The Seven Towers of Satan: Iraq's Lovecraftian Horror 

The creature mentioned at the beginning is called طنطل "Tantal" which loosely translates to "the tall one" in Iraq It's believed to be a kind of Jinn creatures It's a creature in its original form may reach a hundred meters in height with thin limbs (much like slender man) but it can take other forms like animal form (mostly black goat or cat) and an in between form of a human with goat legs Most Iraqis know the unending stories of Tantal from their grandparents Creepy stories that is

Served in the US Army as a Infantryman during surge in Iraq 06-07 and got out in December of 08. Iraq is a beautiful country ! It can be a desert wasteland or a tropical paradise along the Euphrates or at least back then . Now the Euphrates is drying up. I served with a dude that was at the Al Haditha dam and he said it was crazy as hell. He said that he seen Iraqis commit suicide because they were scared to death to go down into the holding cells . They would say the jinn would torment them and drive them mad day and night. He said at night you would hear crazy screams and a weird language that would seem to come from the bottom of the damn. All the death that has happened in that country along with Iraq being the oldest settlement on Earth. The truth is stranger that fiction for sure !!

I knew this guy who was in Iraq. He was in the military, and one day he was in a helicopter going some where. The were in the middle of no where and they seen this guy down on the ground. This location was miles from anywhere, and to see some alone was odd. To be traveling on foot, a person would die before they could get to water. The flew down closer to get a look. The man was in traditional clothing, which was rare. He seemed to be moving quickly. What was odd, was he kept moving and didn't stop to look at the helicopter a few hundred feet away. Secondly, the man's legs were bent backwards, and seemed to jecking around quickly like something was wrong. Some said, "The heat near the ground distorts the light. That's what it must have been." The guy said, "No. We were only a few hundred feet away. We were blow dust past him and we could see the ground at his feet. That was all normal." The third odd thing was, this man on the ground and he seemed to be walking (strangely) but he wasn't going anywhere. He was fixed at that point. They were discusing what to do, and the guy never traveled an inch. One guy said land, I want to check this out. The guy flying said, "F that. We are leaving, and pretending we didn't see anything.."

I was in Iraq during the invasion, USMC infantry, all I saw was war. Violence, tragedy that ranged from sadness and despair to being beyond tired becoming mindless. People moving about without cause or purpose but only for self preservation. It was a literal "same shit different place" environment for weeks. It was joked/laughed at the idea we were the product of a horseman burning and destroying everything in our wake unknowingly doing so. I saw people of various faiths praying much more often and harder than usual. I saw a lot of evil, I saw a lot of good but it was only of human natures on all sides. We smashed through Nasiriyah, at that point we were part of task force tarawa, I encourage the ignorant to look this up. The nas was biblical which I knew nothing of before the war but that changed during. The nas is a place believed to exist upon the gardens of eden itself. Where the tigris and euphrates meet. To me, it was a major stronghold of where the fedayeen soldiers were posted and had every single intention of stopping us there. It was bloody and terrible for living person there. It started making me aware of the fact I, even in the unfortunate circumstances of why I was there, that I was walking upon the cradle of life itself. Later on after things settled and the war was officially over and we were moving towards the occupation side of things, we got sent to protect ancient historical sites and preservation of these types of things. I was sent to Babylon, and I felt both excited, terrified, burdens but free. Wind would blow in random spots but nowhere else around this place. At night our naked eyes would see very odd things I cant describe but nothing was there through night vision or in other cases be opposite of that. I had disposable cameras and took a lot of footage of there, none of the unexplained sights appeared in them. All I have is a terrible reminder of the awful things the human race does to one another buried beneath my bed. I woke up very early this morning for an unexplained reason, I made coffee and was intending on watching some wood working videos and this hit my feed first. These things happen for a reason. No matter your faith ladies and gents, get right with yourselves, we don't know for sure what is after.

