Skinwalker Ranch: The Secret isn't the Ghosts (REUPLOAD)

[@viridiscoyote7038]

I had a colleague that wrote a book on ghost hunting safety. It wasn't a guide for wrangling spirits, but more of a safety manual for exploring abandoned and physically hazardous spaces. Turns out there were lots of instances where a ghost hunter falls ill and blames spirits, not the super toxic mold that's been sitting in stagnant air for the last decade.

[@chillimack]

I guess you could say that ghost guide breaks the mould.

[@jandecoleman1]

I've heard the Tobin's Spirit Guide is a great reference book.

[@dlo111]

@@chillimack 🎤 drop! Boom!

[@_ZeroQueen_]

Id love to read it. I want to go exploring abandoned buildings, not fot ghosts but for the architecture and just being nosy

[@viridiscoyote7038]

@@_ZeroQueen_ "An Investigator's Guide to Paranormal Safety," by Elaine Davison.

[@MocaDK]

The whole cow mutilation thing made me think of some horse mutilations that happened in northen Denmark years ago: horses were found dead in their paddocks with knife wounds on them especially around the rectum and vaginas in the cases of mares. Clearly, some animal-abusing sexual deviant was torturing and killing the poor animals! It went on for weeks, months! And the public was outraged! Who was this psycho!? Why couldn't the police catch him!? What if he decided that horses wouldn't do anymore, and he'd excalate to people!? Yeah, turned out all the horses had died of natural causes, and the "knife wounds" were just scavengers like raptors, crows, foxes, etc. nibbling at the cadavers; the rectum and vagina are the easiest entry points for scavengers breaking through the hide and into the juicy bits, which is why these areas looked mutilated more often. So, the horrible horse-f**king knife-wielding psycho was just scavengers being scavengers...and we all felt a bit stupid for all the uproar and commotion...

[@dimadobrik4516]

Raptors, what else

[@foo219]

That was my initial reaction to the cows as well. It's how not just scavengers but predators too tend to get in the body. Cow skin is TOUGH yo.

[@grayfoxv]

I thought the whole thing about the cow mutilations were that the cuts to the animals were laser precise and very surgical in nature. Plus they were completely drained of blood with no evidence of having bled out.

[@hayleegraves1561]

Well that's better than the first conclusion!

[@foo219]

@@grayfoxv There is a lot of misinformation going around.

[@user-ip5qm7zm1q]

About 18 years ago I heard what sounded like people talking quietly in the dark outside our bedroom window. Upon going outside to find out what was happening. I quickly identified what was happening. We had a small creek running through our yard and had a duck box in a tree near the creek. This year some owls had taken over the resident and raised four chicks. The chicks had started flying and I hadn't seen them for a couple days. This night, the chicks had returned and were sitting on the fence near our bedroom. They were talking to each other with in soft hoots and chirps that sounded like humans talking softly. It would have been easy to think some ghosts were in the yard consulting each other.

[@blondbraid7986]

So many "ghost" stories could probably be explained by owls and the weird way they look and sound, paired with being nocturnal.

[@user-ip5qm7zm1q]

I also had a similar experience. Our duck box was taken over by small barn owls. We also live by a creek (hence the duck box) which barely ran in summer so it also served as a drug/young kids route thru town. One night I heard the “talking” and since it went on for awhile I thought some of the kids were camping by the creek instead of moving along. Since that would require me to pick up drug paraphernalia in the morning I decided I’d march out and encourage them to move along. I was very surprised that the little owls had returned and were sitting on the fence talking to each other. That helped me end my day in a very different mood.

[@brianward7550]

Actually, the word corn originally had a meaning closer to our word grain. Maze was one type of corn. Pease was another, which we now call peas. Basically the word corn essentially meant a kernel, or some small chunk of hard stuff besides and shape of a kernel of grain. In fact, rock salt broken up into small chunks would be called corn salt. It was used to cure beef brisket, which thereby came to be known as corned beef

[@joshjones6072]

Yeah, apparently the British during WW2 demanded US shipments of dry corn and were mystified and really annoyed they kept getting U.S. corn shipments (maize). The Brits made due with it anyway for a while, but they wanted wheat. 😆🤣

[@ZarineBashire]

If you read older literature wheat is always referred to as corn

[@Foxracing218]

That’s really cool and all but what did that have to do with the story told?

