Sea Monster that sank a German U-boat WWI - Forgotten History 

This was the gulf of Adan stuff right?

Yeah I've seen something on here about this. IIRC, if the claws they found were in proportion with known species of squid, the creature had to have been enormous, the biggest ever seen.

Specifically the rubber parts of the boat which house the radar.

The 1978 USS Stein incident. Ship was testing a towed sonar array when the creature attacked. The sonar was destroyed and the ship suffered significant damage and had to return to San Diego.

Yeah, a giant squid supposedly attacked the USS Stein. There are several youtube videos about it.

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@JohnDoe-gi1vr thanks John, I saw that one after this one

@John Doe where can I find this documentary?

It was not dinosaur or mosasaur, it was a Kraken, an octopus with giga mammoth size than other sea creatures. Its tentacles, can wreck a big boat with just one tentacle hit the boat. None of dinosaur of the sea still live after the tragedy of big doom that wipe out most dinosaur and especially after ice age. Left only Kraken as the king of the ocean. Even US biggest aircraft carrier only 1/20 size of Kraken. So yes it can sunk a submarine.

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Maybe embellishing but I have no doubt that what they saw was real

​@@canadiansoviet again you are calling them liars when they sighted it you didn't. It's always those who were never there busy discrediting the witnesses. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

@@residentidiot9694 Re-read what I wrote

It's always easy to be skeptical when you didn't witness the whole thing yourself, besides people tend to embellish what they saw so the whole liar thing is quite understandable

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It's the O'Bermuda Triangle...

​@@tedthesailor172 thought you said the Obama Triangle

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Well this one is obviously fake. If it was real and they decided to change their story then they wouldn't give such a stupid reason as a power cable to a heater blocking the hatch.

@@melodycentral0007, that's even scarier

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What was it, a giant squid?

@@kevinmalone3210 the silt was pretty bad but what I witnessed was more like a dinosaur that fish.

You were on a tactical diving team at 13 years old?😮

@@anacowa221 that's a great point lol. Typing error :) I'm 71 years old.

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The US Navy knows whats out there, but they ain't telling

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😂 i thought my headphone was broken

As a headphone user, I found the audio mixing unbearable

The true horror in this video was truly the audio mixing 😅

Have to look that up. Thanks for watching

I've heard tales of the scars on the sides of Sperm Whales. The sizes of them were like out of a 1950s science fiction movie.

​@@FORGOTTENHISTORYCHANNEL That was in 1976 The damage was caused to the USS Stein. Giant and Colossal squid do this because of the sonar. They think it's a sperm whale. You can read up on the damage caused in Sea Creatures and the Problem of Equipment Damage found on the usni website.

@@Andulvar The military sonar can cause 140db sound underwater which will damage any living creatures ears if not kill them. The attack could have been a simple act of aggression also.

That there's a story about a certain Jonas in the bible doesn't mean it really happened.

Wow, yes, I'm sure there are plenty of "sea stories" out there. Thanks for the comment

"promptly used for target practice" LOL

@@verticalflyingb737 Well of course! It was in British waters and wasn't flying our flag so had no right to be there! Those sneaky Hun, could have been a U Boat with a rubber head on the periscope - better safe than sorry!

lmao target practice

I hope they didn't allow all that calamari to go to waste.

That myth didnt turn true, thats like saying the yeti myth is real because we discovered gorillas The people that supposedly 'seen' the kraken describe it huge, capable of destroying ships, even swallowing it The colossal and giant squid is nowhere big enough to do those, nor does live in places the kraken supposedly lives in

@@weirdguylol Most people exaggerate what they actually see, but still, a colossal or giant squid could attach to a ship and possibly damage it.

@@weirdguylolyeah they could. They fight sperm whales ffs and you think they couldn’t take down a boat?

@@weirdguylol The largest colossal squids may get to 1,500 pounds/33 feet in length. If one was near the surface and had it's tentacles on a boat you'd never know how large it actually was.

Had to use whatever stock footage was available as there is little from WW I in public domain

A lot of German POWs opted to become citizens of the US or Canada after WW 1 & 2

@ scott foster - May I add to your comment "As far as Sea Monsters go , the Ocean is deep and large . . . . . and our boat is so small ."

​@@FORGOTTENHISTORYCHANNEL then try TROVE. I was proof reader and editor for many documents dating back to 1836. Many u those around WW1 have photos in the articles. It's an Australian site for the government of Queensland. Last time I checked you don't need an account to use it. Start the search under newspapers, then branch out. There's a hell of a lot of information about 2nd W.W. as well. I uncovered many lies about that time but you'll never see that information in the msm. For good reason.

@@FORGOTTENHISTORYCHANNEL 5:50 - And I'm probably the only person that noticed the stock footage for Peter Roper was actually a pic of Mr Roper from 3's Company. Still a great video.

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It was a British cargo ship sunk, there is a documentary about the incident. They interview one of the survivors and he should the scars on his leg from the suckers from the tentacles. For the first couple days of them being in the water, the sharks were picking people off, but on the third day the sharks left and the giant squid showed up. It was found that the color of the 'mae west' life vest (which was red at the time) drew in the squid, the color was changed because of this .

