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surprised you didn't mention any of the other folklore origins behind Bloody Mary, in England we were always taught that it was Queen Mary I of England, Bloody Mary herself
Heck I'm American and I never heard of the colonial version. I only ever associated it with the Tudor. ...and sometimes confusing her for Mary, Queen of Scots thanks to the ambiguous mishmash of history present in Terranigma.
Yea, I thought it was her too. In my version that I heard, a groundskeeper in Westminster passed by her coffin with a mirror. He then said "Bloody Mary, Bloody Mary, Bloody Mary. You are not so scary." And then she kidnapped him.
Fun fact there's an actual psychological phenomenon at play here: Staring at your reflection in darkness if you can partially see will actually eventually temporarily distort what you see. It's your mind trying to "fill in" the rest of the picture it can't make out. It's an instinctual survival tactic, but that's why superstitious people who try it will assuredly tell you they saw a ghost. Also I remember a variation where the villagers killed Mary's son, and so she left them with that curse. If you say her name 13 times and then say "I know where your son is" she'll come out looking for him.
As a kid I did the Bloody Mary ritual only when the lights were off I stubbed my toe on a piece of broken wood which cut it and drew blood all over the floor. So that was fun!
When I did it I was told you have to be staring into your own eyes when you say it, you'll see her reflection in there. Then one of my friends banged on the door just as I said the last bloody Mary and I jumped, head butting the mirror. Didn't break it luckily but I did bite my lip quite badly and came out of the bathroom with blood running down my chin... quite a shock when I looked up and saw myself I can tell you! For the other boys at the sleepover when I came out the room too.
Also in Ireland, we link bloody Mary to Mary Tudor, the successor of Henry VIII, and responsible for the first Plantation of Ireland (Plantation here meaning bloody awful colonisation)
Interesting, in England the bloody moniker is entirely because she executed so many Protestants... but I guess Irelands mostly Catholic so that wouldn't have been a good reason for the name.
@SplatterInker Yep, the fact that the Desmond Rebellion took place during her rule was enough for Mary to give the go-ahead for a scorched earth policy and the first of three major colonisation efforts by the Tudors and Stewarts which culminated in the Plantation of Ulster. So yeah, we are still seeing the effects of Bloody Mary today.
@EggPotionFilms well, he lasted about as long as Liz Truss and made as much of a mess, overturning his father's pretty sensible succession laws, so he isn't very relevant
I wish you'd briefly talked about why silver bullets are used to kill ANYTHING at all: Silver is a holy metal. That's why vampires don't have a reflection and why werewolves are struck down by it, and why he planned to use them on the witch. It banishes the unholy.
Small correction: The vampire mirrors thing is unrelated to silver. Originally, people believed that you needed a soul to have a reflection, so vampires lacked one. It was later writers who tried to connect it to the silver weakness.
Growing up in Canada I was always told by older kids you had to hold a knife to your throat and say her name 9 times in the mirror, funny how the urban legend differs from region to region and time period
I also live in Canada, and I heard a mix of things. Bloody Mary is Mary I of England who executed people a lot, and to summon her, simply go in a bathroom at night, lights out, only a candle. Say her name 3 times and there she is.
I live in Canada and I was told you had to go into the bathroom, shut off the lights, spin in a circle 3 times while saying her name once each spin, and then you shut and opened your eyes and she was supposedly in the mirror.
Also Canadian, and somehow never heard a single version of the story, except as a thing characters in TV shows, movies and books would occasionally reference.
so if she cursed the villagers,their children and their children's children, anyone that doesn't have any ties to that village would not be effected by the curse as it's only on the bloodline of those that wronged her.
But can you be sure that you don't have anyone from that village in your ancestry? More importantly that would only be three generations so should be safe by now.
Likely doesn’t apply to me. My bio dad’s side of the family, my mom’s mother’s side, and my maternal grandmother’s family are all immigrants from the early 20th century. Now sure about grandma’s dad, tho. My half sister and stepdad’s family may be I trouble tho, because they traced their ancestry all the back to John Quincy Adams… which would explain a lot about them…
I was told Bloody Mary was a woman who lost her baby (it was taken or something), either in childbirth or because she killed it and then regretted her decision. And that if you said her name, she would come out and scratch you. BUT if you REALLY wanted to see her, then you had to say her name and tell her “I have your baby” and rock your arms like you were holding said baby. Then you’d feel a weight in your arms (and in some iterations, even hear it crying!), and mom herself would come out looking for it. Scary!!! One does NOT get between a mom and her baby, much less an undead one with that much urban street credit behind her!!
Been a huge fan of you guys since the beginning! Love to see how the EC team has branched out into so many different subject types, urban lore is so fascinating and underappreciated. Thanks for sharing!
