You should do some more lore on other kinds things like this. But also on other countries. I love folklore and such and hearing you talk about things like this makes me so happy and interested. I have a fascination for Japanese folklore myself. From kitsune to tengu and more
When I was 20 I rode my bike to my friends house at around midnight and while I was waiting for him to come outside I noticed a cloud of smoke off near the next house at around my height, i didn't think anything of it, I just subconsciously thought someone was on the next door neighbors porch smoking a cigarette as it was the size or one puff or two. I was in an extremely calm mood, felt almost tranquil, like I was truly in the moment with absolutely no specific thoughts or distractions. Continuing to wait for my friend to come outside I looked up at the stars to appreciate the beauty of the cool, calm cloudless night. I remember my mentality at the time was maybe if I take this small amount of time to really look around I may see something special. The stars were very visible and within the 30 seconds of looking for a familiar constellation I noticed what was most likely a satellite slowing drifting by. I appreciate the timing because of I wasn't in such a peaceful focused mindset I wouldn't have seen it. After watching the satellite for about 20-40 seconds I started to look down and immediately notice the puff of smoke out of the peripheral from my right eye. Without thought or hesitation I immediately snapped my head directly gazing on the now what appeared to be a blue tinted completely still, non dissapating, little cloud of what I could only describe as smoke or some sort of clearly visible gaseous formation. My eyes lit up and I desperately focused my sight as best I could as my immediate thought was that puff of smoke should have dissapated into the air within seconds after I first noticed it. Sure, it was a calm, non windy night but it was not vacuum still, and the cloud was hovering in the same exact location without any movent at all, not even a swirl that you would normally see from another type of smoke, it was as If it had a nucleus around it making sure non of it's mass would be lost. I started to get a weird feeling that I was seeing something that I shouldn't be seeing and I knew that it was something special. As quickly as I could I planted my right foot forward and moved my head to focus on the cloud as best I could. My eyes focused in on the cloud like a lense and within a fraction of a second of me doing that the cloud turned into what seemed to be 8-13ish little blue orbs that appeared to be glowing but emitting no light and gave no reflection on any of the dark surfaces around it. There were spaces in-between the orb and non of them were touching but they all seemed connected like it was one object, moving around each other like some sort of molecule or cellular structure. Another fraction of a second later it started to move and flew up at an angle toward the sky at a speed that seemed unnatural and controlled. The orbs never left each other and stay together without losing any noticable structure or formation. I tried as best I could to follow this anomaly as it ascended but within a second it appeared to shift course in a different direction, not up but outward in a straight like and instead of me being able to continue observing as it was no longer ascending and staying at a visible height it just zipped away into nothingness as if the directional change was it shifting dimensions. This all happened within 2-3 seconds and if I hadn't taken that time to focus in on this strange cloud I would've never not witnessed what I saw. Immediately after it vanished my friend opened his front door and asked what I was staring at. I couldn't believe what just happened and I desperately tried to explain myself without sounding insane. My friend then told me one of our buddies had seen a golden orb around the same spot that shot a crossed the street when he noticed it. That was only weeks prior. I can't help but think that me observing this entity changed its form and caused it to flee. The odds of it flying away like that at the exact moment I gazed upon it woul have to be one in a hundred million. There's no way that my slight movement caused enough force through the air to make it move the way it did if it was simply methane. The physics isn't there for that, it was at least 10-15 feet away and any gust would've taken more then a split second to change that cloud. I firmly believe that it was watching me and that I was not supposed to see what I saw but I just happened to be in the perfect state of mind and at the right place at the right time. right when I got home I drew what I saw because it just so incredible. I've looked everywhere for an explanation or someone saying they've seen something similar. The only things that comes close are these willow wisps and spectral orbs or something along the lines of ectoplasm. The orbs didn't appear fire like at all as they were perfectly spherical and I could only describe them as pure energy or maybe even plasma like. The fact that it changed states of matter so abrutely was awe inspiring to say the least. Please, if anyone takes the time to read this long drawn out story and has any similar occurrence or could point me in the right direction It would be much appreciated. This has been stuck in my mind for so long with absolutely no answers.
Really liking these shorter videos. Sometimes we don’t need to know EVERYTHING about a topic, just enough to answer the question presented in the thumbnail.
