Myths/Legends Which Might Actually Be True! - (r/AskReddit)
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- [SERIOUS] Historians, marine biologists, biologists and cryptozoologists of Reddit: As far as legends in history go, what legendary creature do you believe may have been real and probably existed in some way, or what supposedly legendary person in history was more than likely real? Share your own thoughts in the comments section below!
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9:53 Fun fact: The Vikings used the myth of the unicorn to sell narwhal horns because nobody believed in narwhals but they did believe in unicorns.
Sadly but true
That’s awesome
You got it from vinland saga dont you?
To be fair, a horse with a horn just a few inchest is a lot more believe than a giant fish with a pike attached to its head
@@drunkborb5463 An that still apllies today, try to describe narwhal to a random person and a lot of them would think you're just pulled it out of your ass.
Edit : Tried asking some more person today, they still thought i'm taking too much acid.
Question: what’s your favorite thing about being alive?
Reddit: I’m not alive but...
smash like and subscribe
@@SirReddit no, I dont think I will
It be like that
@@KovertCorteX y u do me like dat? its free, and thats a great price :)
Most Logical Shockwave up
Reddit: not a scientist but...
Me: THEN WHY ARE YOU TALKING
Redditors do that all the time and it gets kinda annoyong
Not a scientist but a Native American in the Everglades but alligators are dinosaurs and if we don’t start eating them again, they WILL become Huge like millions of years ago huge. I seen like 3 16-footers this month alone
We are all just here for a good story so why do u care?
Whenever I see that "why are you talking" i always think how would that sound if u had a Ugandan voice like the why are you running dude XD
Dakota Stricklin why would you not listen to logic 😸. Cause they probably wanted people to KNOW that. Also why would you reply if you were just going to say THAT
Imagine being a Maori warrior in the 1400s and seeing a giant Eagle swoop down, kill a 500 pound Moa then fly away with it
Straight up poopin' his loincloth.
don it couldn't fly off with it, far too heavy
it would kill it, eat its fill and fly off
@@ksoundkaiju9256 still traumatizing though
@@trashcan9153 Yeah still traumatizing
But as the famous quote, "Better him than me"
grace benefield thats what used to happen
The stories of the banshee may have come from foxes. Foxes make a creepy, high pitched screaming sound during mating season that sounds disturbingly human.
So that’s what the fox says.
What does the fox say?
*_hhhuuuuUUUAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA_*
Luke Mill disturbing? I thought their “HEHEHEHEHEHEHHHHHEEEHHHHHEEHHHHEHEHEEHE” noise sound kinda cute. But yeah now that i think about it hearing someone laugh in a jungle alone can be disturbing
I know this because I experienced this. I had nightshifts and I lived right next to the woods so yeah i had quite enjoyable late night walks
Zone164 yeah, I have a few times as well. I live in a fairly quiet cul de sac. I sometimes hear them right outside my bedroom window. It sounds creepy af.
Wizards who could heal and throw fireballs were just time travelers with medicine and guns.
XD
What if rain dances were actually inspired by time travelers who had machines that could control the climate?
What if the Grey aliens are evolved time travelling humans
Do any of you know the theme in the background
Lol
"Scientists what is your story"
>"I heard black dogs were exaggerated sightings of wild dogs"
>> "That black dog sighting killed two of my friend's family members"
The description sound like a wolfhound , tall, not bulky, scraggly fur
Shut up you lying bitch
@@Ni-boo Unlikely to be though. Wolfhounds were common among Lords and Royals of England. It's unlikely that the people in the 16th century (where the myth comes from) hadn't seen a wolfhound before. Besides, it was an expensive and valuable breed. They'd almost certainly try to capture it, if it was a wolfhound. Although you could argue that's where the myth they're malevolent comes from. They did try to capture them and the dog responded aggressively. Then instead of admitting they were a dumbass who got bit by a dog, it becomes the story of an evil giant dog, with devil eyes and the scent of brimstone. Almost like how Krakens are believed to be fishermen exaggerating.
Well there is this myth in my place where if you have dreamed of having your teeth extracted naturally out of your gum, there is a chance where one of your relatives is about to go. If its the bottom teeth, its female. If its the upper, might be one of your male relative. Happened to me once but ive heard the same things from many people who have the first hand experience. Grammar
Funny thing is: Every single culture on earth has their version of bigfoot
as far as Australia.
Edward Castro III Bigfoot, yeti, orang pan dec, the monkey man of new deli, its fun to think about it while at the same time, scary how they might be real
Indian/Nepali Yeti were for most part incredibly cute Himalayan Bears .
Yeah, even youtube has his own bigfoot
Yeah, Australia has an upside down Bigfoot!
Asian Bigfoot is like 5ft tall
Idk why we consider the kraken to even be a myth anymore, the colossal squid literally fit all details of a kraken, so calling it a “probably true myth” is like calling me “probably a human”
Because in the kraken myths it was big enough to steal sailors right off the deck and crack a galley in half, and big as they are colossal squid aren't quite there yet.