Question: How come so many myths take place in a bathroom with plumbing? Between this and Hanako-san (or kun) I wonder why these myths started in a place where the worse thing you would see is a toilet that someone forgot to flush. (Maybe that last part could of answered my own question...)
The bathroom represents vulnerability, most uses of that part of the house require a level of exposure or even reduced mobility. When your pants are down around your ankles It's way harder to run from the Babylonian poop demon.
I did as you asked, but being from the Philippines all I did was confuse the local ghosts and monsters. One of them chided me about calling them just to order some tomato-based bar drink.
Sarah: “Did you hear? Some kids in Salem are creating a game based on one of us!” Winifred: “I wonder who they’ll choose?” Winifred (internally) : “I wonder when I’ll be chosen.” Mary: “Did you hear? They decided to base it on me!” Winifred: “Good for you.” Winifred (internally): “WHAT?!”
Maybe something to note: even attempting the dare does, to some degree, imply that you believe that Mary DID lay a curse, and therefore that you believe she WAS a witch, and that her gruesome lynching was justified. Which isn't exactly the sort of attitude you want to give off towards a Vengeful Ghost of any kind!!!
I watched a documentary on folklore as a kid and it said that Bloody Mary was a woman who was buried alive. She was sick and the doctor couldn't feel a pulse, so (like everyone else just in case) they tied a rope to her wrist for her to ring if she woke. They'd dig her up if she were ringing it. In the morning of the next day, the family found her bell fell of its hook, so they quickly dug to find her hands bloody, her nails ripped off into the wood of her coffin. Some suggest that a mirror in her room where she died wasn't covered, as keeping any mirror covered as someone died could keep the soul free from its grasp and go to heaven. Perhaps she cursed her family to haunt in their mirrors, or perhaps she haunts because she is trapped. All we know is that she's trying to find a replacement for her pitiful afterlife.
The version I grew up with: Boody Marry was a married woman in a small town during the 1800's, she caught her husband in bed with his mistress. She took an axe to them both then, stricken with rage/grief went on a murdering spree across the town before being put down by the town's sheriff. To summon her you have so spin 3 times while chanting her name 3 time in a dark room with a mirror, and her vengeful spirit will leap out of the mirror and attack unless you scream very loudly, which will scare her away.
I remember kids in elementary school used to dare each other to play Bloody Mary, no one was able to do it of corse but I still remember it, its cool to see a Extra Mythology episode about a myth I actually participated in.
Personally I think this "jumpscare" at 7:37 was a bit too exaggerated. (poor thing, thinking of her at that stake brings to mind the "curse" made by the last Templar grand master Jacques de Molay, he said: "Those who have unjustly condemned us will very soon be summoned before the divine Tribunal", turned to Pope Clement V who died about a month later and to Philip IV the Fair, 8 months from that terrible day, due to a hunting accident, he was responsible for the annihilation of the Order.)
There's some truth to the face in the mirror, with your brain struggling to see something and you *expecting* it to be scary. Your own face half seen in the dark mirror, humans being so good at seeing things that aren't there, your imagination fills in the details.
I heard about this is first school and even after I figured out that it wouldnt do anything, the fear or bathroom mirrors stuck with me to this day. I cant go in the bathroom with the lights off at all out of fear...
I did that in the school bathroom in 1st grade. pitch dark. as an adult, logically I know all you are seeing is your own reflection as your eyes adjust, but I still get squicked out being in a dark bathroom.
When I was a kid the story was that all lights in the home had to be off, not just the bathroom's, you did not have to say anything, and it was Satan who would appear in the bathroom mirror. I'm a French Canadian so it might be why the myth is so different, to my ear "bloody Mary" is more catchy than "Marie sanglante".
Damn as a Canadian i was always scared of this myth as everyone was scared to do it, but great job telling more information about that I never knew! Also that ending caught me off guard!
Ah, I always assumed Bloody Mary was connected with Mary Queen of Scots somehow. Thanks for informing me. Also, jumpscare at 7:37 for anybody who needs it.
Ooh, I know this one, the 'forgetting your own face' illusion thing, where if you hold perfectly still (including your eyes) staring at one spot for long enough (especially in poor light) looking for something that isn't there, your vision gets progressively less detailed and more and more replaced with imagination, including losing the ability to recognize yourself in the mirror and feeling you're watching another person (often considered highly disturbing), and if you're in a spooky mood from a ghost story, these hallucinations tend to be even more frightening and vivid, until you flinch even slightly, at which point your vision returns to normal.
