The specter of Danny after Simon forgot to feed him in the basement for too long. Trapped in the world of the living, doomed to write scripts for Simon until the end of time
Interestingly, "Pickman" is the name of a character from several of HP Lovecraft's stories. When first introduced, he was an art enthusiast with a secret gallery of paintings of disturbing creatures. It eventually turned out that he was exploring secret tunnels accessed from an old house, getting photographs of these disturbing creatures, then painting them. In later appearances, his love of the macabre resulted in him losing his humanity entirely, and becoming a ghoul.
The Pickman family pops up a lot in Lovecraft’s work. The Nathaniel Derby Pickman Foundation funded the Antarctic Expedition in _At the Mountains of Madness_ from 1936, and the inverse surnamed Edward Pickman Derby is in _The Thing on the Doorstep_ from 1937.
When my daughter was starting to talk about being scared of monsters, I made sure to tell her that there were no monsters scarier than either she or I. I would tell her to point to where the “monsters” were in the room, and I would shadowbox them and “scare” them away. I figure that this method is more empowering than telling her that monsters are not real, or that she just has an overactive imagination. Both of which may be true, but what does that teach her about dealing with something she fears? Nothing. It teaches her to disregard her feelings and doubt her own mind. Which, on one hand, I understand, but now, she rarely talks about being scared of the monsters in the shadows, and when she does, it’s just so that we can shadowbox them together and have a good old time before we actually go to bed. Personally, I don’t care whether ghosts or monsters or demons are real. Their existence, or lack thereof, doesn’t change my day to day life. I actually kinda hope that we never find out definitively, because I like hearing Simon discredit these sorts of things. In the case of the Sally House, I was skeptical of course, but as soon as I heard about the pentagram in the basement and remembered the time in which this took place, I immediately knew this was all horse shit. Because Satanic Panic. That’s why.
... I gave my kids a night light, and a spray bottle labelled "moster away" filled with water. I also reassured them that it was very unlikely that there were any monsters as they were afraid of mum and dad, but we could spray the corners of their rooms, and in the closet and under the bed just to be sure. The phase didn't last long.
Agreed! The pentagram thing was a huge eye-roll moment for me. Also, I think your approach with your daughter's "monsters" is some A+ parenting. Well done!
@SassyGirl822006 My friend's little boy started complaining about not being able to go to sleep because of "invisible snakes" under his bed. His aunt sent him an "invisible mongoose" to get rid of them. She made a cardboard box with holes in it (y'know, so the mongoose could breathe) and put in bedding, some "mongoose food" and made fake droppings out of tootsie rolls. 😂 She sent this in the mail and enclosed a note explaining how it all would work, how to release the mongoose in his room, etc. He followed the instructions and - voila! - the invisible snakes no longer kept him up at night. 😉
My grandfather had his appendix removed at the age of 12 on Friday, May 13, 1932. An old country doctor came to the house on horseback & performed the surgery right there on the kitchen table, with nothing but whisky for anesthetic. He always said Friday the 13th was his lucky day...coz he lived!
Yeah me too. As a believer in ghosts I want to see Simon eat his words because I personally have heard multiple EVPs, a fair number of them actually crystal clear (two of them were recorded at the Brown and Hopkins Country Store in Rhode Island and they were both done in soft, sweet little voices. I mean I even heard a hi. The people thought it was a help but I heard it the first time and I recognized it as a hi. Apparently it is said that at least two spirits, both of them kids, haunt the store and they love to be playful and mischievous yet sweet). If you want look up Brown and Hopkins country store on UA-cam or go to their website. They actually had a link to the UA-cam video on the investigation by the Creepy NewEngland team on the website last time I checked.
I would love to know if Simon has seen Shane and Ryan from Watcher (previously Buzzfeed) and their investigation of the Sally House. It's the only ghost investigation that has a skeptic who investigates. It's awesome.
Same with me. I got my first book of ghost stories called Haunted England, when I was about 8. I never got to finish, because I forgot it at my Dad’s office when he had to stop by on a Sunday. By the time he finished his morning rounds at the hospital, and got to the office, my book was gone. 😩 My siblings, my parents - no one else in my family has ever been interested. Just me. Hell, I was only sibling who was a ghost for Hallowe’en. I was 3.
I love the views of the inside of the old houses, and the history behind them. Also find that many ghost hunters talk too much/ask the same question several times in a row
Have you considered doing a story on the Amityville Horror house and the murder of the Defeo family inside the same? I grew up not far from there and am skeptical of the paranormal story of the house.. but the true story of the murders that took placed there before certainly add a level of creepiness to it.
Here in San Diego , in the Old Town State Park, there's a house that's touted as the Most Haunted House In America. The Whaley House. Back in the day there was a promotion that offered fifty dollars to anyone who spent an entire night in The Whaley House. As far as I know, no one ever collected that prize.
As it's yet another attraction, it's most likely fake AF. It's really easy nowadays to create a haunted house, technologically speaking. Also a 50$ promotion sounds like the kind of thing an attraction would do to get free or cheap publicity.
impossible. you can't debunk a haunted house after someone has reported the haunting. you can only aim to disprove what they claimed happened to them personally. not what your own personal experience was. if there is or was a haunting it may have nothing to do with you or even the property. it may be specific to the resident(s).
When my kids were young teen/pre-teens I bought a house that was over 130 years old. For some reason their friends were convinced it was/is haunted so of course my kids believed it. sigh. But...I had some fun with it. I amused myself with whispering in the heat vents on the main floor for them to hear in their rooms on the second floor. I knew how to program in DOS so when they fought over the computer I knew how to make it say something to freak one of them out when she booted it up. They are now about 40 years old and I still haven't told them I did all those things. I'm so immature that when I tell friends about this I still laugh like a teenager when telling the story. Yes, I've got a huge grin and am chuckling right now.
Fact Boy needs to team up with the Ghoul Boys. That would be a great episode. As for the burning, it's a stage magic trick. I don't know which trick but, televised magicians can put marked cards into cans. Magic is clever work.
I was thinking of why it's so engaging to watch someone make content about stuff they've no interest in, because usually it comes off really badly. I think it's because Simon just makes no bones about it, and just owns the fact he doesn't care. Makes it more authentic.
@@greenockscatman I wonder about that too. Basically nothing on this channel is "decoded" a lot of things Simon dismisses right away, yet I'm always watching the videos regardless.
this wasnt one of them, but I just wanna say that I love the 1hr+ episodes of this. Its great to just sit down for an hour and listen to simon read something (usually) about conspiracies that he's never seen before while drinking hot cocoa :)
Every time I hear about the Sallie House I think of Buzzfeed's Shane Madej laying across the pentagram in the basement and daring the demons to tear his heart out.
The scratches on people's backs in these kinds of locations nearly always match the arc of movement that their own hand would make if they were to reach behind them-self and scratch their own back. Surely not a coincidence.
I thoroughly enjoyed how Simon does rightly point out most parents will make it clear to their kids there are no ghosts/monsters in their room, meanwhile growing up in my Mexican Hispanic household I was told to behave and be good otherwise El Cucuy (Mexican boogeyman) would get you.
Yeah. He says not to lie to your kids, but then he also says to tell your kid ghosts aren't real, even if you believe they are ... Make up your mind, Simon!
@@theConquerersMama There's an easy answer to that. Store a crap ton of stuff under your bed so there's no room for under the bed Fred. Or you could just sleep with the lights on. That's generally what I do. Either because I don't feel like turning it off, just fall asleep or have been watching too many spooky shows. Or in the case of my closet it could be because the string got trapped out of reach & I haven't felt like getting my cane out to pull it down. Also helps if you can talk your cat into sleeping in your arms. Yes the cat, Micah, is currently sleeping in my arms.
@@elizabethgrey9157 Just because you believe ghosts are real doesn't mean they are. If you tell your kids ghosts aren't real, you won't be lying regardless of what _you_ believe :P
I live in Kansas and have been to the Sallie House. No one lives there and you can visit or book a stay overnight. I've stayed there. It's bullshit, nothing happened except my friends irritating me by screaming at nothing all night.
