Fear of Big Things Underwater
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- Опубліковано 13 тра 2024
- Below the thunders of the upper deep,
Far, far beneath in the abysmal sea
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Chapters:
Introduction: 0:00
1- The Kraken: 1:44
2- The Imagined Depths: 12:28
3- The Drowned Giants: 19:13
4- Just Before the End: 28:30
5- The Great Unknown: 34:51
Epilogue: 41:54
Media Used: 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1954), The Drowned Giant (2021), Subnautica, Iron Lung, In Other Waters
Music Used (chronologically): Dismantle (Peter Sandberg), Deciphering Tool (Jon Bjork), Ennui (Cody High), Oceanic Adventure (Bonnie Grace), Trapped Underwater (Kikoru), Scared of Water (Kikoru), Arc Lights, Bone Fields (Subnautica), Underwater Findings (Deskant), Is (Sandra Marteleur), Humdrum Days (Franz Gordon), Thrilling India 2 (August Wilgelmsson), Heavy Respite (Martin Klem), The Deepest Cave (Farrell Wooten), Ghostlight (Iron Lung), The Carousel (The Evil Within), Amid Bones (Iron Lung), At the End of Nothing (Silver Maple), Of Sober Mind (Christoffer Moe Ditlevsen), The Kraken (Katie Dey)
Sources:
Kraken (Wendy Williams, 2010)
Kraken (China Mieville, 2010)
Monsters of the Sea (Richard Ellis, 1994)
The Kraken: When Myth Encounters Science (Salvador & Tomotani, 2013)
The Natural History of Norway (Erik Pontoppidan, 1755)
Underland (Robert Macfarlane, 2019)
The Drowned Giant (J.G. Ballard, 1964)
The Metamorphosis of Unknown Animals into Fabulous Beasts and of Fabulous Beasts into Known Animals (Bernard Heuvelmans, 1990)
Chasing Ice (Orlowski, 2012)
Giant Squid (Clyde Roper, Smithsonian 2018): ocean.si.edu/ocean-life/inver...
The Squid Hunter (David Grann, 2004): www.newyorker.com/magazine/20...
Why Do Deep Sea Creatures Evolve Into Giants? (Real Science, 2022): • Why Do Deep Sea Creatu...
Tsunami reveals ancient temple sites (Paddy Maguire, 2005): news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia...
Mahabalipuram: The Temple that Rose from the Sea (Aditi Shah, 2018): www.livehistoryindia.com/stor...
Mahabalipuram: Sea, Surfing and Shore Temple (Uttara Gangopadhyay, 2018): www.outlookindia.com/outlookt...
Tsunami Footage: • Tsunami at Kanyakumari...
As the Great Salt Lake Dries Up, Utah Faces An ‘Environmental Nuclear Bomb’ (Christopher Flavelle, 2022): www.nytimes.com/2022/06/07/cl...
Owens Valley Salty As Los Angeles Water Battle Flows Into Court (Kirk Siegler, 2013): www.npr.org/2013/03/11/173463...
3rd set of human remains discovered at Lake Mead (Adriana Navarro, 2022): www.accuweather.com/en/climat...
Adventuring With Beebe (Beebe, The Viking Press, New York, 1955, p.81-82): sites.google.com/site/cwillia...
Discovery Channel: Monster Squid - It Lives (2011): • Monster Squid: It Lives
Edie Widder and Nathan Robinson via OceanExplorerGov: • Here Be Monsters: Gian...
Gennaro, J.F. Jr. 1971. The Creature Revealed. Natural History, March 1971
Pierce, S., G. Smith, T. Maugel & E. Clark 1995. On the Giant Octopus (Octopus giganteus) and the Bermuda Blob: Homage to A. E. Verrill. Biological Bulletin 188: 219-230
Pierce, S., S. Massey, N. Curtis, G. Smith, C. Olavarría & T. Maugel 2004. Microscopic, Biochemical, and Molecular Characteristics of the Chilean Blob and a Comparison With the Remains of Other Sea Monsters: Nothing but Whales. Biological Bulletin 206: 125-133.
Additional photos from:
Swarna1311
Y23 at English Wikipedia
Borgx
Additional Footage from Getty Images
Additional Music and Sound from Epidemic Sound
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Description Credit: Alfred Lord Tennyson
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Amazing work Jacob, thank you so much for touching this subject, means a lot
ive not watched this one fully yet geller, but the welsh blood in me would be very happy if this reservoir you are talking about would be capel celyn.
Awe inspiring video as always! I was thinking of The Europa Project a lot throughout this one too
Holy Shit.
Amazing video.
That song at the end reminded of something you would hear in Death Stranding, fitting given the context of the game, and the dutch translation of Stranding being Beach
A fun interaction with the Reaper Leviathan in Subnautica: if you hold a live fish in your hand when the Reaper approaches you, instead of attacking you it will eat the fish. I like this interaction, it reminds you that you are dealing with an animal, not some kind of a 'scary monster'. And the likely reason it attacks the player is only because they intrude on its territory.
Wasn't that the stalker?
@@thocc5437 it happens with both the stalker and reaper!
Today I learned
Bahahaha nooooooo nooooooo dont do it! Lmfao
fool
Hey Jacob, I worked on the Owens lake drybed restoration project (phase 2) back in 2003. We laid 7 miles of 56" (inside height) steel and concrete lined water pipeline, about 50' deep in the sand. What a crazy experience. It was over 110°F in the shade. You drank over a gallon of water each day. Anything plastic became like playdough. The dust was choking, the wet sand was so caustic you had to wear rubber boots, it ate out cloths and burned exposed skin.
