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  • @decodingtheunknown2373
    @decodingtheunknown2373  Месяц назад +15

    👟 Big ups to Vessi for keeping my feet dry! Check out vessi.com/dtu for 15% off your first order!

    • @oliviawolcott8351
      @oliviawolcott8351 Месяц назад

      Japheth: Jay-feth

    • @oliviawolcott8351
      @oliviawolcott8351 Месяц назад +2

      the beard would have to go if you wanted to firebreath.

    • @oliviawolcott8351
      @oliviawolcott8351 Месяц назад

      OH THAT"S HOW NAPOLEON'S DICK ENDED UP IN NEW JERSEY!! His brother lived there.

    • @oliviawolcott8351
      @oliviawolcott8351 Месяц назад

      As a Brit, I'm surprised you don't know what the Anglican Church is. its the one Henry the 8th founded so he could divorce his current wife at the time play fuck marry kill with all of his other wives. admittedly, he misunderstood how the game worked.

    • @jessgunn6639
      @jessgunn6639 Месяц назад

      Careful Simon, the gorilla, the okapi and the platypus were all cryptids

  • @cordeliafitzgerald8714
    @cordeliafitzgerald8714 Месяц назад +134

    Do not rely on Simon for contraceptive advice. 😂😂😂

    • @scionofdorn9101
      @scionofdorn9101 Месяц назад +6

      I wouldn’t trust him to pour water, he’s too thick.

    • @user-wr4so6ck1n
      @user-wr4so6ck1n Месяц назад +32

      There's that old joke - what do you call people who rely on the withdrawl method? - Parents!

    • @vic5015
      @vic5015 Месяц назад

      No, its not that effective.

    • @boltybee
      @boltybee Месяц назад +1

      ​@@vic5015 wait, I'm sorry.. are you saying that not having sex is ineffective as birth control?

    • @angelitabecerra
      @angelitabecerra Месяц назад

      Right?

  • @timpoolssentientbeanie5646
    @timpoolssentientbeanie5646 Месяц назад +266

    “I don’t know what an Anglican is.” -a British dude
    I love Simon but I am constantly shocked at how little he knows about the world around him, because he is not at all a dumb person.

    • @Vee_of_the_Weald
      @Vee_of_the_Weald Месяц назад +38

      Are you sure he’s not a dumb person? 😆

    • @Narangarath
      @Narangarath Месяц назад +48

      To be fair, to an Englishman it's usually just "the Church of England", I don't think they really mention the denomination much if any.

    • @timpoolssentientbeanie5646
      @timpoolssentientbeanie5646 Месяц назад +10

      @@Narangarath that makes sense, I kind of wondered about that actually.

    • @wwx-lwj-ai-ni
      @wwx-lwj-ai-ni Месяц назад +20

      Hahaha I had to come to the comment section as soon as I heard the Anglican comment 😂

    • @leightonolsson4846
      @leightonolsson4846 Месяц назад +22

      Oh God I always wanted to say that out loud. Also he's always "why didn't they..." and it was like 40 odd years ago or a completely different culture". Also the withdrawal method is NOT A RELIABLE METHOD OF CONTRACEPTION. Neither is the 'rhythm method', unless you specifically wanted a developmentally challenged child.

  • @kevinmcqueenie7420
    @kevinmcqueenie7420 Месяц назад +69

    16:25 Reminds me of Mitch Hedberg “I think Bigfoot is blurry, that's the problem. It's not the photographer's fault. Bigfoot is blurry, and that's extra scary to me. There's a large, out-of-focus monster roaming the countryside. Run, he's fuzzy, get out of here.”

    • @stefanieday7518
      @stefanieday7518 Месяц назад +3

      ONG!! I thought the same thing. Mitch was a one of a kind.

    • @Unfortunately_Mickey
      @Unfortunately_Mickey Месяц назад +1

      That's a general concept that's been captured a lot in horror, so why did it just freak me out 😂

  • @azuill1126
    @azuill1126 Месяц назад +85

    Once again thanking Katy for the DannyDeVito Scale of Measuring Cryptids

    • @katywatson4940
      @katywatson4940 Месяц назад +3

      And thanks to Robert for playing along

    • @Baughb99
      @Baughb99 Месяц назад +2

      It has become the only measurement I understand

  • @vonwux
    @vonwux Месяц назад +84

    Some people will be _very_ surprised when Simon runs off to join the circus with ChatGPT. Decoding the Unknown viewers won't be though.

  • @TheLittlestViking
    @TheLittlestViking Месяц назад +69

    RE: The dog with boobs, Basset Hounds actually used to have skin folds in the neck area/just under the jaw that looked a lot like what is shown in that drawing. And of course, they're known (like all hound breeds) for loud baying, which the open mouth and forked tongue in the image might represent. Modern breeding has reduced the skin folds beneath the chin, as well as the length of their legs (they used to be taller) and introduced other issues. But as soon as I saw the 'booby dog,' I immediately thought of Basset Hounds.

