Fun fact: River Monsters ended because Jeremy had caught and released all of the lake monsters and they ran out of places to go.

@samholdsworth420

Жыл бұрын

Yup!

@frogboyclips

Жыл бұрын

Which is sad

@nihalmohammed6674

Жыл бұрын

Man, I didn't know that !!! Quick imma go on a marathon of river monsters now 🙃

@mandos-studio

Жыл бұрын

That’s pretty cool

@vintagepiece4850

Жыл бұрын

Bro became the king of the river monsters

I remember watching this and the dragon one as a kid. I personally really like the idea of a series that tries to explain how a mythical creature could have lived within reality, but its such a shame these didnt want to tell you it was fake. Also they shouldnt have been on science channels. It just needed 1 disclaimer they show after every ad break

@BaaSpark

Жыл бұрын

Same! They were a big part of my childhood that really interested me in documentaries in general- it was almost like a transition into more serious topics. The dragon one had me arguing with other kids and defending it tho lmao

@notamemethememe589

Жыл бұрын

The dragon documentary really got me. I was obsessed with those things and explaining that film made me look psychotic

@legendarygriffin

Жыл бұрын

Yeah i already loved dragons when i saw that one for the first time xD so seeing that had my mind hooked. A part of me knew it was fake but a big part also wanted it to be real for sure haha

@notamemethememe589

Жыл бұрын

@Eliza Stevenson Lmao I just went with it. Had that mindset even when I created this YT account, which is my most recent one (granted I'm still young). My reasoning was: "If they aren't real, then why can we think of it? How can multiple people think of the same creature?" Oh boy, what the world would be if that were true 🤦‍♂️

@LushFishyTanks

Жыл бұрын

Fr bro

I remember adoring the dragon documentary as a teen, I think they made it more clear it was all fake, and then being extremely disappointed in the mermaid one because of how hard they pushed it being real and how badly it was done in comparison

@metallicbonsai7981

Жыл бұрын

We had the box set. The dragon one was dope.

@dashzag

2 ай бұрын

Yes the dragon one was fun! They made basically "Frankenstein-ed" a hypothetical dragon using different dinosuar characteristics. This mermaid one is a disgrace, glorified science drama.

I think it's a shame Animal planet thought documentaries like that was good for their channel. Thanks for this video.

@lo0ksik

Жыл бұрын

hey nina i agree with you, i grew up watching animal planet it realy is a shame they did this. were you from?

@commemorative

11 ай бұрын

@@lo0ksik dont think youtube comments are the place for small talk

@naosch94

11 ай бұрын

I feel sorry for your childhood, watching this as a kid was one of my favourite memories

I remember watching "The Body Found" and it's sequal "The New Evidence" as a child with my best friend. We were completwly convincwd mermaids were real and that they even existed in the archipelago we lived next to. We spent many days running around trying to find evidence, writing in notebooks and getting absolutely nowhere. Thanks for reminding me!

@JJAB91

Жыл бұрын

>2012 >"as a kid" goddamn I'm old

@PeterBee911

Жыл бұрын

Must have been some amazing memories!

@angelcawich5810

6 ай бұрын

Mermaids are real and just like every creature taught not to be real. GOVERNMENT WANTS us to be in a slave minded box,where nothing phenomenal exists ,only what theu say exists is what exists and nothing else,not evem aliens. All of this exists amd so doea life else where. Every human and creatures will always look accorsing to how it has to adapt to its environment. One day the worl will knoq the whe truth and nothing but the truth. Money governs people and many are being paid to lie about the truth. If its not true why fuss about it,why? Because it is truth

@josefina.sm2001

3 ай бұрын

you made really cool memories tho!, being naive is part of being a kid sometimes hahahaha

Good ol' cable television. "Animal" planet makes shows about animals that aren't real pretending they are, and the "History" channel makes shows about aliens being a part of every aspect of human history. They might as well air the Transformers movies and say "woah look at these weird metal creatures! Did you know the Hoover Dam was built to conceal their secrets?!" :D

@samholdsworth420

Жыл бұрын

Wait, there's Autobots in the Hoover dam?!

@joannpruden655

6 ай бұрын

Yep. The aliens are a big part of why I so rarely watch the History channel anymore.