This just makes me think of the episode of Buzzfeed Unsolved where Shane laid on the pentagram in the basement and yelled "HERE WE GO BUCKAROO! ROCK AND ROLL! If you wanna eat my heart, now's your chance!" Needless to say, Shane is still fine. On the other hand there's considerable evidence that ghosts are terrified of Shane so maybe that's not good evidence.
Simon, you'll be happy to know that your frequent reminders to get a carbon monoxide detector actually reminded me to get one. We're safe from ghosts now! 😆
@@easyenetwork2023 Clearly Simon is secretly working with Big CO2. He makes thousands of videos to hide that it's all propaganda to make you give Big CO2 your money. 🤣🤣
I work at an allegedly haunted restaurant. I also noted one day that the ghost hasn't been seen since the people who used drugs during their breaks have left. 👻
Simon casually admitting he tries to make his wife think the kid is haunted is the best part of this video for me. I don’t have kids but if/when I do I got a new thing to do to keep things interesting.
I used to put twig people and pentacles in the woods on our property for my nephew and his friends to find when then we're into ghost hunting. 😆 Worse ways to spend your time.
@@ameliashostak4764 I find the Grudge haunting with out being a ghost believer. F***ed up things leave a haunting, be it literal or proverbial… or even something positive, it/they might be gone, but it changed something. OG exorcist didn’t do anything for me(Not saying it was a bad movie). Liked Dominion, though.
Chemical burns can be delayed too, if you want to have a pentagram form on your skin then you paint one on. Either through the use of something that takes time to burn into the skin, enjoy that itching, or two chemicals that react together suddenly when one is applied to the other. Normally it is the two chemical method, a pouch of one chemical is kept under the clothing and burst at the right time where it washes over the other and causes a small reaction. These chemical soaks into the shirt and evaporate quickly, leaving just the rectory site as a nice red mark.
I end up with strange scratches and small puncture marks on my body due to evil entities that roam my house. But it's just something I deal with because I love my cats.
The most allegedly haunted place I've ever stayed was a hotel in Cracow, Poland. It was a family holiday and no one noticed any activity until the night. My Dad who does not believe in ghosts had some of his belongings moved across the floor. He attributed this to my Mum possibly moving them during the night when heading to the bathroom. My Aunt and Cousin had it far worse; door handles rattling, scratching on the walls and objects falling over without any cause. I experienced no paranormal activity as I was drunk and fast a sleep. 😊
I once spent a night in America's LEAST haunted house. It had an incredible atmosphere. Everything just seemed so right, and sensible. There was nothing off about the place at all.
Side Note: I know Atchison KS because I lived in the area for years. There is a LOT of "Paranormal" there. I used to go on backroad adventures with my friends. You wouldn't believe the number of churches, graveyards, and other spooky abandoned places just sitting in the middle of no where. There's a Pit of Hell in there somewhere too, maybe a Portal? Where I live now, they have turned the old Nunnery/Hospital into an apartment building. I've seen some $h*t there personally. Interesting stuff. I love old buildings and houses. Fascinating History.
You're thinking of Stull Church for the gateway to hell. There's the entire city of Lawrence (the Eldridge Hoten specifically), Signal Oak, Blackjack Park. Baldwin has the Devil's Backbone. that kids used to sled down. The ghost of White Woman Creek who trolls various roads. The Hutchinson Library. Le Hunt. Etc.
Appendicitis is still a big deal if it's not caught in time: burst appendix causes toxic shock, and leaking appendix causes peritonitis. We're just fortunate that modern surgery and medicine combine to make it less likely to die from it
Yep, ended up in the hospital for a week due to leaking appendix. Also ended up with a secondary infection after the powerful antibiotics killed off the beneficial bacteria. My mother had to fight for a surgical consult because the ER just knew it was related to being a teenage girl. Concerned displeased mothers who are experienced intensive care nurses are forces to be reckoned with.
2:15 - Chapter 1 - The slightly nebulous history of the sallie house 6:20 - Chapter 2 - The pickmans 19:10 - Chapter 3 - Let's get to the pooh poohing 29:45 - Chapter 4 - Things i can't explain 32:10 - Chapter 5 - Conclusions
I know that you live in Prague - when I went there on holiday, with my friend's Czech father, we went to a bunch of those haunted Prague mini-museums down near St Wenceslas Square. They were quite fun - it'd be really cool to have your take on those classic Prague ghost/vampire stories!
6:03 Actually, this is a case of looking at the past through a modern lens. While this is something that would make money today, that's a pretty recent phenomenon. Back then, stories of a haunted house would significantly drop the property value. Look at the Amityville house - after the DeFeo murders, the Lutz's were able to buy the house for 80k, which was well below market value at the time, and that was well after this case. Cromarty bought it at auction (it was foreclosed on) in '77 for only 55k. It wasn't until the book, and especially the film, that the value skyrocketed. "Haunted houses" didn't really gain popularity until after Amityville, because people started having a fascination, instead of a fear, of them. Additionally, horror movies really started taking off in the late 70s early 80s, and people ate this kind of stuff up. Not saying these people were telling the truth about the "hauntings," but the motivation definitely wouldn't have been "to make money," at that time.
LMAO as soon as I saw the picture of the Sallie House on a Decoding the Unknown thumbnail I was like: oh god this one is gonna drive Simon mad reading all the BS people have made up about the house. Side note the people that picked up this story and popularised it were WAY worse than Unsolved Mysteries... it was Cable TV and Destination America with A Haunting that first really made the story well known on the internet, then Destination America sold to the Travel Channel and they reuse the story every time they release a new ghost hunting show they've covered it on Haunted America and US Ghost Adventures. And yes all their stories start out the same "when a single mother of 3 and her new boyfriend move in together they get more than they bargained for..." and it always turns out the couple hits financial troubles and they can't afford the new place when a ghost starts haunting them, OR one or more of the people in the house are under extreme stress and not adjusting well triggering a mental problem that the show will gloss over in favour of a demon pretending to be a spirit is trying to get them. Side note you wanna see a hilarious pair (believer and skeptic) Ghost Hunt the Sallie House check out Buzzfeed Unsolved Supernatural's episode on the Sallie House. The episode is called 3 Horrifying Cases of Ghosts and Demons since they were still figuring out the format of the show at the time, they also went back to the Sallie House for Shane and Ryan's final episode with Buzzfeed before they went on to start their own channel just for shites and giggles to end their part as presenters for the show. FYI the house is currently for rent on AirBnB
There's a condition called dermatographia, where you can just lightly stroke your skin & you gradually see raised, angry looking red lines where you stroked. Girl in my primary school had it & her party trick was to 'draw' smiley faces & rude words on herself for our amusement.
Got a bit of personal experience on this though not this specific building. Until I was about 10 I lived in my family home. The home was built in 1620 and was “famously haunted” and is even featured in several books about haunted places in England. We used to have to regularly contend with ghost walks, basically a local tourist company walking groups of people round telling scary stories. I’m quite chill about this now, got to earn a living after all, but as a kid I was dead against them. There’s just something that feels wrong about coming home from school one January evening, to find a group of adults staring at the old oak tree in your front garden while some tour guide tells a story about how three parliamentary spies were hanged there shortly before the Royalists captured Leicester in 1645, their ghosts “allegedly” (to borrow Simon’s favourite word) still howling in the night. The house had a rich history and was a lovely home. I can honestly say however, having lived there for 10 years in which one is usually more open to these things, that the house is 100% not haunted! My parents lived there for 15 years before I was born and only moved out when we had to up-size to make room for my baby brother. They never saw or heard anything out of the ordinary. Ditto, I only ever had one experience which looking back is easily explained by an overactive imagination when I was about 8. By coincidence, I actually now work with the man who currently lives in the house. We’ve joked about this a lot as he still gets the ghost tours coming round and still hasn’t seen or heard anything himself.
David Mitchell refuted ghosts best. If ghosts existed, the number of people who have died over the thousands and thousands of years, even if they only sometimes became a ghost would necessitate that ghosts would be abso-fucking-lutely everywhere. You couldn't do anything without seeing ghosts, life would be just packed shoulder to shoulder with them.