    • @andrewfuller9156
      @andrewfuller9156 Месяц назад +4

      Thanks for clearing up the mystery of that bizarre image. But I can't help thinking that knowing this takes away some mystique. We moderns can no longer look down on old-timey folk for believing in something when we know it actually existed. A busty bound with a forked tongue would make a much more interesting cryptic than the Jersey Devil itself. 😀

    • @WallStreet06
      @WallStreet06 Месяц назад

      I have a coonhound and can confirm. She is literally the devil.

    • @tophers3756
      @tophers3756 Месяц назад

      To me they looked like neck testicles. I knew they couldn't be boobs since they weren't on the chest.

    • @skyless_moon
      @skyless_moon Месяц назад +3

      Considering the dog with a monks head, and the dragon, I think its more likely to be a dog with actual boobs

    • @Unfortunately_Mickey
      @Unfortunately_Mickey Месяц назад +2

      God the hound dog howl is so specific 😂 I have a beagle mix that talks so much

  • @WouldntULikeToKnow.
    @WouldntULikeToKnow. Месяц назад +123

    As a New Jerseyan, I'm so excited for this episode! Yes, I live in the Pine Barrens too.

    • @Vee_of_the_Weald
      @Vee_of_the_Weald Месяц назад +7

      You don’t live in Australia, mate?

    • @budgreenjeans2001
      @budgreenjeans2001 Месяц назад +4

      Google hammer head bat.

    • @JohnMarkDoethe1st
      @JohnMarkDoethe1st Месяц назад

      Do you identify as a jersey bi-sis jersey devil?

    • @DFSJR1203
      @DFSJR1203 Месяц назад +4

      @@budgreenjeans2001 I agree with the Hammer Head Bat being the Jersey Devil.

    • @KillaMilla0513
      @KillaMilla0513 Месяц назад +4

      I was happy about the Bordentown part because I live near there and a also worked in that Mansion that is now 10 row homes

  • @Thromash
    @Thromash Месяц назад +25

    Simon learning fire breathing day 1 - Burns entire beard off.

  • @eliasholzheimer8085
    @eliasholzheimer8085 Месяц назад +32

    Ahhh coitus interuptus my favorite Harry Potter spell

    • @emmavink
      @emmavink Месяц назад

      It shouldn't be. It's only 60-70% at best effective and doesn't protect anyone from STIs or STDs 🙄🙄🙄

    • @roxiekooi865
      @roxiekooi865 Месяц назад +4

      Don't forget its cousin fetus deletus!

    • @emmavink
      @emmavink Месяц назад +2

      @@roxiekooi865 one would have to remember it because that is the 60-70% most likely outcome to coitus interruptus being used 😂

    • @roxiekooi865
      @roxiekooi865 Месяц назад +4

      @@emmavink Why have I never seen tumblr discourse about Hogwarts' sex ed program? Someone get on this coz you know it's gotta be a mess.

    • @emmavink
      @emmavink Месяц назад +1

      @@roxiekooi865 truth 🙃😂

  • @kaylamartin2734
    @kaylamartin2734 Месяц назад +12

    I love that Simon has decided to refer to his children by ancient names. I don't want to know their actual names but I do enjoy hearing about our smooth brained fact boys family. Keep being awesome Simon. And also Danny please write an autobiography.

  • @rebeccamoll8779
    @rebeccamoll8779 Месяц назад +29

    When I was a teenager back in the mid-1970s, my family camped in the Pine Barrens every weekend and holidays. The Jersey Devil stories were best told around a campfire with a gaggle of teens, late in the night, and making s'mores by firelight. Good scare!

  • @barrydysert2974
    @barrydysert2974 Месяц назад +23

    The real historical backstory made this episode most refreshing. Excellent research Katy !:-)

  • @MrThedrachen
    @MrThedrachen Месяц назад +10

    The real Jersey Devil was the family we met along the way. ❤

  • @tophers3756
    @tophers3756 Месяц назад +21

    For some reason I'm completely unsurprised to learn Simon can juggle.

  • @lauralikescatz
    @lauralikescatz Месяц назад +9

    I am a New Jerseyan and I have been waiting for this episode! I had neighbors who used to claim they had seen the Jersey Devil but now as an adult I think they were just trying to scare the neighborhood kids lol. Also Simon keeps claiming that coitus interruptus works for birth control but not recognizing that a wife in the 18th century couldn’t necessarily demand her husband do that because, as we all know, the past was the worst. Great episode as always!!

