I know you’re reading this but you said you were gonna do the ping pong on your eyes and static noise, the gantzfeld experiment and you lied about doing it
@@jillianc7485 Mr. Goon sounds like a generic villain that gets introduced in the first few episodes of a show just to be used as a tool to show how powerful the main cast is.
Police: "So these three guys all disappeared in a middle of a boating trip, what do you think happened?" Coroner: "Have you ever watched Final Destination?"
I have a possible explanation regarding the “lost island” at 41:30. A lot of cartographers would put fake islands on their maps as a way of watermarking their work. If another cartographer created a map and included that island, the original artist would be able to point at the fake island and say “hey I made this island up, so I have proof that you stole my work.” I’m guessing it was a watermark that spiraled into a bigger lie
This probably is true as alot of cartographers up till the 18th century often just relied on other maps to plot their own map rather than actually doing their own research.
The "funny" thing about colossal squids is that an adult specimen has never actually been identified, which brings up the possibility that only adolescents specimens go to the surface once in a while and REALLY giant specimens are only found right at the bottom of the ocean.
@@100organicfreshmemes5 i think it is because some of the beaks we have found in the stomachs of sperm whales are bigger than any of the beaks we have found on any other specimens. So we know there are bigger ones but we havent actually seen them
I love that Wendi used a frilled shark as an example for a giant monster's face but they're actually 6ft long and I personally think they're look dumb as rocks and are adorable
Sure till one BITES you! Once THOSE teeth sink in good luck getting away! THAT is the craziest set of chompers I've ever seen, makes the mouth of a Boa look like a toothless old granny!
Weather is terrifying, but ESPECIALLY on the ocean. There’s an area where there’s literally no wind, just a completely dead zone of ocean, that’s doomed so many ships and crews. The idea of a completely still ocean is horrifying to me.
As an ocean-fearing environment enthusiast, it’s like ‘i know so much abt the ocean! i’ll do what i can to help it! from my couch! in my living room! fuck the ocean that shits wack!!!’
the sea helps the land and the atmosphere but absolutely nothing else, but our precious dirt is so important to us that we must help with a thing that tries to kill us anytime we go near it. Personally I am fascinated with the ocean and if somebody was to ask me if I had a fear of the sea I would say no, technically that would be incorrect because I am scared of the majority of the sea it’s just the shallow parts and the parts I can see with my own two eyes I do not fear
I think I like that better than "Massive Squid". Imagine being stranded and thinking "finally, land!" And you crawl onto it...but it's slimy and scaly and suddenly it's arisen out of the water and wailing at you.
When I was young growing up in a island in Greece, I would sit in a port at night fishing with my dad, looking at the Aegean. I was awestruck with the endless black sea at night and remember talking with my dad about those men, especially in ancient times, traveling the sea in wooden ships, days and nights, sailing to who knows where, and that they were the most courageous people in the history of humanity... Sea is frightening indeed
Obviously what happened to the Mary Celeste is that they were waylaid by pirates, ordered to use the lifeboat to board the pirates ship, and then before the pirates could search the Mary Celeste, they were attacked by a Kraken.
@@hegemonious Thats bullshit but I believe you. Because it was shown to me in a dream. I believe the one who showed it to me in the dream is in the room with us right now. I heard it whisper "trust me"
I got excited with the time theory and forgot to debunk some lighthouse theories lol. Short version: 1.) The idea that a (undetectable yet powerful) storm destroyed the west dock and dragged the men to sea is not supported because the east dock was in good condition with boxes stacked where as a storm strong enough to drag men to see would likely cause disarray and 2.) The theory that all three quickly ran outside to respond to an emergency before a wave swept them off the cliff is also not supported because of the shut doors within the house and courtyard, implying there was no rush. Furthermore, both theories are not supported by the presence of the jacket (they each only had one), as no one would step outside without wearing one in that weather. Especially if they had enough time to shut every door behind them.
I know you’re reading this but you said you were gonna do the ping pong on your eyes and static noise, the gantzfeld experiment and you lied about doing it
A comforting thought about what might be living deep in the ocean is that, if it lives really deep, like Mariana’s Trench deep, then it wouldn’t be able to reach the surface without dying, as it’s internal fluids would be at the same pressure as it’s natural habitat, meaning it would burst if it ever came close to the surface
idk, if I was swimming above the Marianas Trench and knew there was something big below me, I would be terrified regardless if it could reach me or not.
@@dolantrumf well at least you can safely swim around knowing no matter how strong it is It can never reach to you But it would probably be extremely freaky to just see a giant leviathan tentacle float up to you, being cut off by the water pressure
finally, someone who acknowledges this lmao. most deep sea creatures remain lethargic because its a lot harder to get sustainable energy. and like you said, if it does try to surface, if the organism has a swim bladder, it'll burst because the pressure change is too extreme.
I think it's important to mention that since this was posted, rogue waves have been proven true. A wave was measured by a deepwater research facility that was many times higher than the theoretical maximum size a wave could get, and would create enough pressure to break a steel-hulled ship in half. I specifically think this could've happened at the lighthouse, even if it wasn't what killed them
@@strawberrylotlizard rogue waves aren't like tsunamis, they can rise up, kick ass, and then just as suddenly sink back into the sea. it wouldn't necessarily ever make it to the shore, and even if it did, it wouldn't have the same effects as a tsunami would. this is even assuming someone on the shore was looking out at the exact right time to have seen it, if it did arrive at the shore at all. ultimately, jej9594 is right - the island would have broken up the wave no matter how big the wave was, preventing it from continuing on to the coast. we also have to remember that in weather conditions bad enough to produce a rogue wave, visibility would be atrocious. you'd be lucky if you could see ten feet in front of you, and i'm pretty sure the shore wasn't a mere ten feet away from the lighthouse. "close to the coast" is a very nebulous description, and being able to see the lighthouse from the shore doesn't really narrow down that exact distance either since a large, tall structure like a lighthouse would be visible for quite a distance out. so, hypothetically a rogue wave could have formed close to the lighthouse, smashed into the island and the dock, subsequently broken up, and never reached the mainland. then, because of poor visibility, even assuming someone was looking out at the lighthouse at the time, they would be very unlikely to notice or even see the wave form and strike. it's a very plausible hypothesis in my opinion, certainly more so than supernatural phenomena or ocean dwelling cryptids.
@@Darkfyyre so it grows up right before the island destroyed part of the island took the guys away and then disappeared without anybody noticing it on land less than a mile away
Something else to consider about the Mary Celeste, nowadays, when your ship is sinking, most people's first instinct is to hop into a lifeboat and bail. Back then it was a different story. Lifeboats were very dangerous, and helpless out in open ocean. Generally, people only got in lifeboats if they believed the ship was absolutely beyond saving, a final hail Mary. Even by 1912, people on Titanic were hesitant to get into the lifeboats at first. That's one of the reasons why so many were launched half full. They couldn't find anyone else willing to get in. The thought process was "why would I leave this big, safe, warm ocean liner to get into that dinky little rowboat?" Once it became clear that the ship was doomed, then people rushed into what little lifeboats that were left. There are many stories where ships begin to sink and send off the women and children in the lifeboats, only for the rough Seas to completely overtake the lifeboat and kill everyone. Meanwhile, the ship stays afloat long enough for rescue to arrive, and the only casualties came from attempting escape in the lifeboat. So for the crew of the Mary Celeste to not only get in the lifeboat in the first place, but also cut the rope, whatever it was they were facing must have been DIRE. Unless you are 100% absolutely sure your ship is completely beyond hope, the ship is safer than the lifeboats. At least, Pre-Titanic lifeboats. Modern lifeboats are safe.
What if a well timed explosion? Say the vessel just barely scraped over a sandbar or something right as there was an explosion making a gentle thud that wasn't really more than a nuisance but a horrendous noise that made it sound like the whole damn hull was being ripped apart.
@@joshuaroefs9279 Wouldn't the sailors check to make sure everything was alright before bailing, though? Jumping ship over a loud noise seems premature.
@@joshuaroefs9279 even if they did do this, they'd watch the ship from a distance for a while to see if it sinks before being like "huh I guess it wasn't that bad after all" and then row back to check They cut the lifeboat, yeah, but that doesn't mean they can't get back on the ship So the harmless but scary explosion explanation doesn't make sense
Literally had a heart attack I was like what are these freaks doing out there and then he went "it was used to measure the water level" and I was like oop. Well. Okay then.
For the missing island I’ve got a theory, maps nowadays have fake places that can be a whole village on the map that doesn’t actually exist, all so they can identify if someone’s copied righted their map. What’s to say that they didn’t do the same?
Referring to the Kaz 2, as someone who has jumped off the side of a 25' boat into a lake, without a life vest, as a joke.... I think people seriously underestimate just how fast small boats are, even at a low throttle. I almost died that day. Less than 10 seconds after jumping into the water, the boat was well out of my swimming range. Took about 45 seconds for my friend to slow down and turn the boat around. At that point, it would have taken me at least 15 minutes to swim that far. And then came the wakes. Hitting me in the face. Choking me. Pushing me farther away. Took them 45 seconds to turn around, and another 3 minutes to come back for me at a safe speed. By the time they reached me, I was so panicked I was about to go under. Now, I go out on the lake pretty often. I jump off the side of a stationery boat without a vest and tread water all the time for more than 3 minutes. But jumping off a moving boat is way different. I'll never do it again. Not even with a vest
Everything about the ocean is terrifying. I hate the idea of swimming in the abyss and seeing a shark emerge from the darkness towards me, or man-made structures sitting at the bottom, or a simple black void. It's all scary, yet amazing.
I was never scared of the ocean until my cousin let me join him for a short sailing trip in the deep ocean. we slowed down and he let me swim and I grabbed some goggles. I looked down expecting a world of stuff and instead I saw nothing, just black in every direction. I thought "yeah I guess that makes sense" but then the bottom shadow *moved* slightly and that would have been a massive creature so I just noped out of the water
I can't remember where I read this theory, but I recall someone saying that a likely explanation for the Mary Celeste is that a large vapor explosion happened in the lower decks, and the crew get on the lifeboat not to escape, but just to sit somewhere in open air without any fumes, basically being towed behind the ship while it aired out. The theory posited that they had every intention of returning to the ship, but the rope connecting the lifeboat snapped, and they drifted out into open water with no way to return to the Mary Celeste - hence them leaving their personal belongings behind. If that is what happened, I can't imagine how horrifying it must have been for the crew to watch helplessly as their ship drifted away from them and they were left to die of starvation out at sea. EDIT: also, I'm probably not the first to mention this, but the bloop has been explained. It was a massive ice shelf in the arctic breaking off and falling into the sea. The section that fell off was so huge that multiple hydrophones picked it up.
On the Mary Celeste, that makes sense. I figured it had something to do with the fumes from the alcohol as soon as I heard what the cargo was, though a rope snapping and being cut look noticeably different. On the Bloop... that's just what they want you to think lol. Do you really think they would tell us if they found Cthulu? All of the sailors on cargo vessels would quit immediately and we wouldn't be able to ship any goods! The arctic ice shelf just sounds too convenient an explanation, especially since it fits nicely in with global warming narratives🤔
Not sure if ice vibrates in the same way as a set of vocalisations do. Ice quakes are typically a series of sharp, creaking pops. The bloop is like a huge, long undulation and much less like a creaky pop.
When asked why he didn't want to serve on a submarine, a naval officer once answered: "There is a law of nature that says what goes up must always come down, but there's no such law of nature that says what goes down must always come up."
It's the fear of discovering a dead leviathan, by far larger than anything found before, with a bite mark through it's rotting flesh, from a creature much, much bigger.
@@pasqualecurry7773 I bet you're a conservative. Are you a conservative? (I say that because you seem to have totally missed that they were making a [very obvious] joke and instead used it to make a point. And as we all know, conservatives are notorious for having no sense of humor, so I thought that might be you)
@@idontwantahandlethough hell yeah. Trump and guns and God and all that. BIG conservative. I got a room where I used Ben Shapiro posters instead of wallpaper.
I heard a really good theory about the Mary Celest once, the ship stunk of alcohol and was carrying ethanol. If one of the barrels broke, the ship may have been full of noxious fumes. If the air on the ship was becoming intolerable due to the broken barrel, the captain and crew may have gone on a life boat simply to let the ship air out. the life boat would be tied to the ship so they culled pull themselves back after a few hours. If the rope was not properly secure, the life coat would not be able to catch back up with full sail ship. There was a missing life boat and a single rope trailing in the water behind the ship when it was found. 1 not coming undone might have doomed the entire crew of the Mary Celest.
wow i hate that, i can't imagine the fear and horror as you realise you're going to die. floating in the ocean, no food to eat and no water to drink even though you're surrounded by it. i also don't want to imagine being the dude who fucked up the knot lmao, what a fucking way to go
Huh. Sounds reasonable. There are of course a few concessions like it not being likely that the ENTIRE crew would pile into a single life boat and leave the ship without even a skeleton crew. Granted it could have just been a moment of high stupidity and confidence that nothing would go wrong. Also the rope being cut but i can see someone being crazy enough to do that and doom the whole crew and passengers.
I'm so glad to know that I'm not the only person terrified of the power of the ocean. It can just wipe out 300,000 people at once, or drag a ship to it's depths.
The thing about the islands disappearing is actually due to cartographic errors. Its was very commonplace back then to add little fakeouts on ones own maps to avoid people copying them. Things like fake little islands, inexistent roads or small mountains were added as a way to identify fake copies of said maps. This however worked too well and many maps are actually copies of copies of copies of very old maps that originally had said things. There are several examples and they are commonly referred to as "trap streets". Look up Agloe, New York
It might be that but there was a case of Sannikov Land, the island that disappeared in less then 100 years. Yeah, that was in Arctica and there are not mystical explanations of what could have happened to it, but nevertheless, it really disappeared.
