The Most Ridiculous Urban Legends
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- čas přidán 16. 06. 2024
- Embark on a journey through the most absurd urban legends, from emergency services magically charging your phone to the infamous organ harvesting myth. Don't believe everything you hear! Watch now.
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Lorelei keeps absolutely nailing the editing. chef’s kiss.
Aw thanks!
💯 so good
Legitimate art. F'n brilliant editing.
"yes they are" i lost it lol
The memes were absolutely on fire today. So good.
Dave:"At the time of writing, it's nearly halloween."
Simon: "its January!"
Marge: "it's May!!"
That was fucking golden.
It wasn't just Marge who thought "It's MAY!"
great editing
Watcher from the future: What Y'all talking about, it's clearly Halloween
Dave's parents are savage! 😂
I'm Black (this is relevant, I promise). When I was about 10yrs old, I was playing around on my mom's keyboard piano, just pressing random keys. She came into the living room and said something like "You know, real Black musicians only play using the black keys," and went back into the kitchen. I carefully began picking away only at the black keys. Shortly thereafter I hear my parents giggling together like children in the kitchen. I was appalled and embarrassed at the time, but now it's one of my favorite absolutely hilarious childhood memories. 🤣❤️
On the other hand: that works out to a pentatonic scale (E flat minor, or G flat major). A lot of Stevie Wonder's songs use this, cause it's easier to play on the keyboard for blind musicians, as the black keys are raised up and in a different location to the white keys.
@@NavneetRaoI was thinking this exactly.. I love them black keys!
The Black Keys sounds like a band name
that's because it sounds like the black eye peas
@@jackoh991 there's a pretty great band called "The Black Keys" as it turns out!
Oh my god, Lorelei during the “It’s May!” portion 😂😂😂😂
I'm just glad it actually came out in May!
Fantastic part, was thinking same thing.
Top notch Poison meme @@EveryFairyDies 🙏
@@roysoutdoorlife A stupid pun, but I cackled.
@@EveryFairyDies me too 😄
The whole, “Halloween” “January “ “May” bit broke my brain for a second.
Definitely worth the wait for Lorelei to edit it though
That’s probably the biggest process delay that’s been unintentionally revealed by a CZcamsr
On top of the fact that 2013 was “nearly 10 years ago”
If it’s Halloween
It must be…
October 2022 what on earth-
The "it's may" really got me 😂😂
Seconds? Mine for minutes! Maybe 10 to the point my bf said breath if u wanna live 🤣
I fancy starting a new urban myth about Simon.
He has a secret channel that no one has yet discovered. The content of the channel is instructions to access a Swiss bank account, the funds of which were supplied by Raid Shadow Legends who have been sponsoring him on a long term basis.
Once Simon heard there was an urban myth about Simon. He debunked it in an episode of "Decoding the Unknown"
If you start raid shadow legends and then smash your screen, Simon's secret channel will be added to your subs
You didn't know that?
Facts. I helped fund it. (Just kidding I hate raid shadow legends more than he. The ads are so annoying)
@captaintitusz4761 weird sidenote: I hated the ads too, but they seemed to drop off sharply in the last year of two.
I have nothing against the game, never played it. Just the obnoxious ubiquity of them.
One day they'll learn that obnoxious ads just make people hate them more.
I work for emergency services. Please don't do that on your phone.
indeed: they are required to assume that the hang-up was involuntary, and act accordingly.
@@kenbrown2808no they're not. What country do you live in? Both UK and California have INFAMOUS calls of kidnapped women (including one screaming with her tounge cut out) and the 911 operators were ABSOLUTE bitches who never sent anyone.
I work for the secret battery company, you should definitely do it.
nope not any more.
Lorelei, 10/10! The Alex bit was hilarious, and clearly took some research, and the quitting clapperboard guy was brilliant. You’re my new favorite editor!
Just got info on the brain blaze back log. Halloween script, January recording, May editing and release. Love the team dynamic!!
Halloween "almost 10 years" after 2013... So 2022 Halloween. This script has been hiding for over a year...
My siblings and I used to say that our mother's Halloween costume was Great Britain because every year, she would "tax the colonies".
Lorelei is the master at her craft.
The Edits are the main reason I watch.
Aw, thanks!
