There was one here in Kentucky when the Jim Beam warehouse with 800,000 gallons of bourbon caught on fire and created a fire tornado on a creek. It was MASSIVE. They called it the Bourbonado 🤣🤣
My Great Grandmother helped in the cleanup for the Molasses flood in Boston. Bodies were still being found days and weeks afterwards as some were carried out into the water. She never told me as I was a child when I knew her, but she told her children that nothing was more horrifying as finding partially rotting corpses still covered in goo. They became easier to find as flies were drawn to the sugar coated rotting bodies still buried in debris from downed buildings, trash, and clutter that flowed into every alley and below level residences and businesses.
I've calculated the numbers, and the conclusion is that there aren't enough hours in the day for one man to produce as many videos as Simon Whistler pumps out. I believe there are actually five Simon Whistler's scattered around the globe producing this content.
Someone needs to make a documentary about this guy. It's really amazing. Is he just writing scripts and AI generated the videos? I also wonder how much information he retains. Even if it's a small percentage, he would definitely qualify for world most well spoken dinner guess.
Fun Fact re: scorpions: When Monty Python was filming "The Life of Brian" in Tunisia, Graham Chapman (who played Brian) was the on-site staff physician, too. He was actually a trained medical doctor, but didn't complete the UK equivalent of an internship (decided he wanted to write comedy instead). Any way, when he wasn't on camera he'd hold his "surgery" as you Brits call "clinics", and mainly treated folks for dysentery and -- yep, you guessed it -- scorpion stings. The cast & crew wore traditional sandals around the set, so their feet were constantly getting stung.
The Great Molasses Flood's (one of my favorite things to inform people of) tank pressure problem is one of the more common problems posed in calculus books (at least here in the USA)
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I was in Boston in 2001, and was with a group of people who were taken by a tour guide to a particular point near the height of the flood where the brickwork and paving stones were original, in the height of summer, if you get down on your knees and put your nose close to the pavement you can still smell the molasses.
One of my favorite man made disasters is Lake Peigneur in Louisiana being changed from a 10 foot deep freshwater lake to a 200 foot deep brackish water lake because a Texaco drilling team drilled into a salt dome. Thankfully, no life was lost, but the event itself at the time was spectacular. The guys in the salt mine had a really exciting day getting out of the mine in front of the water filling the mine.
That was spectacular, everything in the lake went down in the mine. There is video of it, I remember seeing it on History Channel's Engineering Disasters, which used to be my favorite show. Lucky no one was killed.
RE: Boston Molasses Flood. Yes, you could smell the molasses as late as the early '60's. As a youngster we often traveled through or to the North End and if it happened to be a hot, humid night the distinctive smell was very much in the air - even after 40+ years!
Fascinating! What sort of grounds was the scent strongest in, if you can remember? Pavement I would expect to hold it better than loose dirt because of water drainage, but efforts to repave roads, I would hope, would have happened multiple times during that span.
@@ace.l.w North End is pretty well solid road/concrete/building material. has been some repaving but still alot of material from that time. Since I was preteen at the time, I was fascinated by the history but wasn't really tracing where the scent was originating
The molasses tank failed because it wasn't made to HALF its required strength standards. And it was overfilled. And it was in the process of failing for months beforehand.
@@TheLoneTerran no that's why they are even pushing for equity to be equal no matter your skills now...... Chance you take in a free country! We need laws but not too much government, damn
To add to the molasses flood, the company knew the tank was old and needed repair, instead they just painted over it. The company knew the tank was a danger and did nothing. The flood could have easily been avoided. But once again corporate greed killed the innocent.
Around 1980 (+ or -) there was storm over Tehachapi California and the nearby Cement plant called Monolith. 70 miles away in the desert town of Lake Los Angeles it rained Cement. Coating everything, cars, houses and plants with wet cement. No deaths, but can you imagine cleaning two inches of cement off your car?
Here's a good place to mention that SOME (not exactly "all") of the so-called "Star Jelly" incidents actually HAVE been connected to frogs, toads, and other amphibian and fish eggs likely drawn up from nearby bodies of water via water-spouts and then later deposited on sites even more than 100 miles away... Look, I'm not here to launch or completely dispell and debunk any weird theories. Up front, I can't personally say that it's any kind of "absolutely conclusive"... BUT the evidence is there and has suggested such for at least some of these events. They ARE weird, and it's frequently worth our (commonfolk) time to take a chance to just stand for a moment of pure AWE at what's going on and what it could mean for our understanding (or the utter lack thereof) of the world and indeed the universe around us. It's even fun to theorize and study this kind of thing (freak occurrence) completely independently. At the same time, it's okay to stop and admit that whatever becomes the final consensus is quite likely "the actual truth"... at least, until something considerably more credible or conclusive is resolved. ;o)
You spoke of the fact that you recently found that molasses is the American word for treacle. Conversely, I myself at the tender age of 65, discovered by watching your video (a few minutes ago) that treacle is the British word for molasses. I wonder how many other common words or colloquialisms with similar meaning but surprisingly different wording remain generally unknown to Yanks & Brits? Hard to quantify, I guess. Anyway, great video.
They’re actually different. Molasses isn’t as processed, and is black and thicker. The flavour is also somewhat different. It can be used as animal feed. Treacle is slightly more processed and dark brown and slightly runnier. It’s more commonly used in cooking. Golden syrup is one step down from treacle, and once again a lighter brown, slightly different taste, and slightly less viscous texture. In Australia we differentiate molasses and treacle, but I saw in other comments in Britain molasses is sometimes called ‘black treacle’ which may be what confused Simon.
I had never heard of black treacle u till I googled "Are molasses and treacle the same". As mentioned, in Australia, treacle is something different again, but, according to Google, there is a difference, even between molasses and black treacle.
Fun fact: The awesomely named Deathstalker scorpion is called "el escorpión amarillo" in spanish. It means "the yellow scorpion"....which is a dissapointment if you were expecting something equally badass as it's english name.
I need to stop binge-watching so many of your videos! I actually woke up from a dream last night in which I could hear your voice narrating it. I don't even remember the dream. You weren't actually in my dream. It was like I was listening to you do a cold-read of my dream. It was so bizarre and unsettling. And yet it's not gonna stop me from watching more videos.
Previous generations would instantly recognise the voices of Walter Cronkite, James Burke, or Clive James. We have Simon Whistler, the Lock Picking Lawyer, Ian McCollum, and Tom Scott.
I've had the exact same dream situation hes not there but I can hear him narrating it lol I've since switched back to keralis from minecraft gaming for my laying in bed playlist fact boi is daytime only for me now lol
Four weeks ago I watched this video and saw your comment, and then searched for puppet history molasses flood. I have since watched every video and am distraught over the canonical loss of The Professor.
The main reason for this was that it wasn't fully distilled drinking Alcohol, it was still way more potent than that. So the People were ingesting way more alcohol than they thought they were.
@@dyamonde9555 that's not how distilling works, distilling increases the alcohol content, and thus the potency. However, erroneoulsly or incompletely distilled alcohol contains both ethanol and methanol, the latter of which is extremely poisonous if ingested and will often cause blindness or death in relatively short order unless the sufferer is administered significant ammounts of ethanol as an antidote, as ethanol digestion is prioritized by the body over methanol processing,in which case the methanol is expelled through the urine.
