"The Watchers" HUMAN IMPERSONATING CREATURES Explained

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  • Опубліковано 11 вер 2024
  • As a young woman drives into the woods, she quickly becomes aware, her car has gone missing. Randomly moving through the forest she woudl ultimately run across other survivors who have been hiding inside of a building being observed by something unseen every night. As she comes face to face with these things, it becomes rapidly apparently these are creatures from some very old tales. But what exactly are they and how are they able to do what they do? Lets discuss that in todays episode!
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  • @RoanokeGaming
    @RoanokeGaming  Місяць тому +132

    Thank you for watching my guys! I started a gaming channel, well I am uploading there anyhow. Come check it out lmao www.youtube.com/@roanokegames2979
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    • @kingshadow8782
      @kingshadow8782 Місяць тому

      Happy Friday!

    • @kingshadow8782
      @kingshadow8782 Місяць тому

      😊

    • @bigred-gd7iw
      @bigred-gd7iw Місяць тому +3

      Oh roanoke u are a sigma u have so much rizz please sign my baby's forehead ❤

    • @creeperking-wj9jh
      @creeperking-wj9jh Місяць тому +1

      finally gaming channel

    • @bigred-gd7iw
      @bigred-gd7iw Місяць тому

      Every time you eat a green m&m think of me - dr phil the green m&m

  • @BizarroJoe
    @BizarroJoe Місяць тому +1779

    In mythology the Fae are weak to iron, imprisoning them underground near a large iron deposit was a nice little touch that I appreciate.

    • @gammothdraws
      @gammothdraws Місяць тому +180

      I love the theory that the reason why they are weak to iron is because iron is one of, if not, the most stable element

    • @shoulderpyro
      @shoulderpyro Місяць тому +30

      And thus causing conflict with other Fae.

    • @Umbra_Ursus
      @Umbra_Ursus Місяць тому +46

      Where does any of that come from, by the by? Fae don't like iron, werewolves don't like silver, gold apparently holds some religious value...

    • @shoulderpyro
      @shoulderpyro Місяць тому +124

      @@Umbra_Ursus Fae are tricksters, thus unpredictable. A stable element like iron is a direct opposite
      Werewolves require a full (silver) moon to transform, thus silver is their weakness
      and gold is just shiny, i guess..
      that's my best guess at where it comes from

    • @marystone860
      @marystone860 Місяць тому +39

      I was about to comment about this very thing! I'm a practioner of magick and the occult, and have studied it for years, and it says that iron is deadly to the Fae, and if one works with them, take great care to NOT have iron in the same magickal/ritual area as the Fae, because it can severely hurt them, or, make them angry! Just something.

  • @shark899138
    @shark899138 Місяць тому +274

    "I don't believe it's anything magical." Sounds like something the Fae would say to get you off the trail of the Fae

  • @NautYourAverageAstro
    @NautYourAverageAstro Місяць тому +1585

    Sticks and stones may break cryptid bones, but Roanoke will always educate me

    • @cgusiec7039
      @cgusiec7039 Місяць тому +38

      rock and stone!

    • @godzilla44556
      @godzilla44556 Місяць тому +11

      NO

    • @cgusiec7039
      @cgusiec7039 Місяць тому +15

      @@godzilla44556 why :(

    • @godzilla44556
      @godzilla44556 Місяць тому +14

      @@cgusiec7039 because The Watchers fairies are build different

    • @Squizziles
      @Squizziles Місяць тому +7

      Legit a huge reason I passed my medical biology tests 😂

  • @Vindictator1972
    @Vindictator1972 Місяць тому +703

    I like how Roanoke just skips over the whole Fae are Magic thing.
    Magic, AND STILL Get stomped by Humanity.

    • @gmork1090
      @gmork1090 Місяць тому +22

      Magic? You must be new here.

    • @CorruptDemocratsJ6
      @CorruptDemocratsJ6 Місяць тому +1

      Iron sword/spear and Man-Muscle beats Magic thing. Never underestimate Masculine Men willing to get their hands dirty, especially for survival, magic beings be damned.

    • @wren7195
      @wren7195 Місяць тому +81

      Not "ironically" but factually, in folklore the Fair Folk are afraid of iron. Hence why it'd be a good idea to stick them in Ireland, if it's all volcanic iron and stuff. We TOTALLY did that.

    • @bhart3321
      @bhart3321 Місяць тому +41

      Well Fae are physically weak they rely on their magic & trickery to survive. It's why when much stronger races like the Fomorians showed up they went back to their realm (Avalon) rather than mess with monstrosities wielding iron weapons & armor.

    • @cyriell
      @cyriell Місяць тому +15

      Idk man, main issue with modern media magic like harry potter fir example is that the projectiles move relatively slow, if we compare it to a gun especially closer distance will pretty much hit their target instantly, like how can for example voldemort respond to that? Or the exact opposite when a sniper can hit a target kilometers away, the recent new record being a ukrainian sniper hitting his target 3800m away (4156 yd) and i highly doubt the shot was heared by the russian soldier
      Tldr; modern media magic is underwhelming on how its portrait compared to modern weaponry, so if this "new" movie is like most other modern magic usage its quite lackluster but visually really pleasing
      P.s I do NOT Know enough about older magic so i wont speak my mind about it

  • @yoursleepparalysisdemon7267
    @yoursleepparalysisdemon7267 Місяць тому +625

    That idea that the uncanny valley is the latent feeling of something that is close to you but isn't you is always fun

    • @thetitaniumviper4734
      @thetitaniumviper4734 Місяць тому +43

      Yea it means at some point or another humans had to deal with something that looked like us but didn’t get it quite right

    • @Odin_Allfather
      @Odin_Allfather Місяць тому +55

      @@thetitaniumviper4734it’s diseased people and corpses, because being around those could be deadly.

    • @m.a.r.p2772
      @m.a.r.p2772 Місяць тому +10

      And algo some other human species such as neanderthals and such

    • @AnomalyINC
      @AnomalyINC Місяць тому +5

      @@m.a.r.p2772 Neanderthals weren't a different species from us, as evidenced by us interbreeding.