Interesting to watch but... The jumpscare-ish thing at the end is something I hope you're not doing for the rest of the halloween videos. Bad enough to have those before an ad becomes skippable for a horror movie, but in the video I wanna actually watch... Normally love these, but that kinda soured me at the end. I love the creepy part and exploration of the myths, but... Might just be me though..
I grew up with the Mary Tudor version as well. There is one kinda important problem with the Mary Worth version. There is no record of any accused witches burned in New England. They were all hanged, pressed, or drowned. Anyone that's toured Salem can tell you that.
As a kid, we always learned saying Bloody Mary 5 times in the mirror, in the dark, ans she would appear! I heard about this when I was in the 3rd grade. Now, fast-forward to today, if a mysterious woman appeared behind me, I would say "Baby, where you been?!"❤
Oh my god!! My friends had this huge fear of bloody Mary when we were 12! We liked to play a game where the we had to scare each other😅 I called bloody Mary three times and then pretended to have a seizure 😂 I won that round
Think I was in 4th or 5th grade when I first heard of Bloody Marry and it was because of Twisted Metal that a friend's older brother had on his ps2. That game was fun to play, but the cutscenes were scary to me as a kid.
Mirrors in the dark are ridiculously scary even without any superstitions tied to them. There's something absolutely magnetizing about a bathroom mirror at night, and whenever I give in to the temptation and let my gaze linger on my reflection a little bit, I start seeing something that is undoubtedly myself, but with a sick, sullen, malnourished face and dark, dark eyes with seemingly nothing but endless void behind them. And every time afterwards, I'm left a little more nervous, a little more anxious, and, ultimately, a little closer to becoming the same as the face I saw, as if it drained some of my energy for itself in a twisted, Picture of Dorian Gray sort of way.
I loved this, but I’m not sure if this is a more Americanised version of the tale? In the U.K. and in general we think of Bloody Mary as Mary Tudor, the queen who burnt thousands of people at the stake and earned the nickname
I have the feeling this is also the origin story of the valpurgis night, maybe y'all could make a video about this if you didn't already, the valpurgis night that is
As a kid growing up in the 90s this was the only urban legend that actually had me scared… even now as a grown adult the bathroom mirror at night still freaks me out…
as a person who uses the bathroom in the dark frequently I always make sure to never look in the mirror cause you know it is dark I can see anything in it anyway
One thing about Bloody Mary is that there doesn't seem to be a definitive way to summon her. I grew up being told to summon her was to light a candle, flush a toilet once, spin around twice, and then say her name three times. You then had to stare into the mirror and if you looked long enough, you could see her. This seems to differ from region and time period, since I'm from the US
Bloody hell, you guys gave me a jumpscare - I knew it was coming and I still got a jumpscare. (Mind you, I get those easily, I even got one to a simpsons halloween episode once).
I heard a different version of Mary as a kid, like how she was in deep sleep and her parents put her in the ground. She woke up and scratched the coffin walls with a promise that she will come back to haunt anyone that said her name.
Ive heard one that was similar La Llanora. TL;DR, You'll feel a mass enter your arms when you cradle em, you were "given" the baby to hold. If you "drop" the baby, you'll be cursed or something.
And here I thought that this was just something imagined by my classmates long ago. I'm surprised at how intact this myth was, considering who was telling it, where and when.
I was taught one that she was a witch who was burned with her kids in their house and she was looking into the mirror as it happened and the mirror was the only thing that survived the fire leaving her spirit inside of it
Usually when I get up in the middle of the night it's to go to the bathroom. I normally don't really wakeup all the way . No real desire to scare myself. I need my rest.
I remember hearing this once so it’s not mines, what if you get 2 mirrors that are face to face, in one you summon Bloody Mary, and the other u summon candyman, and set them on a date with all the roses and candles are romantic instead of creepy
When I learned about Bloody Mary at my tenth birthday party (a sleepover, naturally), I was told the chant was "Bloody Mary, Bloody Mary, Ill flush your baby down the toilet", so I always assumed that the story had something to do with the death of her own children. Guess thats what I get for trusting ten year olds.
I heard it a weirder way, I heard that she was a daughter that lived on a farm. One day, that farm was burned down (idk how) and I heard that she would set you on fire or something like that if you say Bloody Mary 3 times in the bathroom with the lights off
Huh, figured there would be mention of how Bloody Mary was one of the nicknames given to Queen Mary I of England due to her aggressive means of retuning England to Catholicism.
