My favorite dumb cryptid is this "ghost cow" from some backwater town. It turned out to be a real cow wandering around, but that means that people saw a cow and instead of going "Weird, there's a cow wandering around town," people instead jumped to "IT'S A GHOST COW. IT HAS COME TO HAUNT US"

@flyingstonemon3564

Жыл бұрын

THis one's too funny, I just can't, like there really was people thinking a random lost cow was a ghost? lol did the cow have some defect or scar or something

@sephikong8323

Жыл бұрын

@@flyingstonemon3564 It's defect was being lost

@SpukiTheLoveKitten75

Жыл бұрын

Sounds like a bunch of folks so mind-bendingly bored that they decided to make a lost bit of livestock into something exciting.

@elsuperfish

Жыл бұрын

That story is much more interesting than you make it out to be. The cow was so good at avoiding people that it took them 30 years to find it. Like what the hell, that deserves props.

@SpukiTheLoveKitten75

Жыл бұрын

@@elsuperfish That explains it! That's some cow! Props to her awesome hiding skills.

Jack the Ripper : Who are you? Spring Heeled Jack : Im you but cheaper.

@gagne6928

2 жыл бұрын

Isnt that an Oblivion npc

@tastyunicornfarts

2 жыл бұрын

Mothman: Who are you? Spring Heeled Jack: I'm your cheap british cousin.

@sithis36

2 жыл бұрын

Funny thing about spring Hill Jack, I watched a video explaining him and his description sounds a lot more like Darth Vader. The description of the fire that doesn't burn The people described him having actually sounds a lot like lights which were invented at the time. His whole thing is really interesting and definitely worth looking into

@forickgrimaldus8301

2 жыл бұрын

I wouldn't be surprised if its Batman his plot armor alone is a Cryptid in itself.

@pallydan893

2 жыл бұрын

@@tastyunicornfarts actually mothman's English counterpart is owlman, no not the character from Watchmen.

Hoop snake really is kinda scary. Imagine being chased by a cobra rolling after you like a wagon wheel.

@tenfountain2482

Жыл бұрын

Not like it can do anything... its literally just rolling at me at moc 5

@bananaowner_real

Жыл бұрын

@@tenfountain2482 yeah if it’s shaped like a circle it can’t bite

@lasercraft32

Жыл бұрын

@@bananaowner_real Just cause it goes into a wheel shape when traveling doesn't mean it can't unlink itself... it could roll towards you and bounce into a jumping strike! Nightmarish...

@zachallen8887

Жыл бұрын

bro id pick it up and do Hula Hoops xD

@lasercraft32

Жыл бұрын

@@zachallen8887 No that's just asking it to get ya!

Spring-Heeled Jack is basically the same M.O. as the Killer Clown Scare of '16. Humans never really change, I guess.

@RipOffProductionsLLC

6 ай бұрын

Spring-Heeled Jack was at least contained to a specific place for a limited time, and thus believably could have been a real man at first, plus potential copy-cats once the stories started circulating. Sure the reports might have been exagerated, and later made up, but the seeds of the concept likely do lay at the feet of some athledic malcontent.

Imagine seeing a leopard, and your first thought is "Oi, this thing can't possibly be its own species, it's got to be half lion half god-cat."

@treedude4246

2 жыл бұрын

I mean there are many examples of this throughout history The questing beast of arthurian legend is an account of a girrafe

@C.V317

2 жыл бұрын

@@treedude4246 the okapi is a bit of an emblem for cryptozoology groups; no one believed it existed until living specimens were brought to Europe.

@swampdonkey1567

2 жыл бұрын

@@treedude4246 I don't believe in giraffes yes I "seen" them I IRL but this clearly some kind of vodou shit. Ocaums razor

@syweb2

2 жыл бұрын

@@swampdonkey1567 This is the opposite of Occam's razor.

@bosknight7837

2 жыл бұрын

@@treedude4246 ngl if I was some knight 1000 years ago and someone told me a spotted horse with a neck tall enough to look over my castle’s walls was real I’d call it mythical too

Hoop Snake sounds like the best made up creature ever conjured by a lumberjack.

@Necroskull388

2 жыл бұрын

There are even better critters in American folklore, I highly recommend you look into them. The Squonch is s particularly fun one.

@thalazar8372

2 жыл бұрын

Funny enough its an enemy in osrs in an area where you cut trees

@pecosnick45

2 жыл бұрын

Lets be real, a snake that curls into a hoop to role away from danger isnt that far fetched. Especially when trying to sell it to people living in the backwoods without education or having seen the world.

@the_royal_frick634

2 жыл бұрын

Oh i thought he said poop snake, cuz if it looped into its mouth it would have to eat its poop

@thalazar8372

2 жыл бұрын

@@the_royal_frick634 it actually grabs the side of the end of its tall where it has its stinger what has poison

I saw an ancient mural in Japan that had lions and leopards chilling out together. This is because they believed lions and leopards were really the same species. It's not so crazy if you've only seen house cats, which come in all different colors. In 1962, a Japanese zoo would breed the first leopon, an actual leopard-lion hybrid.

I recently read about the axe-handle hound, being another "fearsome critter"; a hound with an axe-like body shape that eats the handles of any axes left unobserved.

Me trying to explain to the skinwalker following me into the woods that he’s not real and needs to stop speaking to me in my mothers voice

@sickdog3861

2 жыл бұрын

Bro that’s absolutely just awful

@OmgKeith

2 жыл бұрын

Relatable asf

@heromedley

2 жыл бұрын

man i hate when they do that

@aubreyackermann8432

2 жыл бұрын

Ikr! I hate it when they hide under my car. One minute I'm ready to play with a cat, the next it's just Dave the supernatural asshole.

