@@Pigpen_YT so you are wrong about the Simcoe Lake monster in Ontario Canada. We don't have seals or otters. We are far inland too inland for seals. If I remember right the only otters in Canada are all the way in BC. I live right beside the lake. Edit apparently we have otters but I've never seen any
I’m from New Mexico, and the way people talk about Skinwalkers (or don’t for that matter, as mentioning them is said to attract them) keeps the “myth” very much alive. It’s not used to keep kids from staying out too late like La Llorona. Instead, I’ve met many grown adults who don’t go out at night because of them. I myself am wary while out in Navajo land with my dog at night, even at a lit gas station. The thing is, the desert is dangerous when the sun is out, but it comes alive at night. Some sounds just can’t be explained by a coyote or bobcat and your mind plays tricks on you out there. The stories were started to prevent dark magic but the fear the legend produces even today is really substantial.
@@indigo478 it must be both then. Stories like this about cannibals aren't exactly glorifying them. The main focus seems to be on the fear of dark magic but one of the traits of skinwalkers is eating humans so this was definitely something they were trying to say is evil.
If I had a nickel for every time a lake with a sea serpent-like monster in it in Canada was brought up, I would have a pretty respectable amount of nickels
@@pe8268and they are far enough North with only a few densely populated areas such that the wild things may still lurk tthere. There's a reason the Canadian government has to pay people to go settle land in the Yucatan.
@jokingjoker4964 Canada by far has the most, then its Russia, then Finland. Finland has the most per area size, although it is much smaller than the other 2 it has an impressive amount.
I like how a lot of the American cryptid stories basically go like this: - Individual sees creature that can't be recognised/explained - Individual pulls out every firearm imaginable to shoot it
I like how instead of admitting that there may be a relatively decent amount of people who can't swim (or slipped, hit their head, and fell into the water) in Oklahoma, the drownings are blamed on an octopus that lives in a land-locked state.
The biggest shame is to mock something that you have yourself. I have met this land locked octopus before. We had a nice chat over tea. He has no intention of hurting anyone and has been blamed for many bad happenings. The true fear should be his brother in the water
It really is funny how almost half the cryptids here are just varying different but otherwise indistinguishable flavors of "Bigfoot/ape man" and "Nessie/lake serpent/dinosaur."
It's not surprising given how the human collective memory and oral traditions work. Keep in mind that we shared this planet with a plethora of other hominids and other megafauna. Given the extremely small fossil record it wouldn't be surprising if some of those creatures survived long enough to actually come into contact with modern humans pre ice age and memories of those encounters being passed down the generations just like the biblical flood myth that predates the Bible by thousands of years.
I was a hard core cryptid kid. Now I find myself just wanting to believe in some of this stuff, its just fun to think about. Honestly my favorite video of yours to date!
@@starpaladinnelaj I think believing in the ideas of dragons is fun. Maybe its a childhood thing because I always wanted them to be real but, idk, its hard for me to believe in that with science brain.
You know vampires don’t actually die by sunlight, at least not the one I saw. They simply have skin to someone with “albinism” but a little more sensitive. The one I talked too said he didn’t mind being in the sun, as long as he had a hat and long cloths.
I think the whole thing with Vampires is they have such a low iron level(I read something like this but I don’t remember what it was they had the low level of) they burn up in the sun, so they get it from blood.
Literally 8 types of dinosaurs, oar fish, sea snakes that have long life spans (reptiles don't stop growing so old reptiles are really large) I mean it could be anything.
There is a handful of plesiosaur type mythical creatures mostly in South America. We can safely assume that later tales and myths were inspired by nessy so that leaves us with only a few other mentions. I think many of the myths surrounding nessy or stuff like dragons can be traced back to ancient people finding bones or entire fossils of dinosaurs and spinning myths around them that match their own cultural beliefs which explains why dragons in Asia and Europe are so different but follow the same basic pattern. Many of the Dino type cryptids coincide with locations where fossils of similar looking creatures can be found.
Rip kid you but I was build different. Wanted deep in my heart for aliens and cryptids to be real so I could befriend them and go on wacky magical adventures.
Stick figure ones are terrifying, not exactly sure why, but out of all of these crytids the idea of a giant stick figure ominously gliding towards you scares the shit outta me
I love how you took genuine time out for every entry to say that you believe each and every one to be a hoax and then, you got to the Loveland Frog and you were like "No, fuck you. This one is real."
“Human-wolf hybrid howls” sounds like a description of coyote noises. Coyotes sound vaguely human when they’re all barking at each other. It’s a pretty creepy sound, but it’s normal to hear if you’re out in the country.
Darren Naish pointed out that one the ways we know Bigfoot isn't real is that every large mammal in North America can be identified by a narrow group of sounds using unmanned equipment, even those that are relatively quiet. Reported "Bigfoot" sounds are so widely varied as to be impossible, and the only claims that sound remotely credible are all much better explained by other causes.
Can confirm, used to live near a huge pack of coyotes in the Appalachian mountains. They lived on the mountain over from our house and it totally sounds like people whooping and yelling, but it's ever so slightly different and uncanny. Foxes do this too but are more high-pitched.
As someone who is indigenous Australian and has been involved with these things, the bunyip is less of a cryptid and more of a cautionary to tell children to never go out at night lest they risk their life, hence why it has such a tendency to go after children and it's nocturnal, and given the 100s of different groups within Australia it's like the world's largest Chinese whispers game which would explain the discrepancy between descriptions, there's hundreds of stories like that within my culture, some include the rainbow serpent and tidilick, generally either cautionary tales or a tale of creation, things change from one group to another because once again, Chinese whispers usually small variations though, point being it definitely isnt meant to be taken as real it's just meant to scare reckless kids
While not being indigenous myself I did want to say the same thing, I only know what I was told in like year 3 but remember a little bit, mostly just making my own bunyip
@@dis_boi_a_mem exactly, its not concrete and it isnt exclusive to just this story either nor is it something i hate, its become such a rooted thing that it would feel hollow without it, and even if you aren't indigenous yourself its alright to speak about these things ive never seen the point of excluding people because they dont share an ancestor i would love it if everyone could experience and form their own opinions of my culture
I'm surprised people in Australia needed to create a monster to keep their kids from going out at night. Everything I've heard about actual Australian wildlife is more than enough to keep me indoors when I'm there
@Nothing to see here I mean its not actually that bad, most problems you hear about occur inland where like 10% or 20% of the population actually lives, worst we get on average in homes are spiders that are either none venomous and super docile or ones that have a slow acting and very treatable venom, theres rarely snake problems and ive only seen wild snakes on a handful of times. Kind of a rule of thump, dont be dumb and dumb things wont happen to you
I live in Loveland and the frogman is the love of my life... he may not be sighted in the area but he is certainly in all of the residents' hearts. We have a mini triathlon in his honor each year!
The Gnomes are actually legends from Argentina and other Spanish speaking countries (The videos are all in Spanish). There isn't such legends in Brazil
I’m so happy you mentioned the Loveland Frogman. I’m from the area, and I read the “Weird Ohio” book growing up. When I found out about the Frogman, I lost my shit! Like, how was no one talking about this? A lot of people have never even heard of the encounter. I wholeheartedly believe he’s real though.
I work on the road it was seen on and at night, you can totally get a real feeling that something out there on the river is creeping around... I don't believe it's real at all, but it is pretty cool!
@@thestraydog that feeling happens in many bodies of water. If you’ve ever been in a salt marsh at night you 100% always feel as if you’re being watched and stalked.
What a lot of people dont understand or try to understand about folktales/myths/cryptids is their metaphorical significance. The Wendigo story is a direct metaphor to selfishness and cannibalism. In many traditions people are "hunted" by them in the winter- when food is scarce. But theyre not monsters theyre spirits and their victims become these monsters when they succumb to the hunger and selfishly kill and eat their friends or family (or any other human) Their depiction of being skinny and pale again reflects 1. Malnutrition and starvation and 2. Lack of sunlight asaociated with winter (when temptation focannibalism is at its highest) In this way wendigos do exist. Its a person who becomes a cannibal bc they were weak and got "possessed" by the spirit. Theyre metaphors for the horrors of being isolated in wintertime and not having enough to eat.
Not all monsters were monsters in the beginning, some are born of sorrow. Other monsters don’t look like monsters but they still carry their monstrosity inside The wendigo is truly a monster of pity. Their selfishness to kill other in their times of needs is what transforms them into the true monster they are. While I have met few wendigos on my travels, the few I met have not been I treated in talking.