    • @Unfortunately_Mickey
      @Unfortunately_Mickey Месяц назад +2

      Also I have met many people that got pregnant pulling out please don't listen to Simon's medical advice ever 😅

    • @RichardWatt
      @RichardWatt Месяц назад

      Or better yet: stop f**king.

  • @rebeccathistle5359
    @rebeccathistle5359 Месяц назад +7

    Simon learning fire breathing is going to give “Brain Blaze” a whole new meaning. And the basement is going to get more lit than it already is, and this time it will be literally lit.

  • @ttm9227
    @ttm9227 Месяц назад +8

    Honestly sometimes I’m surprised they don’t cut out the parts where Simon discovers the existence of step children but I appreciate it 16:05

  • @klaatunecktie7906
    @klaatunecktie7906 Месяц назад +23

    Some say the spirits of Christopher and Paulie Walnuts still inhabit that abandoned carpet van to this day

  • @jwsaxe
    @jwsaxe Месяц назад +18

    The alternate New Jersey state birds are the Orange Traffic Cone and the mosquito.

    • @nivision
      @nivision Месяц назад

      the state flower should be a dirty needle tbh

    • @JDCardwell80
      @JDCardwell80 Месяц назад

      The mosquito is the State Bird for quite a few states!

  • @Brownyman
    @Brownyman Месяц назад +12

    Do the Orang Pendek.
    I watched a skeptics show one time where the interviewee said ”If you gave me $100 dollars and I had to bet on the existence of the bigfoot, the yeti, and the orang pendek - I’d put $9 dollars on the orang pendek, $1 dollar on the yeti, and keep $90 dollars for myself.”

  • @trevorreniger5670
    @trevorreniger5670 Месяц назад +6

    New Simon channel, "Into the Circus" where he just learns circus acts.

  • @Mayor_Of_Eureka17
    @Mayor_Of_Eureka17 Месяц назад +13

    Yoooooooo Katie!! I love you for this!! 2 years of pushing!! I'm so happy!!

  • @Yltimate_
    @Yltimate_ Месяц назад +11

    2 of the last 2 episodes of CC or DtU have featured "coitus interuptus"
    Love to see it

    • @MCsCreations
      @MCsCreations Месяц назад

      Another word for it: retreat.

  • @jamesesposito8087
    @jamesesposito8087 Месяц назад +8

    Ahhhh Simon, I live 24 minutes from the house where this demon was born. Ground Zero for the lil' devil...... Around here it is more of a mascott than anything else. kind of like a running joke. Most people think the scares are from escaped pigs from the farms about an hour away , or swamp deer..... These are more grey, kind of large , and a little aggro for deer. They will charge you, and coming across one in the dark can be scary.

  • @wendybrenner2614
    @wendybrenner2614 Месяц назад +20

    woot woot I am from Jersey and have heard countless non sensical stories about monsters that haunt the pine barrens you have to put the emphasis on the j get it from your stomach and be like yo the Jersey devil

    • @seditt5146
      @seditt5146 Месяц назад +4

      Same, I am from cumberland county, only like 30-45 mins away from that area and am convinced he is just a crackhead looking for scrap copper in the woods.

    • @kryoko6449
      @kryoko6449 Месяц назад +2

      Boop boop

  • @Vee_of_the_Weald
    @Vee_of_the_Weald Месяц назад +29

    _Coitus Interruptus_ is so effective that Simon has 2 children!

    • @pioneercynthia1
      @pioneercynthia1 Месяц назад +1

      OMG, how did you make italics?

    • @kathryncumberland
      @kathryncumberland Месяц назад +3

      ​@@pioneercynthia1 _Like this_

    • @kathryncumberland
      @kathryncumberland Месяц назад +4

      ​@@pioneercynthia1Put an underscore before and after what you want to italicize.

    • @kathryncumberland
      @kathryncumberland Месяц назад +8

      ​@@pioneercynthia1*You can do bold with asterisks*
      -Or strikethrough with hyphens-

    • @jamieandreassen6720
      @jamieandreassen6720 Месяц назад +2

      Yeah, but he didn't have 13.

  • @bboops23
    @bboops23 Месяц назад +26

    The New Jersey episode, finally! My fellow New Jersey folks, who's ready for Simon to fundamentally misunderstand the state?

    • @seditt5146
      @seditt5146 Месяц назад +11

      You mean like how he said Joisey as though anyone from here has ever called it that lol. Jersey shore Fed our already terrible reputation.

    • @WouldntULikeToKnow.
      @WouldntULikeToKnow. Месяц назад +7

      ​@@seditt5146 seriously. Jersey Shore was absolute trash.