@Saltiumine

2 жыл бұрын

Or better yet when you just want fucking come home and sleep and you find a skinwalker chilling on the couch with espn on max eating YOUR food. Like they pay for shit around here. Who do they think they are?? #HousingForHomelessSkinWalkers2021

I like to believe that at least one Spring-heeled Jack was just an affair that was almost caught.

@eyywannn8601

2 жыл бұрын

The first thing I thought of

@maxttk97

2 жыл бұрын

🤣🤣🤣👌good one.

@starblade8719

2 жыл бұрын

That’s what I immediately thought

@brianmurphy250

2 жыл бұрын

Just a steam punk Iron Man.

@Hwje1111

2 жыл бұрын

Spring Heeled Jack is essentially a bootleg 19th century British batman

Actually the Pard is literally just a leopard. The myth is that cheetahs are the offspring of lions and pards. Pard is just an arcadic short for leopard. There was some mysticism about them but that was true of pretty much every animal in Africa since people writing about them hadn't actually ever encountered them. Edit: I found what you were talking about and I think that Atlas obscura was confused by the word lepardos when they were doing their research. Leopardos means cheetah in Greek not leopard. It's actually the combination of Leo from lion and pardos meaning leopard.

@Crowelephant

2 ай бұрын

It's crazy that the guy never acknowledged what you said, so I'm doing it for him. Thank you. You are a friend to Knowledge 💯😁

Once upon a time, there was a Bigfoot named Fred who lived in a cozy cave deep in the forest. Fred loved to dance, and he would often put on a show for the other animals in the woods. One day, a group of humans stumbled upon Fred's cave and were so impressed by his dancing skills that they invited him to join their traveling dance troupe. Fred was hesitant at first, but he eventually agreed and became a star in the human world. He traveled the world, dancing on stage and even appearing in movies. But eventually, Fred grew tired of the spotlight and decided to return to his peaceful life in the forest. The humans were sad to see him go, but they knew he belonged in the wilderness with his Bigfoot family. And so, Fred returned home, where he continued to dance under the moonlight, delighting his forest friends with his graceful moves.

Imagine seeing a Leopard and just being like 'Ah yes, a bastard"

@seraphinaaizen6278

2 жыл бұрын

It's not actually accurate. The pard wasn't a mytholical, fantasy creature; it was a leopard. The confusion comes from the fact that the Ancient Greek word for cheetah was 'leopardus'. And it was the CHEETAH that was believed to be the hybrid. The Greeks thought that Cheetahs were the result of breeding between a leopard and a lion, thus 'leo' - lion and 'pardus' - leopard. It wasn't until the 13th century that Europeans who had never seen the leopard before read about the pardus and reimagined it into a monster. They did the same thing for Behemoth (and elephant), leviathan (a crocodile) and the unicorn (a rhino). But the original Greeks who wrote about these animals knew exactly what they were and didn't consider them to be magical; they were just wrong about the cheetah being a hybrid, which it isn't.

@crowbaby9565

2 жыл бұрын

@@seraphinaaizen6278 Not sure why you're replying to *me* with this but thanks for the info, it makes much more sense

@Ivytheherbert

Жыл бұрын

@@seraphinaaizen6278 I can add to that! Cheetahs are surprisingly easy to domesticate, but extremely difficult to breed in captivity, and classical civilisations like Egypt are known to have domesticated them as royal pets. It's actually not that dumb that they would think cheetahs are sterile, because they most likely repeatedly tried to get them to reproduce only for them to just meow and go to sleep. From there the obvious conclusion is that cheetahs aren't a separate species, but rather a sterile hybrid of two other species, and leopards and lions would have been the obvious candidates.

@blackpink6478

Жыл бұрын

😭😭

@davidec.4021

Жыл бұрын

Made me laugh out loud ffs

Honestly I think the staticky microphone, and the constant use of stock images with watermarks adds to the whole cheap museum schtick. I love it.

@noname-kx4cu

2 жыл бұрын

I love it too.

@graciliraptor3990

2 жыл бұрын

Excuse *you* its an emporium!

@15PaperSpearsProtectTheWise

2 жыл бұрын

Also the background music using FL Keys

@alexandrexavier3273

2 жыл бұрын

I like to imagine it as a drunk old men explaining history in a dark alley while i try to piss in peace

@jrhino3148

2 жыл бұрын

@@alexandrexavier3273 lol fr

One of the theories on how spring heeled jack came to be was that he was a combination of mass hysteria and the industrial chemicals and smog that was around in the Victorian era. He is sometimes thought of as a monster or demon that would kill women or children. He may be silly as a cryptid now, but the reality of his myth is pretty sad.

Didn’t expect the Oklahoma Octopus to be mentioned. Thought it was a rather niche bit of local folklore around here. Even most Okies haven’t heard of it, in my experience.

@RipOffProductionsLLC

6 ай бұрын

It can't be that obscure, Lost Tapes(a found footage style "horror" TV show) had an episode featuring it.

@TheNightWatcher1385

6 ай бұрын

@@RipOffProductionsLLC It’s definitely an actual legend but it’s just not talked about here that much. I’ve lived in Oklahoma all my life and I think I’ve met one, maybe two other people who have heard of it. I’d say the more well known legends are things like the little forest people or the thunderbird.

“The hoop snake, whose name is self explanatory”. No, no it isn’t, please explain

@FlSKMASTER

3 жыл бұрын

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoop_snake

@personaissleepy

2 жыл бұрын

Hoop Snake: It's a snake...in the shape of a hoop! Hoop Snake!

@finalfuu

2 жыл бұрын

HOOP! There it is

@TheLakabanzaichrg

2 жыл бұрын

It's a basketball player who stands near the opposite hoop ready to steal all scores for himself

@jamesmacker

2 жыл бұрын

It's just Kevin Durant

My favourite stupid cryptid has to be the "Dip", a vampire dog with one leg shorter than the other three.