My niece served in Afghanistan and she said she seen things over there that freaked her out more than the enemy. She said it has an eerie scary feeling sometimes and this is coming from a woman who grew up on an Indian reservation where we all seen and heard things unworldly 😵‍💫

Poor Yazidis....ISIS extremists have done some unspeakable acts of crime against these people. May these people find peace.🙏

I was in Iraq from 2004 to 2006. Baghdad, Fallujah and a few places in between. I’ve never really shared the things I encountered over there outside of the war itself, but I swear on my life that there is a darkness there w/ some seriously terrifying stuff among the shadows.

I don’t know how the algorithm let me land on this channel, but it’s deeply fascinating.

I remember I had a classmate from Iraq and and Im mix of Native American,African American and Italian. We ended up sharing stories we were told growing up and what was striking was the similarities even though we were from different parts of the world. Just thought I share that.

I’ve been all over Iraq and I would say since I went to the birth of civilization.. the palace of Abraham and the city of ur, I would agree that there is something special about it.. when you look at the vast desert at night and or sunrise/sunset you feel like your in a different world and it’s just an amazing place to see and experience.

Absolutely fascinating, and extremely well structured and presented. I'm shocked it took me this long to find this channel.

I spent a lot of time in the empty quarters of Iraq and afghanistan. There are some very spooky, unsettling places out there in the desert I really wouldn't care to go back to.

I really appreciate this channel and all the hard work that goes into each of the videos. I enjoy hearing of your rich histories and legends. Thank you all for everything

This has to be one of my favourite channels on RU-vid! I teach in Saudi Arabia and for how ‘conservative’ they appear to be it is incredible when you get to know some of the students well, especially more wealthy students whose families have large holdings or influence in more rural areas, how willing they are to share stories like this, usually from ‘grandmothers’ etc. You can tell that often they are just legends or tales from different areas but I have heard stories of Djinns, Ghouls and other weirder cryptid like creatures as well as one elderly student of mine who seems like such a serious guy who swears to actually seeing a Djinn face to face when he was young hiking in Afghanistan (which he ran away from in terror!)

When I was in Iraq as a combat soldier; there is some strange things in battle. I felt like souls were following me around.

A friend of mine suggested this video to me and I subscribed immediately. As a folklore, mythology and horror enthusiast I think this channel is fantastic, not only the stories are really intriguing and interesting, but the production is top notch. Keep up the good work!

Ephesians 6:12 (For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.

I just discovered this channel and wow, the content is so well done and high quality. I was terrified watching this 💯💯

Great video from an underrated channel. I just learned a great deal of things that I never had a clue about involving some of my favorite subjects.

i’m amazed by your choice of music throughout this video, well done!

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Your videos are always so mind-blowing with a great content that leads us to more researches about the topics presented.

Still a year later, i appreciated your take on the subject. I find this kind of stuff extremely fascinating and love what you do here! 🙏 Much respect!

So weird that this showed up in my recommended, as I just read The Horror at Red Hook today. I haven't searched or watched anything to do with Lovecraft for ages, so youtube hasn't been recommending anything, until now. Very interesting video!

I absolutely love your channel and the mystic stories of the middle east. I'm an open minded westerner and have to admit I'm fascinated with anything occult or metaphysical from anywhere in the world. I really hope you keep releasing content because it's amazing, thank you all so much. I don't know if hermes trismigistus would qualify as middle eastern but I would love to learn more about this mystic master!

My mothers uncle once told me a story from his youth. This was back when some villages in our country (Turkey) didnt have public lighting posts to light the roads during night time. He said on a windy, moonlit night he was going to his home at the village, coming up from the city where he worked. Halfway through the journey he encountered a djinn. He said the creature was standing at the top of a tree and wawing his hands towards him, as if it was calling him to its side. My mothers uncle was afraid to go forward, he thought about running back to the city, because in order to reach home he had to pass by the tree the djinn was standing on. But he said , he also thought that if he ran the djinn would surely catch him. At that moment he gathered his courage and moved towards the tree and upon closer inspection realized that it was just a bag that somehow got stuck on the tree. It was wawing with the wind and the moonlight was giving it its eerie appearance. The old man said this to me "You know boy, if i were to run away that day, i would still be telling people about my encounter with an actual djinn". While i do belive that there are still mysteries within our world, i also think most of the stories about supernatural things are caused by misunderstandings like the story above.

