Following The Footprints of The Devon Devil
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1:09.00 You are thinking of a sea otter, which is bigger than a river otter.
bet she new it was the devil looking for her spawn that he hade with her lol
torquay is pronounced torkey because quay is pronounced key! sometimes regionally kay but NEVER qway! lol
Simon. I can think of an infinite number of things that could happen to your consciousness when you die. Why do assume that death is the only one?
@@greg.kasarik I can think of an infinite number of things that could happen to this carton of milk on my table. It could turn into a weasel. Or shoot into space. Or dissolve & reform. Or grow a mouth & tell me the secrets of the ice & snow. It just so happens that most of the things I can think of are similarly implausible. And if you removed me & my cats from the equation, the only thing that would remain plausible is it just sits there until it rots.
"Birds have sort of hooves right?"
Sure Simon, of course. I often hear the pigeons clip clopping across my roof in the morning.
that’s what santa’s flying reindeer must’ve been all along! 😂
My favorite was when he confused an otter for a walrus, neither of which are "the size of a large dog."😂
fun thing tho, i Do hear crows and magpies stomping about on my roof (and tapping it with their beaks) on a regular basis XD
@clairepettie ehh. An adult male Sea Otter can be 22-45 Kg (45-99 pounds).
Both the AKC (American Kennel Club) and the KC (The original Kennel Club, founded in the UK) define size of breed (Small, medium, large, and giant) by weight not height. A large breed is any breed that the average full grown weight is between 27.2 and 40.8 Kg (60-90 pounds). Anything above that is a giant breed. A full grown male Sea Otter ranges from the size of a medium dog to a giant one with statistics having most fall in the middle, making Simon correct, the size of a large dog.
@@clairepettie And horses do, indeed, sweat
Unbelievably high jumps, going down drain pipes, this is obviously the first appearance of Mario.
Yes, of course. That's why the prints moved in a straight line. Early Mario could only walk left or right.
PARCORE! 😂
Oh, of course it's-a him! 🤦
@@Bluesit32that would be sideways, not forward and back. Mario could in fact only walk forward and backwards. We watched him from the side and therefore your confusion is understandable.
@@radaro.9682 Yeah, from our perspective, it's left to right. From Mario's, it's forward and back.
Hey simon, heres a good example of just how close the 1800s were. My great grandmother lived to the age of 102. Her childhood was spent watching ox drawn carts coming into Oregon, watched her sons go off to fight in WW2, saw the moon landing with her grand kids, and watched michael jackson do the moon walk with her great grand kids.
Old girl died of a brain aneurysm while chopping wood on the family farm. She outlived all her kids, 2 of her grandkids and 1 of her great grand kids.
Time is wild
That’s incredible. My grandfather sadly passed away from COVID one year ago and he was 101 at the time. The change he must have seen over that time is incredible. My dad is in his eighties now and I keep meaning to just talk to him about how he felt about all these big world events as they happened or how he felt at the time or if he realised the significance etc, but so far haven’t.
Amazing
@@--enyo-- it's absolutely worth it. I know myself and my family elders absolutely grew closer talking about the things they had seen and experienced. First hand stories from someone so close to you just adds a whole other dimension to them too.
Oregon, you say? I understand that dysentery was a real problem traveling there.
@@LoJo according to family legend, our ancestors just sat around playing the hunting mini game, so they avoided that little hurdle
For anyone wondering the other groups were Pikies (slur for Irish gypsies) and Didikais (slur for mixed race gypsies)
Thank you! Came to the comments looking for this.
I’m pretty sure “gypsy” is also a slur used to describe the Romani people.
That’s what I came to the comments to find out
Thank you.
@@katelynswain1232it's mostly an Internet thing, I come from a country that has a lot of romani gypsies, and now live in the uk, where there's the travelers, and I don't think I've ever heard anyone consider the word a bad word irl, not even members of the groups, but then again, idk what's RUclips's policy about it
I'm so sick of all the shows that just blindly believe everything, Simon really is a breath of fresh air😂
Clearly, a breast of fresh a$$. ❄️
I know it, finally something I can just blindly believe :D
Same here. Nice change to hear the person doing the RUclips channel call it bullsh** too and prove it sometimes. Plus he is extremely funny
@@samanthablount139Yeah Simons great I love his tangents lol. There was only one time a video kind of annoyed me with the tangents, idr which one but it was about 11 minutes before he even read the title of the script lol
I think other shows just believe it will bring in more viewers.