@robokill387

2 жыл бұрын

What about the wild haggis, a living haggis covered in fur with the legs on one side shorter than the other so it can only walk on slopes in one direction

@eastdakota6954

2 жыл бұрын

someone really saw a slightly fucked up dog and went "oh my god, a vampire"

@fart63

2 жыл бұрын

That’s not stupid that’s incredible

@ordisraru

2 жыл бұрын

@@fart63 The concept, yes, it's amazing. It's the leg thing that I find kinda stupid, ya know? Also they gave name to a town here: Pratdip (Field of Dips)

@cattrickie

2 жыл бұрын

hey that's just my neighbor's pug steve

So sad the Hodag did not get a mention in the 'Fearsome Critters' section! It's a mysterious beastie found in the woods of Wisconsin- exactly the sort of thing loggers would tell stories about, I'm sure!

I love how the old ragtime music is a reference to the fictional freak shows and museums of the late 1800s and early 1900s

I like how an animal's entire existence was rethought when someone was like "yo I just saw two leopards fuckin"

@seraphinaaizen6278

2 жыл бұрын

It's not actually accurate. The pard wasn't a mytholical, fantasy creature; it was a leopard. The confusion comes from the fact that the Ancient Greek word for cheetah was 'leopardus'. And it was the CHEETAH that was believed to be the hybrid. The Greeks thought that Cheetahs were the result of breeding between a leopard and a lion, thus 'leo' - lion and 'pardus' - leopard. It wasn't until the 13th century that Europeans who had never seen the leopard before read about the pardus and reimagined it into a monster. They did the same thing for Behemoth (and elephant), leviathan (a crocodile) and the unicorn (a rhino). But the original Greeks who wrote about these animals knew exactly what they were and didn't consider them to be magical; they were just wrong about the cheetah being a hybrid, which it isn't.

@TheShinyFeraligatr

Жыл бұрын

@@seraphinaaizen6278 There's also the infamous example of the Questing Beast, a mythological beast described in Arthurian lore and some other lore of its era. And with a neck like a long snake, hooved feet like deer (or like Satan himself!), and the ferocity and spots of a leopard, you can imagine such a beast is a terrifying, horrible monster! Or, you know, a giraffe. Literally just a giraffe.

@Spingerex

Жыл бұрын

Lmao

@chinsaw2727

8 ай бұрын

⁠@@TheShinyFeraligatr Giraffes are bastards I can easily see why they were thought to be in cahoots with Satan

You surely can’t miss the mountain whale thing which holds on to the top of a mountain with its tail and then slides down to eat American frontiersmen. No clue how it even gets back up the mountain.

@userequaltoNull

2 жыл бұрын

There's a different name for that.

@Crazylom

2 жыл бұрын

Dont care, this is glorious

@JohnShepherd117

2 жыл бұрын

@@userequaltoNull what’s its name?

@elvingearmasterirma7241

2 жыл бұрын

@@JohnShepherd117 An avalanche

@frostceratosaurus4276

2 жыл бұрын

@@elvingearmasterirma7241 oh my god lmao

Just stumbled upon your channel but I already love it. The unserious narration and witty stock images add a lot to the experience

Informative and educational! Ty for the historical background 😊 if you ever do a pt 2 (which would be lovely!) please consider featuring the Squonk 💕

I have never laughed as hard in my life than at the prospect of a *hoop snake*

@Necroskull388

2 жыл бұрын

Colonial lumberjacks had a uniquely wonderful sense of humor

@captainCaybrew

2 жыл бұрын

The goofus is funnier to me

@bridgidthepirateelf4135

2 жыл бұрын

@@Necroskull388 if it makes you feel any better, lumberjacks still make up creatures like this

@geekdivaherself

2 жыл бұрын

Nice bunnies. I like the one that's just hiding, using the other bun as a decoy to deflect aggro.

@derpyaxolotl7683

2 жыл бұрын

It's just ouroboros but renamed a cryptid

Weirdly, the octopus is probably the most believable, if highly unlikely, of the lot. While landlocked today, that state would have been what was once an interior seaway that split North America in two. A group of proto-octopus could have gotten stranded in particularly deep saltwater lakes and adapted as the water salinity changed more slowly over time. Probably not but it's an interesting idea.

@Spoonwranglerz

2 жыл бұрын

spring heeled jack is the most believable.

@MegaBIGJOE64

2 жыл бұрын

Absolutely possible, bull sharks can visit fresh waters. A living creature will always try to adapt to his environment. We have fish with lungs, fish walking, fish flying, etc... why not a fresh water Squidly Didly !?

@Jason918114

2 жыл бұрын

I'm from Oklahoma, you are correct we used to be a shallow sea during the Cretaceus period but that was 100 million years ago. The vast majority of fossils we find here are trilobites and boring-ass crinoid stems. All I know is, if I was an octopus I sure as hell wouldn't want to be snapping turtle bait in some muddy Oklahoma lake.

@Gloomdrake

2 жыл бұрын

@@Spoonwranglerz he's just man who has really strong legs. Learn from spring heeled jack and take up leg day

@cassiec9783

2 жыл бұрын

Fun fact we have no natural lakes in Oklahoma, they're all man made

I just wanted to share that I am acquainted with a man who 100% believes, no irony, that Bigfoot breaks into his home under the cover of dark, opens the bottom of his canned goods, eats the contents out, then places the cans back into the pantry before disappearing into the night. The deepest of Bigfoot lore.

i just want to say this is my favorite channel thank you so much for making these videos

The aristocratic theory of Springheeled Jack would actually make sense. Some ancestors of mine lived in England during the Victorian Era, and we have some diaries of them. One of them writes about some young noblemen being caught drunk while running around with wolfskin and a wolfmask and scaring people.