@@mercaius Humans have and amazing ability to exaggerate
@@fullcrackalchemist of course I have no way to confirm you are indeed a human my cadaverous friend.
@@generalvictorironraven.1347 Ah, so you have found my true form?
Because the kraken myth took on a hundred-foot life of its own and basically became too insane to be accurately compared to the colossal squid anymore
For the changling/fey children thing: A lot of the characteristics described in the myths such as an obsession with counting, strange social mannerisms, liking repetition, being clever or thinking differently, etc. are common traits of those with autism or OCD.
For the rabies one it’s also interesting how we associate vampires with bats while bats can give people rabies
XxBeastWolfxX 12 you sir are a genius
@@eddyrajan3523 not really lol
Stop being homophobic to rabiosexuals, this is offensive
And dogs and wolves for werewolves
Bats are one of the very few species that become extremely docile and near-comatose when inflicted with rabies. The chances of contracting the disease from a bat are beyond miniscule.
Scary noises in forests are usually caused by big cats like cougars. They sound like a woman shrieking in pain.
^Foxes too. Foxes make the most terrifying scream sometimes. It's a bit unnerving, even if you're watching the fox that's making the noise. I imagine if you heard it and didn't know where it was coming from, you'd have yourself a heart attack.
Ray Anderson That actually happened to me before! I think a fox wandered its way near my backyard and it scared the hell out of me. I almost called 911 because I thought a woman was being murdered on my street! Truly terrifying 😰
Tyra Lee The fucked up things about this is you didn't know if the screams was really a woman screaming to death or a cougar, if you ignore the sound it's a 50-50 chance if that sound was really a woman or a cougar.
Shreking
Bruh Moments just call the police
The demons in the forest.
They were parrots mimicking the hunter/gatherers, only the voice wasn't quite right and the parrot kept repeating the same thing over and over. In a thick forest.
Those people musta been out of their bloody minds with fright!
Parrots take a long time to learn to talk
@@ConfyLizard They had nowt but time back then, particularly since mostly vocal noises would have been the main form of communication other than complex speech.
are you sure? usually there are stories of people hearing voices in the WOODS. Parrots come from tropical rainforests
@@eddyrajan3523 Psittaciformes (Parrot) Order contains around 360 species. Some live in Australia, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, North and South America, Solomon Islands.
Parrots aren't the only birds capable of mimicking, either! Myna (part of the Starling family), Raven, Magpie, Crow, and Starlings are amongst some birds very capable of mimicking speech patterns.
There's a Raven famous in North Yorkshire for asking "You alright, love?" in a Yorkshire accent!
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@Emily Barclay Exactly! Can you imagine hearing a voice, a human voice that isn't quite human?! You'd crap your pants!
I mean, all you have to do is look at the Lyrebird for how good a mimic some birds are!
16:18 “The banshee never existed” guess you’ve never encountered a Karen xD
IKR LIKE THEY CAN BE FREAKING HEAVY METAL SINGERS LMAOOOO
The Wendigo one is my personal favorite because I get the same impression: guilt from cannibalism + denial + no knowledge of mental illness = human-like monster who eats people in the snow.
Hence it was featured in Hannibal TV series. They had cannibalism, mental illness, denial, dark pasts, etc
“Wolf”
Text to speech “V O L V”
Be nice, robo-voice has an accent. He can't help it.
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369 nice
Mokka_arts&shazzle :v And duckers! Crazy duckers. Just say fuck, for fuck's sake 🤣
Personally, my favorite Myth that is possibly steeped in truth is Atlantis. When ignoring Plato’s rants about a whole continent and instead focusing on descriptions of the city and the culture it closely matches the ancient Minoan civilization that thrived in the Aegean Sea during the Bronze Age. They had crazy advanced tech for their time, running water, plumbing, advanced ships, etc. however they suddenly collapsed in a matter of years around 1279. BCE. Their collapse probably began with the massive Santorini eruption, which made Krakatoa look like a kids science fair project. The force was sooooo ridiculously massive it washed over the island of Crete COMPLETELY, vaporized 75% of the Island of Santorini, including at least half of an ancient city, and caused the Nile river to flow BACKWARDS. We have even a layer of ash in bedrock around the world associated with the eruption. EDIT: Since this is so popular I’ll add more details, the Minoans were actually one of MANY global bronze age civilizations that all collapsed at roughly the same time, archaeologist and historians still aren’t sure as to the direct cause but the prevailing theories see the Santorini eruption as a catalyst for sudden global climate change, crop failure, and forced migrations. We usually use Egyptian or Chinese records when possible since they are usually all that we have. And even the Chinese ones are spotty since most were written centuries after the fact. But from what we can tell is that shortly after the eruption a sea faring group of nomadic warriors scoured the Mediterranean, putting the final nail in the coffin for many cultures and that massive crop failure by “black snow” led to the collapse of China’s first known monarchy.
Look up the structure called the eye of Africa. It matches Plato's description quite well.
