Tom Scott was making videos for yearrrrs before he got anywhere near to the success he has today. I'm sure he can get there too! i haven't found a new channel i like as much as this one in a loooong time
I've been binge watching your channel since it appeared in my feed about 3 days ago. I love the history behind all the New England cemeteries, random monuments, as well as the quirky stories; I always found things like that so interesting and endearing! The way you tell the stories of long deceased people is just so sweet and respectful.
This island is in a pond that was part of the greater Boston water supply for MANY decades and was fenced off and off limits to the public. Water was offline for many decades and finally fences came down and access was allowed again. You can tell by the tree carving that people went anyways and many kids drowned here at night "illegally" swimming. Many many colorful stories about this area. TTOR started in this area.
It's interesting how almost all the sources have the stone saying "Here Shute Fell" rather than "Where Shute Fell." Being second or third hand accounts it's definitely understandable to get a detail like that slightly wrong, but still interesting that most of them err the same way. I suppose "Here Shute Fell" is the more natural wording on a marker like this.
Maybe we can use this to construct which tellings are closer to the source, or at least where they stand in one branch of this folktale's "family tree," similar to what's anthropologists and linguists use when studying oral history.
What blows my mind is that if one of the more serious versions of the story is true (that is, if the rock is not a joke between friends, but a place where someone died), that means that the death of this Shute guy was important enough to warrant a monument, but for some reason no one wrote it down.
You know I don't wanna be 'that guy" but I'm a little suspicious about how easily he was able to just find them transcripts. The first one is obviously real, it's the lucky one you bring everyday. The second one, real, everybody brings a backup. But under a rock?? Seems a little odd to me
I hardly ever comment on videos but I just wanted to let you know I love your videos. Your delivery and production is great! You are sure to hit it big soon. Keep up the great work!
Love how some of the stories are like a super grand last-stand kind of thing and the other ones are like "oh yeah some guy got drunk and shot a gun and fell over." Also this channel is like my favorite find on youtube in forever
Seems like all the American Shutes started with that first governor of Massachusetts & New Hampshire Samuel Shute 1721 on, and a whole line of 'em were around that area. I think the most interesting one you find are the painters Ruth & Samuel Shute. Surprised none of the stories mention them, they just seem eccentric enough and in the right place and time.
He Shutes, he scores! Unquestionably the most interesting and entertaining video I've seen in a while. Well done. Now I am wondering if the person who erected that stone did so purely to cause speculation, and the joke's on all of us over the centuries. There's no place like New England.
I have been watching your channel obsessively. My profession is medieval history, but you’ve inspired me to do some digging around my own old town in florida and see what mysteries i can find. Thanks for the awesome videos and all the work you do. Cheers
I really appreciate the work you put into these videos. I imagine going out of your way to find all these locations is very time consuming. I also think that you’re doing a great thing by keeping history alive. Sure, there are more well known and significant events, but history is ultimately the story of us, and that includes the smaller details that we may overlook, and unfortunately, forget. Thanks :)
Speaking of islands in lakes idk if this is true but Lake Pearl (Wrentham MA) has a island (no clue it could be private or could just be a empty island) and my uncle used to tell me there was a hermit that lived on the island. be this my uncles way of scaring us into not trying to swim out there or his way of messing with us like sending us to get underwater wrenches sadly I will never know but. i swear every island in a pond has some cool legends. Keep up the awesome job dude!
The duelling story seems most likely to me. It's a big rock to haul out that far for a (fairly feeble) joke. More something you'd do to try to commemorate a loss. The duelling story fits with the local history about it being used for illegal boxing. Although widely tolerated, duelling was also illegal, and many duels were held in places away from settlements, especially where the legal jurisdictions were unclear, so as to avoid legal repercussions. Islands in rivers and lakes were particularly popular sites. The exact same factors that made it a good place for a bareknuckle fight would have made it an appealing spot for a duel. 'Fell' is still a common euphemism for people being killed in combat, whereas if it was put up as a joke you'd expect something a little more obviously humorous.
I’m from Boston and I live in Wakefield lately. That pond is just ten minutes down the street and I’ve never once thought about going out on it before. Now I want to go have a snack on the island!
