Legendary Creatures of Britain - Documentary
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- In this video, we take a look at some of the most famous legendary creatures of England, Scotland, and Wales, and consider if, some of them may have a basis in reality...
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The funny thing is, 1,000 years ago this would've been unbelievable, but now with the technology available I can go into the forest with two red LEDs and a blanket and scare the shit out of people
LOL
And risk getting shot
@@TheLeagueofLegendsTv Gotta Love America :')
@@MrMalformedllama true in most European woods I wouldn't worry doing this scare stunt
@@TheLeagueofLegendsTv Just not anywhere that hunting game meat is still common.
"It looks and sounds just like a big owl!"
Maybe... it's a big owl.
Some owls have _really_ weird hoots.
@@DJChiefX197 Then barn owls be like REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
Omg 😱
OMG IT HAS AN OWL FACE, BLACK TALONS, AND HORNS AND IT FLIES. Totally not the description for most really big owl species.
it IS
My mother from Connemara, she would be 102 this year, as we were walking along a road pointed at a small peaty brown pond and said, very matter of factly that a water horse lived there, a horse's head, shaggy fur, about 6ft long, smelling of ammonia would cross the road into another pond. Dogs were also scared of it. She mentioned it as simply as that's a yew tree.
Hi I like your mothers story if you could tell me anything else about it be great. Many little lakes from ireland to scotland have these kelpies and often they are in smaller bodies of water.
@@cryptozoology505 That's the whole story really. Despite the idea of the garrulous Irish my lot can be quite taciturn.
The pool was very small and the colour of oxtail soup.
@@frederickwallace6552 Thanks I like these interesting stories and believe possibly a eel like creature that traverses through streams to grass will visit ponds etc on there route possibly. Eels can do this to snake head ,walking catish and some others. Be feasible some odd eel like similar creature with horses head does similar habit. Very cool. Thank you for the story.
@@cryptozoology505 The horse's head make sense, but why the smell of ammonia?
Hi this is one of the reasons i believe your mom. Over the years some accounts have mentioned a strong stench from these creatures. We may think stinks, maybe some chemical release for look mate to maybe if nervous or disturbed starts release some toxic goo from skin. Even great apes are known to do this. They will open up glands and release terrible stench. Hard to know for sure but may have some logical purpose from protection to attract a mate. I am irish and Scott and love these stories. I was just curious name of pond or city.
There is dozens of lakes in Ireland with giant eels to seal reports and for sure some have base reality.
“the loch is only 10,000 years old”
Thank you. So few arguments about Nessie (as a relic plesiosaur), whether for or against, make mention of this, when it’s pretty clearly the most damning evidence to the idea of a plesiosaur in Loch Ness.
Also thank you for presenting all of these so evenhandedly. It seems like virtually every detailed account of cryptids I’ve seen either aims to convince the viewer or outright ridicules the idea. Happy to see a rational account presenting the stories, hypotheses, and counterevidence without descending into bluster or mockery.
true but experts claim there could be caves and underwater tunnels that could connect to the sea.......
@@leecroft5231 it's a glaciated valley Making such caves highly, highly unlikely...and as it's higher than sea level it won't be connected as it would drain down to that level
New ecology tech is fascinating.. They can DNA test soil to monitor presence of endangered species. They did it in Loch Ness. Eels and sturgeon. No dinosaurs..
@@HAVOCJKD Actually the caves are proven, but not the secret rivers.
@@willjames1124 I knew there was a trench recently found, but the "caves" I always thought were largely just standard indentations .... interesting. You have a Sinar map or source that shows them?
I think they prefer to be referred as "British people"
Bri'ish
I'd like to say as a brit.. Not many brits like to be called brits. We're actually English, Scottish, Welsh or Irish. People of one don't like to be confused with the others. Mainly everyone hates the English.
@@johnkennedy1610 with you there lad. Mainly hear Americans say British.
For real. Hearing American's go "bRItIsH" feels a lot like they're just being passive aggressive to me personally. I don't care about "Brit" because it's like a nickname and English is also okay. But British just feels so fucking snobby and if you've taken one step in England you'd know that's far from an accurate descriptor.