Hm. I thought the most haunted house in the U.S. was the plantation in St. Francisville, LA. Ooh, that would make a good episode of DTU! How 'bout it, Simon?
As someone from Louisiana, we have so many weird places. The civil war battlefields in Mansfield and Pleasant Hill are freaky. I'm pretty skeptical but I will admit to the odd feelings and sounds I've experienced there. My sister's ex-husband lived across the road from the main battlefield. The nights I'd stay there you would hear drums echoing thru the pines.. not sure if someone was scaring us or not lol
I stayed in the General David Bradford Suite at the Myrtles plantation....no ghosts despite all the best suggestions on the complimentary Mystery Tour!
I’ve visited multiple houses in Savannah and even stayed at a historic hotel in Savannah said to be haunted by a ghost cat. Didn’t see any ghost cat but I did have some excellent shrimp and grits.
I was never interested in any way shape or form in ghost hunting until I heard Shane from Ghost Files, who is the skeptic in a skeptic/believer duo, explain it as getting to look at old historical sites completely alone after hours. Now suddenly I'm like OH SHIT! I SHOULD GHOST HUNT!!! Not for ghosts of course, just for the ability to spend hours alone at popular historical tourist destinations unbothered by other humans.
I used to be open to the possibility but those "ghost-hunting" shows honestly erased any chance of me ever thinking there is even a hint of actual ghosts existing.
@@AllTheHappySquirrels omg really? Amazing! Is there any chance you remember the video? I have been watching a bunch of Simon's videos lately, but there are just sooo many to go through (especially across all the channels lol) I love the Watcher guys, I've been thinking about their first video at the Sallie house during buzzfeed unsolved this entire time lol
Simon I have an idea for an episode that could be either a Decoding the Unkown or Casual criminalist! In Ottawa back in 1868 the first political assassination was conducted against one of the Canadian Fathers of Confederation, D'Arcy McGee. His murder is marked as one of the big murder mysteries in Canadian political history. Patrick James Whelan was convicted for the murder BUT there is debate about it. All we know is he either knew the murderer or was the murderer. Whelan ended up being the last person hung publicly in Canada, which happed at the Ottawa Carleton County Jail (now a hostel), it is said that Whelan haunts the sight. I don't remember exactly what the stories are, but it had something to do with an unmarked grave, nose bleads, and some other spooky stuff. Decoding the unknown could talk about Whelan's ghost, while The Casual Criminalist could cover the murder. So this topic could be used by either. Hope you find this useful and you or one of your writers look into it and finds it interesting enough to write about
I'd love to see a series where it's just Simon with a camera staying overnight in "haunted" locations, and just vlogging his experience. "Felt a chill, bit drafty." "Was playing a bit of RAID and thought I heard a sound. I'll report in if I hear it again. Found the sound, was some cheeky wind chimes." "A homeless man made their home here, told me he's a big fan and loves what I do over at Vsauce."
It’s hard to convince someone that hasn’t lived through it. I lived 3 years through a “haunting”. Be it ghosts, demons, or extra dimensional beings there was something wrong with that house. We had the slew of tropes there (except visual sightings). Doors violently shaking/being thrown open, things flying off counters, things moving around in general (this was a farm house far away from heave machinery or trucking lanes), lights and fans turning on and off randomly, fans swinging violently when there was no air flow to move them, footsteps and banging (all of which can be explained away) but the cherry on the cake was being physically struck by something that was not there when completely alone. Can’t explain that one away. I hope for your sake you are never put in that situation.
Google "Which one can you hear?" to listen to a great example of how reading the words supposedly spoken will change what your brain thinks it is hearing. I could look at one of the choices and hear that version, then look at another and "hear" that one. It worked for every one shown for me. All this even though I was fully aware the sounds (a group chanting) being made were the exact same every time.
my parents (as unbelieving as simon) stayed in a BnB in a little town in scotland and all their toothbrushes went missing. they had 1 each in their suitcases, and flew first class from the US, where they were each given another toothbrush. this is the toothbrush they used at night before they went to sleep. woke up in the morning and not only could they not find the toothbrush from the airplane, but they couldn’t find the ones in their suitcases. my dad had a meltdown and demanded they leave the village, convinced the whole thing was haunted (it’s inveraray, look it up and you’ll see why, def a little creepy). my mom never got to see the castle. both are wholeheartedly convinced it was haunted, and still to this day 23 years later my parents won’t stay anywhere in europe that’s very old because “it’s definitely haunted”. we’re going to italy this summer, wish us luck. my toothbrush is very expensive.
sometimes when he says ‘hello my name is simon and what happens here is…’ i just hear ‘hello my name is simon whimons here’ and now i can’t not listen for it 😂
~0:40 One thing I like imagining after watching found footage horror movies like The Blair Witch or Paranormal Activity is, after that footage makes its way to the general public (in universe), the people collectively just go "Well shit, I guess ghosts are real then." It's a silly small thing, but it entertains me.
Did people actually find The Blair Witch project scary? I swear nearly the entire runtime was just this group of dolts who didn't know how to navigate a forrest and arguing about that.
I'm fairly new to your channels been only watching for about a month. I love your content and especially the content on this video considering I live in Kansas. So this video hits close to home for me. And also to adding I luv it Psy mean when you go on rants cuz it actually makes the videos even more interesting and fun so please don't ever stop going on rants.
I once took a picture of my son around 2012, and when it was developed, there were three images of him. It was a Pentax K1000 camera (a manual SLR). I always used 1/500 shutter speed when taking pictures of him, so they weren't blurry. I still look at the picture and wonder what happened. I assume mechanical, or my own, error. I never thought it was a ghostly apparition. I thought it was a cool, unintentional effect. But, yeah, people will find what they expect to find. Not what's actually happening.
Since it's an attraction now, I guess it would be super easy, barely an inconvenience, for the owners to make it feel haunted - put some speakers in the walls or attic and play spooky sounds at random times in the night, rig up things to move "by themselves" via electromagnets, etc. If they're making money off of it, it would be rather enticing to keep the illusion going, as long as they don't get caught.
Yeah, as someone who technically believes in spirits, I didn't even make it past the transition from the early 1900s to 1993 before I decided this was either hoax or hysteria.
I'd love to see an episode on Gloria Ramirez "the toxic woman". It's either proof of the super natural which is terrifying. Or a completely natural medical anomaly, which is even more terrifying.
I live in a very old house that has been in my family for over a century. We are all educated with a lifelong obsession with academia. I can undoubtedly tell you that this house is haunted. It’s not malicious but rather a benevolent force. Everybody(friends, random relatives, those who didn't know, etc.)has stories experienced for/by them and yes we chat about it like we’re talking about a rerun of “Coronation Street.”
I worked the nightshirts in a psychiatric hospital for children. Once in a while they started to see monsters. The sad thing is that they really see monsters.
My dad almost died from his appendix bursting. He was working in a warehouse and had pain in his side, went to the on site nurse who said it was probably gas. She gave him some tylenol and said to go on break early. He passed out on his way back to his work area, woke up in hospital two days later.
I've heard Baleroy Mansion (Philadelphia), the Whaley House (San Diego), & the Amityville/DeFeo House (Long Island) also called America's Most Haunted. I've also heard this particular "haunting" (the one with "Sallie" the little girl ghost who supposedly messed with toys & scratched Tony Pickman) called "the Heartland Haunting" -- I believe that was one of *Sightings*'s names for it. I'm rather interested in the human psychology that makes people interpret things as "ghosts" or "demons", but I agree that carbon monoxide poisoning & ultra low frequency vibrations are possible starting points... Edit: We had an old washing machine that sounded just like "buttermilk jug, buttermilk jug" when it was in the middle of a cycle. I don't think it was haunted by the spirit of a murdered dairy worker...
Probably right about the washing machine not being haunted. But I'd be telling everyone it's haunted & showing them a video of it. Then I'd make up a slightly different story each time to tell them about it.