Dembai, I have but Plato specifically got his stories from the Egyptians describing a seafaring people north of them . While the eye is fascinating I don’t believe it was the basis for the Atlantis myth. Also, the Eye of Africa sits in the Sahara, which, while it may have once been a Jungle, that period was long before the Egyptians.
Ben Mortimer do you have any channels or videos I could watch to learn more?
@@benmortimer1036 there is a suspected site near sevilla in spain which archeologists believe could be the place of atlantis too because egyptian and phoenician tales tell that it was a 2 week or something travel to the city and at this spot there where fitting ruins found
Effects of volcanic eruption quite nice match 12 plagues of Egypt. Darkness, water turning red like blood, insects mass migrating running away from fallout, toxic fumes killing newborns, burning rocks falling from the sky...
The wendigo one is a legitimate psychological condition it’s called “Wendigo psychosis”
It is not confirmed real and could very well be made up.
Well many psychologists say that Wendigo psychosis is real
But it's not an official thing
@@Threezi04 Real thing is started with demonic ritual but the placebo effect is proven helpful if 1 must eat another when caught in winter type no food was hunted that day and 1 man eats other before other way around this would be horrifying though we know that's not how wendigo come to be but a ceremony to calm the surviver helps allot. Real wendigo is demonic choosing to be evil and cannibalism is a part of it but so much more is that is kept secret very well thank the Creator. It's not what ppl see in media it's really just an ass hole who chooses evil and we deal with it certain ways . Evil cannot win over good.
@@dominicblackboxsdev1055 I see you scp 173 can't hide behind Mexican hat
@@dr.elijah7742 Shit, I've been found! Time to administer Class C Amnesics (CCA).
“Marine Biologist”
Jotaro: I believe dolphins are real
DIO: Jotaro! I wiped your dolphins out Of this WARUDO! What Are You gonna do?
Exploding Games why do I ALWAYS find JoJo reference wherever I go???
You thought it was a cute sea creature buT IT WAS ME, DIO!
i did not expect to see a fellow jojos fan in the comment section
Every cryptozoologist: yes, I'm definitely a real scientist.
Biology teacher: I'm not a scientist, but....
2000 years from now humans be like
"So who was this big-eyed humanoid with cat ears and tail?"
Anthony Varela sir we call that a wild furry
@@MasterporkyMinch Excuse me, good sir, but we weaboos call that a neko. Furries are a different kind of cringeworth group.
Burn Angel It's all the same, just like how all genocide is the same :)
@@fargoth391 Yes, all of the methods cause the same effect, therefore it is all the same.
Lol
The Viking-gods are manufactured by earlier times heroes and wise men and women.
People become heroes, heroes becomes legends, legends becomes myths, the myths create gods.
I sincerely believe the 9 worlds spoken of were the planets.
@@Sunscorched you do know that not all planets are visible with the naked eye
@@JUK3MASTER Yes LOL
Pluto was theoretical before it was discovered.
@@Sunscorched actually it wasn't. Pluto was discovered by chance while looking for another bigger planet which was supposed explain the orbits of Uranus and Neptune. They originally taught it was bigger and would correct the apparent discrepancies in Neptunes orbit and that is why they named Pluto a planet. Later it was discovered that Pluto isn't as big and subsequent spacecraft provided new measurements which solved the mystery of Uranus and Neptune orbits. And then there was no need for Pluto to be a planet anymore.
sorry for the long lecture haha
But still the 9 worlds can't be planets because people of those times didn't know of all the planets
@@JUK3MASTER You're partially right and partially wrong!
1848 saw J. Babinet make the first prediction of a planet with a mass 12 times that of the Earth. In comes Percival Lowell, a man rich enough to build his own observatory in AZ (Arizona? I'm UK) that was dedicated to proving the existence of Martians.
Percival then set about searching for this planet, with a mass 7 times that of the Earth, but he died in 1916 and didn't get to find this Theoretical Planet that lay beyond Neptune.
1929 comes along. Clyde Tombaugh, a self taught amateur astronomer (much like myself!), who was hired by the Director of the Lowell Observatory. Their method was pretty simple, but effective to say the least! Take a couple of images of the same part of the sky a few days apart, then use use a blink comparator (a piece of kit used to find the differences between photos of the sky at night) as there were around 400,000 in each photo.
One year later, on February 18th 1930? There was Pluto and Pluto was only six degrees from Lowell's predicted position!
Pluto was theoretical :)
The Minotaur was originated from Crete, here me out.
