When the Travel Channel Created Their Own Conspiracy 

The fact that they took something that we shouldn’t know about let alone anyone think too hard about and made a spooky cryptid out of it for entertainment

I long for the day they finally make an accurate Wendigo movie/tv show where people get possessed by an invisible formless spirit and start cannibalizing each other in sheer madness. Seriously, the real Wendigo monster has more in common with Lovecraft's monsters than they have with the deer-human creature found in popular media.

@@ahniandfriends123 Antlers was pretty solid

I assume the wendigo is putting benches in cemeteries and random places as well. Must be why they're haunted.

I can confirm, it's true

I mean technically not wrong.

Weird how the natives mysteriously vanished as soon as the colonialist settlers arrived.

They left suddenly into the ground lmao

"Don't mind the corpses, that's not them."

I mean to be fair, Settlers would probably openly admit to removing the natives unless they told this to a another Native Tribe that were friends with those Natives

Yes legends.. don't mind me.

@J M I’m from manitoba and I’ve heard about this too, can’t remember where it was though

Tsuchinoko real?

@@Reidc123 why did you live in Manitoba

Oh man the classic Mutahar days

@@bigch33se11 I remember those days

Legit I caught a glimpse of one of these type of shows the other day and they brought on some fake "expert" to say that The Rake was caught on video. I could not believe my eyes, they are just using old Creepypastas now

Yeah.

@@loganwendigo937 oh my god, which show?

Lol and it's all still around. Just swapped platforms

Yeah I paid for discovery + and watched this 😂 television will live on in streaming.

whoever cites 'the death of television' obviously watches the wrong television lol

Cable news ceased to be news when they became 24 hour political opinion programming networks in the late 90s just before the fad of fake reality trash TV would totally ruin basic cable networks. Starting with that fake as hell survivor crap on CBS.

​@@Dreamybeaverthis looks so bad i almost want to buy a subscription just so I can laugh at it

Even just a mat of fake grass would be better than a paper mache rock, anyone who goes up and interacts with that giant attention grabbing rock would immediately notice its fake

Bit of effort and a bulldozer.

They had the time and resources to seal their bunker with cement overnight when uncovered, but a paper mache rock was the best long-term disguise they could manage? Sounds like a very legitimate and truly devious secret group!

Well, if they filmed it here, it is technically still under the law of National parks & that would be vandalism.

@@joeb8935 Just think, someone sues the government, because they decided to lean on the rock, fell into the bunker, and broke some bones.

This one made me laugh!

ok thats actually a tiny bit spooky

Yeah, it's called a abandoned graveyard. :-/

​@Dubuya Jay did you not get the hooked orrr...

What happened to all the bodies?

You say that and yet I consider the fact that there are boa constrictors that can eat things way bigger than a human a determining factor.

Must not live in Florida. The rumor Florida has monkeys is because they escaped or were let loose from a carnival/zoo/film (depends on who you ask).

@@simplesimply3753: in the 90s, Hurricane Andrew devastated south Florida. Plenty of animals escaped the Miami-Dade zoo, I still remember all those images of escaped lions and leopards in the swamps being contained.

I can't remember where, somewhere in the Smokey Mountains I think, but way back in the 20s a "wild man" escaped from a nearby carnival. Was in a bunch of newspapers at the time so it seems to have actually happened and cops were warning people to stay away from him. Ever since, people in that area have talked about "the wild man" who is basically the local area's bigfoot now. Lots of escaped chronicle cryptids are actually pretty possible and some of the more credible ones-even if I don't think there really is a wild man stalking the Smokeys these days. These urban legends and myths start from realish events and then get distorted by hearsay and rumor.

Yes 👍

Lol Ghost Adventures scared the shit out of me as a little kid, but I watched it again when I was like 12 at a friend's house and went "wtf is this lmao" I would love to see Billiam cover this and some of the alien stuff on the history channel

Buzzfeed Unsolved is the best ghost hunting show

Mike Stoklasa knows about Ghost Adventures 😏

"but got more into conspiracy theories and faked evidence as the show went on (i.e. executive meddling from Travel Channel higher-ups)." Nah let's be real the lead actor for that was always that kind of guy the execs didn't make him do half that shit he was doing it from day one.

Someone should make it

Literally the worst cadence for videos

My brain went to “Number 7 Burger King foot lettuce.”

