When Animal Planet Made Up a Bunch of Stuff | Billiam
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Animal Planet & Discovery Communication has made a lot of mockumentaries, some of which have been much more deceiving than others, let's take a look! It's wild!
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0:00- Intro
1:38- Dragons: A Fantasy Made Real
9:28 - Lost Tapes
24:42 - Mermaid's: The Body Found
38:02- The Cannibal in the Jungle
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I want a mermaid documentary where it slowly becomes obvious that they're actually talking about manatees
i did not know i needed this until now.
The scientific documentary version of beer goggles wearing off
I was thinking the same exact thing
Columbus- "Mermaids are not what I expected."
Peasant- "Did you...um...."
Columbus- "Of course, but they were not what I expected."
I will make that one day mark my word
8 year old me: " who would lie in a documentary?why would they do that, just get on TV and lie?? no.. no."
yep, fuck I was stupid lol Mockumentary? That doesnt exist, all the science is real!
I was the same gullible child
Same, although to my shame I was 14 ... I believed a lot of weird stuff back then.
Dont be hard on yourselves. No matter how many of us will admit it, 90% of us were very guillable as children especially the way our parents would openly lie to us just to try n keep us in line and prevent us from discovering the truth about alot of things in life and rebelling because if we rebelled and had all that knowledge we would be unstoppable lil shitheads.
@@boogityhoo7452 y'all are still gullible. You believe nasa and the mainstream news. A lot of people still believe money is backed by the gold in fort knox. Y'all think a paper mask you never wash will stop you from getting the flu- err, the super flu. People in general are very gullible that's why communism and socialism and other evil people gain power so often and it's so hard to get rid of, even if some people figure out, the masses are still sitting there fooled.
My science teacher played the dragon documentary for our class in 6th grade without telling us before it was a "mockumentary". She told us after that it was fiction, and that she did it to teach us not to believe everything we watch or hear just because they provide some form of scientific fact.
Big brain teacher, teaching about fake news before it became a cotastrophical problem as it stands today
geez buddy, you might wanna listen to some big brain teachers more often with word garbage like "cotastrophical" coming out of your mouth
@@yami_the_witch English is not really my thing dude
Wow. That's pretty clever and cool. Really good lesson to teach to kids at a hool that people often forget is important. Your teacher is awesome!
Reminds me of in a computer class in elementary school they had us spend a whole class researching "tree octopi", a fictional octopus that lives in pine trees in oregon, and then told us at the end of the class period that the whole thing was a hoax and not to believe everything you read on the internet.
As a kid I always though the mermaid documentary was real, but upon rewatch years later with my Dad I sat through the credits where it CLEARLY stated that all of it was fake, and the both of us wondered how we’d never seen it before.
Probably because nobody sits through all of the credits.
That happen to me with the McPherson abduction.
That's because i really believe they never claimed it wasn't fake until X amount of time later. Reason is because I remember watching it on TV when it first came on and thinking to myself "no way, this has to be a joke!" So I did as much research as I could on the guide info and watching all the credits that I could and never once saw where it was stated that it wasn't real.
i was completely unconvinced by the mermaid doc but my grandpa seemed to believe it, until my dad pointed out that the supposed 2003 phone camera footage had a zoom in it and my dad was like "yeah thats fake they couldn't zoom like that back then"
In the mermaids one. I love that they blacked out the "eye witness" faces, as if they were afraid the mermaids would come after them for snitching
Now THAT would make a good "found footage" program. Mermaid hit squads coming to find people who revealed they were real....
@@markl2322 Whatever you do, don't take a bath! Stay out of the pools! Never flush! It might let them get you!!!
@@markl2322 theyll send ya to sleep with the fishes! wait .
_"I'm a fishman hitman and I made a deal with a sea witch to come after you. Shouldn't have talked _*_racks pistol_*_ "_
It's not the mermaids
*IT'S THE GOVERNMENT*
I hate the dragon documentary, I was so convinced by it as a kid I did a school project on it and tried to convince my classmates dragons were real. I was called 'dragon boy' for a few weeks.
Bless your heart! 😢❤
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Its funny cuz I had discussions with friends ib elementary school and we both agreed it was real- Maybe we were stupid...
Yeah man, me too. I would tell people that dragons were real because of this too
The 6 year old girl I babysit said to me the other day, "Dragons used to be real, but God had to kill them with the dinosaurs, because Noah couldn't build an ark big enough for all of them. Can you imagine dragons and dinosaurs on the ark? That would be so crazy!" Yes sweetie, crazy indeed. 😂
I think she might be onto something lmfao😂😂😂
No, the flood didn't kill them it was CIA. Source:trust me bro
You know what else is crazy? People indoctrinate their children into religion. Then they have idiotic thoughts like this instead of.... Wait mom there are hundreds of different species of each animal, he had room for all those? And if he only had 2 of every animal what did the predators eat? 😂 And these are only 2 of the simplest holes in this delusional bullshit
Yes... THAT would most certainly be the straw that broke the camel's back when it comes to weirdness & unbelievable stories in the Bible stories 😂
I grew up in a crazy people church that didn’t believe in dinosaurs. They had a whole sermon after the dragon thing aired, basically to say that Animal Planet was evil lol
I LOVED dinosaurs as a kid and one time in sunday school I gave the same exact idea. That maybe noah just couldn’t fit them on the ark lmao
As a child who didn’t know what a mockumentary was, I was pretty convinced that mermaids could exist
I did too 😭😞
Yea it kinda made me believe too but it mostly scarred me bc the trailer for the documentary was too freaky for my 10 year old brain
I was like 13 and it fuckin got me! I was GOT, i didnt find out it was a purpiseful mockumentary for a few years,in part because like you id never heard of mockumentaries before
I did too and cried by the end of it because I was worried for their safety
How does Billiam pull off the bright, high energy, camp counselor vibe while simultaneously looking more dead inside than any real person ever has
Obsessed with the implication that Billiam isn't a real person.