I want Simon to join Ryan and Shane when they do an investigation for ghost files. Just drag Ryan back to the sally house for a final time with two non believers. Imagine the chaotic energy of Simon and Shane together
This reminds me of when Rooster Teeth had their Haunter series where they deliberately antagonized the ghosts and threatened to fight them in order to entice a response.
The fact no one has seen a ghost dinosaur proves there is no such thing as ghosts. Although the mind can create a feeling of energy, as i once felt returning to my childhood home after several years. However, Simon, if the show Unsolved Mysteries you are referring to is the one hosted by Robert Stack, that wasnt a show like Sighted or Ancient Aliens or other tabloid shows. It was a show that mixed true crime with unexplained stuff with unsolved crimes. In a lot of ways it was like an early version of Decoding The Unknown.
Re: "the generic ghost in the house" - I think Katy is referring to a middle-America idiom/tradition. (Might be all of America, but the states I've lived in are all middle-America, and it's always been something I've encountered, so that's what I can say with confidence.) Basically, when the house makes a strange noise, or a wet glass slips off the table, or you can't find something then suddenly can find it, etc., instead of saying "the house is settling" or "I put it in an odd place" or "living in the valley makes sounds travel strangely" or "we have a cat who sometimes knocks things over in the next room" we would say "Oh, it's the house ghost" - and other than a few kooks, everyone knows we aren't seriously saying there's a ghost in the house.
Great video Simon and well done with the script and editing to Katy and Nadine. I think I have this decoded, we want money. Lets make up a story that we live in a "haunted" house. Mystery solved.
You guys in the basement need to convince Simon to plan a road trip to the Sallie House. Danny and Katy are in charge of snacks. Katy is stuck in there with you guys, right?
Hey Simon's writing team,, have you ever covered the story of the 3 missing women from Springfield MO (USA)? Or would that be for one of the other channels?
My favorite EVP is of a ghost saying, "Let's talk." At the time I couldn't figure out why that voice sounded so familiar. Upon re-watching Robocop for the 100th time (because it was one of my favorite movies) I realized the ghostly voice was actually Peter Weller. It was audio from the scene where he marched into the club, grabbed that guy by the hair and dragged him outside.😂
I grew up in a house where electrical things would break all the time, big appliances, bulbs popping, that type of thing. My mom started buying the warranty for things like fridge, washer, dryer, oven and we all just started blaming "bob" our ghost. I don't know how seriously everyone took it but my sister at 5 came screaming into my moms room and said she wouldn't sleep in her room anymore because there was a white clown talking to her, so I switched rooms with her. I had a corner of the room that freaked me out and I didn't like to shower in my house. My friends felt the same and only one ever slept over more than once. It's possible I was uneasy because my step dad is a psychopath and even as kids we picked up that he wasn't right or safe without knowing why, and it's possible that the house was just poorly wired, but my sister never went into my room after we switched and that's the type of thing sisters normally do... so I think there's something to it... there was just too much not to be something.
Why is it always grainy? Well. It's more convincing when you see a grainy weird thing happen than something in 4k where you might see how goofy if looks. Also thanks to the paranormal activity movies they all use those Xbox kinect cameras that couldn't tell the difference between a human and a lamp. So it can show a stick figure and they could say "omg it's at the bottom of the stairs" instead of reasonably saying "it's picking up the post at the bottom of the stairs"
Just waiting for Jen to sneakily edit a ghost in behind Simon with no explanation
The specter of Danny after Simon forgot to feed him in the basement for too long. Trapped in the world of the living, doomed to write scripts for Simon until the end of time
Jen is a legend
Please!
Extra points of she does it on a completely unrelated video.
Genius! 😂
Interestingly, "Pickman" is the name of a character from several of HP Lovecraft's stories. When first introduced, he was an art enthusiast with a secret gallery of paintings of disturbing creatures. It eventually turned out that he was exploring secret tunnels accessed from an old house, getting photographs of these disturbing creatures, then painting them.
In later appearances, his love of the macabre resulted in him losing his humanity entirely, and becoming a ghoul.
The best part? In 'Dream Quest', becoming a ghoul is depicted as a positive experience for Pickman.
The Pickman family pops up a lot in Lovecraft’s work. The Nathaniel Derby Pickman Foundation funded the Antarctic Expedition in _At the Mountains of Madness_ from 1936, and the inverse surnamed Edward Pickman Derby is in _The Thing on the Doorstep_ from 1937.
That’s pretty cool, fitting with the Pickman in a Fallout 4, which has at least one more Lovecraft reference in Dunwhich Quarry
Every time he said Pickman in the video I thought of Lovecraft. Felt like he was just reading about a Lovecraft story at moments.
For those who don't know, the Pickman in Fallout 4 has an art gallery with fairly creepy paintings, made using blood from raiders he killed.
When my daughter was starting to talk about being scared of monsters, I made sure to tell her that there were no monsters scarier than either she or I. I would tell her to point to where the “monsters” were in the room, and I would shadowbox them and “scare” them away.
I figure that this method is more empowering than telling her that monsters are not real, or that she just has an overactive imagination. Both of which may be true, but what does that teach her about dealing with something she fears? Nothing. It teaches her to disregard her feelings and doubt her own mind. Which, on one hand, I understand, but now, she rarely talks about being scared of the monsters in the shadows, and when she does, it’s just so that we can shadowbox them together and have a good old time before we actually go to bed.
Personally, I don’t care whether ghosts or monsters or demons are real. Their existence, or lack thereof, doesn’t change my day to day life. I actually kinda hope that we never find out definitively, because I like hearing Simon discredit these sorts of things.
In the case of the Sally House, I was skeptical of course, but as soon as I heard about the pentagram in the basement and remembered the time in which this took place, I immediately knew this was all horse shit. Because Satanic Panic. That’s why.
Tucking this into my "Future Parenting Tips" folder! It's a rather lovely and empowering way of building confidence.
... I gave my kids a night light, and a spray bottle labelled "moster away" filled with water. I also reassured them that it was very unlikely that there were any monsters as they were afraid of mum and dad, but we could spray the corners of their rooms, and in the closet and under the bed just to be sure. The phase didn't last long.
Agreed! The pentagram thing was a huge eye-roll moment for me.
Also, I think your approach with your daughter's "monsters" is some A+ parenting. Well done!
@SassyGirl822006 My friend's little boy started complaining about not being able to go to sleep because of "invisible snakes" under his bed. His aunt sent him an "invisible mongoose" to get rid of them. She made a cardboard box with holes in it (y'know, so the mongoose could breathe) and put in bedding, some "mongoose food" and made fake droppings out of tootsie rolls. 😂 She sent this in the mail and enclosed a note explaining how it all would work, how to release the mongoose in his room, etc. He followed the instructions and - voila! - the invisible snakes no longer kept him up at night. 😉
@Rebecca Thistle hella cool.. want to adopt a 52 year old woman, lol
My grandfather had his appendix removed at the age of 12 on Friday, May 13, 1932. An old country doctor came to the house on horseback & performed the surgery right there on the kitchen table, with nothing but whisky for anesthetic. He always said Friday the 13th was his lucky day...coz he lived!
That's one way to get over a superstition...
It sounds impossible to live back then, no anesthetic? Fucks sake
Luckily for him there were this doctor who was able to perform the surgery with such basic tools, doctors nowadays can never
@@ganggang363 As Simon likes to say, "The past was the worst..."
Three years on and I'm still hoping that Simon will one day have to eat these well written scripts.
Yeah me too. As a believer in ghosts I want to see Simon eat his words because I personally have heard multiple EVPs, a fair number of them actually crystal clear (two of them were recorded at the Brown and Hopkins Country Store in Rhode Island and they were both done in soft, sweet little voices. I mean I even heard a hi. The people thought it was a help but I heard it the first time and I recognized it as a hi. Apparently it is said that at least two spirits, both of them kids, haunt the store and they love to be playful and mischievous yet sweet). If you want look up Brown and Hopkins country store on UA-cam or go to their website. They actually had a link to the UA-cam video on the investigation by the Creepy NewEngland team on the website last time I checked.
