England's oldest attraction turns teddy bears to stone
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- Äas pĆidĂĄn 25. 04. 2021
- In Knaresborough, in Yorkshire, sits Mother Shipton's Cave. Folks there have been charging admission for nearly 400 years, and the star of the show is a "petrifying well". A few folk legends do actually turn out to be true.
Mother Shipton's Cave: www.mothershipton.co.uk/ - thanks to all the team there, and especially to John!
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Thanks to all the team at Mother Shipton's Cave, and in particular to John, who was lovely to work with! Also, I'm very glad that I got my drone license.
Thanks to all the Tom at Mother Shiptonâs Cave, and in particular to Tom, who is a great guy! Also, Iâm very glad that I discovered him on CZcams.
2 days ago
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[obligatory â2 DAYS AGO?!â comment]
You know that the comment is old......don't you?
"Tours began in 1630, not led by me I should add"
Thats exactly what a guy who has been leading tours since 1630 would say
*THIS.*
@@EgonFreeman *THAT.*
@@h-Films In a little white hat?
@@Lawsonomy1 made home by a little bright rat,
This made me genuinely laugh out loud alone, thank you
âTours began in 1630. Not led by me, I should add.â
This guy is a delight!
I think i was spiritually transported to yorkshire by him
That's just what a 500 odd year old time lord would say.
i see, a stardew valley fan. (nice pfp)
Although if you do miss it there is one at five.
sounds like what someone whoâs been leading tours since 1630 might say
Mother Shipton was just worried about the structural integrity of the bridge and called attention to it, sounds like a true civil servant.
Kudos to her for pointing out the potential logistical problems if such thing happened.
They could use the stone teddies to shore up the bridge!
I could fully imagine her wandering around the city of london, muttering to herself. "Tsk, I don't know, all this loose straw and all these wooden buildings, one knocked-over lamp and the whole place'll go up like a torch!"
@@Wrincewind. 1666: (â_ â ;)
And yet, it's still collapsed twice apparently. People better learn to listen.
"This water turns teddy bears to stone." I'm interested.
"You can buy the teddy bears in the gift shop." I'm VERY interested.
For some reason the online shop is currently closed, but using the way back machine, they were previously ÂŁ35
they are ÂŁ45 now x
Ok, so: teddy bear mace of death?
âEnglandâs Oldest Attraction Turns Teddy Bears to Stoneâ was definitely an AI suggestion that Tom lucked out on being real.
That's what I thought when I read the title! It's so random
I agree; that phrasing sounds a lot like the other GPT-3 suggestions.
@@interesting6436 you must be new to Tom's channel if you're surprised by q random video title hahaha
I thought that too
More likely heâs just thumbing through his copy of âBollocks to Alton Towersâ. (Which are great books to be fair.)
I went as a kid and I got splashed from the waterfall. All the next day I was paranoid I was going to turn into stone, I just kept checking my arm.
For example
.....and? what happened?
@@cybergeek11235 nothing obviously.
@@cybergeek11235 can't remember, I could have caught cobbles, but I got better
You were petrified you were going to be petrified!
Guide: "..and it never dries up."
Me: "Of course, it never dries up, it's in Yorkshire. Nothing in Yorkshire ever properly dries up."
Okey I laughed at this.
Especially the Tykes themselves, no matter how often we ask them "dry up, will you?".
Despite all the economic crisis this is the right time to start up an investment
@@johnnykayla3982 do you follow the teachings of John Warosa ?
@@auxencefromont1989 what about John barosa?
When I was a child (I just turned 71 three days ago), my parents used to take me to a spa town in Slovakia called SliaÄ. We could buy similar petrified items there. I really wanted one, but my parents would not buy me one. I still wish they had, though,
Happy Birthday!
@@luziferius3687 Thanks đ
Damn that stuck with you!
Never too late for a trip SliaÄ and to buy a petrified teddy bear for your inner kid
Knowing tourist spots it was likely very expensive. Hope youre well!
"Chemically, maybe not. Linguistically? Sure, I'll take that."
Now that's a yearbook quote.
A stealable quote
It's a mineral not a rock! Jesus Marie!