@@johnkennedy1610 *Northern Irish
The only time you should be frightened on Loch Ness is if everything gets quiet, and you hear...
"I need about Tree Fitty"
God damn it loch Ness monster , I ain't giving you Tree Fitty , I gave him a dollar , she gives him a dollar
I don't get it.
@@ominous-omnipresent-they South Park reference
@@greysonbourne Ohhh, okay. I knew it was something vaguely familiar about that quote. Thanks!
It's tree fiddy not fitty
You're leaving out Big Terry down at spoons. You cant do my mans like that.
Or "Dave" everyone has encountered one.
Or Dick Cameron in some circles!
"Whose is that stack of 50p pieces on'pool table?" Or "Who keeps putting that same sodding bloke's music on on'jukbox?" Or "Why, when I go to put my name on'board for'Snooker tables, do I always see'initials DC?" -Dick Cameron, that's why!
As a Scottish person, I was surprised by how well he said the names of places and other things. Well done
I agree top of the class. Well done.
One of the best things of living in Britain is how haunted and enchanted it all is ... everywhere you go has tales of ghosts, monsters, fairies and whatnot.
yeah, that's what i like about here
Where I live we have two ghosts, a witch, a cult, a fairy queen, a wizard, and several undead knights, all within a two mile radius.
@@jackmagee4084 Are they all flatmates or just neighbors?
Where the heck do you all live I don't get any of that in my town and i need it
@@slothaholic275 Devon
The TV series Grimm could've done an entire season in England.
Omg u just reminded me about that show
Loved that show. Still holds up for me.
Yeah, there are a thousand different series that could take place in the U.K., but Americans never bother because they think America is the centre of the universe. Either that or they can’t be bothered to do their research on Britain.
@@EditorOfSL I think its more a matter of economics and production companies targeting the American audience, Also the U.K. is really the BBC's playground and Americans mostly have no idea how to get the people and culture right, usually ending up with almost a caricature. Grimm took a trip over to Germany and the big bad for most of the series was an unnamed branch of Royals set on restoring their unchecked power. Monsters from Philippian, Japanese, German, Greek, and African myths showed up in various episodes of the show. America the great melting pot, even for hidden monsters walking among us.👹😱
There'd be too many monsters, m8. Too many
Having grown up near Dartmoor there's a pub conveniently situated up the road, in the middle of nowhere, from where the the "Hairy Hands" supposedly cause crashes.
Loch Ness is easily explained in view of recent studies. When examined the water had almost no animal DNA except eels 98% of all the DNA in the loch in fact. It's due to the moss in the water blocking sunlight so nothing else can live in the exceptionally dark waters.
These eels (I forget the name) grow to be quite large. But what's even more interesting is they don't stop growing til they mate. To mate they travel to sea, if they cannot get to sea in time they go home and keep growing.
This is relevent because loch nesses main outlet to the sea has several canal locks on it, there is a smaller shallower river too.
In short what people are seeing is exceptionally large eels that live in the depths that aren't making it to sea a few decades in a row resulting in abnormally large eels. Eventually they get out mate and die thus Nessie "dissapears" until a new batch gets stuck for long enough.
Interesting fact about loch Ness the local bedrock is riddled with wormlike tunnels big enough to fit a person in and perfect for eels, the town of foyers has a waterfall that goes into a small placid looking pond, however several people have been sucked into the holes and found months later in completely different parts of Scotland chewed and decayed, one wonders what they saw before they died, drowning whilst fuck off huge eels slithered towards them in the Stygian depths, hungry and determined with flashing teeth and dead eyes ...
Well that is Very interesting!
I'd love to know where you heard about the holes in the bedrock if you can remeber.
My breif search of the web yeilded nothing.
@@dd11111 Iv been foyers a few times and it's the one thing all the locals insist on. There's signs everywhere warning of the danger of the pool and the local pub/hotel owner and cafe owner both told me the same story about the dead people, one lad in particular they both seemed to remember. Admittedly a bloke in the same pub told me nessie lived in the mountains and laid its eggs in the Loch, but these two both seemed a bit more down to earth and sincere since the waterfall is a very tempting jump and the pool at the base is unnaturally deep and dark. The study with the eels in the loch, and their biology is easily verifiable as is the geography of the local outlets.
