forget."
The creepiest thing about it isn't even the short, it's how everybody who remembers it remembers it differently, yet, the end result is the same (a wizard in a clock who takes a child to a weird world.)
Thats pretty common. Just talk to your friends about an event that happened in your childhood together and everybody will remember details or entire scenarios that the others dont remember at all / really differently. For example who was there / where it happened /...
@@campeao36 I don't think it's common to that extreme
Yea there’s definitely a confabulation affect going on. Ppl who remember it probably combined their own memory of the show with some books or other animated shorts they might’ve seen around that same time.
@@MischieviousJirachi it's actually really common. The human mind is highly unreliable. The more vividly you remember something, the more likely that you're misremembering.
Mischievious Jirachi
Fun fact: Your most vivid memory probably never happened or you remembered it wrong.
I remember watching Family Guy and I had a clear memory that one of the side characters wore a navy blue bikini. Years later I watched the same episode and the side character actually wore a black bikini.
If I saw clockman he would have to answer to mr glockman
Had me dead bro 😂
BOBBIN BRASS glad it did
That was a good one you got a good *"Hah"* Out of me Good job!
Okkkkkkkkkkkk!
Boba Fett I finally get that meme
I like how it turned out this animated short was actually pretty wholesome
was it found?
I remember seeing this short as a kid. During the beginning of this video, it seemed rather familiar, but didn’t stir any memories. As we got to the end of the video, and all the details were being given, I could remember things about it as well. Pinwheel was one of my favorites growing up, and after watching the full video on AAA’s channel, I remembered it entirely. The original person seeking the video sure got frightened easily, as the story is pretty good, and gives a good lesson, and the girl (Sally) wasn’t really that scared of the wizard, either.
When I was maybe four, I saw a horror version of Snow White, set in a post-apocalyptic world. It scared me shitless. Years later, I learn it's a cheesy indie animated film called "Happily Ever After," full of cheesy '80s animation. I tried watching it in college for nostalgia's sake, but it was just too stupid. Isn't it funny how our perceptions are so different as children?
@@lizzychrome7630 I mean, when you are kid, everything in the world is scary. It doesn't help that the imagination is extremely high during those years.
Often times something with cheap effects such as old old stop motion is nightmare fuel for young children, this has happened to me many times when I saw something as a young child and was terrified by the animation style warping my memory of it in the future, making me think it’s much more terrifying than it actually is, this happened to me with robot chicken episodes I saw at age 7 and some other things I don’t really remember the name of
I'm convinced if we gave the people of the internet enough adderall we could completely reconstruct the library of Alexandria
I'm open to this idea.
or the lighthouse of alexandria.
People of the internet could find the fountain of youth and El dorado if they tried hard enough
@@mk1k
Too bad Eldorado is a myth
@@vintheguy so is the fountain of youth lol
Imagine the happiness in that dude, like after 5 years some random person messages you and says "hey i found what you were looking for" such a wholesome story from such a horroristic beginning
Make that like 9 years
I love how in the end, Nobody, not even OP accurately described the short but we found it anyway.
Michael Howe was actually pretty spot on, the only detail he got wrong was the shoes instead of gloves. But yeah, the rest were way off; I’m pretty sure the second guy was thinking of an entirely different cartoon
To be fair. The op said they were sick so they probably only remember faintly what it was considering they also probably saw this in mid 1980s (based off time of original release along with when pinwheel was airing) the second person just sounds like a troll though
Memories get warped over time. You really can't count on your brain to recall certain events in perfect detail. xD
Pretty sure there wasn't a single clockman, it was an amalgamation of different pieces of media, elegant sally was just the missing piece from the mismatched memories that made up clockman.
sir this is youtube
Clockman in memory: Demented psychopath
Clockman in reality: Chill wizard guy
🧙♂️
I’m a what?
@Angelique lmaoo
I can honestly relate, and I think those redditors had it right all along. He remembered this cartoon while he was mad sick with flu (and presumably fever)
I remember being about 6-7 years old and similarly mad sick with flu. I'm talking 105-106 temperature shivering underneath a blanket fever. I actually had to go to the hospital to get covered in ice because I was getting delirious - but that's besides the point.
