Yup'ik storyteller John Active shares a scary story

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  • čas přidán 29. 10. 2013
  • When John Active was a little boy growing up in Bethel he used to listen to stories around his grandmother's table. Growing up with no TV or radio, Active, now 65, would sit there and listen as his grandmother, Maggie Lind, and other elders would entertain each other for hours with stories of the supernatural.
    Read the full article on Alaska Dispatch: bit.ly/alaskadispatchscarystory
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Komentáře • 108

  • @joysanders59
    @joysanders59 Před 3 lety +52

    I would love it if other storytellers made videos to share their stories. Its so important to save these wonderful peoples stories! Thank you, sir.

    • @The907g
      @The907g Před rokem

      Some stories, like songs are exclusively for the tribal members and need permission from village elders to be passed on. And when permission is given, it’s usually shared more intimately than posting on the internet

  • @johncothren603
    @johncothren603 Před 3 lety +27

    Just from watching this one video, this man is a national treasure!

  • @rubywingo6030
    @rubywingo6030 Před 2 lety +17

    None of the men in our family ever come to the table without a shirt. It is respect. They never walk around without a shirt on period! It’s respect.

    • @GoldTitanBoa917
      @GoldTitanBoa917 Před rokem

      I never wear a shirt. As a confident well built man my bulging muscles give inspiration to those weaker than me, who could only dream of achieving the commitment & joy I receive on a daily basis. The respect being shirtless commands is a big highlight to my life. I love that my family isn't judgmental a-holes like your family is. Women get so weak in the knees they can hardly speak lose all control something takes over them when I flex the pecks.

  • @lancemasterdavidlancesomer8341

    Thank you John Active Yup'ik as the spirit in man has a good story for the people I will remember this as thank you all the best.

  • @tdog9073
    @tdog9073 Před 3 lety +4

    Quyana John for storytelling for us RIP john

  • @waltergolia9809
    @waltergolia9809 Před 5 lety +23

    John Active Was The Best Yupik Story Teller Ever John Was Telling The Best On The True Yupik Story Quyana Cakneq John Active RIP John.

  • @thomaskaye4016
    @thomaskaye4016 Před rokem +6

    I will always stop & listen to the elders & their stories . Thank you god bless

  • @alextheturkey5695
    @alextheturkey5695 Před 3 lety +27

    Everyone: listening to his story*
    Me: doing my native dances because the back off my brain is telling me too*

  • @cunegonde4
    @cunegonde4 Před 2 lety +14

    This would make a great horror short. It would be terrifying if the young Yupik dropped the food and went to retrieve and his grandma stops him and tells him never to do that and why, and then he looks back down at the food on the floor and sees it’s still where he dropped it and then he lifts the tablecloth to look under the table and there’s nothing there.
    He resumes eating with a skeptical
    expression aimed at his elder, and then suddenly feels a slight shift and hears the sound a wooden chair leg makes when it is moved with weight on it. He looks back down just in time to see the grey hairy hand over his dropped food as it and a long arm retreats back Under His Chair!

  • @jacobcurtis
    @jacobcurtis Před 6 lety +22

    RIP John Active

  • @royalwilliams9691
    @royalwilliams9691 Před rokem +6

    I've been in a bad way..one night camping the light from a lake Shack shown on the tent,a cat walked across the picnic table and turned to a raccoon and hissed at us..my x girlfriend went out of the tent and screamed an got back in,she had see a man beside the tent who drifted away..when explained what he looked like I could see vivid in my mind his appearance..3 days I seen him walking down the street. Then a fox started to appear in the back yard.

    • @Onikag
      @Onikag Před rokem +2

      yep shapeshifter. they are everywhere. be careful- some are doctors, friends, family, officers

    • @Rosesraspberries72
      @Rosesraspberries72 Před rokem +1

      Could be Sasquatch related too.

  • @AngelaPerez-ks5zp
    @AngelaPerez-ks5zp Před 3 lety +6

    In Nevada, my elders told me not to be loud and to be respectful at meal times also..

  • @rayva1
    @rayva1 Před 4 lety +14

    The food suddenly dropping on the floor is something my old folks had a saying about, but in my own experience, the food I was about to eat dropped on the floor, and when I stooped to pick it up, I couldn’t find that piece of food anywhere.

  • @iliveinthewoods
    @iliveinthewoods Před 2 lety

    Thank You for the Story. 🙏🏻

  • @oryanbegay7856
    @oryanbegay7856 Před 2 lety +4

    This was interesting, I'm full native American, half crow & half Navajo, and I never heard of this saying. Btw, TURN THE MUSIC DOWN I COULDN'T HEAR THE STORY!!! 😤

  • @MrQualitative
    @MrQualitative Před 9 lety +1

    That's a very well made video. Thank you.

