Thank you all for the feedback about including metric system values. We will be sure to do this on screen in future videos! Giant squid can measure up to *13.1 meters* (43 feet) in length. The world’s largest living invertebrate, the colossal squid have been measured at *14.9 meters* (49 feet) long.
Thanks. I plannned to rant about that. Metric system is a base system of measurement. And only 2-4 countries (depends on interpretation) in the world use imperial as an official one. Although I am forced to admit main target audience and would fully accept on screen "translations"
@@ambervilisciumacenga3493 Well, to be fair, bigger English speaking (and TH-cam watching, and Monsters loving etc.) community uses metric, so using that as primary system is only logical if Monstrum wants to approach as wide public as possible. Even though channel is based in America, it just economically doesn't make sense to use less known system since videos are visible internationally and each view (both of video and ad) counts the same. So I would even argue against your last sentence, even though that would be better than having to look information in comments.
@@ice4cow Do you really think that more English speaking people use metric than imperial? Legitimate question, I'm not picking a fight. It seems to me that the US is a very large chunk of the audience. There's the UK, Canada, and Australia, but their populations combined come nowhere near the US. And many other formerly-British places don't solely speak English. I think it's fair to want both imperial and metric in the video, but I think your reasoning might not be sound.
@@safaiaryu12 You forget that "English speaking" doesnt mean "English is their first language". Im Latvian, I watch this video. Most of Europe knows English. Most of India knows English - especially those with access to internet. South Africa has a large English speaking population etc. etc. That's why I'm assuming most use metric. Edit: oh, and nice to have a civilized conversation 😉
I agree. I feel like if it was true it would of been a predecessor of the giant squid. I think it might of attacked a vessel and the stories just got out of hand but I don't believe there was a squid that could be summoned from the deep to do Davey Jones bidding
Dammit, _I_ wanted to make the obligatory Cthulhu reference and you beat me to it! 😃 (I have to admit, though, yours is better than what mine was going to be.)
Delta Green, what's that Colour you have seen? Could it be that it's a Colour From Outer Space? And did I hear you say, Cthulhu was meetin' you here today To take you to his sunken R'lyeh place?
@@SlyPearTree , though I'm unsure if it was Cthulu specifically, I do know one of Lovecraft's inspirations was Robert Chambers book "The King in Yellow".
Finally found some ancient boat lengths. Knarr, a Norse merchant ship was around 23m long. Karves , another Norse vessel that was used for war. 21m long For comparison: The Hollywood sign is 15m tall. The average telephone pole is usually 11m tall. So if the Hollywood Sign attacked two telephone polls standing on top of each other.... I kinda want to see that now. And I never want to meet a living colossal/giant squid in real life.
The narrator on this channel is very talented. Others tend to simply talk without any enthusiasm, while she explains these stories thoroughly and happily.
I'm majoring in English and pursuing a career in Fantasy Writing. For my series I'm gonna have a book called "Revenge of the Kraken" where the big tentacled boyo fights the Leviathan. I'm so excited to write it one day
maybe because most East Asian countries love to eat squids and octopus. I think the more beneficial nature of sea creature in East Asian also partly because the Pacific Ocean is relatively more "pacific" compared with the Atlantic.
I enjoy the way you explain how legends form over time. For instance, I had never thought of how sharks could have contributed to the Kraken legend. As for Captain Nemo, he should have named his submarine "Kraken." Now that's an awe-inspiring name!
I mean, It's for sure not impossible. Hell, we've got similar examples in the fossil records, so we know that these guys can get pretty fuckin' big. Cameroceras could be 20ft, at LEAST, and it was pushing the limits of shelled invertebrates.
