I know you’re reading this but you said you were gonna do the ping pong on your eyes and static noise, the gantzfeld experiment and you lied about doing it
@@jillianc7485 Mr. Goon sounds like a generic villain that gets introduced in the first few episodes of a show just to be used as a tool to show how powerful the main cast is.
I have a possible explanation regarding the “lost island” at 41:30. A lot of cartographers would put fake islands on their maps as a way of watermarking their work. If another cartographer created a map and included that island, the original artist would be able to point at the fake island and say “hey I made this island up, so I have proof that you stole my work.” I’m guessing it was a watermark that spiraled into a bigger lie
This probably is true as alot of cartographers up till the 18th century often just relied on other maps to plot their own map rather than actually doing their own research.
The "funny" thing about colossal squids is that an adult specimen has never actually been identified, which brings up the possibility that only adolescents specimens go to the surface once in a while and REALLY giant specimens are only found right at the bottom of the ocean.
@@100organicfreshmemes5 i think it is because some of the beaks we have found in the stomachs of sperm whales are bigger than any of the beaks we have found on any other specimens. So we know there are bigger ones but we havent actually seen them
When asked why he didn't want to serve on a submarine, a naval officer once answered: "There is a law of nature that says what goes up must always come down, but there's no such law of nature that says what goes down must always come up."
Weather is terrifying, but ESPECIALLY on the ocean. There’s an area where there’s literally no wind, just a completely dead zone of ocean, that’s doomed so many ships and crews. The idea of a completely still ocean is horrifying to me.
I love that Wendi used a frilled shark as an example for a giant monster's face but they're actually 6ft long and I personally think they're look dumb as rocks and are adorable
Sure till one BITES you! Once THOSE teeth sink in good luck getting away! THAT is the craziest set of chompers I've ever seen, makes the mouth of a Boa look like a toothless old granny!
Police: "So these three guys all disappeared in a middle of a boating trip, what do you think happened?" Coroner: "Have you ever watched Final Destination?"
Obviously what happened to the Mary Celeste is that they were waylaid by pirates, ordered to use the lifeboat to board the pirates ship, and then before the pirates could search the Mary Celeste, they were attacked by a Kraken.
@@hegemonious Thats bullshit but I believe you. Because it was shown to me in a dream. I believe the one who showed it to me in the dream is in the room with us right now. I heard it whisper "trust me"
As an ocean-fearing environment enthusiast, it’s like ‘i know so much abt the ocean! i’ll do what i can to help it! from my couch! in my living room! fuck the ocean that shits wack!!!’
the sea helps the land and the atmosphere but absolutely nothing else, but our precious dirt is so important to us that we must help with a thing that tries to kill us anytime we go near it. Personally I am fascinated with the ocean and if somebody was to ask me if I had a fear of the sea I would say no, technically that would be incorrect because I am scared of the majority of the sea it’s just the shallow parts and the parts I can see with my own two eyes I do not fear
Literally had a heart attack I was like what are these freaks doing out there and then he went "it was used to measure the water level" and I was like oop. Well. Okay then.
I think I like that better than "Massive Squid". Imagine being stranded and thinking "finally, land!" And you crawl onto it...but it's slimy and scaly and suddenly it's arisen out of the water and wailing at you.
When I was young growing up in a island in Greece, I would sit in a port at night fishing with my dad, looking at the Aegean. I was awestruck with the endless black sea at night and remember talking with my dad about those men, especially in ancient times, traveling the sea in wooden ships, days and nights, sailing to who knows where, and that they were the most courageous people in the history of humanity... Sea is frightening indeed
A comforting thought about what might be living deep in the ocean is that, if it lives really deep, like Mariana’s Trench deep, then it wouldn’t be able to reach the surface without dying, as it’s internal fluids would be at the same pressure as it’s natural habitat, meaning it would burst if it ever came close to the surface
idk, if I was swimming above the Marianas Trench and knew there was something big below me, I would be terrified regardless if it could reach me or not.
@@dolantrumf well at least you can safely swim around knowing no matter how strong it is It can never reach to you But it would probably be extremely freaky to just see a giant leviathan tentacle float up to you, being cut off by the water pressure
finally, someone who acknowledges this lmao. most deep sea creatures remain lethargic because its a lot harder to get sustainable energy. and like you said, if it does try to surface, if the organism has a swim bladder, it'll burst because the pressure change is too extreme.
It's the fear of discovering a dead leviathan, by far larger than anything found before, with a bite mark through it's rotting flesh, from a creature much, much bigger.
I think it's important to mention that since this was posted, rogue waves have been proven true. A wave was measured by a deepwater research facility that was many times higher than the theoretical maximum size a wave could get, and would create enough pressure to break a steel-hulled ship in half. I specifically think this could've happened at the lighthouse, even if it wasn't what killed them
@@strawberrylotlizard rogue waves aren't like tsunamis, they can rise up, kick ass, and then just as suddenly sink back into the sea. it wouldn't necessarily ever make it to the shore, and even if it did, it wouldn't have the same effects as a tsunami would. this is even assuming someone on the shore was looking out at the exact right time to have seen it, if it did arrive at the shore at all. ultimately, jej9594 is right - the island would have broken up the wave no matter how big the wave was, preventing it from continuing on to the coast. we also have to remember that in weather conditions bad enough to produce a rogue wave, visibility would be atrocious. you'd be lucky if you could see ten feet in front of you, and i'm pretty sure the shore wasn't a mere ten feet away from the lighthouse. "close to the coast" is a very nebulous description, and being able to see the lighthouse from the shore doesn't really narrow down that exact distance either since a large, tall structure like a lighthouse would be visible for quite a distance out. so, hypothetically a rogue wave could have formed close to the lighthouse, smashed into the island and the dock, subsequently broken up, and never reached the mainland. then, because of poor visibility, even assuming someone was looking out at the lighthouse at the time, they would be very unlikely to notice or even see the wave form and strike. it's a very plausible hypothesis in my opinion, certainly more so than supernatural phenomena or ocean dwelling cryptids.
