Meet the Man Who Found a Real Mermaid Skeleton
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Writing: Michelle Butterworth
Editing: Jack Stevens
Script Development: Steven Rix
Original title was “Meet the Man Who Fooled the World”.
Followed by "Meet the Man Who Entertained the World".
and subsequently "Meet the Man Who Found a Real Mermaid".
I know
That was my notification said 😂😂
Mine was “Meet the Man Who Entertained the World” haha
Yes I saw it in the notif
SEO is fun sometimes lol
Barnum famous for saying "There's a sucker born every minute"
But there's no proof he did. Con men were saying it before he was around
It was actually said by David Hannum from Syracuse NY. He said in regard to his Cardiff Giant exhibition. Great story - Barnum factors in late in the Cardiff Giant story, but the phrase continue to wrongly stick to him.
"And two more to take advantage of him."
It was W.C. Fields who coined this phrase.
That's a fallacy. No one knows where that started.
The "mermaid ideology" is like saying it's ok to clickbait as long as the viewers still enjoy the video
Similar to a certain British mustached man whose viewers still don't know what he says when saying his channel name
Current title as I write this is "Meet the Man Who Found a Real Mermaid," a too-clickbaity title for me.
@@Navigator87110 Yeah, I wrote this when it was "The man who entertained everyone" I believe. Kinda annoying but atleast he isn't shoving an attractive girl in every thumbnail like he used to 🙄
If you haven't seen them doesn't mean they don't exist. Take it from someone that's seen what would break the soul of a normal human. Lolz
There is actually an almost identical looking Mermaid - Merman to be precise, on display in Banff Alberta Canada and has been for decades. First time I saw it was in 1970
Man, I wouldn't be surprised if he was the one who set fires to his museums to claim insurance.
sus
"It is morally wrong to let a sucker keep his money" - P.T. Barnum
I don't think that quote was from P.T. Barnum. What's your source?
Since the man clearly enjoyed making money from entertaining his guests, it is extremely unlikely that he would say such a thing - which would have potentially put him out of business.
@@keithmayhewhammond5357 I'm a retired History professor and an avid study of little known facts about historical figures. I have read quite a few personal letters of P.T. Barnum's, written to the Bailey brothers before their merger as well as to other patrons and backers. Barnum was a showman, but more importantly (to him) he was a businessman and money was his goal. He would do just about anything (legal) to make himself as wealthy as possible, and most of the time that included the average Joe... the sucker. Most of the time this was a symbiotic relationship between himself and his customers; customers were entertained, and Barnum got their money. Google "The Magic Brick" and take a read. Just when you think you have seen it all.... enjoy!
@@ladyjane9980 I am confident that he was not a good man. The reason I doubted the quote is because it is so common for people to spread misquotes without any reference to where it was sourced from.
I've seen people sold magnets to place on their joints for alleged pain relief. But the Magic Brick takes the cake.
@@keithmayhewhammond5357 I understand and completely agree with you. My motto is, 'show me the data's. This. Is why I study the heck out of something if I feel that an action or a quote is questionable. Question everything Keith, I believe it is essential. Be well.
@@keithmayhewhammond5357 I don't think it's really fair to call him a good OR bad man. He was a complex man, with good and bad points, including bad points that he grew out of and replaced with good ones and probably a few good points that got replaced with bad ones. It's a rare person that can actually be boiled down to "good" or "bad", despite what modern society (especially online) may want to believe. They exist, but they are seriously very rare.
meet the man who changes titles alot
What was the title
@@dravengiles4606 ur mum
@@counter-weightmedias2263 it’s true, I remember
@@TheMagicat they didn't say it's false
EXACTLY
You know, I kind of disagree on the idea that the "joke" he was played as young, alone, set him on the path to what he became. I would rather say that the disregard for honesty was a behavior brought down within the family culture. That is, this was probably no the only cruel joke he experienced among his family.
It just was their family culture - or that is my guess.
Absolutely
Great insight!
What they did to him was how he lived the rest of his life. Sad.
I can't believe that drunk elephant never caused any damage. Can't think of a much more destructive force
This is so successful because it plays into the habit we have with the fascination of talking about ourselves
I hate talking about myself...