Same 😹 I listen to some of Simon’s channels while I’m driving but I can’t listen to Brain Blaze while I’m driving because I have to watch the edits too 😹
There is one case where someone has poisoned a family's Halloween candy. But it was the dad who murdered his children not a random stranger.
For the insurance money no less
Waaaay back in 1978, when I was 7, I was eating pop-rocks when the kid next door told my grandmother that “some guy” had eaten pop-rocks with Coke and died. That was the end of pop-rocks in our house. It turned out that the urban legend was that the kid from the Life cereal commercial (Mikey likes it) had eaten pop-rocks and Coke on a dare, then he exploded. Total nonsense, but lots of people stopped buying pop-rocks because of the tall tale.
aka Mikey Likey Nike, Crikey
People still believe the Mikey story! He works in radio advertising.
My mom told me this back in like 1995. I was around 8. She still would buy them too, when my brother asked, but I was too scared. She would have been...15 when you're talking about lol
Written: October
Read: January
Uploaded: May
Gives some perspective on the work that goes in to these videos
Simon will be dead 6 months and still releasing videos.. that’s a big brain right there! 💀😂
If by ‘work’ you mean loads and loads of videos and not anything actually technical, sure.
I blame Peter, whoever he is, he must be at fault lol
@@queenzebra8219 supplying income for his family for the next decade.
@@harleyjo4875 There's more to these channels than just Simon recording videos. People are doing research and writing these scripts. Someone then has to take the raw recorded footage and edit it into the final product that gets uploaded. If it's so easy and nothing technical goes into the videos, then why don't you have a channel with nearly 500k subscribers and numerous other channels, all consistently uploading content?
2:30 - Chapter 1 - Emergency services phone charger
6:55 - Chapter 2 - Spiked halloween treats
10:25 - Chapter 3 - The beast of hackney marsh
14:05 - Chapter 4 - Mysterious organ harvesting
18:05 - Chapter 5 - Carrots help you see in the dark
PS : 18:15 - Smash that carrot button
PS: All hail the glorious return of *Tangent Timer*
Lorelei, I adore you. “Poison is bad.” “Yes, they are.” 😂😂😂
The commercial that played immediately when the episode ended also started with, "Hello, Alex!" How??? It meshed in seamlessly. 😂💀
Lorelei, you are absolutely my favorite editor. All of them are legendary, but I think that you bring an extra something to your videos. Perfection.
Lorelai's editing is why I watch these vids rather than listening to them like a podcast. On point. Astarion addition yields extra points. ;)
Simon's genuine mirth during the carrot bit delighted the hell outta me.
And well done, Dave. You legend.
As someone that got stuck with a random used needles changing the trash at work (the small t-shirt bag swung as I tied it and stuck my twice,) I feel Simon's discomfort for used needles. I had to spend months getting tested and retested for various STDs including HIV/AIDS. Also had to get a a number of vaccines for a bunch of stuff. Thankfully I didn't get anything, but still...
Oh, you were lucky then, I hope this never happens to you again.
I once had a project request to help design needle-proof gloves as PSA/workwear and this is damn near impossible. Cut-proof is far easier but doesnt help you in this scenario. Only thing that works is thick leather gloves but good luck fiddling with trash bags with those...
Even if a person is deep in an hard drugs binge, they should find the second to cap their needles.
Each needle comes with an orange safety cap.
Where I live, needles are rarely thrown on the ground, as there are exchanges. But all the needles Ive seen in the trash or on the ground, have had orange safety caps on them.
Only a very stupid and selfish person would disregard the capping.
@@dereinzigwahreRichi it was a fast food resturant so all I had access to were nitrile and vinyl gloves. Like what people were getting at the shops during covid. So they were useless against a sharp needle. 😖
@@mjfan653 exactly. I have nonodea who it was but I wasn't suprised. I lived in a type of low-income housing called the "PJs" in the US. Basically like the ghettos but they're specifically apartment complexes vs a specific neighborhood or town. And in the one I lived in, as well as some others in the county, it isn't uncommon to find them on the ground. When I was living there and my kids were very small, I often wouldn't let them play outside much if we couldn't go elsewhere because I was worried about them picking one up, not knowing any better.
Thankfully while we're we live now isn't the best my kids can just go outside and run the streets of our neighborhood barefoot and be okay.
Blood born pathogens are no joke even when you have proper procedures in place.