@lrock48

5 ай бұрын

I blame the writer's strike of 2007, that's when reality TV first got prominence.

@earthy205

4 ай бұрын

And don't forget that good old Learning Channel TLC! I learned so much from Toddlers and Tiaras 😑

@jacksonhopp2003

4 ай бұрын

A transformers mockumentary would be cool tho. Let it tell a version of the G1 series and such. As long as it states in the beginning that it’s fake.

I remember eating up this mockumentary as a dumb, naive teen for a lot of the reasons you mentioned in the vid. I remember running to my parents telling them mermaids are real, and they just laughed at me 😂. When I found out it was fake, it was a real learning moment for me to know how susceptible I was to misinformation.

@martlettoo

Жыл бұрын

And meanwhile the people who never learned that lesson are trying to take over the government and already run several states

It blows me away that people are surprised that humans all over the world one day thought to themselves "Huh. Wouldn't it be cool if there were water people?" The fact that many cultures have "mermaids" means nothing. Now, if a bunch of cultures all had a myth where there was "Gand'Arion the yellow, black, and neon purple fish-man who always carried a bright red spear" I'd start to think there was something there.

@nickosman1556

5 ай бұрын

this, plus when you really check you found that no, there is no mermaid "all over the world" only some cultural group of peoples who communicate have mermaid. It was like an ancient pre-internet meme.

I watched this as a kid and thoroughly enjoyed it, but even then I knew it was fake. Its a shame though, they couldve made a really good, informational mermaid documentary, where they discuss mermaids in culture and what animals were likely mistaken for mermaids and such

This wasn't the first time that Animal Planet made a fictional series that portrays itself as "reality". The show "The Lost Tapes" would explain about cryptids and other fictional creatures while sprinkling in footage of people's encounter with said cryptids. Of course none of the stuff shown is real, and given that it airs late at night, it's more of a cheesy entertainment show than something legitimate. As for the Mermaid show itself: Yeah this government conspiracy coverup stuff ain't that great or smart once you think about it. It would've been neat if this special instead took a more "speculative biology" approach, without the spoooky footage or coverups. The documentary "Dragons, A fantasy made real", also made by Charley Foley, never tried to present itself as fact. It focused more on how dragons COULD have existed and thrived (and went extinct), no government coverup here.

@martlettoo

Жыл бұрын

And for all the truly gullible people, NOAA releasing a statement just proved the cover up was real

Even as a kid, I knew this wasn’t real. I believe they said something about small webbing between human fingers, but I was like “this is just skin and flesh to help my fingers stretch not webbing!” I was still in 5th grade when I made this observation. A few of my classmates believed the tv shows claims but most of us didn’t because we all agreed that there were too many things in it that didn’t make sense. We were all in 5th grade and we knew this movie was fake. That being said, as a kid I found it very fun to watch. My teacher, seeing an opportunity to teach us, made every Friday for a month mermaid day. We would all watch part of it in class and then my teacher would have us do more research then debate. The class was divided into two teams that would debate the existence of mermaids. Just to give us an added challenge we would switch sides every week so we could learn how to argue for something we didn’t agree with. We didn’t have any good arguments for or against the existence of mermaids each week (because we were in fifth grade) but it was still a good learning experience.

I watched this documentary on TV as a young child in a hotel room in the middle of the night and it scared me shitless. They played "The Body Found" and "The New Evidence" back to back and I was convinced Mermaids were real and horrifying for years. I was scared to go in water in case a mermaid got me lmao

@SabersClub1217

Жыл бұрын

😂😂

I first saw this when I was twelve (both this version and an alternate cut with different music and a different opening scene) and I don’t remember thinking it was real but it was really convincing and I loved the speculative biology of how the mermaids would have evolved. I fell in love with the strings song during the shark attack scene and I learned it was the Kronos Quartet cover of “Flugufrelsarinn” by an Icelandic rock band called Sigur Rós, and that definitely changed my life forever so that’s a big part of why I look back on this film so fondly. But also I love mermaids and cryptid stuff in general anyway, and in the years before this movie I loved watching that other famous Animal Planet mockumentary (series) “Lost Tapes”.

This is hilarious. I enjoy watching people watch “A Thoroughly Entertaining Pile of Garbage That Should Never Have Been Made”.

