You don't even need to get that deep. We know that I witness testimony is super unreliable so they could just see a creature they'd never seen before get scared and exaggerated in their brain because their mind didn't remember it correctly
With David and Goliath: Goliath being killed by a small stone between the eyes would also make sense if he had acromegaly. An enlarged tumor on your pituitary gland would put it right behind that spot. It very well could have caused a brain hemorrhage, killing him extremely quickly. Also, Goliath was supposed to have fought with sword and spear. At the time, fighting someone well versed with a sling would've been the modern day equivalent of beinging a knife to a gun fight
An ancient sling is a legitimate weapon and David was a sharpshooter with the thing. He was a shepherd and used it to fight off predators that threatened him or his herd. So this is a weapon he was extensively trained in to protect his life and livelihood. Healthy or not taking that headshot would have put anyone down.
Those shepherd's slings are crazy powerful actually, once you place a stone inside the pouch, you spin the sling until it starts whistling and then do a 360° spin and fling the stone. It can crack a small rock. Now imagine what it would do to a human skull. Those things are no joke. It's like getting a blunt crossbow to the head. Or a 7.62 mm bullet. Well, the same force, the stone is larger and more round hence no penetration.
I think the Changelings one is slightly different. The concept is that the child is replaced by a changeling, or a piece of wood in some cases, this could be an explanation for multiple things. 1. Postpartum depression is most likely, since mostly mothers would be able to tell the difference. The added factor is that changelings can “reveal” their intentions by beatings and burnings. A horrific excuse for abuse in a way. Or that the child died shortly after birth, and in their grief and depression, the mothers would take a piece of would and treat it like their own. 2. Another reason would be the terrible twos we know of today. A sudden change in behavior and increased aggression in a toddler would make you think that this isn’t the sweet quiet kid you thought you knew. 3. Neurological defects would make more sense than normal birth defects, since most at the time with physical defects would probably be kill or abandon shortly after birth. Even in modern day, most neurological divergents aren’t notable until we get older. Thus the child you were expected to be vs. the piece of wood you ended up as. With the lack of knowledge and the poor treatment of women and children’s health, these were all explained away as changelings.
I heard someone say that people thought their children were Changelings because they didn't yet know of autism. And considering the characteristics of the Changelings (unresponsivness, resistance to physical affection, inability to express emotion, resistance to control, some being unable to speak), it's likely. Look at the things listed and then Google possible signs of autism. It's almost the same things, but phrased differently, example being some changelings being unable to speak is a kid that was just nonverbal.
It's pretty well-accepted that changelings were mostly autistic or other neurodiverse children (epilepsy and ADHD being the other main candidates). However, to correct a misconception here, changeling myths were most common in areas where physically disabled children were not being killed at birth -- infanticide was outlawed by Christians within the first millennium, and the most well-known changeling myths we have come from Celtic and Germanic cultures, which were pretty firmly Christian by the time our recorded history in those areas starts. Even a severely disabled or deformed infant would have attempts made to keep them alive, and likely die fairly soon after birth without modern medical intervention. Religious orders that sheltered abandoned children (which in practice often meant disabled children who were never abandoned, but couldn't be cared for by their families) also existed in most of Europe. There wasn't much reason to kill a child and risk your immortal soul/mortal "not a criminal" status when you could have your local priest send to a hospital order for someone to come get them.
@@MorganChaos I’m actually glad I got the baby murder part wrong to be honest. It’s good to know that there was a sense of morality back then. I 100% agree that neurodivergence was a huge part of the changeling myth, sharing common traits with the likes of Autism, ADHD, and such. But I don’t believe it’s the only source, which is why I put postpartum depression first because it would have been more noticeable and sometimes a more physical change.
The "signs" of a changeling are also near identical to the symptoms of Autism And people still try to claim we're "indigo children" or "starchildren" 😒
Yeah, my thought process was changlings had to do with some sort of mental illness like postpartum depression/psychosis as well. From what we know about PPD/PPS, women can feel disconnected from their babies and not feel like they are that baby's mother so
I feel like almost each character in mythology was based on a real person, however over time was dramatized as the years went on. They became gods in stories to teach lessons. Leaving the realistic parts of them behind and they live immortally in stories.
Moby Dick-the white whale. Apparently sperm whales or the species it was based on, get whiter as they grow older. Whales are also very intelligent and they can communicate across large distances. As time passed during the whaling industry more whales witnessed the hunts and learned to identify boats as threats. There’s a record of white bull whales purposely targeting and sinking ships to protect pods. There’s a fascinating documentary on it.
The real story that Moby dick is based on is really dark a crew of whalers lost at sea for weeks on end with spoiled food and only salt water around them they end up resorting to cannibalism to survive.
@ which we know now. Back then they were just considered “sea tales”. What’s truly fascinating is that the whales would pass on the information to other pods so it wasn’t just an individual whale like the story portrayed.
Read about Poryphios, the Moby Dick of the Byzantine Empire. It was a real creature that disrupted trade for years by sinking cargo ships much to the incredible annoyance of the emperor. Odds are it was a sperm whale judging by the descriptions.
Actually they discovered a creature that was more accurate to lore of Bunyips; marsupial lions. Bunyips supposedly lived in swamps and would give odd cries at night, and drop down on someone from above. Marsupial lions would have done all three where seals would not. There's skeletons and bones of these marsupial lions to look at, they're quite terrifying and live up to the bunyip legends. They went extinct when humans first populated Australia and passed down the warnings as legends.
