The Real Science of Monsters | Compilation
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In this Halloween-themed SciShow compilation, we explore the science behind why you might think you saw that werewolf, ghost, or alien.
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Might wanna pin this. Well, yours.
I had to try this so I went into my bathroom, dimmed the lights, and stood there looking at myself for 5 minutes in the mirror. Can confirm, some random person appeared, they even spoke. I could almost make out "honey, what are you doing? Are you ok?" ... Creepy stuff!
Thanks for making me laugh Dad 😁
I tried that for 30 minutes and I didn’t see anything. 😂 better get a psych eval.
Either you meet some demon-girls, demons, foul fell spirits or some shadow strange apparitions in that kind of cases..
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Imagine if your partner walked up to you with valid concern in their eyes while you were in the bathroom, lights dimmed, gazing at yourself in the mirror and mumbling.
Thatcher was a horrifying monster without having to flip her facial features.
I just have made the same comment
Thatcher was a monster before you flipped her face around 😂
"We don't know why people see none human monsters in the mirror, but it's nothing to worry about." me- "So you're telling me we don't know it's not Kthulu?"
I think I got a call from Cthulhu. Sounded like, "WHAZAAAAAAAAP!"
@@matthewcox7985Do not call up what you cannot put on hold
@CritterKeeper01 -- Solid advice, full agreement.
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If you can't control -- and return -- a dragon, don't summon one; you'll just end up as the dessert to the main dish of your enemies.
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Actually, maybe just don't summon any dragons, period...
I really appreciate Hank was talking about gestalt learning or processing of the brain. I have kiddo who is a gestalt learner. Kids like that need to have repetition of everything just to be able to talk better and learn at the same rate of their peers. Once you start doing that, they thrive. My kiddo was scoring at 15 months old even though they are actually 2 1/2 years old. Now they are scoring closer to 2 years old. All because in the three or four months since we found out that they are gestalt learners, we have been doing everything on repeat for them. Now they talk and do more things for their actual age range.
Nope. you can't trick me. No way I'm going to stand in front of a mirror in the dark.
It is always fun to do when on some mentally changing substances. AKA DRUGGZ 💉 💊.
Crazy how we see the same things. Sleep paralysis. Ugh. I've definitely seen the hag, and thought she was going to kill my ex who I was madly in love with at the time. Couldn't move, scream, or do anything to alert her.
Then the biatch came around the bed at me, slowly, but I heard the footsteps.
Well then it came over me, and put its hand into my chest, grabbed my heart, and I FELT IT. It hurt like you would think, and if squeezed. As it squeezed I started losing consciousness till finally in a nano second I regained all control.
I was straining so desperately that I managed to literally catapult into the air like a martial artist from the laying position, off the bed, while doing the most insane yell ever. A yell of fear, panic, and someone wanting to fight back desperately. It was an absolutely scam, guttural sceam, and nearly gave my ex a heart attack herself as she launched up too.
Only later I learned what the hell it was. It is scary, because it might as well have been real with how my body reacted.
Anyway it is sleep paralysis, and the figure I saw is something very common with it. In fact the name of it is a hag called Baba Yaga from what I've read.
Why do humans from different cultural back grounds who've never heard of it see it? Beyond me.
I've also saw a black eyed kid which is common, and that is a different story. That is something pure evil, and I don't ever want to see it again, even if it is my brain messing with me. True evil, and you feel it.
If you don't look in the mirror you won't see them coming
Its so refreshing to see a bald vampite for once as opposed to the common ones with long flowing hairs.
We need to do a Ouija board study with the users being blindfolded and a separate party recording the letters or words made and then revealing after it's over
I've already seen an experiment like that, I believe by Penn and Teller. You can flip the board over without telling the participants for added comedic effect
New sleepover game just dropped
My eyeballs having a resonant frequency is, for some reason, really throwing me for a loop 😅
Your lungs have one too!
@Zarmdthecoolest See, that's also disturbing but for some reason that thought makes me less squeamish than eyeball jiggling 😂
All faces distort while staring in a dim room. I remember discovering this as a kid and believed it was a glimpse of the monsters inside.
I tried the mirror thing. Went in the bathroom, turned off the lights so my tablet was the only light source, and stared directly at my face it the mirror. It was actually surprisingly quickly that I saw my face disappear! If I kept my eyes completely still, it stayed gone, but the instant they shifted even a little, it was back!