Respect to the camera man who went back in time to record the aquatic apes 💀

I remember watching a episode of lost tapes about zombies. Little me, really thought it was real, because of the re-enactment footage. I wasn't able sleep that night. Freaking worried that the remaining zombies that disappeared would start a pandemic.

OAS: Today we're doing Skull Identification speedrun. Pick up the tag, species name is covered up. Let's look at the Skull, I think it's a fish. We can see lots of bones and lots of teeth but not enough to be a fish. Now let's look at the lower jaw. See how it's made of one strong bone? That's a trait of Mammals........

I TOTALLY AGREE..... it was a dissapointment and a new low and just wrong, pointless and unworthy of A channel that calls its self documentary or science based

@jacksonhopp2003

4 ай бұрын

Yeah… This shit really needed a disclaimer at the beginning that said “Warning! Dis shit is fake! Please don’t take it seriously!”

The Animal Planet writers admitted that they should've made it a series instead of a documentary. (They also should have done more research).

This _Faux_ documentary is honestly a *mixed bag* for me; on one hand, shows like this _do_ interest me because I've always had a fascination with mythology and mythical creatures, and I'm interested in shows like this that take the time to creatively (and feasibly) speculate HOW creatures like mermaids and dragons MIGHT be like (and how they would've evolved) *if they were real-life beings. Yet, this show *did* strip away the trust of a lot of its viewers by pretty much doing away with *one* thing that I feel _could've_ possibly led to a *bit* less of a harsher backlash: *_DISCLAIMERS,_* and plenty of them.

@jacksonhopp2003

4 ай бұрын

Yeah, it should take a note from the War of the worlds mockumentary. Where it’s obviously fake and had disclaimers and such.

@velociraptor4you3291

4 ай бұрын

@@jacksonhopp2003 I’m familiar with that one.

*_I remeber when no one believed in UFOs or Aliens, and yet here we are 😂_*

@Imauser88

2 ай бұрын

Exactly yet believing in mermaids is seen as crazy I think it's possible humans could've evolved to live in water look at the marine iguanas

i always thought the bloop were just a bunch of whales farting and died from a digestion-related disease

This should have been on the history channel at like 2 am

My mom's boyfriend who believes in all the conspiracy theories about aliens and stuff actually believed this and thinks mermaids are real to this day...

@andrewgivens3217

2 күн бұрын

We’ve only discovered 5% of the ocean who knows what else is living out there

@seanspartan2023

2 күн бұрын

@@andrewgivens3217 I'll give you his number so you guys can go Squatch hunting together...

I couldn't believe that they did this. I knew from day one that it was a movie. A fictional movie that I did enjoy. Just like the other documentaries like the dragon one they did where they found a frozen body to study on. I knew it was fake on that too. To me fiction like this is like the 90's TV show wish bone. A dog can't talk or tell stories, yet I enjoyed the escape from reality for a bit, and I would move on. Then I became concerned when a family member had to do a report on megalodon and they used the documentary on TV.

I think some guys wanted to make so nich little speculative - evolution doc but because they made it in a Mockumentary style it backfired with impressionable people. The guy running AP said after the third one... "We're never doing anything like that again. Cuz people take us serious and this is active undoing what AP stands for " (Paraphrasing ofc)

@jamie1602

Жыл бұрын

They did a similar show after but instead they often killed off the cast so you got the jist it wasn't real. Unfortunately that show was more horrifying than Mermaids and gave me many more nightmares. The Chupacabra episode is still somewhere in my nightmares.

@mackerelle9789

10 ай бұрын

​@@jamie1602what's the show called?

Hey Charlie!! Remember Me? I was scrolling on shorts and found a video and was like, hey is that Charlie!? I am so happy i found this channel and to see you posting. I remember the livestreams during covid those were pretty fun. We were actually watching the one where we found a poisons caterpillar 🐛 and you showed it.

Does anyone remember that documentary that tried to prove the existence of fire breathing dragons? There was like a carcass in ice and stuff and there was like this whole explanation of how they could breathe fire and as a kid I was blown away 😂

@whyismynamehere

10 ай бұрын

Which?