@@SonsOfLorgar yeah, i have no idea how distilling works, so i might have misremembered the WHY of it. however, i am sure that the fact that the Alcohol in the Streets was for some reason far more potent than normal was correct. Somewhere else i saw someone say that at the end of the process it is normally diluted, and that was what hadn't happened yet.
@@SonsOfLorgar So, to make sure that all methanol is liberated from the entirety of the finished product just run it through the distiller as many times as necessary? Or is there another method? Are the requirements for evaporation/distilling very different for both types of alcohol?
@@jerrypeppler1484 Methanol boils at a lower temperature, so in batch distillation, the first part of the run has most of the bad stuff and should be caught separately and discarded.
Honestly, at the start of the 'blobs' story, my first thought was that it could be fragments of jellyfish, but I was guessing that a waterspout / offshore tornado had been the cause of them becoming fragmented and airborne.
This was my thinking as well. Some jellyfish have venomous stingers, and the toxins could possibly explain the illnesses. Also explains the presence of eukaryotic cells.
@@stevec7923 You also have the stories of 'rains' of fish or frogs in various places which are probably caused by the same things. It sounds funny, but wouldn't have been to the people caught up in it.
Same here. With the just-right combination of repeat weather patterns, unusual jellyfish swarms, and optionally military drills, a particularly unlucky location could absolutely get repeat jellyfish blob rain. Repeating freak events can and do happen. I wonder if DNA testing could have verified the species.
Welp, its most likely half digested frog ovaries, which birds puke up, and they look lige a small clump of jelly, this city is just in the right distance from a lake ones used by flocks of migrating birds, and since most big migrating American bird flocks have died out, we dont experience this type of event anymore... Im almost ready to bet my masters in biology that its frog ovaries...
That's far more likely than them being launched into the clouds by bombs. Unless the bombs were massive, I doubt they'd have enough energy to launch things that far. It could be that a waterspout picked up the bits and pieces of a jellyfish swarm that got bombed, though.
I'm picturing people in Aswan freaking out over weather I've probably been casually out in, but they'd probably think we were wimps for not just dealing with the scorpions. It's strange how much people can get used to.
THANK YOU for clearing up the treacle/molasses assumptions I so wrongly made in my mind. When I (an American) watch TV, I almost exclusively watch old British television From the context often given, I knew it was sticky syrupy, but I thought it was like caramel or maybe cajeta. We had the same, yet totally opposite experience haha1
A friend of mine in College had a thing for Arachnids. Baboon Tarantulas, Trapdoor spiders, Emperor Scorpions.... and a Deathstalker.... he thought it was just a "cool" name. He later was told by another friend, "WHY THE %$#!, ARE PLAYING WITH THAT!", referencing the Deathstalker.... needless to say. He was damn lucky.
Just a bug and a weird friend. Sure why keep a spider or scorpion but we need them to do their thing in the wild...ugly as they are, they keep uglier things in check..lol Nature is not always pretty.
If handled correctly a scorpion is not likely to sting you. They need that venom to protect themselves and to capture food. I was in the desert at 29 Palms for three months and removed scorpions from people's barracks rooms daily. Never got stung, but bitten a few times.
@@RubyBlueUwU You're really not in a position to judge, tbh. You have zero clue what that person was like other than they enjoyed handling venomous arachnids. And tbh, their handling of venomous arachnids means they probably have at least some knowledge of what safety standards they should abide by.
@@PlazDreamweaver You are assuming just as much as the other person. The only difference is that they are not being as charitable as you giving the benefit of the doubt.
"The number of people that died from smoke inhalation and fire was zero." Oh my God they're so lucky that nobody died from this! "Number of people that died from drinking Whiskey 13." Fucking christ with the Irish bro... deadass yall were so close...
Oh hey, I grew up like 10 minutes from Oakville and that happened in my lifetime. I think I've heard it mentioned once but it was a strange surprise having a tiny town that I've driven through here and there show up on a list of mysteries and it being so recent to boot
@Ben B Artist I sure hope not. It's kind of unclear in all the reports how much of the stuff there really was. I was a toddler at the time so I obviously wouldn't remember, but my parents didn't even remember it happening. And I've got family that still lives there too.
My personal favourite man made disaster was the Birds Custard factory explosion in the uk, caused by the custard powder dust mixing with the air, and exploding with no warning, and just leaving a huge blast radius
Powder explosions used to be relatively common before modern safety engineering developed - usually in flour mills. My dad recalled a legendary paper mill dust explosion in his home town between the wars. Custard powder is a bit unusual though.
There was an explosion and fire at the MFA grain elevator in Columbia, Missouri, once - before my time, but my Pop (my mom's dad) mentioned it to me once when I was little. Any carbon-based dust can be extremely flammable, even explosive, if it accumulates enough under the right conditions. In fact, Rudolph Diesel's original internal combustion engine design - before he settled on the petroleum derivative that would bear his name - was powered by exploding coal dust!
When Simon was describing As Wan with summers of 100 degrees and winters down to 47 all I could think was “huh, sounds like El Paso”. Then when he went on to describe a sand storm that turned into torrential rains that turned to hail; “yep, definitely sounds El Paso”. Only difference is it gets down into the teens at night during the winter.
Ah hell, the part of the UK i live in was 40*C + for a week last summer, and we occasionally get sahara dust blown over (my black car ends up orange). Living in or near actual deserts must be a real ballache for you guys.
I was so excited to see Oakville on here!! My mom grew up not too far from there, and so we heard about it all first-hand. And was a lot of WTF? Honestly, Washington has a LOT of these kinds of WTF situations...
You forgot to mention that the reason so many people died of alcohol poisoning is that the spilled whiskey was undiluted and much stronger than people were used to; I believe that it is stronger as it ages and they dilute it before sale.
I've heard this story many times but only until it was explained that the whiskey was undiluted did I truly understand the death toll. Even if they were drinking a usual amount, ie what they were used to drinking, that would be fatal with the undiluted whiskey.
That's mostly correct. Whisky isn't diluted until it's bottled, but it is strongest when first put into the cask. The alcohol slowly evaporates as the whisky ages, which is called the Angel's Share, and can go from 85-90% alcohol when barreled to less than 60% when bottled, and is usually diluted even further to 40% or thereabouts. One other thing, whisky is aged by the time it spent in the barrel. A whisky that spent 7 years in a barrel, then was bottled, sold and sat on a shelf for 30 years is still a 7 year old whisky. Yes, I'm a whisky nerd.😀
Living near The Blue Mountains in greater western Sydney Australia. Bushfires are dangerous enough but when you see a literal wave of snakes, spiders and all sorts of horrors escaping the fire as it rages across the mountain covering footpaths and roads in a moving carpet or death.......will never sleep soundly again.
They give it to horses. Can’t remember why but my mum used to have horses and she would pour a bit of molasses over the hay in the feed trough. Of course I would eat some as a kid lol.
7:06 that is about 1,19 ML. That's megalitre, not millilitre. Or a whopping 1,19 million litres. But 1,19 ML is shorter to pronounce. And if you ever need it, a hoghead is about 238 litre. Just a little less than 238½ actually.
Thank you, Simon. I haven't heard the science behind why that molasses tank burst other than that it wasn't strong enough. The explanation of the expansion of the fluid was great.