The fact that ChatGPT can actually make ANY kind of sense out of the way Simon asks it questions just goes to show how good it really is!
which app does he use? do you know?
ChatGPT app. Not sure if he's using the free 3.5 version or the subscription version that's 4.0. 4.0 is faster and has more current data. It also has no restrictions when demand is high due to server load. The voice to chat feature has to be turned on in settings and you can choose from 4 or 5 voices.
Some people are easily impressed. Relying on Chatgpt will only make people dumber. I HATE videos where he does this BS.
Not so surprising as Simon is just an advanced AI that aliens created to keep people in disbelief.
That’s how he sounds off script 😂😂😂
Okay, I've got this one all figured out. Mr. Tumnus made it through the wardrobe, then went to Devon for the scones with jam and cream. 😂😂😂
Hopefully he brought some Turkish Delights
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 love this so much ❤❤❤❤
And the cider. Dont forget the cider!
Aslan is on the move
He was a lovely chap, moved to Sunnyside, a cute cottage in Woolsery and regularly propped up the local pub The Farmers Arms, pipe in hand. My dad did some work for him repairing his roof.
I live up north, i always leave fake abduction tracks in fresh snow. just walk like 20 feet out from the path, then walk backwards in your own tracks.
Guess I know what I am doing next snowfall.
Legend
I do the same, but the footprints lead to the pub, then I get a cab back.
I woke up this morning disappointed that snow had NOT fallen.
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The Devon devil definitely demands dedicated demystification
Nah all it demands are scones with cream then jam and the souls of the cornish heathens who do jam then cream
The Devil went down to Devon looking for souls to steal...
They probably have fewer hillbillies to whip his ass with a fiddle.
Well, that's an interesting spin! 🤣
When he came upon a young boy, sawin' on a fiddle and playin' it hot...
Was he in a bind, 'cause he was way behind, and looking to make a deal?
@@willmfrankI guess you didn’t know it, but he was a fiddle player too.
I love Danny’s *don’t panic* and I love Simon’s complete obliviousness to it, as usual 😂😂
Simon trying not to alienate religious fans challenge level: impossible 😂
Good riddance. Shouldn't they be talking with their imaginary friends instead of watching this heathen?
I'm Muslim and I'm a loyal fan of the whistlerverse
@@MrManBuzzhot dang, careful with that edge!
Pastafarian here and I get offended by him all the time but I need to hear what he'll say next.
@@susinator And the most basic and unoriginal comment of the week goes to......
I'm amazed how Chat GPT is so advanced, it can make sense of Simon's long rambling questions and still give him the answer he wanted!
I love how you’re such an intelligent person but do such silly things like possibly confusing otters and walruses
I was wheeze laughing.
Thats what makes Simon so entertaining 🤣🤣
Sometimes I think that he puts stuff like that in on purpose, so that we can't resist commenting on it, driving up the engagement ratings for his videos, for the sake of the almighty algorithm.
To me it makes him very human, not afraid to make mistakes and mix shit up. Especially in today's world where everyone wants to be perfect.
He's confident, not intelligent. At least not in the sense you're trying to ascribe to him.
Funny thing about tracks in the snow when they warm up a bit they get bigger, so they go from being a rabbit to a tiger in just 1 day. Also a lot of 4 legged animals step into their front tracks so there's not clearly 4 legs just tracks larger than they should be.
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Mostly felines walk that way.
Back in the day, watching one of those popular ghost huntings shows of the 2010's I vividly remember an episode where they were loosing their minds over strange supernatural tracks they found in a supposedly haunted woods. I was ROTFLMAO because they were OBVIOUSLY rabbit tracks (keep in mind they HOP, as do squirrels, who leave weird footprints in snow as well). So to this day I assume when people find weird mysterious footprints in the snow it's a city slicker who has never touched grass.
