@@lifeguardpanda Honestly, much of the Island's history that I know is from the contemporary era. I used to hear stories from my father and I had pictures of my Grandmother and her stories (She was around from 1914-2016...) I honestly don't know that much, though, like I can tell you more about the Ottoman Empire than Staten Island
It's kind of beautiful how you chased an ending to your journey that could never be reached, only to find a rainbow, whose end can never truly be reached
As a historian, this is AMAZING. I’m going to show this to my classes during discussions on the work of history and how to value and evaluate sources. Such a great video.
Makes me wonder just how much history is actually fake, because noone actually bothered to get to the root and just trusted the first reputable source.
@@hebl47 Nero was treated as a complete shithead by historians for centuries because the Bible has a lot of mean things to say about Roman people. Then the actual Roman histories discuss Nero and describe him as quite the philanthropist. It's literally a conspiracy theory that he burned Rome to build a new palace.
As a history student myself, I wonder when the time will come for me to finally have a breaking moment where I vow to chase to the ends of the earth the smallest details written at the bottom of a page of footnotes. I am not looking forward to that day, but I have accepted it will come inevitably
@@orion1836 MAAAAASSSSACHUUUUUUUSSSEEEEEEEETTTS! It’s the 14th biggest state Massachusetts Just four hours from New York Read amazing books for free at the Boston Library or try the local brie Massachusetts It’s a melting pot, my friend Massachusetts So many cultures hand in hand In perfect harmony
Your dedication to the craft is astounding. Traveling to the US on a trail of a newspaper that went missing, only to end up on a graveyard in a storm is I think the coolest thing Ive seen someone do on this platform for his content. I only wish I discovered you sooner!
If he was *TRULY* dedicated, then he'd sail around Statan island with an old 17th-19th century vessel with a bunch of empty barrels to see if it could be done in under 24 hours.
@@markoftheland3115 "a phrase which here means taking an intercontinental flight to harangue a librarian and break into a museum during a heat wave in order to uncover the truth"
Fun Fact: Grey did actually blank the section on the race from the Christopher Billopp Wikipedia page, and was questioned by Wikipedia staff before the video came out.
@@sukithebean7920 the proportion is that only if you consider it by pure cronological time, but still, to investigate something it my aswell say before you were born
Nothing I've ever seen on UA-cam has ever made me want to donate to someone's Patreon more than this, and so I shall, for the first time ever. Apparently, this is the actual length someone must go for my money. Congrats.
@@Zectzozda I'm a sir when I'm not a discorporeal representation of my fear and pain. Edit: Past me was wrong...SOOOO wrong. Representation of my fear and pain turned out to just be me being a girl and repressing that really hard!
i'm just wondering how he managed to predict the timing of the "shh!" so well. did he animate it, then film a shot of his iPad after the fact that aligned with the speech? did he ask a librarian to shush him at exactly the right time? can he predict the future? this will eat me alive
I would have recorded the audio elsewhere, animated the video to the audio, and added the audio in post while showing the video footage. Edit: including the shoosh!
Imagine just walking down a cemetary with your classmates for a school fieldtrip and see some guy saying "I know you're hear somewhere", "it's amazing" and laughing hysterically
Also I love this sort of new style of video, where the stick figures are juxtaposed with real life. I love the part where you filmed a video of your stick figure talking in the library. That was genius.
My tinfoil hat theory is that the people at the library spread the word to the museum that someone was asking too many questions about the secret gazette and so they closed up knowing he was heading there next. It's all connected!!
I love the idea of Lady Grey walking past as Grey is listening to the supreme court record because I have no idea if she would think "yea that's my husband" or "what the f*** is he doing"
He researched far enough to find a single name in thousands of newspapers, then failing that, flew all the way from Britain to New York, lost the trail, visited a museum, abd then *found the grave of a man who died almost 2 centuries ago,* just because that was the name he was looking for. I believe that mental breakdown lasted more then 11 minutes
@EmperorJuliusCaesar The guy that this whole video is about. Since this whole story about Staten Island is centered on this one person and appears to be nothing more than a fairy tale to begin with Grey wanted to know for sure if the guy, Christopher Billop, even existed to begin with. You can pause the video and see his name on the headstone.
He might just show up - but Homeland Security might just inform the museum and they'll be closed on the days he is in town. (Probably used their secret weather control devices to provide an excuse - just how deep does the Staten Island conspiracy go? The POTUS? The Pope? Maybe all the way to the top, to Tom Scott and Computerphile? Who knows, who knows... I bet Dan Brown does, and even he is too scared to write a book about it.)
Next time on CGP Grey: Sailing around Staten island in a series of boats with a series of barrels, to determine if the trip was really possible in under 24 hours.
@@swarm232 If you listen to Cortex you'll find two explanations there (well, more, but here are the main 2): 1. He doesn't read the majority of his email, and if an email looks to wordy he skips it as well. He has an assistant go through most of his contact stuff and forward him things of interest. 2. Much more importantly, Grey is not a social guy. Going to cons and meeting people there is about as taxing as he wants to get, and he has to prep himself for that. He doesn't want to meet fans out in the wild, and he hates even his baristas recognizing him in coffee shops. Edit actually the second point comes up more on Hellointernet, since Brady is the opposite of him in that regard.