When the Greeks went to conquer the last of the Minoan Empire, they landed on Crete during Nightfall. The remaining Minoan soldiers, put on bull head helmets to scare the Greeks. The Greeks marched through the city, which during Night May have looked like a maze, all while being ambushed by these Bull Headed men. This also is why it is Minotaur, it came from Minoa
Edit: Sorry I mean Mycenaean when I say Minoan
Deip Mapper! Time to fact check
“Here me out”
I went to visit Knossos a couple weeks ago, where the myth originated. Super interesting, definitely looks like a maze
Well the Minoans and the Greeks interacted alot before the Greeks took over. In fact the Minoan culture is older than the Helos. The Minoans also centered all their festivals around what essentially was ancient rodeos. They left hundreds of murals and paintings of games such as bull flipping. The Minoan architecture was also very different than the Greeks, all the long corridors and hundreds of rooms were completely opposite of the Greeks at the time. Most Historians, chalk the Minotaur myth up to culture shock. The Greeks weren't able to fully explain to others what they'd seen on Crete. And as people are want to do, it got embellished. Hell Greek mythology isn't even consistent. Some accounts say Zeus is the oldest of the gods but the last to be "swallowed" by Kronos. Others say Zeus is the youngest of the gods and the last to be "swallowed" by Kronos. Plus different creation myths for some of the other gods. If ya can't keep your religion straight how are ya supposed to tell your coworkers what your weird neighbor did over the holiday weekend? Lol
Well, no. It was called the Minotaur because in greek mythology, the first king of Crete, son of Zeus was named Minos.
I believe a myth that there’s a pause button for multiplayer games.
Impossible
Gasp
Pro mother move
Dota2
Children, this is no myth. The legend is true. It is frustrating. Just ask my brothers
I'm a 21 year old irish man, the mere mention of the word Banshee chills me to the bone
It's "Karen" for me...
B a n s h e e
The vampire and werewolf myths could be a combination of sicknesses like rabies (very likely for werewolves - bitten by a rabid dog or wolf and then wolf like behavior, aggressiveness) and porphyria (which can cause blisters in contact with light). Stories and gossip gets spread and altered and there you have your legends
i kind of wish myth's were real, they are extremely interesting and i like the idea magic exists in the world.
The thing with magic is that if it exists it can be studied and then it turns into science
@@Flegado unless science can't explain it, science is the natural law of the world you can't explain something appearing out of midair with science because thats not how the things work.
@@botcheek482 Yes you could because science is the process of investigating a phenomenon, not the explanations for that phenomenon. So in another world where things can appear out of nothing then it could be studied and understood through science.
@@teddycouch9306 magic isnt the natural though like it goes against what science has to prove, you can make a carpet fly with magic, but how do you explain the lift created with no force to push it off the ground or anything to even make it move. you can't because it goes against the laws of physics.
science can only explain things that work using the laws of the natural world, if it goes outside that science can't explain it.
@@botcheek482 We found the laws of physics in our world through the scientific method and that method is science. Stop thinking about our physics as being science because it's not, it's just the set of explanations for physical phenomenon found through science. Even the words lift and force were created through the application of the scientific process.
In a world with magic, that is at least somewhat predictable, the laws of magic would be discovered through science. Those laws would be a part of the physics of that universe.
As someone with experience in philology/anthropology, it seems that most legends are what happen when you combine thousands of years of oral retellings and exaggeration with actual, real events, people and creatures
Chinese Whispers Level: Expert LOL
But yeah. They'll be looking for Harry Potter's wand a thousand years from now.
@@Sunscorched Couldn't've put it better myself. Would like twice.
A lot of folktales look to me like the old equivilent of Chuck Norris Facts. Consider all the stories that explain the origin of a hill or valley or odd rock or other geographic feature as some hero throwing rocks at his enemies etc.
I believe that myths of the behemoth comes from the first European explorers exaggerating stories of the elephants that they saw, back before they were common knowledge. If the unicorn was Asian rhinos, this seems plausible to me.
Imagine being an experienced sailor for years, practically having lived half you life on the sea. Then, imagine some guy on Reddit saying that you were too stupid to ever be able to tell the difference between a whale and a serpent.
5:30 ok the fact that the largest eagle lived there the lord of the rings was filmed there, imma say middle earth was/is real.
Well at the end of the story he does say that this is Middle Earth
The sea serpent whale d*ck thing made me laugh Pepsi out of my nose
I thought the question was "what myths/legends do you believe are true?" not "can you explain myths/legends logically?"...
Same ugh
chloe; IDK, I would’ve found answers that stayed on topic pretty interesting. You hear logical explanations for mythical beings quite often, but what you don’t hear often are the odd beliefs held by people society has deemed logical. It would have been neat to hear, “I’m a biologist but I’m not completely convinced big foot/aliens/ghosts don’t exist and here’s why.”
That's literally the same thing
@@booty_hunter4207 it's literally not.
@@kingjames4886 essentially. Plus, what kinda boring ass video would just be "bigfoot *next* loch ness monster *next* " etc. Like that's zero substance
I'm not an scientist in any way (I'm still in school) but I was told buy my father that Merlin was real and he was an engineer so his inventions were "magic"
OP: Asks if scientists believe these myths
Scientists: Explain "myths" with facts and evidence rather than tell myths they believe instead
I mean in a literally sense its likely that none of the myth's a real. Most scientists won't believe in any myths. However, with a little bit of knowledge you can figure out why a myth was started.