@crowdemon_archives

2 жыл бұрын

lmfao sound like a bored drunk guy

@bridgidthepirateelf4135

2 жыл бұрын

This is why I love Victorian England

@wppb50

2 жыл бұрын

Look, they didn't have Steam access, they had to make their own fun.

@op-us2xz

2 жыл бұрын

Lmao i love it

@capuchinosofia4771

2 жыл бұрын

Rolflmao please take pictures of those letters and publish/post them somewhere! Must be hilarious lol Thanks for sharing!

"Pard" Sound like something an angry 4Chan dweller would call me as an insult

@thundrbaze

2 жыл бұрын

Silence *p a r d*

@xzznnn845

2 жыл бұрын

@@thundrbaze ikr? Pards suck

@dagnastyodi4196

2 жыл бұрын

i think they'd just give you the hard R and call it a day tbh.

@killertofu586

2 жыл бұрын

@@dagnastyodi4196 Rightfully lol

@datadan410

2 жыл бұрын

@Bvcv I vfv same.

Just found your channel, glad I have. I've got a few to catch up on... really enjoying your take on things.

This video randomly showed up in my feed and I immediately loved it, needed that laugh

ok that section on the "pard" cracked me up way more than it probably should have

@gvl1260

2 жыл бұрын

I cried a bit during that and had to pause not to miss anything while laughing hysterically. The Parrdd.

@bustanut5501

2 жыл бұрын

@@gvl1260 Right? It just sounds like a shitpost.

@jamesmercer848

2 жыл бұрын

people in the dark ages really did just make the wildest shit up instead of just like... waiting for the leopards to fuck

@ok1025

2 жыл бұрын

pard.

@mimszanadunstedt441

2 жыл бұрын

Reparded

I caught a fur bearing trout. Tasted like cat fish.

@bananabrain364

2 жыл бұрын

Hahahaha nice one

@tims.1615

2 жыл бұрын

...heh....

@Patrickstar-im4qq

2 жыл бұрын

Lmao

@pissapocalypse

2 жыл бұрын

Wait

@bazpearce9993

2 жыл бұрын

Good one, i really did laugh out loud.

This was dumb as all get out. And I absolutely Loved it!!!!! Thanks for the laughs!👍 Perfect mix of silly and absurd with just the right atmosphere of fake mystery and "spooky" bits to make it just that much more fun to watch.

I like your voice and your style. I'm sold. Subscribed.

When I was a kid I went to an old school circus with a bunch of sideshows and at the end they had this exhibit called the (Man eating Chicken), all of the walls were covered with pictures of huge menacing chickens with razor sharp talons and dagger lined beaks. We paid the obligatory $5 entry fee and entered to find what was indeed a Man eating Chicken, no it was literally a big fat man sitting on a stool shoving Kentucky Fried Chicken into his greasy pie hole! Pretty creative if you ask me!🤣

@crowthekrow2117

2 жыл бұрын

Sounds like that one scene from the movie "The Little Rascals"

@DarkPsychoMessiah

2 жыл бұрын

I ain't even mad

@maxmccullough8548

2 жыл бұрын

In the carny trade we called that the blow off.

@geekdivaherself

2 жыл бұрын

This is why you've got to know your hyphens! The lack of a hyphen there would have revealed all!

@lauriepenner350

2 жыл бұрын

Getting paid to sit around and eat fried chicken? I've finally discovered my dream job!

3:45 I mean the Jackalope sightings are probably real considering that rabbits can suffer from disorders that can cause growths that look like horns sprouting out of the head

@peskymacaw9033

2 жыл бұрын

Yup, Shope papilloma virus. Really ugly tumors.

@haka-katyt7439

2 жыл бұрын

@@peskymacaw9033 of course they aren't antlers but if you saw a rabbit with that from afar you could mistake something with it

@compatriot852

2 жыл бұрын

@@haka-katyt7439 it's kinda like narwhals. They don't have horns, but they do have an extremely deformed canine tooth that looks like a horn.

@frownyclowny6955

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah but can’t other animals (notably humans) suffer the same rare horn deformity?

@BierBart12

2 жыл бұрын

@@frownyclowny6955 Yeah, and it probably caused a horrible outrage and killing of innocents in the christian world of old

I had to write an essay about Spring-Heeled Jack, and I loved the one account where they caught somebody who fit the description to a tee, except the lady who was attacked said that Jack could breathe fire, so they went to the suspect and he was just like "idk man I don't remember ever spitting fire" so they just let him go since he didn't show and fire-breathing potential

I remember seeing the Fur-Bearing Trout of Lake Superior in Antlers,a restaurant in Sault Ste Marie, Michigan that was decorated with taxidermied animals,all real save for the aforementioned trout and a jackalope

You mentioned the "hide behind" but you forgot another very common cryptid the "out of focus".

@andhieyusuf7008

2 жыл бұрын

and the ever mainstay "Chinese $2 dashcam"

@Gabrong

2 жыл бұрын

I am surprised that you guys don't know the flat-man. There he is! Where?! There! I can't see him! Because he turned sideways, you can't see him now... Since he is flat? That's right.

@Bacony_Cakes

2 жыл бұрын

Don't forget, the returning champion: Decomposing Basking Shark!

@joelcrafter43

2 жыл бұрын

@@Bacony_Cakes Remind me what it was people thought they were again?