Not just to avoid plagiarism but also sometimes cartographers didn't actually go to those places, they relied on second hand accounts from sailors and the likes, and either due to exaggeration or misidentification they added or removed zones. These are called phantom islands
For the Mary Celeste, what if the crew noticed that there was a large buildup of fumes from the alcohol? In that case, I could imagine the captain ordering everyone onto a lifeboat to wait until it either exploded or dissipated. Possibly, they decided to use only one lifeboat out of laziness or urgency, not wanting to bother with lowering and raising multiple boats. In their haste, they cut the rope, and intend to stay close to the ship, but somehow are unable to and end up drifting away.
Maybe the reason a rope was in the water was because someone dove in to grab their drifting lifeboat and pull them back to the ship after someone cut the rope like a dummy. They probably lost their grip on the rope and ended up watching their ship slowly sail away. Leaving them stranded
i was watching this with a friend, and he told me we’ve never even found an adult colossal squid before. we’ve only seen baby or adolescent ones, which is clear due to underdeveloped reproductive systems as well as remains of colossal squids being far larger than any we’ve discovered. with the adolescents being so enormous, it’s totally possible the myths of the kraken or other insanely large ocean creatures could’ve stemmed from something like an adult colossal squid, it’s pretty cool to think about
from Wikipedia "The first specimens were discovered and described in 1925. In 1981, an adult specimen was discovered, and in 2003 a second specimen was collected. Captured in 2007, the largest colossal squid weighed 495 kilograms (1,091 lb), and is now on display with a second specimen at the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa."
Hearing the story of the Celeste right after the mass hysteria iceberg has me thinking that the crew hallucinated something and just tried to jump ship.
DAILY FUN FACT! About the first ship, there IS a phenomenon that causes people to leave the boat. It's basically a bout of anxiety about being in the middle of the ocean, with no land on sight, that makes people get off the boat. Just like that. They don't care there's no land on sight, the anxiety of being in the middle of the ocean is such that they simply want out. They pack everything, leave everything neatly placed as if they were leaving the appartment they rented for the holidays, grab their stuff and exit the boat... In the middle of the ocean. And the worst thing is that they seem so calm and rational that there might be no way of telling beforehand, so you only find out when you wake up one day and find yourself alone in the boat. It happens even to experienced sailors, and it's pretty much the equivalent to the hallucinations that happen in the middle of snowstorms in extreme climates (the 8000m peaks, the south pole...) and that causes people to just untie themselves from lifelines and willingly wander off (and in the mountains, fall down) never to be seen again. Sooooo yeah...
I actually saw someone make an educated guess that the ethanol mixed with something else and created toxic fumes that might’ve been in someway harmful to the crew. Either way, they all definitely died in the lifeboat, be it from whatever happened on the ship or from a wave flipping the boat over and drowning them.
As someone that got certified as a scuba diver at 15 and did numerous dives on the continental drop off down in Mexico in the atlantic, it was life changing and awe inspiring looking into the black depths that looked as endless as it did beautiful. Yet the true terror was renting malfunctioning scuba gear.
Hell NO! deep dark water scares the crap outa me. And I live on a tiny island, surrounded by the North Sea with a long lineage of sea farimg men! I'll go in up to my crotch in CLEAR water and nothing more! Shudder
What scares me is the fact that stuff can actually exist in such a hostile environment. Makes me look weak with my dependance on sunlight, fresh water, air, steam summer sales....
To be fair, both of you would die if your roles were reversed. You would drown, and the sea creature would suffocate. They depend on literally always being submerged in water, whereas humans can be in the water for prolonged periods of time without much negative consequence.
i visited a museum in australia years ago while there was an octopus/sea creatures exhibition. they showed a taxidermy of this one giant octopus but the way they showed it was by putting it in a tall vertical glass box next to the staircase so they could show that this damn octopus has a length as long as a THREE FLOOR BUILDING… also that octopus taxidermy gives off such creepy vibe i literally got goosebumps. i even refused to look in its direction at all cost while using the stairs. hands down one of the scariest things ive ever come across in my life
@@guitqrr1ff im not sure maybe it might really be a squid like u said (the word for octopus and squid in my native tongue is the same thing so i always get confused lol)
32:52 just one small correction: The Lighthouse wasn't based on the Flannan Isles story but is based on a somewhat similar incident in the Smalls Lighthouse in 1801, which would be interesting enough for Wendigoon to cover :)
Imagine how confusing we land creatures are to ocean creatures. Giant squid: "Hey dude, did you know that that sandy dirt stuff at the bottom of the ocean actually goes ABOVE the water in some places? And weird creatures live on it and walk around on legs. For realz" Megladon: "We talked about lying for attention, Tim."
The fact that the American ship shot at and chased a sea monster is the most American thing I've ever heard makes me proud and brings a tear to me eye . Also makes me think of that south park meme I didn't hear no bell
@@johng8837 I was skating by the bay and Flo-Rida was performing when suddenly, he stopped to cultily yell U S A, U S A for a few minutes. This place is hell.
@@privateemail9755 Then move and stop complaining. You're literally complaining about your country on yt while North Koreans don't even know what internet is
44:37 - "The largest structure (Everest) on land can be buried in the ocean and we'd never know" To add to that: *Mount Everest CAME from the ocean.* The whole mountain range was pushed up from the sea floor by the collision of two continental plates. The highest point on earth was once at the bottom of the sea.
For me, the fear is mostly the sheer drop offs and holes. That instant decent into the abyss just grabs something in my soul and drags it down. I’m fairly certain if I accidentally swam over one I’d immediately die of a heart attack
When video games do this, a vase ocean with huge void cliffs that just cut off into a tremendous trench... My soul just doesn't let me be okay about it.. I shiver, I grimace, and I feel extremely on edge. Even if that game has 0 mechanics with the ocean and those void trenches.. and I am in full acknowledgement of that.. I still feel the same way...
Have you ever seen the Blue Holes of the Caribbean? Beautiful clear blue water, and then all of the sudden infinite darkness. If the Lusca exists, that's where it is.
Wendigoon: "-a sounding rod-" Me: "I know what that is!" W: "-a device used to measure water depth-" Me: "Oh that's... That's not what I was thinking of."
Well if it makes you feel better that part probably didn't happen. None of the original accounts mention those details and it doesn't really make sense that it would be included in an official logbook. The first time it's mentioned is 10 years after the event in a Hearst paper, not exactly a super reliable source..
Of all phobias, Thalassophobia is probably the most understandable to me. Every other phobia usually has some straightforward means of avoiding the fear response, but if you go out onto the open ocean, you do so with the knowledge that you are putting your life into the sea's hands. The power of the ocean is something you have to see to truly understand and believe. Just watching a video of it is not enough. Until you are on the deck of a ship and looking up to a wall of water as tall as high rise office building, you just don't get it. It is *awesome* in the most literal definition of that word. Even a colossal ship, like international cargo freighter, can be picked up and tossed around like a leaf if the seas are angry enough.
I’m surprised that you didn’t mention that one of the barrels of ethanol was knocked over. One of the sanest explanations I’ve seen proposed that the crew saw vapours rising and they assumed it was a fire. They got everyone in the lifeboat to see what would happen and in the rush a knot was tied poorly and they just drifted away to certain death
@@jordanfeltcher5134 Ethanol is highly flammable and explode-able. Since their ship was full of ethanol, maybe they left in such a hurry (and cut the rope) to prevent being blown up by the ship? After all, chances of being found on a lifeboat in the middle of an ocean are very low, but still significantly greater than being rescued from a burning ship.
@@jermadonson6552 Idk for sure, maybe the person who spotted the "smoke" was intoxicated and was so convinced of what he saw that he was able to convince his entire crew too? Who knows lol
Consider: all these ocean surface krakens went extinced when whale bone became the preferred structural material for corsets. We hunted all their food to the point where they didn't have enough to eat to maintain their size and strength, and they all died off. That's just my theory on why we don't see them anymore, but they're so clear in our historical records.
@@Crow_Mauler_ he might have found my old Instagram, but tbh anybody that doesn't know what pronouns are and gets their panties in a twist over weed isn't exactly on my short list of respected individuals.
Great video, I'd like to pitch in another sea monster story: The USS Stein, an American frigate, found scratches over around 8 percent of its sonar dome. Almost all of the scratches had within them small claws that were found to be similar to those found within the suckers of a giant squid. However, these claws were substantially larger than those of the giant squid's, which, if these claws hold similar proportions to the creature's body size, would point to an absolutely massive squid. I was unable to find exact numbers on claw length, but "way bigger than giant squid" is already too much.
Most likely a colossal squid, its a deep sea squid bigger then the giant squid, they tend to fight sperm whales a lot so you'll find scratch marks on them when they come up for air. Largest recorded colossal squid weighed 495kg(1,091 lbs) and was 13 meters long(43 feet) and thats just the largest one we've seen, there are definitely bigger ones.
The geology of the ocean floor is terrifying in it's scale. We have no real idea what a "really deep canyon" is. The Grand Canyon as well as Mount Everest are small fry compared to some of the features under the waves.
Me, an Irishman who lives by the ocean: Yeah, the ocean is scary, but I think Wendigoon is being a bit hyperbolic... 36:55 - THERE'S A 60FT WHAT IN THE WHERE NOW?
This is an amazing video ^^ I really got the chills from the Flannan Isle Lighthouse story. The way that the men heard storms and were terrified, when there weren't any storms, and imagined something coming out of the ocean, destroying the dock and shaking the lighthouse itself in the darkness...
Your monologue about WHY the ocean is so terrifying is spot on. My husband and I went to Grand Cayman for our honeymoon to swim with the stingrays. It's was beautiful crystal clear water about 15-20 feet deep at most. But about 100 yards away was an area where a bunch of waves were crashing. So my husband, being curious, swam over to take a closer look. He said what he saw was terrifying. Apparently that was where the ocean shelf was located and it was a sheer drop into black nothingness. The guide also told us that's where the sharks liked to hang out. Horrific.
Can we appreciate the fact that the last chapter is literally called "An Unhinged Rant about Ocean Monsters and why I hate the Ocean I hate it so much..."
full chapter name is An unhinged rant about ocean monsters and why I hate the ocean I hate it so much it hurts we have to get rid of it and that's just amazing
I'm scared of the ocean for a complete different reason, not because of the complete ambiguity and mystery surrounding it but because of the science and what we do know about it, since humans aren't designed or made to be underwater, the idea of diving into the ocean and just suddenly dying because of the various diving hazards like decompression and Delta P which is something that we do know but fail to consider scares me more than anything so it's cool to see your perspective about the ocean in a different way
I'm not really scared of the sharks and animals in the ocean. I'm just scared that it can be deep, dark and you cant touch the bottom like a swimming pool
Delta-P isn't a thing in nature really. It needs a small hole with lower pressure than the surrounding water. Pressure differentials don't last long in nature very often. Something something, abhors a vacuum. But yeah, in the context of industrial diving, Delta-P is fucking terrifying.
I've spent many years on the ocean as a Coast Guardsman In many aspects of search and rescue I can tell you things are far scarier than what is commonly known. It has kept me awake many nights.
You should make a Reddit post under “AMA” or “ask me anything” , to tell your stories , If you’re willing to of course, but I’ll keep an eye out for it incase you decide to :) we’d love to hear about it
I find it funny how I used to be so comfortable with the ocean as a kid, but now that I'm older I'm terrified of it. I'm so scared of deep bodies of water that aren't enclosed. If I can't see the bottom, who knows what's down there? uhggg chills
Paradoxical deep sea gigantism is actually a topic of ongoing study. Relatives of those cute little isopoda woodlice you might know as 'rolly pollies' grow to the size of small dogs in the deep ocean, and that's about approximate for the effect in general. The presently accepted duct-taped guess on the pit of unknowns is that bigger bodies are healthier in lower temperatures.
Wendigoon has the same vibe as an english professor i had in college who'd read the scriptures of various different religions just to have an understanding of them. absolute chads, the both of them
i feel u. had the best literature professor ever in the university, he created his own course, read ancient greek philosophy to us, we discussed time, space, cosmos, and we were encouraged to write our own poems, the weirder the better. had an absolute blast on his lessons. bless them
My high school religious studies teacher was like this (luckily!). We were technically a Christian school but not really in practice so religious studies meant learning about different cultures and understanding religious motivation. He always refused to tell us what he personally believed in. He was open and also extremely funny.
A possible theory for the berjama Island mystery is that it was a pumice raft. Pumice rocks are igneous rocks that form after a underwater volcano erupts molten rocks. They cool so quickly that gas is trapped inside, causing them to float. They also tend to clump together, forming a pumice raft, which can easily be mistaken for an island. It is the most common theory for the sandy island mystery as well. It was an ‘island’ part of French Polynesia that was discovered by a ship in the 1876. From there it was copied from map to map until the French sent a plane to see if the island actually existed, where it was first undiscovered. However, there findings weren’t well reported meaning google maps once displayed the imaginary island until 2012, when an Australian team was doing research in the area, noticed the island’s lack of existence and undiscovered it.
This is the most likely series of events that led to the abandonment of the Mary Celeste. The ship was carrying barrels of denatured alcohol and vapors from these barrels build up in an enclosed space over time and can lead to explosions. Briggs knew this and ordered the hatches to the cargo hold kept open to vent the fumes unless the ship encountered bad weather. However in the 2-3 weeks leading up to the ship being abandoned, the Mary Celeste encountered a number of storms and the cargo hold had to be kept closed. When the Mary Celeste passed through the storms and into fine weather again, one of the first things Briggs did was order the cargo hatches be opened to release the alcohol fumes. Briggs knew those fumes were reaching potentially dangerous levels because he wrote in the log book about a terrible creaking and groaning coming from the hold. But even after the hatches were opened, the noises got worse. The fumes from denatured alcohol can affect humans, causing dizziness, headache, difficulty breathing respiratory tract, drowsiness, nausea and convulsions. Briggs had his family with him, including his 2-year-old daughter and he knew that if the alcohol fumes could make an adult very sick, they could easily kill a small child. Also the terrible groaning from the Mary Celeste likely convinced Briggs that a large explosion may be imminent. He ordered the entire crew and his family into a single life boat and rowed to a safe distance, they took no supplies and no personal possessions because they believed they would be returning to the Mary Celeste once Briggs judged that the danger had passed. I don't know why they were unable to return to the ship, perhaps the lifeboat was damaged somehow or overturned by a large wave? But whatever happened it was sea monsters or aliens or even pirates. It was a tragic accident.
