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I love how cryptids in other countries are named stuff like “The mourner”, “Death’s Angel” and “Terror of God” where in america the cryptids are like “Bleebor gleebor”, “The wazooga” and “Sneepus”
The Snipe Hunt story spoke to me cuz my grandpa and uncle took me and my sisters on a snipe hunt while camping and they just took us into a field and gave us a bag and a flashlight and said. “You gotta shine the light through the bag and shake it around and the snipe will run into it. Make sure you close the bag as soon as it runs in or it’ll get out.” And we sat in that field for like 10 minutes until we heard this rustling and running through the woods coming towards us and we all freaked out. It turned out to just be my grandpa running through the woods on all fours. Definitely a core memory for me haha. Can’t wait to take my own kids/ nieces and nephews on a snipe hunt
"Hey Maaa! That Cryptid guy is back and he's wearing flannel now. Look at him. Looks like someone dumped a baby at a log camp in Appalachia. Oh, shit! He's got that damn cereal box again! Maaaaa!"
Most wholesome and respectable thing going on, in mine. I hate it. Gentrifying hipsters stinking the place up with their content creation left and right.
The fearsome critter (me) in the darkness of night (3am) hunts its prey in ravenous hunger (cheese from the fridge). Those who’re reported to have seen the beast (my mom) say that its eyes are always drawn down due to a crook in its neck (watching wendigoon videos on my phone), leading it to be unaware of its immediate surroundings and commonly collide with the terrain (bumping into the kitchen countertop)
I am using this video as background noise while doing homework and you can't imagine my bewilderment and confusion when I heard the sponsor play and hear Wendigoon rizzing someone up only to see a box of cereal on the screen
Reminds me of the part in American Psycho (The Novel) where Bateman just offhandedly shares the fact that "A Cheerio was the guest on David Letterman tonight" and then doesn't elaborate any further and just moves on.
I can’t imagine what his neighbors must have been thinking watching him talk to a box of cereal. “Ah there he goes again, rambling to that box of cereal again.”
i would pay for Wendigoon to read an entire audiobook, the bits of him reading the monsters' stories/descriptions had me legit nodding off, he genuinely has such a relaxing voice
List of monsters 3:20 The Magic Spoon 8:08 The Hugag 11:58 The Gumbaroo 16:34 The Roperite 18:33 The Snoligoster 21:32 The Leprocaun 23:52 The Funeral Mountain Terrashot 26:25 The Slide-Rock Bolter 29:31 The Tote-Road Shagamaw 32:24 The Wapaloosie 34:38 The Cactus Cat 36:35 The Hodag 39:32 The Squonk 41:35 The Whirling Whimpus 43:41 The Agropelter 45:41 The Splinter Cat 47:52 The Snow Wasset 50:42 The Central American Wintosser 53:08 The Billdad 55:26 The Tripodero 57:13 The Hyampom Hogbar 1:00:07 The Axe-Handle Hound 1:01:43 The Ball-Tailed Cat 1:03:52 The Columbia River Sand Squink 1:06:27 The Come-At-A-Boy 1:07:52 The Dingmaul 1:10:35 The Dungavenhooter 1:12:13 The Filla-Ma-Loo Bird 1:13:55 The Gumberoo 1:16:28 The Hidebehind 1:20:27 The Hoopsnake 1:23:09 The Luferlang 1:25:34 The Rumtifusel 1:27:55 The Santer 1:29:36 The Side-Hill Gouger 1:33:38 The Sliver Cat 1:35:23 The Snow Snake 1:36:47 The Swamp Auger 1:37:50 The Tree-Squeak 1:39:10 The Wampus Cat 1:42:07 The Whiffenpoof 1:44:28 The Snipe
Some say you can spot this creature deep in the Appalachian woods usually muttering about “icebergs” if you give it a story it will let you pass safely, if you can not think of a story to tell it…. You will never be seen again
I like to think Wendigoon wandered on to a random campsite and started rambling to a family of 4 about mythological critters while his Wendi-Goons swapped out all their food with Magic Spoon Cereal.
In my country there's a story that is told, not by lumberjacks, but by construction worker: The Eat-Rock (translation) is some kind of huge worm with concrete-like skin, and it lives 28 meters under the level of the ground. He eats the soil or rock at this level, and will eat anything you put there. That's why you can never build anything or dig deeper than this.
I'm glad you mentioned jackalopes. I've seen several of their mounted heads in cafes in northern states. One of my uncles (an Arkansas native) asked a waitress where he could get a jackalope head mounted. When she accused him of not believing they were real, he told her he had actually just run over one on the highway, and wanted it mounted.
I find Wendigoon's love of these stories so endearing. You can really tell how much he cherishes and cares about preserving these narratives and the cultures and peoples behind them.
The snipe is the only one of these I grew up with, and it's so interesting to hear how different this version is while having the same basic idea. To me, Snipes are small birds that take on the appearance of pinecones when they're looked at, sort of like Weeping Angels I guess. We would go snipe hunting every year, and the comment about "seasoned hunters" going along just to watch was my Uncle's exact reasoning they'd tell us. We'd take bags and the older cousins would point out every noise. I found out later that one of them would be hidden in the trees ahead of us and throw a rock, and the person leading would dive to the ground and 'struggle' against it. One was so good she somehow would always manage to make it look like she was being dragged.
As a desert resident, I am 90% sure the Cactus Cat is based on the peccary, which are essentially bores of the desert. Their fur is very rough and unpleasant to touch, mostly so they can run through a dry, prickly environment with minimal effort (less soft stuff to get caught on) much like the Cactus Cat's thorny fur. Cacti being "bled" is a very common sight, with a big bite taken out of them and seemingly left at that. Peccaries eat primarily cactus, and this is their very signature. They don't get drunk from the actual catcus, but should they stumble upon cactus FRUIT that is ripe enough they will likely have a doozy of a time. And no, they are not safe to be near. Like any wild pig, you gamble your bones the moment you approach or startle them.