  • @Mdme.X
    @Mdme.X Před rokem

    Great video- thanks for sharing! Reminds me of stories my Pépére told us kids at dusk/ night.

  • @zindi1138
    @zindi1138 Před 2 lety +2

    The little people.. Us and the big people. All 3 are still present

    • @Rosesraspberries72
      @Rosesraspberries72 Před rokem +1

      Do you listen to Fred from “ Subarctic Sasquatch Alaska “? Brilliant story teller of the hairy man.

  • @okaminess
    @okaminess Před 6 lety +8

    I loved it. I made quite a number of friends in Alaska when there for a Native American/AK Native internship. I always check back in to the state's community online. Thank you for sharing this.

  • @Kinobambino
    @Kinobambino Před 4 lety +4

    Never heard that before, very interesting.

  • @crystalheart9
    @crystalheart9 Před 3 lety +1

    Good story, thank you!

  • @kevinhancock9475
    @kevinhancock9475 Před 3 lety

    Great story. Well presented.

  • @pauulkubasek1815
    @pauulkubasek1815 Před rokem +1

    Could you make the music a little louder and the guy a little quieter? I can still hear him over the music.

  • @yerdeadlycuzn2668
    @yerdeadlycuzn2668 Před 4 lety +7

    He make me scared now I don’t wanna eat😂

  • @robertafierro5592
    @robertafierro5592 Před rokem +3

    Background music is way too loud...

  • @sandracmyers
    @sandracmyers Před 3 lety +6

    My Elders taught me to keep music low when someone's speaking lololol, I'm just teasing

  • @lucasmcpherson8703
    @lucasmcpherson8703 Před 2 lety

    My Favorite

  • @matthewmann8969
    @matthewmann8969 Před 3 lety +2

    Yes

  • @garystorm6251
    @garystorm6251 Před 2 lety +1

    Please share the Love of the Son of God, He spoke Truth Forever. Please write His Words in your Heart, and share them. Please Forgive, and Pray for everyone. Immanuel, God with us...

  • @Stopvotingdemocrat
    @Stopvotingdemocrat Před 3 lety +2

    The music is too loud. I can’t hear him

  • @metaldudeA7X
    @metaldudeA7X Před rokem +3

    background musics too loud

  • @nawtygi
    @nawtygi Před rokem +1

    Sorry, I couldn't get through the first minute because of the music. I'm sure it was a great story. 😔

  • @massimogreco3971
    @massimogreco3971 Před 6 lety +4

    Rip.

  • @mb.9370
    @mb.9370 Před 5 měsíci

    Maybe it was Jeepers Creepers trying to get a quick bite to eat 😜

  • @sandraoss3183
    @sandraoss3183 Před rokem +1

    Background music too loud can hardlly hear what he is saying

  • @yupanish
    @yupanish Před 10 lety +2

    My mom tells me that our family before us, they eat the food that accidently fell.

  • @kimberlylee1329
    @kimberlylee1329 Před 2 lety +1

    Like the story but the music is way too loud!!

  • @gerardojimenez4592
    @gerardojimenez4592 Před měsícem

    The music made me comment about it and close the app annoying asf to hear while listening to a story

  • @ashleysmith9516
    @ashleysmith9516 Před rokem

    I'm Qawiaraq Inupiat and we had some scary stories too! I wonder if he's ever heard of the green lady

  • @gigibrady333
    @gigibrady333 Před rokem

    You are everyone's Grampa. Like we say on rez. 🤣 GOOD STORY!

  • @vincenzovieri3743
    @vincenzovieri3743 Před 4 lety +20

    Lower the damn music, who’s more important the chanting or the man??? Horrible editing

    • @N30N_907
      @N30N_907 Před 4 lety +3

      Vincenzo Vieri actually the chanting is traditional for story telling and the chanting is part of the traditional dances I know this because i am Yupik.

    • @Myszkia
      @Myszkia Před 4 lety

      @@N30N_907 99621 or 99655?

    • @adominae488
      @adominae488 Před 4 lety

      Get bent

    • @tdog9073
      @tdog9073 Před 3 lety

      @@Myszkia 99621

  • @Yakplanet_tv
    @Yakplanet_tv Před 4 měsíci

    This man looks like a ghost story

  • @Nurauq
    @Nurauq Před 3 lety

    Dogedinh (thank you) for sharing.

  • @wilfredkatcheak8688
    @wilfredkatcheak8688 Před měsícem

    Shamans have great stories

  • @mayan9458
    @mayan9458 Před 3 lety +1

    Sounds like a very smart lady who got a kid who didn’t want to wear a shirt, to put a shirt on! Lol

  • @steven_set
    @steven_set Před 2 lety +1

    Can't hear the story w ppl yelling

  • @ang3l91
    @ang3l91 Před 3 lety +11

    The devil believes in God but trembles, because he knows that God is the all powerful being that has mercy of us humans

  • @douglasweatherford3739

    Making sure his ancestors "hand" is not there, the lady making him scared of "his own". on a side note why are his pupils so large? I mean it might be a dark room although i don't think even that would cause pupils to be that large

  • @Pawknee123
    @Pawknee123 Před 5 lety +54

    Music was distracting... Hard to follow the story

  • @rubywingo6030
    @rubywingo6030 Před 2 lety +1

    Music not necessary!