I’ve been binge watching your videos for a couple hours now, I dig the history! We have a sight here in Milford,CT right off 95, Liberty Rock and a bunch of revolutionary war stuff, liberty rock is a good video idea plus, there is a marker of a soldier trying to get home after battle and died there. Morbid but, interesting history. Just passing it along in case you need ideas.
I grew up in Wilmington and had no idea the history of spot pond. I am aware of its existence but didn't know about any history. Great work. and what luck you found a giving tree, giving you some Boston globe articles. Silver lake in Wilmington is known to be a mystery, growing up i heard it was created by an underground well that filled it up and now there is an old homestead underneath the surface, also a lot of people have passed away trying to swim across the pond, because there is some sort of suction located in the center of the pond. I recommend doing a video on that if you can find any information on it!
The jokes make more sense, yet it's hard to believe the stories where they get the inscription wrong are correct. As it being a marker for someone dying, that would seem right except that I can't imagine someone wouldn't have put a year on it if it marked a death. ... I wonder if there's an old granite quarry around that keeps its ancient sales records.
As a Shute descendant, I can tell you for a fact they were not Puritans. Quite the other. They were Anglicans when they ever showed up for Church. Better known for their mariner skills from Boston to trade with the pro-French Indians for furs in Canada or involved in the rum/slave trade in the Caribbean. The Shutes arrived in Boston by 1640 and once owned enough property on the North End that the present Battery alley used to be called Shute alley. By 1670 they owned a Caribbean house slave in Boston. No, the story is not pretty. They were 17th century bad boys in spades and I doubt the line improved over time. If you ever come up with a first name for the Shute in question I can probably tell you who he is.
If anyone uses social media, I do not, please share this channel. New England has such a rich history and DSA does a great job with it. I live in SEMA and have seen a lot of "odd" things while walking trials.
You are so enjoyable and a great and entertaining and humorous story teller. My only thought is that a family member would have some words of love, and Puritans would have some mention of God or a cross. What a conundrum. I loved all the stories growing on trees!
Another fascinating tale. Love the channel. By the way, as some people have probably said, when I was a kid, we had 10 cent or dime stores. Today times have changed and we have dollar stores. Shouldn't your channel be called "Dollar Store Adventures"? No. Doesn't have the same ring to it. "Dime Store Adventures" brings to mind the old dime novels, which were even before my time. Sounds much more exciting. Well, I'm going back to sleep now until the nurse brings my medication.😊❤❤❤
The artwork diagram of the monument at 11:17 wasn't very accurate, the letters are much smaller than on the real stone. I think if you can find a professor of history and archaeology you can get some answers about the style of carved lettering and when it would have been carved. And the age of the hole in the ground where the stone is sitting might also be able to be determined by the surrounding soil (radiocarbon dating). And the marks on the edge of the stone look like it was maybe quarried from somewhere so it should be possible to determine what the source of the stone, and what years the quarry was in operation.
Honestly it's kinda funny how much people complain about how the media used to have so much journalistic integrity or whatever, and 90% of articles from 50 or 100 years ago are just "Hey here's a thing I heard from some random guy"
No one really knows the history of this stone. It makes me want to get a confusing messages engraved on another block of granite and hide it somewhere else in the fells :D
I feel like the 2 of those stories that claim someone named Shute died there, could be confirmed or not confirmed though. Obituary's and death records from the area.
People always ask "where shute fell" not "how shute feels."
I will do you one better.. why shute fell?
@@manish0987one better.. should Shute fell
Always asking “where shute fell” not “how was shutes fall”
I want to know "What Shute Fell"
Given how long ago Shute fell… I’m thinking that he feels nothing anymore 🤷♂️
This really gives original UA-cam vibes. The screen ratio, the commentary style, the filming. Nostalgic.
Yes... It's original, well presented with excellent subject matter. I am now a fan. ;>
One of the, if not THE most underrated documentary channel on UA-cam. How you haven't reached Tom Scott levels of success I have no idea.