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It was believed the urban legend was based on a queen mary who was essentially a sadist who bathed in the blood or her servant girls Idk if you guys would be interested but a lot of popular urban legends have ties to real world stuff mostly true crime and it would be cool to see you guys do a series on each well known urban legend and the true history behind them Examples of some intriguing urban legends with interesting origins are: the hook man: multiple origins from the red scare to the Texarkana moonlight murders the babysitter (when a stranger calls): true crime case of a murdered teen (victim of a potential serial killer) tainted halloween candy: serial killer, filicide, and the satanic panic (another history topic that you guys should cover) Cropsey: true crime case that has a interesting update
Mary Queen of Scots was nicknamed Bloody Mary for her supposed killings of hundreds of protestants by burning at the stake. It was an Elizabeth Bathory who would bathe in the blood of poor peaseant girls and noble people's daughters. I believe she told them they were going to a school to become proper noblewomen. Her death toll is possibly in the hundreds. She was not executed like her supposed accomplices. Instead, she was bricked up in a room of her castle with only one brick hole for food and light.
@@theMRsome12Mary Tudor definately did not have a reputation for bathing in blood. Elizabeth Bathory, Hungarian noble named inspiration for gothic vampires, certainly DID. However it is Mary who has the title of bloody for legally executing heretics.
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surprised you didn't mention any of the other folklore origins behind Bloody Mary, in England we were always taught that it was Queen Mary I of England, Bloody Mary herself
i never knew that there were variations from Mary I as the origin for Bloody Mary
@@TheOneHumanDinoThe only version I'd heard of was queen Mary I. The nickname is simple enough - she had a lot of her subjects executed
Heck I'm American and I never heard of the colonial version. I only ever associated it with the Tudor.
...and sometimes confusing her for Mary, Queen of Scots thanks to the ambiguous mishmash of history present in Terranigma.
Yea, I thought it was her too. In my version that I heard, a groundskeeper in Westminster passed by her coffin with a mirror. He then said "Bloody Mary, Bloody Mary, Bloody Mary. You are not so scary." And then she kidnapped him.
Or Dr. Mary Agana, the psycho shrink from the 1950s who tortured a bunch of her patients to death before suddenly vanishing.
Obviously when Bloody Mary appears, he'll say "Please state the nature of the medical emergency!". She's a disembodied healer after all.
😂😂😂 That would be excellent! Such a helpful spirit!
Nice *claps
@@extrahistory except she obviously killed people
Instant 911
why yell bloody mary 3 times when you can just yell out Mediiiic! once?
Fun fact there's an actual psychological phenomenon at play here: Staring at your reflection in darkness if you can partially see will actually eventually temporarily distort what you see. It's your mind trying to "fill in" the rest of the picture it can't make out. It's an instinctual survival tactic, but that's why superstitious people who try it will assuredly tell you they saw a ghost. Also I remember a variation where the villagers killed Mary's son, and so she left them with that curse. If you say her name 13 times and then say "I know where your son is" she'll come out looking for him.
I knew that, that's why I'm always cautious in a dark room so that my mind doesn't purposely sabotage me into thinking there's something gonna kill me
It's why eistriphobia exists.
@@Superblaze167I don't think that word exists
@@nicolemelo8994 it's the fear of mirrors, maybe I spelt it wrong but it exists, it should be eisoptrophobia if I'm right, so I spelt it wrong
@@nicolemelo8994 but technically there's a couple words for the fear of mirrors, like spectrophobia, so you aren't wrong for blaming me
As a kid I did the Bloody Mary ritual only when the lights were off I stubbed my toe on a piece of broken wood which cut it and drew blood all over the floor. So that was fun!
So the ritual worked then? Creepy!
When I did it I was told you have to be staring into your own eyes when you say it, you'll see her reflection in there. Then one of my friends banged on the door just as I said the last bloody Mary and I jumped, head butting the mirror. Didn't break it luckily but I did bite my lip quite badly and came out of the bathroom with blood running down my chin... quite a shock when I looked up and saw myself I can tell you! For the other boys at the sleepover when I came out the room too.
Well, they don’t call her Bloody Mary for nothing.
@@MovieFan1912😂
sounds like you got off easy tbh
I said Bloody Mary 3 times at brunch today and she cursed me with a hangover.
Yikes! That's brutal!
ok this is actually really clever this should have more likes
Lmfao good one
This got a big grin out of me!
Also in Ireland, we link bloody Mary to Mary Tudor, the successor of Henry VIII, and responsible for the first Plantation of Ireland (Plantation here meaning bloody awful colonisation)
Interesting, in England the bloody moniker is entirely because she executed so many Protestants... but I guess Irelands mostly Catholic so that wouldn't have been a good reason for the name.
@SplatterInker Yep, the fact that the Desmond Rebellion took place during her rule was enough for Mary to give the go-ahead for a scorched earth policy and the first of three major colonisation efforts by the Tudors and Stewarts which culminated in the Plantation of Ulster. So yeah, we are still seeing the effects of Bloody Mary today.