@Shoudday Cha Pirate of the Caribbean 6 New movie this ghost sea stories about haunted ship was evil skeleton from goosebumps books of America horror town so awesome
Loved the video, but have some additional pointa. Looked through the comments, and couldn't find this. The creature described by King Sverre and later in the Kings Mirror is Hafgufa. It might very well be the same tradition as kraken, but to describe is as squid-like is an overstatement. Its big as an island, associated with mists (the word means sea-mist). Erik Pontopidans description, as far as I could understand the very old danish-norwegian, has also very little in common with a squid. Big as an island, associated with bubbling seas, has many claws as big as trees. It could bring fishing luck, but if you stayed too long it could accidentally swallow your boat. Both Pontopidans and Carl Linnaeus thought kraker was a scientific reality, and used the plural forms "krake" or "kraker". I'm not an academic or researcher, just an artist, but I haven't managed to find any explicitly squid-like descriptions before well after Pontopidans. Might the Hafgufa and early kraker be inventive descriptions of huge squids? Sure. But I haven't seen any evidence for it. Might the giant squid interpretation be a later addition to the folklore? It seems so to me. I made a 1-minute Short drawing and describing the krake for anyone interested. Not as detailed as this video, of course. th-cam.com/users/shortshJyvlFUfLpI?feature=share
It's super creepy. In the online LOTR game, you can swim around in the Black Pool if you want to, for as long as you want to, and you can't see anything that's below you, but at a certain point in the center you literally get these "Dread" points out of nowhere. Even with it just being a game, it gave me the creeps, I had to scramble my butt out of there lol xD
I have just watched the DreamWorks Animation film "Ruby Gillman, Teenage Kraken"🦑🔱🧜🏻♀️ and I'd really enjoyed it, while most film media portray the Kraken as bloodthirsty monsters but in this film the Kraken are now portrayed as Majestic critters & Noble protectors.
I remember the kraken in pirates of the Caribbean, the mystery that surrounded it and how it was shown in full view as a sad little creature once it died Loved the episode!! Have you thought of making one about mythical ghost ships as el caleuche or the flying dutchman? To keep it in theme
Congrats for such an excellent channel! Some compelling, hard wired animal fear about the black icy depths of the ocean. In his house at R'lyeh, dead Cthulhu waits dreaming.
Humbolt squid are known to be very aggressive towards scuba divers so it is very possible that these rare, but possible squid attacks could be attributed to Krakens. Is this a plausible explanation? I'd love your feedback on this Emily Z!! :)
And it's Americans who are supposed to be dumb and lazy. Can't "the rest of the world" be bothered to learn a couple of easy conversion factors? It doesn't bother me to be able to understand metric and SI units, and I'm one of those dumb lazy Americans.
@@ianism3 A meter is 39.37008 inches. A foot is 12 inches. 39.37008 mod 12 = 3.37008. Rounding to benefit your claim = 3.4 inches. 3 inches = ¼ foot. 4 inches = ⅓ foot. It's closer to ¼ than ⅓.
@@euychua There are some octopuses that have the curious habit of making "decorations" with the bones of their prey. Fossilized bones of something big (i don't remember what kind of marine reptile or large fish was) were found fossilized in similar arrangements. I remember reading it in on some daily news some time ago and didn't do more proof read. But it might not be so unlikely since orthocones (squid like creatures) managed to grow quite large.
Some ideas for future episodes: - Ouroboros - Sphinx - Yeti/Bigfoot - Vampires and Werewolves - The Loch Ness Monster - Ghosts, spectres, poltergeists etc. - Grendel and his mum (maybe, more generally, "monster-mums"?) - Orcs, goblins, hobgoblins etc. - Trolls (both kinds) - Djinns - Gnomes, Heinzelmännchen etc (helpful or trickster spirits, admittedly not actual.monsters) - Demons, incubi, succubi etc. - "Evil Gods" (Baal, Mammon, Chronos, Cthulhu...) - Sandworms (Dune) - Changelings - Witches and warlocks - Cthulhu - Giants - Will-o'the-wisps - Sirens, Lorelei, mermaids etc - Harpies - Dr. Hannibal Lecter ;) - Joke/prank monsters (Jackalope, Dahu, Wolpertinger... ) - "What happens when the monster gets you?" (be eaten, drown, tortured, killed, turn into a monster, lose mind, get lost, tirn into stone, get possessed/mind-controlled, unpleasant afterlife, must solve riddles, ...) - "How does the monster get to you?" (Hunst at night, hides in the woods, lures in the deep, blocks bridge or other passage, summoned, sneaks into house, hides in closet, comes if you break some rule, confuses sailors with songs or beauty, lures you...) - "How do you get rid of the monster?" (Run, weak spot, outsmart/trick it, ritual, science, solve it's riddle or guess its name, sunlight, some food (garlic), specific weaponry (silver bullet, stake, holy hand grenades...), symbols (pentacles, cross...), holy water, you can't...) - "Where does its anatomy come from?" (Bigger version of animals, bigger/smaller/uglier/scarier/funnier/transparent/... version of humans, combining animals, animal-human hybrid, human or animal with additional body parts or multiple heads, dino fossils, completely made up, "monstrified" natural phenomenon, actually exists...)