[@XxXspawndXxX]

@@Foxracing218 Simon's tangent at 9:48

[@ANTINUTZI]

... *Maize.* As not in *corn maze.*

[@DerptyDerptyDUM]

I love connecting the dots of Simon's tangents. He has previously said that he and a friend once used a coffee grinder to grind wheat from the backyard field where he grew up, and baked bread with it… Now we know that *this whole time* he thought it was cornbread. 😆

[@annwilson7750]

The wild thing is, corn originally mean grain - which is why the KJV of the bible has references to corn in it - and maize was originally called "Indian corn" by the English, eventually shortening it to corn. So, pre-American colonization English could have called the wheat field the corn field without any confusion.

[@DerptyDerptyDUM]

@@annwilson7750 The REALLY wild thing is, I think I actually learned that from Simon Whistler years ago. 😅

[@mtlgrsldx]

"he thought it was cornbread" Legitimately laughed out loud. Outstanding.

[@JohnDrummondPhoto]

@@annwilson7750 "John Barleycorn Must Die" - great classic rock album by Traffic, 1970.

[@kritizismmusics9737]

Tangents within tangents xD

[@HappyBeezerStudios]

That crop circle thing actually gives me a fun idea for why: Dude has fun and makes some circles and all is fun and games. Then the aliens show up and think that is how humans communicate and make more.

[@oopswrongplanet4964]

I love the way the editor "saves" Simon's cornfield tangent with soothing music and pretty pictures. Kudos!

[@rashkavar]

I love the bit where Simon is, while totally not believing in them, also is checking over his shoulder to see if he's just summoned a skinwalker. I've only come across a handful of original skinwalker lore, and a couple of very unnerving derivations of the idea, but....yeah, it's one of those concepts that kinda gets under your skin even if you don't believe it - it's not at *all* surprising that any group who believes in them would develop the idea that it's something you don't talk about much, especially in mixed company. I've got a thing along those lines: I don't say the name "Mab" - I don't believe the Winter Queen of the Faeries exists, but like Simon checking for skinwalkers, on the very very very minute chance that there might be such a being, I sure as hell don't want to accidentally get her attention.

[@lesjones6745]

Nothing wrong with reading your kids childish poetry, or even stories. That's what builds kids' interest in literature. So good on you, Simon!

[@omegadubois6619]

My grandpa used to tell me, "if you want to hide the truth, tell it to a crazy (theorist) person."

[@MF-R]

Simon: "I don't believe in this nonsense..." Proceeds to freak himself out thinking about monsters that may be invisible to cameras lurking behind him. Me: Can relate.

[@nickstav08]

To be fair thats just ingrained survival instinct. Thats why the majority of us dont like dark places or freak out when we think theres something crawling on our arm or leg only for it to be a piece of hair.

[@jpmonkman]

Thats like me saying I dont believe in you!

[@heavyecho1]

@@nickstav08 The difference is that Simon knows it is a survival instinct and not ghosts, ghouls, tribbles or nargles.

[@cotati76]

I don’t believe in ghosts or anything like that. However, when I house sit for my parents I get super creeped out at night. They have a humongous house with tons of windows and I always feel like somebody is looking at me, but I know it’s all in my head. Even rational people can get freaked out over nonsense.

[@RedactedATS]

Crop circles. I had a friend who was farmer, he told me exactly how they were done. He made quite a few in his fields in Wiltshire back in the 90s. He made a few quid out of the tourists

[@Isaiah42069]

yes a small % are made by losers with boards. however you cant account for everyone on earth thats been made. less alien more geomagnetic.

[@jpmonkman]

Did he manage to travel all over the world doing them too.?

[@slashnburn9234]

@@jpmonkman what one man can do, many others can too. Crop circle groups operate all over the world, though I imagine their numbers have dwindled since the heyday in the 90s

[@wingerding]

@@jpmonkman what's your point? Why does it matter if he went around the world doing that?