Chills impression was on point.

I humbly submit MythBusters!

@@LpSamuelm a VERY close second.

Dare I say Deadliest Catch (before it became a scripted reality show)?

@@willy_b_coyote i never liked that show, them promoting the hell out of that show and showing it at all hours, (and them canceling mythbusters), is the main reason i dont even watch tv anymore, discovery was the only channel i watched, until it became nothing but a reality tv show dumping ground. they had MUCH better content, when they were making nothing but documentaries, and unfortunately i think mythbusters started that downfall, as it gained them SO MANY MORE viewers than any of their other shows, then deadliest catch cranked that into overdrive, and unfortunately, they decided to lean into it, instead of mythbusters, because it was cheaper to make.

I remember catching No Reservations on while channel surfing and instantly being hooked in both the show and with Anthony Bourdain (RIP). Was a great show, wish there was somewhere to watch it, it was on Pluto TV a couple years back but it seems like it has disappeared.

Just remember at how much damage these fake shows are actually doing. Had a family member who thought Mermaids were real because of the show, at least she believed me instead of trying to argue about it. Just breeding stupidity.

@@Gatorade69 Yes you're right! Rest assured, I am very aware of how misinformation can be dangerous and lead to very toxic views and practices, it's just nice to be able to take a break from that once in a while when I can afford. I know it is a privilege for me to do so as I am not constantly in contact with people who have fallen into the dangers of it and I feel sorry for those who do.

@@Gatorade69 Oh, I totally spent like a weekend convinced the mermaid thing was real. I think I caught a rerun and finally saw the disclaimer.

There's something ironic about misspelling literacy then

@@GrandpaMaxGaming lol yeah, in my native language it has "tt" tho, hence the mistake. I don't think think pointing it out is without irony either, since the notion is about having more than a surface approach to information

Welp, theres always ebay!

Wait did you just want some mermaid tail or specifically the little mermaid’s tail?

I mean, there _are_ a lot of demons you can summon on Twitter with an @. The place is cursed.

Out here in Wisconsin we have a fair few menenite communities and they'll put that on their barns all the time.

@demons hey u up?

... I've accepted that the @ symbol is used to summon demons headcanon so hard...

Isn't it a pentacle? Stars themselves don't mean much.

Cop wanted you to leave so you wouldn't see the Wendigo.

@@Gatorade69 EVIDENCE of a COVERUP!

@@Gatorade69 what if the cop was the wendigo

@@akufuhreal3757 how could the cop be a wendigo when it was actually the lochness monster?

What if his dad was the wendigo?

I really liked Mysteries at the Museum. At least you learned about interesting real events. My mom loves the show now since I introduced her to it.

Gotta love the insane stuff travel channel has made, it's makes you want to believe in it even though it's completely made up

Mysteries at the Museum was actually really cool, but as far as I know, it hasn't been aired in ages. it's been equally long since I've seen something on travel channel that isn't paranormal-related.

Loved Mysteries at the Museum. Buried Worlds felt way too sensationalist in comparison...would probably pay poor Billiam to watch it though.

Ah, yes, that brings back memories

Hey, same here!

Bruh, me too, but it was always a joke to me and my friends.

They did one for Blair Witch back in 99 that's pretty good

Texas Chainsaw too

@@altarriq that's a great example

Nope. This is not what a “shockumentary” is. A shockumentary has shocking content but is still a documentary which unlike this, is typically not fake. Otherwise it’s not a documentary. That would be a mockumentary.

@@richardtherichard26 these are done as Shockumentrys and are stated as such on Discovery +

That show was good I enjoyed it when it was on

When was that?

I remember seeing a couple episodes of that back in the day & couldn't, for the life of me, remember what it was.

I can still hear the voice of the computer narrator in my head to this day. For the time, it was a pretty creepy show. With the inundation of reality and ghost hunting shows since then, not so much looking at it now.

I might watch it just to hear the intro lol

Right? What's with that intonation that they use? 🤣

That last one was the History Channel and it's called Life After People. History is owned by A&E and I don't know who owns A&E now.

Destination Unknown does feature a lot of total nonsense too though. Like the idea some random Ryukyuan island is some kind of atlantean civilization because it's made of geometrically shaped rocks.

Even the dragon one, if I remember correctly, was never presented as "real." It was always presented in the advertising as "what would it look like if scientists found this impossible thing preserved in a cave and how would its biology work?"