The first phase already in place, they used shallow flooding irrigation to grow tall grass marsh plants, as a test to control the dust and erosion. The affect they didn't think about, this shallow flooding leached out through the sand and collect deeper where we had to run the pipeline. It created sinkholes that ate bulldozers, and that water running through the crap in the sand made it super concentrated. It would burn skin if you rinse it off. We had to run dozens of huge pumps 24/7 to keep our dich dry. But with no real soil to absorb and hold that pumped water, it just leached back into the ditch. Setting the pipe was fairly easy and the welders followed behind us, welding inside and outside the pipe. My favorite job, was cleaning up after the welders inside the pipe. You lay on a small wheeled dolly, and start heading into the pipeline. At each joint, you do a quick sweep and pickup the burned up arc welder sticks. It was well lit the first hundred feet or so, but it quickly became a pin head of light untill it faded into a void. I enjoyed the adventure and how much cooler it was compared to the surface. Plus being the only person to not come screaming back out with claustrophobia earned me some free drinks back in town. And I got to stay in/ work on an old travel trailer that was used in one of the "I Love Lucy" movies. It was abandoned near Lone Pine, where tons of films still get shot around there. It ended up in the little trailer park, where I ended up staying. After that pipeline phase finished, I stayed there, becoming the trailer park/ campground manager, building maintenance man and cook at the Frost Chalet, the local ice cream and burger joint.
Thanks for all your videos, but especially this one for taking me back on memory lane.
Thanks for this! You always hear about these projects, but very rarely the little details those working on them saw and experienced!
That is an awesome story, thank you for sharing!
Just imagining being in that pipe makes me anxious as hell 😰
Hey, awesome story. Thanks for sharing!
NGL you can write a book out of that experience.
there's a scene from Happy Feet that always stuck with me, and it fits so well with this video.
The penguins are trying to escape a leopard seal by swimming through a glacier. It starts breaking off underwater, and for a brief moment, you see an excavator in the ice. There's a little Hawaiian bobblehead doll floating inside the cab. You had up until that point, seen no proof of humans existing, but deep within the ice, there it is. And it falls to the dark, icy dephs, never to be seen again. Still gives me chills
I just looked up that scene because of what you wrote here. I had connection to that movie, no intention of ever watching it, it just never seemed to be my thing (and it still doesn't), but that moment resonated with me. It's a glimpse of something else, an entire story never told. To the penguins, the exvacator is alien and terrible, like the corpse of a dead beast that might still move and just grab one of them in its jaws. Seeing the doll was so intensely somber for that one moment. And then it's over, and you're back in a children's movie. Damn.
Here's the video if any of you needs it. The pivotal moment starts at the 1:20 mark. ua-cam.com/video/ymA7OFZ9lF0/v-deo.html
These "fear of" videos are so enthralling for me, in large part because I *don't* have that alluring fascination with the horrible crushing depths of caves or the deep ocean drawing me down, so it just feels like "cool, more reason to stay away from the spooky murderthing", but then I remember I can't get TOO cozy patting myself on the back for how sensible I am, because I 100% feel the call of the void for Outer Space, a thing that would for sure kill me WAY more than the ocean -R
Facts. I've watched and appreciated so many videos, and read so much on fear, yet I still feel I don't understand half of it. Fear is such an integral part of our life... yet we still go miles to avoid and run from it.
Trope talk "The Ocean or something idk" coming when?
We know more about, and have explored more of, space than we do the oceans. That's how unforgiving the ocean is.
Go deep enough, the ocean will kill you much faster than outer space will. Recent events as an obvious example...
i feel this so hard tbh. the thought of immeasurable masses of earth or water pressing down on me is deeply unappealing, but the vast emptiness between stars, the thought of actually experiencing how very small i am and how very big this universe i am part of is... *that's* the void that calls to me
It is hard to quantify, but I am almost comfortable with the overwhelming dread of the sea. It's as if, in a time when natural conquers and untouchable lands are relegated to history, I feel a sense of pride that the ocean is our final frontier, and after it is inevitably discovered and documented, we'll be left with one less fairytale. The part about beasts becoming animals is cathartic, I love each discovery but know I will only get to discover it once. Incredible video, Inspiring as always.
It's great that you have UA-cam while stuck in that deep, deep cave!
I agree
Glad to know you're okay while down in the cave.
Literally thought to myself when seeing this "Oh wendigoon would LOVE this". Well well well
YOO WENDIGOON. I HOPE THE S.T.A.L.K.E.R MOVIE IS GOING WELL
When I was 19 years old, I went skinny dipping into the sea with some people. It sounded like such a good idea on the well-lit beach. As we ran from the beach towards the sea, the light would become dimmer and dimmer. You could still see the waves crashing on the shore, but as we jumped in and swam a little bit we suddenly noticed the blackness of the water. All the light of the lamps at the beach were swallowed by the water, and as we observed it felt as if the light had a limit. There on the beach and at the shoreline was the safety of a visible world, but we had just entered a void. With nothing to see and only to feel, water swushed around us and it suddenly didn't feel as if we were in the sea anymore. It had become something akin to outer space. Me and my friends felt a fear run down our bodies that felt so primitive; so vulnerable. We swam, ran and clawed our way out of the water and never looked back that night. I love the sea and the ocean, but we'll always be a visitor.
Interesting I feel a bit inspired from your story. I might make a video on this subject
I too always get that exact feeling when I swim in open water. Be it a really big lake that is extremely deep or the ocean. I always feel like I am out of place. Like I am an intruder in a completely alien system. I always kinda feel like the sea itself watches me and is like "You are free to visit but be aware that this environment does not favour your presence." And then it's like you said when you clawed your way out of the water. It's like an instinct kicks in that tells me "you shouldn't be here" and I automatically start to "panic" and so I leave the water.
Go it ruined the same sex orgy or?
I like how you mentioned you were skinny dipping at the start of the story. It really helped me take everything you typed seriously
That is an incredible story, thank you for sharing! You have also inspired me to write something along with the topic of this video.
It is worth remembering that an animal can remain undetected through the combination of a few key factors. As a filter feeder the megamouth shark doesn't leave evidence in the form of bite marks in it's prey. As a raptorial species the megalodon would certainly have left evidence of their presence in the modern era.
