Monsters of Rivers & Lakes

Rivers, lakes, ponds and other bodies of inland water are blessed with their own unique ecosystems and animals that live in and around them. They are also said to be the home of a plethora of mythical creatures, some harmless, and some dangerous. This program will discuss some of the most famous, most dangerous, and most otherworldly monsters and mythical creatures of rivers and lakes, from the Loch Ness monster of Scotland, to the Bunyip of Australia. From the Japanese Kappa to the Ahuizotl of Aztec mythology!
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MYTHOLOGY HAS BEEN TOLD AND RETOLD IN MANY FORMS ACROSS TIME, STORIES AND ACCOUNTS MAY VARY.
MUSIC:
"Empty Seas" by Ean Grimm
CLIPS:
"Deadly Crocodiles of the Nile River" Nat Geo Wild
"Nile Drift" Jesse Waugh
"River Otters | Pacific Northwest" Evergreen Wilderness
"Champ Origins- The H-Team and Vermont Lake Monsters"
Stock footage of New Engand shore, rivers, Loch Ness, Lake
Champlain, Lake Okanagan, Lake Tanganyika, Nile River,
leopard seals, and crocodiles
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ARTISTS FEATURED:
Daniel Jiménez
Johannes Roots
Alvaro Nebot
Crisol Romano
Diego De La Rosa
Mr. Kessell art
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Pyro Helfier
Juraj Pavlik
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REFERENCES:
mythology.net/japanese/japane...
yokai.com/kappa/
www.australiangeographic.com....
exemplore.com/cryptids/Legend...
mythology.net/mythical-creatu...
en-academic.com/dic.nsf/enwik...
www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/lochnes...
www.history.com/topics/folklo...
www.iflscience.com/mokele-mbe...
science.howstuffworks.com/sci...
blogs.scientificamerican.com/...
www.readersdigest.ca/travel/c...
www.tourismkelowna.com/plan/a...
www.bbc.com/travel/article/20...
www.ogopogoquest.com/
britishfairies.wordpress.com/...
mythologyplanet.com/who-is-je...
www.mexicolore.co.uk/aztecs/a...
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Пікірлер: 97

  • @garveyneal1672
    @garveyneal16725 ай бұрын

    1:43 Loch Ness Monster 3:20 Champ 4:50 Ahuizotl 7:00 Water Hags 8:35 Bunyip 11:04 Ogopogo 12:39 Kelpie 14:23 Mokele-Mbembe 15:53 Kappa

  • @rajramnarine123

    @rajramnarine123

    5 ай бұрын

    Thanks! ❤

  • @JamesWilliams-gp6ek
    @JamesWilliams-gp6ek5 ай бұрын

    I lived my life near Lake Champlain. Thanks for the Champ shoutout.

  • @beaudoty3465
    @beaudoty34655 ай бұрын

    My little sister wants you guys to make a video about mermaids.

  • @briarrose7584

    @briarrose7584

    5 ай бұрын

    I second this!! 🧜🏼‍♀️🌊🐚🪸

  • @aidanhever3369

    @aidanhever3369

    5 ай бұрын

    Yeah, same here.

  • @dragondkami3088

    @dragondkami3088

    5 ай бұрын

    That's a very bad idea to show a child

  • @user-wolfman_lets_play

    @user-wolfman_lets_play

    5 ай бұрын

    She’s not going to like the real mermaids tell to watch Disney and keep her innocence

  • @aidanhever3369

    @aidanhever3369

    5 ай бұрын

    @@dragondkami3088 Why ?

  • @Actionfan19
    @Actionfan195 ай бұрын

    Ogopogo surprisingly isn't the only water dwelling beast we have up here in Canada.

