You know what sucks about it, though? It implies that someone with physical problems must be creepy and weird, so it insinuates that discrimination on the basis of physical appearance is good.
@gamewizard I Your comment is ridiculous lmao.. "I always viewed him as a good guy...I know he was a serial killer BUT.. "He's creepy and weird BUT..." "I connected to blue beard, I felt sorry for him" He was accused of many crimes, including white slavery, abduction and the slaying of ten of his of victims..sounds like you had crush on him🧐
This is why at Cheap Life Insurance we say don't bury them, burn them. With the high costs of burial cremation is all the rage. Now you psychopaths can always have your victims close by wearing them as jewelry and art!!!
What I want to know is, why did he give his wife a key to his corpse closet? If he didnt want anyone to find it he should've kept it secret, but these stories are always left on the side of chance so I guess
maybe a trust test? idk or he has a deep desire to kill, he probably knew how curious she was and knew she was going to open the closet and that was probably why he came home so early. good point btw
Think Bluebeard knew exactly what he was doing. You think he would’ve held onto the one key of the door he “didn’t” want Penelope getting access to if he didn’t want her to discover his secret but it’s all a giant cat and mouse game for him since he treats his previous wives like trophies
I figured it was more of a test. If she actually doesn't go sneaking, then she's the right one... for a serial killer. But if she does use the key, not only is she untrustworthy (which is ironic, I know), she gets added to the rack of "trophies" But then again, curiosity is quite strong of a force. Bluebeard probably realized this one day and decided to use it as a means for a life of sick and twisted "games" by marrying unsuspecing women only to kill them later with that sweet look of horror on their face Either way, interesting story
As always, thank you for watching everybody! I hope you enjoyed this story as much as I did. I’ve really been digging the less common/more messed up fairytales you’ve all been suggesting lately so keep ‘em coming!
Jon Solo Keep up the good work. Because you go for the less known stories is what distinguishes your channel from other folktale/mythology channels. Plus, we can tell you really do your research from multiple sources and not just do a quickie look at Wikipedia like some channels do.👍
OMG The Blue Fairy Book was practically my bible as a kid! I had access to a really old copy that was still written in Olde English and included a lot of fairy tales that got left out of newer versions. It belonged to one of my elementary school teachers. None of the other students likes the old spellings and phrases but I loved it! She even allowed us to borrow up to 3 books over summer vacation and of course I chose that one! You mentioned that Bluerbeard was a horror story, here's a different kind of horror...I went back a couple of years later (I was probably in 7th or 8th grade) to ask if I could buy the book from her and she told me she had thrown it out. I've never been able to find another copy with all the weird old tales intact, just the newer smaller volumes in more modern prose. Still I love that you did this story today! I'm a huge fairy tale (real fairy tales not Disney sanitized ones!) and mythology fan and I really look forward to whatever you come up with next!
"What's the moral of the story?" Me: That if a guy got married seven times, maybe something fishy is going on and you shouldn't marry him? "Curiosity leads to regret." Me: .....what?
Seems to me like the moral of the story is “curiosity leads to discovery.” For if Penelope didn’t open the door, she would have never known that her husband was a murderer, and he might have killed her later on in the story because of some other reason. I feel like all turned out for the best, as Blue Beard got what he deserved. Love this story by the way, thank you for doing an episode on it :)
Yeah, I don’t know if I’d say he gets the interpretation wrong, but it’s definitely not the one I would make. In both cases a murderer is discovered and brought to justice, specifically because these girls dared to investigate. If not for them, the murders would just continue. It’s also worth remembering a lot of these stories were originally passed down by women, for the most part, and many of the folklorists who later published them were male, with all the socialization issues that that implies. The Grimms were particularly noted for extreme misogyny.
So, Lady Mary was like, "Talk to the hand!" I would love to see Disney try to clean up this story. The dead wives would probably still be alive and the new wife would rescue them.
They'd be alive, but under some kind of curse. You know, hearkening back to the days of Snow White and Sleeping Beauty. That's how I'd do a Disney version of this.
"Brought to you by Hunt A Killer" Considering the story, this is very appropriate And I do feel like solving a murder on occassion. Though, I don't remember ever being on the crapper when getting the urge
As a child, I had a book called “Not One Damsel In Distress” which was a book of fairytales, but in all the stories it is the women’s skills, brains, and brawn that saved them from whatever evil villain was trying to cause them misery in whatever way. Why I mention this is because there is a story in that book that sounds incredibly similar to the Bluebeard story, but instead of a man with a blue beard, it is the devil instead. Also, the prior victims were not just various women, in this story they were the main character’s two sisters who the devil had kidnapped, convinced them to marry him, then killed them once they went into the room of the mansion that they were instructed to not enter
I heard nearly the same version as a child, the only differences were that the title was still "Bluebeard" and he was an Ogre rather than the devil, everything else matches.
@@goldilox369 You know what this is? It's discrimination against a man with some kind of hair deformity that none of his wives respect and decide to betray on a whim. It's just heartbreaking to hear about how he was so sorely mistreated.
i can’t help but notice the slight similarities between bluebeard and king henry the eighth. henry had six wives. he divorced his first and fourth ones. he had his second and fifth ones beheaded because they gave birth to daughters instead of sons. the third one died from childbirth, and the sixth one survived for his death. i’m not even sure if the years line up in my favor but it’s just something i noticed.