Mice and rats also hop in the snow I remember seeing a show and thinking that same thing.
I find this offensive as a city slicker who does not touch grass. We have so many quirks and rabbits around and I've definitely seen their tracks. Although to be fair it's always is a nice flat pathway or something like that.
Ikr. I used to watch those shows, not coz I believe in ghosts or got any kind of scare out of it, but coz I considered it a comedy, laughing my behind off over these gullible ppl!
Was that the ghost hunting episode where they saw strange tracks, heard weird noises or got static on their ghost detector, but never actually found a ghost? 🤣
@@aksez2u isn't that EVERY episode?
With regard to how long ago "the past" was, when I was a child, I met my father's great-aunt whose father had fought in the U. S. Civil War (1861-1865). In a generational sense, some of these things aren't as remote as we tend to think.
in the 90's I met the last living Confederate widow
My own grandparents were born between 1890-1902!
My great grandfather fought in the civil war. My great Aunt talked about seeing the Union soldiers coming and how they took all their good. My father was older than my mother by a bit.
I like to let the new decoding, brain blaze, side projects, etc. stack up so I can binge listen at the end of a loooong week.
Danny, this intro is the perfect length and I genuinely appreciate the alliteration. Lemony Snicket would be proud.
"For a group of investigators to follow one set of tracks to the river, leave their task long enough to find a bridge or a boat, cross, resume the search and spend enough time as it would take to find a set of mouse-sized footprints two miles away from where they were last seen, and all of this while plenty of other mouse-sized forest creatures are hopping around through the snow leaving tracks, and yet be certain that they found the one and only set of devil footprints, strains credibility." - Brian Dunning, Skeptoid.
All I can say is that I hope someday this channel talks about the Jersey devil legend in my home state of New Jersey.
Been asking for this on the last 3videos lol
Nandor! I've been double crossed by the DevIL
Is that the giant moth thing? I thought he had at some point.
Mothman and the Jersey Devil are two different cryptids. Honestly, the Jersey Devil scares me to death, for some reason.
@@retriever19golden55it's the pinies around the legendary beast lmao
I had snow here today and there's rabbit prints across my yard that look a bit like large hooves as they melt together
The big flaw with the toad explanation is that toads are cold-blooded, there's no way that one could be hopping around on such a blisteringly cold winter night because the cold would force it into hibernation and then it would be frozen stiff.
Good point! 👍
"People are way more gullible in the past"
Oh my dear child, no they arent. People are just as gullible as they always have been, and if anything, propaganda, misinformation and magical thinking has been thriving on an unprecedented scale with the advent of telecommunications and the internet. You have more magical thinking now than ever before, because at our core, we as a species react to emotion really strongly, not so much to reason. And the tools at our disposal to emotionally influence others are supreme indeed.
Considering what is going on in the current news, people are at least as gullible as they were in the past. Here in the USA we have an election coming up which could very well demonstrate that.
That may be true, but it is also true that in the past, to have your thoughts recorded, you had to write a well worded letter to an editor, while now everyone gets to broadcast their ignorance without intermediary. It is certainly not better now, but it might not be much worse.
Used to be that every village had an idiot who was kept in line by the regular folk. With the Internet, the idiots now have their own village.
I so agree. U cannot imagine, what its like to be me, living in this world full of such ppl. I have Aspergers, Im wired differently, not that I dont have emotions, I very much do despite what so many ignorant morons claim, but I dont let them overwhelm me, coz if I dont hold my emotions in check, my brain basically fry with all the sensory input. So I live by facts and logic. Which is really really hard in a world full of illogical ppl living by their emotions and willing to believe even the most ridiculous blather. It is truly exhausting going through my day trying to decode, what in the world theyre on about! And a world, where just asking a sincere question in my attempt to understand them more often than not is taken as a personal insult.