Anyway at the time my brother was watching Air Bud on the TV while I was in the depths of my fever nightmare. I still remember near the end of the movie when everyone is cheering for him for winning the tournament match or whatever. The fever twisted that moment in time for me and it felt like they were screaming and cheering for HOURS.
I still occasionally get shivers when I hear a cheering crowd, so strong is the fever dreams of a child to imprint a totally normal situation in shades of nightmarish horror.
i wANT tO gO hoME
Imagine being the guy who stumbles on this mystery and then just finds it on youtube. Came late to the game and then just cracked the case wide open that easily.
It happens a lot
I mean,
From a lot of other lost media I heard about ended up like this so am I not really surprised
Expectation: A terrifying short that deserved to be lost
Reality: some guy who chills in a clock
😂😂😂
He's not just chilling in a clock, he was about to kidnap her to teach her the importance of honesty. A very weird kind of wholesome.
@@Targisvear wholesome and weird, my favorite genre
Glockman:i Just want to do my weed in my clock 😔
you have to remember, put yourself in the perspective of being a kid and remembering that stuff out of context
i'm kinda laughing at the fact that they had a five year search for this video and then someone found it on youtube
literally under the name "pinwheel clock man." maybe they renamed it but god if they didnt then the entire internet deserves a slap on the wrist for not literally just googling it
facts
aaa uploaded the english version and added the keywords 'pinwheel clock man' to it after they realized people were looking for it with that title. i promise it was much more elusive before the discovery!
oh yeah yeah
Putting it that way, it sound like a skit and the TH-cam video discover was the punchline.
Imagine looking for something for years only to end up finding it on TH-cam.
This is why I always go on youtube first cause am like "millions of people upload they gotta have this"
Yes I did and it appeared on my recommended.
Like The Fairly Odd Parents Webisodes of Crimson Chin and Cleft the boy chin wonder....oh wait. Well they are there but poor quality
This happened to me with some weird McDonald's audio tape from the 80s. Sadly most of it still appears to be lost, but the theme song of the tape was found and preserved on TH-cam.
900th like nice
BRO I'm the daughter of the artist that painted the image at 19:13 , that caught me off guard xD
His name is Michel Duguay if you want to see more of his stuff
Woah!
Nice
Pfff, Yea Sure
@@gigithespiderantnostalgiaa1689 ok youtube user gigi the ant
It's true, I'm the picture.
as i went to bed without watching the video youtube recommended me, i thought they would forget about it.
but youtube did *NOT* forget.
TH-cam *NEVER* forget
BadWolf Harriman bruh😂
that was a fun time for you huh
Wow probably the best comment I’ve red on youtube 😂
@BadWolf Harriman TH-cam will remember that.
Clockman: *Appears in my recommended for the 50th time*
Me: I don't need sleep, I need answers
Bazigna
Zork balsamic
@@Laws2 Benadryl
Bananarang
Ikr same reason im here
Therapist: Don't worry, Mr.Clockman is not real and he can not hurt you
TH-cam recommend section:
True
ye
I already watched this and I was triggered it kept popping up so I gave in, saw it was a reupload ree
Mr clock man will meet mr peniman if you get me you’ll laugh
TH-cam Recommended Section: I T ' S F R E E R E A L E S T A T E
Lel
Ok but that description of the short where the clockman does a dance when he comes out of the clock is hilarious to me. Like imagine waking up in the middle of the night and seeing some random old dude breakin' it down at the foot of your bed
That would be funny
i wouldve started dancing too
Child: *sleeping peacefully*
Clockman: we don't do that here
Nah I’m sure he’s just some creepy old man who likes to go into peoples rooms and kidnaps them
Bubblegum i was 665th like, i made the sacrifice so another could make it 666
Reminds me of a peodifile taking children during midnight
B l u e b i r d
p f p
im 16 and scared 💀
Funny how one person contacted many members of Pinwheel's production team for a period of years and never got anywhere, yet another was able to find the short just by visiting an archive website and clicking on a TH-cam link.
It just shows how little some networks know about the material they are airing.
Lost or cancelled media are always the most fascinating to me.