I wonder what someone would think if they saw someone trekking through the rain with a backpack to someone's grave and then recording themselves giving a thumbs-up seemingly to the grave. Lol.
@@TheBluePhoenix008 Let me RANDOMLY recommend stuff, cause why not? Aaaand we're in a Quality-Drought (dont deny it!)... Here: -Veritasium. -Its ok to be smart. -Oversimplified. -Krosmo. -Believe it or Not. -Redditor. -Hbomberguy. -Michio Kaku. -Practical Engineering. -Neil Red. -Viced Rhino.
10:15 extreme heat my ass, it’s a conspiracy! The “book keepers” told the Museum curators you were coming so they put that update on the website and ran for the hills!
Cuts to some secret organization hq where their boss recives the report Secret agent: “Sir theres been a report on operation staten the agents on the scene belive he has been satisfied and will stop the search” Leader 05: “thank god that madman has finally stopped i belive he came very close to uncovering the truth” Secret agent: “sir if i may ask what was the truth he had been searching for?” Leader 05: “no you may not agent that data is classified now get out there and check if he has really stopped or is just winding up” Secret agent:”of course sir” As the agent leaves leader 05 mutters something about staten under his breath and the scene cuts to black
@@batandballtv More concerning than glorious, but there is still a sizeable amount of glory in being able to claim that you travelled thousands of miles just to be pissed off at historical record keeping.
Finding the graves in the rain at the end was awesome man. It’s like a ghost hunting type deal but with real spirits in the form of vague stories of the past. Love your videos man, you will be an American hero in your legacy because of things like this!
"What historical artifact will Nicolas Cage hunt for this movie? The Bill of Rights? The original notes for the Gettysburg adres?" "The lost newspaper articles of the Richmond Gazette written by a guy who might have first told a story about a boat race." "...." "What? Too heavy stuff for a PG13 rating?"
He makes fairly regular trips back to the US to visit family, so my guess is that this was a one-day detour on a trip he was going to take anyways. But even so this is video is a good illustration of the craziness people can go through for well-researched stories.
Can I just say, I love that you go to these lengths to be absolutely certain something is true or false? I wish I had the time and resources to hunt for history like you do!
Im looking at the wikipedia edits of that page since this video went up and after over two years of no edits theres a gigantic edit fight over the info hahahaha. (And yes, Grey did actually delete that text on the page)
You can see that in how bipolar the text is. “According to one version of an oft-repeated but apocryphal tale[22], Captain Billopp's seamanship secured Staten Island to New York, rather than to New Jersey: the island would belong to New York if the captain could circumnavigate it in one day, which he did. This story is most likely untrue“ Numerous times it states he both did do it and that it’s a myth.
@@adamboh393 It's essentially saying, "This is what the popular myth says and this is how that myth supposedly secured the island for New York, but it's probably not true." It's not saying he both did and didn't do it.
So, I don't know if this will help you regarding the missing archives of the gazette, but in the 1930's the Richmond hall of records was flooded and a great deal of their archives were destroyed. I have no idea if the Gazette issues you were searching for were there. I know a great deal of the property records were destroyed, so much so that if a house that was built on SI prior to the flood, it would not have a blueprint or dimensional record of the house structure that could be researched today.
heck, this is one of the best youtube videos. never seen somone end there video at a gravestone in foreign country, just to confirm a historical event few even have heard of. XD
Okay but can we all appriciate the incredible irony of the thematic thunderstorm AND rainbow when he found the grave??? Like... if he hadn't filmed it, I wouldn't be given to believe it
Of a guy who once set on a trail of unraveling a mystery lost to the time..... he never made it they say, some say he did find it, but couldn't say due to some agreement,...... But, Alas! Lost with him , the trail set cold once again and the truth he endeavoured so much for..... Was never revealed!
Next scene: Dark thunderclouds overhead, torrential rains pour down upon CGP's head. He had done.. unforgiveable things to obtain what he needed, but by God, he was going to get this video done properly. Holding his ritual athame in one hand and the newborn lamb's head in the other, CGP tears open its throat, crimson blood spilling out upon the gravestone of one Mr Disoway. Under the light of the chemical lanterns, the blood was black, viscous. With trepidation, CGP pulls out of his backpack a book, bound in human flesh and written in blood. He opens it to the page he had marked earlier, and reads aloud the foul words in a tongue, dark and forgotten. Lightning flashes over overhead, striking the tall, slender grave marker, igniting it with a brilliant, green flame. Up from the damp earth, skeletal hands arise, followed by a pair arms. The limbs create a hole through which an ancient skeleton come forth. The jaws open, letting out an inhuman shriek as the soul of Disoway re-enters its body. The empty eyesockets look to CGP as if asking "Why did you disturb my rest?" CGP gazes back, and says "I have a few questions about the Staten Island race for a UA-cam video of mine" :)
Thank you to all my patrons for making a video like this possible. www.patreon.com/bePatron?u=227816
You should probably pin the comment..
Grey you are hilarious and brilliant. Keep 'em coming.
Thank you for your effort in making this bideo
What lead you to get interested in something like this?
Hi Grey. You're really amazing. Sincerely thank you for the video.
Moral of the story: "If CGP Grey emails you, you can either answer the email or you can answer the door."
Door (lol) #3: go to extreme lengths to avoid him
I will never complain about the wait of CGP Grey videos ever again.
