The Most Terrifying Ocean Mysteries
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Timestamps
Intro - 00:00
The Mary Celeste - 3:47
The Kaz II - 19:42
The Flannan Isles Lighthouse - 24:22
An unhinged rant about ocean monsters and why I hate the ocean I hate it so much it hurts we have to get rid of it - 33:29
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thx now i can finally shave my balls
I know you’re reading this but you said you were gonna do the ping pong on your eyes and static noise, the gantzfeld experiment and you lied about doing it
You should make a video over Team Seas it’s a great fundraiser dad
Can u find me a rapping mermaid😂😂 ik u hate the ocean but if u show us a mermaid that can rap battle people im sure youd get millions of views lmao
@@JiosWrld im pretty sure thats fake it doesnt get you high or make you see things i heard it just makes u feel weird
*List of Wendigoon fears:*
- Distorted human faces
- Deep bodies of water
- People who haven't yet subscribed
And anything that isn't giants
You forgot spooky Jesus stuff.
poor hygine too
non Hawaiian shirts
How about poor hygiene?
Me: "I'll just stay on the land-"
Wendi: "THATS HOW THE OCEAN GETS YA"
huh, i prefer “mr.goon” but to each their own !
lol
@@jillianc7485 Mr. Goon sounds like a generic villain that gets introduced in the first few episodes of a show just to be used as a tool to show how powerful the main cast is.
@@owah or DR. Goon sounds better for a villain than mr.
@@user-qb9pf5jo6l I HAVE DEVELOPED A SUREFIRE WAY TO TAKE DOWN SPOOKY JESUS-
@@largeboi4678 WHY IS SPOOKY JESUS SO FUNNY
Obviously what happened to the Mary Celeste is that they were waylaid by pirates, ordered to use the lifeboat to board the pirates ship, and then before the pirates could search the Mary Celeste, they were attacked by a Kraken.
Perfect theory
Pretty accurate, i was there, you just forgot to mention the sirens that drowned a few of us
Source? “trust me bro”
Right a kraken definitely
@@hegemonious Thats bullshit but I believe you. Because it was shown to me in a dream. I believe the one who showed it to me in the dream is in the room with us right now. I heard it whisper "trust me"
Scariest thing i’ve ever heard:
“there was a sounding rod just laying there”
😭😭😭
“There was a sounding rod”
YO?!?!?!?
“Theyre used to mesire the amount of water”
oh.
Literally had a heart attack I was like what are these freaks doing out there and then he went "it was used to measure the water level" and I was like oop. Well. Okay then.
Urethra
@@B_H_Jvery insightful
Police: "So these three guys all disappeared in a middle of a boating trip, what do you think happened?"
Coroner: "Have you ever watched Final Destination?"
i had to think of that too xD
I was thinking the EXACT same thing, hahahaha
Lmdaoooo
Final Destination, but it turned into a slapstick somehow.
Sounds like Cthulhu is up to his old shenanigans again
The "funny" thing about colossal squids is that an adult specimen has never actually been identified, which brings up the possibility that only adolescents specimens go to the surface once in a while and REALLY giant specimens are only found right at the bottom of the ocean.
How do we know all the ones found are adolescent if we've never found an adult?
@@100organicfreshmemes5 i think it is because some of the beaks we have found in the stomachs of sperm whales are bigger than any of the beaks we have found on any other specimens. So we know there are bigger ones but we havent actually seen them
@@100organicfreshmemes5 if its an adolescent fish or whatever, its probably because the reproductive organs aren't fully developed?
What the fuck. That’s terrifying, and to be fair, the Kraken could just be an adult colossal squid right?
What would they be eating at the bottom of the ocean though? Its not like theres bigger fish the deeper you go.
I have a possible explanation regarding the “lost island” at 41:30. A lot of cartographers would put fake islands on their maps as a way of watermarking their work. If another cartographer created a map and included that island, the original artist would be able to point at the fake island and say “hey I made this island up, so I have proof that you stole my work.” I’m guessing it was a watermark that spiraled into a bigger lie
This probably is true as alot of cartographers up till the 18th century often just relied on other maps to plot their own map rather than actually doing their own research.
Wow I just realized
It's literal mark, in the water, in the form of an island
@@alexfelton5299wow
That’s pretty solid ngl.
@@alexfelton5299 wow indeed
When asked why he didn't want to serve on a submarine, a naval officer once answered:
"There is a law of nature that says what goes up must always come down, but there's no such law of nature that says what goes down must always come up."
That's the most beautiful "fawk that" I've ever heard
Goes hard
Key rules on submarines include keep the water out of the people tank and keep the number of surface greater or equal to the number of dives.
If only the ocean gate people knew that
holy shit
The US ship shooting at a sea monster immediately, is the most US thing ever
USA USA USA 🇺🇸 🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲
@@MizzzFizzz Ah yes, because only Americans shoot at threats
Fortunate son intensifies
That was my immediate thought
@@MizzzFizzz I agree with you from a logical standpoint, however being an American citizeUSA! USA! USA! USA! USA! USA!
British: By Jove, we barely escape a sea horrors grasp.
American: So anyway I started blastin
I died laughing at this
british: "the sea monster nearly destroyed our ship"
american: *"use a gun. and if that don't work... use more gun!"*
So, let it attack the ship or try to do something about it? Hmm.
@@pasqualecurry7773 I bet you're a conservative. Are you a conservative?
(I say that because you seem to have totally missed that they were making a [very obvious] joke and instead used it to make a point. And as we all know, conservatives are notorious for having no sense of humor, so I thought that might be you)
@@idontwantahandlethough hell yeah. Trump and guns and God and all that. BIG conservative. I got a room where I used Ben Shapiro posters instead of wallpaper.
As someone that got certified as a scuba diver at 15 and did numerous dives on the continental drop off down in Mexico in the atlantic, it was life changing and awe inspiring looking into the black depths that looked as endless as it did beautiful. Yet the true terror was renting malfunctioning scuba gear.
That does sound super awesome. Except the gear prob
I think worrying about the Humboldt's would be the top of my list down in that area!
You got that call of the deep or something? Go down there bro 😅
PADI?
Hell NO! deep dark water scares the crap outa me. And I live on a tiny island, surrounded by the North Sea with a long lineage of sea farimg men! I'll go in up to my crotch in CLEAR water and nothing more! Shudder
I love that Wendi used a frilled shark as an example for a giant monster's face but they're actually 6ft long and I personally think they're look dumb as rocks and are adorable
I was gonna say the same thing 😭 frilled sharks are so bbg I love them so much
Sure till one BITES you! Once THOSE teeth sink in good luck getting away! THAT is the craziest set of chompers I've ever seen, makes the mouth of a Boa look like a toothless old granny!
Most sharks are pretty cute ngl. No idea why ppl are so scared of them
@@JohnnyRocker023 For me? I just don't trust their smile....