Just found your channel and I'm looking forward to listening to more of your stuff. It's hard to find this kind of content if you're not a native to the culture, I find, and this really piques my storytelling interests!

I must say, you guys put forth the very best, high quality history and folklore on the web. Bar none. Thank you for sharing your work with us!

Excellent material as usual. Thank you for the education. Peace.

I am from a post soviet republic in central Asia n its interesting that soviet veterans of afghan war tell stories about supernatural stuff that happened to them in Afghanistan. They saw giants who attacked them, they saw very tall n slender, shadowlike people with high turbans n very long swords attacking them, killing them n these creatures appeared out of nowhere n dissolved in the air as well, also there were sufis ( saints) who put some sand in their palms n blew that sand towards soviet soldiers saying prayers n after that those soldiers flesh started rotting. Also many veterans after returning home claimed that some ghosts or spirits from Afghanistan haunted them back home n went crazy or committed suicides. Why its interesting is cause american veterans of afghan n iraqi wars tell the same stories. People from different cultures, from different time periods tell the same creepy stories. I have a friend from Britain. His brother was in Afghanistan twice in 2005-2008 n he told me a lot of supernatural stories. He converted to islam ultimately, he says that his whole worldview collapsed after his deployments. He told that one day his team or squad i dont know exactly were patrolling the mountains n he started hearing some enchanting rhymes in his head, they were v beautiful n pacifying but when he asked his fellows if they heard anything they said no. It was in his head n he told this to an afghani soldier who cooperated with them n he memorised some words from that rhyme n he was really shocked when afghani said that those were verses from Quran. That episode in particular affected him

I spent 3 years over there I’m not giving details but you can feel how old and haunted that land is especially at night

There is truth in all myths. Just as there is great fear of the unknown. And with all our technological science their is still much that lays hidden from mankind that is way older than our species and our comprehension. Great channel and narration. Thank you

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Absolutely fantastic editing. I love the cinematic coloring, music and slomo.

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This was my unit, I was there when this happened. We were pulling a perimeter on that fucking village because in the course of 2 weeks, they lost around 70% of their livestock, and 11 children. Those things appear just as a sandstorm was rolling in at about 0100am. We were using FLIR's and they were not giving off a heat signature. We could of lit them up but our chain of command would not let us engage. When we were rotated out, we had to sign NDA's. I don't know who leaked this, but someone busted their NDA...

This is high quality content, well done !

Thank you for putting these together. Especially, for including the names of important middle eastern poets, philosophers and scientists- helping to keep our history alive. Forever grateful 🥲 🙏🏼💐🌸

This channel is fantastic, really loving the content

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My brother served in the Iraqi army before 2003. He was stationed in the desert of south Iraq.He told me in the night there was a very tall being with a very long arms and the being follow him and my brother run away in fear of this creature.

While I was in Iraq war - 2004 . I had a vision of this entity and it tells us to get out of Iraq. It was very frightening and I never told anyone about it because they would think I am crazy. Since you mentioned about this I would like to share my vision with the world.

Hey that was really well done! I just stumbled upon you via the mobile front page and was pleasantly surprised. That was very interesting and cool to hear about, I love stuff like this.