My cousins and I have been joking about that "I think there's a squatch in these woods" clip for almost 15 years, thanks for the blast from the past. You deserve 1 mil subs
Most of the pictures of "late-surviving Dinosaurs/Pterosaurs/Marine reptiles" are easy to debunk on account of them looking like the contemporary pop-culture depiction of such an animal... which we now know to be outdated. To use those Pteranodons as examples, we now know that they would've had more soft tissue and a fuzzy coating on their bodies. The one of the soldiers holding it up also depicts it with _two_ elongated fingers per wing, when even the oldest reconstructions of Pterosaurs reflected that they only have one long finger per wing. Also, their wings were not pointy, but rounded. Similar case with the Dinosaur sightings. Alleged "Plesiosaur" lake monsters are depicted with their necks upright, poking out of the water, but it's highly unlikely that Plesiosaurs would've been able to do that. "Surviving Sauropods" are depicted as semi-aquatic tail-draggers, which was outdated as long ago as the 70s and 80s.
Other good ones are descriptions of behavior that contrast anatomy. Massive winged gliders being described as quickly ambushing things then springing back up, for example.
Most cryptids are easy to debunk due to their size and how many of them they would need to sustain a population. However there are some cryptids that are medium sized animals that live in Africa which is mainly unexplored like the Nandi bear which has a great chance of being real and undiscovered.
Mothman is real, I'm hanging out with him, Sasquatch, and a vampire in my room right now. His name is actually Steve Mothman, he was a tax attorney who fell into some toxic waste and now he's a moth-human hybrid freak with an amazing knowledge of tax law. He's actually a super chill guy but he and the vampire hate each other
I’m so glad someone made a long piece of media on cryptids that wasn’t about Debunking them or trying to prove their existence. Theres so much to talk about and have fun with, instead many places fall into the same trap of the boring talk about why they are or aren’t real. Keep up the good work!
The Organism 46-B thing is almost assuredly just taken from Greig Becks book "Beneath the Dark Ice" which is about people trapped in ice caves in antarctica being hunted by a massive ancient squid creature that has adapted it's natural camouflage ability to make the tips of its tentacles resemble it's victims to lure prey. Even has a russian commando team.
I'm trying to read that, but his description of Roanoke Island in the prologue is really hard to swallow. Surrounded by the freezing waters of the Atlantic? A cave big enough to hold 100 people? Dude, you could at least do better research. Roanoke is hot, humid, marshy and flat, like the whole coastline there. Good luck finding a cave there period, much less one big enough to hold 100 colonists. There's probably not a natural rock outcropping within a hundred miles.
Actually the Gnomes videos shown in the iceberg are from Argentina, Mexico and Chile. This type of hoaxes were very popular among latin american countries around the 2000's.
I thought the same thing, people were clearly speaking Spanish in those videos. Next time try the Chupa Cu and also ET Bilu a powerful being that is just spreading the message about the search for knowledge.
On Mothman: Well, to be fair, the bridge collapsing being due to its structural problems _is_ pretty much universally accepted as the explanation by proponents of the "Mothman is a herald of doom" hypothesis, since those people don't actually think Mothman caused the collapse--they just think it was there to _warn_ people of the collapse.
It was a Northern Long-Eared Owl. Also WV has terrible lighting. The locals love messing with tourists with hunting stories. My granduncle told me a tall tale about running into an ocelot.
@@lbrlrsfdj8895 Mothman. Keep that arch off the ground, I say mothman. That gap is more than 1/16th of an inch. This isn't a bridge. It's a deathtrap to all. 'Cuz you're an eeen-gin-eee-yurr, a really really smart eeen-gin-ee-yur. You can divert some force, you can account for rain, you're a real mathematic staaaaar.
The gnomes are actually one of the more consistent legends here in Brazil. It's almost impossible to find a 60+ years old person who doesn't have any stories regarding them
People believe the "Nessie is an Elephant" theory because apparently around the time of the famous photo there was a circus in town and the elephant's handlers could've taken it out to the lake
@fredslonghardthrobbingego9016 There are a few stories as to what is the true back story of the picture, I choose to believe the elephant story. Either way, it's pretty clear that Nessie isn't real
It astounds me that people will mistake the two. In my travels I have met MANY skin walkers in many forms, even managed to have a conversation with a few of them. Wendigos however I have not met much of and they are not Intested in speaking.
20:17 I have an uncle, who literally has no idea of Japanese culture. The entire family has a story that they tell about him, how they went on vacation to Hawaii. There is a pool of water under a waterfall. There are signs, and warnings from the locals that, while it's okay to swim, do not dive under the water, because the spirits will drag you under. From what my family has told me, he cannot tell this story himself because he's basically got PTSD from it. From what everyone tells me, he decided to go ahead and dive deep, and he came back up stark white, saying that something actually tried to drag him under. That whatever grabbed him felt like a human hand, except that it was cold and scaly.
Flatwoods monster was actually seen again by a police officer but in Monterrey, Mexico in 2004, it was called the Monterrey witch for a while until a journalist interviewed the police officer, and from the description the police officer gave the journalist, he found similarities with the flatwoods monster, showed the officer a drawing of the 1952 case and the officer almost crapped himself since it was too similar to what he saw that night attacking his patrol car
It makes me wonder just is other cryptids have other sightings that we dont know about... Like imagine someone in Canada or something saw the dover demon and described it differently the people who saw it in 1977, but they just so happen to have seen the same thing. Makes you wonder.
Anyone who hasn't needs to watch the show Lost Tapes. It's possibly one of the most unintentionally hilarious but still fun cryptid shows in existence. It's so obviously low budget but man, they ran with that budget and made it as cheesy as possible in all the best ways.
That's how I learned about these cripids. But... They are also home to my nightmares as I was super little when I watched it. I'm now thinking about making a cryptid story of my own. Somehow an ambelocetus survived extinction and now lives in a lake. There you go, the blank lake monster.
Not gonna lie, I am intrigued by mythology and legends from around the world, and it's dope stuff. It's nice to learn more about this stuff. Dope video dude!
Same. The way I see is is that there’s so many interpretations of the same monster that it’ makes me wonder how these can be fake. Some may be exaggerated but at the same time I might be stupid
I'm from California and the Cheeseasaurus haunts my local area. Some nights I'm sure I wake up hearing him. Saying something about... a delicious bowl of craft. I have no clue what he intends to craft, but I don't want to find out.
Honestly I’m some times surprised that when people bring up the Thunderbird as a cryptid they don’t mention the Questzalcoatalcus(I probably butchered that spelling) which if I remember had a wingspan of about 15 feet. I don’t think it was still alive when the first Thunderbird sightings would have been, but perhaps fossils of it were found by the people where the legend originated from.
as a native american. i’ve never been told the story of the thunder bird in the light of it being scary, it’s actually the opposite. they’re symbols of protection and strength.
Im Romanian. My grandmother told me about how she attended a burial 30 years ago of some woman. Before burying the woman, one of our relatives drove a very long nail through her forehead because "throughout her life she has been the most evil woman" ("toata viata ei a fost cea mai a dracului femeie" - literal translation "the most of the devil woman", also used as an insult here).
Fun little trivia, there is an archetype in Yu-gi-oh called Danger! that is based on Cryptids. Their gimmick is that you reveal one in your hand, then shuffle your hand. Your opponent chooses one card, which is discarded. If the card discarded was not a copy of the revealed Danger! monster, you get to special summon the monster and draw a card. They also all have an effect if they are discarded. The Currently released monsters are: Bigfoot Thunderbird Chupacabra Dogman Nessie Mothman Jackalope Tsuchinoko (A japanese mythological snake) and Ogopogo. Also, Jackalope and Tsuchinoko are part of a subset that has a ? in the name.
They also all live in a small area called the Realm of Danger!, and there's a group of scientists trying to capture them, called the Danger! Response Team.
cool video, best cryptid iceberg I've seen in... way too long. Fun fact: most specimens we have of Colossal squids are *immature* individuals. Meaning there could well be larger ones out there. Not quite as large as myths and sightings suggest, but still enough to not be pleasant.
I remember seeing recently that we have very little livening specimens if any of colossal squids currently in any form of captivity, which would mean that even if all we have seen are young ones we likely will not be able to see a full grown one for decades at best. Unless ocean exploration technology skyrockets within a few years
@@rogue_2k374if I remember correctly, we only confirmed a sighting of a living colossal squid in the past decade or two. And all previous sightings are of immature individuals. Far more interesting than colossal squid are colossal octopi.
I think dragons are a little deeper than just misidentified dinosaur bones. Something deep in the human psyche that has a fear of snakes and lizards. Giant-flying-fire-breathing-snake-lizard is just sort of naturally appealing to people I suppose.
I mean collosal komodo dragons were around into the 1600's. Up to 18 feet long with a bite that "poisoned," whatever it bit (technically it's not poison, they're saliva is just a great bacteria culture and spread diseases they're immune to).