@@johnjinglehimmerschmitt9802 I would love for someone to do a TV show or RU-vid story about it. I remember reading the story in my childhood. Then again a few years back I heard the story.

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Glad it was helpful! It was satire

@@FORGOTTENHISTORYCHANNEL ah- nO SH... sHERLOCK-- SEAMONSTERS SATIRE? wHO WOULD HAVE THUNK??? :)

LOL. Indeed.

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LOL, I couldn't find a picture of Peter Roper so threw in an Easter Egg. Good catch

FORGOTTEN HISTORY, I saw that and was like WTF? Lol.

ME TO, but Santa Cruz California.. I have great respect for the ocean now/or fear, call it what you will...

@@onthecase1002 Yeah, the movie Jaws changed my attitude... Who knows how many big-ass sharks swam right past my dangling legs but weren't interested for whatever reason... Maybe I farted too much and scared 'em away... :) Then they started protecting the seals and the sharks returned. Now it's dangerous as hell!!! But wow man, it's MUCH colder up there in Santa Cruz! You must have Polar Bear blood! More Great White Sharkish too! There's OFTEN blood in the water off the Golden Gate Bridge out by the Farallones.

@@3Sphere I was a kid, Cold was all I knew. 30 years later I made it to Hawaii couldn't beleive it (stayed shallow and buzzed).. South east Asia , very warm too, My Lady dived in off the boat so I dived in too.. Those were the days!!!

@@onthecase1002 Yup. Youth is wasted on the young... :)

@@3Sphere like the song goes.....we're only immortal, for a limited time.

Close, his U boat malfunctioned due to his incompetence.

how could he fail if he had not used single torpedo on his uboat, so your saying he just surrendered without a fight for no reason, a uboat that cant go water in combat is a sitting duck, a uboat is not armored its not built to take damage from ships with artillery.

​@@boyhenyo4431 U-Boats aren't able to survive Sea Monsters either.

Martina - Really? I doubt anyone would be foolish enough to claim something like this unless it actually happened! Worse than ‘the dog ate my homework.’ By the way I think sea monsters could still exist (I believe the Earth is young so it is a reasonable assumption, plus there are many many sightings)

@@markgadsby5568 sightings and evidence are 2 very different things and people are liars. There are no sea monsters (especially ones around with dinosaurs) that we already haven't discovered. 4.3 billion years old may be young on the universal scale but a "young" planet has fuck all to do with potential "sea monsters".

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@@FORGOTTENHISTORYCHANNEL Agreed

Yep....which is that this story is pure fiction and was written in 2005 with no evidence at all to back it up.

@@randomlyentertaining8287 & you know that your source is "fact" how again ?

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Factual, i hate the fact that those brain rot youtube short are always diminishing other peoples attention span i swear to God that i will never go back to that hell hole again, this is more entertaining.

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​@@FORGOTTENHISTORYCHANNEL always a spell check turd somewhere 😂

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Interesting, thanks for watching.

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Uh ok, thanks

would be interesting if the CIA could devote some skilled remote viewers to see what's down there

Yep, the Bible mentions this.

@@aburoach9268 that's a great idea

​@@calicoesblue4703 so it must be false. Thanks

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Yes, our video editor had to use what he could find.

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LOL, good catch. I couldn't find a picture of the actual "Roper" Little Easter egg

I noticed that as well.

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@@FORGOTTENHISTORYCHANNEL Nice! I'll check out a newer video and both ears will get to hear that soothing voice of yours 😄

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Thanks for your service and thanks for watching.

Rhodesian? Man, that was many moons ago!

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@@FORGOTTENHISTORYCHANNEL your welcome. I liked subscribed. Hope it helps. I’ll follow your channel from now on as I follow the “why files” and “down the rabbit hole” 🐇 🕳️ also.

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LOL, good catch

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Mate that lighthouse story has been done to death by so many other narrators- let's not dilute this brand

Indeed.

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Salt water crocodiles have never been that big and have never been found that far out to see

@@kylieknight2365they’ve swam to the US from the AU. But I’d think the waters in the North Sea would be way too cold for them.

What he didn't mention was they found no traces of the story before 2005 on the internet

@@kylieknight2365sea.

Yup

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LOL, couldn't find a picture of Peter Roper

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What is the Bloop?

i looked it up and nothing about sea monsters are mentioned. it just got destroyed.

LOL. One of my favorite shows growing up

@@FORGOTTENHISTORYCHANNEL That totally reveals our age you know. ,😆 ah well.

Limited footage of ww1 u-boats, we use what's available. Thanks for watching

@@FORGOTTENHISTORYCHANNEL AH isn't a U-boat of any vintage.

Indeed what had happened.

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Sorry, I'm not a paleontologist

But wouldnt the ping from the sonar scare a whale away??

I'm not sure what you mean, but thanks for watching.

@@FORGOTTENHISTORYCHANNEL My headset also only had your audio coming in on the left ear, nothing on the right

@@FORGOTTENHISTORYCHANNEL Same for me too

What your right ear virgin?

LOL. Yeah, but unfortunately...

