El Pombero: South America's Surprisingly Likely Bigfoot-Cousin
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- Опубліковано 1 чер 2024
- This video is about the Pombero. South America's diminutive bigfoot-cousin. The legend of the Pombero goes back to at least 500 years, which is as far as we have the potential to know. Even still, people in the south-central region of South America take the matter surprisingly seriously...
In this video, I discuss how the local perception of the Pombero is percisely what we should expect, were the creature a flesh and blood animal, and then, I'll discuss whether or not our knowledge of fossil primates supports or refutes it's existence. I'll also go over some footage, but don't get too excited about that...
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Bob, check out what Jane Goodall been saying about Bigfoot. She was on an outreach program in the remote rainforest of Ecuador. It took her 2 hours of flying over dense forest to get there. When there she coyly asked if they have ever seen a monkey with no tail. Three independent hunters with no concept of Bigfoot, told her they did encounter a hairy upright walking monkey with no tail that was about 6 feet tall.
She said there's something there to this and she would love the chance to explore it if given the opportunity. Jane Goodall as you know was ridicule by the scientific established for naming the chimps in her observations instead of numbering, as well as daring to a scribe them attributes once considered only human such as emoting.
Heh, there's one thing I've learned about the difference between ranchers and people who merely talk about raising animals. Even things as dumb as cows and sheep have personalities. People who are around them daily know this. "emoting"? that's just expressing what tiny furry thoughts they have. Even insects can do that one some weird feeble level.
@@marhawkman303 It's because the Academia Scientific Community is more incestuous and closed minded than trailer parks in the middle of Alabama. The nature and structure of Academia actively discourages contradicting science to achieve confirmation bias and groupthink. And because this is a labor most people do for life, it's only until the old fucks who gatekeep ideas and concepts all die out and retire that new ideas are allowed to be pursued.
@@ZeroX7649 yeah, this is the #1 criticism of the modern peer review process. You're asking people to agree with you who may or may not actually be evaluating your work fairly. Professional academics have a financial incentive to suppress ideas that are revolutionary.
@@ZeroX7649 I've never been in the scientific academic community so I can't say first hand, but this is spot on what I've heard from some people who would know. I wish more people were aware of this, because people seem to treat scientists like a priestly class that you can't question as if they are solely driven by the pursuit of raw truth
@@ZeroX7649 academia isn’t perfect but it’s better than any institution that has ever existed in human history when it comes to you know, finding out what’s true and what isn’t. There’s plenty to criticise in academia but what you’re saying just sounds like a ranting conspiracy theorist who thinks the eggheads are all plotting to keep the ancient pyramid aliens secret.
Animals that die in the forest, almost never leave fossils. The moist environment leads to decomposition than to fossilization
Facts 💯
Also 99.99% of dead species don’t fossilize anyways
Also whos to say that an intellegent biped wouldn't have death rituals like we do, maybe they recycle eachothers bones or body parts just a thought
There has to be a quite specific sequence of events in a specific environment for fossils to be formed. There is absolutely the potential for anything biological, be it animal or plant, to be fossilised though. a lot of animals that die are generally dead because they were killed and eaten so there is not much left. An animal that dies of disease, injury or old age is often scavenged and has it's body parts spread about, again leaving little of note to be preserved. The likely hood of finding a complete skeleton or fossil of some obscure unrecognised or documented creature is probably zero.
There are literally millions of people that have seen and photographed bears, but how many people have found a complete skeleton in the wild?
@@th-pw8pn I’ve been hunting quite a bit in remote forests, (remote as in no signal), I’ve never seen a single bear skeleton, and I’ve never even seen a bear. Personally. I only see tracks and poop. Only very few that I know ever see them but there are so many of them in the usual specific area. I also never see deer bones except when there’s a mountain lion den. I’ve found about two and it wasn’t pretty. Deer sheds are all I normally find and when I do they’re usually sun bleached and a lot lighter than usual because of weathering and decomposition. Although unlikely it’s still possible big foot is alive or was..
HI, I live in Patagonia nowadays, but my parents were from the northeastern part of argentina, needless to say, I spent alot of my childhood over there, so I want to put a few things:
-Pombero is also well known for kidnapping kids, some of which are never seen again, but the ones that came back, usually speak of how to pombero took care of em, taking em to the tree tops, and bringing em food.
-It is also known like the lord of the birds, it can mimic some birds, and usually when it is around, birds stay quiet. That usually how you know is a pombero making the call, its a single bird chant in the middle of a silent forest. (which is peculiar, due to how noisy subtropical forests are).
-Just like the dogman, in that specific zone, theres also a cryptid called el lobizon which some people say is a werewolf, but Ive seen one, and its a pretty big canid which can stand on its hind legs, and the reflection of a flashlight on its eyes make em look bright red. (My cousins have been trying for years to convince me it was an aguara guazu, but im still doubtful).