@nicholaspost9017

10 ай бұрын

Yessss! I loved The Last Dragon as a kid, poor six year old was devastated to find out it was fake. Although I will say all of these old "documentaries" that came about in the wake of The Blair Witch Project are certainly entertaining despite how they're presented

My 6th grade science teacher played this for our class under the pretense that it was a LEGITIMATE DOCUMENTARY To say that again, my sixth grade teacher, a 50 some year old lady with a degree, thought that mermaids WERE REAL

I remember when this came out. I got stoned and watched it. It took me longer than usual to recognize it was complete nonesense. I was ticked off and thought "first the history channel and now this. Whats the world coming to?" How animal planet didnt get sued for misleading people (lets be honest, they lied) is beyond me. It also harshed my mellow.

Could’ve have said it was a speculative biology but know they decided to do this thanks for doing this so I don’t have to

I can't believe I have never heard of this, or should I say THESE, thank you for bringing this to my attention and delivering a good message about these kind of shows, it is truly a shame that something like this could be aired on the same Animal Planet that I loved watching as a kid for it's factual information about the animal kingdom.

I keep an open mind about these new discoveries, as a young lad we should do a lot of fishing and deep sea fishing here in the ocean. During the sardine run in the 1997, when the sardines washed out near the coast of Durban, we where in the boat trying to net them and my friends and I saw the most weirdest thing in the ocean. It looked like the same thing the documentary aired.

@foodfanatic5890

5 ай бұрын

I am not an animal planet documentaries person and I just watched this today on prime video. Maybe the documentary is fake but what my friends and I witnessed was real in the coast of Durban KZN in 1997.

Oh my goodness! You are on nature boom time! I thought I recognized you. I have been watching your channel for a while, and I loved nature boom time when I was younger. I can't believe it!

As entertaining as I remember this cast of absurd "documentaries" being, it is such a shame that they went so far to deceive people. Heck, if played from a different angle it could've been a fantastic way to introduce the public to speculative biology/evolution projects, and how they can not only be fun thought experiments but highlight actual scientific theories on how animals evolve.

I remember watching this one, it and alot of the decisions it made disenfranchised me with Discovery and Animal Planet, BUT, I do admit it is a fun little thought experiment and a look into speculative evolution

I was in middle school when this came out, and I completely believed it (mind you graphics in most video games and CGI in most movies was still pretty bad). The documentary seemed believable because I thought they were actual scientists and I recall reading about “The Bloop” in a textbook. This channel also never had done something like this before. They had a lot of educational content back in the day. I lost all respect for animal planet two months later when I found out it was complete bogus. I never watched that channel again after that.

@kimberlyraz6343

11 ай бұрын

My daughter watched this at her friends' house and they were crushed later to discover it was all fake. Pretty harsh way to introduce kids to the reality that the world will throw anyone under the bus for profit.

There are mermaid like people I saw a documentary about them I think they are from southeast Asia and they don't have flippers or anything but they do have naturally better ability to hold their breath underwater. They mostly are a fishing society and many are divers that can hold their breath for much longer than the average person. The more interesting thing is they studied non diving members of this community and even they had the same mutation that allowed for more efficient diving and breath holding

If you want more content debunking pseudoscience/hoaxes. I'd suggest MiniMinuteMan's series on Ancient Apocalypse.

@seaborgium919

Жыл бұрын

+

@Killerwhale760

Жыл бұрын

Bbc, natgeo aswell

@personagenerator

Жыл бұрын

@@Killerwhale760 I meant for free on youtube.

@Killerwhale760

Жыл бұрын

​@@personagenerator yeah, Im just asking or debunking about bbc docs since most of those scenes were cut and pasted clips together and are mostly in zoo and the anthropomorphizing of animals and as for natgeo, they sometimes lied 6:32

Honestly it could have been a major hit if it was released as a movie not a documentary

Man, you can make just about anything entertaining and fun.