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I have encountered Djinn only once, In the woods. They are not uncommon, and can be found anywhere. They are more common in ruins where people *used* to live, as Djinn tend to prefer the mystique that complements the spell that they often hold over the unfortunate souls that make bargains with such devilish spirits. I say *devilish* Djinn are not demons, one can safely life in a ruin near a Djinn, and be unharmed, however, they *will* haunt you, not like ghosts, as with Djinn it's more of a harassment, they will not come inside unless invited specifically, so they are not like Demon's which have no notion of inside or outside, beyond their relation to the physical realm. Guardian Angels have this notion, because Guardians naturally are consistently bound to a host vessel, or a human, and are thus familiar with the flesh. Demons can sometimes go centuries or millennia between possessions, so their notion of the flesh is limited, they dwell solely beneath the waters of the firmament, and can manifest anywhere that is not protected by God. Djinn, can be dangerous if outside at night, alone. But the danger is limited depending, Djinn do shirk from light, so a flashlight is often a useful tool, flames can be tricky, because Djinn have been known to use wind to snuff lantern flames. At the end of the day, however, Djinn are only truly dangerous to those who *choose* to get on their level, all of the aforementioned tactics are just subtle tricks that Djinn use to terrorize or invoke fear, they often then put a bubbly sort of spell on someone, usually whilst undermining faith in God. They will follow this often with an offer for a Faustian pact. These pacts are often terrible, and grave misfortune almost universally befalls those who make them. Cancer, Families ripped apart, death, automobile accidents from clearly deranged animals, you are talking a full-blown spiritual sickness surrounding the one who made the pact, a sickness that affects everything in his vicinity. But Djinn are not demons, thus they do not *possess* the person, but they will target everything around him. But remember, its all just smoke and mirrors, the threat of Djinn is real, and again, they *can* cause harm through their influence on objects such as precarious rocks which might fall on you, or wild animals, i.e. they might promise a pack alpha of a wolf clan some boon if they rip this human to shreds, but again, most animals are no fools, and the wolves will likely shirk from the evil spirit with a disgusted disdain (and leave you alone with a snort, but remember, they *will* attack you if you think the Djinn is setting you up, because the wolves know that you are obviously cruising for a bruising, the Djinn will also likely tempt you once the wolf refuses, but as long as you rebuke him the wolves will leave you alone). To be haunted by a ghost is serious. As ghosts can cause damage to property, causing lamps to fall and such. Demons only cause harm to souls that are in a state of weakness, I will refrain from saying impurity, as demonic possession can happen to otherwise clean souls... if they are caught in a state of weakness. There is nothing wrong with being temporarily weak of the spirit, in terms of the Holy Ghost, this is why we call them Demons, however, absent a constant sense of vigilance against them, i.e. a prayer at the first subtle sign, one *will* be oppressed. I am not saying one cannot love their wife, i.e. but something subtle like a sign of God on the wall can provide a subtle protection against them (I.e. do not remove it during spousal activities, just accept that one is human, and God understands). If the person is guilty of adultery however, they might be under the protection of a guardian, but they are still in a higher risk category for such a horrific condition, though the guardian will likely run them through, but if a guardian does it, the symptoms are completely different from demonic oppression, as the guardian will readily reveal himself to religious leaders as a protector. if they remove the symbol of God, they are guilty of inviting the Devil... Boom. Even with the protective symbol, Satan can cause it to fall of the wall if the host target is caught in a state of blatant or apparent impurity of the soul, but for such an extreme Demonic manifestation to happen, the target vessel has to be readily open to Evil manifestation. Demonic Oppression is more like a sickness, but if the target vessel resists, or accepts one of the host of an Angel of God, he will be cured without need for an exorcism, but this process can take years. Full blown demonic oppression truly is horrific, but it often takes years to reach fruition. And remember, the symptoms only become apparent when the afflicted is by himself... Demons are deceptive by nature. Again, out in nature one is unlikely to encounter D jinn, save for near caves or in ruins (which can be found in abundance in some remote places), where they dwell readily. But in the midst of nature itself, if you are not dealing with the guardian angels of nature, then you are probably dealing with Demons. Demon's can manifest anywhere, and have no preference per-say, but they are more likely to be encountered, at least by clean souls, out in nature, where one's psychology might be more given to lapses of fear or an inclination to hysteria. (you will be overcome by a sudden sense of silence, the birds will stop chirping, and your instinct will tell you to run, if the threat is demonic alone, then running is of no purpose, only prayer will help, but beware, as the lurking fear might also be a warning sign of a physical threat in the bush (one that the demon is taking advantage of, like a serial killer). Birds will also respond this way to Djinn, but the silence is by no means sudden, the birds will give some obvious warning of someone approaching that they know better then to think is setting them up (they will show you their evil eye, and then motion to the source of the disturbance), the silence then is more gradual, and the fear more subtle, more akin to a foreboding, your instinct will tell you not to run, but to tread carefully. In the case of more powerful evil spirits, the silence is sudden and terror striking.

these are so well made. nice job

There is so much about the Middle East that I find fascinating, and I thank you for sharing stories like this one.