ZombiePowder same
Me too
ZombiePowder are you not creeped out ?
@@burningexeter4365 I feel the Same. I like how it gives you adrenaline just wondering and thinking about it.
Me too
This is hilarious. I lived pinwheel. And this was an episode I taped on VHS, and watched over and over and over. I wish I would have been on that board, I could have solved it that night. It also has the Garfield Christmas special and the IT miniseries on lol. I was an odd kid.
Wow that’s crazy
based tape
Cool you got creepy taste 😎
Can you upload your vhs content to TH-cam
Upload it
I love when the internet works together
Colby and Brennen i love when i find people who like the same things i like in the comments
i like ur pfp and username btw
Same
it's nice
Same
Colby and Brennen RIP B.net
I love this video because it makes you feel as if you are apart of the search, and tells you the failures and successful leads, creating this sort of thrilling vibe.
Kanvas right? I don't find his top 10 videos all to impressive as this. He needs to make more videos like this in this format.
Memories are so strange.
We can remember some details perfectly, but others get twisted and altered by time and are mind itself.
It's crazy, if I had a dollar every time I saw something or heard something from the past only to have it be totally different than what remembered I'd be rich.
That's the Mandela effect for you
@@lisachiappetti6092
Yup, even before I knew what it was called I definitely felt it's effects.
Time makes fools of us all.
@@lisachiappetti6092 I believe this is not the description of the Mandela effect
@@lisachiappetti6092 No it's not. Mandela is everyone remembering something a certain way only for it to have changed.
Off-topic question, but is it weird that the concept of lost media haunts me? For some reason, it just makes me so paranoid.
Nickelodeon has a lot of lost media.
They have a bad habit of erasing their own shows’ existence, especially when they cancel perfectly good and promising shows.
One that I thought was lost is called Sports Cartoon. It's on here and it was on videotape.
Right up there with the early BBC guys. "Nobody is ever going to care about this weird kids scifi show. Burn all the negatives, we need space." This why we're missing *a lot* of early Dr. Who eps. A lot of the ones we've found were "rescued" from the big burn by studio employees who were "given them as a bonus".
@green dragon oh, I know. It was a perfectly understandable viewpoint back in the day. In hindsight, however...
I really want to watch the classic series as a huge DW fan, sad that so many 1st and 2nd doctor stories are completely lost to time@@athena8794
The most creepiest thing about this video is youtube's persistence on wanting to me to watch this.
dude same why you want me to watch this youtube
@@leviathanchan1915
I mainly watch music videos, jazz backing tracks, anime, and gaming videos.
I am baffled as to why TH-cam thought this to be so important rather than recommend, I don't know, more DanPlan.
Lost media interest me a lot yet has a very eerie atmosphere along with it. The fact something just turns up “lost” and slips through the cracks of the internet, memories and the creators itself is pretty unsettling. Best way I can describe it but idk anyone that can hit the nail right in.
surreal i guess
I know how you feel but just all the same I can't understand. It's very bizarre
These days your phone is tracking your every step, people putting pictures of dinner online, everything is so wired and connected. And then you have some project that probably took a bunch of people weeks to make, producers for the show getting it on air, FCC reviewing it or something, and just ??????? no one can remember it? No one has a copy? It's wild. It's fun to dig into mysteries.
Chicken it is a creepy thought. Anything you love or hate to watch can be lost in time. Of course not fully lost like the shorts ,but still lost.
I wasn’t even alive back then but for some reason the “clock man” character looks really familiar to me. Weird, just gave me the chills.
he looks like bootleg hagrid
That happens to me sometimes.
It reminds me of the blue meanie from yellow submarine
Same
Gaspard Savoureux dang you beat me to it
This entire thing just screams, “I know a guy who knows a guy”
𝓨𝓔𝓢
Why do you say that?
It’s like an episode of Pawn Stars lol
I know a guy who knows a guy who knows a guy who knows a guy who knows, Kevin Bacon
Who knew this guy who knew this guy who knew this guy who knew this guy who knew this guy who knew this guy who knew this guys cousin
I went through something like this lol. When I was little I watched a video of a “dancing man with no eyes” that haunted me until I got older and turned out it was just 2D from gorillaz..
