hilarious that you had to make that message in the beginning LOL your voice is so perfect they thought you weren't human. Keep it up!

@angelachouinard4581

2 ай бұрын

A lot of the voices are really obvious but some are getting better. I would have said it was his voice but I think a lot of people can't tell. I have respect for channels that don't use AI voices.

@Cali_grl

Ай бұрын

I agree that Jiles and Sean from “Scary Interesting” have two of the best voices out there for storytelling.

No questions. Only compliments. ❤

@theflail

2 ай бұрын

Why is Jiles so awesome?

@jamiecooper5127

2 ай бұрын

​Complimentary question / questionable compliment... ❤

The intro was great, there's so many of those AI voiceover true crime/history channels it's hard to weed them all out.

@nixm9093

2 ай бұрын

Agreed. I've noticed many creators are not only using an AI voice but definitely AI generated scripts which have errors in fact. Then they have the AI generated vid clips which don't quite gel with the story. It's just Ugh!

@primesspct2

2 ай бұрын

maybe we should demand all channels to have this disclaimer. If I realize I am listening to AI, I am out of there. I tune in to content creators just because I want to support an individual.

Whoohoo!! When having insomnia pays off!! Let's see what this Great Smog is all about.

@ikatmax

2 ай бұрын

I can so relate so so much hahaha hope you get some sleep before zombie mode hits too hard.

@poutinedream5066

2 ай бұрын

I have narcolepsy. I sleep sooo much. I never realized so many people cant sleep.

@NainaB93

2 ай бұрын

@poutinedream5066 The struggle is real! When we're babies, we fight to stay up. Now, as adults, some of us fight to go to sleep. I'm sure narcolepsy comes with it's challenges too.

@timfagan816

2 ай бұрын

​@poutinedream5066 its a real thing, ive had 4 hours sleep spread out over the last 72 hours. Im exhausted but my mind wont switch off and let me sleep! It sucks! Im not stressed or have anything to worry about. I just cant sleep!

@poutinedream5066

2 ай бұрын

@timfagan816 That sounds like torture. In the narcolepsy test they tell you to take a nap every 2 hours. There are 5 naps. If you're asleep and dreaming in less than 8 minutes in 4 of the 5, you're narcoleptic. I was asleep and dreaming in less than 3 minutes all 5 times 🥱. God I love sleep. Some people think it's depression. I don't think so. It's my favorite thing. Always has been.

Somewhere Sinister is Back Bishes* !!!!! Ah yay yay !!! LIKE, _Share_ & *Subscribe* *Somewhere Sinister never really left.

@kimwalsh

2 ай бұрын

I like the way you said that

These People had dealt with bombing with a provided gas mask 😷 in WWII 1952 was 7 year's later and the public still were not safe from contaminants in the air . Rather shameful 😕

@saydvoncripps

2 ай бұрын

And still are. Kids faint on sports days in inner city schools. Sometimes you can see the smog or haze now. Every morning I wake up and cough up the muck we breathe. 40,000 londoners still die of pollution related issues. Most times, you can't see the pollution, but its still there. Now they just make us pay for it.

In the mid 2000's I lived in the Dayton, Ohio area and in August, there was a smog problem. My toddler son had an asthma attack that put him in the hospital. He did not even have asthma. We had to wait 10 hours for a bed to open up in the children's ward because so many babies were there for asthma. They had to put three kids to a room that week.

@audibjornsson6107

2 ай бұрын

How terrifying 😮

@saydvoncripps

2 ай бұрын

Do you speak with a London accent? I've never heard my accent was due to the air quality...which still kills you btw

@rjay7019

2 ай бұрын

Salt Lake City gets inversion every winter. It's so bad. I used to live 30 miles West, and it was weird that as soon as you drove around the mountain, you were out of it .

WOOHOO!!! 🎉 Been looking forward to the SINISTER resurrection!! ❤❤❤❤❤

Glad you're not a bot, that your real voice is your own. Somewhere Sinister is great to listen to!

I haven't heard anyone talk about the London Smog for a long time. My Grandma was born in Benson, Oxford and had moved to London not long before this event. She thought oh no I'm out of here! Decided to emigrate to Australia and had no regrets.

@Agapy8888

2 ай бұрын

Sunny place with lots of land and great food.

@bvs56

2 ай бұрын

Please don't be offended, but I read your post in an Obi-Wan voice. "London fog? I haven't heard that name in a long time". Lol. Made my day brighter.

@BassGirlSusan1961

2 ай бұрын

@@bvs56 no offence!

THANK YOU for not using AI in your video production. I'm sick of seeing that shiz everywhere, *especially* in docu style content, that SHOULD be all about things that actually happened and are real. Also your vocal work is crazy good.