Bite marks actually have been found, not of the Megalodon but of some other marine cryptids
the megalodon also lived in warm coastal waters, not the deep sea like so many people incorrectly assume. theres no reason to believe its extant and many reasons why we know its extinct.
Pretty sure raptorial species have arms or "forelegs" yo.
@@tobiashughes8181 it also refers to predatory behavior. The now extinct Livyatan melvillei is referred to as a raptorial sperm whale.
The word has multiple meanings and applications.
Yeah literally any marine biologist will tell you that there’s no way the megalodon is still around and we don’t know
The first time I saw a real abyss was off the coast of Spain in 2013. I went for a swim in the sea, and the shelf just... dropped. All there was was my shadow beneath me and the rays of filtered sunlight through the blue, blue water. It was terrifying and fascinating, and I will never forget it.
Yes but yo mama 😮
I had the same thing happen to me years ago in Hawaii while snorkeling..... I nearly drowned, pulled out by the current. My biggest fear (at that time) was drowning but the realization that 15 foot crystal clear water depth dropped off to over 50-75 feet, is terrifying. Even more terrifying the lava rock on the cliffs is sharp and cut my legs when I did make it back to coast line hanging on for dear life. Lucky my group came looking for me, but what is under that dark deep black salt water is nightmare material........
Had a similar experience at the Great Barrier Reef - the reef consists of coral "islands" that rise up from the deep. Within those islands (for lack of a better word) the water is maybe two meters at high tide. And then you swim out to the edge and spot the absolutely, terrifyingly sheer drop into blackness - and remember that the guide said that it goes down 400 meters. I toyed with the idea of crossing over to another island - a swim of maybe 100 meter. And then my brain yelled "FUCK NO".
I swear to god this man could write a script about the history of bread and make it sound like some sleeping eldritch god. Fantastic work sir 👌
Fear of
yeast
HE SHOULD I WANT THIS
True!!
Bread has a surprisingly long and fascinating history tbh
As a German: bread is a eldritch realm of god
I don't know if Jacob is aware of the oarfish, but I think it at least deserves a shout-out in the same capacity as the Kraken/Giant Squid. Sea serpents are very real, majestic and beautiful in their natural habitat, and yet we know very little about them beyond what scraps wash up on shore and the brief, tantalizing videos we have of them swimming in the depths.
Sea-serpents being oarfish is a common misconception. In an analysis of 587 potential sea-serpent sightings, only 8 were determined to be oarfish.
I LOVE OARFISH!!!!!!!!!
I mean, sea serpents do exist if you look at it from a reptilian POV. Sea snakes (some of which are more venomous than land dwelling snakes) are able to hold their breath for up to 8hrs and dive over 300ft down. Fuck that.
@@r.j.penfold Sea snakes are only responsible for like one or two reported sea-serpent sightings. The idea that sea serpents could be gigantic species of sea snakes was popular around the 19th century but is now considered outdated. Of course, that doesn't mean there aren't some sorts of large reptiles involved.
@@chrisgaming9567 oh didn't know that
My man, I absolutely admire your dedication to theatrical presentation.
You consistently have the most hypnotic and entrancing videos I can find on this website. They always leave me thinking for days afterwards. And a big part of that is because of how you present it.
You are genuinely the best writer I have seen on UA-cam and I get as giddy as a schoolgirl every time I see a new video from you pop up in my feed.
Keep up the good work, it's appreciated.
Keep making videos they are great!
🌟Exactly my thoughts, Jacobs storytelling ability it so undeniably incredible that I can watch the same hour long video multiple times a year and get the exact same intense and deeply atmospheric feeling of whatever he is talking about that it is truly astounding to me.
⭐Truly one of my most favorite video creators of all time🌟
Well, well, well, another Hickey.
Addendum to the intro: “one day ago a carbon fiber tube implodes and kills 5 passengers”
As someone with a powerful fear of the dark, deep, unknowable objects that lie beneath the waves and also a deep adoration for Jacob Geller’s videos……….. boy we’ll try to make it through this one
we're in this together, brother
Thalassophobia gang rise up
Because diving down isn’t an option
I'm with you all!
This was me and his fear of the cold video
My exact thoughts, wish yall strength getting through this one
As someone who spent part of this summer in a deep sea biology lab, i am PUMPED. I LOVE the deep sea, love it, love every weird and scary thing down there, they're all absolutely delightful to me. And thank you for highlighting Magnapinna, my eerie fave.
Howd you get there? Like. What career path is that, not how you got transported there lol
@@zoutewand major in biology, ask your professors if they need any help with research, and go from there. It helps to read up on your professors first and learn what they've been working on; that will impress them.
IF it was even the slightest bit like Sealab, and you didnt sing an NDA, I am sure tons of people would wanna know more. Sounds like it was a fascinating and great time. ^~^
@@hankbarcelona7314 yea. I'm a high school dropout so that's not gonna work I'm afraid. Maybe I can be a mechanic for yall though
If you're a biologist you'll understand how laughably stupid some of the things said in this video are. "The ocean is so vast why cant the megalodon still exist?"
I absolutely love your use of credits in every video jacob. I always watch the video all the way to the end because you structure your videos in a way that simply can't allow skipping over the credits. Thank you for putting so much quality work into every video.
Thank you! I put a lot of work into the credits haha
This video blows
Do you absolutely love it?
@@billbally4419someone's got a grudge against video essays
Netflix's Sea Beast contains probably the single spookiest shot I saw in a movie/show last year. About halfway through, the big monster is shown as just a head looking up at the main characters from the depths, and then just sinks down until it disappears from view. Chills.
great scene! felt a little nauseous after that one 😂
That movie is so good tho
are u talking about the animated movie??
@@mrdomomrdomoThey are. It's called The Sea Beast
I know its for kids but that movie was absolutely horrible
thank you for allowing me to contribute a small part to this beautiful video !! im beyond honoured !!!
Ahhh I am obsessed with this song, and your voice!! Is there anywhere else I can listen to it, or support your work?