Anyone remember that show on Animal Planet called “Lost Tapes”? It went over quite a few of these cryptids, it was one of my favorite shows as a kid lmao
Man you're giving me nostalgia with those old commercials on cartoon network. Also really nice video overall, it was very interesting seeing cryptids I never heard of.
I'm with you on cryptids. As a kid I thought they were really really neat, but I hold no illusions or "hope" that they are real. All that said, I find the topic and phenomenon interesting and will always watch bad Bigfoot and Loch Ness Monster content.
Whoever came up with Morhman is a Genius. They spun a Public Tragedy into a tourist attraction. Imagine if after 9/11 The Government came out and said 'Bigfoot Did It'.
My father had multiple encounters with gnomes in his youth, never had mental problems he is a very honest person and has no reason to lie about something like that. And it´s something very common to hear from older people in my country Chile.
They thought dinosaurs were dragons. But in the end, we're left with the cooler fact *that there were these giant ancient badass animals.* I'm in my 30's and I still think dinosaurs are the hypest shit.
And they keep getting better! Back when I first heared about Dinos they were big lumbering reptilian giants with peanuts for brains. Today they are feathered 30ft killer chickens that can outsprint most cars and hunt in packs.
Dinosaurs are overrated the fact that their own biology killed them off is ironic. Evolution has a preferred size medium to small animals will not go extinct. Humans are the perfect size and because of that the humans don't have to worry about extinction.
Dragons could of existed. They would of had soft brittle hollow bones to allow them to fly like birds. Bird bones dont fossilize like normal bones and break down. Why we hardly have any fossils of birds compared to anything else.
Where I live in Wiltshire, England there is a "cryptid" called the Black Cat. We live in a rural area and literally everyone believes it exists. It is supposed to look like a black cat the size of a large dog, or a puma. My dad and a close family friend both believe they have seen it, and tbh I reckon it might be out there.
@@DanielsAlt503 back in the 70s slot of people owned big cats as pets. After it was made illegal, many people just dumped them into the wild. Many people believe that there is communities of big cats that have bred and now live in the wild, eating deer, rabbits, and other wildlife
I think I heard of this one! I think it’s story is that and escaped black Panther mated with local wildlife or something like that, and it’s spawn was a slightly smaller version of it(Horrible word choice but best I could do)
The 3rd gnome film is so fucking funny because one of the guys is like “I’m going for him” and then it sees him and then he starts to freak out and then everyone loses their shit. It’s like trying to catch a big rat
Love the iceberg, just one thing, the videos you put on the Brazilian gnomes are actually from other countries, the first is from Argentina, Buenos Aires, the second is from México and the third is from Argentina but in the northern region. But like you said they are completely real.
I was apart of the Colorado clean up crew. Let me tell you those cryptids were viscous. Thankfully someone had mistaken left several fire arms and a prototype hand held drill in the area.
I'd like to think Spring Heeled Jack was just some insane inventor who had an incredibly ahead of its time tech that decided to be a fucking menace for no reason
There's a pretty good theory that he was actually 3 different dudes. All noblemen with a reputation for elaborate pranks and drunken brawling. They never admitted it but years later one of their sons was able to demonstrate "throwing fire," using chemicals that ignited upon contact with oxygen. Said his dad had told him they'd been behind spring healed Jack
I'm from Brazil, as you may know, Bolsonaro is building a hyper-nationalist dictatorship, and recently he passed a law that forbids foreign languages Gnomes were hired by the government as language police, they ensure everyone speaks Portuguese. They will appear imediately if you dare to speak spanish, and the dread caused by their presence alone is enough to make people comply I'm now afraid for my life because I dared to write in english
Somebody should tell bolsonaro that Portuguese is the native language of Portugal not Brazil XD. But seriously Bolsonaro will either end up in jail on grounds of massive corruption and treason or in front of the court of Den Haag for warcrimes if he continues his journey down the dictator route...
Holy shit, I heard about air rods when I was a kid watching a documentary about cryptids and never could find anything about them since. That's awesome you brought those up.
It's just so fun to imagine the bloop as a living creature, like it's sound was detected from both costs of the Pacific if I'm right. Like just imagine
The wendigo has so much extra lore to it too, and I've heard that there could have been some sort of brain prions or whatever that caused insanity as a result of cannibalism in an early native American and lead to the legend.
Prion diseases are no joke. Don't eat other people, kids, and if your society did it then it deserved to be wiped off the face of the earth. Same with human sacrifice. F**k you Aztecs, Cortez did nothing wrong.
Yup! Eating human brains is ill-advised. The prions inside can cause a neurodegenerative disease called kuru. Shakes, loss of coordination, sporadic laughter, involuntary muscle contractions. Pop that onto a pale, malnourished body in the dead of winter? Yes, I can see that being seen as a once-man who's been consumed by dark spirits. Maybe that's how it started, but the story always seemed, to me, as a mental escape for anyone suffering through a particularly hard winter. "I don't want to eat my family. It's the evil spirits that want me to." It's been weeks since you ate, so you eat your family, but you didn't want to, and before the kuru even sets in you've convinced yourself you're transforming into the monster of legend.
That ringdocus one is super interesting to me -having not just photos but the preserved body of an actual cryptid is fascinating. I imagine it's just a coyote or something, but still
trying to explain cryptozoology to someone whos never heard of it is basicly just; "ok so like there's this massive flesh horse with a flesh man attached by the torso to its back with no legs and arms that reach the ground and its human head falls off sometimes called a nuckelavee but theres also this thing called a ningen which is sometimes a massive man whale or a bipedal circle depending on who you ask. so yeah any questions on cryptids?"
Flatwoods Monster is oddly reminiscent of Russian folk-tales, in which witches (Baba-Yaga too, IIRC) flew in mortars. Mortar is a bucket-like kitchen equipment, used to grind seeds into powder. Its shape looks a lot like how bottom part of Flatwoods Monster is described. Its almost halo-like headgear reminds kokoshnik - old Russian headgear, commonly associated with women from Russian folktales. Could any of those people who reportedly saw the Flatwoods Monster be of Russian descend, being aware of Russian folklore specifics?
I don't have exact details but recall the group of initial witnesses were from a few different households but all locals and none with Slavic family names. I'm not sure the rate of Slavic ancestry is very high in that part of the US either. Interesting folklore anyway. Slavic traditions are very rich like that. The Baba Yaga in particular is fascinating. I recommend the podcast Mythillogical, which did a deep dive on the topic, to anyone who likes the sound of Baba Yaga. (She is indeed sometimes recorded as getting around in a flying mortar minus the pestle.)
Apparently in 2004 a Mexican police officer saw something that reassembled the flat woods monster, he called it the Monterrey Witch and years later he was interviewed by a journalist how noted similarities between the flat woods monster and the Monterrey Witch and he showed the officer a picture of the flatwoods monster and said that was what he saw in 2004.
something that i've always though about the cracken myth is that we've been exploiting and polluting the ocean at an industrial level for over 200 years, maybe in a healthier cleaner ocean of the past there could have been larger squids, maybe not ten times bigger that the once we've found in recent years but probably twice as big, large enough to attack a canoe or some other kind of small vessel and its sice got exaggerated as the history spreaded. also some large ships disappearing due to bad weather or simply getting lost might have been classified as casualties of these beasts.
3:40 I was born and raised in Florida. Never heard of "skunk ape" until the last year or two thanks to TH-cam. So, lame bigfoot I guess. We have bath salt zombies and dudes throwing alligators through drive through windows. No smelly big foot hanging around all that noise.
I've genuinely seen a stick figure walk between two houses fairly quickly, but given how surreal it seemed and that I was unaware of other sightings I assumed it was a hallucination. Weird shit
Honestly it might have been. Shared hallucinations are something I don’t believe is real if multiple people see it at the same time. If someone sees something and talks about it, and then weeks later somewhere else someone sees something similar I’m less skeptical than if a large group of people sees it. Basically I’m saying you might have hallucinated it but I believe that you genuinely saw something in some way.
I saw a big stick figure like thing climing a house when I was a teen. Made my parents reverse to see. It was tall, the roof was about its waist height. Probs a hallucination
Was honestly expecting you to say you'd also marry a mermaid, but Mavis as a cryptid wife is top tier. I really liked your skeptic view of the cryptids throughout the video versus most other videos that would try to show all real "evidence" to prove them real lmao.
Yeah, nothing screams fun like talking about something interesting and then ruining it by saying "definitely fake" or " They're lying" like you're the be all end all of all knowledge in the universe. This guy literally just wanted to make a debunking video but isn't smart enough to actually debunk them all with intelligence or reason so he just says liar, hoax, or false to describe every one of them.
@@sirraf23 I hope you're just playing devil's advocate for the sake of more easily pointing out what the creator of this video did wrong and don't actually believe this shit.