The problem with "Published Anthropologist's" theory is that there's no evidence. Australopithocenes are primarily seen in Africa dating to the (early) Pleistocene and before, and we have bones from homo sapiens dating 40k years ago, 30k years ago, 10k years ago, et ctra, that never went fossilization, and if Australopithocenes had SUCH a wide distribution that they followed humanity everywhere else and _outside_ of Africa, there's no reason to think, if Australopithocenes only died out 11k years ago, that we wouldn't have found any especially outside of Africa, ESPECIALLY in bogs with their very, *very* distinctive bones. But this is kind of typical fare from "published Anthropologists." The only thing I agree with him is that aliens didn't build the pyramids.
Scientists have done studies on corpse decay in the wild using farm animals and road kill only about 12 to 15 percent if the corpses made into the fossil record/ made it to conditions to be preserved.... using the data from similar studies its belived roughly less than 8% of the biodiversity of any Era if not less is in our museums.
Woah… really makes you wish we could look back through a window in time and know the full extent of not just humanity’s, but EARTH’S, histories! Would be SO cool… it’s rather sad thinking of all the fauna and flora lost to time and documentation forever!
I doubt that figure very much, decay and fossilization aren’t much related anyway. Most of the fossils we have today are shelled, and fossilization requires some kind of burying. I wouldn’t be surprised if less than one percent of creatures that have existed were fossilized.
17:28 Actually. The concept of Werewolves in Anglo-Germanic cultures is believed to have originated from peoples unfamiliar with the Berserkers and Ulfsarks of the Nordic peoples, fearsome warriors that would wear the hides of fearsome animals, and go into a trance when in battle, typically adopting that animal's believed traits (for example, before the invention of firearms, bears were seen as almost unstoppable demonic entities to the point their original name was lost to time out of fear of summoning the creature by saying it's name). Whilst the Viking Age is generally regarded as when the Norse went around causing chaos throughout the world, the Norse were harassing the Germanic tribes for centuries before. Even the Goths that ultimately defeated the Western Roman Empire are believed to have come from southern Scandinavia (Gotland) - though instead of berserkers, their nobles were fearsome horse riders (and part of the reason why so many European kingdoms and nations had Horse riding knighthood) Hell the majority of Werewolf lore was clearly written in the time of the perspective of Christian monks (the only people that could read and write 95% of the time) and the Norse on their vikings (raiding expeditions) were infamous for destroying and looting Christian holy sites (i.e Churches) So yeah encountering a dude high on his arse on mushrooms, cleaving through people left and right, incoherently babbling, roaring, whilst wearing the skin of the scariest animal in Europe, and acting like said animal, would make the majority of the Suebi and Saxons think their fighting someone infected with a transmittable disease of the soul.
The part about giants being just people relatively taller than a certain population reminds me of why the Dwemer in the Elder Scrolls games are often called ‘Dwarves’. The early ancestors of the Nords, who are the tallest race of man in the games, were also tall and stocky, while Dwemer were about the height of Dunmer and some of the other (later) races of man with more average heights. To the robust and tall Atmorans the Dwemer looked tiny in comparison, hence the dwarf moniker.
By thr standards of science and knowledge we have today why wouldn’t people try and rationalize it? You really think gods and mythical monsters were around and just disappeared with no evidence left besides what people think they saw?
@@Son.D.Lollipop Well if they were actually around, then they weren't mythical, were they? I understand the time lines that science and evolution have taught us, I just don't subscribe to them. I think it's foolhardy to dismiss out of hand the eyewitness accounts of those that lived in the distant and not so distant past. I have no problem believing that the creature's that we collectively refer to as dinosaurs were quite common up until a few hundred years ago. They simply called them dragons in those days. Marco Pollo is a well documented account of dragons innthe far east.
@@rogerphone481 yea it’s be awesome to a point. But let’s not feed fuel to This guys delusional fire. There has never been any actual evidence for any mythological creature ever.
i'm not an archaeologist, but here are some characters i feel could be real buddha, feels almost confirmed, if not actually confirmed krishna, started off as a villager 4000 years ago, and it's reasonable to attribute his divine miracles (wrestling and giant snake, etc.) to him being a really good snake-charmer. rama: less evidence to support his existence, but there is evidence of a bridge that connected india to lanka, and i while idk how old it is, it's not unreasonable to attribute it to some king named rama. i also feel that the monkey army he raised was actually just tribal people who got portrayed as monkeys bc racism
Theres a lesser known criptid in america natives described them as giant cats. Later they were thought to have been cougars but later on the american lion fossils were discovered and are said to be the largest big cats in the world.
We've also caught footage of jaguars on trail cameras in the southern US over the last decade, occasionally as far north as Appalachia. We knew they have absolutely massive hunting ranges, and it kind of confirmed how far north they're willing to explore. So some of those 'huge jet black demon cat' stories are just very real melanistic jaguars that wandered up from central America.
There's a mythical creature here in my country called "Mantahungal." It's described to have a body and sound of a cow, but doesn't have horns; it has a shaggy coat and has two pairs of large fangs that it uses to rip people apart and they supposedly live inside thick forests. I always thought the witnesses somehow described a Smilodon if nothing else.
It's interesting how the time sightings of cryptids become much rarer coincides with the time glasses became widely available and water became potable meaning you no longer needed to drink beer all day.
Pre-watch the first things that popped into my head were Robin Hood and King Arthur. Certainly not "real" in the forms we're familiar with--rob the rich to give to the poor with the Merry Men, chivalrous knights of the Round Table, ungodly skill with a bow and sword, etc.--but there's probably a few forest outlaws and Romano-British warlords that inspired at least parts of each myth.
