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In Knaresborough, in Yorkshire, sits Mother Shipton's Cave. Folks there have been charging admission for nearly 400 years, and the star of the show is a "petrifying well". A few folk legends do actually turn out to be true.
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@TomScottGo 3 года назад

Thanks to all the team at Mother Shipton's Cave, and in particular to John, who was lovely to work with! Also, I'm very glad that I got my drone license.

@finnwilde 3 года назад

Thanks to all the Tom at Mother Shipton’s Cave, and in particular to Tom, who is a great guy! Also, I’m very glad that I discovered him on RU-vid.

@donajello 3 года назад

2 days ago

@zmazn 3 года назад

@fuyuotolyx 3 года назад

[obligatory “2 DAYS AGO?!” comment]

@shashivallabh7323 3 года назад

You know that the comment is old......don't you?

@WAVE0025 3 года назад

"Tours began in 1630, not led by me I should add" Thats exactly what a guy who has been leading tours since 1630 would say

@h-Films 3 года назад

@Egon Freeman *THAT.*

@Lawsonomy1 3 года назад

@@h-Films In a little white hat?

@leesiheon8013 3 года назад

@@Lawsonomy1 made home by a little bright rat,

@ericbarber3420 3 года назад

This made me genuinely laugh out loud alone, thank you

@ophiolatreia93 3 года назад

Cringey

@voidmayonnaise 3 года назад

“Tours began in 1630. Not led by me, I should add.” This guy is a delight!

@sarkysuchus8350 3 года назад

I think i was spiritually transported to yorkshire by him

@ThomasstevenSlater 3 года назад

That's just what a 500 odd year old time lord would say.

@burritonical2150 3 года назад

i see, a stardew valley fan. (nice pfp)

@stevensutton4677 3 года назад

Although if you do miss it there is one at five.

@maryvstheworld3832 3 года назад

sounds like what someone who‘s been leading tours since 1630 might say

@SnowyMetalNerdDudeDuffield 3 года назад

Tom's going to be getting the England tourism business back up and running by himself soon enough

@ILoveWomen 3 года назад

Can confirm, I live half an hour away from knaresborough and now want to see this cave 😅

@glenngriffon8032 3 года назад

I've never been to england but I have to say, I wanna go see this pool and a few other things he's shown on this channel, not the dangerous places of course.

@TheLoxxxton 3 года назад

Not from he's not!

@joffff 3 года назад

I fully expect to see a video on the Wookey Hole caves in the near future!

@Rebelrenaissance 3 года назад

That was what's left of English tourism...

@whynotanyting 3 года назад

Mother Shipton was just worried about the structural integrity of the bridge and called attention to it, sounds like a true civil servant.

@Kardamitiano 3 года назад

Kudos to her for pointing out the potential logistical problems if such thing happened.

@pw.70 3 года назад

They could use the stone teddies to shore up the bridge!

@Wrincewind. 2 года назад

I could fully imagine her wandering around the city of london, muttering to herself. "Tsk, I don't know, all this loose straw and all these wooden buildings, one knocked-over lamp and the whole place'll go up like a torch!"

@hwgoblin Год назад

@@Wrincewind. 1666: (●_ ● ;)

@JamieElli 8 месяцев назад

And yet, it's still collapsed twice apparently. People better learn to listen.

@stockicide 3 года назад

"This water turns teddy bears to stone." I'm interested. "You can buy the teddy bears in the gift shop." I'm VERY interested.

@armcie5080 3 года назад

For some reason the online shop is currently closed, but using the way back machine, they were previously £35

@katherine_exe 3 года назад

they are £45 now x

@ILIKEOTTERS 2 года назад

Ok, so: teddy bear mace of death?

@DougalNorges 3 года назад

I went as a kid and I got splashed from the waterfall. All the next day I was paranoid I was going to turn into stone, I just kept checking my arm.

@cybergeek11235 3 года назад

.....and? what happened?

@ahmadalkhateeb1180 3 года назад

@@cybergeek11235 nothing obviously.

@DougalNorges 3 года назад

@@cybergeek11235 can't remember, I could have caught cobbles, but I got better

@stephenmatura1086 3 года назад

You were petrified you were going to be petrified!

@DestroidoTO 3 года назад

@@stephenmatura1086 🤣

@Zadster 3 года назад

Some say that, on the darkest of nights, if you go to Knaresborough and listen carefully, you can hear faint echoes of those Yorkshiremen 400 years ago exclaiming... "HOW MUCH!!!!!" when they see the entry price.

@vigilantcosmicpenguin8721 3 года назад

And the ghost of the owner of the tourist attraction still haunts us, waiting to make more money off of it.