@@Darkfyyre so it grows up right before the island destroyed part of the island took the guys away and then disappeared without anybody noticing it on land less than a mile away
For the missing island I’ve got a theory, maps nowadays have fake places that can be a whole village on the map that doesn’t actually exist, all so they can identify if someone’s copied righted their map. What’s to say that they didn’t do the same?
Everything about the ocean is terrifying. I hate the idea of swimming in the abyss and seeing a shark emerge from the darkness towards me, or man-made structures sitting at the bottom, or a simple black void. It's all scary, yet amazing.
I was never scared of the ocean until my cousin let me join him for a short sailing trip in the deep ocean. we slowed down and he let me swim and I grabbed some goggles. I looked down expecting a world of stuff and instead I saw nothing, just black in every direction. I thought "yeah I guess that makes sense" but then the bottom shadow *moved* slightly and that would have been a massive creature so I just noped out of the water
Something else to consider about the Mary Celeste, nowadays, when your ship is sinking, most people's first instinct is to hop into a lifeboat and bail. Back then it was a different story. Lifeboats were very dangerous, and helpless out in open ocean. Generally, people only got in lifeboats if they believed the ship was absolutely beyond saving, a final hail Mary. Even by 1912, people on Titanic were hesitant to get into the lifeboats at first. That's one of the reasons why so many were launched half full. They couldn't find anyone else willing to get in. The thought process was "why would I leave this big, safe, warm ocean liner to get into that dinky little rowboat?" Once it became clear that the ship was doomed, then people rushed into what little lifeboats that were left. There are many stories where ships begin to sink and send off the women and children in the lifeboats, only for the rough Seas to completely overtake the lifeboat and kill everyone. Meanwhile, the ship stays afloat long enough for rescue to arrive, and the only casualties came from attempting escape in the lifeboat. So for the crew of the Mary Celeste to not only get in the lifeboat in the first place, but also cut the rope, whatever it was they were facing must have been DIRE. Unless you are 100% absolutely sure your ship is completely beyond hope, the ship is safer than the lifeboats. At least, Pre-Titanic lifeboats. Modern lifeboats are safe.
What if a well timed explosion? Say the vessel just barely scraped over a sandbar or something right as there was an explosion making a gentle thud that wasn't really more than a nuisance but a horrendous noise that made it sound like the whole damn hull was being ripped apart.
@@joshuaroefs9279 Wouldn't the sailors check to make sure everything was alright before bailing, though? Jumping ship over a loud noise seems premature.
@@joshuaroefs9279 even if they did do this, they'd watch the ship from a distance for a while to see if it sinks before being like "huh I guess it wasn't that bad after all" and then row back to check They cut the lifeboat, yeah, but that doesn't mean they can't get back on the ship So the harmless but scary explosion explanation doesn't make sense
Well if it makes you feel better that part probably didn't happen. None of the original accounts mention those details and it doesn't really make sense that it would be included in an official logbook. The first time it's mentioned is 10 years after the event in a Hearst paper, not exactly a super reliable source..
I believe, with all my being, that THIS is the most profound and terrifying Tag-line to a documentary on the evolution of deep sea life that there ever will be produced
I'm so glad to know that I'm not the only person terrified of the power of the ocean. It can just wipe out 300,000 people at once, or drag a ship to it's depths.
For the Mary Celeste, what if the crew noticed that there was a large buildup of fumes from the alcohol? In that case, I could imagine the captain ordering everyone onto a lifeboat to wait until it either exploded or dissipated. Possibly, they decided to use only one lifeboat out of laziness or urgency, not wanting to bother with lowering and raising multiple boats. In their haste, they cut the rope, and intend to stay close to the ship, but somehow are unable to and end up drifting away.
Maybe the reason a rope was in the water was because someone dove in to grab their drifting lifeboat and pull them back to the ship after someone cut the rope like a dummy. They probably lost their grip on the rope and ended up watching their ship slowly sail away. Leaving them stranded
@@pasqualecurry7773 I bet you're a conservative. Are you a conservative? (I say that because you seem to have totally missed that they were making a [very obvious] joke and instead used it to make a point. And as we all know, conservatives are notorious for having no sense of humor, so I thought that might be you)
@@idontwantahandlethough hell yeah. Trump and guns and God and all that. BIG conservative. I got a room where I used Ben Shapiro posters instead of wallpaper.
Imagine how confusing we land creatures are to ocean creatures. Giant squid: "Hey dude, did you know that that sandy dirt stuff at the bottom of the ocean actually goes ABOVE the water in some places? And weird creatures live on it and walk around on legs. For realz" Megladon: "We talked about lying for attention, Tim."
The fact that the American ship shot at and chased a sea monster is the most American thing I've ever heard makes me proud and brings a tear to me eye . Also makes me think of that south park meme I didn't hear no bell
@@johng8837 I was skating by the bay and Flo-Rida was performing when suddenly, he stopped to cultily yell U S A, U S A for a few minutes. This place is hell.