Sinjar Mountain is a interesting place day or night. The Yazidis are an awesome people and have heard some of their stories and beliefs from the elders. It was heart breaking what happened to them when Daesh came through.

Always gonna click when I see a video from this channel 😁

Has anyone considered this dark spiritual energy was the real reason behind the invasion of Iraq ?

Mysterious Middle East. I have subscribed, because this is the top "best Channel" on You Tube where you learn amazing human history stories and knowledge! Appreciate your work!

I'm Kurdish, and we live 4,000 ft above sea level, weird things happen up there. I live in the U.S. now, but how can I forget.

Nice to hear such an engaging story woven around Middle Eastern tales told by someone who can actually pronounce Iraq correctly.

This reminds me of the book that recently came out called LOVECRAFT'S IRAQ. It's amazing, fiction or non, how many great stories come out of this part of the world.

I seen some weird shit on a tour in Al anber province in iraq in 2007..walked like a dog then stood on two legs and started walking like a person...don't know wtf that was lol..good channel

This channel is brilliant Really appreciate your work Thankyouuuu

I was an EOD Sergeant on several of these ops...I was not a shooter, I was the tech guy to disarm booby traps. We ran into two giants, and yes I pissed my pant's when he attacked us. Look I am not a coward, but that thing was massive, it stunk like rotting flesh, and it attacked like it was life or death. We killed it, it was massive, it had six fingers, I never saw its feet, and it had weird stringy, very odd hair, depending on the sun light...NO I do not want to talk about this as it is humiliatingly for me as a man, and yes it scared me so much that I pissed my pants...

Great video. I was fortunate enough to live in the Middle East for a good number of years. I spent a lot of time by myself in the desert. There are definitely ghosts / jinn out there. It's not surprising that there are so many mysterious stories, myths, and legends from this area of the world.

Most intriguing. Thanks! 👍

Looks like I've hit another good mine. Thank you for sharing such intriguing details. Thank you

Yazidis and their's supernatural and historical legacy looks like a good topic for this channel.

I am so glad to have found this site, in my time in the Middle East, it was extremely difficult to find or hear about the content matter of your site due to the strict adherence to Islam and fear of this matter. Thank you so much!

Thank you for bringing these stories to light. This is such a cool historical legend (or truth?)

Very interesting piece. Well done and excellently put together.

Cool video... but where can one find the documentation of the encounters you talked about? Please list references or articles.

I think you should make a series on Netflix. Your content is so fascinating

Love this channel!

Dude.your channel is excellent . Keep up the great work

Intriguing docus ,learning all the time 🐊 recently absorbed loads of lovecraft, & always seeking films based on his work, thanks ignorance isn't an excuse! 🌟 🌙

I love your channel I have been a subscriber for I think about 2 years now and it just gets better and better. I feel like as a Christian you offer me a more well-rounded look at an area of the world I have never been to but I'm profoundly tied to. May I say though just as a side comment the picture of the guy that started out this video does anyone else think that it totally looks like Mark Zuckerberg but from a century ago

Love your work. Very interesting facts ❤ please create more it is so enlightening ❤

Great story Telling.

I appreciate your work Mysterious Middle East. I am a Chrstian pastor in Wisconsin, US. Your presentations are thought provoking and interresting. In connection to what you shared in this presentqtion, I also hold to a supernatural world view (Genesis 6:2-4, Deuteronomy 32:8-9, Psalm 82:1-8, 1 Kings 22:19-22, Daniel 4:17, Job 15:15, to list some of the relevant texts). From the Scriptures, I see evidence that very powerful supernatural beings (hebrew bene 'ha’elohim' means “sons of God”), who formed the council of holy ones (Psalm 89:7), were set over spesific teritories, but rebeled. These powerful entities (ploral of elohim, at times translated 'gods') are very differnt than the One True Creator God. They held power over nations until the Messiah came and took all their authority, power, and dominion. Yet, these adversarial supernatural entities maintain their reign over areas until they are apposed in the One Name by which all are saved. These entities are different than demons/djinns, in that they have no 'unclean mix' origins (spirit of the Rephaim). I know this might be very different that your own understanding but I thought I'd share. Thank you for your posts.