@@hamsterfromabove8905 How do you know most scientist don't believe in myths. Please tell what force is telling you this infomation
@@zorrothethief6065 myths lose their details the more they are repeated, and scientists very much prefer actual evidence. The closest they get are theories, which is simply something that available information leads them to believe may be true, but without enough to actually prove it either way.
A thousand years from now:
“So what is this transparent liquid you’re talking about”
"I think they called it water?" 🤔🤔🤔
Atlantis was prob real, just not as high tech as one would believe
There _was_ a massive earthquake during the Ancient Greek period, and that earthquake led to an even bigger tsunami. Like, civilisation-destroying big. That unfortunate civilisation was destroyed and sunk to the bottom of the sea.
@@broseidon1658 not an earthquake, but a volcanic eruption that destroyed much of modern day santorini and gave it its shape
Kiran Roye
Yeah, that.
Could be. Even in Indian mythology we have a while city that sunk called Dwarka. There are so many stories that are some what similar around the world
The minoan capital fits the description almost to a t. High tech by their standarts, it controled an empire that got destroyed when a volcanic eruption caused the mountain to be blown to bits by an explosion so big it was heard in egypt.
"What mythical creature was more than likely real?"
Reddit: "hErEs wHy i ThInK tHeY MaDe uP sEa SeRpeNts"
Reddit response wasn't stupid. It was a stupid question. Basically asking "which of these obviously made up things was real?". I mean what other answer would you be expecting? You really expect a scientist would answer with "Griffins. Griffins are real".
James Walsh you sound dumb. Many times we have found out that a myth has turned out to be true. A myth does not mean it is automatically a lie. A simple google search will tell you this.
5:15
Me: not watching
What I hear: “the Maori of NZ have long told stories of the power gay”
“There’s a good chance the Loch Ness Monster existed at some point in time”
You seem like a very knowledgeable historian/ biologist/ cryptozoologist.
I mean he’s not TECHNICALLY wrong if he’s referring to Plesiosaurs. But those definitely never lived in Loch Ness considering that lake only formed 10,000 years ago and Plesiosaurs went extinct along with the dinosaurs 66 million years ago.
Perhaps it was just a large eel or sturgeon that was mistaken for a plesiosaur after people watched too much King Kong (remember sightings for Nessie skyrocketed in 1933, which is the year King Kong was released).
This was a good video idea
The Australians hunted Bigfoot for sport.
SHOW. THE. PICTURES. ATTACHED!!!
Question: how does it feel like being born
Reddit: I was never born but
people with c sections were removed, so therefore they were never born. happy removal day cancer babys
There was an archeological site that had many giant-sized skellingtons (like 6-12ft), there were hundreds if not thousands, but the Smithsonian museum 'misplaced them' in the 1900s...
Do you have any source? Sounds interesting
Skellingtons 💀💀💀
Google it.
This is another thing, its insanely easy to pass off a lie as the truth, which then becomes a legend. If video game speedrunners can do it so easily today under scrutiny, imagine how easy it must've been to just get away with that stuff.
>Ancient Egyptian states that flying snake aliens *were* real, having had one literally grab him and tell him so.
>Nah b, it's just whale bones they thought was monsters.
#JustSwampGas
It would be interesting to trace mythological stories of giants and see if they match neanderthal/sapiens zones of friction
Neanderthals are smaller than modern humans, about a foot smaller. Could be mistaken for a dwarf in the nordic regions where they did crossover
@@isaacrobson8406 Shorter, but not smaller. They were really muscular, comparing them to dwarves is accurate both in stature and strenght.
@@Burn_Angel that's what I was trying to say. Shorter not smaller, they made up for it in muscle mass
Denisovians, based on the little evidence we have(some huge teeth) Either had huge jaws for their size, or were huge people-kin. Giants and Bigfoot can all be explained by oral tradition carrying the memory of interacting with these semi-recently (in the grande scheme of things) extinct humanoids.
Theory: The myth of the kraken swallowing ships whole could possibly be from Viking ships that were attacked by a colossal squid mistaking the haul for a whale.
Had a roommate in college who was a biology major, he refused to have anything to do with the ocean saying "we don't know what's down there," and "there's evidence of crazy big stuff in the deep ocean".
6:22 most likely referring to the skull of a 3 year old child in the Smithsonian in DC. Eagle talon markings are seen around the eye sockets. Easily visible. I remember seeing it and thinking that a small 3 year old was mauled by an eagle. A horrible thought.
The thunderbird of the American Midwest was likely the last members of a very large breed of condor, which are honestly huge for modern birds.
The banshee story though... Never thought about it like that...
I'm sorry but are we all just gonna ignore "Chew-Pack-a-Brah"
It's not like english speakers can pronounce it properly most of the times anyway.
what about "muhgalladon"?