For them being unable to return to the boat, the best bet there would be some of the sales still open. If a gust of wind picks up when you’re in the row boat, the ship is taking off.
That’s what I believe happened based on what I’ve heard… the life boat would have been tied off to the Mary Celeste and it’s likely that the knot failed… I can’t imagine how sickening it must have been for the crew and family watching the Mary Celeste sailing away… even worse for the individual who tied the bad knot, stuck on the life boat, in a hopeless situation, with the party he doomed.
The Kass II I believe is a man overboard situation. When you fall off a sailboat without a ladder it’s very very hard to hop back on it. It’s possible they were swimming or something like that and the person who was supposed to stay on board jumped or fell off. This can be explained well by the “stop” on the GPS and then the slow drift. Maybe the fishing guy was the one that was supposed to stay on it and fell off. I saw a video of a group of people who suffered a similar fate but they were able to jump on each others shoulders and jump back on.
While this could be the case if they're all seasoned sailors they'd know better than to jump off a moving ship without a rope attached to them. You never go for a swim when your sail boat has its sails out. If one fell off the others wouldn't jump in after him, they'd take the boat back to the man that fell off. It's just so odd, so many factors.
I believe, with all my being, that THIS is the most profound and terrifying Tag-line to a documentary on the evolution of deep sea life that there ever will be produced
Ocean mysteries are my number one 'fearful fascination'. I have done a couple of open water ocean races (including across the Atlantic) and this has only deepened this uneasy/excited feeling. I love living by the sea on an island in the Baltic but also really respect it. Ocean mysteries and sailing also inspired me to write my first novel (The Octagon's Eight) and continue with the theme into the next book and hopefully beyond. I loved this video and you've gained a new subscriber!
the fact that that coroner came up with such a crazy intricate and specific theory about what happened to the kaz ii members is insane. im so used to them chalking up decapitated bodies as "suicide"
I would have thought a strong possibility would have been that one or more of the crew went for a swim and something occurred (medical problem, shark bite/jelly-fish sting etc.) Leading to the remaining crew attempting to enter the water to help only to drown or fall victim to whatever danger befell the others.
My ex boyfriend's grandfather was a marine biologist who worked for the US government. He said his grandfather never went into the ocean & feared it. That solidified to me, that there must be something in the ocean so terrifying that a grown man who studies it won't even go into it.
I've always found it interesting the idea of Lovecraft's eldritch abominations, and how they aren't so much evil more than they are just indifferent. And then I think about the ocean and nature as a whole and how it's the perfect embodiment of cosmic indifference. I guess it kinda makes sense why Lovecraft put Cthulhu under the waters of Earth's oceans, it was the perfect place for him.
I think the reason a lot of people are more scared of the ocean than space is because we know that things live in the ocean, so the chances of there being something whereever you look is a lot higher than in space
I watched a video of a scuba diver’s last moments as they succumb to nitrogen sickness and end up on the bottom of ocean because they were to confused to know how to get back up. I still think about it sometimes and it fills me with dread.
My dad has seen it up close and personal (but with a good ending). He was deep sea diving with two friends. All three very experienced. They were already at their max planned dive. All of a sudden one of them just starts diving deep, very fast, down the wall. My dad and his other friend go after him once they realize, going 20 ft deeper than planned. They brought the guy up after properly decompressing and whatnot, but afterwards ask him WTF he was thinking. And his friend said had no memory of doing that. All three responsible smart men with no history of something like that before or since. Deep sea is no joke.
DAILY FUN FACT: it's not only deep sea. There IS a phenomenon that causes people to leave the boat. It's basically a bout of anxiety about being in the middle of the ocean, with no land on sight, that makes people get off the boat. Just like that. They don't care there's no land on sight, the anxiety of being in the middle of the ocean is such that they simply want out. They pack everything, leave everything neatly placed as if they were leaving the appartment they rented for the holidays, grab their stuff and exit the boat... In the middle of the ocean. And the worst thing is that they seem so calm and rational that there might be no way of telling beforehand, so you only find out when you wake up one day and find yourself alone in the boat. It happens even to experienced sailors, and it's pretty much the equivalent to the hallucinations that happen in the middle of snowstorms in extreme climates (the 8000m peaks, the south pole...) and that causes people to just untie themselves from lifelines and willingly wander off (and in the mountains, fall down) never to be seen again. Sooooo yeah...
@@Cpt_Katsuragi It almost sounds similar to paradoxical undressing. You know not to get undressed in extreme cold, but people do it anyway when they are freezing to death. You could search for paradoxical undressing and see what are similar other topics or conditions.
I don't know what freaks me out more: being in the ocean underwater not able to see past a certain point because it's kinda blurry under there for us, OR BEING ABLE TO SEE EVERYTHING GOING ON IN THAT LIQUID HELLSCAPE
If you play subnautica and turn off the fog you can see the leviathan off in the distance just waiting for you to approach. Idk what's scarier, going around in the dark nkt knowing that if are there, or seeing them, and knowing that they are there.
i’ve been surfing one of the sharkiest areas of CA for most of my life and being able to see is wayyyy worse. clear days are safer bc the sharks are less likely to accidentally bite you but seeing a big ol shadow under you is SO freaky
Very well done and excellent balance of humor and kindness to victims. My little brother is a Deepwater helioarch welder, my dad was an astronaut and they were both terrified of the mystery facing them. I'm giggling as you said that, well done, sir, indeed.
im scottish and my dad is absolutely enthralled with the lighthouse story. He loves history, true crime/mysteries but isn't very convinced by paranormal stuff. He talks about mysteries and historical stuff pretty much every day for about 30 minutes when i come back from school. He was sitting there talking about the lighthouse for at least an hour and a half when i came home from school that day. Didn't know how to tell him i failed my maths test.
Given that the most out there part of the story aside from the disappearance - the logbook - was entirely made up by story magazines, its a bit hard to take the paranormal aspect seriously.
i remember myself in childhood, when we used to do family boat tours on the Black Sea, swimming around the vessel about 200-300 metres from the shore and i say to myself "hmm, i wonder what the sea bed looks like" and then looking and seeing the absolutely horrifying nothingness for however meters deep beneath me. i felt like at any point i would see a colossal gaping maw approaching me from below. truly, its as scary as its mesmerising to acknowledge the existence of something so vast yet so desolate at the same time on our planet. i thinks that was the moment i got thalassophobia.
The incident with the US Navy cruiser, "Stein," gave me the creeps. I first heard of that story, decades ago, from an old series, "Arthur C. Clarke's Mysterious World." There was also a story, from 1942, about a British transport being sunk by a German raider off the coast of South Africa. Some of the survivors of that British vessel, who were adrift on a wooden life raft, were attacked by a giant squid. Presumably, one man was dragged off the life raft by the giant squid and eaten by it. Another British seaman, who survived to tell the tale, bore scars left on his leg from where the squid's tentacle had grasped him. His mates held onto him so he wouldn't get dragged off the raft. The stories of "The Luska," which supposedly inhabit blue holes, gave me a few creeps, as well. Thanks, Wendigoon.
I live on the Gulf Coast of Florida so I have spent much of my life in and on the ocean. I love the ocean but I definitely have learned to respect it and understand people's fear. Years ago on a cruise I visited the Bahamas and a coral reef. I swam to the edge of the reef to where it opened up to open ocean. The Dropoff scene from Finding Nemo is the closest comparison, but does the feeling you get no justice. For the first time of being in the ocean did I feel truly scared and so small and insignificant. Just minutes before I was swimming with barracuda, rays, eels, sharks and a wide array of fish and was weary but not scared. But just floating on the edge of the abyss I realized just how tiny I am and can only imagine what we have yet to discover.
The ocean doesn't need anything paranormal to be a dangerous place. I don't have an unreasonable fear of it, but humans need oxygen, and we don't have gills, so that's a strike against it already in my opinion. The emptiness, pressures, temperatures, those are all pretty mind-boggling. Even with all the technology we have today, you're out there on your own if something goes wrong. Simply falling off a boat out there *can* be deadly. Things we need to survive, like fresh water and food, are surprisingly hard to get out there. I grew up sailing on catamarans (but smaller than the Kaz II). I enjoy sailing but I don't like being out of view of land. It's disorienting and uncomfortable. (I feel the same way in flat places like Illinois, to be fair. hahaha.) But how about them sperm whales, huh? A significant part of their diet are colossal squids. That's pretty badass. Colossal squids themselves eat smaller fish and squids (they've analyzed stomach contents and even caught colossal squid still latched onto a fish). But we can see from sperm whale scars that colossal squid are a snack that fights back.
I'm still waiting for the badass Sperm Whale vs Colossal Squid footage. The ocean is so big, the battle can happen anywhere from close to the surface all the way kilometres down the depth.
I think my favorite thing about these videos that you don't get from other "spooky stories" videos is that Wendigoon is not trying to scare you with the stories. He's just like, "Here's a cool story. Is it true? Probably not, but it's fun to pretend it is." and it's a refreshing take on the "spooky story" genre that I totally vibe with.
Exactly; it's one of the reasons why I love another of my favorite horror reading channels, Lazy Masquerade, so much. Lazy doesn't give much of a 'verdict' on whether or not a story or account is true, unless it's specifically a true crime episode, in which case he might toss out his own personal theories, he just presents them and leaves it up to the audience how much they believe it. It really adds to the immersion on stuff like accounts of cryptids or ghosts, because even if you don't believe in them, for a few minutes, they feel real
My favorite "ghost ship" story is without a doubt that of the Carroll A. Deering. Everything about it is perfect, I hope you end up covering it because we know a lot more about the journey itself and it greatly enhances the mystery.
Putting all this together with the stories of underwater megliths, cities and unidentified structures is also super creepy. I hope to see you do more stories on megaliths in general. You are so awesome!!
The sea's pretty scary. One time me and several buddies went out deep sea fishing and landed something on our rod that was rigged to catch big game. Fought a heavy and speedy fishy for an hour or so before it tired out and we started hauling it in. Strange stuff started happening when the rod made its way into its owners hands. The fish which was doing normal things a tired fish would do as it was pulled up, started panicking and attempted to shake off the hook. At the same time, the line stopped, started going straight down slowly and hastened till it eventually reached a point where the rod had to be pointed into the water just to keep it from breaking. Drag on the reel was maxed out and despite that, it stripped 300m+ worth of fishing line off the reel within 15 seconds. The way he described it was as if something reached out from within the depths and pulled that massive fish straight down into the abyss. He could feel the fish's desperate last few moments of struggle as that unrelenting monstrous downward pulling force stripped the final few meters of his line. To this day we have no clue what was capable of absolutely stripping a whole reel of line so quickly off a setup used to fish for big game like Goliath Groupers. We haven't been night fishing at that spot ever since that incident. A family member has been a sailor for years and I don't doubt this experience as a rare occurrence. Strange stuff goes on in the open seas. He's travelled almost all of the major sea routes over the decades, seen UAPs, weird stuff falling into the ocean from the skies, wild waves, and thick dense fog appearing out of nowhere that disrupts electronics. Ironically, he says the Bermuda Triangle isn't the place to worry about, its literally the entire ocean you have to be wary of.
@@cookiecraze1310 we've caught plenty sharks, this did not feel like it. was as if some great weight was suddenly attached to the other end and it started sinking straight down. no movement from that thing other than the struggling fish or he'd be able to tell.
Big Marlin pull fisherman to their death regularly. If you get the line wrapped around your arm bringing it in and it gets away from you it will drag you hundreds of feet down in seconds. You're not coming back from that. Sharks aren't the only big fish that eat little fish.
I've seen a video of people ice skating on a frozen lake that made similar sounds as the ice crackled under the skates. It's eerie but beautiful to hear (and not be the one on that lake, for sure)
@@area51l It's super scary when you're on the ice! The kind of scary where you laugh uncontrollably because that's all your body can come up with. (and it's not like there was any real reason to be worried, the ice was at least a foot or two thick, still super scary anyway!)
dude i haven't slept in 24 hours so I'm trying to power through my day and then his "BYE" jumpscared me so bad I got a sudden new burst of energy. So thanks actually.
I think that vapor explosion makes logical sense. Imagine a captain bringing his family on what he imagined to be a safe trip. But when these explosions started happening, had it been just himself and the crew maybe he would have stuck it out. But what if his wife started to panic, insisting that a bigger blast could cause all the barrels of ethanol to explode. This single thought consumes the captain and decides that their best bet would be to take a life boat with his navigation equipment and get to a coast that he thought they could get to. Only to get caught by the Kraken. Love your videos.
I've also heard that the denatured alcohol might have given off fumes that could have combusted. Essentially, the idea goes that the captain panicked, thought the ship was in great danger and had everyone bail out. The captains missing navigation tools seems to point towards a very sudden exit.
Something led the skipper to think they all had a better chance of making it through whatever was going on to take a lifeboat to the nearby Santa Maria Island, so he grabbed most of the ship's papers and his personal navigational equipment, and they piled into the boat and set out, and then some mishap overcame them in the boat. Easy for one of those smaller boats to be swamped, or capsized, or swept away from land long enough that the occupants die of exposure or lack of supplies. Understandable that it's an enduring mystery, but there are a number of very straightforward explanations for what happened.
@@don_5283 there were 4 lifeboats that can be joined together to hold more supplies though , and why cut the rope than untie it ? Easy explained is reaching
Fun and not scary ocean fact: several species of underwater creatures love being petted and playing with humans, and can form lifelong bonds with their favourite divers. Examples are moray eels and several kinds of sharks.
@VegetaOrAra You did it! You were negative for no reason! Good job! 🥇🎉Did it feel good? Do you feel powerful, knowing that you might have made someone’s day just that little bit worse? Is it rewarding, having the same goals and aspirations as a middle school bully?
@VegetaOrAra You weren’t, really. There’s weak evidence suggesting any dolphin has ever successfully raped a human being, not to mention how you were ascribing human morality to animal species. It’s like calling a lion a murderer because it hunts zebras. Even if it were true (it hasn’t been proven), you honestly expect the “just stating facts” defence to work? If someone were to comment “you’re going to die one day” and “humans are capable of murder” under unrelated posts about human kindness, they would still be a pathetic asswipe for trying to ruin a stranger’s day by reminding them of irrelevant, depressing shit that nobody can do anything about. Please go back to calling the children in your arithmetic class “doo-doo heads”.