    • @bboops23
      @bboops23 Месяц назад +4

      I love the part where he said the Jersey Devil was Australian. We've got 2 hyper offensive things in under 5 minutes

    • @eddieford9373
      @eddieford9373 Месяц назад +4

      What's there to misunderstand?
      Your state is most famous for being the state where every boxer's girlfriend's sister lives.

    • @Mute_Encore
      @Mute_Encore Месяц назад +2

      I'm here to be hilariously let down 😂

  • @natahliazaring5291
    @natahliazaring5291 Месяц назад +10

    Simon, known British person: wtf is an Anglican?

    • @nontrickpony
      @nontrickpony Месяц назад +1

      We don’t call it that in England.
      It’s known as The Church of England, it’s original name, with the term Anglican coming into use in the 16th century and being widely adopted in the 19th century.

    • @natahliazaring5291
      @natahliazaring5291 Месяц назад +2

      @@nontrickpony that doesn't stop it from being funny

    • @BelenPeralta1
      @BelenPeralta1 Месяц назад

      @@nontrickpony so the term has been around for 500 years and more known within the last 200 years and he still didn’t know it? Thats crazy.

    • @RichardWatt
      @RichardWatt Месяц назад

      ​@@nontrickponyI call it the Tax Dodging Church

  • @UnDark1
    @UnDark1 Месяц назад +2

    New Jerseyan here. I’ve woken up at 2AM to get some water and heard a loud screech from outside. It was like someone getting chased and howling/screaming at the same time. But it was from an animal. I looked it up and that’s the sound of a Barn Owl! But it sure as hell sounded like the devil.

  • @CoughitsKath
    @CoughitsKath Месяц назад +4

    YES! FINALLY! my cold nj heart is warmed by this

  • @j3rs3yjak3FIU
    @j3rs3yjak3FIU Месяц назад +10

    I'm a Jersey native and I'm so ready for this!! I live in Montana now and NO one knows about it. New Jersey has a lot of weird shit 🤔🤔 I feel like the older the state/place, the more baggage 😅

    • @mirandagoldstine8548
      @mirandagoldstine8548 Месяц назад +2

      Can confirm that statement. I grew up in Connecticut and I have to say there are a lot of ghost stories and colorful characters connected to that state, especially in Fairfield County. I mean you got Mark Twain who spent his last years in the town I grew up in (Redding), the Leatherman who would travel through Fairfield County, the White Lady of Union Cemetery in Easton, Connecticut, the frog people (I had a guidance coach in high school who claimed she saw them in the day light), Putnam Park (which apparently is haunted according to one statement on a video made by the channel formerly known as the Speakeasy), a “Devil’s Cave” in the town Mark Twain spent his last years in, an occasional visit from the Melonheads (although they are said to be more commonly found in Litchfield County)… yeah New England has a lot of weird and bizarre in that neck of the woods.

    • @calebbean1384
      @calebbean1384 Месяц назад +1

      I dunno, Hawaii has more baggage than anyone almost and they are newest ha

    • @j3rs3yjak3FIU
      @j3rs3yjak3FIU Месяц назад +1

      @@mirandagoldstine8548 New England for sure is up there for haunted/paranormal/weird shit, maybe worldwide 😳😅 Maryland has a lot going on, and we used to camp up in the Catskill Mountains in upstate NY and there's some CREEEPY stuff in the woods there 😂 obviously when you're a kid and your parents play into it that doesn't help but growing up in the Pine Barrens (Bayville) was a trip itself.

    • @j3rs3yjak3FIU
      @j3rs3yjak3FIU Месяц назад +1

      @@calebbean1384 it's settled, Simon has to do a video for each state.

    • @mirandagoldstine8548
      @mirandagoldstine8548 Месяц назад +1

      @@j3rs3yjak3FIU Oh I can confirm. I think it’s because New England has quite a blood-stained past (there were a lot of wars fought in Maine alone) followed by Tennessee and Kentucky. Of course I can’t forget about North Carolina, Georgia and South Carolina, especially Charleston, Savannah and Asheville. Asheville has the Omni Grove Park Inn which is said to be haunted by a particularly friendly ghost (and by friendly I mean it, she is especially fond of kids) and Biltmore (which is said to have a number of spirits roaming the halls) and I can’t neglect the Moon eyed people who are said to have once lived in the states on the southern Appalachian mountain range. Meanwhile Savannah has a large number of ghost stories associated with it.

  • @jeremykopp-ow7rx
    @jeremykopp-ow7rx Месяц назад +5

    I love the timing of this as i was telling a friend earlier this week about the jersey devil as she's in Canada but I'm surprised that Joseph Bonaparte being in Bordentown is even funnier to me being that I live in Bordentown currently.

    • @tlozfreak888
      @tlozfreak888 Месяц назад

      I think there's a plaque somewhere in the town noting it. My brother lives there too, and I remember it was mentioned at some point.