There could be a psychological explanation for the apparent tendency of the wisps to dissipate when approached. People approach wisps. People don't approach the absence of wisps. Many people experience a phenomenon with street lamps. They report that street lamps often seem seem to turn off when they walk under them. I've experienced this, too. Now, those fluorescent ones do operate on a careful electrical handshake, and it might be possible that the capacitance of the human body near an AC circuit could cause fluctuations. But the more reasonable explanation is that these on-again-off-again street lights are on for more time than they are off. We're not likely to notice one turning off if we're not near it. And outlying events can seem to happen more often than they really do, because the brain will take any shortcut it can find. It doesn't typically bother "recording" the very typical experience of walking under a street lamp that stays on. So when we recall memories of walking under street lamps, the uninteresting encounters are under-counted. Plus, since the prior assumption was that these wisps were some living thing*, it's possible that people were subconsciously resistant to any less-interesting explanation, to the extent that they might inadvertently augment their accounts in a way that discounts the new hypothesis. *Methane comes from living things, but that's not really the same thing.
I didn't know they did that with street lamps. Probably less so today what with LEDs replacing the fluorescent ones. Do you have more information on the checkerboard patterns?
As an electronic engineer, the reason streetlights flicker on and off is because the photosensor (the odd looking thing on the very top of a streetlight) is going bad. It controls the on and off of the light depending on the light level in the environment. I suspect any chance of it going off when you walk under it is completely do to randomness.
Yeah the problem with volta's hypothesis that it 1 does not give a very good explanation of how the methane is ignited, that is still being studied, and 2 it does not explain the other type of willow the wisp which appear in areas that are not marshy at all and move independantly.
Yep, theres a great video online of a guy at a sports game with his sister, and when the kiss cam zooms in on them he pulls a piece of paper out of his pocket that says "I'm her brother" or something of that nature. I find it hilarious because my older sister and I are very close and always hanging out together, couldn't tell you how many times we've been mistaken for a couple. We even worked the same job together on the same shift for a while and half of our coworkers thought we were married lol. Doesn't help that we look nothing alike.
Problem is, I saw a will-o-wisp over the California coast, very dry and nil swamps in my area and it did the bobbing dance thing and then shot away really fast.
possibly a methane seep from an unknown coal seam deep underground, with a chance phosgene addition once in a blue moon. The racing-away-illusion what you get as the initial ignition catches a string of seeps emitted along a fault.
The frequency of the light is such that its visible to cones in the eye but not as receptive by rods, looking straight at it causes it to appear faint, glancing sideways it shows up more, thats why it seems to recede.
The Italian for "ignis fatuus" è fuoco fatuo, fatuo sounds pretty much alike, but it came to mean empty, frivolous, light, rather than foolish. You could argue that if someone is foolish, is like saying is empty-headed hence light. 🤔
Hey I have a video idea that I think is really interesting and not commonly known or discussed in everyday life. The idea is an explanation of the tiny group of people in the world who are RH negative blood types and also the traits that are common for RH negative people to share, such as a “widows peak” type of hairline on the forehead. I’d also greatly appreciate it if you could please also include the location on earth that has the greatest concentration of RH negative people. This topic sparked my interest and curiosity when I was watching the history channel and the show: In search of. The host is the actor named Zach Quinto who played Spock in the most recent Star Trek movie. That show is on the History channel so I hope the information and accounts shown are accurate and factual, not just loosely based on facts and then embellished for dramatic effect. I tried to research RH negative blood types and it was more difficult than I thought it would be to determine which pages, articles, blogs and videos were factual and scientifically accurate. I am RH negative and my mom was born and raised in Morocco and my dad was born in the US and raised between NYC and Morocco. We also happen to be Berber. So I found a lot of intriguing questions that I had never considered before watching that show In Search Of. I really truly hope you and your team would do a video or maybe even a series of videos all about blood types and rare blood types and the origins of blood typing. Thanks so much!
In Finnish folklore these are known as "virvatuli" or "aarnivalkea" and they were believed to have been markers for buried treasure set by either elves or spirits of the dead. Whomever came up with those legends might have been a little fond of practical jokes that end with a bang.
There are 2 purported ghost lights or will o the wisps in South Carolina. One that I have seen personally dozens of times and is so consistent anyone could see it. Not owls, or fireflies. I’ve often thought it to be ‘swamp gas’ as the area is very swampy/marshy. But nonetheless fascinating and awesome to see. Also scary as hell when you’re 15, 16, 17.