The past is a lie, the future a dream, and the present an illusion
I think people maybe misunderstood about the toad at the time… the toad didn’t leave a hood-print - it’s body was the hoofprint. You wouldn’t see a toad’s footprints in snow, but the toad’s body print would resemble a hoof. Not to mention, the one news article described it as resembling a donkey’s shoe, and equines don’t have cloven hooves, making the toad more likely. Kangaroos and birds make absolutely no sense, but the toad would fit perfectly.
LOL I Love Simon's Sim based Tech Religion Afterlife theory XD at that point though it just becomes semantics, ones person's God becomes another person's System Administrator
The pirate accent comes from Bristol, our accent is the origin. And a lot of us sound like that to this day. Bristol was the main port of the UK for centuries before it was moved to Liverpool. It's why we have a load of tributes to the slave's and the industry associated with their poor souls nowadays. The few good things i can say about our city is that we don't deny our involvement in the slave trade. They deserve acknowledgement for how they suffered whist helping build our city. Bless all of them, my apologies are most likely meaningless, considering that my family was far too working class/ridiculously poor to actually mean anything 😢.
Love your videos, keep being awesome!
The world needs more of this attitude. Good shit bro 👌🏾
Blackbeard was born in Bristol too. Lots of pirate history. We also have a pub (The Hatchet c.1606) front door is made from human skin. 💀
That was lovely, sincerely. Acknowledging the victim's of chattel slavery contributions to building the literal and proverbial path towards modern civilization is the first step towards healing. Nothing will ever undo the generation trauma, but hopefully, we'll do better by our collective future generations.
Huh, i thought the accent was from a dorset actor exaggerating his accent. Guess u learn something every day
bless you sir, the world need more folks with a heart like yours. have a wonderful life.
Simon. For future reference: Toads are amphibians. They hibernate when it gets cold. They would not be hopping about in the snow. They usually settle down in mud, sometimes quite deep.
Toads hopping across a snowy landscape? No. Toads don’t go hopping across snow. They don’t go out in the cold.
I will fallow Simon & Danny anywhere they go. Best duo since Toupin & John!
That joke will cost you deerly
i want the writers to read their own writing, overthrow simon
I will follow them, like the duo of Taupin and John 😀
Who's Toupin And John?
@@amytattersfield2017 Bernie Taupin (misspelled before) writes all the lyrics for Elton John. Famous & excellent partnership, just like Simon & Danny.
The traction joke at the end there complently went over Simon's head. Good joke Danny made me chuckle.
Edit: Give your editors a raise the pokemon edit with Simon interrupting sent me 😂
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Yeah, the Pokemon bit is one of those things that'll be popping up randomly into my head and making me giggle years later.
Everytime simon brings up time not existing i remember that the last 4 years felt non existent and blurred together
The moment he started describing the prints my brain went "big wheel with boots" and I'm very glad that was actually a possibility
That's exactly what I was envisioning the whole time.
Who would have BOTHERED to do that, in that poverty-stricken time, though?
26:55 Foals of considerable size? I don't think they exist.
I have a broken rib. Laughing hurts
😂 well done
Was that intro a reference to The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams? “Men were real men. Women were real women. And small furry creatures from Alpha Centauri were real small furry creatures from Alpha Centauri”
"The winter of 1855, was colder than a politician's heart" 😂
That's assuming politicians have hearts though.
Many of them don't.
I agree with Simon's amazement over time. We really do live in the optimal time, the 1800s were just yesterday
1:09:09 An otter is fairly small, smaller than a mature housecat (you might be thinking of seals, which can be bigger than many dog breeds) -- otters could definitely fit into a drainpipe, and it would be absolutely adorable to watch them do it too, as they are one of nature's cutest critters imho haha! 🦦
Somehow, I got into my mind, he was thinking of a walrus, but yeah, a seal could do it too!
I'm not sure where you're from, but the species of otters in North America are certainly much larger than a house cat. A river otter just put two teenage girls who were tubing in the hospital with serious injuries last summer in Idaho.