Weird all my friends say the same thing about me.
He's a ghost haunting RUclips
@@solchapeau6343 chill.
Imagine how billiam would feel coming across this comment. He just looks like a dude guy, anyway. Chill lol
You don’t understand how much the dragon documentary affected me as a child. It didn’t matter what any adult told me, IT WAS REAL.
OMG I saw this back in the day at my Grandma’s house, and I actually thought it was real because it had ‘legit face-shadowed people for their privacy’, so I thought it _Had_ to be real…
Animal Planet is so scummy for misleading people into thinking it actually was real...
@@crazysilly2914 I saw it at my grandma’s house too! And you know what was worse? I’m from Mexico and I didn’t know english, so the documentary being in english with spanish subs made it harder to realize they were doing a mockumentary AND made it sound more official, hahaha!
Considering I was flipping through channels as a kid and saw the word dragon in the guide I stayed on the channel. I never saw the beginning that said it is fake so I took it as fact for several years
SAME
I had these dragonology books as a kid and they made me 100% sure dragons were real
I still wonder why so many regions came up with the idea of dragons around the same time despite not having much contact.
I was 100% convinced that the mermaid doc was real when it first aired lmao. I was super into mermaids at the time and I loved watching H2O: just add water, so that mockumentary fueled my little kid mermaid obsession- it was a great time.
OK but legitimately the mermaid one as a kid convinced me for a while that they truly existed and I refused to swim in the ocean when we went. Mermaids were a true fear of mine for like 3 years.
i was so shocked about the mermaids being real when i was a kid, only to find out a few years later it was fake.
I had a friend who sat through the entire thing waiting for the "real footage," then got mad when it came up and was obviously CG. She was an adult when she watched it, though, so I guess that makes all the difference.
Bruh I also thought they were real Until I got older and into anime and tech. I remember hearing someone who also had just watched that episode and I re-watched it and was laughing the whole time.
My dad defend it as real proof the goverment doesn't want you to know, my 12 year old self knew it was fake like do you know animation????
i dont think it was a fact but when they had the mermaid fight a megalodon i thought megalodons were 50x the size of a great white instead of 3x or 5x a great white
I remember that when I was a kid I believed every single "real alien video" good times
Funniest thing about monster quest is when they accidently found a giant squid in one episode.
I mean if you think about they did find a kraken considering that a giant could probably drag down a small longship which could possibly be the origin of the myth and the myth just got bigger
@@dragonking8085 Humboldt Squid are a force two be reckoned with.
@@dragonking8085 and the fact the biggest ones live so far under water, they wouldn't see them all the time and have alot of time to actually see the details of it. They would just see the tentacles and maybe part of the head/body so that is most likely where the Kraken story came from. Also I wouldn't doubt back before all the chemicals n trash were in the ocean alot of ocean animals could possibly be alot bigger in size. Their wooden boats never stood a chance and thats another possible explanation is they witnessed their prized ships just get sunk and they would not know any better .
There was a later episode where they went to a ranch in South America and found out that the monster was actually a type of bear that was very rare in the area
Monster queef
Dude, those documentaries were the staple of my childhood. Real or not, those shows were awesome
When I was a teenager I got in trouble for arguing with my aunt about the mermaid show. She was almost 35 years older than me, but while I eventually caught on to the show being fake, she found it to be a life changing revelation and was very uspet that a kid told her that she was fooled by a joke documentary.
10 yr old me was devastated that my parents didnt let me watch the mermaid documentary because they knew that i would grasp it and refuse to believe anything else is real
I was the same age when I watched it... and totally bought it. Luckily it only took a year to figure out it was fake.
And I’m not an anti-vaxxer!
You have good parents.
I was young when the fucking dragon documentary came out. I had it prerecorded and told people it was real and when other kids my age and a bit older said I was stupid I would invite them over to watch a documentary. Because we're all retarded little kids and "animal planet is smart and nerdy and it's those sciency type things why would they lie!?"
Only a year later with me leaving the school did I realize I was stupid
@@WhyYouMadBoi You weren't... that ableist slur.
Kids are just more gullible and prone to looking up to authority figures because of less life experience and a still developing brain.
That mermaid mockumentary influenced my writing and art including mermaids a lot honestly. I saw it half asleep as we were staying over at a family friend's house, and had some pretty Funky Dreams tm
My biology teacher actually thought the mermaid doc was real and I think that's when I first realized that adults could perssue a knowledgeable life and still be a little dumb.