Thanks for all your hard work and talent, a real content creator doesn't use AI. AI is GARBAGE! The quality shines BIG TIMES on your channels because of your extremely high quality videos and obvious dedication to making original content, thank you Jiles!! Cheers from CB Lounge 2112 in Carson City Nevada!!

Awesome to have this channel back! Thank you

Very intriguing and the best interesting videos on KZread

One of the "Great Fogs" of the 1800's ( The "Great Stink" of 1858) ,though, finally led Parliament to get moving on legislation to stop using the Thames as a sewer, and upgrade the sub-par sewer system that was in place at the time The fog trapped all the noxious odors that emanated from the river inside the halls of Parliament for days. The MPs didn't care if the "peasants" had to deal with such things, but when THEY were personally inconvenienced, it became a serious matter that required immediate attention . This led to the creation of the most advanced sewage system known at the time.

Ah! Cool! The Sinister Series is back! Whoop whoop!

Great choice of subject. Well presented mate.

Happy to see that Sinister is back. Also would just like to say that the time it was uploaded at (3am ur old time zone time) is acknowledged

@SomewhereSinister

2 ай бұрын

I would normally upload at midnight my old time zone (Pacific - west coast US). Now I upload at 9:00am Central European. And I'm not actually uploading it right then. Once you upload a video, KZread spends time processing it, so I upload then schedule it to go public at the desired time.

@MusicLeeSarah

2 ай бұрын

@@SomewhereSinister hey man what's the internet speed like over there? I know here it takes forever to upload a 10 minute video to KZread and that's using my cellular data. on my spectrum wi fi it's a little faster maybe 7 minutes instead of 10.

@SomewhereSinister

2 ай бұрын

Internet speeds here in the Netherlands are pretty fast. And definitely more reliable than what I had in the states.

Excellent presentation ! Perfect script, no AI, clear narration, great graphics and copious background information and statistics. One of the best videos I have viewed in a very long time ! You and your colleagues should be proud of yourselves ! I'm glad that this showed up in my queue. And you now have a new subscriber, too !

@SomewhereSinister

2 ай бұрын

Thanks so much!

This is the episode where the monsters are of the invisible and environmental kind.

Thank you kindly Jiles! The subject matter was disturbing and yes, Sinister. I was more rocked by your AI disclaimer. Truly a scary world we now live in...

Wow, I love this❣️ Welcome back❣️

There are only four channels that make me hit the like button before even listening to the upload, and you my dear have two of them. You never disappoint! ❤

@SomewhereSinister

2 ай бұрын

Wow, thank you!

@Agapy8888

2 ай бұрын

What are the other two? Thanks.

Two days in a row !! We are blessed 🙌 One of the largest coking and coal tar processing plants was Manvers located in the Dearne Valley, South Yorkshire, during the 60's and 70's when i was at school, dense clouds of nauseous fog would fill the air with the tell tale odour of rotten eggs. The area was well known for coke (a by-product of coal production) and tar manufacture. In our close knit community and in an area of maybe twenty miles there were over a dozen working mines where a large amount of coal would be sent. Its a different story today. The air is cleaner and the stench is none existent. A really interesting post Jiles.

@schrisdellopoulos9244

2 ай бұрын

Blessed? By whom? No one is responsible for this video except Jiles and his crew.

Ayooo let's gooo!!!

I have followed you for years because of your voice. I have never slept better than when I play your channel. I like that you now offer more than serial killers. I love your history content!

I've run a crossed several AI narrated TC channels and even a few AI generated channels. They are ridiculous and obvious. Your content is amazing and I can't understand how any aspect of what you do could be brought into question. Very thankful for your hard work, keep them coming, I'll keep watching and supporting.

Thanks so much. Looking forward to it.

Great work Jiles... I'm now a fan not only of monsters but now somewhere sinister... Thanks 👍

Not been getting your vids recommended for a few months, but this one is fascinating, terrifying and is still a problem globally. even in 2024

@SomewhereSinister

2 ай бұрын

I haven't been posting videos for a few months, but now I am. Thanks for watching!

Cool jiles I watched all the others and glad your doing another "sinister" . thanks

Along for the ride my man! -Go Army!

Greetings from Canada. Thanks so much for another SS true tale, well researched, well written and well done. I love these and was so happy to see this in my feed this morning. I really appreciate your work on the unique places and happenings of SS. Please! Keep them coming if you can.