The second one was beheaded more for criticising his religious reforms than giving birth to a daughter and the fourth because she legitimately cheated on him. Only his first three wives had children.
the story never really talks about why bluebeard came so early my theory is that he knew how curious his wife was, he probably knew she was going to open the closet, so he came home early to kill her because he has a big desire for killing. which is a very messed up but could happen.
i’m so glad you went into this story because i have known Bluebeard since i was 6 or 7 years old and it’s a very intriguing and interesting tale that’s basically like a horror film.
He missed the part of the story where the the reason is given for all the dead wives. Every single one had not been able to stop themself from entering the room against his wishes.
@@ericamaese5340 The first wife. But the story doesn't say why the first one was killed. Some think that Bluebeard killed her to try bathing in her blood to cure whatever condition caused his hair/beard to turn blue. When he realized it didn't cure him, he hid the body and remarried. So all the wifes after her were killed for finding the corpse, and later corpses.
@@PPGandRRBfan I always thought the first wife betrayed his trust through infidelity or something and so after killing her he made up this test to find a truly trustworthy and obedient wife. If his new wife could resist the temptation to disobey him and is able to overcome the magical hold the key has on her, he really would allow her to live in the castle and own all of his treasures.
There's a similar story by the Brothers Grimm where some sorcerer asked a woodcutter for his daughter's hand in marriage. The woodcutter had two daughters and multiple sons. For some reason he agreed and gave the creepy sorcerer dude his daughter. So he took her back to his home and gave her a key to his "basement of dismembered women". He told her not to go there and gave her a magic egg and told her not to get it dirty. If she did that, he'd be completely under her control. So he left and the girl immediately went to the cellar and opened the door. She saw the bodies, panicked, and dropped the egg which got a permanent bloodstain on it. The sorcerer came back, saw the bloodstain and murdered her. So he went back to the woodcutter and asked him for his other daughter. The sorcerer told the girl same thing as her sister before he left for some other journey. However, she put the egg in a safe place before going down to the cellar. Using some weird Grimm's brother magic, she put her sister back together and they devised a plan to get rid of the sorcerer. When he came back, he saw that the egg was intact and that she obeyed him, so he now was forced to do as she said. The girl told him to carry a package for her back to her father in a basket. She told him not to look inside or stop for a rest because she'd be watching him. So he did as she said, but instead of a package, her sister was in the basket.Anytime the sorcerer stopped, the sister in the basket would yell at him to get back up, and keep running. So he ran all the way back to the dad, who called his sons to chase down and kill the sorcerer. The sisters were freed, the end.
When we were children, our French grandparents use to read 'Barbe Blue' to my siblings and I every night per our request (I know, don't ask), and our grandmother always said the story was a very loose, and very exaggerated, spin on King Henry VIII's six wives.
Hey, a year or so ago I heard this story for the first time and I was learning about Henry VIII at the time. I thought the stories were similar and the story must be inspired by Henry VIII
Bluebeard: "its time to die, " "Ok give me a second, Annie do you see them" "No I just see 🐑 sheep " Bluebeard; I said it's time to die come downstairs "Coming, Annie do you seem them now? " "Yes there here, " 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂I'm laughing so much, your really funny Jon
I've always really liked the Women that Run with the Wolves reading of it that even though the moral is 'don't be curious' he was still a murderer either way. She found out, and tbh I'd rather know if my husband was a serial killer too. So the moral should be 'trust your gut'.
Back in those times they shitted in a bucket in the dining room. I don't think they paid too much attention to smells lol but the smell was probably trapped.
This story terrified my grandma, and there was a version of it in one of the fairytale book my family had, and she absolutely refused to let anyone read it to me
There is a Hungarian opera called "Bluebeard's Castle" that is a very interesting variation of the story. There is much more focus on the rooms of the castle and what they might symbolize.
5:46 is my favorite part of this episode. “A weird interaction that I can only see in the following way…” This is my favorite episode of VERY Messed Up Origins. Jon’s sense of humor makes me laugh every time. So many weirdly-humorous moments.
“What a great fable… everyone lived happily ever after. Except for Bluebeard and his six dead wives and their families.” “Half of a quarter of an hour, 7 1/2 minutes? You can’t just round up?”
I knew this tale from the anime series 'New Grimm's Fairy Tale Classics'. In that version everything is similar except that on the night Bluebeard tries to kill his wife (who I believe was called Josephine in this version) there was a huge storm. Lightning struck a tree which had been next to Bluebeard's castle and the tree caught on fire. The tree has fallen in one of bluebeard's windows and lighted the castle on fire. Josephine's 3 brothers were nearby and saw that the castle on was fire and went there to see what was happening. They managed to get in the building, save Josephine and kill Bluebeard (I don't remember if they killed him with their axes or left him there to burn to death). And because Bluebeards whole property was destroyed they just decided to go home. And in the Hungarian Opera 'Bluebeard's Castle' by Béla Bartók Bluebeard "shows her" (actually just gives her the keys but knows that she will see) his past wives. Then when they enter the chamber the 3 wives are in together, Bluebeard talks about how beautiful they were and how much he adored them. And then kills Judit (the one wife that was still alive) and says that he will never have another wife because he has found the most beautiful woman (Judit).
Oh my gosh! I think I may know that show! I used to watch it when I was younger. I very vaguely remember the story of the Brother and Sister. Like, the brother was turned into a fawn or something. Am O referring to the correct show?
Jon: "I'll give you a second to think about it" Ad for movie: "nope I'll give you 15 more" Jon's ' a second' screen ends Jon: "if you guessed this..." In other words, RUclips gave me extra time lol
The story of Tryphine is similar to the story of Saint Winifred in Wales, though it was that rather than marrying the chieftain, she chooses to run off to become a nun, he finds her, lops off her head, which is then reattached by Saint Bueno and she lives, becoming a saint herself.