I personally don’t find them that adorable, I am more of a carpet shark person, but I can absolutely see where you are coming from! ^^
It's the fear of discovering a dead leviathan, by far larger than anything found before, with a bite mark through it's rotting flesh, from a creature much, much bigger.
“There’s always a bigger fish”
Horrifying thanks
Why
I will never go in the ocean again. Thanks for that 👍🏻
There is always something bigger
"Kraken" didn't even MEAN "giant squid monster" until fairly recently. Used to just be a big water monster, so big you'd mistake it for an island.
I think I like that better than "Massive Squid". Imagine being stranded and thinking "finally, land!" And you crawl onto it...but it's slimy and scaly and suddenly it's arisen out of the water and wailing at you.
Ohhh that's scary as hell
That makes a lot of sense. Clash of gods the “RELEASE THE KRAKEN” didn’t look like a squid but was massive.
😩
Yes. I want one.
For the Mary Celeste, what if the crew noticed that there was a large buildup of fumes from the alcohol? In that case, I could imagine the captain ordering everyone onto a lifeboat to wait until it either exploded or dissipated. Possibly, they decided to use only one lifeboat out of laziness or urgency, not wanting to bother with lowering and raising multiple boats. In their haste, they cut the rope, and intend to stay close to the ship, but somehow are unable to and end up drifting away.
Maybe the reason a rope was in the water was because someone dove in to grab their drifting lifeboat and pull them back to the ship after someone cut the rope like a dummy. They probably lost their grip on the rope and ended up watching their ship slowly sail away. Leaving them stranded
that actually makes a lot of sense
The theory I saw on another channel is that the baby was dying from the fumes because she was so small.
@@Badficwriterokay but what does that have to do with the disappearance of everyone on the ship?
@@dickjohnson7547it could have rushed their process of getting off the ship quicker if they thought the baby was in peril
I think it's important to mention that since this was posted, rogue waves have been proven true. A wave was measured by a deepwater research facility that was many times higher than the theoretical maximum size a wave could get, and would create enough pressure to break a steel-hulled ship in half. I specifically think this could've happened at the lighthouse, even if it wasn't what killed them
But it stopped and showed no evidence right before the land? Since it was so close to the coast
@@strawberrylotlizardthe island would have broken up the wave
@@jej9594 not if it was real large, they still would of noticed it
@@strawberrylotlizard rogue waves aren't like tsunamis, they can rise up, kick ass, and then just as suddenly sink back into the sea. it wouldn't necessarily ever make it to the shore, and even if it did, it wouldn't have the same effects as a tsunami would. this is even assuming someone on the shore was looking out at the exact right time to have seen it, if it did arrive at the shore at all. ultimately, jej9594 is right - the island would have broken up the wave no matter how big the wave was, preventing it from continuing on to the coast. we also have to remember that in weather conditions bad enough to produce a rogue wave, visibility would be atrocious. you'd be lucky if you could see ten feet in front of you, and i'm pretty sure the shore wasn't a mere ten feet away from the lighthouse. "close to the coast" is a very nebulous description, and being able to see the lighthouse from the shore doesn't really narrow down that exact distance either since a large, tall structure like a lighthouse would be visible for quite a distance out.
so, hypothetically a rogue wave could have formed close to the lighthouse, smashed into the island and the dock, subsequently broken up, and never reached the mainland. then, because of poor visibility, even assuming someone was looking out at the lighthouse at the time, they would be very unlikely to notice or even see the wave form and strike. it's a very plausible hypothesis in my opinion, certainly more so than supernatural phenomena or ocean dwelling cryptids.
@@Darkfyyre so it grows up right before the island destroyed part of the island took the guys away and then disappeared without anybody noticing it on land less than a mile away
Weather is terrifying, but ESPECIALLY on the ocean. There’s an area where there’s literally no wind, just a completely dead zone of ocean, that’s doomed so many ships and crews. The idea of a completely still ocean is horrifying to me.
imagine a completely still ocean, and then seeing ripples in the water. 🤣 just end me now chief. 😔
@@stealthycore That's just a Kraken taking his kids out for drive-through
Also known as the doldrums this perfectly still water can actually happen anywhere in the ocean for days at a time. It's not just a local phenomena
Calm belt moment
Yo, you ever hear of Evinrude?
The rest of CZcams: "The sea is in trouble, we need to save it!"
Wendigoon: "The sea *is* the trouble, and nothing can save us."
💀💀
Virgin Environmentalist, versus Chad Cthulhu Fearer.
As an ocean-fearing environment enthusiast, it’s like ‘i know so much abt the ocean! i’ll do what i can to help it! from my couch! in my living room! fuck the ocean that shits wack!!!’
the sea helps the land and the atmosphere but absolutely nothing else, but our precious dirt is so important to us that we must help with a thing that tries to kill us anytime we go near it. Personally I am fascinated with the ocean and if somebody was to ask me if I had a fear of the sea I would say no, technically that would be incorrect because I am scared of the majority of the sea it’s just the shallow parts and the parts I can see with my own two eyes I do not fear
@@TheFoolish_Bear I feel you. I’m not scared of the sea. I’m just scared of what’s in the sea 😂
I think the craziest ocean mystery is why a company would ever fire their chief safety advisor who recommended “wasting” more money on scans of their faulty titanic submarine. Beats me
Mystery? Bro it saved money. Company selling a dangerous product out of greed whos ever heard of such a thing.
gee, I wonder what happened.
Greed
@@johncollins211 yeah I guess sarcasm doesn’t translate well across the internet, everyone knows why lmao🤣
@@sumidiot8975 dont blame yourself completely im also slightly retarded my friend.
When I was young growing up in a island in Greece, I would sit in a port at night fishing with my dad, looking at the Aegean. I was awestruck with the endless black sea at night and remember talking with my dad about those men, especially in ancient times, traveling the sea in wooden ships, days and nights, sailing to who knows where, and that they were the most courageous people in the history of humanity...
Sea is frightening indeed
Wendigoon: "There were no signs of struggle."
Also Wendigoon: "The kraken did it."
*minimal damage*
It was Cthulhu
Or a very careful OCD kraken
Sirens?
@@cheezefan99 u ok
Nothing can struggle against a kraken
I'm so glad to know that I'm not the only person terrified of the power of the ocean. It can just wipe out 300,000 people at once, or drag a ship to it's depths.
Not to mention all the horrifying things living in it, especially those abominations from the abyss.
No it can’t
im with you homie. talassophobia so powerful i couldn't even finish the first mission in Subnautica
@@radium_habit6869 which are?
I mean, even if you dropped the entirety of the population into the ocean, we'd get wiped anyway..
For the Mary Celeste, I believe the ship filled with gas, and the crew got on the lifeboat while it aired out. But the plan was to leave the line between the lifeboat and the ship so they could get back on. But it snapped, and the two vessels drifted apart. Some crew tried to swim over and climb back onboard to bring it around but failed and drowned. Hence the scratches on the hull. And the lifeboat later sank, and the bodies of everyone were lost.