  • @jackvos8047
    @jackvos8047 Месяц назад +6

    As a former fire breather one of the safety measures is having a clean shaved face. That was a lesson I had to learn the hard way. Fire juggling is also a fun experience if you have the skills.

    • @Vee_of_the_Weald
      @Vee_of_the_Weald Месяц назад +2

      Well that’s Simon out of the game, then 😆

    • @MCsCreations
      @MCsCreations Месяц назад +2

      Hey, I knew someone 2 decades ago (perhaps more) that did it as well! But she used a grease material in the face, hands and so on... Do you have any idea of what could it be?
      She said it was to protect against the worst burns...

    • @jackvos8047
      @jackvos8047 Месяц назад +1

      @@MCsCreations I haven't heard of grease being used personally, but there is a fire retardant gel that's used in stunts that give that type of protection. You can find a few different brands through online stores.

    • @jackvos8047
      @jackvos8047 Месяц назад +2

      @@MCsCreations the only greasy substance that comes to mind that might possibly be used is Vaseline.

    • @jackvos8047
      @jackvos8047 Месяц назад

      @@Vee_of_the_Weald lmao that's half the reason I stopped doing it. I'm all about that beard life now 😂

  • @MissusRyan
    @MissusRyan Месяц назад +2

    I always enjoy Katy’s scripts. 😄

  • @darthtac
    @darthtac Месяц назад +2

    Katy I love you using what should be the official measurement of the channel the Danny Devito.
    Oh have you thought of doing a video on the Antônio Vilas-Boas abduction case? That is one that could be a lot of fun.

    • @Talia.Ryn710
      @Talia.Ryn710 Месяц назад

      *lol I came here to also comment about loving the Danny Devito measurement.* 😂

  • @apollolanding1972
    @apollolanding1972 Месяц назад +3

    I lived for 7 years on Leeds Point Road, just down the street from the ruins of the Leeds house. Several TV/film/newspaper crews stopped by and interviewed the locals. Anyway, it was kinda gloomy and spooky out there on cool, foggy nights but otherwise totally natural.

  • @seditt5146
    @seditt5146 Месяц назад +10

    I'm from Jersey, bout half hour or so from Pine barrens and can assure you he is real, he is a crackhead that got lost in the pines and now is doomed to search the woods for scrap metal for eternity.

    • @nikstorm594
      @nikstorm594 Месяц назад +3

      We have a few of those here in California, wonder if they are related.....spooky

    • @JeeVeeHaych
      @JeeVeeHaych Месяц назад

      If you encounter him in the woods, do you wake up afterwards with all of your fillings missing?

  • @maggotmusic757
    @maggotmusic757 Месяц назад +3

    Its extra funny they showed the angry girl in the WWE crowd after the Peacock story, cus WWE programming streams on Peacock in the U.S. 😂😂

  • @r.watson7672
    @r.watson7672 Месяц назад +3

    I have lived here in southern New Jersey, my whole life, love this video totally dig the lore ,I have lived in Atlantic county most of my life I have been to Leeds point I have seen the birthplace of the jersey devil it is an amazingly wonderful tale.
    Ty bud.

  • @nukabat5386
    @nukabat5386 Месяц назад +2

    I am listening to this on a beach in the Bahamas, drinking a beer. Best end of a holiday.

  • @rosslindsey2638
    @rosslindsey2638 Месяц назад +6

    Finally, my favorite cryptid!

    • @MidwestLori77
      @MidwestLori77 Месяц назад +3

      Mine is the Squonk. It's simultaneously sad and hilarious. It's worth the look up if you haven't heard of it.

  • @voodoobram
    @voodoobram Месяц назад +1

    Dear Simon fire breathing was a one day corse for me in the Netherlands . I do have to say that the instructor told me that in many countries they give terrible ad dangerous corses with incorrect fuel. But even with the correct fuel(a specific type of lamp oil) if you get it in your long even a little bit it wil permanently handicap you. Swallowing it is not great but not to bad.
    Also after doing it you wil want to change shirt and shampoo your beard. So its a cool trick at bbq’s but also a bit of a hassle.

  • @callysushi1043
    @callysushi1043 Месяц назад +1

    Simon, Remus' fear of peacocks is valid - I've been chased by every bloody one I've ever encountered and it's horrifying 😂

  • @playedout148
    @playedout148 Месяц назад +3

    A friend and I went to Jersey to buy gatorades at the Clerks Quick Stop, see Asbury Park, and search for the Jersey Devil in the Pine Barrens. Unfortunately, the area of the Pine Barrens was closed due to wildfires but 2 out of 3 ain't bad.