Used to have to tell camp staff from out of state/the country to be careful if they saw any javelina because they will charge at you and try to destroy you. Aggressive lil guys. And stinky…
The cactus cat grinding its arm-blades together might also be based on peccaries grinding and clacking their teeth as a defense display. I've been out in the Chihuahuan desert wilderness at night and there's been times where I could just hear them clacking their teeth in the dark whenever I unknowingly got too close.
Thought it was likely a native method to source mescaline. Would explain the drunk effect and seems like a story told to kids so they dont get curious and try any. But idk just my first thought after he said its just a silly cat story.
"it looks like a coffin and then it explodes..." that sounds like a Castlevania enemy. Did Dracula lose some of his minions or something? Cats getting drunk on cactus juice huh? Now I'm just thinking of Avatar and Sokka... Thanks for sharing these stories!
Every 3 years my family has a reunion where pacts of my family from all parts of the US come together and on the last two nights we get all the youngings together and have them go on snipe hunts. The first night we have several “close calls” but ultimately nothing happens. The following night several of the adults find trees, bushes, etc to hide within and scare the unsuspecting kids to high hell. I remember my first time going from the scared to the scarer, truest memories one can have
My snipe hunt story was with a paper bag and a flashlight shining at the back of the bag, opened towards the woodline. My brother and i were told to be very quiet while my dad and uncle were going to go into the woods and chase them out by scaring them from the trees. they would fall out of the trees and would bolt out of the woods and toawrds our bags, attracted to the glow at the back of the bag, and when they ran into the bags, to slam it closed to keep them from getting back out. they both then walked around to the other side of the house where the driveway was and threw rocks into the woods for about 20-30 minutes. Its just about the only pleasant memory i have of my dad and brother, but cemented the snipe into my bones. i have taken my 11yo on 2 snipes hunts to date and they are among my most cherished moments that i will never forget
My family had our own "fearsome critter" called the borris monk that my grandfather creater and passed on to his kids who then told me as a child. The story, as i heard it, wnt something like this: One day my granddad was hunting when he came across what he thought was a very large black bear up in the tree. He shot it down and when he got to were it had fallen he found that it was very much NOT a bear, black or otherwise. It had a body much like a bear, but legs and claws like a cougar, a long tail that it used to grab branches, and a dark brown coat with purple spots. However its head was the strangest part, it was perfectly round exept for a mouth like a slice taken out of a orange with large tusk-like teeth and mouse-like ears. As he bent down to examine the animal closer a rustling comes from the trees and suddenly my grandfather is surrounded by memebers of the same species much larger than the one he had just killed. He was deiven out of the woods and the borris monks have hunted our family as we have hunted theirs ever since. As a young, dumb kid this was a very effective way to keep me and my brother in our tents at night. I now tell a very similar story to the kids at church camp each year
Big ups for all you're doing for Appalachia, if you're reading this and have been affected I wish I could offer you more than my condolences. Please stay safe yall
I love when Wendigoon comes into my house and builds a greenscreen campfire and tells me stories about critters. so glad his producers let him make this episode.
My father had a campfire story he always told us called the Headless Hunter. It started with a dead man being found in an apple orchard leaned against a tree during the winter. His rifle was still in his hands, but his head was gone. There was only one set of tracks that just appeared going up to the tree and then disappearing. His head was never found, nor his killer If you find a random set of boot prints in the snow around December you shouldnt follow them as it may lead you to the headless hunter. Hes looking to get revenge on his killer, but since he has no head, he cant tell who is who and will shoot anyone that approaches.
He had another called the Jolly Liar. Basically it's a creature that can mimic anything and attempts to lure people deep into the woods during the evening. When the person is sufficiently deep and it's dark you'll hear the Jolly Liar sprinting away laughing abandoning you in the dark woods.
I need an American cryptid hunting show with Isaiah, Hunter, and Caleb. "Three guys who needed to touch grass find themselves lost in the woods". Hunter is mostly wondering how he got into this mess and getting spooked by everything. Isaiah rethinks ever having kids after just keeping the boys together and alive, and Caleb somehow keeps pulling more and more guns from *somewhere*. Every episode or two would be them out hunting for a different creature, and the four-episode finale would be their showdown with Bigfoot. After an epic battle when all the boys are on the ground out of energy and weapons and Sasquatch stands victorious, Caleb pulls a tiny pistol from his pants and takes him down with a shot to the back of the head. Isaiah field dresses the Bigfoot for transport, feeling nostalgic as he labels organs in sterile lab bags and collects vials of blood before draining the rest. Hunter reviews the footage and asks Caleb where he'd gotten that last gun, Caleb exclaims "I forgot I hid it under my balls!!" The boys win a Nobel prize for proving the existence of cryptids, Hunter sells his to pay for the intensive therapy he needs and then writes a book and a movie about it. Isaiah opens cryptozoology research labs in 13 countries employing hundreds of people at high wages to research their local cryptids. Caleb buys land where they get cryptid reports and puts them to work making sourboys.
As a midwesterner it makes me very sad that these tales hadn’t been passed down to me. It’s such an interesting aspect of our culture and a shame that we’re losing that part of us. Thanks you wendigoon for sharing.
the way he was talking about the differences in the books at the beginning and casually talks about the hugag just solidifies the fact that he can talk about pretty much any weird topic and make it seem like a totally normal thing
My favourite vid of yours ever was the one of the Appalachian Lights. Just you telling a bunch of campfire stories. This vid gives the exact same feeling.
@@comdnoive the brown mountain lights introduced me to the channel, they are about 20 minutes from my house so I knew of them before hand but had never seen any media about it.