Just realised that "Dr. Zarka" sounds like it could be an evil character from a European horror novel, who occasionally meets with Frankenstein and Dracula.😉
The ocean is scary, fascinating and mysterious. For all we know there could be some creatures frok our mythology that could be real fown there, like mermaids for example. Are they real? Probably not but it is fun to tbink they are. Also the coolest version of the kraken is the one from pirates of the caribbean, especially with that awesome music as its theme.
Fun fact: A Squid corps wash ashore on the coast of Florida in the late 90's early 2000's. It was almost 20 feet long and analysis of the corpse identified it as a baby. It was estimated the adult could be 30 times the size.
It gets more confusing when comparing different languages, Octopus is Krake in German, kraken translates to Riesenkalmar and Kalmar in German can both be squid or calamary in English.
My tutor theorised that maybe the reason the Kraken preyed on boats was because it may have naturally gone for whales and mistaken the ship for a whale from below. Similar to how sometimes sharks mistake surfers for seals because of how the silhouette of a surfboard looks from below.
I would love to write a story where a crew piloting a submarine unique designed to endure on an expedition to not only hunt a colossal squid but bring it up to the surface alive.
I find how accurate their description of a giant squid is to be amazing. Particularly when you consider that the odds of someone having seen one to be minimal.
There were old accounts of whales battling monstrous squid so I wouldn't be surprised if they witnessed a sperm whale rising to the surface with its still writhing prey which sperm whales do though I don't know why. Perhaps it could be because both giant squid and colossal squid are ferocious deep sea creatures and most deep sea creatures don't last long when brought to the surface due to being adapted to the high pressure depths? Regardless a Sperm Whale rising with a enormous squid in its maw would no doubt inspire tales and eventually legends.
Please read, true story. I worked as a diver cleaning boat hulls in ventura ca. My life was becoming strange. I was sensing and seeing blurry things in the water. One day I was riding my small work boat and something barked at me from the wake. It sounded like a growl but i figured it was a seal and kept going. I parked my boat and jumped into the water. While diving i clearly heard a voice. I couldn't make out the words. I became spooked and took out my dive knife and decided to get out. As I lifted myself out of the water something grabbed my ankle and violently pulled me underwater. I still had my knife and I stabbed at it. It went into flesh. It screamed like a man. I never saw anything. I stabbed it repeatedly until it was dead or went away. It's a mystery what it was. Never saw it again. Thanks for reading.
I'm not so sure that the Kraken is always depicted as an octopus. In Norway there are legends about it lying on the ocean floor with a kind of "forest" of protuberances or limbs on its back (though maybe it could also be seen as tentacles). In that "forest", organisms gathered that were food for fish, which then flocked to it. So if you got much more fish than expected on a given spot, you might have been fishing on the Kraken. Risky business, that
No mention of HP Lovecraft's fear of anything ocean based? Or how this related to including tentacles in the descriptions of many of his Cthulhu horrors?
I am legitimately terrified of cephalapods. And yet fascinated by them. The result is me watching this video sitting far away through a minimised screen.
Thank you all for the feedback about including metric system values. We will be sure to do this on screen in future videos!
Giant squid can measure up to *13.1 meters* (43 feet) in length.
The world’s largest living invertebrate, the colossal squid have been measured at *14.9 meters* (49 feet) long.
Thanks. I plannned to rant about that. Metric system is a base system of measurement. And only 2-4 countries (depends on interpretation) in the world use imperial as an official one. Although I am forced to admit main target audience and would fully accept on screen "translations"
@@ambervilisciumacenga3493 Well, to be fair, bigger English speaking (and TH-cam watching, and Monsters loving etc.) community uses metric, so using that as primary system is only logical if Monstrum wants to approach as wide public as possible. Even though channel is based in America, it just economically doesn't make sense to use less known system since videos are visible internationally and each view (both of video and ad) counts the same.