@crocigat0r604 3 года назад

its daylight robbery

@leerage9278 3 года назад

Brilliant!! Try telling that to the kids of today, they'll never believe you.

@SirOee 3 года назад

GaGHAHAHAHahaha I honsetly burst out laughing!!

@royfearn4345 3 года назад

Well I'm no Yorkshireman but my better half is well used to me exclaiming, "HOW MUCH?" In every shop I'm dragged into!

@PolicePubliCallBox 3 года назад

“England’s Oldest Attraction Turns Teddy Bears to Stone” was definitely an AI suggestion that Tom lucked out on being real.

@interesting6436 3 года назад

That's what I thought when I read the title! It's so random

@lucasriddle3431 3 года назад

I agree; that phrasing sounds a lot like the other GPT-3 suggestions.

@camerondenchfield8529 3 года назад

@@interesting6436 you must be new to Tom's channel if you're surprised by q random video title hahaha

@SamJ. 3 года назад

I thought that too

@kisbie 3 года назад

More likely he’s just thumbing through his copy of ‘Bollocks to Alton Towers’. (Which are great books to be fair.)

@RustyTube 3 года назад

When I was a child (I just turned 71 three days ago), my parents used to take me to a spa town in Slovakia called Sliač. We could buy similar petrified items there. I really wanted one, but my parents would not buy me one. I still wish they had, though,

@luziferius3687 3 года назад

Happy Birthday!

@RustyTube 3 года назад

@@luziferius3687 Thanks 😊

@cosmotect 3 года назад

Damn that stuck with you!

@ted6361 3 года назад

Never too late for a trip Sliač and to buy a petrified teddy bear for your inner kid

@roleat 3 года назад

Knowing tourist spots it was likely very expensive. Hope youre well!

@julianbailey2749 3 года назад

Guide: "..and it never dries up." Me: "Of course, it never dries up, it's in Yorkshire. Nothing in Yorkshire ever properly dries up."

@lx6108 3 года назад

Okey I laughed at this.

@roblamb8327 3 года назад

Especially the Tykes themselves, no matter how often we ask them "dry up, will you?".

@waynedanielle4112 3 года назад

Despite all the economic crisis this is the right time to start up an investment

@AuxenceF 3 года назад

@@johnnykayla3982 do you follow the teachings of John Warosa ?

@spaghetti-zc5on 2 года назад

@@AuxenceF what about John barosa?

@FixTheWi-Fi 3 года назад

"Chemically, maybe not. Linguistically? Sure, I'll take that." Now that's a yearbook quote.

@defensivekobra3873 3 года назад

A stealable quote

@pedrogonzalez5590 3 года назад

It's a mineral not a rock! Jesus Marie!

@luuketaylor 3 года назад

@@pedrogonzalez5590 Best use of this quote I've seen yet

@vigilantcosmicpenguin8721 3 года назад

It's the correct way to shut down any semantic arguments with pesky prescriptivists.

@JoveRogers97 3 года назад

@@pedrogonzalez5590 😆😆 So on point

@wibbers4578 3 года назад

When the gift shop at the tourist attraction is so old It becomes a tourist attraction it self, you know its old.

@seungkwanbot3203 3 года назад

@F*СК MЕ - СНЕCK МY РR0FILЕ I like men

@aaronhughes9814 3 года назад

@@seungkwanbot3203 same

@roguishpaladin 3 года назад

So is there a gift shop for the gift shop? Can we get Giftshopception started?

@BonaparteBardithion 3 года назад

@@roguishpaladin Wanna bet there's giftshop-themed bumper stickers and shirts?

@roguishpaladin 3 года назад

@@BonaparteBardithion "My friend got a t-shirt from the Mother Shipton's Cave Gift Shop and all I got was this lousy t-shirt"

@AngieSzavui 3 года назад

Linguistically turning to stone would totally be one of Tom's signature curses as a wizard.

@charliespinoza1966 3 года назад

@bigdomino6398 3 года назад

@archevenault 3 года назад

It just covers the target with minerals and calls it a day.

@vigilantcosmicpenguin8721 3 года назад

"Now, you will become figuratively petrified!" [victim gets scared] "Yes! It worked!"

@LordSandwichII 3 года назад

It would be a good name for a band.

@Splitsie 3 года назад

With a title like that I really want to know what the next AI video suggestions are going to be...

@Pisolithus 3 года назад

Splitsie!!

@johnjhfg3509 3 года назад

Splitsie!

@IkkeiOdaira 3 года назад

Splitsie!

@velocivoid7974 3 года назад

Splitsie!!

