He says he met a lot of people who claims the believe in Yeti. Follow up question should be, did they believe in Yeti before they met Brian? I mean, if a Yeti came up to me and asked me if I believed it was real I would probably say yes.
to the guy who pointed this out (was it Ian Dunne?) Seth Meyers has an internet online inclusive exclusive called Corrections where you will feel right at home with us other jackals.
Strikes me that Dr. James Moffett went to all that trouble because he'd seen how many artifacts almost get broken by the QI team. "Give em the 3D printed copy".
The book doesn't actually give Frankenstein's creation a name. At one point, when talking to Dr. Frankenstein, he refers to himself as "the Adam of your labors." But that Biblical reference certainly doesn't mean he considered Adam to be his own true name. On the other hand, the full title of the novel is "Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus," which has led some people to the even more confounding assertion that the monster should be called Prometheus (even though the analogy in the title is clearly to Frankenstein, not the monster). In the book, he is referred to by many terms, including "monster" as well as "creature," "daemon," "ogre," etc. He has no proper name. His anonymity reflects an essential part of his character as entirely new and indescribable, not fully human, and impossible to fit into society. The error of referring to the monster itself as "Frankenstein" (either due to having not read the book or due to the presumption that the creation would take his "father's" surname) apparently happened very quickly after the publication of the novel, even before the first stage adaptations.
Am I right in remembering that the book also never states that the creature is made of old body parts? I seem to recall that Shelly describes him disecting body parts to learn their working and then improving on them, but then never recording the process so that other scientists may not repeat his mistakes.
Also Um Actually in the book _Frankenstein; or the Modern Prometheus_ Victor Frankenstein isn't a doctor. He studies natural philosophy (the closest thing they had to studying science at the time) but never graduates.
I remember the fiji mermaid from an episode of Fortean TV back in the 90s. Inspired some fabulous childhood nightmares for me and my brother. Good times.
Technically the question Sandy asked in the follow-up episode wasn't "what road had the hairy hand on it" but rather "what road did *you say* it was on.". So even if his comment the first time got the road wrong, repeating the same wrong answer when asked to tell her what *he said* is correct. I mean it's a pedantic quibble but it's appropriate to make that minor quibble when the question in the first place was being pedantic, but was pedantically wrong.
@@goldenpony822 not impossible but highly unlikely. The mountain gorilla was only discovered 100 years ago but people also weren’t actively searching for it for tens of years and technology has come a long way since then. It’s not that people couldn’t find the mountain gorilla, it’s just that no one was looking for it. If Europeans had travelled to the area earlier, they likely would of found it much earlier but there wasn’t many Europeans visiting that area and it was the Europeans who were “discovering” it. Local people likely knew about them for a long time but they had no reason to research them. But thousands of people have tried looking for a yeti or a Sasquatch or anything like that and no one has found any solid evidence of their existence. 100 years ago the world was still not well connected, information was not easily shared. But nowadays we have phones with cameras and the internet. It was easy to miss things 100 years ago because you don’t know what going on on the other side of the world but now we can learn what’s happening anywhere instantly. A yeti is apparently huge, it would not be easy to miss. Hundreds of people have apparently seen these creatures but no one has ever gotten solid evidence? Droppings? A dead body? Actual clear photos? No one has ever gotten this stuff despite so many people seeing one and so many people actually searching for them. Lots of people have claimed to see them which means their hypothetical habitat must not be far from humans. Yet we never actually find any sign of them. People are apparently seeing them but there is no evidence they have ever been in the area they were apparently seen. It’s not a one off, they are apparently see. In these areas frequently so they must live nearby but nothing has ever been found when people look. It is extremely unlikely. The amount of people who have claimed to see one just makes it more unlikely.
@@goldenpony822 also, what are the chances that there are numerous big hairy human like creatures across the world and we missed all of them? There are apparently multiple species across the globe and we’ve never found any of them. Of course we have found apes but they are still very different to these hairy giants. These giants are always bipedal and much larger than apes. What’s the chance there are numerous giant bipedal primates across the globe and we missed all of them? Surely we would of discovered at least one species if they were all real. So maybe they’re not all real but one might be. But if the majority of them are fake, isn’t it weird how different cultures across the world independently came up with these stories? It’s almost like it’s just a common story for humans to come up with, like dragons. And if that’s the case then surely the last one is probably just made up too? If humans are likely to come up with stories about these creatures then isn’t it more likely for the last one too also be fake considering we have no proof of it’s existence? People like to say that because multiple independent communities have stories about these creatures then that makes it more likely to be real but in reality it makes it more likely to be false. These people may life in different parts of the world but we are all still humans that share the same brain. We are likely to come up with the same ideas. There are multiple cases of mythical creatures that are alike to ones from other countries. A big hairy man isn’t that creative of a creature. It’s not hard for someone else to also come up with that idea for a story to tell their kids. But it is hard for a large creature to spread across multiple continents (presumably the same way we reached the lands as most descriptions seem to describe them as primates so they assumably also came from Africa) and we somehow completely missed them except for the random encounter that no one can seem to actually prove happened. Sorry, I wrote a lot. I just read your comment and my brain just kept thinking and I needed to write these thoughts down. These argument’s aren’t really for you as you don’t seem to be a hard believer in them being real but my brain kept thinking of arguments and I couldn’t let them just go to the abyss. These arguments needed to be written down. I need someone to know how easy it was for me to just think of all these arguments against Bigfoot or the abominable snowman on the spot which proves just how fake they are because even a regular person like me can easily find so many arguments against them so quickly. Any theory with real traction shouldn’t be be able to be disproven so easily.