@@goji5052 the creator of the video should be using scientific reasoning to disprove the Cryptids. one cryptid that is hard to debunk is the Nandi bear due to the fact that it's a medium sized animal that lives in Africa which has a lot of places for it to go unnoticed. Bears live on every continent so it makes no sense for them not to be in Africa.
Fun fact for the Chupacabra, there was a shipment of two mating tasmanian tigers bound for the bronx zoo that escaped into the wild when the ship ran aground, about 10 years or so after that Chupacabra cases began increasing and supposed Chupacabra kills resemble how writings say thylacine used to hunt, so potentially a small population of thylacine may be the cause of chupacabra stories
@enzob9793 you know what man, you are right. I can find tons of articles about thylacine escaping, everywhere but the US. All I see is reddit posts or direct links to Forrest. So thanks for making me look, showed I was mistaken in believing his back story
Moth man is real, he studied structural engineering and that's why he was investigating a doomed bridge.
What a chad
@@Pigpen_YT so you are wrong about the Simcoe Lake monster in Ontario Canada. We don't have seals or otters. We are far inland too inland for seals. If I remember right the only otters in Canada are all the way in BC. I live right beside the lake.
Edit apparently we have otters but I've never seen any
i studied your mom from the inside. Haha thats a little joke I'm sure she's a moral woman, go in peace
@@MastemaJack Your edit is honorable
But is he forklift certified?! 🐙
....like Bigfoot?
I’m from New Mexico, and the way people talk about Skinwalkers (or don’t for that matter, as mentioning them is said to attract them) keeps the “myth” very much alive. It’s not used to keep kids from staying out too late like La Llorona. Instead, I’ve met many grown adults who don’t go out at night because of them. I myself am wary while out in Navajo land with my dog at night, even at a lit gas station. The thing is, the desert is dangerous when the sun is out, but it comes alive at night. Some sounds just can’t be explained by a coyote or bobcat and your mind plays tricks on you out there.
The stories were started to prevent dark magic but the fear the legend produces even today is really substantial.
Patrolling the Mojave almost makes you wish for a nuclear winter.
@@runningdecadeix4780 goddamn you goddamnit
@@zzodysseuszz patrolling the nuclear winter almost makes you wish for a Mojave...
Skin walkers aren’t used to prevent cannibalism that was the wendigo
@@indigo478 it must be both then. Stories like this about cannibals aren't exactly glorifying them. The main focus seems to be on the fear of dark magic but one of the traits of skinwalkers is eating humans so this was definitely something they were trying to say is evil.
If I had a nickel for every time a lake with a sea serpent-like monster in it in Canada was brought up, I would have a pretty respectable amount of nickels
Canada does have a ton of lakes to be fair
@@pe8268and they are far enough North with only a few densely populated areas such that the wild things may still lurk tthere. There's a reason the Canadian government has to pay people to go settle land in the Yucatan.
@@stevenkunkle3857it's good to keep an open mind just not so open that your brain falls out.
@sturzkampfflugzueg thought that was Finland?
@jokingjoker4964 Canada by far has the most, then its Russia, then Finland. Finland has the most per area size, although it is much smaller than the other 2 it has an impressive amount.
I like how a lot of the American cryptid stories basically go like this:
- Individual sees creature that can't be recognised/explained
- Individual pulls out every firearm imaginable to shoot it
The True American way
we see a scary thing, we shoot at scary thing
Loveland cop when recalling his frogman encounter: "So anyway, I started blasting" ,︻╦╤-─ ҉ ,︻╦╤-─ ҉
Cryptids shoot back too. See a Cryp leave it alone. They have a bunch of Cryp friends.
Evidence??
I like how instead of admitting that there may be a relatively decent amount of people who can't swim (or slipped, hit their head, and fell into the water) in Oklahoma, the drownings are blamed on an octopus that lives in a land-locked state.
Wish more states did this tbh
The biggest shame is to mock something that you have yourself.
I have met this land locked octopus before. We had a nice chat over tea. He has no intention of hurting anyone and has been blamed for many bad happenings.
The true fear should be his brother in the water
it worked for 9/11 (al-Qaeda joke)
Wait what?
IT COULD BE REAL
I love how everyone in the Cryptid community has just simultaneously agreed Mothman is real but all the others aren’t. It’s beautiful.
Bigfoot gave me red dead redemption 1 backflashes. The memories.
“You eat babies!”
“WE EAT BERRIES AND MUSHROOMS YOU IDIOT”
I thought the mothman stuff is just a meme
@@milliondollarmistake nope. It all stemmed from an actual series of events.
@@Zer-db1bp Well yeah a real bridge collapsed but a giant moth creature didn't appear in real life.
@@milliondollarmistake Ah yes, I remember seeing you at the bridge collapse.
Mothman is a hero and a national treasure, and you will respect him as such.
Yes
Yes
Yes.
@@yesman9792 oh fuck not you
Yes
It really is funny how almost half the cryptids here are just varying different but otherwise indistinguishable flavors of "Bigfoot/ape man" and "Nessie/lake serpent/dinosaur."
It's not surprising given how the human collective memory and oral traditions work. Keep in mind that we shared this planet with a plethora of other hominids and other megafauna. Given the extremely small fossil record it wouldn't be surprising if some of those creatures survived long enough to actually come into contact with modern humans pre ice age and memories of those encounters being passed down the generations just like the biblical flood myth that predates the Bible by thousands of years.
Nessie, Messie, Bessie.
Gotta love the namings too
Kinda funny how all the dinosaurs depict what we thought they looked like at the time
Ah, my favorite cryptids, not bigfoot, lost plesiosaur, that antisocial guy who doesn't go outside, and yet another dead raccoon.
Human cultures share similar archetypes, who knew
I love how every Cryptid video is recorded on a Stethoscope.
I was a hard core cryptid kid. Now I find myself just wanting to believe in some of this stuff, its just fun to think about. Honestly my favorite video of yours to date!
I want to believe. It would make life more interesting
What's stopping you from believing? There's far more to this world then meets the eye?
@@starpaladinnelaj I think believing in the ideas of dragons is fun. Maybe its a childhood thing because I always wanted them to be real but, idk, its hard for me to believe in that with science brain.
Me with the bloop
Well put, I think this is how alot of us are, just people trying to keep the world magical or atleast mysterious
11:28 vampires being killed by sunlight is actually a pretty recent invention, only dating back to Nosferatu (1922).
I have many different ways to slay/subdue Vamps of a wide variant... *Via vastly reversing/manipulating time.*
@@SomeAnomalousJumper2398 *wait a minute*
I would just use blasters, plasma would melt those fancy Blood drinking cannibals with ease
You know vampires don’t actually die by sunlight, at least not the one I saw. They simply have skin to someone with “albinism” but a little more sensitive.
The one I talked too said he didn’t mind being in the sun, as long as he had a hat and long cloths.
I think the whole thing with Vampires is they have such a low iron level(I read something like this but I don’t remember what it was they had the low level of) they burn up in the sun, so they get it from blood.
the annoyed scepticism is the best part of this lmao, I love it
Has anyone counted the amount of lake monsters VERY similar to Nessie?
Literally 8 types of dinosaurs, oar fish, sea snakes that have long life spans (reptiles don't stop growing so old reptiles are really large) I mean it could be anything.
If I had a cap for every Time a Nessie got spotted I would be able to buy power armor
The next one to be sighted will be the bussy
There is a handful of plesiosaur type mythical creatures mostly in South America. We can safely assume that later tales and myths were inspired by nessy so that leaves us with only a few other mentions.
I think many of the myths surrounding nessy or stuff like dragons can be traced back to ancient people finding bones or entire fossils of dinosaurs and spinning myths around them that match their own cultural beliefs which explains why dragons in Asia and Europe are so different but follow the same basic pattern. Many of the Dino type cryptids coincide with locations where fossils of similar looking creatures can be found.
@@somencrranger3118 Come gamble some of that at the strip
At this point, the modern version of nessie is absolutely going to be called "bussie"
Still sad that the Bear Lake monster isn't called "Bussie"
@@artemisolympian6318 why ain't it Beake
Mmmm... Gotta get me a nice bussie....
I tell you, last week I saw a bussy. I went to go show someone, but by the time we got back, it was gone. Nobody believes me, but I believe.
Nussy
I like how every body of water larger than a bathtub just so happens to have a 240p lake monster in it
Me as a child: Man I hope none of these exist, that'd be so scary!
Me now: Man I hope some of these exist, that'd be so fascinating...
Right it would make life way more interresting
i just wanna grill
@@MegaZeta dam😔
Rip kid you but I was build different. Wanted deep in my heart for aliens and cryptids to be real so I could befriend them and go on wacky magical adventures.