@Bacony_Cakes

2 жыл бұрын

@@joelcrafter43 Plier-Sores or something.

i wish all of these were real just because i think itd be funny. like imagine youre some hardened pirate sailing uncharted ocean territory and you look to the seas and see a monkey attached to a fish and you have to break the news to people that thats what mermaids actually are. effervescent id also like to note lemon demon has a song about the spring heeled jack. i never realized what he was talking about and this has led me to realize i have zero auditory processing abilities whatsoever

@cicadeus7741

2 жыл бұрын

Saw a mermaid today Effervescent

@caucasoidape8838

2 жыл бұрын

In the stories, don't sailors lust over these mermaids? lol It's pretty sad that desperation, and alcohol could make a manatee look hot.

@Gabrong

2 жыл бұрын

@@caucasoidape8838 I mean... My ex gf kinda had a body of a manatee :D

@Foogi9000

2 жыл бұрын

@@caucasoidape8838 Being stuck on a boat with a bunch of other pent up and sexually frustrated men will do that.

@killertofu586

2 жыл бұрын

@@caucasoidape8838 Back in those days, women were preferred to have a good bit of thick to their body lol so manatees would look great to drunken horny sailors

Imagine playing a Medieval RPG, accepting quests to kill various horrible legendary beasts and just ending up never finding a single one of them in game.

I don't know why it took me so long to discover this channel but I am so happy I did.

Fish: rather than building fat, why don’t we grow fur Other fish: bro we live in the water, the fur won’t block the cold.

@chrisdaignault9845

2 жыл бұрын

Sea otter has entered chat.

@lairdhaynes1986

2 жыл бұрын

Beaver ambles in, late as usual.

@killertofu586

2 жыл бұрын

@@chrisdaignault9845 (Sea otters use fat to block the cold)

@syweb2

2 жыл бұрын

@@killertofu586 Don't they have their fur create a layer of air that keeps the water away?

@tenfountain2482

Жыл бұрын

But have we tried?

As an Oklahoman, thank you for bringing light to how freaking stupid our state's cryptid is.

@cattrickie

2 жыл бұрын

hey at least your's is a myth, we have florida man and he's VERY real

@roma8855

Жыл бұрын

All the culture we have from the tribes and the only thing we can come up with is a Kraken rip off 😭💀 I'm so pissed

@18Hongo

Жыл бұрын

@@roma8855 It's Oklahoma; literally everything there is just a bad ripoff done bigger than expected. Even the racism is just Alabama with a bit of the London blitz thrown in for good measure.

@18Hongo

Жыл бұрын

There's like a 30% chance that Bob Gymlan is making a video on the Oklahoma Octopus right now where he explains why a photoshopped picture and a couple of stoned teenagers mean it absolutely exists.

@leopardlillyirisdomestica7213

Жыл бұрын

@@cattrickie Average Man In Florida 💀

I love how he uses shutterstok preview images with watermarks on it, really convey the theme of budget, love it!

Dude, you have a real talent for comedy. This was one of the funniest things I’ve ever watched.

Hell yeah. A worthy man to exist in Master Sam O’Nella’s absence

@mcnuttington7122

2 жыл бұрын

Eh

@x.r.d7744

2 жыл бұрын

Not really

@ExtremelyOnlineGuy

2 жыл бұрын

@@x.r.d7744 note I didn’t say replacement. Only a guy to exist. It’s a different vibe altogether but I’m still learning to the tune of a smart dude

@buklau837

2 жыл бұрын

Budget Sam O’Nella

@ExtremelyOnlineGuy

2 жыл бұрын

@@buklau837 more in the vein of trey the explainer or that guy who makes ww2 videos. Can’t remember his name mark wallen? But I did bring trey up first so you got it bro

I heard that dragons are an amalgamation of all the things we feared as primitive hominids, namely big cats, big lizards and birds of prey. Kinda makes sense since dragons appear separately in ancient cultures all around the world.

@jedofaxa1147

2 жыл бұрын

I like the idea but different cultures have different dragons, the ones you are describing seem to be the european type which originate from the Bible and thus is the single origin of dragons in western and eastern europe as well as north america folklore.

@encendercolores1684

2 жыл бұрын

We all probably came up with dragons because our ancestors found dinosaur bones and didn't know what they were.

@MatthewCampbell765

2 жыл бұрын

With dragons it's worth noting that the definition of "dragon" is actually kind of hard to pin down. To some extent dragons are common because the definition is pretty broad. However I'd say dragons are common in a lot of mythologies essentially because crocodiles are vaguely fearsome and therefore "cool".

@davejones9469

2 жыл бұрын

@@MatthewCampbell765 Not really. In ancient Greek "drakon" meant serpent with connotations to to sea, which turned into "draconem" in Latin meaning huge serpent or literally dragon. Just search "------ etymology" if you want to know how a word came to be.

@crowdemon_archives

2 жыл бұрын

Meanwhile, in China (and parts of Asia), dragons are depicted as flying serpentine creatures with horns, manes, and claws. Usually revered though, sometimes feared.

I can't believe you reminded me of the Hidebehind. That used to scare me so badly when I was younger living in middle of nowhere Louisiana.

I couldnˋt fall asleep to this bc the alien sound played for every introduction is my ringtone… shook me up every time hahaha

One of my favorites is the Pacific Northwest Tree Octopus.

@Hand_of_NOD

2 жыл бұрын

Good to know I'm not the only one that still remembers the Pacific Nothwest Tree Octopus.

@seranthonybeatty4959

2 жыл бұрын

I've never heard of this one and I've lived here my whole life!

@hailghidorah2536

2 жыл бұрын

@@Hand_of_NOD I read a whole website about it in 6th grade.

@Hand_of_NOD

2 жыл бұрын

@@hailghidorah2536 Same, we had the article read to the class and then we were asked if it was real or not. I thought it was real and then felt bad that it turned out to be a lie.