When I was a child, someone once was reading me story of Bluebeard. The girl had a sick mother, and she was forced to marry a Bluebeard. But in the banned room was fountain with healing water, and the girl took some water from it, and gave it to sick mother, and then Bluebeard took a girl by force to castle to kill her, but her brothers saved her, and killed Bluebeard. Huh. Whoever made a book with this story must have tought the room full of corpses would be too gruesome for kids.
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Nah Henry only executed his 2nd and 5th wife, he divorced the 1st and 4th, the 3rd who was the love of his life and bore him hus only male heir edward died of illness (edward died at only age 15 of the same illness and was only king for 6 months) and Henry's 6th wife outlived him I think she remarried, but yeah since bluebeard killes his 6 previous wives and his 7th wife survived it doesn't quite line up
Feidhlim Malone yeah I know but (I live in France) we learned about this story in our French class and my teacher said that basically this story was in a way inspired by King Henri VIII and his 6 wives
Fun fact for anyone who would like to know. Bluebeard became a verb at some point in time and has two meanings. The first pretty obviously is to go on a killing spree and second is to seduce a lot of women and be generally promiscuous. I ended up studying the bluebeard story a long time ago for college and there was also a theory he was based on the Marquis de Sade as well! Thanks for the great videos Jon, they make my evenings more interesting!!
Do "All Kinds of Fur," "Donkeyskin" "The Juniper Tree," and "The Robber Bridegroom." There are TONS more morbid fairy tales I could suggest, but those are the ones that come to mind the most.
When I was a child I read the children's book version of this and it had graphic images of hanging women in that closet and a VERY detailed description of what happend there.
7:50 - My God, I knew women were sometimes burried in their wedding dresses, but I didn't know they were sometimes exicuted in them! Depending on the method of execution, wouldn't that be likely to get a lot of blood on the dress, making it unfit to be burried in?? 10:44 - If she had this dinner with him a few days later, wouldn't the hand have begun to decompose and be getting pretty icky? 13:44 - Just don't let there be any murders who kill adorable little pug puppies!
contrary to popular belief, the restaurant was named after the fictional detective Jimmy "Popeye" Doyle in the movie The French Connection and not the sailor man
The Bluebeard story is VERY interesting. One thing I like in the animated version from Grimm's Fairy Tale Classics, the key that leads her into his murder chamber almost seems to be cursed in that it almost lures Josephine into opening the door - at least according to Penelope's narration in the short. I found that interesting since it could imply Blue Beard could have been more than a murderous rich man. He could have been a murderous rich demon, or even a man who like Gilles de Rais got involved with dark magic somehow and has a cursed key that lures people into morbid curiosity. Would make for some cool Bluebeard lore lol
I still remember this story because it is different from that I used to read ( fairy tales) and it got stuck with me. It's a really cool story and when I got the notification I was genuinely so excited.
same it's unique than most fairy tales where the generic modest girl and rich lonely boy marries and live happily ever after. here the boy who was her initial love interest is the psycho villain of the story. it's not a fairy tale, it's like a urchin (evil fairy) tale.
I love how the moral is ‘don’t be too curious’, as though she would have fine if she had just never discovered that her husband was a murderer who kept his wives’ heads as trophies...
I learned about this story through a Korean drama called Strong Girl Do Bongsoon The serial kidnapper in the show was inspired by the play based on this story.
I came here because I am curious about the title of Le sserafim's new song. I'm familiar with Eve and Psyche, but not the bluebeard's wife. But now I know. Thank you.
i’ve never seen ONE video of you before but that commercial for HuntAKiller where you said “i want to solve a murder” 😂😂 you got me. i’m subscribed man
This old story sounds like the modern story in the book: “women who run with wolves” by Clarissa Pinkola Estés. Now I found out She also covers myths and stories. Thnks!
Estes is retelling old tales. She's also exploring what they mean.... I read her book way back. I should read it again. I found it opened my eyes a lot to what some of the old fairy tales really meant, plus she mentions ones that the Brothers Grimm declined to publish, because the stories didn't fit their misogynist outlook.
"Real, live, fake muderer" not bad Edit: "I think so, wait those are just sheep" Don't play with me like that Who else wants to see the messed up origins of Gunther
I had that in fairytale book for kids as a child likely toned down asked dad to read it to me and we didn't even finish the story because I was terrified and dad was wondering wtf why Blue Beard was put a book for little kids
From what I can remember, Blue Beard was supposed to have been the antagonist originally in Disney's The Haunted Mansion, but they ended up scraping the idea because it was too dark.
My mother read that to me as a child....it was in a children's book! I had nightmares for weeks! I didn't know what was worse, her finding the corpses of his previous wives or the anxiety I felt when he found out and what would happen to her. But I do remember that she only screamed for help to her brothers, there was no one else there since they promised to help her if she creamed for help.
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Blue Beard: Marry me
Girl: No I don't like your beard
Blue Beard: I have a limited edition holographic dark charizard
Girl: Alright I will
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Girl: you son of a bitch, I'm in
Honestly Jon's sense of humor is so underrated
That hairy hipster line had me dying lmfaoo
Amen
Calling out women with leg hair isn't new or interesting lol
@non-existent exactly, which is why it wasn't funny
AnooshA kmi he’d do well as a comic in England
On the toilet be like: I feel like solving a mUrdEr!
brie likethecheese my entire life is this 🤣
That was VERY funny. But I like Jon's girly voice🤣🤣🤣🤣6:05
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Yeeeeeeees! LOL!
Cauz that's how life works
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“What’s the moral of the story”
Me: “Trust your family then pay them back for their help?”