@@scaper8 I don't quite remember the ads for it, but I do know the program itself was in the documentary style, from the premise that these scientists had actually found the dragon corpse frozen, and then proceeded like any other documentary that involves extinct animals. Too be fair though, the programs that come after it, definitely pushed the 'this is real' angle a fair bit harder.

@@jessicaconda4825 I knew the mermaid documentary was fake when I saw it, but I was a kid when I saw the dragon documentary and it was just really confusing.

Centralia would have made more sense due to how bonkers the rl town is.

It doesn't take 45 minutes to get there?...

Not shocked one of the names of an Oregon County is Roadkill County

@@peachtea7269 That's the cool part. There isn't.

@@camerongrow6426 even better

Yeah, I live right nearby Boston OH. It's mainly comprised of the national park facilities and a skii resort. There's also apparently a historic bed and breakfast. The graveyard is still there, but there's a distinct lack of bench ghosts, and absolutely no signs of satanic activity. Trust me, if there was a satanic cult running around here, I'd definitely be a member.

Please post an update if you can, you have me interested in any discovery dirt lol

Well?

Oh yeah, I used to watch Bizarre foods until I so No Reservations and was hooked.

Hard agree!

Man v Food made me a foodie lol

Yes! That one was amazing! Watched it with my dad and we were laughing our asses off.

Every documentary even bbc was a lie

I am wondering this myself

It do be like that when you're in an empty place that is usually busy. I remember walking through the street at night, usually was filled with people but NO ONE WAS THERE. Lol

yeah i hope that gets to his attention because ive heard a lot of native people say not to mention the beasts name and that should be respected

@@zelenpixel i disagree people don't have to follow rules set by any religion that isn't theirs

I'm Canadian, not Indigenous but from the kinds of areas these stories exist, and while I don't have an issue with saying the name, I've always found it deeply unsettling to refer to the Wendigo as just another cryptid. It's a symbol of human greed and insatiability, a name for the spirit of hunger that can dominate someone's very humanity, especially if they engage in the least-human act of all: cannibalism. That's why I've never liked its depiction as a bipedal deer-monster. The thing that makes it scary is its fundamental human form - an emaciated, distended humanlike figure who has eaten its own lips out of sheer hunger is way more frightening than "sasquatch with antlers".

@@kidwet20 It's about respecting other people's cultures, especially cultures that have been demonized and erased, not "following rules".

It's a regional dialect

It's the result of the us education system relying on local taxes to fund schools schools in rural areas where there aren't a lot of people around much less rich people with money to spare towards education.

Wait that's only 3 people

The fourth member is shrouded in secret.

I also watch them. They're all amazing

Maybe he meant Billiam, Tom Scott, Scott Cramer, and Austin McConnell. Still, rough phrasing.

Scott the Woz is disappointed in you

cant ay i knew this

Im Ojibwe which is Algonquin and I cant say Ive ever heard that we dont want non Natives saying it, its just considered extremely bad luck because of what the Windigo is. Personally, I dont mind tasteful use of that legend, but it is pretty annoying that most coopts of that legend are basically shit like this show lol. Personally love how Until Dawn handled the story, but I know others who arent a fan of it. Ironically, its a story warning about greed and selfishness yet white people sure do like to capitalize on it… I just wish people would take as much interest in our other legends as they do the Windigo legend. Like, all Native tribes have such cool stories, but the only ones anyone cares about are the complete bastardized retellings of the Windigo and Skinwalkers.

@@kittikat4124 thanks for the info. I was going off of what I'd heard. I'll do some more looking into it Have a lovely day :)

@@Darkthestral1 no problem! It's important to learn and share things! One of my favorite stories is of the White Buffalo Woman. Our story of the dreamcatcher is also a really cool legend and one I think needs more attention because people don't really know what the dreamcatcher symbolizes. Another fun fact is why we settled where we did. We were given dreams telling us to find where food floats on water, which are the wild rice fields we found, which are incredibly sacred to us. The fields also tend to be a constant fight for us to keep because the US government refuses to honor us.

@@kittikat4124 the dream is really cool I've never heard it. I'd love to see more stories useing the actual legends from indigenous people. They barely get any attention and are so cool! And frankly I don't know what to say about the government. They just do what they want on native land and act like it's fine. And now they're learning that gee maybe the people who lived here for thousands of years knew something about taking care of the environment. It's all such a screwed up situation.