[@happyjess853]

I grew up on farms my whole life..i did it for fun till my grandfather whooped my butt for ruining his crops..yeah as a 9 yr old i knew they were so easy and completely fake lol

[@JerryEricsson]

When I started grade school in 1957, we had a water cooler in the back of the room. Water was hauled to school by the teacher, drawn from his well on his nearby farm. The cooler had radium in the pottery because early beliefs were that radium was healthy and purified the water through the release of radioactivity. This was later disproven but nobody believed we children were in any danger by this release. The school board that ran that little white school house atop the hill right of State Highway 49 did not have enough funds to afford a new crockery water cooler so we just used what we had, with little cone like paper cups to drink the water that came from the blue and gray cooler with crockery lid of the same color. These water coolers were used nation wide from the 20's through the early 60's

[@nunyabiznis3595]

Simon you are not afraid of being alone in the dark, you are afraid you are not alone.

[@TheLightweaver777]

Exactly. I'm not afraid of the dark, I'm afraid of what else might be in the dark with me.

[@resileaf9501]

This is why darkvision is the bane of DMs everywhere. Can't make your players afraid of the dark if they can see in the dark.

[@wise_girl9388]

Exactly. I've long believed that we never outgrow our fear of the dark, it just transforms from "I don't like the dark because it's scary" to "Someone could sneak into my room and kill me, and I wouldn't see them coming because it's so freakin' dark in here"

[@nullc0ntext]

He's most afraid of not having a beard to blaze.

[@AlisonBryen]

Yes!!!!!

[@kymelatejasi]

I am really liking that I found a channel on the more sceptical side of this stuff. It gets annoying having almost exclusively believers' content shoved in your face all the time, this is refreshing. I also get scared mentioning the word "skinwalker" despite mostly not believing in them! 😂

[@kristinekuehn6528]

As someone who lives in SLC, the Skinwalker Ranch still makes the news every few years. Have been camping at Mirror Lake up in the Unitahs. Its beautiful up there. However, once you come into the Unitah Basin, where the Ranch is, it truly feels little creepy. The Unitahs is one of those places that just feel off. The Utes believed that the Basin, was cursed land. And they refused to go near it. You used to be able to go up there and hike around, without getting caught. Now the land is patroled, has cameras, and highway cops hide on roads to keep tresspassers out. I dont believe in any ghosts, aliens, or any of that and have never seen or experienced anything in all the times Ive gone there.

[@davidellis7309]

I live in southern Utah and really want to go there as someone never raised christian but the old ways and see with video and pictures if maybe it's a native thing or just fake cause I don't know any recommendation for me

[@maxpayne2574]

Some billionaire bought it to produce shows and get on tv he has private security that lives there.

[@granatmof]

So the ranch is purportedly on a piece of land the local tribe considers taboo. Few of the native people will intentionally visit the ranch, and even with the show becoming more popular there's only been a visit by one tribal shaman, and interviews with local tribes people typically occur off the ranch. Since the popularity of the show. Incidents of trespassers and wariness of trespassers went up. Most of the on site security is off duty local police, so there's some vertical integration that if something goes down there's going to be a greater police presence, because let's face it, small town cops have nothing to do and while show up to look at anything exciting going on. It's why you'll see 4 cops pulled up behind a speeding ticket.

[@xXnoclaf68Xx]

Truth, I have camped all over the area but personally saw a bunch of weird shit camping on the Duschene River about 20 miles away from Skinwalker Ranch.

[@nicole6323]

​@xXnoclaf68Xx what have you seen? I've seen things as well. I believe there's something else here with us, but only because I've experienced things.

[@MCsCreations]

Once I've found a big "crop circle" in my parent's farm, with the format of a huge dinosaur footprint. Turns out deers slept there and formed it. Go figure.

[@jasonfarmer7672]

I was watching a old documentary on the Roman army and the show said that the army lived and died on whether corn production in the empire was good..... And then went on to another topic, I was very confused because I thought corn was a new world crop that wasn't around in Europe during the classical age.... This led me down a rabbit hole only to find out that what I call corn is actually called maize and the term corn used to be a generic term for many different types of cereal crops.......

