I just subscribed, not sure how long ago that video was made, the situation is getting worse. Look up funeral directors, embalmers and unusual blood clots for starters. Great job shearing the truth !
Canada is one big chilled wilderness,it would be possible that some mammoths couldve survived.Tho I would argue an animal of such massive size that travels in groups wouldnt hide so well.
All of these creatures are EXTINCT! But the fact that they once walked the earth is a wondrous thing. We do know that man is the reason for alot of these animals demise.And I'm absolutely sure if a mammoth was still around someone would shoot him!
I saw a 2000 lb 12 foot tall grizzly bear at Space Farms in NJ in the 1980s. His name was Goliath. He’s still there, but he’s stuffed now. He was alive when I saw him.
7:03 I'm surprised you completely glossed over the Giant Beaver part, as there actually was a Giant Beaver-like animal known as Castoroides that roamed the waterways of North America During the last ice age...
The biggest wolves come from that region as well with giant males reportedly knocking on the door of almost 200 lbs. The North American Lion was believed reached sizes from 750 to almost 1000 pounds for big males. Reports of Dinosaurs also on the West slope of the McKenzie Mountains in the Yukon.
Hell yeah, this stuff is so much better the the lies of Ancient aliens, more entertaining and I think the videos are better done. The subject is much better researched that I can guarantee lol. Thanks man so glad to see another video from you.
Hell yeah brother. If you ever want to lookup something cool, Wally Wallington. He's a contractor from Michigan who has made some very interesting observations and done some experimental archeology on megalithic construction. Particularly how stonehenge was built. Levers, counterweights, and inclines. Also egyptian stone core drilling. Crazy cool stuff.
Stories of mammoths arent completely far fetched since apparently a small colony of them may have lasted into almost the turn of the century on a small island near syberia. In fact in syberia theres still a big industry for the locals in syberia based around the collection of mammoth tusks some of which still have bits of flesh attached that were frozen for a long time.
Modern animals no longer have the same access to resources as 100-300 years ago. It's feasible that they could reach massive proportions with the right nutrition.
Well, the dragonflies were a lot farther back in time, so they aren't relevant here. But less human disturbance could also account for oversized mammals in recent history. Hunters tend to pick off the largest males of a given species, creating a situation where smaller males get better access to mating rights and pass on their genes to make the species's average size decrease. So bears and moose legitimately might have been bigger a few centuries back than they are today.
@@JAGzilla-ur3lh you know natural predation from wolves and such count way more then humans do. You look at the numbers you can see that. Also hmm deer in Indiana have all the food they could ever want with out starvation. I couldn't number the people I know who spend lots of money planting and maintaining food crops for deer. Mineral and salt blocks. I watched 4 farms hunt one really nice size buck this year. Everyone of them put out and fertilized food crops, mineral blocks. Oh noone got the big guy. Saw him running across the field last week. Funny how humans are blamed for every thing even though its absurdly stupid. What I'm also trying to point out is dragon Flys matter because environmental changes make the number and size of things like a 1 ft wing span impossible today. Like the large long neck dinosaurs would not be able to live or even function at that size today. Oxygen isn't high enough it would pass out by raising its head.
@@vikingskuld Food is not the only resource for animals. And it certainly isn't based on just 1 species, it's the whole ecosystem. There are many factors that affect an animal's growth.
@@MaliciousMollusc yes but what did you say? Large growth with high nutrition??? Is that not food I know I may biasing some thing here but I don't care how good your genetics are with out proper amounts of food and nutrition you don't have squat. For a different species like oh say elephants and island dwarfism like in south east Asia where they found elephant skeletons a few foot tall that were mature and even into old age. There is not only a different species for ya but some thing else to consider
Yes some of these dates I mean the chances of us finding stuff that's just millions of years old and organic AND STILL IN ITS SAME FORM has got to be pretty rare. It would not surprise me if there were descendants of what were Mamas and mastodons still existed in the North and were eventually devoured by man because of European expansion. that would not surprise me one bit if we learn that to be a truth tomorrow.
@@57strub The legit record is a 12 foot span approximately, think for a minute how heavy that would be, I know how heavy a normal rack is that is half that size, many are probably telling the truth.
@@deanfirnatine7814 12 foot span for a moose? You are what I was saying about people being misinformed or to put it bluntly, lied to. Do some legitimate research. The only member of the deer family that ever had that spread is the extinct Irish Elk.
@@57strubHow would you know? This came from a pastor I did mission work with up there and even his wife said they were bigger much larger than normal moose.
@@northwestolympics1683 Sounds like believing in fantasies isn't a new thing. People have flown planes into all of that country. Wouldn't be difficult to strap 12 foot antlers to a float plane and show the world. Not saying the moose aren't bigger, just not close to that size. World record moose is only 75 inches. 12 feet horns would be 144 inches. Try again.
Thank you, again. Really enjoy listening. Good to Canadian Authors out & about. Plan on getting your book, on the Nahanni Valley. I already have 2 others, read through part of one, but saving them when I go camping. :) I one day want to travel up to Nahanni do some hiking, exploring. Thank you again..