    • @Koifin3
      @Koifin3 Місяць тому +24

      @@thetitaniumviper4734this is a fun theory but unfortunately it’s literally for the sickly and dead to avoid disease. Science is often boring.

  • @dylanthomas385
    @dylanthomas385 Місяць тому +451

    The Watchers are supposed to have lost their wings, magic and ability to endure the sun after being banished from the surface by humans in the past, but when Mina persuades Madeline to accept her human half as well as her Watcher half, she suddenly grows wings again. This suggests that the history both humans and Watchers know may be wrong, and that the Watchers' disfigurements have been caused by inbreeding without an infusion of human bloodlines after the two peoples had become estranged. Madeline, being a halfling, once again is what the Watchers used to be.

    • @j.g.3293
      @j.g.3293 Місяць тому +35

      This is honestly a really good theory

    • @dylanthomas385
      @dylanthomas385 Місяць тому +46

      Full disclosure I copied it from tv tropes head scratcher section

    • @treintaydos4830
      @treintaydos4830 Місяць тому

      ​@@dylanthomas385we appreciate the honesty

    • @blackdragon227
      @blackdragon227 Місяць тому +8

      But Halflings are Hobbits. :P

    • @KateeAngel
      @KateeAngel Місяць тому +12

      Hybrids are great, I love hybrids. Bird species hybridise often, look for example at black and hooded crows

  • @bubbles69138
    @bubbles69138 Місяць тому +281

    what made the "old woman" change in the end was remembering love... empathy.. the positive emotions.. the fae lost that living underground filled with hate and revenge.. thats part of the reason they lost their wings

  • @rpNerd
    @rpNerd Місяць тому +126

    I lost it at the "Paleness can be explained through the existence of Nordic people" XDDD as a pale nordic person, i applaud you

  • @TheWorldVault-rw5jx
    @TheWorldVault-rw5jx Місяць тому +201

    I love Roanoke's refusal to acknowledge magic 99% of the time.
    *Radio showing Nordic runes*
    Roanoke: "Clearly, this is just electromagnet interference."

    • @karmicdisaster12
      @karmicdisaster12 Місяць тому +38

      Thank you! I was wondering why no one seemed to notice that. It’s an ancient for of Germanic runic alphabet and these creatures are very likely Fae. Their curiosity and violence towards humans completely vibes with most stories about the Dark Fae too.

    • @TheWorldVault-rw5jx
      @TheWorldVault-rw5jx Місяць тому +12

      @karmicdisaster12 The fact that he showed a still of the radio multiple times, feels Iike he was trolling. Based on a quick Google, it looks like Elder Futhark, I don't have the patience to try and figure out what (if anything) it's supposed to mean.

    • @kogg980
      @kogg980 Місяць тому +11

      The Dimond rune (ingwaz): fertility, gestation, or internal growth
      The fork rune (fehu): wealth, abundance, luck, energy, creation
      The arrow (thurisaz): reactivate force, defense, combat

    • @TheWorldVault-rw5jx
      @TheWorldVault-rw5jx Місяць тому +1

      @kogg980 Yeah, I found the definitions, but I'd be curious if they're meant to mean something more specific, of be a reference to something.

    • @kogg980
      @kogg980 Місяць тому +8

      @TheWorldVault-rw5jx I figured you had. Most everyone would. Could be an old challenge like " Enter and grow stronger via combat " or a warning " Beware supernatural Ra-PinG, defend yourself ". 😆

  • @TheChildofAuraReborn
    @TheChildofAuraReborn Місяць тому +478

    Don’t think many people will get this reference, but the fact that this movie takes place in Ireland and the guy Daniel hunting crows just reminds me of “There’s nothing better than unloading a shotgun on an unsuspecting crow”.

  • @jakeking974
    @jakeking974 Місяць тому +135

    Anyone ever: "May I have your name?"
    Me, eyes narrowing: "... No, you may not."
    Better safe than sorry

    • @LuckyBones77
      @LuckyBones77 Місяць тому +15

      My friend blames the fae for their ADHD 😂 Says that a fae must have asked him ‘may I have your attention’ when he was a kid

    • @rudeboyjohn3483
      @rudeboyjohn3483 4 дні тому

      This is why I use different nicknames with different groups of people.
      Fae changelings ain't gaining power over me, nosiree

  • @FreelancerM4A1
    @FreelancerM4A1 Місяць тому +302

    The Angler Fish Mafia sends its regards

    • @Phantom682
      @Phantom682 Місяць тому +1

      TMA fan?

    • @FreelancerM4A1
      @FreelancerM4A1 Місяць тому +4

      @@Phantom682 TMA isnt ringing any bells right now, what does it stand for?

    • @Phantom682
      @Phantom682 Місяць тому +5

      @@FreelancerM4A1 The Magnus Archives. It’s a horror anthology podcast about fear.

    • @Phantom682
      @Phantom682 Місяць тому +5

      The first episode is about a creepy not-quite-human figure in an alley called The Anglerfish

    • @chrisrawe3799
      @chrisrawe3799 Місяць тому +12

      @@Phantom682nah papa Roanoke just really hates angler fish. I don’t blame him either

  • @FireFreddy02
    @FireFreddy02 Місяць тому +262

    17:10 , "Bike is also short for bichel" is an underappreciated line my guy

    • @House.Of.Pain.
      @House.Of.Pain. Місяць тому +7

      He has a twin brother named Bikelangelo but sometimes he goes by Bikey I heard.

  • @raidmaster6879
    @raidmaster6879 Місяць тому +499

    "Trust the system" is the fastest way to get me to distrust something, and I immediately question everything.