Goliath was, at least to younger me during church and Bible study growing up, described as being 9 feet tall, though considering Americans are more or less the only ones using feet, and measurements can change over the many centuries, i’m not sure if this was his true height. But given the statement that the one guy was like 8 foot 11, I can see this being highly plausible. To put this into perspective, this is about the height of the Navi blue cat people from avatar, who were also around 9 to 10 feet tall.
He was 4 cubits and a span which is about 6 ft 9in. That's pretty tall, even for today, but would have been taller for ancient Israelites because their average height was about 5'5" average height in thr west is like 5'8-5'10"
Yeah, that's just fudging the numbers a bit so that they could have the same effect as the original text. Note that the Bible is also infamous for rounding things off (see: pi being exactly 3), so we can only be sure he's in the same range as WWE's "big guys".
I dont have a history degree but my world history teacher taught us the legend of how Rasputin was secretly a demon and he was killed 3 times and kept coming back before he finally died for good after the third time.
No one in the video mentioned it but Theseus from Greek Mythology was likely real. According to the legend (or one version of it), Athens was forced to provide a virgin girl every year to the Minoans on Crete so she could be fed to the Minotaur in the labyrinth beneath king Minos’ palace. Thesus was the hero who sailed to Crete, found his way through the labyrinth using a long thread to track where he had been, and slayed the Minotaur thus freeing Athens from Minoan oppression. The real world history: the Minoan palaces in Crete were each a massive labyrinth-like complex that was easy to get lost in if you were not a noble or slave living in the palace. The Minoans also obsessed over bull iconography, from paintings of athletes leaping over charging bulls and (if I remember correctly) a bull god. The Minoans, like the Mycenaeans who rose after them, were good merchants and traders but you didn’t get far in the Bronze Age without having a strong military to back you up so they definitely would have been war-like to a significant degree and prone to exploiting any weaker city states. This is also an era where the Greeks were sea reavers, similar to the Vikings, and taking women as concubines when you sacked a city was standard practice. Plausible history: Theseus, either as a single general/hero or the embodiment of an Athenian military force, sailed to Crete, navigated a labyrinthine palace, and slayed the king of the bull-obsessed people, thus liberating Athens from Minoan dominance.
Some aspects of Vampirism sound like they could've been based off descriptions of nobility born with Autism Spectrum Disorder. In addition, the description of pods of Whales surfacing could possibly be the explanation for Charybdis and Scylla could've been a Giant Squid that was fighting a Whale because Giant Squids & Whales are known to fight and while Giant Squids are not native to the Mediterranean, there are instances of them making their way from Atlantic waters into the Western Mediterranean which just so happens to be where Scylla and Charybdis live.
Most of the major mythological figures of the Indo European traditions. Athena, Minerva, odin, wotan, etc. They more than likely had extreme influence, and through the word of mouth around the world....they become mythologized over time
They all stem from the "striker god" Indra that originated with the Yamnaya peoples of the Caucasus region. Eastern European pastoralists that pushed westward and intermingled with the more hunter-gatherer peoples of western Europe. Indra slowly transformed into various deities that were essentially the same god but slightly changed based on the cultural norms of the different regions.
@skullkrusher4078 You may be onto something. There's so much more to our history that's been completely, and I'd argue, misinterpreted then gaslight the rest of us into thinking we're crazy....despite the last 2 centuries worth of comparative linguistic and mythological studies to prove us right. I will say, though, that I could easily see Athena actually bring her own person, same as wotan, and both had respective accomplishments before not being around. Though Athena was actually a wise woman who tried to build a city reminiscent of, what she thought, was akin to the pre deluge. Wotan was probably a germanic warrior who was immortalized through bards, but there's also ideas he had a child with the daughter of a priest, one of the magi.....this overarching struggle really has been am issue for as long as we've been around.
Based on how he is described in the bible, Goliath isn't even that tall. He is 4 cubits and a span which is roughly 6 ft 9 in tall.(2.05 meters). That's pretty big even for people today but doesn't require giantism. Western meals today are roughly 5 ft 9-5 ft 10(1.75 m) in tall. Ancient Israelites were like 5 ft 5 in(1.65) tall.
The chupacabra is a relatively modern invention. It showed up in the 90s in Puerto rico. If you look at the original drawings that were used from the description by the lady whonfirst sqw it,, it resembles the alien Creature from the movie Species which had come out not long before the first chupacabra sighting
Even in the traditional beliefs of the Algonquian people the Wendigo wasn't a monster per se, It was a spirit that would posses a human. The images of monstrous half deer half man all rotten is a modern euro-centric reimagining of the myth. To the Algonquian people a Wendigo was a fact of life, during really hard winters any of your neighbors could be possessed by the spirit and you wouldn't even know unless you saw them eating someone else because they looked and acted like anyone else. The horror of cannibalism and the disbelief that someone you knew could be capable of such a thing is a hard pill to swallow, a spirit being at fault was easier to believe. The same for the Skin Walkers of Navajo myth, they have more in common with witches than monsters. They are medicinal people who took a shortcut to gaining their abilities (shape shifting being only one of them). It's like Sith vs Jedi, the Dark Side is a shortcut to raw power while the Light Side is the slow path to understanding.
@@Mewse1203 This one has a golden heritage. I'm descended from the first king of Scotland and my genealogy is known practically all the way to Adam and I'm aware that the holy line is through Shem because his wife was of the tribe of Cain. Did you know Delilah became the snake legged goddess in Scythian culture, meaning I'm descended from the mythological "Mother of All Monsters", on top of all the rest. Hercules is just the tip of the iceberg! Why miss out on the rest? My favorite ancestor is Domangart the Traitor. To compare us to the Danes, he's our lines Odin and I love him, lol being descended from him is what made Kenneth of the royal line xD
@KyIeMcCIeIIan you are full of crap. I could maybe believe that your descended from the first King of Scotland because I can trace my lineage back all the way to King Ferdinand and Queen Isabel of Spain. What you're not going to do is say is that you can go all the way back to Adam when Adam and Eve are fictional characters.