Yeah, i was surprised when he didnt mention it
What about Edward VI who died young
@EggPotionFilms well, he lasted about as long as Liz Truss and made as much of a mess, overturning his father's pretty sensible succession laws, so he isn't very relevant
I wish you'd briefly talked about why silver bullets are used to kill ANYTHING at all: Silver is a holy metal. That's why vampires don't have a reflection and why werewolves are struck down by it, and why he planned to use them on the witch. It banishes the unholy.
Small correction: The vampire mirrors thing is unrelated to silver. Originally, people believed that you needed a soul to have a reflection, so vampires lacked one. It was later writers who tried to connect it to the silver weakness.
Growing up in Canada I was always told by older kids you had to hold a knife to your throat and say her name 9 times in the mirror, funny how the urban legend differs from region to region and time period
I also live in Canada, and I heard a mix of things. Bloody Mary is Mary I of England who executed people a lot, and to summon her, simply go in a bathroom at night, lights out, only a candle. Say her name 3 times and there she is.
Growing up on Toronto , Canada I was told you had to spin around 3 times as well
I live in Canada and I was told you had to go into the bathroom, shut off the lights, spin in a circle 3 times while saying her name once each spin, and then you shut and opened your eyes and she was supposedly in the mirror.
As a fellow canadien I was told that u needed 3 lit candles
Also Canadian, and somehow never heard a single version of the story, except as a thing characters in TV shows, movies and books would occasionally reference.
The subtle change in aspect ratio was key for the jump scare! Kudos!
As someone who watches too many horror analogs, i was not that scared :3
It's 11 pm in India and that jumpscare scene at the end really took me off-guard and out of sleep😂
Not gonna lie - I watched it just after 4 in the afternoon and I jumped too...
@@trinefanmelpower of bloody Mary indeed😂
Thanks for the heads up
Thank you homie
I was on the toilet and literally it scared me
so if she cursed the villagers,their children and their children's children, anyone that doesn't have any ties to that village would not be effected by the curse as it's only on the bloodline of those that wronged her.
But can you be sure that you don't have anyone from that village in your ancestry?
More importantly that would only be three generations so should be safe by now.
@@kaltaron1284 Usually the phrase "their children and their children's children" implies all of their children in turn - and so forth without end.
@@jonnunn4196 I know but taken literally it's only 3 generations.
@@kaltaron1284eh, sm1 from the other side of the world then?
Likely doesn’t apply to me. My bio dad’s side of the family, my mom’s mother’s side, and my maternal grandmother’s family are all immigrants from the early 20th century. Now sure about grandma’s dad, tho. My half sister and stepdad’s family may be I trouble tho, because they traced their ancestry all the back to John Quincy Adams… which would explain a lot about them…
I was told Bloody Mary was a woman who lost her baby (it was taken or something), either in childbirth or because she killed it and then regretted her decision. And that if you said her name, she would come out and scratch you. BUT if you REALLY wanted to see her, then you had to say her name and tell her “I have your baby” and rock your arms like you were holding said baby. Then you’d feel a weight in your arms (and in some iterations, even hear it crying!), and mom herself would come out looking for it. Scary!!! One does NOT get between a mom and her baby, much less an undead one with that much urban street credit behind her!!
Hey thats actually the story I originally grew up with! Cool to finally find like one person who knows it!
I’m pretty sure that’s a different one!! Blue baby baby blue or something like that
7:45 I hate when I know jump scares are coming and THEY STILL GET ME. 🙃
Been a huge fan of you guys since the beginning! Love to see how the EC team has branched out into so many different subject types, urban lore is so fascinating and underappreciated. Thanks for sharing!
Question: How come so many myths take place in a bathroom with plumbing? Between this and Hanako-san (or kun) I wonder why these myths started in a place where the worse thing you would see is a toilet that someone forgot to flush.
(Maybe that last part could of answered my own question...)
The bathroom represents vulnerability, most uses of that part of the house require a level of exposure or even reduced mobility. When your pants are down around your ankles It's way harder to run from the Babylonian poop demon.
It’s where people are the most vulnerable naked in the shower or sitting on the throne, with generaly no large windows and only one way out. Scary
@@Khofax 100%
Even worse, Hanako-san mostly applies to school toilets. Possibly some of the worst places on Earth. At least the Japanese ones are usually clean.
*could HAVE
Bloody Mary? Isn’t that the alcoholic beverage?
You definitely don't want to mix them up at brunch.
Well yes, but actually no.
yep, tomaters, vodka and the rest
Nah, it's just a Brit swearing at someone named Mary
I did as you asked, but being from the Philippines all I did was confuse the local ghosts and monsters.
One of them chided me about calling them just to order some tomato-based bar drink.