  • @kjstyles2xtreme
    @kjstyles2xtreme Місяць тому +98

    her ending up in the forest is easy to explain when you consider fae buggery

    • @shoulderpyro
      @shoulderpyro Місяць тому +12

      long story short: Live and let live. Dont mess with Fae

    • @kjstyles2xtreme
      @kjstyles2xtreme Місяць тому +19

      @@shoulderpyro and if you have to interact with them, mind your manners, don't accept gifts, don't strike deals, watch what you say, and always carry an iron bar

    • @shoulderpyro
      @shoulderpyro Місяць тому +24

      @@kjstyles2xtreme carrying iron can be seen as a threat. Watch your manners and words, aye, but friendly relations can be formed so long as there's mutual respect

    • @kjstyles2xtreme
      @kjstyles2xtreme Місяць тому +14

      @@shoulderpyro true, but I always love by "stay strapped or get clapped"

    • @okaminokuro
      @okaminokuro Місяць тому +1

      @@shoulderpyro As a ground- type pokemon trainer i have a nidoking and a steelix on my team, i don't fear sylveon.

  • @kylecampbell2164
    @kylecampbell2164 Місяць тому +50

    10:15 You can't just casually drop the fact that humans have a dominant 6 finger gene and walk away. I NEED MORE ROANOKE!

    • @bentrieschmann
      @bentrieschmann Місяць тому +6

      Except dominant verse resesive would mean majority of us would have 6 fingers not 5. He had that backwards.

    • @ziziorens348
      @ziziorens348 Місяць тому +9

      ​@@bentrieschmannno, he said that the recessive gene is just much more prevalent. If I understand it correctly, if two people with polydactyly (specifically 6 fingers on each hand) would have children, there'd be a MUCH greater chance of them also having that specific polydactyly.

    • @JeRefuseDeBienPrononcerBaleine
      @JeRefuseDeBienPrononcerBaleine Місяць тому +3

      @@ziziorens348 That still make it recessive. If it was a dominant gene, having a single copy of it would make have it.

  • @Kikeeks
    @Kikeeks Місяць тому +33

    Would love to see Roanoke’s take on The Cabin in the Woods, particularly the way the government agents are manipulating the chosen ‘sacrifices’ as well as some analysis of the various horrifying monsters kept in captivity for the ritual.

  • @DanTurner-x6z
    @DanTurner-x6z Місяць тому +48

    Actually, leaving somebody's office untouched out of respect, isn't totally unheard of--
    Osamu Tezuka, the creator of Astro Boy passed away in 1989, and it wasn't until 2014, that his daughter finally went through his desk.

    • @Obiwancolenobi
      @Obiwancolenobi Місяць тому +6

      My first office job a few years ago had an office with a giant fake fish in it.
      I inquired on who had that office and they said Vern.
      Vern died about 12 years ago when I heard that, lol.
      Wasnt out of respect, though. They were just lazy and settled into their silos.

  • @KanikSuden
    @KanikSuden Місяць тому +53

    Apex predators hearing humans talk in the woods is like humans hearing the bigfoot sierra sounds in the woods. lol

  • @Baxter9743
    @Baxter9743 Місяць тому +144

    There is a TV show called Surface that aired from 2005-2006. Unfortunately there's only one season of it, but I think there is enough information in that season that you could make a video about the main creature from the show. I find the concepts in the show fascinating and I thought it would be something right up your ally.

    • @soral94
      @soral94 Місяць тому +6

      🎉🎉🎉

    • @user-jl8ve4mj7k
      @user-jl8ve4mj7k Місяць тому +11

      Wow. No pin?

    • @SoullessAIMusic
      @SoullessAIMusic Місяць тому +12

      Dude I remember Surface, I seen every episode as it aired. It was a bit of an event when it was on. I recently re-watched it last year and it wasn't that bad.

    • @jellybean7283
      @jellybean7283 Місяць тому +9

      Omg i loved this series. I was 7 or so when it came out and only recently found out it wasnt a fever dream lol.

    • @jayburn00
      @jayburn00 Місяць тому +6

      Genetically engineered intelligent electrical salamanders basically if I remember correctly.

  • @Cilent__
    @Cilent__ Місяць тому +64

    "Bike is short for Bicheal" made me laugh way more than it should've 😂😂😂

  • @Marsyas01
    @Marsyas01 Місяць тому +40

    "We all know what mankind does to other hominids."
    Interbreed with them to the point that we are no longer separate populations?

    • @MiGLifeCrisis
      @MiGLifeCrisis Місяць тому +3

      can imagine a cave man typing this bashing rocks together, thinking they typed some spirit bomb of a comment 😂

  • @nothappyboi9453
    @nothappyboi9453 Місяць тому +180

    Color out of space would be a banger video idea! Would be interesting to see how a color could mess us up so badly Plus nic cage unhinged.

  • @Dakuu75
    @Dakuu75 Місяць тому +38

    "Someone was clapping Fae cheeks~" lmfao. I love this channel.

    • @Blasted2Oblivion
      @Blasted2Oblivion Місяць тому +7

      I was gonna say it could be the other way around but then I remembered we are talking about humanity.

    • @AF-S1N1A1
      @AF-S1N1A1 Місяць тому

      I lost it when he said that!! 😂🤣

  • @porterwhittenber2115
    @porterwhittenber2115 Місяць тому +26

    I'd probably end up being one of the adventurous humans to be with a fae. The way they looked in that mural was interesting.

    • @SavedByFaith9981
      @SavedByFaith9981 Місяць тому

      You and the 13 people who liked this are all the type of people to possessed by a demon because it convinced you it wasn’t a demon.

  • @user-th6nj8cj3w
    @user-th6nj8cj3w Місяць тому +99

    As an Irishman, I love the impression people get of Ireland from the films Roanoke reviews on here. And ah yes, our road network is for real like that.

    • @markgallagher1790
      @markgallagher1790 Місяць тому +10

      Those roads indicate the West or the North-West. No chance that professor is getting enough lads to make a bunker without suspicion

    • @kai_plays_khomus
      @kai_plays_khomus Місяць тому +3

      Still not as bad as East Germany I'd say.. 😅

    • @MatthewTheEmperor
      @MatthewTheEmperor 25 днів тому +1

      Wait they really are like that?