Ok I know you’re talking about one of the animal planet documentaries but what about the future is wild like what kind of skeletons do each future creature have

Where did you find this I've been trying to watch the movie for so long now

Thanks. That’s 13-ish years I’ll never get back. I held onto bits of both of those documentaries and swore something is out there. Well, maybe there still is but it isn’t this. I’m sad now

BS as it is, the aquatic ape theory sounds dope

@pauljones4519

2 ай бұрын

they made those things straight out of a horror movie

Even though it was fake, i liked it. Besides; since we haven't fully explored the oceans, i always thought something could exist

the grip this documentary had on me 💀 i was like 6 when it came out so i believed every word lmao

Are there any Tasmanian tiger skulls or bones still left somewhere? Have you seen them? Thanks

Thanks for making this video as I just watch - animal planet - mermaid the documentary. I had always thought Animal planet made only factual stories and this program literally turned me off their series. Maybe just me now their programs gives the vibes of fake news i.e trashy gossip magazine news. Really sad Animal planet are going down this path.

@Killerwhale760

Жыл бұрын

Bbc, natgeo and discovery are the same

Documentaries about mythological creatures are amusingly silly.

Dragons: A Fantasy Made Real was honestly more believable than this tripe.

@zerbietheslug5219

Жыл бұрын

Funny enough that one was created by Charlie Foley, yet it didn't present itself as some real thing the government is covering up.

Not surprised @ your background, you're a great presenter

Where can I watch this at?

0:53 bro talking about the bloop

I love mermaids and I grew up loving mermaids but when I saw that documentary I thought it was fake and lame. The best documentary done about mermaids was a really old one that I saw when I was maybe 10 or 11. It talked about folklore, how mythical mermaids came to be, and all the mystery about them. Animal Planet however, made a fool of themselves. And as you have stated in the video, they gave false information making people discredit science and that's just sad and ridiculous!

I agree with your review except the part about "should never have been made" because it is "thoroughly entertaining"!!! And if something is clearly just meant for entertainment and succeeds at that, then that's a win. A lot like Dragons: A Fantasy Made Real

Yoo I’m early! Can’t wait to watch this! I love your videos!!

Where can I watch this?

I remember watching this documentary as a kid and eating it up. It was so fascinating to me and it was years later when I found out it was fake. I don't think they should have misled their audience, but it still did a really good job at entertaining people. Especially kids who were into cryptids like I was.

1:03 Yes, most underwater sounds are recorded under water... ;)

“It was an underwater sound coming out of under water” yes . the floor is made out of floor

yall where can i watch this documentary i really need to watch it

First dragons now mermaids? What's next unicorns?

Where can I watch it

5:56 the CGI in that video was way better than Marvel’s phase 4.

If I remember correctly Animal Planet collabed with Brave Wildernes on a series previously. I wonder how it went.

i saw the advertisements for this when it first aired. i was very intrigued. the marketing, I thought was phenomenal. i remember seeing a website they encouraged you to go to at the end of every commercial for the film. So, I went on. To my surprise, all that was there was a notice that the site had been shut down by the DOJ. Really intriguing stuff. I don't give a shit about how it actually played out, I bought into the hype and it was masterful

To me, it seems like the people who didn't know that it was a mockumentary were experiencing an operator error situation.

The Future is Wild, Dragons: a Fantasy Made Real, and even that one with the werewolves were far better at the docufiction route than this and the megalodon crap.

Gone are the days of Science Channel/TLC-The Learning Channel/Discovery/History Channel/Animal Planet and actually having real accurate scientific programming. RIP.

I see you talked about this a month before The Little Mermaid 2023

I think you should do the “future is wild “ documentary.

biggest betrayals of my childhood

To debunk this even further, no one said these bones were the same species. The tail fin was probably from a manatee, the hand from a dolphin, and there are more marine mammals than just mermaids, which are indeed not real. Most sightings of mermaids have come from manatees, as some of the first people to see them described them as ugly. Cmon man give the underwater jellybean a break :'(

“Pile of garbage that should have never been made” Excuse you, sir. This is quality television. 😂

They did not claim it to be a documentary - they called it a mockumentary - as I understand it, they were not trying to hoax people - simply get their attention on the damage caused by missile testing.

Haha I remember arguing on KZread with people who thought the “found footage” clips from that show were real. I couldn’t believe people could be so dumb.

What do you mean it never should’ve been made? I love that documentary!🤩🧜‍♀️

There's two versions of this special. One's from Japan and one's from America. The Japanese version is way different. Different beginning and ending.