I gotta say, man, I love your long-form videos. My life is so chaotic and I have so much going on all the freaking time... your videos provide a brief reprieve from all the noise. When I have a break and I put your latest video on, it helps me relax and think about something else for a while. It's nice, man. Thank you. You help people retain their sanity.
I was raised Mormon in Arizona, snipe hunting was a staple of girls camp every summer! They made us put toothpaste on our faces because they said it repelled snipes like bug spray. My first year (before I knew snipes were fake, I was like 12 lol) we went to my friend’s great grandparents’ giant ranch property in the woods and went snipe hunting at night. We had to climb through this huge empty water tank with all the older girls banging on it with sticks pretending to be snipes trying to get to us. Then every year after that, I got to be a part of planning the snipe hunt antics for the unfortunate new younger girls 😈
I was raised Mormon in Utah. I since left, but snipe hunting was one of my favorite memories. For us, we would put heavy rocks into our pillowcases and kinda whip them down on the ground. We also wore toothpaste on our faces lol
I like how the Luferlang also acts as sort of symbol for hunting safety, with the mention of wearing orange and avoiding green colors while out in the woods. Just as you do with hunting to make sure that other hunters don't mistake you for what their hunting. As a matter of fact the deathly bite almost seems like a metaphor for getting shot by a fellow hunter.
I absolutely love how most of these creatures sound like they were made up on the spot. “So your cousin was killed by a crocodile that pounded him into red mist and snorted him up? What is that?” “It’s the… Dunga…ven…hooter?” Also how did Wendi not say anything about the insane story about Hank McGinnis at 1:26:00??
My father and uncle took me fishing for my first time when i was young at night. We're from New Orleans. They were telling me about a swamp creature called the Ganoot that is an ape-like man beast that lives in the swamp trees. lmao Im pretty sure they came up with that one on their own as ive never heard of it since but I 100% have experienced why we are so fascinated by these myths. Just like any other part of nature, the swamp gets strange at night too. And everytime something made a noise or a tree shook, they would say "Its a ganoot!" and i would be terrified looking as hard as i could for one lmao
This is one of my favorite videos you put out. I’m a city boy but I when I was a kid we used to visit my grandma up in the NY Catskills. Her and my uncles always used to tell my brothers and I stories like the one on the video and take us into the woods behind the property to go hunting for them. Been a long time since I’ve been up there, but thanks for reminding me of a little bit of my childhood ❤
I remember summers spent Deep in the southern Appalachian mountains with my Great Grandad. He'd always spin one hell of a yarn before passing out on Moonshine, good times.
I have this old series of leather bound books that compile a bunch of American mythology, I got them as a kid and used to be obsessed with the illustrations.
I had something similar growing up in New Zealand of Māori fables…but they weren’t cute, heading my mum read to me about Maui taking his grandmothers jawbone to hunt whale was something else or about the Taniwha kidnapping the Māori princess and her tears turned into the darker imperfections in greenstone (jade)…horrifying 😂
The hog bear myth might come from vampire bats since they tend to take a chunk out of farm animals, its also where people think the chupacabra came from.
I saw Magic Spoon in Walmart last week and decided to give it a try because of you and it’s so amazing I bought 3 more boxes when I went to the store yesterday
It pains me to think of the stories I could have shared with my great grandpa like this. He was an old loger in Washington and spent many years out in the woods with the ginormous cedar trees. He was such an interesting person, and I miss the little stories like this from my grandparents. Appreciate the flashbacks 🤙
Western Wisconsinite here. The Hodag is way more than just a critter over here! It’s practically intertwined in our culture. My high school’s mascot was the Hodag!
Love your content! The campfire ambiance is awesome! As an Appalachian born and raised in thies hills, your content is so relaxing while I work in my shed shop making trinkets
THE SLIDE ROCK BOLTER!!!! I've been waiting for this for so long it's the coolest thing ever! I also love the idea some accounts at night you can see it's fiery eyes that look like fires spread out on the mountain to attract ill-informed to their death. It's a fantastic way for miners and frontiersmen who are often dying to rock slides to more easily help people come to terms with such drastic and sometimes seemingly directed actions especially when you set off an explosive and watch a mountain literally fall down chasing you.
As someone living in Minnesota These stories are super fun especially when you grew up exploring woods even though I grew up in the south part It's still awesome to imagine creatures in our woods
Love your video Mr. Wendigoo, keep up the good work! This video is actually how I first heard of about 95% of the creatures you mentioned: I am also glad you mentioned my personal favorite: the Wampus Cat.
story me and my friends from Scouts would tell each other. I’ve moved up from Scouts since then it was called purple Aki. It was a way to keep the little Scouts quiet and it said if you be too loud at night purple Blackie will come into your tent steal you and take you up to the roaches which is some land or near the campsite and will do horrific things to you
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Dude, if I eat another of those magic spoons I will become ill, right after my next one
I've never heard the Cia called fearsome critters....
Its so heartwarming to see you make up with magic spoon.
“what happened to my axe? it’s missing it’s handle!”
suspiciously axe handle shaped dog:
Hmmm, nope! No axe handle here- no siree!
wait a few hours and you'll have multiple hand axe handles
A la Homer Simpson at the candy convention, definitely not sucking on the world's sourest candy: "eeiydooghnoogh..."
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@@ThreeGuysOneBucketno sir-ee, Georgie
I love how cryptids in other countries are named stuff like “The mourner”, “Death’s Angel” and “Terror of God” where in america the cryptids are like “Bleebor gleebor”, “The wazooga” and “Sneepus”
Bleebor gleebor sounds like the bank guy from Harry Potter
Sneepus is my favorite cryptid
Sneepus. New band name.
😂😂
As a Floridian I don't want to know what a fucking "sneepus" is! You keep that shit. I'm good with swamp puppies and stank apes.