@@dd11111 of I remember correctly I read somewhere it's due to limestone in the rock eroding a lot faster due to all the water running down and through the mountains into the lochs if that helps! Don't qoute me though, might be worth double checking
I believe they’re oarfish, right? Sounds like what you’re describing 🤷♂️
@@4RD0N1SThat's absolutely not what's being described
No beast of Bodmin moor? That one is most likely real, probably an escaped big cat.
A kid did find a panther skull like 3 years after that whole thing but I believe it was traced so who knows
I saw a black panther in aberfoyle scotland. When it became illegal to own these big cats in the late 80s people released them into the wild which is why we now have panthers and lynxes etc in britain now. I think it's amazing that they not only survived but thrived far from thier natural habitat
@@starrchild254 well before humans got rid of em like bears and wolfs england had a large Lynx population
@@starrchild254 well lynx are or at least were native to the UK in the past, there is even a push to get them back officially.
@@graysylvian they're also talking about bringing back the scottish bear (ursa caladonia) the last of which were taken from the wild and transported to romania as circus acts. I would love to see those beautiful animals reintroduced to thier natural habitat
Tourist: Glaswegians aren't real.
A Glaswegian: Oi.
Tourist: Ahhhhh!!!
If "Oi" means "hi", that's funny because is the same word in portuguese
its funny cause its true... but we feel the same way about the edinburgians ( im glaswegian)
@Krabby boi you what? “Oi” is just a general word for getting someone’s attention, like “hey” in American English
@@markb.s.4186 Who told you oi meant hi?
@@starrchild254 The Brazilian and Portuguese.
I misheard “The grey man” as “The gay man” initially.
The gay man gives off a sense of great anxiety
Ah yes, the mythical creature, the gay man
Fair enough
equally scary
didn't we all..
18:20 That image gave me the chills. This will sound crazy, but I guess here is the place to disclose this. I've driven that road a few times. In the field left of the road there in that image, I saw what I can only describe as a demon, or cryptid, sprinting faster than a greyhound. This was no dog, this looked like a human mixed with a bat, or, like a demon, in other words.
I think I know which one you're talking about. And I don't care for it, either.
a panther?
Panthers are just jaguars, pumas or leopards with melanism so I doubt it. Jaguars live in jungles. leopards live in Africa.
A man-bat besat aflat upon the back of a fellow man-bat helivaced by a pack of man-bats?
Ok bud
You forgot Barry ‘Down the Pub’
Who do you think Tony "Doc" Shields is?
Big baz
"Simple as" - Big Bazza
@@sillylittlemonkey7130 luv me cryptids luv me footie luv knubu simple as
Crazy Gazza from all bar one in Nottingham
guess your not gonna talk about the queen then
Underrated comment
@Caleb P don't forget genetics. Her mother smoked and drank every day and made it to 101.
@Caleb P she actually wouldn’t be the first to make it past 120 Jeanne Calment died at 122
@Caleb P okay... but there was a woman who lived for 2 years past that point as I just mentioned
@Caleb P uuuhhhhhh... I mean I’m already aware of that. But i that kind of goes against your previous statement regarding the 120 limit so I’m confused as to how you have both these stances?
Remember kids, the coelacanth only survived this long because the deep ocean is an extremely stable environment. A big lake in scottland is absolutely different and wouldn’t result in something like nessie surviving
Plus, Isn’t The Loch Cold Enough To Freeze The Balls Of Of A Bull? How Would A Reptile Survive In There?
@@the.mr.schraderthere is scientific evidence hinting at the fact that pterosaurs, plesiosaurs, ichthyosaurs and (many) dinosaurs were homeotherm. The still living branch of avian dinosaurs are homeotherms as well, which supports this hypothesis further. That being said, the idea of plesiosaurs surviving in Loch Ness without there being clear scientific evidence for it even now is just ridiculous.
Sounds like something an undercover Nessie would say
As a coelacanth, I can confirm
Especially considering it’s based on outdated depictions of a plesiosaur.