I can't imagine a more gruesome death than that of drowning in a sea of molasses. When you get to the pearly gates and St. Peter ask's "How did you die?" Would you really want to say by molasses?
Meh. There are far less dignified (and far more gruesome) ways to die than drowning in molasses. I heard a story of a heroin addict that died from a brain aneurysm while sitting on his toilet, and wasn't discovered for weeks. Apparently, heroin can cause severe constipation. If that happened to me and I had that same conversation with St. Peter, I'd lie and tell him I drowned in molasses.
I think that one where you're sealed in between two small boats, covered in honey and milk, and force-fed honey and milk as long as you can still consume it, and slowly die due to bugs infesting you and you sitting in your own waste, causing massive infection, is worse. I think it's called scaphism.
This St. Peter guy sounds suspect. Why wouldn't he tell you how you died. There are spirits that have no clue how they died due to being sudden, random, without warning, etc... Are they supposed to answer the hell if I know?
I love your style of talking and the information is always first rate. i first heard of this story on mysteries at the museum presented by Don Wildman, i love him too, very passionate about history. Well done!
I don't think you realize how big a bomb would have to be to get any material up into a weather system powerful enough to carry it anywhere! This explanation is ridiculous unless they were dropping MOABS or Nuclear bombs! In both cases any material would be vaporized, there would be no chunks.
Yeah that is a ridiculous stretch to say that *bombs* could launch jellyfish into the *clouds* I thought from the get go military experiment. It has happened numerous times on similarly unsuspecting civilians. Such as the bacterial/ germ warfare attack in San Fran, for one; that's just one we know of think of how many there are classified that we don't. There are bound to be many others. Would explain the 6-time repetition, in the exact same area at the very least
The force required to launch that much jellyfish into the air is immense. As in probably more than a nuke. It is far more likely, if it was jellyfish, that it was something similar to when it rains fish or frogs, an extreme updraft.
I've never heard of treacle. Is it actually a different form of molasses. I know that molasses and sugar cane are kind of related. They along with corn syrup are used by most households as a form of sweetener,used for baking and cooking. Molasses and corn syrup are used also in the production of alcohol and sweetened drinks like soda pop and fruit juices.
Treacle and Molasses aren't exactly the same thing. They kind of are, but not quite. During the process to make sugar, the juice is boiled to concentrate the sugar enough that it crystalizes. These crystals are removed to become Sugar, and the leftover stuff is boiled a little longer. pretty soon it's treacle of the varying grades, then if allowed to boil long enough it becomes molasses of it's own varying grades. Treacle is sweeter because it hasn't has quite as much sugar removed during boiling, molasses is more complex. You can use molasses in savory dishes when you wouldn't really want to use the sweeter treacle, things like sauces, glazes, marinades, and stews.
Wow 🤩 I just found this channel and it’s so brilliant I really enjoyed these stories I love learning and am definitely subscribing right now , thank you so much ☺️ xx
Hi Simon, I like to binge watch your content across all your channels but the algorithms aren't too user friendly with autoplay. I was wondering if you'd consider making a playlist for the content of each channel.
My Grand father told me about this episode. To this day, when walking through the are, you can still smell the sweet odor. It is an amazing experience. I love maolasses and in the summer it is a nice odor.
I found a death stalker in Afghanistan. It was about 3' in front of some PFC that was having to low crawl the perimeter for some reason. Probably saved his life lol. Sadly I squished it's tail picking it up so it was unable to win at insect UFC.
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A guy in my hometown emptied an entire lake, circa 300 million cubic meter of water. On the night between the 6th and 7th of June in 1796. Whole thing took around 4 hours.
I've been by the plaque in Boston that talks about the molasses flood. It's hard to put the height of the flood into perspective until you're standing there in person trying to imagine it. A two-story wall of molasses would have be a terrifying sight.
6:47 the idea that human beings consume a drink that can cause so much devastation is mind boggling even today. My neighbour got my to try some rum last weekend and the first thing I said was it tasted like petrol 🤔
@@ordinosaurs My freakishly intelligent childhood dog would do that intentionally. She'd knock down apples from out tree, then bury them. After waiting for them to rot/ferment, she'd dig them up and eat all at once getting rip roaring drunk. It took my parents a while to figure out WTH was going on.
Once upon a time three moles were climbing up their tunnel. The first mole says "I smell jelly!. The second mole perked up his nose and said "Nooo, I smell syrup." The third mole sniffed and shook his head. " All I smell is moleasses!"
Thank you so much for these informative and entertaining videos. Just to remind everyone on the planet: The word "unique" means only one of a thing. There is no such thing as more or less unique. Only unique or not. Thank you so very much for your videos! I always enjoy watching these videos and I appreciate the time and work that t'chall spend. T'chall ain't a word,neither. Thank you Simon!
I remembered the day those blobs landed in Washington state. I was on my way to the beach from Idaho when I saw it on my friends television. The first thing I thought thought of was Invasion of the Body Snatchers from the 70s
here's a real mystery for you Simon, do something on the mysterious disappearance of the other sock You know where you know without a doubt there were exactly 5 pairs of socks that went in but only 9 socks come out of the dryer. I suspect Tom Cruise has something to do with it. ... yes the actor.
@@kasahadragon9499 I like that, I imagine it makes more sense than Tom Cruise sneaking in, & all evil like stealing just the one sock,... but I don't know
That missing sock is in the washing machines discharge hose,it never makes it to the dryer. Are there still grown adults out there that don't know this?
@@TwistedRC clearly you have been fooled by Mr. Cruise, & his sinister hijinks. You keep telling yourself that it's just in the hose, keep telling yourself that Tom Cruise doesn't sneak into, not only your home, but worse your mud room, or laundry room, & with intention only the most perverse could understand, take from you a single sock.
@@natas3.14my KSG says nobody sneaks into my house. Despite the superpowers of a clearly superior human such as Cruise, I don't believe scientology has enough lawyers to plug all the bullet holes he would aquire attempting to pilfer my precious socks, especially in winter time. In conclusion, I have ALL my socks. Do you?
The military knows nothing about the Oakville blobs because what really happened was a direct attack on one of the Old ones that had woken and was headed towards the coast. The reason it happened over 3 weeks because the old ones are difficult to kill and it required several attempts to finally send it back to the depths.
Simon, I would love to see you do a video on Megacryometeors. With lots of evidence of their existence, and history, with possible undiscovered formation processes; it would be a fascinating topic to discuss.
You forget the Lac-Memégantic train explosion. A runaway train of crude oil tanks rolled down a hill and explosed in the centre if the small town, burning alive 47 people.
I work at a hostel in Boston. When I can tell guests stories about the city, I always tell the Molasses Flood story, and I tell it in almost exactly the same way. It was trippy to hear haha
I've heard of three of these. GG on finding the scorpion story. In fact my dad told me the story of the mollassas flood as a child. As for the scorpions, well we like to think our homes are safe, sterile sanctuaries that Mother Nature is not allowed in. Mother Nature agreed to no such arrangement and that day glared at the city of Aswan over her glasses and then let cry the scorpions of war on unsuspecting townsfolk.