Well, Patasola in colombia is literally LoneLeg(woman) so, you guys are doing amazing in that department
The tension between Wendi and the box was something else. Hunters gonna get jealous
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i felt like i was interrupting something
Artwork when?
@@tristamthefriendlyknight8494i got it gimme some time
😂😂
The Snipe Hunt story spoke to me cuz my grandpa and uncle took me and my sisters on a snipe hunt while camping and they just took us into a field and gave us a bag and a flashlight and said. “You gotta shine the light through the bag and shake it around and the snipe will run into it. Make sure you close the bag as soon as it runs in or it’ll get out.” And we sat in that field for like 10 minutes until we heard this rustling and running through the woods coming towards us and we all freaked out. It turned out to just be my grandpa running through the woods on all fours. Definitely a core memory for me haha. Can’t wait to take my own kids/ nieces and nephews on a snipe hunt
Thats so cute haha
"I sure hope my coffin doesnt explode"
The peculiar cliff:
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The coffin in question:
@@p-__prove it
"HONEYYYYYYYY, the ice berg boy is outside talking to his cereal box again"
I like the idea that everyone in his neighborhood calls him and knows him as “iceberg boy”
Are you gay or bi in this hypothetical?
Wife who hasn't slept in a week after binge watching his conspiracy and unsolved crimes videos: "He's uploading again!?"
Oh I cackled a little too hard at this 😆😆
"Hey Maaa! That Cryptid guy is back and he's wearing flannel now. Look at him. Looks like someone dumped a baby at a log camp in Appalachia. Oh, shit! He's got that damn cereal box again! Maaaaa!"
Imagine walking through your neighborhood and seeing some guy in a Hawaiian shirt reconciling his relationship with a cereal box
Most wholesome and respectable thing going on, in mine. I hate it. Gentrifying hipsters stinking the place up with their content creation left and right.
Man, I use Sponsorblock so this stuff is like a foreign language lmao
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@p-__ get a life kid.
That would somehow be the least weird thing I've seen in my neighborhood.
You are the only person who could make me sit through a Magic Spoon ad. Every single one since the beginning has been hilarious
50 Spoons of Cereal. A Wendigoon romcom.
The fearsome critter (me) in the darkness of night (3am) hunts its prey in ravenous hunger (cheese from the fridge). Those who’re reported to have seen the beast (my mom) say that its eyes are always drawn down due to a crook in its neck (watching wendigoon videos on my phone), leading it to be unaware of its immediate surroundings and commonly collide with the terrain (bumping into the kitchen countertop)
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thats so real
Real
not mentally mapping out your house to be able to walk to the fridge in pitch darkness WEAK
@@thesilverbluemanreal
I am using this video as background noise while doing homework and you can't imagine my bewilderment and confusion when I heard the sponsor play and hear Wendigoon rizzing someone up only to see a box of cereal on the screen
That is hilarious lol
Same, I'm trying to work on an art assignment, but the cinematography of this hallmark ass scene with a *cereal box* keeps grabbing my attention
I was watching it and i was still confused 😂
@@kirstynschamber8510I'm dying 😂🤣
Reminds me of the part in American Psycho (The Novel) where Bateman just offhandedly shares the fact that "A Cheerio was the guest on David Letterman tonight" and then doesn't elaborate any further and just moves on.
Beginning to think Wendi's wife is just multiple Magic Spoon boxes stacked in a trench coat
you know too much.
That's DOCTOR Stack of magic spoons boxes in a trench coat to you, mister.
Sounds like the ideal wife to me
Called Jacobi, too
Like candy wife from flapjack 😂😂🤝
Wendi my shirt arrived today and I just want you to know it feels like all the hugs my father never gave me as a child. Thank you.
AHAHAHAHAAAAA
We’re not beating the dissolving into a puddle of tears allegations
We've finally unlocked the Lumberjack Wendigoon skin!
@dfe-u5l I think you dont understand the current generation.
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Drake? What are you doing here? Tis nary a cringe to horde
they say you unlock it by eating 700 boxes of magic spoon
More like the MrBallen skin lmao
Only Wendigoon could take a Magic Spoon ad and turn it into a reconciled relationship. Here for it.
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I can’t imagine what his neighbors must have been thinking watching him talk to a box of cereal. “Ah there he goes again, rambling to that box of cereal again.”
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I swear Peggy that boy ain't right.
"I can't imagine" *proceeds to imagine*
@@douglasalexander4005 lol I read that in Hank’s voice- i love king of the hill
“Honey come look, the neighbor’s hallucinating about cereal again”
i would pay for Wendigoon to read an entire audiobook, the bits of him reading the monsters' stories/descriptions had me legit nodding off, he genuinely has such a relaxing voice
List of monsters
3:20 The Magic Spoon
8:08 The Hugag
11:58 The Gumbaroo
16:34 The Roperite
18:33 The Snoligoster
21:32 The Leprocaun
23:52 The Funeral Mountain Terrashot
26:25 The Slide-Rock Bolter
29:31 The Tote-Road Shagamaw
32:24 The Wapaloosie
34:38 The Cactus Cat
36:35 The Hodag
39:32 The Squonk
41:35 The Whirling Whimpus
43:41 The Agropelter
45:41 The Splinter Cat
47:52 The Snow Wasset
50:42 The Central American Wintosser
53:08 The Billdad
55:26 The Tripodero
57:13 The Hyampom Hogbar
1:00:07 The Axe-Handle Hound
1:01:43 The Ball-Tailed Cat
1:03:52 The Columbia River Sand Squink
1:06:27 The Come-At-A-Boy
1:07:52 The Dingmaul
1:10:35 The Dungavenhooter
1:12:13 The Filla-Ma-Loo Bird
1:13:55 The Gumberoo
1:16:28 The Hidebehind
1:20:27 The Hoopsnake
1:23:09 The Luferlang
1:25:34 The Rumtifusel
1:27:55 The Santer
1:29:36 The Side-Hill Gouger
1:33:38 The Sliver Cat
1:35:23 The Snow Snake
1:36:47 The Swamp Auger
1:37:50 The Tree-Squeak
1:39:10 The Wampus Cat
1:42:07 The Whiffenpoof
1:44:28 The Snipe
Thank you we appreciate your help
Im gonna touch you
Looks like Dr Suess created this list
@@douglaspurcell7506 Yeah I was laughing myself while writing xD
Wendigoon will find you. This comment will disappear with you.