@@yeowch1073 While Vegeta didn't have to bring up the negative content you kinda went worse than they did by basically calling them a bully and alluding to them being "A pathetic asswipe."
Firsthand experienced submechaniphobia snorkeling/scuba diving above a wrecked WWI ship in the Caribbean. I'd been so excited beforehand but as soon as I saw it so far below me in the dark green water, only half-visible and surrounded by complete darkness despite the wreck technically being "shallow," I think I nearly started crying. It was years ago but I still get tight in the chest when I think about seeing that thing- I was about ten at the time. Little bits of humanity marooned in the endless and uncaring sea... god, it really is terrifying.
See I think this is what I have...things submerged in water or really really big things in water! If I see a pic of a ship that's docked the sheer size of it makes my tongue go tingly 🤣 although someone said the fear of large objects is a separate thing.
About the second ghost ship. I’m a seasoned sailor and my sail has ripped just like what can be seen in the picture, it happens if the wind is hitting the sail from the wrong angle. Anyways here’s my theory: When travelling over longer distances it’s normal to hoist the sails and then you can go do whatever while waiting to reach your destination (assuming you have an autopilot for the rudder), most of the time sailing is very uneventful so this makes total sense. My guess is that they did this and went inside to make food and do whatever on their laptop, then the wind took a sudden turn and ripped the sail, the boat starts shaking a little and the ripped sail is making a very loud noise that is deafening everything else. They obviously panic and rush outside, one taking the rudder off autopilot to steer against the wind, the two others trying to fix the sail, a broken sail cannot just be rolled down, so many times you’ll have to go up to the mast to fix it manually. Then while the two people were out on deck trying to drag down the sail the long vertical part of the mast started swinging and hit them so they fell off because the last person were adjusting the course which makes the wind drag from another direction and therefore it’ll swing around. That’s where my theory ends, how the last person might’ve fallen off I have no idea, but maybe it was while trying to save the others. I’m almost certain however that the sail ripping from them not watching it in autopilot is the cause of this. Sorry if my English is bad my native language is Norwegian.
Dude, you're English is perfect, you don't even make the same mistakes as some ESL people do lol. I find it funny whenever I see that and then the person is speaking like perfect English. 🤣 You're doing a great job!
Your English is pretty good bro 😆 Your explanation was perfectly coherent, and it makes more sense than 3 men somehow Looney Tooning their way into open water lol
That’s why people who dive are advanced human beings they feel thrill for going deep into it and just looking around and probably feel zero fear towards it, crazy
I scuba dive often and have since I was a kid. My dad is really big into it so I grew up diving. I’m also a decently decorated swimmer. However....I am terrified of drowning. I do get some thrill from it...more the beauty than anything but the fear remains. Maybe because drowning is a higher risk for me because of my hobbies, but I definitely am not the “zero fear” guy. I can’t even watch someone drown in a movie or scenes where they come close to drowning...it really freaks me out. I don’t really think about it while I’m under tho...it’s much more likely to have issues because you aren’t breathing correctly or because you come to surface to quickly.
I understand *why* the ocean is scary, but the unknown and "impossible frontier" is what I love about it. I hope we find some spooky ass giant creatures in there someday. Also, can't forget it's where all life on land originated from, so it's technically the cradle of humanity.
I feel like this might be ridiculous but I’d rather go to space than in a submarine and I’m terrified of both! There’s something about the ocean. Space is like, vast nothingness. The ocean is the same but more compact and there’s big ass monsters in there lol
@@jordan11752 Space is a void where we're uncertain of other life even existing, much less bearing anything worth mention. The ocean is a void where we know that not only life exists, but it is far larger and more grotesque than anything that we were reasonably built to handle. Well, at least that's my take on it.
@kaizen To be fair that theory is a lot more believable and plausible than a theory about an almighty entity that snaps its fingers to create entire galaxies. So it's understandable for people to act like that theory is true.
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I know you’re reading this but you said you were gonna do the ping pong on your eyes and static noise, the gantzfeld experiment and you lied about doing it
You should make a video over Team Seas it’s a great fundraiser dad
Can u find me a rapping mermaid😂😂 ik u hate the ocean but if u show us a mermaid that can rap battle people im sure youd get millions of views lmao
@@JiosWrld im pretty sure thats fake it doesnt get you high or make you see things i heard it just makes u feel weird
Me: "I'll just stay on the land-"
Wendi: "THATS HOW THE OCEAN GETS YA"
huh, i prefer “mr.goon” but to each their own !
lol
@@jillianc7485 Mr. Goon sounds like a generic villain that gets introduced in the first few episodes of a show just to be used as a tool to show how powerful the main cast is.
@@owah or DR. Goon sounds better for a villain than mr.
@@user-qb9pf5jo6l I HAVE DEVELOPED A SUREFIRE WAY TO TAKE DOWN SPOOKY JESUS-
@@VagueNaming WHY IS SPOOKY JESUS SO FUNNY
Police: "So these three guys all disappeared in a middle of a boating trip, what do you think happened?"
Coroner: "Have you ever watched Final Destination?"
i had to think of that too xD
I was thinking the EXACT same thing, hahahaha
Lmdaoooo
Final Destination, but it turned into a slapstick somehow.
Sounds like Cthulhu is up to his old shenanigans again
Wendigoon I’m literally begging you to make this a series. The ocean fascinates me and nothing else on UA-cam compares to this quality
Demons and the ocean. Both to me are the unknown.
WE NEED THIS TO BE A SERIES
I totally agree!!
I agree 😏
Yes!!!
I have a possible explanation regarding the “lost island” at 41:30. A lot of cartographers would put fake islands on their maps as a way of watermarking their work. If another cartographer created a map and included that island, the original artist would be able to point at the fake island and say “hey I made this island up, so I have proof that you stole my work.” I’m guessing it was a watermark that spiraled into a bigger lie
This probably is true as alot of cartographers up till the 18th century often just relied on other maps to plot their own map rather than actually doing their own research.
Wow I just realized
It's literal mark, in the water, in the form of an island
@@alexfelton5299wow
That’s pretty solid ngl.
@@alexfelton5299 wow indeed
*List of Wendigoon fears:*
- Distorted human faces
- Deep bodies of water
- People who haven't yet subscribed
And anything that isn't giants
You forgot spooky Jesus stuff.
poor hygine too
non Hawaiian shirts
How about poor hygiene?
The "funny" thing about colossal squids is that an adult specimen has never actually been identified, which brings up the possibility that only adolescents specimens go to the surface once in a while and REALLY giant specimens are only found right at the bottom of the ocean.
How do we know all the ones found are adolescent if we've never found an adult?
@@100organicfreshmemes5 i think it is because some of the beaks we have found in the stomachs of sperm whales are bigger than any of the beaks we have found on any other specimens. So we know there are bigger ones but we havent actually seen them
@@100organicfreshmemes5 if its an adolescent fish or whatever, its probably because the reproductive organs aren't fully developed?
What the fuck. That’s terrifying, and to be fair, the Kraken could just be an adult colossal squid right?
What would they be eating at the bottom of the ocean though? Its not like theres bigger fish the deeper you go.
Wendigoon: "There were no signs of struggle."
Also Wendigoon: "The kraken did it."
*minimal damage*
It was Cthulhu
Or a very careful OCD kraken
Sirens?
@@cheezefan99 u ok
Nothing can struggle against a kraken
I love that Wendi used a frilled shark as an example for a giant monster's face but they're actually 6ft long and I personally think they're look dumb as rocks and are adorable
I was gonna say the same thing 😭 frilled sharks are so bbg I love them so much
Sure till one BITES you! Once THOSE teeth sink in good luck getting away! THAT is the craziest set of chompers I've ever seen, makes the mouth of a Boa look like a toothless old granny!
Most sharks are pretty cute ngl. No idea why ppl are so scared of them
@@JohnnyRocker023 For me? I just don't trust their smile....
I personally don’t find them that adorable, I am more of a carpet shark person, but I can absolutely see where you are coming from! ^^
Weather is terrifying, but ESPECIALLY on the ocean. There’s an area where there’s literally no wind, just a completely dead zone of ocean, that’s doomed so many ships and crews. The idea of a completely still ocean is horrifying to me.
imagine a completely still ocean, and then seeing ripples in the water. 🤣 just end me now chief. 😔
@@stealthycore That's just a Kraken taking his kids out for drive-through
Also known as the doldrums this perfectly still water can actually happen anywhere in the ocean for days at a time. It's not just a local phenomena
Calm belt moment
Yo, you ever hear of Evinrude?
The rest of UA-cam: "The sea is in trouble, we need to save it!"
Wendigoon: "The sea *is* the trouble, and nothing can save us."
💀💀
Virgin Environmentalist, versus Chad Cthulhu Fearer.
As an ocean-fearing environment enthusiast, it’s like ‘i know so much abt the ocean! i’ll do what i can to help it! from my couch! in my living room! fuck the ocean that shits wack!!!’
the sea helps the land and the atmosphere but absolutely nothing else, but our precious dirt is so important to us that we must help with a thing that tries to kill us anytime we go near it. Personally I am fascinated with the ocean and if somebody was to ask me if I had a fear of the sea I would say no, technically that would be incorrect because I am scared of the majority of the sea it’s just the shallow parts and the parts I can see with my own two eyes I do not fear
@@TheFoolish_Bear I feel you. I’m not scared of the sea. I’m just scared of what’s in the sea 😂
"Kraken" didn't even MEAN "giant squid monster" until fairly recently. Used to just be a big water monster, so big you'd mistake it for an island.
I think I like that better than "Massive Squid". Imagine being stranded and thinking "finally, land!" And you crawl onto it...but it's slimy and scaly and suddenly it's arisen out of the water and wailing at you.
Ohhh that's scary as hell
That makes a lot of sense. Clash of gods the “RELEASE THE KRAKEN” didn’t look like a squid but was massive.
😩
So it's the turtle with an island on it's back like in Eastern mythology. That's pretty awesome.
When I was young growing up in a island in Greece, I would sit in a port at night fishing with my dad, looking at the Aegean. I was awestruck with the endless black sea at night and remember talking with my dad about those men, especially in ancient times, traveling the sea in wooden ships, days and nights, sailing to who knows where, and that they were the most courageous people in the history of humanity...
Sea is frightening indeed
It’s the epitome of white excellency
@@corradocampo what does that have to do with anything bro 😂
Obviously what happened to the Mary Celeste is that they were waylaid by pirates, ordered to use the lifeboat to board the pirates ship, and then before the pirates could search the Mary Celeste, they were attacked by a Kraken.
Perfect theory
Pretty accurate, i was there, you just forgot to mention the sirens that drowned a few of us
Source? “trust me bro”
Right a kraken definitely
@@hegemonious Thats bullshit but I believe you. Because it was shown to me in a dream. I believe the one who showed it to me in the dream is in the room with us right now. I heard it whisper "trust me"
I got excited with the time theory and forgot to debunk some lighthouse theories lol. Short version: 1.) The idea that a (undetectable yet powerful) storm destroyed the west dock and dragged the men to sea is not supported because the east dock was in good condition with boxes stacked where as a storm strong enough to drag men to see would likely cause disarray and 2.) The theory that all three quickly ran outside to respond to an emergency before a wave swept them off the cliff is also not supported because of the shut doors within the house and courtyard, implying there was no rush. Furthermore, both theories are not supported by the presence of the jacket (they each only had one), as no one would step outside without wearing one in that weather. Especially if they had enough time to shut every door behind them.
I know you’re reading this but you said you were gonna do the ping pong on your eyes and static noise, the gantzfeld experiment and you lied about doing it
Glad to see this upload man. Love the channel since 20k subs. So glad to see you grow, god bless man
@@JiosWrld I don't think he lied, he might do it for another video.
@@WitchSon dude I think he fr lied. It’s been so long ago since he said it and still hasn’t done it.
@@JiosWrld lol people get busy, man.
There's probably a hundred other people begging for him to cover their own requests.
Just chill out lol
A comforting thought about what might be living deep in the ocean is that, if it lives really deep, like Mariana’s Trench deep, then it wouldn’t be able to reach the surface without dying, as it’s internal fluids would be at the same pressure as it’s natural habitat, meaning it would burst if it ever came close to the surface
idk, if I was swimming above the Marianas Trench and knew there was something big below me, I would be terrified regardless if it could reach me or not.
@@dolantrumf true, but it would still be less scary than if it could get you
@@dolantrumf well at least you can safely swim around knowing no matter how strong it is
It can never reach to you
But it would probably be extremely freaky to just see a giant leviathan tentacle float up to you, being cut off by the water pressure
finally, someone who acknowledges this lmao. most deep sea creatures remain lethargic because its a lot harder to get sustainable energy. and like you said, if it does try to surface, if the organism has a swim bladder, it'll burst because the pressure change is too extreme.
Maybe it doesn't want to come up. Maybe it brings things down to it
I think it's important to mention that since this was posted, rogue waves have been proven true. A wave was measured by a deepwater research facility that was many times higher than the theoretical maximum size a wave could get, and would create enough pressure to break a steel-hulled ship in half. I specifically think this could've happened at the lighthouse, even if it wasn't what killed them
But it stopped and showed no evidence right before the land? Since it was so close to the coast
@@strawberrylotlizardthe island would have broken up the wave
@@jej9594 not if it was real large, they still would of noticed it
@@strawberrylotlizard rogue waves aren't like tsunamis, they can rise up, kick ass, and then just as suddenly sink back into the sea. it wouldn't necessarily ever make it to the shore, and even if it did, it wouldn't have the same effects as a tsunami would. this is even assuming someone on the shore was looking out at the exact right time to have seen it, if it did arrive at the shore at all. ultimately, jej9594 is right - the island would have broken up the wave no matter how big the wave was, preventing it from continuing on to the coast. we also have to remember that in weather conditions bad enough to produce a rogue wave, visibility would be atrocious. you'd be lucky if you could see ten feet in front of you, and i'm pretty sure the shore wasn't a mere ten feet away from the lighthouse. "close to the coast" is a very nebulous description, and being able to see the lighthouse from the shore doesn't really narrow down that exact distance either since a large, tall structure like a lighthouse would be visible for quite a distance out.
so, hypothetically a rogue wave could have formed close to the lighthouse, smashed into the island and the dock, subsequently broken up, and never reached the mainland. then, because of poor visibility, even assuming someone was looking out at the lighthouse at the time, they would be very unlikely to notice or even see the wave form and strike. it's a very plausible hypothesis in my opinion, certainly more so than supernatural phenomena or ocean dwelling cryptids.