There is an unofficial theory that says that the mo’o, giant lizard deities that lived and controlled various different bodies of water in Hawai’i, may have come from ancestral stories of big crocodilians/ monitor lizards of South East Asia Hawai’i, and by extension all of Oceania, were settled by ancient voyagers that sailed from South East Asia like Taiwan & Indonesia, where there were many giant lizards and crocodilians that lived in and around bodies of water (salt water crocodiles, Asian water monitor lizards, giant Chinese salamanders, Komodo dragons, etc.) and those animals were very sneaky about where they liked to bathe in as well as very territorial of their favorite spots. So our ancient Austronesian ancestors told each other about the large reptilian monsters that lived in and near water as a warning to stay away. However, some people may have began to revere the animals and even started leaving food as offerings and finding tricks to access the water while avoiding their wrath, eventually deifying them. Then the voyagers would sail out to find new islands to settle, some had those same reptiles, some were too remote and too small to support the large aforementioned species. So they would still tell their stories about the lizard deities and bring over these reptilian gods with them. The belief in them sticks and almost all pacific island cultures have something similar to a mo’o (taniwha and moko from Aotearoa/NZ, Moorea in Tahiti is named after a yellow mo’o, there’s a tribe somewhere in ‘Melanesia’ that worship crocodiles, so much that they scar their bodies to replicate their scales(needs citation)) So a lot of our beliefs in mo’o are possibly because of ancient stories of giant lizards. But that’s just an unofficial theory🦎
It's not really a lot of good evidence that Jesus existed. We have a whole bunch of hearsay stories from people that already believed in him with no unbiased accounts from any other contemporary sources. That's not to say he never existed or wasn't an amalgamation of several people, but the evidence that he existed is pretty slim
Jesus' historical existence isn't nearly as well recorded as the existence of Muhammad, or to take a contemporary, someone like Qin Shi Huang. The earliest writings about Jesus came decades after his death. There may have been an eccentric cleric who was put to death by Pilate, but even if that were true, he was only that because God is not real, either.
@KingKool2099 a bit odd to call Qin Shi Huang a contemporary considering he died 200 years before jesus was born. Also he was literally an emperor whereas jesus was a an peasant who preached to other peasants in a time of low literacy in a place that was destroyed by the state a few decades later. There may not have been records of jesus written during his lifetime but there are records written during the lifetimes of those who would have known him. Several of the epistles were written by the Apostle Paul for example. There are plenty of figures accepted as real who have records far sparser than that.
Historians actually think he probably existed, but the secular opinion is that he was simply an influential rabbi who gathered a following before dying on the cross. The Epistle Paul was definitely real, as we've found his personal writings, and few historians will conclude that he completely fabricated the story of Jesus, although most agree that Paul probably exaggerated the supernatural and miraculous elements of the life of Christ. Not a Christian btw, but of all the messianic figures in history, Jesus is one of the most historically verifiable
Ancient person: “My house was burned down by a dragon… Hopefully the military can slay it.” Modern twats: “There are no such thing as dragons, we say this as it goes against our predetermined beliefs. Those in the ancient reports of dragons were likely people seeing bones or a snake and being scared. So sad people in the past weren’t as educated, open minded and brilliant as we are today.”
I can only wonder how many myths were a direct result of ancient people needing glasses.
You don't even need to get that deep. We know that I witness testimony is super unreliable so they could just see a creature they'd never seen before get scared and exaggerated in their brain because their mind didn't remember it correctly
With David and Goliath: Goliath being killed by a small stone between the eyes would also make sense if he had acromegaly. An enlarged tumor on your pituitary gland would put it right behind that spot. It very well could have caused a brain hemorrhage, killing him extremely quickly.
Also, Goliath was supposed to have fought with sword and spear. At the time, fighting someone well versed with a sling would've been the modern day equivalent of beinging a knife to a gun fight
An ancient sling is a legitimate weapon and David was a sharpshooter with the thing. He was a shepherd and used it to fight off predators that threatened him or his herd. So this is a weapon he was extensively trained in to protect his life and livelihood. Healthy or not taking that headshot would have put anyone down.
@@Corey1873 And after that incident, Philistines modified their helmets to protect against such hits.
The sling throw didn't necessarily kill him David went over, took Goliath's sword and cut his head off right after so it could've knocked him out.
@@levijackson4061 I think it said the stone sunk into his head. Even if he wasn't immediately dead he was likely on his way.
Those shepherd's slings are crazy powerful actually, once you place a stone inside the pouch, you spin the sling until it starts whistling and then do a 360° spin and fling the stone. It can crack a small rock. Now imagine what it would do to a human skull. Those things are no joke. It's like getting a blunt crossbow to the head. Or a 7.62 mm bullet. Well, the same force, the stone is larger and more round hence no penetration.
I think the Changelings one is slightly different. The concept is that the child is replaced by a changeling, or a piece of wood in some cases, this could be an explanation for multiple things.
1. Postpartum depression is most likely, since mostly mothers would be able to tell the difference. The added factor is that changelings can “reveal” their intentions by beatings and burnings. A horrific excuse for abuse in a way.
Or that the child died shortly after birth, and in their grief and depression, the mothers would take a piece of would and treat it like their own.