"This house ain't been a home without ya, and I'm tired of tryin to make it one..."
Hit way harder than it had any right to. Peak cinema.
Such a way with words 😍
Wendigoony my beloved
The cheesy music too xD
the #1 most fearsome critter of American mythology: Wendigoon himself
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Exactly
Some say you can spot this creature deep in the Appalachian woods usually muttering about “icebergs” if you give it a story it will let you pass safely, if you can not think of a story to tell it…. You will never be seen again
A wendigooner
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I like to think Wendigoon wandered on to a random campsite and started rambling to a family of 4 about mythological critters while his Wendi-Goons swapped out all their food with Magic Spoon Cereal.
33:23 you
Dude, love the fit 😂
The man 🫵🏼
Literally just commented that this reminded me of you 😂
I thought of you when saw him
@@MrBallen He’s 100% your clone
You should do a collaboration on something, that would be epic.
Listening to this while falling asleep and pretending I’ve been kidnapped by Wendigoon in the woods while he tells me these stories against my will
The ultimate experience
I wouldn't mind that
Best missing 411 ever.
That's pretty gay dude
Sounds like a nice evening
In my country there's a story that is told, not by lumberjacks, but by construction worker: The Eat-Rock (translation) is some kind of huge worm with concrete-like skin, and it lives 28 meters under the level of the ground. He eats the soil or rock at this level, and will eat anything you put there. That's why you can never build anything or dig deeper than this.
In american lore its called a 'cement worm' it's a critter too! - very little to find on it though it be related to the "Augerino" of farmers lore!
That's just Onyx. You know, the pokemon
28 meters? that's very specific. it only moves in two dimensions?
That's Shai-Hulud. Bless the coming and going of him, may he cleanse the world with his passing.
Sounds like a Shamir to me.
This video inspired my next DND campaign. Adventurers dealing with monsters in a frontier lumber camp
That sounds awesome
Going on 5 days without power from the hurricane, thankful for videos like these to help pass the time
Good luck to you and your family
@@RizoftheDead hope that generator got a chop chop cam
@RizoftheDead Praying for you and your loved ones' safety!
Best of luck, hope everything isn't too bad over your way. I know that storm was genuinely pretty horrific
good luck in the ice age 🫡
“Fearsome” and “critters” being put together is such a funny combo
Raccoons on crack be like
It’s such a cool oxymoron 😂
Not beasts or creatures… wee lil critters😭
I'm glad you mentioned jackalopes. I've seen several of their mounted heads in cafes in northern states. One of my uncles (an Arkansas native) asked a waitress where he could get a jackalope head mounted. When she accused him of not believing they were real, he told her he had actually just run over one on the highway, and wanted it mounted.
I find Wendigoon's love of these stories so endearing. You can really tell how much he cherishes and cares about preserving these narratives and the cultures and peoples behind them.
The hidebehind is my absolute favorite cryptid I love how easy it is to apply to everyday life as a way to explain the uneasy feeling of being watched
I'm proud to say I learned that one through Gravity Falls
@ oh dude I forgot about that show they had an episode on him?
@@9teasuperiornot a full episode, but they had a series of shorts, one of which was dipper trying to catch sight of the hidebehind
All I can think of is Wendigoon’s neighbours looking out the window and seeing Wendi having a heartfelt conversation with a cereal box
my favorite thing about wendigoon is that his ads don’t suck and i have to watch them because they are genuinely good
Literally couldn’t stop and it was worth it
Oscar worthy performance
My farts are better than Iceberg Boy’s farts 💨
The snipe is the only one of these I grew up with, and it's so interesting to hear how different this version is while having the same basic idea.
To me, Snipes are small birds that take on the appearance of pinecones when they're looked at, sort of like Weeping Angels I guess. We would go snipe hunting every year, and the comment about "seasoned hunters" going along just to watch was my Uncle's exact reasoning they'd tell us. We'd take bags and the older cousins would point out every noise. I found out later that one of them would be hidden in the trees ahead of us and throw a rock, and the person leading would dive to the ground and 'struggle' against it. One was so good she somehow would always manage to make it look like she was being dragged.
I like how Wendi pronounces toboggan as if it’s a cryptid itself
NO ONE IS TALKING ABOUT THAT
I mean, have you ever seen one? I haven't.
literally just commented that before I went on a hunt to see if anyone else noticed, lol XD
@@christiangibson1867I have, or at least have an idea of how they look.
@christiangibson1867 yaint ever seen snow neither I'm guessin
Magic Spoon has completely taken over Wendigoon's life.
Ngl it tastes really good lol
Papa had a magic spoon that took over his life too
@@OlGurtyBSTRD bruh
@@hunterjohnson3001If you like the taste of cardboard, sure.
My farts are better than Iceberg Boy’s farts 💨
As a desert resident, I am 90% sure the Cactus Cat is based on the peccary, which are essentially bores of the desert. Their fur is very rough and unpleasant to touch, mostly so they can run through a dry, prickly environment with minimal effort (less soft stuff to get caught on) much like the Cactus Cat's thorny fur. Cacti being "bled" is a very common sight, with a big bite taken out of them and seemingly left at that. Peccaries eat primarily cactus, and this is their very signature. They don't get drunk from the actual catcus, but should they stumble upon cactus FRUIT that is ripe enough they will likely have a doozy of a time. And no, they are not safe to be near. Like any wild pig, you gamble your bones the moment you approach or startle them.