@@Darkfyyre so it grows up right before the island destroyed part of the island took the guys away and then disappeared without anybody noticing it on land less than a mile away
Something else to consider about the Mary Celeste, nowadays, when your ship is sinking, most people's first instinct is to hop into a lifeboat and bail. Back then it was a different story. Lifeboats were very dangerous, and helpless out in open ocean. Generally, people only got in lifeboats if they believed the ship was absolutely beyond saving, a final hail Mary. Even by 1912, people on Titanic were hesitant to get into the lifeboats at first. That's one of the reasons why so many were launched half full. They couldn't find anyone else willing to get in. The thought process was "why would I leave this big, safe, warm ocean liner to get into that dinky little rowboat?" Once it became clear that the ship was doomed, then people rushed into what little lifeboats that were left. There are many stories where ships begin to sink and send off the women and children in the lifeboats, only for the rough Seas to completely overtake the lifeboat and kill everyone. Meanwhile, the ship stays afloat long enough for rescue to arrive, and the only casualties came from attempting escape in the lifeboat. So for the crew of the Mary Celeste to not only get in the lifeboat in the first place, but also cut the rope, whatever it was they were facing must have been DIRE. Unless you are 100% absolutely sure your ship is completely beyond hope, the ship is safer than the lifeboats. At least, Pre-Titanic lifeboats. Modern lifeboats are safe.
What if a well timed explosion? Say the vessel just barely scraped over a sandbar or something right as there was an explosion making a gentle thud that wasn't really more than a nuisance but a horrendous noise that made it sound like the whole damn hull was being ripped apart.
@@joshuaroefs9279 Wouldn't the sailors check to make sure everything was alright before bailing, though? Jumping ship over a loud noise seems premature.
@@joshuaroefs9279 even if they did do this, they'd watch the ship from a distance for a while to see if it sinks before being like "huh I guess it wasn't that bad after all" and then row back to check
They cut the lifeboat, yeah, but that doesn't mean they can't get back on the ship
So the harmless but scary explosion explanation doesn't make sense
Interesting pov, but still I think the only reasonable explanation is Kraken.
@@Darkgun231 Plus if there was scrape over a sandbar wouldn't it tip over the open ink containers? same with the kraken theory
Scariest thing i’ve ever heard:
“there was a sounding rod just laying there”
😭😭😭
“There was a sounding rod”
YO?!?!?!?
“Theyre used to mesire the amount of water”
oh.
Literally had a heart attack I was like what are these freaks doing out there and then he went "it was used to measure the water level" and I was like oop. Well. Okay then.
Urethra
@@B_H_Jvery insightful
For the missing island I’ve got a theory, maps nowadays have fake places that can be a whole village on the map that doesn’t actually exist, all so they can identify if someone’s copied righted their map. What’s to say that they didn’t do the same?
Papertowns, crazy concept , amazing book.
how greedy do you have to be to copyright your maps
@@kybx4337 do you know how much work goes into charting a map?
@@joystick2212 no 😳😂 but I mean why don’t just do it for the purpose of helping instead of a profit
@@kybx4337 we live in a society
Referring to the Kaz 2, as someone who has jumped off the side of a 25' boat into a lake, without a life vest, as a joke.... I think people seriously underestimate just how fast small boats are, even at a low throttle.
I almost died that day.
Less than 10 seconds after jumping into the water, the boat was well out of my swimming range.
Took about 45 seconds for my friend to slow down and turn the boat around. At that point, it would have taken me at least 15 minutes to swim that far.
And then came the wakes. Hitting me in the face. Choking me. Pushing me farther away.
Took them 45 seconds to turn around, and another 3 minutes to come back for me at a safe speed. By the time they reached me, I was so panicked I was about to go under.
Now, I go out on the lake pretty often. I jump off the side of a stationery boat without a vest and tread water all the time for more than 3 minutes.
But jumping off a moving boat is way different. I'll never do it again. Not even with a vest
Everything about the ocean is terrifying. I hate the idea of swimming in the abyss and seeing a shark emerge from the darkness towards me, or man-made structures sitting at the bottom, or a simple black void. It's all scary, yet amazing.
i’ve watched videos of manmade structures in deep sea and it freaked me out so bad i realised i had thalassophobia 😒
@@lesbianslipknotfan "It's not paranoia, when they ARE out to get you"
Similarly, it's not really a phobia, if the fear is justified.
I was never scared of the ocean until my cousin let me join him for a short sailing trip in the deep ocean. we slowed down and he let me swim and I grabbed some goggles. I looked down expecting a world of stuff and instead I saw nothing, just black in every direction. I thought "yeah I guess that makes sense" but then the bottom shadow *moved* slightly and that would have been a massive creature so I just noped out of the water
@@pirig-gal that's a nice cope
@@Calendator I'm not the type of person to call myself "-phobic" if my fear is neither overwhelming, nor irrational.
I can't remember where I read this theory, but I recall someone saying that a likely explanation for the Mary Celeste is that a large vapor explosion happened in the lower decks, and the crew get on the lifeboat not to escape, but just to sit somewhere in open air without any fumes, basically being towed behind the ship while it aired out. The theory posited that they had every intention of returning to the ship, but the rope connecting the lifeboat snapped, and they drifted out into open water with no way to return to the Mary Celeste - hence them leaving their personal belongings behind. If that is what happened, I can't imagine how horrifying it must have been for the crew to watch helplessly as their ship drifted away from them and they were left to die of starvation out at sea.
EDIT: also, I'm probably not the first to mention this, but the bloop has been explained. It was a massive ice shelf in the arctic breaking off and falling into the sea. The section that fell off was so huge that multiple hydrophones picked it up.
On the Mary Celeste, that makes sense. I figured it had something to do with the fumes from the alcohol as soon as I heard what the cargo was, though a rope snapping and being cut look noticeably different. On the Bloop... that's just what they want you to think lol. Do you really think they would tell us if they found Cthulu? All of the sailors on cargo vessels would quit immediately and we wouldn't be able to ship any goods! The arctic ice shelf just sounds too convenient an explanation, especially since it fits nicely in with global warming narratives🤔
Climate change: the spookiest monster of all
Not sure if ice vibrates in the same way as a set of vocalisations do. Ice quakes are typically a series of sharp, creaking pops. The bloop is like a huge, long undulation and much less like a creaky pop.
@@badbuddha93 yeah the guy has gotten confused the bloop was ice rubbing together not breaking
No one knows what the bloop was. There is speculation but nothing more. I wouldn't put it past military shenanigans or who knows what.
When asked why he didn't want to serve on a submarine, a naval officer once answered:
"There is a law of nature that says what goes up must always come down, but there's no such law of nature that says what goes down must always come up."
That's the most beautiful "fawk that" I've ever heard
Goes hard
Key rules on submarines include keep the water out of the people tank and keep the number of surface greater or equal to the number of dives.
If only the ocean gate people knew that
holy shit
Wendigoon: "Hey, do you have a phobia of the ocean?"
Me: "No..."
Wendigoon: "Would you like to?"
Me: "No, I don't think I will"
Reminds me of Subnautica meme lol
It's the fear of discovering a dead leviathan, by far larger than anything found before, with a bite mark through it's rotting flesh, from a creature much, much bigger.
“There’s always a bigger fish”
Horrifying thanks
Why
I will never go in the ocean again. Thanks for that 👍🏻
There is always something bigger
"there was also something known as a sounding rod laying on the deck"
**unspeakable visions of pain and horrifying intrigue**
Yes that word is also completely ruined for me as well
I’m glad I’m not the only one who shuddered when he said that
literally went down to the comments to look for this
I should never go on Reddit at 2 am ever again
If y’all don’t mind me asking, what’s wrong with the sounding rod?
British: By Jove, we barely escape a sea horrors grasp.
American: So anyway I started blastin
I died laughing at this
british: "the sea monster nearly destroyed our ship"
american: *"use a gun. and if that don't work... use more gun!"*
So, let it attack the ship or try to do something about it? Hmm.
@@pasqualecurry7773 I bet you're a conservative. Are you a conservative?
(I say that because you seem to have totally missed that they were making a [very obvious] joke and instead used it to make a point. And as we all know, conservatives are notorious for having no sense of humor, so I thought that might be you)
@@idontwantahandlethough hell yeah. Trump and guns and God and all that. BIG conservative. I got a room where I used Ben Shapiro posters instead of wallpaper.
Q: "What is a 60 foot crocodile doing off the coast of Ireland...?"
A: "Anything it wants to."
Facts.
I heard a really good theory about the Mary Celest once, the ship stunk of alcohol and was carrying ethanol. If one of the barrels broke, the ship may have been full of noxious fumes. If the air on the ship was becoming intolerable due to the broken barrel, the captain and crew may have gone on a life boat simply to let the ship air out. the life boat would be tied to the ship so they culled pull themselves back after a few hours. If the rope was not properly secure, the life coat would not be able to catch back up with full sail ship. There was a missing life boat and a single rope trailing in the water behind the ship when it was found. 1 not coming undone might have doomed the entire crew of the Mary Celest.
This makes way too much sense
@@sting-e4494 There is a Maritime Horror episode that describes this theory too.
wow i hate that, i can't imagine the fear and horror as you realise you're going to die. floating in the ocean, no food to eat and no water to drink even though you're surrounded by it. i also don't want to imagine being the dude who fucked up the knot lmao, what a fucking way to go
Huh. Sounds reasonable. There are of course a few concessions like it not being likely that the ENTIRE crew would pile into a single life boat and leave the ship without even a skeleton crew. Granted it could have just been a moment of high stupidity and confidence that nothing would go wrong. Also the rope being cut but i can see someone being crazy enough to do that and doom the whole crew and passengers.
@@liyre4189 That guys the first one that's gonna get eaten.
I'm so glad to know that I'm not the only person terrified of the power of the ocean. It can just wipe out 300,000 people at once, or drag a ship to it's depths.
Not to mention all the horrifying things living in it, especially those abominations from the abyss.
No it can’t
im with you homie. talassophobia so powerful i couldn't even finish the first mission in Subnautica
@@radium_habit6869 which are?
I mean, even if you dropped the entirety of the population into the ocean, we'd get wiped anyway..
The thing about the islands disappearing is actually due to cartographic errors. Its was very commonplace back then to add little fakeouts on ones own maps to avoid people copying them. Things like fake little islands, inexistent roads or small mountains were added as a way to identify fake copies of said maps. This however worked too well and many maps are actually copies of copies of copies of very old maps that originally had said things. There are several examples and they are commonly referred to as "trap streets". Look up Agloe, New York
Wow that’s so interesting! This is one of the reasons why I love this channel, not only is Win informative but the commenters are as well.
It might be that but there was a case of Sannikov Land, the island that disappeared in less then 100 years. Yeah, that was in Arctica and there are not mystical explanations of what could have happened to it, but nevertheless, it really disappeared.
They’re also called paper towns. Sometimes they would add a town name and it would just be like a drug store
Precisely. Not to mention tectonic activity as a culprit being extremely probable. This is honestly not even a debated question anymore.
Not just to avoid plagiarism but also sometimes cartographers didn't actually go to those places, they relied on second hand accounts from sailors and the likes, and either due to exaggeration or misidentification they added or removed zones. These are called phantom islands
For the Mary Celeste, what if the crew noticed that there was a large buildup of fumes from the alcohol? In that case, I could imagine the captain ordering everyone onto a lifeboat to wait until it either exploded or dissipated. Possibly, they decided to use only one lifeboat out of laziness or urgency, not wanting to bother with lowering and raising multiple boats. In their haste, they cut the rope, and intend to stay close to the ship, but somehow are unable to and end up drifting away.
Maybe the reason a rope was in the water was because someone dove in to grab their drifting lifeboat and pull them back to the ship after someone cut the rope like a dummy. They probably lost their grip on the rope and ended up watching their ship slowly sail away. Leaving them stranded
that actually makes a lot of sense
The theory I saw on another channel is that the baby was dying from the fumes because she was so small.
@@Badficwriterokay but what does that have to do with the disappearance of everyone on the ship?
@@MrThickDickit could have rushed their process of getting off the ship quicker if they thought the baby was in peril
i was watching this with a friend, and he told me we’ve never even found an adult colossal squid before. we’ve only seen baby or adolescent ones, which is clear due to underdeveloped reproductive systems as well as remains of colossal squids being far larger than any we’ve discovered. with the adolescents being so enormous, it’s totally possible the myths of the kraken or other insanely large ocean creatures could’ve stemmed from something like an adult colossal squid, it’s pretty cool to think about
This is so interesting!! I didn’t know that we’ve never found an adult before and that’s honestly scary to think of.
@@ES-ix6ll especially when you consider that the juveniles are about 30 feet in length.
from Wikipedia
"The first specimens were discovered and described in 1925. In 1981, an adult specimen was discovered, and in 2003 a second specimen was collected. Captured in 2007, the largest colossal squid weighed 495 kilograms (1,091 lb), and is now on display with a second specimen at the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa."
@@LegoAlex99 Party pooper
@@JohnSmith-gr3pq sorry I love facts 👽
nobody gonna talk about how the judge for the mary celeste trial was named fuckin judge FLOOD
Bruh! I kept waiting for him to acknowledge that... a quick dad joke... SOMETHING. Haha
nominative determinism
@@negligent_omnicide the mary celeste has too many sea related puns to be real but it actually is
It would be the funniest thing if he specialised exclusively in water related cases. 😂
Hearing the story of the Celeste right after the mass hysteria iceberg has me thinking that the crew hallucinated something and just tried to jump ship.
