Scottish Bigfoot? The Big Grey Man of Ben Macdhui
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- Опубліковано 30 тра 2020
- With a height of 1309 metres (4296 feet), Ben MacDui is the highest peak in the Cairngorms and the second highest peak in Scotland. Many mountaineers are certain that this region of the Cairngorms harbour a malign humanoid entity known locally as ‘Fear Liath Mor’ (meaning big grey man) that is grey in colour, big, and fearsome in appearance. The legends tell of these beings stalking anyone who trespassed into their territory.
Actual sightings of the Big Grey Man have been rare, but “eye-witness” descriptions of his appearance describe him as being around ten feet tall, covered in hair, with very long arms and legs.
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Those Basking Sharks get everywhere XD
Lol
So you're telling me the Big Grey man
is described as being Large in size and of coloration that is a mixture of Black and white
Mostly dark coloured and more like a shadow being than an ape man.
@@dr.polaris6423 The shadow beasts are real
The mist-sun shadow theory sounds good, as does exhaustion for the fear… but the 1:3, 2:5, or 1:4 footstep ratio is pretty perplexing. Especially since it seems to vary with the height of the stepper.
Reminds me a lot of Bigfoot here in Canada and the USA. Sounds a lot like infrasound. Recordings of calls from north America that can't be identified have been found to contain infrasound. It can cause such reactions in people.
Notable animals that use infrasound are elephants and tigers. Love your videos, keep them coming doc
Thanks! These sightings are certainly the products of unease and fatigue, coupled with infra sound effects.
@@dr.polaris6423 if your interested in Bigfoot at all I highly recommend Bob Gymlan channel here on UA-cam. No relation to the famous Gymlan. But his videos and research into the topic is fantastic
@@th3falleng0d69 Bob G. is one of the best
@@th3falleng0d69 His Bigfoot stuff is atmospheric and dread-inducing
This was really interesting and freaky, but i think the optical illusion theory is probably right. Pretty much every story was an account from a singular person which would explain the singular shadows. If there were a larger group of people, it would be readily apparent that they were looking at their own shadows. Also with the footsteps, its perfectly reasonable to think that the wind could blow away the echoes of your steps but for it to be so regular is very strange.
Ive never heard of infrasound but it sounds interesting. Do you think there could be some sort of natural phenomenon like a natural gas source or bacteria unique to the area that would cause hallucinations and/or feelings of terror in people? Also, are there any ancient myths about the area that describe the same creature? Thanks for the videos theyre very interesting! I absolutely love speculative evolution and just general discussion of unexplainable events like these.
Glad you liked it! Probably the creepiest cryptid I’ve covered so far.
Occasionally where I live "the trees sing". Its something to do with wind and land creating a strange sound. Like a deep eery whistle.
East Siberia North of Vladivostok.
There's a good reason we don't like infrasound (besides earthquakes) but the cause hasn't been around for 65 million years. Go check out the newest research on what large therapods would have sounded like... I suspect we're hardwired, to this day, to fear that sound from the millions of years our earliest ancestors spent living in the shadows of the dinosaurs.
Sounds much like several notorious Russian incidents of “mountain panic”. I think someday it’ll be discovered that some combination of low oxygen, altitude and possible geological factors induce an acute biochemical response in some people resulting in unexplained fear and abject panic.
Ben Macdui is way too low for any altitude effects
Also, some of the people reporting the encounters up there were extremely experienced mountaineers.
I know one thing, i am absolutely not going to the mountains alone!
Boys
We are officially dealing
With a fucking
SAMSQUAMCH.
Does anyone else remember stories of two guys being attack in a Tent on Ben Macdui between 2005-2007?
I have walked all the Munros. Many summits in the mist. Love the Highlands. I have on a few occasions experienced footsteps behind me in snow and always in the mist. Did not get paranoid. In certain density of air there can be an echo, and the timing of the echoes can be longer than one's actual footsteps. I do believe in angels, and demons, and if I am truthful have on a few occasions seen them, but when hill walking such an echo for me was a rare but natural phenomenon. As for Ben Macdui, it is a fascinating topographical mountain, of which I have climbed twice, admittedly in clear weather. I do not fear any grey man, and would climb it again, if given the chance, though am now not young. Norman Collie must be respected, and I do admire his achievements. But then, as for me, I do have a PhD and am not given to sensationalism. I speak truthfully.