So I would even argue against your last sentence, even though that would be better than having to look information in comments.
@@ice4cow Do you really think that more English speaking people use metric than imperial? Legitimate question, I'm not picking a fight. It seems to me that the US is a very large chunk of the audience. There's the UK, Canada, and Australia, but their populations combined come nowhere near the US. And many other formerly-British places don't solely speak English. I think it's fair to want both imperial and metric in the video, but I think your reasoning might not be sound.
@@safaiaryu12 You forget that "English speaking" doesnt mean "English is their first language". Im Latvian, I watch this video. Most of Europe knows English. Most of India knows English - especially those with access to internet. South Africa has a large English speaking population etc. etc. That's why I'm assuming most use metric.
Edit: oh, and nice to have a civilized conversation 😉
Thank you!
The best thing about kraken legend is that it has the possibility to be true
I like this comment
I mean maybe but probably not. I like the spirit though 😂 thats hope the kraken isn't blood thirsty if it does exist
I agree. I feel like if it was true it would of been a predecessor of the giant squid. I think it might of attacked a vessel and the stories just got out of hand but I don't believe there was a squid that could be summoned from the deep to do Davey Jones bidding
And i hate it
In prehistoric times
Hello Cthulhu my old friend.
I return to R'yleh once again.
Dammit, _I_ wanted to make the obligatory Cthulhu reference and you beat me to it! 😃
(I have to admit, though, yours is better than what mine was going to be.)
Came here for this comment. Maybe HPL mythology next time?
Lovecraft must have been inspired by Tennyson when he invented Cthulhu.
Delta Green, what's that Colour you have seen?
Could it be that it's a Colour From Outer Space?
And did I hear you say, Cthulhu was meetin' you here today
To take you to his sunken R'lyeh place?
@@SlyPearTree , though I'm unsure if it was Cthulu specifically, I do know one of Lovecraft's inspirations was Robert Chambers book "The King in Yellow".
For people not in America the colossal squid was just barely under 15 meters long and the giant squid was about 13 meters long
thank you
Finally found some ancient boat lengths.
Knarr, a Norse merchant ship was around 23m long.
Karves , another Norse vessel that was used for war. 21m long
For comparison: The Hollywood sign is 15m tall. The average telephone pole is usually 11m tall.
So if the Hollywood Sign attacked two telephone polls standing on top of each other.... I kinda want to see that now. And I never want to meet a living colossal/giant squid in real life.
Riff Raff barely. Only about a couple other nations use it as well. Though Britain use mixed, so...
I suspect you've seen it on display at Te-Papa
@Riff Raff Liberia also uses it lol
I heard a wise man say “I hate the ocean, the deeper you go the more nightmares you find!”
Blue?
Jude Keirt J "There's always a bigger fish!"
Ah, this makes me happy
Hi Clion Yep! Blue from Overly Sarcastic Productions 👍
Gulper eels: 👀
The narrator on this channel is very talented. Others tend to simply talk without any enthusiasm, while she explains these stories thoroughly and happily.
Spearm whale vs giant squid? More like leviathan vs kraken.
It is actually spelt Sperm Whale, not joking... but yes I agree
When the prehistoric whale leviathan fight a giant squid, Than yes. Leviathan vs kraken.
nam nhat Y’now, there’s a book about sea monsters that has a chapter named exactly that!
@Daren Fliflet Well try not checking for leviathan
Instead check for
Livyatan Melvillei
It's an ancient subspecies of sperm whales
I'm majoring in English and pursuing a career in Fantasy Writing. For my series I'm gonna have a book called "Revenge of the Kraken" where the big tentacled boyo fights the Leviathan. I'm so excited to write it one day
Europeans: *Stories of how terrifying tentacles are*
Japanese: *Stories of how "arousing" tentacles are*
hehe
Nice
maybe because most East Asian countries love to eat squids and octopus. I think the more beneficial nature of sea creature in East Asian also partly because the Pacific Ocean is relatively more "pacific" compared with the Atlantic.
SUCCumb to the tentacles
Please... Not here, sir.
I enjoy the way you explain how legends form over time. For instance, I had never thought of how sharks could have contributed to the Kraken legend. As for Captain Nemo, he should have named his submarine "Kraken." Now that's an awe-inspiring name!
