Flathead Lake & Giant Fish [American Terrors]

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[@diverguy3556]

I scuba dive and have encountered five foot sturgeons underwater. They're really cute chaps, gentle and harmless. They'd be horrified to know they're being mischaracterised as monsters.

[@DoublinCommentates]

I would absolutely love it if you covered the Crawling Reptiles of the Nameless city!

[@requiemcollectiblesgaming]

Stay warm Sandy!!

[@imreadydoctor]

As a New Yorker, I can honestly say that driving in snow, especially inexperienced in it can be very dangerous. Stay warm and safe. Great video as always! I have an unshakable fear of giant creatures in the water, so I found this one to be chilling!

[@professormoore4876]

That might be the first "dad" joke I've realized Sandy slipped in. I giggled.

[@scienceguy8888]

On giant catfish, I saw a documentary once about giant catfish in the Ganges River in India having giant catfish because of the riverside funeral pyres feeding them. Might be worth an investigation.

[@hoffmannsama]

Growing up in New Braunfels Tx, I would go looking for giant alligator gar as a kid. I think in india they have a catfish called a goonch that has supposedly eaten people. Also, my kaiju survival ttrpg zine was funded on kickstarter today, gotta say thanks for making all those game design videos. How to steal an idea, rules on how to make your rpgs scarier, and the horror today are the videos that helped me the most.

[@the-real-Lovefist]

When the roads ice over in Houston, it’s never pretty. Destruction derby time.

[@jcarno64]

Chilling!!

[@unperson5713]

Sandy has zero concern about OGL, he makes his own games.

[@UndeadVikingVideos]

Except for, you know, his 5E content that he publishes.

[@mackdmara]

Catfish caught at the bottom of big dams are monstrous! Since they are bottom feeders, you rarely see them, but they will eat anything that gets in their way. They have been caught too!

[@marcosmiotti7399]

Nice video. Interestingly, an idiom in my language used for lies and invented tales translates as "fisherman's story"

[@sandypetersen6935]

yeah, in English too.

[@engineerforthefuture8593]

We get Sturgeon as big as 12ft here in Washington. The big ones almost always dwell at the bottom, meaning they'd rarely ever be encountered.

[@tor-erikrefvik7308]

the norweagian trick to drive on snow is snow tyres

[@sajberkg]

Love the stories from Sandy!!

[@tabletopgamingwithwolfphototec]

😄😆😄😆 Thank you for the laugh. 🧀🎲 I'm from Wisconsin just outside of Lake Geneva. 🎲🧀

[@gloriouspig3813]

Sandy, God among fish.

[@general0mega]

This video is excellent. I've always found fascinating the way we ignore that the rivers and lakes we pass daily are where scientifically recognized monsters already exist. For some reason nobody's interested in monsters unless they're either humanoid (relatable?) or they're dinosaurs (because, dinosaurs).

[@dubuyajay9964]

0:29. Wasn't Dallas the traditional Texas "Snow line" and natives that lived north of that knew how to drive in snow?

[@sandypetersen6935]

sadly if it was true once, it is no longer.

[@assault410]

Let any fish who meets my gaze learn the true meaning of fear; for I am the harbinger of death. The bane of creatures sub-aqueous, my rod is true and unwavering as I cast into the aquatic abyss. A man, scorned by this uncaring Earth, finds solace in the sea. My only friend, the worm upon my hook. Wriggling, writhing, struggling to surmount the mortal pointlessness that permeates this barren world. I am alone. I am empty. And yet, I fish.

[@sethhale8828]

Love seeing Battletech in the background

[@bioclassic2330]

Ooga another Peterson video

[@Steiner5769]

Loch Ness is connected to the ocean through the River Ness and the Caledonian Canal. The River Ness flows out of Loch Ness and into the Moray Firth, which is a sea loch that connects to the North Sea. The Caledonian Canal, which is a navigable inland waterway, also connects Loch Ness to the North Sea via the Moray Firth.

[@hazenoki628]

Stories of monstrously large catfish aren't unheard of in Europe either, but tend to be less well known internationally since they're less glamorous than more spectacular lake monsters. There was a rumoured giant catfish in a lake near where I grew up in Sweden actually, in a lake called Råsvalen. It bore the name "Malen", which simply means "the Catfish".

[@wesleyfilms]

Thanks for giving Canada a small mention. We like being remembered sometimes.