It feels to me like the lighthouse story might just be caused by a rogue wave hitting the island. As the fog lowered visibility, crew that was finally getting out of the lighthouse after days of staying inside due to the massive storm could be swiped away without even realizing what was coming. It could also explain the massive localized damage to the the dock.
What’s scary is that if “life started in the water” and so many creatures evolved to escape it than imagine what evolved to stay in it
Ur mom
I believe, with all my being, that THIS is the most profound and terrifying Tag-line to a documentary on the evolution of deep sea life that there ever will be produced
No it didn't! Evolution is bullshit! God created you, dude!
This jenually terrified me good job dude
@@0_o_turpentine_and_bleach genuinely?
Wendigoon I’m literally begging you to make this a series. The ocean fascinates me and nothing else on CZcams compares to this quality
Demons and the ocean. Both to me are the unknown.
WE NEED THIS TO BE A SERIES
I totally agree!!
I agree 😏
Yes!!!
Consider: all these ocean surface krakens went extinced when whale bone became the preferred structural material for corsets. We hunted all their food to the point where they didn't have enough to eat to maintain their size and strength, and they all died off.
That's just my theory on why we don't see them anymore, but they're so clear in our historical records.
Anyone who considers all pronouns, and hotboxes regulary with his friends; theories are automatically discredited.
Sorry. Thanks for playing.
@@cursedcancersurvivor nobody asked. 🤡
@@cursedcancersurvivor Learn to fucking write. God I cannot even comprehend your text! Without understanding it I can’t even imagine how I can oppose it!
@anonymous_jug what was he yapping about anyways?? He sounds ridiculous 😂😂😂
Very true! These behemoths of ocean beasts were quite alive especially in the years 1200-1850 rising temperatures, carbon, pollutants, & humans now between all the waste we put in the ocean and the thousands of factories & sonars & mega loud cruise ships, no shot anymore
I remember the lighthouse story. When I heard about it it was said that the most likely scenario was that the men were eating bad meat (possibly dried meat that got wet through the fog or something) which developed a mold which effectively acted as a drug making them sick and delirious, thus they thought that the noises of the waves hitting the lighthouse were noises of a massive storm, and finally something happened that lead to them all falling into the ocean and drowning. I forget the details of that last part.
A comforting thought about what might be living deep in the ocean is that, if it lives really deep, like Mariana’s Trench deep, then it wouldn’t be able to reach the surface without dying, as it’s internal fluids would be at the same pressure as it’s natural habitat, meaning it would burst if it ever came close to the surface
idk, if I was swimming above the Marianas Trench and knew there was something big below me, I would be terrified regardless if it could reach me or not.
@@dolantrumf true, but it would still be less scary than if it could get you
@@dolantrumf well at least you can safely swim around knowing no matter how strong it is
It can never reach to you
But it would probably be extremely freaky to just see a giant leviathan tentacle float up to you, being cut off by the water pressure
finally, someone who acknowledges this lmao. most deep sea creatures remain lethargic because its a lot harder to get sustainable energy. and like you said, if it does try to surface, if the organism has a swim bladder, it'll burst because the pressure change is too extreme.
Maybe it doesn't want to come up. Maybe it brings things down to it
Imagine how confusing we land creatures are to ocean creatures.
Giant squid: "Hey dude, did you know that that sandy dirt stuff at the bottom of the ocean actually goes ABOVE the water in some places? And weird creatures live on it and walk around on legs. For realz"
Megladon: "We talked about lying for attention, Tim."
Biologically speaking, tim is fucked.
@@silencewench7284 Tim has it coming
I don't want to be that guy...but...hnngghh...it's Megalodon
@@herrschmidt5477 He's actually a squid. Thats just his name. It's uhh...French.
Fuckin' Tim...
The coroners report for The Kaz 2 does sound like a slapstick, but unfortunately we have several similar instances happen here around Bossier/Shreveport Louisiana. One of the stories is a whole family of people boating on the Red River (a very turbulent and wide river) none of them could swim yet they kept jumping in one after another and they all drowned.
Love the cheerful sailor music going on in the background while we listen to how people disappeared mysteriously at sea...
nobody gonna talk about how the judge for the mary celeste trial was named fuckin judge FLOOD
Bruh! I kept waiting for him to acknowledge that... a quick dad joke... SOMETHING. Haha
nominative determinism
@@negligent_omnicide the mary celeste has too many sea related puns to be real but it actually is
It would be the funniest thing if he specialised exclusively in water related cases. 😂
This is why Aquaman is the more OP than people give him credit for.
Fr, people need to appreciate and be terrified of him more, who knows what else he could control beside metric tons of water and that kraken in the movie lmao
ikr i mean even in the comics each of his Atlantis soldiers are individually powerful enough to beat superman
I'm gonna point out 3 things:
1: He's strong and durable enough to fist fight Superman.
2: He has ridden a C'thulhu reference at least once.
3: Once, When Starro mind controlled most of the justice League, Aquaman went "You count as a sea creature. So you'll do as I say. Get the fuck off my planet." And it worked.
@@twentyonetortas5921 no they aren't, don't get me wrong they are incredibly powerful but none of them are pushing plantes anytime soon
@@twentyonetortas5921 Yeah, no.
I remember hearing a theory about the Mary Celeste, that the sounding Rod they had was much longer than usual. So when they checked to see how much water was in the hull it looked to be much worse than it actually was. Thus sending people into a panic thinking it was going to start sinking.
I have such a weird relationship with the ocean, cause I'm terrified of it's ferocity and the unknown nature of it, and yet I find it so calming and beautiful.
The fact that the American ship shot at and chased a sea monster is the most American thing I've ever heard makes me proud and brings a tear to me eye . Also makes me think of that south park meme I didn't hear no bell
U S A. U S A. U S A.
@@johng8837 I was skating by the bay and Flo-Rida was performing when suddenly, he stopped to cultily yell U S A, U S A for a few minutes. This place is hell.
@@privateemail9755 what?
@@privateemail9755 Um, what the fuck?
@@privateemail9755 Then move and stop complaining. You're literally complaining about your country on yt while North Koreans don't even know what internet is
I hate when “ocean” and “terrifying” are put together, this gonna be good.
In that order ??
Fr
"bone chilling , thank you wendi"
I love when they both are put together
Deep ocean creatures and haunted ships….dude sign me in
32:52 just one small correction: The Lighthouse wasn't based on the Flannan Isles story but is based on a somewhat similar incident in the Smalls Lighthouse in 1801, which would be interesting enough for Wendigoon to cover :)
I love that movie sm
oceangate moment
you like mojave radio over radio new vegas
@@phineaswheelock5023 you like the legion
@@boiledpepsi you worship mr house
Wendigoon: "-a sounding rod-"
Me: "I know what that is!"
W: "-a device used to measure water depth-"
Me: "Oh that's... That's not what I was thinking of."