2. Another reason would be the terrible twos we know of today. A sudden change in behavior and increased aggression in a toddler would make you think that this isn’t the sweet quiet kid you thought you knew.
3. Neurological defects would make more sense than normal birth defects, since most at the time with physical defects would probably be kill or abandon shortly after birth. Even in modern day, most neurological divergents aren’t notable until we get older. Thus the child you were expected to be vs. the piece of wood you ended up as.
With the lack of knowledge and the poor treatment of women and children’s health, these were all explained away as changelings.
I heard someone say that people thought their children were Changelings because they didn't yet know of autism.
And considering the characteristics of the Changelings (unresponsivness, resistance to physical affection, inability to express emotion, resistance to control, some being unable to speak), it's likely.
Look at the things listed and then Google possible signs of autism. It's almost the same things, but phrased differently, example being some changelings being unable to speak is a kid that was just nonverbal.
It's pretty well-accepted that changelings were mostly autistic or other neurodiverse children (epilepsy and ADHD being the other main candidates).
However, to correct a misconception here, changeling myths were most common in areas where physically disabled children were not being killed at birth -- infanticide was outlawed by Christians within the first millennium, and the most well-known changeling myths we have come from Celtic and Germanic cultures, which were pretty firmly Christian by the time our recorded history in those areas starts. Even a severely disabled or deformed infant would have attempts made to keep them alive, and likely die fairly soon after birth without modern medical intervention. Religious orders that sheltered abandoned children (which in practice often meant disabled children who were never abandoned, but couldn't be cared for by their families) also existed in most of Europe. There wasn't much reason to kill a child and risk your immortal soul/mortal "not a criminal" status when you could have your local priest send to a hospital order for someone to come get them.
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I’m actually glad I got the baby murder part wrong to be honest. It’s good to know that there was a sense of morality back then.
I 100% agree that neurodivergence was a huge part of the changeling myth, sharing common traits with the likes of Autism, ADHD, and such. But I don’t believe it’s the only source, which is why I put postpartum depression first because it would have been more noticeable and sometimes a more physical change.
The "signs" of a changeling are also near identical to the symptoms of Autism
And people still try to claim we're "indigo children" or "starchildren" 😒
Yeah, my thought process was changlings had to do with some sort of mental illness like postpartum depression/psychosis as well. From what we know about PPD/PPS, women can feel disconnected from their babies and not feel like they are that baby's mother so
I feel like almost each character in mythology was based on a real person, however over time was dramatized as the years went on. They became gods in stories to teach lessons. Leaving the realistic parts of them behind and they live immortally in stories.
This has been recorded with a Japanese Official becoming the Kami of education.
Moby Dick-the white whale. Apparently sperm whales or the species it was based on, get whiter as they grow older. Whales are also very intelligent and they can communicate across large distances. As time passed during the whaling industry more whales witnessed the hunts and learned to identify boats as threats. There’s a record of white bull whales purposely targeting and sinking ships to protect pods. There’s a fascinating documentary on it.
The real story that Moby dick is based on is really dark a crew of whalers lost at sea for weeks on end with spoiled food and only salt water around them they end up resorting to cannibalism to survive.
Well, it was based in a true story for something, they even made a movie about the true event
@ which we know now. Back then they were just considered “sea tales”. What’s truly fascinating is that the whales would pass on the information to other pods so it wasn’t just an individual whale like the story portrayed.
Hey there, do you remember the name of the documentary?
Read about Poryphios, the Moby Dick of the Byzantine Empire. It was a real creature that disrupted trade for years by sinking cargo ships much to the incredible annoyance of the emperor. Odds are it was a sperm whale judging by the descriptions.
Actually they discovered a creature that was more accurate to lore of Bunyips; marsupial lions. Bunyips supposedly lived in swamps and would give odd cries at night, and drop down on someone from above. Marsupial lions would have done all three where seals would not. There's skeletons and bones of these marsupial lions to look at, they're quite terrifying and live up to the bunyip legends. They went extinct when humans first populated Australia and passed down the warnings as legends.
Thylacaleos! Theyre my favorite
"Bigfoot" "Sasquatch" etc: Probably bears. As a Star Wars nerd, I sometimes like to joke that they're lost Wookies, but realistically? Probably bears.
Yeah, a bear standing upright to look around has a surprisingly humanoid appearance.
The problem with "Published Anthropologist's" theory is that there's no evidence. Australopithocenes are primarily seen in Africa dating to the (early) Pleistocene and before, and we have bones from homo sapiens dating 40k years ago, 30k years ago, 10k years ago, et ctra, that never went fossilization, and if Australopithocenes had SUCH a wide distribution that they followed humanity everywhere else and _outside_ of Africa, there's no reason to think, if Australopithocenes only died out 11k years ago, that we wouldn't have found any especially outside of Africa, ESPECIALLY in bogs with their very, *very* distinctive bones. But this is kind of typical fare from "published Anthropologists." The only thing I agree with him is that aliens didn't build the pyramids.
Scientists have done studies on corpse decay in the wild using farm animals and road kill only about 12 to 15 percent if the corpses made into the fossil record/ made it to conditions to be preserved.... using the data from similar studies its belived roughly less than 8% of the biodiversity of any Era if not less is in our museums.
Woah… really makes you wish we could look back through a window in time and know the full extent of not just humanity’s, but EARTH’S, histories! Would be SO cool… it’s rather sad thinking of all the fauna and flora lost to time and documentation forever!
I doubt that figure very much, decay and fossilization aren’t much related anyway. Most of the fossils we have today are shelled, and fossilization requires some kind of burying. I wouldn’t be surprised if less than one percent of creatures that have existed were fossilized.