@@mikebar42 you were talking about yourself when you said that
So if you hate it then why did you say it? That's called irony.
I'm glad you see the irony
@@mikebar42 what if I said, i love to hate talking about myself, does that then take away the irony
Or I hate to hate talking about myself
As clever, charming, and deceptive of a man he was he still had an enemy that plagued him through all his endeavours; fire
William Afton must be distantly related to this guy.
75, blind, paralysed, riddled with arthritis and and half dead.
Damn the 20% of people lucky to even live relatively long back then must have been waiting for death.
Her standard of life sounds like a 120 year old today
That's why I always say
"Die young, or live long enough to really want to have died young."
You should have talked more about Jumbo. He wasn't tragically killed by a train, he went on a tirade when his handler wasn't there - the only handler who could make him feel better - and stood on the tracks, challenging the train. He toppled the train, dying in the process. This giant elephant fought a train to a draw.
1:34 That's a scarily accurate description of me, you sure you're not a clairvoyant?
MOOD!
That's the joke
When you think about it, what's so different between his hoaxes and a magic show? We know what we're seeing isn't real, but we still pay for the opportunity to be entertained by it.
@@tamielizabethallaway2413 lol the juxtaposition between their benefit-of-a-doubt wonder and your blunt matter-of-factness is funny
He was a glorified arsonist and murderer that’s the difference
@@thelovelyone7737 Who did he murder?
@@glane3962 Barnum’s crimes were the inspiration for American horror stories FREAK SHOW he lured in people with disabilitys and odd appearances had them work in his circus for a few years and then murdered every single one of his performers before having their bodies preserved by a museum his colleague directed. There is no proof of him actually killing them of course because of the time period local officials were not equipped to collect certain evidence but it's obvious he killed those people because despite having disablities they died in relatively good health ie not from natural causes
Ethics ... civility.... honesty etc thats the difference... being dishonest is not a trait to be admired or defended 😒
Love how the majority of horrible things he did aren’t in the movie
So true how on earth they made a movie idolising this wanker is beyond me.
We don't do facts.
Of course but it would have been a very different movie.
42 has always amazed me at how good he is when it comes to transitions.. this man goes from the barnum effect to circuses
it's thoughty 2 not 42
@@trusilent1940 it’s a joke you Debby downer
@@trusilent1940 it's True, not Tru
@@nadnerb_sr20 it would be True if Tru was an abbreviation for The word true unfortunately for you it's the first three letters to my last name.🤷🏿♂️
Thoughty 2 is the type of person that can inspire many people to grow a mustache and keep it if he had a beard he would be saying hey its the wizard here
Yeah... I might try grow 1 now too! Lol
Thoughty 2 has the mustache
Simon Whistler has the beard
I feel that only men like mustaches. Never met a woman yet that likes them
Nothing could ever convince me to grow a pervstash. They are creepy
@@AlanaBananaCanada only weird men. I shaved to give myself a mustache 1 time years ago and kept it for less than 5 minutes just for a joke. I had a red shirt and hat on and I ran in where my gf was and says "it'sa me, mario!" And we laughed and it was erased from history seconds later. Only creepy dudes like mustaches. If a girl did like them i wouldn't even want to date her lol
I feel like every video Thoughty2 puts out is going to help mankind during apocalypse.
On many information.
There won't be internet though🤔
@@TeamLegacyFTW yeah but... I don't know 😂
@@TeamLegacyFTW maybe it'll be like 28 days later where the internet is the only thing that survives.
Jumbo was killed in my area of SW Ontario in St. Thomas, ON. There's a memorial there and giant Jumbo statue. I don't know if it's true or not, but the story told at the museum of Jumbo pulling his trainer in for a last hug as he died after getting hit by the train had me crying like a baby (I still well up thinking about it).
My brain tricked me. I read the title as”Meet the man who found Real Madrid”
Madrid fan?
Dont worry fellow skeleton! Am kind of kind.
What about those without a skeleton tho?