@@TheItalianTrash The otters here in Florida are exactly as I described -- they swim in the pond right outside my home every spring (and they get to that pond by swimming down water drainage pipes that are barely wider than a cantaloupe!). There's likely just different species of otter in North America, with those in the the Northwest larger (and apparently far less cute -- like European and North American Badgers hehe!) than those in the Southeast.
@@olencone4005 I'm pretty sure that Florida only has the same North American River Otters that are in the Northeast and Northwest US. I'm guessing Florida has a somewhat smaller subspecies as they can weigh 10-35 lbs. The local ones here in the Hudson Valley New York definitely weigh over 20 lbs.
@@TheItalianTrash Weird, I've never seen an otter that weighed more than about 12-15 pounds, tops -- and I've seen hundreds of them... here where I live now, at several apartment complexes I've lived previously, near several of my workplaces, and all around the neighborhood and surrounding area where I grew up. They're not as common as ducks or gators, but they're all over the place down here! And 15 pounds is less than either of my cats, which are 17 and 16 pounds -- weights my vet says are normal for mature housecats and on par with previous cats I've had.
2:30 - Mid roll ads
3:45 - Back to the video
6:30 - Chapter 1 - Fire under my feet
17:25 - Chapter 2 - The devil's in the detail
37:10 - Chapter 3 - Idle hands are the devil's workshop
44:10 - Chapter 4 - Wild wild life
57:55 - Chapter 5 - Secret journey
1:04:15 - Chapter 6 - 1 track mind
I know a woman who has many memories of her uncle Charlie Windolph. Windolph was at the Reno defense site during the Battle of Little Big Horn in 1876. Granted, Windolph lived to a great age, and his niece is now elderly, but still...
These story is very very similar to the New Jersey Devil sightings with how the prints go a very long distance, and up and over buildings.
I was thinking Jersey Devil!
Great grandparents or great great grandparents of people in their late 40’s to early 50’s would have been born and old enough to remember the 1800’s, to go back to the 1700 (the 18th century) you’d have to go wayyyyy back. But it’s realistic for people that were children in the 1970’s to have spoken to and lived around people that remember the 1800’s. Thats just crazy to me.
Well my Father was born in 1926, I’m 62 my grandfather was born in the 1880’s on my father’s side (for whatever reason) the men had children later in life. I promptly changed that and had my first child at 18 I ended up with five girls that can say their great grandfather was born back in the1880’s!
Simon's crisis about lifespan and time happens in my head every day. He gets pretty eloquent when struck by how small we humans are. I love it
Formal request to hear Simon discuss The Jersey Devil and maybe that dinosaur in the rain forest too
Anyone else think that the foreo thing that Simon is pushing today sounds like a product he would have debunked on an episode of business blaze about scam products from the early 1900s?
When walking, cows put their back hoof in the same hoof-print as their front hoof stepped in
A hot air balloon dangling ballast makes the most sense to me. Fits the most of the details.
Can you guys put links to every single one of your channels in your community or channel description? I love the way these videos are made and the information presented. I watch every channel. I have bad memory due to a brain injury so I can’t remember channel titles unless they’re one word. I refreshed the page when this video
Popped up and it took me a minute to find it again. I had to go to Blaze (which I do remember) and go through a bunch of old community posts to find DTT.
Just a thought. Think it would help others find more content produced by these teams.
At the bottom of the home page of each of Simon's channels is a list of all his channels. They seem to all have their own core teams but there is often overlap.
It just now hit me that Decoding the Unknown, much like other similar channels in the Whistleverse, is the ultimate symbol of what it means to be a human.
We have questions. We want answers. We find answers. And along the way we get to laugh and to experience frustrations with bureaucracy, with relationships, with travel…and we get to experience sweet moments with children, and frustrating moments with children, either as an outside observer or as a parent ourselves. We get to go to doctors and have frustrations with understanding or following their guidance, we get to have packages delayed, we get to deal with customs, we get to experience all these mundane things all while we are trying to better understand the bigger picture of life, the universe, and everything.
And that’s basically what you get when you listen to/watch an episode of Decoding the Unknown. Or the Casual Criminalist, or Brain Blaze.