[@Ashphinchtersayswhat]

Nope, they have corn ears depicted on old churches in Scotland etc. It was a crop used by the natives well before modern times. Big fat juicy corn is new, old corn only has 8 or 10 rows of kernels. All modern corn is GMO.

[@somniumisdreaming]

@@Ashphinchtersayswhat One church and even that is not definitvely proven to be corn.

[@HarryFlashmanVC]

'Corn' as in maize is indeed a new world crop.the word .'corn' in English can apply to any grain, especially historically. Hence the much maligned 'Corn Laws', the repeal.of which was a key milestone on the road to democracy, didn't refer to maize, which isn't commonly grown in the UK's damp climate, but to wheat, barley and oats, the main British crops.

[@HarryFlashmanVC]

@@Ashphinchtersayswhat that's not corn, it's barley, corn doesn't grow in ears and the climate of Scotland has never been warm enough ot dry enough to grow corn. It is linguistically described as 'corn' because the word 'corn' is used, and in the past more commonly used, to describe any arable crop. In Scotland the primary grain crops are barley and oats which are Hardy enough for the climate, wheat is grown in the Lothians, Fife and Angus. Everywhere else it is pretty much barley and oats as grain crops. This is why, historically, oats were always the stable carbohydrate in Scotland. I am a farmer and an archaeologist, who lives in southern Scotland

[@Ashphinchtersayswhat]

@@somniumisdreaming prove its not.

[@dianeharris6695]

Simon: "I definitely believe in UFOS and Aliens. But I don't think they're coming across the universe and taking our butts away"😂😂😂

[@joshjones6072]

Haha that was a great line!

[@cotati76]

Same here. When I first started my astronomy degree in college I stopped believing in any kind of alien visitation. When you start getting a grasp on how huge space is you realize that the likelihood of something coming all the way here for no real reason is not very high. Also, they come all the way here and don’t want to be seen but then immediately turn on their high beams and fly over populated areas. Sure.

[@Kari.F.]

1:30: I could hear Julie Andrews singing "My favorite things" already in the first line of that "poem". I LOVED Sound of Music growing up!

[@follettjerry]

I lived in Venal, Utah for many years very close to Uintah Basin. Uintah Basin is a highly fraced area filled with old oil wells and forgotten mines its far more likely they were high on methane than ghosts

[@Noah_E]

Crows, vultures, hawks, eagles, etc can all "carve out" an animals carcass in a matter of minutes. The only think mysterious about these cattle death are the amount of attention they gather.

[@gladeloy3341]

bcuz the lack of blood, predator prints ? is that wutchu mean ?

[@duckheadbob]

Cattle mutilation "coincidently" target the softest of the animals tissues. The tissues most likely to decay or be scavenged the quickest, leading to an appearance of intentional organ/body part removal. In reality it's heat, decomposition and scavengers like birds and smaller mammals that are responsible in almost every case.

[@FishFlys]

Fun fact, the vast majority of "circular holes" found in "Mutilated cattle" are cause by pulling injuries. ie; a coyote may grab and pull the skin back, creating a relatively circular wound shape, with hair to cover any rough edges.

[@highlandgirl84]

Oh dear, Whistler there's a glitch in your matrix and it's spilling into our matrix, bang that computer screen on the side for us and see if we can hear you!

[@quackaddict2203]

Yeah, no sound here either 🤷🏻‍♀️

[@Riddledred]

Actually the story of skinwalkers is far nastier that what you said. I grew up in an area with a large population of Navajo and other Pueblo tribes. When a tribes shaman went dark they would perform a ritual that involved the murder of a family member and sometimes other members of the tribe. Other taboo acts were involved and the shaman became a skinwalker…. A being who exists only to kill and devour. That is it’s sustenance and joy and it will never stop unless destroyed. It is so depraved that it chose to be what it became…. It wasn’t forced or cursed….it chose. These creatures would turn most of the monsters of legend into tasty treats without breaking a sweat.

[@marandamurphy]

+1

[@ItsNotInTheCards]

Probed by aliens>Quoted out of context - Simon

[@nidorina28]

1. So what happened to the History Channel is that Disney bought A&E 2. I would not be at all surprised if that whole area was contaminated with radiation. The US government did quite a bit of nuclear testing in the Utah and Nevada deserts in the 50s. One of John Wayne's last movies, The Conqueror, was filmed near there and many of the cast and crew died of unusual forms of cancer.