@thomasbraeuning1918 3 года назад

"It's like a spaceship for sharks" in my case

@certainlynotthebestpianist5638 3 года назад

As a chemist (well, soon-to-be chemistry PhD student, to be precise), I hereby certify, that described process is, indeed, close enough to petrification - and also equally, if not more, amazing

@TheNylter 2 года назад

It's the same process that makes petrified wood, isn't it?

@rainbowdroidman 2 года назад

Are you a chemistry phd student yet

@thepikachin 3 года назад

"Oh no, the world is ending!" "How did this happen?" "Some bridge fell in England!"

@MauriceGucci 3 года назад

This sounds like a joke, but everyone went crazy in 2012 because of some ancient maya calendar.

@imthecryptic 3 года назад

@@MauriceGucci it’s true we died in 2012 after it’s all a simulation 😱

@chimpazoo1143 3 года назад

"London Bridge is down"

@master007v 3 года назад

Knowing England's history they would probably bring destruction to the whole world just to make the prophecy true

@vigilantcosmicpenguin8721 3 года назад

@@chimpazoo1143 Oh no, when the Queen dies that'll truly be the end of the world.

@Heidjnejdihbwjdihnskdhbe 3 года назад

"I can assure you the bridge is very solid". Famous last words.

@benja_mint 3 года назад

If the bridge starts to crumble you could just wrap it in blankets and run water over it for 6 months

@kosinusify 3 года назад

@@benja_mint _Oxford University wants to know your location_

@almostcertainlynotapotato6528 3 года назад

Ah, studio C

@thany3 3 года назад

I would be weird, to say the least, if the fate of the *whole* world would hinge on one bridge in a village, somewhere hidden away far away from everything else in the world.

@davidjones332 3 года назад

@@thany3 Not exactly hidden away. Until it was bypassed fairly recently this bridge carried the A59 Liverpool - York main road; Knaresborough was a notorious bottleneck.

@crispyandspicy6813 3 года назад

"Oh no can 2020 get any worse!" "The Knaresborough bridge collapsed"

@NIDELLANEUM 3 года назад

How can 2020 get worse in the middle of 2021? "Unless the laws of physics have changed in the last hundred years"

@wvin1450 2 года назад

I can confirm that 2020 has gotten worse. The laws of physics may have changed in the last two years.

@bighoaxor 3 года назад

I have one of the teddy bears and I totally love it! It takes pride of place in my living room cabinet! (Yes they are expensive but I was on holiday and given some money by my Nan and told to “spend it on something frivolous that you wouldn’t otherwise get treat yourself to something you want rather than need.” - with a 6 year old son at the time who was fascinated by them it seemed the obvious choice!)

@drum420 2 года назад

Sorry to ask over a year later, but how much did the teddy cost if you remember?

@uapnz0698 2 года назад

@@drum420 yes Im interested

@YochevedDesigns 2 года назад

Your Nan is totally awesome.

@niatheelf 2 года назад

@@drum420 You can just about see the label of the smallish one at the end saying £45, so I'd presume they're between £40-60? I've never been so I can't be sure ^^

@gorisenke 2 года назад

Your Nan is a very wise person.

@fredsmith-kingofthelunatic7810 3 года назад

Can we take a second to appreciate that tour guide and all the other tour guides around the world at little out of the way attractions, that know their stuff inside and out, and can turn a dull trip into a hilarious one. Thankyou sir for your work and to all the others sirs and madams like him. Hats off to you.

@serenkeating7672 2 года назад

If anyone is ever in Kerry, Ireland - more specifically Tralee - during the summer, I highly recommend checking out the Tralee Wetlands Centre. There are tours led by students during internships, and as each student has different interests and focuses, each tour is different, though all of the dozen or so I've been on have been equally fascinating.

@big_mood1569 3 года назад

The park assistant is the epitome of the kind of older guides to historical places there always seems to be in the UK. Reminds me of school trips, a legend :)

@delete7316 3 года назад

Ikr I feel like I’ve met him many times before

@Moocow2003 3 года назад

There's always one wherever you go. It's a Nurse Joy kinda thing.

@vigilantcosmicpenguin8721 3 года назад

You can never really tell whether or not these folk are immortal.

@miristtotallw 3 года назад

I really wonder how these people are so calm and kind. I would love to have this relaxing radiance too when I am older :( I seriously wonder how these people deal with getting angry or feeling sad. Like I know they are just normal people but does anyone know how these people react when they stand in front of groups of annoying screaming children that don't listen to them and are just ignorant or mean? How do they deal with that while they want to spread information about something that is fascinating to them without getting frustrated?

@raychances6251 3 года назад

For some reason, this comment thread is the most heart warming thing I've seen in a while.

@TheEternalPeanut 3 года назад

I need to see Tom Scott in an RPG with a spell that's "turning the enemy to stone, linguistically"

@PressA2Die 3 года назад

Tom throws a stone behind them, they turn and look. Spell successful.