@@calliecilone9899 She has a few records released under Run For Cover Records, if I recall correctly? (They were all pretty great btw, definitely check them out!)
@@calliecilone9899 heya ! sorry i tried to reply earlier but i think i got caught in a spam filter ,, my bandcamp is linked in the descrip of this video ! :)))
oh shit I listen to your music
Omg I love your music so much, so cool to see that you worked on this video!
I'm an over the road trucker and listened to all of your video essays while driving mostly through the Southwest. It's a testament to their listenability and your descriptive nature without NEEDING to see the video, although I'm sure I'm missing out to a certain degree by being a safe, attentive driver. I love your videos and am grateful for every bit of work you put into these. Thank you very much for what you do.
Lol I need subtitles when he's outside. Also the metric measurements are nice when he shows them on the screen, wtf is a foot lmao
@@highdefinition450 That weird thing at the end of your leg.
@@highdefinition450 I'm American and I don't even know
"The sub wasn't designed for depth, so its been welded closed"
This aged well.
watching this while i crochet a giant squid stuffed animal. love your channel!!
That's awesome
As someone who has both been deeply interested in cryptozoology AND worked as a marine science educator, the question of where to draw the line between enrapturing myth and engrossing science that you describe has been one that I've personally felt. Mystery or discovery, analysis or storytelling. These days I get drawn towards the more scientific side to things, it helps us better protect and understand the world around us as well as how we affect it, but I still like to smile when people ask me if lake monsters exist. I like to think they do :)
Protect? You're supposed to kill the sea monsters, not join them.
@@MrCmon113 On god your comments are so cringe. Go away troll.
I haven’t watched this yet but I absolutely adore the “Fear of” series you have here. I can’t wait to sink my teeth into this and experience unspeakable terror
Unspeakable terror with a touch of melancholy and hope ❤
Revisiting this video with the recent disappearance of the OceanGate submersible. Truly a nightmare. It’s almost poetic, the fascination with the great unknown and the desire to explore the decaying wreck of the Titanic, has led even more people to a watery grave.
The Kraken appreciates said people's fascination/desire
Greetings from the future! They're all dead. Turned into something less than paste faster than a single thought could form in their heads.
@@SinHurr not a very nice way to talk about people. Be better.
@@TheManinBlack9054 that is literally what happened to them
There have been multiple safe, ethical, scientific expeditions to the wreck of the titanic, conducted with respect to those who died there and with the experience and equipment to preserve both the wreck and the sub.
This wasn't one of them.
A lack of basic safety features in a sub quite literally going out of it's depth meant death was inevitable
"but what do you do, when a dead god just... washes up on your front doorstep?"
what a fucking hard-hitting line
Cue the drowned giant movie
I really hope Jacob never stops the Fear Of videos, this trilogy is so incredibly special to me. These three videos have been just amazing inspiring life changing stuff. Thank you Jacob Geller
Caves, cold, and the deep. Recalled all of them instantly, heh.
Honestly, while its not part of the series by title, Ive always considered the video about houses to be also part of the series.
@@thewaffle003 Underwater cave exploring in the arctic be like
@@Reqviemus yeah the house video is definitely tangentially related in my mind except it's about the mystique and fear we assign to something of our own creation where as these are about the mystique and fear we assign to the world that is largely outside of our control.
I can't wait for Fear of Fucking Up My Order At The Family Outing To A Restaurant
That little post-credits photo showing your old class project is genuinely touching. This is largely a video about the depths, the abyssal cold - but that music with that photo felt so familiar and warm.
Exactly. These videos always are touching, in one way or another to me.
Fun fact for those who didn't know: 20,000 leagues is just shy of the earth's diameter, the title refers to the distance they traveled and not how deep they were.
EDIT: my math was way off, it's even bigger than the earth's circumference
It's actually almost 3 times the circumference of the earth, WAY over the diameter.
@@Andromedon777 nice catch, guess my math was off
@@spirto1279 I couldn't imagine pressure one would experience 20,000 leagues deep. That would make a neutron star I would imagine
Hi Jacob! You'll probably never see this comment since this video is a month old by now, but I just wanted you to know that this video gave me inspiration for a short story that I had to write for a creative writing class. I've sort of fallen out of practice with writing stories, and I thought I just wasn't good at it anymore. The idea of sailors stumbling upon a creature from the deep, only to discover it was just the weak one that floated to the top and the real dangers still lie below, gave me great inspiration. Thanks for this absolutely awesome video, and thank you for indirectly encouraging me to write a story that ended up winning a writing contest at my college :)
The ocean is more relatable to humanity than say HP Lovecrafts stories of indescribable monstrosities
congrats on your award!!
@@Killersquirrel111 Thank you!! It was a great surprise.
omg congrats!!! im currently sitting here with my mind running wild over the sentence “what do you do when a dead god just washes up at your doorstep”… i want to write something but idk what…
@@blizzard_the_seal9863 Thank you for the congrats, and I hope that you can write the story you want to tell! If it helps at all, don't start writing with a full plot and ending in mind. Instead, try writing the parts that you think are the coolest (such as the people discovering the dead god for the first time) and see if you can go from there. For example, what does it feel like, look like, smell like to encounter this dead god? How does the day begin for this character who discovers it, and how does this discovery change the day and the character themselves? Hope that helps!
While I am saddened by the the exclusion of Kos's washed up corpse in Bloodborne, this video was absolutely amazing.
It brings back a similar feeling of wonder and terror I felt towards the depths of the ocean when I was a kid, that same obsession with gargantuan leviathans lurking beneath the oceans surface, the daydreams of travelling the world as Jacques Custeau did.
If I see success in my life as a biologist, perhaps I too may witness one of these phenomena.
So thank you Jacob, for the newfound inspiration, and these magnificent 48 minutes.
I'm saddened by the exclusion of the Obra Dinn, but otherwise seconded.
Now I'm saddened that we could have had my two favourite games mentioned, thanks, guys! But really, I couldn't have said it better myself. Thank you!