Yes, the entire scientific community has indeed been waiting for such evidence 😉 For thousands of years. With no progress…
Screw that I bloody dont.
Well you're going to wait forever, because they aren't real.
I AM LOOKING FORWARD TO IT.
I would love to know if Simon has seen Shane and Ryan from Watcher (previously Buzzfeed) and their investigation of the Sally House. It's the only ghost investigation that has a skeptic who investigates. It's awesome.
I was about to mention this, theirs is the only ghost hunting show i can watch
Watcher is kicking off
I especially love the comments like
Ghost- throws Ryan across the room
Shane- wow, what a strong breeze
😂
I very badly need the boys to do a reaction video to this. And then in the next video, Simon is wearing a Shaniacs tee.
and the only ghost hunting show with a demon as a host :-D
I'm also a big skeptic and yet I still love ghost and haunted house stories, it's also fun to hear Simon rip the stories to shreds!
Same lol
Same with me. I got my first book of ghost stories called Haunted England, when I was about 8. I never got to finish, because I forgot it at my Dad’s office when he had to stop by on a Sunday. By the time he finished his morning rounds at the hospital, and got to the office, my book was gone. 😩 My siblings, my parents - no one else in my family has ever been interested. Just me. Hell, I was only sibling who was a ghost for Hallowe’en. I was 3.
I love the views of the inside of the old houses, and the history behind them. Also find that many ghost hunters talk too much/ask the same question several times in a row
Have you considered doing a story on the Amityville Horror house and the murder of the Defeo family inside the same? I grew up not far from there and am skeptical of the paranormal story of the house.. but the true story of the murders that took placed there before certainly add a level of creepiness to it.
I thought some folks admitted they made up the story?
@@drlnielsen the paranormal "stuff" is bs... But the back story of the Defeo murders is true
Nobody heard the gunshots of a high powered hunting rifle. But they heard the Defeo sheep dog barking from outside.
Amityville is different for sure. The House oozing green slime is weird, but the flies and seeing weird things in windows is not because of shadows.
@@brendan722002The murders were real, the haunting part not so much.
Here in San Diego , in the Old Town State Park, there's a house that's touted as the Most Haunted House In America. The Whaley House. Back in the day there was a promotion that offered fifty dollars to anyone who spent an entire night in The Whaley House. As far as I know, no one ever collected that prize.
At least that one has its story straight. And is creepy as all get out, ghosts or not.
Isn't that the house where someone hung themselves in the stairwell?
As it's yet another attraction, it's most likely fake AF.
It's really easy nowadays to create a haunted house, technologically speaking.
Also a 50$ promotion sounds like the kind of thing an attraction would do to get free or cheap publicity.
If that was still legit offer I bet I 100% would/could collect
Can we have a series of simon traveling to "haunted" places to debunk them XD
I’d like him to take Zak Bagans with him.
impossible. you can't debunk a haunted house after someone has reported the haunting. you can only aim to disprove what they claimed happened to them personally. not what your own personal experience was. if there is or was a haunting it may have nothing to do with you or even the property. it may be specific to the resident(s).
@@charlomaigne211 the arguing would be so entertaining
@@jyesucevitz okay
Simon and Shane need to collab now HAHAHA
I love that Katy just trolls Simon with their scripts. Keep it up! 😄
When my kids were young teen/pre-teens I bought a house that was over 130 years old. For some reason their friends were convinced it was/is haunted so of course my kids believed it. sigh. But...I had some fun with it. I amused myself with whispering in the heat vents on the main floor for them to hear in their rooms on the second floor. I knew how to program in DOS so when they fought over the computer I knew how to make it say something to freak one of them out when she booted it up. They are now about 40 years old and I still haven't told them I did all those things. I'm so immature that when I tell friends about this I still laugh like a teenager when telling the story. Yes, I've got a huge grin and am chuckling right now.
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 omg lol.
I love this LMAO
😂
I used to put twig people and stars in our woods for my nephew and friends to find when they were into ghost hunting.
You HAVE to tell them, then update this comment! Lol
That's actually kinda sick
Fact Boy needs to team up with the Ghoul Boys. That would be a great episode.
As for the burning, it's a stage magic trick. I don't know which trick but, televised magicians can put marked cards into cans. Magic is clever work.
hey there demons, it’s me, ya fact boi
- simon whistler
This isn't really decoding the unknown because we already know how Simon feels about this before the video starts lol.
IT WAS THE GHOSTS
"decoding the known bullshit"?
Maybe it should be called "Denying the Unknown".
I was thinking of why it's so engaging to watch someone make content about stuff they've no interest in, because usually it comes off really badly. I think it's because Simon just makes no bones about it, and just owns the fact he doesn't care. Makes it more authentic.
@@greenockscatman I wonder about that too. Basically nothing on this channel is "decoded" a lot of things Simon dismisses right away, yet I'm always watching the videos regardless.
this wasnt one of them, but I just wanna say that I love the 1hr+ episodes of this. Its great to just sit down for an hour and listen to simon read something (usually) about conspiracies that he's never seen before while drinking hot cocoa :)
Every time I hear about the Sallie House I think of Buzzfeed's Shane Madej laying across the pentagram in the basement and daring the demons to tear his heart out.
Rock-n-roll buckaroo!!!
Same 😂
The scratches on people's backs in these kinds of locations nearly always match the arc of movement that their own hand would make if they were to reach behind them-self and scratch their own back. Surely not a coincidence.
I thoroughly enjoyed how Simon does rightly point out most parents will make it clear to their kids there are no ghosts/monsters in their room, meanwhile growing up in my Mexican Hispanic household I was told to behave and be good otherwise El Cucuy (Mexican boogeyman) would get you.
Yeah. He says not to lie to your kids, but then he also says to tell your kid ghosts aren't real, even if you believe they are ... Make up your mind, Simon!
Right? I was told not get out of bed and beware of the monster under the bed. Thanks Dad
@@theConquerersMama There's an easy answer to that. Store a crap ton of stuff under your bed so there's no room for under the bed Fred.
Or you could just sleep with the lights on.
That's generally what I do. Either because I don't feel like turning it off, just fall asleep or have been watching too many spooky shows.
Or in the case of my closet it could be because the string got trapped out of reach & I haven't felt like getting my cane out to pull it down.
Also helps if you can talk your cat into sleeping in your arms.
Yes the cat, Micah, is currently sleeping in my arms.
@@elizabethgrey9157 Just because you believe ghosts are real doesn't mean they are. If you tell your kids ghosts aren't real, you won't be lying regardless of what _you_ believe :P
Are we related?... Lol I'm of Puerto Rican descent... I think we had the same monster... Lol 😂
I live in Kansas and have been to the Sallie House. No one lives there and you can visit or book a stay overnight. I've stayed there. It's bullshit, nothing happened except my friends irritating me by screaming at nothing all night.
This just makes me think of the episode of Buzzfeed Unsolved where Shane laid on the pentagram in the basement and yelled "HERE WE GO BUCKAROO! ROCK AND ROLL! If you wanna eat my heart, now's your chance!" Needless to say, Shane is still fine.
On the other hand there's considerable evidence that ghosts are terrified of Shane so maybe that's not good evidence.
If you wanna eat RYAN'S heart...
Stop putting me in your shit! 🤣
Possibly the best single ghost investigation ever.
Well, Shane is a demon so... if I was a ghost, I'd be afraid of him too. ;)
They're going to do mystery things on their UA-cam channel, Watcher. Starting in May.
Absolutely iconic episode
I really want to see Simon to do a reaction video to the buzzfeed unsolved video on this. I feel like he'd love Shane
Oh he’s a shaniac for sure
Shane is awesome! Have you seen their new series, Ghost Files? It's a hoot
@@lizurang8145 Definitely. They'd be on that pentagram together
@@joseybryant7577 I can picture a crossover episode right now 🤣
Man, I love these more than I should.