Welcome to horrorland park this weekend for life about haunted ship and lighthouse
Nautilus is still better
Honestly not a Conspiracy Theorist by any stretch but it is possible that Squid get bigger than 50 ft.
I mean, It's for sure not impossible. Hell, we've got similar examples in the fossil records, so we know that these guys can get pretty fuckin' big. Cameroceras could be 20ft, at LEAST, and it was pushing the limits of shelled invertebrates.
yes, but probably not by much..
@@kyjo72682 I wonder what the upper limit is on size for these guys...
@@spellwing777 there is also scars found on spermwhales indicating that below our waterline these gigantic beasts fight eachother for food
@Shoudday Cha
Pirate of the Caribbean 6 New movie this ghost sea stories about haunted ship was evil skeleton from goosebumps books of America horror town so awesome
Do you take suggestions? I'd love to see a video about fire birds (phoenix, zhar-ptitsa, etc)
hell yeah..phoenix would be awesome....may be centaurs or mermaids
I'd really like to see an episode focusing on Kitsune.
Of course! I’ll add these to my running episode ideas list.
Awesome ..
I love the Phoenix ..!
And thunderbird s
Loved the video, but have some additional pointa. Looked through the comments, and couldn't find this.
The creature described by King Sverre and later in the Kings Mirror is Hafgufa. It might very well be the same tradition as kraken, but to describe is as squid-like is an overstatement. Its big as an island, associated with mists (the word means sea-mist).
Erik Pontopidans description, as far as I could understand the very old danish-norwegian, has also very little in common with a squid. Big as an island, associated with bubbling seas, has many claws as big as trees. It could bring fishing luck, but if you stayed too long it could accidentally swallow your boat. Both Pontopidans and Carl Linnaeus thought kraker was a scientific reality, and used the plural forms "krake" or "kraker".
I'm not an academic or researcher, just an artist, but I haven't managed to find any explicitly squid-like descriptions before well after Pontopidans.
Might the Hafgufa and early kraker be inventive descriptions of huge squids? Sure. But I haven't seen any evidence for it. Might the giant squid interpretation be a later addition to the folklore? It seems so to me.
I made a 1-minute Short drawing and describing the krake for anyone interested. Not as detailed as this video, of course. th-cam.com/users/shortshJyvlFUfLpI?feature=share
You're awesome Dr. Zarka! This series is great.
Her name causes the Flash Gordon theme to get stuck in my head...
As a child, I used to be under the belief that cephalopods drank blood with their suckers, too. Wonder how that myth came about?
Every other country:
giant tentacles = fear
Japan:
Giant tentacles = soft moans♥️
Soft?!?!
U sure about that?!?
@@leonardozayasm.4983 You know someone's never seen a second of Japanese porn if they think any of their moaning is "soft."
More like:Is that sashimi?
If the Japanese saw the kraken they would hunt it down just to eat it
@@itsBepizz that's me. I can finish it in 5 years lol
Don’t forget the Watcher at the gate in Lord of the Rings, which was basically a kraken.
The Watcher was always the creepiest monster in the trilogy to me because we get so little information on it
It's super creepy. In the online LOTR game, you can swim around in the Black Pool if you want to, for as long as you want to, and you can't see anything that's below you, but at a certain point in the center you literally get these "Dread" points out of nowhere. Even with it just being a game, it gave me the creeps, I had to scramble my butt out of there lol xD
where is davy jones saying: Release the kraken!
Yes hope they do monstrous pirate captains' lore
Technically he said
"We who are ready to wake. The kraken"
Can we get a Jersey Devil, Nuckelavee, kelpie, or mananangal video next?
Or selki
AY PINOU
I have just watched the DreamWorks Animation film "Ruby Gillman, Teenage Kraken"🦑🔱🧜🏻♀️ and I'd really enjoyed it, while most film media portray the Kraken as bloodthirsty monsters but in this film the Kraken are now portrayed as Majestic critters & Noble protectors.
I remember the kraken in pirates of the Caribbean, the mystery that surrounded it and how it was shown in full view as a sad little creature once it died
Loved the episode!! Have you thought of making one about mythical ghost ships as el caleuche or the flying dutchman? To keep it in theme
th-cam.com/video/NzzGWfPI2YU/w-d-xo.html
Great idea! I’ll add it to the list.