High school? We all learned about Bloody Mary in elementary school. It’s always a ritual done during sleepovers.
Sarah: “Did you hear? Some kids in Salem are creating a game based on one of us!”
Winifred: “I wonder who they’ll choose?”
Winifred (internally) : “I wonder when I’ll be chosen.”
Mary: “Did you hear? They decided to base it on me!”
Winifred: “Good for you.”
Winifred (internally): “WHAT?!”
Bloody Winifred just doesn't have the same ring.
genuinely loved the wrap around of truth or dare from the beginning of the video to the end. that was cool!
Only EC can make you laugh at a jump scare. The ending left me in tears.
So glad you liked it :>
It's the myth that scared me the most when I was a child.
Me too!
welp, RIP to the parents who calls their child named "Mary" to come to the bathroom
😂😂😂
Specifically British parents
That jump scare was so good it probably can scare a kid to cry
Maybe something to note: even attempting the dare does, to some degree, imply that you believe that Mary DID lay a curse, and therefore that you believe she WAS a witch, and that her gruesome lynching was justified. Which isn't exactly the sort of attitude you want to give off towards a Vengeful Ghost of any kind!!!
Can you not believe she was a witch but the lynching was entirely un-justified??? I.e. she didn't do all the evil they said?
@@SplatterInker they found the bodies that's physical evidence
@@reynellfreeman8761claimed to have found the bodies*
@@soulstealer5625 thats pretty big claim from a pretty large group of people who could've searched the house and found said bodies
I watched a documentary on folklore as a kid and it said that Bloody Mary was a woman who was buried alive. She was sick and the doctor couldn't feel a pulse, so (like everyone else just in case) they tied a rope to her wrist for her to ring if she woke. They'd dig her up if she were ringing it.
In the morning of the next day, the family found her bell fell of its hook, so they quickly dug to find her hands bloody, her nails ripped off into the wood of her coffin.
Some suggest that a mirror in her room where she died wasn't covered, as keeping any mirror covered as someone died could keep the soul free from its grasp and go to heaven. Perhaps she cursed her family to haunt in their mirrors, or perhaps she haunts because she is trapped.
All we know is that she's trying to find a replacement for her pitiful afterlife.
The version I grew up with: Boody Marry was a married woman in a small town during the 1800's, she caught her husband in bed with his mistress. She took an axe to them both then, stricken with rage/grief went on a murdering spree across the town before being put down by the town's sheriff.
To summon her you have so spin 3 times while chanting her name 3 time in a dark room with a mirror, and her vengeful spirit will leap out of the mirror and attack unless you scream very loudly, which will scare her away.
7:22 That's a cold line. "The only way to know the truth, is to dare" I might use that in the future.
I remember kids in elementary school used to dare each other to play Bloody Mary, no one was able to do it of corse but I still remember it, its cool to see a Extra Mythology episode about a myth I actually participated in.
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Personally I think this "jumpscare" at 7:37 was a bit too exaggerated.
(poor thing, thinking of her at that stake brings to mind the "curse" made by the last Templar grand master Jacques de Molay, he said: "Those who have unjustly condemned us will very soon be summoned before the divine Tribunal", turned to Pope Clement V who died about a month later and to Philip IV the Fair, 8 months from that terrible day, due to a hunting accident, he was responsible for the annihilation of the Order.)
I would rather "evoke" beetlejuice (beetlejuice, beetlejuice beetlej--- better not)
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Lol don’t u mean “invoke?”
There's some truth to the face in the mirror, with your brain struggling to see something and you *expecting* it to be scary. Your own face half seen in the dark mirror, humans being so good at seeing things that aren't there, your imagination fills in the details.
I heard about this is first school and even after I figured out that it wouldnt do anything, the fear or bathroom mirrors stuck with me to this day. I cant go in the bathroom with the lights off at all out of fear...
I did the Bloody Mary thing and nothing happened. I have been skeptical of super natural ever since
I did that in the school bathroom in 1st grade. pitch dark. as an adult, logically I know all you are seeing is your own reflection as your eyes adjust, but I still get squicked out being in a dark bathroom.
Tudor Mary : wait … I thought I was given the name
… or, maybe she’ll stare at you with such a withering look it will drive you to your nearest confessional
When I was a kid the story was that all lights in the home had to be off, not just the bathroom's, you did not have to say anything, and it was Satan who would appear in the bathroom mirror. I'm a French Canadian so it might be why the myth is so different, to my ear "bloody Mary" is more catchy than "Marie sanglante".
Awesome thanks i grew up with a different version of the story but I enjoyed this one too
Damn as a Canadian i was always scared of this myth as everyone was scared to do it, but great job telling more information about that I never knew! Also that ending caught me off guard!