[@curiouscorvid-1321]

Yes Katy! The statement of the obvious quotes from that disgrace of a docu-series on the History Channel were exactly why I clicked on this episode in the first place. And to Simon, I did indeed enjoy watching History Channel with my dad while growing up, and I very much enjoy your channels.

[@PMW3]

I wonder why it was reuploaded

[@khillsy4489]

I love the way Simon dismisses the paranormal. I wonder what the people involved think of being called liars and fools.

[@appleid3151]

They already know

[@cotati76]

They know they’re liars and fools. That’s what most ufoologists are. Lying for attention is their stock and trade.

[@rebasack21]

While i fully agree with Simon that this is all just.. silly. Something i rather enjoy is learning the REAL mythology of things like skinwalkers and the stories the natives from the cultures stories are from as there seems to often be reasons and lessons in the myths themselves. As for all the cattle mutilation stuff.. on top of naturally dieing all the time is indeed a thing that happens to farm animals, in a desert area like Utah they will tend to decompose faster and i would bet that some of the seemingly surgical cuts could also be from scavengers beyond bugs. Lizards and birds possibly even snakes. There is a LOT of terrifying stuff out in that part of the country but every bit of it is natural.

[@KarnodAldhorn]

I'm especially happy to hear the REAL mythology. Oftentimes people just say "these are all myths of old for this exotic people" and it's not right.

[@kevinward2023]

"every bit of it is natural" - this is an assertion of faith, akin to asserting the 2020 US election was rigged.Depends on your usage of 'natural' of course

[@GraniteStateofMind]

Birds seems most likely. Snakes and lizards eat things whole, so they don’t really take bites out of dead cattle.

[@XavionofThera]

It's "silly" because...it's beyond your experience? or because it's beyond modern science? Viruses were once "beyond modern science", and lots of things are "beyond your experience". There's no reason to dismiss the paranormal aside from being afraid of it.

[@cotati76]

@@XavionofTherait’s silly because the topic is totally ridiculous and none of it ever happened. Make sure your mind isn’t so open your brain falls out.

[@kylewhitt9608]

From Utah; This place is somewhere between Timbuktu and Siberia. Lots of room for any kind of weird shit to happen. A wild animal, nuclear survivalist or US covert operation dream spot. The really weird shit is at the Dugway Proving Grounds on West side of state.

[@lightbeingform]

I love watching Simon getting all creeped out even though he doesn't believe in this stuff, looking over his shoulder because he can't help it. I am the same way, feeling super seen😅

[@LadyQuotes]

I've heard about Skinwalker Ranch on another channel, and it's super interesting & spooky. Excited to see your take on it!

[@maxdanielj]

The big difference with Oak Island is they've mostly switched from crazy conspiracy stuff to amateur archeology type stuff because they've actually found some artifacts (but they keep some of the Templar stuff for ratings)

[@cotati76]

The only treasure on oak island are the checks the production company keeps cutting for the Vagina brothers. They haven’t found anything compelling and that show has been on for years and years. Wow a gold link from a chain. Must be the templars. That’s odd there is a scrap of paper with a W. Must be from William Shakespeare. Ridiculous.

[@thetwojohns6236]

Since we're in the neighborhood, just be glad you didn't have to say Duchesne.

[@poilolegz9585]

It's like 1.39 am here Simon! But... I watch it anyway. Keep up the great work team.

[@Kitvulse]

7:15 this was gold 😂😂😂 kudos to the editor they’re my fav

[@sotnos1125]

AH I love the stories about Skinwalker Ranch. I didn't realise how badly I wanted to hear Simon tell me about it

[@susanrobinson910]

Sorry, but I burst out laughing when Simon was talking about cows, “Having their butts cored out”.

[@AhriOfAstora]

Loved the emotional corn segment, very touching.

[@TerenceClark]

The US desert Southwest is also home to most of the American uranium mines. It doesn't even need to be human activity involved. I'm not sure what the geology is around that ranch, but it's possible they just stumbled across a uranium ore deposit.