  • @madamplatypus313
    @madamplatypus3135 ай бұрын

    Such an interesting, diverse range of beasts presented! But yet again, I gotta ask who decided bunyip was the most outrageous thing in Australia? “It’s big and eats people and no one ever gets a good look at it” VS “A beaver-duck that lays eggs, has poison and glows in the dark”. 😂

  • @noellehollar4347
    @noellehollar43475 ай бұрын

    I love how you explore so many different cultures and countries to find the creatures/beings/spirits featured in your videos. For this one, I was so excited to see the Kelpie mentioned in this video. It's one of my favorite Celtic-based folklore spirits. 😁And who doesn't love a shout-out to Nessie? Speaking of water-based creatures, I would love to see a video dedicated to mermaids. Their depictions vary across cultures and I would love to see you do a deep-dive into them!

  • @DisturbedFlyer7

    @DisturbedFlyer7

    5 ай бұрын

    Me too! I don't really know why, but the Kelpie is my favorite crytid, especially of water cryptids.

  • @caseygobel1227
    @caseygobel12275 ай бұрын

    If anyone has watched the show River Monsters you will know that these myths are slightly on point due to some bodies of water actually having things in them like giant catfish that can eat people.

  • @JessicaD.-vb9ho

    @JessicaD.-vb9ho

    5 ай бұрын

    Yeah I showed my son a washed up fish that was almost as big as me and he said, I'm never going in the water again lol he says that often but we always end up back at the beaches.

  • @TheMovieUniverse
    @TheMovieUniverse5 ай бұрын

    Since your going to do a follow up on Nessie. Here's some info that you might want to add. I don't know if your aware of this but, quite recently one scientist did DNA tests on the Loch and the results were very interesting. They picked up DNA from natural wildlife like eels, fish, etc.. But 20% of the DNA came back as unknown! Which suggests there is a undiscovered species living down there. I thought you might be interested in that, that is if you didn't hear about it already.

  • @chojinkid

    @chojinkid

    5 ай бұрын

    nope! all the DNA they've found is totally known, the 20% unknown is just BS someone added later just to keep the mistery going, the Nessie case is closed, there's no Nessie.

  • @FriendlyNeighborhoodGeek99
    @FriendlyNeighborhoodGeek995 ай бұрын

    Great video! Love aquatic monsters

  • @DavidMarcus1525
    @DavidMarcus15255 ай бұрын

    River monsters is where the real monsters are show which some are inspiration to every legends

  • @williambalboni2290
    @williambalboni22905 ай бұрын

    What about Chessie, the Chesapeake bay creature , I've see it, well part of anyway, size from what I saw about the girth of a telephone pole, dark brown color, smooth skin n 19:04 o scales , like a giant eel, it swims up and down not side to side like snake's movement, displaced a lot of water too as it moves. Why it hasn't been found dead washed up on a shore somewhere I think it just sinks to the bottom and crabs and other animals eat it all up, like shark's made of cartilage so no skeletons to be found, in lives in caves or nests it makes in the soft mud and clay on the banks of the bay. And to add there where four people on my sailboat when we all saw something that day back in 1997 in the inlet to the South River.

  • @sarahhurst701
    @sarahhurst7015 ай бұрын

    Excellent video, I thoroughly enjoyed this.😊❤

  • @leekeene5889
    @leekeene58895 ай бұрын

    Absolutely LOVE these types of stories!🥰☺️

  • @BB-zd3jr
    @BB-zd3jr5 ай бұрын

    All you do is win, win, win, no matter what 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 I especially love all the references you provide. Best kind of rabbit hole. Thanks for doing such good work!

  • @-RONNIE
    @-RONNIE5 ай бұрын

    Thank you for all the information on these creatures

  • @sarahhurst701
    @sarahhurst701Ай бұрын

    I'm watching this wonderful video again in response to MU"s request..... still excellent!😘🌹💜🌍

  • @ObiClon
    @ObiClon4 ай бұрын

    Watching this video after having a conversation last week about the deepness/murkiness of lakes comes full circle

  • @annlouiserainey4888
    @annlouiserainey48885 ай бұрын

    What about a video about the Ramayana’s villain King Ravana? I was interested in looking in more via your channel

  • @JonathanGhost42
    @JonathanGhost423 ай бұрын

    It is fascinating how diverse and in the same time similar river/lake-monsters all around the world can be.