Dartmoor is great for legends, the hairy hands always scared me when I was young, and the case of a woman seeing them from her caravan was always a horror tale to tell. If I remember correctly it was that she mistook this patterned knocking on the window for her husband, only to open the curtains and see a hairy hand rhythmically knocking on the window. I had almost completely forgotten about that until now, since I was told it when camping on dartmoor near the two bridges, always afraid of hearing a knocking sound.
Hands ohh hands o plentyyyyy
the scariest creature is the immortal lich that is said to eat small children in Buckingham Palace
That’s just Queen Elizabeth II
@@sheddyv beat me to it you son of a bitch...
It’s a myth that she eats children
The truth is that we have to sacrifice 1,000 frenchmen every month to appease her
Nah, that's just prince andrew.
He doesn't eat them though, ubfortunately.
Lmao u mean Charles
I know In my part of the country people have reported seeing Roman soldiers marching along old Roman roads with their feet under the modern roads obviously because current roads built over old Roman roads
Yorkshire?
i have heard lot bout the marching romans
and they march through objects walls etc
Ooo thats pretty neat.
@@trinidadapodaca7027 next level larpers or something more sinister, larpers.
Other cryptids that you could've mentioned were the Beast of Exmoor, Beast of Bodmin Moor, Stronsay Beast, Lake Muckross Monster, Spring-Heeled Jack and the Dobhar-Chu.
Cool video ;)
Also, the Lion of Essex, but that was only a cryptid for one day because it turned out to be a maine coon cat that happened to be a bit lion-coloured. It was a slow news day.
The Beast of Twyford was more amusing, because that also turned out to be an unusually large domestic cat. However, this was a cat that liked to lurk in bushes at pub closing times.
I like the idea that a kelpie and a nuckelavee are two forms in the same creature's life cycle. They have to ingest a rider to achieve adulthood.
Like an evil pokemon
@@isaiahbrazil a Digimon
@@isaiahbrazil I mean Pokemons in General arent that innocent
I had the same thought. What with a rider becoming fused or bound with a kelpy. Before being drowned. Compared/combined with the limp neck of the humanoid torso of the Nuckelaveei. It seems like a logical progression.
4:55 I've heard footsteps behind me once. Turns out though my boots were flinging snow behind me as I walked
This series must continue, it is too good. Maybe cryptids from Russia next.
No one remembers it, they were all to shitfaced on vodka
@@DMC_Motorsports cryptids probably had a few drinks themselves
Cryptids from Russia would be really cool, and there are so many that it could easily become a video series of its own
mexico has lot of good ones
lot of shaman shape shifters
Wow. I was just writing this when you mentioned the low frequency sound effect... "I wonder if the feeling of anxiety could be caused by wind conditions and resulting low frequency sound..."
Good review of possibilities, man. Nice work!
Britain is a super spooky place. Ancient woods, dark craggy moorlands, and old buildings of every kind. I always remember an Halloween when I was there, a ground fog at twilight creeped across the pastures, the silence was stupyfing..no birds, no sounds at all..very creepy. Folklore has many things like Goblins, Imps, Fearies, Gnomes, and bogeymen, and a rich tradition of witch craft like the famous tale of the Pendle Witches in Lancashire. If anyone is planning a trip to England, visit Pendle on Halloween.
and their food is pretty terrifying as well
@Fishy_Beta Tired trope. Bad food is a remnant of rationing during WW2 and not really representative of food here now. Some of the best chefs in the world come from Britain and I'd wager you've never actually tried British food.
Definitely missing the Beast of Bodmin Moor and the many varieties of will o' the wisps, particularly the origin of the name Jack o' Lantern.
Besides Bodmin, those sound more like ghost's
@@TheLeagueofLegendsTv will-i-the-whisps are supposed to be lost souls who died tragically. but the thing about them is they are supposed to be found all over england and they trick people to die the same way
moors in u k have some good stories of giant cats and dogs
panther type of black cats
I too was waiting for the beast of bodmin moore.
A Scottish Bigfoot. Don't you mean McBigfoot?
Mcsquatch
That would be Bigfoot's son.
He’s the same as a regular Bigfoot, just in a kilt
Nah he's only from Scotland if it has an A after the M and before the C lol
Hi, I'd like a McBigfood with a side of McMonster and a small fries please!