Oh god don't tell me you're thinking what I'm thinking
Really wishing I'd never learned what sounding is
Reddit has ruined me
oh thank god I wasn't the only one who thought of this
How fucking dare you I feel like I’m having Vietnam flashbacks
"there was also something known as a sounding rod laying on the deck"
**unspeakable visions of pain and horrifying intrigue**
Yes that word is also completely ruined for me as well
I’m glad I’m not the only one who shuddered when he said that
literally went down to the comments to look for this
I should never go on Reddit at 2 am ever again
If y’all don’t mind me asking, what’s wrong with the sounding rod?
The Kass II I believe is a man overboard situation. When you fall off a sailboat without a ladder it’s very very hard to hop back on it. It’s possible they were swimming or something like that and the person who was supposed to stay on board jumped or fell off. This can be explained well by the “stop” on the GPS and then the slow drift. Maybe the fishing guy was the one that was supposed to stay on it and fell off. I saw a video of a group of people who suffered a similar fate but they were able to jump on each others shoulders and jump back on.
While this could be the case if they're all seasoned sailors they'd know better than to jump off a moving ship without a rope attached to them. You never go for a swim when your sail boat has its sails out. If one fell off the others wouldn't jump in after him, they'd take the boat back to the man that fell off. It's just so odd, so many factors.
@@Dhips.Knowing better doesn’t mean something bad can’t happen to you. Or a dumb mistake or accident can’t affect you.
I feel bad for the person at the bottom holding everyone else on their shoulders lol
24:18 Wendigoon sounds very disappointed that he can't make a joke about "It was a craken" because the family is still alive.
For the missing island I’ve got a theory, maps nowadays have fake places that can be a whole village on the map that doesn’t actually exist, all so they can identify if someone’s copied righted their map. What’s to say that they didn’t do the same?
Papertowns, crazy concept , amazing book.
how greedy do you have to be to copyright your maps
@@kybx4337 do you know how much work goes into charting a map?
@@victorerickson9770 no 😳😂 but I mean why don’t just do it for the purpose of helping instead of a profit
@@kybx4337 we live in a society
Everything about the ocean is terrifying. I hate the idea of swimming in the abyss and seeing a shark emerge from the darkness towards me, or man-made structures sitting at the bottom, or a simple black void. It's all scary, yet amazing.
i’ve watched videos of manmade structures in deep sea and it freaked me out so bad i realised i had thalassophobia 😒
@@lesbianslipknotfan "It's not paranoia, when they ARE out to get you"
Similarly, it's not really a phobia, if the fear is justified.
I was never scared of the ocean until my cousin let me join him for a short sailing trip in the deep ocean. we slowed down and he let me swim and I grabbed some goggles. I looked down expecting a world of stuff and instead I saw nothing, just black in every direction. I thought "yeah I guess that makes sense" but then the bottom shadow *moved* slightly and that would have been a massive creature so I just noped out of the water
@@pirig-gal that's a nice cope
@@Calendator I'm not the type of person to call myself "-phobic" if my fear is neither overwhelming, nor irrational.
This is an amazing video ^^
I really got the chills from the Flannan Isle Lighthouse story. The way that the men heard storms and were terrified, when there weren't any storms, and imagined something coming out of the ocean, destroying the dock and shaking the lighthouse itself in the darkness...
The problem is the logbook is…not real. It was a fabrication added to the story later.
Here after the submarine incident
☠️ I forgot about that stupid shit.
I don't know why but I'm so proud of this guy for his youtube journey.
Right like I’m rooting for him so hard 😭❤️
Because we were here so long we saw him grow up like a smol baby
I've been here since his My Chemical Romance video. He's grown like CRAZY since then, and I'm glad I got to see it.
I generally just like his laid back content style, the conedy isnt overdone or annoying. He also just presents himself as very down to earth.
He is so likeable and genuine. And makes awesome content. He deserves it all.
Hearing the story of the Celeste right after the mass hysteria iceberg has me thinking that the crew hallucinated something and just tried to jump ship.
DAILY FUN FACT! About the first ship, there IS a phenomenon that causes people to leave the boat. It's basically a bout of anxiety about being in the middle of the ocean, with no land on sight, that makes people get off the boat. Just like that. They don't care there's no land on sight, the anxiety of being in the middle of the ocean is such that they simply want out. They pack everything, leave everything neatly placed as if they were leaving the appartment they rented for the holidays, grab their stuff and exit the boat... In the middle of the ocean. And the worst thing is that they seem so calm and rational that there might be no way of telling beforehand, so you only find out when you wake up one day and find yourself alone in the boat. It happens even to experienced sailors, and it's pretty much the equivalent to the hallucinations that happen in the middle of snowstorms in extreme climates (the 8000m peaks, the south pole...) and that causes people to just untie themselves from lifelines and willingly wander off (and in the mountains, fall down) never to be seen again.
Sooooo yeah...
I actually saw someone make an educated guess that the ethanol mixed with something else and created toxic fumes that might’ve been in someway harmful to the crew. Either way, they all definitely died in the lifeboat, be it from whatever happened on the ship or from a wave flipping the boat over and drowning them.
@@Maatkara1000 The fumes definitely wouldn't help
@@Maatkara1000 do you know what the phenomenon is called?
@@badmonkey5972 seconding this, would be great to read on it more.
Not many things truly scare me, but one of those things is the ocean. I can go on a boat, I am not afraid of sharks or other beasts underwater, heck I could probably even go diving on a coral reef.
But where that reef ends and the deep water begins, when I can see the blue fading into the blackness of the deep... you will find me in the nearest hotel bar downing shots.
There's a deep, primal fear about the darkness of the ocean abyss. Something that makes me realize how truly small, weak and insignificant humans are and that is enough to both make me panic and scramble to get away and terrify me so much I cannot move.
0/10, will never go swimming in deep waters.
White Shark: just minding its buisiness
Cthulhu: *YOINK*
Cthulhu is up to his old shenanigans again
It fr definitely was like a 30 foot colossal squid that just munched on it
@@cold_mercury4224 Funnily enough fully grown great whites actually hunt giant and colossal squids
@@rowboat5294 That's terrifying xD
@@FatherAndrew-Scarlet-Priest hello
Me, an Irishman who lives by the ocean: Yeah, the ocean is scary, but I think Wendigoon is being a bit hyperbolic...
36:55 - THERE'S A 60FT WHAT IN THE WHERE NOW?
This comment made me laugh so hard hahaaa
Dude, there’s some scary shit down there- we probably don’t even know half of it
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@@largeboi4678 we don’t know like 99% of it man. The ocean is fucking terrifying on a deep primal level.
@@amishtechwizard5540 we actually know a vast majority of it
side note: the movie the lighthouse was actually based on the smalls island incident in 1801 which led to the mandate of at least three people working in lighthouses at a time. its also a terrifying story which i recommend looking into
The first time I went to the ocean a couple years ago, it tried killing me. I was already scared of it but then I dragged me out to where I couldn't see any land and I was beyond terrified
The thing about the islands disappearing is actually due to cartographic errors. Its was very commonplace back then to add little fakeouts on ones own maps to avoid people copying them. Things like fake little islands, inexistent roads or small mountains were added as a way to identify fake copies of said maps. This however worked too well and many maps are actually copies of copies of copies of very old maps that originally had said things. There are several examples and they are commonly referred to as "trap streets". Look up Agloe, New York
Wow that’s so interesting! This is one of the reasons why I love this channel, not only is Win informative but the commenters are as well.