A few corrections: 1) it's molasses, not mollassas. The word was on the screen like 16 times. 2) Why would Mother Nature wear glasses and not have natural perfect vision? Glasses aren't natural, kind of defeats the whole Mother Nature thing. 3) the quote is "cry 'havoc', and let slip the dogs of war," whatever you said about "let cry the scorpions of war" was just word salad. If you're going to quote Shakespeare, it would behoove you to get the quote right.
@@cleverusername9369 1. I have no idea why it ended up that way, tbh. To give another example of a spelling error I do all the time, I have to make conscious effort to remember that Protein breaks the I before E rule and I absolutely hate it. Worse, for some reason my browser has turned off spell check and I'm not sure where to turn it back on or how or why this happened. 2. It's an affectation on Mother Earth's part, a prop for the sake of emphasis. But I also have a strange philosophical hangup about the way our culture uses the word natural. If human beings are animals and we make things, then how are those things not natural when a natural thing made them? Bunnies make burrows, we don't call those burrows artificial. You could also reverse this and argue there is nothing natural about a human being and there would be ample grounds for either viewpoint. 3. The entire point was to scramble the line to suit the circumstance, I was tired, hot and hungry and didn't look at what I was posting to make sure it was okay.
@@AnimeShinigami13 I have to commend you for how gracious and courteous your response was. I would have told Mr Clever Name to F off. Your restraint is admirable.
@@roberttrimmier3276 some people are utter clods. I got stalked on the supervolcano video and harassed because I disagreed with ONE POINT in the entire video, that supervolcanoes were deadlier to us than a hypothetical alien invasion. It didn't matter that I cited a channel with a lot of research/science related street cred as my source. I had to repeatedly report all his responses to youtube to get him to leave me alone. I even went on twitter and begged Simon to intervene. >.< What good was being hostile going to do? And its not like it was coverage of the pro choice protests going on where people are at each other's throats over politics. Everyone here loves simon's videos and likes dark shit.
Storms often contain whirlwinds that you cannot see because they are hidden in the cold rain and wind. If a whirlwind passed over a pond it'd suck up the contents of the pond. The pondwater would mix in the rain and disappear. Pond weeds and mud would blow around and be mixed in with lots of other storm debris. But FROGS? They'd fall from the sky like magic.
OK so basically Simon did ALL the videos for this entire year back in December of last. Apparently in one sitting. The same burgundy jumper with the same stain on his right front flank.
I was born in 1961, and in the 1960s, mom and I went to Boston often. We visited the North End sometimes, and on hot, humid summer days, you could actually catch a faint whiff of molasses.
There was one here in Kentucky when the Jim Beam warehouse with 800,000 gallons of bourbon caught on fire and created a fire tornado on a creek. It was MASSIVE. They called it the Bourbonado 🤣🤣
How did they miss that one in the sharknado movies.
@@angrydoggy9170 Schnappnado?
had to look this up, lmao thats nuts
Or the great whiskey fire of 1914 in 12. No one died from fire, but 12 did die from alcohol poisonong.
Wrote my last comment before they talked about in this vodeo. Lol
Most UA-camrs: Makes playlists for different genres
Simon: Makes whole new channels for different genres
Like the one he made yesterday
My Great Grandmother helped in the cleanup for the Molasses flood in Boston. Bodies were still being found days and weeks afterwards as some were carried out into the water. She never told me as I was a child when I knew her, but she told her children that nothing was more horrifying as finding partially rotting corpses still covered in goo. They became easier to find as flies were drawn to the sugar coated rotting bodies still buried in debris from downed buildings, trash, and clutter that flowed into every alley and below level residences and businesses.
Thanks.
Now that's what I call a sticky situation...
My God i can't even imagine the smell of that.
@@mikeyerian2562 *get out!*
Gangster Granny!!!
I've calculated the numbers, and the conclusion is that there aren't enough hours in the day for one man to produce as many videos as Simon Whistler pumps out. I believe there are actually five Simon Whistler's scattered around the globe producing this content.
He has an entire clone army, they're unstoppable. Though they do age twice as quickly, so we have that going for us.
Someone needs to make a documentary about this guy. It's really amazing. Is he just writing scripts and AI generated the videos?
I also wonder how much information he retains. Even if it's a small percentage, he would definitely qualify for world most well spoken dinner guess.
@@edwardmayo1058 I'm fairly sure Simon is just a narrator, he gets hired a lot because he is good at it.
It’s aliens….😂😂😂
@@krashd His beard is not as well trimmed as it used to be.
Fun Fact re: scorpions: When Monty Python was filming "The Life of Brian" in Tunisia, Graham Chapman (who played Brian) was the on-site staff physician, too. He was actually a trained medical doctor, but didn't complete the UK equivalent of an internship (decided he wanted to write comedy instead). Any way, when he wasn't on camera he'd hold his "surgery" as you Brits call "clinics", and mainly treated folks for dysentery and -- yep, you guessed it -- scorpion stings. The cast & crew wore traditional sandals around the set, so their feet were constantly getting stung.
The Great Molasses Flood's (one of my favorite things to inform people of) tank pressure problem is one of the more common problems posed in calculus books (at least here in the USA)
It's in some Hydro Dynamics books too. Who says 1st year Calculus isn't need in geography?
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I was in Boston in 2001, and was with a group of people who were taken by a tour guide to a particular point near the height of the flood where the brickwork and paving stones were original, in the height of summer, if you get down on your knees and put your nose close to the pavement you can still smell the molasses.
Pervert.
Smelling Mole Asses is not a good idea
If I was a tour guide I'd put a little molasses there every morning.
One of my favorite man made disasters is Lake Peigneur in Louisiana being changed from a 10 foot deep freshwater lake to a 200 foot deep brackish water lake because a Texaco drilling team drilled into a salt dome. Thankfully, no life was lost, but the event itself at the time was spectacular. The guys in the salt mine had a really exciting day getting out of the mine in front of the water filling the mine.
That was spectacular, everything in the lake went down in the mine. There is video of it, I remember seeing it on History Channel's Engineering Disasters, which used to be my favorite show. Lucky no one was killed.
@@Nefville I feel like mining companies are the true champs of killing their own employees, not the mistakes of other entities.
@@Nefville Modern Marvels: Engineering Disasters IV, I believe.
Imagine lit breaking a lake
@@Battledongus You don't have to imagine. There is footage of the results of this.
RE: Boston Molasses Flood. Yes, you could smell the molasses as late as the early '60's. As a youngster we often traveled through or to the North End and if it happened to be a hot, humid night the distinctive smell was very much in the air - even after 40+ years!
Fascinating! What sort of grounds was the scent strongest in, if you can remember? Pavement I would expect to hold it better than loose dirt because of water drainage, but efforts to repave roads, I would hope, would have happened multiple times during that span.
@@ace.l.w HAA! Not in Boston.
@@ace.l.w North End is pretty well solid road/concrete/building material. has been some repaving but still alot of material from that time. Since I was preteen at the time, I was fascinated by the history but wasn't really tracing where the scent was originating
Cement is very porous. It's logical that anywhere paved could still smell. Possibly even today if it got hot enough.
My ex-gf worked in the north end and in the 2010s when it got hot and humid out, you she could get a whiff of molasses.
During the confusion in Dublin, one man panicked and dove into a vat of whiskey.
Rescuers tried to save him, but he fought them off bravely.
😆 good one
When his body was cremated it burned for two weeks .
That's an old joke.....
Well done
Drink boys! Drink to save our fair city!