The first one is EXACTLY WHAT HAPPENED to me AND my half brother when we were kids. I was petrified, really petrified. AMA.
Do you like milk?
@@ridnaw9796 sometimes
I love the way you narrate.
Everything about your style is just right. Please keep it up.
We need one of these for every continent
It's like they sang on MST3K's Reptilicus episode:
Every country has a monster
They're afraid of in their nation
Every country*
There are critters like this on every continent and found in every culture.
Every country would be better or group of countries.
That would either mean skipping a lot of important info or VERY long videos. Smaller areas should be focussed on for the most part. Like India or China rather than all of Asia.
Walking through a foggy pasture I heard footsteps behind me that stopped when I did. It turned out to be curious cows that stop to listen when they can't hear you moving any more.
That's brilliant!
Same goes for sheep
Hi, Justin. I love your series and I would recommend talking about any cryptids from South America where freaks are at large specially here in Brazil.
The narrator losing it towards the end cracked me up 😂
I would love to see the cryptids of latin speaking europe, such as Italy, Iberia, France and Romania.
That's just the ppl that live there ,
Supposedly there are some scary monsters from Galicia and Basque Country mithologies and I think some Portuguese old stories, but I dont think we have anything like what you have on France or Britain.
At least here in southern Portugal I don't remember any scary stories of monsters prowling on the woods like wolfmen or ogres or anything like that
@Helliosophist the Portuguese National Assembly is indeed full of mummies, everyone from down here agrees with that ahah
No Dracula was a real guy.
Would like to leave a like but it's at 69
Thank you for this detailed production on legendary creatures of Great Britain. Strange happenings still occur in England. A few years ago I received two eyewitness reports, both from Shropshire and both encounters were in the year 2017. These persons apparently did not know each other, yet both of them saw a large apparent flying pterodactyl.
Oh I would love for Terrie's & pteranodons etc to still be around.Maybe the water horses r ptereosaurs.Have u heard the Civil War photo story of a group of Blue(Yankee)soldiers seemingly holding up a pteranodon in their midst?Now,I know Yankees are strange beings(ha ha)but would they really have a p'terry in a war?!!?
That's were cuddles went
@@thecoolcutlefishYT I'm sorry, I had let him loose while watching him for you, and he flew away. My fault.
@@SilverDreamweaver aww he was expensive 😔
@@thecoolcutlefishYT must of been if u brought cuddles back from the dead
Its really cool to hear about cryptids that are based near where I live, keep up the good work with these videos,they're a lot of fun to listen to!
British folklore, ancient & modern is incredibly rich.
Thanks for the video.
I think he needs to make a part two to this video because there are at least several more creatures like the black cats
Does America not have Black Cat mythology? Unlucky for them to cross your path, etc.
@@rsmith6366 thats about the extant of myths surrounding black cats in America, and I wouldn't call it a myth just because it is more of a joke or common phrase here than anything else
@@pachacutti1012 it's not a joke I believe in bad luck etc and there has been wierd encounters with black cats
Black cats arent really cryptids, they are witches’ familiars, a daemon that is soul bound to the witch, and when we stopped believing in witches we forgot about the black cats
@@darthakuma872 Superstitions like that exist but are less common here. There isn't a lot of scientific evidence to support them.
I’ve been binge listening recently, but today your “oh for goodness sakes”.... loved that so much!! Lol!
A good and well researched post. Thankyou !
How about the Green Man , the white stag , and about ten more that my grand father would talk about
Are they well known or are they just local to your grandads area
501 st has a good point. Also this video is already 45 minutes long, I’m sure it would be hard for Fire of Learning to record such a long video.
Nah they’re not just local to his grandads area, there more mythology based, like ancient gods of sorts, I wouldn’t exactly call them cryptida
The Green Man isn't a cryptid, he's a spiritual representation of the cycle and regrowth of nature. He's heavily linked with several old gods from different religions like Pan from Greek mythology, the Horned God from Wicca, etc.
I'd love to hear those tales, man.
I kept hearing hairy hens instead of hairy hands until the illustration. I perked up, saying
"Holy crap, I think these guys encountered velociraptors!"