@@pedrogonzalez5590 Best use of this quote I've seen yet
It's the correct way to shut down any semantic arguments with pesky prescriptivists.
@@pedrogonzalez5590 đđ So on point
"Oh no, the world is ending!"
"How did this happen?"
"Some bridge fell in England!"
This sounds like a joke, but everyone went crazy in 2012 because of some ancient maya calendar.
@@MauriceGucci itâs true we died in 2012 after itâs all a simulation đ±
"London Bridge is down"
Knowing England's history they would probably bring destruction to the whole world just to make the prophecy true
@@chimpazoo1143 Oh no, when the Queen dies that'll truly be the end of the world.
As a chemist (well, soon-to-be chemistry PhD student, to be precise), I hereby certify, that described process is, indeed, close enough to petrification - and also equally, if not more, amazing
It's the same process that makes petrified wood, isn't it?
Are you a chemistry phd student yet
With a title like that I really want to know what the next AI video suggestions are going to be...
Splitsie!!
Splitsie!
Splitsie!
Splitsie!!
"It's like a spaceship for sharks" in my case
Some say that, on the darkest of nights, if you go to Knaresborough and listen carefully, you can hear faint echoes of those Yorkshiremen 400 years ago exclaiming... "HOW MUCH!!!!!" when they see the entry price.
And the ghost of the owner of the tourist attraction still haunts us, waiting to make more money off of it.
its daylight robbery
Brilliant!! Try telling that to the kids of today, they'll never believe you.
GaGHAHAHAHahaha I honsetly burst out laughing!!
Well I'm no Yorkshireman but my better half is well used to me exclaiming, "HOW MUCH?" In every shop I'm dragged into!
Tom's going to be getting the England tourism business back up and running by himself soon enough
Can confirm, I live half an hour away from knaresborough and now want to see this cave đ
I've never been to england but I have to say, I wanna go see this pool and a few other things he's shown on this channel, not the dangerous places of course.
Not from he's not!
I fully expect to see a video on the Wookey Hole caves in the near future!
That was what's left of English tourism...
"Oh no can 2020 get any worse!"
"The Knaresborough bridge collapsed"
How can 2020 get worse in the middle of 2021?
"Unless the laws of physics have changed in the last hundred years"
I can confirm that 2020 has gotten worse. The laws of physics may have changed in the last two years.
I have one of the teddy bears and I totally love it! It takes pride of place in my living room cabinet! (Yes they are expensive but I was on holiday and given some money by my Nan and told to âspend it on something frivolous that you wouldnât otherwise get treat yourself to something you want rather than need.â - with a 6 year old son at the time who was fascinated by them it seemed the obvious choice!)
Sorry to ask over a year later, but how much did the teddy cost if you remember?
@@drum420 yes Im interested
Your Nan is totally awesome.
@@drum420 You can just about see the label of the smallish one at the end saying ÂŁ45, so I'd presume they're between ÂŁ40-60? I've never been so I can't be sure ^^
Your Nan is a very wise person.
When the gift shop at the tourist attraction is so old It becomes a tourist attraction it self, you know its old.
Do you
@@rita25y.o-checkmyvideo26 I like men
@@seungkwanbot3203 same
So is there a gift shop for the gift shop? Can we get Giftshopception started?
@@roguishpaladin
Wanna bet there's giftshop-themed bumper stickers and shirts?
Tom scott today: How to hide a body by turning it into a statue, pro life-hack.
Crazy that this comment hasnt got a response by a bot yet
Sounds like something which would have fit in the Hannibal TV show.
Pompeii 2.0
Unused places for a Bond villian to die for 500, Alex...
Hang it for a year in a tourist attraction?
There's a cave like this in Buxton, also. In the 1800's it was turned into a tourist attraction. People would leave a soft item, e.g hat, teddy bear, shoe, and then come back months to years later to retrieve their "stone" item. It was encouraged so that the business would get twice the income đ
Who else is suddenly looking around their place for things that would look good covered in drippy stone?
Linguistically turning to stone would totally be one of Tom's signature curses as a wizard.
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It just covers the target with minerals and calls it a day.
"Now, you will become figuratively petrified!"
[victim gets scared]
"Yes! It worked!"
It would be a good name for a band.
"I can assure you the bridge is very solid".