Simon, you'll be happy to know that your frequent reminders to get a carbon monoxide detector actually reminded me to get one. We're safe from ghosts now! 😆
Is he funded by carbon monoxide monitoring companies? Granted ADT does them, so it is a big market and not uncommon or that niche.
@@easyenetwork2023 Clearly Simon is secretly working with Big CO2. He makes thousands of videos to hide that it's all propaganda to make you give Big CO2 your money. 🤣🤣
"Simon's right. Ghosts aren't real."
- Scooby Doo
Supernatural and paranormal episodes on this channel are my favourite.
I work at an allegedly haunted restaurant. I also noted one day that the ghost hasn't been seen since the people who used drugs during their breaks have left. 👻
Simon casually admitting he tries to make his wife think the kid is haunted is the best part of this video for me. I don’t have kids but if/when I do I got a new thing to do to keep things interesting.
I used to put twig people and pentacles in the woods on our property for my nephew and his friends to find when then we're into ghost hunting.
😆
Worse ways to spend your time.
The grudge haunts me to this day, I wasn't even scared but the sheer unease I still feel.
I feel that way about the exorcist movie!! That movie messed me up, lmao!
@@ameliashostak4764 I find the Grudge haunting with out being a ghost believer. F***ed up things leave a haunting, be it literal or proverbial… or even something positive, it/they might be gone, but it changed something.
OG exorcist didn’t do anything for me(Not saying it was a bad movie). Liked Dominion, though.
Chemical burns can be delayed too, if you want to have a pentagram form on your skin then you paint one on.
Either through the use of something that takes time to burn into the skin, enjoy that itching, or two chemicals that react together suddenly when one is applied to the other. Normally it is the two chemical method, a pouch of one chemical is kept under the clothing and burst at the right time where it washes over the other and causes a small reaction. These chemical soaks into the shirt and evaporate quickly, leaving just the rectory site as a nice red mark.
I end up with strange scratches and small puncture marks on my body due to evil entities that roam my house. But it's just something I deal with because I love my cats.
The biggest shock to me is finding out that not _all_ cats are disgruntled.
I have the same condition. Catus scratchus
This legend Simon needs his own biographic video soon 😂 bro carries UA-cam on his shoulders 😂😂
The idea of the breast pump cheering itself on like it's the little engine that could is so cute lol
The most allegedly haunted place I've ever stayed was a hotel in Cracow, Poland. It was a family holiday and no one noticed any activity until the night. My Dad who does not believe in ghosts had some of his belongings moved across the floor. He attributed this to my Mum possibly moving them during the night when heading to the bathroom. My Aunt and Cousin had it far worse; door handles rattling, scratching on the walls and objects falling over without any cause. I experienced no paranormal activity as I was drunk and fast a sleep. 😊
I once spent a night in America's LEAST haunted house. It had an incredible atmosphere. Everything just seemed so right, and sensible. There was nothing off about the place at all.
This is the earliest I've ever been lmao right when I was looking for one I hadn't seen yet too
Same lool
Is it just me or has it become pretty obvious that Simon is a ghost and that’s why he doesn’t want us thinking ghosts are real?
Side Note: I know Atchison KS because I lived in the area for years. There is a LOT of "Paranormal" there. I used to go on backroad adventures with my friends. You wouldn't believe the number of churches, graveyards, and other spooky abandoned places just sitting in the middle of no where. There's a Pit of Hell in there somewhere too, maybe a Portal? Where I live now, they have turned the old Nunnery/Hospital into an apartment building. I've seen some $h*t there personally. Interesting stuff. I love old buildings and houses. Fascinating History.
You're thinking of Stull Church for the gateway to hell. There's the entire city of Lawrence (the Eldridge Hoten specifically), Signal Oak, Blackjack Park. Baldwin has the Devil's Backbone. that kids used to sled down. The ghost of White Woman Creek who trolls various roads. The Hutchinson Library. Le Hunt. Etc.
Appendicitis is still a big deal if it's not caught in time: burst appendix causes toxic shock, and leaking appendix causes peritonitis. We're just fortunate that modern surgery and medicine combine to make it less likely to die from it
Yep, ended up in the hospital for a week due to leaking appendix. Also ended up with a secondary infection after the powerful antibiotics killed off the beneficial bacteria.
My mother had to fight for a surgical consult because the ER just knew it was related to being a teenage girl. Concerned displeased mothers who are experienced intensive care nurses are forces to be reckoned with.
2:15 - Chapter 1 - The slightly nebulous history of the sallie house
6:20 - Chapter 2 - The pickmans
19:10 - Chapter 3 - Let's get to the pooh poohing
29:45 - Chapter 4 - Things i can't explain
32:10 - Chapter 5 - Conclusions
I know that you live in Prague - when I went there on holiday, with my friend's Czech father, we went to a bunch of those haunted Prague mini-museums down near St Wenceslas Square. They were quite fun - it'd be really cool to have your take on those classic Prague ghost/vampire stories!
Oooh Simon takes a camera into the wild and quietly shits on local legend
6:03 Actually, this is a case of looking at the past through a modern lens. While this is something that would make money today, that's a pretty recent phenomenon. Back then, stories of a haunted house would significantly drop the property value. Look at the Amityville house - after the DeFeo murders, the Lutz's were able to buy the house for 80k, which was well below market value at the time, and that was well after this case. Cromarty bought it at auction (it was foreclosed on) in '77 for only 55k. It wasn't until the book, and especially the film, that the value skyrocketed. "Haunted houses" didn't really gain popularity until after Amityville, because people started having a fascination, instead of a fear, of them. Additionally, horror movies really started taking off in the late 70s early 80s, and people ate this kind of stuff up. Not saying these people were telling the truth about the "hauntings," but the motivation definitely wouldn't have been "to make money," at that time.
LMAO as soon as I saw the picture of the Sallie House on a Decoding the Unknown thumbnail I was like: oh god this one is gonna drive Simon mad reading all the BS people have made up about the house. Side note the people that picked up this story and popularised it were WAY worse than Unsolved Mysteries... it was Cable TV and Destination America with A Haunting that first really made the story well known on the internet, then Destination America sold to the Travel Channel and they reuse the story every time they release a new ghost hunting show they've covered it on Haunted America and US Ghost Adventures. And yes all their stories start out the same "when a single mother of 3 and her new boyfriend move in together they get more than they bargained for..." and it always turns out the couple hits financial troubles and they can't afford the new place when a ghost starts haunting them, OR one or more of the people in the house are under extreme stress and not adjusting well triggering a mental problem that the show will gloss over in favour of a demon pretending to be a spirit is trying to get them.
Side note you wanna see a hilarious pair (believer and skeptic) Ghost Hunt the Sallie House check out Buzzfeed Unsolved Supernatural's episode on the Sallie House. The episode is called 3 Horrifying Cases of Ghosts and Demons since they were still figuring out the format of the show at the time, they also went back to the Sallie House for Shane and Ryan's final episode with Buzzfeed before they went on to start their own channel just for shites and giggles to end their part as presenters for the show.
FYI the house is currently for rent on AirBnB
Ghost Adventures is hilarious
There's a condition called dermatographia, where you can just lightly stroke your skin & you gradually see raised, angry looking red lines where you stroked. Girl in my primary school had it & her party trick was to 'draw' smiley faces & rude words on herself for our amusement.
oh blimey!
You are correct. I actually have this condition.
Got a bit of personal experience on this though not this specific building. Until I was about 10 I lived in my family home. The home was built in 1620 and was “famously haunted” and is even featured in several books about haunted places in England.
We used to have to regularly contend with ghost walks, basically a local tourist company walking groups of people round telling scary stories. I’m quite chill about this now, got to earn a living after all, but as a kid I was dead against them. There’s just something that feels wrong about coming home from school one January evening, to find a group of adults staring at the old oak tree in your front garden while some tour guide tells a story about how three parliamentary spies were hanged there shortly before the Royalists captured Leicester in 1645, their ghosts “allegedly” (to borrow Simon’s favourite word) still howling in the night.