[@bobbybologna3029]

Take it from me, a man living in NC.. nobody knows how to drive on snow, not even the yankees, its just their roads don't have snow or ice on them. lol

[@rodClark717]

From Ohio, I saw nothing but amazing driving in Missouri. I kept looking for cameras. Rock steady at 45 in almost 6"and merging like a movie. Eerie af.

[@MKempICI]

If I catch one of these giant fish, I will buy a school bus just so I can say: "I caught a fish this big," and point.

[@thriddoctor]

The largest sturgeon was caught on the Volga in the 1840s, it was 23 feet long. Several Siberian lakes have stories of monster fish. In lake Chany the creature has supposedly killed 19 people.

[@scotttudor6647]

Diver who has dived many dams in the southern US. Vanished divers near dams are almost always killed via water intakes of some sort. I’ve seen many of these catfish, and they’re big- maybe up to a couple hundred pounds even. But these are still too small to be eating a human.

[@erichinkle7347]

First of all, be careful with the winter weather down there in Texas. Secondly, while it's not quite a /giant/ fish, as a boy growing up in the Lehigh Valley of Pennsylvania I heard stories about divers supposedly seeing 5'-6' long Northern Pike down by the Beltzville Dam. At least one story came from the diver's friend, who told me that the diver came out of the water in a panic and refused to ever go down by the Beltzville Dam again. That's the story, anyway.

[@DoctorPhobos]

Texas . . . Only two things come out of Texas . . . . . . . . . Steers . . . . . . . . . and . . . . . . . . . Airmen!

[@sandypetersen6935]

what about presidents?

[@bigsarge2085]

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[@genericpersonx333]

Something that I note is that while a species might not normally exceed certain sizes, little says that animals cannot potentially be much larger for the same reasons that some Humans grow to extraordinary sizes. Acromegaly and other such conditions that cause abnormal growth can occur in other animals, and so we shouldn't be shocked to find abnormally large specimens from time to time. Indeed, we should consider that monstrously-large Humans, exceeding eight feet in height, are a reality, but an extremely rare occurrence. There are and have been billions of people, but only some dozens of Humans confirmed to be over eight feet in height, an extremely tiny number of people considering the enormity of the population. It shouldn't be a huge leap of imagination to think similar can be happening in animal populations. While I suspect most stories and sightings of monstrously-large animals are not actually monstrously-large animals, it is still theoretically possible and therefore must be treated as such, however improbable.

[@cheryl739]

My son lived near there. We have fished there. Never saw the monster. 😩.

[@huntflatheadlakemonster]

Great video

[@alanloewen4148]

In Mark Twain’s 1883 memoir, Life on the Mississippi, he writes of having seen a number of six-foot, 250-pound catfish in the river. The largest Mekong giant catfish ever recorded weighed 646 pounds. However, this catfish is only found in a few parts of Asia, so there is no chance of them being found in the United States. However, as cynical as Google is that there are no catfish as large as cars, let alone buses, huge catfish have been reported by many divers. Either it's a universal lie dam divers have agreed upon, or there are truly large catfish, as you have reported. I believe the latter.

[@beckoning-chasm]

I live not too far from Norris Lake. Hmmm...

[@dubuyajay9964]

New vid!

[@240dbprisms5]

I'd love to hear your opinion on the game Eternal Darkness: Sanity's Requiem!

[@georgekostaras]

Sandy you could get a career playing salty fishermen in movies and tv

[@thriftjunkgaming1670]

When are we going to get Sandy talks Battletech?

[@chadsmith8966]

Honestly, I’d rather have a foot over a half inch any day.

[@smilodnfatalis55]

1:13 ...what? There are giant fish monster myths literally everywhere. There are dozens of episodes of River Monsters (yeah including lakes) where the host recounts long-standing local legends, and then finds giant native fish (6 foot+) that could have inspired the legend. How on Earth do you think fish lake monsters are just an America thing...

[@moolate127]

Mostly driving in snow is common sense, just go slow and break slow. I think the main problem is you guys aren't well equipped for it. All year tires with a decent tread are incredibly important. And dont feel bad, I've driven in snow as long as I've had my license and it doesn't get any easier Haha.

[@bruggeman672]

So fish are effectively immortal?

[@sandypetersen6935]

Some fish. Not most.

[@bruggeman672]

@@sandypetersen6935 you learn something new every day. Ty

[@WarDogMadness]

Now if you had a coal and nuke power stations snow wouldnt be a problem.

[@rodClark717]

Climate change put snow in TX? That's messed up.