Legends of New York City
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- čas přidán 15. 06. 2024
- New York City is one of the largest and oldest cities in the United States. The people, the architecture, the shows, the restaurants, everything about the city drips with unique history and culture. And with all that history and culture, comes a plethora of myths and urban legends. From buried treasures to ghosts to mechanical dead zones to alligators in the sewer, this program will discuss some of urban legends from the city that never sleeps!
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MYTHOLOGY HAS BEEN TOLD AND RETOLD IN MANY FORMS ACROSS TIME, STORIES AND ACCOUNTS MAY VARY.
MUSIC:
Theme from "Gargoyles"
The Dark Knight meditation ambience
CLIPS:
Footage of Manhattan, Statue of Liberty, Empire State Building,
Wollman's rink, Central Park, Brooklyn Bridge, Manhattan Bridge,
Hudson River, and Dakota Building
OPENING:
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ARTISTS FEATURED:
Pyro-Helfier Art
Jean Leon Gerrome Ferris
Howard Pyle
Tyler Hicks
NuclearBeast Art
Agnes Tait
Bob Gruen
Michael Arnaud
REFERENCES:
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www.nycgo.com/articles/urban-...
www.wrshlaw.com/blog/general/...
nypost.com/2014/10/25/new-yor...
www.timeout.com/newyork/blog/...
seeksghosts.blogspot.com/2014...
ephemeralnewyork.wordpress.co...
ghostsofny.com/blog/the-ghost...
news707.com/nyc-urban-legends...
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nyghosts.com/the-dakota-haunt...
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@mythologyunleashed could you do a new York City urban legends video on the staten island ferry octopus disaster and the brooklyn bridge elephant stampede nyc ufo tugboat abduction and the ed koch wolf foundation and the bulldog bootleggers nyc urban legends
This is perhaps the second time watching this episode ( I did watch when it came out), but only this time did I notice the theme of Gargoyles. Thank you.
This episode is an instant favorite once it started playing the "Gargoyles" theme. The tv series gave this great city new legends to explore if it ever was real.
I knew I couldn't be the only one who heard the "Gargoyles" theme the instant it started playing!
@@elizabethcoen We are Legends of the Night, We are Gargoyles.
I see there is already an Ethan in these lands
@@brilicusgaming6922 GRRROWL! (flexes talons and grins mischievously, revealing small but very sharp fangs)
Who else want to be a gargoyles
The myth about alligators living in the sewers underneath New York is the most likely I like to believed.
People often forget how adaptable this cold-blooded reptiles when in comes to extreme certain conditions and environment.
If this animals are thriving in the sewers. It likely evolved in changing its genes so that it can survived in the harsh winter and possibly laid dormant like a bear during this season.
From Batman villain Killer Croc to Resident Evil 2, the Gators in the Sewer myth has had a lasting impact on pop culture.
@@Thoralmir ikr
(Singing) If there's something strange, in your neighborhood, who you gonna call ?
GHOSTBUSTERS!!!
GHOSTBUSTERS!
I loved that you put the Gargoyles theme in the video
"The spell is broken... and we live again!!"
Genious! Absolutely brilliant! My friend, I do believe that you have tapped a wealthy wellspring of mythical goods here, & struck gold! I definitely love the way you brought it all together with the legendary lore of the alligators in the sewers! Fabulous touch! I look forward to more content like this from you, with great anticipation! Excellent video, indeed!💜🌍🌠
I love the sewer gator legend because it inspired many sewer gators in pop culture.
Yeah, like the Lizard and Killer Croc.
And leatherhead from tmnt
Loved that you used the theme from the 90s cartoon, gargoyles
Very cool!! I love legends. I didn't know about most of these legendary places.
I love that you were using the Gargoyles theme music. (Although it might get you in trouble if Disney finds out)
Also, MonsterQuest did an experiment where they measured the temperature of the NYC sewers and found that they were well into the 80's so a reptile COULD survive down there if it could find enough food.
food isn't a problem given that New York has a rat problem with some of then reaching over 2lb and there's more rats then pepole
@@redschafer7804 Germany too have so many bats but i think all bigger Citys,and we also had our own gator story 🤣in the sewerage👋❤🖤‼
Older comment, so apologies, but the sewer gator MQ is a prime example of why I don’t trust skeptics’ judgements. All the historical accounts and evidence given from the start and it’s not even remotely a supernatural mystery, yet there were still skeptics there like “Well, I PERSONALLY haven’t seen it, so it can’t be true!”