    • @markgallagher1790
      @markgallagher1790 21 день тому +2

      @MatthewTheEmperor sometimes.
      Mainly in rural areas in the west

    • @MatthewTheEmperor
      @MatthewTheEmperor 20 днів тому

      @@markgallagher1790 Huh the more you know!

  • @Scarlet_Soul
    @Scarlet_Soul Місяць тому +147

    They see you when you're sleeping, they know when you're awake. They know if you've been bad or good so be good for Roanoke's sake

  • @lunerblade13
    @lunerblade13 Місяць тому +25

    21:09 if memory serves in some ancient stories metal and iron are suppose to be fatal to faefolk like trying to touch and hold heated material it’s suppose to burn them just like what the sun is doing.
    Unless these Changlings are so deprived or have mimicked humans enough to just bypass or endure the pain.

    • @stuglife5514
      @stuglife5514 Місяць тому +3

      Not even super ancient. I’m Pennsylvanian “Dutch” (we aren’t really we’re what we call Deitsche in our dialect) and we hang up iron red stars on our houses to keep away the schnellghast. Winged demon that stalks overhead roads and houses at night, so they say. Anyways, those stars are now for some reason “rustic an Americana” and all over the country. But the proper ones are about a foot and a half or so, iron, and a dark red color. (My boyfriend, who’s from Arizona, calls them pagan hahaha) but yea those stars cropped up around the mid 1700s from what I know

    • @blakemcmillan5680
      @blakemcmillan5680 23 дні тому

      ⁠​⁠​⁠@@stuglife5514I’ve never heard of the schnellghast before, is there a different name that they go by? I’m curious and want to know more about them but the only thing that pops up when I google it is the ghost from Minecraft

  • @Nightcall.
    @Nightcall. Місяць тому +47

    He thought we wouldn’t notice The Forest OST in the background. No game made me feel as subtly creeped out as that one, perfect music choice here

  • @petercampbell8694
    @petercampbell8694 Місяць тому +24

    Miners always used to take Canaries down the mine to detect Carbon Monoxide (and yes, the canaries were yellow)

  • @bigdaddylonglegs2165
    @bigdaddylonglegs2165 Місяць тому +8

    22:33 Roanoke when a human being shows empathy for another human’s suffering/death: WHY ARE YOU CRYING??

  • @jakeking974
    @jakeking974 Місяць тому +13

    >ends up in the middle of nowhere by simply continuing to drive despite no signs of a road
    She must secretly work as a trucker for Swift

  • @Liam-xo5ec
    @Liam-xo5ec Місяць тому +102

    The Uncanny Valley theory is one of my most favorite things to think about, especially it’s answers, one of them being the idea of a predator that mimicked us to hunt us when we were cavemen. While not totally like this movie, I imagine the Uncanny Valley influenced this movie at least a bit.

    • @BriEnr
      @BriEnr Місяць тому +26

      The actual basis is that there were other species of human (literally us but different), and also sick/dead people (us but wrong). Both of which it was safest to avoid.

    • @Liam-xo5ec
      @Liam-xo5ec Місяць тому +10

      @@BriEnr those are two of the theories, scientists haven’t fully understood why the Uncanny Valley exists but there are many ideas why. We have no definitive answer as of now

    • @AveSicarius
      @AveSicarius Місяць тому

      ​​​@@Liam-xo5ec
      It's incredibly unlikely that there was some hominid superpredator hunting it's own genus, mostly because hominids aren't predatory and were fairly low on the food chain for a very long time due to the sacrifices made in order to a) become bipedal and b) evolve larger brains and greater intelligence.
      An obligate predator that literally evolved to eat human's is even less likely than this, because human's had relatively small populations, were relatively spread out regarding said populations, and tended to not be great sources of food due to our low fat content and basically just being scrawny lanky things compared to most herbivores.
      We also weren't exactly hard to catch for a long time due to being slower and pretty fragile in comparison to most predators, with a lack of the arboreal talents of our primate relatives to give us the greater protection of trees, and not really having the means to protect ourselves from large predators until relatively recently (until the advent of stronger spear heads, or the Atlatl, we didn't really have a means of taking down larger animals as their hides were too thick for a wooden/stone spear thrown by a human to pierce through to the organs, and holding the spear while trying to stab something would likely result in a very bad time unless you had cornered a single animal that wasn't too large) means that any obligate or even just somewhat adapted predatory species would be able to consistently hunt us without needing such specialized adaptations for most of our evolutionary history, and it's only really in the last 20 thousand years or so, since around the end of the last ice age, that this changed as we rapidly developed new and better ways to control our environment and influence the other animals in it.
      If an animal was intelligent enough to do something like that, it would likely have focused on hunting more plentiful and bountiful species, and would likely have had the means to do so if it had adaptations towards predation (like stronger muscles, evolved weapons in the form of sharper nails or teeth, better vision, etc).
      Human's aren't particularly hard to hunt in a natural environment, and even if you had a gun, a tiger could very much kill you before using it if you didn't know exactly where it was (because they attack from behind) and it was so inclined to eat human that day.
      So having such extreme and specific adaptations would likely never be selected for when a bog standard predator that could simply hunt other food sources and occasionally might eat one of our ancestors would be infinitely more successful as a species, and wouldn't be pigeonholed into an extremely small and potentially unsustainable population (again, Homo species were fairly spread out, over both geography and time, and tended to have relatively low populations, to the point we were almost wiped out several times, shown by genetic bottlenecking, an obligate predator arising in Africa or even in Europe with Erectus would likely be limited to potentially under a hundred, or a thousand once we spread to Europe in greater numbers) members of its species if they focused on eating Hominids and had to eat as often as other mammals, we reproduce relatively slowly, usually around 14-16 years before we can reproduce, and it took serious time to build our population up, being constantly hunted by a predatory species that speicalized in Hominids would have almost certainly wiped out many Hominid groups way before they went extinct from other causes, and given the extent of development such a predator would have towards hunting us, we, as a species, would have significantly more adaptations to dealing with it beyond just "oh that looks weird not gonna go there" (because if you can hear/see something at a distance to recognize it not actually being human you are probably fucked), a factor which we see in a variety of predator/prey relationships with preferential predators.
      It's likely an adaptation that is found in many species, because most are wary of other species in their genus or even subspecies inherently due to being uncertain if it is a potentially competitor, friend (for social species), mate, or something that can be ignored. We just focus mostly on eyesight as our primary sense, so in turn it is a visual phenomena moreso than an auditory or smell based trigger.