It might be that but there was a case of Sannikov Land, the island that disappeared in less then 100 years. Yeah, that was in Arctica and there are not mystical explanations of what could have happened to it, but nevertheless, it really disappeared.
They’re also called paper towns. Sometimes they would add a town name and it would just be like a drug store
Precisely. Not to mention tectonic activity as a culprit being extremely probable. This is honestly not even a debated question anymore.
Not just to avoid plagiarism but also sometimes cartographers didn't actually go to those places, they relied on second hand accounts from sailors and the likes, and either due to exaggeration or misidentification they added or removed zones. These are called phantom islands
I like to imagine that whenever someone asks him why he's afraid of the ocean he just repeats the entire rant at the end verbatim
he would be a great talking buddy
Or better yet the entire video
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Ethanol fumes can cause confusion and disorientation. I wouldnt be surprised if they were trapped with it at some point, saw a ethanol explosion, became fearful and left ship
Does ethanol leave heavy fumes behind?
The Flannan Isles disappearances are definitely due to a rouge wave. The crying and praying is, as Wendigoon said, historically debated. The storm and fog could just be a coincidence or could be the cause of the rouge wave. The description of the state of the island matches what a rouge wave would do to an island. Rouge waves are also confirmed to be responsible for sudden disappearances on small islands. Its also scary to think that a wave will just randomly become so large that it will become larger than your island and sweep you into the ocean, leaving no trace it happened besides some wetness, minimal damage and missing people and items.
I was thinking exactly the same thing. Rouge waves are terrifying
It’d definitely explain the destroyed dock and giant boulder too.
@@AesirUnlimited exactly its too perfect to not be a rouge wave besides it makes a lot more sense than some of the theories mentioned in the video.
i visited a museum in australia years ago while there was an octopus/sea creatures exhibition. they showed a taxidermy of this one giant octopus but the way they showed it was by putting it in a tall vertical glass box next to the staircase so they could show that this damn octopus has a length as long as a THREE FLOOR BUILDING… also that octopus taxidermy gives off such creepy vibe i literally got goosebumps. i even refused to look in its direction at all cost while using the stairs. hands down one of the scariest things ive ever come across in my life
Jeez, they can grow tjat big???
@@Romourus no. op is talking about giant squids, or colossal squids. the largest octopus (giant Pacific octopus) is barely as big as a person.
@@guitqrr1ff im not sure maybe it might really be a squid like u said (the word for octopus and squid in my native tongue is the same thing so i always get confused lol)
The museum you’re talking about is in Adelaide in South Australia. It’s definitely a cool display
@@tehidiotboys3010 yuppp its adelaide
Something else to consider about the Mary Celeste, nowadays, when your ship is sinking, most people's first instinct is to hop into a lifeboat and bail. Back then it was a different story. Lifeboats were very dangerous, and helpless out in open ocean. Generally, people only got in lifeboats if they believed the ship was absolutely beyond saving, a final hail Mary. Even by 1912, people on Titanic were hesitant to get into the lifeboats at first. That's one of the reasons why so many were launched half full. They couldn't find anyone else willing to get in. The thought process was "why would I leave this big, safe, warm ocean liner to get into that dinky little rowboat?" Once it became clear that the ship was doomed, then people rushed into what little lifeboats that were left. There are many stories where ships begin to sink and send off the women and children in the lifeboats, only for the rough Seas to completely overtake the lifeboat and kill everyone. Meanwhile, the ship stays afloat long enough for rescue to arrive, and the only casualties came from attempting escape in the lifeboat. So for the crew of the Mary Celeste to not only get in the lifeboat in the first place, but also cut the rope, whatever it was they were facing must have been DIRE. Unless you are 100% absolutely sure your ship is completely beyond hope, the ship is safer than the lifeboats. At least, Pre-Titanic lifeboats. Modern lifeboats are safe.
What if a well timed explosion? Say the vessel just barely scraped over a sandbar or something right as there was an explosion making a gentle thud that wasn't really more than a nuisance but a horrendous noise that made it sound like the whole damn hull was being ripped apart.
@@joshuaroefs9279 Wouldn't the sailors check to make sure everything was alright before bailing, though? Jumping ship over a loud noise seems premature.
@@joshuaroefs9279 even if they did do this, they'd watch the ship from a distance for a while to see if it sinks before being like "huh I guess it wasn't that bad after all" and then row back to check
They cut the lifeboat, yeah, but that doesn't mean they can't get back on the ship
So the harmless but scary explosion explanation doesn't make sense
Interesting pov, but still I think the only reasonable explanation is Kraken.
@@Darkgun231 Plus if there was scrape over a sandbar wouldn't it tip over the open ink containers? same with the kraken theory
This is honestly one of my favorite videos. Wendigoon makes spooky topics very very interesting. I'd want him as a history teacher ngl
The Bloop was an iceberg flipping, if you look up videos of the theory I believe they're spot-on
Fun and not scary ocean fact: several species of underwater creatures love being petted and playing with humans, and can form lifelong bonds with their favourite divers. Examples are moray eels and several kinds of sharks.
Octopi aswell,even a whole documentary on it on Netflix I believe
@VegetaOrAra You did it! You were negative for no reason! Good job! 🥇🎉Did it feel good? Do you feel powerful, knowing that you might have made someone’s day just that little bit worse? Is it rewarding, having the same goals and aspirations as a middle school bully?
@VegetaOrAra You weren’t, really. There’s weak evidence suggesting any dolphin has ever successfully raped a human being, not to mention how you were ascribing human morality to animal species. It’s like calling a lion a murderer because it hunts zebras. Even if it were true (it hasn’t been proven), you honestly expect the “just stating facts” defence to work? If someone were to comment “you’re going to die one day” and “humans are capable of murder” under unrelated posts about human kindness, they would still be a pathetic asswipe for trying to ruin a stranger’s day by reminding them of irrelevant, depressing shit that nobody can do anything about. Please go back to calling the children in your arithmetic class “doo-doo heads”.
@@yeowch1073 While Vegeta didn't have to bring up the negative content you kinda went worse than they did by basically calling them a bully and alluding to them being "A pathetic asswipe."
@@animeking1357 that’s a lot of anime kings. You’d think they’d have run out of anime kingdoms after 500 or so.
What scares me is the fact that stuff can actually exist in such a hostile environment. Makes me look weak with my dependance on sunlight, fresh water, air, steam summer sales....
Those sea monsters may be able to take our lives, but they'll never get our sweet, sweet steam savings!!
To be fair, both of you would die if your roles were reversed. You would drown, and the sea creature would suffocate. They depend on literally always being submerged in water, whereas humans can be in the water for prolonged periods of time without much negative consequence.