@@deanfirnatine7814 I new about Nahanni before the books. The more you know the better, I've been as far as Fort Nelsen & Rainbow Lake. There is so much in Canada, such a rich history, stories usually hand down for reason. Take Frank Slide, Native man before the slide did warn people said not to settle there for it is a Moving Mountain. Well we all know the story. Hammerson has one on the Thunder Bird expedition done in the 60's I believe. They mentioned big Ravens.. Well when I worked in Fort Mac, most of the Raven were close to 2-3 feet in height, I personally seen one on Aurora sight that was 4 feet in height. When I saw it the first thing I though was this is were they get the stories of birds carrying babies away. I'm a big guy & I was unnerved at the size of him. Funny thing is I tell people some of these things they don't believe it. I though I was seeing things, this was 2005. They had a name for him on sight, this last summer @ Nordegg I seen a Spider that was bigger than my hand, Tarantula size. I was dumbfounded I never though they got that big here, due to winter. Seen Bears as big as small car, some bigger, one Grizzly was on the bank of the Sask River out by Rocky Mountain House. The amount of things I have seen & experience in the woods, even in the city & town areas, I never go anywhere with out at least a knife. Coyotes have been breeding with dogs & wolves, some of the ones I have seen in city limits are getting as big as German Shepard s, some still small. Was hiking in Sherwood Park last year in town, there was big Coyote right in the area, seen him many times. One of the people in the neighborhood put up a sign on the back of his truck warning the elementary school near there of its presents. The way I look at it is some might be embellished over the years, but there is always something that might give you warning if you run into similar situations. I know your joking/ Hammerson, I like the content, & his writing style. I have always been a big on audio listening, while working at something, Coast AM, for many years. So I find it refreshing to hear Canadian Authors, with Canadian content, I'm as ignorant as the next Canadian as far as our culture, being raised on the USA respective via TV, Movies.
Just found this channel earlier this week I’m already almost through every video. Hopefully watching them won’t spoil the books for me too much. This channel is a hidden gem thanks very much for all of this great content.
The idea of giant moose reminds me more of Cervalces (the “stag-moose”) found in North America than it does the Irish elk. Irish elk were extremely gracile and way more like a fallow deer, whereas Cervalces was basically a huge moose. The huge bear could be a late Pleistocene grizzly, as short-faced bears were much lankier than a normal bear, looking more like a bear on stilts with a squished head. Finally, the big cat if it exists is almost certainly an American lion or a cave lion (two closely related albeit separate species). The Smilodon, or saber-toothed cat was not actually that big (or at least the North American species wasn’t), being similar in size to a lioness. American lions on the other hand are arguably the largest cat to have ever lived and cave lions were bigger than modern African lions (similar in size to a tiger) so those two fit better. In addition, Smilodon was not found very far north, similarly to dire wolves they were not well adapted to the cold and hence didn’t go much further than southern Canada
They could be hybrids or mutations of the ordinary versions ,these would act more aggressively and would look different in appearance from the more common variety. wild animals if not hunted or early death ,can grow to really big sizes ...
It’s possible they’re larger than average, lions in certain areas of the Okavango Delta in Africa are larger to kill different prey than they normally target, so it is possible, although that far north you also have to worry about finding enough food to suit a larger body size. The ideas for hybrids should generally be disregarded. Most hybrids are infertile, such as ligers or mules, and for species like moose, they don’t really have any close relatives they could interbreed with anyway
You’re correct. Kinda. Female hybrids can be fertile sometimes, as with ligers and tigons, allowing for back crossing to their parent species. However, male ligers and tigons are not fertile, thus not allowing for a population of hybrid ligers or tigons to persist
I seen a grizzly bear that was at least 15 (probably more because his hands nearly reached us and we were not flying any lower than 25 feet) on the Alaska Yukon border around the Arctic Circle Line, it was a remote Valley with a microclimate across on the other side of Eagle planes from where the Dempster runs, never seen anything else alive in that Valley and when we came upon the grizzly he stood up and nearly grabbed our helicopter. That short faced bear looks a lot like the bugger I saw
@@jackstraw4222 Kodiacs can exceed 2000 lbs. They're normally pretty big. Only two things stop them from getting bigger; other bears and bullets. Isolation has neither.
There's a stuffed standing Kodiak bear in a saloon in Anchorage Alaska that is 12 feet tall from head to foot, with no stretching. If you add the length of the front legs reaching up, in total it's over 18 feet tall
Speaking of Native American legends and giant beavers, there is one tale here Coyote the trickster must battle beaver, who eats a whale in a single bite. It hadn't occurred to me they might have been about ancient giant beavers.
Glad I found your Channel , now I have one more quality source to add to my Arsenal. * David paulides, * sasquatch chronicles with Wes, * Linda moultonhowe, AND NOW YOUR CHANNEL, Of course with a little Coast-to-Coast etc.. Sprinkled in their.
Just started listening to this channel a couple of months ago, but I've went back and listened to the older ones while waiting for the next. I only have 4 that I listen to and I'm loving this. The delivery is spot on and the stories are factual and I can almost feel like I'm right there where the story is coming from.
I just love the feel of these videos, the work put into the imagery and the music is very good. How could that person draw a dinosaur?! That's not a small thing to be able to do, you have to know what they look like! That means they saw one right? Even if they saw one briefly released from ice or whatever, you can't tell me it's flesh lasted tens of millions of years for someone to see.. Someone is lying about extinction timelines.