@@brianb.6356 Oh yeah that'd be a great example. I started Obra Dinn, and even though I didn't finish I got to the part with the terrifying, all-encompassing [spoiler] memory. That was a neat game.
*Some say Kosm
when he said "what else could we do... when a god washes onto our beach" i was like "bloodborne reference!!!???"
Holy crap, your Fear Of series is just consistently so good and I love watching them every single time you make them. They are just such a delightful look into that which we find terrifying and your analyses are just so on point and delicious I love them.
The fear of cold video blew my fuckin mind. I paused every few minutes to give my roommate the play by play as I learned things. Horrific and nasty and intriguing
Now THIS is a man of passion. He truly seems to fervently and wholeheartedly care about the topic he's presenting.
What an incredible channel I've stumbled upon.
UA-cam recommended me this video today, can’t imagine why…
Hey, Jacob, just wanted to let you know that I'll be using this video as a source for an English graduate seminar paper in a Blue Humanities course. Can't tell you how excited I was to watch this. Your work is so good, not only creatively, but as an argument for the academic study of video games and a great genre example for people like me who want to explore video games in the humanities. I don't know how you do it, but I've never seen you miss. Fantastic, as always!
I’m particular fan of the brazen inclusion of the electronic wire mess behind Jacob. Made me look twice. Amazing writing and attention to detail as always!
it's scuba equipment!
@@JacobGeller I guess I needed to like three times! Very cool!!!
Just stopping by again because of the Oceangate situation. Absolutely terrifying situation to imagine yourself in.
The Kraken's enjoying it though
The Kraken's enjoying it though
I doubt they even knew something was wrong before they stopped existing. The collapse turned them into a paste quicker than a synapse from an eye reaches the brain and forms a thought.
As someone who had nightmares for years about the drawings of Kraken pulling down ships (and the staring, perpetual EYES), I'd like to congratulate you for this achievement of journalism and presentation. Your talent for making engaging and well-researched videos is awesome. Thank you for ruining my sleep tonight, I hope you have a fantastic day!
i have the same dreams of that and aquariums every single night since i was a kid!!!
My little sister also had these recurring nightmares as a child of these "staring, perpetual EYES" as you put it, but not from the Kraken but rather from dolls, and muppets. Something she has trouble looking at to this day as they "freak her out" as she puts it. She has autism, dont know if that has anything to do with it. Don't know why im sharing this but it made me think about her.
Video's giving me a sense of dread tho lol
@@MrBigCookieCrumble well, I'm autistic too, so maybe that's a commonality!
@@brianirwin8111 Your description did make me wonder about that. But i was a bit afraid to ask as i didn't want to come across as rude, thanks for sharing.
Hearing Mark Brown's voice randomly was such a fun addition. He has a great voice
Thank you, I was going insane thinking that I was confusing him with Mark. Stopped the video on the second paragraph read by Mark to see if anyone mentioned it.
true
Okay, so I'm not losing it! The instant I heard his voice I came to the comments to see if I was right xD
Jacob is really out here making a 50 minute recruitment video for the Vast.
he’s already done one for the buried, so
I understood that reference.
Wonder why this is trending again. Great timing.
Your previous "Fear of..." videos made me think of caves and the cold as Lovecraftian entities, so when I saw the title of this video, my mind immediately jumped to Cthulhu.
@@eliegbert8121 imagination is not a bad thing
@@eliegbert8121 no such thing
Your use of the journal on the mantle is incredibly effective at creating tension on so many levels. First, there's a pause, which in itself is a classic tension build. But then, there's the fact that you're reading from a book, which means this is something important enough to have been written down. But on top of that still is the fact that YOU'RE reading the book, so your audience knows this has to be something important but unexpected enough that you're making an effort to ensure you get what you say next exactly right. Subtle and ingenious, as is so much that you do!
You "Fear of" videos are my new favorite thing on youtube, hope you keep making more. Your narration/writing is absolutely 10/10, you nail the vibe of your writing.
at first, i didn't have a clue why everyone thought iron lung was so scary. its a sort-of-puzzel-game with grainy photos. but as i watched a play-through, the tension, the danger, the pressure grew so gently, imperceptibly, that by the last quarter... i understood. one of the best scary games out there.
It is honestly criminal that "In Other Waters" isn't as loved or well known about as similar indie games. I've never been so emotionally invested in a bunch of shapes on a screen. Well told story about what quantifies as life, existence, scientific endeavour, and a nice bit of Weyland-Yutani style corporate exploitation. It genuinely got me obsessed with marine documentaries for a solid couple of months after that.
My fave part is when you finally swim off the edge of reef the first time (where most of the game happens), and you go waay down into the deep, I found myself speaking in hushed tones. Like I unintentionally was treating the deep with both fear and reverence. Then you swim up in complete darkness and come across a whole series of bio-luminescent tentacles of some giant thing, but you've no idea of how big it really is. That left the hair standing on my neck. Honestly, I urge everyone to go play, "In Other Waters". Seriously, go do it now.
Seconded. It’s just fantastic. Jump Over The Age is a great game developer, and their second game Citizen Sleeper was also awesome.
I've really liked what I played but got stuck at one point and dropped it. Loved the storytelling, though.
For me this also extends into BIG creatures in the sky. The idea of being so large that it practically fades into view, either from under the water or through the clouds is both chilling and awe inspiring. The scene near the end of The Mist comes to mind
Even on a perfectly clear day, something supermassive but sitting so far away as to be tinged blue due to enough of our atmosphere to lie between it and us
Jean Jacket from the latest Jordan Peele's film 'NOPE' came to my mind
same here.