LMAO
Same here dude i was haunted by the Feel Good inc music video when it was played on a commercial for an NTWICM album back when I was a little kid
I was absolutely terrified of this video of a person in a kung fu panda costume with a scary smile dancing. I watch it now and it's hilarious.
i remember the feel good inc video freaking me out as a kid and when i found it later on, it was so surreal.
OH goodness this is great XDD
i watched the Clint Eastwood vid as a child and i loved it,...i thought it was just some random animated short, but just 8 years later i found out Gorillaz is a band and now it's one of my favorites
If only this level of investigation was still done by news organizations
It is done. It's just not really financially feasible to spend five years obsessing over something like a lost animation.
Ikr. They'd take my word if it shoots up their ratings
Most news organizations niw give us wgat you may call a "false lead"
Here we go agian with news trump and all this American bullshit
What do you mean "this level" of investigation? It was on TH-cam the WHOLE time. Lmao.
"He picked her up and carried her to his magic chamber."
like wtf clockman
The Amazing Luca this is the perfect comment
Ah yes 69 likes
『Cat T.』 I was 70
Cockman
yeah wtf?
rick and morty in a nutshell " a grown man steals the child, and brings him to scary places".
True lmaooo
Plot twist, Rick is the clockman
this is so accurate it hurts
“He picked her up and carried her to his magic chamber”
*Silently calls FBI*
*FBI OPEN UP*
Clock man about to pull out the glockman
*Kirby is calling the cops.jpg*
#unoriginal
Roooky #stfu
Your channel is so important to the lost media community. Thank you for your hard work
You are so right!! This was an amazing story and I look forward to more!!
Yeah. I love following these mysteries, but I never get into the actual digging. I get anxious contacting people I don't know, but I think the stories behind why things go missing is fascinating.
Yes thank you for recycling GamerFromMars content... now can you do some harder work and discover or find new mysteries we haven’t seen or anyone hasn’t tackled yet?
it's interesting how your brain distorts memory over time.
ikr
I know ... I have a sibling who's close to my age. We watched a lot of TV growing up, and when I talk about those shows this sibling often corrects details I misremember. It's amazing how certain I can be about a detail that never existed.
Musician Wren
Recently my mom got a game with 3 crash bandicoot games remastered, and I thought we already got it for the same game, she claimed it was for a different console, I think it was around the same time we got the game
It honestly scares me a little that our memories can be so wrong or completely off the mark that it's almost like a memory of a memory (if that makes sense lol) There are so many things from childhood that I was certain about and then when I rewatch or hear about it again later it'll turn out to be completely different than I remember. Also the further we get from childhood the more our memories become fuzzy and it kind of scares me to think I might be misremembering some of my favorite memories
That's the fun of this stuff, you just want to see how different it was from how you remember it.
The OP said it was a little boy, heh
His memories weren't that altered, he just remembers what impacted him as a child. The same way a kid and an adult would process the same thing in totally different ways.
Stuff like this is so fascinating to me. It's so cool how much we grow as people.
Honestly there are many things I vividly remember as a kid but can't find ANYWHERE
Me too. I could've sworn I saw my dad when I was 2
@@fanimeproductionst.v.3735 Hahahahahahaha!
Any examples? Maybe some of us can help you find it.
linkLoverAG I would love to at least try
The thing with that is you remember vivdly for a few minutes to a few days, but forget until years later you remember it again.
Kidnaps him and takes him on some terrifying adventure
Sounds like Rick and Morty to me
Right?
Ikr, btw I love Rick and Morty
Jeezz rick
The Clockman walked so Rick And Morty could run
That was the first thing I thought of when I heard it.
*skips to random part in the video* as czech republic was a communist nation-
Czech was better off that way. The Soviet's were the only ones who actually cared, and saved them.
@@lws7142 lol
@@lws7142 Saved them? Saved them from what exactly? As far as I know they just occupied the country for 23 years. Thousands of people fled the country to the west because of it. Jan Palach burned himself alive to protest against the occupation! Doesnt sound to me like the kind of stuff people do when you supposedly save them.