Seventy Eight 😂 facts
Same
i guess this counts no ? 😂
That's okay, I will begin complaining to continue your legacy
Seventy Eight me neither
I was half expecting the last scene to end with him sitting on the grave with a oujia board looking for an interview.
Omg I wish that happened
This made me laugh out loud thanks
*”The rainbow had formed, the ritual was complete”*
I imagined him digging up the corpse.
Don’t give him ideas
imagine visiting a grave of a loved one only to see a disheveled man saying to himself, "i know you're here, you're here somewhere"
A disheveled man with no facial features, only glasses
@@bobmcguffin5706 And skinny as a stick
Who would be visiting a 200 year old grave
In the rain
@@bitterjames maybe it’s their birthday? Idk
The difference between a curious person and a historian is if your research ends on Wikipedia or on a graveyard during a thunderstorm.
Historian desperately wants to talk to the dead. So much is lost to history, if only the dead can speak.
@@whiteamericanmale7392 HOLY FUCKING SHIT dude are you serious? that is CRAZY dude holyyy shiiiit omg dead ppl cant speak omfg i csnt breath
@@whiteamericanmale7392 That's quitter talk right there.
White American Male Why don’t you get that negativity out of here?
@@whiteamericanmale7392
The dead can't speak but the dead body can tell many things.
The layman might think this is a video about a boat race.
The expert can see this is a prolonged explanation for why CGP Grey uploads so rarely.
I like to think something like this happens for each of the videos he uploads, he just uploaded this one so that people would understand.
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@@tab160 honestly though i found this one great and wouldn't mind more content like this.
Exactly my thoughts, lol
NOW I understand why it takes him this long to release new videos
Worth it.
It really is worth it lol
These videos must be so much work
lolololololololololololololololololololololololololololololololololololololololololololololololololololol
“Ignore my emails? I might just show up.” Is such an ominous line and no one’s talking about it.
TRUE
Read your comment at the exact same moment he said it.
I think it amazing that they found out he was on Staten Island before he got there
@@fluence51 same
This is a better "descent into madness" tale than the Joker. He's literally running around a graveyard in a thunderstorm by the end.
No spoilers! ♥️🍄
With a rainbow!
He's gone mental
It's Grey's Heart of Darkness.
You can see it ar 9:17
This story had CGP Grey going Disosway and Thatoway
sako091 ha!! You deserve more thumbs up 😂
*facepalms*
I was gonna like your comment but it's at 69 so i can't im sorry
@@mrswan7745 it's at 65 now.
*slow claps*
I'm surprised Grey didn't go as far as building a period accurate sail boat and seeing if he could circle SI in 24 hours
and if the damn barrels actually make a difference
It must be done
Please let that be the next vid part 2
Don't give him ideas, he's already too far gone
@@eljanrimsa5843 Mythbusters/CGP Grey crossover, anyone?
I like how the museums closed for "heat reasons" and then it pisses down with rain.
GREATEST CONSPIRACY EVER
Well, it was warm rain. The rainbow makes that pretty clear.
Bro the warm rain in the northeast of the us will have healthy people gasping for air like they got asthma.
That’s how it works in the summer here in Staten Island 😂 it gets really hot and then the rain comes and the temp drops 20 degrees
It closes for "heat reasons"
despite the fact that it's a building
where everything is inside
where there is more than likely AC installed.
You must be from somewhere else, pal.
Wow National Treasure 3 is even better than I could have hoped
I’m gunna steal Staten Island
I'M SO GLAD YOU BEAT ME TO IT
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CGPGrey angrily trying to find old information in poorly mantained archives... Now *that* is content.
Marcos Landi Staten Island's history is really weird because most of it nobody knows or cares about.
"Impossible. Perhaps the archives are incomplete."
- CGP Grey, 2019
@@lifeguardpanda Honestly, much of the Island's history that I know is from the contemporary era. I used to hear stories from my father and I had pictures of my Grandmother and her stories (She was around from 1914-2016...) I honestly don't know that much, though, like I can tell you more about the Ottoman Empire than Staten Island
This has to be the most anyone has cared about Staten Island in the last century.
I know right?! Other boroughs get all the spotlight, then turn and shit on us. Guess what b*tches, we're bigger than Manhattan and have more dignity 🖕
@@theideologicalway7311 Found the guy from SI
Yea
Except for Republican politicians tryna start their career in NYC
You forgot about wu tang
It's kind of beautiful how you chased an ending to your journey that could never be reached, only to find a rainbow, whose end can never truly be reached
new title: *CGP Grey: The Descent Into Madness*
It really is .
Michael Stevens could use the company.
😂😂😂😂
I loved seeing how he loses it as he discovers the museum is closed.
This was certainly different.
The only fair thing to do is to give Staten Island to CGP Grey
Only if he can sail around it in less than 24 hours, and 200 years later have people say that he put empty shipping containers on the deck.
Tbh we wouldn’t be opposed to that
He would probably take a picture of it and throw it away.
I wouldn't mind giving it to him, he put a lot of work a dedication into this, and new York state is pretty big so we're not losing much
KingOfKaiju05 can someone tell me what tbh stands for?
“Where is it, I know your here somewhere.” Is probably the best thing to say while stomping through a graveyard in a storm.
you will never know what i wrote here ...Read more
I feel like it missed an angry “…you son of a bitch!” from him too.