2:45 there is a location in the desert the Egyptians knew of that had a huge area of impact glass so another possibility of a star falling story. The area is deep in the desert but chunks of the glass ended up in some jewellery so it is known people would venture out that far to recover the glass. No crater in the ground just a fireball low enough to create the glass with traces of the meteorite that caused it mixed in.
They also knew of meteorites as daggers made from them have been found in the tombs.
I heard that meteorites were sometimes called ‘cold iron’, and because they didn’t come from the Earth, they were said to be effective weapons against fae and fairies due to their deep connection with the Earth.
The story of David and goliath can be rationalized Goliath being a giant, because back then the average height for a person was only around 5 feet to 5‘5“, so even if Goliath was just around 6’3” or 6’4” he would absolutely be seen as a giant by the people back then which is why I am pretty sure that story is real.
11:04
This for some reason angers me, when a croc is called an Alligator.
They are different animals, your anger is well placed.
The descriptions of “changelings” are descriptions of children with type 1 diabetes. The stories say the supposed changing children eat and eat but lose weight and eventually die. They are never not hungry but are really cranky and cry constantly, eventually becoming emancipated and weak. Type 1 diabetes strikes children suddenly and those children start to starve and lose weight within about a month of it becoming serious. I’m not a scientist, but I’m a type 1 diabetic and the description is strikingly accurate. It is also telling that civilizations outside of the British Isles don’t have this legend. Diabetes was recognized as a disease very early in Greek medicine and that knowledge spread.
There's a theory that says that there are bigger giant squids that the ones that we have found
But they live in the deep abyss of the oceans
If you are big enough to be served in a multiple families as a calamares then it is wise not to go on a surface
So much of the ocean is undiscovered that we can't really say what's in there and what isn't. It's scary
@@shanayazaveri2620 Agreed.
All of the colossal squid we have found are thought to have been young and not done growing. It's fascinating to think how big a fully grown one could be
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I honestly think that demons, werewolves and vampires originated as an early understanding of what a serial killer was in those days, not wanting to think that a man wouldn't hunt down his own kind, so it had to be supernatural forces that made them do it.
My favorite: legends of dragons were based on neotenous salamanders. There are species of amphibian such as the axolotl which remain in their larval form throughout their lives instead of metamorphosing. When given hormones, they change into something resembling a tiger salamander. Supposing a species of salamander occasionally failed to metamorph, and remained in the larval form growing bigger and bigger over a period of years. A crocodile-sized neotenate would be pretty scary. Hypothesis backed by legends associating dragons with swampy, marshy areas.
Wild men, giants, etc were probably just encounters with other cultures. Imagine you're a relatively small, olive or swarthy skinned Greek or Roman. Now imagine your first time seeing a Norseman, who are very very tall by your standards and pale.
Elves are likely just Asians, specifically Koreans or Japanese. They're most often described as fairly fair or chestnut skinned, most often with dark or black (sometimes silver) hair. By the standards of tall, bulky Europeans, Asians are small and lightly built. There are Chinese swords that could be described as "leaf-shaped" etcetcetc.
Also Hercules, Samson etc were probably all actually just the same random very lost Norseman.
Or Hercules was just a really buff guy with a lions skin on his head who spouted bullshit to make himself look tough. And the Greeks thought he was telling the truth.
Unlikely that Heracles'd have been a Norseman, seeing as his legends predate the Norse as a particular cultural group by the gut's of a Millennia (at least the version we have anyway). The more likely explanation is that Heracles and other mythological warriors who have similar stories are all based on some warrior-king among the early Indo-European's prior to their migration's into Europe and India.
Nobody mentioned the Atlantis myth from Herodotus and the Egyptians and how it fits beautifully with the Greenland meteorite impact in 10.000 BC and the Eye of the Sahara geologic structure.
After having done research I really think the theory is real. The more I find about it the more compelling the evidence becomes.
Look it up yourself.
There's also another city that sank. The city of Dwarka in Indian mythology
I'm a scientifically minded young man trying to get into the field of palaeontology, and I'm generally skeptic about spirituality and theism...
And yet I can't help but believe in ghosts. I can't explain why or how, but I am.
Well you can’t really convincingly argue either way. Nothing wrong with believing in ghosts. Besides, who knows what happens after death.
TheCanadianDane Jesus is the only way my friend
The simplest way to disprove the myth of ghosts is to ask yourself why has nobody ever seen the ghost of a dinosaur, despite trillions of them roaming the earth before us.
@@OoOoQualityoOoO One way to counter that argument is that humans have souls and shit. We're sentient and shit ya know. But idrc bout that, why the fuck arent there Dinosaur ghosts, for real?
@@OoOoQualityoOoO well maybe they are ghosts. After all people still keep "seeing" Nessie and Champ lol
Owls are nocturnal, many species live in forests, and they move swiftly and silently through the air. A Barn Owl has a pure white face with long slit-like eyes, as well as a high pitched shriek for its call. A Screech Owl has an eerie whinnie as its call. I think some myths of ghosts in the forest come from owls
12:34 A story I heard a few years ago from a 911 dispatcher - Someone thought they found some human hands/feet in a dumpster,and called it in..Officers showed up,but weren't sure. After some investigation by the Coroner,and Fish&Wildlife,it turns out they were just skinned bear paws that someone had dumped.