-In the northwestern part of Argentina theres also a bigfoot like cryptid, called ucumar, which may or maynot, be a regional name for the pombero specie... but their behaviors are different.
-In almost all Chile, and in Patagonia, we have high mountains forests, just like the ones you would find on Canada, or the american northpacific, yet, we dont have nor we ever had a bigfoot like cryptid on these regions, which is something I really like to think when people say that bigfoot like creatures are just the product of your imagination, or something like pareidolia.
Love from Argentina
Thank you for this additional information!
“ yet, we don't have nor we ever had a bigfoot like cryptid on these regions ”
UCUMAR: Hold my beer
Patagonia is one place I’d love to see. I hear that it’s beautiful.
Doesn't Patagonia literally mean "Giant Feet" or "land of the Giants"?
@@uncannyvalley2350 yep, patagonia is the land of the patagones, or giant feets. Name coined after the natives of the tehuelche and aonikenk tribes. It wasnt something paranormal, natives just were way taller than their contemporary european. The media por european height was around 5'10'', while tehuelches were known to reach up to 6'8''.
YES. Bob Gymlan's take on my countrys own cryptid. This is going to be good.
Si. No porquito.
Si means yes
de donde sos?
@@gussstavo Buenos Aires, Argentina. Vos?
@@christianspitzer1990 tambien!
I can't, for the life of me, figure out why this channel doesn't have over a million subs. Research, delivery, and subject matter are top-notch. Keep it coming, brother!
it's only a matter of time!!
Because he thinks apes are taking cigarettes gifts from people
@@nenhumnome4149 apes have been known to do this though. why is that so unbelievable
@@nenhumnome4149 There's video of chimps smoking cigarettes lol
@@clinteastwood5359 do they light up their cigarettes? You're making a point against yourself
Dear Bob Gymlan,
You are, by far and away, my favorite voice in the relic hominid/American ape/Bigfoot (whatever you want to call it) community right now. You’ve made me think about it differently, and you helped me make sense of something I experienced. Every time one your videos come out, I have so much excitement and literally watch it at the very first chance I get. Which I can’t say about a lot of other UA-cam content, Bigfoot or otherwise. Absolutely great work.
Thank you,
Braxton
Honestly, he's the only one worth listening to and that's not hyperbole. The Bigfoot community at large is filled with grifters and lacks the necessary substance to take any of it seriously, outside of Bob, of course.
No truer words.
He has the SILVER VOICE. Some have said the DIAMOND VOICE.
well said
I love him too, but he is behind on what they are, which is not apes, they are not human, unless you call aliens human as well. They are protected by what we humans can call dimensional shifting just like ufo crafts can do. Ever wonder why so many UFO sightings come from around the same areas that sasquatch are sighted? If you haven't heard about it, I suggest a rabbit hole deep dive and an open mind, because there are good reasons why we don't have more evidence yet, and it's very much the same about collecting ufo evidence until we had FLIR technology and thermal locking with high zoom cameras. Why there isn't another Patterson gimlin film when these things are supposedly in every state and country?
I'm from Argentina. Pombero legend is still pretty popular. Sometimes is taken for a joke. When someone is drunk and suffers an accident will say that the pombero beat him.
I like your theories and assumptions, they are really credible and make a lot of sense.
A couple of years ago I tried to imitate some magpies crackling. They disappeared and never came back. I probably told them to _"go to hell and this territory belonged to me"_
That was really stupid of me. I enjoyed their company and their amazing flight acrobatics.
_I like magpies_
Well that's a shame. Hopefully they'll show back up at some point.
*I like magpies*
@@logansmith2703 I'm making friends with a new one. Feed her today. She dares to take food from me closer. Today at only 3 feet.
:)
@@BobGymlan they are very intelligent och graceful birds. More intelligent than chimps if you ask me.
@@DEATH-THE-GOAT Maybe you meant to reply to a different comment?
I like your blend of philosophy and science when dealing with cryptids
Yeah you have to take a common sense approach to things as well as questioning everything. Blindly trusting science is incredibly dangerous too many people are trying to push agendas.
Right? Always has me thinking and interested.
@@jf2849 “mUh TrUsT dEr SciEncE!!!!!!i!!!'
It would be a much more enlightened & evolved world if everyone had the ability to think and converse like Bob Gymlan.
i agree!
@@dirtywhiteboy4963 username + profile pic checks out
C'mon. He is comparing apes to mob! Dumbest logic anyone could apply.
Try leaving gifs for any animal to see if they will "move on" or constantly come back for more and more gifts. Try this. You can try this even with humans, same results.
Even him acknowledge this...
@@nenhumnome4149 He was explaining that it would make sense for a human sub-species to have a system of accepting offerings. And he was saying that the tradition had to come from somewhere.