The molasses tank failed because it wasn't made to HALF its required strength standards. And it was overfilled. And it was in the process of failing for months beforehand.
I am 🙏 sorry.
Perhaps it was some financial, personal or social crisis that took too much attention away from most of us/them me you know GIGChi
I read this and was like how did they make a military tank to run in molasses? And I’ve heard of the molasses flood before lol
Makes sense for Boston.
But we can definitely trust companies to self-regulate when it comes to the stock market, economy, environment, worker rights, and more, right? lol
@@TheLoneTerran no that's why they are even pushing for equity to be equal no matter your skills now...... Chance you take in a free country! We need laws but not too much government, damn
To add to the molasses flood, the company knew the tank was old and needed repair, instead they just painted over it. The company knew the tank was a danger and did nothing. The flood could have easily been avoided. But once again corporate greed killed the innocent.
To corporation CEO'S and high up management. We are all just slave labor and sacrifices
The list, unfortunately, is longer and still growing. As long as greed trumps safety, it won’t end. 😢
@@joanhoffman3702 a very appropriate word/name to use directly after the word "greed"
@@cleverusername9369 Wow, TDS is real.
Typical corporate mentality. People are replaceable. Disgraceful
Around 1980 (+ or -) there was storm over Tehachapi California and the nearby Cement plant called Monolith. 70 miles away in the desert town of Lake Los Angeles it rained Cement. Coating everything, cars, houses and plants with wet cement. No deaths, but can you imagine cleaning two inches of cement off your car?
WOW!!!
Here's a good place to mention that SOME (not exactly "all") of the so-called "Star Jelly" incidents actually HAVE been connected to frogs, toads, and other amphibian and fish eggs likely drawn up from nearby bodies of water via water-spouts and then later deposited on sites even more than 100 miles away...
Look, I'm not here to launch or completely dispell and debunk any weird theories. Up front, I can't personally say that it's any kind of "absolutely conclusive"... BUT the evidence is there and has suggested such for at least some of these events. They ARE weird, and it's frequently worth our (commonfolk) time to take a chance to just stand for a moment of pure AWE at what's going on and what it could mean for our understanding (or the utter lack thereof) of the world and indeed the universe around us. It's even fun to theorize and study this kind of thing (freak occurrence) completely independently. At the same time, it's okay to stop and admit that whatever becomes the final consensus is quite likely "the actual truth"... at least, until something considerably more credible or conclusive is resolved. ;o)
I can certainly imagine not being able to clean two inches of cement off of my car.
@@DarkElfDiva exactly the comment I was going to make
See Arthur C. Clarkes' Mysterious World for some even weirder incidents.
When I first told me son about the Molasses Flood, he asked me why they didn’t call it the Mollassacre. I still don’t know what to think about that 😂😦
A Clever boy, be proud of him.
A glimmer of hope in the darkness of todays youth.
Your son has mastered dad jokes. Be proud.
kid is a genius hahahha simply brilliant kid is gonna go places in life 🤪😄😅🤣😂
He’s got a point.
You spoke of the fact that you recently found that molasses is the American word for treacle.
Conversely, I myself at the tender age of 65, discovered by watching your video (a few minutes ago) that treacle is the British word for molasses. I wonder how many other common words or colloquialisms with similar meaning but surprisingly different wording remain generally unknown to Yanks & Brits? Hard to quantify, I guess. Anyway, great video.
They’re actually different. Molasses isn’t as processed, and is black and thicker. The flavour is also somewhat different. It can be used as animal feed. Treacle is slightly more processed and dark brown and slightly runnier. It’s more commonly used in cooking. Golden syrup is one step down from treacle, and once again a lighter brown, slightly different taste, and slightly less viscous texture.
In Australia we differentiate molasses and treacle, but I saw in other comments in Britain molasses is sometimes called ‘black treacle’ which may be what confused Simon.
I had never heard of black treacle u till I googled "Are molasses and treacle the same". As mentioned, in Australia, treacle is something different again, but, according to Google, there is a difference, even between molasses and black treacle.
Fun fact: The awesomely named Deathstalker scorpion is called "el escorpión amarillo" in spanish. It means "the yellow scorpion"....which is a dissapointment if you were expecting something equally badass as it's english name.
EL ACOSADOR DE LA MUERTE
I need to stop binge-watching so many of your videos! I actually woke up from a dream last night in which I could hear your voice narrating it. I don't even remember the dream. You weren't actually in my dream. It was like I was listening to you do a cold-read of my dream. It was so bizarre and unsettling. And yet it's not gonna stop me from watching more videos.
Previous generations would instantly recognise the voices of Walter Cronkite, James Burke, or Clive James.
We have Simon Whistler, the Lock Picking Lawyer, Ian McCollum, and Tom Scott.
I've had the exact same dream situation hes not there but I can hear him narrating it lol I've since switched back to keralis from minecraft gaming for my laying in bed playlist fact boi is daytime only for me now lol
For anybody wanting a different kind of video on the molasses flood…I highly recommend the Puppet History vid on it. It’s brilliant.
I came here to say this as well!!:
@@graceburton3369 the song in that episode is so funny!
Four weeks ago I watched this video and saw your comment, and then searched for puppet history molasses flood. I have since watched every video and am distraught over the canonical loss of The Professor.
@@reshpeck how great is that series! I love the song is the molasses ep “I’m gonna liiiive forev💥💥💥”
"Zero died from the flood, 13 dead from alcohol poisoning". Lol, that disaster was Irish as they come.
The main reason for this was that it wasn't fully distilled drinking Alcohol, it was still way more potent than that. So the People were ingesting way more alcohol than they thought they were.
@@dyamonde9555 that's not how distilling works, distilling increases the alcohol content, and thus the potency. However, erroneoulsly or incompletely distilled alcohol contains both ethanol and methanol, the latter of which is extremely poisonous if ingested and will often cause blindness or death in relatively short order unless the sufferer is administered significant ammounts of ethanol as an antidote, as ethanol digestion is prioritized by the body over methanol processing,in which case the methanol is expelled through the urine.
@@SonsOfLorgar yeah, i have no idea how distilling works, so i might have misremembered the WHY of it. however, i am sure that the fact that the Alcohol in the Streets was for some reason far more potent than normal was correct. Somewhere else i saw someone say that at the end of the process it is normally diluted, and that was what hadn't happened yet.
@@SonsOfLorgar
So, to make sure that all methanol is liberated from the entirety of the finished product just run it through the distiller as many times as necessary? Or is there another method? Are the requirements for evaporation/distilling very different for both types of alcohol?
@@jerrypeppler1484 Methanol boils at a lower temperature, so in batch distillation, the first part of the run has most of the bad stuff and should be caught separately and discarded.
Honestly, at the start of the 'blobs' story, my first thought was that it could be fragments of jellyfish, but I was guessing that a waterspout / offshore tornado had been the cause of them becoming fragmented and airborne.
This was my thinking as well. Some jellyfish have venomous stingers, and the toxins could possibly explain the illnesses. Also explains the presence of eukaryotic cells.
@@stevec7923 You also have the stories of 'rains' of fish or frogs in various places which are probably caused by the same things. It sounds funny, but wouldn't have been to the people caught up in it.