Famous last words.
If the bridge starts to crumble you could just wrap it in blankets and run water over it for 6 months
@@benja_mint _Oxford University wants to know your location_
Ah, studio C
I would be weird, to say the least, if the fate of the *whole* world would hinge on one bridge in a village, somewhere hidden away far away from everything else in the world.
@@thany3 Not exactly hidden away. Until it was bypassed fairly recently this bridge carried the A59 Liverpool - York main road; Knaresborough was a notorious bottleneck.
You can preproduce the same effect by supper saturating a glass of very warm water with sugar until no more sugar will dissolve in the water. Then you stoke lengths of strings in the sugar water and then the hang lengths of strings in the water and let it sit, and over time the sugar crystals will collect on the string.
I'm a chemist and I'm okay with people saying this turns things to stone. If you painted your house blue, you would say that your house was blue, even though all you did was add blue paint.
Can we take a second to appreciate that tour guide and all the other tour guides around the world at little out of the way attractions, that know their stuff inside and out, and can turn a dull trip into a hilarious one.
Thankyou sir for your work and to all the others sirs and madams like him.
Hats off to you.
If anyone is ever in Kerry, Ireland - more specifically Tralee - during the summer, I highly recommend checking out the Tralee Wetlands Centre. There are tours led by students during internships, and as each student has different interests and focuses, each tour is different, though all of the dozen or so I've been on have been equally fascinating.
This man's voice matches the attraction so well that it's scary. I want him narrating my life.
âChemically? Maybe not.
Linguistically? Sure, Iâll take that.â
Meanwhile in the âIs water wet?â debate:
The park assistant is the epitome of the kind of older guides to historical places there always seems to be in the UK. Reminds me of school trips, a legend :)
Ikr I feel like Iâve met him many times before
There's always one wherever you go. It's a Nurse Joy kinda thing.
You can never really tell whether or not these folk are immortal.
I really wonder how these people are so calm and kind.
I would love to have this relaxing radiance too when I am older :(
I seriously wonder how these people deal with getting angry or feeling sad. Like I know they are just normal people but does anyone know how these people react when they stand in front of groups of annoying screaming children that don't listen to them and are just ignorant or mean? How do they deal with that while they want to spread information about something that is fascinating to them without getting frustrated?
For some reason, this comment thread is the most heart warming thing I've seen in a while.
I need to see Tom Scott in an RPG with a spell that's "turning the enemy to stone, linguistically"
Tom throws a stone behind them, they turn and look. Spell successful.
The spell is just Tom yelling *"You're stone now, you can't move,"* and then they just believe him
@@ragnkja Thank you for reminding me of that story, now it's all coming back to me
Brings a whole new meaning to "Sticks and stones may break my bones / but words will never hurt me"
I remember visiting Mother Shipton's Well when I was very young, and honestly, I think it was the surrealness of it more than anything that started my life path of being fascinated by the obscure, the unusual, and the almost magical-realism that nature can appear to posses. Top notch video, Tom đ
Damn, If only I had realized the potential of turning the shower-head at my old place on hard well water into a tourist attraction.
Video game makers
Problem is you're about four centuries too late on that one.
I love how Warrick Davis decided to leave an Ewok to be petrified.
I wonder if Karl was with him at the time
@@miraclesandmoonbeams464 Karl was packing socks into a rubber bag on that day.
I didn't even catch it properly, but I saw "Warwick Davis" and thought "that's an Ewok, isn't it?"
OF COURSE he left an Ewok.
It's a nice subtle reference that the kids of Agnes Nutter in the recent Good Omens adaptation mirror the accent of this guy who grew up near Mother Shipton's cave.
Went there this year. A proper yorkshire attraction. Nothing forced on you. Dont have to go in the shop. Just a nice walk and something worth seeing.