@HalfExotic Well, the short animation the video speaks of is from 1976. During this time Czechoslovakia was occupied by soviet forces ( and a few others ) from 1968 to 1991.
@@lws7142 You are trolling, aren't you?
This case remind me the infamous creepypasta story "Candle Cove" more than any other lost media case that I have ever seen until now. It's like a real life Candle Cove with a good ending, lol
And after all that,
*_it was on TH-cam_*
Edit: wtf i have literally no memory of writing this?? I thought I was watching this video for the first time but apparently I've watched it before.
Kyndal Dunn hahahahaha
@FANMAN THE FAN ye
To be fair they were kids when they first saw it
Kyndal Dunn I viewed this comment at 665 likes, was gonna like it then realized it would be 666; sorry yo
ain't that just the way
TH-cam has been recommending me this video for 8 MONTHS STRAIGHT. PLEASE, I CLICKED IT NOW, STOP.
IBUKI GET OFF TH-cam
Same dude, fucking months
yep
Me too
Me too
It's always so satisfying when several communities come together to find a piece of media that we thought was lost to the ages.
Coundessa Scarlotti exactly
The most amazing part to me every time I watch this is just how spot on Michael Howe's description was
Man was a small child when it aired and still got a damn near perfect retelling of the story from memory
Really just remembered the gloves as shoes
“But don’t quote me on that” *immediately quotes him on that*
When people come together like this, it is awesome. The internet can be a vast and scary place (even if it is not an actual place per say) but there are some people that are nice and helpful.
Nickelodeon wanted the viewers to forget...
BUT THE VIEWERS.... DID NOT FORGET.
Some people move on...
But not us.
aaa aaa some people move us?
@@goat911 dang it move on*
AHAHAHA
@@goat911 but not on
The second guy who said the wizard had a bowler hat and a black turtle neck and a wicked smile got the wizard mixed up with Bowler Hat Guy from Meet the Robinson's. Because the Bowler Hat Guy had the exact description and there are certain shots throughout the movie that make the Bowler Hat Guy look like he has green skin when really he has white skin.
LOL that's funny
Meet the Robinsons is underrated tbh
This proves that humans can do anything if they work together.
Nah. It only proves that we can't help ourselves when we are presented with a mystery. It must be solved.
T Prime I agree.
The Capture the Flag game with /pol vs Shia prooves it also.
OoOo such an achievement.... lul
TheDirewolf 1234 I like how the guy went to all these different people involved with pinwheel and the cartoon, but some random guy finds it on TH-cam first
Maybe the real Clockman was the friends we made along the way.
dotexe 🤣🤣🤣
dotexe
I love this
bar
Lmao
epic
There, I watched it.
This has been in my recommended, FOR HALF A YEAR!
lol same tho!
I clicked it as soon as i saw it
David Johnson
Then click on the three dots under the thumbnail and then and then “not interested”
Me too
I clicked this vid as soon as I saw it-
Does anyone else genuinely love the story telling in this video and keeps coming back every so often to watch this
This seems like it could be a Regular Show episode
Oh man! I could imagine this 😆
I'm watching regular show right now.
Or Rick and Morty
That would be amazing lol
@@the_weeb_lord1017 dont disrespect regular show like that again
It's like a crime podcast, but cooler
Buzzfeed unsolved has nothing on this
No Thanks true
No one like the comment no more....
i wanted to like the comment, but it’s at 666
fuckers made it go over 666 likes
“Don’t quote me on that”
Everyone: *quotes him on that*
Meggan Jary lol
- Meggan Jary (2018)
Braystad quote of the year
I was about to say the same thing! 😂
Lol big facts
"He picked her up and carried her to his magic chamber"
Heavy does not like where this is going
_doc pick me up im scared_
*the magic chamber turns out to be a basement*
@@akidumar9629 with a bed😏
this is what I love about the internet. there are 10 to even 20 years old conversations archived for you to find. mysteries that span over multiple years and sites, scouring every nook and cranny of the internet just for a video. it's truly a sight to behold.
This is such a beautiful story about how people can achieve great things when they work together.