I hope one day historians will look back on this plethora of content and see that. 34:07
9:27 The weirdest getting older thing is, I remember us making mosaics for a school playground sundial when I was 7.
That sundial still feels new and recent and yet it's 26 years old (over a quarter of a century), which must feel forever to the kids playing there.
Bloody hell Simon! How many vids did you have a denizen of the basement post today? I like it, but really.... Epic. You are a Lizard Overlord! Allegedly. Cheers from Tennessee
I found that "Who's That Pokémon?" gag inordinately funny for some reason.
Devon and Cornwall are 2 different counties brain boy
I think you misspelt countries right?? Were both vieing for independence
As I'm from Devon I just wanna say that this made my day. But we are not in Cornwall!! 😂😂. Bristol people talk like farmers. Plymouth people talk like farmers but Devon has a bit of class !! 😂😂😅 We are in between them.
We are the shire !! Lol
As a Cornish man, I can also dispell the rumours of Cornwall's annexation of Devonshire... For now!
Twenty Thousand Cornish men will know the reason why 😉😂
As someone also from Devon I'm glad you pointed out that we are not cornish.
Come on, we have to admit to Plymouth. It’s Devon’s armpit.
Thank you Robert......Thank You! The Demolition Man bite, hit my brain just before it popped on screen🤣🙌🏽
In a 19th century English village, the local clergyman would probably be the most highly-educated person, the person with the largest book collection and the person with the most free time. Some were amateur scholars in their own right. That's probably one reason why you see lots of clergy getting involved in this mystery.
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Yay, Mike Dash! His nonfiction books (and delightful blog devoted to hidden history/historical oddities) manage to be both engaging and well-researched, which is a rare combination when it comes to historical writing.
Simon is such an intelligent human, seriously… but nothing makes me laugh harder than when he talks about animals 😂😂😂 otter, walrus, same same but different. 😂😂😂
My great grandfather was born in 1876. I'm 50. He died around 1960. Blows my mind, too.
"Devon's the place, it's in Cornwall right?"
I have no words...
Since you asked, Simon, the now derogatory term for the Romani people is 'Gypsy', despite the fact that they didn't come from Egypt.
Are the Romani the same as "The Travelers" that seem to be Irish? Okay, that sounds odd, so let me start over. Obviously, the Romani have their origins in Romania, but are there also other groups of "Travelers?" I'm sure I've read about some who have an Irish background.
When did the world agree that "Gypsy" was derogatory? It might have been 100 yrs ago but I dont think anyone is using the word Gypsy to offend people.
My Big Fat American Gypsy Wedding (2012)
Big Fat Gypsy Weddings (2010)
American Gypsies (2012)
@@pioneercynthia1
"Irish Travellers (Irish: an lucht siúil, meaning the walking people), also known as Pavees or Mincéirs (Shelta: Mincéirí), are a traditionally peripatetic indigenous ethno-cultural group originating in Ireland.
They are predominantly English speaking, though many also speak Shelta, a language of mixed English and Irish origin. The majority of Irish Travellers are Roman Catholic, the predominant religion in the Republic of Ireland. They are one of several groups identified as "Travellers" in the UK and Ireland.
Despite often being incorrectly referred to as "Gypsies", Irish Travellers are not genetically related to the Romani, who are of Indo-Aryan origin. Genetic analysis has shown Travellers to be of Irish extraction, and that they likely diverged from the settled Irish population in the 1600s, probably during the time of the Cromwellian conquest of Ireland. Centuries of cultural isolation have led Travellers to become genetically distinct from the settled Irish. Traveller rights groups long advocated for ethnic status from the Irish government, succeeding in 2017."
@pioneercynthia1 That was an excellent question. I was all set to respond with
"the Travelers are not Romani, but rather UK tribes/clans, and they've been lumped in with other nomadic peoples and lazily referred to as Gypsies (or Gypos, or Scumbags- I heard all 3 when I lived in Dublin for a year).......
HOWEVER
Mr. Namename anthropologist smarty-pants arrived and provided you with THE GOODS- very comprehensive and impressive.
I appreciated learning from you too, good sir.