This is by far the best channel of its' kind. Bob approaches the topic with an analytical mind and critical thinking that some other channels can't even comprehend.
This makes a lot of sense when you think about the misunderstandings about the attributes we ascribe to humans about whom we know much more. Ancient Egyptians, for example. Think about how we, today, can't imagine those "primitive" people being able to construct monuments like the pyramids, etc. with the tools and methods they possessed. Modern consensus seems to always presume that we are somehow smarter, and more advanced, than people were in the past. For all we know, there may have been prehistoric Einsteins, Copernicuses, Galileos whose brilliance was lost to history because the life of the last person to hold their story was tragically cut short before they could pass the knowledge on to the next generation of record keepers. Or was in a language that was simply swallowed up in the mists of time, or would be as indecipherable as Minoan Linear A. We tend to underestimate everything from the past, is what I'm goin' for here. Lol.
What do you mean we can't imagine how they did it? The accepted theory is that Egyptians did build the pyramids with copper chisels. And it's a wrong one. They aren't understimated by mainstream archeologists, they are overestimated. If you do the math, it doesn't make any sense. They say the great pyramid was built in 20 years. If that were the case, it would mean they had to quarry, chizzle, and put into place one stone every 2 minutes. Yet, that's how archeologists claim it was done. Speaking of Kheops pyramid alone.
Egyptian history spans many pre dynastic and dynastic eras for over 4500 years, and it's not short, but it is well documented. According to academia. But, they describe themselfves as a legacy civilisation. Records of rulers go back 30000 years, but archeologists today say every name before 4500 years is just a deity. I call bullshit on that, but okay.
And let's not forget the fact that the oldest pyramids are the most impressive. And since then, they degrade in quality. Because, of course, that's how progress works, right? 😂
So, no ancient Egyptians were not understimated, they were overestimated. It was either done by an older civilization, or the Egyptians possesed more advanced tools than historians give them credit. They were smart. But smart or not, you cannot chizzel a perfect diorite vase with copper. It would be like shapeing wood with a feather. And over 40000 such vases were uncovered in one place alone.
Do you know where the story of Atlantis comes from? Platos predecessor heard it from an Egyptian priest, who said it took place 12000 years ago. Real or not, they kept the story alive for that long. It wasn't forgotten or lost. People just don't belive in it now a days, because it's not simple enough. I could go on all day about this 😂
@@gizmonomono the Egyptians we know found those monuments, they did not build, they renovated poorly. That whole Egyptian plane was build 100,000 years or more ago.
Makes me think of the antikythera mechanism
Yeah it is almost as if we fail to comprehend that just because other people lived different lives and hold different values that they must be inferior or superior to ourselves. Really gets the gears grinding.
Couldn’t Number 4 also just be a rural cultures way of explaining awkward, unplanned pregnancies? Kinda like “cabbage patch” kids. Or like the explanation of storks bringing babies. Just putting it out there. Loved this and all Bob Gymlan videos!
Or even just deformed infants and stillbirths
In reality people have always understood all those things correctly, the stories are metaphors or are meant for children.
Or as a convenient scapegoat for infidelity etc. But I don't know about the sexual morals of the region.
@@kullenberg I think they are very catholic down there
Female nature is universal
Bob ive been waiting for you to speak on this particular member of the squatch family...great vid as always!
Wait, THE Streetbeefs?
bro in all the things I've read and watched about this subject
I've always noticed people who use the term "squatch" are always Fukwits
@@perfectstranger1152 streetbeefs wtf
Yo face I told you 4 years ago I can show you where a clan is near you bro, I been in this community for a minute. There are underground researchers that has mapped out sightings and narrowed down the areas in the VA Ridgelines next to 81 corridors. I've got maps myself if you feeling "hairy" lol, I'd enjoy an invite to see some fights on a Saturday sometime though as a guest and would send you some great pics of what researchers has collected in the area next to us around in VA
@@shable1436 im sending u an email, my friend
Bob-another fascinating video. I will disagree on the "Taboo" evidence for the Pombero. Women have been getting pregnant unexpectedly since the beginning of humans. As a result, there has always been a need for some kind of "cover" for explanation this does not incriminate the individual involved. I think this is much more likely to be the source of the "impregnation" legends.
Yeah I agree, miraculous conception or admit you’ve been sleeping around at the risk of persecution from your community
@@dragon091327 this is only really true in the anglosphere and relatively recently at that.
@@alexs7670that’s bs
I think your voiceovers and your illustrator's art are inextricably linked in my mind's eye. One automatically conjures the other for me. Also, I love playing Where's Waldo-Bob in each video. Those offerings are surprisingly close to my Christmas wish list...or Halloween. Threat or treat!
Fred Dunn is the artist.
I feel so blessed that we connected, and that’s not a word I use lightly.