Teachers are just kinda dumb. They spend 5 years in college for 1 of the lowest paying government jobs. Also teaching itself is increasingly low skill.
@@hopefulmayhem5744 maybe in you country but in mine it's really well paid ans require a lot of passion and resilience, handling students isn't that easy...
I think its more like how you can still get a job while underqualified. Send your resume even if it asks for 5 years of experience and you have none.
@ferret teaching in the US is quite literally showing power points and giving opinions (usually wrong and poorly informed).
@@hopefulmayhem5744 the US education system has been purposefully failing for a long time.
I think the mermaid mockumentary permanently changed my psychology as a kid.
Before that, I was very into mythology, dinosaurs, etc., & after that… well, I may have still been into all that, but I also became super into combining them with speculative fiction using varying amounts of edginess.
People: “Nessie is a plesiosaur! They’re real!”
Nessie: “Hah! They don’t know that I’m secretly a giant seal at the bottom of my lake with a long neck!”
Responsible for an entire generation being confused about mermaids 😂
I was scared af by that documentary
I believed it... but I was a naive middle schooler and was a major weeb (kind of still am but that's beside the point) but soooooo.
Probably also the reason we have flat earth loons and sjws. I mean he did mention this probably influenced anti vaccine twits
I fucking believed this when I was like 4 or 5
@@rukidagamer981 ew
"The world was built by underwater fish people who evolved from monkeys who swam good." - some crackhead Animal Planet hired, probably.
That catchphrase indicates that Animal planet is indeed a shallow corporation made to cash in on factoids, which makes sense.
If I hear underwater fish people I think of One Piece
😭😂
@@SlapstickGenius23 Discovery networks has been going downhill for a while now. I watched a Netflix documentary simply named Rats made by discovery Channel of course. It was one of the most batshit insane documentary I've ever watched. They legit try and fail to make rats seem like serial killers.
No but dolphins are early man who evolved to be more adapt because they fished up the shorelines and had to go further and further out
I remember genuinely believing the mermaid mochumentary when I was a kid. Being a neurodivergent child OBSESSED with mermaids, I went wild, showing it to literally EVERY adult I knew, being deeply disappointed when they laughed.
I actually loved the dragons one cause it went out of its way to show “yes these don’t exist, but what if”
And I really think if they did this with cryptids too like looking into where it came from and how they might have operated if they were an actual biological life form.
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One of my favorite discovery shows was Mythology unleashed which took this approach and applied it to various mythological creatures including the Minotaur, dragons and giants (Cyclopes specifically if I’m remembering correctly)
I think the lesson to be learned here is that River Monsters with Jeremy Wade was rad
Me and my family have a running joke that if you ever wanted something nautical captured, you must send Jeremy to do it. Fictional or otherwise, he will both hook it and capture it
Problem is, 90% of the fish caught were catfish. Great show, but gets a little boring after the 10th catfish in episode 3.
Random comment but I love your pfp. :)
I’m actually binging it right now on Hulu
@@snowrider6669 Good choice
our school had an entire assembly where they showed us dragons: a fantasy made real but with literally no context
the whole thing was to teach us about how people can make stuff up and it can be very believable
nobody got that message and it just made everyone think dragons were real for about a week
Imagine a school failing to teach students something.
Surprising!
Just kidding, your school did just as good as any other school at ruining kids education.
@@D-Vinko Nah, kids are just dumb, LOL.
@@nikitaivachtchenko6375 well im a kid and i dont beileve this
@@D-Vinko at least they tried
Technically, they are right. Everyone believed something that was real
i actually own the dragon mocumentary on dvd (found it at a resale store) and used to watch it ALL the time when i was younger. i still admire how they interpreted dragons into the real world if they were actual beings and ADORED the scientific reasoning. still a great piece of nostalgia that i just might watch again for old time's sake.
I distinctly remember the cannibal in the jungle thing from when I was a kid. I literally spent so long looking for it because I could not stop thinking about it and I finally found it like two weeks ago. It had such a grip on my brain. They went ham with that one.
I like how all the “main character” scientists are literally the same person
"They thought he was crazy because he kept saying crazy shit with zero evidence... now, he's on a mission to prove them all wrong! Zaney McCryptids is... The Discredited Guy!"
OMG I saw this back in the day at my Grandma’s house, and I actually thought it was real because it had ‘legit face-shadowed for privacy people’, so I thought it _Had_ to be real…
Animal Planet is so scummy for misleading people into thinking it was real...
@@crazysilly2914 yes gurr don't you hate that scummy animal planet for convincing you DRAGONS are real cause that is something that is definitely realistic and not at all fantasy
@@luislora8953 the one about dragons was clearly labeled as fiction, my issue was with the mermaid one...
@@crazysilly2914 once again mermaids are fictional and that should be incredibly obvious to anybody older than 5
Can we talk about the sheer number of people affected by this mermaid documentary series in this comment section alone? I didn't know this was a generational crisis man
Edit: I see this video's surfing the algo, since I'm getting all these random replies again
Good to know across all borders we share this trauma.. 😂
@@dr.k1012 I remember making a facebook post on it, shit got me good!
My dad is an uber-religious man, and believes sirens are real and were the cause of something that happened in the book of Enoch.