@ghastlyderp2637

2 жыл бұрын

@@hailghidorah2536 lol same what da hell. I think it was for April fools idk

I love the image of, some new young lumberjack, and all the other lumberjacks just make up cryptids on the spot, like “oh Greg didn’t you see that fuckin’ Goofus?” “Yeah man, what bout that hoop snake?!” And the young lumberjack is like “what’s a hoop snake?” And the team prattle on and on about hoop snakes, which they made up. And one day? That young lumberjack is walking through a field of tree stumps. And before him is a snake. Holding onto its tail, and blowing past like a tumbleweed. And he goes back to his pals, tells them. And none of them believe him, and laugh it off, tell him it’s fake. And this kid is just here, thinking this joke was real. And it was. Ol’ hoopsnakes tumbling past on stormy days.

a small part of me kinda wanted to see my local urban legend in this video. In Long Beach Washington there lives the mummy of an alligator monkey man hybrid we call "Jake the Alligator Man". he lives on many a bumper sticker within southwestern Washington and northwestern Oregon

this is epic! gonna delve into this creator more for sure!!

"You shouldn't believe in cryptids." Oh thank god, I almost believed in that silly kraken thing like that fool Carl Linnaeus. I sure am glad no squid exceeds a few feet in length.

@tomvobbe9538

2 жыл бұрын

Exactly. When something is unscientific that means basically it can't be reproduced in a lab. The definition of something being scientific is very strict. If something is unscientific it does not mean it is without merit or worth further investigation. All scientific discoveries we're at one point unscientific conjecture.

@girlbuu9403

2 жыл бұрын

@@tomvobbe9538 Indeed. It is unfortunate that some people disagree. I recall asking someone what they thought occurred before the big bang, what the universe was like before it. They said as there was no way of knowing there was no reason to speculate, when I know that some theories on that do exist. But because there isn't as much evidence for them as there are with the bang and no scientific consensus it apparently isn't worth wondering about? Just sad.

@ceulgai2817

2 жыл бұрын

Then you might be excited to hear about the Giant Squid! (And the Bigfin Squid) And the Colossal Squid!

@publiusventidiusbassus1232

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah, that's a pretty dumb statement. There's plenty of animals that were considered myth and have been only recently described. And there's quite a few extant scientifically-accepted animals that have been sighted less than a dozen times in history. Telling people to be skeptical is one thing, to straight up tell them "don't believe" seems uncritical.

@MrLaz0rz

2 жыл бұрын

@@girlbuu9403 'before' the big bang is a bit of a misunderstanding. Time, in either direction is a product created when expansion started, it's a property that didn't exist prior to the start of the expansion. So you could say there was an infinity without time, and a point containing the potential of all things? But that doesn't explain much.

Wow, I was into the Pard until you said "Leo-Pard" and I was like oh, that's definitely a joke. I looked it up, and nope, it's completely real. Humans are the goddamn dumbest. Anyway, I rate the museum 5 stars. The curator is like a sleazy salesman, but his exhibits are legit. Will be bringing my kids next time.

@seraphinaaizen6278

2 жыл бұрын

It's not actually accurate. The pard wasn't a mytholical, fantasy creature; it was a leopard. The confusion comes from the fact that the Ancient Greek word for cheetah was 'leopardus'. And it was the CHEETAH that was believed to be the hybrid. The Greeks thought that Cheetahs were the result of breeding between a leopard and a lion, thus 'leo' - lion and 'pardus' - leopard. It wasn't until the 13th century that Europeans who had never seen the leopard before read about the pardus and reimagined it into a monster. They did the same thing for Behemoth (and elephant), leviathan (a crocodile) and the unicorn (a rhino). But the original Greeks who wrote about these animals knew exactly what they were and didn't consider them to be magical; they were just wrong about the cheetah being a hybrid, which it isn't.

@Michael_De_Santa-Unofficial

2 жыл бұрын

@@seraphinaaizen6278 Behemoth is more like a Hippo than an Elephant.

@michygeorg

Жыл бұрын

@@seraphinaaizen6278 I haven't read into the cheetah bit but from what I've read, pard refers to panther.

@seraphinaaizen6278

Жыл бұрын

@@michygeorg A 'panther' isn't its own animal. The word is usually used used to describe melanistic leopards and jaguars (i.e. a 'black panther') and the Greeks were sufficiently educated that they'd be able to tell that where was no distinction between a black leopard and a leopard with normal colouration. They would never have encountered jaguars (the word is sometimes also used as a byword for a mountain lion, but the Greeks would never have seen a mountain lion either). So while it is true they may have seen a black leopard, they would not have considered it separate from a normal leopard. The pard is, once again, just a leopard.

@soupbonep

Жыл бұрын

@@seraphinaaizen6278 Wait, what? You're telling us that our humble narrator is wrong about the pard?

This was really informative! I really liked it I hope to come back to the emporium soon

Sping heeled Jack is a great example of details being lost like in a game of telephone. A woman gets attacked by a weird dude in a goofy outfit. The women says a guy in weird outfit hit her and jumped over a fence to get away, dropping his latern and starting a fire. Man is funny clothes attacked girl, created fire and jumped over a tall fence. This gets repeated from word to mouth, and suddenly, the man had red eyes, and he could breathe blue fire and the fence he jumped was actually 9 feet

LMAO I remember reading something about a Jersey Devil hoax that was made: a person bought a kangaroo and put wings and painted green stripes on it and Let it Loose it's honestly one of the best hoaxes I have ever heard of.

@BeccaRaptor94

Жыл бұрын

Lol yup!