@@jetjaguar4285 how they only had you in 1 Godzilla flick is a crime 😪
@@Paradise4-28 totally agree, should have been a Jet Jaguar movie @
I never thought I would ever see Bob Gymlan talking about the Pombero, and never thought of a connection between the myth and a possible hidden hominid. Awesome video. Though, I have to say that there's another myth in the region, much more obscure, about the Mono-Pelado (lit: hairless monkey). It is said to be an upright monkey-like creature that goes around making horrible cries in the night through the forest. This legend is so local that there is no literature about it, but my uncle says the he had an encounter with this creature, though no one believed him.
Man, hot off the presses! And here I was thinking this would be dropping in a couple hours.
Perfect timing !!!! Just getting ready to nap. Bobs one of my top 5 favorite you tubers.
Hey Bob. Great video as always, i just wanna to say: im from Argentina and im really interesed in criptozoology, not long ago I've been interesed in the criptids proper to my country and of course one of the most recogniced was the pombero, most of the people today really don't belive in the pombero excluding the people from the more rural zones in the northerns provinces. The point it's, While everybody think of it as a legend i've come to the same conclution as you. The creature behave like a primate and the homo florecensis match some of the carachteristics of the pombero. I dont know why im saying all of this, im guess im a little happy of seeing that you aboard this theme un particular and come to the same conclusión.
I always wondered if the origins of Samhain or Halloween, had a similar origin, since it marked the end of the harvest season, which means the reliable food, that comes from fields of produce where gathered up and stored at that point.
They feared that the dead or spirits, where roaming the earth, going from home to home and only by leaving food outside could the “spirits” be pacified.
Bobby G saves the day yet again
@@sidstevens9035 nerd
Bob, do you think you might be interested in looking into the Almasty? It’s believed to live in southern Russia, the Caucasus, Mongolia and maybe Central Asia. It’s also known as the Almas, Abanu, Abnawuyu, the Russian Yeti or Russian Bigfoot, but there’s an important difference: it is said to have a more human face and be capable of using fire and tools. There’s a whole organisation of old men in Russia who are obsessed with the creature and researching it. Some people even claim it’s a relict population of Neanderthal or a similar species. A very famous case is said to have happened in Abkhazia in the late 19th century when a woman named Zana was captured near a village called Tkhina in the 1870s. She was believed to have been living in the wild all her life and stories describe her as being completely covered in hair, having no language, refusing to wear clothes or eat cooked food, getting upset when touched or offered these things, and being strong enough and fast enough to swim through a river and outrun a horse. Zana never learned to speak, but she could understand her own name and could follow commands and respond when called. She ended up having children from different men, and after the first babies died after she bathed them in the cold river, the village women took away the rest of Zana’s children when they were born and raised them themselves. All of Zana’s children were said to look like normal people, but her son Khwit was said to have a hot temper and unusually great strength. Zana herself died in 1890 and her descendants actually still live in Abkhazia today. One of the men researching the story, Igor Burtsev, actually found Khwit’s remains and DNA tests revealed that Zana was 100% human and of sub-Saharan African descent, but some claim that either she was from an unknown uncontacted tribe or that she or her ancestors were brought to Abkhazia as slaves by the Ottoman Empire.
Honestly, I’ve been also interested in stories of feral children and feral people, and I can’t believe no one else has ever considered this that I know of, but I think it’s very possible that maybe Zana was a feral person. She might have been autistic or disabled and was abandoned because of it, but she was fortunate enough to be able to survive alone in the wild. A lot of traits of autistic people and “feral” people or extremely neglected or traumatised people can overlap. The getting violent or frightened when touched, the refusing to wear clothes, refusing to eat cooked food in autistic people would be based in sensory issues and insistence on sameness and in “feral” people it would be based in simply having no experience with those things and therefore being afraid or distrustful of them. You see a lot of those traits described in stories of feral children. Zana never learned to speak because of the duration of her isolation, and she was already an adult when found and, according to the critical period hypothesis, if you don’t learn a first language before a certain age, you’ll never be able to fully learn a language. You might learn words, if any, but you won’t be able to learn correct syntax or grammar. Some feral children have successfully learned to speak fluently (although some fare better with sign language) and gotten over most of their “feral” behaviors, but it’s rare for either to happen with them. If you look at stories like the case of Victor of Aveyron, you’ll find the exact same patterns of behaviour and traits, and he himself was likely abandoned during early childhood because of already showing traits of autism or some other developmental disability. The claims about Zana having hair all over her body might be due to hypertrichosis or something like that, but other than that, the claims that she could swim through a river and outrun a horse were likely fabricated or at least exaggerated to make her seem even more inhuman. The Russian researchers, especially Burtsev, are very insistent that Zana was an Almasty, but let people believe what they want. It’s an interesting story either way.
it was also said about her that she could carry several bags of flour from the mill, had great strength and dogs were afraid of her. I know this story well, since I live in the Caucasus myself, and stories about almasty are not uncommon here
Periods of starvation can also cause hair all over the body, known as lanugo, but it's fine and downy. I'm not sure if this is of relevance!