I remember thinking it was real, especially after I saw the sequel a few years later
✋🏽 Same. I was shook when this aired in middle school. At least I have the excuse of having been a kid at the time, but my mom also believed it as well, so there’s that.
The particular fun of this episode of Billiam is watching him slowly get utterly wasted on the hard cider while declaring his unrequited love for "Mothman"...Well done, good sir. Well done!
👏👏👏
I remember watching the mermaid one in a science lesson, afterwards our teacher just straight up gave detentions to anyone who thought it was actually real
now thats a good teacher
Jeez louise
I took an anthropology course in college and my professor said that he doesn't care if we never remember most of the class, as long as we take away two things:
1. Apes don't have tails
2. If you see Bigfoot, *run his ass over with your car,* put his corpse in your trunk, and bring it over to the nearest university anthropology department. It's the most concrete proof you can provide for his existence.
Well after long amounts of consideration I’ve decided I definitely want to go into anthropology
yeah I bet he'll also says to bring any giant skeletons you find to the Smithsonian's
@@vanomzero idk I don't remember
@@vanomzero they have, reportedly, covered them up.
@@DismemberedHat 🤣this was funnier than i expected
the mermaid documentary had such a grip on me i defended it with my life something my science-oriented parents did NOT appreciate 😭😭
😭😭😭
I made a whole presentation about it for school 🙃🤠
I think the only reason my dad had me and my brothers watch it with him was to test out our intelligence for if it's real or not.
We failed I think
I'd like to hear what conversation you had ahaha
I got got by it too it’s not your fault I’m assuming you were a kid when freaking ANIMAL PLANET makes/airs an entire documentary you take that as fact when you’re young and naive! It’s really sickening that they took the trust people had for their channel and completely butchered it for ratings!
for Christmas in the late 2000's/early 2010's, my aunt gave me a dvd pack. it had living with wolves, a baby panda is born, a movie about egypt and dragons a fantasy made real. i was six, and completely convinced dragons were real. it broke my heart and i cried when i was told it was a fake documentary. how could they do such a thing to me personally
I remember my classmates being SO convinced by the mermaids documentary. I tried to reason with them but they were completely convinced. And now they vote 😭
My cousin used to make fun of me because I believed the Dragon documentary was real but when the Mermaid doc came out she cited it as proof mermaids were real lmao
I used to be into ESP and psychics when I was a teen and my mom chewed me out on it.
These days my mom got hard into ancient aliens and... well... I chew her out on it.
How the turn tables
I'm ashamed to admit that 14 year old me was initially caught out too, though I did appreciate it more after thinking it over and realising the main take away was the damage sonar and underwater sound pollution can do to marine mammals.
I was like eleven when i saw it and believed it all until the end and felt like I just watched Texas Chain Saw Massacre or something
I always believed the earth is flat but am not sure if it's flat enough.
Fun fact River Monsters ended because Jeremy had caught and released all of the lake monsters and they ran out of places to go
It was a great show in the first 4 seasons, after that it started veering too much into demon bat and mountain monsters territory. Though, even then you still had the occasional gem of an episode.
But I much preferred the less sensationalized early seasons.
Mans actually completed that side quest we all keep putting off
He is going for the 100% completions
I love River Monsters, ine of my favorite shows to watch after school
He needs that hat that says “women want me, fish fear me”
Hey billiam! Long time fan here. Fun fact the guy “expert” at 21:50 was actually my neighbor! We lived in a duplex in New York (not the city) and I often talk to him about his work on the network. I also talked to his wife, they are lovely people and I do have some interesting stories to share for sure!
Those cryptid documentaries used to be my mom’s guilty pleasure of sorts. She knew they were BS but like you said, at the end of the day its still interesting. She usually didnt let me watch them because she didnt want her 9 year old’s brain turning to jello but she did let me watch the mermaid one with her. Just that alone changed my 9 year old girl life, I was OBSESSED with the documentary even tho I thought the mermaids were scary.
I wanna see a Bigfoot show that ends with, like, five different Bigfoot show's crews all following each other through the woods, everyone thinking that everyone else is a Bigfoot.
You genius
That would be amazing
This would be a perfect comedy movie.
Somebody give this guy a medal
@@darthrevan5976 the Medal of Honor for best idea ever
When the mermaid documentary came out, it was the hot topic in science class. I have vivid memories of my teacher sitting at his desk with his head in his hands pissed with Animal Planet for lying
i watched that mermaid doc when i was younger and i belived it till my bro told me it was a lie. i haven't liked or trusted animal planet since
@@CrazyFlyingMonk I was in middle school at the time. In my subconscious, I knew it wasn’t real because I thought (the majority of) stuff on TV was fake; but I never gave it much thought to consciously say it was fake. When my teacher said it was fake, that’s when I thought “Oh yeah. Of course.”
OMG I saw this back in the day at my Grandma’s house, and I actually thought it was real because it had ‘legit face-shadowed for privacy people’, so I thought it _Had_ to be real…
Animal Planet is so scummy for misleading people into thinking it was real...
