After researching and investigating cryptids for forty years, it's rare that I come across one I haven't heard before. This is one of those times. I'll probably spend the rest of today doing it. Thanks buddy! I love this stuff!
The Angola Horror wasn't a simple derailing. It was due to inconsistent rail gauge widths in the United States in 1867 and that trains with "compromise cars" were routinely allowed to traverse them. So New York Central operated the the usual 4 ft 8+1⁄2 in gauge but the cars were allowed to go on other tracks with the slightly smaller width of the Lake Shore Railroad in Ohio since their "compromise cars" used a special wheel axle that had a mechanism that would allow them to change width with the different track gauges. In this case the NY Central New York Express train of four baggage cars, one second class car and three first-class cars were on their way from Cleveland, Ohio to Buffalo, NY. At about mid-afternoon, the train crossed a "frog", that is a railroad track junction switch, which allows trains to switch tracks and in doing so it apparently damaged the axle mechanism of the rear car and the car derailed, swinging wildly side-to-side. The brakes of the train were quickly applied, but it was too late and as the train crossed the bridge, the rear car decoupled and fell down into the icy gorge, another car also derailed. But fortunately, it managed to roll across the bridge and into an embankment. Only one passenger died in that car, but the car that crashed in the gorge caught fire when the stoves came loose allowing the hot coals to spill, setting everything ablaze, and things only were made even worse by the kerosene spilled from broken lamps. Only two people made it out alive, the other 48 were burned alive for a total of 49 dead from the two cars. The reforms that followed led to standardized track gauges, more secure heating and lighting systems, and faster braking mechanisms.
Another great video Jacob! I think the "Pig Man" goes back centuries in pagan cultures, from Roman to the Saxons, and maybe we all have an ancestral memory of it :)
Motel Hell not Hotel Hell. It takes all kinds of critters to make Farmer Vincent's fritters. Although Texas Chainsaw Massacre never had a pig man, the sequel involved the same family who sold barbecue. It was made using the other white meat, and I'm not talking about pork.
YES! Love these videos! Can you do the Jersey Devil? My boyfriend and I went looking when we were 17. Couldn't find the house but got lots of stories from the locals. It was fun! ❤❤❤
I loved the video! This reminded me of the first Carpet Bagger video that I ever watched about the Popelick Monster. I'd really like to see more like this. 👍 👍
Carpetbagger and Jen are so wholesome and precious together ❤ side note: growing up in northern ohio there's an legend around of the "melon heads" from Dr Crowes Orphange/Tower, not many people have heard of it , i always thought my dad made them up to scare me but there is a wikipedia page lol
Yes I would like to see more explores. I love history and legends and folklore. I believe every legend and folk tale has a beginning in a true happening. It would be cool to Unravel the truth from the legend.
speculation on my part, but maybe pig man horror is rooted in the fact that pigs will eat people if given the opportunity and there's that subversion of an animal we typically eat eating people.
So when I was a kid, maybe 7 or 8, I had this 'nightmare' that these 'pig men' were sqeeling and snoring before jumping through my windows. I woke up screaming my head off! It has stuck with me till this day! P.S. I grew up in a city within 'The Bridgewater Triangle' in Massachusetts so alot of cryptics have been seen!
I actually drove through that tunnel few weeks back visiting friends that lives in the area..i knew nothing of the history or story about this train tunnel at the time, it definitely has a weird vibe feeling there and to add to it the tunnel is only wide enough for one vehicle to pass through it ..that to me is unsafe I'm surprised there not alot of head on Collisions in there. But great video, thanks for sharing!