No wonder The Kraken has a black spiced rum named after it.
Hey doctor if you wanna review monster, filipino culture have so many monster that is so unbelievable try it👋
Congrats for such an excellent channel! Some compelling, hard wired animal fear about the black icy depths of the ocean.
In his house at R'lyeh, dead Cthulhu waits dreaming.
Ruby Gillman is way different from the original krakens. She protects everyone from both land and sea.
Chineese dragons also could have been inspired by deep sea creatures
My guess: The oarfish (I once saw preserved specimens in a museum and an aquarium).
An episode on mermaids would be really really appreciated.
I am in love with your channel and your contents. 😍😍😍 thank you for these
I remember when the giant squids were discovered in 2006. It was all over the place, and some people were trying to discredit it as a hoax
I really love this series! I got introduced to it yesterday and watched almost all episodes in one day. Keep uploading more episodes !
Deep Look sent me here loving this channel Dr. Zarka!
You: RELEASE THE KRAKEN!
Me: *Release the Karen*
Lol
I love reading or watching anything about monsters that may or may not exist. This channel is awesome!!!!
In the 2023 Dreamworks film Ruby Gillman Teenage Kraken, the kraken is the hero.
Seeing the art of the kraken and your little animation of it gave me chills
“Let no joyful voice be heard! Let no man look up to the sky with hope! And let this day be cursed by we who ready to wake… THE KRAKEN!!”
Kraken is my idol.
Always has been.
Well done! Thank you that king Sverre was mentioned. Many people connect Kraken to Greek Mythology because of movies.
Humbolt squid are known to be very aggressive towards scuba divers so it is very possible that these rare, but possible squid attacks could be attributed to Krakens. Is this a plausible explanation? I'd love your feedback on this Emily Z!! :)
Great video! But can you please add units in meters for the rest of the world can understand?
43 ft. = 13.1 m, 49 ft. = 14.9 m
A meter is roughly 3¼ feet
@@Tfin tnx
And it's Americans who are supposed to be dumb and lazy. Can't "the rest of the world" be bothered to learn a couple of easy conversion factors? It doesn't bother me to be able to understand metric and SI units, and I'm one of those dumb lazy Americans.
@@Tfin a meter is almost exactly 3.33 feet, actually.
@@ianism3 A meter is 39.37008 inches.
A foot is 12 inches.
39.37008 mod 12 = 3.37008.
Rounding to benefit your claim = 3.4 inches.
3 inches = ¼ foot.
4 inches = ⅓ foot.
It's closer to ¼ than ⅓.
This might be the best explanation of a monster occurrence on internet. Well done Dr.Zarka
Though squids and octopuses don't fossilize well, there is evidence of a prehistoric octopus that would fit perfectly the description of the kraken.
Wait was it frozen? How was the octopus preserved?
@@euychua There are some octopuses that have the curious habit of making "decorations" with the bones of their prey. Fossilized bones of something big (i don't remember what kind of marine reptile or large fish was) were found fossilized in similar arrangements. I remember reading it in on some daily news some time ago and didn't do more proof read. But it might not be so unlikely since orthocones (squid like creatures) managed to grow quite large.
I love learning about the possible origins of how these monster rumors came together to make a whole new creature.
“Yikes.” - Victor Hugo
12 The Dungeons & Dragons players out there, happy Kraken Week!
I'm really glad I found this channel. Stunning work! Thank you :)
Some ideas for future episodes:
- Ouroboros
- Sphinx
- Yeti/Bigfoot
- Vampires and Werewolves
- The Loch Ness Monster
- Ghosts, spectres, poltergeists etc.
- Grendel and his mum (maybe, more generally, "monster-mums"?)
- Orcs, goblins, hobgoblins etc.
- Trolls (both kinds)
- Djinns
- Gnomes, Heinzelmännchen etc (helpful or trickster spirits, admittedly not actual.monsters)
- Demons, incubi, succubi etc.
- "Evil Gods" (Baal, Mammon, Chronos, Cthulhu...)