  • @Catmissymoo
    @Catmissymoo Před 3 lety

    That's the #Jinn

  • @wrouillie
    @wrouillie Před 10 lety +5

    LOL, tell more!

  • @bojanaleksic1998
    @bojanaleksic1998 Před 2 měsíci

    The sound in the background is so annoying and distracting i can barely understand anything.

  • @latintribe4411
    @latintribe4411 Před 5 lety

    hello

  • @jarred333Boss
    @jarred333Boss Před rokem +2

    I wish that noise wesent so god damn loud in the background I'm trying to hear his story!??

  • @intrepid5592
    @intrepid5592 Před 3 lety +1

    The story and the background din should be separated...

  • @70ksingh
    @70ksingh Před rokem

    Not to mention the many Sasquatch encounters.....

  • @CasualDandyAkaSqwrty
    @CasualDandyAkaSqwrty Před 2 lety

    I still don't understand how the shirt factors in. Is it going to keep your food from hitting the floor? Or is it so disrespectful as to call forth spectral, scaly hands?

  • @deborahmcdow8282
    @deborahmcdow8282 Před 5 lety

    N 'No, he's n eldr n not on drugs

  • @Alejandro1313sixx
    @Alejandro1313sixx Před 4 měsíci

    They did something to his face?

  • @Rosesraspberries72
    @Rosesraspberries72 Před rokem

    If any of you local Alaskan people would love to listen to a brilliant story teller of true encounters people share with him, then may I humbly suggest a native man born and bred in Alaska, his name is Fred and his channel is called “ Subarctic Sasquatch Alaska”.
    Lol I’d be more concerned with these hairy Beings over ghost stories.

  • @deborahmcdow8282
    @deborahmcdow8282 Před 5 lety +1

    I am an Eskimo. N apparently that's wut we look like miss ma'am r Sir

  • @nicknewwell7622
    @nicknewwell7622 Před 7 měsíci

    Talukaruq Tomai

  • @jamescastillo2405
    @jamescastillo2405 Před rokem +1

    I love native American people, as a Christian I feel sad for them that they have had such a unhappy history, but I believe that's because they did not let go of their pagan ways, in witchcraft beliefs and practices, those things have kept them cursed for generations. If they only would embrace Jesus Christ as Lord they could free themselves from their generational curses.

    • @KendraEMoyer
      @KendraEMoyer Před rokem +1

      Christian white people can't figure out how to be happy with Christianity. Out people suffered due to mistreatment, not a lack of Jesus. Very callous considering all of the evil done by Christians.

    • @Isnortborax
      @Isnortborax Před 4 měsíci

      Seriously? You must be immeasurably blind to the social climate of the world around you or just plain stupid. I respect others' ideas and values but to say that native peoples suffered because they had their own practices and faith and would not conform to yours is incredibly stupid. You nor I have any clue the true extent of the suffering those poor people went through by people who thought exactly like you do.

  • @keatomic
    @keatomic Před 2 lety +4

    Could have done with the narration sans the background audio. Manipulation of context. Just let a man speak. When you ask a white man to tell a story from his family do you play Celtic bard music? When you interview a black man do you play J.P. Hooker in the background? This is why I'm conservative, conserve equal respect.

  • @backgroundmusik
    @backgroundmusik Před 2 lety

    This man has a very interesting face.

  • @bootswithtrees
    @bootswithtrees Před rokem

    Your "gods" have no power here. Nature is the true "god"

  • @just_in_alaska
    @just_in_alaska Před 8 lety

    Asigaqa!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!😎😎😎😎😂😂😂kk

  • @cjvilleneuve1566
    @cjvilleneuve1566 Před 2 lety +1

    i eat chips without a shirt and if i drop one , my dog will eat it, im safe sir.

  • @chronicler2313
    @chronicler2313 Před 3 lety +1

    Oppose and pray against these evil spirits! These demons don’t have any rights unless people obey them but if we’re following Jesus they have to flee in Jesus’ name. Jesus is the King of Kings and Lord of Lords these demons are under His feet.

  • @ang3l91
    @ang3l91 Před 3 lety +2

    Satan use to be the most gorgeous angel there was but desobeyed God by feeling he was God in other words he had pride and some angels adored him but he and the others we’re banished forever from the 3rd heaven, and now he’s dragging tons and tons of people to hell by death. The lake of fire 🔥 is waiting for sooo many souls to get in, to suffer forever with worms that never die