I'm almost tempted to ask if the Picts were so thorough with the war paint that they also dyed their testicles "woad" blue, when facing the Romans in battle.
It's absurd, but I think you'll have a thoughtful and accurate answer.
Oh,
Nevermind.
You just copied and pasted. I'm dumb.
In terms of YOUR poorly conceived question, the world didn't decide anything. People simply started listening to the Romani people when they repeatedly asked everyone to stop calling them the wrong ethnographic name (and through their teeth, always aggressively and hatefully).
I don't see the problem with that, when specifically referring to those people. Why would anyone else disagree?
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See above
Friday night, after a long work week. New Simon video just dropped and I can chill ❤
Simon wailing “OH MY DAYS” absolutely made my morning lmao
Decode not mentioned...
Airburst meteor.
An airburst meteor would have deposited particulates in straight line patterns, particularly if it had pierced the atmosphere at an oblique angle.
If it were high enough in the atmosphere, the pressure wave would have been absorbed by the harsh weather conditions.
The resulting micrometeor shower would have left imprints in the snow in strange but fairly regular linear patterns.
The micrometeor strikes would have hit sides of walls, rooftops, entrances and exits to pipes, and both side of river shorelines.
Fear me, because I'm appparently as large as a walrus! 😂 Jesus wept.
Oh my dog, Simon, have you ever been outside? Please tell me you're not in charge of teaching your children about...anything. Anything at all.
This whole script, and your reactions, Simon, could be a stand up comedy act on its own.
Your welcomed, but intrusive tangents and just straight up replies or responses to things is f n hilarious.
Do you intend to do this ?!! Danny is definitely taking advantage of his “writing and you try to read this correctly” or , your interactions r great… I think that would be a good premise for a show, for real. Just have someone write a script for you about something completely ridiculous, use your mix of voiceover and with your commenting on it that’s all you need.
I’m not a vicar nor a biologist per se, I’m a tracker and ecologist.
I have learned through this video to take the word of a vicar with a pinch of salt.
One as yet unpublished theory from a zoologist and tracker, is the tracks were most likely caused by an escaped or released leopard, likely from the exotic menagerie in Sidmouth. The distance covered is within the range of a leopard, particularly a hungry one!
Cats ‘direct register’ in snow, the hind foot is placed onto the ground where the front foot fell.
Snow is a fickle medium, it distorts significantly when partially melted. The arc of toe pads from a cat and the gap between the toes and heel pad forms a horseshoe shape in snow after partial melt or melt and re freeze. There was a reported temperature change at the time.
On one side of my family - both of my grandparents were born in the 19th century. Not much makes me feel old (late-in-life child of a late-in-life child) makes me feel old. But hearing SW’e grandparents were born in the same decades of my parents … that does.
The earliest I have been in the comments for a Decoding the Unknown. Can't wait to see how this plays out.
"There's animals that walk on their nails?!" Yeah Simon, Ungulates (like Danny said,"ungulagrades") - i.e. horses, goats, sheep, pigs, cattle, rhinos...basically anything with a cloved hoof
I’M FROM WOOLSERY! It’s home to an annual Crypto Zoology conference…. The village is flooded by tie-dye and a smog of incense hangs over the village. Interesting fact, the guy who made Bebo, (very early social networking site, pre facebook) sold the app and bought up half the village. The one Pub, one shop, the one hotel, the one chippy, a farm & housing for the staff. We even have a fresh milk vending machine! All my family is from there, going back generations! Its actually called Woolfardisworthy. My family home is in the centre of the village! My dad built loads of the houses. My mum was a preacher at the (very) Anglican church. I worked as a waitress at the Milky Way Adventure Park (would recommend to tourists, sadly though they stopped the live milking during the mad-cow disease era) and it’s generally thought that the beast of Bodmin moor is the culprit. Or an escaped animal from one of the many private zoos in the dozens of large country houses that dot the county.
So when should we expect the "Amateur Philosophy" channel to go up, Simon? 🤔
Simon, it's the river Teign (pronounced Teen), and Devon is definitely not in Cornwall, but they are neighbours.