@@privateemail9755 Then move and stop complaining. You're literally complaining about your country on yt while North Koreans don't even know what internet is
Referring to the Kaz 2, as someone who has jumped off the side of a 25' boat into a lake, without a life vest, as a joke.... I think people seriously underestimate just how fast small boats are, even at a low throttle. I almost died that day. Less than 10 seconds after jumping into the water, the boat was well out of my swimming range. Took about 45 seconds for my friend to slow down and turn the boat around. At that point, it would have taken me at least 15 minutes to swim that far. And then came the wakes. Hitting me in the face. Choking me. Pushing me farther away. Took them 45 seconds to turn around, and another 3 minutes to come back for me at a safe speed. By the time they reached me, I was so panicked I was about to go under. Now, I go out on the lake pretty often. I jump off the side of a stationery boat without a vest and tread water all the time for more than 3 minutes. But jumping off a moving boat is way different. I'll never do it again. Not even with a vest
What scares me is the fact that stuff can actually exist in such a hostile environment. Makes me look weak with my dependance on sunlight, fresh water, air, steam summer sales....
To be fair, both of you would die if your roles were reversed. You would drown, and the sea creature would suffocate. They depend on literally always being submerged in water, whereas humans can be in the water for prolonged periods of time without much negative consequence.
I heard a really good theory about the Mary Celest once, the ship stunk of alcohol and was carrying ethanol. If one of the barrels broke, the ship may have been full of noxious fumes. If the air on the ship was becoming intolerable due to the broken barrel, the captain and crew may have gone on a life boat simply to let the ship air out. the life boat would be tied to the ship so they culled pull themselves back after a few hours. If the rope was not properly secure, the life coat would not be able to catch back up with full sail ship. There was a missing life boat and a single rope trailing in the water behind the ship when it was found. 1 not coming undone might have doomed the entire crew of the Mary Celest.
wow i hate that, i can't imagine the fear and horror as you realise you're going to die. floating in the ocean, no food to eat and no water to drink even though you're surrounded by it. i also don't want to imagine being the dude who fucked up the knot lmao, what a fucking way to go
Huh. Sounds reasonable. There are of course a few concessions like it not being likely that the ENTIRE crew would pile into a single life boat and leave the ship without even a skeleton crew. Granted it could have just been a moment of high stupidity and confidence that nothing would go wrong. Also the rope being cut but i can see someone being crazy enough to do that and doom the whole crew and passengers.
I can't remember where I read this theory, but I recall someone saying that a likely explanation for the Mary Celeste is that a large vapor explosion happened in the lower decks, and the crew get on the lifeboat not to escape, but just to sit somewhere in open air without any fumes, basically being towed behind the ship while it aired out. The theory posited that they had every intention of returning to the ship, but the rope connecting the lifeboat snapped, and they drifted out into open water with no way to return to the Mary Celeste - hence them leaving their personal belongings behind. If that is what happened, I can't imagine how horrifying it must have been for the crew to watch helplessly as their ship drifted away from them and they were left to die of starvation out at sea. EDIT: also, I'm probably not the first to mention this, but the bloop has been explained. It was a massive ice shelf in the arctic breaking off and falling into the sea. The section that fell off was so huge that multiple hydrophones picked it up.
On the Mary Celeste, that makes sense. I figured it had something to do with the fumes from the alcohol as soon as I heard what the cargo was, though a rope snapping and being cut look noticeably different. On the Bloop... that's just what they want you to think lol. Do you really think they would tell us if they found Cthulu? All of the sailors on cargo vessels would quit immediately and we wouldn't be able to ship any goods! The arctic ice shelf just sounds too convenient an explanation, especially since it fits nicely in with global warming narratives🤔
Not sure if ice vibrates in the same way as a set of vocalisations do. Ice quakes are typically a series of sharp, creaking pops. The bloop is like a huge, long undulation and much less like a creaky pop.
Hearing the story of the Celeste right after the mass hysteria iceberg has me thinking that the crew hallucinated something and just tried to jump ship.
DAILY FUN FACT! About the first ship, there IS a phenomenon that causes people to leave the boat. It's basically a bout of anxiety about being in the middle of the ocean, with no land on sight, that makes people get off the boat. Just like that. They don't care there's no land on sight, the anxiety of being in the middle of the ocean is such that they simply want out. They pack everything, leave everything neatly placed as if they were leaving the appartment they rented for the holidays, grab their stuff and exit the boat... In the middle of the ocean. And the worst thing is that they seem so calm and rational that there might be no way of telling beforehand, so you only find out when you wake up one day and find yourself alone in the boat. It happens even to experienced sailors, and it's pretty much the equivalent to the hallucinations that happen in the middle of snowstorms in extreme climates (the 8000m peaks, the south pole...) and that causes people to just untie themselves from lifelines and willingly wander off (and in the mountains, fall down) never to be seen again. Sooooo yeah...
I actually saw someone make an educated guess that the ethanol mixed with something else and created toxic fumes that might’ve been in someway harmful to the crew. Either way, they all definitely died in the lifeboat, be it from whatever happened on the ship or from a wave flipping the boat over and drowning them.
Wendigoon: "-a sounding rod-" Me: "I know what that is!" W: "-a device used to measure water depth-" Me: "Oh that's... That's not what I was thinking of."
As someone that got certified as a scuba diver at 15 and did numerous dives on the continental drop off down in Mexico in the atlantic, it was life changing and awe inspiring looking into the black depths that looked as endless as it did beautiful. Yet the true terror was renting malfunctioning scuba gear.