Having tried a sensory deprivation tank mostly to see if I'd see any visual hallucinations, I found this effect quite cool!
i think we all can agree that you dont have to flip thatcher's eyes and mouth to make her a monster. she always was one
I would say that part of it that creates the image of monsters and other creatures maybe related to the way our brains create images from like wood grain, clouds, etc. and how it would be advantageous for survival to passively notice those things when they could actually be a well camouflaged predator your prey item.
Yeah, it seems easy to explain to me. A combination of the uncanny valley, paradolia, and that darkness is perceived as potentially hiding threats.
wooo!! HALLOWEEN COMPILATION! (love compilations!) and LMAO at Reid in his vampire cape 😂😂😂
3:00 Tbf, Thatcher is always a horrifying monster
3:09 I’d be interested in a study on this involving people with various levels of prosopagnosia.
I tried the mirror one, my vision started "swimming" with phosphenes after a bit like it normally does in darkness, by which I mean I was seeing swirls of colors and shapes and my face kept getting blacked out by them on a regular pattern despite the lighting being very consistent (just a little red led on my trimmer's charger), but I didn't see anything I wouldn't have seen looking at my bedroom ceiling in the dark. Maybe I'm just weird.
Maybe the room your mirror is in is too dark. I think you have to be able to see your reflection at least a little for it to work.
15:55 oh my god I was playing this in the background and then I actually looked at it and burst out laughing! Wonderful cape, your grace.
I feel like I’m looking at someone else if I look in the mirror for a few seconds
Decades from now after the science has caught up it'll be funny to know that the monsters these people see are actually a subconscious expression of how they see their self. 5:00
Or psychosis.
Or just hallucinations.
@zechrussell4938 psychosis is a mental condition, I don't think this could be labeled as psychosis.
hallucinations can be a symptom of psychosis but they aren't exclusive to each other.
this is DEFINITELY a sensory distortion, though. seeing things that "aren't there" is what we associate with the term hallucination, and I'm pretty sure it's proven that all people are capable of hallucinating
@@lunaskisses who said anything about psychosis?
@@tylerdurdin8069 the person I tagged...? 😂 the 2nd comment above mine...
you okay?
Who else thinks that Reid makes a great uncle Fester?
My brother used to trick friends with a Ouija board by using hidden magnets. It was pretty funny to see their reactions.
9:22 I feel like there could be something connecting with this sort of thing and the type of body dysmorphia seen in ED’s that causes the person to literally see their image in mirrors and pictures as much much larger than they are in reality.
That visual misperception of one’s physical body, even having experienced it in my youth with an ED, it’s still so strange to me.
"Eyeballs vibrating" is a grouping of words I've never heard before and kind of wish I never do again.
The point of the Thatcher picture was that you flipped the mouth and eyes and then turned the picture upside down and we don't feel the picture is weird. It's only when the picture is turned the right way up we realise how wrong the face is.
Terrifying monster either way.
Cockroach wasps are very common in my garden and I have seen males bringing subdued cockroaches to female before female lays the eggs.
Re the 'sense of self'. I vaguely remember being told[1] that Kant said something like "If I thought that my horse was capable of the concept of self, I would dismount, walk by his side, and call him 'friend'".
If all you clever people see that I have mis-attributed or mis-remembered that, do please let me know!
1. College was a loooong time ago, sorry!
The sad thing is most people do believe that animals have a sense of self, even if the people don't admit that they do. The sad part of that is that most people are also okay with having slaves. Otherwise they wouldn't have the dogs they refer to as their children tied at the neck and having to obey their every command. Much like how people bridle, bit, saddle, and ride a horse that they call to them by name.
(Before the trolls get too excited, no, I'm not vegan. I'm just willing to admit that we are enslaving and eating sentient beings.)
To me its ridiculous to say animals dont have a sense of self. If my cat for example had no sense of self why would he sulk if his blanket isnt straightened out? Why would he get cross if his meal is served late? Most animal behaviour,even territorial behaviour is based on an animals awareness of other animals and their relation to itself. If my cat didnt know his existance was a thing he wouldnt care about possibly being eaten by a predator.
@@pheart2381having preferences isn't a sense of self. a newborn also doesn't like being left unfed and uncomfortable but they are yet to actually develop anything beyond basic instincts
@@pheart2381 Totally get that, but it is easy to... whadda they call it... "anthropomorphise" animal behaviours that seem similar to human-like behaviour.