The house had a rich history and was a lovely home. I can honestly say however, having lived there for 10 years in which one is usually more open to these things, that the house is 100% not haunted! My parents lived there for 15 years before I was born and only moved out when we had to up-size to make room for my baby brother. They never saw or heard anything out of the ordinary. Ditto, I only ever had one experience which looking back is easily explained by an overactive imagination when I was about 8.
By coincidence, I actually now work with the man who currently lives in the house. We’ve joked about this a lot as he still gets the ghost tours coming round and still hasn’t seen or heard anything himself.
Sprinkle Spangles!!! Thank You!!! I've been trying to remember that cereal for over a decade!!!!
Simon NEEDS to cover the biggest paranormal frauds of their time: The Warrens
That would be great
Absolutely
Yes!
I'm just curious of what happened to their Museum of artifacts. It's closed now.
@@jenniferjordan1411 They couldn't handle the ghoul boys. Shane ran all of their demons off.
David Mitchell refuted ghosts best. If ghosts existed, the number of people who have died over the thousands and thousands of years, even if they only sometimes became a ghost would necessitate that ghosts would be abso-fucking-lutely everywhere. You couldn't do anything without seeing ghosts, life would be just packed shoulder to shoulder with them.
Hm. I thought the most haunted house in the U.S. was the plantation in St. Francisville, LA. Ooh, that would make a good episode of DTU! How 'bout it, Simon?
As someone from Louisiana, we have so many weird places. The civil war battlefields in Mansfield and Pleasant Hill are freaky. I'm pretty skeptical but I will admit to the odd feelings and sounds I've experienced there.
My sister's ex-husband lived across the road from the main battlefield. The nights I'd stay there you would hear drums echoing thru the pines.. not sure if someone was scaring us or not lol
I stayed in the General David Bradford Suite at the Myrtles plantation....no ghosts despite all the best suggestions on the complimentary Mystery Tour!
I’ve visited multiple houses in Savannah and even stayed at a historic hotel in Savannah said to be haunted by a ghost cat. Didn’t see any ghost cat but I did have some excellent shrimp and grits.
I was never interested in any way shape or form in ghost hunting until I heard Shane from Ghost Files, who is the skeptic in a skeptic/believer duo, explain it as getting to look at old historical sites completely alone after hours. Now suddenly I'm like OH SHIT! I SHOULD GHOST HUNT!!! Not for ghosts of course, just for the ability to spend hours alone at popular historical tourist destinations unbothered by other humans.
Decoding the Unknown crewmembers field trip maybe??
Jen's additions make these videos perfect!
Yessssss I was looking for this comment 🎉
I used to be open to the possibility but those "ghost-hunting" shows honestly erased any chance of me ever thinking there is even a hint of actual ghosts existing.
You've gotta do a crossover with The Ghoul Boys at @Watcher
That would be amazing!
Absolutely positively this, or crossover one of the various fact channels with Puppet History
Or casual criminalist/unsolved. Ryan and Shane can't do unsolved anymore but that would be wonderful.
Simon mentioned Watcher once a few months ago and I ended up bingeing a bunch of their ghostly investigations. Legends! 🤣
@@AllTheHappySquirrels omg really? Amazing! Is there any chance you remember the video? I have been watching a bunch of Simon's videos lately, but there are just sooo many to go through (especially across all the channels lol)
I love the Watcher guys, I've been thinking about their first video at the Sallie house during buzzfeed unsolved this entire time lol
Simon I have an idea for an episode that could be either a Decoding the Unkown or Casual criminalist! In Ottawa back in 1868 the first political assassination was conducted against one of the Canadian Fathers of Confederation, D'Arcy McGee. His murder is marked as one of the big murder mysteries in Canadian political history. Patrick James Whelan was convicted for the murder BUT there is debate about it. All we know is he either knew the murderer or was the murderer. Whelan ended up being the last person hung publicly in Canada, which happed at the Ottawa Carleton County Jail (now a hostel), it is said that Whelan haunts the sight. I don't remember exactly what the stories are, but it had something to do with an unmarked grave, nose bleads, and some other spooky stuff.
Decoding the unknown could talk about Whelan's ghost, while The Casual Criminalist could cover the murder. So this topic could be used by either. Hope you find this useful and you or one of your writers look into it and finds it interesting enough to write about
YES
Interesting
I'd love to see a series where it's just Simon with a camera staying overnight in "haunted" locations, and just vlogging his experience. "Felt a chill, bit drafty." "Was playing a bit of RAID and thought I heard a sound. I'll report in if I hear it again. Found the sound, was some cheeky wind chimes." "A homeless man made their home here, told me he's a big fan and loves what I do over at Vsauce."
Simon, that's worth noting down: if your lover scratches you... It's the ghost's fault.
Who else desperately wants Simon to have an undeniable supernatural experience? 😂
Do you believe in the supernatural? I'm not sold on anything, but it's hard to believe we know everything already
It’s hard to convince someone that hasn’t lived through it. I lived 3 years through a “haunting”. Be it ghosts, demons, or extra dimensional beings there was something wrong with that house. We had the slew of tropes there (except visual sightings). Doors violently shaking/being thrown open, things flying off counters, things moving around in general (this was a farm house far away from heave machinery or trucking lanes), lights and fans turning on and off randomly, fans swinging violently when there was no air flow to move them, footsteps and banging (all of which can be explained away) but the cherry on the cake was being physically struck by something that was not there when completely alone. Can’t explain that one away. I hope for your sake you are never put in that situation.
Honestly, I'd be more inclined to believe in extradimensional beings, because they would be alive.
Google "Which one can you hear?" to listen to a great example of how reading the words supposedly spoken will change what your brain thinks it is hearing. I could look at one of the choices and hear that version, then look at another and "hear" that one. It worked for every one shown for me. All this even though I was fully aware the sounds (a group chanting) being made were the exact same every time.
my parents (as unbelieving as simon) stayed in a BnB in a little town in scotland and all their toothbrushes went missing. they had 1 each in their suitcases, and flew first class from the US, where they were each given another toothbrush. this is the toothbrush they used at night before they went to sleep. woke up in the morning and not only could they not find the toothbrush from the airplane, but they couldn’t find the ones in their suitcases. my dad had a meltdown and demanded they leave the village, convinced the whole thing was haunted (it’s inveraray, look it up and you’ll see why, def a little creepy). my mom never got to see the castle. both are wholeheartedly convinced it was haunted, and still to this day 23 years later my parents won’t stay anywhere in europe that’s very old because “it’s definitely haunted”. we’re going to italy this summer, wish us luck. my toothbrush is very expensive.
sometimes when he says ‘hello my name is simon and what happens here is…’ i just hear ‘hello my name is simon whimons here’ and now i can’t not listen for it 😂
~0:40 One thing I like imagining after watching found footage horror movies like The Blair Witch or Paranormal Activity is, after that footage makes its way to the general public (in universe), the people collectively just go "Well shit, I guess ghosts are real then." It's a silly small thing, but it entertains me.
Did people actually find The Blair Witch project scary? I swear nearly the entire runtime was just this group of dolts who didn't know how to navigate a forrest and arguing about that.
I'm fairly new to your channels been only watching for about a month. I love your content and especially the content on this video considering I live in Kansas. So this video hits close to home for me. And also to adding I luv it Psy mean when you go on rants cuz it actually makes the videos even more interesting and fun so please don't ever stop going on rants.
I once took a picture of my son around 2012, and when it was developed, there were three images of him. It was a Pentax K1000 camera (a manual SLR). I always used 1/500 shutter speed when taking pictures of him, so they weren't blurry. I still look at the picture and wonder what happened. I assume mechanical, or my own, error. I never thought it was a ghostly apparition. I thought it was a cool, unintentional effect. But, yeah, people will find what they expect to find. Not what's actually happening.
Since it's an attraction now, I guess it would be super easy, barely an inconvenience, for the owners to make it feel haunted - put some speakers in the walls or attic and play spooky sounds at random times in the night, rig up things to move "by themselves" via electromagnets, etc.
If they're making money off of it, it would be rather enticing to keep the illusion going, as long as they don't get caught.