Tom Scott was making videos for yearrrrs before he got anywhere near to the success he has today. I'm sure he can get there too! i haven't found a new channel i like as much as this one in a loooong time
@@elladumpsterfireWell I plan to stick around for the ride, maybe one day he'll also be lifted away into the sky...
Plot twist: someone put the stone up to see how many stories were made up to explain it.
I think this is part of what this is all about. Unravelling the plot twists.
I've been binge watching your channel since it appeared in my feed about 3 days ago. I love the history behind all the New England cemeteries, random monuments, as well as the quirky stories; I always found things like that so interesting and endearing! The way you tell the stories of long deceased people is just so sweet and respectful.
Very interesting. The fact that the stone has remained for over 100 years is also pretty cool, just out on a random little island.
This island is in a pond that was part of the greater Boston water supply for MANY decades and was fenced off and off limits to the public. Water was offline for many decades and finally fences came down and access was allowed again. You can tell by the tree carving that people went anyways and many kids drowned here at night "illegally" swimming. Many many colorful stories about this area. TTOR started in this area.
My memory is good with obscure newspaper articles and dates, some of them are full of shute. Thanks for an entertaining and enjoyable presentation
This video has major "point-and-click mystery computer game" energy
All those spare transcripts were killing me! 😂 Your videos are so entertaining!
An ancestor of Dwight Shute I’m sure.
Wow! That’s only 15 minutes from my house and my wife and I have been looking for places to go kayaking!
It's interesting how almost all the sources have the stone saying "Here Shute Fell" rather than "Where Shute Fell." Being second or third hand accounts it's definitely understandable to get a detail like that slightly wrong, but still interesting that most of them err the same way.
I suppose "Here Shute Fell" is the more natural wording on a marker like this.
Maybe we can use this to construct which tellings are closer to the source, or at least where they stand in one branch of this folktale's "family tree," similar to what's anthropologists and linguists use when studying oral history.
This is a ridiculously entertaining video, I got more than a few genuine laughs from it! This channel is an absolute treasure
What blows my mind is that if one of the more serious versions of the story is true (that is, if the rock is not a joke between friends, but a place where someone died), that means that the death of this Shute guy was important enough to warrant a monument, but for some reason no one wrote it down.
That's an excellent point!
Man, you are absolutely nuts. But I love it. This is one of the best channels I have ever stumbled across.
These videos are a lot of fun especially as a native of Massachusetts
"Where Shute Fell" has the same energy as "Darmok and Jalad at Tenagra".
You know I don't wanna be 'that guy" but I'm a little suspicious about how easily he was able to just find them transcripts. The first one is obviously real, it's the lucky one you bring everyday. The second one, real, everybody brings a backup. But under a rock?? Seems a little odd to me
Damn! I was not aware how good my memory and luck are! Time for some Blackjack!
This one gets 5 stars. Loved the journey you took us on and how you wrapped it up. Beautiful work!
I love the storytelling of this one, it's so unique!
I hardly ever comment on videos but I just wanted to let you know I love your videos. Your delivery and production is great! You are sure to hit it big soon. Keep up the great work!
There is a small island on Lake Quinsigamond that also has a mysterious stone monument.
Another great vid. Glad to have so many of your old vids to go through, I've enjoyed every single one of them so far.
absolutely love the bit of this video, extremely entertaining! put a smile on my face in a tough time :)
Love how some of the stories are like a super grand last-stand kind of thing and the other ones are like "oh yeah some guy got drunk and shot a gun and fell over."
Also this channel is like my favorite find on youtube in forever
Kind of weird that most articles incorrectly quote the inscription of the stone as HERE Shute fell instead of the correct WHERE
He does it not only to be popular (like most UA-camrs) but because he likes it... fun, hobby😊 and sharing knowledge. I love it! 😅
*The graffiti on the tree is simultaneously fascinating and discouraging*
Dude, your enthusiasm captured me! Had to subscribe!
Seems like all the American Shutes started with that first governor of Massachusetts & New Hampshire Samuel Shute 1721 on, and a whole line of 'em were around that area.
I think the most interesting one you find are the painters Ruth & Samuel Shute. Surprised none of the stories mention them, they just seem eccentric enough and in the right place and time.