[@o.o-vt1rc]

14:20 re: Spreading rumors, conspiracy theories, etc. before the internet was commonplace, in the 1997 Mel Gibson movie Conspiracy Theories, the protagonist self publishes a newsletter about said theories

[@carlm.m.5470]

volume levels are everywhere. It makes late night viewing problematic with others sleeping across the hall.

[@VinhNguyen-yi1kk]

Simon's literally losing his marbles keeping up with all his channels 🤣🤣🤣

[@johnwoolard4599]

One point: If all that stuff was really happening the guy would not have stayed on as caregiver if he finally found an idiot to buy the ranch.

[@cotati76]

Stop making sense.

[@amandajones661]

I love how much Simon loves his family.

[@annieinwonderland]

Its so cute.

[@hectorsmommy1717]

"Corn" is an old term for any grain, especially in Europe and Africa. Because of this, the colonists into the New World applied it to maize and over the centuries "Maize" and "corn" became interchangeable, and the usage of corn for other grains lessened, but it is still sometimes used.

[@truebluemiata]

Aliens traveling across the galaxy to probe our bums. Classic!

[@MistyFigs]

absolutely silliness. love it.

[@InquisMalleus]

You should do a video on this whole "aliens probing bums" thing. Where and when did it start? Is there any medical evidence?

[@wm-fm1ts]

As far as I'm aware, it started with the idea that aliens abducted humans to study them. Probing = taking their temperature with a rectal thermometer. It then became a focal point and meme.

[@chesspiece81]

Where's the audio?!

[@poilolegz9585]

I can hear it

[@bellababooska4181]

I didn't hear anything

[@IneffableFoxy]

I've got sound

[@bellababooska4181]

@@IneffableFoxy not fair

[@IneffableFoxy]

@@bellababooska4181 Weird that so many people can't hear it

[@thebikerphotographer3774]

Its just outside of Roosevelt Utah. Ive lived in the Uintah Basin for the majority of my life. Crazy to see how much attention Skinwalker Ranch gets.

[@kassassin_brahgawk]

I loved the history channel growing up. But I also love listening to whackadoos ramble on about crazy shit. Your channels are absolute perfect fit for me.

[@andreworders7305]

When I went on a safari in Africa I noticed the lions usually eat their prey bum-first. If this is also the case with North American predators that would explain the butt holes.

[@solotraveler37]

If memory serves, when the Shermans bought the ranch, the former owners told them not to dig on the property. Maybe there's a connection between this and the idea of radiation contamination. There's another detail, though, that I never understood: there were locks and deadbolts on the inside and outside of all the doors and windows when the Shermans moved in.

[@AzraelThanatos]

If I remember right, in a lot of areas with potential storm issues in open, flat land, have things like the locks all over the windows so that when things come it can reinforce the door quite a bit more when anchoring coverings over the glass. Not sure about the doors

[@solotraveler37]

@@AzraelThanatos Fascinating! You could be on to something.

[@AzraelThanatos]

@@solotraveler37 I know that it's the same in several of the gulf states, where there's locks on the shutters that you can close them and lock them in position for hurricanes while they're used as decorative features the rest of the time.

[@susanmissett-king1839]

Reading poetry to children is great for the brain! Stretches the imagination, teaches rhythm, supports language development and all kinds of good stuff.

[@franl155]

My knowledge of the Skinwalker Ranch comes from a video by Mr Ballen, and I'm perfectly content to leave it at that; stretching it out over a complete series - or two - seems like over-egging the pudding. Like "Most haunted" and other paranormal series, they have to scrape the bottom of the barrel and the scrapings get thinner all the time. For paranormal stories, I tend to use a line from Mark Twain: "Interesting if true - and interesting anyway" - if only for what it reveals of human nature.