@@janed6863 That didnt trick me 😂😂😂
@@janed6863 you know it probably doesn't appears after that
And somewhere around there?
@@janed6863 that's not how it works
"... I've always found that hometown historians happily honour hometown heroes" slick wording.
He does this in every video. How??
Alliterations do be powerful
Bojack horseman moment
As a Staten Islander, our hometown heroes are Carlo Gambino, the drummer from Twisted Sister, and Pete Davidson…
As a historian, this is AMAZING. I’m going to show this to my classes during discussions on the work of history and how to value and evaluate sources. Such a great video.
I was going to say, this makes it feel like Grey is really close to just being an actual historian
Makes me wonder just how much history is actually fake, because noone actually bothered to get to the root and just trusted the first reputable source.
@@hebl47 looking at you Herodotus
Great comment. I was in the NYU archives once. I really felt like I was investigating the past in a very hands on manner.
@@hebl47 Nero was treated as a complete shithead by historians for centuries because the Bible has a lot of mean things to say about Roman people. Then the actual Roman histories discuss Nero and describe him as quite the philanthropist. It's literally a conspiracy theory that he burned Rome to build a new palace.
I have an inkling now why so much time passes between some of the videos.
Just an inkling?
Just an inkling
Woomy
@@Justin-sl3sb Would that be a REALLY exclusive inkling?
Lucas Newton wrong inkling
"...and here is where our story ends."
Next clip: A shovel is seen digging into the ground... {to be continued}
*CGP shaking Disosway's remains* WHY DISOSWAY WHY
*opening strains of Yes - Roundabout*
Sean Simpson came here for this comment, either to see it or leave it.
LMAO 😂😂😂😂
@@seanandrewsimpson jayyauwjssnhsgshshshshyshehgeg🤝❤
As a history student myself, I wonder when the time will come for me to finally have a breaking moment where I vow to chase to the ends of the earth the smallest details written at the bottom of a page of footnotes.
I am not looking forward to that day, but I have accepted it will come inevitably
Challenges in life re always bound to happen ;D
This sounds like a lovecraftian horror story where Grey goes mad on the pursuit for unknowable cosmic truths as he travels to distant lands
Double G. Where a huge conspiracy is unearthed
That would only happen if the article in question was about Massachusetts.
Speaking of, Grey - got anything on Innsmouth? :P
read House of Leaves. similar energy
@@orion1836 MAAAAASSSSACHUUUUUUUSSSEEEEEEEETTTS!
It’s the 14th biggest state
Massachusetts
Just four hours from New York
Read amazing books for free at the Boston Library or try the local brie
Massachusetts
It’s a melting pot, my friend
Massachusetts
So many cultures hand in hand
In perfect harmony
Some say grey still wasnt satisfied and brought a shovel to the graveyard.
He never left Staten Island, he's still there waiting for the historians to come around.
@@andmicbro1 gasp! So he only made this video to make them think that he left.
"It was his hat grey! He was number one!"
I was going to say him running around a graveyard in a thunderstorm gives it that "graverobbing feel"
@Aspiring Marauder +
It's funny to see that Grey is listed as a reference on the Christopher_Billopp_(Royal_Navy_officer) wikipedia page.
Bruh really?
Edit: Oh shit its true.
Cool
He’s actually mentioned in the main article too, under the Staten Island Legend
Jeremy X This video is even one of the references in that subsection!
Stands to reason, Grey is probably the most knowledgeable person on this story in the world now
Your dedication to the craft is astounding. Traveling to the US on a trail of a newspaper that went missing, only to end up on a graveyard in a storm is I think the coolest thing Ive seen someone do on this platform for his content. I only wish I discovered you sooner!
Cgp grey did so much research to find nothing
Respect ➕
Pratham Gupta Ah but finding nothing is more significant than finding something in this case.
Like most research, but if you don't search, you won't know.
I understand your point
But truly he deserves respect for researching so much on something so absurd
Welcome to what researching is like
If he was *TRULY* dedicated, then he'd sail around Statan island with an old 17th-19th century vessel with a bunch of empty barrels to see if it could be done in under 24 hours.
"Time...to let it go"
Narrator: *Grey did not let it go*
Lemony snicket: "letting it go is a saying in which here means not letting it go"
@@markoftheland3115 "a phrase which here means taking an intercontinental flight to harangue a librarian and break into a museum during a heat wave in order to uncover the truth"
Like a dog tug of war
*Always Sunny Theme*
“The Gang Doesn’t Let it Go”
Narrator: Bear did put it in
I will never complain ever again how long sparse are CGP Grey uploads.
HappyDayDude1990 សមបើ ុំខ្
Yo, for real
9:14 tfw the museum said they are closed because of heatwave and its raining right after is just peak ironic
The amount of source checking in this video would make any English teacher pass out.
Original Shitposter loool 😂 😂 😂 💔
Or make any English teacher hard.
Brad Lemmond well that wasn’t very Christian channel like of you.
I AM an English teacher. I passed out.
Yea
I like the resonance of the rainbow in the story at the beginning and the rainbow in the graveyard at the end
Yeah, this all came together for him quite well.
And the end of the rainbow is Disoway.
*somewhere over the rainbow starts playing*
The ending was beautiful. This video very well could be a short film.
It felt quite transcendent, like a Tarkovsky ending.