“Curiosity leads to regret”
Me: “well okay then”
That's what I was thinking too😂😂😂
I thought the original Messages don’t be a Golddigger.
me with a ridiculous nonregretting self:"Do it"
I thought the moral was don't judge a book by its cover
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Moral of the story: If literally every woman in town says a guy is creepy and weird, he's probably creepy and weird.
You know what sucks about it, though? It implies that someone with physical problems must be creepy and weird, so it insinuates that discrimination on the basis of physical appearance is good.
Can’t go wrong with majority opinion.
Also: respect other people's privacy.
@gamewizard I Your comment is ridiculous lmao..
"I always viewed him as a good guy...I know he was a serial killer BUT..
"He's creepy and weird BUT..."
"I connected to blue beard, I felt sorry for him"
He was accused of many crimes, including white slavery, abduction and the slaying of ten of his of victims..sounds like you had crush on him🧐
@gamewizard I You're literally victim blaming, you can stop now. At least watch factual documentaries about Henri Landru not this garbage
Jon Solo's channel makes me realize that there are many fables I've never heard of.
SAME
@@chiomajanejoseph6201 Hey!
Me too and I really loved his Messed Up Origins series
In school, they made us read this one at age 6... Yes, I remember
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Oh dear, I hope it didn't scare you.
Annie: No.
Penelope: Now?
Annie: Yes! Wait... Oops, those are sheep.
*BAH*
*BAH*
*BAH*
Moo...err...bah!!!
*BAH*
Beast: Stay away from the westwing
Blue beard: stay out my closet
Fluttershy: Stay out my shed
Dumbledore: Stay away from the third floor corridor
Shrek: Stay out of my swamp
Covid-19: Stay at home
@@NikPub me: stay out of my room
Walt Kowalski - Get off my lawn
“Blue beard may have been inspired by a real killer” *excitement and interest intensified*
"What's the moral of the story?"
Me: Hide your dead bodies better??
"Curiosity leads to regret"
Me: oh that makes more sense
And Jon is probably concerned about you
Yeah probably
😂🤣💀
This is why at Cheap Life Insurance we say don't bury them, burn them. With the high costs of burial cremation is all the rage. Now you psychopaths can always have your victims close by wearing them as jewelry and art!!!
Hiding dead rotting bodies is hard
The blood
The smell
The drips
It's super gross
I swear you’re so much funnier than you initially appear.
K8E M8E right?! He presents like a scholar but and the jokes are delivered with a flawless affect. It kills me. 🤣
And sexier too 😈
Linda Peña No, no no. Begone.
hahah I’ve been getting an increasing number of comments like these lately and I gotta say... feels good man
Jon Solo Well you deserve it, haha, you’re really funny, dude.
*_Let's not forget the fact that Bluetooth is actually invented by King Herald who has an actual blue tooth._*
Are you talking about Harold Bluetooth? Cause he didn't 'invent' himself...
@@JDM-is-my-name Yup.
Mr. Friendship I had to put it on 69
Hahaha... 69
Mr. Friendship, probably not invented by him, but named after him.
What I want to know is, why did he give his wife a key to his corpse closet? If he didnt want anyone to find it he should've kept it secret, but these stories are always left on the side of chance so I guess
Bluebeard wanted her to find the corpses so he had an excuse to kill her.
He wanted to kill her anyway.
To test her loyalty, I think
maybe a trust test? idk or he has a deep desire to kill, he probably knew how curious she was and knew she was going to open the closet and that was probably why he came home so early. good point btw
I was thinking the samething.
Gabreya Bradley Oh Yeah deffenetly. It would also have driven her insane now knowing, so he probably got off on that part too.
The term "curiosity killed the cat" really came through in this one.
Satisfaction brought him back
No, the curiosity led to the downfall of Bluebeard, and brought fortune to Penelope.
Think Bluebeard knew exactly what he was doing. You think he would’ve held onto the one key of the door he “didn’t” want Penelope getting access to if he didn’t want her to discover his secret but it’s all a giant cat and mouse game for him since he treats his previous wives like trophies
Retarded trophy wives🤣
Hi
I figured it was more of a test. If she actually doesn't go sneaking, then she's the right one... for a serial killer. But if she does use the key, not only is she untrustworthy (which is ironic, I know), she gets added to the rack of "trophies"
But then again, curiosity is quite strong of a force. Bluebeard probably realized this one day and decided to use it as a means for a life of sick and twisted "games" by marrying unsuspecing women only to kill them later with that sweet look of horror on their face
Either way, interesting story
Moral of the story: Don't get pressured into marrying a dude you don't really know and are only really marry him for his wealth.
Henri Landru(Bluebeard) was a golddiggin murderer
Women had arranged marriages back then at young ages they couldn't control it
But he has a holographic dark charizard! Like dude I'd do it
She didn’t have a choice. And gold digging is a profitable skill
Or don't go somewhere when you are threatened with justified wrath
As always, thank you for watching everybody! I hope you enjoyed this story as much as I did. I’ve really been digging the less common/more messed up fairytales you’ve all been suggesting lately so keep ‘em coming!