DAILY FUN FACT! About the first ship, there IS a phenomenon that causes people to leave the boat. It's basically a bout of anxiety about being in the middle of the ocean, with no land on sight, that makes people get off the boat. Just like that. They don't care there's no land on sight, the anxiety of being in the middle of the ocean is such that they simply want out. They pack everything, leave everything neatly placed as if they were leaving the appartment they rented for the holidays, grab their stuff and exit the boat... In the middle of the ocean. And the worst thing is that they seem so calm and rational that there might be no way of telling beforehand, so you only find out when you wake up one day and find yourself alone in the boat. It happens even to experienced sailors, and it's pretty much the equivalent to the hallucinations that happen in the middle of snowstorms in extreme climates (the 8000m peaks, the south pole...) and that causes people to just untie themselves from lifelines and willingly wander off (and in the mountains, fall down) never to be seen again.
Sooooo yeah...
I actually saw someone make an educated guess that the ethanol mixed with something else and created toxic fumes that might’ve been in someway harmful to the crew. Either way, they all definitely died in the lifeboat, be it from whatever happened on the ship or from a wave flipping the boat over and drowning them.
@@Maatkara1000 The fumes definitely wouldn't help
@@Maatkara1000 do you know what the phenomenon is called?
@@badmonkey2468 seconding this, would be great to read on it more.
describing the ocean as "the one unknowable consequence of this world" is the hardest thing i've ever heard
As someone that got certified as a scuba diver at 15 and did numerous dives on the continental drop off down in Mexico in the atlantic, it was life changing and awe inspiring looking into the black depths that looked as endless as it did beautiful. Yet the true terror was renting malfunctioning scuba gear.
That does sound super awesome. Except the gear prob
I think worrying about the Humboldt's would be the top of my list down in that area!
You got that call of the deep or something? Go down there bro 😅
PADI?
Hell NO! deep dark water scares the crap outa me. And I live on a tiny island, surrounded by the North Sea with a long lineage of sea farimg men! I'll go in up to my crotch in CLEAR water and nothing more! Shudder
What scares me is the fact that stuff can actually exist in such a hostile environment. Makes me look weak with my dependance on sunlight, fresh water, air, steam summer sales....
Those sea monsters may be able to take our lives, but they'll never get our sweet, sweet steam savings!!
To be fair, both of you would die if your roles were reversed. You would drown, and the sea creature would suffocate. They depend on literally always being submerged in water, whereas humans can be in the water for prolonged periods of time without much negative consequence.
Dependance on Steam summer sales....
I can relate to that so hard
@@gandalf_thegrey same af lol
Extremophiles for the win! Ahaha, I get what you mean, though.
i visited a museum in australia years ago while there was an octopus/sea creatures exhibition. they showed a taxidermy of this one giant octopus but the way they showed it was by putting it in a tall vertical glass box next to the staircase so they could show that this damn octopus has a length as long as a THREE FLOOR BUILDING… also that octopus taxidermy gives off such creepy vibe i literally got goosebumps. i even refused to look in its direction at all cost while using the stairs. hands down one of the scariest things ive ever come across in my life
Jeez, they can grow tjat big???
@@Romourus no. op is talking about giant squids, or colossal squids. the largest octopus (giant Pacific octopus) is barely as big as a person.
@@guitqrr1ff im not sure maybe it might really be a squid like u said (the word for octopus and squid in my native tongue is the same thing so i always get confused lol)
The museum you’re talking about is in Adelaide in South Australia. It’s definitely a cool display
@@tehidiotboys3010 yuppp its adelaide
32:52 just one small correction: The Lighthouse wasn't based on the Flannan Isles story but is based on a somewhat similar incident in the Smalls Lighthouse in 1801, which would be interesting enough for Wendigoon to cover :)
I love that movie sm
I don't know why but I'm so proud of this guy for his youtube journey.
Right like I’m rooting for him so hard 😭❤️
Because we were here so long we saw him grow up like a smol baby
I've been here since his My Chemical Romance video. He's grown like CRAZY since then, and I'm glad I got to see it.
I generally just like his laid back content style, the conedy isnt overdone or annoying. He also just presents himself as very down to earth.
He is so likeable and genuine. And makes awesome content. He deserves it all.
Imagine how confusing we land creatures are to ocean creatures.
Giant squid: "Hey dude, did you know that that sandy dirt stuff at the bottom of the ocean actually goes ABOVE the water in some places? And weird creatures live on it and walk around on legs. For realz"
Megladon: "We talked about lying for attention, Tim."
Biologically speaking, tim is fucked.
@@samuraidoge7284 Tim has it coming
I don't want to be that guy...but...hnngghh...it's Megalodon
@@herrschmidt5477 He's actually a squid. Thats just his name. It's uhh...French.
Fuckin' Tim...
The fact that the American ship shot at and chased a sea monster is the most American thing I've ever heard makes me proud and brings a tear to me eye . Also makes me think of that south park meme I didn't hear no bell
U S A. U S A. U S A.
@@johng8837 I was skating by the bay and Flo-Rida was performing when suddenly, he stopped to cultily yell U S A, U S A for a few minutes. This place is hell.
@@privateemail9755 what?
@@privateemail9755 Um, what the fuck?
@@privateemail9755 Then move and stop complaining. You're literally complaining about your country on yt while North Koreans don't even know what internet is
I’m so happy I never heard of you before a week ago so I can watch all of your 3 hour videos non stop. This channel is so good man.
44:37 - "The largest structure (Everest) on land can be buried in the ocean and we'd never know"
To add to that: *Mount Everest CAME from the ocean.* The whole mountain range was pushed up from the sea floor by the collision of two continental plates. The highest point on earth was once at the bottom of the sea.
Every landmass "came from the ocean"
That is....wow
The virgin mount verest vs the chad Marianas trench
Still...I'm pretty sure every single piece of landmass may have once come from the ocean
yeah...that's literally how every land mass & mountain has made. doesn't make it scary just because you don't understand it.
For me, the fear is mostly the sheer drop offs and holes. That instant decent into the abyss just grabs something in my soul and drags it down. I’m fairly certain if I accidentally swam over one I’d immediately die of a heart attack
Accurate af
When video games do this, a vase ocean with huge void cliffs that just cut off into a tremendous trench...
My soul just doesn't let me be okay about it.. I shiver, I grimace, and I feel extremely on edge.
Even if that game has 0 mechanics with the ocean and those void trenches.. and I am in full acknowledgement of that.. I still feel the same way...
Have you ever seen the Blue Holes of the Caribbean? Beautiful clear blue water, and then all of the sudden infinite darkness. If the Lusca exists, that's where it is.
Dude I have thallasaphobia so bad that if the water is cold and there's any kind of dropoff I will die
Same here! Sink hole videos have been the doom of several pairs of underwear..😩😮😥
Wendigoon: "-a sounding rod-"
Me: "I know what that is!"
W: "-a device used to measure water depth-"
Me: "Oh that's... That's not what I was thinking of."
Oh god don't tell me you're thinking what I'm thinking
Really wishing I'd never learned what sounding is
Reddit has ruined me
oh thank god I wasn't the only one who thought of this
How fucking dare you I feel like I’m having Vietnam flashbacks
I really don't want to experience a kind of storm that makes seasoned lighthouse keepers pray and cry.
Well if it makes you feel better that part probably didn't happen. None of the original accounts mention those details and it doesn't really make sense that it would be included in an official logbook. The first time it's mentioned is 10 years after the event in a Hearst paper, not exactly a super reliable source..
The US ship shooting at a sea monster immediately, is the most US thing ever
USA USA USA 🇺🇸 🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲
@@MizzzFizzz Ah yes, because only Americans shoot at threats
Fortunate son intensifies
That was my immediate thought
@@MizzzFizzz I agree with you from a logical standpoint, however being an American citizeUSA! USA! USA! USA! USA! USA!
Of all phobias, Thalassophobia is probably the most understandable to me. Every other phobia usually has some straightforward means of avoiding the fear response, but if you go out onto the open ocean, you do so with the knowledge that you are putting your life into the sea's hands. The power of the ocean is something you have to see to truly understand and believe. Just watching a video of it is not enough. Until you are on the deck of a ship and looking up to a wall of water as tall as high rise office building, you just don't get it. It is *awesome* in the most literal definition of that word. Even a colossal ship, like international cargo freighter, can be picked up and tossed around like a leaf if the seas are angry enough.
The sun: Am I a joke to you?
@@chadmann2724 people fear the sun?
Okay?
@@Highly3666 dude I didn’t realize anyone could be that guy
@@hopelessromantic3786 you don’t?
I’m surprised that you didn’t mention that one of the barrels of ethanol was knocked over. One of the sanest explanations I’ve seen proposed that the crew saw vapours rising and they assumed it was a fire. They got everyone in the lifeboat to see what would happen and in the rush a knot was tied poorly and they just drifted away to certain death
What about the cut rope tho
@@jordanfeltcher5134 Ethanol is highly flammable and explode-able. Since their ship was full of ethanol, maybe they left in such a hurry (and cut the rope) to prevent being blown up by the ship? After all, chances of being found on a lifeboat in the middle of an ocean are very low, but still significantly greater than being rescued from a burning ship.
@Jenny Park Why cut it before any sign of fire though
@@jermadonson6552 Idk for sure, maybe the person who spotted the "smoke" was intoxicated and was so convinced of what he saw that he was able to convince his entire crew too? Who knows lol
@Jenny Park Yeah, can't expect people to be 100% rationale either
Consider: all these ocean surface krakens went extinced when whale bone became the preferred structural material for corsets. We hunted all their food to the point where they didn't have enough to eat to maintain their size and strength, and they all died off.
That's just my theory on why we don't see them anymore, but they're so clear in our historical records.
Anyone who considers all pronouns, and hotboxes regulary with his friends; theories are automatically discredited.
Sorry. Thanks for playing.
@@1SpicyMeataball nobody asked. 🤡
@@1SpicyMeataball Learn to fucking write. God I cannot even comprehend your text! Without understanding it I can’t even imagine how I can oppose it!
@anonymous_jug what was he yapping about anyways?? He sounds ridiculous 😂😂😂
@@Crow_Mauler_ he might have found my old Instagram, but tbh anybody that doesn't know what pronouns are and gets their panties in a twist over weed isn't exactly on my short list of respected individuals.
Great video, I'd like to pitch in another sea monster story:
The USS Stein, an American frigate, found scratches over around 8 percent of its sonar dome. Almost all of the scratches had within them small claws that were found to be similar to those found within the suckers of a giant squid. However, these claws were substantially larger than those of the giant squid's, which, if these claws hold similar proportions to the creature's body size, would point to an absolutely massive squid. I was unable to find exact numbers on claw length, but "way bigger than giant squid" is already too much.
These stories are so damn cool. The ocean is so believable to be full of monsters
Deez stories are nuts
Most likely a colossal squid, its a deep sea squid bigger then the giant squid, they tend to fight sperm whales a lot so you'll find scratch marks on them when they come up for air. Largest recorded colossal squid weighed 495kg(1,091 lbs) and was 13 meters long(43 feet) and thats just the largest one we've seen, there are definitely bigger ones.
Maybe was a regular giant squid with abnormally large suckers
The geology of the ocean floor is terrifying in it's scale. We have no real idea what a "really deep canyon" is. The Grand Canyon as well as Mount Everest are small fry compared to some of the features under the waves.
There is where aliens would hang out, not in the air.
Me, an Irishman who lives by the ocean: Yeah, the ocean is scary, but I think Wendigoon is being a bit hyperbolic...
36:55 - THERE'S A 60FT WHAT IN THE WHERE NOW?
This comment made me laugh so hard hahaaa
Dude, there’s some scary shit down there- we probably don’t even know half of it
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@@VagueNaming we don’t know like 99% of it man. The ocean is fucking terrifying on a deep primal level.
@@amishtechwizard5540 we actually know a vast majority of it
This is an amazing video ^^
I really got the chills from the Flannan Isle Lighthouse story. The way that the men heard storms and were terrified, when there weren't any storms, and imagined something coming out of the ocean, destroying the dock and shaking the lighthouse itself in the darkness...
The problem is the logbook is…not real. It was a fabrication added to the story later.
Unfortunately, the logbook was a complete fab by a shotty news letter at the time.
Your monologue about WHY the ocean is so terrifying is spot on. My husband and I went to Grand Cayman for our honeymoon to swim with the stingrays. It's was beautiful crystal clear water about 15-20 feet deep at most. But about 100 yards away was an area where a bunch of waves were crashing. So my husband, being curious, swam over to take a closer look. He said what he saw was terrifying. Apparently that was where the ocean shelf was located and it was a sheer drop into black nothingness. The guide also told us that's where the sharks liked to hang out. Horrific.
Did you go to the Caymans just to see the stingrays? You don’t have to answer that question.
i remember seeing that kind of drop off a few times in the uk at various places. terrifying!!
this gave me goosebumps. that picture of the guy swimming over the dropoff over the abyss is terrifying
I also swam over the drop-off and looked down. I was 8. And scared. Although I saw the bottom....I was 8 though🤷♀️
The thing is I'm not terrified of sharks, respectfully scared but not terrified as I can fight them if need be. You can't fight nothing, or the depths
I like to imagine that whenever someone asks him why he's afraid of the ocean he just repeats the entire rant at the end verbatim
he would be a great talking buddy
Or better yet the entire video
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Can we appreciate the fact that the last chapter is literally called "An Unhinged Rant about Ocean Monsters and why I hate the Ocean I hate it so much..."
full chapter name is An unhinged rant about ocean monsters and why I hate the ocean I hate it so much it hurts we have to get rid of it
and that's just amazing
@@littlebumblebee9202 yet so far, we're only making it bigger😢
This is honestly one of my favorite videos. Wendigoon makes spooky topics very very interesting. I'd want him as a history teacher ngl
I'm scared of the ocean for a complete different reason, not because of the complete ambiguity and mystery surrounding it but because of the science and what we do know about it, since humans aren't designed or made to be underwater, the idea of diving into the ocean and just suddenly dying because of the various diving hazards like decompression and Delta P which is something that we do know but fail to consider scares me more than anything so it's cool to see your perspective about the ocean in a different way
I'm not really scared of the sharks and animals in the ocean. I'm just scared that it can be deep, dark and you cant touch the bottom like a swimming pool
You just said "scared of the unknown" but more smart sounding
@@techpriest1852 no, he just explained how he explicitly fears what is known to him not what is unknown, idk how you misinterpreted it.