@@probablynoone7485…the biggest fan in the world
@@Humble_African obviously....upto the point of making you see things
I love the “painting” of Hugh Jackman in the library. 😂
Hate to break it to ya, but at around 10:50 you put George Washington's year of birth as 1789, it was actually 1732.
Damn, I forgot I put this here, but this sounded so snarky. Sorry if I was a bit rude!
Yup. He became president in 1789. 👍🇺🇸
@@williamberry4615 Nah...
Barnum did 😉
@@eskanderx1027 lol
This was why I came to the comments😂😂
Thoughty must be trying for a Job with the mainstream news services, 0 fact checking.
Every time I turn on thoughty2 to try and fall asleep, I end up staying up and binge watching the videos. 💛
“Extremely niche taste”, what a great way to say it.
the Mutter Museum in philadelphia is kind of a modern example of what Barnum's museum must have been like. that place is full of medical defomities, etc and was a great trip.
Ripley’s believe it or not, you mean?
@@crazysilly2914 no i mean Mutter Museum. google it.
Work ethic has been phenomenal recently. Insanely consistent uploads whilst still retaining great quality. Thank you, Thoughty2.
I second that notion
Barnham never had a chance with the family he had. They scarred him.
You're an excellent story teller. I commute 2 hours per day .. If I could listen to this channel on the car radio - it would be the highlight of my day. (No .. I'm too rural, and my shitty car doesn't play the phone, lol.)
Incase Thoughty2 changes the title like I'm sure he would , the original title is MEET THE MAN WHO FOOLED THE WORLD.
It's meet the man who found a real mermaid
My sister believes in astrology. I should share this with her.
Mine does to, and I love when my jokes about it completely fly over her head. The sad thing, is that she's older than me.
Give it a try, but if she's an astrology type, then she's likely to be closed minded and only believes things on the bases of feelings anyway. Kind of the city version of a rural Bible-thumper.
She obviously rejects reality for what ever bs fantasy she believes. You can't reason with people like that.
Nah, everyone have right to have a delusion. Mine is that I think Guinness taste better if it have a shamrock drawn in the foam and I am sure you have something too.
Unless she pays good money for personal horoscopes and stuff or take financial and life advice from it, then it might be time to step in. Reading the newspaper horoscope and buy a silly new age book or 2 is really nothing to worry about.
With delusions you need to choose your battles. Ignore harmless or mostly harmless stuff because everyone have a couple of those. Things that have a strong negative impact need to be dealt with, but she do have the right to live her own life and to figure those out herself, but a little nudging in the right direction to help her figure things out is a good idea.
If you tell her it just is hogwash she wont believe you, the hard thing is that you need to help her figure that out without her realizing it. Maybe buy her a good book about astronomy for starters, knowledge and science tend to fade away these things and if you can get her interested in real stars she will likely figure it out eventually without her realizing you helped her.
Well,if a qualified astrologer gives you some tips about what is going on,you might be surprised. :) If no,continue to buy latest iPhones and believe in the goverment + science. :)
bro literally took a page out of his book and made everyone click on the video I respect it
This guy sounds like the Joker, if the Joker was born in the 1800s
With much less murder.
Other than the fact that he was nothing like the joker in the slightest.
The Feejee Mermaid. “A fool and his money are soon parted”
*Fiji*
@@JulieWallis1963
No… back then P.T. Barnum spelled his attraction as “FeeJee Mermaid”. Look it up.
The feeling when you realize that you've been watching this moustache man since 2014
he hadn't a moustache in his first videos !