Dependance on Steam summer sales....
I can relate to that so hard
@@gandalf_thegrey same af lol
Extremophiles for the win! Ahaha, I get what you mean, though.
I really don't want to experience a kind of storm that makes seasoned lighthouse keepers pray and cry.
I have a friend that was on a carrier for a few years in the pacific. He was talking to us one day about getting to swim out there, in the middle of the pacific. And was telling us about diving a few feet under, looking around and just seeing the infinite void, getting darker and darker the deeper you go.
Can we appreciate the fact that the last chapter is literally called "An Unhinged Rant about Ocean Monsters and why I hate the Ocean I hate it so much..."
full chapter name is An unhinged rant about ocean monsters and why I hate the ocean I hate it so much it hurts we have to get rid of it
and that's just amazing
@@littlebumblebee9202 yet so far, we're only making it bigger😢
I can't remember where I read this theory, but I recall someone saying that a likely explanation for the Mary Celeste is that a large vapor explosion happened in the lower decks, and the crew get on the lifeboat not to escape, but just to sit somewhere in open air without any fumes, basically being towed behind the ship while it aired out. The theory posited that they had every intention of returning to the ship, but the rope connecting the lifeboat snapped, and they drifted out into open water with no way to return to the Mary Celeste - hence them leaving their personal belongings behind. If that is what happened, I can't imagine how horrifying it must have been for the crew to watch helplessly as their ship drifted away from them and they were left to die of starvation out at sea.
EDIT: also, I'm probably not the first to mention this, but the bloop has been explained. It was a massive ice shelf in the arctic breaking off and falling into the sea. The section that fell off was so huge that multiple hydrophones picked it up.
On the Mary Celeste, that makes sense. I figured it had something to do with the fumes from the alcohol as soon as I heard what the cargo was, though a rope snapping and being cut look noticeably different. On the Bloop... that's just what they want you to think lol. Do you really think they would tell us if they found Cthulu? All of the sailors on cargo vessels would quit immediately and we wouldn't be able to ship any goods! The arctic ice shelf just sounds too convenient an explanation, especially since it fits nicely in with global warming narratives🤔
Climate change: the spookiest monster of all
Not sure if ice vibrates in the same way as a set of vocalisations do. Ice quakes are typically a series of sharp, creaking pops. The bloop is like a huge, long undulation and much less like a creaky pop.
@@badbuddha93 yeah the guy has gotten confused the bloop was ice rubbing together not breaking
No one knows what the bloop was. There is speculation but nothing more. I wouldn't put it past military shenanigans or who knows what.
Paradoxical deep sea gigantism is actually a topic of ongoing study. Relatives of those cute little isopoda woodlice you might know as 'rolly pollies' grow to the size of small dogs in the deep ocean, and that's about approximate for the effect in general. The presently accepted duct-taped guess on the pit of unknowns is that bigger bodies are healthier in lower temperatures.
Really captivating subject matter, I’m plopping down my vote for a Part 2 video.
More horrors beyond my puny mortal comprehension, please.
For me, the fear is mostly the sheer drop offs and holes. That instant decent into the abyss just grabs something in my soul and drags it down. I’m fairly certain if I accidentally swam over one I’d immediately die of a heart attack
Accurate af
When video games do this, a vase ocean with huge void cliffs that just cut off into a tremendous trench...
My soul just doesn't let me be okay about it.. I shiver, I grimace, and I feel extremely on edge.
Even if that game has 0 mechanics with the ocean and those void trenches.. and I am in full acknowledgement of that.. I still feel the same way...
Have you ever seen the Blue Holes of the Caribbean? Beautiful clear blue water, and then all of the sudden infinite darkness. If the Lusca exists, that's where it is.
Dude I have thallasaphobia so bad that if the water is cold and there's any kind of dropoff I will die
Same here! Sink hole videos have been the doom of several pairs of underwear..😩😮😥
i was watching this with a friend, and he told me we’ve never even found an adult colossal squid before. we’ve only seen baby or adolescent ones, which is clear due to underdeveloped reproductive systems as well as remains of colossal squids being far larger than any we’ve discovered. with the adolescents being so enormous, it’s totally possible the myths of the kraken or other insanely large ocean creatures could’ve stemmed from something like an adult colossal squid, it’s pretty cool to think about
This is so interesting!! I didn’t know that we’ve never found an adult before and that’s honestly scary to think of.
@@ES-ix6ll especially when you consider that the juveniles are about 30 feet in length.
from Wikipedia
"The first specimens were discovered and described in 1925. In 1981, an adult specimen was discovered, and in 2003 a second specimen was collected. Captured in 2007, the largest colossal squid weighed 495 kilograms (1,091 lb), and is now on display with a second specimen at the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa."
@@LegoAlex99 Party pooper
@@JohnSmith-gr3pq sorry I love facts 👽
The bloop was the sound of an iceberg scraping against another one, iceberg boy
The idea of being in the middle of the ocean with no idea what’s below you always stands up the hair on the back of my neck
Wendigoon has the same vibe as an english professor i had in college who'd read the scriptures of various different religions just to have an understanding of them. absolute chads, the both of them
i feel u. had the best literature professor ever in the university, he created his own course, read ancient greek philosophy to us, we discussed time, space, cosmos, and we were encouraged to write our own poems, the weirder the better. had an absolute blast on his lessons. bless them
@@angeldeviltears what school did you go to peep me tryna apply
i kno my type💀
Like professor lando hahaha my favorite instructors
My high school religious studies teacher was like this (luckily!). We were technically a Christian school but not really in practice so religious studies meant learning about different cultures and understanding religious motivation.
He always refused to tell us what he personally believed in. He was open and also extremely funny.
I got excited with the time theory and forgot to debunk some lighthouse theories lol. Short version: 1.) The idea that a (undetectable yet powerful) storm destroyed the west dock and dragged the men to sea is not supported because the east dock was in good condition with boxes stacked where as a storm strong enough to drag men to see would likely cause disarray and 2.) The theory that all three quickly ran outside to respond to an emergency before a wave swept them off the cliff is also not supported because of the shut doors within the house and courtyard, implying there was no rush. Furthermore, both theories are not supported by the presence of the jacket (they each only had one), as no one would step outside without wearing one in that weather. Especially if they had enough time to shut every door behind them.
I know you’re reading this but you said you were gonna do the ping pong on your eyes and static noise, the gantzfeld experiment and you lied about doing it
Glad to see this upload man. Love the channel since 20k subs. So glad to see you grow, god bless man
@@JiosWrld I don't think he lied, he might do it for another video.
@@WitchSon dude I think he fr lied. It’s been so long ago since he said it and still hasn’t done it.
@@JiosWrld lol people get busy, man.
There's probably a hundred other people begging for him to cover their own requests.
Just chill out lol
39:40 to put a positive spin on this statement, think of how badass human navies must be now that we scare giant cthulu death beasts enough that they hide from us
You are a really good narrator. Thanks for the interesting stories that we might otherwise never hear.