I remember in the 1950’s when my family would go to Los Angeles to visit my grandparents who lived downtown. Being from a small town, I loved going to the city but I remember the smell and my eyes hurting and not knowing why. I later found out about smog. LA still has days that bring me immediately back to childhood but luckily, these days I’m just driving through and not stopping.

Always great historical tales. Loads of information that may have been forgotten to time. Thank you 🙏❤️

@brandyjean7015

2 ай бұрын

I was born in 1953 in Hollyweird. Not as life threatening as London's killer smog; but L.A. County's skies were much darker with smog back in those days as well.

I changed jobs in the late 1980s and went to work in London, within 12 months I was diagnosed with asthma. I left the city in '96 and returned to a smaller city; the conditionon has improved and have used an inhailer in many years.

One of the BEST INTROS ON THE INTERNET 👍🎥🍿📽️🎼🎵🎶

Thank you guy, for this. Your hard work getting this together and published is truly appreciated. Your podcast is one of the very few I've found that actually has a human behind it. Well besides the one podcaster who works hard putting a cast together just to have it ruined by his narration then that same day 100s of other podcasters takes that same podcast, put a AI voice behind it and send it out as if new. So again thank you. Your a treasure.

I came across your site for the first time just now……and you had me in less than 60 seconds!! No AI weird robotic voices and especially no ridiculous verbiage for a script. FABULOUS! I’m all in👌🏼

I was in London for the smogs of 1952 and 1962. In 1952, when I was a baby, my mother took a bus home. As the family ad only just moved, she was apprehensive when she eventually arrived at her bus stop. Fortunately for her, a number of blind people were waiting at the bus stop. She was led home by a blind lady, a case of charity with the blind leading the sighted. I remember being kept indoors in the smog of 1962. We were living in a flat between Bayswater and Queensway stations. I also remember not being able to see out of the window.

Awesome to see you back. I was really missing the ominous “…but sometimes though”.

Great to see this channel back Jiles you put a spell on me the first time I heard you narrate

My Tuesday night is much better now.

Another fantastic episode! Thanks so much for all your hard work

Intriguing story. Thanks so much for sharing this piece of history.

Hooray!!! 🎉 been looking forward to another episode forever ❤❤

Thank you for this video. I found it very interesting.I live in Derby,East Midlands UK & remember we had Smog,but not on such a grand scale as in London,,this being about 1955 ish.as a child.I remember them bringing in the smokeless fuel act,in1956..What a vast difference this made !Up to this day,we sometimes get the odd light fogs,lasting just a few hours.Gone is the Smogs of the past.!

First time watching Something Sinister ❤

Great to hear you're not a bot Jiles. In all seriousness though, it was amazing to find out that you had no prior background in media / news reading / broadcasting, as you're a natural and an absolute pleasure to listen to. Keep up the great work!

My mum was raised in the East End during this time. She thought that snot was naturally black and panicked when she came up to Lincolnshire for the first time

I remember doing a whole term full of this in primary school! In my town we have some factory buildings and went round them and learnt all about the smog! Ahh memories x

Thank you for the integrity assurance. And you have a voice that seems to align perfectly with your content. I've always wondered who narrated these episodes, and now I know. Keep up the excellent contact.I believe channels such as yours are what's going to save KZread from walking itself into a deadly volcano.

Hey hey ❤❤❤❤❤

You have an amazing voice! I love it! Thank you for all of your wonderful content, I really appreciate it! 🥰❤️

Hi Jiles & thank you for the somewhere sinister videos! I’m happy they’re back & this vid did not disappoint!!

Yessss it’s back !!! Great content!

London is quite bizarre to walk around now. Almost every vehicle is electric. On the rare occasion a non electric vehicle goes past you, you smell it first, then realise how quiet it is without the engine sounds. I used to go on frequent day trips to London as a child in the 1980's and the smog was often still mentioned by adults. I never knew how severe it was until this video. Thank you

UK citizen here. If have a friend who is a 40 year experienced mechanic and he's was telling me just a few days ago that a lot of cars produced today actually pump out cleaner air that they suck in! Most of the buildings in MY city in the past were literally black from the soot from chimneys and traffic pollution. They were eventually cleaned off (by sandblasting) around the early 80's and have retained their original 'white' colour, showing how effective modern pollution has been tackled. On the other hand, the ULEZ zones (ultra low emission zone) is a source of contention as although the idea itself might seem good, it unfortunately will only allow the rich to travel across certain parts of the city. Indeed, it's often the rich who have bigger and more polluting cars and they rarely don't care how much their cars are fuel efficient. Stopping ordinary people from travelling through certain parts of London without paying large sums of cash will Invariably affect them more than than the 'supposed' amount of people suffering from ill health due to pollution (assuming one can accurately measure what effect pollution actually has on the populace, as opposed to maybe other factors such as smoking etc). ULEZ might seem like a good idea, on the surface, but if it goes ahead, the impact will probably be far worse on the general population (and perhaps businesses) than the handful - comparatively speaking- of people who PERHAPS suffer from this type of pollution (if any).