@foisopracurtir6389

5 ай бұрын

Surprised nobody got bodied

@AshtonGarland

3 ай бұрын

That’s honestly pretty fucked up, I feel bad for the kangaroo

I like how spring heeled jack is litteraly just a dude that has magical powers. he doesn't have any interesting looks at all, I actually don't understand how you could try and call this a "cryptid"

@michaelsayavong2656

2 жыл бұрын

It’s funnier when you really think about it. The description of spring heel jack, a man dressed in all black, hangs out at night, scares people, attack them, really good at jumping, some people thought he was really a bored rich guy 6:08 That basically the same description as Batman

@yourlocaltoad5102

2 жыл бұрын

@@michaelsayavong2656 There is a recent video by Joe Scott that goes further into Spring Heeled Jack and it’s a quite interesting story: kzread.info/dash/bejne/pnl2u89seK67h5c.html

@dashiellgillingham4579

2 жыл бұрын

If the Jersey Devil is a cryptid, so is Spring-Heeled Jack.

@thesteelsquid863

2 жыл бұрын

@@dashiellgillingham4579 Usually a cryptid is categorized as an unidentified creature. If we know the spring heeled jack is a person, it's identified, boom.

@caucasoidape8838

2 жыл бұрын

@@michaelsayavong2656 It's like if Batman actually was his Bruce Wayne persona, and only dressed up to fuck with commoners.

I’ve listened to so much lemon demon that whenever I hear the spring healed Jack tail I can’t think of anything except him

@randomperson8304

Жыл бұрын

Same

i love your channel so much this is amazing

No Slide-Rock Bolter? That was one of the strangest cryptids I stumbled across. At first, the idea of a mountain-dwelling fish-whale that destroys everything in it's path seems terrifying, until you realize that it can only devour what's in front of it as it slides down the mountain side on it's own lube-drool and has to pray that it's momentum can get it up the side of the next mountain to start the process over again.

@WildBluntHickok

Жыл бұрын

Someone else claimed this thing was the old-timey way of explaining avalanches.

@yungo1rst

Жыл бұрын

That sounds great for a roleplay game creature for a mountain pass encounter. Just a few dozen whales doing sick grinds on the valley edge as they try to eat people.

@Bridge_with_a_T

7 ай бұрын

​@@yungo1rstor just an extremely obscure SCP story 😂😂

Glad to see Grunkle Stan is still kicking with his creations.

@andromeda_va39

Жыл бұрын

Ayyyy a fellow Gravity Falls fan!

@guybrush1701

Жыл бұрын

It's a rock that looks like a face! (I legit saw one of those in the wild one time. I laughed to myself.)

@owlrym.7417

11 ай бұрын

First thing I thought about !!!

That story about lumberjacks making up creatures reminded me of a story my dad told me. It was the mid 1970's my dad was around 7 or 8 and his grandpa told him for a month that they were going to go on a Woozle hunt soon. Weeks pass and my dad is excited to go on a hunt, and his grandpa keeps telling him they'll go soon. One day in the middle of the night his grandpa wakes him up and tells him to get ready to hunt. He explains to my dad the woozles are nocturnal, so like raccoons you have to hunt them at night. He gets dressed and heads out in the woods with a shotgun and a light. Once they are in a ways his grandpa tells him that my dad should stay put here and he will go out and chases the woozles to him. My dad agrees and they go there separate ways. My dad keeps looking through the forest with his flash light trying to spot a woozle. After about 3 or 4 hours he decides to give up and look for his grandpa. He calls out for him and there's no response after a few minutes he starts to panic and he runs back to the house. When he gets home what does he find? His grandpa out on the couch drinking a beer. His grandpa then explain to him that woozle aren't real and the prank is to take someone out on a woozle hunt and see how long they will sit in the woods hunting woozles.

Spring Heeled Jack is basically an anime comic relief character IRL.

When I learned about the Loveland Frogman/Frog I was absolutely tickled pink. It’s a cryptic that is basically just a giant frog someone saw. Also it apparently had a musical written about it but sadly I couldn’t dig up much information about it

I already knew about the fur bearing trout and the hoop snake. If you're ever attacked by a hoop snake, step to the side and then jump through the hoop. It confuses the snake and you can escape.

That was the intro I didn't know I needed. Thank you.

I seen a geese flying backwards on a super windy day. It was crazy. A whole bunch of them still somewhat in formation blowing around. Some got separated.

I had an illustrated book of these when I was a kid, I loved that book! I remember mountain goats with 2 short left legs or 2 short right legs that could only face one way on a mountain. If a left footed met a right footed on a mountain pass, watch out! It had the goofus, hoop snake, squink, squonk, furry trout, jackelope, some sort of moon cat and a bunch I'm trying to recall. It was a wonderful book.

@jamesbugbee6812

2 жыл бұрын

This is like the sidehill rounder.

@sephikong8323

2 жыл бұрын

Oh shit, that one, the first one is a traditional "Cryptid" from my region, it's actually just a prank that hunters tell to the kids and to the people that come to the mountain villages just to mess with them, but it's still pretty funny to think about the logistics of it since it can only ever circle the mountain in one direction

@0therun1t21

2 жыл бұрын

@@sephikong8323 Are they from Switzerland? I haven't seen that book on almost 50 years and I don't remember a whole lot about it, but the goats were one of my favorites. I bet your town is awesome!

@sephikong8323

2 жыл бұрын

@@0therun1t21 It's from the Alps in general, I don't know about the Swiss but I guess they probably have the Dahu around there as well, in my case I'm from around the southern Alps and I know that it's a pretty popular "fake tale" in the mountains around here

@slugtubes7836

2 жыл бұрын

the squonk is my favorite

Me: Mom can we get Mermaids? Mom: We have Mermaids at home. The Mermaids at home: 2:03

Ive never seen such a high resolution image of a veggie man! I hope the person who took the picture is okay, if they didn't run immediately after taking that picture they probably didn't make it out alive!

The fact your dude still has the Shutterstock thing still on them is the cherry on top It blows my mind that people to this day believe ghosts and goblins exist

The best icebreaker question is: "You're stuck on an island. You'll be there for a long time. You have a mermaid companion. Do you want the top half or the bottom half to be fish?"