But why would a Captain of a submarine, jerry rig wires going through a hatch, knowing full well that would compromise any waterproofing. Like if the Nazis were all so stupid, then there wouldn't have been a WW2. I think this story was made up, by this guy on You Tube who didn't do any research, and wants to get views quickly. 😂

Verbatim, I swear on the Bible.

I thank him for his service. Thanks for the sub!

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Speak in morse code - like dots and dashes??

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Yup, probably took a bullet

Same as Admiral Villeneuve who commanded the French/Spanish fleet at Trafalgar - was taken alive and spent some time in England where he gave his parole and was allowed complete freedom of movement. A year later he was returned to France and whilst on his way to see Napoleon committed 'suicide' by stabbing himself to death (six times in the left lung and once through the heart).

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Not worth it. The "haunting" goes back to a journalist from Austria who wrote about it in the 90s, Viktor Farkas was his name. He made that whole story up. EDIT: btw, the correct designation is not "UB-65" but "SM U 65" (Seiner Majestät Unterseeboot 65). Our U-boats just have the callsign "U", because "Unterseeboot" is one word, and "U-Boot" is just the shortened version / military-slang. EDIT 2: ... there have been both designations, "U" and "UB", although I have no idea what the "B" refers to. "UG"-class also was planned.

@@zahgurim7838 Thanks for the information. It's too bad, I was really liking the story. The fact that a diver actually died not long ago trying to reach the wreck only added a level of morbidity to it.

@@jamiemerian9736 I was not aware of the diver, but I guess that more likely happened due to the dangers of wreck diving and has nothing to do with any kind of "curse". Well, to my surprise (while doing more research on the topic) I found out that I was WRONG: there were indeed TWO classes of submarines in service of the Reichsmarine with SAME numbers, and one class actually HAD the designation "UB". ("UB"-series was developed as small single-hull-class for coastal waters, but later became a "full size" submarine with two hulls. They kept the designation "UB" for ...reasons (?) ) So SM U 65 and SM UB 65 are two DIFFERENT ships and I had to research it all again :) ...and I guess that's HOW the "mystery" started: the data of both submarines seem to have gotten mixed up. Here is what I found: Official data of SM U 65, taken from historical german sources: - launched 21st of March 1916 (Baunummer/number 249) in Kiel (not Belgium as stated by Farkas), Germaniawerft - entered service at May 11th 1916 - commanders: -Hermann von Fischel (May 1916 - July 1918), Kapitänleutnant -Gustav Siess (August - September 1918), Kapitänleutnant (not to be confused with Gustav Sieß, commander of U 73 and U 33) -Clemens Wickel (September - October 1918), Kapitänleutnant - part of IV. U-Boot-Flottille till November 1916 (North Sea), later part of U-Flottille Mittelmeer (Mediterranean Sea) - participated in 11 operations/missions with a total of 48 ships (77.715 BRT/tons) of other nations sunk, including "Athos" (France) and "Caledonia" (Great Britain) - Selbstversenkung (self-sinking) 29th of October 1918 to avoid being captured by enemy near the coast of Croatia, no casualties among the crew Official data of SM UB 65, taken from same sources as mentioned above: - launched 26th of July 1917 (number unknown) in Hamburg (still not Belgium), AG Vulcan Stettin Werft - entered service at August 18th 1917 - commander: -Martin Schelle, Kapitänleutnant - part of V. U-Boot-Flottille till April 1918, later part of II. U-Boot-Flottille till July 1918 - participated in 6 operations/missions with a total of 9 ships (22.461 BRT/tons) of other nations sunk including "Arbutus" (Great Britain) and "Maria Jose" (Portugal). - Auf See vermisst (MIA at sea) until 2003 (after Farkas already had written his book); found near Cornwall, GB, crew of 34 assumed dead The fact that UB 65 had only one commander throughout its time of service, but U 65 had three might be the key to the origin of the ghost story. Both submarines had no casualties among officers and there are no clues about "unusual high numbers of" casualties among the crew either prior to their sinking. The officers on U 65 changed due to normal causes, promotions, health reasons, etc.; but UB 65 indeed was lost in an accident (assumed). I believe the changes in command of U 65 have been assigned to UB 65, due to confusion between the two different classes. The "Maria Jose" for example was sunk by UB 65 4 days AFTER UB 65 allegedly was sunk by an exploding torpedo onboard, so this part of the story is made up, too. Truth is we don't know what exactly happened to UB 65, but it never had a change of command. We also know exactly what happened to U 65 and it had 3 changes of command. Mix up both facts and you'll get an excellent ghost story...

@Zah Gurim While I don't have the time now, I'd be curious to see what info is on the condition of the wreck. Given the age though, I'm not sure if much could be told. . .

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LOL, found the Easter Egg!

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Had a wild imagination?

Well that's a better excuse than the U-boat that sunk its self when they flushed the toilet

Sailors know what a walrus is.

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Yes. A large walrus is very capable of dragging down a sub and withstanding concentrated small arms fire.

⁠@@artoo36 or an elaphant seal, those things are massive

@@d33738 Lol. I was being sarcastic.

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