@jameseyman9078

2 ай бұрын

Its a nice thought but i can assure you, your new car idling in a garage will still absolutely kill you, not improve your air. The only real advancements in the emissions of automobiles are the diesel exhaust fluid systems for Diesels. In terms of gasoline vehicles the advent of computer controlled fuel injection has allowed for more exact control of the ideal air/fuel ratio of 14.7:1 so there isnt excess fuel vapor due to engines running rich. That being said, fuel burning engines are still better enviromentally than electric vehicles that contain batteries that require mining of toxic chemicals that is done using huge amounts of fossil fuels and have no enviromentally friendly way of disposal after just a decade or so of use.

@galaxysurfer1122

2 ай бұрын

@@jameseyman9078 Thanks! Yeah, I didn't mean all vehicles to be sure, but you're right and yes, also I totally agree with your take on electric vehicles, I'd never get one for sure.

@jameseyman9078

2 ай бұрын

@@galaxysurfer1122 lets hope our collective governments put more money into developing Hydrogen fuel systems. I feel like thats the current best hope

@KaayBeeee

2 ай бұрын

Tell him to inhale those exhaust fumes and see what happens

@galaxysurfer1122

2 ай бұрын

@@KaayBeeee It's certain exhausts, not all exhausts.

Glad to see this channel making more content

I knew you weren't AI all along! Those AI narrations drive me nuts. This channel and This is Monsters are my absolute favorites! Thank you for continuing to make these videos!!!

Algorithm food! Nom nom nom!! #StayEpic #NeverStøp

Look forward to you ,much thanks from all my insomniacs

Not to nitpick but consumption IS tuberculosis, so called because it consumed the sufferer. As always, a pleasure to listen to, a wonderful work of artful wording and facts. I love all your channels and series. Well done

I lived in Dayton, Ohio for 47 yrs. The area is called The Miami Valley. If you go up to the highest floors of the Kettering tower in downtown Dayton, you can look out the windows and actually see the "bowl" this area sits down in! The area is well known for the breathing problems people have on this area. Locals actually refer to it as "Sinus Valley" due to the valleys low ground holding so much pollen,humidity, smog, and mold. So when its bad, its REALLY bad !

Its 3:48 am USA and I have an excellent narrator to get me thru another night of insomnia 🙃 Ps.. I do not like the AI channels. Im glad you narrate your own content ❤

Great job

Imagine your voiceovers are so good that you have to convince people they're legit! Love your stuff!

So glad this channel is back. Jiles, you have a gift

what a great piece, absolutely great job, thank you

Excellent episode, and thanks for keeping it real.

I still come home from London (don't live in London) from a gig or a weekend there, and am blowing black snot out of my nose, and just feel super grimy. It's from the underground, where the air is hell and everyone looks like they want to kill themselves they're so depressed.

@TMMReznor

2 ай бұрын

Pretty sure that's just being English. I live in a picturesque village/small town in the SW and everyone still looks like that whenever I catch a bus (although that may be more down to having to use public transport) 😄

@MonkDave666

2 ай бұрын

@@TMMReznor Lol, I'm from the UK and believe me the London underground is the absolutely worst for it.

This is absolutely one of my favorite channels ❤❤

Awesome to meet your voice!

Your voice is what keeps me coming back! It's hard to find the right voice to narrate and it be what I'm looking for!! Your voice narrating is perfect!! I look forward to listening to your stories..

@SomewhereSinister

2 ай бұрын

Wow, thank you!

Dude I love ur videos I've been listening and watching for years now and I'm a 39 year old married man with that being said lol I love listening, your voice and your talent of tell stories is just Addicting l o l thank you for your time

Love your voice Jiles!! Thank you for your videos they always make my day 🙏💜

Thank you for the education! It's shameful humans fail to learn from our history. Peace

I love that we get to see your face now. I can put a face to the voice. Thank you.

I'm glad to see Sinister back. Hope your visual appearance has stopped the algorithm demonetizing your content. Your research, collation and creation of historical images into a montage, script writing, narrating and editing deserves to be paid. I understand they want to remove the AI content, but clearly, their method is inadequate. Thanks for a trip back home!

Really interesting! Thank you!

Lol...your voice is what drew me into your stories in the beginning. You are an incredible researcher and storyteller and I always look forward to sitting down to listen. 🎉

Welcome Back We've missed this channel

Thank you

You are an excellent storyteller. Please keep up the good work.