Same here. With the just-right combination of repeat weather patterns, unusual jellyfish swarms, and optionally military drills, a particularly unlucky location could absolutely get repeat jellyfish blob rain. Repeating freak events can and do happen. I wonder if DNA testing could have verified the species.
Welp, its most likely half digested frog ovaries, which birds puke up, and they look lige a small clump of jelly, this city is just in the right distance from a lake ones used by flocks of migrating birds, and since most big migrating American bird flocks have died out, we dont experience this type of event anymore...
Im almost ready to bet my masters in biology that its frog ovaries...
That's far more likely than them being launched into the clouds by bombs. Unless the bombs were massive, I doubt they'd have enough energy to launch things that far.
It could be that a waterspout picked up the bits and pieces of a jellyfish swarm that got bombed, though.
I'm picturing people in Aswan freaking out over weather I've probably been casually out in, but they'd probably think we were wimps for not just dealing with the scorpions. It's strange how much people can get used to.
A flaming river of whiskey in Ireland? I'm shocked, shocked, I say.
The deaths from drinking the whisky are alleged to have been because it was high-proof stuff. Stronger than the stuff on sale in any bar.
THANK YOU for clearing up the treacle/molasses assumptions I so wrongly made in my mind. When I (an American) watch TV, I almost exclusively watch old British television From the context often given, I knew it was sticky syrupy, but I thought it was like caramel or maybe cajeta. We had the same, yet totally opposite experience haha1
They are slightly different.
@@patrickmccurry1563 Well don't leave us in suspense, what's the difference?! 🥺
@Adam Greene Thank you for that. Comprehensive and enlightening!
@Adam Greene so the same, just one cooks longer.
Green tea is still just black pekoe tea,just barely processed....
"A crate full of treacle fell all over Percy"
A friend of mine in College had a thing for Arachnids. Baboon Tarantulas, Trapdoor spiders, Emperor Scorpions.... and a Deathstalker.... he thought it was just a "cool" name. He later was told by another friend, "WHY THE %$#!, ARE PLAYING WITH THAT!", referencing the Deathstalker.... needless to say. He was damn lucky.
Just a bug and a weird friend. Sure why keep a spider or scorpion but we need them to do their thing in the wild...ugly as they are, they keep uglier things in check..lol Nature is not always pretty.
If handled correctly a scorpion is not likely to sting you. They need that venom to protect themselves and to capture food. I was in the desert at 29 Palms for three months and removed scorpions from people's barracks rooms daily. Never got stung, but bitten a few times.
@@tektrixter I get the feeling that a college kid who just thought it was a “cool name” probably wasn’t handling them correctly, though.
@@RubyBlueUwU You're really not in a position to judge, tbh. You have zero clue what that person was like other than they enjoyed handling venomous arachnids. And tbh, their handling of venomous arachnids means they probably have at least some knowledge of what safety standards they should abide by.
@@PlazDreamweaver You are assuming just as much as the other person. The only difference is that they are not being as charitable as you giving the benefit of the doubt.
oh my god.. ive always wanted to try treacle.. and here ive been watering my plants with it for years!
"The number of people that died from smoke inhalation and fire was zero."
Oh my God they're so lucky that nobody died from this!
"Number of people that died from drinking Whiskey 13."
Fucking christ with the Irish bro... deadass yall were so close...
The main issue was that whiskey is distilled very strong and then diluted (proofed, hence the term) before consumption.
To be sure, to be sure... :)
Oh hey, I grew up like 10 minutes from Oakville and that happened in my lifetime. I think I've heard it mentioned once but it was a strange surprise having a tiny town that I've driven through here and there show up on a list of mysteries and it being so recent to boot
@Ben B Artist I sure hope not. It's kind of unclear in all the reports how much of the stuff there really was. I was a toddler at the time so I obviously wouldn't remember, but my parents didn't even remember it happening. And I've got family that still lives there too.
My personal favourite man made disaster was the Birds Custard factory explosion in the uk, caused by the custard powder dust mixing with the air, and exploding with no warning, and just leaving a huge blast radius
Powder explosions used to be relatively common before modern safety engineering developed - usually in flour mills. My dad recalled a legendary paper mill dust explosion in his home town between the wars. Custard powder is a bit unusual though.
There was an explosion and fire at the MFA grain elevator in Columbia, Missouri, once - before my time, but my Pop (my mom's dad) mentioned it to me once when I was little. Any carbon-based dust can be extremely flammable, even explosive, if it accumulates enough under the right conditions. In fact, Rudolph Diesel's original internal combustion engine design - before he settled on the petroleum derivative that would bear his name - was powered by exploding coal dust!
Love Simon's videos. I listen to him before I sleep.
Decoding the Unknown is a good channel, as is Into the Shadows.
When Simon was describing As Wan with summers of 100 degrees and winters down to 47 all I could think was “huh, sounds like El Paso”. Then when he went on to describe a sand storm that turned into torrential rains that turned to hail; “yep, definitely sounds El Paso”. Only difference is it gets down into the teens at night during the winter.
Lol texas
Ah hell, the part of the UK i live in was 40*C + for a week last summer, and we occasionally get sahara dust blown over (my black car ends up orange). Living in or near actual deserts must be a real ballache for you guys.
I was so excited to see Oakville on here!! My mom grew up not too far from there, and so we heard about it all first-hand. And was a lot of WTF? Honestly, Washington has a LOT of these kinds of WTF situations...
Especially the west side of the state. Not to mention all the bigfoot, UFO, and ghost sightings. I am from Spokane we are a little more boring.
There's a reason Twin Peaks was filmed in this state
Drowning in treacle might be the most horrific thing I’ve ever heard, that sounds like one of the worst ways to go
Nothing better than opening UA-cam and seeing a freshly uploaded video from Simon ✨
Indeed
You should try sex dude, it comes close, but yeah you're right....
And I needed it today. Oh sweet distraction pour over me 😂
With his number of channels, it happens quite a lot!
You forgot to mention that the reason so many people died of alcohol
poisoning is that the spilled whiskey was undiluted and much stronger
than people were used to; I believe that it is stronger as it ages and
they dilute it before sale.
I've heard this story many times but only until it was explained that the whiskey was undiluted did I truly understand the death toll. Even if they were drinking a usual amount, ie what they were used to drinking, that would be fatal with the undiluted whiskey.
Whiskey is bottled at 160 to 185 proof. Double the strength of drinking whisky.
That's mostly correct. Whisky isn't diluted until it's bottled, but it is strongest when first put into the cask. The alcohol slowly evaporates as the whisky ages, which is called the Angel's Share, and can go from 85-90% alcohol when barreled to less than 60% when bottled, and is usually diluted even further to 40% or thereabouts.
One other thing, whisky is aged by the time it spent in the barrel. A whisky that spent 7 years in a barrel, then was bottled, sold and sat on a shelf for 30 years is still a 7 year old whisky.
Yes, I'm a whisky nerd.😀
@@r.awilliams9815 If you haven't already seen it, you may enjoy the Ken Loach film "The Angel's Share"
@@r.awilliams9815 We don't know how long this was in barrel; could be anywhere in that range. Good points, thanks.
Liked the scorpion story, same thing happen in Australia with flooding but with black widow spiders can’t remember if it was this year or last
So, just a normal day for you then?
@@suzi_mai LOL, yes, one black widow spider plague just blurs into the next...