Why are people proud of hiding on a roof taking pot shots at unarmed protestors? What a coward act.
I learned to swim on Spot Pond back in the 1960’s.
He Shutes, he scores! Unquestionably the most interesting and entertaining video I've seen in a while. Well done. Now I am wondering if the person who erected that stone did so purely to cause speculation, and the joke's on all of us over the centuries. There's no place like New England.
I have been watching your channel obsessively. My profession is medieval history, but you’ve inspired me to do some digging around my own old town in florida and see what mysteries i can find. Thanks for the awesome videos and all the work you do. Cheers
very interesting
I really appreciate the work you put into these videos. I imagine going out of your way to find all these locations is very time consuming.
I also think that you’re doing a great thing by keeping history alive. Sure, there are more well known and significant events, but history is ultimately the story of us, and that includes the smaller details that we may overlook, and unfortunately, forget. Thanks :)
Nice work Dude. Dramatic presentation is compelling, thanks
Thank you - very entertaining.
This went perfectly with my morning coffee :)
I wish I could have morning coffe rn but it’s 4:40 pm
Dang, this makes me want to put up a mysterious stone monument of my own.
Speaking of islands in lakes idk if this is true but Lake Pearl (Wrentham MA) has a island (no clue it could be private or could just be a empty island) and my uncle used to tell me there was a hermit that lived on the island. be this my uncles way of scaring us into not trying to swim out there or his way of messing with us like sending us to get underwater wrenches sadly I will never know but. i swear every island in a pond has some cool legends. Keep up the awesome job dude!
My Shute ancestors didn’t arrive in the US until 1802. I’ve fallen many times, but never in Massachusetts.
I like how you always formulate some sort of lesson or even a philosophical whimsy into the end of your videos.
Very entertaining! Thank you!
The duelling story seems most likely to me. It's a big rock to haul out that far for a (fairly feeble) joke. More something you'd do to try to commemorate a loss. The duelling story fits with the local history about it being used for illegal boxing. Although widely tolerated, duelling was also illegal, and many duels were held in places away from settlements, especially where the legal jurisdictions were unclear, so as to avoid legal repercussions. Islands in rivers and lakes were particularly popular sites. The exact same factors that made it a good place for a bareknuckle fight would have made it an appealing spot for a duel. 'Fell' is still a common euphemism for people being killed in combat, whereas if it was put up as a joke you'd expect something a little more obviously humorous.
11:17 possibly the earliest ASCII art ever recorded?
I’m from Boston and I live in Wakefield lately. That pond is just ten minutes down the street and I’ve never once thought about going out on it before.
Now I want to go have a snack on the island!
Awww, reminds me of how my family memorializes my mistakes, too. ❤
Thank you I am definitely binge watching. LOL
I’ve been binge watching your videos for a couple hours now, I dig the history! We have a sight here in Milford,CT right off 95, Liberty Rock and a bunch of revolutionary war stuff, liberty rock is a good video idea plus, there is a marker of a soldier trying to get home after battle and died there. Morbid but, interesting history. Just passing it along in case you need ideas.
Must be quite a site.
Love your videos ! Keep up the good work !
If someone made a video game about having ADHD the gameplay would work like this video lol. So funny
I grew up in Wilmington and had no idea the history of spot pond. I am aware of its existence but didn't know about any history. Great work. and what luck you found a giving tree, giving you some Boston globe articles.
Silver lake in Wilmington is known to be a mystery, growing up i heard it was created by an underground well that filled it up and now there is an old homestead underneath the surface, also a lot of people have passed away trying to swim across the pond, because there is some sort of suction located in the center of the pond. I recommend doing a video on that if you can find any information on it!
Plot twist: it's a mass grave and there's dozens of Shutes buried there.
This is great storytelling but WHO thinks to tell the story this way. When he got to the Boston Globe I laughed audibly, out loud even.
sometimes on nice evenings half the town walks around that pond. it is nice.
A lot of history is like this. "I wonder if he was telling the truth?" Also, picking the story you think really happened is part of it too.
The jokes make more sense, yet it's hard to believe the stories where they get the inscription wrong are correct. As it being a marker for someone dying, that would seem right except that I can't imagine someone wouldn't have put a year on it if it marked a death.