These Cryptid videos are why I subscribed..hoping you do some more!! 😀 thanks for the great content
Iv been up Ben Mac Dhu several times . The further you get into the mountains the more anxious I felt even on a bright sunny sky and with a companion .
I live on the southern edge of Dartmoor and am very familiar with both the location and tale of the hairy hands. It's a fun story but a bit vague and reeks of excuses for accidents, the roads of Dartmoor are narrow, winding and undulating and it's not hard to crash if you don't know where you're going at night. It's a brutal but beautiful environment, the weather can turn at the drop of a hat from one extreme to another and it's very exposed should you get caught in its fury. I don't know if I'd call it spooky but you definitely don't want to go wandering around at night if you can avoid it, its frequently misty and there are plenty of things to trip over or fall into (mines/ravines etc.) if your torch fails, it's also hard to navigate as there are few easily identifiable landmarks visible at night, the military uses it as a training ground precisely for this reason. If you don't like big hills, bogs, random piles of rocks, sheep, ponies and gorse bushes then probably best to give it a miss.
Sorry my dad's a bit... Adventurous
Fellow plymouthian?
Never thought there would be so much for this island
hey its foggy! makes sense
Quite a bit a of lore for a shit hole
@T D Britain suffered a series of "cultural traumas" - Puritan rule, Enlightenment, Industrial Revolution, Globalism/Empire - which made us forget our local myths. Yes we have a wealth of legends, but the last 400 years have ruined this.
All this and much more :)
@@afterburnermosh stfu
The hairy hands story is true. My Dad used to own the pub in the little village down that road named for that legend. It was called "The Devils Elbow". The elbow part referred to the bend in the road as Devonshire roads are notoriously tricky. My Dad told me the same story, I remember it even though I was so young. The big, hairy hands would appear if you were driving too fast round the bend and grab your steering wheel, wrench it out or your hands and you would have no chance to react as your car would go off the road, down the embankments and you'd be powerless to stop it. The locals all knew the legend and respected the roads around those parts, I miss the moors now I'm older. 😊
to be honest, this just sounds like an excuse that a drunk person would give for crashing a car, especially considering the difficult driving conditions, and the pub being a notable part of the story.
Did your da own the skylark???
I really enjoy these cryptid videos and hope you make more!
That final reference to Tony "Doc" Shields was just perfect, got a chuckle out of me.
It always makes me laugh 😂
UK cryptids, thank you so much for covering some of ours! Great choices as well.
lilith was the first eve but adam couldnt handle her so he was given eve
Awesome video mate, didn't know another of this about my own country. Good work
Very informative, very entertaining, quality content.
Thank you for a very clear,concise and measured narration..makes such a change from the more loud, hysterical excitability that we hear.
I live near Falmouth, Cornwall and can't say I've ever seen the Owlman or the Morgawr lol. There's so much folklore down here though, it's so interesting
Ever run into Richard David James?
He might be creepier than all of those things combined and last I heard he lives around Cornwall.
I'm a falmouth boy, was excited to hear some Cornish legends get a mention.
Hello Justin.
Thanks for sharing this interesting docu.
You just got yourself a new subscriber!
I love these long video's you make. cheers for the information.
Keep this series coming please!! Do Japan or Mexico next!!
Yes Japan would be great, lots of creepy ones there, like the Oiwa!
@@fr9874 and don't forget the atomic bombs
@@GranddukeofWales oof
Pretty sure Mexico was in the North American one
@@garlicisnice64 nop because Mexico isnt north america
Future British Tanks and Planes should be named after them
Cool idea
@@Voc_spooksauce after ww2 the British actually had a jet called a Vampire
@@loreexplorerhistoryandgami668 Hah that's nice, i guess it does fit in a way
Maybe not tanks - unless the cryptid's name starts with a C ;)
Romulus Rommel Salazar vampires originate from Slavic mythologies
This is a great documentary! Could you please also make one about creatures of Scandinavia?