Here's why the island disappearing is probably wrong: it was common back in the day for map makers to put fake places in their maps. The reasoning is to find copycats. Some map makers would just copy the last guys map rather than go out and chart everything themselves. So map maker #1 could sue map maker #2 if he saw the fake island.
If the island was faked then how come the original cartographer never made a claim of literally everyone copying his map.
As well as that I’m also pretty sure that the practice of putting fake places on a map to sue people doesn’t date back to the 1500s since copyright wasn’t a thing :/
@@vimtostealer9468 formal copyright may not have, but it shows intention to deceive and defraud, a “court” could find you guilty of that and was common
@@vimtostealer9468 phantom islands are a very well documented thing. A lot of the time it happens because the cartographer made a mistake. Other times it is as op said. Fake streets and towns on maps have existed for 100s of years.
@@yeasstt yeah op said that it was probably made up for copyright which literally wasn’t a thing back then. Ik places that don’t exist end up on maps and that cartographers made mistakes. Like near the same time period they put California down as an island
@@vimtostealer9468 you could still sue people for copying back then it just wasnt called copyright
44:37 - "The largest structure (Everest) on land can be buried in the ocean and we'd never know"
To add to that: *Mount Everest CAME from the ocean.* The whole mountain range was pushed up from the sea floor by the collision of two continental plates. The highest point on earth was once at the bottom of the sea.
Every landmass "came from the ocean"
That is....wow
The virgin mount verest vs the chad Marianas trench
Still...I'm pretty sure every single piece of landmass may have once come from the ocean
yeah...that's literally how every land mass & mountain has made. doesn't make it scary just because you don't understand it.
Ocean mysteries are my number one 'fearful fascination'. I have done a couple of open water ocean races (including across the Atlantic) and this has only deepened this uneasy/excited feeling. I love living by the sea on an island in the Baltic but also really respect it. Ocean mysteries and sailing also inspired me to write my first novel (The Octagon's Eight) and continue with the theme into the next book and hopefully beyond. I loved this video and you've gained a new subscriber!
The ocean gate sub 😶👀
I’m surprised that you didn’t mention that one of the barrels of ethanol was knocked over. One of the sanest explanations I’ve seen proposed that the crew saw vapours rising and they assumed it was a fire. They got everyone in the lifeboat to see what would happen and in the rush a knot was tied poorly and they just drifted away to certain death
What about the cut rope tho
@@jordanfeltcher5134 Ethanol is highly flammable and explode-able. Since their ship was full of ethanol, maybe they left in such a hurry (and cut the rope) to prevent being blown up by the ship? After all, chances of being found on a lifeboat in the middle of an ocean are very low, but still significantly greater than being rescued from a burning ship.
@Jenny Park Why cut it before any sign of fire though
@@jermadonson6552 Idk for sure, maybe the person who spotted the "smoke" was intoxicated and was so convinced of what he saw that he was able to convince his entire crew too? Who knows lol
@Jenny Park Yeah, can't expect people to be 100% rationale either
Great video, I'd like to pitch in another sea monster story:
The USS Stein, an American frigate, found scratches over around 8 percent of its sonar dome. Almost all of the scratches had within them small claws that were found to be similar to those found within the suckers of a giant squid. However, these claws were substantially larger than those of the giant squid's, which, if these claws hold similar proportions to the creature's body size, would point to an absolutely massive squid. I was unable to find exact numbers on claw length, but "way bigger than giant squid" is already too much.
These stories are so damn cool. The ocean is so believable to be full of monsters
Deez stories are nuts
Most likely a colossal squid, its a deep sea squid bigger then the giant squid, they tend to fight sperm whales a lot so you'll find scratch marks on them when they come up for air. Largest recorded colossal squid weighed 495kg(1,091 lbs) and was 13 meters long(43 feet) and thats just the largest one we've seen, there are definitely bigger ones.
Maybe was a regular giant squid with abnormally large suckers
Maybe it's just cause I was raised by someone who dreamed of being an ocean biologist, but I have the exact opposite feeling to you; the fact that it's so unknown and unexplored and that there's these weird and wacky creatures and phenomena surrounding it is half-comforting and half-mesmerizing to me, like it just stokes that wonder and desire to explore the unknown for me.
one thing i love in horror movies about the ocean is when they are so deep they don't know what way is up, they are just suspended an an abyss of pure unending darkness, and unlike being in a dark room where you can navigate to a wall or something and have some sense of direction you are just completely lost and disoriented, you could travel miles in any direction and possibly never find anything but darkness, and most of all you just know you are not alone in the ocean
I watched a video of a scuba diver’s last moments as they succumb to nitrogen sickness and end up on the bottom of ocean because they were to confused to know how to get back up. I still think about it sometimes and it fills me with dread.
My dad has seen it up close and personal (but with a good ending). He was deep sea diving with two friends. All three very experienced. They were already at their max planned dive. All of a sudden one of them just starts diving deep, very fast, down the wall. My dad and his other friend go after him once they realize, going 20 ft deeper than planned. They brought the guy up after properly decompressing and whatnot, but afterwards ask him WTF he was thinking. And his friend said had no memory of doing that. All three responsible smart men with no history of something like that before or since. Deep sea is no joke.
DAILY FUN FACT: it's not only deep sea. There IS a phenomenon that causes people to leave the boat. It's basically a bout of anxiety about being in the middle of the ocean, with no land on sight, that makes people get off the boat. Just like that. They don't care there's no land on sight, the anxiety of being in the middle of the ocean is such that they simply want out. They pack everything, leave everything neatly placed as if they were leaving the appartment they rented for the holidays, grab their stuff and exit the boat... In the middle of the ocean. And the worst thing is that they seem so calm and rational that there might be no way of telling beforehand, so you only find out when you wake up one day and find yourself alone in the boat. It happens even to experienced sailors, and it's pretty much the equivalent to the hallucinations that happen in the middle of snowstorms in extreme climates (the 8000m peaks, the south pole...) and that causes people to just untie themselves from lifelines and willingly wander off (and in the mountains, fall down) never to be seen again.
Sooooo yeah...
I’ve seen loads of they stories from MrBallen, my own morbid curiosity leads me to watch the footage of the event
@@Maatkara1000, what's the name of that phenomenon? I was a sailor for a time, and I spent 6 years on a maritime academy. I've never heard of that.
@@Cpt_Katsuragi It almost sounds similar to paradoxical undressing. You know not to get undressed in extreme cold, but people do it anyway when they are freezing to death. You could search for paradoxical undressing and see what are similar other topics or conditions.
The geology of the ocean floor is terrifying in it's scale. We have no real idea what a "really deep canyon" is. The Grand Canyon as well as Mount Everest are small fry compared to some of the features under the waves.
There is where aliens would hang out, not in the air.
The kraken definitely did it dude, makes the most logical sense. I’ve known sailors my whole life and there are basically almost no situations where you full abandon ship into the open ocean other than the vessel being sunk. Maybe all 9 went into a state of psychosis from an especially loud boom and crowd mania set in?