Went here when I was 5 and heard people talking about her and was terrified and when i saw the statue screamed and couldnât stop crying for two hours. Looking back , probably was an overreaction but when your that age itâs terrifiying
I like that "probably". :D
I have never been there, but as a very small child I had a similar reaction to simply SEEING THE PLACE ON TV. I went to bed terrified that a witch was going to turn me to stone. Can't imagine what I would have been like if someone had actually taken me there. When I saw the thumbnail for this vid I shuddered inside slightly, just at the memory.
joe Mac *you're
@@albond đđ» doesnât get invited to parties
Well now you got me "over thinking" this as I sit at home, waiting for my vaccine: Since a reaction is something that happens without logical thought, is subjective and fully dependent on the feelings that arise within - and those never, ever line up with the objective truth... Mix that with being a kid with no actual grasp of your current understanding of reality - was it truly an overreaction, or actually the pure fear that came from seeing something you couldn't understand the nature of? đ±
I'd say give your kid self a break đ
We totally need a spy thriller where the superstitious villain's goal is to blow up that bridge and thus, ending the world đ
Nuke the bridge cause ww3
If it was an American films he'd fight the hero and fall in the pond at the end and turn to stone.
If we ever get to the stage where Knaresborough bridge needs to be blown up by our enemies, then the end times will be here ! :)
And, to take the suggestion from one of the Technical Difficulties episode, the villain needs to be from Yorkshire and have the name "Steel Member" đ
@@chrisf6859 why not have the steel member shoot things?
That old guy explaining it seems so wholesome
0:46 well thatâs a nice year
See as an American Iâm jealous of this kind of bizarre history tucked into gorgeous little villages. Even in New England we have far fewer things this weird
America had plenty. Difference being we destroy most of them.
new england is the far worse england
@@jintsuubest9331 America is far too new of a country to have lots of things like this (the folklore not the stream)
from european perspective, USA hardly has any history (local or countrywide) at all
We had plenty in reality, but we either destroyed it or wiped out the people who could tell us. Try looking up history about the giants that clearly had been living in North America since before any of the European explorers arrived.
When i saw the title, i thought Tom had let the AI come up with something again ...
But i guess this actually made sense
Because the president
Very funny and original comment
@@99SuperKiller99 They are spamming
@McFlickers I keep on reporting them
@@kkmac7247 At least it's a different kind than usual. Not the one where they post a time code and nonstandard URL. I finally got so tired of those that I used the feedback button to ask them why they couldn't detect them.
Just 3 months to "petrify" a teddy? Thatâs incredibly fast.
Wow that looks like a total fairytale place. Minus the things dangling from string, someone could film a fantasy short entirely within that area! Maybe the stone teddy bears and hats could be an addition if it were a spooky fairytale...
I went there a few years ago, when I was about 9, and I remember one thing at the wishing well, after making her wish, my mum hit her head on the ledge (gently) and my dad immediately said that his wish had come true. Some of you may not find this funny, but just a wholesome story
Come on
i definitely find this funny. what was his tone of voice?
@@nat_to_han ??
I'm supposed to find it wholesome? "Abuse, LMAO"
@@kaldo_kaldo it's not abuse to make a small joke about something so innocent
As a Canadian, this is exactly how I picture England.
magical caves, witches and 400+ year old theme parks.
Checks out.
Iâve got to say this is one of my favorite videos. The nice old mans voice reminds me of my grandfather. Itâs so heart warming and the story is awesomeâ€ïž
Tom looks like an adorable 12-years-old elder with a lot of life experience
This guy sounds just like you'd expect the guy standing in front of a cave in order to tell you its bizare story to sound.
Fun fact: the water is only half as hard as the water I had to endure just outside of London. Thanks, Thames Water!
Yep, I had that water for 30 years; my insides are 90% calcified.
@@futurez12 You are turning into stone, mate
It's good when your water filter sounds like a dish washer
You cant beat that bit of crunch at the bottom of your cuppa đ
@@MJ-uk6lu Linguistically or chemically?
This tour guide just makes me happy.
Iâm using data to watch this because my internet is off. Iâm watching in 144p to save data. I still watched both ads, because I truly appreciate you making great content and having morals about advertisements among other things. I believe youâre a good person and I appreciate you. Thank you for doing what you do
"Not me, I have to add" 2:57
I always like a person with a good sense of self-depricating humour.
He's just trying to hide the fact that he's hundreds of years old. They have actual magic there and just distract people with a "story" and a water mixture that covers stuff.
That water is obviously the elixir of life
@@anderpanders6210 And the story of it turning things to stone is a cover up so no one uses it! Genius!