    • @Balthizar101
      @Balthizar101 Місяць тому +9

      One of my favorite stories involving this is a sci-fi novel called Blindsight which presents the idea of vampires being an evolutionary offshoot of homo sapiens. These vampires were obligate cannibals that preyed on humans and evolved to be stronger, faster, and smarter than us. They looked mostly like us but were just different enough for humans to notice and develop an instinctive "uncanny valley" response.

    • @roberthernandez5802
      @roberthernandez5802 Місяць тому +2

      ​@@Balthizar101I love that book and there's another, it's not a direct sequel but its connected, I think they made a movie or a short about it, would be cool if Roanoke did a video on the vampires and aliens in blindsight.

  • @leroyjenkins1032
    @leroyjenkins1032 Місяць тому +74

    I think maybe the fey are suppose to represent fallen angels? So their off spring would be the Nephilim? Also would explain the whole "we were gods once", and why their jealous of humans, and them being locked under ground similar to hell. Also the term "watcher" can also be a reference to certain angles iirc.

    • @quinnmartensbobbitt3704
      @quinnmartensbobbitt3704 Місяць тому +27

      The myths behind the aos si or daoine sith, meaning “people of the mounds”, goes back farther than Christianity and the concept of “nephilim” or fallen angels. They were a part of the pantheon of deific figures going back to the days of pre-recorded paganism, during a period of history when wise men and druids and those who had knowledge of the old traditions communed with the spirits and saw them for what they were. Even today they’re still paid some reverence by some people, though the myths and legends of them have passed into history.
      They’re literally godspawn- offspring and descendants of the Tuatha de Dannn, or People of Danu- the Celtic deities of the Gaelic peoples, from Ireland and Scotland.
      In myth, they supposedly inhabit a parallel plane adjacent to our world and the world of spirits, wherein nature is fully bloomed year-round and filled with everlasting beauty and life, albeit also filled with infinite dangers and tricksome creatures. In modern day, people view them as leprechauns, goblins, faeries, sprites, redcaps, brownies, hobbs and kobolds, among many others.
      Some people, myself included, theorize that many of the myths around the world of similar beings may simply be separate groups of the same species that people have encountered throughout time. There are legends of them as far east as the Middle East and as far west as Canada and Iceland.

    • @leroyjenkins1032
      @leroyjenkins1032 Місяць тому +5

      @@quinnmartensbobbitt3704 Christianity specifically yes but the mythology that Christianity belongs to along with Judaism and Islam is older I believe, tying with Hinduism for some of the oldest "religions", the mythology the religions are based off of being older even.

    • @quinnmartensbobbitt3704
      @quinnmartensbobbitt3704 Місяць тому +7

      @@leroyjenkins1032 Most of the myths and legends of Christianity are inherently tied to old Hebrew manuscripts going back ages past. A lot of the translations of events are inaccurate or misinterpreted, especially since the transfer from Hebrew to Phoenician to Latin to Proto-English to modern English is bound to have a number of alterations.
      Similar to how people often misconstrue the myths and ideals of Satan and Lucifer, when neither figure really existed until the formation of the Christian society. Many myths were invented in the aftermath, drawn from allegory and older myths tied into pagan religions, including the Kemetic myths and legends, those of the Jewish folk, and after that the Hellenic and Eastern European folklore.
      Unwinding the history of their legends would take more time than it takes to basically say that they appropriated literally every aspect of whichever religions they came across to create their mythology.

    • @feelyoung79
      @feelyoung79 Місяць тому +2

      ​@@quinnmartensbobbitt3704nah little buddy.. the Bible teaches all this along with the wicked sides reasoning.. the prophet's wrote of the coming messiah and that happened already when Christ historically walked this earth! Ever celebrate a birthday or look at a calander and wonder why we're in 2024? Ever hear of BC and AD?? Archaeologist are always proving the Bible correct whether they want or by accident.

    • @feelyoung79
      @feelyoung79 Місяць тому

      ​@@quinnmartensbobbitt3704😂😂You're way off.. education is piss poor!! Prophet's wrote of the coming messiah and Christ fulfilled that and that's a historical fact! Bart Ehrman who's not a christian in any sense say's that Jesus walked this earth and was crucified but he obviously doesn't believe in His divinity and why would he.. All.around the world you have a flood story which is what we'd see from people passing down their stories from generation to generation. China worshipped what would seem the God of the Bible and had a genesis story very similar to the Bible.. sea shells a top large mountains, tree's standing through supposed million's of year's of geo columns and also upside down, not long ago DNA tissue from dinosaur's being found which they never tested for because they were supposedly million's and billion's of year's old. It took the lady who diacovered the T-Rex thigh area tissue DNA year's to come up with a bs excuse on why it exist's!
      Find a good documentary on youtube like "Man walked with dinosaurs proof" which should start you in the right direction. Dinosaur's were called dragon's before the 1840's... matter of fact if you research very old dictionary's you'll see dragon in it and is said to be very rare. Once you watch a good doc on the subject you'll start to realize.you've been lied too your whole life.. Gobeklitepi!!😂😂😂 All of a sudden they want to cover it up!?
      Look up "Expedition Bible" and.you will have plenty of evidence and maybe you'll find some actual Truth and stop comparing the fake to the real. @quinnmartensbobbitt3704