I just Come here for your voice after a nice night out, thanks😊

@staybent9380

2 ай бұрын

Oh I watched this on the Crown! I am old enough to remember this but I lived in America so we didn’t know anything

Isn't it crazy that people need to make the statement "I am me and this is mine..." here on YT now? Keep doing what you do, man. Great work!

I always knew your channels were all Jiles!😉❤️😁 Nice to have Sinister back. Take care✌️❤️😁

Love disaster stuff! Excellent episode, Giles!

Excellent educational content. Bring born in 1957, i had no idea that "pea souper" wasn't just an expression used for a heavy fog. I can't imagine living in such conditions.

Sinister is back, baby!

Yay! Thank you for posting ! ❤

It is a nice voice. I’m here for that as well as the content. However nothing soothes my soul like a nice voice. Thanks for all you do.

In the 1980s we had smog alarms in Berlin West. Depending on the severity we went to school a lesson or two later because the smog was worst in the morning.

Damn I was gonna ask the other day when somewhere sinister coming back. And then boom here it is.

@SomewhereSinister

2 ай бұрын

Boom!

Yessssss!!!! You’re back 🥳

New on somewhere sinister from this is monsters and I’m pretty excited to see where Jiles plans for this channel go! I’ll follow wherever he goes :)

BTW, I love your voice! Welcome back. 😻

The more I've learned about our power grid & our climate, the more i realize that modern nuclear energy is our best option. LFTRs, Thorium Reactors, molten salt reactors, etc. Utilizing our advanced technology, Improved engineering & material science. Utilizing our greater understanding of safety & well made designs. We have so much more advanced computer technology & robotics that can be used. It feels like even tho tons of advancement has occurred with engineering designs, safety measures, etc. It still doesn't matter to most people. It's like most people are ingrained with a natural negative response when talking about nuclear energy. It's a bummer because i truly believe that our best option for our future is to start utilizing Modern advanced nuclear energy options in our electrical grid. It's just proving to be challenging to get politicians to get on board. It will really allow places to be much more energy independent. Less reliant on fossil fuels. They'll have efficient, stable electrical grids and the rest of the grid could experiment with alternative power sources, power desalination plants, etc. We need to heal from the trauma of our past. See & learn that those things only happened solely from Us not understanding what we were doing when it came to nuclear energy at the time. We didn't have advanced enough technology, material science, engineering, safety measures, understanding of how to go about everything, etc. This source of energy will greatly help the world improve towards the future and lowering emissions. More than anything else could, while also providing a very stable electrical grid system. Currently we have alternative energy options but the majority of our grid is powered off of fossil fuels and emission producing sources of energy. We will be so much better going forward commiting to modern advanced nuclear energy options. It's been very irritating that our society has taken this "Change is up to you" approach. It just takes advantage of people's emotions. This climate issue is so much bigger than any one individual. This needs to be an across the board kind of thing. That's the only way we might make the Slightest difference. We've already waited too long. Everyday is a day wasted. A day where we haven't committed to modern nuclear energy options. Where we haven't even started building it. It should be utilized in collaboration with other alternative energy sources all over the place. This power source is the best option to improve our environment & will really help lower our emissions. The only thing holding us back is legislation, fear mongering & past trauma that's affected us from our past failures (which is understandable but I know we can do better now. We've learned so much sense then. We gotta give it a shot. It's such a beneficial energy source when done right) Did they outlaw electricity, oil, natural gas or coal when things went wrong in the early days of those fields? No! They kept going and understood things usually are bumpy and difficult in the beginning and kept going even tho those sources negatively impacted our environment. A huge issue is our government is BLOCKING any sort of progression from happening. Will be lucky to see the slightest projects approved or finished with-in the next 100 years.. It's very annoying to see how much we have gotten in our own way when it comes to improving or advancing certain things. Instead we let fear, money, man made "required legal processes" Stop us from doing anything other than wind, solar, oil, natural gas, damming our rivers, mining for minerals... It's very frustrating because we should be able to use all these options in collaboration. If we actually wanted to improve anything. That's what we need to do and stop letting so much potential get blocked from ever occurring in the first place.. It's really irritating. I wish certain people didn't make this so "complicated and difficult" Why would any reasonable person want to block progression?

And we have the same problems today. Greed is literally killing the planet. Time for a revolution. Existing peacefully with the planet is revolutionary.

@thomasgrabkowski8283

2 ай бұрын

It’s just the developed countries solved their smog problem by moving their polluting industries to developing countries where the smog problem now plagues

Enjoying, thank you!