Luciano Martinez I see you have 69 likes there. Nice B)
Directed autism of 4chan is really strong.
Great things lol. They found a cartoon
hey, it’s important to preserve animation. maybe it’s not a big cultural game changer, but animated media gets lost super easily and most people who are interested in it want as much of it to be preserved as possible. i think it’s pretty neat that it got found :)
I'm pretty sure clockman kidnapped the girl all on his own
I know that feeling when your memory is haunting you to find that missing piece from your childhood it feels agonizingly painful inside my head..
Classica Filme I’ve felt it too... Nostalgia.
Classica Filme Just type reverse convolutional database search in your brain and let it do the work... you will start to remember weird old things very clearly. Eventually every single abstract memory will link itself with it's source(s) and with some well defined words or representations.
@@cezarcatalin1406 are you a cyborg?
I listen to the story of clockman so much. There’s just something about the way people worked hard to solve a mystery that’s so satisfying as a tale from the internet.
Isn't it crazy how this weirdly ominous yet seemingly innocent short film could have such an effect on a person's life? I'm telling you, what you see as a child really does a number on you. It's insane that it took so long xD
Displaced Potato I know. The show Mr. Meaty definitely left a lasting impact on me even 12 years later
I remember a episode of courage the cowardly dog they always were creepy but I remember this 1 it scared the shot out of me bad
@Alex & Rah rEtUrN tHe SlAb
Alex & Rah When I was 3, I went to a daycare at this lady’s house who had the children watch TV sometimes for entertainment. I remember watching this one anime that left me with very odd yet fascinating feelings. I barely have any memories of the show since I was so young and I will never be able to find what show it was, but those feelings will always stick with me. So many shows I’ve seen as a child that I cannot remember that well will always come back to me ever so often and I will remember these feelings I don’t know how to explain
This is why I love the internet. Everyone coming together to find a piece of media. It’s incredible.
Manson Arnold EXACTLY. The Internet is an incredible place.
The internet is an amazing yet terrible place
Manson Arnold h
Dizzy Og I ikr
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These wildly varying descriptions kinda makes me wonder about memory and the nature of reality.
Nick never showed Clockman after it first aired hoping the viewers would forget.
But the viewers... did not, forget.
why this short is finally discovererd?
BECAUSE THE WIZARD DID NOT FORGET!
Samuel Chin Orozco hah I get it
Samuel Chin Orozco XD
👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏
the internet searching for clockman is like me when im trying to find a song i heard in a video
Surprisingly accurate...
I hate how accurate that is 😂
SHA ZAM
OMG, I have done that before. XD
*ayo what’s that song bro*
Man, Santa’s description is WAY more interesting than it actually was. Maybe the sickness DID have something to do with it.
It's so interesting to see how people mix, blend or warp details of past events in their memories. Interesting, and frankly scary, given how many trials and historical events often rely on human memory.
Thanks for taking the time to sort through all of these old threads, and give us a timeline of this discovery. It was really interesting to follow!
It's so weird how you can search something that you know for sure exists, but no search results are found. Creepy, like it is hidden.
exactly I saw this short story but then it just disappeared like what!
the scariest part is how easily things can just get lost to time...there's stuff from my childhood that i vividly remember but there's no physical evidence of them ever having existed, just the memories in my mind. it's really eerie for some reason
@@r4ndom7000 yo sameee, i remember telling my older sister some part of our childhood when we play together and she said that it never happened and i was so confused because im 100% sure it happened.
It's called demonitization
yoda apologist I used to play a game with my sister and one day the disk just disappeared and now I am the only one in my whole family that remembers its existence
Short films are always the creepiest because you have to condense a story into a short period of time, so you have to find creative ways to tell that story visually. Listening to the beginning already gave me the creeps.
Look up "The Maker" and "More by mark osborn" I think you would enjoy them both
Alright TH-cam, I’ll watch this damn video. Leave me alone now.
was on my recommended for like everyday geez hahaha
Dude it's been there for like a month now I just can't take it
it actually made me mad, but i dont regret waching it
same
Mathis Banville FR
Meanwhile, I was terrified as a child by seeing part of "Fantastic Planet". For years, I thought it couldn't possibly have been as creepy and surreal as I remembered. And then I found it again, and it was even *weirder*.