This phenomenon was before my time, but my friend saw the dragon documentary a while after the fact, and thought it was real
We were like eight then though so
Damn
After spending a Sunday working open house at my college. I am cracking up at Billiam's big foot impersonation. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
When I was a kid I 100% believed the dragon documentary. I literally went to school shouting at all my classmates that dragons were real lmao
In middle school, I had an english teacher that %100 believed the mermaid mockumentary, and I got into an argument in the middle of class with her trying to explain it was fake. Later that year she told the class about her dog that was possessed by a demon.
The hell 😂😂😂
She could have Schizophrenia, which actually kinda sad
@@rebeccawest3608 Nah people are dumb
I don't think she was ok...
Wow, that's completely backwards
I finally realized the true goal of "no homo". It's so we can break free from monke and directly become crabs.
Reject crab. Become Opabinia.
Nice comment
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best comment.
I remember when the mermaid documentary came out nearly everyone I met believed it was 100% true because Animal Planet aired it. Yes myself included. I don't think I met a single person who thought it wasn't real. It wasn't until like 1 year later everyone figured out it wasn't real.
I’m SO glad I wasn’t the only person traumatized and convinced by the mermaid documentary 😭
Fun fact: During filming of star wars return of the jedi's ewok planet scenes,chewbacca actor Peter Mayhew was surrounded my security guards in orange vests so hunters wouldn't mistake him for bigfoot
Oh, how I wish I could believe that was overthinking things. How I wish...
Imagine an alternate reality where they just acquired a bigfoot to play chewwy. Like they just train him to follow the actors and feed him when he does a good job.
@@hamsandvich8956 they just hired Mr.Mayhew to stand in as an actor to keep up the secret.
@@novaiscool1 oh shit you’re right, lol
@@hazukichanx408
Bigfoot is real btw
I still like the idea that the bigfoot footage is just someone in a fursuit that was just embarrassed about it and they've chosen to just never step forwards because it's gotten way outta hand.
There was a movie with a plot very similar to that that.
@@SupaKoopaTroopa64 What movie was it?
"I created something real, Chaz! Something people will talk about for decades to come!"
"Dude, you made me film you in a monkey suit and then lied about it."
"It's real and significant!! D="
@@hydradriveemperor9371 It's called "Pottersville" I couldn't remember the name, but when I searched "movie with bigfoot and furries" it was the only thing that shows up. The protagonist finds out his wife is cheating on him with a furry, so he gets drunk, buys a monkey suit, and runs around in the woods screaming. Some people catch him on tape, thinking he is Bigfoot. This causes a huge boom in tourism, helping the struggling economy of the small town. There's also some furries that worship Bigfoot in the woods.
That reminds me of the guy who said he was visited by cat people aliens and he would have sex with them, I think there's more horniness involve into conspiracy theories than we thought
I remember when the mermaid documentary came out. I couldn’t be bothered to do anything else but watch this extremely groundbreaking and educational PROOF of mermaids existing. The cgi spoke for itself at the time lol
I felt SO embarrassed after I excitedly told my parents all the stuff I learned about dragons for them to tell me it wasn’t real 💀 why did they make it seem so real
When the mermaid “documentary” came out I was ten and me and my brother were actually freaked out about it. Those found footage clips and the mermaid putting its hand on the glass terrified me.
Saaaaame I actually never watched it because the previews were too scary 😭😭
Dude I fucking remember that scared the shit out of me
That scene STILL gets me as a jump scare
omg i remember that!! it literally terrified me as a kid, i think it was late at night when i saw it too, thanks for reawakening that memory from deep within my psyche
The fucking clip of the mermaid jumpscareing the dude on the beach scared the absolute shit out of me as a child, I couldn't sleep for a day
“Something must have spooked the deer”
Maybe the film crew spotting animals with lights....
Don't be silly.
What is more likely - that deer was either spooked by some humans or a squach.
Humans are not scary. Would you be afraid of some humans? I wouldn't.
The answer is obvious, open your eyes.
@@LoisoPondohva we aren't scared of humans but deer are very scared of humans
As a simple deer i would be very scared of the group of humans shining lights at me and making lots of noise
@@Bruh-hq1hx it's called irony,got it?
Don't forget the screaming , and banging the trees
Lost tapes made such an impact on me as a kid and the creation of shows like that has tricked my adult self into being less skeptical of stuff like this. I saw the mermaid documentary for the first time at midnight in a hotel room and I was CONVINCED as a child
I was convinced for all of three days that the documentary was real. I was a tween.
I told my mom about it and she was like “That is NOT real.” 🤣 thanks mom.
When Lost Tapes was airing my cousins and I made our own spoof of it fully edited in iMovie found footage style. We called it “Demon Cow”Literally my 10 year old cousin dressed in a cow costume getting tipped over and staring into the camcorder that fell on the ground saying “You tipped the wrong cow” then just shaky cam footage of him stalking us around our yard while we hid in the bushes lmfao
The kids in my neighborhood and I used to act out our favorite episodes 😳
Please upload
I’d pay to watch that
that is incredible
That's fucking epic
Demon Cow. Heh... and the only thing it fears is the Demonic Cowboy.
DUDE WE WATCHED THE DRAGON ONE IN CLASS IN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL LIKE 20 YEARS AGO AND MY WHOLE CLASS DEADASS THOUGHT DRAGONS WERE REAL AND THE TEACHERS DIDN'T EVEN TELL US IT WAS FAKE I'M STILL MAD ABOUT IT
I can imagine how magical it was until reality hit you in the face.