@FictionWriter95 3 года назад

The spell is just Tom yelling *"You're stone now, you can't move,"* and then they just believe him

@Bjarkenb 2 года назад

@@ragnkja Thank you for reminding me of that story, now it's all coming back to me

@barefootkiwi3026 2 года назад

Brings a whole new meaning to "Sticks and stones may break my bones / but words will never hurt me"

@patheticmortal373 2 года назад

There's a cave like this in Buxton, also. In the 1800's it was turned into a tourist attraction. People would leave a soft item, e.g hat, teddy bear, shoe, and then come back months to years later to retrieve their "stone" item. It was encouraged so that the business would get twice the income 😆

@jameshill2450 3 года назад

Who else is suddenly looking around their place for things that would look good covered in drippy stone?

@maitremaitre9283 3 года назад

Tom scott today: How to hide a body by turning it into a statue, pro life-hack.

@kosinusify 3 года назад

Crazy that this comment hasnt got a response by a bot yet

@doctorwhouse3881 3 года назад

Sounds like something which would have fit in the Hannibal TV show.

@sean..L 3 года назад

Pompeii 2.0

@skylx0812 3 года назад

Unused places for a Bond villian to die for 500, Alex...

@LeRoiJojo 3 года назад

Hang it for a year in a tourist attraction?

@the-thhorseman2484 3 года назад

Damn, If only I had realized the potential of turning the shower-head at my old place on hard well water into a tourist attraction.

@vigilantcosmicpenguin8721 3 года назад

Problem is you're about four centuries too late on that one.

@TheRealGirlWeeb 3 года назад

When i saw the title, i thought Tom had let the AI come up with something again ... But i guess this actually made sense

@Kafen8d 3 года назад

Very funny and original comment

@kkmac7247 3 года назад

@@Kafen8d They are spamming

@kkmac7247 3 года назад

@McFlickers I keep on reporting them

@ZipplyZane 3 года назад

@@kkmac7247 At least it's a different kind than usual. Not the one where they post a time code and nonstandard URL. I finally got so tired of those that I used the feedback button to ask them why they couldn't detect them.

@kkmac7247 3 года назад

@@ZipplyZane both are very common

@alexritchie4586 3 года назад

I remember visiting Mother Shipton's Well when I was very young, and honestly, I think it was the surrealness of it more than anything that started my life path of being fascinated by the obscure, the unusual, and the almost magical-realism that nature can appear to posses. Top notch video, Tom 😃

@danielgoode 3 года назад

This man's voice matches the attraction so well that it's scary. I want him narrating my life.

@phinjones1386 3 года назад

We totally need a spy thriller where the superstitious villain's goal is to blow up that bridge and thus, ending the world 😂

@captainahab5522 3 года назад

Nuke the bridge cause ww3

@safe-keeper1042 3 года назад

If it was an American films he'd fight the hero and fall in the pond at the end and turn to stone.

@andyyyz9114 3 года назад

If we ever get to the stage where Knaresborough bridge needs to be blown up by our enemies, then the end times will be here ! :)

@chrisf6859 3 года назад

And, to take the suggestion from one of the Technical Difficulties episode, the villain needs to be from Yorkshire and have the name "Steel Member" 😁

@TryinaD 3 года назад

@@chrisf6859 why not have the steel member shoot things?

@joemc5054 3 года назад

Went here when I was 5 and heard people talking about her and was terrified and when i saw the statue screamed and couldn’t stop crying for two hours. Looking back , probably was an overreaction but when your that age it’s terrifiying

@varana 3 года назад

I like that "probably". :D

@foxyshabazz 3 года назад

I have never been there, but as a very small child I had a similar reaction to simply SEEING THE PLACE ON TV. I went to bed terrified that a witch was going to turn me to stone. Can't imagine what I would have been like if someone had actually taken me there. When I saw the thumbnail for this vid I shuddered inside slightly, just at the memory.

@albond 3 года назад

joe Mac *you're

@hoofhearted1833 3 года назад

@@albond 👈🏻 doesn’t get invited to parties

@hippieduck 3 года назад

Well now you got me "over thinking" this as I sit at home, waiting for my vaccine: Since a reaction is something that happens without logical thought, is subjective and fully dependent on the feelings that arise within - and those never, ever line up with the objective truth... Mix that with being a kid with no actual grasp of your current understanding of reality - was it truly an overreaction, or actually the pure fear that came from seeing something you couldn't understand the nature of? 😱 I'd say give your kid self a break 🍭

@MRKapcer13 3 года назад

Fun fact: the water is only half as hard as the water I had to endure just outside of London. Thanks, Thames Water!