17:28 Actually. The concept of Werewolves in Anglo-Germanic cultures is believed to have originated from peoples unfamiliar with the Berserkers and Ulfsarks of the Nordic peoples, fearsome warriors that would wear the hides of fearsome animals, and go into a trance when in battle, typically adopting that animal's believed traits (for example, before the invention of firearms, bears were seen as almost unstoppable demonic entities to the point their original name was lost to time out of fear of summoning the creature by saying it's name). Whilst the Viking Age is generally regarded as when the Norse went around causing chaos throughout the world, the Norse were harassing the Germanic tribes for centuries before. Even the Goths that ultimately defeated the Western Roman Empire are believed to have come from southern Scandinavia (Gotland) - though instead of berserkers, their nobles were fearsome horse riders (and part of the reason why so many European kingdoms and nations had Horse riding knighthood) Hell the majority of Werewolf lore was clearly written in the time of the perspective of Christian monks (the only people that could read and write 95% of the time) and the Norse on their vikings (raiding expeditions) were infamous for destroying and looting Christian holy sites (i.e Churches)
So yeah encountering a dude high on his arse on mushrooms, cleaving through people left and right, incoherently babbling, roaring, whilst wearing the skin of the scariest animal in Europe, and acting like said animal, would make the majority of the Suebi and Saxons think their fighting someone infected with a transmittable disease of the soul.
The part about giants being just people relatively taller than a certain population reminds me of why the Dwemer in the Elder Scrolls games are often called ‘Dwarves’. The early ancestors of the Nords, who are the tallest race of man in the games, were also tall and stocky, while Dwemer were about the height of Dunmer and some of the other (later) races of man with more average heights. To the robust and tall Atmorans the Dwemer looked tiny in comparison, hence the dwarf moniker.
Weren't they called dwarves by the giants?
@@AT-9777 I coulda sworn it was the Atmorans, but maybe I’m misremembering that detail.
Like how Goliath was called a giant but was just a 9 foot tall guy
@@The_Trident_Masterearlier accounts clock him at 6.5ft or a little taller, which was still rather tall for a Bronze Age man.
@@arnoldschpeiker7887 It'd still be pretty tall today, so back then it'd be terrifying.
I always find it both fascinating and humorous how modern people rationalize what the ancient people actually reported seeing.
By thr standards of science and knowledge we have today why wouldn’t people try and rationalize it? You really think gods and mythical monsters were around and just disappeared with no evidence left besides what people think they saw?
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Well if they were actually around, then they weren't mythical, were they?
I understand the time lines that science and evolution have taught us, I just don't subscribe to them. I think it's foolhardy to dismiss out of hand the eyewitness accounts of those that lived in the distant and not so distant past.
I have no problem believing that the creature's that we collectively refer to as dinosaurs were quite common up until a few hundred years ago. They simply called them dragons in those days. Marco Pollo is a well documented account of dragons innthe far east.
@@captainmarvel2058 Jesus Christ. You’re way more ignorant than I could of possibly believed.
@@Son.D.Lollipop lets admit it would be really cool if dragons DID exist. they don't, but it'd be awesome.
@@rogerphone481 yea it’s be awesome to a point. But let’s not feed fuel to This guys delusional fire. There has never been any actual evidence for any mythological creature ever.
Giant is was still a thing in history. So they were more likely the origin on giant myths. And unicorns are likely Rhino's.
i'm not an archaeologist, but here are some characters i feel could be real
buddha, feels almost confirmed, if not actually confirmed
krishna, started off as a villager 4000 years ago, and it's reasonable to attribute his divine miracles (wrestling and giant snake, etc.) to him being a really good snake-charmer.
rama: less evidence to support his existence, but there is evidence of a bridge that connected india to lanka, and i while idk how old it is, it's not unreasonable to attribute it to some king named rama. i also feel that the monkey army he raised was actually just tribal people who got portrayed as monkeys bc racism
Theres a lesser known criptid in america natives described them as giant cats. Later they were thought to have been cougars but later on the american lion fossils were discovered and are said to be the largest big cats in the world.
We've also caught footage of jaguars on trail cameras in the southern US over the last decade, occasionally as far north as Appalachia. We knew they have absolutely massive hunting ranges, and it kind of confirmed how far north they're willing to explore.
So some of those 'huge jet black demon cat' stories are just very real melanistic jaguars that wandered up from central America.
Fallen Angel by Laurie Anderson covers what folks used to think whale bones were not that long ago
There's a mythical creature here in my country called "Mantahungal." It's described to have a body and sound of a cow, but doesn't have horns; it has a shaggy coat and has two pairs of large fangs that it uses to rip people apart and they supposedly live inside thick forests.
I always thought the witnesses somehow described a Smilodon if nothing else.
It's interesting how the time sightings of cryptids become much rarer coincides with the time glasses became widely available and water became potable meaning you no longer needed to drink beer all day.
1:44 they were also likely a way to explain neurodivergent behavior
I would actually watch these videos if it wasn’t a robot doing the voice
I imagine someday people will have similar discussions about figures like Theodore Roosevelt and Christopher Lee lol.
Pre-watch the first things that popped into my head were Robin Hood and King Arthur. Certainly not "real" in the forms we're familiar with--rob the rich to give to the poor with the Merry Men, chivalrous knights of the Round Table, ungodly skill with a bow and sword, etc.--but there's probably a few forest outlaws and Romano-British warlords that inspired at least parts of each myth.