Thank you love this video appreciate you!:)
Love this, Justin. You have a very consistent and strong fan base and all for good reason. Easily probably one of the most informational channels all about some of the most interesting and entertaining topics. Keep em coming good sir this is quality
Good to know that the SCP Foundation didn't redact this video since it can be taken as "Folk tales".
The Orcadian Horsemen?
@@llewelynshingler2173 Don't know what that is, mind givin me ze info ? :)
@@Voc_spooksauce They're creatures that dislike Gold, Running Water and Holy Symbols; are attracted to Human Suffering on a Grand Scale and Strongly Resemble Nuckalavees.
@@llewelynshingler2173 Oh i see, so they are basically a mix of a bunch of cryptic creatures, cool :)
@@llewelynshingler2173 Oh i just checked for that SCP and actually i had already seem it, i just didn't remember the name or number haha
The owl man sounds like it's just a big eurasian eagle owl
Great job, thanks for the video!
You've been making the absolute BEST vids recently! Keep 'em coming!
Love the content, thank you! Happy holidays
Thanks for making these videos.
This is the video which brought me here. I recently had an experience here in Florida WITH VIDEO I will soon be sharing. Glad I found your channel and subscribed.
I love the campfire series. Please do more of these for the different countries of the world if possible!
Fascinating subject matter and well presented. Would love to see more videos on folklore and mythical creatures.
The Tetley Boggart which lives on the isle of Axholme in England has been sighted since the late 1700s and still keeps locals indoors after midnight
Had me a little heart attack. Listening to this at work (night security guard), and as I was taking a walk around the building at 2:50am, I turned around and saw a dude in a grey boiler suit walking towards me.
Morag's play button had me in stitches.
U toob is so silly.
Oh Man! Just what I needed to listen to while doing my rounds! Thanks Justin!
Please keep these coming. I love your videos and style of explaining. This is so unique. You’re a blessing to CZcams. So easy to listen to and learn.
I'm actually really impressed at how well you pronounced ceffyl dŵr, which literally translates to water (dŵr) horse (ceffyl)
Interesting! Some of these aren't far from me and upon further research it opened up a whole rabbit hole of local myths that I'd never heard before.
7:38 An inviting horse that encourages you to ride it by singing to you...Hard pass.
Some guy down the pub was probably shit faced or high
Seriously, though, in the unlikely event that a horse sings to you (in a language you understand), shouldn't that set off one or two alarm bells?
@@resourcedragon they'd prolly take thier phone and record if they found it today
I find it more laughable that a handsome man would be talking to me trying to flirt. Gay as a sledgehammer to the face so it’s like HAH that ain’t gonna work buddy
And if it was a pretty lady I’m awkward as hell so it’d be like hahaha I don’t believe that someone like you would be interested in me that’s a fed flag
Hoped the Nuckelavee would be on here. Any Monstrum fans here?
Great video, would love to see a creatures and cryptids of Indonesia, Malaysia, and Papua New Guinea. Some really amazing legends out of those islands :)
This is cool, I live really near Dartmoor and I’m glad where I live is getting talked about!
I saw the black dog when I was really young, I remember playing in the school playground during my lunch break and turning my head to see this huge dog that I could barely make any features out from. My first thought was that it was strange that this huge dog got into the playground and that nobody was paying any attention to it. It had the classic red eyes and sat there for a few minutes watching me before disappearing.
did it look like a wulf?...those legends are rife.
fenrir the wulf is part of the ragnarok saga.
but woden (odin) is said to take the form of a wulf.
how did life go after your encounter?
Skal
Wulf
Same. Had a weird experience back when I was around 10. One morning me, my mum, brother and sister were leaving the house to go to school our mum was giving us a lift. Soon as the front door opened they all walked up the drive towards the car but I froze. I saw this black wolf/dog walking down the road parallel to our house heading in a direction where it would have to cross our drive and go behind the car we were going to get into. I just stared at it, I could only see it side on until it turned its head to look at me. It didn't look too out of the ordinary the eyes weren't glowing red they were an amber colour but I did get a shiver up my spine and my hair did stand up on end soon as it looked at me. It then turned its head back to looking straight ahead and disappeared from my view behind the rear of the car. You would expect it show back up on the other side of the car in the direction it was walking but it never did it vanished. Then it got really strange my mum noticed I had stopped and asked me what I was looking at? I shouted at my mum and siblings about the big black wolf/dog and they just looked at me puzzled, they said they hadn't seen anything. They had all been walking in the same direction I had been so it would have been impossible for them to not have seen it. My mum then shouted to get in the car or we were going to be late. So reluctantly I got in the car but not before looking up and down the road, behind the car and underneath it. There was nothing. Later when we got home and my mum asked me about what I had seen. She then told me all she saw when she looked back to see what I was doing was that I was stood just outside the front door frozen with a terrified look on my face and my eyes just transfixed on somthing. She apparently called my name a number of times but got no response. She then looked in the direction I was looking but there was nothing there.