Today I learned what Delta P is 😨
Delta-P isn't a thing in nature really. It needs a small hole with lower pressure than the surrounding water. Pressure differentials don't last long in nature very often. Something something, abhors a vacuum.
But yeah, in the context of industrial diving, Delta-P is fucking terrifying.
I've spent many years on the ocean as a Coast Guardsman In many aspects of search and rescue I can tell you things are far scarier than what is commonly known. It has kept me awake many nights.
Would you be willing to tell stories?
Whats the coast guard like?
I plan on joining the USCG when Im of age(likely after college or via academy)
You should make a Reddit post under “AMA” or “ask me anything” , to tell your stories ,
If you’re willing to of course, but I’ll keep an eye out for it incase you decide to :) we’d love to hear about it
Your full of it please share a story
Please we need some stories!
I find it funny how I used to be so comfortable with the ocean as a kid, but now that I'm older I'm terrified of it. I'm so scared of deep bodies of water that aren't enclosed. If I can't see the bottom, who knows what's down there? uhggg chills
Kwitetrap is my favorite ship
Paradoxical deep sea gigantism is actually a topic of ongoing study. Relatives of those cute little isopoda woodlice you might know as 'rolly pollies' grow to the size of small dogs in the deep ocean, and that's about approximate for the effect in general. The presently accepted duct-taped guess on the pit of unknowns is that bigger bodies are healthier in lower temperatures.
... well, now I want a pet Dog-Sized Isopod- which sucks, because it would probably die from being taken out of the deep sea, among other things-
Wendigoon has the same vibe as an english professor i had in college who'd read the scriptures of various different religions just to have an understanding of them. absolute chads, the both of them
i feel u. had the best literature professor ever in the university, he created his own course, read ancient greek philosophy to us, we discussed time, space, cosmos, and we were encouraged to write our own poems, the weirder the better. had an absolute blast on his lessons. bless them
@@angeldeviltears what school did you go to peep me tryna apply
i kno my type💀
Like professor lando hahaha my favorite instructors
My high school religious studies teacher was like this (luckily!). We were technically a Christian school but not really in practice so religious studies meant learning about different cultures and understanding religious motivation.
He always refused to tell us what he personally believed in. He was open and also extremely funny.
A possible theory for the berjama Island mystery is that it was a pumice raft. Pumice rocks are igneous rocks that form after a underwater volcano erupts molten rocks. They cool so quickly that gas is trapped inside, causing them to float. They also tend to clump together, forming a pumice raft, which can easily be mistaken for an island. It is the most common theory for the sandy island mystery as well. It was an ‘island’ part of French Polynesia that was discovered by a ship in the 1876. From there it was copied from map to map until the French sent a plane to see if the island actually existed, where it was first undiscovered. However, there findings weren’t well reported meaning google maps once displayed the imaginary island until 2012, when an Australian team was doing research in the area, noticed the island’s lack of existence and undiscovered it.
Thats actually hard as fuck, imagine undiscovering a place
@@mightypistachio1726 I’d prob just assume I was wrong if I was looking at a map or something and something wasnt there
@@kadecase7470 longitude and latitude baby
“And undiscovered it” lol
No its just a time traveling island.. for sure lol
This is the most likely series of events that led to the abandonment of the Mary Celeste. The ship was carrying barrels of denatured alcohol and vapors from these barrels build up in an enclosed space over time and can lead to explosions. Briggs knew this and ordered the hatches to the cargo hold kept open to vent the fumes unless the ship encountered bad weather.
However in the 2-3 weeks leading up to the ship being abandoned, the Mary Celeste encountered a number of storms and the cargo hold had to be kept closed. When the Mary Celeste passed through the storms and into fine weather again, one of the first things Briggs did was order the cargo hatches be opened to release the alcohol fumes. Briggs knew those fumes were reaching potentially dangerous levels because he wrote in the log book about a terrible creaking and groaning coming from the hold. But even after the hatches were opened, the noises got worse.
The fumes from denatured alcohol can affect humans, causing dizziness, headache, difficulty breathing respiratory tract, drowsiness, nausea and convulsions. Briggs had his family with him, including his 2-year-old daughter and he knew that if the alcohol fumes could make an adult very sick, they could easily kill a small child. Also the terrible groaning from the Mary Celeste likely convinced Briggs that a large explosion may be imminent. He ordered the entire crew and his family into a single life boat and rowed to a safe distance, they took no supplies and no personal possessions because they believed they would be returning to the Mary Celeste once Briggs judged that the danger had passed.
I don't know why they were unable to return to the ship, perhaps the lifeboat was damaged somehow or overturned by a large wave? But whatever happened it was sea monsters or aliens or even pirates. It was a tragic accident.
Something as simple as a bad knot being the most likely answer to one of the biggest maritime mysteries always baffles.
For them being unable to return to the boat, the best bet there would be some of the sales still open. If a gust of wind picks up when you’re in the row boat, the ship is taking off.
That’s what I believe happened based on what I’ve heard… the life boat would have been tied off to the Mary Celeste and it’s likely that the knot failed… I can’t imagine how sickening it must have been for the crew and family watching the Mary Celeste sailing away… even worse for the individual who tied the bad knot, stuck on the life boat, in a hopeless situation, with the party he doomed.
The Kass II I believe is a man overboard situation. When you fall off a sailboat without a ladder it’s very very hard to hop back on it. It’s possible they were swimming or something like that and the person who was supposed to stay on board jumped or fell off. This can be explained well by the “stop” on the GPS and then the slow drift. Maybe the fishing guy was the one that was supposed to stay on it and fell off. I saw a video of a group of people who suffered a similar fate but they were able to jump on each others shoulders and jump back on.
While this could be the case if they're all seasoned sailors they'd know better than to jump off a moving ship without a rope attached to them. You never go for a swim when your sail boat has its sails out. If one fell off the others wouldn't jump in after him, they'd take the boat back to the man that fell off. It's just so odd, so many factors.
@@Dhips.Knowing better doesn’t mean something bad can’t happen to you. Or a dumb mistake or accident can’t affect you.
I feel bad for the person at the bottom holding everyone else on their shoulders lol
What’s scary is that if “life started in the water” and so many creatures evolved to escape it than imagine what evolved to stay in it
I believe, with all my being, that THIS is the most profound and terrifying Tag-line to a documentary on the evolution of deep sea life that there ever will be produced
No it didn't! Evolution is bullshit! God created you, dude!
This jenually terrified me good job dude
@@0_o_turpentine_and_bleach genuinely?
GET OUT OF MY HEAD
White Shark: just minding its buisiness
Cthulhu: *YOINK*
Cthulhu is up to his old shenanigans again
It fr definitely was like a 30 foot colossal squid that just munched on it
@@cold_mercury4224 Funnily enough fully grown great whites actually hunt giant and colossal squids
@@rowboat5294 That's terrifying xD
@@FatherAndrew-Scarlet-Priest hello
can’t believe how exponentially you’re growing, and i can’t think of anyone who deserves it more than you! thank you for the spooky halloween post :)
Honestly, dad just puts out banger video after banger video, I'm glad he gets the recognition he deserves
the algorithm showed us all him at the same time.
Love his content, I like content to listen to
Bro I remember a while ago when I first subbed n he only had like 180k, actually crazy how fast his channel grew
Ocean mysteries are my number one 'fearful fascination'. I have done a couple of open water ocean races (including across the Atlantic) and this has only deepened this uneasy/excited feeling. I love living by the sea on an island in the Baltic but also really respect it. Ocean mysteries and sailing also inspired me to write my first novel (The Octagon's Eight) and continue with the theme into the next book and hopefully beyond. I loved this video and you've gained a new subscriber!
the fact that that coroner came up with such a crazy intricate and specific theory about what happened to the kaz ii members is insane. im so used to them chalking up decapitated bodies as "suicide"
No idea why they went thru all that effort, we all know the only reason ppl r ever decapitated is due to suicide. Clearly they’re hiding something 🤔
I would have thought a strong possibility would have been that one or more of the crew went for a swim and something occurred (medical problem, shark bite/jelly-fish sting etc.) Leading to the remaining crew attempting to enter the water to help only to drown or fall victim to whatever danger befell the others.
@@FIddlertheleperI don't think that's a bad theory. Box jellyfish are really common in and near the Australian coast and they are no joke.
@@iamthehype3684yeah, or even a saltwater croc would have easily killed them with no trace.
I’m just wondering about the sail
My ex boyfriend's grandfather was a marine biologist who worked for the US government. He said his grandfather never went into the ocean & feared it. That solidified to me, that there must be something in the ocean so terrifying that a grown man who studies it won't even go into it.
He is scared of it because he studies it.
You're very cute
@@Meilk27 i diagnose you with
S I M P
@@Meilk27 mans spitting game in the comment section
@@Meilk27 ahaha, unlike the others, i will give you the benefit of the doubt and assume you're just being a nice person.
I've always found it interesting the idea of Lovecraft's eldritch abominations, and how they aren't so much evil more than they are just indifferent. And then I think about the ocean and nature as a whole and how it's the perfect embodiment of cosmic indifference. I guess it kinda makes sense why Lovecraft put Cthulhu under the waters of Earth's oceans, it was the perfect place for him.
This is so poetically true
Yeah, it's like "so close, yet too far" kind of thing. It's right there, but we barely know it enough to make it less scary.
Lovecraft had a crippling fear of everything that wasn't his hometown of Providence, Rhode Island.
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Facts.
@@zrc1514 correction: the white, traditionally-minded upper class of Providence, Rhode Island
The bloop was the sound of an iceberg scraping against another one, iceberg boy
I think the reason a lot of people are more scared of the ocean than space is because we know that things live in the ocean, so the chances of there being something whereever you look is a lot higher than in space
we can also see see into space easily, the same could not be said for the ocean lol
But comparatively space is more dangerous than oceans though
@@unknownstranger2621 yeh oceans are a lot more safe, but still scary
I am not scared of the creatures but the depths
Ps there is no giant sea monster down there lmao
*HP Lovecraft has entered the chat*
I watched a video of a scuba diver’s last moments as they succumb to nitrogen sickness and end up on the bottom of ocean because they were to confused to know how to get back up. I still think about it sometimes and it fills me with dread.
My dad has seen it up close and personal (but with a good ending). He was deep sea diving with two friends. All three very experienced. They were already at their max planned dive. All of a sudden one of them just starts diving deep, very fast, down the wall. My dad and his other friend go after him once they realize, going 20 ft deeper than planned. They brought the guy up after properly decompressing and whatnot, but afterwards ask him WTF he was thinking. And his friend said had no memory of doing that. All three responsible smart men with no history of something like that before or since. Deep sea is no joke.
DAILY FUN FACT: it's not only deep sea. There IS a phenomenon that causes people to leave the boat. It's basically a bout of anxiety about being in the middle of the ocean, with no land on sight, that makes people get off the boat. Just like that. They don't care there's no land on sight, the anxiety of being in the middle of the ocean is such that they simply want out. They pack everything, leave everything neatly placed as if they were leaving the appartment they rented for the holidays, grab their stuff and exit the boat... In the middle of the ocean. And the worst thing is that they seem so calm and rational that there might be no way of telling beforehand, so you only find out when you wake up one day and find yourself alone in the boat. It happens even to experienced sailors, and it's pretty much the equivalent to the hallucinations that happen in the middle of snowstorms in extreme climates (the 8000m peaks, the south pole...) and that causes people to just untie themselves from lifelines and willingly wander off (and in the mountains, fall down) never to be seen again.
Sooooo yeah...
I’ve seen loads of they stories from MrBallen, my own morbid curiosity leads me to watch the footage of the event
@@Maatkara1000, what's the name of that phenomenon? I was a sailor for a time, and I spent 6 years on a maritime academy. I've never heard of that.
@@Cpt_Katsuragi It almost sounds similar to paradoxical undressing. You know not to get undressed in extreme cold, but people do it anyway when they are freezing to death. You could search for paradoxical undressing and see what are similar other topics or conditions.
I don't know what freaks me out more: being in the ocean underwater not able to see past a certain point because it's kinda blurry under there for us, OR BEING ABLE TO SEE EVERYTHING GOING ON IN THAT LIQUID HELLSCAPE
If you play subnautica and turn off the fog you can see the leviathan off in the distance just waiting for you to approach. Idk what's scarier, going around in the dark nkt knowing that if are there, or seeing them, and knowing that they are there.
i’ve been surfing one of the sharkiest areas of CA for most of my life and being able to see is wayyyy worse. clear days are safer bc the sharks are less likely to accidentally bite you but seeing a big ol shadow under you is SO freaky
Very well done and excellent balance of humor and kindness to victims. My little brother is a Deepwater helioarch welder, my dad was an astronaut and they were both terrified of the mystery facing them. I'm giggling as you said that, well done, sir, indeed.
im scottish and my dad is absolutely enthralled with the lighthouse story. He loves history, true crime/mysteries but isn't very convinced by paranormal stuff. He talks about mysteries and historical stuff pretty much every day for about 30 minutes when i come back from school. He was sitting there talking about the lighthouse for at least an hour and a half when i came home from school that day. Didn't know how to tell him i failed my maths test.
I wish I was friends with your dad.
Xd
Your dad sounds really cool ngl
Given that the most out there part of the story aside from the disappearance - the logbook - was entirely made up by story magazines, its a bit hard to take the paranormal aspect seriously.
I hate when “ocean” and “terrifying” are put together, this gonna be good.
In that order ??