  • @GrzmotOfficial
    @GrzmotOfficial Місяць тому +10

    I’ve said it before and I will say it again. The only reason that man is the king of this rock. Is because we got rid of anything else that posed a threat. But hypothetically. If tigers one day picked up force multipliers and spontaneously started walking around in a bipedal stance, we would have to find a new rock because we would be absolutely boned 😂

  • @brotherkhrayn3525
    @brotherkhrayn3525 Місяць тому +16

    Ok, the Established Titles joke got me for a second 🤣

    • @Ohk_15
      @Ohk_15 Місяць тому +1

      Had to scroll so far to see that

  • @zachw2906
    @zachw2906 Місяць тому +5

    22:19 Townsfolk: "Hey, let's accept jobs from this nice old stranger" "I don't see why not - I knew a guy who took a job with this fellow and he made enough in one day to disappear off the face of the Earth"

  • @perpetuallyonfire7768
    @perpetuallyonfire7768 Місяць тому +54

    Anniversary mass is a big thing here. Its a bad look to not go to your own mother's even 15 years on.

    • @jaymevosburgh3660
      @jaymevosburgh3660 Місяць тому +7

      Weird.
      I still have my mother in a box inside my closet.
      At least that way I don't need to go to some cemetery or riverbed.

    • @perpetuallyonfire7768
      @perpetuallyonfire7768 Місяць тому +5

      @jaymevosburgh3660 still drawing the pension

    • @mprojekt72
      @mprojekt72 Місяць тому +11

      @@jaymevosburgh3660 Geezbuts crickets. At least have the decency to take her out to get some sun every day or give her vitamin D when you bring her meals.

  • @AnomalyINC
    @AnomalyINC Місяць тому +10

    "If no-one who enters the forest comes back, where did the stories come from?"
    From the people who didn't enter the forest, I'd presume.

  • @MaskedVengeanceTV
    @MaskedVengeanceTV Місяць тому +34

    " aliens better stay away from humans because some humans going to look at an alien and be like yeah I'de hit it...."
    Maybe this is why aliens don't visit us.......

    • @MachineMan-mj4gj
      @MachineMan-mj4gj Місяць тому +3

      Earth: The Horniest Place in the Galaxy.

    • @Zerker6064
      @Zerker6064 Місяць тому

      Aliens if you ever dare to try to take over earth we will clapp your cheeks.

    • @petrvacek8501
      @petrvacek8501 Місяць тому +1

      Trully shame. But true, I would definitely clap chuthullu or any monster.

  • @mattj.7756
    @mattj.7756 Місяць тому +3

    5:12 To quote a vine, “Ireland has got to be home to some of the most unbelievably *pointless fucking traffic lights”*

  • @ramiavt
    @ramiavt Місяць тому +13

    oh wow I love finding new movies to watch from you.
    I very jumpy and anxious so watching your summary and breakdowns first really help me enjoy the movies more!

  • @Touch-Grass-Now
    @Touch-Grass-Now Місяць тому +83

    I hereby propose a motion by which anglerfish are to be considered as an SCP 001 proposal.

    • @jaymevosburgh3660
      @jaymevosburgh3660 Місяць тому +4

      Denied.

    • @colohaust5332
      @colohaust5332 Місяць тому +8

      Are they an Epsilon level threat? No? Then they can be SCP-whatever the next fucking number is now

    • @prehistoryenthusiast
      @prehistoryenthusiast Місяць тому +2

      Nu uh

    • @atimidbirb
      @atimidbirb Місяць тому +2

      SCP "Lamplight" IS A COLOSSAL SPACE ANGLERFISH ACTUALLY

  • @fenndragon9233
    @fenndragon9233 Місяць тому +12

    It's also possible the tv was able to run without power because it being on/the show was a hallucination.

  • @JônatasNunes55
    @JônatasNunes55 Місяць тому +40

    Anglerfish

  • @randyfulcher1470
    @randyfulcher1470 Місяць тому +12

    here goes my suggestion for a video- i've been bloody dying to hear your explanation on the kharaa bacterium from subnatica so i would love to hear your thoughts on it and how certian things happened like how sector zero is alive!(also if you already did a video on it and i missed it im going to die of embarrassment-)

  • @KiiC.
    @KiiC. Місяць тому +18

    5:01 💀💀 Google Maps said take a right at the fork 😂😂😂

  • @villager736
    @villager736 Місяць тому +10

    I mean, if human watcher hybrids are possible, just do repeat what we did with the Neanderthals.

    • @DH-xw6jp
      @DH-xw6jp Місяць тому +6

      Extinction by snu snu

  • @trail-wolf4x4
    @trail-wolf4x4 Місяць тому +28

    Hey Roanoke can you do a video on the old "Watchers"movies of the 80s,90s it had what I always thought was an odd but interesting concept
    Also hoping to join in the Dogman trip!

  • @BryJamie
    @BryJamie Місяць тому +15

    The iron in the ground explains why it was a prison for them. Not the people

  • @dirpdanger8839
    @dirpdanger8839 Місяць тому +19

    This movie was a decent watch, but that memorial paradox bugged the crap out of me too.

  • @RyneLanders
    @RyneLanders Місяць тому +8

    The premise sounds very similar to the TV show 'From'. Pretty cool, would be cool to see a comparison of the two species and general storylines

    • @godemperorofmemekind4170
      @godemperorofmemekind4170 Місяць тому +1

      I’d say the creatures from from are far more evil, far more sadistic, they don’t even eat their kills they just want to inflict pain for the sake of it

  • @AvoidTheCadaver
    @AvoidTheCadaver Місяць тому +11

    Weird story. Many many Years ago I went to Korea for a holiday and ended up injured. Spent some time in hospital and got a blood transfusion. When I returned home, I started craving Korean food pretty much every day and started cooking it. Also started making own kimchi. It got to the point that I started learning Korean. Prior to this I had never had much interest in anything Korean.