I love the music from gargoyles in the background That was a nice touch
In 1986, there was a science-fiction/horror movie called C.H.U.D. that was about humanoid reptile-like mutant monsters living in the New York City sewer system. The creatures would attack people at night through the covered sewer holes and then drag them down into the sewers, ripping the people apart and eating them alive. The acronym for their name stood for Cannibalistic Humanoid Underground Dweller. They were formerly normal, ordinary human beings who were homeless people living in the sewers but they were accidentally exposed to chemical waste after a corrupted and greedy but powerful and rich atomic energy corporation in Manhattan had started to secretly, illegally dump chemical waste in the city's sewers.
As a result, they created a horde of humanoid lizards that were spreading because they could transform other people with their bites into more of their own kind, and the scientists, and wealthy businessmen knew about the C.H.U.D.s, but they were trying to secretly hunt them all down and cover up the truth about their existence (and the real reason as to why they exist). But the police and the U.S. government were now investigating the strange, deadly incidents in the sewers after too many people were disappearing, and the news got wind of it.
After that sci-fi movie had first come out in movie theaters in the late 1980s, there has always been a fear from the general public that something similar to the C.H.U.D.s could be real and that the sewers may have some kind of mutated things that are dangerous living down there. There is some truth to this as U.S. government scientists have been studying the New York City subway system over the last 50 years to test out the differences in the bacteria and germs existing underground and existing on the surface, in order to compare the two and their capacity for mutations due to the increase in the pollution in the atmosphere.
To their shock and unpleasant surprise, they had found out that due to the level of increasing pollution in the subway over the last 5 decades, there are new kinds of bacteria mutations that exist on the subway trains that they had never seen before. What types of long term effects that these new, unheard of and unknown forms of germ mutations will have on the people who ride the subway trains is as yet unrevealed. But they believe that the biological, chemical and genetic effects, whatever they may be, will be evident in the DNA of subway train riders in New York City in the next 50 years or so.
Sewer Alligators may not the only urban legend to haunt the Big Apple. I went there once in 2016 after a funeral for my maternal grandmother. We have some friends who live in Brooklyn and still do. While me, my mother, and Natalie(our friend) were out walking their dog one evening, I swear I heard the sound of rustling and a gentle sounding 'whoosh' as if the wind was passing over a cloth sail. I had just finished an episode of "Gargoyles" beforehand and wondered "Was that a Gargoyle?" I began thinking about which character it could have been: Was it Goliath, Brooklyn, Broadway, Hudson, Lexington, or Angela, running their nightly patrols in order protect the streets of their adopted home? Or, worst case scenario, was it Demona, Goliath's ex-wife and Angela's mother, on the prowl and looking for humans to destroy?
Who else wants to be a gargoyles
Yooo always looking forward to your uploads Mr.M delightful content an approach to uncovering the history can't forget you research is amazing also. Best content on CZcams
I love the usage of the Gargoyles theme, great video as always! Hope you do one on Philadelphia one day!
Will you do urban legends of Los Angles next? Like the underground city of lizard people?
in Houston Texas , there are alligators in the sewers , and the bayous and ditches ........
Even in your bedroom's
@@dozensofknives9104 that's actually my ex wife in those photos............................
Gargoyles should make episodes based on these legends
Gargoyles should make episodes period
Wonderful! Just absolutely wonderful! I've heard about the alligators in the sewer legend, but not of the others mentioned in this video. I'd love it if you could do more cities and their legends, if at all possible. I look forward to more of your work, and thank you for continuing to put the time and effort into making these videos! 😀💖
I'm a new yorker and I love our folk lore but I never saw a video on it this is so dope thanks so much Fam! :)
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@@MythologyUnleashed say could make a video on the new york urban legends of the staten island ferry octopus disaster and the brooklyn bridge elephant stampede and the nyc ufo tugboat abduction and the ed koch wolf foundation and the bulldog bootleggers of nyc urban legends
A very interesting video I didn’t expect that there are myths in the recent era
I’m from New York and I never knew any of those legends except about the alligator in the sewer. Thanks for making this video now i know more about the city and where i came from. Can’t wait to see more videos keep up the good work.
after the seeing what music was used, a tsunami of nostalgia hit me, nice pick and i have hear somewhere about the sewers with aligators somewhere
It’s nice to hear urban legends from a famous city such as NYC. I would love to see more of them in the future.
Hey nice. I remember the alligators in the sewers of New York legend.
I have never been to New York but this video just put it on my "must visit" list! I had no idea the city was teeming with so many urban legends. I would love to see you make a series out of this, exploring myths and urban legends of other cities. :)
I was just thinking about your amazing content, especially the video about Celtic monsters (that video is haunting, in the most fascinating way)! Perfect timing 😊
You can't fool me! I recognized that gargoyles theme within the first second!!! 🤣 Truly is an awesome theme!
Once again another amazing story 🙌🙌 thank you brother.