I Love the kinda banter that goes on on this channel, between Dave, Simon, and Lorelei the Editor X3
7:09 "But at least, by the time of writing it is nearly Halloween"....."omg, it's January"..... "it's May!!!!"
This was just so perfect!!! And the timing that it's actually the first week of May, so 8 days ago, Lorelei couldn't have used that meme, is just amazing😂😂😂
Funny thing about sharps containers: they're designed so that people can't just randomly stick their hands in them.
June Weinstock is from the town where I live. She suffered severe brain injury from the attack and had to be in a care facility for the rest of her life. Mob mentality is truly terrifying.
I just love Lorelei's editing and her Australian talents of sutley and tact.
Oh Dave I gotta know, did the carrots help you see in the dark?
What? Its not like Dave is going to read it or anything.
🤣🤣
He now sees twice as well. 2 times zero is still zero.
@alanhilder1883 *checks calculator* can confirm, the math checks out.
My Dad used to say “eat your carrots, because you never see a rabbit wearing glasses”!
Same here 😂😂😂😂
P.S my dad not your dad
Which would make sense if rabbits eat carrots
I was expecting the "Everyone has AIDS" number from Team America World Police, so the Family Guy bit actually surprised me!
Dammit Lorelei, that stray Discord notification SFX was devilish.
Yeah, that was totally on purpose... *darting eyes*
@EveryFairyDies Knowing it was accidental somehow makes it even better. Lol.
Were you recording system audio for the sound bite and just so happen to get a Discord notification or something?
Of FFS! I was casually listening and got irritated at discord…FOR NO GOOD REASON!!!
@@_Hodgepodge Probably. I don't even remember any more. I made that asset a long time ago. I could fix it, but that's not as fun.
@@eeik5150 LOL
Love the writer tangent timer.
Same, although I wasn’t sure why it was running while he was actually on script lol.
@@laurenelizabeth8948 Because it was the writer who was on the tangent, not Simon.
@@wwbraveheart4 wow, thank you for the clarification, I feel rather sheepish for not having made that connection lol.
@@laurenelizabeth8948 no worries, I was initially confused as well, then rewatched part of it, and realised what the timer was actually for.
I couldn't resist. Glad you enjoyed it.
After seeing what people were willing to believe in 2020, I am never going to assume people are too smart for an online scam ever again.
When my son was an infant, he literally did turn orange! Carrots, Sweet Potato and Pumpkin were the main culprits. For some stupid reason, I didn't think of this, even though I know you can make a plant turn any colour you like by adding food colouring to the water. After a VERY long night at the hospital, the Head of Paediatrics came to us and asked "Just by the off chance, does your son eat a lot of orange foods?"
I replied "Yes, it seems he only likes orange foods."
"Well" said he, "I am fairly sure your son does not have Jaundice, but rather, you have dyed you child!"
I felt a right idiot and went straight home and gave him some peas and butter!
😂😂✌️
Tip of the hat to Lorelei, especially the "hello Alex" bit. Perfection.
Am i remembering correctly that years later it came out that the person who was the origin of the poison candy urban legend had actually poisoned their own kid's candy in an attempt to collect life insurance on them? I swear i stumbled across that on some true crime show a few years back.
Yeah a dad poisoned his sons pixie sticks (and his daughters but she didn't eat them) to collect life insurance.
Simon is further behind on scripts than I am on child support.
you said you were just going out for cigarettes
Stop breeding fuck trophies
I quit smoking 2 years ago @@---l---
gold
The whole "Almost Halloween, it's January, it's May! " but got me stitches for minutes! Maybe 10, to the point my bf said breath if u wanna live 🤣
I was born, grew and still live within a mile or two of Hackney Marshes. I've played 100s of football matches, run lots of races, gone to gigs and managed events on it. I have never once heard any mention of a Hackney Marshes monster. I've googled it though and does seem like there was a police search mission w/ helicopter in 1981. I'm hoping the 2012 'sighting' wasn't real or if it was, it wasn't a prank because the marshes is right next to the London Olympic site in Stratford. They had snipers on rooftops and armed police units all over. Someone mucking about in a bear suit could've got put down.
Dear Dave,
Thank you for what might have been the hardest and most cathartic laugh I've had in at least three last year.
Bravo!