Jon Solo
Keep up the good work. Because you go for the less known stories is what distinguishes your channel from other folktale/mythology channels. Plus, we can tell you really do your research from multiple sources and not just do a quickie look at Wikipedia like some channels do.👍
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OMG The Blue Fairy Book was practically my bible as a kid! I had access to a really old copy that was still written in Olde English and included a lot of fairy tales that got left out of newer versions. It belonged to one of my elementary school teachers. None of the other students likes the old spellings and phrases but I loved it! She even allowed us to borrow up to 3 books over summer vacation and of course I chose that one! You mentioned that Bluerbeard was a horror story, here's a different kind of horror...I went back a couple of years later (I was probably in 7th or 8th grade) to ask if I could buy the book from her and she told me she had thrown it out. I've never been able to find another copy with all the weird old tales intact, just the newer smaller volumes in more modern prose. Still I love that you did this story today! I'm a huge fairy tale (real fairy tales not Disney sanitized ones!) and mythology fan and I really look forward to whatever you come up with next!
Jon Solo hi awesome video, i’m wondering if u would want to do novel stories like, how to kill a mocking bird, etc
Please do a messed up origins of Santa Claus one day.
"the brothers jumped out of their seats and chopped him into bits..."
*Smiles*
_thee end_
Ugh, I hate you so much. I kept pressing the second button
Thee end 😁
"What's the moral of the story?"
Me: That if a guy got married seven times, maybe something fishy is going on and you shouldn't marry him?
"Curiosity leads to regret."
Me: .....what?
*Henry VIIIs six wives have left the chat*
You: Ignorance
Is this where the phrase “skeletons in the closet” comes from?
Oh
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Actually, maybe. It would make sense!
Probably
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Please do the origins of the wild swans, about a girl whose brothers are turned into swans!
Ashitha Suresh I love The Wild Swans!
Oh, I love that story!
I've actually read that story before! 📖
Yes! I’ve heard it as The Swan Brothers.
Omg I love that story. I used to watch the cartoon.
Seems to me like the moral of the story is “curiosity leads to discovery.” For if Penelope didn’t open the door, she would have never known that her husband was a murderer, and he might have killed her later on in the story because of some other reason. I feel like all turned out for the best, as Blue Beard got what he deserved.
Love this story by the way, thank you for doing an episode on it :)
Yeah, I don’t know if I’d say he gets the interpretation wrong, but it’s definitely not the one I would make. In both cases a murderer is discovered and brought to justice, specifically because these girls dared to investigate. If not for them, the murders would just continue.
It’s also worth remembering a lot of these stories were originally passed down by women, for the most part, and many of the folklorists who later published them were male, with all the socialization issues that that implies. The Grimms were particularly noted for extreme misogyny.
I'm betting he killed his previous wives because they told him to shave or dye his beard.
So, Lady Mary was like, "Talk to the hand!"
I would love to see Disney try to clean up this story. The dead wives would probably still be alive and the new wife would rescue them.
This would be a neat stop motion film. Would add to the creepiness.
Yeeessssss I can so see that
In another story Bluebeard turns them into stone. So maybe she would turn them into humans again.
Nay, he was a fan of the undead and turned them into zombies!!!😃😎👍
They'd be alive, but under some kind of curse. You know, hearkening back to the days of Snow White and Sleeping Beauty.
That's how I'd do a Disney version of this.
"Brought to you by Hunt A Killer"
Considering the story, this is very appropriate
And I do feel like solving a murder on occassion. Though, I don't remember ever being on the crapper when getting the urge
My dad told me this story WHEN I WAS 7. I thought it was a story he made up from his mind UNTIL I HEARD IT ON "YOU" AND WAS LIKE "What the heeee-"
As a child, I had a book called “Not One Damsel In Distress” which was a book of fairytales, but in all the stories it is the women’s skills, brains, and brawn that saved them from whatever evil villain was trying to cause them misery in whatever way. Why I mention this is because there is a story in that book that sounds incredibly similar to the Bluebeard story, but instead of a man with a blue beard, it is the devil instead. Also, the prior victims were not just various women, in this story they were the main character’s two sisters who the devil had kidnapped, convinced them to marry him, then killed them once they went into the room of the mansion that they were instructed to not enter
I heard nearly the same version as a child, the only differences were that the title was still "Bluebeard" and he was an Ogre rather than the devil, everything else matches.
I now am going to have to go find this book for my daughters lol
@@KassKat519 it’s a great children’s book! i definitely recommend it. the stories are lovely and the illustrations are beautiful
Moral lesson : Don't marry a dude having a weird colored beard!
I mean... or if you trust your spouse then you get to live in a mansion. Problem solved. If anything, his wives are the villains.
I thought the moral of the story was to find a rich spouse and find a way to legally get rid of them so you get all their stuff.
Don’t drop your keys in a pile of blood... In a room full of dismembered corpses of women.
@@TheCrazyTalkKid Bruh... No. 🤦
@@goldilox369 You know what this is? It's discrimination against a man with some kind of hair deformity that none of his wives respect and decide to betray on a whim. It's just heartbreaking to hear about how he was so sorely mistreated.
"Limited edition holographic dark charizard" I see your a man of culture as well.
Larkken Mars you’re
*CDAWGVA Wants your Location*
i can’t help but notice the slight similarities between bluebeard and king henry the eighth. henry had six wives. he divorced his first and fourth ones. he had his second and fifth ones beheaded because they gave birth to daughters instead of sons. the third one died from childbirth, and the sixth one survived for his death. i’m not even sure if the years line up in my favor but it’s just something i noticed.
I probably don't need to say this, but I will anyway: Henry was a fucking dick
The second one was beheaded more for criticising his religious reforms than giving birth to a daughter and the fourth because she legitimately cheated on him. Only his first three wives had children.
When he said "guess the moral"
I said "Don't kill people?"
A moral as old as time
Idk seemed to work out for her
the story never really talks about why bluebeard came so early my theory is that he knew how curious his wife was, he probably knew she was going to open the closet, so he came home early to kill her because he has a big desire for killing. which is a very messed up but could happen.