That's real common. They're so similar that it's freaky
The Banshee's wail is that of a fox looking for its mate. The Banshee screams to warn of death
I always though a unicorn could've just been a deformed goat or something with one horn or just a very early version on a rhinoceros. I am no scientist for sure, but I absolutely love theories of what mythological creatures could actually be.
As stated in the video I think King Arthur was real. There were two Romano British leaders who’s stories probably got fused (or were already the same guy) to create the foundation of Arthurian legend. Riotamus and Ambrosius Aurelianus were both military leaders of the Britons. Riothamus lead forces against the Visigoths but was defeated, this sounds similar to how Arthur fought a Roman emperor or something. But I’m guessing that as time went on no one liked the idea of the noble Romano-British king being defeated by a barbarian so they changed it so he was fighting Romans.
While interesting, there's enough Ancient Celtic references to show that the true historical King Arthur was most likely a Welsh Chieftain. The Arthurian Legends have many aspects from the various Celtic Nations. For example, England never had a High King system, nor is the "canonical" Sword in the Stone even remotely in the center of the country. However, Ireland did have a High King system, and the Hill of Tara - the closest thing geographically in Ireland to being right smack in the center of the island (just off by a few degrees) - had been used for centuries as _the_ coronation site. Earliest versions of the Legends even use terminology that exclusively showed up in Scotland, the Isle of Man, Cornwall, and such. Plus Normandy is where the original Legends were first compiled, and where Morgan Le Fay gets her famous name variation.
@@maxxor-overworldhero6730 How Ancient are we talking? It just seems unlikely that a Celtic chieftain would have the power and influence to become the influence for King Arthur. A Romano British warlord is more likely.
@@connorgolden4 _Ancient_ Ancient. Almost nearly as far back as what can be dredged up of Welsh myths.
And that aside, Arthur is a Welsh-originated name.
@@maxxor-overworldhero6730 Wow. Didn’t know that.
Hmmm. Perhaps these ancient myths got mixed in with the stories of Riothamus and Ambrosius and gave us the Arthurian mythos.
@@connorgolden4 It's possible. After all, the Romans did interact a bit with the Welsh.
In the king arthur stories there's this thing called the questing beast and it's described as the neck of a snake, the body of a leopard, legs of a lion, and roughly the hooves of a horse. Now, think about that real quick. That's a very poorly described giraffe.
Big alligators are definitely still a thing, as long as they get enough food, alligators don't stop growing until they die
Like they just don't stop
I’m still holding out hope that prehistoric/massive sea creatures still exist. I mean, we’ve only explored 5% of the ocean floor. The fact that we haven’t found them yet means that, if they were discovered to still be alive, they wouldn’t be a threat to us, since they haven’t left their habitat all this time, but it would still be insanely cool to know about/study them.
Also, Loch Ness is absolutely filled with vast arrays of caves, completely stocked with fish large enough to sustain a small population of plesiosaurs, and is large enough to support such a group. I’m really hoping that, at some point, we discover them. (Yes, I have a thing for aquatic cryptids and monsters.)
EDIT: I also really hope dragons were real. Like actual dragons, not just dinosaurs. I get super excited whenever I see those fake news articles where archaeologists/paleontologists find dragon bones. However, I kinda hope they’re no longer real, to avoid a Reign of Fire type situation (if you haven’t seen that movie, look it up. A badass human/dragon war featuring Christian Bale, Gerard Butler, and Matthew McConaughey, still one of my favorite movies).
Megalodons were around as little as ten thousand years ago, we've found teeth that were carbon dated to that time frame, apparently the last ice age is what finally killed them off completely.
You know what I’ve always kind of wondered? (Sorry if this is a dumb question). When the meteor struck earth killing all the Dino’s, how did the impact kill all the Dino’s that lived far far down beneath the ocean? Like there’s no way one rock could take out a full planet of creatures right?
Thats why its a theory. People have strong beliefs but they dont actually know
The clouds from the impact supposedly covered the Earth for months. This would block sum for the algae and plankton, which would upset the oceanic ecosystem
Because dinosaurs don’t live in oceans, they live on land.
Bob Cat no have you ever seen those big ass water dinosaurs? Like the ones that looked like the lock ness. Or a spinosaurus. Or any other out of the hundreds of water Dino’s? Gigantic crocs, titanoboas
They didn't die in 1 second, they slowly starwed to death because everything bigger then a hamster couldn't survive and find enough food during that apocalyptic climate change
Sailors be like
*looking at manatee* is this a fish woman?
In that way, all sailors are vikings. Get them drunk enough, and they’ll dip their wick in anything.