  • @wonky_shoebox7514
    @wonky_shoebox7514 Месяц назад +1

    A SimonTube channel: Fact Boy learns Circus tricks and accidentally sets his beard on fire

  • @DeliveryMcGee
    @DeliveryMcGee Месяц назад +22

    "I don't know what Anglican is." Hasn't Simon mentioned going to church school? Apparently it REALLY didn't stick. (Anglican is Church of England, Episcopalian is the American version.)

    • @Vee_of_the_Weald
      @Vee_of_the_Weald Месяц назад +8

      There are a lot of things in Simon’s education that didn’t stick 😆

    • @darlenefraser3022
      @darlenefraser3022 Месяц назад +2

      Seriously! In the UK you are either Catholic or Anglican and the difference is pretty obvious!

    • @playedout148
      @playedout148 Месяц назад +2

      I think he disregarded religion pretty early on.

    • @nontrickpony
      @nontrickpony Месяц назад +2

      I’m England we still call it it’s original name. The Church of England.

    • @wingerding
      @wingerding Месяц назад +1

      Yup he literally was an Anglican!

  • @Dragnfly_mynamewastaken
    @Dragnfly_mynamewastaken Месяц назад +2

    didn't expect Manos the Hands of Fate to get mentioned. I had Torgo's theme as my ringtone for a bit and it creeped my roommate out

  • @kjs8719
    @kjs8719 Месяц назад +1

    As a retired circus performer who specialised in fire performance, I can confirm that fire breathing is incredibly awesome

  • @erinderuiter7298
    @erinderuiter7298 Месяц назад +2

    Just to let you know, Simon, I am a born and raised jersey girl. who absolutely loves the jersey devil. Huge Jerzey Devil hockey fan! And in October, I will be traveling to Prague to see the jersey devils play. It would be a dream of mine to meet you. Because I am a huge fan of yours also

  • @kayleighlehrman9566
    @kayleighlehrman9566 Месяц назад +2

    The only reason Joseph Napoleon was King of Naples and later King of Spain was because his conquering brother needed a puppet/loyal ally on the throne if the places he conquered.

  • @georgehill8285
    @georgehill8285 Месяц назад +1

    Lifelong New Jersey resident, I remember first hearing the legend when I was a kid. The person who told it to me said the Jersey Devil would come anywhere in the state when you said its name 3 times.
    Well, in 6th grade, we were on a week long overnight school trip, and I told one of my friends the legend. I didn’t realize he was superstitious, so he got very upset at that part. So upset that he ran away screaming in terror, and couldn’t hear me when I said “hey! We’re in Massachusetts right now, so we’re safe!”

  • @evilwelshman
    @evilwelshman Месяц назад +6

    5:05 Fact check.... Coitus interruptus is an incredibly unreliable method of contraception, to the point that medical professionals strongly advise against relying on it as a form of birth control (at least, not without combining it with a more effective method). It has a failure rate of around 1-in-5 and is only a few percentage points (

    • @andsh3was
      @andsh3was Месяц назад

      also I love how he just assumes this woman in the legend had body autonomy when marital r*pe wasn't even a crime in most of the States until the nineties. The 1990s!

    • @dapje2002
      @dapje2002 14 дней назад +1

      Thank you! Simon needs to learn to not run his mouth when he doesn't know what he's talking about...

  • @Unfortunately_Mickey
    @Unfortunately_Mickey Месяц назад +2

    I love Katy's creatures of the week!

    • @katywatson4940
      @katywatson4940 Месяц назад

      Let me know if you’ve got any other ideas!

  • @liamwhittaker2853
    @liamwhittaker2853 Месяц назад +1

    Finally caught up binging the DTU back catalogue, and now happy I'm engaging with up to date videos 😅 Love this channel, keep up the good work Simon and Basement Dwellers ❤

  • @danielgertler5976
    @danielgertler5976 Месяц назад

    I liked the What We Do In The Shadows take on the Jersey Devil, with the devil being distracted by Bon Jovi music

  • @Arturius_Rex_8
    @Arturius_Rex_8 Месяц назад +1

    Today we witnessed the seeding of the next channel of the Whistler Empire: Simon's Skills.

  • @motorsr20
    @motorsr20 Месяц назад +1

    I love this roller-coaster... wrong video? Holy crap I had to edit they mentioned the coaster 😂

  • @MountainCry
    @MountainCry Месяц назад +1

    31:35 "It looks like one of those fake classic pictures of a cryptid." No, it's even worse than that. 😂

  • @ignitionfrn2223
    @ignitionfrn2223 Месяц назад +1

    1:25 - Mid roll ads
    2:40 - Back to the video
    3:20 - Chapter 1 - A devil playing field
    18:45 - Chapter 2 - Jersey ? Sure
    25:25 - Chapter 3 - We got a situation
    34:50 - Chapter 4 - Devils in the details
    40:40 - Chapter 5 - What ?
    47:45 - Chapter 6 - Cabs are here

  • @sonicgoo1121
    @sonicgoo1121 Месяц назад +1

    I recently saw an ad for holidays in New Jersey and thought 'The Channel Islands probably are quite nice this time of year'.