I just found his vids about a week ago and have been binging lol
Thanks for doing this program Thoughty2! I work at the Barnum Museum in Bridgeport, CT and have been a fan of your content for many years now. FACT is - Barnum borrowed the FeJee (Barnum's promotional spelling) from Moses Kimball at his Boston Museum - Barnum didn't invent the exhibit...he was brilliant at promotion and blazed the trail for modern advertising...so why disparage the 'original'? Barnum recounts in his autobiography, however, that the FeJee Mermaid was not his best presentation and proclaimed not to dupe the public like that ever again. As far as a 'dick move'...well, that FeJee Mermaid is plausibly one of the two that currently exist in the Kimball collection of the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology at Harvard University. Barnum's (1810-1891) story is much more complex and complicated, and there's a lot of history missing that gives this presentation a limited perspective of 19th century social context. Barnum didn't happen in a vacuum, and he is too easily blamed for the ills of acceptable social norms of the time, and a century of mythology continues to be imposed exclusively on Barnum's shoulders. Hope you might balance and examine the history that shows Barnum as one of America's leading champions of emancipation, one of the nations leading temperance advocates, and a philanthropist who supported everything from ASPCA to the creation of the based for the Statue of Liberty. A one-sided story...not your style. Thanks, though, for recognizing Barnum as a name...'brand'...that continues to intrigue. He seems to have been right as the world continues to talk about him. Very best :) K
thanks for giving insight here . i have watched so many thoughty2 videos that i always keep in mind the context of the time , which he does mention in loads of other videos . i feel like that point does come across . the other items you mention are interesting but not in the scope of this video , this focused on the showman . i will be reading it up though .
Legend has it:
That creature on his upper lip whispers mysterious information that serves as content we all love to watch him talk about.
I remember going to the Barnum and Bailey circus when I was a kid, in the 90s.
I remember going in 2006. It really sucks that PETA and leftist activists essentially forced it to shut down. SJW’s suck...
I went as a kid in the 90s, too! I was very disappointed when I heard it was closing.
I love the fact that you speak British English but also uses American words and colloquialism to inject some humor to your stories!
What?? I don't think u understand what ENGLISH is
@@misslittle_1 British vocabulary is a little different than American. But still I don’t think he knows what English is lol.
Frankie boyle found a mermaid in his grandads loft 🤣🤣... that bit was hilarious
He later found out it was a dead monkey with its legs strapped together😂😂😂🙊🙊🙊
Really good job! The information on this was excellent!
Please change the title to "meet the man who trolled the world"
That would be pretty funny
The video was posted "4 minutes ago". It is 23 minutes long. Even Steiner Math tells me you couldn't possibly have watched the video to have come to that conclusion.
@@johnny5805 true
@@johnny5805 the immensely difficult conclusion that changing the title "would be pretty funny" .
Indeed it's impossible to think about it without watching the whole video.
@@johnny5805 nah, I know @Ramadhani. A professional video watching speed runner on RUclips.
That's incredibly dumb
“We’ve been duped!”
“DUPED!”
“We’ve been bamboozled!”
We've been Smeckledorfed!
@@edgarramirez4053 That’s not even a word and I agree with ya!
So wolverine was a friking conman and not a happy, singing, lovely man like depicted on the accurate Hollywood movie?
The Prestige is a more accurate depiction of the character than that musical lmao
And don't forget, the dude once a NSA agent too.
Edit : and he got balls on his neck
Jumbo is the mascot of Tufts University. Yes, the stuffed elephant was destroyed in a fire, but the ashes remain in the university. Barnum also donated tens of millions of dollars to the university, more or less enabling it to be a real thing. Coincidentally, a few years ago my life was saved by Tufts University Medical Center, so in a very real (albeit weird) way, I owe my life to PT Barnum.
Well.. this comment made sense before he changed the title..
Me: sees "the man who fooled the world" and immediately has the song Man Who Sold the World stuck in my head lol
Same
Hmmm, metal gear?
@@ezikielshahbaz9517 nirvana :)
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Love your vids man. Keep up the good work!!!
*I just bought a copy of STICK A FLAG IN IT! I cant wait till it arrives!!*
As a young lad, my favorite P.T. Barnum exhibit at his museum was the Egress. Signs throughout the building pointed "This way to the Egress!", which was of course the exit. Those who went to the Egress had to pay admission again.
Damn that is clever
"Religion was invented when the first con man met the first fool"
-Mark Twain
Sure man
I had forgotten this. It's one of the greatest quotes ever.
🤔🤔🤔
More truth in that quote than you will ever find in any religion.
@@MZRFaith not really edgy lmao
Thank you very much for continuing doing what you do 🙏
It took me about half was through the video to realize that Barnum was the first Half of Barnum and Bailey. then my brain went brrrrrrr.