Might be a frost giant. Wheres Thor when you need him?
You make these videos so well from start to finish,please continue to make more videos and if possible more cryptology videos aswell,I admit to be a person that has stumbled across your channel on accident,but yours is a excellent one,even more so then the others I have watched
Thanks, I've got another cryptid video coming out this Sunday!
Good to hear it from credible witnesses, thanks, liked and subbed.
A very well presented presentation of a fascinating subject Dr Polaris. Liked and subscribed. Thankyou.
Enjoyed the vid. Cant wait for next week!
Glad you enjoyed it!
I love your cryptozoology videos! This one isn't really about a cryptid, in my opinion, but it's still a fascinating collection of tales, and it leaves one with lots to think about.
The phenomenon of An Fear Liath Mor is perfectly compatible with most other manifestations of the "Other World" phenomenon that is so commonly experienced across Ireland and Scotland, Wales, and England. The disembodied noises, the laughter and the music, coupled with the terrible feelings of unease experienced by the witnesses all point one confidently in the direction of a space-time rift opening and some sort of malicious, or at least mischievous, entities taking an interest in the solitary humans. Once you've felt the other world for for yourself, you'll recognize that feeling of rising existential dread when others speak of it. It's unmistakable. I wish I could bottle that feeling and share it with the skeptics. It would prevent such a beastly lot of arguments!
Here in Oregon, where I live, Sasquatches are just part of the landscape. Everybody knows they're here, and if you spend time in the forest, you'll see them sooner or later. To me they are just animals, not cryptids at all. But I don't think there are any indigenous Sasquatch alive in Britain nowadays, if ever there were. The beings from the other world, however, seem capable of taking whichever appearances they prefer when they enter our plane of reality, from total invisibility, to all manner of phantasmagoria, so why not some sort of Sasquatch-like giant? While not a flesh-and-blood Sasquatch, I would still be very careful not to spend time alone around the other-worlders and their open portals. Very dangerous. Too many disappearances. I would honestly feel safer around my familiar forest giants, (and they're terrifying too!)
Thanks for another thought-provoking look at the world's less well-understood phenomena. All the best! --N
Wait a minute...Humanoid? Mysterious? Mountainous? Makes those that encounter it uncomfortable?
It's the Grinch!
Cryptids that can be explained by science are always the best ones! I had a feeling infrasound would be a cause, it's a common thing in cryptid stories. Thank you for another great video, Dr! I enjoy them!
That's just the Frost Troll before High Hrothgar
If an actual creature was living there, the mist would make it that much more difficult to verify. The groundskeepers unwillingness to speak on the matter makes me think that either they are involved in a hoax or cover up, or that whatever this creature may be is scaring the piss out of them on the regular.
Some of them make money guiding hunters. They don't want to frighten anyone away, so they keep their mouths shut.
They are embedded SCP Foundation agents and Big Gray Man is part of a localized SCP. The whole "Big Foot" or ""Yeti" angle is a cover-up to hide the real danger...
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The other side is that they simply don't want to talk about anything they might have scene because people will think they're dumb.
Frankly, I've seen weird shit at night, so maybe they just don't like thinking about it. I know I don't
What's the SCP foundation?
The fact these sightings are so commonly preceded by sudden feelings of dread and paranoia make the infrasound explanation extremely likely. Maybe the dense mist combined with the geography is affecting how low frequency sounds travel through the air?
And what would these giant humanoids live on in the mountains of Scotland ? There's no food.
Plenty of wild haggis populations still in the mountains, my grandfather used to hunt them with fox hounds and a rifle in the cold winter months
And there’s probably deer living there
Deer, rabbits hares. Not many folk going off trail in the woods in winter either.
Plausible but I'm more Inclined to think if there are any strange missing person cases near or on Ben macdui? Any megalithic ancient monuments in the Cairngorms? Are the rocks and boulders of Ben macdui mainly granite?- would suggest good camouflage for a grey man, Many strange missing person cases are on rough terrain with large granite boulders.
Any UFO sightings in the area?
Did the ancient Picts,Celts and druid mages regard it as a sacred mountain?
I think we could have Scotland's answer to skinwalker ranch.
Are there cup and ring markings up there?
I'm working a theory that the mountain or area may have been used as an area of ancient sacrifice and there is a portal/Stargate or doorway or several opened by our heathenistic ancestors that created a hotspot for the big and wee grey men alike.