Hell NO! deep dark water scares the crap outa me. And I live on a tiny island, surrounded by the North Sea with a long lineage of sea farimg men! I'll go in up to my crotch in CLEAR water and nothing more! Shudder
The thing about the islands disappearing is actually due to cartographic errors. Its was very commonplace back then to add little fakeouts on ones own maps to avoid people copying them. Things like fake little islands, inexistent roads or small mountains were added as a way to identify fake copies of said maps. This however worked too well and many maps are actually copies of copies of copies of very old maps that originally had said things. There are several examples and they are commonly referred to as "trap streets". Look up Agloe, New York
It might be that but there was a case of Sannikov Land, the island that disappeared in less then 100 years. Yeah, that was in Arctica and there are not mystical explanations of what could have happened to it, but nevertheless, it really disappeared.
Not just to avoid plagiarism but also sometimes cartographers didn't actually go to those places, they relied on second hand accounts from sailors and the likes, and either due to exaggeration or misidentification they added or removed zones. These are called phantom islands
i was watching this with a friend, and he told me we’ve never even found an adult colossal squid before. we’ve only seen baby or adolescent ones, which is clear due to underdeveloped reproductive systems as well as remains of colossal squids being far larger than any we’ve discovered. with the adolescents being so enormous, it’s totally possible the myths of the kraken or other insanely large ocean creatures could’ve stemmed from something like an adult colossal squid, it’s pretty cool to think about
from Wikipedia "The first specimens were discovered and described in 1925. In 1981, an adult specimen was discovered, and in 2003 a second specimen was collected. Captured in 2007, the largest colossal squid weighed 495 kilograms (1,091 lb), and is now on display with a second specimen at the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa."
Fr, people need to appreciate and be terrified of him more, who knows what else he could control beside metric tons of water and that kraken in the movie lmao
I'm gonna point out 3 things: 1: He's strong and durable enough to fist fight Superman. 2: He has ridden a C'thulhu reference at least once. 3: Once, When Starro mind controlled most of the justice League, Aquaman went "You count as a sea creature. So you'll do as I say. Get the fuck off my planet." And it worked.
I got excited with the time theory and forgot to debunk some lighthouse theories lol. Short version: 1.) The idea that a (undetectable yet powerful) storm destroyed the west dock and dragged the men to sea is not supported because the east dock was in good condition with boxes stacked where as a storm strong enough to drag men to see would likely cause disarray and 2.) The theory that all three quickly ran outside to respond to an emergency before a wave swept them off the cliff is also not supported because of the shut doors within the house and courtyard, implying there was no rush. Furthermore, both theories are not supported by the presence of the jacket (they each only had one), as no one would step outside without wearing one in that weather. Especially if they had enough time to shut every door behind them.
I know you’re reading this but you said you were gonna do the ping pong on your eyes and static noise, the gantzfeld experiment and you lied about doing it
Me, an Irishman who lives by the ocean: Yeah, the ocean is scary, but I think Wendigoon is being a bit hyperbolic... 36:55 - THERE'S A 60FT WHAT IN THE WHERE NOW?
For me, the fear is mostly the sheer drop offs and holes. That instant decent into the abyss just grabs something in my soul and drags it down. I’m fairly certain if I accidentally swam over one I’d immediately die of a heart attack
When video games do this, a vase ocean with huge void cliffs that just cut off into a tremendous trench... My soul just doesn't let me be okay about it.. I shiver, I grimace, and I feel extremely on edge. Even if that game has 0 mechanics with the ocean and those void trenches.. and I am in full acknowledgement of that.. I still feel the same way...
Have you ever seen the Blue Holes of the Caribbean? Beautiful clear blue water, and then all of the sudden infinite darkness. If the Lusca exists, that's where it is.
My ex boyfriend's grandfather was a marine biologist who worked for the US government. He said his grandfather never went into the ocean & feared it. That solidified to me, that there must be something in the ocean so terrifying that a grown man who studies it won't even go into it.
Consider: all these ocean surface krakens went extinced when whale bone became the preferred structural material for corsets. We hunted all their food to the point where they didn't have enough to eat to maintain their size and strength, and they all died off. That's just my theory on why we don't see them anymore, but they're so clear in our historical records.
@@Crow_Mauler_ he might have found my old Instagram, but tbh anybody that doesn't know what pronouns are and gets their panties in a twist over weed isn't exactly on my short list of respected individuals.
44:37 - "The largest structure (Everest) on land can be buried in the ocean and we'd never know" To add to that: *Mount Everest CAME from the ocean.* The whole mountain range was pushed up from the sea floor by the collision of two continental plates. The highest point on earth was once at the bottom of the sea.
32:52 just one small correction: The Lighthouse wasn't based on the Flannan Isles story but is based on a somewhat similar incident in the Smalls Lighthouse in 1801, which would be interesting enough for Wendigoon to cover :)
The geology of the ocean floor is terrifying in it's scale. We have no real idea what a "really deep canyon" is. The Grand Canyon as well as Mount Everest are small fry compared to some of the features under the waves.
Your monologue about WHY the ocean is so terrifying is spot on. My husband and I went to Grand Cayman for our honeymoon to swim with the stingrays. It's was beautiful crystal clear water about 15-20 feet deep at most. But about 100 yards away was an area where a bunch of waves were crashing. So my husband, being curious, swam over to take a closer look. He said what he saw was terrifying. Apparently that was where the ocean shelf was located and it was a sheer drop into black nothingness. The guide also told us that's where the sharks liked to hang out. Horrific.