Reminds me of the show and manga Drifting Dragons
The first to my mind was the first time I encountered a dragon in Botw (Farosh specifically). Since the whole time you're fighting through the world, especially on edge at night for monsters, it was like a boss encounter but of a peaceful beast 💚
Your videos consistently elicit an emotion that causes me to feel both unbelievably fearful and alone yet also comforted, its hard to describe, you made a video about one of my biggest fears, I myself have thallasophobia, I've played subnautica and beaten it and it was an unbelievably terrifying experience, when I clicked on this video I expected to be scared of the things you talked about, to wind up sweating and stressed like almost every other video covering the ocean I've watched.... and yet somehow I feel unbelievably at ease, this... "thing" I had previously viewed as unbearably horrifying, talked about with a manor of grace and care as a parent to their child, you spoke of the scary parts about it, and yet... I feel like the sea is safer now. This won't change the fact that I'm never going into it, but I feel I now think of it with a sense of mesmerization rather than pure terror. You truly are a fantastic creator
Pausing 12 minutes in to appreciate and applaud your essay construction/flow.
This seems a cut above what I normally find on UA-cam.
My breath caught when you mentioned Series of Unfortunate Events. The "question mark" scene is probably the bit in any book that's stuck with me the most. It's where my fear of the ocean and the unknown began, and now I'm reminded of a line from Subnautica.
"We shouldn't have gone so deep... They do not want us down there."
Such a beautiful series. Haven’t really thought about it in over a decade, but I know it impacted me profoundly
I remember being obsessed with a rumour that became a creepypasta simply called 'the thing in the abyss', where a player descended 10km to the bottom of the abyss and comes into contact with a creature too big to comprehend. A basic diagram to show its location and scale, which puts it at least 10 times larger than the Aroura, tentacles a mile long covered in thousands of snapping maws and staring eyes, with a collossal central eye in the centre of its body mass. What sets the idea aside from other creepy stories is that there is a genuine sense of scale and believability. The creature exists at the bottom of a black and seemingly endless pit, and given the scale of the Aroura, the creature could be larger than the game's entire map.
i could be wrong since its been a while since ive read either series, but i think the question mark on the radar could be the bombinating beast from all the wrong questions, a series that takes place before a series of unfortunate events. i remember there being some kind of characteristic connecting the two, and there are a lot of things in all the wrong questions that show up later is a series of unfortunate events. i would definitely reccomend all the wrong questions if you havent read it already, it gives a lot of insight to the lore of both series.
Okay, I'm honestly baffled that you're able to make stuff like this as frequently as you do, as amazingly as you do.
It's inspiring.
Well done, once again.
Nice comment
@@SiIIster Nice reply
This video belongs in my "videos that I fall asleep to" playlist now
That iron lung bit hits differently after recent events
The depiction of the blob that washed up on Florida reminded me a lot of Lovecraft's At The Mountains of Madness, where he describes how the flesh of one found creature was aggressively durable and flexible to the point of breaking a chainsaw's teeth. We tend to see Lovecraft's tale as visionary and completely out of the blue, but I think he was just paying attention to the discoveries of his time. What with Antarctica being explored for the first time and our first steps into the depths of the ocean and realizing that there were still a few frontiers on Earth were man had still not (and has still not) fully conquered.
the iceburgs reminded me of that too. the impossibly large alien structures in the book. idk i didnt finish it
Shogoths or so i think
even though lovecraft was influential, it was merely incidental, and that most of his stories had to do with unfounded, disturbed, or otherwise problematic fears. fear of air conditioners, fear of tall buildings (not heights), and fear of race mixing, among other things. as much as i respect lovecraft's contribution to horror, he was only a jacked up individual.
Ah, the Shoggoths. Freaky protoplasmic blobs.
@@ericnguyen2444 He was batshit crazy and an absolute paranoid racist who, if he was alive today, would definitely be wearing a red baseball cap lined with tinfoil, but something about how his mind worked is truly terror-inducing, and I do think some of that was due to the nature of the time he grew up in, where science and myth (or rationality and religion) were still heavily blurred by the fact we were discovering things, but lacked the ability to truly understand what we were discovering, and our prejudices and ignorance still got in the way of us truly seeing what was actually going on.
His writing is essentially like a fever dream, where it's impossible to tell if there is something deep and cosmically horrifying going on, or if it's simply that the protagonist is imagining all of it from their hospital bed, and he bridged the gap between 19th century gothic horror writers like Shelley and Stoker, and 20th century social dystopian horror writers like Orwell and Huxley. I suspect he did pick up on some of the profound horrors of the day, like discoveries of giant beings living beneath the waves, but I also think he was tapping into that classic terror of not knowing if you're truly experiencing something, or just going completely mad.
i think you'd like the book "our wives under the sea" by julia armfield! it's about a marine biologist who returns from a deep-sea expedition and isn't quite herself, and the story follows her wife as she navigates terror and grief and the unknown., both in their personal lives and the ocean.
i love the reference to the series of unfortunate events. i was thinking of that scene from my childhood reading the grim grotto during the video
I also remember that in one of the other series written by Lemony Snicket, meant to tie into the Series, there is a lake which has dried up. in it, if I remember correctly, there are squids that breathe air and spray ink, and harvesting the ink has become a source of income for a local town, but there still exists the Great Unknown there. they never explain what it is, just that is there and survives and is terrifying
Never, has anyone made me feel such beauty when it comes to such common fears.
I love the deep anxiety I feel in my stomach when I imagine these goliaths lurking beneath the surface of the sea
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Every single video in this fear of series is incredible. Frankly I’ve yet to watch a video of yours that wasn’t incredibly profound. I wish I could make content just like this.
As someone who’s been watching videos like “top 10 deep sea creatures” as long as I’ve been allowed to watch UA-cam, this scratches an itch. As i say every time we encounter a new ocean creature, “I deeply respect the ocean, but I do not fuck with her”
This. I regularly think about that "Architecture of Alienation" video
The main issue with the idea of the Megalodon still being out there is its size. The amount it would need to eat flat out. Wouldn't be possible at the depths people claim it to be at. It would only find that at depths where we would absolutely find it.
Correct. People who regurgitate the whole "the ocean is really big and deep so it could be hiding down there!" line really do embody the Dunning-Kruger effect. They ignore that sharks tend to live in the upper layers of the water column, rarely diving down past a kilometer or two.