Comes into town at night...local bakery leaves him Bridies and Plum Duff
Have a stuffed one me self pal.
Hi, can you do the beast of gevaudan?
Yes, I will definitely get to that one eventually!
@@dr.polaris6423 Ty very much ^^
Its a hyena.
@@beneficent2557 Most likely, maybe it's a striped Hyena
After Dr Pepper, you're my favorite doctor.
Thanks!
Seams to me like a simple case of a very misunderstood benevelent creature called Yeti Sumadinac also natve to Sumadija in Serbija and sang about in a song by a pop band named Tap 011.
So the guy who was chairman of the Mount Everest Committee of the Royal Geographical Society... who's expedition has just come back with stories about a creature which the world's media called the Abominable Snowman, in that very same year, in the midst of Yeti fever, reports that Scotland has it's very own Yeti?
People tend to say that because Collie was a respected scientist, his claim should be taken seriously. But when put into context of who he was, his position and the people he knew (he likely knew Laurence Waddell as well as Tombazi and Charles Howard-Bury, none of whom believed in the Yeti despite reporting on it), it seems obvious he was taking the piss.
Can you do cryptid profile yeti?
the Gray man is Scotland's version of the bigfoot or yeti. 🦍🦍🦍🦍
I can see how that could fool someone. Cool!
Is there any complete documentary on "The Grey Man of Ben Macdui" ? Or was it just found out to be an effect of exhaustion and dispersion of light blurring the eyes such that 'no importance' was given to make a documentary ?
I actually wish now strongly to make a journey to Ben Macdui ! I live just on the opposite shores of the North Sea ...... Netherlands.
In our culture (Bharatiya - Indian) we have a word for such beings : "Pretas" - Need'nt have a complete physical body you know.
wow
I've experienced strange unexplainable things in my life. So I'd say this ones the most believable one. But who really knows what those people experienced?
Shadows don't make crunching footstep sounds. If the footsteps were simply echoes of the observer's own steps, they would mirror exactly, not echoing some and ignoring others. And the most imminently qualified mountaineering expert at the beginning got so 'spooked' by his own footsteps as to adamantly refuse to return unaccompanied AND risk his entire career by relating his experience publicly? "When the sun shines behind you, it makes your shadow big. Oh... and echoes." Come on...
What do you propose it is?
@@therealgrawger it was possibly a Sasquatch. They have been reported by some name or another in every part of the world by virtually every culture for thousands of years. There has NEVER been a time in the fossil record when there was only ONE hominid in existence - why should now be any different? (It's not)
Echos are a funny thing when it comes to water, whether droplets or large bodies. Considering it was always misty during these reports, that could explain the echoes. And no...your footstep echos wont always be the same if the material you're walking on constantly changes, as it does out in the wild. The shadows in the clouds explain the sightings, that arent exactly always hand in hand with the footsteps. Since the place is always so cloudy, so misty, it explains both in two different ways. When you also throw in the fact that elevation levels can also cause you to be a little loopy when you're in thinner air, it all adds up to hallucinations caused by the surrounding environment.
@@TonyHookedonVanlife granted we are really a species of mutts, we are the only species left after breeding out the other species. There is no evidence of another human species besides us, and hasnt been for a long time. While anything is possible, it's highly unlikely. Many sightings have been proven hoaxes, and the others can be easily explained such as this.
Not to mention, its entirely possible the others are really human hermits trying to scare away people and keep to their solidarity.
@@TonyHookedonVanlife so have gods and monsters but that doesn't make them real. When making up something to explain the strange, a wild man isn't exactly a huge leap in imagination so that's why it comes up again and again.
Why should now be different? In a way its not. We interbred with the other species such as neandathal and denisovans and you can find it in our dna today. The rest died out because we did what we do best. We caused the extinction of other species, and that includes other hominids
Aye... his name is Angus and he loves tablet😊
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I thought of that as well while making this video!
On the other hand, could it be a (human) hermit or misfit who's hiding / living in the mountains, but who has zero contact with others people? It seems unlikely that a human, however solitary or anti-social or perhaps unusual in body form would have no contact at all with other people.
yeah... it's a fey.
I just love the idea of a Scottish Bigfoot for some reason. Can you imagine Sasquatch in a kilt with a Glaswegian accident?
I'm from Glasgow and that sounds awesome.
Me Tae.