  • @avacornthelastponybender8583
    @avacornthelastponybender85834 ай бұрын

    Ahuizotl: I Receive: Lunch You Receive: A One-Way Ticket to a Beautiful Afterlife

  • @dragowolfraven3806
    @dragowolfraven38065 ай бұрын

    Nice video. Water hags sound like a great video idea.

  • @DaughterofAnubis
    @DaughterofAnubis5 ай бұрын

    It’s perfect! Speaking of which, at 17:28, that kappa is so cute and adorable that I just wanna hug it! ❤😍🥰

  • @ModHaterHD2003
    @ModHaterHD20035 ай бұрын

    Nice Video

  • @PedroChuVPS
    @PedroChuVPS5 ай бұрын

    The Loch Ness Monster isn't attacking people, it's just asking for them Tree Fiddy

  • @makennaphillips1493
    @makennaphillips14935 ай бұрын

    I’d love to see a full video on water hags, or on women associated with water in general.

  • @cartmanbraahnd6660
    @cartmanbraahnd66605 ай бұрын

    Great video bro and wow was amazing to hear some one talk about Ginny green teeth in the tree, I live close to the river tees 😄

  • @sharkchaos5160
    @sharkchaos51605 ай бұрын

    Great video.

  • @christianchauhan23
    @christianchauhan235 ай бұрын

    ❤🤍💙 all your videos mate👍

  • @chojinkid
    @chojinkid5 ай бұрын

    Saint Columba's monster encounter takes place in River Ness and not Loch Ness, that pretty much proves that all the Loch Ness sightings were not related to the creature seen by Columba, in a few words they were BS

  • @Trebelsi

    @Trebelsi

    Ай бұрын

    Aren't the river ness and loch ness the same thing

  • @chojinkid

    @chojinkid

    Ай бұрын

    @@Trebelsi not at all, one is a small river at the entrance of Inverness, the Loch is a large lake that goes from Fort Augustus to Inverness, but AFAIK they are not connected

  • @robbabcock_
    @robbabcock_5 ай бұрын

    Very entertaining tales!

  • @ambarrose
    @ambarrose5 ай бұрын

    Running... Always running to see what you come up.

  • @LordM46
    @LordM465 ай бұрын

    Well done. We have a few river and lakes monsters in sweden and Scandinavia too, if you are interested.

  • @aidanhever3369
    @aidanhever33695 ай бұрын

    What about Nixie/Nokk from Norse mythology ?

  • @larrymccombs1271
    @larrymccombs12715 ай бұрын

    Awesome video!! My brother Logan's buddy Spencer Huckabee was wondering if you'd make a video about the Ozark Howler since his dad John saw one in Arkansas last fall

  • @exitusvirus
    @exitusvirus5 ай бұрын

    Those Aztecs licked way too many frogs xD

  • @benjaminfeld6388
    @benjaminfeld63885 ай бұрын

    I believe My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic had a recurring character who was based on Ahuizotl. In this case the creature was the arch nemesis of the adventurer Derring-Do.

  • @LovieBrown-hy7dq
    @LovieBrown-hy7dq4 ай бұрын

    This Earth is billions of years old! There's no telling what's here!!

  • @purplexninjamom
    @purplexninjamom5 ай бұрын

    17:51 OK :D

  • @martinharris5017
    @martinharris50175 ай бұрын

    2:26 Actually it was the River Ness where Columba had his encounter.

  • @BotWhisperer
    @BotWhisperer2 ай бұрын

    5:10 easily explained, it's a displacer beast

  • @DisturbedFlyer7
    @DisturbedFlyer75 ай бұрын

    I love reading up about cryptids and pondering what might be the reason the myth originated. I think with lots of civilizations living by water, it only makes sense that many of them were created by adults to keep their children away from water. Young children have a high chance of drowning in bodies of water, especially turbulent or murky ones. Children don't tend to listen if you tell them not to do something, but if you tell them a MONSTER will eat them if they go near the water, they probably will be VERY unlikely to go near the water. Thus a cryptid is born. I personally think most crytids were created to protect children from doing things that could get them hurt or killed.