I was SO terrified of this place when I was little, was convinced I was gonna also turn to stone if I touched the water
Would you say the mere thought of it was petrifying...?
@@MyDearFrodo boooo
@@MyDearFrodo yayyyyy
@@MyDearFrodo HAHAHAH yes i certainly would
believe its like hard limestone around it
Don't mind me, I'm just inwardly cringing prematurely about the potential "this aged badly" statements:
- There's no way that bridge will fail a third time
- The well never dries up
I went there for a day out in 1998 with my boyfriend. We hired a boat, had ice cream and of course visited the cave. One of the tunes we had on in the car on the way home was Perfect Day. It was. We broke up eventually and married other people but I have a lovely memory of that day đ
I thought I recognised that establishing shot. Then I realised I went there as a kid. This video unlocked a core memory.
have you turned into stone yet?
The people demands more of these obscure histories from the towns of United Kingdom!
In all honesty, content like this is pure class.
I would love to sit and have Mr Wynne Tell me fairy tales and folk stories all day. His voice and accent just seem to suit the genre for some reason. Listening to him speak was delightful. đ
Oh my gosh. This really takes me back. Thanks for bringing this place to light and sharing it with the world!
A tale about this prophet reminds me of Agnes Nutter from Terry Pratchett's "Good Omens". Very similar vibe
YES! I knew it reminded me of something!
A surprising amount of stuff in Pratchett's work are directly inspired by weird things, places, or people in real life.
OMG YES
I was going to post my speculation that this was the inspiration for Agnes, but it turns out there was a real person named _Alice_ Nutter, said to be a prophet, who was hanged as a witch in 1612. Alizon Device, (remember Anathema Device?) was another person executed in the same Witch Hunt.
Didn't Ursula Shipton give a quote for Agnes Nutter's book jacket?
Jay Foreman and Tom Scott uploading at the same time, when my day couldn't get better
Jay Foreman uploaded??!! Thanks! I'll watch it
same!
âWhere is America... and why does it turn teddy bears to stoneâ (collar of the century)
Bruh
Those 2 and Bald & Bankrupt are some of the only good content creators left. They're the only thing I look forward to on CZcams.
When we went, the cave was in pitch blackness. Just as we reached the back, someone took a flash photo and the statue of Mother Shipton appeared for a second.
That was fun.
It's quite weird seeing somewhere that you once lived on CZcams
"I can assure you it's very solid" My man's out here just spitting in the face of the concept of jinxing
"some people just want to see the world burn"
I will declare 4:01 Chemist Approved. I'd say it's officially "close enough"
All I know is when I hear how long certain stalactites and stalagmites took to form, I think about stuff like this or places like salt mines having formations near the shaft.
I grew up here and honestly, Mother Shiptonâs Cave is an over priced place for what is essentially a pool/well you can look at and say âWowâ, a standard play park for kids and a walk through a very small woodland - thatâs it!
Tom: "It turns things to stone"
Me, a listening chemist: "Rargh ragh garh hrumph bah blargh bunsen burner"
Uploaded within minutes of Jay Foreman uploading, kinda sus.
Also the title sounds like it was generated by AI :)
HAHAHAHAHAGA ANOGUS GAHAMAAHAHAJAHAGETOUTOFMYHEADGETOUTOFMYHEADIMGOING INSANE SUSUSAMOGUSUSUSUSUSUS
i like tom scott's video a lot
Hope some Indian youtuber does same type of videos
I literally got them back to back as notifications
very surprising finding you here iron
Itâs the depressed guy, cool
Excellent episode. Thank you!
This gentleman guide is a delight
My god, the nostalgia, I used to live in go to school in Knaresborough, I lived in Starbeck. I remember we went on a trip to see this cave and I was astounded by the sheer number of objects hung from it all turned to stone.
king james's?
@@ghostflame6602 yup. I still remember that we also had to do a 10 mile walk for its 400th birthday. I hated every minute of it.
People are scared that it can turn you into stone but I'm worried about that fact that that is 400 year old bathwater
By that logic, so are most rivers ponds and lakes. But water moves on, it's not as if it's the same water from 400 years ago.