And/but also, those can be 'learned' behaviours.
I once had a rescue cat who was formerly a feral; he had *zero* clue about human expectations... if he was happy he'd snuggle, and if he wasn't he'd bite. And even the snuggle was "You may pet me for 30 seconds (and counting). When my tail begins to twitch you are about to be bitten. Respect my space, human!"
The Thatcher monster is TO SCARY
I loved this episode 😊 thanks for all the effort
Damn, I tried to look at a mirror and only saw a depressed man that started crying, weird but not scary
That hit too close to home
Monsters are real and they are called humans.
Ok, but if humans are monsters then why would we care
About that 'skyfish' thing - you don't always need a camera to spot this phenomenon. A somewhat old street light will often be powered using an aging tube lamp, which may be flickering at a slightly lower frequency than normal.
This is because the light in TL tubes is caused by a chemical reaction that happens when you ignite a spark at one end of the tube, which then moves through to the other end and dies down, causing a flash. Hook that up to AC power, and the alternating current will cause enough flashes per second that your eyes can't detect the dark moments. However, while the reaction on paper doesn't use up any of the gas (only the electrical energy you put in), the stuff inside does still degrade over time. Eventually, enough of the reactive gas has degraded that not every spark ignites a flash, first reducing the frequency (the light will appear to dim at first); then it'll noticeably start to flicker; until eventually there is so little reactive material left that it only turns on sporadically (the classic 'broken tube light' think where it glows on one end and with seemingly Herculean effort maybe forces out another single flash before resetting).
Anyway, back to the skyfish. If you find an old street lamp that is flickering at juuuust the right frequency, your brain will still fool you into thinking you're seeing a continually-lit area, _unless_ there's an object that moves through the light. Because that part of the image isn't constant, your brain can't just fill in the blanks like it usually does. Instead, you'll see simultaneous images of the moving thing - like your hand or in this case a moth - in the positions it was at when the lamp briefly illuminated it. It's almost the same effect as changing the exposure time or framerate of a camera, except it's an easily-reproduced piece of evidence that your brain likes to mess with your perception of reality. No, I'm not sure why our brains do that, I think it's some kind of weird hobby or something.
Incidentally, those kinds of barely-perceptible frequencies are really unsettling in their own right. Because your brain can't always keep up with the entirely unnatural means of illuminating an image, you'll sometimes catch the weird flickering in your peripheral vision, but when you try to look there's nothing there because it's the centre of your vision that most of the brain image correction stuff happens. It can make it feel like there's something moving just out of view, or make you feel uneasy, dizzy or a little nauseous, at least for me. It wouldn't surprise me if flashing in that general frequency range can trigger paranoia, agitation or epileptic episodes for many people.
This should be Reid’s everyday look.
I need the source on developing a sense of self by 20 months. My 14 month old recognizes himself in the mirror I'm almost positive.
I wonder if the mirror thing has any links to dysphoria or dysmorphia. I can tell you that I feel like everyone time I look in the mirror I look like a complete stranger and have since I can remember.
Do you fall under the trans umbrella or see yourself as a different size?
This might actually be a case of Prosopagnosia, which is basically facial amnesia. It can apply even to your own face.
Does it happen to anyone else or just when you see yourself?
I was thinking the same thing. Things, actually. It sounded a lot like what someone with body dysmorphia might experience. But the fact that you've not recognized your own face in the mirror your whole life makes me think of face blindness, or the inability to recognize or remember faces.
I have partial face blindness. I do eventually recognize people, but usually more from their voice, the way they walk, etc.
I did find that after cutting my long, red hair off leaving only 2" of partial gray I no longer recognized my own appearance in the mirror. My hair is long again by now, but I have been experiencing a lack of recognition of my reflection this past week. I haven't yet figured out why.
Anyway, is it just your own image that you don't recognize, or do you not recognize other people's faces either? And do you recognize yourself in photos, or is that unfamiliar to you too? I think your answers to those questions could point you in the right direction as far as why.
It happens a lot in ADHD
@@msjkramey yeah to both. My weight has fluctuated a lot over my life so my true size never seems right.
The cape 👏
Love you guys so much💖
Thank you for all your excellent videos 🙏
remember folks, if someone is using a oujia board in your house, be sure to test your breakers in the middle of it.
I don’t know if anyone’s said this but , the scishow team is a pretty good looking team
Yes, nerdy
Well, yeah, until the next full moon. I’m just sayin’.