I blame 'Trading Places'.

I'd say it started with Mythbusters. A build show with some characterization in the middle. This lead to Orange County Choppers which became less of a build show and more of a character "reality tv show." boom everything becomes reality tv on the discovery brands.

yeah I remember a lot of countdown shows like Top 10 rollercoasters or something like that. It probably just started out as like a higher budget "infomercial" where companies paid to be featured on a given show.

The Basil PFP sells this comment lmao I love it

Exactly this! As an Ojibwe person, the only use of the Windigo that I like is Until Dawn. Like its a story warning against greed and selfishness, and yea, it really likes the taste of human flesh. I think Until Dawn really gets that anti greed story down because they wouldnt have even been attacked if it werent for the one guy. Though it would have been even better if they had hired actual Indigenous people to work on the game… I mean, if youre gonna use our legends, use our people to help tell the legends, too.

There's not a whole lot up here that's that interesting with regards to Native people's. Grand River, or parts of it, were likely sacred, there used to be at least two legitimate burial mounds, but only one of them still exists after being excavated, it looks like. A couple village sites- one of which actually being in that park, but I don't know where. It was Lenape & you can't get very close to it because a swamp shifted over half of it & its mostly quicksand now. One hunting area where people claim to regularly run into Native America ghosts & at least one massacre memorial from the Revolutionary War. Locals don't seem to have really kept any of the lore alive in our own local culture, despite there being a lot of tribes around this area from a lot of different places & many people, myself included, happening to have Eastern Blackfoot or some other Native blood. (Yes, I'm aware none of us have the slightest clue what the hell Eastern Blackfoot is supposed to mean. I don't really know for sure, either) Frankly, any tribes who believed in Wendigo here probably didn't even call them that in their own languages. Closest thing we have to anything like that is it apparently used to be, a very long time ago, part of the local lore to refer to Skinwalkers/ witches as Hookies, which was badly corrupted from the Iroquois/ Wyandot otgon, but if you asked anyone about that today, they wouldn't have the slightest clue what the hell you were talking about.

@@MrChristianDT Skinwalkers and Windego are not the same thing, or even similar, if you're trying to say that. I do agree that Ohio is pretty far south of most Algonquin territory, though the Shawnee lived in Kentucky and Indiana along the Ohio river, so it's entirely possible they lived in this area of Ohio at some point, or a different Algonquian tribe may have as we cover much of the northern east coast and into what is now Ottawa, and the Cree lived as far west as Alberta and possibly further.. We are a large group because what connects us is our similar languages, though we had dialects and they could be as vast as current Chinese dialects. So it's definitely not impossible for such a creature to be in Ohio.

@@kittikat4124 No, I know those two aren't the same thing. One's a witch, the other is a demon. As for Algonquians in our area, we had the Whittlesey Culture before the Beaver Wars & the Lenape & Shawnee were sharing the area for a time with the Seneca & Wyandot afterwards. There was also, supposedly, a small group of Ottawa living right on the PA border for a time, maybe during the French-Indian Wars, or the Revolutionary War. I'm not too clear on it & this area wasn't their territory, so it throws me off a bit. But, while I'm fairly sure all the Algonquians- possibly even all the tribes in the area period- had their own versions of the thing in their cultures, I just don't know that anyone other than the Anishinaabeg, Crees & Algonquian Nation used the term Wendigo. Frankly, it's hard to find a whole lot of info on things that Natives don't like to talk about & I don't have any real connections in those communities as of right now. All things considered, I've had run-ins with things from Native spirituality once or twice in my life & I'd rather not have to fight a Native American demon irregardless.

@@MrChristianDT yea, certain things are definitely kept secret from outsiders, which is very understandable all things considered. Plus certain things are only for oral retelling, or they were just lost to us. And then there's the fact that a lot of people just don't care to learn, I once had someone try to convince me there were never Natives settled in Kentucky, and he was so sure he was right. It still really sucks to see our legends used so callously so often in media. (Also just want to say I'm not trying to fight or anything, I was genuinely confused about whether you thought the two were the same. Text is so hard for me to understand sometimes lol)

Yeah, abolish the profit motivation

Amish food in general is amazing And yeah the state really earns its place at the edge if lake Eerie