@futurez12 3 года назад

Yep, I had that water for 30 years; my insides are 90% calcified.

@MJ-uk6lu 3 года назад

@@futurez12 You are turning into stone, mate

@kimgkomg 3 года назад

It's good when your water filter sounds like a dish washer

@pik-ull-deg5970 2 года назад

You cant beat that bit of crunch at the bottom of your cuppa 😁

@beth12svist 2 года назад

@@MJ-uk6lu Linguistically or chemically?

@onmyworkbench7000 Год назад

You can preproduce the same effect by supper saturating a glass of very warm water with sugar until no more sugar will dissolve in the water. Then you stoke lengths of strings in the sugar water and then the hang lengths of strings in the water and let it sit, and over time the sugar crystals will collect on the string.

@fazewhite147 3 года назад

I’ve got to say this is one of my favorite videos. The nice old mans voice reminds me of my grandfather. It’s so heart warming and the story is awesome❤️

@kiera5978 3 года назад

I was SO terrified of this place when I was little, was convinced I was gonna also turn to stone if I touched the water

@alex0589 3 года назад

@@Will-e4k boooo

@anderpanders6210 3 года назад

@@Will-e4k yayyyyy

@kiera5978 3 года назад

@@Will-e4k HAHAHAH yes i certainly would

@applesyrupgaming 3 года назад

believe its like hard limestone around it

@ad3z10 3 года назад

I love how Warrick Davis decided to leave an Ewok to be petrified.

@miraclesandmoonbeams464 3 года назад

I wonder if Karl was with him at the time

@emmysparkles1 2 года назад

@@miraclesandmoonbeams464 Karl was packing socks into a rubber bag on that day.

@beth12svist 2 года назад

I didn't even catch it properly, but I saw "Warwick Davis" and thought "that's an Ewok, isn't it?" OF COURSE he left an Ewok.

@MrTizzay 3 года назад

See as an American I’m jealous of this kind of bizarre history tucked into gorgeous little villages. Even in New England we have far fewer things this weird

@jintsuubest9331 3 года назад

America had plenty. Difference being we destroy most of them.

@tryxdc 3 года назад

new england is the far worse england

@david8j796 3 года назад

@@jintsuubest9331 America is far too new of a country to have lots of things like this (the folklore not the stream)

@adamrezabek9469 3 года назад

from european perspective, USA hardly has any history (local or countrywide) at all

@transtubular 3 года назад

We had plenty in reality, but we either destroyed it or wiped out the people who could tell us. Try looking up history about the giants that clearly had been living in North America since before any of the European explorers arrived.

@keithlarsen7557 2 года назад

I'm a chemist and I'm okay with people saying this turns things to stone. If you painted your house blue, you would say that your house was blue, even though all you did was add blue paint.

@dallasrover5515 3 года назад

I would love to sit and have Mr Wynne Tell me fairy tales and folk stories all day. His voice and accent just seem to suit the genre for some reason. Listening to him speak was delightful. 💜

@nat_to_han 3 года назад

I went there a few years ago, when I was about 9, and I remember one thing at the wishing well, after making her wish, my mum hit her head on the ledge (gently) and my dad immediately said that his wish had come true. Some of you may not find this funny, but just a wholesome story

@rx-7enjoyer893 3 года назад

i definitely find this funny. what was his tone of voice?

@rx-7enjoyer893 3 года назад

@@nat_to_han ??

@kaldo_kaldo 3 года назад

I'm supposed to find it wholesome? "Abuse, LMAO"

@nat_to_han 3 года назад

@@kaldo_kaldo it's not abuse to make a small joke about something so innocent

@StrydarXtheXGrim 3 года назад

@@kaldo_kaldo not abuse, just boomer humour

@TheIronArmenianakaGIHaigs 3 года назад

Uploaded within minutes of Jay Foreman uploading, kinda sus. Also the title sounds like it was generated by AI :)

@SkyFlaks 3 года назад

HAHAHAHAHAGA ANOGUS GAHAMAAHAHAJAHAGETOUTOFMYHEADGETOUTOFMYHEADIMGOING INSANE SUSUSAMOGUSUSUSUSUSUS

@Subhrajyoti 3 года назад

i like tom scott's video a lot Hope some Indian youtuber does same type of videos

@Sky-re6ne 3 года назад

I literally got them back to back as notifications

@evilgn876 3 года назад

very surprising finding you here iron

@chubskii 3 года назад

It’s the depressed guy, cool

@maciejstruski2863 3 года назад

A tale about this prophet reminds me of Agnes Nutter from Terry Pratchett's "Good Omens". Very similar vibe

@Jojozilla426 3 года назад

YES! I knew it reminded me of something!