Goliath was, at least to younger me during church and Bible study growing up, described as being 9 feet tall, though considering Americans are more or less the only ones using feet, and measurements can change over the many centuries, i’m not sure if this was his true height. But given the statement that the one guy was like 8 foot 11, I can see this being highly plausible. To put this into perspective, this is about the height of the Navi blue cat people from avatar, who were also around 9 to 10 feet tall.
He was 4 cubits and a span which is about 6 ft 9in. That's pretty tall, even for today, but would have been taller for ancient Israelites because their average height was about 5'5" average height in thr west is like 5'8-5'10"
Yeah, that's just fudging the numbers a bit so that they could have the same effect as the original text. Note that the Bible is also infamous for rounding things off (see: pi being exactly 3), so we can only be sure he's in the same range as WWE's "big guys".
@ damn, may ask what four cubits and a span is in freedom units?
@mileonaslionclaw2525 cubit =18in span=9in
I dont have a history degree but my world history teacher taught us the legend of how Rasputin was secretly a demon and he was killed 3 times and kept coming back before he finally died for good after the third time.
drink a shot every time the Kraken is mentioned
No one in the video mentioned it but Theseus from Greek Mythology was likely real.
According to the legend (or one version of it), Athens was forced to provide a virgin girl every year to the Minoans on Crete so she could be fed to the Minotaur in the labyrinth beneath king Minos’ palace. Thesus was the hero who sailed to Crete, found his way through the labyrinth using a long thread to track where he had been, and slayed the Minotaur thus freeing Athens from Minoan oppression.
The real world history: the Minoan palaces in Crete were each a massive labyrinth-like complex that was easy to get lost in if you were not a noble or slave living in the palace. The Minoans also obsessed over bull iconography, from paintings of athletes leaping over charging bulls and (if I remember correctly) a bull god. The Minoans, like the Mycenaeans who rose after them, were good merchants and traders but you didn’t get far in the Bronze Age without having a strong military to back you up so they definitely would have been war-like to a significant degree and prone to exploiting any weaker city states. This is also an era where the Greeks were sea reavers, similar to the Vikings, and taking women as concubines when you sacked a city was standard practice.
Plausible history: Theseus, either as a single general/hero or the embodiment of an Athenian military force, sailed to Crete, navigated a labyrinthine palace, and slayed the king of the bull-obsessed people, thus liberating Athens from Minoan dominance.
There used to be hyenas in Scotland/england that survived up to a few hundred years ago
Some aspects of Vampirism sound like they could've been based off descriptions of nobility born with Autism Spectrum Disorder.
In addition, the description of pods of Whales surfacing could possibly be the explanation for Charybdis and Scylla could've been a Giant Squid that was fighting a Whale because Giant Squids & Whales are known to fight and while Giant Squids are not native to the Mediterranean, there are instances of them making their way from Atlantic waters into the Western Mediterranean which just so happens to be where Scylla and Charybdis live.
I'm a changeling twice due to having two different health issues.
A unicorn. to the romans, the unicorn is what we call the rhinoceros.
Most of the major mythological figures of the Indo European traditions. Athena, Minerva, odin, wotan, etc. They more than likely had extreme influence, and through the word of mouth around the world....they become mythologized over time
They all stem from the "striker god" Indra that originated with the Yamnaya peoples of the Caucasus region. Eastern European pastoralists that pushed westward and intermingled with the more hunter-gatherer peoples of western Europe. Indra slowly transformed into various deities that were essentially the same god but slightly changed based on the cultural norms of the different regions.
@skullkrusher4078 You may be onto something. There's so much more to our history that's been completely, and I'd argue, misinterpreted then gaslight the rest of us into thinking we're crazy....despite the last 2 centuries worth of comparative linguistic and mythological studies to prove us right. I will say, though, that I could easily see Athena actually bring her own person, same as wotan, and both had respective accomplishments before not being around. Though Athena was actually a wise woman who tried to build a city reminiscent of, what she thought, was akin to the pre deluge. Wotan was probably a germanic warrior who was immortalized through bards, but there's also ideas he had a child with the daughter of a priest, one of the magi.....this overarching struggle really has been am issue for as long as we've been around.
Based on how he is described in the bible, Goliath isn't even that tall. He is 4 cubits and a span which is roughly 6 ft 9 in tall.(2.05 meters). That's pretty big even for people today but doesn't require giantism. Western meals today are roughly 5 ft 9-5 ft 10(1.75 m) in tall. Ancient Israelites were like 5 ft 5 in(1.65) tall.
The Bible liked to round things off, so he could be a little bit more than 6'9" without necessarily contradicting things.
@HeraldOfOpera yeah, I find address that when I use the word roughly but cool, thanks
The chupacabra is a relatively modern invention. It showed up in the 90s in Puerto rico. If you look at the original drawings that were used from the description by the lady whonfirst sqw it,, it resembles the alien Creature from the movie Species which had come out not long before the first chupacabra sighting
Even in the traditional beliefs of the Algonquian people the Wendigo wasn't a monster per se, It was a spirit that would posses a human. The images of monstrous half deer half man all rotten is a modern euro-centric reimagining of the myth. To the Algonquian people a Wendigo was a fact of life, during really hard winters any of your neighbors could be possessed by the spirit and you wouldn't even know unless you saw them eating someone else because they looked and acted like anyone else. The horror of cannibalism and the disbelief that someone you knew could be capable of such a thing is a hard pill to swallow, a spirit being at fault was easier to believe. The same for the Skin Walkers of Navajo myth, they have more in common with witches than monsters. They are medicinal people who took a shortcut to gaining their abilities (shape shifting being only one of them). It's like Sith vs Jedi, the Dark Side is a shortcut to raw power while the Light Side is the slow path to understanding.