Ladies and gentlemen, CGP Grey presents "A day in the life of a historian"
More like weeks.
A Google User ‘day in the life’ doesn’t mean something only takes a day
@@herberthoover9095 Yes, I know...
A Google User up
@@26Wyatt haha
“Oh dammit there’s two of them!”
-CGP Grey
"This is getting out of hand, now there are two of them?!"
Imagine flying across the Atlantic to find some old newspaper only for it to be missing
ZYPHON???
I see it’s been re recommended again lol
unexpected mcyt
My gosh. It's a minecraft youtuber.
That's just act 1 of an Indiana Jones movie or National Treasure.
Moral of the story: never ignore Grey's mails, or he might show up to your door
Hah that's a good one
Wouldn't that make the moral of the story "Ignore Grey's emails"?
Holy jeebees I'm on his mail list and have been ignoring the e-mails for some time now
@@dkursada he's coming for you
@@ianr.1225 he'd break your knee caps. they ran away before he could
This is just an 11 minute video of CGP Grey going insane.
and it's amazing!
Especially after he was locked out of Billopp's house and laughing, I thought, "he reached his breaking point."
Going?
11 minutes and 06 secs
Of course. Why do you think I’m subscribed here?
Fun Fact: Grey did actually blank the section on the race from the Christopher Billopp Wikipedia page, and was questioned by Wikipedia staff before the video came out.
Remember when Grey called France the queen of not letting go?
I think she may have some competition.
Does anyone remember which video he called France this? haha
@@larkinlover The one about the EU.
@@Marconius6 Thank you!
He said the QUEEN of not letting go. He didn't say anything about the KING of not letting go.
😂
I'm surprised you left out the part where you screamed "Damn you Disoway" into the rain for 4 hours
I can't tell if this was a patreon extra bit or not, and I think it's more fun not knowing.
I want to see it
@@josephwodarczyk977 We need answers!
@@reeven1721 careful, might lead you across the Atlantic
@@josephwodarczyk977 dude was there to pay respect to his loved ones and he saw a wild Grey
They closed the museum when you came? They REALLY don't want to talk to you...
This just proves the Deep Museum really exists.
something about grey running around a graveyard in the rain yelling "where is it" and "I know your here somewhere" is hilarious.
“More than 200 years ago” does technically align with “almost 300 years ago”
Pole Tooke well
Yes, and it also aligns with "More than twenty minutes ago"
@@exlibris5772 Okay, but that's blowing it out of proportion. The difference is more like "more than 6 months ago" and "almost 1 year ago".
@@sukithebean7920 the proportion is that only if you consider it by pure cronological time, but still, to investigate something it my aswell say before you were born
Technically speaking king George III died over a year ago
Maybe the real Christopher Billopp is the friends we made along the way
Lol
Journey before destination, after all.
thank u for the chuckle
I don't know what to think about this statement...
Shut it
You should do a series called "The Footnote Trails" in this format! Absolutely love it!
Everyone on this channel would watch this.
@@claytongiambelluca3551 Yea, and he could follow it up with a series called: "In the nutbin - what's it really like?"
Omg yes please.
This is a fantastic idea!!!
True. But that would be extremely costly. Just saying, still hope he would do it though:)
Imagine how much a shock it would be to have some dude in England who emailed you, who you never responded to, and then he just SHOWS UP.
Nothing I've ever seen on UA-cam has ever made me want to donate to someone's Patreon more than this, and so I shall, for the first time ever. Apparently, this is the actual length someone must go for my money. Congrats.
You’re so right. I’m going to finally donate too. Thanks for commenting this!
Same
Thanks, Scott. I appreciate it!
i stopped at the flight portion of the video just to check our his patreon
Same here!
You went disoway and datoway all over tracking the source.
well played.
Underrated comment. +1 to you, good sir/madam.
@@Zectzozda I'm a sir when I'm not a discorporeal representation of my fear and pain.
Edit: Past me was wrong...SOOOO wrong. Representation of my fear and pain turned out to just be me being a girl and repressing that really hard!
Clever. Extremely clever.
I'm screaming
I love how Grey must've sat and animated that 20 second clip in the library just to play it on his iPad while recording it with his camera
i'm just wondering how he managed to predict the timing of the "shh!" so well. did he animate it, then film a shot of his iPad after the fact that aligned with the speech? did he ask a librarian to shush him at exactly the right time? can he predict the future? this will eat me alive
@@etherealsalad2698 I am 100% the shush was added in post
@@faameexplains1192 i did not consider that
I would have recorded the audio elsewhere, animated the video to the audio, and added the audio in post while showing the video footage.
Edit: including the shoosh!
@@etherealsalad2698 The audio pretty much had to be done in post
Imagine just walking down a cemetary with your classmates for a school fieldtrip and see some guy saying "I know you're hear somewhere", "it's amazing" and laughing hysterically
Cue Homer Simpson slowly backing into hedge meme
School fieldtrip on a graveyard in the middle of a thunderstorm?
@@alzhanvoid Maybe it's the local emo group
@@pantuternik Ah yes, the local emo school
Also I love this sort of new style of video, where the stick figures are juxtaposed with real life. I love the part where you filmed a video of your stick figure talking in the library. That was genius.
Yeah, I enjoyed that.
Same!
Listening to Grey laugh over a Supreme Court recording is awesome
It was very funny!