Love your videos Hammerson! I love to listen when I jump into bed and you read me a bedtime story. lol. I was wondering how many people come up missing in Canada hunting, camping, fishing, exploring? Like here in the U.S., missing 411 by David Pualides of mysterious disappearances and they are almost never ever seen again. Thank you for the excellent quality of work you and your team does. Cheers from Michigan USA!
@@HammersonPeters Have you heard of the earwax theory of oak island? It's horseshit I just made up while scratching my ass... so I expect about 50 vids on it get to work.
@@LordFoxxyFoxington everything tbh man but something that really stands out to me is that there is so many valuable resources / precious metals such as gold and silver and yet it remains mostly untouched by humans.. so that’s how you know it’s a dangerous place. People know better than to mess with forces they don’t understand
I'm so glad to have watched this video-awesome.Wish I'd watched it sooner! Defo be purchasing your book when funds&time allow,cheers m8. ☮💚🖖Ian from🏴
This is fascinating. I am currently preparing a YT video for my channel on giant spiders world-wide. Your mention of them here will be a most welcome addition. I have subscribed to you channel and will most assuredly buy your book!
Would you please put a localized map of the area you are talking about. It would be a great help to know the area being discussed and I'm a geographer as well and love good map reference with the story.
Terrific chronicling. Also very well narrated. I really enjoy your economical selection of relevant details and your talent for moving along to the next installment under a specific subject before the reader can become weary of one story. And bravo for providing the names and works of cited authors rather than spewing tripe like "one writer even claims..." Great book. Makes me want to balloon over the Nahanni.
I heard this crazy story that took place somewhere around Frenchman lakes area, Ghost lake to be exact. I knew this old elder in Carmacks named Wilfred, he passed now, he was a character. I dont know if its true but people and him told me at one point in my life. Story goes... Wilfred was hunting with two white hunters in or around Ghostlake. They saw something huge on the frozen lake, it looked like a giant bear, Wilfred called them Beaver Killers, they are big enough with the claws to flip beaver dams and get the beavers. It saw them on the shore and started toward them. So startled the white dudes started shooting at it as did Wilfred. They emptied shells into it and he said it was still slowly working its way toward them. As it started getting closer and they running out of shells that thing fell through the ice and supposedly drowned. I guess Wilfred was famous around here and lots of white people went to him for adventures and so on. He was a character, he was of northern tatchone, like me. My best friend was grandson to him so I saw Wilfred alot in my youth.
More context, Carmacks Yukon and I am 33 years old now. My grandma and grandpa told me a few stories as did other elders in my native language class. I was probably the only kid in school who rented out ufo and bigfoot books from the library. Wilfred died like 15 years ago when I was a late teen.
Wanted to message and ask if you got any stories on 19th century Mammoth Sightings in british Columbia and large Snakes in the forest. I've read some stuff here and there but not much and want to learn more about these legends. Also have heard allot of Direwolves and Cavelion stories.
The only British Columbian mammoth story I've read is the 1892 story from the Stikine Valley, which Ed Ferrell included in his book. All the giant snakes in the legends I've read about are supposed to live in lakes or rivers, although Philip Godsell once wrote about a strange thing a Cree Indian told him in the woods of northern Manitoba which reminded me of the 'thunderbird vs. giant snake' legend which appears in native tradition across the continent.
@@HammersonPeters i remember hearing a story about a Rothschild that disappeared looking for a lost city in his Journal he wrote about how he was exploring the Forest of British Columbia and saw i believe he said a 60ft snake. After looking at BC from google earth it got me wondering about Native American legends about those, i have heard more about Dire Wolves especially around Pitt Lake and Large Salamanders,Giant Beavers Even Cave Lions and Large river Serpents or Lake Serpents especially in the Burrard Inlet and Indian Arms Area but have only heard one story of a Giant snake which i found weird because of the size of BC i would of figured there would be more native Legends about Those even if it was about a 20ft snake or something i would be happy known there was more sightings to Back up his.
@@HammersonPeters I'm sure I will. Because of the Covid restrictions on travel, I plan to investigate more Canadian cryptids. NW Canada is on my list, in particular the Nahanni Valley. I would like to discuss it with you sometime, if possible.
Thank you very much! Yes, there are stories about hairy giants called Nakani which are also supposed to live in the Nahanni Valley, as well as little hairy people called Nuk-luks.
@@HammersonPeters Sounds awesome. Was just wondering, are you trying to think of a video to make? I love your video of the prehistoric monsters of the Nahanni Valley. I was intrigued by the video of the Crawlers and the two creatures seen by a man. The video that I really enjoyed was the one of the living dinosaurs in the Arctic/subarctic.
@@kaijuar2003 Thanks for the kind words! No, I’m not stumped for material; quite the opposite, actually. Just trying to figure out how to organize some things into manageable chunks.
@@HammersonPeters Ah ok. I was wondering, about the music, are there any websites that might have them or are they personal? Just wondering. The music was so soothing and reminded me of mystery and mythology.
There are several videos about the Nahanni Valley. The claims that some animals long thought to be extinct are living can't be completely ruled out. It's a vast mostly unexplored area. Has anyone climbed up into and explored the caves above the river? It's said less than 1,000 people visit each year. Other sources state the RCMP have closed sections of this park. It makes sense, to me anyway, that the possibility of living specimens exist in the inner regions. I am fascinated by all of these stories. I wonder if you have actually gone there or just wrote your book based on info gleaned in other books or online?