Used to have to tell camp staff from out of state/the country to be careful if they saw any javelina because they will charge at you and try to destroy you. Aggressive lil guys. And stinky…
The cactus cat grinding its arm-blades together might also be based on peccaries grinding and clacking their teeth as a defense display. I've been out in the Chihuahuan desert wilderness at night and there's been times where I could just hear them clacking their teeth in the dark whenever I unknowingly got too close.
Thought it was likely a native method to source mescaline. Would explain the drunk effect and seems like a story told to kids so they dont get curious and try any. But idk just my first thought after he said its just a silly cat story.
"Gamble your bones" is an excellent phrase and I'm stealing it.
Amazing ad, I can already see the conversation and 4:39 in a no-context compilation
This is not helping ppl’s parasoical relationship with wendigooner
1:20 looks like a coffin and then explodes? Aw man..
So we back in the mine.
Creepy
Creepy
27:25 toboggan has never been pronounced more incorrectly lol
His pronunciation of "El cuero" kills me. "El quiero"
I had to double take, he made toboggan sound like a cryptid 😭
@@Mr.MasterOfTheMonsters”I want him”?! The first one is just “el leather”
“Ole” hurts as an upper midwesterner.
@@Mr.MasterOfTheMonstersI'm Hispanic, and I was laughing so hard☠️☠️
So many of these creatures sound like something out of Wonderland; the Jabberwocky and Bandersnatch would fit in with them quite well.
"it looks like a coffin and then it explodes..." that sounds like a Castlevania enemy. Did Dracula lose some of his minions or something?
Cats getting drunk on cactus juice huh? Now I'm just thinking of Avatar and Sokka...
Thanks for sharing these stories!
I'm glad we can hear Sir Gooner talk about his fascination with American critters .
Do not call him that dawg @-@
Dont call him that dude...
El Goonerino
Formerly of Los Goonerinos
My farts are better than Iceberg Boy’s farts 💨
Every 3 years my family has a reunion where pacts of my family from all parts of the US come together and on the last two nights we get all the youngings together and have them go on snipe hunts. The first night we have several “close calls” but ultimately nothing happens. The following night several of the adults find trees, bushes, etc to hide within and scare the unsuspecting kids to high hell. I remember my first time going from the scared to the scarer, truest memories one can have
My snipe hunt story was with a paper bag and a flashlight shining at the back of the bag, opened towards the woodline. My brother and i were told to be very quiet while my dad and uncle were going to go into the woods and chase them out by scaring them from the trees. they would fall out of the trees and would bolt out of the woods and toawrds our bags, attracted to the glow at the back of the bag, and when they ran into the bags, to slam it closed to keep them from getting back out. they both then walked around to the other side of the house where the driveway was and threw rocks into the woods for about 20-30 minutes. Its just about the only pleasant memory i have of my dad and brother, but cemented the snipe into my bones. i have taken my 11yo on 2 snipes hunts to date and they are among my most cherished moments that i will never forget
Would anyone else love to see Wendigoon uniting with Mr. Ballen and telling back to back stories of the strange, dark and mysterious?
Yess, yes we all would.
Magic spoon has always been my favorite sponsor cause the ad reads are so entertaining. I especially loved this reunion one.
My family had our own "fearsome critter" called the borris monk that my grandfather creater and passed on to his kids who then told me as a child.
The story, as i heard it, wnt something like this:
One day my granddad was hunting when he came across what he thought was a very large black bear up in the tree. He shot it down and when he got to were it had fallen he found that it was very much NOT a bear, black or otherwise. It had a body much like a bear, but legs and claws like a cougar, a long tail that it used to grab branches, and a dark brown coat with purple spots. However its head was the strangest part, it was perfectly round exept for a mouth like a slice taken out of a orange with large tusk-like teeth and mouse-like ears.
As he bent down to examine the animal closer a rustling comes from the trees and suddenly my grandfather is surrounded by memebers of the same species much larger than the one he had just killed. He was deiven out of the woods and the borris monks have hunted our family as we have hunted theirs ever since.
As a young, dumb kid this was a very effective way to keep me and my brother in our tents at night. I now tell a very similar story to the kids at church camp each year
Big ups for all you're doing for Appalachia, if you're reading this and have been affected I wish I could offer you more than my condolences. Please stay safe yall
0:11 Ah yes the hook hand car door man
*man hook hand car door
* man door hand hook car door
Car door hook hand man
ftfy
THE HOOK MAN HAND HOOK CAR DOOR??!?
But who was phone?
I love when Wendigoon comes into my house and builds a greenscreen campfire and tells me stories about critters. so glad his producers let him make this episode.
My father had a campfire story he always told us called the Headless Hunter.
It started with a dead man being found in an apple orchard leaned against a tree during the winter. His rifle was still in his hands, but his head was gone. There was only one set of tracks that just appeared going up to the tree and then disappearing. His head was never found, nor his killer
If you find a random set of boot prints in the snow around December you shouldnt follow them as it may lead you to the headless hunter. Hes looking to get revenge on his killer, but since he has no head, he cant tell who is who and will shoot anyone that approaches.
He had another called the Jolly Liar. Basically it's a creature that can mimic anything and attempts to lure people deep into the woods during the evening. When the person is sufficiently deep and it's dark you'll hear the Jolly Liar sprinting away laughing abandoning you in the dark woods.
YES I WAS SO EXCITED WHEN HE MENTIONED IT IN THE BERG
My farts are better than Iceberg Boy’s farts 💨
@dfe-u5lgod I hope it does
I need an American cryptid hunting show with Isaiah, Hunter, and Caleb. "Three guys who needed to touch grass find themselves lost in the woods". Hunter is mostly wondering how he got into this mess and getting spooked by everything. Isaiah rethinks ever having kids after just keeping the boys together and alive, and Caleb somehow keeps pulling more and more guns from *somewhere*.
