British Cryptids: The Cumbrian Dregpike
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- Опубліковано 17 жов 2024
- "British fishermen have long been known to exaggerate the size of ‘the one that got away’. In fact, some stretches of water in these Isles have produced consistent reports of abnormally large fish, dating back centuries. But despite innumerable accounts over hundreds of years, there is at least one freshwater creature that has so far eluded scientific discovery. If reports are to be believed, it has claimed dozens of lives in England’s Lake District. Resembling a gigantic pike but possessing a horse’s mane and hind legs, it goes by many names: Viking settlers called it the Slœdgadda. But in Cumbrian dialect, it is known as the Dregpike."
Produced in 1974, the British Cryptids films were presumably destined to be sold to a UK broadcaster - either BBC or ITV - but they seem to only have been shown at schools and ended up languishing in public libraries.
Sadly, the video files recovered from the Internet Archive (which no longer seem to be online) were of poor quality and incomplete. The fragments are presented here as we found them. We leave it to the viewer to imagine what may be missing.
Amongst the titles we were able to acquire are: ‘Yorkshire Yeti’, ‘Hereford Twiggywitch’, ‘Stag Men’, ’Souter Sea Wolf’ and ‘The Woodwose of Cannock Chase’, but the catalogue numbers on each film suggest that there could be many more.
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I swear I've seen that final image of the Dregpike running before! I think it might have been in my grandfather's hands for some time, as he liked to collect this sort of curious images. I think it was just a print, not the original. What a coincidence to see it again!
Fascinating! I wonder if you still have any of your grandfather's photos?
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Thanks for showing me this channel mi I've been binge watching
This channel is criminally undersubscribed.
We're trying B S!!
Along with the woodwose video, this is the best I've seen on this channel They are so much better and more convincing than the ones with jarring and ill fitting AI
What a fantastic storyteller! You are a great narrator and this has fantastic editing etc. I’d never heard of this cryptid, this was fascinating x
Thank you for your kind comments @Embercant
What an incredible story I had never heard of a Dreg Pike. The final image of it chasing the hunt is somewhat chilling.
I love that you guys never break kayfabe! I'd love to see you produce a feature length TV show/movie.
Appreciate that @Grandmastergav86 !
I have never heard of this before. It is absolutely fascinating!!! I fish in the Lake District myself. I love cryptids, especially Sasquatch but I believe all these stories are just so strange they have to be true!! Thanks for posting!! Subbed!!
@@enlightenedone7141 Thank you 👍🏻
I can't get enough of these; so densly-packed and evocative.
Thank you Stuart - very much appreciated!
8:16 went swimming there couple weeks back for the last day of school with some friends. Probably wouldn't of gone in knowing this account during that time 😂
some good classic accounts there and photos. Makes you wonder. Cheers
Thank you so much Kelly. It certainly does make one think...
Them: Do you believe we went to the moon?
Me: actually not nearly as much as I believe in man eating hairy fish with horses hind legs
Thank you Mark 😂
I have never heard of this type of water horse/kelpie before, good video!!
So glad I found this channel, your aesthetic is incredibly nostalgic and well made, I'm sure you'll blow up! (Also as an East Anglian I'm hoping we get an episode on the Black Shuck)
Thank you for your kind words Doctor!
That´s a case for freshwater detective Jeremy Wade...
this is so well-done! now i wish we had an ikea-style plushie of the dregpike....
It’s an idea 💡😂
These videos are put together amazingly and I can confirm certain aspects of these reports as a cumbrian native.
16:07 - well, that was certainly illuminating!
How this channel doesn't have a million subs is crazy. Favourite channel
Thank you for your kind comment Jimmy! Busy restoring the next instalment right now 👍🏻
In southern Scandinavia we have Bäckahästen (the Stream Horse), very much alike the Kelpie.
And, sadly, much too real.
Thanks for that Olab! Water horses - that is: amphibious or aquatic equine creatures with fish fins - are fairly common across Northern Europe. What makes the Cumbrian Dregpike unusual is that it has the body of a fish and only the mane and the back legs of a horse.
Great editing and atmosphere! love it
Thank you so much!
Stunning. Thanks for all your hard work retrieving this treasure. May you have similar luck in future searches for new episodes of British Cryptids!
This is work of the highest quality so many thanks for all your efforts.
Thank you so much Paul 🙏🏻
Thank you so much for your support and kind comments Paul.
If it wasn't so extensively documented, I would imagine that it was some sort of spinosaur. A group of biped, carnivorous dinosaurs known for their slender snouts and affinity for aquatic environments.
Maybe a highly evolved relative of the endemic Baryonyx that exchanged the saurian tail for a mane-like crest of feathers.
That is a great hypothesis Gandalf. Perhaps the answer lies somewhere in there.. As the film explains, there is at least one documented relict fish living in one lake in Cumbria. Maybe other species were trapped and survive there?