"..... " * dons Jhon Hammond costume w/ mosquito in Amber style fossil cane* " Welcome to Nihanni Vally Preserve. " * jurrassic park music plays in bg*
Cree stories, in the plains & woodlands still talk about a time when these monsters roamed around, some or this one that I heard about had huge disks on its back with a spiked tail, small face & this creature used to eat people & small plants. They died when our helpers brought down a rock to destroy them. Most of them didn’t die of course but the most of who survived were caught were turned into stone.
A full chapter on the inherited chest freezer in my garage... I found mystery mammal steaks in the bottom wrapped in newspaper from the 60's. Hell yes I ate it.
Plant eater or carnivore any one of those creatures you better show respect. My God a short faced bear or an American lion? Solitary too. Short faced bear 2200 lb legitimately 2,200 lb and 10 ft tall 12 ft tall American lion a lean 700 lb? I just can't imagine how explosive that creature must have been. and a short face bear is just moving you off anything you have. That creature was just so big that if it came around you're giving it up.
The Scariest Video I've Ever Made
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I just subscribed, not sure how long ago that video was made, the situation is getting worse. Look up funeral directors, embalmers and unusual blood clots for starters. Great job shearing the truth !
Giant Spider Dream - 2010 Cantung Tungsten mine .
This shook me to the Core !
It's going to be priceless when someone finds some of these , still alive today.
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@@josephbragg6388 What do you mean?
Canada is one big chilled wilderness,it would be possible that some mammoths couldve survived.Tho I would argue an animal of such massive size that travels in groups wouldnt hide so well.
They better hurry up. I'm tired of waiting.
All of these creatures are EXTINCT! But the fact that they once walked the earth is a wondrous thing.
We do know that man is the reason for alot of these animals demise.And I'm absolutely sure if a mammoth was still around someone would shoot him!
I saw a 2000 lb 12 foot tall grizzly bear at Space Farms in NJ in the 1980s. His name was Goliath. He’s still there, but he’s stuffed now. He was alive when I saw him.
7:03 I'm surprised you completely glossed over the Giant Beaver part, as there actually was a Giant Beaver-like animal known as Castoroides that roamed the waterways of North America During the last ice age...
I was about to write the same thing
You mean the earlier part of the current ice age, right?
@@TheBottegaChannel No, I meant the Ice Age in the Mesozoic era...
@@cro-magnoncarol4017, that's the one I'm talking about. We're still in the tail end of an ice age cycle that's lasted since the mesozoic.
@@TheBottegaChannel Wrong, the current series of Ice Ages began after the Mesozoic.
The biggest wolves come from that region as well with giant males reportedly knocking on the door of almost 200 lbs. The North American Lion was believed reached sizes from 750 to almost 1000 pounds for big males. Reports of Dinosaurs also on the West slope of the McKenzie Mountains in the Yukon.
Make some videos lol
Bullshit
I think it's incredibly important to be documenting and archiving these word-of-mouth traditions.
Hell yeah, this stuff is so much better the the lies of Ancient aliens, more entertaining and I think the videos are better done. The subject is much better researched that I can guarantee lol. Thanks man so glad to see another video from you.
Truth is always better than fiction.
Hell yeah brother.
If you ever want to lookup something cool, Wally Wallington. He's a contractor from Michigan who has made some very interesting observations and done some experimental archeology on megalithic construction. Particularly how stonehenge was built.
Levers, counterweights, and inclines.
Also egyptian stone core drilling. Crazy cool stuff.
@@PandorasFolly hell yeah thank you will give him a look. Much appreciated
@@PandorasFolly Stonehenge is fake
More believable too.
Stories of mammoths arent completely far fetched since apparently a small colony of them may have lasted into almost the turn of the century on a small island near syberia. In fact in syberia theres still a big industry for the locals in syberia based around the collection of mammoth tusks some of which still have bits of flesh attached that were frozen for a long time.
These are awesome. The Nahanni Valley seems to be under appreciated.
Massively under appreciated brooo 😎
Heading to Nahanni Butte in a few days...
@@kirkburke8706how was it? It’s a bucket list item for me, and wondering how accessible/pricy it is, outside of the obvious no roads in
Modern animals no longer have the same access to resources as 100-300 years ago. It's feasible that they could reach massive proportions with the right nutrition.
Higher Oxygen content and denser air pressure does way more for that. Thats how a dragon fly could have a 1ft wing span and actually still fly.
Well, the dragonflies were a lot farther back in time, so they aren't relevant here. But less human disturbance could also account for oversized mammals in recent history. Hunters tend to pick off the largest males of a given species, creating a situation where smaller males get better access to mating rights and pass on their genes to make the species's average size decrease. So bears and moose legitimately might have been bigger a few centuries back than they are today.