The razor thing in Halloween candy goes back to the 1960s and it was supposed to have happened in New York. There were also reports of LSD and things injected into candies for a few years in the late 60s. In New Orleans, where I grew up, no reports. I sometimes think it was an outgrowth of the actual painkiller poisonings that happened a couple of times.
I HATED the carrot one. I got glasses in the 3rd grade. We were poor and this was a bad thing. So, my mom INSISTED on having me eat as many carrots as possible. This led to my afternoon snacks being carrots cut into disks. Do you have any IDEA how many old, rubbery carrot disks ended up in my desk? Carrots pretty much make me sick now.
The random Discord notification during "Parenting Stuff with Fact Boy" completely threw me for a loop. LOL
1:29 now I want to know how many hours the video editor has in baldurs gate 3
I admit to nothing other than a love of the game.
@@EveryFairyDies I mean publicly same amount like minded individuals any play time under triple digits is amateur level
Dave does have a hell of a sens if humor!! 😂😂 I love it!
3:15 I would think it could also be tied to the fact that even an old GSM cell phone that’s not activated or on a network can still dial 911. This is the first I’m ever hearing of Blackberry being able to only able to make emergency calls in power save mode, and as popular as Blackberry was, it was really only certain execs who used them vs the general populace.
"he can't even speak!" 6:01
We need to talk about the unspoken cultural phenomenon that is "dad tax"
The only case of tainted candy I know of was a local one to me in the 80s, where a person slipped double edge razor blades into candy apples. And the person who did it was allegedly mentally disturbed, and accused local kids of vandalizing their house. No idea what happened after that, but it was reported on *after* Halloween.
Fab stuff. Also, Astarion!! Love him!!! All the editing and memeology here was spot on!!
Omg, Simon cracking up over the carrots had me falling out of my chair laughing
HOORAY, for Simon! I Nearly "Nearly Fell, on the Floor"
GET, HIM on the 'Comedy Circuit" 🤣🤣
Omgoodness…a pharmacist I worked with (and in in the USA they actually spend enough time in school to get a doctorate in pharmacy) believed the whole “charging the cell phone call” thing. 🤦🏼♀️
Not just in the US, plenty of other countries as well including many so called 'sh1thole'' countries in Africa (know quite a few through church, they all trained in Africa and they all have years of medical training behind them.
Lorelei I love your editing ❤❤❤ you make it much better. I just had a crappy day and your editing made it much more enjoyable and funnier.
Sucks you had a crappy day, but glad I was able to make it a little better!
As a small city/ not quite country boy, and a loner/hermit whos biggest fear in the world is being trapped in the middle of a panicking crowd thats pressing in on all sides while having no, or being unable to reach an, exit, the idea of permanently settling in a city like LA, NY, Seattle, Chicago, or any other city that takes longer than 30 minutes to travel from one side to the other even at the slowest of times is quite unthinkable to me. I honestly belive i would attempt living off the land or going homeless before i would attempt to make a life intentionally in a midsize to large city. speaking of whether or not london is nice or not that is.
Lorelei crushed it with the editing. Love you all, and thank you.
Editing in this episode is *chef's kiss* good.
Dave being able to see because of carrots dropped me. Laughed so hard.
I see Lorelai has fallen down the BG3 rabbithole.. we will pray for you
No need, I'm loving it down here!
The U.K.: gets call about a cryptid; sends out almost half a hundred officers.
The U.K.: repeated reports of abuse and involving a missing person; "They're fine."
Im pretty sure that most, if not all, parents tax their childrens food.
I also call it the Dad Tax.
I don't know how that discord notification noise got into the video at 10:19, but it really freaked me out for a second because I didn't even have discord running.
Simon: I've got the best job, just sitting here in a comfortable room with tea reading a script
Also Simon: I'm so far behind at work
I was definitely not expecting a baldur's gate clip, but i'm happy to see it
Lorelei, Dave will be very upset when he sees the meme you represented him with. 😂😂😂 Funny and Dave would enjoy it.
18:14... Now wiping coffee off my computer monitor... Kin ell Dave... That was dark.
The whole Carrots bit had me laughing so hard I almost fainted XD
“Tangent Timer”! Gold! 😜😂
The blind joke got me lol, never seen that one coming.
The editor really doesn't like Poison, and I found that exceptionally funny. Kudos.