Whaaaaat, they're real?? I've never seen one!! I thought they were just floating faeries you can fight in Dungeons & Dragons, or Neverwinter Nights. I've only ever read their names before, not heard them spoken, so they always made me picture Willow trees, 'cuse in my head it's always been read to sound like "Willow Wisps"
In Australia known as Min Min. Act as though intelligent, and can't use swamp/marsh excuse in Australian dessert. No where near power lines either. I'm happy to believe swamp gas for the countries where mostly found in swamps, but not in Aus.. Besides,I've been VERY CLOSE to them on a few occasions and there is zero noise, smell,heat,static. They can accelerate to ridiculous speeds and stop almost instantly.. even known to 'dance' in the sky or sometimes just above the ground.. The Behaviour completely destroys at gas, electricity or fire ball theories for anyone who's encountered them. (Unless a mundane sighting where it just hovers in 1 spot).
@@Scaley_Reptile I saw a blue flame in a desert climate that disappeared the first time and then reappeared a couple feet away from me after I saw it and told the people I was with about it. That means it reacted to me, swamp gas can't do that. Every scientific explanation I've heard for them is ridiculous. People should actually try to get evidence of them and figure out what they are if they can. Instead, people just dismiss it as swamp gas.
I learned something new! I've always heard of the term but never knew exactly what it was. For some reason, I associate Wil-o-the-Wisps with the Legend of Sleepy Hollow.
Video fails to explain orbs that are no where near a body of water (forest area's) and near ground level up to tree top level on the move. Just sayin' BTW methane requires a ignition source so what is igniting these wisps when over water ?
Plasma balls that move in response to observer’s thoughts are a different matter. Golden Ball Hill Wiltshire. August 5th 10:30 pm, 1999. About a dozen folks witnessed multi colored orbs flying about in a most spectacular fashion. I heard a theory that the aquifers and tulloric currents under that area has something to do with this phenomenon.
Hey there Today I Found Out! I had a question, well more of a request. I wanted to know what would happen to the animation industry if war broke out between North and South Korea, and South Korea was destroyed. As alot of people know, alot of the actual in between animation is sent out to Korea, nearly every American and Japanese animation, along with animation from other nations depends on Korea for the in betweens. So is there any chance you could make a video theorizing the future, and even failure of the animation industry across the world, or at least in the US, and Japan? Thanks so much if you read this!
Weather balloons... My experience tells me it's probably weather balloons.... At least that's what the nicely dressed chaps from the government told me. :|
>Be me >Used to go on long walks >Start walking all night around my neighborhood >See an owl one night >Ohneatanowl.png >Make another loop around neighborhood >Notice a shadow in the street light above me >Look up to find the owl screeching and swooping at me >OHSHITWHATTHEFUCK??!?!!?.webm >Scream out "WHAT THE FUCK??! GET THE FUCK AWAY!" >Deal with "Owl Harassment" nightly >Try various methods to make it stop, like throwing rocks, or trying to tie the string of a party popper to my thumb and pull it when owl swoops at me to make a loud pop >Finally get sick and tired of the nonsense... Started carrying an aerosol can and lighter around >No1WANTStolightanowlonfire_butIwillifIhaveto!.dll >Never saw the owl again... Fuckin' owls man...
@@hepchaos maybe where you're from. But when you see the weird lights in the forest are on the swamps, that's called st. Elmo's Fire. That's what it is colloquially called in my area
@@hepchaos you know how words Gotham? Enough people agree that a word means the saying, that's what that word means. People decide what words mean. Just because the dictionary says one thing does not mean it reflects what the culture who uses that word believe the word to mean. Words can have their meanings completely changed within the space of a few years. People are the ones using the words, not dictionaries. If we say, as a collective, that a word means something, that's what it means. Majority rules, my dude.
Agreed on the collective aspect...the word 'AIN'T' was never a true word but enough people used it so after many years Merriam Webster added to the approved list of words and it made it into the dictionary...
Apparently, "Wil-o-the-Wisps" should be "Will-o'-the-Wisps", so with the apostrophe. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Will-o%27-the-wisp I searched using your spelling, but Wikipedia immediately redirects to "Will-o'-the-Wisps". Quote: " _A will-o'-the-wisp, will-o'-wisp or ignis fatuus (/ˈfa.tu.us/; Medieval Latin for "foolish fire") is an atmospheric ghost light seen by travellers at night, especially over bogs, swamps or marshes. It resembles a flickering lamp and is said to recede if approached, drawing travellers from the safe paths. The phenomenon is known by a variety of names, including jack-o'-lantern, friar's lantern, hinkypunk and hobby lantern in English[1] folk belief and is well attested in English folklore and in much of European folklore. ..._ ".
I mean youtube wormhole aside, this was recommended, I really would like to know what stat youtube sees that predicts my need to know this, I love your videos, but this subject must be becuase I watch secureteam10, is it that or is it due to some connection i have to owls that I have never disclosed online.