Seems like more Nephilim than Bigfoot
It's Hagrid
Still doesn't explain the foot steps. There is something following them. Just smart enough to keep it's distance.
Could be an auditory illusion. The footsteps echo off the sides of the mountains, but the time it takes for said echo to return to the observer's ear is such that the footsteps sound like those of a larger creature taking a longer stride. That would be my guess, considering all the observers described the footsteps as being regularly delayed.
It’s a Glaswegian. He’s out of ale and hopes you might have some.
Concerning the possibility it's a Brocken specter:
The specter is well-known to climbers and mountaineers and are unlikely to be mistaken for anything else. (The first time I saw one, I didn't for a moment think it anything other than a Brocken specter, even though I had never seen one before.) Accomplished mountaineers and climbers are usually very familiar with a range of atmospheric effects, some for their beauty and some for their utility in forecasting, but they are very rarely (if ever) frightened by them. (I was solo climbing a face one night in the French Alps. I got to a point where my next movement higher stuck my head up above the ridge I was climbing towards. I was momentarily surprised by a brilliant orb in the sky! It was the full moon that had been hiding behind the ridge. Of course, I recognized it nearly instantly, but for a moment it almost knocked me off the mountain.)
Specters require some very specific conditions and they have some very specific characteristics.
They require bright sunlight. The specter can't be seen at night or in dense, all-around fog.
To be seen at an observer's front, specter requires the observer to be oriented very specifically - with his back to the sun. The specter can only appear at the observer's anti-solar point. That is, a line drawn from the sun through the observer's head will go straight on to the specter's "head." No other orientation of the specter is possible.
Because the orientation is specific, it requires bright sun on one side of the observer, and a cloud bank, fog, or mist at the observer's anti-solar point. (See above - can't be seen at night, etc.)
The specter will do what the observer does. Raise an arm, the specter, with no delay, raises an arm, and so on.
And finally, the specter is not covered in brown hair!
What would this creature eat? What is it related to? Do Scots have a wicked sense of humour? :)
I reckon they're Inter dimensional beings, according to the environment.
*[SARCASM]* Yes, that's certainly the most plausible explanation. *[/SARCASM]*
Could explain the, diatlov incident 1959 Russia . Just a thought.
Do not really know but it could be possible other areas in the world have reports of similar creatures american and canada northwest bigfoot the himilayan mountains yeti
Seems like a Sasquatch type, they are all over the planet.
...Born of and living in the imaginations of people everywhere. Just like ghosts, spirits, and gods.
@@AlbertaGeek You don’t pay close enough attention then, if you are rational and think critically, there is no question. DNA has been studied.
@@aidanmathews2912 _"there is no question. DNA has been studied"_
Wherever you heard or read that, they were lying to you. There is literally no DNA evidence that supports the existence of such creatures. If their "DNA has been studied", then tell me the name of the study and in which journal it was published.
As for other non-DNA evidence, you still have nothing more then anecdotes, blurry photos, shaky footage, or things easily faked.
@@AlbertaGeek ua-cam.com/video/GXmSFxSrUU0/v-deo.html here is Scott carpenter talking about the “Sasquatch Genome Study” run by Dr. Ketchum. This study was meticulously done, and leaves no human variables for skeptics to discount. The entire Sasquatch DNA sequence is available on Scott’s website and other places. The paper is also fully available to read. The scientific community in America cannot engage this topic due to control from those who pay them. In Russia and other places, the mainstream science fully engages Sasquatch and they laugh at American Censorship.
I've been following Sasquatch lore for nearly 3 decades and with 2 personal experiences.
Encounters of these beings are plentiful even in places where one would think its impossible for them to hide (like Sasquatch encounters in the desert).
One thing I am certain about is that these beings are NOT apes or primates. They may well be Ape-like in appearance or anatomically but...They are not apes...I feel they are of a different order of life.
Just think 100 years after we are gone the discoveries that will be confirmed with regards to what life can and cant be. How recently was it that Quantum physics or a multiverse theory was NOT a thing. Even our most open minded great grandparents would find it hard to accept things that in our world are now common knowledge.
As the the Chinese saying goes:
What is the wisest of all animals? That which no man knows exists.
The government needs to find out why Scottish people keep seeing things. I'm not saying it's caused by excess alcohol consumption but it's probably caused by excess alcohol consumption, lol
These scientific explanations, at the end, are stupid and not relevant...