Ringling Brothers
…hell, I’ve had a mermaid AND a merman in my bathtub at home for decades!…wanna see em?…$20 per view…..
Seeing a mermaid still isnt that much of a crazy outlandish claim. We know more about space than we do our own ocean
maybe not back then
Evolution doesn’t allow stuff like that to happen. So we definitely 100% know they’re not real.
Lolllll
really think about that claim. the universe is unfathomably large. what we can observe is a fraction of a percent of what exists. there is simply no way we know more about space than our oceans
Real mermaids and mermen remains being found are actually very common in Africa, these water creatures do exist.
Just lighting a blunt when you said breath in the sandalwood incense, it was weird.
I love happenstances as such.
Enjoy your doobie snacks.
*"Lemme lay a stick of sandalwood incense on you: made it out of my own sandals! Waitaminnit, let me light it for you..."*
(sound of toking)
*"Yeah. Now... hey, where'd all the little people with the melty hats and the walls going..."*
- Firesign Theatre, "Waiting For the Electrician (Or Someone Like Him)"
Very entertaining and informative. Bravo, Thoughty2. 👍👋👋👋👋
Good job, brother. I thoroughly enjoyed this!
The title on my notifications bar is "meet the man who fooled the world"
The title when I saw it on my recommended page is "meet the man who entertained the world"
And the title after I clicked on it "meet the man who found a real mermaid"
Ah yes my favorite British man uploads again, ya love to see it!
Remarkable job, this is my new favorite YT channel!!
Excellent writing on this one, well done.
what about david bowie, the one who sold it
Can you make the next video a summary on the Battle of Sargarhi?
9:20 I want to know how the family reacted to him laughing about it.
👍👍👍thanks for the story. I remember when the circus announced it was shutting down. I saw it once as a child.
Thoughty you may just be the most interesting man alive rn. Even if I’m not particularly interested in the topic your videos always keep my attention to the end.
Oh no, not me
i never lose control
you're face to face
with the man who fooled the world.
Lol, selling the world, fooling the world, renting the world, reinventing the world, lying to whoever lives on the world.
Barnum tried it all for cash.
(Insert glamorous guitar riffs)
Jumbo is actually the mascot of Tufts. An administrative assistant had the ashes of the hide swept up into a Peter Pan Peanut Butter Jar and they still reside in the Athletics Department. His skeleton is in the collection of the American Natural History Museum in New York although it's in storage.
"You're a bit of a wanker aren't you?" Why did that make me laugh so much.
I only come for laughs! These days we need it!
If the title changes, the original one is “Meet the Man who Fooled the World”
3 minutes too late 😔
Why does it change anyway?
@@rederic7192 it has something to do with getting more views. If you change the title is can get more promotion or something
@@Its-Starlight788 I think I heard something like that before, how the algorithm kind of re-adds it even after it had gone out once.
@@Its-Starlight788 I am going to try it when I upload another song. See if I can get more than 50 views 😢
I just realized that he might be saying “hey, thoughty 2 here” instead of “hey, 42 here!”
I have watched this channel for years!!!
Why would he have been saying 42? Why is this a recurring joke in these comments? It’s not funny….
@@shazee9042 If you turn on closed caption, it has him saying "Hey its 42 here....." so even the computer thinks he says 42.
Love your vids, keep up the good work m8 ;)
Love 💓 from America brother!!! It's our 4th and oddly enough I had a group of people drunk watching your videos tonight 😂😂😂😂 we can never forget our roots 💯 can't wait to buy your books on Amazon been a follower for many many years now hope you're doing alright 😊
I was delighted that you covered this! I saw the mermaid on display when I was about 8 and I was awed and convinced it was real!! It wasn't till a couple of years later that I learned it was fake. I think I was a trifle disappointed by that....lol
Uh... (Ca. 17:30) Didn't he say that thing burned up in that first fire? 1865, right? Just how old are you?
In Milan, Italy, there's a collection of oddities (Wunderkammer) donated by Manfredo Settala and now exhibited at the Museum of the Castello Sforzesco, which counts a pair of sirens. Pretty much the same: mummified monkeys torso sawn to a fish tail. The interesting fact is that are datable before 1680, the year Settala died
11:40 - 19:05 and 22:03
the animations and sound effects of people just dropping dead is sooooo funny !