So happy i saw you posted i somehow don't have a notification bell🙄I wish you a wonderful day my friend it's such a joy listening to your stories ❤🖤👋‼
I’d love to see more of these modern myth videos!
Excellent use of the Gargoyles theme song!
I saw what you did there at 0:50-1:15 with the gargoyle’s theme song in the background
Now can u do of nepal..??
I love that your using the theme music from Disneys Gargoyles
I heard the gargoyles theme song in the background and I love that little nod.
Have much love for this video already with the Gargoyles use
Love the Gargoyles theme in the background.
Any thoughts on a video about Yggdrasil (The World Tree) from Norse Mythology? Would love to hear this channel talk about Ratatoskr!
I love this vid... also I like how the background music was from Gargoyles the 90's tv show.
1:03
You used the Gargoyles theme. Nice.
This video was my first exposure to your channel.
Fantastic video. I wish you mentioned that the Alligators skin color being Albino.
And although they’re highly unlikely I think a small population can still exist under New York because if I remember correctly some parts near sewer plants are extremely warm, that and maybe there are more sewer systems that exist under ground that house an entire colony of them.
Still great video.
The Gargoyles Theme!
Talks about New York folklore. Then plays the Gargoyles theme. You're good...
I loved this video.
1:04 I hear the background sound from gargoyles
AMAZING!!!!
Using the Gargoyles theme song! Nice!
Im a state away lol. Do you have anything on Pennsylvania? I probably missed it if you do/did. These are so neat. Thanks for great content!!!
Nice use of the gargoylestheme. ^^
Part II has to include Cropsey.
Great video but I think you should do one about the grim reaper
This was awesome. I've been to NYC once and I've never been to any of these buildings. I would love to visit the apartment were John Lennon stayed, but I will keep in mind that his spirit may roam the place.
I lived in NY for a long time and never heard any myth about a sailing vessel like that.
Now do the legends of Chicago.
First story sounds like someone just scared them off and stole the treasure.
Request: Urban legends of Australia. (I’m an Aussie).
Now I know you just used the gargoyle theme intro for your intro and for that you get a like and a favorite!
The gargoyles theme music 🔥
Surprise you didn't do the story of the underworld city under nyc
I recently got into reading a Gargoyles fanfic called Down on the Bayou where the fokle character is a Cajun alligator man who lives in an old New Orleans trolley on a man-made island in the sewers. Heck, the author even said that the character (Jean LeBeau) was based on that myth.
With that in mind, will we be seeing a video about New Orleans anytime soon? I'd really like to see that, since I'm from Louisiana.
Especially a video on Marie Laveau.
What site is the fic on? FFN? AO3? Wattpad? I might give it a look. I've actually written a Gargoyles/Game of Thrones/A Song of Ice & Fire crossover fanfiction; premise is that after winning a squire's tourney and being knighted, Aegon VI/Young Griff encounters the Archmage and Uber Archmage who then teleport him to New York/Manhattan. After being apprehended by local police, Aegon/YG is then bailed out by none other than MacBeth himself. That's what I've got so far, but I can send you a link to the story if you'd like?
It was either late last year or early this year I saw a Coyote running out of a wooded park in the Bronx, when it saw me it ran back in the park, into the darkness.
Yesterday i saw a large den under a tree root in that same park. I am wondering if it might belong to coyotes or something much bigger.
The thought of coyotes roaming the streets of New York at nights is mind blowing.
Who knew the Big Apple is a center of America's myths, next to the Wild West. BTW, can you do Wild West myths?
GARGOYLES!
Alligators ? i thought the sewers of New York to be the forever battlefields or battletrashpits between some Teenaged Ninja Mutant Turtles versus the C.H.U.D.s for which side the gators would fight ? 🐊🐢👽
Why do I hear the gargoyles theme in the background
The New York gargoyles are real.
thoes alligator drawings look like crocodiles lol u can tell the difference by the snout
Are there any real gargoyles coming to life legends in New York??
Gargoyle legends have been told since the middle ages in Europe, we wouldn't be surprised if there were such urban legends in New York as well!
@@MythologyUnleashed 😺
I was hoping those dog sized rats would be mentioned in this.
Rodents of unusual size? We don't think they exist
....we're sorry but we had to! Haha
@@MythologyUnleashed Couldn't they at least get an honorable mention?
Dog-sized rats? OMG, like nope, nope!
John and Yoko also did hallucinogenic drugs so...... Yeah
🐒💕🙏
Gargoyles!!
Hey! That's what I said as soon as I heard that music.
Because how did the tow trucks not turn off
who are you gonna call?
The penny drop myth was busted by the MythBusters.
Do Khali
Armenian ship? Wtf, they don't even have access to any sea
Hands up if you think Yoko is a credible witness to anything
Crickets…
Yet more reasons not to visit New York