What part of it?
There's a ped0philic subtext to that film that I would NOT have caught onto if I'd seen it as a kid
I thought I had seen Fantastic Planet but it was actually their other film, Gondohar.
You guys did an amazing job with this video! :D
Dycaite ily
Holy hell I never thought someone in the video would comment on it!
You huys should recieve a medal for all this...
What if it's the wrong video? And you both remember it wrong
yes
"He picked her up and carried her to his magic chamber"
*FBI OPEN UP*
Lol
And then the clockman was smiling too...
I SMELL HERESY
It was Felix's fricking chamber
Lol
PLOT TWIST: Commander Santa IS Clockman
YOOOOOOOO
Top 10 Anime Plot Twists
Plot twist : clock man is commander santa
That's lame
@@jackrunge1592 OOOOOOOHHH
Eastern Europe: "This tale is perfect for children!"
American Children: *Trauma for life*
"He picked her up and took her to his magic chamber"
Okay Clockman that's illegal you know
Caroline F B I O P E N U P
It's funny how a piece of lost media has been on TH-cam, but nobody knew it for years.
Honestly, I have never heard of that great search for the clock man to begin with that's why i am not surprised why random people who uploaded or watched it on TH-cam didn't notify anyone about the supposedly lost media
The short was uploaded on TH-cam on 2017 by AAA Animations, not knowing about the whole search for it. Then months later after being uploaded it was viewed and revealed to be clockman.
Then was it really lost?
The Terrier Of Bluebells GamerFromMars did 8 months ago
Mims Zanadunstedt it was lost since most people couldn't find it
This video has been in my recommendation for so long
Midnight Swami same
Same
Same. TH-cam is very determined on making everyone watch this
Same
Same
"The Clockman took the boy to places he did not want to go"
Well yeah, my clock takes me to school every 6:00 morning.
-oly sh!t! I remember this f-cking short!
@@eidolomere xd
Damn what school u go too ☠️ At my school classes didnt start until 8:30
@@kurexx3424 same but my school is a few neighborhoods away, so I need to wake up early to take breakfast, get ready and catch the bus.
@@Vlad544_ oh my bad man I thought you was saying u arrived at school and started class at 6, I was like damn thats early ☠️
Sleeping children: exist.
Clockman: it's free real estate.
kitty
*changes the 69 likes into 70*
basiic.roses YOU ARE A MONSTER!
Κωνσταντίνος Guadagno
H A H
@@cipher.coffee2292 ;-;
Luis Cifuentes
:)
Who would win
Hundreds of thousands members of the internet doing their best
Or one clocky boi
The members
One clocks boi
Apparently da clocky boi
Clocky maing
Peter Carmody hargrid
Ok TH-cam, I watched this video.
Or did you?
Oh hey, its this guy again.
@@davidhong1934 Yup, I still can't believe "Sally" was uploaded to TH-cam this entire time.
So like, are you the Stalin of TH-cam or what?
Justin Y. Hello there!,nice to meet you!,god of the comment section.😀
It’s interesting how a lot of people remembered the little girl as a little boy- it just goes to show that the kids watching this (some of them boys) really put themselves into the story- like the clock man was coming after them 🥺🥵
I mean to be fair, based on the context:
Since the OP misremembered some details because both people haven’t seen the short who knows how long. I can’t blame them for misremembering the child’s gender.
Yeah totally cant be simply misremembering somethings. Sometimes its just simple the designers not coming across like freddi fish.
Its the desperate need to validate the transes.
@@lindinle Nobody was talking about trans people, you're the only one? Sounds like you're just weirdly obsessed with us, cos all that was brought up was that a lot of male people who watched the short seemed to misremember the girl character as a boy. They're saying that since the viewer was male, they're misremembering the character's gender because they themselves were male and kinda default to that.
Quiet down and quit being weird. It's infecting your brain and you're seeing problems where there are none. Go take a break from TH-cam and Twitter.