Bro just said facts
I wished that, at least, mothman was real
Stick figure ones are terrifying, not exactly sure why, but out of all of these crytids the idea of a giant stick figure ominously gliding towards you scares the shit outta me
I can only picture them waddling
@@tylervanpeursem7627 like mr game and watch
It's probably because they're so close to the idea/image of a human, yet inhuman, just uncanny valley
meh. I like shadow people better.
Yeah it seems like something out of the backrooms
Reservoir Workers: Sorry boss, can't come in today.
Boss: *sigh* Mermaids again?
Workers: Mermaids again.
I love how you took genuine time out for every entry to say that you believe each and every one to be a hoax and then, you got to the Loveland Frog and you were like "No, fuck you. This one is real."
i laughed at this for a few days. thnxs friend
Le big Peppe is real
The rarest Peppe of them all
Yeah it’s real I saw it last Monday
can confirm, i wrote the code for it
1000th like
“Human-wolf hybrid howls” sounds like a description of coyote noises. Coyotes sound vaguely human when they’re all barking at each other. It’s a pretty creepy sound, but it’s normal to hear if you’re out in the country.
Coyotes don't exist they're a subspecies of wolf.
Darren Naish pointed out that one the ways we know Bigfoot isn't real is that every large mammal in North America can be identified by a narrow group of sounds using unmanned equipment, even those that are relatively quiet. Reported "Bigfoot" sounds are so widely varied as to be impossible, and the only claims that sound remotely credible are all much better explained by other causes.
Can confirm, used to live near a huge pack of coyotes in the Appalachian mountains. They lived on the mountain over from our house and it totally sounds like people whooping and yelling, but it's ever so slightly different and uncanny. Foxes do this too but are more high-pitched.
There were a bunch in our neighborhood one night and a guy came outside and yelled "what the hell is going on out here" 🤣
Vixens have a cry that will make your blood run cold. Mountain lions, too.
As someone who is indigenous Australian and has been involved with these things, the bunyip is less of a cryptid and more of a cautionary to tell children to never go out at night lest they risk their life, hence why it has such a tendency to go after children and it's nocturnal, and given the 100s of different groups within Australia it's like the world's largest Chinese whispers game which would explain the discrepancy between descriptions, there's hundreds of stories like that within my culture, some include the rainbow serpent and tidilick, generally either cautionary tales or a tale of creation, things change from one group to another because once again, Chinese whispers usually small variations though, point being it definitely isnt meant to be taken as real it's just meant to scare reckless kids
While not being indigenous myself I did want to say the same thing, I only know what I was told in like year 3 but remember a little bit, mostly just making my own bunyip
@@dis_boi_a_mem exactly, its not concrete and it isnt exclusive to just this story either nor is it something i hate, its become such a rooted thing that it would feel hollow without it, and even if you aren't indigenous yourself its alright to speak about these things ive never seen the point of excluding people because they dont share an ancestor i would love it if everyone could experience and form their own opinions of my culture
What about the dropbears?
I'm surprised people in Australia needed to create a monster to keep their kids from going out at night. Everything I've heard about actual Australian wildlife is more than enough to keep me indoors when I'm there
@Nothing to see here I mean its not actually that bad, most problems you hear about occur inland where like 10% or 20% of the population actually lives, worst we get on average in homes are spiders that are either none venomous and super docile or ones that have a slow acting and very treatable venom, theres rarely snake problems and ive only seen wild snakes on a handful of times.
Kind of a rule of thump, dont be dumb and dumb things wont happen to you
Red Dead Redemption 1 taught me they only eat berries and not babies.
I legit forgot I made a Red Dead reference in this lmao
@@Pigpen_YT I thought it was on purpose 😂
@@ZyloPhone it was I just forgot I wrote it
@@Pigpen_YT “We eat berries and mushrooms you fool!”
@@mistaguy226 “You eat babies…ain’t your fault.” - John Marston
I’m so glad that you think I’m the greatest cryptid of all time! Such an honor! And yes, I’m very real.
I live in Loveland and the frogman is the love of my life... he may not be sighted in the area but he is certainly in all of the residents' hearts. We have a mini triathlon in his honor each year!
Frogman knows how to bike?
Loveland..Frogman...Are you living in a fairy tale?
Is it cool?
The Gnomes are actually legends from Argentina and other Spanish speaking countries (The videos are all in Spanish). There isn't such legends in Brazil
Yeah I was really confused when he was talking about brazilian gnomes, and then showed videos from Argentina and Mexico.
yeah i was trying to hear portuguese in those videos but they were all spanish
@@claudialomeli4048 *Sad trombone.*
Deve ser os gnomos daquele episódio do chapolin
could be a mistake on the iceberg creator's part (assuming op didnt make it themselves)
if I had a dollar for every Loch Ness clone, i'd have enough to buy a few Smash dlc characters
And yet there's only one Ness clone.
@@aprinnyonbreak1290 OKEY
@@aprinnyonbreak1290 Funny because there’s a Loch Ness clone in EarthBound called Tessie
@@Yakkymaniathere’s not, please grow up and stop believing everything dumb you hear.
I’m so happy you mentioned the Loveland Frogman. I’m from the area, and I read the “Weird Ohio” book growing up. When I found out about the Frogman, I lost my shit! Like, how was no one talking about this? A lot of people have never even heard of the encounter. I wholeheartedly believe he’s real though.
I’m skeptical it’s a large frogman but I think something we still don’t really know about was seen there.
I work on the road it was seen on and at night, you can totally get a real feeling that something out there on the river is creeping around... I don't believe it's real at all, but it is pretty cool!
@@thestraydog that feeling happens in many bodies of water. If you’ve ever been in a salt marsh at night you 100% always feel as if you’re being watched and stalked.
Ive seen some huge frogs in that area, never the Loveland frog but mighty big all the same...
The name of that book was ahead of its time
What a lot of people dont understand or try to understand about folktales/myths/cryptids is their metaphorical significance.
The Wendigo story is a direct metaphor to selfishness and cannibalism. In many traditions people are "hunted" by them in the winter- when food is scarce. But theyre not monsters theyre spirits and their victims become these monsters when they succumb to the hunger and selfishly kill and eat their friends or family (or any other human)
Their depiction of being skinny and pale again reflects 1. Malnutrition and starvation and 2. Lack of sunlight asaociated with winter (when temptation focannibalism is at its highest)
In this way wendigos do exist. Its a person who becomes a cannibal bc they were weak and got "possessed" by the spirit. Theyre metaphors for the horrors of being isolated in wintertime and not having enough to eat.
So basically another way to say that Winter fucking sucks
Not all monsters were monsters in the beginning, some are born of sorrow. Other monsters don’t look like monsters but they still carry their monstrosity inside
The wendigo is truly a monster of pity.
Their selfishness to kill other in their times of needs is what transforms them into the true monster they are.
While I have met few wendigos on my travels, the few I met have not been I treated in talking.
what is the Loveland Frogman a methaphor for?
Exactly! It makes me so mad that people bastardized these legends for entertainment! So many Cryptids are like this and it’s so upsetting!
@@planthaver having too much sex
My cousins and I have been joking about that "I think there's a squatch in these woods" clip for almost 15 years, thanks for the blast from the past. You deserve 1 mil subs
I’m genuinely so terrified of gnomes, dude
Yeah, Return To Oz, huh?
I've got mexican family deathly afraid of duendes, Spanish gnomes basically
@@eggarasu you know you could just kick them, like, they're the size of like a basket ball.
The gnomes of the wood are powerful creatures. I crossed them but once and i regretted it.
@@АртёмДубравин-ы6уWhat happened?
Most of the pictures of "late-surviving Dinosaurs/Pterosaurs/Marine reptiles" are easy to debunk on account of them looking like the contemporary pop-culture depiction of such an animal... which we now know to be outdated.
To use those Pteranodons as examples, we now know that they would've had more soft tissue and a fuzzy coating on their bodies. The one of the soldiers holding it up also depicts it with _two_ elongated fingers per wing, when even the oldest reconstructions of Pterosaurs reflected that they only have one long finger per wing. Also, their wings were not pointy, but rounded.
Similar case with the Dinosaur sightings. Alleged "Plesiosaur" lake monsters are depicted with their necks upright, poking out of the water, but it's highly unlikely that Plesiosaurs would've been able to do that. "Surviving Sauropods" are depicted as semi-aquatic tail-draggers, which was outdated as long ago as the 70s and 80s.
Other good ones are descriptions of behavior that contrast anatomy. Massive winged gliders being described as quickly ambushing things then springing back up, for example.
Most cryptids are easy to debunk due to their size and how many of them they would need to sustain a population. However there are some cryptids that are medium sized animals that live in Africa which is mainly unexplored like the Nandi bear which has a great chance of being real and undiscovered.
A lot of them can also be described as "things the locals make up in order to bring in rich forginers looking for proof"
Plesiosaurs are not dinosaurs
Some sea Cryptids, like the potential Megalodon, could be out there, but it’s unlikely they are the same as they used to be.