Well, its size alone isn't the problem. Larger animals actually need to eat less often. (deep sea gigantism would be an immediate extinction otherwise)
But the fact that it was an active hunter and likely had some degree of endothermic regulation would mean its metabolism is much, much higher than the average deep sea shark anyway.
That's the problem, the combination of activity, body temperature and size all together.
Jacobs series of "fears of x" are amongst my favourite creations on this site, I have never seen a bad video on this channel and this series really rises above, please don't stop what you're doing Jacob. Its magnificent.
Fantastic video as always! For anyone who wants a poem about this sort of thing, I’d highly recommend “The Death of the Loch Ness Monster” by Gwendolyn MacEwen. It starts with
“Consider that the thing has died before we proved it ever lived
and that it died of loneliness, dark lord of the loch,
fathomless Worm, great Orm, this last of our mysteries…”
I just read that poem, on your recommendation. Blistering.
I love the metric conversion at the left, it's so nice to have an American that hasn't forgotten that 95% of the world uses meters
And to think, youtube had been keeping this video from me--until theres an international story about a lost submersible
Poetic, in a certain sense
The amount of work in putting out videos exploring a concept over so many mediums and such a long history, with a storyteller as good as you are... It really can not be understated.
I really like long videos that focus on one topic, like emplemon’s video about rare objects.
I think, of the “fear of” video essays you’ve made, this is the one that speaks to me the most. I suffer from a serious phobia of the ocean.
Yes Dr. Bright me too i have this and i have arachnophobia a severe one sadly
Fear is something that can't really be controlled...
I understand your phobia, because I have it too and being in the water makes me so scared that I can't think properly.
My only urge is to get out of the water, far away from the sea.
It's kind of crazy...
I'm not scared of much but swimming in the sea when I can't see the bottom or swimming in murky rivers/lakes I cant stand it im genuinely terrified.
im watchng this rn and im alr crying and shaking at 7 minutes cuz i am terrified of tentacled creatures
i got jumpscared by a full page of a giant squid one time while flipping the page to read my book and fainted on the spot
@@amongwolves8372 tfw my anxiety gets bad taking a bath
This video is precisely one of my most instinctive and primordial fears! The scene in the Mass Effect 3 Leviathan DLC where the reaper progenitor looms out of the water in front of your mech suit made me truly feel like I was going to throw up. I wasn’t scared, more horrified, in a way that felt illogical and hard wired into me. This video also made me want to throw up, and I loved every second of it. The picture you took in Iron Lung was abhorrent, it was perfect.
This video is incredible. Your ability to create a cohesive and harmonious narrative out of various thematic threads has always astounded me. You create your story and then tell it so eloquently, like a bard. Every video essay you publish is a journey. Your storytelling is on another level. Thank you so much for sharing your art with the public.
Jacobs “Fear Of” videos are my favourite ones on his channel by far
Your "Fear Of" series is literally one of the best things on the internet. Thank you for all the hard work you put into making these videos!
I think the idea mentioned of unknown things being classified into known animals is shown very well in scp 1762, where the dragons went. I cant remember exactly how it went but the main takeaway is that our desire to learn everything we possibly can and to find out exactly how things work and exist makes us lose our wonder of the unknown and the magic in the world that we also lose as we grow up
Well, Iron Lung became surprisingly relevant.
You look up one thing about an implosion now my recommendations are just brothers telling me how scary the ocean is. thanks Titan.
What gets *me* is water in caves or abandoned mines. So eerily still, so deep, dark, and alien. The call of the void hits me somewhat differently in such places. I can feel the void calling, but I know that there, unlike a normal dry(ish) cave, the call is not from within me. It might sound like I'm trying to be poetic, but that is legitimately the best way I can put it. I am scared out of my mind by the deep still water in caves. What lies at the bottom? What would happen to me if I fell in? How deep does it go, how many twists and turns are there that've never even seen the tiniest hint of a divers flashlight let alone the sun? Such pools often seem to be "yawning", not in a human way but in the way of a ragged mouth waiting to swallow me whole, never to be released.
I am just now realising another power that the depths have over us. Scrolling through these comments, and having made one myself, it’s striking how this subject seems to elicit near-poetry out of so many who write on it, whether they tend to the poetic or prosaic the rest of the time. I think that’s kind of a beautiful counterpoint to our shared fear: it brings with it a sense of wonder 🥰
I feel like for me, my fear deep water and monsters lurking in it is one that I actually like to trigger. Whenever I look at a picture or a video of a sea creature or even just the deep ocean it’s so uncomfortable and unnerving but I just can’t look away, I find myself just looking this kinda stuff up.
I can definitely relate it's reached to a point where I seek out no sleep creepy pastas about monsters in deep water to listen too So I can sleep at night
This video is good and all, but every veteran subnautica player knows that with a knife and a stasis rifle, you are the eldritch god of that world
The reaper leviathan being thrown into the intro with actual video footage was hilarious
Incredible opening, listening to it and just punching the air at how great Jacob's writing has gotten
agreed
I had to pause it after that intro to see the 1st comment that mentioned this, thought the same exact thing , Jacob is the man
Out of all the shorts in love death and robots, the Drowned Giant left me with a profound sick sadness. I couldn't get over it, and still can't. It just makes me want to cry and I don't understand why. This actually helped me figure out a bit of those feelings though and I appreciate that! I adore the videos you make, and the quotes you add too!
Should I watch that show?