You guys's videos are so good, I always watch the newest one.
I don't scare easily, but that jump scare was unexpected. 😅😅😅 Nearly made me drop my phone.
Ah, I always assumed Bloody Mary was connected with Mary Queen of Scots somehow. Thanks for informing me.
Also, jumpscare at 7:37 for anybody who needs it.
Or the cocktail
Oh, thanks a lot, man. I was alone with lights out.
thank u man i hate jump scares
Same here.
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Ooh, I know this one, the 'forgetting your own face' illusion thing, where if you hold perfectly still (including your eyes) staring at one spot for long enough (especially in poor light) looking for something that isn't there, your vision gets progressively less detailed and more and more replaced with imagination, including losing the ability to recognize yourself in the mirror and feeling you're watching another person (often considered highly disturbing), and if you're in a spooky mood from a ghost story, these hallucinations tend to be even more frightening and vivid, until you flinch even slightly, at which point your vision returns to normal.
Loved this one. Would love to see more videos about modern myths!
Interesting to watch but... The jumpscare-ish thing at the end is something I hope you're not doing for the rest of the halloween videos.
Bad enough to have those before an ad becomes skippable for a horror movie, but in the video I wanna actually watch...
Normally love these, but that kinda soured me at the end. I love the creepy part and exploration of the myths, but...
Might just be me though..
I grew up with the Mary Tudor version as well. There is one kinda important problem with the Mary Worth version. There is no record of any accused witches burned in New England. They were all hanged, pressed, or drowned. Anyone that's toured Salem can tell you that.
As a kid, we always learned saying Bloody Mary 5 times in the mirror, in the dark, ans she would appear! I heard about this when I was in the 3rd grade. Now, fast-forward to today, if a mysterious woman appeared behind me, I would say "Baby, where you been?!"❤
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Oh my god!! My friends had this huge fear of bloody Mary when we were 12! We liked to play a game where the we had to scare each other😅 I called bloody Mary three times and then pretended to have a seizure 😂 I won that round
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Clearly Urmahlullu has his paws full if he has to protect people from THIS supernatural bathroom menace as well.
Think I was in 4th or 5th grade when I first heard of Bloody Marry and it was because of Twisted Metal that a friend's older brother had on his ps2. That game was fun to play, but the cutscenes were scary to me as a kid.
Mirrors in the dark are ridiculously scary even without any superstitions tied to them. There's something absolutely magnetizing about a bathroom mirror at night, and whenever I give in to the temptation and let my gaze linger on my reflection a little bit, I start seeing something that is undoubtedly myself, but with a sick, sullen, malnourished face and dark, dark eyes with seemingly nothing but endless void behind them. And every time afterwards, I'm left a little more nervous, a little more anxious, and, ultimately, a little closer to becoming the same as the face I saw, as if it drained some of my energy for itself in a twisted, Picture of Dorian Gray sort of way.
That Bloody Mary jumpscare basically killed me
I loved this, but I’m not sure if this is a more Americanised version of the tale? In the U.K. and in general we think of Bloody Mary as Mary Tudor, the queen who burnt thousands of people at the stake and earned the nickname
I am impressed you have cameras that can pick up Ghosts.
I have the feeling this is also the origin story of the valpurgis night, maybe y'all could make a video about this if you didn't already, the valpurgis night that is
I still remember doing the bloody mary mirror challenge in elementary around 2013
7:33 I JUMPED
As a kid growing up in the 90s this was the only urban legend that actually had me scared… even now as a grown adult the bathroom mirror at night still freaks me out…
as a person who uses the bathroom in the dark frequently I always make sure to never look in the mirror cause you know it is dark I can see anything in it anyway
the smash bros nod in the advert for factor was clever. thanks.
One thing about Bloody Mary is that there doesn't seem to be a definitive way to summon her. I grew up being told to summon her was to light a candle, flush a toilet once, spin around twice, and then say her name three times. You then had to stare into the mirror and if you looked long enough, you could see her.
This seems to differ from region and time period, since I'm from the US
That scared the living daylight out of me
Thank you for making this I have been looking for this kind of nostalgia in a long time
Bloody hell, you guys gave me a jumpscare - I knew it was coming and I still got a jumpscare. (Mind you, I get those easily, I even got one to a simpsons halloween episode once).
I heard a different version of Mary as a kid, like how she was in deep sleep and her parents put her in the ground. She woke up and scratched the coffin walls with a promise that she will come back to haunt anyone that said her name.
The tale of Bloody Mary also gave us some of the greatest horror-movie slasher-monsters, like Freddy Kreuger and The Candyman.