im not familar with the dog and hasnt watched the vid yet but that description sounds like the grimm of harry potter, that must be where the grimm got its inspiration off
@@16KyleD
Sorry it's late. Just came across this.
Fascinating story., thank you. I just know that you are telling the truth here.
This is one gem of a video props
I want to see more of this in other regions
So tired of the acidic digital wasteland we oft find ourselves trekking through these days, it's great that one may always find refuge within this wonderfully erudite & entertaining channel. Most appreciated.
Pretty cool. Now I gotta go watch more of your videos.
The mothman just got captured by the SCP foundation.
The black dog must have jumped the pond, because it's a trucker legend in the US too
My dad has been driving over the road since the 1980s. His black dog was a kid on bicycle. He would catch a glimpse of a kid on bike in his headlights coming from the shoulder of the road just before the kid disappeared under the hood. Several times he would end up stopped on the side of the road with a flashlight looking for this kid, damage to his truck, or a bicycle. He never found anything.
The heck is the SCP foundation
@@watchmen617 Search it
@@esterjumawid1111 I did actually, watched a few videos on it from the inforgraphics show. Good work of fiction. Reminds of the movie Cabin In the Woods lol
So I don't know if you know but SCP 023 also exists
Love the topic! Thanks for the upload :-D
18:21 That image gives me chills. I regularly drive along that stretch of road. It's creepy enough, just because the radio cuts out there, but my experiences there and in that forest are far stranger. On separate occasions both I and my mother saw something while driving. We were not aware of each others encounters at the time, but both described something similar. A black, "demonic" creature running parallel to the car. Like a cat or dog, but also a gargoyle, alien, or "demon", for lack of better words. Whatever it is, it can run at 30mph with ease.
Edit: recently I was walking there, near Postbridge. I became separated from my mum and dog, trying to close a metal gate lock, which slammed on my finger. As I walked back along the path, towards the road and my car, a man called to me from a few meters away. A "pst pst", like calling a cat. It didn't sound real, but more like a recording. Everything else went silent for a moment. Nothing was there. Of course, I sprinted back to the road like my life depended on it.
Someone else here in these comments posted a nearly identical story to yours.
the 'like a recording' part gave me chills, anything bizarre that happened to me involving a voice, i have described that way
That was really well done. Reminded me of Fortean Times from around 30 years ago.
Plz keep this series going it is amazing in every sense of the word
Interesting documentary. - There is also Spring Heeled Jack , Ginny Greenteeth and Redcap.
I have a book on Scottish lore and there are enough cyptids documented in it to establish a CZcams channel solely based on them.
@@theneonseal6792 it's a really interesting subject!.
And Black Annis, pixues and fairies, the devils hoofprints, and many many more ...
@@someonesomeone25 Black Annis is interesting - I've not heard of that one.
Spring heeled Jack aka Sexual Harassment Batman Wolverine.
Totally Awesome! 👍🏼
the grey man is a natural effect, not a monster and can be seen on any mountain. it is caused when your shadow is cast on the clouds when the fog is thick, its pretty cool.
This is definitely one of my favourite CZcams channels now
I just recently found your cryptids video on North America, and that video, along with this one, are very well done! a lot of cool things in here that may hold truth, but even if it does not do so, then it at least makes for an excellent topic to cover on a video! Hopefully you continue this cryptid series for other countries as well!
I got here from Trails of Cold Steel, I didn't know that cryptids were actually mythology in real life, really fascinating video
Loving these cryptid videos!