Pigpen: I will only talk about one single mythical creature.
Also Pigpen: *talks about dragons, vampires, gnomes, griffons, ....*
Peter Griffon (Family Guy joke)
thats what i was thinking LOL. i wonder what he classifies a mythical creature to be
@@DeepTissueExplorer *throws tomato* Yes, BOO! Off the stage!
This man went out and explored every inch of the world for us, to give us a solid "No" on every single entry. Thanks for the dedication
Except the frog man lol
I mean...none of these are real so 😅
What about the gnomes
Mothman is real, I'm hanging out with him, Sasquatch, and a vampire in my room right now. His name is actually Steve Mothman, he was a tax attorney who fell into some toxic waste and now he's a moth-human hybrid freak with an amazing knowledge of tax law. He's actually a super chill guy but he and the vampire hate each other
@breeeegs yo you know Steve?We both went to university for engineering. Really chill dude.
I’m so glad someone made a long piece of media on cryptids that wasn’t about Debunking them or trying to prove their existence. Theres so much to talk about and have fun with, instead many places fall into the same trap of the boring talk about why they are or aren’t real.
Keep up the good work!
He debunked them multiple times
@@PoopyHead78902 I think the comment means more focusing on the debunking, and not really talking about the story.
@@grayoso1828 Yeah, I probably could’ve worded that better lol
Who will win the fight shazam or goatman and why?
He literally almost debunked almost every single one
The Organism 46-B thing is almost assuredly just taken from Greig Becks book "Beneath the Dark Ice" which is about people trapped in ice caves in antarctica being hunted by a massive ancient squid creature that has adapted it's natural camouflage ability to make the tips of its tentacles resemble it's victims to lure prey. Even has a russian commando team.
I'm trying to read that, but his description of Roanoke Island in the prologue is really hard to swallow. Surrounded by the freezing waters of the Atlantic? A cave big enough to hold 100 people? Dude, you could at least do better research. Roanoke is hot, humid, marshy and flat, like the whole coastline there. Good luck finding a cave there period, much less one big enough to hold 100 colonists. There's probably not a natural rock outcropping within a hundred miles.
@@MercuryKnight5 Right? I didn't say it was good, just that it had a lot of similarities.
@@Cousin_Uli There are collosal Squid and they eat humans when they get the chance.
You just reminded that I once did read it. Not a good book honestly
40:08 watching this while half asleep and hearing “top yaoi investigators” woke me right up
The Brazilian Gnomes aren't from Brazil, they're from Argentina. People often confuse the two countries for some reason.
Because I’m a gringo
Actually the Gnomes videos shown in the iceberg are from Argentina, Mexico and Chile.
This type of hoaxes were very popular among latin american countries around the 2000's.
Came to say that, they're mostly from Argentina
But in Brazil we got the Chupa-Cu de Goianinha a very powerful creature
@@trabalhomorto Chupa-cus were weaponized by the government to keep people at home during lockdowns
I thought the same thing, people were clearly speaking Spanish in those videos. Next time try the Chupa Cu and also ET Bilu a powerful being that is just spreading the message about the search for knowledge.
On Mothman: Well, to be fair, the bridge collapsing being due to its structural problems _is_ pretty much universally accepted as the explanation by proponents of the "Mothman is a herald of doom" hypothesis, since those people don't actually think Mothman caused the collapse--they just think it was there to _warn_ people of the collapse.
It was a Northern Long-Eared Owl. Also WV has terrible lighting. The locals love messing with tourists with hunting stories.
My granduncle told me a tall tale about running into an ocelot.
@@beneficent2557
Was the ocelot armed?
So the mothman is a structural engineer?
@@lbrlrsfdj8895
Mothman.
Keep that arch off the ground, I say mothman. That gap is more than 1/16th of an inch.
This isn't a bridge. It's a deathtrap to all.
'Cuz you're an eeen-gin-eee-yurr, a really really smart eeen-gin-ee-yur. You can divert some force, you can account for rain, you're a real mathematic staaaaar.
That's just that pokemon episode about Absol, but in real life
The gnomes are actually one of the more consistent legends here in Brazil. It's almost impossible to find a 60+ years old person who doesn't have any stories regarding them
Those are why people ain’t coming to Brazil
@@asmrtpop2676 yea imagine coming here for vacation and stumbling upon a gnome
Mexico too!!
I’ve heard of la llorons but gnomes in Mexico?😂
@@Cydude5000 yes haha called duendes
People believe the "Nessie is an Elephant" theory because apparently around the time of the famous photo there was a circus in town and the elephant's handlers could've taken it out to the lake
Perhaps it was your mom. If your mom is not a large woman this is inaccurate and i apologize
@@MegaZeta ok
There is also the whale penis explanation. lol
@@MegaZetaactually she my mother
@fredslonghardthrobbingego9016 There are a few stories as to what is the true back story of the picture, I choose to believe the elephant story. Either way, it's pretty clear that Nessie isn't real
It makes me actually angry how people use skinwalker and wendigo interchangeably
Yeah two different things one steals yo body and the other eats yo body
@@somencrranger3118 would a wendigo try to eat a skinwalker?
@@reddeadspartan if it was dead yeah
Wendigo: didn't want to be one
Skinwalker: did want to be one
It astounds me that people will mistake the two.
In my travels I have met MANY skin walkers in many forms, even managed to have a conversation with a few of them. Wendigos however I have not met much of and they are not Intested in speaking.
20:17 I have an uncle, who literally has no idea of Japanese culture. The entire family has a story that they tell about him, how they went on vacation to Hawaii.
There is a pool of water under a waterfall. There are signs, and warnings from the locals that, while it's okay to swim, do not dive under the water, because the spirits will drag you under.
From what my family has told me, he cannot tell this story himself because he's basically got PTSD from it.
From what everyone tells me, he decided to go ahead and dive deep, and he came back up stark white, saying that something actually tried to drag him under. That whatever grabbed him felt like a human hand, except that it was cold and scaly.
This made me realize how cryptids would make interesting comic book characters.
I mean some of them kind of are, what with aqua man and wendigo being examples of crypto character.
I can totally see someone like Man Thing being s cryptid in an alternate reality
There is an artist on Twitter who is making a comic and incorporating humanoid versions of cryptids into it
@@cyberdragon4249 I love Cryptocurrency characters
@@NotCOPPAFTCA oh ha ha, real funny. I expect that they do all their financial transactions in bitcoin; that or doge coin if they're really desperate.
Flatwoods monster was actually seen again by a police officer but in Monterrey, Mexico in 2004, it was called the Monterrey witch for a while until a journalist interviewed the police officer, and from the description the police officer gave the journalist, he found similarities with the flatwoods monster, showed the officer a drawing of the 1952 case and the officer almost crapped himself since it was too similar to what he saw that night attacking his patrol car
Aren't there videos of something in a red cloak flying around around the time of the supposed sightings?
Oh really… I lived close to flatwoods.. went to high school there… it’s really hard to tell what all is really out there that we don’t know about
It makes me wonder just is other cryptids have other sightings that we dont know about... Like imagine someone in Canada or something saw the dover demon and described it differently the people who saw it in 1977, but they just so happen to have seen the same thing. Makes you wonder.
Anyone who hasn't needs to watch the show Lost Tapes. It's possibly one of the most unintentionally hilarious but still fun cryptid shows in existence. It's so obviously low budget but man, they ran with that budget and made it as cheesy as possible in all the best ways.
That's how I learned about these cripids. But... They are also home to my nightmares as I was super little when I watched it. I'm now thinking about making a cryptid story of my own. Somehow an ambelocetus survived extinction and now lives in a lake. There you go, the blank lake monster.
Not gonna lie, I am intrigued by mythology and legends from around the world, and it's dope stuff.
It's nice to learn more about this stuff. Dope video dude!
Same. The way I see is is that there’s so many interpretations of the same monster that it’ makes me wonder how these can be fake. Some may be exaggerated but at the same time I might be stupid
I contend that you are in fact lying, and are not intrigued by mythology and legends from around the world
Mothman didn't cause the collapse, he was trying to save those people from their fate, Mothman should've been hailed as a hero
So like absol?
I'm from California and the Cheeseasaurus haunts my local area. Some nights I'm sure I wake up hearing him. Saying something about... a delicious bowl of craft. I have no clue what he intends to craft, but I don't want to find out.
If the “thunderbird” has an 8 foot wingspan, that only makes it slightly larger than a golden eagle.
The Andean Condor has an 11 foot wingspan. Some albatrosses are 12 feet.
Yeah, I expect it to be more like the Roc from Arabian mythology. It is so big it can pick up an elephant.