@@JAGzilla-ur3lh you know natural predation from wolves and such count way more then humans do. You look at the numbers you can see that. Also hmm deer in Indiana have all the food they could ever want with out starvation. I couldn't number the people I know who spend lots of money planting and maintaining food crops for deer. Mineral and salt blocks. I watched 4 farms hunt one really nice size buck this year. Everyone of them put out and fertilized food crops, mineral blocks. Oh noone got the big guy. Saw him running across the field last week. Funny how humans are blamed for every thing even though its absurdly stupid. What I'm also trying to point out is dragon Flys matter because environmental changes make the number and size of things like a 1 ft wing span impossible today. Like the large long neck dinosaurs would not be able to live or even function at that size today. Oxygen isn't high enough it would pass out by raising its head.
@@vikingskuld Food is not the only resource for animals.
And it certainly isn't based on just 1 species, it's the whole ecosystem. There are many factors that affect an animal's growth.
@@MaliciousMollusc yes but what did you say? Large growth with high nutrition??? Is that not food I know I may biasing some thing here but I don't care how good your genetics are with out proper amounts of food and nutrition you don't have squat. For a different species like oh say elephants and island dwarfism like in south east Asia where they found elephant skeletons a few foot tall that were mature and even into old age. There is not only a different species for ya but some thing else to consider
I mean a specie of giant beaver did exist for quiet sometime in northern North America, so it may have some credibility.
Yes
Yes some of these dates I mean the chances of us finding stuff that's just millions of years old and organic AND STILL IN ITS SAME FORM has got to be pretty rare. It would not surprise me if there were descendants of what were Mamas and mastodons still existed in the North and were eventually devoured by man because of European expansion. that would not surprise me one bit if we learn that to be a truth tomorrow.
Apparently giant beavers may still exist in Northern Manitoba.
Castoroides
Ya like 200 lbs
Always look forward to watching your content dude; can’t wait to watch this!
Appreciate all the hard work you put into these videos 😄✌🏻
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Thank you for your works
I listen to your videos when going to sleep. Great reading voice and very interesting oral histories. Thanks
I do, too.
Wow Thanks Mr Peters, I am definitely getting your book in the near future!
Thank you.
I purchased your book and wow what a great read! Thank you for your mesmerizing videos.
Thanks so much for your patronage! I'm glad you enjoyed the book, and that you're enjoying the videos.
Love your narration and tone, and love how you keep things grounded in reality. Great to relax to. Thank you.
This is one of the BEST channels on UA-cam- I love it. Thank you 🙏 for all your hard work, I look forward to each new video. God bless.
Moving to MonTana!
I know moose hunters that said world records are north of the Yukon and they could never pack the antlers out due to too heavy.
I think they enjoy lying to misinformed people.
@@57strub The legit record is a 12 foot span approximately, think for a minute how heavy that would be, I know how heavy a normal rack is that is half that size, many are probably telling the truth.
@@deanfirnatine7814 12 foot span for a moose? You are what I was saying about people being misinformed or to put it bluntly, lied to. Do some legitimate research. The only member of the deer family that ever had that spread is the extinct Irish Elk.
@@57strubHow would you know? This came from a pastor I did mission work with up there and even his wife said they were bigger much larger than normal moose.
@@northwestolympics1683 Sounds like believing in fantasies isn't a new thing. People have flown planes into all of that country. Wouldn't be difficult to strap 12 foot antlers to a float plane and show the world. Not saying the moose aren't bigger, just not close to that size. World record moose is only 75 inches. 12 feet horns would be 144 inches. Try again.
Thank you, again. Really enjoy listening. Good to Canadian Authors out & about.
Plan on getting your book, on the Nahanni Valley. I already have 2 others, read through part of one, but saving them when I go camping. :) I one day want to travel up to Nahanni do some hiking, exploring.
Thank you again..
Thanks so much for your patronage! I really appreciate it.
Do you really want to read these books BEFORE you go to Nahanni? ;)
@@deanfirnatine7814 I new about Nahanni before the books. The more you know the better, I've been as far as Fort Nelsen & Rainbow Lake. There is so much in Canada, such a rich history, stories usually hand down for reason.
Take Frank Slide, Native man before the slide did warn people said not to settle there for it is a Moving Mountain. Well we all know the story.
Hammerson has one on the Thunder Bird expedition done in the 60's I believe. They mentioned big Ravens.. Well when I worked in Fort Mac, most of the Raven were close to 2-3 feet in height, I personally seen one on Aurora sight that was 4 feet in height.
When I saw it the first thing I though was this is were they get the stories of birds carrying babies away.
I'm a big guy & I was unnerved at the size of him.
Funny thing is I tell people some of these things they don't believe it.
I though I was seeing things, this was 2005. They had a name for him on sight, this last summer @ Nordegg I seen a Spider that was bigger than my hand, Tarantula size. I was dumbfounded I never though they got that big here, due to winter.
Seen Bears as big as small car, some bigger, one Grizzly was on the bank of the Sask River out by Rocky Mountain House.
The amount of things I have seen & experience in the woods, even in the city & town areas, I never go anywhere with out at least a knife.
Coyotes have been breeding with dogs & wolves, some of the ones I have seen in city limits are getting as big as German Shepard s, some still small.
Was hiking in Sherwood Park last year in town, there was big Coyote right in the area, seen him many times. One of the people in the neighborhood put up a sign on the back of his truck warning the elementary school near there of its presents.
The way I look at it is some might be embellished over the years, but there is always something that might give you warning if you run into similar situations.