The whole ancient aliens "they thought it was this but actually it was this" logic is such bullshit. If ancient civilizations wanted to describe something's like a UFO or whale skeleton they'd just draw you a whale skeleton or a UFO they wouldn't come up with some other bullshit that kinda sorta resembles what they're talking about. No civilization could function this way.
Bigfoots.
Isn't it a coincidence how almost every civilization in the world has myths about giant hairy humanoid creatures.
Look up " Tarrare" and you should see a story about a guy who could eat a lot
That might be the origin of Ogre stories, well not really that story, but if there was someone like that living before
Tarrare got kicked out of a hospital for eating a baby.
@@kitchengun1175 "Tarrare, did you just eat a fucking baby?"
Sam O Nella Academy?
Glass Butterfly I graduated a year ago
11:59 I’m pretty sure ecountering a 7 foot bear in general will trigger a “fight or flight” response
7:58 Confession here: I'm actually a type of Wendigo, known as the Wendy's-to-go. When I get really hungry I imagine that people are Wendy's burgers and I eat them. The whole time I'm doing this, I'm thinking, "Man, I wish this burger was from a better fast food restaurant!"
12:38 Fuzzy Wuzzy was a bear. Fuzzy Wuzzy had no hair. Fuzzy Wuzzy was mistaken for Bigfoot. Is that how the poem goes?
Hey I'm so old I had a fuzzy bear. He really did grow hair too.
“I’m not a scientist , but I listen to joe Rogan. So let me tel you about Bigfoot “
Hahaha
Sometimes scientists laugh at indigenous stories and myths. They say there’s no way that could happen. And then it turns out that the indigenous people were right; they were just explaining it to the scientists in the way they could.
Best example I can think of right now is the statues on Easter Island. The native people told researchers the stones had “walked” and the researchers wrote it off as myth. Then, years later, some researchers worked out a way to rock the giant stones back and forth with ropes, basically “walking” the stone across the island, proving the native people right all along.
I'm an anthropology student so not quite a scientist but in Alaska there's a myth about the King Bear, which is a giant polar bear. In 2014ish they found a massive polar bear skull. I'm not saying we found him but we found him.
5:15 Ahh, yes. The legendary Power-Gay. What a majestic creature
Yep, sponsored by Liberace, Elton John, and Freddie Mercury!!! Hah 🤣🤣🤣
17:48 that whale trolled everybody
This is my favorite when I was younger I read about a Chinese lord who wanted to stand on the moon or something like that so he had his subjects build a wooden throne and put fire works and black powder underneath it he sat and had it lit and it was reported that there was a loud boom and a huge amount of smoke when it cleared there wasn't anything there well a few months ago I heard the first moon rocks ended up being petrified wood so I like to think he made it
Oh he made it somewhere. In pieces lol
That would explain why most cyclops in the stories has tusks or horns growing out of their mouths.
Oxygen levels are why prehistoric animals and insects were so large
Erik Walker dude it Really isn’t
@@horrificpleasantry9474 nah man it was oxygen levels, air decreased over time and bugs started getting smaller because it was hard breathing I bet.
5:08 I personally think that a zombie disease would be a zoonotic version of the zombie ant fungi.
am i early...i should be doing my homework instead of watching this great channel but whatever
The sea serpent one me a "aha" moment, and i watch a few whale vids
Hi there, i like that you put a background music in this video :) its give a nice touch, good job!
I'm pretty sure almost every mythical sea creature existed in some way. The ocean is so vast and has such massive creatures even now, it's not hard to imagine that something like a kraken existed.
“Not a scientist but-“
Me: thank u, next
This is exactly why we need to storm area 51
And the Vatican
@True Prodigy and vice versa. Pimping the creatures to rich humans.
Scientists of youtube, are nymphomaniacs real?
Sex addicts are real, yes. But if you mean mythical nymphs... Then I imagine they were probably just another tribe who lived in different areas such as forests, mountains, and near rivers.
@@Sunscorched oh scientist of RUclips, where may I find a sex addict?
They're real and you don't want one if you have a life to live. They're very hard to keep satisfied when you have other things to do.
@@Gojira_Wins Check Sex Addicts anonymous ☺
It's one of the most destructive addictions to have.
Teenage boys are real, so yes.
Siegfried/ Sigurd the dragon slayer probably was the cheruscian warlord Arminius (Herman the german) and the dragon represents the roman legions, who due to the terrain had to stretch out into a long marching column during the battle of teutoburg forrest, making them appear as a giant metal claded snake.
there was a tribe in Indonesia whose members all survived the Christmas day tsunami in 2004. The had a story of a sea monster that would suck up the entire ocean and spit it back out.
thats pretty much what happens during a tsunami
Ahhh yes the infamous chewbacca-brah... draining the kegs of Kashyyyk for years
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1:25 they sound like they had an scp encounter
The kraken was probably an exaggeration of a really big squid or octopus, we just hunt bigger animals so much that they have gotten smaller over the years.
The wendigo is a spiritual tale about the forces that can consume us if we allow our flesh to go before our selves. Or, letting the flesh become the self. Completely.