Honestly I’m some times surprised that when people bring up the Thunderbird as a cryptid they don’t mention the Questzalcoatalcus(I probably butchered that spelling) which if I remember had a wingspan of about 15 feet. I don’t think it was still alive when the first Thunderbird sightings would have been, but perhaps fossils of it were found by the people where the legend originated from.
as a native american. i’ve never been told the story of the thunder bird in the light of it being scary, it’s actually the opposite. they’re symbols of protection and strength.
@scotth6814 but can they cause thunderstorms? 🤔
Im Romanian. My grandmother told me about how she attended a burial 30 years ago of some woman. Before burying the woman, one of our relatives drove a very long nail through her forehead because "throughout her life she has been the most evil woman" ("toata viata ei a fost cea mai a dracului femeie" - literal translation "the most of the devil woman", also used as an insult here).
so they werent worried about her coming back as a vampire
just coming back as a colossal bitch lol
Bit weird that innit
Most normal Romanian funeral
Gotta be pretty horrible for your family to think "Gotta keep this bitch down" at your funeral.
7:32 I like how you included the picture of Senator Manchin with the Mothman Statue.
Fun little trivia, there is an archetype in Yu-gi-oh called Danger! that is based on Cryptids. Their gimmick is that you reveal one in your hand, then shuffle your hand. Your opponent chooses one card, which is discarded. If the card discarded was not a copy of the revealed Danger! monster, you get to special summon the monster and draw a card. They also all have an effect if they are discarded.
The Currently released monsters are:
Bigfoot
Thunderbird
Chupacabra
Dogman
Nessie
Mothman
Jackalope
Tsuchinoko (A japanese mythological snake)
and Ogopogo.
Also, Jackalope and Tsuchinoko are part of a subset that has a ? in the name.
Its not a very strong or good deck, but its definitely a cool one!
There is also another one based on myths and religious beings but I can’t remember the names I think it was the dark lord archetype
@@mazerunner7640 Yep.
@@grayoso1828 th-cam.com/video/iik25wqIuFo/w-d-xo.html here is another archetype I forgot to mention also
They also all live in a small area called the Realm of Danger!, and there's a group of scientists trying to capture them, called the Danger! Response Team.
cool video, best cryptid iceberg I've seen in... way too long.
Fun fact: most specimens we have of Colossal squids are *immature* individuals. Meaning there could well be larger ones out there. Not quite as large as myths and sightings suggest, but still enough to not be pleasant.
I remember seeing recently that we have very little livening specimens if any of colossal squids currently in any form of captivity, which would mean that even if all we have seen are young ones we likely will not be able to see a full grown one for decades at best. Unless ocean exploration technology skyrockets within a few years
@@rogue_2k374if I remember correctly, we only confirmed a sighting of a living colossal squid in the past decade or two. And all previous sightings are of immature individuals. Far more interesting than colossal squid are colossal octopi.
I think dragons are a little deeper than just misidentified dinosaur bones. Something deep in the human psyche that has a fear of snakes and lizards. Giant-flying-fire-breathing-snake-lizard is just sort of naturally appealing to people I suppose.
I mean collosal komodo dragons were around into the 1600's. Up to 18 feet long with a bite that "poisoned," whatever it bit (technically it's not poison, they're saliva is just a great bacteria culture and spread diseases they're immune to).
Anyone remember that show on Animal Planet called “Lost Tapes”? It went over quite a few of these cryptids, it was one of my favorite shows as a kid lmao
I only remember Monsterquest, on History Channel damn that was such a good show
the Jersey Devil one scarred me as a child
YES wish it made a comeback 😭
I have a great memory of sneaking downstairs at my grandma's old house to watch TV, happened apon the lizardman episode and promptly couldn't sleep.
Man you're giving me nostalgia with those old commercials on cartoon network.
Also really nice video overall, it was very interesting seeing cryptids I never heard of.
I'm with you on cryptids.
As a kid I thought they were really really neat, but I hold no illusions or "hope" that they are real.
All that said, I find the topic and phenomenon interesting and will always watch bad Bigfoot and Loch Ness Monster content.
Whoever came up with Morhman is a Genius. They spun a Public Tragedy into a tourist attraction. Imagine if after 9/11 The Government came out and said 'Bigfoot Did It'.
In a better world
Terrorist Bigfoot is a concept I didn't know I needed
I love the ads (CN, beef jerky, etc.) you put in your videos. It gives immersion. Like I'm watching something on TV.
My father had multiple encounters with gnomes in his youth, never had mental problems he is a very honest person and has no reason to lie about something like that. And it´s something very common to hear from older people in my country Chile.
The lead paint chips really did a number on the older generations. :(
They thought dinosaurs were dragons. But in the end, we're left with the cooler fact *that there were these giant ancient badass animals.*
I'm in my 30's and I still think dinosaurs are the hypest shit.
And they keep getting better! Back when I first heared about Dinos they were big lumbering reptilian giants with peanuts for brains. Today they are feathered 30ft killer chickens that can outsprint most cars and hunt in packs.
Damn right, they are!
Dinosaurs are overrated the fact that their own biology killed them off is ironic. Evolution has a preferred size medium to small animals will not go extinct. Humans are the perfect size and because of that the humans don't have to worry about extinction.
Dragons could of existed. They would of had soft brittle hollow bones to allow them to fly like birds. Bird bones dont fossilize like normal bones and break down. Why we hardly have any fossils of birds compared to anything else.
Dragons have probably several origins for example in Europe it might have been large afracian lizards and reptiles that were changed overtime
As a french guy from Gévaudan, the beast has been used by people to kill others and claiming the beast did it, so that may upscale the killcount
In conclusion, every goddamn lake has a goddamn lake monster.
"I think ghosts are boring."
*Goes onto talk about something that's probs just a bear."
bears are far cooler than ghosts
Ghosts are kinda like a depressing shell of a person that wonders around.
@@Ormagoden94 ratioed, cope
@@Ormagoden94 Ok but that old man over there sounds just like a seal!
Are alien ghosts classified under UFOs or Paranormal?
Why aren't we haunted by more alien ghosts?
Where I live in Wiltshire, England there is a "cryptid" called the Black Cat. We live in a rural area and literally everyone believes it exists. It is supposed to look like a black cat the size of a large dog, or a puma. My dad and a close family friend both believe they have seen it, and tbh I reckon it might be out there.
Sounds similar to the Beast of Bodmin Moor. Heard stories of big cats owned by private collectors escaping to the wild
@@DanielsAlt503 back in the 70s slot of people owned big cats as pets. After it was made illegal, many people just dumped them into the wild. Many people believe that there is communities of big cats that have bred and now live in the wild, eating deer, rabbits, and other wildlife
The "black cat" is real enough, but not really a cryptid.
I think I heard of this one! I think it’s story is that and escaped black Panther mated with local wildlife or something like that, and it’s spawn was a slightly smaller version of it(Horrible word choice but best I could do)
@@martinharris5017
It is a cryptid. Its existence hasn’t been officially verified.
Mothman is real trust me. Saw him acouple days ago studying in my local library
What a king. Supporting his local library
The 3rd gnome film is so fucking funny because one of the guys is like “I’m going for him” and then it sees him and then he starts to freak out and then everyone loses their shit. It’s like trying to catch a big rat
I went to Point Pleasant, West Virginia a few weeks ago and got to see the Moth-Man statue and the museum. It was great.
cool
“Like some people claim that they’re really aggressive and eat babies.”
John Marston: YOU EAT BABIES!
All of your icebergs are great! The way you do them is how they all should be done, lots of details, long run times, indepth analysis. Bravo!
Love these lists where you can clearly see detail and research into it and not just a list of Bigfoot, Loch Ness monster and moth man
"Cheeseasaurus Rex is an abomination against life itself"
God dude, it sure is
(I can't fucking breathe I'm laughing so hard)
Love the iceberg, just one thing, the videos you put on the Brazilian gnomes are actually from other countries, the first is from Argentina, Buenos Aires, the second is from México and the third is from Argentina but in the northern region.
But like you said they are completely real.
There are 4 videos the first one Argentinian the second and third mexican and the last one is hard to tell
dude in Brazil we have duendes
I was apart of the Colorado clean up crew. Let me tell you those cryptids were viscous. Thankfully someone had mistaken left several fire arms and a prototype hand held drill in the area.
I'd like to think Spring Heeled Jack was just some insane inventor who had an incredibly ahead of its time tech that decided to be a fucking menace for no reason
There's a pretty good theory that he was actually 3 different dudes. All noblemen with a reputation for elaborate pranks and drunken brawling. They never admitted it but years later one of their sons was able to demonstrate "throwing fire," using chemicals that ignited upon contact with oxygen. Said his dad had told him they'd been behind spring healed Jack
I'm from Brazil, as you may know, Bolsonaro is building a hyper-nationalist dictatorship, and recently he passed a law that forbids foreign languages
Gnomes were hired by the government as language police, they ensure everyone speaks Portuguese.