I know your joking/
Hammerson, I like the content, & his writing style. I have always been a big on audio listening, while working at something, Coast AM, for many years. So I find it refreshing to hear Canadian Authors, with Canadian content, I'm as ignorant as the next Canadian as far as our culture, being raised on the USA respective via TV, Movies.
We are planning a trip to the Nahanni next spring .One last great adventure .
Just found this channel earlier this week I’m already almost through every video. Hopefully watching them won’t spoil the books for me too much. This channel is a hidden gem thanks very much for all of this great content.
The idea of giant moose reminds me more of Cervalces (the “stag-moose”) found in North America than it does the Irish elk. Irish elk were extremely gracile and way more like a fallow deer, whereas Cervalces was basically a huge moose. The huge bear could be a late Pleistocene grizzly, as short-faced bears were much lankier than a normal bear, looking more like a bear on stilts with a squished head. Finally, the big cat if it exists is almost certainly an American lion or a cave lion (two closely related albeit separate species). The Smilodon, or saber-toothed cat was not actually that big (or at least the North American species wasn’t), being similar in size to a lioness. American lions on the other hand are arguably the largest cat to have ever lived and cave lions were bigger than modern African lions (similar in size to a tiger) so those two fit better. In addition, Smilodon was not found very far north, similarly to dire wolves they were not well adapted to the cold and hence didn’t go much further than southern Canada
They could be hybrids or mutations of the ordinary versions ,these would act more aggressively and would look different in appearance from the more common variety. wild animals if not hunted or early death ,can grow to really big sizes ...
It’s possible they’re larger than average, lions in certain areas of the Okavango Delta in Africa are larger to kill different prey than they normally target, so it is possible, although that far north you also have to worry about finding enough food to suit a larger body size. The ideas for hybrids should generally be disregarded. Most hybrids are infertile, such as ligers or mules, and for species like moose, they don’t really have any close relatives they could interbreed with anyway
@@tigerdrake7225 It has been proven Ligers are not infertile just for the record on that matter at least.
You’re correct. Kinda. Female hybrids can be fertile sometimes, as with ligers and tigons, allowing for back crossing to their parent species. However, male ligers and tigons are not fertile, thus not allowing for a population of hybrid ligers or tigons to persist
I think amphiscion is more likely than a dire wolf. The Wakeela supposedly is solitary and not fully digitigrade
I have your book this book right now, and i love it
I sent it to one of those to my friend to Mexico
She loves this stories
Thank you for this this was really really something God bless you stay with Jesus funny
That word was supposed to be honey
Really interesting excerpt! I’ll look forward to picking up a copy of the book! Thank you for sharing
This was so well done ! Excellent information I had never heard before. Subscribed!
I must visit the Nahanni Valley!!
Very impressive tales !
Thank You I can never get enough of this type of content
just got the book, can't wait to read it! Love this stuff.
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second to none in content and presentation ! ive learned so much ...
I love the stories of British Columbia I would like to see more videos about them.
love these videos man, so well done, about to order your book. TY Hammerson.
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The last couple docks have been absolutely fantastic....good work!!!!!
That was great. Really learned a ton of new things and people to read about. Thank You Sir.
Just watched the giant river serpent.👌
Now this one. Thanks for sharing.
Love this video so nice to see ones in Canada .. that thanks so much you have my subscription
First time seeing your vids.. I am liking you and your crews work so many get a subscription
Thanks for this one Peters...... Love the mysteries the Nahanni holds....
I seen a grizzly bear that was at least 15 (probably more because his hands nearly reached us and we were not flying any lower than 25 feet) on the Alaska Yukon border around the Arctic Circle Line, it was a remote Valley with a microclimate across on the other side of Eagle planes from where the Dempster runs, never seen anything else alive in that Valley and when we came upon the grizzly he stood up and nearly grabbed our helicopter.
That short faced bear looks a lot like the bugger I saw
Reminds me of the movie Prophecy.
wild animals can grow to very large sizes esp in remotes areas ,and iv read of record bears the size of the prehistoric bears...
@@jackstraw4222 Kodiacs can exceed 2000 lbs. They're normally pretty big.
Only two things stop them from getting bigger; other bears and bullets.
Isolation has neither.
There's a stuffed standing Kodiak bear in a saloon in Anchorage Alaska that is 12 feet tall from head to foot, with no stretching. If you add the length of the front legs reaching up, in total it's over 18 feet tall
Nahanni Valley is my now most must visit place
I've always wanted to visit Canada & Alaska.
Now, more so.
(From Australia)
Cool stuff. I might have to look into some of the mentioned books.
If there are spiders as big as a grizzly, i want off this planet.
Me. Too.
If there are spiders as big as a grizzly, no one would be safe.
@@derekbates4316 which i why i want off this planet
@@RandomTrinidadian No, I mean we'd already be dead, b'cuz there's nowhere we could that they wouldn't be.
Who knew that Skull Island was in northwestern Canada? And not an island?
I bought your book. Ty
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Was just working here and was wondering about the lore behind the area. Definitely want to go back. That place is intriguing.
Speaking of Native American legends and giant beavers, there is one tale here Coyote the trickster must battle beaver, who eats a whale in a single bite. It hadn't occurred to me they might have been about ancient giant beavers.
Its crazy that their was such things as “Giant Beavers” You gotta search em up size of black bears
@@I_Love_TRUMP , too true.