@@an_egg_cultist yes it's a really good series if you're into sci-fi and short films.
i think it made me sad to see something strange after its lost all potential, and to see the way that the people in the village treated it like a piece of trash despite its resemblance to them. Its disrespectful, but also the unknowingness of the giant instantly begs the question of how and where?
the melacholy vibes in that episode always stuck with me
I forgot that I need to watch that show. Thanks for reminding me
Glacier calving is one of the most awesome (in the sudden sense of personal scale sense of the word) things I have ever seen. I kayaked into the backcountry of Prince William Sound, Alaska for a summer of camping and got to spend three months seeing how alive glaciers really are
I live near lake mead and remember when those human remains were found. I swam in that lake as a kid I once had my birthday out at its beach, but even back then i was entranced by the deep water and what lies below. Back then i wasnt thinking human remains but rather what life may be down there, while ive been to many lakes since and been on plenty of open ocean the day i found out about those remains was the first time my curiosity of deep water has come back just as strong as it was back then.
the "oh god, i need to lie down" trilogy is complete.
(banger music choices throughout, as always, but katie dey's finisher was absolutely perfect.)
Just wanted to appreciate 19:40 going from a seamless long unedited take of you explaining multiple parts of the kraken including reading excerpts of the book Kraken, to a perfect match cut
Anyone who enjoys a story about a giant squid should read Toilers of the Sea, by Victor Hugo. The squid stretches like a menacing presence throughout the book, staying hidden until very late, which somehow makes him more terrifying. You dread its presence, because you know it's here, lurking, unseen. The descriptions are amazing.
I don't think I've ever really been scared by what is underneath the water. It more fascinates me than anything else. We've discovered so much, and we are currently in the process of ruining a lot of it, so it's almost hopeful in a way that there is still stuff that we haven't touched yet.
Why don't you go join your mermaid kingdom under the sea?
I am once again in absolute awe of your writing style. The way in which you so seamlessly join the thematics of such a variety of media and the real world never ceases to amaze me. This particular video is definitely something I never would have thought about with regards to the deep ocean- I too am both fascinated and terrified of it, but this really drew me in and made me wonder why it is I fear it at all. It is another world that neither you or I are a part of, and that is no good reason to fear it. Delighting in the mystery of the unkown is something I think all people can relate to in one way or another, and expanding that attitude into different areas of our lives and the world can make for a far more enjoyable existence.
Salt Lake City resident who loves your channel but my wife is a water and sanitation engineer for the city and, we don’t drink from the lake. The lake is extremely briny even now. We drink, effectively, the snow melt that replenishes reservoirs in the surrounding mountains that themselves replenish the lake. Which complicates matters as we have to allow water into the lake despite a booming population.
should have made that more clear, yeah. The amount of drinking water will be affected by the shrinking lake, but it's not coming directly out of there (as you know).
@@JacobGeller idk. Just a fun fact. I’d have maybe said it the way you did for clarity.
You need at least 10 million subscribers this is excellent
I still think this is probably your best video yet. Everything about it just comes together and really shows off what your style of storytelling is about. I keep finding myself coming back to this video because it really just is beautiful
For a moment, I thought Jacob would refference The Thing That Drifted Ashore. This short story by Junji Ito stuck with me for years despite not even being his strongest work. But the video is still incredible. Thank you for your hard work Jacob.
Thanks for the recommendation!
This "Fear of..." Series might be some of my favorites that you do, good stuff!
Oh man, I love how you keep playing the swashbuckling music as soon as you get to the exciting parts of the story every single time.
Coming back for another listen after the Titan Submersible incident.
Dude, you got Mark Brown from Game Maker's Toolkit to do narration!
You know, for a bunch of things that evolved from one of the worst family of swimmers on the planet, we find ourselves inexorably drawn back to the oceans of our world time and time again. It is a world that is absolutely inhospitable to us, but somehow... it is a memory of the cradle, long forgotten but never entirely out of the mind.
Dude, I jumped when I heard his voice. So happy that he's doing narration with that beautiful voice of his
yeah wtf i thought this was a collab
What
Can’t wait till humanity goes past 5% past of the discovered ocean cause there’s more life, more kaijus, and more scientific discoveries to be made…. Although dangerous, cold, and wet it’s more then possible, I just hope the government doesn’t cover it up and keep ( us ) the masses ignorant…they already stopped telling us about giant human bone discovery…
Jacob straight up just took a Wikipedia list of phobias and made a series of top-quality essays based on that. Legend.
But for real, I really appreciate your style of analysis. In this STEM-dominated world, the humanities are losing relevance all the time, and even media analysis can be shockingly dry and "logical" (but dripping with anti-intellectualism at the same time). There's a lot of videos that don't even look beyond the textual in media - they can straight up ignore obvious metaphors (compare - clips shown in the Folding Ideas' Annihilation video).
It's good to have a video essayist that understands how important humanities are, and that can express emotions in such an effective way. Your enthusiasm is contagious, and I almost feel like you're the cure to this sad trend.
this is one of the best videos I've ever seen
If anyone is interested, the explanation for what The Great Unknown in The Grim Grotto comes in Who Could That Be At This Hour? The story follows Lemony Snicket as a kid investigating the disappearance of a statue about the size of a milk bottle. The town in which the story takes place is sitting at the bottom of a dried-up lake bed and the statue is a mythic creature that's said to have lived in the lake called The Bombinating Beast and it says that the beast was shaped like a question mark
the comparison of ocean to space is so charmingly human. we named our entire planet after the small fraction we can inhabit, making sea creatures "unearthly" just by definition. silly humans, our planet is just as much theirs!
Honestly one of your better titles yet. Punchy, concise, descriptive, and just slightly ironic in how such an amazingly made video contains "Big Things" in it's title. 10.3/10
This video is all the more pertinent with the recent Titanic tour…
The Kraken is grateful for the free meal
I think it came up as recommended for me after I was looking at a video of it online
@@yiqewspensorthe kraken says eat the rich
Honestly, after watching this video, if their families did care about the ones they lost, they should take comfort in their death being instantaneous instead of painful and drawn out
I was a victim at phuket (thailand) of the 2004 tsunami, my family was at the beach as the water started pulling back, it pulled back so far you could no longer see the water at all, looking more like a desert, then… it all came back in the form of a tsunami destroying everything in its path.
Just like your video on “fear of cold” to me is similar to how i see water, a part of nature, even needed for survival, but deadly if disrespected.