[@VickyShawcooksalot]

The best part is Simon's tangents. 🤣🤣🤣

[@TheWretchedOwl]

I think “it’s probably not ghosts” should be available on merch. 😄

[@MorgDragon]

Simon, you so need to watch the Travel Channel! Absolute gold mine for this channel. :)

[@ChopBassMan]

The picture of Uinta County (4'53" into the video) that you used has an interesting group of round, sunken areas which are in a relatively straight line which look interesting. Maybe you could do a Geographics video on them. I imagine that they might be volcanic collapses, but I haven't seen anything like that before. The supervolcano in Yosemite has below ground geography similar to this, due to continental drift - but the several crater-like objects in the picture are all above ground.

[@thagreatfrank3071]

That Dwight Edit Was Beyond Hilarious!! 👍🏾👍🏾🤣🤣🤣👍🏾👍🏾

[@JordyValentine]

I grew up on a beef cattle farm, it's absolutely not strange at all for a cow to wonder off and die somewhere. With a large enough farm and enough cattle, you don't exactly do an exhaustive search, you've got other stuff to do.

[@ayitsgrey6531]

as someone from uintah county, my town has become such a sellout to paranormal stuff. it sucks

[@hbenensky]

I moved to KZbin for history stuff like 2009, so hello fact boy, love all your content

[@citizen127at]

A sunburn is a "radiation burn," Fact Boy 😄: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radiation

[@dev-debug]

On the show they had a cow die of pneumonia (not uncommon in cattle). When the other cattle avoided the sick cow it had to be some crazy reason when cows are simply smart enough to move the herd away. I grew up on a farm, one the 1st signs of a sick cow are the others avoiding it. The Phd rocket scientist on the show has been on other paranormal shows, must pay better than NASA or he just likes to look like a joke.

[@WW-dz2oj]

Spot on for the history channel tangent 😁 hello friends!

[@asiabryant207]

Can we PLEASE have more of Simon's tangents backed by music and visuals? I know that's more work for the video editors, magicians, and memeologists, but my goodness Jen that was amazing

[@giantred]

So fun thing, "Corn" used to be a commonly used term for grains in general in the same way grain is a term used for many different things such as rye, barley, wheat, and corn.

[@kristinetaulbut4975]

Cattle mutilation, oh god now I’m thinking of that South Park episode that was so god damned funny I’m dying

[@sammyisboredagain]

As someone who survived carbon monoxide poisoning thank you for making a statement about detectors. Even if you survive the brain damage can be devastating. I’ve lost a lot of my physical and mental abilities. Don’t risk it folks.

[@BlackBlazeGaming]

Having seen every episode of Skinwalker Ranch to date, I can say that lots of it is drummed up for the sake of drama, but there are certainly lots of strange things happening there. The radiation was certainly strange, but also the buried metal object they've collected samples of, the thousands of gallons of water that seems to have vanished, the weird thermal imaging discoveries, and above all, the ground penetrating radar scans. Some of the helicopter stuff is pretty strange too. Also I would argue that its a bit ridiculous to say that we have the technology to record high quality hd footage around the clock, especially during the night. There simply isn't enough space to store all of that footage without constantly erasing and overwriting previously recorded footage at regular intervals which would wear down even the most expensive storage devices around.

[@valolafson6035]

But how do you the ''strange stuff'' isn't also drummed up for drama?

[@sampilcher7196]

Jen you’re amazing 😂❤️

[@user-ol2mr4bx7c]

I prefer longer format Simon with his anecdotes, thoughts and musings

[@tophers3756]

Simon was correct about corn meaning wheat, or at least grain in general. Although it's common for corn to mean maize now, in the past in England that wasn't the case. I remember reading "The Crystal Cave" as a young teen in the US and being confused at a reference to "corn" in a novel taking place in 6th century Wales. After all, maize didn't arrive in Europe until after Columbus. Turns out Mary Stewart wasn't engaging in a bit of anachronism, but was instead referring to wheat.

[@tsmith906]

ALL of the stuff that happened when Bigelow and NIDS were researching on the ranch (with federal funding) is STILL totally classified.

[@chrish5150]

I stumbled onto your channels about a week ago and I can't get enough. After getting familiar with your disdain for things even mildly ridiculous I thought, I wonder if Simon has done a video on the most ridiculous and sure enough, here it is.

[@danielcoombes79]

Simon on point as per usual my friend, always enjoy the little mental tangents

[@doclewis8927]

VIDEO REQUEST: Could you do a video on the Marfa Lights in Texas?