  • @jeffreyhernandez4700
    @jeffreyhernandez47005 ай бұрын

    Any water monster would be fine

  • @JohnDoe-ri1pv
    @JohnDoe-ri1pv5 ай бұрын

    I used to hear stories of a lake monster that emerged from Meyers lake, canton Ohio. It stopped in the road and blocked traffic. Police and a holy man were called. I was told it made the newspaper’s at the time. Had to be early to mid last century

  • @exitusvirus
    @exitusvirus5 ай бұрын

    Ogopogo sounds like Hoogah Boogah

  • @jspaceemperor420
    @jspaceemperor4205 ай бұрын

    I feel like alot of these Sea/River monsters are Large Catfish/Enormous Sturgeon and possibly even Stingray's that just so happen to come to the surface and people just catch a glimpse of their size

  • @dextermorgan1

    @dextermorgan1

    Ай бұрын

    Except catfish and other large fish don't resemble these creatures. At all. Enough people, who don't know each other, have seen these things, and given the same basic description. That's called circumstantial evidence. It's good enough to put someone in prison for life so it's good enough for me. 😊

  • @sincerewyd2285
    @sincerewyd22855 ай бұрын

    Manapogo of lake Manitoba is another one.

  • @goldensuzaku
    @goldensuzaku3 ай бұрын

    Oh-Kah-Nah-Gahn is how you pronounce Okanagan.

  • @Eye_Exist
    @Eye_Exist5 ай бұрын

    Do Finnish mythology please!

  • @PhilipWielgus
    @PhilipWielgus5 ай бұрын

    Where can a person go to get the lesser well-known monsters?

  • @martinharris5017

    @martinharris5017

    5 ай бұрын

    Shukernature, the blog site of Karl Shuker, has an extensive list and information :)

  • @demetriajones3231
    @demetriajones32313 ай бұрын

    There also very long fish

  • @Vaul_Fusbin
    @Vaul_Fusbin5 ай бұрын

    strange times. Mokele-Mbembe just showed up on an anime i justed watched. keep sending us knowledge please

  • @Crazycoyote-we7ey

    @Crazycoyote-we7ey

    5 ай бұрын

    A couple of Expeditions to capture it on film both failed The Japanese one in the 60s ended up with super grainy film The second in the 80s ended in a missed Chance to film because the creature submerged Then in the 90s a couple did take photos of it but the 35mm film was underexposed

  • @GalenNight
    @GalenNight5 ай бұрын

    What no Tahoe Tessie?

  • @MythologyUnleashed

    @MythologyUnleashed

    5 ай бұрын

    We're thinking that this episode will receive a part 2 in the future!

  • @user-ki3pl6jy8y
    @user-ki3pl6jy8y5 ай бұрын

    Hello. Can you please make a video about the hero of Azerbaijani folklore - Koroglu?

  • @davidedmunds3409
    @davidedmunds34095 ай бұрын

    Repel it with flatulence !!

  • @clouddog2393
    @clouddog23932 ай бұрын

    Until a film , video or photo surfaces which clearly shows beyond all reasonable doubt that these creatures really exist l will (after years of believing ) will be of the opinion that they don't exist . No image yet taken has clearly shown that they truly exist although it would be fascinating if they did .

  • @adamshark3240
    @adamshark32405 ай бұрын

    Only in American that have to make up something because some other country has one and they can't get it in there normal way by just taken it. So there make it up such as Scotland nessy and give it a really dumb name such as the champ. America seriously needs a complete reset and started fresh.

  • @martinharris5017

    @martinharris5017

    5 ай бұрын

    Are you working for the CCP or are you Russian or DKPR?

  • @chriskatherman1488

    @chriskatherman1488

    5 ай бұрын

    Hes just ignorant..a reset.ok klaus

  • @JKM395
    @JKM3955 ай бұрын

    C.E. I dislike every video in which I hear that term. Yet another attempt to take God out of our lives. And boy hasn’t the world gotten better since that started?