@@Nyctophora I've actually heard that in a documentary about a Ugandan guy named John Ssebunya, when he was a young child he ran away from a bad home and spent about a year wandering the jungle following a troop of vervet monkeys. By the time he was found he had become frightened, aggressive and distrustful toward humans, he had stopped speaking, he was malnourished and had hair all over him. He was able to be rehabilitated into normal human behaviour and he even relearned speech, he does have some level of mental disability, and is doing well as an adult.
@@user-ue7ej3yd3z Sorry for such a late reply, but I didn't know even dogs were afraid of her. I wonder what more details there are on Zana.
@@elsakristina2689 You can find the full story with a quick search. It's also worth looking at pictures of her son and granddaughter.
That reference to fae type creatures at the end was something I kept expecting, and was beginning to think would be left out; glad it wasn't. Always wondered if such 'little people' lore was a memory of something like H. Flores.
Greeks get pretty close to nailing H. Flores, for what it matters. By chance or grape vine.
Another great video, Bob. I have always been extremely interested in the crossroads of folklore, ‘myth’, and what is proven by science.
I was rewatching some of your old videos, wondering when your next upload would be! Thanks for the new content and keep up the good work!!
When the world needed him most, he returned!
You like- beggers are a sad bunch
@Anvil Head
What would you DO for a like?
I bet you check them before getting up and are on farcebook, insta etc.
WAKE UP!!
I really admire Bob. He's chosen to dedicate a portion of his life to cryptozoology. I assume.
I believe that one day he will be on the caliber of Dr Bendernagel or Jeff Meldrum. It's a bold move, if this is his ambition. God speed young man!! You are necessary!
More like Elon Musk and Bill Gates.
Bob finna be a Legend 🙌 👏
@Anvil Head Status bro, Not Motives.
I meant in a way that he'd advocate our understanding of the unknown and undiscovered... or well.... the lost and then rediscovered because alot of these things are Legends told as folklore.
@Anvil Head Evil people get remembered too, I'm pretty sure you know who Hitler is
@Anvil Head wtf! I'm talking about Bob. Go away.
@@theblackwizard9437 More like two billionaires who largely stand on the shoulders of their staff? I mean, it would be cool if Bob found his way into a massive fortune but I see him more as a Henry Wu than a John Hammond.
Glad to learn something new, thanks Bob.
Oh boy, I been waiting for this.
30Mins from being a documentary, ill just watch it twice
Welcome back Bob. Once again, outstanding. You must be extremely busy with work but I am always thankful for you taking the time to educate us. Looking forward to your next share. Have a great day.
20:17 Perfect spot for a clip of Dean from "Supernatural" yelling, "Humans!" when he discovers how terrible we really are.
Excellent video. I've come to the same conclusions for the same reasons about such said beings. Look how modern scientists thought the Coelacanth "walked on the ocean floor " until a woman discovered one that native fishermen caught...and known about in common knowledge to them. They weren't extinct and didn't walk under water. Their fins cause them to move like a gyrocopter underwater.
Fascinating, and I loved hearing the word "uncouth" again. It's a great word, but hasn't been widely used in the past 30 or so years.
I wasn't expecting a cryptid/bigfoot channel to be the most intelligent and interesting stuff I've heard in a while, but you've certainly pulled it off, Bob. Truly well thought-out, well resourced, thorough, and articulately explained. It's rare to find such a balance of open-mindedness and reason. Cheers! Please keep it coming.
When Mr Gymlan uploads you know that it is going to be good additionally the subspecies species and related species of the sasquatch always intrigued me I have heard about the violent ones such as the howler monkeys or the howler apes but an overtly hostile bigfoot related species could be probable unlike the elusive one
You ever read “Where the Footprints End” Bob? Talks a fair amount about gift giving in there
Great book, definitely a go to recommendation
@@snowfrosty1 definitely fits within my view of whatever the phenomenon is. Between the “woo” element and missing 411 stuff who knows what is happening. Good to keep an open mind though
Fair, deep analysis into a cryptid I've never heard of. Amazing, as always
Thank you, I love watching these.
Best wishes from Bolton, England.
"Duendes" or Goblin-like creatures are definitly something in central and south-america. In every family there's always somebody,who have seen,been kidnapped,or AT LEAST heard a story about such creature. My grandma(RIP) and her sister were kidnapped by them when they were very very young. As "evidence" of their experience,she always kept one of his muddy shoe,because she lost the other when they realized the creatures had bad intentions and started running away. I live near a place called "Las Nubes" in Costa Rica,where people says Witches and Goblins wander freely. Ironically there are restaurants with Goblin theme's and all. Im pretty sure they are real.