@AndorianBlues 3 года назад

A surprising amount of stuff in Pratchett's work are directly inspired by weird things, places, or people in real life.

@venusforfran 3 года назад

OMG YES

@blindleader42 3 года назад

I was going to post my speculation that this was the inspiration for Agnes, but it turns out there was a real person named _Alice_ Nutter, said to be a prophet, who was hanged as a witch in 1612. Alizon Device, (remember Anathema Device?) was another person executed in the same Witch Hunt.

@BinturongGirl 3 года назад

Didn't Ursula Shipton give a quote for Agnes Nutter's book jacket?

@martyboi5609 3 года назад

That old guy explaining it seems so wholesome

@SuperCryptic9 3 года назад

“Chemically? Maybe not. Linguistically? Sure, I’ll take that.” Meanwhile in the “Is water wet?” debate:

@arlofleenor1838 3 года назад

As a Canadian, this is exactly how I picture England.

@alex0589 3 года назад

magical caves, witches and 400+ year old theme parks. Checks out.

@Ozgrin_thewizard 3 года назад

This guy sounds just like you'd expect the guy standing in front of a cave in order to tell you its bizare story to sound.

@JonathanElliot 3 года назад

I thought I recognised that establishing shot. Then I realised I went there as a kid. This video unlocked a core memory.

@orangecat9559 3 года назад

have you turned into stone yet?

@CatchThesePaws 3 года назад

Wow that looks like a total fairytale place. Minus the things dangling from string, someone could film a fantasy short entirely within that area! Maybe the stone teddy bears and hats could be an addition if it were a spooky fairytale...

@hdjghasgaj 3 года назад

Tom looks like an adorable 12-years-old elder with a lot of life experience

@PlutocraticPrecariat 3 года назад

The people demands more of these obscure histories from the towns of United Kingdom! In all honesty, content like this is pure class.

@chandanasarkar1173 3 года назад

Jay Foreman and Tom Scott uploading at the same time, when my day couldn't get better

@TheHorrorDevotee 3 года назад

Jay Foreman uploaded??!! Thanks! I'll watch it

@choco_jack7016 3 года назад

same!

@WaffleSnow_ 3 года назад

‘Where is America... and why does it turn teddy bears to stone’ (collar of the century)

@EpicGamer-kj1tj 3 года назад

Bruh

@manindescript9861 3 года назад

Those 2 and Bald & Bankrupt are some of the only good content creators left. They're the only thing I look forward to on RU-vid.

@yuvalne 3 года назад

"Not me, I have to add" 2:57 I always like a person with a good sense of self-depricating humour.

@ShadowDemon_4 3 года назад

He's just trying to hide the fact that he's hundreds of years old. They have actual magic there and just distract people with a "story" and a water mixture that covers stuff.

@anderpanders6210 3 года назад

That water is obviously the elixir of life

@ShadowDemon_4 3 года назад

@@anderpanders6210 And the story of it turning things to stone is a cover up so no one uses it! Genius!

@rev.rachel 3 года назад

It's a nice subtle reference that the kids of Agnes Nutter in the recent Good Omens adaptation mirror the accent of this guy who grew up near Mother Shipton's cave.

@blemiglute 3 года назад

"There was a cave, a good story, and someone who wanted to make some money off it." Lourdes, France, is nothing more!

@clray123 3 года назад

Tell us something we don't know.

@royfearn4345 3 года назад

Boris and his gang of shysters missed out on this one!

@lawrencecalablaster568 3 года назад

It seems I’ve found someone who doesn’t believe in miracles.

@williamharper8745 3 года назад

My god, the nostalgia, I used to live in go to school in Knaresborough, I lived in Starbeck. I remember we went on a trip to see this cave and I was astounded by the sheer number of objects hung from it all turned to stone.

@ghostflame6602 3 года назад

king james's?

@williamharper8745 3 года назад

@@ghostflame6602 yup. I still remember that we also had to do a 10 mile walk for its 400th birthday. I hated every minute of it.

@brianp4438 3 года назад

"I can assure you it's very solid" My man's out here just spitting in the face of the concept of jinxing

@kwibloupthesomething 3 года назад

"some people just want to see the world burn"

@anonnymousperson 3 года назад

Tom: "It turns things to stone" Me, a listening chemist: "Rargh ragh garh hrumph bah blargh bunsen burner"

@stevecraft00 Год назад

Went there this year. A proper yorkshire attraction. Nothing forced on you. Dont have to go in the shop. Just a nice walk and something worth seeing.

@Sjalabais 2 года назад

Just 3 months to "petrify" a teddy? That’s incredibly fast.

@titrauskuningas 3 года назад

I will declare 4:01 Chemist Approved. I'd say it's officially "close enough"

@thomasparker5393 3 года назад

Waiting for the guide to give Tom some weird side quest involving mysterious noises coming from the cave and recommend the local bards college.