You have to stop everything you’re doing for messed up origins.
Hehe
Jasmin Pivaral Ain’t that the truth.
Yikes!
Can relate, right in the middle of the work day
You have too stop your rudeness.
i’m so glad you went into this story because i have known Bluebeard since i was 6 or 7 years old and it’s a very intriguing and interesting tale that’s basically like a horror film.
He missed the part of the story where the the reason is given for all the dead wives. Every single one had not been able to stop themself from entering the room against his wishes.
but if they were all killed for going in there, what was in there before they were killed?
@@ericamaese5340 The first wife. But the story doesn't say why the first one was killed. Some think that Bluebeard killed her to try bathing in her blood to cure whatever condition caused his hair/beard to turn blue. When he realized it didn't cure him, he hid the body and remarried. So all the wifes after her were killed for finding the corpse, and later corpses.
@@PPGandRRBfan interesting.
@@PPGandRRBfan I always thought the first wife betrayed his trust through infidelity or something and so after killing her he made up this test to find a truly trustworthy and obedient wife. If his new wife could resist the temptation to disobey him and is able to overcome the magical hold the key has on her, he really would allow her to live in the castle and own all of his treasures.
There's a similar story by the Brothers Grimm where some sorcerer asked a woodcutter for his daughter's hand in marriage.
The woodcutter had two daughters and multiple sons. For some reason he agreed and gave the creepy sorcerer dude his daughter. So he took her back to his home and gave her a key to his "basement of dismembered women". He told her not to go there and gave her a magic egg and told her not to get it dirty. If she did that, he'd be completely under her control. So he left and the girl immediately went to the cellar and opened the door. She saw the bodies, panicked, and dropped the egg which got a permanent bloodstain on it. The sorcerer came back, saw the bloodstain and murdered her.
So he went back to the woodcutter and asked him for his other daughter. The sorcerer told the girl same thing as her sister before he left for some other journey. However, she put the egg in a safe place before going down to the cellar. Using some weird Grimm's brother magic, she put her sister back together and they devised a plan to get rid of the sorcerer. When he came back, he saw that the egg was intact and that she obeyed him, so he now was forced to do as she said.
The girl told him to carry a package for her back to her father in a basket. She told him not to look inside or stop for a rest because she'd be watching him. So he did as she said, but instead of a package, her sister was in the basket.Anytime the sorcerer stopped, the sister in the basket would yell at him to get back up, and keep running. So he ran all the way back to the dad, who called his sons to chase down and kill the sorcerer. The sisters were freed, the end.
That's awesome!
Wow I love this
When we were children, our French grandparents use to read 'Barbe Blue' to my siblings and I every night per our request (I know, don't ask), and our grandmother always said the story was a very loose, and very exaggerated, spin on King Henry VIII's six wives.
As a kid I was convinced the blue barbe à papa (cotton candy) was based on Barbe Bleue
Hey, a year or so ago I heard this story for the first time and I was learning about Henry VIII at the time. I thought the stories were similar and the story must be inspired by Henry VIII
Bluebeard: "its time to die, "
"Ok give me a second, Annie do you see them"
"No I just see 🐑 sheep "
Bluebeard; I said it's time to die come downstairs
"Coming, Annie do you seem them now? "
"Yes there here, "
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂I'm laughing so much, your really funny Jon
Lol
Jon: I'll give you a second to think about it
*ad appears*
Me: If that's not perfect timing I don't know what is
Oml, same!!
OMG that's hilarious! LOL
Lol 😂 same
I've always really liked the Women that Run with the Wolves reading of it that even though the moral is 'don't be curious' he was still a murderer either way. She found out, and tbh I'd rather know if my husband was a serial killer too. So the moral should be 'trust your gut'.
i love this mans comedy. Jon’s sense of humour gives me lifeeee
That forbidden room should have reeked of corpses throughout the whole residence.
Maybe the stone stopped the smell from going throughout the house. But then you have to think about the smell coming through the door.
You'd be surprised how much stench a floor touching door keeps in. Learned this from my brother's room smelling like the pits of hell.
everything stank of shit back then afaik
Josh Brough yeah right so I don't think the contained smell of dead corpses would've been that noticable or made too big of a deal
Back in those times they shitted in a bucket in the dining room. I don't think they paid too much attention to smells lol but the smell was probably trapped.
This story terrified my grandma, and there was a version of it in one of the fairytale book my family had, and she absolutely refused to let anyone read it to me
When you're doing your homework and just dump it to watch messed up origins 😉👍
Alice Dimitropoulos Same except I finished .2 seconds before the notification
There is a Hungarian opera called "Bluebeard's Castle" that is a very interesting variation of the story. There is much more focus on the rooms of the castle and what they might symbolize.
5:46 is my favorite part of this episode. “A weird interaction that I can only see in the following way…” This is my favorite episode of VERY Messed Up Origins. Jon’s sense of humor makes me laugh every time. So many weirdly-humorous moments.
“What a great fable… everyone lived happily ever after. Except for Bluebeard and his six dead wives and their families.”
“Half of a quarter of an hour, 7 1/2 minutes? You can’t just round up?”
I knew this tale from the anime series 'New Grimm's Fairy Tale Classics'. In that version everything is similar except that on the night Bluebeard tries to kill his wife (who I believe was called Josephine in this version) there was a huge storm. Lightning struck a tree which had been next to Bluebeard's castle and the tree caught on fire. The tree has fallen in one of bluebeard's windows and lighted the castle on fire. Josephine's 3 brothers were nearby and saw that the castle on was fire and went there to see what was happening. They managed to get in the building, save Josephine and kill Bluebeard (I don't remember if they killed him with their axes or left him there to burn to death). And because Bluebeards whole property was destroyed they just decided to go home.