He’s the new red letter media
"Ohhhhhh.......New Jersey, you're getting wrecked. And it's only just begun"
R E A L L Y E X C L U S I V E J U R I S D I C T I O N
And eating popcorn while listening
Remind me to ignore CGP Grey's email if he ever need my help.
make sure your place is on lockdown too
that IS a great idea.
To be fair, the chance of getting mail from Grey is pretty low to begin with... (But I had the same thought)
So you're saying pull a Grey if you hear from Grey via email?
Olivier Labbé hey make sure you ignore CGP Grays email if he tries to get stuff from you
I just watched a man go through the 5 stages of grief over some history that we all probably could’ve lived without
We all know why the Billoppp museum was *really* closed.
All according to keikaku
Yup, they were tipped by the NSA as soon as they became aware that Grey was coming!
This is now my favorite conspiracy theory.
Its billoppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppp
When they dodge your questions, they don't fool around at it
"Due to extreme heat the museum will be closed" -- Rainstorm ensues.
They will stop at nothing to keep the truth hidden!
Stop bringing so much heat CGP Grey!
@Winters, how do you mean that? The rainstorm was probably caused by the extreme heat.
My tinfoil hat theory is that the people at the library spread the word to the museum that someone was asking too many questions about the secret gazette and so they closed up knowing he was heading there next. It's all connected!!
It's America, it's what we do.
We all know they were just avoiding you, CGPgrey.
"Don't respond to my emails? I might just show up."
-CGP Grey 2019
The last sound heard by dead men
It has such potential for a threat, I love it 😂
Come to my house Grey
I actually "borrowed" that line for a piece of writing I'm doing; it just works...
"Show up? I might just lock the doors"
I love the idea of Lady Grey walking past as Grey is listening to the supreme court record because I have no idea if she would think "yea that's my husband" or "what the f*** is he doing"
"Por que no los dos?"
I finally understand why CGP Grey uploads very seldomly
He is a madman. He only gives us glimpses of it so to not infect us with his madness. England beware.
@@andyoli75 Englad calling here. We're already mad!
@@themasqueradingcow91 Jolly good, carry on.
Staten island is mad because grey has plauged it with madness
@@RobespierreThePoof This isn't a classroom, we're allowed to write colloquially.
"Grey has a full mental breakdown for 11 minutes straight"
Brayden
More like partial- over several weeks, or months, no?
More like 11 weeks
He researched far enough to find a single name in thousands of newspapers, then failing that, flew all the way from Britain to New York, lost the trail, visited a museum, abd then *found the grave of a man who died almost 2 centuries ago,* just because that was the name he was looking for. I believe that mental breakdown lasted more then 11 minutes
Why is it in quotes
Alternative title: CGP Grey slowly loses grip of his sanity thanks to some boat going around an island.
Allegedly going around an island
or multiple islands?
AAAAAAHHHHHHH
300 years ago.
He is now immortalized in the Staten Island Wikipedia article.
At the end
*cuts to grey with shovel
Grey: I NEED TO KNOW
@EmperorJuliusCaesar The guy that this whole video is about. Since this whole story about Staten Island is centered on this one person and appears to be nothing more than a fairy tale to begin with Grey wanted to know for sure if the guy, Christopher Billop, even existed to begin with. You can pause the video and see his name on the headstone.
darknight10000 Bro are you blind that’s Disoway’s headstone.
EmperorJuliusCaesar He’s the guy that made up the story to begin with. 6:08
@EmperorJuliusCaesar Storyteller
@@darknight10000 No he is the old man storyteller.
"Ignore my emails? I might just show up."
CPG Grey straight gangsta
ThatGuanfranco even good that he, himself, just trash mails in reading mere less than a sentence.
He might just show up - but Homeland Security might just inform the museum and they'll be closed on the days he is in town. (Probably used their secret weather control devices to provide an excuse - just how deep does the Staten Island conspiracy go? The POTUS? The Pope? Maybe all the way to the top, to Tom Scott and Computerphile? Who knows, who knows... I bet Dan Brown does, and even he is too scared to write a book about it.)
Challenge accepted!!
Except they knew he was coming so they closed up shop early
only grey can ignore emails, no one else can
"The Race to Win Staten Island", or alternatively titled; "CGP Grey descends into madness hunting down the truth of an obscure story".
Jamestown grey putting his mental health on the line chasing a conspiracy that may or may not mean anything to anyone
I wonder if anyone has picked up where Grey left off and interviewed the Staten Island Museum docents?
Next time on CGP Grey:
Sailing around Staten island in a series of boats with a series of barrels, to determine if the trip was really possible in under 24 hours.
I really want to see that
"Where is the truth?"
Just over... Disoway....
Get out
I want to be mad... really i do, but this shit eating grin on my face tells a different story.
Guttube +++
LOLZ
I hate you.
Take your thumbs up and leave!
Lesson learnt: Always reply to CGP Grey's emails or he will come after you
Despite the fact that he won't answer, or even read, yours :P
@@chatoyerhuggins2894
Did you try going to his house and bothering him extremely politely?
but he will just walk away if you say you are closed.
Or never reply to his emails if you want to meet him and have an autograph
@@swarm232 If you listen to Cortex you'll find two explanations there (well, more, but here are the main 2):
1. He doesn't read the majority of his email, and if an email looks to wordy he skips it as well. He has an assistant go through most of his contact stuff and forward him things of interest.