Living near The Blue Mountains in greater western Sydney Australia. Bushfires are dangerous enough but when you see a literal wave of snakes, spiders and all sorts of horrors escaping the fire as it rages across the mountain covering footpaths and roads in a moving carpet or death.......will never sleep soundly again.
I'm Australian and for some reason know both molasses AND treacle. I seem to remember molasses being added to some animal feed. Weird but true.
They give it to horses. Can’t remember why but my mum used to have horses and she would pour a bit of molasses over the hay in the feed trough. Of course I would eat some as a kid lol.
I remember it being given straight to cows in the milk shed in NZ. PVC pipe was filled and had openings with large balls that they would lick 😂
Molasses is added to silage for cows--told to me by a Midwest farmer ...
7:06 that is about 1,19 ML. That's megalitre, not millilitre.
Or a whopping 1,19 million litres.
But 1,19 ML is shorter to pronounce. And if you ever need it, a hoghead is about 238 litre. Just a little less than 238½ actually.
Great video and info. Thank you
I live in the UK I always new it as Black Treacle and did not know it was called molasses until I was about sixty years old.
Dude, you have so many channels, I don't know how you do it! Seriously though, much admiration to you. You're one of my favorite UA-camrs. :)
Thank you, Simon. I haven't heard the science behind why that molasses tank burst other than that it wasn't strong enough. The explanation of the expansion of the fluid was great.
Thanks for the awesome work love it all so Thank You guys from Nz.
I can't imagine a more gruesome death than that of drowning in a sea of molasses. When you get to the pearly gates and St. Peter ask's "How did you die?" Would you really want to say by molasses?
Meh. There are far less dignified (and far more gruesome) ways to die than drowning in molasses.
I heard a story of a heroin addict that died from a brain aneurysm while sitting on his toilet, and wasn't discovered for weeks. Apparently, heroin can cause severe constipation. If that happened to me and I had that same conversation with St. Peter, I'd lie and tell him I drowned in molasses.
I think that one where you're sealed in between two small boats, covered in honey and milk, and force-fed honey and milk as long as you can still consume it, and slowly die due to bugs infesting you and you sitting in your own waste, causing massive infection, is worse. I think it's called scaphism.
This St. Peter guy sounds suspect. Why wouldn't he tell you how you died. There are spirits that have no clue how they died due to being sudden, random, without warning, etc... Are they supposed to answer the hell if I know?
Amber Kat
I looked up that word, you are correct.
I love your style of talking and the information is always first rate. i first heard of this story on mysteries at the museum presented by
Don Wildman, i love him too, very passionate about history. Well done!
I don't think you realize how big a bomb would have to be to get any material up into a weather system powerful enough to carry it anywhere! This explanation is ridiculous unless they were dropping MOABS or Nuclear bombs! In both cases any material would be vaporized, there would be no chunks.
Yeah that is a ridiculous stretch to say that *bombs* could launch jellyfish into the *clouds*
I thought from the get go military experiment. It has happened numerous times on similarly unsuspecting civilians. Such as the bacterial/ germ warfare attack in San Fran, for one; that's just one we know of think of how many there are classified that we don't. There are bound to be many others. Would explain the 6-time repetition, in the exact same area at the very least
Frog ovaries, getting puked up by migrating birds.
Water spouts would achieve what a nuke could do, without vaporizing the goo.
1:15 - Chapter 1 - The great molasses flood
4:05 - Chapter 2 - The deathstalker plague
6:50 - Chapter 3 - Dublin whiskey fire
10:10 - Chapter 4 - The oakville blobs
- Chapter 5 -
- Chapter 6 -
The force required to launch that much jellyfish into the air is immense. As in probably more than a nuke.
It is far more likely, if it was jellyfish, that it was something similar to when it rains fish or frogs, an extreme updraft.
A very good job and as usual, spot on commentary---
I had no idea what Treacle was until just now. Thank you.
I've never heard of treacle. Is it actually a different form of molasses. I know that molasses and sugar cane are kind of related. They along with corn syrup are used by most households as a form of sweetener,used for baking and cooking. Molasses and corn syrup are used also in the production of alcohol and sweetened drinks like soda pop and fruit juices.
That couch-surfing scorpions....I'd just burn my house down and move.
Treacle and Molasses aren't exactly the same thing. They kind of are, but not quite. During the process to make sugar, the juice is boiled to concentrate the sugar enough that it crystalizes. These crystals are removed to become Sugar, and the leftover stuff is boiled a little longer. pretty soon it's treacle of the varying grades, then if allowed to boil long enough it becomes molasses of it's own varying grades. Treacle is sweeter because it hasn't has quite as much sugar removed during boiling, molasses is more complex. You can use molasses in savory dishes when you wouldn't really want to use the sweeter treacle, things like sauces, glazes, marinades, and stews.
Wow 🤩 I just found this channel and it’s so brilliant I really enjoyed these stories I love learning and am definitely subscribing right now , thank you so much ☺️ xx
Good video 👍
Again great topic well done
Hi Simon, I like to binge watch your content across all your channels but the algorithms aren't too user friendly with autoplay. I was wondering if you'd consider making a playlist for the content of each channel.
@Amethyst of course I can, but it would be a lot more beneficial for Simon if he did it.
My Grand father told me about this episode. To this day, when walking through the are, you can still smell the sweet odor. It is an amazing experience. I love maolasses and in the summer it is a nice odor.
I found a death stalker in Afghanistan. It was about 3' in front of some PFC that was having to low crawl the perimeter for some reason. Probably saved his life lol. Sadly I squished it's tail picking it up so it was unable to win at insect UFC.
Been watching you now for a few years ever improving ,just great content an no bull , how you have grown 👏 enjoy it greatly watch your top ten always 😀 cheers Angie in Scotland
ah yes.... another channel for Simons collection
6:58 “My car gets forty rods to the hog’s head and that’s the way I likes it!” - Abe Simpson
A guy in my hometown emptied an entire lake, circa 300 million cubic meter of water. On the night between the 6th and 7th of June in 1796. Whole thing took around 4 hours.
how
@@KGH3000 , I’m right there with you…how?
Thank you for adding metrics! Now it's much more understandable!
❤
The hardest working man on UA-cam.
The fact it wasnt called the Boston Molassacre is the greatest tragedy here
2" of rain or 24" of snow.. Ehh. Thats nothing out of the norm.
For a region that has no rain year in and year out that can be quite concerning
I've been by the plaque in Boston that talks about the molasses flood. It's hard to put the height of the flood into perspective until you're standing there in person trying to imagine it. A two-story wall of molasses would have be a terrifying sight.
What I don't understand about molasses is, what do they do with the rest of the mole?
Budump bum tish. 🤣🤣🤣
never head of mole sauce?
The Blob Story... OMG Frightening!
Can you imagine living to the ripe old age of 78 only to snuffed out by a molasses tsunami?
Oh sweet Lord!
6:47 the idea that human beings consume a drink that can cause so much devastation is mind boggling even today.
My neighbour got my to try some rum last weekend and the first thing I said was it tasted like petrol 🤔
Many animal species given the chance will also feast on overripe fruits to the point of being tipsy. That's not a specific human trait.