Y’all got fuckin played
Technecally dragons exist, but not as the mythology would like to depict them.
Well, dinosaurs and by extension birds may as well be classed as real-life dragons. Look up Barosaurus for example.
I'm convinced people thought dragons were real because of ptedarxly bones
Never seen your channel. I must say. GOD DAMN WHAT A SICK INTO! The last part of the song was so CLEAN!
I actually saw the mermaid and dragon documentary when I was a kid, and I was enraged when I found out it was all fake. I really wanted to believe dragons and mermaids were real.
I remember when I was 13 years old, I watch Mermaids The Body Found, and I was a firm believer. I was doing all kinds of research, sending emails to the discovery team, I even wanted to go out into the ocean and find the mermaids. For years I thought the mermaids were real until someone finally told me that it was only a mockumentary. I was totally devastated.
I was so pissed I cancelled my cable
fake
Same here dude, but these mockumentaries gave me inspiration to create my series.
same here. i went around telling everyone about the "aquatic ape theory" and how it makes so much sense
Same bit i was a bit more lazier (maybe because I was a bit younger) but I was remembered by that now and I got to know it was a mockumentary now
I was a dumb as shit kid, and we were shown animal planet and discovery channel programs in school all the time and I was told how educational they are, they were full of scientists and experts. So when I saw the mermaid show my world fell apart. I thought the world was gonna change forever because of the mermaids and I was having a existential crisis lol
Same
@Robin The God - Fake ASMR Is Being Stupid and stop trying to doxx people
You weren't dumb as shit. Animal planet was a con channel. Easy as that.
@@alexsch2514 it wasn't always like that, Jeff Corwin and Steve Irwin are what made that channel real for me. It taught me so many things and gave me my wildlife inspiration. My whole life shifted into a positive direction because of Animal Planet instead of mindless cartoons every weekend. Lol
@@meaningfulmindfulness15 me too, absolutely. I can understand that. But the mermaid "documentary" borders on fraud.
The one that fooled me when I was younger was the one where they went in search of a missing team in the Indonesian jungle, only to discover that they were hunted by one of the long lost human species homo habalis, somehow still surviving unseen in the deep jungle. They presented in such a way that they revealed a revolutionary discovery that another homo species is still around after all. I was so hyped up until the credits showed this is for entertainment purposes only and I curesed animal planet for wasting my time.
Ohhh, man, this is a trip down memory lane. I was obsessed with the mermaid stuff when I was a kid, it fascinated me. Of course, we were all stupid kids back then.
This video also reminded me of that one Scooby-doo movie with the Loch Ness monster being the central theme. Anyone remember that one? Scared me as a kid, but in a really good way, especially for an easily manipulative kid.
The mermaids one dropped my IQ so hard I still feel it's affects today
Fr like bruh😭 I deadass thought it was real in sixth grade and I also thought the world was gonna end- I was really sheltered and I didn't have a phone until then so like...ofc I fell for EVERYTHING.
@@jeanne5922 SAMEEEEE I saw that once when i was like 12 and I believed it for years lmaooo I was a dumb ass child
Same! I thought it was real for years!
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You failed to mention the best episode of Lost Tapes where a pregnant woman fought off the Jersey Devil with a 2x4 to protect her kids.
To be fair I've seen videos of women lifting cars to save their kids so that's not too far fetched XD
I don't care what anyone says, that was badass.
Also, I think it's a neat little nod to the Jersey Devil's origin story that it seemed so pissed at the sight of her.
That deserves a 10/10.
I FUCKING REMEMBER THAT EPISODE
Damn I’ve been out of the loop, all I remember was the Thunderbird, skinwalker, hellhound and chubacabra episodes
I loved Lost Tapes when I was younger. My Dad didn’t pay for cable, so I was always on Animal Planet
One of my favorite things one of my teachers did was show us this website about tree octopi, and presented is as if it were a real thing. She had a bunch of us convinced only to tell us it was fake. She did this to show how easy it was to fake scientific discoveries, so it was a good lesson on critical thinking
The mermaid documentary traumatised me I would go to sleep terrified as a kid because I 100% believed it
Same I don’t know what was wrong with me
I was in like 3rd grade and I thought it was entirely true. I thought this for years, Animal Planet took advantage of all the children who would believe
ME TOO I remember seeing that one chunk of “Found footage” they kept showing so vividly and i was TERRIFIED FOR DAYS
While the mermaid thing might have been fake, I'm still glad to have seen it for introducing me to the aquatic ape hypothesis which I fully believe holds some measure of truth in regards to how we developed as a species.
oh my gosh, same. I never stopped thinking about it and till this day the image is just seared into my mind. It used to scare me a lot! Thankfully I've become a lot more rational....
the mermaid documentary haunts me to this day bc my sister is super gullible and she believes this still and mentions it all the time and I’m like.. you do know that was fake right?? And she always counters saying “why would discovery channel make a fake documentary“ We’re both in our 20’s now
EDIT: now why is there a whole debate going on in the replies to this comment
Lol I dont know there are a lot of mysteries about ocean we cant begin to understand. We know more about space than we know about the ocean. One thing I learned in my years is that its always some truth in a myth
@Hunter Smith how would you know? I don’t believe in mermaids but I’m curious as to what your reasoning is for why they could only exist on the surface, if you don’t mind my asking, wouldn’t want to intrude
@@frankiefrankie1120 If mermaids are mammals, they would need to breath air. And this would need to rise to the surface. They also wouldn't have the lung capacity that many whales have so would need to surface much more often.