Can we appreciate the fact that the last chapter is literally called "An Unhinged Rant about Ocean Monsters and why I hate the Ocean I hate it so much..."
full chapter name is An unhinged rant about ocean monsters and why I hate the ocean I hate it so much it hurts we have to get rid of it and that's just amazing
I have such a weird relationship with the ocean, cause I'm terrified of it's ferocity and the unknown nature of it, and yet I find it so calming and beautiful.
Here's why the island disappearing is probably wrong: it was common back in the day for map makers to put fake places in their maps. The reasoning is to find copycats. Some map makers would just copy the last guys map rather than go out and chart everything themselves. So map maker #1 could sue map maker #2 if he saw the fake island.
If the island was faked then how come the original cartographer never made a claim of literally everyone copying his map. As well as that I’m also pretty sure that the practice of putting fake places on a map to sue people doesn’t date back to the 1500s since copyright wasn’t a thing :/
@@vimtostealer9468 formal copyright may not have, but it shows intention to deceive and defraud, a “court” could find you guilty of that and was common
@@vimtostealer9468 phantom islands are a very well documented thing. A lot of the time it happens because the cartographer made a mistake. Other times it is as op said. Fake streets and towns on maps have existed for 100s of years.
@@yeasstt yeah op said that it was probably made up for copyright which literally wasn’t a thing back then. Ik places that don’t exist end up on maps and that cartographers made mistakes. Like near the same time period they put California down as an island
i visited a museum in australia years ago while there was an octopus/sea creatures exhibition. they showed a taxidermy of this one giant octopus but the way they showed it was by putting it in a tall vertical glass box next to the staircase so they could show that this damn octopus has a length as long as a THREE FLOOR BUILDING… also that octopus taxidermy gives off such creepy vibe i literally got goosebumps. i even refused to look in its direction at all cost while using the stairs. hands down one of the scariest things ive ever come across in my life
@@guitqrr1ff im not sure maybe it might really be a squid like u said (the word for octopus and squid in my native tongue is the same thing so i always get confused lol)
Of all phobias, Thalassophobia is probably the most understandable to me. Every other phobia usually has some straightforward means of avoiding the fear response, but if you go out onto the open ocean, you do so with the knowledge that you are putting your life into the sea's hands. The power of the ocean is something you have to see to truly understand and believe. Just watching a video of it is not enough. Until you are on the deck of a ship and looking up to a wall of water as tall as high rise office building, you just don't get it. It is *awesome* in the most literal definition of that word. Even a colossal ship, like international cargo freighter, can be picked up and tossed around like a leaf if the seas are angry enough.
Paradoxical deep sea gigantism is actually a topic of ongoing study. Relatives of those cute little isopoda woodlice you might know as 'rolly pollies' grow to the size of small dogs in the deep ocean, and that's about approximate for the effect in general. The presently accepted duct-taped guess on the pit of unknowns is that bigger bodies are healthier in lower temperatures.
I find it funny how I used to be so comfortable with the ocean as a kid, but now that I'm older I'm terrified of it. I'm so scared of deep bodies of water that aren't enclosed. If I can't see the bottom, who knows what's down there? uhggg chills
I’m surprised that you didn’t mention that one of the barrels of ethanol was knocked over. One of the sanest explanations I’ve seen proposed that the crew saw vapours rising and they assumed it was a fire. They got everyone in the lifeboat to see what would happen and in the rush a knot was tied poorly and they just drifted away to certain death
@@jordanfeltcher5134 Ethanol is highly flammable and explode-able. Since their ship was full of ethanol, maybe they left in such a hurry (and cut the rope) to prevent being blown up by the ship? After all, chances of being found on a lifeboat in the middle of an ocean are very low, but still significantly greater than being rescued from a burning ship.
@@jermadonson6552 Idk for sure, maybe the person who spotted the "smoke" was intoxicated and was so convinced of what he saw that he was able to convince his entire crew too? Who knows lol
This is an amazing video ^^ I really got the chills from the Flannan Isle Lighthouse story. The way that the men heard storms and were terrified, when there weren't any storms, and imagined something coming out of the ocean, destroying the dock and shaking the lighthouse itself in the darkness...
I think the reason a lot of people are more scared of the ocean than space is because we know that things live in the ocean, so the chances of there being something whereever you look is a lot higher than in space
Wendigoon has the same vibe as an english professor i had in college who'd read the scriptures of various different religions just to have an understanding of them. absolute chads, the both of them
i feel u. had the best literature professor ever in the university, he created his own course, read ancient greek philosophy to us, we discussed time, space, cosmos, and we were encouraged to write our own poems, the weirder the better. had an absolute blast on his lessons. bless them
My high school religious studies teacher was like this (luckily!). We were technically a Christian school but not really in practice so religious studies meant learning about different cultures and understanding religious motivation. He always refused to tell us what he personally believed in. He was open and also extremely funny.
I'm scared of the ocean for a complete different reason, not because of the complete ambiguity and mystery surrounding it but because of the science and what we do know about it, since humans aren't designed or made to be underwater, the idea of diving into the ocean and just suddenly dying because of the various diving hazards like decompression and Delta P which is something that we do know but fail to consider scares me more than anything so it's cool to see your perspective about the ocean in a different way
I'm not really scared of the sharks and animals in the ocean. I'm just scared that it can be deep, dark and you cant touch the bottom like a swimming pool
Delta-P isn't a thing in nature really. It needs a small hole with lower pressure than the surrounding water. Pressure differentials don't last long in nature very often. Something something, abhors a vacuum. But yeah, in the context of industrial diving, Delta-P is fucking terrifying.