[@oddcat6491]

You may find that corn confusion is more of an English thing. I had it too and there was no corn field behind my house. The word "corn" in British English denotes all cereal grains, such as wheat and barley. For example, the "Corn Exchange" was created to trade in wheat. barley, rye and maize (once we discovered it existed i.e found the Americas) The yellow jolly green giant stuff is more correctly classifed as maize, It is only "corn" in american english. Sweet corn in Englsh english. Ears of corn in england are definately ears of wheat, barley or rye.

[@harrysweeten9417]

All I know is something is breaking McDonald's ice-cream machines, so theres something doing it.

[@jasonhare8540]

It's always been amazing to me that one of the main signs of "cattle mutilation" is almost the exact same effect a hole saw would have . A circular saw bit that goes on a power drill . Used for precision drilling . I'm sure they have similar things that are more delicate for other fields of work but if I can do that with my standard toolbox someone committed to a fraud could definitely do it ... *The 18-in deep one could easily have been done with a concrete coring bit . *I replaced the History channel with Curiosity but I do feel like curiosity could use a few more updated historical documentaries . *Since the first time I watched this video and left the comment I've learned a bit more about the fallout from the nuclear tests . On top of already having high concentrations of uranium ain Utah's Earth it's definitely within the fallout zone from the nuclear tests. Of course there's going to be higher levels of radiation . Once again nothing there is strange or out of place . And yellow eyeshine from an animal up in a tree sounds much more like a mountain lion than an alien to me. *All the information I added here can be quickly checked on Wikipedia and its sources . Especially the uranium content of the soil . Then there's the blast radius and patterns from the nuclear tests which are all still clearly mapped and marked .

[@clintparsons3989]

Radon is a common radioactive gas that’s heavier than air an accumulates in places like basements, crawl spaces, wells, root cellars, etc. etc.

[@lydiarobinett6159]

Fun "fact": vampires had no reflection because mirrors used silver and old cameras used silver too. As neither mirrors nor cameras use silver anymore, they should theoretically show up in both in modern days

[@ukrainian_girl1113]

20:45 Why is he holding his bosom? 🤣🤣

[@michellee1190]

So, Simon. I know you TOTALLY don’t believe in vampires, but the “reason” they are said to not show up in mirrors is because of the thing with silver. Because mirrors used to be made of or backed with silver. So if your mirror (or camera) doesn’t include silver, then you will definitely see a vampire coming up behind you in it… not that you believe in vampires or anything.

[@Fuchswinter]

If you DO have a silver backed mirror though you have a decent weapon against a werewolf (if you break it and use it as a blade)

[@trikepilot101]

@@Fuchswinter Some say mirrors actually repel vampires as well.

[@t.o.double9497]

They definitely never mention ghosts on that show.

[@TinkersTales]

Forums were around in the 90's I recall a few from when I was at Uni, mostly Telnet was 'the thing' to use.

[@LacieWhy]

When I was younger, I was excited to hear about Skinwalker Ranch. But I was so disappointed to learn it was the “aliens & ufos” branch of Cryptids. The dramatic music during the corn tangent had me rolling.

[@aciscol]

Good points, radon was discovered when a power plant employee tested positive for radiation on his way in to work

[@pamelamays4186]

Skinwalker Ranch: the name of a quaint little brothel on the outskirts of Las Vegas.

[@1TakoyakiStore]

I think it was RedWeb that dug up some old survey maps of the Skinwalker Ranch area (40's or 50's) made for mineral rights. Turns out there's a lot of uranium ore out there.

[@realityhelix564]

The dramatic music over the wheat story

[@lunaspuen12]

As a Uintah Resident I have never seen any UFO’s, and I’ve lived here all my life.

[@foxhoundp9949]

At the beginning rn, please, please bring up the weird courage the cowardly dog connection!! It's crazy weird and a fun creepy theory to an extra weird and creepy kids show! If it's not brought up people should def look it up.

[@hotdogtdog]

Crop circle construction took off and very smart college pranksters took off with the original idea and made it a art. I am sure.

[@annieinwonderland]

In a group home and convinced staff to get one.