Ive heard one that was similar La Llanora. TL;DR, You'll feel a mass enter your arms when you cradle em, you were "given" the baby to hold. If you "drop" the baby, you'll be cursed or something.
Huh. So Bloody Mary was New England's answer to Elizabeth Bathory...
The jump scare actually caught me 2 times in a row 😂😂😂😂😂
I love the Bloody Mary cocktail on the desk.
please now do an extra history on "Bloody Mary" Tudor so we can have the other version of the myth covered.
I was quite dissapointed about not seeing Kyle Murgatroyd's name in the legendary patrons list. The OG has finally left us, guys... :(
Should have saved this for Halloween and also include the English version of the story.
Honestly am disappointed that I didn't wait a couple more days to watch this.
And here I thought that this was just something imagined by my classmates long ago. I'm surprised at how intact this myth was, considering who was telling it, where and when.
In the Monty Python telling, the graves behind Mary's house all have headstones that are clearly inscribed with the names of the girls.
I was taught one that she was a witch who was burned with her kids in their house and she was looking into the mirror as it happened and the mirror was the only thing that survived the fire leaving her spirit inside of it
Usually when I get up in the middle of the night it's to go to the bathroom. I normally don't really wakeup all the way . No real desire to scare myself. I need my rest.
I remember hearing this once so it’s not mines, what if you get 2 mirrors that are face to face, in one you summon Bloody Mary, and the other u summon candyman, and set them on a date with all the roses and candles are romantic instead of creepy
I’m still scared around mirrors due to her
I was so sure Zoey was going to jump out of/at the mirror at the end...
Ohhh that would have been a good one too!
@@extrahistory "You see a pair of yellow eyes staring back at you from the mirror. The eyes pierce your soul, and they're asking for scritches"
When I learned about Bloody Mary at my tenth birthday party (a sleepover, naturally), I was told the chant was "Bloody Mary, Bloody Mary, Ill flush your baby down the toilet", so I always assumed that the story had something to do with the death of her own children.
Guess thats what I get for trusting ten year olds.
GODDAMN! That freaked me out
I heard it a weirder way, I heard that she was a daughter that lived on a farm. One day, that farm was burned down (idk how) and I heard that she would set you on fire or something like that if you say Bloody Mary 3 times in the bathroom with the lights off
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Huh, figured there would be mention of how Bloody Mary was one of the nicknames given to Queen Mary I of England due to her aggressive means of retuning England to Catholicism.
If I ever summoned Bloody Mary, I would first make my intentions clear. Even vengeful doctor spirits need besties
This makes more sense than the origin with Queen Mary 1
Jokes on you!
My bathroom doesnt have a mirror!
Smart move!
I thought Bloody Mary was based of an English queen named Mary who got ALOT of people’s heads cut off ! And jump-scare got me at the end 😆😆
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That jumpscare was the most unexpected thing I've ever experienced in my life
The jumpscare at the end was peak lmfao
God the lead in to the sponsor read was funny. Good buildup, actually got me to jump, funny line, and a smash bros reference. Good job EH team!
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It was believed the urban legend was based on a queen mary who was essentially a sadist who bathed in the blood or her servant girls
Idk if you guys would be interested but a lot of popular urban legends have ties to real world stuff mostly true crime and it would be cool to see you guys do a series on each well known urban legend and the true history behind them
Examples of some intriguing urban legends with interesting origins are:
the hook man: multiple origins from the red scare to the Texarkana moonlight murders
the babysitter (when a stranger calls): true crime case of a murdered teen (victim of a potential serial killer)
tainted halloween candy: serial killer, filicide, and the satanic panic (another history topic that you guys should cover)
Cropsey: true crime case that has a interesting update
Mary Queen of Scots was nicknamed Bloody Mary for her supposed killings of hundreds of protestants by burning at the stake. It was an Elizabeth Bathory who would bathe in the blood of poor peaseant girls and noble people's daughters. I believe she told them they were going to a school to become proper noblewomen. Her death toll is possibly in the hundreds. She was not executed like her supposed accomplices. Instead, she was bricked up in a room of her castle with only one brick hole for food and light.
That one was probably based on Erzebeth Bathory, the Countess of Blood from Hungary.
@@abcdef27669nah, "bloody" Mary I Tudor herself. Sister of Elisabeth I. For her protestant massacres and persecutions.
I think you’re mixing up Elizabeth bath pry and Mary Tudor
@@theMRsome12Mary Tudor definately did not have a reputation for bathing in blood. Elizabeth Bathory, Hungarian noble named inspiration for gothic vampires, certainly DID.
However it is Mary who has the title of bloody for legally executing heretics.
glad ive finally found a video so close to release....thankfully youtube notifications worked lol