Fun and not scary ocean fact: several species of underwater creatures love being petted and playing with humans, and can form lifelong bonds with their favourite divers. Examples are moray eels and several kinds of sharks.
@VegetaOrAra You did it! You were negative for no reason! Good job! 🥇🎉Did it feel good? Do you feel powerful, knowing that you might have made someone’s day just that little bit worse? Is it rewarding, having the same goals and aspirations as a middle school bully?
@VegetaOrAra You weren’t, really. There’s weak evidence suggesting any dolphin has ever successfully raped a human being, not to mention how you were ascribing human morality to animal species. It’s like calling a lion a murderer because it hunts zebras. Even if it were true (it hasn’t been proven), you honestly expect the “just stating facts” defence to work? If someone were to comment “you’re going to die one day” and “humans are capable of murder” under unrelated posts about human kindness, they would still be a pathetic asswipe for trying to ruin a stranger’s day by reminding them of irrelevant, depressing shit that nobody can do anything about. Please go back to calling the children in your arithmetic class “doo-doo heads”.
@@yeowch1073 While Vegeta didn't have to bring up the negative content you kinda went worse than they did by basically calling them a bully and alluding to them being "A pathetic asswipe."
Great video, I'd like to pitch in another sea monster story: The USS Stein, an American frigate, found scratches over around 8 percent of its sonar dome. Almost all of the scratches had within them small claws that were found to be similar to those found within the suckers of a giant squid. However, these claws were substantially larger than those of the giant squid's, which, if these claws hold similar proportions to the creature's body size, would point to an absolutely massive squid. I was unable to find exact numbers on claw length, but "way bigger than giant squid" is already too much.
Most likely a colossal squid, its a deep sea squid bigger then the giant squid, they tend to fight sperm whales a lot so you'll find scratch marks on them when they come up for air. Largest recorded colossal squid weighed 495kg(1,091 lbs) and was 13 meters long(43 feet) and thats just the largest one we've seen, there are definitely bigger ones.
This is the most likely series of events that led to the abandonment of the Mary Celeste. The ship was carrying barrels of denatured alcohol and vapors from these barrels build up in an enclosed space over time and can lead to explosions. Briggs knew this and ordered the hatches to the cargo hold kept open to vent the fumes unless the ship encountered bad weather. However in the 2-3 weeks leading up to the ship being abandoned, the Mary Celeste encountered a number of storms and the cargo hold had to be kept closed. When the Mary Celeste passed through the storms and into fine weather again, one of the first things Briggs did was order the cargo hatches be opened to release the alcohol fumes. Briggs knew those fumes were reaching potentially dangerous levels because he wrote in the log book about a terrible creaking and groaning coming from the hold. But even after the hatches were opened, the noises got worse. The fumes from denatured alcohol can affect humans, causing dizziness, headache, difficulty breathing respiratory tract, drowsiness, nausea and convulsions. Briggs had his family with him, including his 2-year-old daughter and he knew that if the alcohol fumes could make an adult very sick, they could easily kill a small child. Also the terrible groaning from the Mary Celeste likely convinced Briggs that a large explosion may be imminent. He ordered the entire crew and his family into a single life boat and rowed to a safe distance, they took no supplies and no personal possessions because they believed they would be returning to the Mary Celeste once Briggs judged that the danger had passed. I don't know why they were unable to return to the ship, perhaps the lifeboat was damaged somehow or overturned by a large wave? But whatever happened it was sea monsters or aliens or even pirates. It was a tragic accident.
For them being unable to return to the boat, the best bet there would be some of the sales still open. If a gust of wind picks up when you’re in the row boat, the ship is taking off.
That’s what I believe happened based on what I’ve heard… the life boat would have been tied off to the Mary Celeste and it’s likely that the knot failed… I can’t imagine how sickening it must have been for the crew and family watching the Mary Celeste sailing away… even worse for the individual who tied the bad knot, stuck on the life boat, in a hopeless situation, with the party he doomed.
Ocean mysteries are my number one 'fearful fascination'. I have done a couple of open water ocean races (including across the Atlantic) and this has only deepened this uneasy/excited feeling. I love living by the sea on an island in the Baltic but also really respect it. Ocean mysteries and sailing also inspired me to write my first novel (The Octagon's Eight) and continue with the theme into the next book and hopefully beyond. I loved this video and you've gained a new subscriber!
i feel you bro. As a kid i loved to dive in the sea every summer. I even dared to swim far far away from the coast. Until i could'nt even see the bottom anymore. Up until that point where mammas get worried (mammas from the 80's, which were another kins of mama) Then i saw the movie "Jaws", the one about sharks. And it scared the shit out of me And this growing fear was sealed as a youngster, when cosmic horror came to my life Now i just don't trust sea
@@Oriol-oo7jl I've seen the movie Jaws and plenty of other things portraying the ocean as a terrifying place. I still don't think the ocean is terrifying, especially the deep sea (the dangerous stuff lives near the surface).