And in the Hungarian Opera 'Bluebeard's Castle' by Béla Bartók Bluebeard "shows her" (actually just gives her the keys but knows that she will see) his past wives. Then when they enter the chamber the 3 wives are in together, Bluebeard talks about how beautiful they were and how much he adored them. And then kills Judit (the one wife that was still alive) and says that he will never have another wife because he has found the most beautiful woman (Judit).
Oh my gosh! I think I may know that show! I used to watch it when I was younger. I very vaguely remember the story of the Brother and Sister. Like, the brother was turned into a fawn or something. Am O referring to the correct show?
Thank you, i was lookig for someone to mention Bartók.
Same
I wacht it in anime Grimms fairytales classics and Josephine's brothers killed him with they axe's
These days, if a guy has blue hair, anime fans would probably go crazy
And Emos...🤦♂️
+@@Ujuani68 I thought their color was black. Shows what I know...
Jon: I feel like solving a murder!
Me: I feel like --- murder - ing!
Riiight i feel like my head wanted to help bluebeard here.. The girl is manipulating him :
we’re destined to be rivals
@@andiniwirawan frankly it was all a trust exercise from the beginning
@@JonSolo you'll never catch me alive
“I’m having Gabagool” omg these references are getting hilarious
Okay, so what did Jon tweet 10 years ago that people are supposedly judging him for? 😂
Could you do Messed Up Origins of The Red Shoes? That one really got me when I was little.
Jon: "I'll give you a second to think about it"
Ad for movie: "nope I'll give you 15 more"
Jon's ' a second' screen ends
Jon: "if you guessed this..."
In other words, RUclips gave me extra time lol
11 minutes into the video and I just realized Jon is sitting in a chair, not on the couch. I'm oblivious lol
I didn't realize until you mentioned it.
The story of Tryphine is similar to the story of Saint Winifred in Wales, though it was that rather than marrying the chieftain, she chooses to run off to become a nun, he finds her, lops off her head, which is then reattached by Saint Bueno and she lives, becoming a saint herself.
I'm here from the song Eve, Psyche, and Bluebeard's Wife. Since I already know the Eve and Psyche story, in learning about this
Gunther: "Face. Faaaaaace! FACE! I need your face!"
I got a little too excited at that toilet shot. Them thighs are lovely. LMAO
South Park Girl yeah, nice legs 🦵
He really is oh, soooo very sexy! Too bad he's taken
lol
"Annie how about now?"
"I think so... No those are just sheep"
😂😂😂
(PS I'm sorry if it sounded like I was teasing you, I wasn't trying to sound rude)
When I was a child, someone once was reading me story of Bluebeard. The girl had a sick mother, and she was forced to marry a Bluebeard. But in the banned room was fountain with healing water, and the girl took some water from it, and gave it to sick mother, and then Bluebeard took a girl by force to castle to kill her, but her brothers saved her, and killed Bluebeard. Huh. Whoever made a book with this story must have tought the room full of corpses would be too gruesome for kids.
Tell me is this you🚽⌨ "I feel like solving a murder"😂😂
It’s so AWESOME that you are making your sponsors/ads funny....it totally makes me actually want to try the things you say.....it is a much more “Ryan George” (Screen Rant...Pitch Meetings....and his own actual channel) style now and I think it’s totally working! GOOD ON YOU JON! 🤩🥳💝
Edit: 8:12 DUDE I THOUGHT I COULDN’T LIKE YOU ANYMORE AND THEN YOU GO AND DROP THIS BOMB! I’ve been with you since like 30k subs and I gotta tell you, you just keep getting funnier and funnier! Preach brother, preach! 🙌🙌🤣🥰🥰
I thought that Bluebeard was inspired by King Henry the VIII
me too
Me too! I heard the six wives and immediately thought of Six
Nah Henry only executed his 2nd and 5th wife, he divorced the 1st and 4th, the 3rd who was the love of his life and bore him hus only male heir edward died of illness (edward died at only age 15 of the same illness and was only king for 6 months) and Henry's 6th wife outlived him I think she remarried, but yeah since bluebeard killes his 6 previous wives and his 7th wife survived it doesn't quite line up
Feidhlim Malone yeah I know but (I live in France) we learned about this story in our French class and my teacher said that basically this story was in a way inspired by King Henri VIII and his 6 wives
Feidhlim Malone something that is inspired doesn’t always mean that it should line up perfectly with the events that occurred 🤔 but thanks 😊
Omg. Sitting in the toilet with a laptop..."I feel like solving a murder!" I freaking lost it!!🤣🤣🤣
The murder story was great, but can we take a moment to appreciate the cuteness of Gunter pawing at Jon’s chin? *Adorable!*
Fun fact for anyone who would like to know. Bluebeard became a verb at some point in time and has two meanings. The first pretty obviously is to go on a killing spree and second is to seduce a lot of women and be generally promiscuous.
I ended up studying the bluebeard story a long time ago for college and there was also a theory he was based on the Marquis de Sade as well!
Thanks for the great videos Jon, they make my evenings more interesting!!
Jon: "I'll give you a second"
*ad plays*
Me: What?
Do "All Kinds of Fur," "Donkeyskin" "The Juniper Tree," and "The Robber Bridegroom." There are TONS more morbid fairy tales I could suggest, but those are the ones that come to mind the most.
"Weird... Didn't happen though."