Every episode or two would be them out hunting for a different creature, and the four-episode finale would be their showdown with Bigfoot. After an epic battle when all the boys are on the ground out of energy and weapons and Sasquatch stands victorious, Caleb pulls a tiny pistol from his pants and takes him down with a shot to the back of the head. Isaiah field dresses the Bigfoot for transport, feeling nostalgic as he labels organs in sterile lab bags and collects vials of blood before draining the rest. Hunter reviews the footage and asks Caleb where he'd gotten that last gun, Caleb exclaims "I forgot I hid it under my balls!!"
The boys win a Nobel prize for proving the existence of cryptids, Hunter sells his to pay for the intensive therapy he needs and then writes a book and a movie about it. Isaiah opens cryptozoology research labs in 13 countries employing hundreds of people at high wages to research their local cryptids. Caleb buys land where they get cryptid reports and puts them to work making sourboys.
Honestly throw in the Aidens from The Lore Lodge and it would be so good.
I can see this happening
amen
Lmao this is just mountain men recast
Ye id watch that
As a midwesterner it makes me very sad that these tales hadn’t been passed down to me. It’s such an interesting aspect of our culture and a shame that we’re losing that part of us. Thanks you wendigoon for sharing.
My favorite part of this video is when Isiah said “its wendigoon time” and wendigoons everywhere
the way he was talking about the differences in the books at the beginning and casually talks about the hugag just solidifies the fact that he can talk about pretty much any weird topic and make it seem like a totally normal thing
There are fearsome critters in your walls
As the walls i can confirm the critters inside me are quite fearsome
They are great for insulation
There are walls in my fearsome critters.
They BIG!
I'm not a fearsome critter
And your families 😔
My favourite vid of yours ever was the one of the Appalachian Lights. Just you telling a bunch of campfire stories.
This vid gives the exact same feeling.
My farts are better than Iceberg Boy’s farts 💨
@@comdnoive the brown mountain lights introduced me to the channel, they are about 20 minutes from my house so I knew of them before hand but had never seen any media about it.
The brown mountain lights is easily my favorite wendigoon video, too! It's just so cozy 😊 Unparalleled good vibes.
The sheer amount of cats and dogs in this made more than just my 12 am allocated wendigoon video time happy. Thank you
Thank you for helping out with the aftermath of the storm here in Appalachia, you're a great guy.
@dfe-u5lFINALLY thank god
@dfe-u5l damn bro that's working better than me trying to put out content
@dfe-u5l is this real, bc I don't want my heart to stop beating, so will it actually, or is that just a clever way to get ppl to subscribe?
@LEGO_IndianaJones69420_ dude it's 100% legit and if you haven't already subscribed, I'd suggest calling your loved ones to say your goodbyes 😢
@@LEGO_IndianaJones69420_ Sorry about your heart.
I gotta say, man, I love your long-form videos. My life is so chaotic and I have so much going on all the freaking time... your videos provide a brief reprieve from all the noise. When I have a break and I put your latest video on, it helps me relax and think about something else for a while. It's nice, man. Thank you. You help people retain their sanity.
Did I accidentally walk into a Mr. Ballen video????? The green screen, the flannel, the hat 😭😭
Thank god I found a comment acknowledging this 😂😂
Lol just needed to throw in a "Strange,Dark and mysterious" 😂
my first thought exactly after i clicked on this video
Yeah
I Khew It That Ordiery
When I Click On The Video I Saw Him And He Dress He Definitely Look Like MrBallen as Close And Accurate is should be
Thats what im saying!!!
Jesus his magic spoon ad had me ROLLING 😂😂😂😂😂
I was raised Mormon in Arizona, snipe hunting was a staple of girls camp every summer! They made us put toothpaste on our faces because they said it repelled snipes like bug spray. My first year (before I knew snipes were fake, I was like 12 lol) we went to my friend’s great grandparents’ giant ranch property in the woods and went snipe hunting at night. We had to climb through this huge empty water tank with all the older girls banging on it with sticks pretending to be snipes trying to get to us. Then every year after that, I got to be a part of planning the snipe hunt antics for the unfortunate new younger girls 😈
That’s freaking hilarious, I wish I had something like that growing up
I was raised Mormon in Utah. I since left, but snipe hunting was one of my favorite memories. For us, we would put heavy rocks into our pillowcases and kinda whip them down on the ground. We also wore toothpaste on our faces lol
@@forte_congrats on leaving! I left last year (now baptized Catholic) and it’s one of the best things I’ve ever done :)
Cool YouthPastor Wendigoon 0:37
I thought he was MrBallen for a minute 😂
Another fun one is barking spiders.
1: **farts**
2:…
1: “Did you hear that? It was one of them barking spiders.” **brap** “There he goes again.”
In my family it was a 50/50 split of barking spiders and ghost ducks 😂
Oh, lord, how I remember my grandfather telling me that one...
I like how the Luferlang also acts as sort of symbol for hunting safety, with the mention of wearing orange and avoiding green colors while out in the woods. Just as you do with hunting to make sure that other hunters don't mistake you for what their hunting. As a matter of fact the deathly bite almost seems like a metaphor for getting shot by a fellow hunter.
I absolutely love how most of these creatures sound like they were made up on the spot.
“So your cousin was killed by a crocodile that pounded him into red mist and snorted him up? What is that?”
“It’s the… Dunga…ven…hooter?”
Also how did Wendi not say anything about the insane story about Hank McGinnis at 1:26:00??