I was never scared of the ocean- I wanted to be a mermaid, and if that somehow wasn’t possible then I wanted to be a marine biologist. I was especially fascinated by the deep sea. At some point someone explained why they were scared of the ocean and suddenly I refuse to go swimming at the beach. Absolutely furious at whoever ruined the ocean for me. My career as a marine biologist was stolen from me, not by my incompetence or being unable to understand biology, definitely just because someone scared me. (Idek what this comment was)
im scottish and my dad is absolutely enthralled with the lighthouse story. He loves history, true crime/mysteries but isn't very convinced by paranormal stuff. He talks about mysteries and historical stuff pretty much every day for about 30 minutes when i come back from school. He was sitting there talking about the lighthouse for at least an hour and a half when i came home from school that day. Didn't know how to tell him i failed my maths test.
Given that the most out there part of the story aside from the disappearance - the logbook - was entirely made up by story magazines, its a bit hard to take the paranormal aspect seriously.
I've spent many years on the ocean as a Coast Guardsman In many aspects of search and rescue I can tell you things are far scarier than what is commonly known. It has kept me awake many nights.
You should make a Reddit post under “AMA” or “ask me anything” , to tell your stories , If you’re willing to of course, but I’ll keep an eye out for it incase you decide to :) we’d love to hear about it
The Kass II I believe is a man overboard situation. When you fall off a sailboat without a ladder it’s very very hard to hop back on it. It’s possible they were swimming or something like that and the person who was supposed to stay on board jumped or fell off. This can be explained well by the “stop” on the GPS and then the slow drift. Maybe the fishing guy was the one that was supposed to stay on it and fell off. I saw a video of a group of people who suffered a similar fate but they were able to jump on each others shoulders and jump back on.
While this could be the case if they're all seasoned sailors they'd know better than to jump off a moving ship without a rope attached to them. You never go for a swim when your sail boat has its sails out. If one fell off the others wouldn't jump in after him, they'd take the boat back to the man that fell off. It's just so odd, so many factors.
i remember myself in childhood, when we used to do family boat tours on the Black Sea, swimming around the vessel about 200-300 metres from the shore and i say to myself "hmm, i wonder what the sea bed looks like" and then looking and seeing the absolutely horrifying nothingness for however meters deep beneath me. i felt like at any point i would see a colossal gaping maw approaching me from below. truly, its as scary as its mesmerising to acknowledge the existence of something so vast yet so desolate at the same time on our planet. i thinks that was the moment i got thalassophobia.
the fact that that coroner came up with such a crazy intricate and specific theory about what happened to the kaz ii members is insane. im so used to them chalking up decapitated bodies as "suicide"
I would have thought a strong possibility would have been that one or more of the crew went for a swim and something occurred (medical problem, shark bite/jelly-fish sting etc.) Leading to the remaining crew attempting to enter the water to help only to drown or fall victim to whatever danger befell the others.
I think that vapor explosion makes logical sense. Imagine a captain bringing his family on what he imagined to be a safe trip. But when these explosions started happening, had it been just himself and the crew maybe he would have stuck it out. But what if his wife started to panic, insisting that a bigger blast could cause all the barrels of ethanol to explode. This single thought consumes the captain and decides that their best bet would be to take a life boat with his navigation equipment and get to a coast that he thought they could get to. Only to get caught by the Kraken. Love your videos.
I've also heard that the denatured alcohol might have given off fumes that could have combusted. Essentially, the idea goes that the captain panicked, thought the ship was in great danger and had everyone bail out. The captains missing navigation tools seems to point towards a very sudden exit.
Something led the skipper to think they all had a better chance of making it through whatever was going on to take a lifeboat to the nearby Santa Maria Island, so he grabbed most of the ship's papers and his personal navigational equipment, and they piled into the boat and set out, and then some mishap overcame them in the boat. Easy for one of those smaller boats to be swamped, or capsized, or swept away from land long enough that the occupants die of exposure or lack of supplies. Understandable that it's an enduring mystery, but there are a number of very straightforward explanations for what happened.
@@don_5283 there were 4 lifeboats that can be joined together to hold more supplies though , and why cut the rope than untie it ? Easy explained is reaching
I've always found it interesting the idea of Lovecraft's eldritch abominations, and how they aren't so much evil more than they are just indifferent. And then I think about the ocean and nature as a whole and how it's the perfect embodiment of cosmic indifference. I guess it kinda makes sense why Lovecraft put Cthulhu under the waters of Earth's oceans, it was the perfect place for him.
I don't know what freaks me out more: being in the ocean underwater not able to see past a certain point because it's kinda blurry under there for us, OR BEING ABLE TO SEE EVERYTHING GOING ON IN THAT LIQUID HELLSCAPE
If you play subnautica and turn off the fog you can see the leviathan off in the distance just waiting for you to approach. Idk what's scarier, going around in the dark nkt knowing that if are there, or seeing them, and knowing that they are there.
i’ve been surfing one of the sharkiest areas of CA for most of my life and being able to see is wayyyy worse. clear days are safer bc the sharks are less likely to accidentally bite you but seeing a big ol shadow under you is SO freaky
I have a friend that was on a carrier for a few years in the pacific. He was talking to us one day about getting to swim out there, in the middle of the pacific. And was telling us about diving a few feet under, looking around and just seeing the infinite void, getting darker and darker the deeper you go.
I live on the Gulf Coast of Florida so I have spent much of my life in and on the ocean. I love the ocean but I definitely have learned to respect it and understand people's fear. Years ago on a cruise I visited the Bahamas and a coral reef. I swam to the edge of the reef to where it opened up to open ocean. The Dropoff scene from Finding Nemo is the closest comparison, but does the feeling you get no justice. For the first time of being in the ocean did I feel truly scared and so small and insignificant. Just minutes before I was swimming with barracuda, rays, eels, sharks and a wide array of fish and was weary but not scared. But just floating on the edge of the abyss I realized just how tiny I am and can only imagine what we have yet to discover.