In North-America they have pukwudgies. In Eastern-Asia they have Ebu-Gogos and Orang-Pendeks. In Europe they have Leprechauns and little elves. In think they are all over the world.
Well said👈
No just South America, Trinidad too.
Yeh, the leaving offerings thing really reminds me of the traditions the miners here (South West England) had, even in my fathers day back in the 1970s, of leaving food, tobacco, or some other gift to appease the "Knockers", little goblin like beings with long noses, large ears, and huge mouths, who were supposed to live underground in caves and old mine shafts.
Ah, but if these various creatures, maybe several species of them are inter dimensional it would make sense.
They exploit any "thin" places in reality to gather food, Mates, slaves, or just as a place to get away from their own predators. While these entities live in our forests, it may be more like they go camping and hunting on our plane of reality, but then withdraw back across an invisible (to us) barrier, so we don't find their real home forests and swamps.
Conversely, sometimes we accidently cross this invisible line, and get lost, maybe forever, on their side. Read some of David Paulides' books or watch some of his 411 cases. You will be shocked at how well such an idea fits both the "part time presence of these others, and the disappearance of so many thousands of humans.
Just a thought at this point, but one that seems to make a lot of sense. Time will tell.
I'm from the US, and I'm pretty sure we have some kind of small humanoid creature living in Alaska.
Destination Truth did a episode on this and had it being a more magical gnome like creature making it more unbelievable to me. But you making it has a dwarf cousin of Sasquatch makes me think it may exist. Excellent work.
Bob!!! I've been waiting on you buddy! This makes my day!
It always the best when you see Bob Gymlan pop up in your subscribed list. Easily my favorite channel on all of UA-cam.
@@bcurtis363 yes sir.....
17:18 For someone who speaks so eloquently and formally, there's something sexy about hearing Bob laugh and say, "and it's, like..."
The town I live in is directly in the center of your circle on your map. I live here in Brazil, Foz do Iguaçu in the state of Paraná. It’s on the border of Argentina and Paraguay. Thank you so much for this
Literally thinking earlier today on when the next installment would drop! Always presented content, consistently thought provoking. Well done!
The thing I heard about el pombero. Has to do with miscarriages and abortions.
it was a way for people of that culture dealing with that grief of having a miscarriage.
like with wendigos people forced to eat their loved ones to survive
the mind does things to protect itself. Like Saying they became a man-monster.
horrors
The subject matter is compelling. The writing and narration is a work of art.
'That's why we don't negotiate with terrorists. Or used to not'
Let's go Brandon
I heard that loud and clear.
@Robert McConnell just type in “let’s go Brandon” here on UA-cam
😂😂 perfect timing
Thanks for the new content Bob. It'd be awesome to see more breakdowns of supposed real encounters, those are always my favorite.
You have by far the worlds best cryptid channel. Absolutely fascinating!
I love the little jab at nomes and elves and things like that. Fairies goblins and other things.
That would be a very strange but kick ass video for you to make Bob.
Love you Bob. Thank you for alleviating my Sunday boredom
It is very sad that Paraguay is plagued by Italian hobbits.
They never had the makings of a varsity athlete
@@sethstopcallingmeryandickh9067 I'm afraid I don't get the reference at all. But I agree non the less. They would make poor basketball players.
@@vicnedel02 the Sopranos
Kudos to your artist for the Flores man bull-riding a stegodont. Best thing I’ve seen all day and an all-together well-constructed video
A new Bob Gymlan video makes up for my crappy weekend a bit atleast.
I can't believe anyone would actually dislike any of Bob Gymlan's videos. He's has such intellect. Once again great job Bob👍, as always.
Bob subtly acknowledging Taxation is just a mob protection racket is my favorite part of the video
Bob, you have an uncanny way of making a case, wether for or against any point of view.
It is truly a marvelous talent. I would rather be on your debate team, than against it !
Always stoked to see a new upload from you, Bob, Bobby, Bob, Bob...
1:39 me when Bob uploads
I think the biggest take away from this is that you can not, absolutely, trust weasel pirates. Fox merchants are completely trustworthy though. No I don't have a bias, and no I'm not payed in mice.
Great vid, Bob, as always.
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In India mythology we had Vishu avatar Rama used human like apes in southern India to conquer Sri Lanka and they say big foot is a fake!
Thank you! I appreciate your thoughful videos. I appreciate the non-sensational narrative. I VERY much appreciate the original illustratuons instead of annoying and very confuding video clips from unrelated films, tv or memes. And the lack of bad, unpaced and irritating background sound or music. I like the leprchaun at the end. Since I had never heard of the Pomeboro, I stopped halfeay through and googled it. Many of the images showed it wearing a hat. I thought the hatted Pomeboro looked like a leprchaun and the tradition of leaving them treats was the same so I was pleased to see you thought of it also.