2:56 You don't have to flip the eyes and mouth on margaret thatcher to see a monster
Just fyi that you probably shouldn't do the mirror thing if you experience anxiety, depression, or have any kind of body dysphoria! I know my brain can find mirrors pretty unsettling even in the light
Imagine being a person in medieval Europe born with congenital hypertricosis terminalis, who has schizophrenia linked delusional misidentification syndrome, and then gets bitten by rabies.
Rabies doesn't make people turn into bitey, feral, snarling beasts.
mirrors were only for the rich in the Middle Ages
@@glenngriffon8032 no, but it does make people nervous and easily agitated. Game of telephone does the rest
@@inrevenant that and superstition
@@glenngriffon8032 it’s supposed to be a joke.
not everything is so serious.
If you wanna see real life examples of monsters just watch Politics
Wear an eyepatch. You'll notice your "blind" eye creates an illusory approximation of what should be there.
Is the mirror phenomena supposed to happen even without a mirror involved? I went camping with school as a kid and my classmate's face in the dark began to contort and become spooky looking, she looked like a witch.
yeah
Probably.
I get the ideomotor effect all the time when I'm resting my hand on my mouse and reading something on the computer. I'll notice my cursor moving and get startled without even realizing my hand is slowly moving the mouse.
Flagging that this needs (not auto-generated) captions for the deaf and hard-of-hearing communities!
I hate parasites. I got infected and some lab rat saved me. Thx medics who lock yourselves in rooms staring through microscopes. Hurt like Christ crucified. I screamed and screamed. Pain was unreal. Mother Earth is full up with scary. I hate scary.
"Where wolf?"
"There wolf!"
Thanks to Young Frankenstein!
He says that mice become less afraid of cats so they get eaten, but its much spookier than that. The mouse becomes irresistibly drawn to the smell of cat pee. They will seek out high concentrations of pee and then just sit there. The cats don't even have to chase them because they won't run away.
Watching your face distorting on the mirror is the equivalent of trying to say the same word over and over again. It gets weird.
Or when you notice that you're thinking or reading in your head, even. It's sometimes so surreal to think that these little scribbles equate to a voice in my head that equates to sounds I can actually make
You can say certain words a million times.
@@Psilomuscimol ?
@@msjkrameyis this how you read? Or people in general?
To me it's like a voice, but with no sound, like the incoming information after the sound has already been processed and removed. So it's not mine, nor the writers or characters voice, yet still attributed to the character that is speaking in a novel for example.
And I "see" things happening when I hear, tell, or read something. Or just imagine. Not like hallucinations, but a movie playing in my head in parallel to reality. Like when you remember walking through the house when you're trying to find your keys. So it is imagination, but I don't control it.
I hear/read/.. it? I see it! With details. No choice. Sometimes I even blush when "seeing" some private stuff, and beg for pardon. It's really not intentional, more like opening a door without thinking and finding out someone forgot to lock it for reasons. (Remembering and blushing again. Enough for now...)
Stephen seems to be protesting that this is not acceptable by his shirt. 😂😂
3:02 idk... Thatcher was a horrifying monster in her own right... whether or not her eyes and mouth were flipped.
Tbh Thatcher was already a monster before the image change
You don't need to reverse the characteristics on Thatcher's face, to create the image of a monster... Too much?
DMT, it is present in our brain and body and we have receptors for it, this is why people see entity's on a DMT trip😮
I have trouble recognizing faces. Is that why I don't see a stranger or monster in a mirror?
Watching this right before bedtime scared :(
Hank, I have a whole PHOBIA of my own reflection. I will *not* be purposefully looking into a mirror in the DARK
OG Thatcher was a terrifing monster.
Someone should try a ouja board in dark room lined with mirrors and infrasound that resonates with eyeballs
Thank you. I was apparently sleeping WAY too much and now (thanks to this video), I will be up at nights for FAR TOO LONG!!!!! 😱😱😱😱😱
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I once asked a ouija board how it worked and it said, “the spirit of you”.
2:57 You don’t need to flip any thing, she was a monster all the time!
My mom claims that when she was 14 she played a Ouija board and ended up pinned to the ceiling by a demon and was strangled… I think it was a dream. She claims it was real.
And she's likely remembering it wrong. The more we try to remember things the more our brains change minute details until we can end up remembering completely different scenario endings.
"You ever get that feeling where you're not sure you're awake or still dreaming?"