I'm excited to watch this one. I remember seeing this featured on the show Sightings in the 90s
Yeah, as someone who technically believes in spirits, I didn't even make it past the transition from the early 1900s to 1993 before I decided this was either hoax or hysteria.
I'd love to see an episode on Gloria Ramirez "the toxic woman". It's either proof of the super natural which is terrifying. Or a completely natural medical anomaly, which is even more terrifying.
The Nene Leakes clip took my out! Lol Never knew the two half of my personalities would meet on this channel like that, 10/10 editing!
My 7yo: *says something about ghosts*
Me: “ghosts aren’t real, buddy.”
7yo: “But I BELIEVE.”
Me: “SCIENCE DOESNT CARE WHAT YOU BELIEVE SON”
I live in a very old house that has been in my family for over a century. We are all educated with a lifelong obsession with academia. I can undoubtedly tell you that this house is haunted. It’s not malicious but rather a benevolent force. Everybody(friends, random relatives, those who didn't know, etc.)has stories experienced for/by them and yes we chat about it like we’re talking about a rerun of “Coronation Street.”
I haven't even watched this yet and I already know Simon is going to have me in stitches with his wise cracks
I worked the nightshirts in a psychiatric hospital for children. Once in a while they started to see monsters. The sad thing is that they really see monsters.
My dad almost died from his appendix bursting. He was working in a warehouse and had pain in his side, went to the on site nurse who said it was probably gas. She gave him some tylenol and said to go on break early. He passed out on his way back to his work area, woke up in hospital two days later.
I've heard Baleroy Mansion (Philadelphia), the Whaley House (San Diego), & the Amityville/DeFeo House (Long Island) also called America's Most Haunted. I've also heard this particular "haunting" (the one with "Sallie" the little girl ghost who supposedly messed with toys & scratched Tony Pickman) called "the Heartland Haunting" -- I believe that was one of *Sightings*'s names for it. I'm rather interested in the human psychology that makes people interpret things as "ghosts" or "demons", but I agree that carbon monoxide poisoning & ultra low frequency vibrations are possible starting points...
Edit: We had an old washing machine that sounded just like "buttermilk jug, buttermilk jug" when it was in the middle of a cycle. I don't think it was haunted by the spirit of a murdered dairy worker...
Probably right about the washing machine not being haunted.
But I'd be telling everyone it's haunted & showing them a video of it.
Then I'd make up a slightly different story each time to tell them about it.
I want Simon to join Ryan and Shane when they do an investigation for ghost files. Just drag Ryan back to the sally house for a final time with two non believers. Imagine the chaotic energy of Simon and Shane together
That would be hilarious!!!
Ryan: "Today we are finding out; are ghosts real?"
Shane and Simon: *shakes thier heads*
A+ video!
Fascinating story, great writing and analysis.
This reminds me of when Rooster Teeth had their Haunter series where they deliberately antagonized the ghosts and threatened to fight them in order to entice a response.
Love Katy’s scripts 🤩 👻 👏🏻
The fact no one has seen a ghost dinosaur proves there is no such thing as ghosts. Although the mind can create a feeling of energy, as i once felt returning to my childhood home after several years.
However, Simon, if the show Unsolved Mysteries you are referring to is the one hosted by Robert Stack, that wasnt a show like Sighted or Ancient Aliens or other tabloid shows. It was a show that mixed true crime with unexplained stuff with unsolved crimes. In a lot of ways it was like an early version of Decoding The Unknown.
Re: "the generic ghost in the house" - I think Katy is referring to a middle-America idiom/tradition. (Might be all of America, but the states I've lived in are all middle-America, and it's always been something I've encountered, so that's what I can say with confidence.)
Basically, when the house makes a strange noise, or a wet glass slips off the table, or you can't find something then suddenly can find it, etc., instead of saying "the house is settling" or "I put it in an odd place" or "living in the valley makes sounds travel strangely" or "we have a cat who sometimes knocks things over in the next room" we would say "Oh, it's the house ghost" - and other than a few kooks, everyone knows we aren't seriously saying there's a ghost in the house.
Lol makes sense. I always just say it was the Borrowers. Probably because my mom read me those books as a child.
@@skyefirenails Sometimes, my family would blame the borrowers when we couldn't find something small. But, the rest of the stuff was the house ghost.
Katie and Jen are the bomb!
How exactly does one quantify the degree of haunting?
With a hauntometer of course
You have to use one of those things from Ghostbusters that had those arms that go up and down like a wine opener, duh
This is my favorite Decoding the Unknown story. Everything about it is hysterically funny.
My friends and I once “broke into” this house …when it was vacant. No ghosts but there were muddy handprints on the walls lol
Wasnt mud...
Definitely not mud lol 😂
I sure hope it was mud and not somebody who failed to find the bathroom in time.
You should do a Casual Criminalist/Decoding the Unknown cross over with the DeFeo Murders followed by the Amityville Horror.
Another great episode, but after watching that pink and black circle behind Simon for more than half an hour, I am craving licorice allsorts.
I am glad I am not the only one
This comment is from the future where I've already consumed and thoroughly enjoyed this nonsense.
Does Simon end up believing in ghosts by the end?!
Great video Simon and well done with the script and editing to Katy and Nadine.
I think I have this decoded, we want money. Lets make up a story that we live in a "haunted" house. Mystery solved.
You guys in the basement need to convince Simon to plan a road trip to the Sallie House. Danny and Katy are in charge of snacks. Katy is stuck in there with you guys, right?
A road trip from the Czech Republic to the United States. You might have to have a long boating trip in the middle of that road trip.
@@SamAspden Not if they travel up through the Bering Strait. Got to plan for the strait being frozen over in order to drive through. lol
Damn another Channel Simon. Subscribed.
You know... Once I dreamed I died and came back to hunt my house... Not where I was living then, but my first house.
Weird stuff.
Hey Simon's writing team,, have you ever covered the story of the 3 missing women from Springfield MO (USA)? Or would that be for one of the other channels?
Ryan Bergara did dig out a "Sallie" that lived in the house. Sallie Isabel Hall, a 34 years old black woman, lived there in 1905.
My favorite EVP is of a ghost saying, "Let's talk."
At the time I couldn't figure out why that voice sounded so familiar. Upon re-watching Robocop for the 100th time (because it was one of my favorite movies) I realized the ghostly voice was actually Peter Weller.
It was audio from the scene where he marched into the club, grabbed that guy by the hair and dragged him outside.😂
I think Deborah was gaslighting Tony into believing he was haunted.
I grew up in a house where electrical things would break all the time, big appliances, bulbs popping, that type of thing. My mom started buying the warranty for things like fridge, washer, dryer, oven and we all just started blaming "bob" our ghost. I don't know how seriously everyone took it but my sister at 5 came screaming into my moms room and said she wouldn't sleep in her room anymore because there was a white clown talking to her, so I switched rooms with her. I had a corner of the room that freaked me out and I didn't like to shower in my house. My friends felt the same and only one ever slept over more than once. It's possible I was uneasy because my step dad is a psychopath and even as kids we picked up that he wasn't right or safe without knowing why, and it's possible that the house was just poorly wired, but my sister never went into my room after we switched and that's the type of thing sisters normally do... so I think there's something to it... there was just too much not to be something.
The Amityville Horror would be a good topic for this channel.
I’m don’t believe in ghosts or anything but the haunted tour of Atchison is pretty entertaining. If you ever have a chance to go I recommend it.
Katie needs to do one on the Crescent Hotel in Eureka Springs, Arkansas.
Another good one would be the Hornet Spook Light.
Personally I don't like the haunted places theme on this channel because Simon dismisses everything related to Ghosts so it's kinda pointless.
Why is it always grainy? Well. It's more convincing when you see a grainy weird thing happen than something in 4k where you might see how goofy if looks. Also thanks to the paranormal activity movies they all use those Xbox kinect cameras that couldn't tell the difference between a human and a lamp. So it can show a stick figure and they could say "omg it's at the bottom of the stairs" instead of reasonably saying "it's picking up the post at the bottom of the stairs"