9:09 I would love to see some proof that people put armor on bears.
Search it up?
The one at the end about dragons sounds more like a volcano. At least the Polish myth.
I'm descended from Hercules; a Danite named Samson. The Pillars of Hercules are the pillars Samson pulled down at Temple of Dagon.
And you know this how?
You don't even have good evidence that that person existed and you're trying to say that you're related to him?
@@Mewse1203 This one has a golden heritage. I'm descended from the first king of Scotland and my genealogy is known practically all the way to Adam and I'm aware that the holy line is through Shem because his wife was of the tribe of Cain. Did you know Delilah became the snake legged goddess in Scythian culture, meaning I'm descended from the mythological "Mother of All Monsters", on top of all the rest. Hercules is just the tip of the iceberg! Why miss out on the rest? My favorite ancestor is Domangart the Traitor. To compare us to the Danes, he's our lines Odin and I love him, lol being descended from him is what made Kenneth of the royal line xD
@KyIeMcCIeIIan you are full of crap. I could maybe believe that your descended from the first King of Scotland because I can trace my lineage back all the way to King Ferdinand and Queen Isabel of Spain. What you're not going to do is say is that you can go all the way back to Adam when Adam and Eve are fictional characters.
Youre telling me the anciemts never killed a whale or saw a whale wash up on the beach, die and saw ots skeleton?
Dragons,,, which are kinda dinosaurs
There is an unofficial theory that says that the mo’o, giant lizard deities that lived and controlled various different bodies of water in Hawai’i, may have come from ancestral stories of big crocodilians/ monitor lizards of South East Asia
Hawai’i, and by extension all of Oceania, were settled by ancient voyagers that sailed from South East Asia like Taiwan & Indonesia, where there were many giant lizards and crocodilians that lived in and around bodies of water (salt water crocodiles, Asian water monitor lizards, giant Chinese salamanders, Komodo dragons, etc.) and those animals were very sneaky about where they liked to bathe in as well as very territorial of their favorite spots. So our ancient Austronesian ancestors told each other about the large reptilian monsters that lived in and near water as a warning to stay away. However, some people may have began to revere the animals and even started leaving food as offerings and finding tricks to access the water while avoiding their wrath, eventually deifying them.
Then the voyagers would sail out to find new islands to settle, some had those same reptiles, some were too remote and too small to support the large aforementioned species. So they would still tell their stories about the lizard deities and bring over these reptilian gods with them. The belief in them sticks and almost all pacific island cultures have something similar to a mo’o (taniwha and moko from Aotearoa/NZ, Moorea in Tahiti is named after a yellow mo’o, there’s a tribe somewhere in ‘Melanesia’ that worship crocodiles, so much that they scar their bodies to replicate their scales(needs citation))
So a lot of our beliefs in mo’o are possibly because of ancient stories of giant lizards.
But that’s just an unofficial theory🦎
This AI is horrible.
[SERIOUS] plays carnival music the rest of the video….
So, after all, we all knew "Where to Find Fantastic Beasts". Newt Scamander suck!
Audio is 🗑️ af! I dont even want to listen further.
Thank you so much for your video.
Unfortunately, Jesus. Fortunately, Nimrod.
It's not really a lot of good evidence that Jesus existed. We have a whole bunch of hearsay stories from people that already believed in him with no unbiased accounts from any other contemporary sources. That's not to say he never existed or wasn't an amalgamation of several people, but the evidence that he existed is pretty slim
Not Jesus, LOL
What’s so far fetched about Jesus being a real man? It’s not that far fetched. I’m just saying it’s definitely possible
the consensus among almost all secular historians, including most non-christian historians, is that jesus did exist
Jesus' historical existence isn't nearly as well recorded as the existence of Muhammad, or to take a contemporary, someone like Qin Shi Huang. The earliest writings about Jesus came decades after his death.
There may have been an eccentric cleric who was put to death by Pilate, but even if that were true, he was only that because God is not real, either.
@KingKool2099 a bit odd to call Qin Shi Huang a contemporary considering he died 200 years before jesus was born. Also he was literally an emperor whereas jesus was a an peasant who preached to other peasants in a time of low literacy in a place that was destroyed by the state a few decades later. There may not have been records of jesus written during his lifetime but there are records written during the lifetimes of those who would have known him. Several of the epistles were written by the Apostle Paul for example. There are plenty of figures accepted as real who have records far sparser than that.
Historians actually think he probably existed, but the secular opinion is that he was simply an influential rabbi who gathered a following before dying on the cross. The Epistle Paul was definitely real, as we've found his personal writings, and few historians will conclude that he completely fabricated the story of Jesus, although most agree that Paul probably exaggerated the supernatural and miraculous elements of the life of Christ.
Not a Christian btw, but of all the messianic figures in history, Jesus is one of the most historically verifiable
The ai voice is irritating.
Tiamat
Ancient person: “My house was burned down by a dragon… Hopefully the military can slay it.”
Modern twats: “There are no such thing as dragons, we say this as it goes against our predetermined beliefs. Those in the ancient reports of dragons were likely people seeing bones or a snake and being scared. So sad people in the past weren’t as educated, open minded and brilliant as we are today.”
Finally, found someone who has the same thinks as me!!! Finally, I'm not alone.
Yeah, fire breathing, very real 😂
Not because of predetermined beliefs. Modern people usually don't believe in dragons because there is zero evidence of them
@@AT-9777 Yeah, just keep blindly believing what you're told. The science field is dead.
@@Raving_Rando You aren't blindly believing in dragons then? That is completely ridiculous