Campfire stories with my youth counselor is a vibe I didn't expect to need, but this was awesome, I love it
Thankyou father
@dfe-u5l I die
he has brought us sustenance
Thankyou daddy
@dfe-u5l guess I'll die
Literally came to comment this
Mr. Wendiballen is really gooning with this one :D
That said, I don't think I've ever heard someone say "toboggan" like that (27:24) lmfao
Watched this and realized it was almost 2 hours long and it didn't feel like it.
Wendigoon's voice flows so beautifully, I was left wanting more.
My father and uncle took me fishing for my first time when i was young at night. We're from New Orleans. They were telling me about a swamp creature called the Ganoot that is an ape-like man beast that lives in the swamp trees. lmao Im pretty sure they came up with that one on their own as ive never heard of it since but I 100% have experienced why we are so fascinated by these myths. Just like any other part of nature, the swamp gets strange at night too. And everytime something made a noise or a tree shook, they would say "Its a ganoot!" and i would be terrified looking as hard as i could for one lmao
It's nice to see wendigoon asking a fearsome critter to make the fire go backwards. They are so helpful.
This is one of my favorite videos you put out. I’m a city boy but I when I was a kid we used to visit my grandma up in the NY Catskills. Her and my uncles always used to tell my brothers and I stories like the one on the video and take us into the woods behind the property to go hunting for them. Been a long time since I’ve been up there, but thanks for reminding me of a little bit of my childhood ❤
That add is some of the best writing/acting I have ever seen from Jeff Goldblume I cant believe Wendigoon could afford him
The greatest and most fearsome American creature is, of course, the dreaded Florida Man. Truly incomprehensible.
I feel a VERY close second must be the unhinged folks to be found on the NYC subway/in Times Square
2:55 “You people!?!?”
We are legion. 😂
Omg literally racism
Homophobia 😔
Gooniphobic 😭
The gooners
As a Brit who'd never heard of most of these cryptids this was a great video! You have such a knack for storytelling/story sharing
I remember summers spent Deep in the southern Appalachian mountains with my Great Grandad. He'd always spin one hell of a yarn before passing out on Moonshine, good times.
I have this old series of leather bound books that compile a bunch of American mythology, I got them as a kid and used to be obsessed with the illustrations.
I had something similar growing up in New Zealand of Māori fables…but they weren’t cute, heading my mum read to me about Maui taking his grandmothers jawbone to hunt whale was something else or about the Taniwha kidnapping the Māori princess and her tears turned into the darker imperfections in greenstone (jade)…horrifying 😂
The fire is going backwards in slow motion, that's the real cryptid.
Where?
@@Dhdbekdjs1:57
He recorded this video at high speeds while talking in reverse and didn't notice, very common mistake
Lmao glad someone else noticed it, thought I was losing it for a second
@@Dhdbekdjswatch the smoke behind him, it'll start going in reverse and the smoke will go down instead of up
The hog bear myth might come from vampire bats since they tend to take a chunk out of farm animals, its also where people think the chupacabra came from.
0:58 HODAG MENTIONED 🗣️🗣️🗣️
HODAG!!!!
RHINELANDER RISE UP!!!
RHINELANDER HODAGS UNITE!!
I literally sang the Alma mater and gave the solo speech yesterday for homecoming!!
I saw Magic Spoon in Walmart last week and decided to give it a try because of you and it’s so amazing I bought 3 more boxes when I went to the store yesterday
the infection spreads.
It's an infection, not an addiction?!
That was the best ad placement I’ve ever seen, Sam O’nella held that spot for a while
It pains me to think of the stories I could have shared with my great grandpa like this. He was an old loger in Washington and spent many years out in the woods with the ginormous cedar trees. He was such an interesting person, and I miss the little stories like this from my grandparents. Appreciate the flashbacks 🤙
Western Wisconsinite here. The Hodag is way more than just a critter over here! It’s practically intertwined in our culture. My high school’s mascot was the Hodag!
Are you from Rhinelander?
@@nightmarelife452 lived the first 15 of my life in Rhinelander, now I’m in Wild Rose
Love your content! The campfire ambiance is awesome! As an Appalachian born and raised in thies hills, your content is so relaxing while I work in my shed shop making trinkets
THE SLIDE ROCK BOLTER!!!! I've been waiting for this for so long it's the coolest thing ever! I also love the idea some accounts at night you can see it's fiery eyes that look like fires spread out on the mountain to attract ill-informed to their death. It's a fantastic way for miners and frontiersmen who are often dying to rock slides to more easily help people come to terms with such drastic and sometimes seemingly directed actions especially when you set off an explosive and watch a mountain literally fall down chasing you.
As someone living in Minnesota
These stories are super fun especially when you grew up exploring woods even though I grew up in the south part
It's still awesome to imagine creatures in our woods
"thank you wendigoon" every college student says in unison
Did Icebergboy just call me ugly!? Guess i go and dissolve into tears now.
3:50 best ad placement
“This house just hasn’t been a home without ya” hit hard
Using the reflection I found his address
@@Dangle147private message him the timestamp to protect his address, I think he’d appreciate it more than sharing the address
@Dangle147
Dont stalk Wendigoon.
The ATF and FBI already do that and they dont like competition.
Love your video Mr. Wendigoo, keep up the good work! This video is actually how I first heard of about 95% of the creatures you mentioned: I am also glad you mentioned my personal favorite: the Wampus Cat.
The ad goes absolutely crazy
When he says we're really cool for sticking around ;-; thank you. I've never been cool before.
The contrast between wendigoon in his videos and wendigoon in the creep cast is absolutely insane
story me and my friends from Scouts would tell each other. I’ve moved up from Scouts since then it was called purple Aki. It was a way to keep the little Scouts quiet and it said if you be too loud at night purple Blackie will come into your tent steal you and take you up to the roaches which is some land or near the campsite and will do horrific things to you
Wendigoon looks like a religious chill uncle that lives in a log cabin in the woods and is besties with bears.