2. Much more importantly, Grey is not a social guy. Going to cons and meeting people there is about as taxing as he wants to get, and he has to prep himself for that. He doesn't want to meet fans out in the wild, and he hates even his baristas recognizing him in coffee shops.
Edit actually the second point comes up more on Hellointernet, since Brady is the opposite of him in that regard.
This is PhD level stuff. Jokes aside, really impressive.
Grey’s getting dangerously close to showing his face in video
Not any closer then he has already gotten. I don't want to see his face. With youtubers like him the ambiguity is a lot of the fun.
@@program4215 I've seen it for just a few seconds. But it's so amorphous now in my mind, I don't really care that I saw it.
what are you talking about? he shows his face in every video
Роман Козак he is on camera in the background of a numberphile video on an airstrip with the longest printed number, if I remember correctly :)
@@raa14211 So I know which numberphile video to never watch, thanks.
10 minutes in: "Is he turning to necromancy?"
"Alright so I found Billops corpse and now I'm gonna draw the pentagram"
@@KawaiiCanadafreememes the resurrected corpse of billops: sorry, but I cant remember.
I just gave you your thousandth like dude. Can we split the prize money? ;D
Not necromancy but necromantcy
I wonder what someone would think if they saw someone trekking through the rain with a backpack to someone's grave and then recording themselves giving a thumbs-up seemingly to the grave. Lol.
“Time... to let it go.”
*looks at the time remaining.*
He couldn’t let it go, could he?
“I couldn’t let it go!”
Flies to America
The amount of dedication on this man
@@TheBluePhoenix008 Let me RANDOMLY recommend stuff,
cause why not?
Aaaand we're in a Quality-Drought (dont deny it!)...
Here:
-Veritasium.
-Its ok to be smart.
-Oversimplified.
-Krosmo.
-Believe it or Not.
-Redditor.
-Hbomberguy.
-Michio Kaku.
-Practical Engineering.
-Neil Red.
-Viced Rhino.
@@nenmaster5218 Amazing. Thanks for this m8
i want some old historian in the future to study me like grey studied billopp
10:15 extreme heat my ass, it’s a conspiracy! The “book keepers” told the Museum curators you were coming so they put that update on the website and ran for the hills!
Oh hey look, a documentary of going down the rabbit hole.
And I thought history was boring. Instead it resembles a detective novel.
But this time, not with Knudsen
Why are the "Rabbits" here keep blocking the passages, Isn't that suspisius?
“Hehehe ignore my emails? I might just show up” and that crazy laugh when he finds out it’s closed is the proof to his chaotic energy I knew he had
I don't know why but grey channels both lawful and chaotic energies for me, both ends at the extreme...
Boaredy a true chaotic good
Grey: "Alright, time to let this one finally go."
*scene cuts to Grey's hand reaching out to open the door of his time machine*
Grey: “I need to know”
Shows billopp sailing around staten
Cuts to some secret organization hq where their boss recives the report
Secret agent: “Sir theres been a report on operation staten the agents on the scene belive he has been satisfied and will stop the search”
Leader 05: “thank god that madman has finally stopped i belive he came very close to uncovering the truth”
Secret agent: “sir if i may ask what was the truth he had been searching for?”
Leader 05: “no you may not agent that data is classified now get out there and check if he has really stopped or is just winding up”
Secret agent:”of course sir”
As the agent leaves leader 05 mutters something about staten under his breath and the scene cuts to black
Watching a man's descent into madness is... Hard to describe
America: the article is lost duh
CGP Grey: *HOLD MY MENTAL HEALTH IM GOING TO AMERICA BABY*
Curiosity addiction strikes again
Dear New York-dwelling CGP Grey fans and lovers of facts: Please visit the Billopp museum and continue this great saga.
I took the ferry 12 hours ago, I hadn;t watched the video...
T Nicholas I live on Staten Island and have been to that park many times
@@michaelramos545 Well? Don't leave us in throbbing suspense... Go!
@@michaelramos545 We put our faith in your good sir, please remove this weight off our hearts.
HyDragon I’m at college currently. We’ll be back home Wednesday, I’ll be going then
_Internet Man is irrationally angry about a dead guy lying for eleven minutes and six seconds_
Irrationally?
@@jamesmccomb9525 good point.
Rationally angry
and isn't it glorious?
@@batandballtv More concerning than glorious, but there is still a sizeable amount of glory in being able to claim that you travelled thousands of miles just to be pissed off at historical record keeping.
Finding the graves in the rain at the end was awesome man. It’s like a ghost hunting type deal but with real spirits in the form of vague stories of the past. Love your videos man, you will be an American hero in your legacy because of things like this!
Sees new CGP Grey video
Me: *throbbing suspense*
I want a National Treasure remake with CGP Grey as the lead writer.
_"Based On A True Story"_
"What historical artifact will Nicolas Cage hunt for this movie? The Bill of Rights? The original notes for the Gettysburg adres?"
"The lost newspaper articles of the Richmond Gazette written by a guy who might have first told a story about a boat race."
"...."
"What? Too heavy stuff for a PG13 rating?"