@@whinnymoor8155 yeah likely. But I Cuz I've remember an some sort of legend my freinds grandfather told me. Like it's 1959. Summer and there and the police found some girls It was a mother and daughter and the mother had loads of wounds. And died due to them however the daughter was freaking out and said two legged lizards attacked them. I can't remember where this was. But however. I think he said there was a tail his father told him about a featherless bird with scalies attacking livestock. I don't know what era this was on tho.
@@mackenzieglidden2968 Interesting story, MacKenzie
doesn't sound like a spinosaur to me though.
The Cumbrian Gertdog may be an interesting follow up
These videos are always so good!
Very kind of you to say so Konggodzuko!
Only finding this channel now. My god you need more eyes on this. Amazing style! Not sure if actual old doc footage or some fantastic editing and writing. I have my suspicions but I'll never tell 🤫😉
Thank you so much BoyGhost!
Love this video! Great atmosphere and presentation throughout, and can't wait to see what's next!
Thank you very much Yohanes.
Thank you Yohanes - it is inspiring to know it is appreciated!
Has the image of the running dregoike resurfaced in recent decades? Does anybody in the comments know if it's been analyzed by photography experts?
Thanks for your query @arthurshort6619. To my knowledge I'm afraid the answer is no.
Absolutely brilliant. My favourite channel by far.
Unfortunately there are just not enough uploads. Will you be making anymore?
This is my second time watching The Cumbrian Dregpike and i was rivetted again.
Thankyou.
Thank you for your kind comments Paul. We are in the process of restoring another British Cryptids film right now. Stay tuned!
Great, I really look forwards to it.
@@BritishCryptids It will be a grand day.
This is great! I've never heard of this Dregpike before and i know quite a lot about cryptids. I wonder what they eat then normaly since its not everyday a person or a horse is going to just walk or fall into these lakes
Hello CK! I guess they eat other fish and any other animals they can catch on land as well as in the water.
This is amazing, thank you so much
Thank you 👍🏻😊
Luv the soundtrack ;)
Thank you very much Kworyl
Curious as to who the women are that are in the beginning and end frames of the video
Great work!
Thanks Danielle! The women are so-called "China Girls" - here's the entry from wikipedia: "In the motion picture industry a China Girl is a type of test film, an image of a woman accompanied by color bars that appears for a few frames (typically one to four) in the reel leader. A "China Girl" was used by the lab technician for calibration purposes when processing the film (with the still photography equivalent being a "Shirley Card"). The origin of the term is a matter of some dispute but is usually accepted to be a reference to the models used to create the frames - either they were actually china (porcelain) mannequins, or the make-up worn by the live models made them appear to be mannequins."
@@BritishCryptids I just asked this question on the Stag Man video. Thanks for the explanation.
Great video
Thank you!
Fantastic documentary!
Many thanks Mr C!
I really want to know who had gloves made from human skin, to determine they were critical in catching that cheeky pike.
Thanks Dan! There is an interesting story about that, which is covered in a future British Cryptids film.
What is the style of music used please? Retro horror synth? I love it but can't find more like it online.
Hello Puff! I don't know what genre this would be called... But Thorsten Schmidt also did the music to the 1972 children's supernatural TV series 'Hereford Wakes'. You can hear that here: herefordwakes.bandcamp.com/album/hereford-wakes
@@BritishCryptids Would Thorsten be so kind as to leave his master tapes for the British Cryptids soundtrack in an attic somewhere for you to find and upload to bandcamp so I can give you money for it please?
@@theheadshot45 Thorsten Schmidt passed in 2020, but we are working with his granddaughter to release his music.
great as always
Thank you so much Six Days Dead!
John Carpenter did a great job with the music 😂
Incredible, instant subscribe
Thank you TJ
Ah, yes. Plesioth.
Just perfect.
Thanks Gunnonni.
I've never heard of this one
I think He makes up his own cryotids, not that i mind that.
You have now Stewart!
Excellent!
Thanks David!
Cumbrain dregpike 😳😳😳
Different types of 'sea monster' are particular to sections of ocean/coastal areas, the predominant European type is the long head-haired variety. Might be a connection. Can't help but think some of these were murders or cover-ups for manslaughter.
2022 fisherman/Warden"?" reports strange sighting of geese being dragged under water in Ullswater, one of the Cumbrian Lakes.
Thank you brigantil1 - it is of course possible that the Dregpike persists in The Lake District, and one day a specimen might be found.
That picture at minute 17 has to be fake. Think about a 1920 camera. They'd gotten better and things in motion could certainly be captured in a picture but why would you have a camera set up in the middle of a chase. If they had killed the stag first I could believe it possibly but it's too much
You could be right Nick.🤔
half a chopped bush, cleared for the hunt jump. They hardly look concerned they're being chased.
That ether an surviving barryonix.
But I have come in contact with an cryptic. It wasn't this
Are video's clips from a old TV series
See the video description for more information Mike 👍🏻