My fav mary celeste theory is still that for some reason they thought the alcohol had leaked or was creating a serious hazard, or perhaps the fumes were just too noxious (go ahead, sniff a bottle of everclear for a couple hours and see how you feel about it). So they decided to get in a life boat and trail behind the ship. Only one because trailing multiple boats is somewhat risky, as you run the chance of them ramming into each other without much control. They figured it was no big deal, they'd just wait it out for a little. Like you said, this isn't their first rodeo.
However, while trailing something happened. They panicked or freaked or thought they were too close to the boat. Maybe they thought they could paddle back?
Maybe there was as giant explosion, larger than usual, that scared the hell out of them so they cut loose, figuring it would be better to be in the raft than next to the giant bomb. All it would've taken was one guy panicking and cutting the line.
Not to mention iirc there was some debate over whether or not it was cut or snapped, but I may be misremembering that detail.
It makes sense, either they were in such a rush to get off that they left everything as is, or they figured it would be no big deal and they'd be back on board in at most a couple hours.
Most other theories don't really make a whole lot of realistic sense, even if they're fun to think about. Something scared or compelled the crew off that boat, and then the lifeboat was cut free. The question is, what would've caused that? They would've known cutting the raft in the middle of the open ocean was near certain death, so whatever happened, they wagered the boat was riskier than freeing the raft (or whoever cut it).
The only things I can really think of are the alcohol fumes. It could be a barrel burst or started leaking, and someone mistakenly thought that the normal ingress water was all ethanol. I mean alcohol is fucking strong, even if there's not a lot of it, if the air is filled with fumes and a barrel is leaking, it could trick you.
I'm just speculating way more at this point.
Or maybe aliens abducted them and took the life raft as an artifact to study.
Edit: I doubt it was pirates. If it was pirates, then it must've been some comedy of errors that happened so the Celeste could get away without anything missing. Maybe they were traffickers lol. Also I remember the lighthouse generally being written off as a hyper local squall or a giant rogue wave. The wave theory is supported by the one sided damage. Still, it's a bizarre story.
I've always found it interesting the idea of Lovecraft's eldritch abominations, and how they aren't so much evil more than they are just indifferent. And then I think about the ocean and nature as a whole and how it's the perfect embodiment of cosmic indifference. I guess it kinda makes sense why Lovecraft put Cthulhu under the waters of Earth's oceans, it was the perfect place for him.
This is so poetically true
Yeah, it's like "so close, yet too far" kind of thing. It's right there, but we barely know it enough to make it less scary.
Lovecraft had a crippling fear of everything that wasn't his hometown of Providence, Rhode Island.
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Facts.
@@zrc1514 correction: the white, traditionally-minded upper class of Providence, Rhode Island
I heard a really good theory about the Mary Celest once, the ship stunk of alcohol and was carrying ethanol. If one of the barrels broke, the ship may have been full of noxious fumes. If the air on the ship was becoming intolerable due to the broken barrel, the captain and crew may have gone on a life boat simply to let the ship air out. the life boat would be tied to the ship so they culled pull themselves back after a few hours. If the rope was not properly secure, the life coat would not be able to catch back up with full sail ship. There was a missing life boat and a single rope trailing in the water behind the ship when it was found. 1 not coming undone might have doomed the entire crew of the Mary Celest.
This makes way too much sense
@@sting-e4494 There is a Maritime Horror episode that describes this theory too.
wow i hate that, i can't imagine the fear and horror as you realise you're going to die. floating in the ocean, no food to eat and no water to drink even though you're surrounded by it. i also don't want to imagine being the dude who fucked up the knot lmao, what a fucking way to go
Huh. Sounds reasonable. There are of course a few concessions like it not being likely that the ENTIRE crew would pile into a single life boat and leave the ship without even a skeleton crew. Granted it could have just been a moment of high stupidity and confidence that nothing would go wrong. Also the rope being cut but i can see someone being crazy enough to do that and doom the whole crew and passengers.
@@liyre4189 That guys the first one that's gonna get eaten.
Perhaps someone on the Mary thought the barrels of ethanol were close to blowing up completely. They may have yeeted tf out of there but couldn't catch back up to the half furled ship when they realized the ship wasn't going to go boom.
~28:00 Theory about the Lighthouse: The fog obscured the light, causing an inbound ship to crash into one of the docks. The 3 keepers heard the noise and, without the time to finish their dinner or even put on their coats, went outside to look.
In the thick fog, they got lost, probably ending up in the ocean
the fact that that coroner came up with such a crazy intricate and specific theory about what happened to the kaz ii members is insane. im so used to them chalking up decapitated bodies as "suicide"
No idea why they went thru all that effort, we all know the only reason ppl r ever decapitated is due to suicide. Clearly they’re hiding something 🤔
I would have thought a strong possibility would have been that one or more of the crew went for a swim and something occurred (medical problem, shark bite/jelly-fish sting etc.) Leading to the remaining crew attempting to enter the water to help only to drown or fall victim to whatever danger befell the others.
@@FIddlertheleperI don't think that's a bad theory. Box jellyfish are really common in and near the Australian coast and they are no joke.
@@iamthehype3684yeah, or even a saltwater croc would have easily killed them with no trace.
I’m just wondering about the sail
can’t believe how exponentially you’re growing, and i can’t think of anyone who deserves it more than you! thank you for the spooky halloween post :)
Honestly, dad just puts out banger video after banger video, I'm glad he gets the recognition he deserves
the algorithm showed us all him at the same time.
Love his content, I like content to listen to
Bro I remember a while ago when I first subbed n he only had like 180k, actually crazy how fast his channel grew
The only plausible theory I’ve heard on the Mary celest was that one of the crew members spotted a ship or several that they mistook for pirates headed towards them. This then caused the crew to freak out and abandon ship in the lifeboat in a hurry, with the only thing taken being the nab equipment so they’d be able to journey home. It’s not watertight (lol) but it’s decent? Kinda?
Really great video!! I love all the work you do.
My personal theory for what happened to the Mary Celeste is based off the one proposed by Joe Scott.
The ship is sailing like normal and as it gets further into warmer waters the alcohol begins to evaporate and create strong fumes and explosions. It gets to the point the fumes are so bad that the passengers and crew are having trouble breathing so they decide to open the hatches and air out the ship. The plan is to move everyone onto a single life boat for a few minutes until the ship is more breathable then bring everyone back on board. Since its temporary they only need the one boat and everyone can leave their things behind. Due to the fumes everyone is rushing onto the boats (maybe someone stumbled and thats why the compass was knocked over?) and in their haste the crew member lowering the lifeboat ties a less than stellar knot. After everyone enters the boat the weight of all the passengers in one lifeboat puts strain on the crappy knot and it comes undone. With the sails half raised the ship picks up enough wind that the lifeboat cant catch up and everyone is stranded on the ocean in a single lifeboat with no supplies or belongings.