This video was a nice birthday surprise. Thank you
Happy Birthday!!! 🎂
Sweet. Love these videos. I enjoy the takes on other countries because people tend to forget other places quite often and don't realize the similarities or whatnot
Hey mr Gymlan what is your opinion on the viability of the Yucca man ie desert Bigfoot. The tribes near Death Valley have stories of him. Because nocturnalism is so common in the desert this could have been the most likely area for them to develop that habit.
Interesting! I'd love to hear bobs opinion on this as well.
@@Ty91681 I've never heard of a desert Bigfoot, only that they like mountains and Forests and really its quite an interesting topic.
I think maybe a Cave dweller would be sufficient? To be able to hide from the Desert Sun and avoid unwanted attention, but I'm pretty sure cave creatures lose fur and have sunken eyes not to mention a Mammal with less fur would find it hard to survive in the desert Night not to mention whats it eating? Camels and Turtles have Mouths adapted to be able to eat Cacti without preparing food like how humans do.
Maybe its small? It might need less energy moving around and keeping itself warm if its got less mass and thatd make it harder to see but then it'd be hard for it to clear large distances. I'm not sure if the desert could support something like a Yeti adapted for it... but I'd love for someone to prove me wrong.
@@theblackwizard9437 the desert has lots of large rocks and small caves used by coyotes foxes mountain goats and lions and even some Jaguar.
The modern legends go by Yucca Man sand Man or concrete man. You can find vids out there of encounters.
Hahahaha wow I haven't heard that for years. Way back when I was a Marine artilleryman, we trained out at 29 Palms in between backyard shoots at Pendleton and going to Durka Durka Stan. We had a tradition of the "Yucca Monster" appearing in the night to properly welcome the boots to the desert. A salty Marine would put on a ghillie suit and we'd dump chem light juice all over him so a glowing "Yucca Monster" would run howling through the pos, attacking the boots in the night. I never knew there was a real Yucca Monster legend until just now. I always thought it was just Marine hazing.
@@theblackwizard9437 The bigger an object is, the smaller the relative surface is. The bigger the mass, the longer it takes to cool off. Arctic variations of animals tend to be bigger than those in warmer regions. As long as there is enough food to sustain a healthy population, they stay big.
SO many great points raised here, Bob!
Among my favorites: Your musings about genetic memory (see Jack London's "Before Adam", which uses this as the premise for a novel about the evolutionary split between socially adept hominins and those too wild for 'society'), and your comments covering my pet theory regarding the split between "H. sapiens" development (as observational, nature-fearing control freaks) and Bigfoot ("Magnusilvambulans sp." - my choice for a genus name) development (as participatory hominins who accepted their place in Nature and survived through guile and stealth).
Keep up the GREAT work!
Another great video sir! I always save them to watch after work relaxing on the porch. I always look forward to them! Fred Dunn did amazing art work as always! ❤️
Thanks Bob. I love when you post videos on less well know, at least in the USA, cryptids. Please keep up the interesting videos I absolutely love your approach and delivery style.
Geee man i 've been waiting for this one, greetings from Bolivia
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just finished this one and I have to tell you (at the risk of possibly coming off as a bit too... umm... ... friendly, you could say ?) your work is near peerless when looking at/comparing to the videos other peeps have confidently uploaded on this website. I've already mentioned just how good your skills as a writer are and this video here is yet another example of just that. I'm never disappointed with your perspectives on the subject nor with your clear & engaging use of the English language so everyone understands. totally dig your work, Bob. continued success and looking forward to the next upload. cheers!
Hey Bob, I have a degree in anthropology and I wish my professors were half as interesting as you. You are the best channel on UA-cam and have broadened my mind more than words could express. Thankfully "I hadn't yet been indoctrinated concerning what could and what could not exist.". I wish I could say the same for my professors. Keep up the good work, and not for nothing, you'd make a great teacher.
I'd love to see Juan of those!
I like Samwise Gamgee as much as the next guy, but I’m more of a Merry & Pippin, guy myself.
@@dunedain3425 Bilbo is kind of arrogant. I like the book he stars in though.
@Robert McConnell I’m Merry and Pippin.
Samwise could lift Thor’s hammer you can’t change my mind
This community needs more well spoken people like you Bob. If I was trying to show somebody who doubts this whole thing. Your videos would be the first thing I show them. Your thoughts and clear headed arguments are really top notch and reflect very well on this community.
Another great video Bob! Thank you - I can't even imagine how long it must take you to write a video like this!
used to not negotiate with terrorists... yes this is our world
just took a lil nap watchin an old bobby g vid and wake up to a new one!!