"All the time. It's called Mescaline. It's the only way to fly."
-- The Matrix
Demons don't exist. They're the same as monsters. She was either remembering wrong. Delusional. Or hallucinating.
@@mischarowe that’s what I think. I truly bet she played the game and then had a nightmare that felt real and over the years has changed her memory to believe it actually happened.
@@Psilomuscimol like I said in my original comment, I bet she dreamed it. Or more so, a nightmare that felt real and over the years convinced herself it was real.
I moved an object with my mind once; in truth the alien that appeared in the mirror made me think I did it by guiding the ghost to do it.
2:54 - Margaret Thatcher: "THAT'S how people will remember me?!"
"WheN yoU sTaRe in tHe miRroR toO loNg" I know what you mean 🍄
It's all in your head, figuratively and sometimes literally.
The scientist was totally dowsing with his foil! 👻
You look good, Hank!
XD I hate how much of this I hypothesised, I don't think I watched this video before, but now I can't tell. Probably spoiled some other way and now it's all together
Well, a different horrifying monster
Great episode so far! Although... UFOs do not seem so "out there" now!
They're definitely still just as far out there as ever. Hank made a video about how you shouldn't take the recent UFO claims seriously
As to the Ouija board sometimes it moves because your mean big sister is moving it to embarrass you so she can see you cry.
You don't need to change anything about Thatcher to make her a horrifying monster. She did that well enough for herself.
When he asked "do you ever get the urge to spend the night standing on a roof..." I was like "haha, yeah, lol, I guess we all do", and then he said it's a brain parasite. Haha. I'm in danger. :D (Yes, ik it doesn't affect humans)
Also, why's nobody talking about the cockroaches that don't want to run away. Like, I usually don't like most horror, but just imagine [some warning ig] that with a human, like, still being 100% aware, but just wanting to follow some being, and then being slowly eaten, like, maybe other ppl would try to rescue the guy, but when the monsters leave, think the guy is dead, and he's like "hello :D" while missing half his body... Hehe, maybe I can get behind writing one horror story before going back to the totally "more chill" ones...
The scariest thing here was seeing you without a beard you beautiful lowvoiced sir. Please let it grow back 😢
OMG IM SO EARLY
I love you guys so much you have no idea how much science helps me cope with my hental health
Edit: I meant mental health...HELP ME
I cant believe I got here 6 minutes after this was posted
Read that as "hentai health"......
@@Heahke I meant mental health 😭
Nothing was needed to perceive Margaret Thatcher as a monster.
Go Go Sci Show!
not me laughing out loud at eyelid hair
15:02 Oh we discriminating between mirages now too? Our good German 1930s/40s friends would be proud. (/s /j if it wasn't obvious).
Sometimes you can never be too careful. Tone indicators much appreciated
I watched this video expecting it to dispel the myths of monsters. Not to find out that the real world is even scarier. Thanks a lot. rofl.
Joke is on the researchers... thatcher was already a horrible monster
It's been confirmed, I identify as a werewolf 😂😂😂
Baby hank looks so weird compared to Chad hank.
the real horror was Reid Reimers not having a beard
So the wasp basically does a lobotomy on the roach
"Flipped the eyes and the mouth to create ANOTHER horrifying monster." She was a Tory after all.
I regret that I watched the part about zombie bugs
ZOMBUGS
Yeah. 😅 I watched a detailed documentary about them years ago and have been freeaked out at the slightest mention if them since. I actually give myself credit for managing to watch this one. 😅
You should be happy you learned something.
2:17 wait hold up woah this is exactly what DOESN’T happen with my autism based sensory processing disorder issues and like 90% why any and all sensory input is so overwhelming to me.
AND ALL THIS TIME THERE’S BEEN A WORD OR PHRASE TO DESCRIBE THE THING MY BRAIN DOESN’T DO?!
Dang. This seems like useful information, I just am not quite sure how yet.
Coulda gone with zombies but my man had the guy go up to the roof every night instead
De bunk the UAP then 😂
Something little kids see monster in their bedroom at nights I know when I was a kid I have seen things when it was a folded blanket
If that dude had rabies he probably would have tried to take a bite of that pig 😂 I thought he was going to on the animation at first
Humans see monsters when staring into the mirror because it cracks their delusions of being magical, perfect, divine beings and the sobering and disgusting reality begins to peak through.
free will is an illusion
4:35 eeyup 🫤