@benjacobs574 3 года назад

Loads of History in Knaresborough, you could still go to see the Castle with talking crows/ravens, St Robert’s Cave, the House in the Rock, and the chapel built into the cliff face. And Harrogate has a lot of history to explore also.

@OhighOSkater 3 года назад

I’m using data to watch this because my internet is off. I’m watching in 144p to save data. I still watched both ads, because I truly appreciate you making great content and having morals about advertisements among other things. I believe you’re a good person and I appreciate you. Thank you for doing what you do

@E_FoxSnowspirit 2 года назад

This tour guide just makes me happy.

@thebeingdestroyerofworlds8690 3 года назад

The park assistant reminds me of my grandad, bless his soul

@TheGeekDoesHistory 3 года назад

People are scared that it can turn you into stone but I'm worried about that fact that that is 400 year old bathwater

@kaldo_kaldo 3 года назад

By that logic, so are most rivers ponds and lakes. But water moves on, it's not as if it's the same water from 400 years ago.

@esquilax5563 3 года назад

I'm reliably informed that you never step in the same river twice

@luke-rg9zi 3 года назад

"don't worry the bridge has already fallen down twice" me: looks outside hmmmmmmmmmmmm

@kimgkomg 3 года назад

It cancels out

@MJARTBYDAY Год назад

My husband and his family used to visit this cave as did myself and my family. There are school trips to see this attraction and as a child I went on one of them. I was fascinated by the items that were hung up that had turned to stone ... Its simply because there are minerals in the water that do petrify those items and in time they do turn to stone. Its science and is very remarkable. Today there are still visitors going to see Mother Shipton's cave ... My husband has fond memories there as it was one of the last places that his father went before, he actually passed away .. Thanks for sharing xx

@zJoriz 3 года назад

Don't mind me, I'm just inwardly cringing prematurely about the potential "this aged badly" statements: - There's no way that bridge will fail a third time - The well never dries up

@joebroughton2913 3 года назад

very good presentation from the tour guide! i feel like I'm being told a story by my grandfather or something

@tyranneous 3 года назад

"Linguistically, I'll take that" - hah! Knowing full well that Tom's got the knowledge and history to back that up, too.

@Sykelone 3 года назад

As someone who lives very close to Mother Shipton's Cave and loves the stories surrounding it, it makes me very happy to learn that Tom has made a video about it ♥

@benmcreynolds8581 2 года назад

This is honestly such an amazing piece of nature and I love how we get a chance to interact and explore and find such gems in the environment. That's such a unique and fascinating area.

@lottiewoo39 3 года назад

I went there for a day out in 1998 with my boyfriend. We hired a boat, had ice cream and of course visited the cave. One of the tunes we had on in the car on the way home was Perfect Day. It was. We broke up eventually and married other people but I have a lovely memory of that day 😊

@donotevenbegintocare 3 года назад

OK, admit it Tom. This is that one video title the AI came up with

@sire8677 3 года назад

These bots are getting out of hand

@Kafen8d 3 года назад

So funny and original

@kosinusify 3 года назад

@@sire8677 Yep, why are there so many suddenly? I try reporting each and every one of them, but it won't help much anyway :/

@kosinusify 3 года назад

Frankly, all of Tom Scott's video titles sound like an AI came up with them.

@tobylegion6913 3 года назад

@@kosinusify are we sure yet that Tom Scott isn't an AI himself?

@saltytea7367 3 года назад

Introduced my father to you we now watch one of your videos a day thanks for the memories Tom :).

@peteranderson037 3 года назад

Disney would spend untold sums of money to create a waterfall for Disneyworld that tries (and doesn't quite succeed) to look like that and would hire a team of writers to come up with a back story for it that wouldn't be nearly as interesting.

@kaitlyn__L 3 года назад

Thanks to the slow evolution of time, picking the best parts of the story (and the even slower geological formation of the landscape). Can’t rush these things.

@kaldo_kaldo 3 года назад

You're quite a spiteful person

@choo_choo_ 3 года назад

Wow, who knew it was hard physically and financially to artificially create a natural formation that looks like it's been there for hundreds of years in the middle of a Florida theme park?

@shader2421 3 года назад

Wow, I wasn’t expecting to see my town when I clicked on this video

@revolver265 3 года назад

Long, long ago I had seen this on a boredpanda article and never saw the name, only that it calcified things, and I didn't know _what_ to Google for because "water cave that turns things into rocks" isn't a particularly good search. Thanks Tom for letting me rediscover things :D

@TheOneHistoryGuy 3 года назад

Video description: *Folks there have been charging admission for nearly 400 years* Hmmm, how did that start? "Sir Charles was a canny Yorkshireman." Say no more! I've heard enough!