  • @RichDenman
    @RichDenman Месяц назад +2

    Fun NJ Fact: The ones that people see are the runts that were exiled for being unfit to join the legion.

  • @ZAB_Nailz
    @ZAB_Nailz Месяц назад

    14:48 Your old newscaster’s voice is quite good lol best accent to date!

  • @lizmattucks2142
    @lizmattucks2142 Месяц назад +1

    One of our favorite stories to tell is about the time my daughter was properly attacked by our peacock. She was nearly 2 years old, and the peacock had just begun to show off some fancy feathers, but it was not to be. She had some pretty nasty pecks all over her head, including one directly above her eyebrow, and some bruising and scrapes on her shoulders where he'd dug in his claws, but she's all better now. I cannot say the same for the peacock. 🤣

  • @user-mw8bm5wy6s
    @user-mw8bm5wy6s Месяц назад

    As a kid I used to visit my grandfather on every summer vacations and he always used to tell us the same story of his encounter with the Jersey devil.The same story of how he and some of his friends encounter this devilish looking creature and shot hundreds of rounds at it and it barely scathed the creature.It just made a screeching sound like millions of chalkboard being scraped at once and then flew away.Till this day Im not sure if he was telling the truth or just trying to scare us so that we wouldn't go into the woods but whatever it was,he used to tell us with great conviction and even used to show us the burned barrel of his rifle caused by repeated firing.

  • @ZAB_Nailz
    @ZAB_Nailz Месяц назад

    12:09 Remus seems absolutely adorable lol

  • @robertkobus5266
    @robertkobus5266 Месяц назад +2

    Maybe Jabba the Hutt is really Jabbath A Hutt

  • @racheljames4800
    @racheljames4800 Месяц назад +2

    Love to get vessi- when are they coming to the uk?

  • @thefisherking78
    @thefisherking78 Месяц назад +1

    32:20 looks like they threw a stuffed animal in the air 😂

  • @Graves-81_69
    @Graves-81_69 Месяц назад +1

    I’m hitting the like button off the bat because the Jersey Devil is hilarious to me and Simon is gonna rip it

  • @FallenRobot
    @FallenRobot Месяц назад +16

    Wait, did you say "withdrawal" is an effective way of birth control? It's not...

    • @pearlriver1849
      @pearlriver1849 Месяц назад +4

      Someone’s gonna sue him for child support 😂

    • @cordeliafitzgerald8714
      @cordeliafitzgerald8714 Месяц назад

      ​@@pearlriver1849yep

    • @chelseahulmston9056
      @chelseahulmston9056 Месяц назад +2

      Catholics everywhere agree with you. My grandmother, who is now almost 92 years old, is one of 15 siblings. She herself had 6 children before she became a widow. One of my uncles has 12 children. I've 38 first cousins just from my mums side. Like a good Irish Catholic family should be.....massive family. 😂

    • @stevelee5724
      @stevelee5724 Месяц назад

      As opposed to ..? Coming inside... Your fvcked

    • @lukastemberger
      @lukastemberger Месяц назад

      Nothing beats anal.

  • @MChionchio
    @MChionchio Месяц назад +1

    This makes me happy. 😊

  • @KillaMilla0513
    @KillaMilla0513 Месяц назад +1

    Now i hope he does a story about anything else in the weird nj mag

    • @mirandagoldstine8548
      @mirandagoldstine8548 Месяц назад +1

      Yeah and Weird New England. Trust me that part of America is rich in the bizarre.

  • @rosachristensen8156
    @rosachristensen8156 Месяц назад +1

    Simon may not no anything about cryptids but he Rocks it at story telling much ❤

  • @lindathompson5884
    @lindathompson5884 Месяц назад

    Love the new frames Simon!

  • @kpp8349
    @kpp8349 Месяц назад +1

    When Simon asked chatgpt about fire breathing it sounded really concerned that he was going to start attempting it right then and really wanted to talk him out of it

  • @R56TurboCharged
    @R56TurboCharged Месяц назад

    "It must be true, the newspapers wrote stories about it." 🤣🤣🤣

  • @HoundMonkey
    @HoundMonkey Месяц назад +1

    6:56 Simon throwing up gang signs 🤣🤣🤣

  • @891Henry
    @891Henry Месяц назад

    I love it that Simon doesn't get all the clever titles - like Jersey Sure, We Got a Situation, and Cabs are Here - but he probably has not seen Jersey Shore.