🤣🐖🐷😹 That was hilarious Jacob 🌟 Yes, please do more videos like this 🤞 I am from NJ originally and I would love to see anything about the Jersey Devil 👿 my grandmother had a great creepy story about being chased by it as a child 🙀 Thank You for being so brave 🦁 and You too Jenn 💖🦁😻🙏💝
I think it would also be fun to see you go to places that are haunted or have paranormal stuff that happens love seeing things like that. When i was around 7 i got a potbelly pig had him for a little over 5 years sad to say he got stomach cancer and passed away 😢😢😢
I grew up 20 minutes from here, and spent many october nights driving down that road. Definitely a creepy place. I never heard that he was deformed, or a hybrid half pig, half man. Just a butcher who put pig heads on spikes to keep people away from his land (and later slaughtered people wearing a pigs head as a mask). It is said to be haunted by the victims of the train accident as well, which was in the 1860's. The pigman story wasn't around for another 100 years or so
Sure, i'd like to see some local legend content. That being said: 1. Be careful. Beware of uneven terrain, potentially crazy local people, narrow roads, bad juju that makes your spidey senses tingle. 2. I figure you're all set already, in the sense that, for years you have been doing what you do so well. You have a good eye for new ideas and always provide viewers with a variety of subject matter, so we stay interested.
Absolutely loved this video, please do them more! It was awesome running into you at Hallowscream in Tampa - From the tall bearded guy with my short wife. Thanks Jacob!
I think that's awesome that you mentioned Motel Hotel. A schlocky but fun little horror film that i had seen at the drive-in many years ago. I wonder if that scene you mentioned was inspired by the Pigman legend
Hey Jacob, thanks for another awesome video! Hey can you check out Clinton rd , New Jersey. The legend of the phantom black pick up truck at late dark hours.😮
You two are adorable. Y'know, I was genuinely nervous but only because you were sitting with a completely dark car in a single lane tunnel at night. That could backfire pretty severely.
I wonder if that is the inspiration for Professor Pyg in the Batman Comics? I do love folklore, Urban Legends ECT. Michigan is full of strange Stories, the Dogman and the Melon Heads immediately come to mind.
I love vids like this! This was fun and informative. You and Jen are very brave for going there at night!😊 Also, the horrendous squealing makes me want to cry cringe. lol
I am also petrified of Poltergeist 😆 I was shown it on New Year's Eve as a young kid and it traumatized me for years. I still can't look at imagery from the movie without getting some chills.
I think of it like a man wearing a mask of a real pigs face. Who slaughters people along with pigs. A disturbed person. Sounds completely terrifying to me.
This is a local legend that occurred in Angola/ town of Evan’s New York. Categorized as an urban legend, honestly the story’s beginning was Angelo Pignati, an elderly widower. The story has been written and rewritten so many times, the true story was lost. Some say Pigman was a butcher and has the taste for blood. For me I am from Hamburg the town to the north. I grew up in the 1960s and 70s, never heard of it. There was a novel that was published on the pigman story. Angola was settled in the early 1800s and the railroad came through in 1852 and in 1867 was a train wreck in 1867. In the past 200 years anything could have happened. With television, it was a new way to say boo! Most communities will have urban legends, I have always like reading about Urban Legends, their origins, but I dismiss many because many are explained. With Sasquatch young people are drawn into it easily. I knew of this teenager that said she was on Clinton Road in New Jersey. That’s an interesting story where this old pickup will chase unsuspecting cars. Many of these stories can be explained. I believe there was a Mr Pignati, he lived a long time ago, was a character and died.
Look up the Claw of Zoar Valley New York. He supposedly lived in the woods of my Grandfather’s farm and the neighbors farm. Springville New York and Cattaraugus county. Bunch of legends down there.
Resurrection Cemetery in Justice, IL is home to the famous Resurrection Mary Ghost. Would be cool to see you explore that area. Also, in a nearby cemetery is the grave of Maurice Tillet AKA The French Angel in Profesional Wrestling. The man who Sherk was based on.
I would love to see more of those videos about cryptids and other folklores ^^ I'm not from america and would love to learn more about them . We got pigmans in our haunted houses over here in germany with a butcher knife in his hand xD and now I know why xD