@CommonCommiestudios 3 года назад

Ironically, the name "Teddy bear" was not coined by the time this existed.

@terry2295 3 года назад

true

@safe-keeper1042 3 года назад

Nor were teddy bears even invented, AFAIK. Unless they had other plushies that resembled bears, I suppose.

@christopherlewis1315 3 года назад

Never let historical accuracy get in the way of making a quick buck.

@r0bw00d 3 года назад

You don't know what irony is.

@dodgeman777 3 года назад

There’s been archaeological finds of little wooden horse toys from the viking age 600 years earlier so I guess various animals made of cloth wouldn’t be a stretch

@Ergogeorge 3 года назад

So nice to hear a Yorkshire accent on a popular youtube video

@mokou8851 3 года назад

car on't rod

@airrogue4428 2 года назад

0:46 well that’s a nice year

@StuckInVim 3 года назад

Now i know a little more. Thanks!

@casey653 3 года назад

If I was to ever make youtube videos. I aspire to be like tom. In my opinion, most of his videos just spark that interest i never knew I had.

@Telsion 3 года назад

0:50 "... a young lady called Agatha ..." My brain: "Harkness!" It's all connected

@dcd2994 3 года назад

It was Agatha all along

@ThreeMountainsStudio 3 года назад

🎶It's been Agatha all along🎶

@lgloves28 3 года назад

Probably Mephisto....

@ellielavender1498 3 года назад

Who's been messing up everything?

@Nadia1989 3 года назад

@@ellielavender1498The Doctor and Kyubey

@chefmarcg 3 года назад

i dont even care how much of this story is true or false...its an amazing bit of local folklore...and im glad that i got to experience it. i live in the US and i may have never heard this story, if not for this video....thanks Tom

@Exayevie 3 года назад

Tom if you're ever able to come to the States again, you should do one on French Lick, Indiana - it's another spring that was supposed to have healing powers, and as it turns out, the waters are indeed full of Lithium, which to this day is a commonly prescribed anti-depressant.

@williamjackson7572 3 года назад

Coming from Knaresborough this was such a treat to see pop up today, so thank you Tom ❤️

@GmodPlusWoW 3 года назад

I knew that Yorkshire had hard water, but this is a whole other level. This is the kind of water that Okuyasu would try to drink.

@phcgamer8733 3 года назад

What's the reference to Okuyasu here?

@TraceUK 3 года назад

I live where this is (right next to Harrogate) and our water is superb! Have you never seen bottles of Harrogate water?!?

@GmodPlusWoW 3 года назад

@@TraceUK Honestly I haven't tried it yet, but if I ever come across a bottle I'll be sure to try some. I do like a good spot of mineral water.

@ZearthGJL 3 года назад

"This enraged Mother Shipton, who punished him severely."

@shar3859 3 года назад

We love finding other fandoms in the wild!

@joeb6750 Год назад

All I know is when I hear how long certain stalactites and stalagmites took to form, I think about stuff like this or places like salt mines having formations near the shaft.

@jeffthepuppetYT 2 года назад

I've been here before, it's cool to see an actual video talking about it, especially from you.

@ChrispyBoiYTP 3 года назад

Went there only a few years ago, really enjoyed it, even a nice playground there. Always a great day out for anyone living around Yorkshire near knaresborough. Even have some canoes on the river to go along. Highly recommended

@petertr2000 3 года назад

The playground is back? Last time we went it was under refurb and/or closed (I can't remember which tbh).

@Me2Moo2Studios 3 года назад

oh my god, this is the closest tom's ever been to my home town. for the record, people living here think it's total nonsense :)

@benjacobs574 3 года назад

Do you happen to live in Harrogate?

@isaacwilloughby9849 3 года назад

Ripon

@rat_master 3 года назад

Knaresborough Gang

@l.pietrobon3925 3 года назад

@F*СК MЕ - СНЕCK МY РR0FILЕ Begone bot

@TheStevePow 3 года назад

Speak for yourself, not all locals, brings in good trade.

@PetersonRyan97 3 года назад

I have no ties to the UK and live far from it, but I love these videos that share bits of English trivia and fascinating locations around the island. Thanks!

@spacemanmat 3 года назад

Clearly the point of the proficiency was to get the local council to maintain the bridge properly and I can see it worked.

@whiteroseequestrian1927 3 года назад

Visited here quite a few times. Thank you for featuring it.

@petertr2000 3 года назад

After decades of seeing the road signs for this, we finally popped in a couple of years back. As an attraction its really poor - but the riverside walk is nice. Knaresborough is a lovely town in general though, well worth a visit.