These neighbours do have an ongoing war though - it's about scones. Devonians do it the right way with the cream before the jam. 😉
i think i got this.. could it have been a meteorite that broke in to small pieces and then broke in to smaller parts as it got closer to the ground? if you toss a rock in the snow it makes a sort of horse shoe shape, so thousands of them could fall in a line and appear to go right over roofs and across miles of water. my first thought was an aircraft leaking something but the timeframe was off.
Only Simon could mix up an otter with a walrus! LMFAO! Great story though.
It's 11pm, I have 2 children, I should be asleep but instead I'm listening to the Gypsy Rose Cas Crim and this DTU back to back.
Danny has a devious way with dialogue.
He loves setting traps for Simon. Just like we love, when the traps spring on Simon, and most of the time he doesnt even realise, what Danny did!
Danny’s devious dialogue delivery.
Such a Big Brain !!@@kristinelsenbeck3288
Why do we assume the footprint maker went up INSIDE the drainpipe, rather than simply climbing up the pipe?
Omg Danny. Simon is learning what type of devious demonstrations can demonstratively be deduced by denizens demeaned in a dungeon.
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 I'm dying!!! How did Simon just suddenly forgets about ALL the animals with hooves that he's been mentioning for the past 50 minutes!
50:35
"Ungulagrades who walk on the nails of their toes and hooves - There's animals that walk on their nails? That sounds painful, I mean I'm sure its not for them But that's weird how did that evolve? It's like yeah we walk on our nails, like WTeaF!"
4:10 Danny I love the way you challenge fact boi!
That some dude was Robert Newton and the film, Disney's Treasure Island.
Never call Robert Newton 'some dude.' He was a great, fun actor who created such a wonderful character the world copied him.
You do realize all the fans on the channel are innately contrarian, right?
You telling us to "Never" do something pretty much guarantees we will, out of spite.
Dawlish. My family left there for America in 1850. But you said "Devon" and I was hooked.
Kind of a shame that people don't know of Charles Fort so much these days. His books, and the Fortean Times, would be a goldmine for a channel like this.
Fortean Times magazine still runs and sells well at the bookstore where I work.
Hey hey! A story from my neck of the woods, Simon I'd love it if you covered a few of the Dartmoor legends like Kitty Jay's Grave and The Hairy Hands, plenty of fun little ghost stories and tales that stem from Devon
“ the 19th century was a particularily popular period for fearful findings of fantastical f oot fall”
And Simon glances up at the camera and keeps going. then. Dude I’m dying 😅
I would absolutely love to see Simon go on an investigation with Sam and Colby. He'd just be shutting down anything that happened lol.
LOL. The idea that Simons believes in simulation more than religions is really funny in a way bc it's like, a HUGE conspiracy theory. Simon basically just described reincarnation but in a digital format ? It's too sad to think there's nothing out there after this. I'll take anything, honestly. AI is becoming insanely powerful. The way the AI can actually understand Simon talking to it so casually is amazing.
Honestly, love Simon's stories and inputs, super funny and clever !
The writers are all so talented & the editing for all the channels is funny. Love the basement writers 🎉 Keep up the hard work !!
Cyber Buddhism
I remember reading about this as a kid--I'm so glad y'all are covering it!
I’ve been waiting for this story for forever!
Hooves are ‘toenails’ to ungulates. ❤️ from 🇨🇦
"The show where we decode things"
'27 mph, your chasing a fucking car through a village!' ❤
Tonight on Simon has a breakdown the podcast
I wonder if "giant haystacks" in the script was a reference to the wrestler on purpose
Yes, we don't know all our home country's rivers' names by heart either - but our language makes sense so we know how a river is called when we read the name..
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I love this story. Just sitting back...watching Simon work it out. 😁
some houses and barns in the area at that time had sloped rooves that came down to only a couple of feet off the ground so a hare could easily have "climbed" the side of the barn and they can swim. also they leave a surprisingly large foot print
Thank you for the plethora of enjoyable content and for being the impetus for a line of the best beard products I have ever used :)
Edit: Maybe it was a møøse