- Sandworms (Dune)
- Changelings
- Witches and warlocks
- Cthulhu
- Giants
- Will-o'the-wisps
- Sirens, Lorelei, mermaids etc
- Harpies
- Dr. Hannibal Lecter ;)
- Joke/prank monsters (Jackalope, Dahu, Wolpertinger... )
- "What happens when the monster gets you?" (be eaten, drown, tortured, killed, turn into a monster, lose mind, get lost, tirn into stone, get possessed/mind-controlled, unpleasant afterlife, must solve riddles, ...)
- "How does the monster get to you?" (Hunst at night, hides in the woods, lures in the deep, blocks bridge or other passage, summoned, sneaks into house, hides in closet, comes if you break some rule, confuses sailors with songs or beauty, lures you...)
- "How do you get rid of the monster?" (Run, weak spot, outsmart/trick it, ritual, science, solve it's riddle or guess its name, sunlight, some food (garlic), specific weaponry (silver bullet, stake, holy hand grenades...), symbols (pentacles, cross...), holy water, you can't...)
- "Where does its anatomy come from?" (Bigger version of animals, bigger/smaller/uglier/scarier/funnier/transparent/... version of humans, combining animals, animal-human hybrid, human or animal with additional body parts or multiple heads, dino fossils, completely made up, "monstrified" natural phenomenon, actually exists...)
Just realised that "Dr. Zarka" sounds like it could be an evil character from a European horror novel, who occasionally meets with Frankenstein and Dracula.😉
Davy Jones : And let this day be cursed by we who ready to wake... the Kraken !
Bill Turner : NOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!
Yay I requested this!!! Thank you so much I LOVE this episode!
Liam Neeson as Zeus has the best impression of the famous line in the “Clash of the Titans”
Emily:i really hate tentacles!
Tentacle hentai: I would like to know you're location
*your
Something like this definitely could be real, like an undiscovered Shaq of giant squids.
release the kraken!
TH-cam recommended it and I’m glad I found this channel.
Other people see the Kraken as giant squid monster
Me: That's one big calamari 🥰😋🍽 fit for years supply of food
"one calamari"
Wut
Food? *dEsgUsTanG!*
I SECOND THE REQUEST FOR MERMAIDS!
Also, small note. :) The difference between "arms" and "tentacles" please.
This series is so awesome. I’ve subscribed. Props to your writers and editors!
I agree that there are terrifying creatures on this planet we don't even know of. Keep an open eye at all times, me hearties.
Sydney released it
I absolutely fan girl over your outfits and how there’s always a nod *somewhere* to the theme of the show.
Your sweater is awesome 👏🏼
So glad someone notices!
Storied ; every time 🤓✨⚓️🦑 💙🤍
I'm so glad I stumbled upon your channel! Love how well made and researched all your episodes are. Thanks for being awesome!!
I still don't understand how movies from the 1900s seem better than the ones we have today. Without CGI, their creatures actually feels...terrifying
My sister used to have a cat named the Kraken! She would tell her husband, "Release the Kraken!" whenever kitty wanted to go outside!
The ocean is scary, fascinating and mysterious.
For all we know there could be some creatures frok our mythology that could be real fown there, like mermaids for example.
Are they real?
Probably not but it is fun to tbink they are.
Also the coolest version of the kraken is the one from pirates of the caribbean, especially with that awesome music as its theme.
can you include measurements in metric next time please?
EndroProductions I second this. It’s harder to visualise 40 feet.
The colossal squid would be just under 15 meters long
Nah you have to use our broken ass freedom units bc we don't wanna change lol.
i love metric but i would steel u.s.c over it ine day
Fun fact: A Squid corps wash ashore on the coast of Florida in the late 90's early 2000's. It was almost 20 feet long and analysis of the corpse identified it as a baby. It was estimated the adult could be 30 times the size.
I'm still waiting for Medusa
Good things come to those who wait...stay tuned!
The Kraken is an octopus monster being used to sick ships with its tentacles
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The Kraken is not a giant octopus. It’s a giant squid.
I always confuse this with giant Octopi and Squid. Maybe it's the people at the time calling these two legendary sea monsters.
It gets more confusing when comparing different languages, Octopus is Krake in German, kraken translates to Riesenkalmar and Kalmar in German can both be squid or calamary in English.
The animated sequences in this episode were excellent- kudos to your team!