@raze_

Жыл бұрын

Can the top fish half breathe on land and still act humanlike ex speech? Because then the top half because at least they could be useful on the island. A bottom half would have to drag itself along like an idiot.

@GrassPossum

Жыл бұрын

@@raze_ That is why women have legs. Otherwise they'd have to drag their fishy part on the ground everywhere.

@leoadimanea7826

Жыл бұрын

why not have both halves be fish so that you have a free human sized fish you can cook and eat?

@melovekittie

Жыл бұрын

As an asexual I only see one easy choice

@GrassPossum

Жыл бұрын

@@melovekittie yes, but barbecued, or fried? Or half of each?

THE KING HAS RETURNED

@theRiver_joan

2 жыл бұрын

Pards are back?

@eggwithoutasperm5927

2 жыл бұрын

Hello, is it me you're looking for?

4:00 the folkrole around the goofus was most likley formed after someone witnessed some falcon hunting, since if the weather conditions are right they like to "hover" in the same spot while hunting and if the wind is strong enough they can be blow backwards looking like a bird thats flying back

What a great channel! I’m stoked to be new so I can binge my one last brain cell, yayy!

C'mon now, everyone knows that Spring-Heeled Jack was a time traveler.

Jackalopes are real! Or rather, rabbits with Shope papilloma virus are likely what they're based on.

this video is magnificent. the constant making fun of the “TOP 10” channels is amazing

The fact that you use the iPhone Sci-Fi alarm sound for transitions is perfect

"fish people always amazed humans, and they've been searching for them ever since." spoken like a true fellow human.

@alexanderthegreat6682

Жыл бұрын

"Hello fellow humans, human fellows. Boy do I like doing human things like internet

@sagefeather3405

Жыл бұрын

@@alexanderthegreat6682Is that a Dragon Prince reference?

Veggie man 🤣🤣🤣 This channel is awesome, so glad I found it!!!

With your dismissal of the lake octopus on the basis of it being impossible - the 'peach blossom jellyfish' {Craspedacusta sowerbii} is a freshwater jellyfish found in China (and is actually becoming invasive in places) did just that. Not to say it's likely there's a octopus in that lake, just that such an adaptation isn't unprecedented.

I'm glad to learn that I've been part of a long running lumberjack tradition lmao. I definitely used to make up animals to be afraid of for the younger boys around the campfire.

The mothman is my favorite "stupid cryptid" you have to have a complete disregard for how biological anatomy works to truely believe in that fairytale

@slimothyjames4577

2 жыл бұрын

I love mothman, but I personally like to imagine the stylized little mothball with beady eyes instead of a bug-man lol

@cusswordsayer3558

2 жыл бұрын

That treads into supernatural territory

@benthomason3307

2 жыл бұрын

or it could just be an owl.

@gvl1260

2 жыл бұрын

That name is pretty misleading, most people only reported some flying humanoid entity with red huge eyes, nothing bug like what the name would suggest. i know because I had the pleasure of watching a documentary about it, even the movie too. Weird stuff.

@origaminosferatu3357

2 жыл бұрын

I dunno, centaur anatomy is pretty crazy. It's got like all the horse bits AND THEN all the man bits too! Seems a little excessive, if you ask me.

I read once that Corvo Attano from the Dishonored series had some loose inspiration from Spring Heeled Jack

this feels like a Gravity Falls Mystery Shack ad. i love it

@andromeda_va39

Жыл бұрын

Right?

“Pard” is such a funny name I can’t

@micha5200

2 жыл бұрын

It sounds like "fard"

My dad was a pilot and one time when a rabbit was running across a runway him and his friend managed to convince another pilot that it was a Jackelope.

I have read on some blogs talking about Spring-Heeled Jack that theorized that maybe the Jacks were early practitioners of Parkour, which might explain the leaps and jumps that the Jacks are said to perform.

the old man with the top hat popping up randomly has me in tears

I didn't pay any money to watch this and yet I still feel like I got scammed...

Thank you for not including the squonk, which is a very serious, and very threatening cryptid. For those who'd like to know what a squonk is, a squonk is a cryptid originating from central Pennsylvania. Legend has it, that the squonk is a pig-like creature with wrinkled skin, that is so ugly that it cries constantly, to the point where it can be tracked by the trails of tears left behind.

@BeccaRaptor94

Жыл бұрын

I was specifically hoping for squonk in the video! Lol. Why don’t you like it??

@brennanperry8001

Жыл бұрын

@@BeccaRaptor94 oh dude, I fucking love the squonk. The title of the video is "really stupid cryptids" and I was acting like it didn't belong in the video, when it absolutely deserves a spot.

@justagirlwearingglasses

5 ай бұрын

oh shit they found me

Yo, when I was a kid they had these books in the school library all about cryptids, paranormal, ancient eras and that's where I learned of the hide behind. I STILL look behind me when closing doors.

Loved this channel. You get a sub dude.

Honestly, I love Spring-heeled Jack. I love everything about him (apart from the whole sexual assault stuff)

@DarkPsychoMessiah

2 жыл бұрын

Assuming the drink noble theory it's true the sexual assault was the whole point. That and having a laugh at the expense of the commoners.

@kahn9980

2 жыл бұрын

"I love everything about him (apart from the whole sexual assault stuff)" 😂😂😂

@TiroDvD

2 жыл бұрын

Yea then you that cartoon "mispelling Jack the St/ripper": kzread.info/dash/bejne/q4SNvNKwg9OxnaQ.html

@sadiehatesbowling957

Жыл бұрын

Booooooooo, laaaaaame

@alexandergotze3323

Жыл бұрын

A british tv show turned him into a raptor and i, for one, find that more believable