Around two weeks ago accidentally i saw this movie with Hugh Jackman for a first time and I didn't expected it was based on a real person with such a large historical point as he usually plays in movies as Kate and Leopold.
Legend has it that a mermaid was found of the coast of England in the twelve century. It was kept in a pool in a castle for a few years before it escaped. A mermaid was also found on a dublin beach in the early 1900s aswell
Why do I feel like you could talk about paint drying and I would still listen
Wow! Really good video - a story very well told.
Thank you for making an enjoyable channel to occupy my time. Keep up the awesome work :-)
The greatest showman who ever lived.
shoulda been called "Meet PT Barnum, fulltime crook".
Jealous much?
@@Saint_nobody jealous of what? A dead pilgrim? Lol
Asking people to pay to see a "thing" ... how is he a crook? Did he put a gun to their heads?
His autobiography is well-worth the read, for Barnum's own take on his shenanigans. And we ever get you over here in the States for a visit, definitely head up to Wisconsin Dells to visit the Circus World Museum, which was a highlight (along with the fudge, rock candy, and duck rides when we were growing up) for family vacations from Chicago.
If you haven't seen it or aren't familiar with it, the musical BARNUM (premiered 1980) by Cy Coleman and Michael Stewart is a much more comprehensive telling of Barnum's story. Jim Dale won the Tony that year for his portrayal (Michael Crawford held the role in the West End), with Glenn Close in the role of his wife. The music is also much better than TGS's, IMHO.
Lock down drove me into creating my own Feejee Mermaid from old Halloween toys and even a Jackalope... So basically lock down turned me into a Victorian show man!? 🤔
When I heard that Barnum was showing off Heth as a 161 year old woman I was like "Who would believe that?"
Then I heard "she was blind, no teeth, artrithis in her hands and was nearly completely paralyzed."
Shit, I would have believed him.
Well played.
Mom: Go socialize and meet new people
Thoughty2: Meet the (random person that makes history)
New title:
MEET THE MAN WHO ENSLAVED ELEPHANTS
I'm a changed man, thank you Thoughty2!
Am I the only one for whom every episode comes with a huge de ja vu?
Wow! Didn't know the movie THE GREATEST SHOWMAN was based on real life events
It's literally at the end of the movie
The movie is so inaccurate that even the opening scene when young Barnum and his father are running to catch a train to Connecticut...well...based on his age, that would have been around 1820...the train isn't 'invented' yet! The film doesn't just get Barnum's history wrong...it gets ALL history wrong. Still a fun movie to watch for entertainment though :)
Very, very very, very very very loosely.
This was a really good episode
I'm now traumatized from learning he didn't "Live happily ever after." Oh well, I'll just burn the ol' Greatest Showman DVD.
Me: clicks on man who fooled the world The title: man who entertained the world
I feel like they should have got John C Reilly to play Barnum instead of Hugh Jackman.
Considering the portraits, I would say it should have been Bill Murray
“One of Mother Nature’s biggest practical jokes, the duck-billed platypus.” Humanity really did decide anything outta Australia was somehow more believable than Sexy Fish.
I saw this piece in a seaside museum (Exeter perhaps?) about thirty years ago. I immediately recognised it from an article in the Fortean Times. I was 12 but I felt like an expert. As I recall, whether or not it was real just wasn't the issue. It was just great.
Same but I swear I saw it in the London museum with my mom when I was like 5-8 years old. So about 25+ years ago. I remember stared it at for ages until my mom pulled me away 😂
even though we all know it couldn't have been a real Mermaid, I still wish that Real had been in quotes. Because I had the tiniest bit of hope that it was real lol. But anyway...
The original title was "Meet the man who fooled the world" but I guess that Thoughty changed it so people won't expect an Elon Musk documentary.
Don’t get it
That'd actually be better lol
Very true
Wait, what did Elon Musk do?
@@rubyy.7374 He done trolls normies.
Def would have visited his first museum. Thanks, enjoyed that
Jotaro, who also fooled [THE WORLD]: amateur
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