@@arcticdino1650 we discovered a new whale just 4 years ago and over 20 new sea mammals in the last 2 decades, jsyk we don’t know everything that’s on the surface and are currently still unraveling the mysteries of our big blue marble
@Hunter Smith there are hundreds of known sea mammals, with new ones being found all the time as well as other land primates, at least 30 have been found in the last 20 years. I agree with the notion that sea dwelling primates is an absurd concept, but I also have to admit that I have no concrete evidence to disprove their existence at this time, and as a wise man once said “the absence of evidence, is not the evidence of absence”
I remember them advertising the Mermaid one as a mockumentary prior to it airing. I watched the premiere knowing it was fake, but it was really cool to watch and get immersed in. It wasnt until years later when i found out people thought it was real and i couldn't understand how. Hearing you explain the reasoning makes me understand the confusion. 😅
I worked at Animal Planet when they aired the Mermaid thing. It was embarrassing. It took over the #1 aired program since the funeral of Steve Irwin. It's when i knew the network had sold its soul.
Confession: I absolutely loved folklore and mythology when I was a kid so I SHOULD have fallen for this, but I was actually *too dumb* to realise that it was supposed to be a documentary.
I deadass thought these were movies about scientists looking for dragons 😭😂
This is so funny to me
I love folklore and mythology
I mean, you were right in a sense so good job
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@@grouchygoat came here to say that!
I love how you can progressively see how drunk he gets throughout the video
Funny thing is: we all know he was already drunk in the beginning of the video. It just got worse.
Just like the AVGN
He has to drown his frustrations with T H E C L A W
It's the only way to do it if you're going through some of the trash of Animal Planet
16:08 “And cue an angry panther attacking the crew because they’re sick of all that racket!” XD
When I was young the mermaid one got me. Had me pulling people to the computer going "dude watch this" hahahahahahah
“Look at the computer it says no fly”
It’s gonna be my new favorite thing to randomly quote
I saw the mermaid doc as a kid and had trouble accepting it was fake because up to that point the discovery channel and PBS was the main source of my science education. I was not prepared for feeling that kind of anger, betrayal and embarrassment at that young an age.
#MeToo... I remember when I was like 10 years old and I told my Grandma to cancel my Discovery Magazine subscription because it got too dumbed down.
yeah At lest I don't feel so alone now
@@ShojoBakunyu the metoo # probably isnt the best use in this case
@@darkmario3321 #metoo
When I was little I showed my mom the dragon documentary thinking it was the realest thing ever and she just sat there like"yeah okay great for you sweetie"
What a great “moment” you have I wish I had great “moment” as well
Basically my mom's reaction too lol.
It was the opposite for me. When I was a kid my mom told me to come watch a documentary about the evidence/discovery of mermaids with her. I looked at her and said something along the lines of "that doesn't look real."
I did the same to my science teacher.
Ouch. that stings
I remember my siblings and I watching this documentary and believing every word. We were so convinced and excited we brought our mom in to watch it with us trying to convince her it was real but then they showed the clip of the two kids "discovering" the mermaids corpse body watched up on the beach which was convincing up until the poorly CGI jump scare which my siblings, mom and I just blanking stared at 😂. We apologized to our mom and she went back to her room and we felt ashamed.
speculative biology is so unbelievably fascinating and im kinda disappointed they didn't just make a speculative biology series about cryptid/mythology creatures
Billiam getting progressively more drunk while rambling about criptids is an entire mood
I've spent many a day exactly like that
@@CeeJayThe13th we all have
@@CeeJayThe13th same
Guarantee you Bob Gimlin would destroy him in an argument lmao
Yeah. You think he'd realize his stupidity.
Ain't no laws when you drinking claws....
That was a lot 😂
With your own two jaws.
An unexpected AxeMan sighting. Was suprised to see someone from my ark obsession cross over with my commentary channel obsession.
They should sponsor yourubers
Haha yeah that won a subscribe for certain.
w h a t ?
Man I forgot about these shows. Man this sends me back.
I watched that documentary when I was home sick from school and I was ENTHRALLED by the fake mermaids lol it had a scene where one mermaid sacrificed itself to a predator to help it's family get away and that shit GOT me lol
My dad legitimately believed that the Mermaids one was real. He said he could "see the truth in that man's eyes". He also believes in Ancient Aliens though.
Harrel! Sup!
At least ancient aliens have some claims that are fun to speculate
If only people could grasp the fact that someone else believing a thing is real, does not actually make it real.
See also religion, valor, checks and balances etc.
@@hazukichanx408 I know right. I know so many ppl who believe in valor because their good friend or someone was totally convinced they saw a red gym.
@@hazukichanx408 It is, in fact, possible for someone to be mistaken, even if they think they're right.