  • @ferro9926
    @ferro9926 Місяць тому +15

    You can row a boat
    But can you row an oak?

    • @ferro9926
      @ferro9926 Місяць тому +1

      Get it? Row an oak sounds like roanoke when said aloud haha

    • @hopelessdecoy
      @hopelessdecoy Місяць тому

      ​@@ferro9926 if the boat is made of oak, yes

  • @carlospizarro915
    @carlospizarro915 Місяць тому +2

    My favorite Roanoke videos are definitely the magic ones. His bridging the gap between magic and science is what makes this channel unique and has always kept me hooked (along with other info I can appreciate as a fledgling biologist). Keep it Ro, never changed💪💪💪

  • @supersaiyanbino
    @supersaiyanbino Місяць тому +4

    "Clap fae cheeks" is the greatest thing I've heard all week

  • @Clancynet
    @Clancynet Місяць тому +5

    As an irish person i can confirm 90% of roads in ireland are like this

  • @ShadeMeadows
    @ShadeMeadows Місяць тому +14

    Even when I'm not a fan of the movie/game, your videos are always entertainin'~

  • @sAINTDeVille
    @sAINTDeVille Місяць тому +2

    16:30 the reason she asked him what book she's reading is because he picked that book out for her so if anybody should know he should know!

  • @ericcooke2661
    @ericcooke2661 Місяць тому +18

    11:13 "Let's get into what is happening here to induce these hallucinations"
    RABIES!!

  • @WolfHero
    @WolfHero Місяць тому +2

    3:49 the greatest disguise😅

  • @davidkwiecien415
    @davidkwiecien415 Місяць тому +20

    37:16 I thought the proved recently that genetic memory is a thing. Some study with rats where they traumatized one half and then 5 generations later the new borns showed signs of PTSD

    • @binaryblade2
      @binaryblade2 Місяць тому +2

      Genetic memory is not a thing, but stress can trigger epigenetic changes which can result in anxiety in future generations.
      They aren't memories, but changes to how our existing genes are expressed.

    • @heraadrian7764
      @heraadrian7764 Місяць тому +1

      @@binaryblade2 Sounds like a plausible explanation why some people are friendly or horny at first sight. Their ancestral bacon was saved by another that looks like the one you see in front and that triggers a positive bias. Maybe at least temporary before they wisen up from incompatibility or get a lucky draw and they obtain the second coming of the olden ally.

    • @binaryblade2
      @binaryblade2 Місяць тому +3

      @heraadrian7764 no, that's just evolution at work. These epigenetic effects aren't directed like that. It's more like that it's possible to experience trauma so severe that it damages you genome.

    • @venga3
      @venga3 Місяць тому +2

      ​@@heraadrian7764What you said is utter nonsense. Please go to school and do your biology.

    • @heraadrian7764
      @heraadrian7764 Місяць тому

      @@binaryblade2 Yupp, corect on all fronts. I just wanted to play the devil advocate so people get the complete idea by having some entertainment contrast. Answering logically and calm speakes well for you as a person so kudos to you. Like the experiment with the crickets armored in wax exposed to a spider attack and their offsprings show sings of fear when they smell the spider has showed it works with fear but nothing about pleasure or positive reinforcement.

  • @avataryellow
    @avataryellow Місяць тому +16

    When she sayds to get over it, she's talkimg about getting over being the cause of the accident. She needs to get ober that so she can start attending things, like memorials, and atop avoiding everything. This is reinforced throughout the movie.

  • @ryanmaloney7691
    @ryanmaloney7691 Місяць тому +4

    licking doorknobs in defiance is such a fuggin power play 🤣

  • @canis2020
    @canis2020 Місяць тому +3

    One could argue that the forest could produce hallucinating effects through spores of fungus.

  • @mstcrow5429
    @mstcrow5429 Місяць тому +27

    What's out in the woods? Woodchucks! WOODCHUCKS!
    Is the Summer Glau? She can do ballet.

  • @DemonologyGaming
    @DemonologyGaming Місяць тому +10

    It was awesome getting to watch this movie in the Discord with you!! Everyone loved it and we can’t wait for the next one! 💯

  • @gamingwarlord9184
    @gamingwarlord9184 Місяць тому +2

    I know dullahan can't cross flowing water, can't remember but I think fey had the same rule? Also you were curious and unsure about how calling the fey half human changed her or whatever the truth has power over the fey typically in lore, using their true names, making deals, ect

  • @jaymevosburgh3660
    @jaymevosburgh3660 Місяць тому +6

    So the Faery look like Satyr Wongraven & Frost?
    That makes sense.

  • @knv_elite7733
    @knv_elite7733 Місяць тому +1

    I absolutely love the fact that you used the game the forest music theme for this, It made it way more unsettling for me (in a good way)

  • @grimreaper2301
    @grimreaper2301 Місяць тому +4

    Awesome video dude! I hope the next one is for either the tardigrade monster from harbinger down or the ancient enemy from phantoms!

  • @cthulhuprods6563
    @cthulhuprods6563 Місяць тому +2

    All the still frames of the watchers scared the shit out of me. Thanks.

  • @Balthizar101
    @Balthizar101 Місяць тому +3

    Roanoke would love Celtic (Irish) mythology. As far as I remember, it's one of the only mythologies where the humans wage a full-scale war against their gods (the Tuatha de Danann / Fey) and actually won. Chalk one up for human supremacy.

  • @taylortrombley9903
    @taylortrombley9903 Місяць тому +2

    This is the quickest I’ve gotten to a video! Keep up the amazing content Roanoke, best UA-cam channel by far.

  • @deetzyboywonder9312
    @deetzyboywonder9312 Місяць тому +4

    Can you look at the tooth fairies from Don't be afraid of the dark

  • @raitoiro
    @raitoiro Місяць тому +2

    As any good FGO player could tell you : total fae death is not only good, it's necessary.
    And that movie only reinforce it.