He seriously went from Europe all the way to Staten Island. I live in nyc and still wouldn’t be willing to travel to Staten Island
He makes fairly regular trips back to the US to visit family, so my guess is that this was a one-day detour on a trip he was going to take anyways. But even so this is video is a good illustration of the craziness people can go through for well-researched stories.
I mean, now you gotta. Ask them hard questions
Why would you even go to Staten island? Is that even a part of Civilization?
It’s barren wasteland that people drive through to get to either the city or NJ
You know you've got it bad when people go through you to get to New Jersey
Can I just say, I love that you go to these lengths to be absolutely certain something is true or false? I wish I had the time and resources to hunt for history like you do!
Im looking at the wikipedia edits of that page since this video went up and after over two years of no edits theres a gigantic edit fight over the info hahahaha.
(And yes, Grey did actually delete that text on the page)
Is this how we can track down Grey's IP?
Alex M uh-oh
You can see that in how bipolar the text is.
“According to one version of an oft-repeated but apocryphal tale[22], Captain Billopp's seamanship secured Staten Island to New York, rather than to New Jersey: the island would belong to New York if the captain could circumnavigate it in one day, which he did. This story is most likely untrue“
Numerous times it states he both did do it and that it’s a myth.
@@adamboh393 It's essentially saying, "This is what the popular myth says and this is how that myth supposedly secured the island for New York, but it's probably not true." It's not saying he both did and didn't do it.
thanks Grey
CGP Grey: “Nothing else waits on this island for me but Ghosts and Graves”
Me: ooo graves
CGP Grey: ooo graves
How did you misspell “CGP Grey” twice
@@Childishsadboyo
Copy & paste? Autocorrect?
Cole Delios I typed it right but auto correct must have changed it and I didn’t notice
"We are closed due to extreme heat."
*massive rainstorm ensues*
It can be hot out and still rain.
That is what happens when it is 100 degrees with humidity in the northeast...
Heat -> increased evaporation -> thunderstorm
It is very common in the northeast to have massive thunderstorms during extreme heat. It will usually bring in cooler air.
“Extreme heat”. Bit odd considering that New York doesn’t go above 100 degrees....
I swear this man was THIS close to digging up the grave just to prove a point.
Me whenever CGP Grey announces a new video : *throbbing suspense*
OMFG YES
THIS NEEDS MORE LIKES
new video: fastest click ever
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So, I don't know if this will help you regarding the missing archives of the gazette, but in the 1930's the Richmond hall of records was flooded and a great deal of their archives were destroyed. I have no idea if the Gazette issues you were searching for were there. I know a great deal of the property records were destroyed, so much so that if a house that was built on SI prior to the flood, it would not have a blueprint or dimensional record of the house structure that could be researched today.
It got floodded by the New England Hurricane right?
the spirits casted a hurricane to stop anyone
Dont let cgp grey see this he will go down another rabbit hole
Okay, I'm calling it: This is the greatest CGP Grey video ever.
heck, this is one of the best youtube videos.
never seen somone end there video at a gravestone in foreign country, just to confirm a historical event few even have heard of. XD
sutematsu this and the one about the English monarchy were so entertaining and enlightening
It's certainly the "greyest" CGP Grey video ever.
Okay but can we all appriciate the incredible irony of the thematic thunderstorm AND rainbow when he found the grave??? Like... if he hadn't filmed it, I wouldn't be given to believe it
They say on a grey and rainy evening you can still hear the faint sounds of maniacal laughter drifting about the Manor
tdydrd7e&$£$_$$#£'0
anything particularly cgp about the grey
Of a guy who once set on a trail of unraveling a mystery lost to the time..... he never made it they say, some say he did find it, but couldn't say due to some agreement,......
But, Alas! Lost with him , the trail set cold once again and the truth he endeavoured so much for..... Was never revealed!
Theodore Smith I agree
Not gonna lie, your research skills and dedication are on a whole new level.
A proper disciple of academia.
Well, he also earns over 19,000 dollars per video.
@@P3vlogVid I'm sure that helps
@@P3vlogVid where did you find that out? Just curious
@@Cjcastres not sure where he got that figure, but cgp literally made a video on how much videos make.
Next scene: Dark thunderclouds overhead, torrential rains pour down upon CGP's head.
He had done.. unforgiveable things to obtain what he needed, but by God, he was going to get this video done properly.
Holding his ritual athame in one hand and the newborn lamb's head in the other, CGP tears open its throat, crimson blood spilling out upon the gravestone of one Mr Disoway.
Under the light of the chemical lanterns, the blood was black, viscous.
With trepidation, CGP pulls out of his backpack a book, bound in human flesh and written in blood.
He opens it to the page he had marked earlier, and reads aloud the foul words in a tongue, dark and forgotten.
Lightning flashes over overhead, striking the tall, slender grave marker, igniting it with a brilliant, green flame.
Up from the damp earth, skeletal hands arise, followed by a pair arms.
The limbs create a hole through which an ancient skeleton come forth.
The jaws open, letting out an inhuman shriek as the soul of Disoway re-enters its body.
The empty eyesockets look to CGP as if asking "Why did you disturb my rest?"
CGP gazes back, and says "I have a few questions about the Staten Island race for a UA-cam video of mine" :)
A applaud you.
Underrated
Edit: four months later, now rated appropriately
Very underrated
You should have like 20k likes
C'mon everyone knows Grey would get the tome of unspeakable things in ebook form.