Seriously, as a hobby folklorist and cryptid fan, you have one of the best, most thoughtful channels on the subject. You and Trey the Explainer are two of my most favorite channels on the subject.
Bob your uploads always make my day - thank you very much for putting such quality content out!
Some interesting observations/ connections: 1) Ostman said they like tobacco too 2) There are reports from China where a Yerin impregnated a woman and the offspring lived (with a face only a mother could love) 3) The impregnating of women might not stem from a “dark” place, more likely that of natural selection. If said creatures have been observing us, they might look at us as a “more perfect” hominid 🤔
"If said creatures have been observing us, they might look at us as a “more perfect” hominid"...
Seriously?
They might wanna bang humans
Another great video Bob (It always is). You're the man. Please consider focusing more on UA-cam.
He’s so busy, I find myself wishing he would do so too, but it’s not really fair of us to be selfish like that with someone else’s time. I know he puts out videos as often as he can manage. He doesn’t just put out content for the sake of putting out content like so many other UA-camrs do… you know the type. The ones who become stale in like 2 months and who wear out the same topics every single time one crosses their path. That’s just not Bob’s style. He prefers to out out high quality over high quantity. And I, for one, appreciate that commitment to quality.
Well one trait about humans is arrogance; we tend to believe we have answered all the questions and know everything! There has to be a definitive answer RIGHT NOW! This was absolutely fascinating and I will be replaying this multiple times.
May I just say....I like the way your brain works my friend!
What is your educational background "Bob"? You may very well have the most interesting channel on YT. The number of subs will catch up with the quality of content soon
I believe he's taken biology, worked with in chimps or gorillas in some capacity....maybe research....or a zoo.
Plus he's what is called an autodidact. A self teacher and good one. At the center of every man made catastrophe or natural catastrophe made worse...there was a group a experts.
Amazing video Bob! You should get to know the "Mapinguari", a somehow like Bigfoot creature from the Brazilian folklore, who is said to live in the Amazon rainforest.
Descriptions sound more like the giant ground sloth, which only apparently went extinct very recently. There could definitely still be relic populations around deep in the jungle.
Dear Bob, I hope that all's well. All of us, your fans are greatly missing your work.
Now that it's becoming cooler, I hope that your creative juices start warming. Take care , buddy.
I wish you a Merry Christmas.
Thank you!
Great video . Always a treat to find a new upload . Thanks Bob
Hey Bob you should look into and make a video about one of my countries cryptid. I am from Guatemala and we have duendes, my mom saw one as a child. But the one I would be interested in hearing your take on is one called La siguanaba. It is a cryptid with the face of a horse and the body of a beautiful woman. She is always seem with long black hair that hides her true face until she is close enough she reveals herself. It is said she steals children who have not been baptized mostly. Mainly it goes after children. My dad and my aunt had an encounter with it as children when they where tending the families corn maze. My dad said it was so ugly and pure evil. It was crying and they tought it was a lady who got lost, then it uncovered it's ugly face and begun motioning for them to come. Anyhow, I have never heard of a female cryptid such as this one in another country. My dad gets goosebumps till this day when he tells us the story.
Loved the ending of this one it’s interesting how small homonin like beings have legends of themselves all across the world but again to your point none of us want to dwell on it but the more human like the more human like there temptations and it seems this particular animal has an awful one
I thoroughly enjoy your videos. I laughed out loud at the "Just kidding, it's Sam" bit. I needed the giggle. Keep up the good work.
One of my all time favorite UA-camrs. Thanks for the new content, Bob!
off topic sort of:
i crush ‘Bob’ so much
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Don’t we all..?
@@Thor-Orion except anyone who knows me.
@@BobGymlan shuuuuuut up. The guy from Florida who helped you blow away that super mutant lizard loves you.
@@BobGymlan ohhh, I think there's plenty of us out here crushing on you, hotness.
We used to not negotiate with terrorists. To be honest we still don’t, now we just give them billions in military equipment, weapons and vehicles.
Let’s go Brandon
I always anticipate your videos! Awesome work!
Love your choice in dialog, Bob. Keep up the good work, always excited to see a new upload from you!
Hope everyone has a great Sunday!
I LOVE this channel! Sucks that Bob clearly feels like he has to clarify everything but sadly on this subject or subjects similar I completely understand it. I can't stand the sheep mentality us humans seem to be gravitating towards more and more. Regardless Bob if your reading this please know you have fans that fully support your opinions and I truly believe your a Very important piece to this puzzle
Another great, thought provoking video. I have been checking every day the last couple of weeks for a new video. Thank you for your scholarly work, it is greatly appreciated.
Wonderful video Bob! Thank you for keeping such a high standard yet making it accessible. 👍😊
My grandmother always told us: don’t whistle, at all, it’s bad luck. Lol interesting and true.