LMAO 😂😂😂
I was studying late at night while listening to this and jumped in my seat by the sound effect at 12:23. It freaked me out, man
When I was a child I read the children's book version of this and it had graphic images of hanging women in that closet and a VERY detailed description of what happend there.
7:50 - My God, I knew women were sometimes burried in their wedding dresses, but I didn't know they were sometimes exicuted in them! Depending on the method of execution, wouldn't that be likely to get a lot of blood on the dress, making it unfit to be burried in??
10:44 - If she had this dinner with him a few days later, wouldn't the hand have begun to decompose and be getting pretty icky?
13:44 - Just don't let there be any murders who kill adorable little pug puppies!
No body:
No one anywhere:
ABSOLUTELY NO ONE:
Jon Solo: I feel like solving a murder
*The messed up origins of Popeyes* 🍗
The chicken place or the sailor man?
losercomet they commented the chicken emoji
@@shellyjelly8406 damn how did I miss that🤔
contrary to popular belief, the restaurant was named after the fictional detective Jimmy "Popeye" Doyle in the movie The French Connection and not the sailor man
Pssst...the chicken is....chicken...
The Bluebeard story is VERY interesting. One thing I like in the animated version from Grimm's Fairy Tale Classics, the key that leads her into his murder chamber almost seems to be cursed in that it almost lures Josephine into opening the door - at least according to Penelope's narration in the short. I found that interesting since it could imply Blue Beard could have been more than a murderous rich man. He could have been a murderous rich demon, or even a man who like Gilles de Rais got involved with dark magic somehow and has a cursed key that lures people into morbid curiosity. Would make for some cool Bluebeard lore lol
U a fate fan?
This man turned a horror murder story into a comedy show
"Half…. Of a quarter..... Of an hour....?" Lmaoooooo
I always get so excited when I see he posted a new video!
I still remember this story because it is different from that I used to read ( fairy tales) and it got stuck with me. It's a really cool story and when I got the notification I was genuinely so excited.
same it's unique than most fairy tales where the generic modest girl and rich lonely boy marries and live happily ever after. here the boy who was her initial love interest is the psycho villain of the story.
it's not a fairy tale, it's like a urchin (evil fairy) tale.
I love how the moral is ‘don’t be too curious’, as though she would have fine if she had just never discovered that her husband was a murderer who kept his wives’ heads as trophies...
I learned about this story through a Korean drama called Strong Girl Do Bongsoon
The serial kidnapper in the show was inspired by the play based on this story.
Marg Helgenberger: *Exists*
Jon: Lethal Vows, starring John Ritter and Marg Hamburger.
"I feel like solving a murder" 🤣🤣👌
I came here because I am curious about the title of Le sserafim's new song. I'm familiar with Eve and Psyche, but not the bluebeard's wife. But now I know. Thank you.
samee!! i love that song
i’ve never seen ONE video of you before but that commercial for HuntAKiller where you said “i want to solve a murder” 😂😂 you got me. i’m subscribed man
Come for the storytelling.
Stay for Jon's humour.
Squeal for the adorable pup Gunther😍
This old story sounds like the modern story in the book: “women who run with wolves” by Clarissa Pinkola Estés. Now I found out She also covers myths and stories. Thnks!
I'm reading that very book by Estes right now in one of my English classes! I read the Bluebeard story two or three days ago!
Estes is retelling old tales. She's also exploring what they mean.... I read her book way back. I should read it again. I found it opened my eyes a lot to what some of the old fairy tales really meant, plus she mentions ones that the Brothers Grimm declined to publish, because the stories didn't fit their misogynist outlook.
YES!
Fun fact i found the original story in my house and my mom said i have wierd taste in fariy tales
"I feel like solving a murder"
me on the toilet watching this with a laptop: *How do you know where I live?*
As soon as he said serial killer I was like "I'm intrigued tell me more"
"Real, live, fake muderer" not bad
Edit:
"I think so, wait those are just sheep" Don't play with me like that
Who else wants to see the messed up origins of Gunther
Me
When you're so early there are barely any comments
Once again, flawless content. I’m so glad this channel appeared in my feed.
When I was a kid, I always thought Bluebeard was a pirate in the story (like Blackbeard)
I had that in fairytale book for kids as a child likely toned down asked dad to read it to me and we didn't even finish the story because I was terrified and dad was wondering wtf why Blue Beard was put a book for little kids
From what I can remember, Blue Beard was supposed to have been the antagonist originally in Disney's The Haunted Mansion, but they ended up scraping the idea because it was too dark.
I geeked out at "I feel like solvin' a murder!"
It's odd how Eve ate the apple, but men are the ones that has a so-called Adam's Apple 🤔🤔🤔
@Blue Moon Candy i think i have seen the same one, that's why i couldn't resist writing the comment when Jon talked about Eve dooming mankind 😋😉
Also, supposedly Eve was created from Adam’s rib, but everyone I know started out as a bump under a woman’s rib. No exceptions.
@@marybaldwin1084 true and true 🤘🤘
They both ate the apple, she just went first, lol
@Death Omen ugh, yeah >_
they always say your best ideas come while you’re on the toilet
Yeah,and they are right
My mother read that to me as a child....it was in a children's book!
I had nightmares for weeks!
I didn't know what was worse, her finding the corpses of his previous wives or the anxiety I felt when he found out and what would happen to her.
But I do remember that she only screamed for help to her brothers, there was no one else there since they promised to help her if she creamed for help.
The fact this story was told to us when we were like 5 -7 in the Netherlands, even had pictures of the darn book
"Weird...didn't happen tho'."
Wasn't me.
But, i saw...
Wasn't me.
But...
Wasn't me. Case Closed.