@@lindinlewhat does any of this have to do with that
According to that thumbnail, I think we should leave clockman alone
Clockman is Harry Potter
Clockman is a clock blocker
Sleeping children: *exist*
Clockman: C’MERE BOI WE’RE GOIN ON AN *A D V E N T U R E*
Crap i looked at the profile
Well crap
So that is how adventure time started..
TugiDeg!
*COME ALONG WITH MEEEEE*
@@heracross3323 .
*AnD ThE ButTerFLiES AnD b'S.*
It's amazing that the film was ever found given how completely inaccurate the first two descriptions were. The other shorts that were ruled out seemed closer to the descriptions than the actual film ended up being.
- the child was not a boy
- the room was not dark at all
- the clockman's skin is pale white and not greenish/blue
- the clockman did not take the child on a scary adventure, just straight to his house
- no claymation or dolls at all
- no closing or creaking open of the bedroom door
- the clock doesn't open like a door leaving a big dark hole (it transforms into a regular window)
- no irish riverdancing
- no turtleneck or bowler cap, or cleanshaven face
Meanwhile, Michael W Howe's description was exact in every detail aside from the red shoes. And considering how extremely minor the segment with the clock actually is in the film, I'm wondering if Commander Santa and the 4chan anon were actually remembering these other films and just mixing it with their vague memories of the small clock segment in Sally.
Funny how it was Commander Santa's detailed descriptions that got everyone interested in the clockman search, and almost all of his descriptions were wrong.
@Shrek Norbert you came to the comments before finishing the video
There are a variety of factors that likely lead to the massive differences between the three descriptions. The only real similarity between the separate viewings is that the were all very young. The known variables are:
× One person was sick, which could have caused him to be unable to clearly distinguish the features of the short (his senses were in disarray from the sickness, and he could have gone into a daze during parts of the short).
× Two people only saw it once, while the third saw it multiple times. Since the former two could not reconfirm the memory, only their first impressions and remembrance of the trauma they experienced allowed them to remember, whereas the third person had the chance to analyze and commit to memory much of the short's actual content.
× All of them were terrified by the short, but their levels of trauma caused by the short may have been different. Trauma can very much warp memory and understanding of the traumatic memories just as much as it can leave the person with permanently clear remembrances of the memories. Additionally, any nightmares about the short could have influenced the memories of the viewer, ending up 'blended'. This is a big reason as to why witnesses can only get a case so far (be it the prosecution's side or the defense's), as even non-traumatic memories can be very malleable/misremembered.
Overall, there are a lot of interesting facets to this case, but it's actually not all that strange for the accounts to be so wildly different.
great. more dismissals. i guess i will be the one going against it
@@OchavillainS ??? What are you talking about?
He is actually greenish-blue, but only for one scene (where he is going up the stairs,) and then becomes pale white for the rest of the film
The fake clockman: I am going to get you while you are at bed!
The real clockman: Come on, I am friendly!
the thumbnail has been haunting my recommended ever since it came out
yeah yeah
ya me 2... ive been avoiding clicking this video for months bc it was so ominous
That "We are going to find Clock Man - TONIGHT" line gives me chills. It sounds so triumphant and determined.
and then nothing happened for 2 years until a completely unrelated person goes and finds it without even attempting to do so
it is pronounced C O C C M A N
It sounds like some quote from a Paranormal show
@Owen Strawder In some cases, yes.
*takes 5 years to find lost short film*
*been 20 years and still can’t find dad* someone tell me what I’m doing wrong
Did you try asking 4chan?
It's fine he's just getting cigarettes
Gelsey Gray just keep waiting he’s probably still choosing which cigarettes to get
Gelsey Gray watching this spoopy video
The milk is pretty hard to find
I went as Clockman for Halloween and I got punched in the face by a dad. I really wonder why
Depends, how exactly did you dress?
no matter how many times i ignore this video TH-cam still shoves it in my face. i don't even get recommendation from my subscription
Thats me with family guy videos
Ok TH-cam I watched it. Stop. This is also creepy. The story behind it, the thumbnail.
The thumbnail is just most disturbing about this.
This is like trying to find an old flash game that you used to play
Yeah
Yep
Yeeess
Lilo and stitch sandwich making game
Bartender: the right mix 👌