The opening bit reminded me of Charlie the Unicorn 😂😂 lalalaaaa candy mountain 😂😂
2:23 Lorelei, I see that Sens8 clip, that was a great show 😂
Yes! Loreleis editing is the greatest, and with the tangenttimers aswell. Niiice.
that was ONE HECK of a way to open the video simons editors >.> i'm uh just watching it and am about thirty seconds in lol
The editing for this episode 🤌
bleeding discord notification sound effect. you know what you did. 🤣
You just saved me from going through the REST of my server list to see what happened where. :D
Today’s episode was brilliant. Just what I needed
I have to say first the editing on this video is hilariously top notch!!
Then I have to say HEY!! The reason here in the UK there's modern folklore, stories, rumours whatever about strange beasts, maybe escaped exotic pets etc is because the scariest thing you'll encounter across the UK is perhaps an angry Bull/Cow or maybe a Horse!! If you're really unlucky potentially an Adder but even then you've got to be extremely unlucky to die from a bite!
Especially as kids when you go out exploring, there's a vast expanse of land, maybe a big woodland!? Blatantly there's gunna be a Wolf Pack hidden away or perhaps a small population of maybe a big cat etc.
I also mention the escaped/released exotic pets & big cats because that DID happen (Simon has done a video about it!) Whilst the arguments for & against some of these big cats surviving & evading capture to start a small population is absolutely up for debate! There was a time when some of these "Beasts" could very well have been an escaped Puma say! Then folklore & Chinese Whispers does its thing!
Super stoked there is a back log of episodes to be excited about
The thought of poor young Dave being told that carrots help you see in the dark cracked me up because my best friend who happened to have two artificial eyes from a very young age also tried eating lots of carrots as a child so that she could see in the dark. I am also trying to figure out if anyone tried to tell me this or if I just accepted that I was night blind and carrots would never fix the issue
Ouch! Wicked memeology, Lorelei! What's the next level up from a Doctorate of Memeology? Supreme Being of Editing? Love it all. Keep them coming! Oh, and ask Whistle Boy for a nice, fat raise! It's well deserved, and he can afford it surely😂
I’m in London right now and I’ve seen four Manticores this morning. Although… they could just be foxes being cheeky and I need to get a new carbon monoxide detector
And Dave cannot see the timer... Ha!
Don't worry, I'll tell him about it.
I don’t think I’ve ever been so early to Simon video. Good shit mate.
Tangent timer is rolling while he’s reading the script.
After not watching these videos for a while due to life getting in the way, the first thing Simon says is making me go 'things haven't changed then'. Missed the out of context intros!
"Very polluted"... "But it was fun,though". Simon, oh Simon.
Speaking of lipstick in bathrooms after passing out, I was reminded of the famous “Welcome to the wonderful world of AIDS” urban legend that was also spread via email in the 1980s.
Says you! I just nodded off for an hour in the SeaTac airport. When i woke up, I'd been plucked balled by a wig maker, had all my organs harvest, and had been left propped up on cender blocks just outside of Salt Lake city. All I got for my troubles was a t-shirt that said 'I got harvested and all I got was a crappie t-shurt' that didn't even fit. (It's a 4xl)
The worst part about the schedule is it was written on Halloween. Recorded in January and released in May. The Halloween foul play on previous episodes was family members.
Honestly the editing is on point
Editing truly at a pinnacle
About a million years ago I was a chat and message board host for AOL and I worked in the Urban legends chat room and chat board. Brings back some interesting memories lol
This one was worth the wait 🤣
Hearing Simon saying his nan saved everything after talking about her cutting off chicken heads had me VERY worried where he was going with his anecdote xD
I subscribed when Sam was editing. This was amazing. The retakes inserts made me giggle.
Just thank you, Lorelei
I love how Lorelei is upping the editing game. The question is, how far can this go??
I remember that battery thing was a thing with blackberries, however it didn't unlock any extra power it just disabled the phone from shutting down properly when it thought the battery was low, so you could make a call to emergency services but your phone would realistically die in a matter of minutes.
For the record, the kidney harvest story goes back to at least the late 80's, when I heard it for the first time.
when he was talking about his grandma cutting chicken's heads off and then went directly in to she kept every I thought he was about to tell us his grandma had chicken skulls or something 🤣
Every pony happy now editor you have my ❤.😂
I thaugh that they found out the great big hairy thing on hackney marsh was Boris Johnson after a few can of fosters
This is good editing