Glad I found your Channel , now I have one more quality source to add to my Arsenal.
* David paulides,
* sasquatch chronicles with Wes,
* Linda moultonhowe,
AND NOW YOUR CHANNEL, Of course with a little Coast-to-Coast etc.. Sprinkled in their.
God only knows what could still be alive in those uncharted mountains and valley. I believe this is a better theory than ancient aliens.
Just started listening to this channel a couple of months ago, but I've went back and listened to the older ones while waiting for the next. I only have 4 that I listen to and I'm loving this. The delivery is spot on and the stories are factual and I can almost feel like I'm right there where the story is coming from.
Love the storys thanks for sharing.
I love this channel, the stories and your book!
yea im gonna buy the book right now ,there to much interesting reports iv never heard of ....
I just love the feel of these videos, the work put into the imagery and the music is very good. How could that person draw a dinosaur?! That's not a small thing to be able to do, you have to know what they look like! That means they saw one right? Even if they saw one briefly released from ice or whatever, you can't tell me it's flesh lasted tens of millions of years for someone to see.. Someone is lying about extinction timelines.
From Borneo.. Agree..
Love your videos Hammerson! I love to listen when I jump into bed and you read me a bedtime story. lol. I was wondering how many people come up missing in Canada hunting, camping, fishing, exploring? Like here in the U.S., missing 411 by David Pualides of mysterious disappearances and they are almost never ever seen again. Thank you for the excellent quality of work you and your team does. Cheers from Michigan USA!
Thanks for the kind words! I’m actually working on a big ‘Missing 411’ video that I’m really excited about.
@@HammersonPeters Have you heard of the earwax theory of oak island? It's horseshit I just made up while scratching my ass... so I expect about 50 vids on it get to work.
@@TheShadowInTheMask An earresistible proposal.
@@HammersonPeters lol touche
@@TheShadowInTheMask Uncalled for, dude.
This has a history/ discovery Channel special all over it. You need to pitch a show. You can even throw me a royalty share!.....lol good stuff
If I were a rich man I would organise an expedition to the Nehanni Valley and fully explore the entire region.
2 Separate groups of rcmp and us marines were afraid to continue a search for missing persons.. it’s really a bizarre place
@@mikeol510 What specifically unnerved you about the place?
@@LordFoxxyFoxington everything tbh man but something that really stands out to me is that there is so many valuable resources / precious metals such as gold and silver and yet it remains mostly untouched by humans.. so that’s how you know it’s a dangerous place. People know better than to mess with forces they don’t understand
😮 no way, too many people who've gone missing and killed... Something in that area doesn't want humans exploring
.458 Win Mag is nafural for Alaska guides and hunters after big bear and moose, and good combination it is for many uses amd situations.
I'm so glad to have watched this video-awesome.Wish I'd watched it sooner!
Defo be purchasing your book when funds&time allow,cheers m8.
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Fascinating! I'm going to have to read your book.
Things possibly left over from the Miocene or Pleistiocene.. MY KINDA stories!! I loved it!
Cold the old inuit (at 10:06) have found an intact frozen mammoth and removed its tusks?
very good info that we need
This is fascinating. I am currently preparing a YT video for my channel on giant spiders world-wide. Your mention of them here will be a most welcome addition. I have subscribed to you channel and will most assuredly buy your book!
As a Dene, thanks you for this. This is badass stuff.
10:38 the creature drawn in the river mud is a gomphothere
Cheers🥂, entertaining, well written, solid Editing, w/ a sprinkle of mysterious happenings of the Great White North❔Yes Plz‼️👍🏻👍🏻
Would you please put a localized map of the area you are talking about. It would be a great help to know the area being discussed and I'm a geographer as well and love good map reference with the story.
You can find a map of the Nahanni Valley in this article (about 1/3 of the way down): mysteriesofcanada.com/quebec/nakani-the-wildman-of-the-north/
Great video thank you for posting it.
Very interesting 👋
Please do more like this
Terrific chronicling. Also very well narrated. I really enjoy your economical selection of relevant details and your talent for moving along to the next installment under a specific subject before the reader can become weary of one story. And bravo for providing the names and works of cited authors rather than spewing tripe like "one writer even claims..." Great book. Makes me want to balloon over the Nahanni.
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Hammerson (Son of Hammer) is got to be the coolest forename name ive ever heard.
Brilliant love you're content thank you and the team for these great tales
I heard this crazy story that took place somewhere around Frenchman lakes area, Ghost lake to be exact. I knew this old elder in Carmacks named Wilfred, he passed now, he was a character. I dont know if its true but people and him told me at one point in my life. Story goes...
Wilfred was hunting with two white hunters in or around Ghostlake. They saw something huge on the frozen lake, it looked like a giant bear, Wilfred called them Beaver Killers, they are big enough with the claws to flip beaver dams and get the beavers. It saw them on the shore and started toward them. So startled the white dudes started shooting at it as did Wilfred. They emptied shells into it and he said it was still slowly working its way toward them. As it started getting closer and they running out of shells that thing fell through the ice and supposedly drowned.
I guess Wilfred was famous around here and lots of white people went to him for adventures and so on. He was a character, he was of northern tatchone, like me.
My best friend was grandson to him so I saw Wilfred alot in my youth.