I think it could have been a very cool mockumentory, if they would have portrayed it that way. Like if they had said it was fake, it could have been interesting. Imagining how mermaids might have interacted with other aquatic creatures, and then going in and explaining “so here’s the actual evidence of “mermaids” here’s what people have mistaken, here’s the culture explanations from different areas, etc”

Nice to meet you, Charlie.

12:57 that's a big condor or whatever it is whoa :o

@samholdsworth420

Жыл бұрын

Looks like a California condor. They're massive

After this documentary came out, Dr Robertson moved to Louisiana and made duck calls

Finding Bigfoot has 9 seasons, they still haven’t found him…

"Reality is often disappointing." - Based Thanos

Is the beanie a nod to Jacques Cousteau or Steve Zissou?

@samholdsworth420

Жыл бұрын

Both

Watched that doc when it came out. I was in middle school and was 100% convinced that mermaids were real

Aha! I thought i recognized you ☺️ thanks for vlraring up how 😉👍 great channel, great information, time well spent! Thanks & God Bless 💟🕉️☯️

Hey...I beileve in the Megalodon....😅 I think they're WAY smaller due to inbreeding and possibly mingling their bloodine with their closest cousin, great whites. And I beileve there isn't many of them still around. So no, i dont think we have a giant 60ft shark swimking around...more like 25-30ft, maybe 40ft, and if they managed to survive the ice age maybe they evolved to handle colder less oxygenated waters, so they can only be found in the deep artic sea (with sperm whales, other large whales, and colossal squid, and which would be their food source) Would also explain why we haven't found or seen them because most of our artic waters still need to be explored....not to mention we've seen crazier sea creatures that are hard to beileve exist due to crazy environments like deep sea gigantism! I just have a hard time letting go of the Meg because our youngest Megalodon tooth was dated as only being 10,000 years old...which means at one point we humans possibly shared the ocean with this awesome (and terrifying) predator! And we keep finding more and more sea creatures that we find out aren't extinct, like we thought, every year! Some of them we thought had died out millions of years ago but nope surprise! They're still around! So why is the Meg and different? Because 10k years is just to close for me to consider the Meg dead and gone. Yeah I know I'm crazy. As for Animal Planet (o and the discovery channel did this dumb shit too btw) I hated their FAKE documentaries! They really disappointed me and made me so angry! They could have used real science and made something interesting but no...they went this stupid and unscientific route. Mermaids ain't real, the Earth is a roundish lumpy potato, and as for the Megalodon...We all have our conspiracy theory hills to die on and the Meg is mine. 😅😂 (Even though I know scientifically that the chances of Meg still swimming in our ocean is slim to none. But it's chances live on in my crazy brain and heart)

@bryceburns7425

3 ай бұрын

The youngest megalodon tooth isn’t 10,000 years old. Megalodon died out 3 million ago.

I like the idea of trying to argue if these creatures are real and showing theories and folklore to try to further discover or debunk the myth. But using fake scientists is fkd up

I would love to live in a World with mermaids, but it's a Real bad thing a fake documentary like this exist. But is it a mockumentary tho ? If it is it's kinda funny

Is the water ape hypothesis proved to be false? I don't mean splitting apes into two different species, but idea that human's ancestors spent some time in partly water environment.

I remember believing in mermaids when I was ten because of this, watched it with my dad, those were the best years of my life, I believed in magic, and it has inspired my art as well as my fantasy writing since.

@naosch94

11 ай бұрын

It’s a shame you didn’t watch it when you were a kid, you would have loved it, watching it as an adult is completely different, an analytical approach is inevitable.

I never knew that you were one of the people who did nature boom time i watched it all the time i'm really thankfull ❤❤

you forgot to mention about the exploration inside a submarine ball, please explain further

I think its well made and very thought provoking. It may be made up ie fiction but theres lots of factual stuff in there too. What a shame not more persons are appreciative of it.

6:11 - And were they singing each to each?

I felt the same. Betrayed and disappointed. Now I don't really ever watch documentaries because I constantly question their evidence and it takes the fun out of it. I'm in it for the facts and reality of how interesting life can be, not for manufactured stories to prove fairy tales for entertainment.

@Killerwhale760

Жыл бұрын

Even Bbc is like this

“An extremely entertaining pile of garbage” - Charlie, 2023. LOL

Please make a video on immortal jelly fish