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"bone chilling , thank you wendi"
I love when they both are put together
Deep ocean creatures and haunted ships….dude sign me in
i remember myself in childhood, when we used to do family boat tours on the Black Sea, swimming around the vessel about 200-300 metres from the shore and i say to myself "hmm, i wonder what the sea bed looks like" and then looking and seeing the absolutely horrifying nothingness for however meters deep beneath me. i felt like at any point i would see a colossal gaping maw approaching me from below. truly, its as scary as its mesmerising to acknowledge the existence of something so vast yet so desolate at the same time on our planet. i thinks that was the moment i got thalassophobia.
Yeah, had the same experience that made me realize how spooky the sea can be
The incident with the US Navy cruiser, "Stein," gave me the creeps. I first heard of that story, decades ago, from an old series, "Arthur C. Clarke's Mysterious World." There was also a story, from 1942, about a British transport being sunk by a German raider off the coast of South Africa. Some of the survivors of that British vessel, who were adrift on a wooden life raft, were attacked by a giant squid. Presumably, one man was dragged off the life raft by the giant squid and eaten by it. Another British seaman, who survived to tell the tale, bore scars left on his leg from where the squid's tentacle had grasped him. His mates held onto him so he wouldn't get dragged off the raft. The stories of "The Luska," which supposedly inhabit blue holes, gave me a few creeps, as well. Thanks, Wendigoon.
I live on the Gulf Coast of Florida so I have spent much of my life in and on the ocean. I love the ocean but I definitely have learned to respect it and understand people's fear. Years ago on a cruise I visited the Bahamas and a coral reef. I swam to the edge of the reef to where it opened up to open ocean. The Dropoff scene from Finding Nemo is the closest comparison, but does the feeling you get no justice. For the first time of being in the ocean did I feel truly scared and so small and insignificant. Just minutes before I was swimming with barracuda, rays, eels, sharks and a wide array of fish and was weary but not scared. But just floating on the edge of the abyss I realized just how tiny I am and can only imagine what we have yet to discover.
Omg a barracuda! I would instantly mess my pants
The ocean doesn't need anything paranormal to be a dangerous place. I don't have an unreasonable fear of it, but humans need oxygen, and we don't have gills, so that's a strike against it already in my opinion. The emptiness, pressures, temperatures, those are all pretty mind-boggling. Even with all the technology we have today, you're out there on your own if something goes wrong. Simply falling off a boat out there *can* be deadly. Things we need to survive, like fresh water and food, are surprisingly hard to get out there. I grew up sailing on catamarans (but smaller than the Kaz II). I enjoy sailing but I don't like being out of view of land. It's disorienting and uncomfortable. (I feel the same way in flat places like Illinois, to be fair. hahaha.)
But how about them sperm whales, huh? A significant part of their diet are colossal squids. That's pretty badass. Colossal squids themselves eat smaller fish and squids (they've analyzed stomach contents and even caught colossal squid still latched onto a fish). But we can see from sperm whale scars that colossal squid are a snack that fights back.
Insightful
I'm still waiting for the badass Sperm Whale vs Colossal Squid footage.
The ocean is so big, the battle can happen anywhere from close to the surface all the way kilometres down the depth.
The snack that bites you back BIG SQUIDS!
@@LoreleiCatherine yes, i hear it, thank you--
@@S1N999 _grant us eyes_
I think my favorite thing about these videos that you don't get from other "spooky stories" videos is that Wendigoon is not trying to scare you with the stories. He's just like, "Here's a cool story. Is it true? Probably not, but it's fun to pretend it is." and it's a refreshing take on the "spooky story" genre that I totally vibe with.
Exactly; it's one of the reasons why I love another of my favorite horror reading channels, Lazy Masquerade, so much. Lazy doesn't give much of a 'verdict' on whether or not a story or account is true, unless it's specifically a true crime episode, in which case he might toss out his own personal theories, he just presents them and leaves it up to the audience how much they believe it. It really adds to the immersion on stuff like accounts of cryptids or ghosts, because even if you don't believe in them, for a few minutes, they feel real
My favorite "ghost ship" story is without a doubt that of the Carroll A. Deering. Everything about it is perfect, I hope you end up covering it because we know a lot more about the journey itself and it greatly enhances the mystery.
Ooh that would be cool 👍
Putting all this together with the stories of underwater megliths, cities and unidentified structures is also super creepy. I hope to see you do more stories on megaliths in general. You are so awesome!!
The sea's pretty scary. One time me and several buddies went out deep sea fishing and landed something on our rod that was rigged to catch big game. Fought a heavy and speedy fishy for an hour or so before it tired out and we started hauling it in.
Strange stuff started happening when the rod made its way into its owners hands. The fish which was doing normal things a tired fish would do as it was pulled up, started panicking and attempted to shake off the hook. At the same time, the line stopped, started going straight down slowly and hastened till it eventually reached a point where the rod had to be pointed into the water just to keep it from breaking. Drag on the reel was maxed out and despite that, it stripped 300m+ worth of fishing line off the reel within 15 seconds. The way he described it was as if something reached out from within the depths and pulled that massive fish straight down into the abyss. He could feel the fish's desperate last few moments of struggle as that unrelenting monstrous downward pulling force stripped the final few meters of his line.
To this day we have no clue what was capable of absolutely stripping a whole reel of line so quickly off a setup used to fish for big game like Goliath Groupers. We haven't been night fishing at that spot ever since that incident.
A family member has been a sailor for years and I don't doubt this experience as a rare occurrence. Strange stuff goes on in the open seas. He's travelled almost all of the major sea routes over the decades, seen UAPs, weird stuff falling into the ocean from the skies, wild waves, and thick dense fog appearing out of nowhere that disrupts electronics. Ironically, he says the Bermuda Triangle isn't the place to worry about, its literally the entire ocean you have to be wary of.
I'm gonna guess something like a shark, or a killer whale (Depending on where you were fishing these hold different amounts of *water* )
@@cookiecraze1310 we've caught plenty sharks, this did not feel like it. was as if some great weight was suddenly attached to the other end and it started sinking straight down. no movement from that thing other than the struggling fish or he'd be able to tell.
@@BxBxProductions could always be a very rare sperm whale or collosal squid.
Big Marlin pull fisherman to their death regularly. If you get the line wrapped around your arm bringing it in and it gets away from you it will drag you hundreds of feet down in seconds. You're not coming back from that. Sharks aren't the only big fish that eat little fish.
@@spencerstevens2175 Jesus Christ that is the scariest thing ever. Will will never over commit when fishing ever again.
The bloop was an icequake, by the way. It was giant ice sheets cracking. It wasn't a one-off occurrence, either. That's why we now know what it was.
So we can now magnify by sound our effect on the environment great
I've seen a video of people ice skating on a frozen lake that made similar sounds as the ice crackled under the skates. It's eerie but beautiful to hear (and not be the one on that lake, for sure)
Okay fed
@@yugiohboyfriendappreciator7739 ...what?
@@area51l It's super scary when you're on the ice! The kind of scary where you laugh uncontrollably because that's all your body can come up with.
(and it's not like there was any real reason to be worried, the ice was at least a foot or two thick, still super scary anyway!)
dude i haven't slept in 24 hours so I'm trying to power through my day and then his "BYE" jumpscared me so bad I got a sudden new burst of energy. So thanks actually.
I think that vapor explosion makes logical sense. Imagine a captain bringing his family on what he imagined to be a safe trip. But when these explosions started happening, had it been just himself and the crew maybe he would have stuck it out. But what if his wife started to panic, insisting that a bigger blast could cause all the barrels of ethanol to explode. This single thought consumes the captain and decides that their best bet would be to take a life boat with his navigation equipment and get to a coast that he thought they could get to. Only to get caught by the Kraken. Love your videos.
10/10 ending
I've also heard that the denatured alcohol might have given off fumes that could have combusted. Essentially, the idea goes that the captain panicked, thought the ship was in great danger and had everyone bail out. The captains missing navigation tools seems to point towards a very sudden exit.
Something led the skipper to think they all had a better chance of making it through whatever was going on to take a lifeboat to the nearby Santa Maria Island, so he grabbed most of the ship's papers and his personal navigational equipment, and they piled into the boat and set out, and then some mishap overcame them in the boat. Easy for one of those smaller boats to be swamped, or capsized, or swept away from land long enough that the occupants die of exposure or lack of supplies. Understandable that it's an enduring mystery, but there are a number of very straightforward explanations for what happened.
Had me in the first half...
@@don_5283 there were 4 lifeboats that can be joined together to hold more supplies though , and why cut the rope than untie it ? Easy explained is reaching
Fun and not scary ocean fact: several species of underwater creatures love being petted and playing with humans, and can form lifelong bonds with their favourite divers. Examples are moray eels and several kinds of sharks.
Octopi aswell,even a whole documentary on it on Netflix I believe
@VegetaOrAra You did it! You were negative for no reason! Good job! 🥇🎉Did it feel good? Do you feel powerful, knowing that you might have made someone’s day just that little bit worse? Is it rewarding, having the same goals and aspirations as a middle school bully?
@VegetaOrAra You weren’t, really. There’s weak evidence suggesting any dolphin has ever successfully raped a human being, not to mention how you were ascribing human morality to animal species. It’s like calling a lion a murderer because it hunts zebras. Even if it were true (it hasn’t been proven), you honestly expect the “just stating facts” defence to work? If someone were to comment “you’re going to die one day” and “humans are capable of murder” under unrelated posts about human kindness, they would still be a pathetic asswipe for trying to ruin a stranger’s day by reminding them of irrelevant, depressing shit that nobody can do anything about. Please go back to calling the children in your arithmetic class “doo-doo heads”.
@@yeowch1073 While Vegeta didn't have to bring up the negative content you kinda went worse than they did by basically calling them a bully and alluding to them being "A pathetic asswipe."
@@animeking1357 that’s a lot of anime kings. You’d think they’d have run out of anime kingdoms after 500 or so.
Firsthand experienced submechaniphobia snorkeling/scuba diving above a wrecked WWI ship in the Caribbean. I'd been so excited beforehand but as soon as I saw it so far below me in the dark green water, only half-visible and surrounded by complete darkness despite the wreck technically being "shallow," I think I nearly started crying. It was years ago but I still get tight in the chest when I think about seeing that thing- I was about ten at the time. Little bits of humanity marooned in the endless and uncaring sea... god, it really is terrifying.
Phenomenal comment. Relatable even though there no chance in hell I'd ever have the balls to go skuba diving.
Made me scared just from you describing it
Chill, you were 10. Damn schizos
@@stevenhair3250 what a stupid comment.
See I think this is what I have...things submerged in water or really really big things in water! If I see a pic of a ship that's docked the sheer size of it makes my tongue go tingly 🤣 although someone said the fear of large objects is a separate thing.
24:18 Wendigoon sounds very disappointed that he can't make a joke about "It was a craken" because the family is still alive.
About the second ghost ship. I’m a seasoned sailor and my sail has ripped just like what can be seen in the picture, it happens if the wind is hitting the sail from the wrong angle. Anyways here’s my theory: When travelling over longer distances it’s normal to hoist the sails and then you can go do whatever while waiting to reach your destination (assuming you have an autopilot for the rudder), most of the time sailing is very uneventful so this makes total sense. My guess is that they did this and went inside to make food and do whatever on their laptop, then the wind took a sudden turn and ripped the sail, the boat starts shaking a little and the ripped sail is making a very loud noise that is deafening everything else. They obviously panic and rush outside, one taking the rudder off autopilot to steer against the wind, the two others trying to fix the sail, a broken sail cannot just be rolled down, so many times you’ll have to go up to the mast to fix it manually. Then while the two people were out on deck trying to drag down the sail the long vertical part of the mast started swinging and hit them so they fell off because the last person were adjusting the course which makes the wind drag from another direction and therefore it’ll swing around. That’s where my theory ends, how the last person might’ve fallen off I have no idea, but maybe it was while trying to save the others. I’m almost certain however that the sail ripping from them not watching it in autopilot is the cause of this. Sorry if my English is bad my native language is Norwegian.
Dude, you're English is perfect, you don't even make the same mistakes as some ESL people do lol. I find it funny whenever I see that and then the person is speaking like perfect English. 🤣
You're doing a great job!
@@evapunk333 thank you bro, it means a lot
You english is perfecto my dude
Your English is pretty good bro 😆
Your explanation was perfectly coherent, and it makes more sense than 3 men somehow Looney Tooning their way into open water lol
Your English is better than most native English speakers.
That’s why people who dive are advanced human beings they feel thrill for going deep into it and just looking around and probably feel zero fear towards it, crazy
Once you understand how not to die it’s not too scary. It just comes down to the knowledge of training and the acceptance of death
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The last part is the reason why people are afraid of the ocean
I scuba dive often and have since I was a kid. My dad is really big into it so I grew up diving. I’m also a decently decorated swimmer. However....I am terrified of drowning. I do get some thrill from it...more the beauty than anything but the fear remains. Maybe because drowning is a higher risk for me because of my hobbies, but I definitely am not the “zero fear” guy. I can’t even watch someone drown in a movie or scenes where they come close to drowning...it really freaks me out. I don’t really think about it while I’m under tho...it’s much more likely to have issues because you aren’t breathing correctly or because you come to surface to quickly.
Yeah, I guess I am pretty badass
Advanced human beings? Well we can clearly see who's not an Advanced human being ....
I understand *why* the ocean is scary, but the unknown and "impossible frontier" is what I love about it. I hope we find some spooky ass giant creatures in there someday. Also, can't forget it's where all life on land originated from, so it's technically the cradle of humanity.
I feel like this might be ridiculous but I’d rather go to space than in a submarine and I’m terrified of both! There’s something about the ocean. Space is like, vast nothingness. The ocean is the same but more compact and there’s big ass monsters in there lol
@@jordan11752 Space is a void where we're uncertain of other life even existing, much less bearing anything worth mention. The ocean is a void where we know that not only life exists, but it is far larger and more grotesque than anything that we were reasonably built to handle. Well, at least that's my take on it.
Imagine thinking the universe spontaneously exploded into existence from literally nothing. Absolutely delusional.
@@ARomanian007 there is a reason it's only called a theory
@kaizen To be fair that theory is a lot more believable and plausible than a theory about an almighty entity that snaps its fingers to create entire galaxies. So it's understandable for people to act like that theory is true.