I'm reliably informed that you never step in the same river twice
Visited here quite a few times. Thank you for featuring it.
My husband and his family used to visit this cave as did myself and my family. There are school trips to see this attraction and as a child I went on one of them. I was fascinated by the items that were hung up that had turned to stone ... Its simply because there are minerals in the water that do petrify those items and in time they do turn to stone. Its science and is very remarkable. Today there are still visitors going to see Mother Shipton's cave ... My husband has fond memories there as it was one of the last places that his father went before, he actually passed away .. Thanks for sharing xx
Disney would spend untold sums of money to create a waterfall for Disneyworld that tries (and doesn't quite succeed) to look like that and would hire a team of writers to come up with a back story for it that wouldn't be nearly as interesting.
Thanks to the slow evolution of time, picking the best parts of the story (and the even slower geological formation of the landscape). Canât rush these things.
You're quite a spiteful person
Wow, who knew it was hard physically and financially to artificially create a natural formation that looks like it's been there for hundreds of years in the middle of a Florida theme park?
Video description: *Folks there have been charging admission for nearly 400 years*
Hmmm, how did that start?
"Sir Charles was a canny Yorkshireman."
Say no more! I've heard enough!
I've been here before, it's cool to see an actual video talking about it, especially from you.
This is honestly such an amazing piece of nature and I love how we get a chance to interact and explore and find such gems in the environment. That's such a unique and fascinating area.
Loads of History in Knaresborough, you could still go to see the Castle with talking crows/ravens, St Robertâs Cave, the House in the Rock, and the chapel built into the cliff face.
And Harrogate has a lot of history to explore also.
OK, admit it Tom. This is that one video title the AI came up with
Because the
These bots are getting out of hand
So funny and original
@@sire8677 Yep, why are there so many suddenly? I try reporting each and every one of them, but it won't help much anyway :/
Frankly, all of Tom Scott's video titles sound like an AI came up with them.
Clearly the point of the proficiency was to get the local council to maintain the bridge properly and I can see it worked.
Tom if you're ever able to come to the States again, you should do one on French Lick, Indiana - it's another spring that was supposed to have healing powers, and as it turns out, the waters are indeed full of Lithium, which to this day is a commonly prescribed anti-depressant.
"don't worry the bridge has already fallen down twice"
me: looks outside
hmmmmmmmmmmmm
It cancels out
Waiting for the guide to give Tom some weird side quest involving mysterious noises coming from the cave and recommend the local bards college.
Wow, I wasnât expecting to see my town when I clicked on this video
Thank you so so much for sharing all of your knowledge and the awesome stories with us, Tom. :)
So nice to hear a Yorkshire accent on a popular youtube video
car on't rod
Ironically, the name "Teddy bear" was not coined by the time this existed.
true
Video games for
Nor were teddy bears even invented, AFAIK. Unless they had other plushies that resembled bears, I suppose.
Never let historical accuracy get in the way of making a quick buck.
You don't know what irony is.
Bro, I legit had a dream about a very very very similar looking place. I've never heard of it or seen it before and it gives me shivers seeing it in the video
The park assistant reminds me of my grandad, bless his soul
As someone who lives very close to Mother Shipton's Cave and loves the stories surrounding it, it makes me very happy to learn that Tom has made a video about it â„
Really wonderful and interesting story, Tom! Thanks! It feels nice to be able to travel vicariously through the video.
This feels like the beginning of a Dr. Who episode.
0:50 "... a young lady called Agatha ..."
My brain: "Harkness!"
It's all connected
It was Agatha all along
đ¶It's been Agatha all alongđ¶
Probably Mephisto....
Who's been messing up everything?
@@ellielavender1498The Doctor and Kyubey
"Linguistically, I'll take that" - hah! Knowing full well that Tom's got the knowledge and history to back that up, too.
Nice video Tom, thanks for sharing!
Long, long ago I had seen this on a boredpanda article and never saw the name, only that it calcified things, and I didn't know _what_ to Google for because "water cave that turns things into rocks" isn't a particularly good search. Thanks Tom for letting me rediscover things :D
Now i know a little more. Thanks!
"This enraged Mother Shipton, who punished him severely."
We love finding other fandoms in the wild!