They will appear imediately if you dare to speak spanish, and the dread caused by their presence alone is enough to make people comply
I'm now afraid for my life because I dared to write in english
Portuguese is a foreign language... 🤷
kkkkkkkkk that explains everything
Somebody should tell bolsonaro that Portuguese is the native language of Portugal not Brazil XD.
But seriously Bolsonaro will either end up in jail on grounds of massive corruption and treason or in front of the court of Den Haag for warcrimes if he continues his journey down the dictator route...
Realest shit I've ever read
everybody gangsta until the stick figures start to glide
Excellent video. And funny. I love the Loch Ness Monster / Tacoma ad.
It’s a good day when Pigpen uploads a new Iceberg
You Bet. A very euphoric sound lad to have a beer with even though I don't drink.
24:57 the Tasmanian Tiger is only called a tiger because it was orange with black stripes. It was a marsupial, in no way related to felines.
Holy shit, I heard about air rods when I was a kid watching a documentary about cryptids and never could find anything about them since. That's awesome you brought those up.
It's just so fun to imagine the bloop as a living creature, like it's sound was detected from both costs of the Pacific if I'm right. Like just imagine
The wendigo has so much extra lore to it too, and I've heard that there could have been some sort of brain prions or whatever that caused insanity as a result of cannibalism in an early native American and lead to the legend.
Prion diseases are no joke. Don't eat other people, kids, and if your society did it then it deserved to be wiped off the face of the earth. Same with human sacrifice. F**k you Aztecs, Cortez did nothing wrong.
Yup! Eating human brains is ill-advised. The prions inside can cause a neurodegenerative disease called kuru. Shakes, loss of coordination, sporadic laughter, involuntary muscle contractions. Pop that onto a pale, malnourished body in the dead of winter? Yes, I can see that being seen as a once-man who's been consumed by dark spirits. Maybe that's how it started, but the story always seemed, to me, as a mental escape for anyone suffering through a particularly hard winter. "I don't want to eat my family. It's the evil spirits that want me to." It's been weeks since you ate, so you eat your family, but you didn't want to, and before the kuru even sets in you've convinced yourself you're transforming into the monster of legend.
@@BakkuIa reminds me of how most cases of Werewolfs and Vampires are most likely cases of rabies.
@@RetroIsaac you mean lycanthropy and vampirism?
My hypothesis is that the wendigo is just a personification of the effects of a winter harsh enough to push people to cannibalism for survival.
1:35 "You eat babies!"-"We eat berries, and mushrooms you fool!"
That ringdocus one is super interesting to me -having not just photos but the preserved body of an actual cryptid is fascinating. I imagine it's just a coyote or something, but still
It's a murdered dog.
Honestly I'm surprised that no one has just stolen the body for testing
as a brazilian myself, i laughed a lot seeing chupa cu in this iceberg.
it shows the world the creativity we have when creating crypids lol
trying to explain cryptozoology to someone whos never heard of it is basicly just; "ok so like there's this massive flesh horse with a flesh man attached by the torso to its back with no legs and arms that reach the ground and its human head falls off sometimes called a nuckelavee but theres also this thing called a ningen which is sometimes a massive man whale or a bipedal circle depending on who you ask. so yeah any questions on cryptids?"
Flatwoods Monster is oddly reminiscent of Russian folk-tales, in which witches (Baba-Yaga too, IIRC) flew in mortars. Mortar is a bucket-like kitchen equipment, used to grind seeds into powder. Its shape looks a lot like how bottom part of Flatwoods Monster is described. Its almost halo-like headgear reminds kokoshnik - old Russian headgear, commonly associated with women from Russian folktales.
Could any of those people who reportedly saw the Flatwoods Monster be of Russian descend, being aware of Russian folklore specifics?
I don't have exact details but recall the group of initial witnesses were from a few different households but all locals and none with Slavic family names. I'm not sure the rate of Slavic ancestry is very high in that part of the US either.
Interesting folklore anyway. Slavic traditions are very rich like that. The Baba Yaga in particular is fascinating. I recommend the podcast Mythillogical, which did a deep dive on the topic, to anyone who likes the sound of Baba Yaga. (She is indeed sometimes recorded as getting around in a flying mortar minus the pestle.)
What if both the Flatwoods Monster and Baba Yaga are the same thing. Whatever it is at least.
Apparently in 2004 a Mexican police officer saw something that reassembled the flat woods monster, he called it the Monterrey Witch and years later he was interviewed by a journalist how noted similarities between the flat woods monster and the Monterrey Witch and he showed the officer a picture of the flatwoods monster and said that was what he saw in 2004.
mothman is very real, how do i know this? because he just tenderly kissed me on the mouth and told me he loved me.
💀💀💀 go to a mental care place and church
Fun video. That recording of "The Bloop" freaked my cats right out. Haha.
i love that after every cryptid he says "is it real? no."
He couldn't be more clueless on this subject. What a waste of time. Check out "Missing 411" or "What Lurks Beneath."
@@adamjohnson286 Well, he did say at the beginning that he did not believe in any cryptids.
@@adamjohnson286 so you go out and prove these things are real then if you think this guy is so wrong.
@@adamjohnson286 sure bud
@@mhm77887 SURE BUD. Trolling the internet is such a great use of time! Keep it coming, it feeds us 😉☺️👈😚
something that i've always though about the cracken myth is that we've been exploiting and polluting the ocean at an industrial level for over 200 years, maybe in a healthier cleaner ocean of the past there could have been larger squids, maybe not ten times bigger that the once we've found in recent years but probably twice as big, large enough to attack a canoe or some other kind of small vessel and its sice got exaggerated as the history spreaded. also some large ships disappearing due to bad weather or simply getting lost might have been classified as casualties of these beasts.
Lmao "Top Yowie investigators" sounds really funny
I wasn’t expecting this. Thanks for the Halloween special!
3:40 I was born and raised in Florida. Never heard of "skunk ape" until the last year or two thanks to TH-cam. So, lame bigfoot I guess. We have bath salt zombies and dudes throwing alligators through drive through windows. No smelly big foot hanging around all that noise.
I've genuinely seen a stick figure walk between two houses fairly quickly, but given how surreal it seemed and that I was unaware of other sightings I assumed it was a hallucination. Weird shit
Honestly it might have been. Shared hallucinations are something I don’t believe is real if multiple people see it at the same time. If someone sees something and talks about it, and then weeks later somewhere else someone sees something similar I’m less skeptical than if a large group of people sees it. Basically I’m saying you might have hallucinated it but I believe that you genuinely saw something in some way.
I saw a big stick figure like thing climing a house when I was a teen. Made my parents reverse to see. It was tall, the roof was about its waist height. Probs a hallucination
It was a 2 dimensional creature, lost in our 3 dimensional world, Longing for a purpose
Was honestly expecting you to say you'd also marry a mermaid, but Mavis as a cryptid wife is top tier. I really liked your skeptic view of the cryptids throughout the video versus most other videos that would try to show all real "evidence" to prove them real lmao.
Yeah, nothing screams fun like talking about something interesting and then ruining it by saying "definitely fake" or " They're lying" like you're the be all end all of all knowledge in the universe. This guy literally just wanted to make a debunking video but isn't smart enough to actually debunk them all with intelligence or reason so he just says liar, hoax, or false to describe every one of them.
@@sirraf23 I hope you're just playing devil's advocate for the sake of more easily pointing out what the creator of this video did wrong and don't actually believe this shit.
@@goji5052 the creator of the video should be using scientific reasoning to disprove the Cryptids. one cryptid that is hard to debunk is the Nandi bear due to the fact that it's a medium sized animal that lives in Africa which has a lot of places for it to go unnoticed. Bears live on every continent so it makes no sense for them not to be in Africa.
@@sirraf23 imagine getting offended because someone said fairies aren't real
I saw real video of Ogopogo. It looks just like a beaver. But it's Ogopogo, I swear...
As a Florida man myself, skunk ape might be real. Although some of us think it’s an orangutan of unusual size
1:41 I caught that Red Dead Redemption reference you sly fox
Fun fact for the Chupacabra, there was a shipment of two mating tasmanian tigers bound for the bronx zoo that escaped into the wild when the ship ran aground, about 10 years or so after that Chupacabra cases began increasing and supposed Chupacabra kills resemble how writings say thylacine used to hunt, so potentially a small population of thylacine may be the cause of chupacabra stories
Cool! Got any source?
@enzob9793 you know what man, you are right. I can find tons of articles about thylacine escaping, everywhere but the US. All I see is reddit posts or direct links to Forrest. So thanks for making me look, showed I was mistaken in believing his back story