... I wonder if there's an old granite quarry around that keeps its ancient sales records.
As a Shute descendant, I can tell you for a fact they were not Puritans. Quite the other. They were Anglicans when they ever showed up for Church. Better known for their mariner skills from Boston to trade with the pro-French Indians for furs in Canada or involved in the rum/slave trade in the Caribbean. The Shutes arrived in Boston by 1640 and once owned enough property on the North End that the present Battery alley used to be called Shute alley. By 1670 they owned a Caribbean house slave in Boston. No, the story is not pretty. They were 17th century bad boys in spades and I doubt the line improved over time. If you ever come up with a first name for the Shute in question I can probably tell you who he is.
That story was "Sick"! ❤️
Pretty cool 😎
I love the idea of a wrestling island. That’s my favorite version of the story.
I laughed way too hard at the "Boston globe articles grow on trees here!"
If anyone uses social media, I do not, please share this channel. New England has such a rich history and DSA does a great job with it. I live in SEMA and have seen a lot of "odd" things while walking trials.
Nice story. What's the song at the end?
This made me laugh more than it should have
You are so enjoyable and a great and entertaining and humorous story teller. My only thought is that a family member would have some words of love, and Puritans would have some mention of God or a cross. What a conundrum. I loved all the stories growing on trees!
Another fascinating tale. Love the channel. By the way, as some people have probably said, when I was a kid, we had 10 cent or dime stores. Today times have changed and we have dollar stores. Shouldn't your channel be called "Dollar Store Adventures"? No. Doesn't have the same ring to it. "Dime Store Adventures" brings to mind the old dime novels, which were even before my time. Sounds much more exciting. Well, I'm going back to sleep now until the nurse brings my medication.😊❤❤❤
The artwork diagram of the monument at 11:17 wasn't very accurate, the letters are much smaller than on the real stone. I think if you can find a professor of history and archaeology you can get some answers about the style of carved lettering and when it would have been carved. And the age of the hole in the ground where the stone is sitting might also be able to be determined by the surrounding soil (radiocarbon dating). And the marks on the edge of the stone look like it was maybe quarried from somewhere so it should be possible to determine what the source of the stone, and what years the quarry was in operation.
Are you going to pay for all this?
Man! What favorable odds!
Why did the algorithm take so long to lead me to this channel?
I used to drive past this place on the way to my great Aunt's house.
But this is Massachusetts where the Boston globe grows on trees had me laughing hard enough to scare my cat.
Kinda sus that your lucky card is a queen of spades...
Lmaoooo😂😂
Porn addict 😂
Interesting approach with this vid. Not sure how I feel about the sketch but the info is top tier as usual!
Dude, You are a riot!😂
I see those quarry marks. It's clearly a bit from the wrack on Block Island.
“Sick”
In the future when I go visit this island I better find that transcript under that rock.
Honestly it's kinda funny how much people complain about how the media used to have so much journalistic integrity or whatever, and 90% of articles from 50 or 100 years ago are just "Hey here's a thing I heard from some random guy"
maybe the true shute were stones we carved along the way
A korok hiding spot if ever I saw one
Where Shute Fell reminds me of Eats Shoots Leaves.
Great video.
No one really knows the history of this stone. It makes me want to get a confusing messages engraved on another block of granite and hide it somewhere else in the fells :D
This is bizarre but seems interesting
My money is on one of the stories where Shute died. It just makes more sense to memorialize that sort of thing.
Ha ha ha ha ha This is great. 😃
I don't remember hearing anything about this, must have hit my head.
Officer, I'd like to report a mugging...
There's probably a story across the street from the zoo, Haywardville . Hayward rubber Co.
Fun ❤
Genius
Neville Shute?
So that's how you can judge people! By their "Where Shute Fell" story.
I feel like the 2 of those stories that claim someone named Shute died there, could be confirmed or not confirmed though. Obituary's and death records from the area.
If records were even made at the time, let alone if they survived.
It’s me!
A boatman. At Great Island. When Shute fell.
Dang what ARE the odds?
the source bit was good