@@ordinosaurs My freakishly intelligent childhood dog would do that intentionally. She'd knock down apples from out tree, then bury them. After waiting for them to rot/ferment, she'd dig them up and eat all at once getting rip roaring drunk. It took my parents a while to figure out WTH was going on.
@@ordinosaurs Dolphins chewing on Pufferfish to get high as well.
@@ordinosaurs I've heard something about elephants eating fermented fruit certainly.
Birds eating fermented cherries and trying to fly is hilarious!
Once upon a time three moles were climbing up their tunnel. The first mole says "I smell jelly!.
The second mole perked up his nose and said "Nooo, I smell syrup."
The third mole sniffed and shook his head. " All I smell is moleasses!"
Thank you so much for these informative and entertaining videos.
Just to remind everyone on the planet:
The word "unique" means only one of a thing.
There is no such thing as more or less unique. Only unique or not.
Thank you so very much for your videos!
I always enjoy watching these videos and I appreciate the time and work that t'chall spend.
T'chall ain't a word,neither. Thank you Simon!
I remembered the day those blobs landed in Washington state. I was on my way to the beach from Idaho when I saw it on my friends television. The first thing I thought thought of was Invasion of the Body Snatchers from the 70s
Similar but opposite, I had no idea what treacle was until you said it was molasses .
Same
Simon saying "hurra ken" is everything! 🌀
here's a real mystery for you Simon, do something on the mysterious disappearance of the other sock You know where you know without a doubt there were exactly 5 pairs of socks that went in but only 9 socks come out of the dryer. I suspect Tom Cruise has something to do with it. ... yes the actor.
it's the centafugal force that sends the one sock out to the other end of the universe for the one legged aliens 😂
@@kasahadragon9499 I like that, I imagine it makes more sense than Tom Cruise sneaking in, & all evil like stealing just the one sock,... but I don't know
That missing sock is in the washing machines discharge hose,it never makes it to the dryer. Are there still grown adults out there that don't know this?
@@TwistedRC clearly you have been fooled by Mr. Cruise, & his sinister hijinks. You keep telling yourself that it's just in the hose, keep telling yourself that Tom Cruise doesn't sneak into, not only your home, but worse your mud room, or laundry room, & with intention only the most perverse could understand, take from you a single sock.
@@natas3.14my KSG says nobody sneaks into my house. Despite the superpowers of a clearly superior human such as Cruise, I don't believe scientology has enough lawyers to plug all the bullet holes he would aquire attempting to pilfer my precious socks, especially in winter time.
In conclusion, I have ALL my socks.
Do you?
Nice vid 👍
The military knows nothing about the Oakville blobs because what really happened was a direct attack on one of the Old ones that had woken and was headed towards the coast. The reason it happened over 3 weeks because the old ones are difficult to kill and it required several attempts to finally send it back to the depths.
Simon, I would love to see you do a video on Megacryometeors. With lots of evidence of their existence, and history, with possible undiscovered formation processes; it would be a fascinating topic to discuss.
You forget the Lac-Memégantic train explosion. A runaway train of crude oil tanks rolled down a hill and explosed in the centre if the small town, burning alive 47 people.
I work at a hostel in Boston. When I can tell guests stories about the city, I always tell the Molasses Flood story, and I tell it in almost exactly the same way. It was trippy to hear haha
The great Molasses Flood, now that was a sticky situation. I'll see myself out.
Great episode! I only knew of the molasses incident because I’m from the Boston area.
I've heard of three of these. GG on finding the scorpion story. In fact my dad told me the story of the mollassas flood as a child. As for the scorpions, well we like to think our homes are safe, sterile sanctuaries that Mother Nature is not allowed in. Mother Nature agreed to no such arrangement and that day glared at the city of Aswan over her glasses and then let cry the scorpions of war on unsuspecting townsfolk.
A few corrections:
1) it's molasses, not mollassas. The word was on the screen like 16 times.
2) Why would Mother Nature wear glasses and not have natural perfect vision? Glasses aren't natural, kind of defeats the whole Mother Nature thing.
3) the quote is "cry 'havoc', and let slip the dogs of war," whatever you said about "let cry the scorpions of war" was just word salad. If you're going to quote Shakespeare, it would behoove you to get the quote right.
@@cleverusername9369 1. I have no idea why it ended up that way, tbh. To give another example of a spelling error I do all the time, I have to make conscious effort to remember that Protein breaks the I before E rule and I absolutely hate it. Worse, for some reason my browser has turned off spell check and I'm not sure where to turn it back on or how or why this happened.
2. It's an affectation on Mother Earth's part, a prop for the sake of emphasis. But I also have a strange philosophical hangup about the way our culture uses the word natural.
If human beings are animals and we make things, then how are those things not natural when a natural thing made them? Bunnies make burrows, we don't call those burrows artificial. You could also reverse this and argue there is nothing natural about a human being and there would be ample grounds for either viewpoint.
3. The entire point was to scramble the line to suit the circumstance, I was tired, hot and hungry and didn't look at what I was posting to make sure it was okay.
@@AnimeShinigami13 look for settings on your keyboard. A gear icon, 3 dots or lines usually!
@@AnimeShinigami13 I have to commend you for how gracious and courteous your response was. I would have told Mr Clever Name to F off. Your restraint is admirable.
@@roberttrimmier3276 some people are utter clods. I got stalked on the supervolcano video and harassed because I disagreed with ONE POINT in the entire video, that supervolcanoes were deadlier to us than a hypothetical alien invasion. It didn't matter that I cited a channel with a lot of research/science related street cred as my source. I had to repeatedly report all his responses to youtube to get him to leave me alone. I even went on twitter and begged Simon to intervene. >.< What good was being hostile going to do? And its not like it was coverage of the pro choice protests going on where people are at each other's throats over politics. Everyone here loves simon's videos and likes dark shit.
We need a deep drive into the Oakville blobs for Decoding the Unknown!
The claim of the north end of Boston smelling like molasses is true, it's cos there's a bunch of bakeries in the area that cook with the stuff... :P
I suspect you know about Charles Fort and his books. If not take a quick look. Love your videos.
This is his 9th video using the malsasses flood as an entry. He probably didn't even need a script for that part. 😅🤣
Storms often contain whirlwinds that you cannot see because they are hidden in the cold rain and wind. If a whirlwind passed over a pond it'd suck up the contents of the pond. The pondwater would mix in the rain and disappear. Pond weeds and mud would blow around and be mixed in with lots of other storm debris. But FROGS? They'd fall from the sky like magic.
OK so basically Simon did ALL the videos for this entire year back in December of last. Apparently in one sitting. The same burgundy jumper with the same stain on his right front flank.
I came here for the disasters but the molasses/treacle has blown my mind and made my year. I was blind and now I can see!!!!
I dont know what this channels even about anymore but i love the content anyway lol
dude how many channels do you have and how can you keep up? are you some kind of god?
Found this accidentally, it's brilliant love the narration
@1:37 I know there is some sort of "treacle tart" joke waiting to be made here...
I had heard about the molasses flood years ago on Drunk History, but thank you for so much more details!
Came here expecting to hear about the Boston Molasses Flood and the Dublin Whiskey Fire, was not disappointed!
thank you simon, i always wondered what treacle was.
I was born in 1961, and in the 1960s, mom and I went to Boston often. We visited the North End sometimes, and on hot, humid summer days, you could actually catch a faint whiff of molasses.