I watched a video of a scuba diver’s last moments as they succumb to nitrogen sickness and end up on the bottom of ocean because they were to confused to know how to get back up. I still think about it sometimes and it fills me with dread.
My dad has seen it up close and personal (but with a good ending). He was deep sea diving with two friends. All three very experienced. They were already at their max planned dive. All of a sudden one of them just starts diving deep, very fast, down the wall. My dad and his other friend go after him once they realize, going 20 ft deeper than planned. They brought the guy up after properly decompressing and whatnot, but afterwards ask him WTF he was thinking. And his friend said had no memory of doing that. All three responsible smart men with no history of something like that before or since. Deep sea is no joke.
DAILY FUN FACT: it's not only deep sea. There IS a phenomenon that causes people to leave the boat. It's basically a bout of anxiety about being in the middle of the ocean, with no land on sight, that makes people get off the boat. Just like that. They don't care there's no land on sight, the anxiety of being in the middle of the ocean is such that they simply want out. They pack everything, leave everything neatly placed as if they were leaving the appartment they rented for the holidays, grab their stuff and exit the boat... In the middle of the ocean. And the worst thing is that they seem so calm and rational that there might be no way of telling beforehand, so you only find out when you wake up one day and find yourself alone in the boat. It happens even to experienced sailors, and it's pretty much the equivalent to the hallucinations that happen in the middle of snowstorms in extreme climates (the 8000m peaks, the south pole...) and that causes people to just untie themselves from lifelines and willingly wander off (and in the mountains, fall down) never to be seen again. Sooooo yeah...
@@Cpt_Katsuragi It almost sounds similar to paradoxical undressing. You know not to get undressed in extreme cold, but people do it anyway when they are freezing to death. You could search for paradoxical undressing and see what are similar other topics or conditions.
The Flannan Isles disappearances are definitely due to a rouge wave. The crying and praying is, as Wendigoon said, historically debated. The storm and fog could just be a coincidence or could be the cause of the rouge wave. The description of the state of the island matches what a rouge wave would do to an island. Rouge waves are also confirmed to be responsible for sudden disappearances on small islands. Its also scary to think that a wave will just randomly become so large that it will become larger than your island and sweep you into the ocean, leaving no trace it happened besides some wetness, minimal damage and missing people and items.
The praying and crying stuff doesn't appear in any of the original accounts. It doesn't pop up until like 10 years later. Probably added by a journalist to sell more copies. The logbook was an official record, you wouldn't note stuff like that in it typically.
A possible theory for the berjama Island mystery is that it was a pumice raft. Pumice rocks are igneous rocks that form after a underwater volcano erupts molten rocks. They cool so quickly that gas is trapped inside, causing them to float. They also tend to clump together, forming a pumice raft, which can easily be mistaken for an island. It is the most common theory for the sandy island mystery as well. It was an ‘island’ part of French Polynesia that was discovered by a ship in the 1876. From there it was copied from map to map until the French sent a plane to see if the island actually existed, where it was first undiscovered. However, there findings weren’t well reported meaning google maps once displayed the imaginary island until 2012, when an Australian team was doing research in the area, noticed the island’s lack of existence and undiscovered it.
"they try to write it off as just a whale"- I regret to inform you that many sea serpent stories are theorized to have been not just whales, but specifically the Male Parts of the whale, which are long and worm-like and the males sometimes like to stick out of the water for no apparent reason. If I didn't know about that, and especially if I didn't see the whale itself, i'd probably be like WHAT THE FUCK IS THAT too
I think this theory is still assuming these 400 experienced sailors are just incompetent. These men have obviously seen whales, and probably their shlongs too, and writing this off as just a whale shlong is possibly even more disrespectful than calling it a whale
Putting all this together with the stories of underwater megliths, cities and unidentified structures is also super creepy. I hope to see you do more stories on megaliths in general. You are so awesome!!
Not many things truly scare me, but one of those things is the ocean. I can go on a boat, I am not afraid of sharks or other beasts underwater, heck I could probably even go diving on a coral reef. But where that reef ends and the deep water begins, when I can see the blue fading into the blackness of the deep... you will find me in the nearest hotel bar downing shots. There's a deep, primal fear about the darkness of the ocean abyss. Something that makes me realize how truly small, weak and insignificant humans are and that is enough to both make me panic and scramble to get away and terrify me so much I cannot move. 0/10, will never go swimming in deep waters.
I think my favorite thing about these videos that you don't get from other "spooky stories" videos is that Wendigoon is not trying to scare you with the stories. He's just like, "Here's a cool story. Is it true? Probably not, but it's fun to pretend it is." and it's a refreshing take on the "spooky story" genre that I totally vibe with.
Exactly; it's one of the reasons why I love another of my favorite horror reading channels, Lazy Masquerade, so much. Lazy doesn't give much of a 'verdict' on whether or not a story or account is true, unless it's specifically a true crime episode, in which case he might toss out his own personal theories, he just presents them and leaves it up to the audience how much they believe it. It really adds to the immersion on stuff like accounts of cryptids or ghosts, because even if you don't believe in them, for a few minutes, they feel real
Oarfish are super nifty. If you like those you should check out highfin dragonfish. They're a bit similar. We've only seen four of them in the last 30 years.
my headcannon for the mary celeste is that it was a case of mass hysteria , and they all jumped into the water and drowned, while a couple of them escaped with the lifeboat and died some other way