I really enjoyed Karim's narration; you have a voice I could listen to all day.

Very good brother. Very good one. Im waiting 4 da nex one

The beings only being able to be seen using infrared and/or night vision goggles scare tf out of me. Imagine you're on high alert out in the desert already, you flip you're NVGs on or look through an infrared scope and you see something less than 100 yards in front of you that you damn well know wasn't visible seconds ago...

My only complaint about this channel is waiting for the next video to drop .. def my most fav channel

Cool channel! I love that it explores the old world

Well done vid. I just watched one of yours on DMT entities and blue lotus use in egypt and noticed the peacock entity again here. The overlap is wild

Hi, thanks for sharing and I hope people the world over will share aswell , as I fear all these stories are to be taken seriously and hopefully we can assist in narrowing down , a stable platform to work from . The further back in time people were very quick to formulate the unimaginable, but most importantly they don't in most if not all cases there is something that started it in the first place., and we must also be aware that our pet's eg dogs have many times been aroused by circumstances their owners are not able to understand.

Habibi can you do some extensive on Yajooj Majooj. There are several opinions as to their whereabouts. I feel your thoroughness extensive knowledge of the region, would be super exciting

Woah! How have I not found your channel until today!?!?✌✌

the line "Turning the landing points evil" cracked me up - like all I can imagine is a bunch of scary grass, and a specific spot cackling and growling for no reason lmao :) great video though!

Insane production quality can’t believe I’m watching for free

Any idea about orbs? When I was with 4th ID, 1-68 AR. BN. We were in Balad, Iraq. At the time F.O.B Sliver Lion. I and a couple of soldiers witnessed orbs on 3 different guard shift though out our year deployment.

nicely put together video, well done

your videos are so good; perfect narration, all the angles are covered and backed up by evidence(i use the word evidence and not facts as a lot of it cannot be proven beyond reasonable doubts).

I remember my first tour in Iraq near Talafar Iraq 🇮🇶 on a remote air base, our TOC was located in an Old fortified series of bunkers with quad stacked concertina wire encompassing the entire compound with a guard post being the only access point to inside of the compound ......one night 🌙 about midnight I was walking out of the ALOCs bunker and saw an extremely large white 🐺 wolf looking at me from the center ceremonial (formation area) area of the compound. The wolf is easily the largest canine I have ever seen, atleast 200 lbs.... it was about 20 meters from me when I saw it ....but instead of running, it just watched me as I slowly walked to the main TOC bunker... I wasn't scared but in awe of how impressive the wolf was..I was armed at the time with my M4......it was later that I realized that it would be impossible for it to get in the compound with the guard post being guarded 24/7 .... I still don't know how that wolf 😕 was in such a secure location but it was

My husband returned from a 12 month deployment in Iraq, 2005. My entire family, household of 8, in 3 separate homes. Suffered the most bizarre, unbelievable paranormal experience beyond my imagination.

Gorgeously done, my friend.

What a great video. I love this kind of thing. Bravo

A portal makes sense,its where the annunaki helped, or created/improved humanity in the 1st known civilization of Mesopotamia.

Currently reading a book titled Peacock Angel:The Esoteric Tradition of the Yezidis by Peter L Wilson. Good read thus far 👌

Please add more content. I love your channel

I’m a 38 year old Anglo Australian and when you mentioned the peacock angel I was blown away. I had an experience once with what I believe could have been it.

Dude yes! another video!

This channel is absolutely amazing! The focus on middle Eastern / Arab / Persian/ islamic / Jewish / and christian mythology places this content off the chart I think there is an unfair bias going on for why there aren't millions of followers. Your content is so well made That intro just gets me every time

You're content is incredible. Also amazing background music. Sounds like a Hans Zimmer score. So fucking good!

Subscribed I'm going to binge watch your video's.

I absolutely love your channel man, such a wealth of insight and fascinating fringe subjects. Keep up the good work and God bless.