  • @katooga9749
    @katooga9749 Місяць тому +3

    I’m so happy the bird lived

  • @proteus5873
    @proteus5873 Місяць тому +2

    "Get good GG easy" never have i heard such beautiful and poetic words in my life 🤣🤣🤣

  • @CamillaDrakenborg
    @CamillaDrakenborg Місяць тому +3

    The rune symbols kinda bugged me as a Nordic. Granted there was vikings on Ireland but why would they use old Norse runes & not Celtic ogham?! & it feels like they just threw random ones in cause like in the car the 2 seen stands for wealth & challenges. Just felt off seeing them in an Irish folklore tale.

  • @Dramn_
    @Dramn_ Місяць тому +2

    Something to note about hallucinations is that even if you know they are not real, your brain a lot of the time doesn't care and so it causes stress and influences you anyway (obviously not as much if you know they aren't real but still)

  • @redx2554
    @redx2554 Місяць тому +4

    Wood chipper beats everything just like holy fire does.

  • @maxer713
    @maxer713 Місяць тому +2

    The thing that has always annoyed me Celtic fay are not weak to iron that's the Germanic fae

  • @tigerdye
    @tigerdye Місяць тому +4

    Officially marks day 8 of asking Roanoke to do a Ghosts of Mars breakdown.

  • @jasoncaldwell5627
    @jasoncaldwell5627 Місяць тому +1

    This was actually a pretty fun audiobook but the movie did unspeakable things to the story and made everyone either too good or bad- and everyone is SO DUMB.
    In the book, there's no magic forest- just a real forest that a guy set up an observation post inside to watch these creatures.
    He got killed and they started using it to watch people instead.

  • @holyvirginjd9936
    @holyvirginjd9936 Місяць тому +3

    Daniel didn't even grow his hair and facial hair after so many months, 8-9 months? I forgot... And the girls, still have pretty hair. And they don't shower, they just found the lake/river at the ending. 😆

  • @Fink-id6yg
    @Fink-id6yg Місяць тому +2

    I love Roanoke gaming so much. My life is spent waiting for video drops.

  • @pelodofonseca6106
    @pelodofonseca6106 Місяць тому +3

    You chose a nice background theme, The Forest is goated.

  • @Ravington
    @Ravington Місяць тому +1

    your explanations are always super interesting and its so cool that youre able to bridge such concepts into the media!!! youre the goat

  • @CidTheDude
    @CidTheDude Місяць тому +3

    I really hate how it seems like some of my favorite channels have become victims of the most recent change in the UA-cam algorithm. I can see some of my favorite channels abruptly start and continue struggling and I can see how my own feed and recommendations is pushing my preferred content less and less😢

  • @pakese30
    @pakese30 Місяць тому +1

    The Fey are meant to be made up of multiple types of races, fairies are usually your small winged ones similar to tinkerbell. They are ruled by the Seelie and Unseelie Sidhe, essentially Elves they are the more human like, at least the Seelie are as they are actually more pleasant to the human eye. Iron is meant to be very damaging to them, not only weapons made of it but large quantities could cause pain.

  • @officedullard8722
    @officedullard8722 Місяць тому +4

    Interesting that they are called Watchers and have six digits.

  • @goldenthrone9268
    @goldenthrone9268 Місяць тому +1

    I love when Roanoke refuses to believe the magic creatures aren’t magic it always makes me smile

  • @crwydryny
    @crwydryny Місяць тому +4

    Roanoake insulting every irish person by giving them an English accent...

  • @bigjohnson3381
    @bigjohnson3381 Місяць тому +2

    The strain series from Fox. Please do it.
    Literally tons of material, you could even break it down in different episodes.

  • @cooldrop02
    @cooldrop02 Місяць тому +6

    Sooooo... the rest of the fae were bummed that only one got a chance to get the only person who had sufficient melanin.

  •  Місяць тому +1

    This movie had some really interesting tidbits of lore and mythology.
    From Norse runes on the radio to things like Iron weakening them and a whole bunch of other small things.

  • @domomitsune5920
    @domomitsune5920 Місяць тому +3

    It's kind of hard to believe that things like this do not exist. Before modern Creepypasta or Internet blogs, generations of people have had folklore or stories about similar creatures from different parts of the world. They had no way of communicating and telling their stories which would become a copycat folklore. Kind of like dragons, why does every country have its own version of dragons but yet we have never seen one.

    • @shoulderpyro
      @shoulderpyro Місяць тому

      And yet, every depiction of a dragon despite those cultures never having been in contact - is without a doubt a dragon. I get what you mean.
      Personally, I do believe Fae are out there, in the deep and forgotten places of the world that are still (largely) untouched by modern humanity - and forgotten by all those who live now save for some children's stories. Though at the same time, if they do show near you its just a matter of respect. Show them the proper respect, live and let live, and you wont have any issue. So long as they're from the Seelie court that is. And in case someone plans to reply with: "its just stories" ..dont get me started on religions.

    • @insertname3977
      @insertname3977 Місяць тому +2

      Have to point this out but there was more travel between nations than people like to give credit on. Nothing on the same level as we do now of course, but given that there's been evidence of even Ancient Egypt trading with China (for example), there's the precedent of sharing folklore/tall tales between travellers as warnings/to pass the time. There's also just the simple fact that humans have the same primal instincts and fears, and capabilities of somewhat understanding more complex functions and concepts in more simplistic manners (like blood keeps you alive) regardless of our culture. These then present themselves as folklore sharing similar traits.

    • @domomitsune5920
      @domomitsune5920 Місяць тому

      @@insertname3977 sharing stories and Tall Tales has always been part of humanity to pass the time. Seeing how we didn't have any other form of real entertainment. Snow surprise that we might start intermingling their ideas with hours creating something else.

  • @damariuswingfield2144
    @damariuswingfield2144 Місяць тому +1

    Halfway through the book. They are a variant of "Changelings" that were banished by a higher power.

  • @hunterwolf5482
    @hunterwolf5482 Місяць тому +7

    What if these creatures are an evolved species of a variant of a angler fish?