4:24. They say this poem was an influence on "Call of Cthulhu" as it too is about a giant octopoid monster who will end the world when it awakens.
Can you do an episode on when media puts the wrong monster in a myth? For example, Cetus being traded out for the Kraken.
I'm so glad I subscribed to this channel :)
Thanks to Clash of the Titans, I didn't know it was a squid like creature until recently.
I thought it said “the Karen”
It wraps you up in tentacles, squeezes, then demands to see your manager.
*RELEASE THE KAREN!*
I think that's Grendel's mother.
I don't see a difference 👁👄👁
Sounds even more terrifying
My tutor theorised that maybe the reason the Kraken preyed on boats was because it may have naturally gone for whales and mistaken the ship for a whale from below. Similar to how sometimes sharks mistake surfers for seals because of how the silhouette of a surfboard looks from below.
That actually makes a lot of sense.
I would love to write a story where a crew piloting a submarine unique designed to endure on an expedition to not only hunt a colossal squid but bring it up to the surface alive.
Her blooper reel at the end is awesome.
You should do an episode on Griffons
I find how accurate their description of a giant squid is to be amazing. Particularly when you consider that the odds of someone having seen one to be minimal.
There were old accounts of whales battling monstrous squid so I wouldn't be surprised if they witnessed a sperm whale rising to the surface with its still writhing prey which sperm whales do though I don't know why. Perhaps it could be because both giant squid and colossal squid are ferocious deep sea creatures and most deep sea creatures don't last long when brought to the surface due to being adapted to the high pressure depths? Regardless a Sperm Whale rising with a enormous squid in its maw would no doubt inspire tales and eventually legends.
I'm just gonna throw it out there...
Sharktopus.
Flying Bearsharktopus
I think that's a Yugioh card.
Amazing video as always, thank you!!
Should have seen my face when I saw this notification 🦑
Luigi Kuronya why?
I’m in LOVE with the graphicsss
Oh sweet! The kraken is my favorite monster
Please read, true story. I worked as a diver cleaning boat hulls in ventura ca. My life was becoming strange. I was sensing and seeing blurry things in the water. One day I was riding my small work boat and something barked at me from the wake. It sounded like a growl but i figured it was a seal and kept going. I parked my boat and jumped into the water. While diving i clearly heard a voice. I couldn't make out the words. I became spooked and took out my dive knife and decided to get out. As I lifted myself out of the water something grabbed my ankle and violently pulled me underwater. I still had my knife and I stabbed at it. It went into flesh. It screamed like a man. I never saw anything. I stabbed it repeatedly until it was dead or went away. It's a mystery what it was. Never saw it again. Thanks for reading.
I️ love this show!!!!
I love that smile at the end
Who would win?
A giant squid
Or some japanese chefs
the way she threw shade at the kraken i canttttt
Yay another video
You’re English is admiring. I enjoyed listening to your story.
"Loathsomeness waits and dreams in the deep, and decay spreads over the tottering cities of men."
It was awesome, I look forward to seeing videos about centaurs,minotaur,cerberus,satyrs,sirens...
I'm not so sure that the Kraken is always depicted as an octopus. In Norway there are legends about it lying on the ocean floor with a kind of "forest" of protuberances or limbs on its back (though maybe it could also be seen as tentacles).
In that "forest", organisms gathered that were food for fish, which then flocked to it.
So if you got much more fish than expected on a given spot, you might have been fishing on the Kraken.
Risky business, that
So, a giant anemone?
@@chrisshorten4406 Heh, no, it could move. That's why it was risky to fish over it. You had to get away before it surfaced
@@oskarhenriksen Interesting.
No mention of HP Lovecraft's fear of anything ocean based? Or how this related to including tentacles in the descriptions of many of his Cthulhu horrors?
2:58 "Hated anything with tentacles"
Me: "I guess he read manga and watched..(cough, cough) anime" (͠≖ ͜ʖ͠≖)
I'm such a weeb. I cant go a minuet without laughing every time she says tentacles 😂😂😂
I am legitimately terrified of cephalapods. And yet fascinated by them.
The result is me watching this video sitting far away through a minimised screen.
Sidney Powell sent me!
3:47 and again at 4:07 : Octopuses? :-P This is from PBS? I would have thought better than that.