  • @spacerat111
    @spacerat111 Месяц назад +1

    "SIMON: THIS IS SOLVED BUT I CAN TELL YOU A STORYU WOULD YOU LIKE TO KNOW MORE" yes plz

  • @johnhamm706
    @johnhamm706 Месяц назад +3

    Go to almost anywhere in New Jersey and you'll find someone akin to a cryptid.

  • @entropictidesproductions2104
    @entropictidesproductions2104 Месяц назад

    Love the Manos callout. The Master would approve.

  • @narrator69
    @narrator69 21 день назад

    I've fought the Jersey Devil numerous times, didn't have wings but was 10 feet tall and had claws bigger then spades.
    Fallout 76 is brutal.

  • @Ga5im
    @Ga5im Месяц назад

    I love your glasses, Simon!

  • @TheGrinningViking
    @TheGrinningViking Месяц назад +1

    New jersey devil has only ever been shown accurately for about 3 seconds in "what we do in the shadows" - no other correct depiction in media. lol

  • @MarinePoolee91
    @MarinePoolee91 Месяц назад

    In 2013 I did my first public fire breathing. I talk classes and did it semi-professionally for about 3 years after that. It's a pretty easy skill to pick up but it's a hard skill to master. If you do it right you are very little risk to you but if you get crazy and do it wrong you're going to be in a bad situation very quickly. I encourage you to go to your local flow jam and ask for a teacher.

  • @LadyHexedNZ
    @LadyHexedNZ Месяц назад

    I know someone who did fire breathing for years, in the end they had to stop as the flammable liquid she used for it essentially destroyed her teeth. I'm not talking a cracked tooth or anything, I'm talking about her teeth becoming so weak and brittle some of them essentially began to disintegrate or break off. Ten+ years later and she is still facing over 10K of dental work to get them fixed.

  • @MPABender
    @MPABender Месяц назад +1

    As somebody from this area… amazing episode 😂😂

  • @tuckemmons
    @tuckemmons Месяц назад

    Finally from an ancestor of the beast . I'm glad to hear this

  • @VelcroSnake93
    @VelcroSnake93 Месяц назад

    My Simon Cinematic Universe is taking shape, as the continuity between videos is complete.

  • @Hazy719
    @Hazy719 Месяц назад

    You childish for that fire chuckle 😂

  • @erosheartache2398
    @erosheartache2398 Месяц назад +1

    Simon's BFF (Chatgpt) sounds like Babish.

  • @AgentBoobimus
    @AgentBoobimus Месяц назад

    I always say the best stories have a grain of truth to them.

  • @Textile_Courtesan
    @Textile_Courtesan Месяц назад

    I've been on a 42 hour Whistler binge while doing menial chores around the house and I just finished listening to "The Killing Hour" from a few months ago and he's wearing a beanie because it's freezing on the set and now he's sweating. Sure hope he's in sheath underwear lol.
    But to answer a question about fire breathing which is a separate skill from fire eating imho, you can start in your daily shower. It's just spitting fuel and learning to expectorating forcefully enough that all liquid is aerosolized in the process. Best place to practice that is the shower. Find a reputable fire performer who can teach the the rest in person and always have a safety!

  • @wendybrenner2614
    @wendybrenner2614 Месяц назад +4

    edge they're really are a lot of farms believe it or not if they have the best Jersey tomatoes the produce is excellent don't knock it till you try it

  • @monorail4252
    @monorail4252 Месяц назад +1

    New Jersey still has a large swath of Pine Forests

  • @EgaoKage
    @EgaoKage Месяц назад

    Two points: 1) Most of the time when people pass out due to a sudden shock or fright, they tend not to recall the actual act of passing out (as opposed to when people pass out more gradually from a recurring medical condition), but they do tend to remember what shocked or frightened them. Thus, _"I got scared - and then it flew away,"_ can be put down to their having passed out, and filling in the gaps after waking up. 2) There are countless verifiable sightings of animals, which belong to a normally-quadruped species, learning to walk on their hind legs only, do their front legs being disabled or defective in some way. When both these points collide [POOF] Jersey Devils appear!

  • @Jbatley1
    @Jbatley1 Месяц назад +1

    There are loads of statues of breasted dogs randomly in north Yorkshire if I remember right. Me and a colleague noticed a shocking number of them when we were working on a project around there

  • @joshuamills2136
    @joshuamills2136 Месяц назад

    Firebreathing AND that beard? Simon must choose

  • @tiredbutflawless
    @tiredbutflawless Месяц назад +2

    I lived in New Jersey for a little over 2 years.. I’ve never heard of this 😂 but in New Jersey I watched my sister get chased down by a peacock 😂🤷🏻‍♀️