More context, Carmacks Yukon and I am 33 years old now. My grandma and grandpa told me a few stories as did other elders in my native language class. I was probably the only kid in school who rented out ufo and bigfoot books from the library. Wilfred died like 15 years ago when I was a late teen.
That’s amazing! Very spooky. Thanks for sharing.
Awesome Video! Very informative!
Excellent work. You make me want to go to the valley and explore. You have found an amazing jem of a mysterious place.
Incredible !
The more you talk about this place the more want to go
That was amazing
Wanted to message and ask if you got any stories on 19th century Mammoth Sightings in british Columbia and large Snakes in the forest. I've read some stuff here and there but not much and want to learn more about these legends. Also have heard allot of Direwolves and Cavelion stories.
The only British Columbian mammoth story I've read is the 1892 story from the Stikine Valley, which Ed Ferrell included in his book. All the giant snakes in the legends I've read about are supposed to live in lakes or rivers, although Philip Godsell once wrote about a strange thing a Cree Indian told him in the woods of northern Manitoba which reminded me of the 'thunderbird vs. giant snake' legend which appears in native tradition across the continent.
@@HammersonPeters i remember hearing a story about a Rothschild that disappeared looking for a lost city in his Journal he wrote about how he was exploring the Forest of British Columbia and saw i believe he said a 60ft snake. After looking at BC from google earth it got me wondering about Native American legends about those, i have heard more about Dire Wolves especially around Pitt Lake and Large Salamanders,Giant Beavers Even Cave Lions and Large river Serpents or Lake Serpents especially in the Burrard Inlet and Indian Arms Area but have only heard one story of a Giant snake which i found weird because of the size of BC i would of figured there would be more native Legends about Those even if it was about a 20ft snake or something i would be happy known there was more sightings to Back up his.
Just ordered your book.
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@@HammersonPeters I'm sure I will. Because of the Covid restrictions on travel, I plan to investigate more Canadian cryptids. NW Canada is on my list, in particular the Nahanni Valley. I would like to discuss it with you sometime, if possible.
i really like this kind of want more
This was a wonderful presentation. Since I'm not through your videos, is there any stories of humanoids living among the critters?
Thank you very much! Yes, there are stories about hairy giants called Nakani which are also supposed to live in the Nahanni Valley, as well as little hairy people called Nuk-luks.
@@HammersonPeters
Thank you, I'm looking forward to more videos.
Awesome!
What's the ambient/background music that you use?
It's music that I made.
@@HammersonPeters Sounds awesome. Was just wondering, are you trying to think of a video to make? I love your video of the prehistoric monsters of the Nahanni Valley. I was intrigued by the video of the Crawlers and the two creatures seen by a man.
The video that I really enjoyed was the one of the living dinosaurs in the Arctic/subarctic.
@@kaijuar2003 Thanks for the kind words! No, I’m not stumped for material; quite the opposite, actually. Just trying to figure out how to organize some things into manageable chunks.
@@HammersonPeters Ah ok. I was wondering, about the music, are there any websites that might have them or are they personal? Just wondering. The music was so soothing and reminded me of mystery and mythology.
*Beaver slaps water* .. me : yooooo bro.. sick. novelty wave.. get the surfboard.
Surfins gonna be goooooddddd
There are several videos about the Nahanni Valley. The claims that some animals long thought to be extinct are living can't be completely ruled out. It's a vast mostly unexplored area. Has anyone climbed up into and explored the caves above the river? It's said less than 1,000 people visit each year. Other sources state the RCMP have closed sections of this park. It makes sense, to me anyway, that the possibility of living specimens exist in the inner regions. I am fascinated by all of these stories. I wonder if you have actually gone there or just wrote your book based on info gleaned in other books or online?
The earth tilt is a theory of the prehistoric plants under the glacier ice. Taking a once warm tropical climate to frozen artifacts. Thank you.
Can you imagine if someone made a fictional movie where there we’re actually prehistoric creatures in the Nahanni valley?
"..... " * dons Jhon Hammond costume w/ mosquito in Amber style fossil cane* " Welcome to Nihanni Vally Preserve. " * jurrassic park music plays in bg*
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What part of the Nahanni Valley do these sightings take place primarily?
Cree stories, in the plains & woodlands still talk about a time when these monsters roamed around, some or this one that I heard about had huge disks on its back with a spiked tail, small face & this creature used to eat people & small plants.
They died when our helpers brought down a rock to destroy them. Most of them didn’t die of course but the most of who survived were caught were turned into stone.
Sounds like the Cree version of the KT impact event.
I would want to build cabin in the most remote area of nahanni and Live there.
Soo there ARE Rune Bears!?
where can i buy the book if im from europe? (germany)
I believe those Dino’s and mammoths are still around just in the most furthest stretches of the earth
A full chapter on the inherited chest freezer in my garage... I found mystery mammal steaks in the bottom wrapped in newspaper from the 60's.
Hell yes I ate it.
Plant eater or carnivore any one of those creatures you better show respect. My God a short faced bear or an American lion? Solitary too. Short faced bear 2200 lb legitimately 2,200 lb and 10 ft tall 12 ft tall American lion a lean 700 lb? I just can't imagine how explosive that creature must have been. and a short face bear is just moving you off anything you have. That creature was just so big that if it came around you're giving it up.