At first I didn’t know who Brian Blessed was, but when I heard him talk about Gorillas 8:23 and instantly recognised him as the voice of Clayton from Tarzan
@enkisdaughter4795 Or the hand from the old film, aptly named, 'The Hand', in which a man is in an accident and has his hand cut off just above the wrist. The hand comes back to haunt him. I watched it years ago. I was sitting on the floor, back against a chair, knees pulled up to my chin and my head was resting in my hands on top of my knees. Just as the hand was about to get the man, my brother (who had been out but came in through the back door) put his hand upon my shoulder to let me know he was home - I screamed so loudly!! 🤣🤣
Brian Blessed’s voice just makes him seem like he knows everything, I instantly want to just believe everything he says because he says it with such conviction and he just sounds like a professor. He started making me believe maybe the yeti could be real and then I snapped out of it and remembered that’s absurd. He has a voice that convince anyone of anything. He could totally start a cult if he wanted to.
@@MrDJAK777 - I'm counting on Bigfoot/Yeti having sense enough to stay out of our way. After all, if they've made it to 2021 without being found or caught, they're probably brighter than we are, no? It's either that or they just don't exist. * shrug *
I'd have loved Brian Blessed talking more about hairy men in the woods! I wonder if he's been to find Sasquatch (Bigfoot) too. So many people say they've seen them.
I wish all people of authority sounded like Brian Blessed. That way when someone in government or a boss at work screws everything up for everyone you could take solace that their voice assures you that no one would have done a better job.
I'm gonna be the buzzkill. Every culture has their dragons. Every culture has their vampires. Every culture has their geists. Doesn't mean any of them exist.
Difference is that they all have fantastical powers. Sasquatch/Yeti are pretty much just big apes. They might not exist, but then again they might. An undiscovered species of great ape with a knack for stealth seems very believable--mundane, even.
Also, "sort of human but bigger and more hairy" is pretty much how most of the great apes look. Seeing something like that in the distance would give rise to all kinds of stories. It's also such a very basic thing to make up. "Imagine something just like people but bigger" is basic enough for lots of cultures to invent it independently.
Yeah considering we have bipedal hairy apes, it makes sense that a lot of people would see apes briefly either at distance or through thick forest and think it was larger than it actually was
Um, actually Stephen, Frankenstein’s Monster wasn’t called Adam. He says to Victor after they meet up again “I ought to be thy Adam,” but was referred to more as The Creature than Adam.
But technically the creature was referring to himself, saying he felt he should be called Adam. So you can stretch that to conclude that the creature thought of himself as Adam, even if everyone else didn't call him that. Just another example of how the creature was let down by his daddy and society as a whole, I suppose. Should've got social services involved.
If he called himself Adam is that not good enough. What more are you looking for, did you want a chapter in which he gets his name ratified by deed poll?
@@Alex-cw3rz But he didn't call himself Adam. He compared himself to Adam and by extension Frankenstein to God. The fact that he's nameless is a pivotal part of the story. It's one reason why he can't fit in with human society.
There's a Google drive with all the episodes in their entirety one search away if you wanna cut out the middleman and just watch everything, def worth it if you haven't.
@@enkisdaughter4795 doyle didnt invent the hound though. The legend of a large dog on dartmoor came long before the story. All doyle did was add the mystery part.
Why is he mentioning Bond? There's only been two movies involving people throwing knives in them and one of those had characters who throw knives professionally so would surely know who to do it...
@@pearkore6821 If you haven't already, check him out on a show called "Have I got News for You." Its very much a topical show so some of the jokes may fall short as it is aired weekly, focusing on political and domestic issues in the UK. But, he captured the nation by storm when he hosted it. He was a hit! You'll love it I'm sure.
Josh shouldn't have gotten a klaxon. He *did say* that it was on the B3021. The fact that it isn't (allegedly) on the B3021 is irrelevant, it's accurate that he _said_ it which is what Sandy asked.
I’m sorry, someone cut off the legs of a real hippo to make fake lochness monster prints? Where does one fine a hippo they can cut the legs off of in Scotland?