How could this man sound so drunk yet so smart at the same time
The drunker I get, the more likely I'll start an impromptu science lecture with the nearest living person.
My roommates can ascertain this.
It’s a talent that only legends possess
or more likely you're a couple of Zoomers that can't comprehend that the extreme majority of videos are staged and Billiam uses a script because he's not a putz
@@topogigio7031 no shit do you think we have no brain and only comprehend this as him doing this in real time?
If I got that drunk I would probably start a weird ramble about Pokemon and Steven Universe until my brain forced my body to pass out.
The mermaid documentary scared the crap out of me as a kid
I remember as a kid absolutely believing in dragons because of the mockumentary, and all these years later it feels like a fever dream. I'm glad to know I didn't imagine that program
Legit got into an argument with a guy in college about the mermaid "documentary" when it came out. He really believed it was real.
I wish this was a joke
@@TricksterModeEngaged I hate myself for believing in this horse shit at 11 to 14 years old.
Lol my aunt believed in it to XD I remember feeling sorry for her because she was dead serious on how real they looked
Does anybody have proof that anything is false?
@@antonioramos1768 yes???? Are you trolling????
Billiam: The (Nearly) Feature Length Film
Eh. It's TV movie length, at least
what are you doing here?
That seems like an actual billiam title
Billiam: The Hour-Long TV Special
(Feature length is, by definition, 80+ minutes)
This was amazing
The smile that washed across my face when the Eyewitness Theme started playing. Thank you so much 😂
My biggest Animal Planet memories were “Most Extreme” where each episode they would do a countdown of the Top 10 most dangerous animals. And “The Planets Funniest Animals” an Animal-centric version of America’s Funniest Home Videos.
River monsters was a great show Jeremy was such a solid host and willing to do almost anything to catch a fish.
Was? It's still going as far as I'm aware (though covid kinda cut new episodes the past year).
Has he retired? I was looking forward to new episodes once covid lockdown lifts in the world
Lol
@@sashascarah6533 really? I remember him leaving after finding that huge fish with teeth saying it was the fish he wanted to catch the most.
You mean a catfish
that show is genuinely entertaining to watch.
“Maybe I got this from the scholastic book fair”
We all know he didn’t. No one buys the book. We walk around wishing we had money to buy the books.
and buying all the cheap little erasers you can afford if you DID have money
Those book fairs were holidays honestly
I bought all the stuffed animals.
Same
@@TiddyTwyster Agreed
Here because I recall a job interview in the UK where I slowly realised the interviewer/employer was a con man and cokehead conspiracy nutjob....during the interview he went on a tangent about how youtube is his go-to for documentaries and he thinks mermaids are real cos of.....he then runs off to bathroom to snort a line....comes back to then show me the "proof" which I could swear is the same clip you used for the thumbnail. So basically im saying your thumbnail reminded me of that wild experience and so I clicked.
Billiam gets more and more irate as the video goes on. I love this man.
20:22
“Is he benevolent, or a monster?”
J. Jonah Jameson: *“He’s a menace! Bring me pictures of Bigfoot!”*
Peter Parker: but Mr Jameson what about Spider-Man
Bigfoot: Threat or Menace
Here’s a response I made to Billiam.
20:19-20:33 The entire episode (and the entire show), debates on the existence of Bigfoot and other creatures (there’s even a disclaimer at the beginning of every episode that says “the following is based on the possibility that hidden creatures exist” they’re saying that the found footage segments are fake but are inspired by cryptids and other creatures that may or may not exist “the debate continues” as it also says), every episode except Chupacabra which was the first episode, the narrator ends with the tagline “And so we are left to wonder, do they live among us...” In that Bigfoot clip you showed, the narrator was being cheesy and overly dramatic like he does in every episode and in that same clip he says the “do they live among us” tagline immediately after but you conveniently left that out and talked over it. Combined with my other comment, it looks like you’re either taking certain quotes too literally or taking certain clips out of context to make them sound more ridiculous than they actually were (this seems to be a pattern with other commentary channels who talk about these kinds of shows just to make fun of them without caring about researching the topic or giving any respect and seriousness because “lol they believe in ghosts 😂,” even if they’re talking about shows that deserved to be lampooned like Ghost Adventures. Keep in mind, I’m not talking about shit like 3 AM Challenge videos, Deep Web Mystery Box videos, Spirit Box channels or certain top 10 channels, RUclips is a different beast altogether when it comes to this stuff).
CaN yOu PaY mE In AdVaNcE?
Love how the other paleontologists are supposed to be the bad guys for doubting their colleague's completely bonkers idea that a trex was killed by a literal f*cking dragon.
Well yeah it sounds stupid when you say it like that…
As a kid i knew, dinosaurs real, dragon myth
Are you gonna pretend that isn't a documented fact
They're the villains for sure
@@senabecool7232 But goddamn do I wish dragons were real anyways
I was a weird kid, I LOVVVVVED Lost Tapes. I found it late at night sleeping over at my grandmas. It scared me but intrigued me so much and sparked my love for cryptids and stuff that I obviously know isn't real, but is totally fun to learn about lol
I watched the mermaid one as a kid and I got jumpscared by the part where the mermaid grabs the kid. It's one of those childhood trauma memes for me you know? Kinda like return the slab from courage.