The Cryptid Tournament

[@Wendigoon]

We're gonna talk about that Wendigo/Mothman match-up.

[@jond5534]

lotta hot takes on this one

[@barebuttspankin]

Chumba womba we want more cryptid iceberg

[@404breakfastnotfound9]

Yah the wendigo is my favorite

[@AuroraLabsScientistID12521]

🗣️🗣️🗣️🗣️

[@papahamdrew9962]

Wendigo is creepier and quite terrifying imo, but for Papa Meat, moth man is his style 😂

[@ohaiduhg]

Wendigoon: Here is my 10 part 50 hour series on which cryptids would fundamentally change my reality if validated. Papa Meat: 7 years of a magical skunking? what kind of power is that?

[@clamcrewcarclub6017]

Yin and Yang

[@rowanmaclean5269]

You should animate the Ya-Te-Veo and Wendigo. Just imagining them working together as the Wendigo lures prey into the Ya-Te-Veos reach to be slaughtered, or someone following the bloody footprints of the Wendigo and finding it feasting on its prey. That sit would go hard asf. Even just animating one of these Cryptids in your art style would be insane!

[@Giga-Toad]

I think he did the wendigo in the Melvin ghost hunter episode. It showed very strong similarities to it

[@r00fles]

You and Wendigoon need to do an 8 hour stream of the ultimate cryptid tournament once he's done with his 16 part cryptid iceberg

[@tallmankell]

My favourite podcast the dark somnium has a 3-4 hour long podcast called the nightmare fighting tournament, it’s definitely an adventure and a half!

[@TheMinuteman]

Iceberg boy making his multi part iceberg video. A true iceberg of iceberg for the iceberg boy

[@miskullaneous]

We did a small tournament on our channel and i think it would be freaking hilarious if Wendigoon and Papa meat did a stream of the same thing we did but with more cards.

[@masondicroce917]

As a Fresno resident, I had to immediately steal your bank information and dox your location the moment you eliminated our adorable little night crawlers in round one

[@PapaHor]

As an another Fresno resident, I had to go vent my frustration by smoking meth and tweaking in front of the nearest winco, the audacity.

[@kalebguindy]

As another Fresno resident, i had to go to said local Winco on kings canyon and find @papahor tweaking

[@chicknman9890]

As someone not from Fresno I'm gonna record the tweaker and post it for views

[@fredflores9795]

Hello fellow Fresnonian

[@atropa6053]

the real cryptids are the residents

[@Armpittt]

I was actually attacked by the mothman. I was walking around just minding my own business and BANG! It killed me. Haven't played fallout 76 since

[@sina.r2390]

Sad 😢

[@indigo478]

The most unbelievable part of this story is That’s what made you decide to stop playing fallout 76

[@HotPocketsDryerLint]

​​@@indigo478Cause Fallout 70-Sucks

[@Myth_or_Mystery76]

It did you a favor

[@DivineGPG]

@@HotPocketsDryerLintjust a skill issue, you can’t handle the 70-sexiness

[@tylermursch7859]

Let's be honest, Papa Meat IS a cryptid.

[@n4ughty_knight]

Nah, it's too obvious. Wendigoon is more likely to be one since he's trying to mix in.

[@ulysses58599]

@@zaksheiyes, the weird rotting glowing eyed shapeshifting creatures are just undiscovered animals.

[@uberrobi]

He's a fat wompus cat using cat magic

[@BrianBadondeBo]

I can see it

[@PerunsZGRevenge]

I wanted to write the same thing but than remembered my pops and me are cryptids ourselves. Not cool to out other cryptidbros.

[@ApolloDawn85]

Wendigo has to be my favorite cryptid. The idea of monsters mimicking humans is terrifying to me. Plus, the idea of hearing what sounds like a person when you are alone, freezing, in the woods… literal chills.

[@meese-ul9nn]

wendigo doesnt mimic lol

[@meese-ul9nn]

wendigo doesnt mimic lol

[@sla_pdick6968]

@@meese-ul9nndudes a whole shapeshifter

[@Stormeeza]

​@@meese-ul9nnthey do in many depictions actually, the problem is theres a lot of different stories around wendigos, so not everyone has the same one in mind!

[@frikitiki5403]

You're thinking of the Skinwalker

[@78jujubs]

Hey, I live in an area where the Algonquin nation historically lived, and I have some info on the origins of the wendigo :) The myth is originally about starving, stranded in the middle of no where and the cannibalism that follows. Even the description of the monster is basically a starving, frozen human. When it snows in the woods, it's basically impossible to find your way around at night, even in the day at times. When the French tried settling here, they failed like five times because of the winter, until the Native American nations they encountered helped them survive. Basically, if hunters went out to hunt and got stranded in a blizzard, they would be forced to starve or die to hypothermia. The myth comes from humans being forced to eat each other to survive until they froze to death. Also, a little note on hypothermia, in extreme cases it can cause the afflicted to experience delusions, and also have a compulsion to take off their clothes. This might further explain the monster's appearance.

[@noturbuttercup]

Aren't Wendigo's always hungry? LIke they can never feel full and are just constantly eating?

[@78jujubs]

@@noturbuttercup That's a modern interpretation of it, but it would make sense that something dying of starvation would feel ravenous hunger. The original Wendigo was kinda like a curse. You turn into one if you eat human flesh. Eating people was a big no no for Algonquin tribes.

[@noturbuttercup]

@@78jujubs ahh okay gotcha! 😊 I think the Wendigo is one of my fave cryptids.

[@eflasch]

Your point on hypothermia being an explanation of the appearance of the Wendigo is probably spot on. A mix of personal experience, yes, my stupidity almost got me killed by hypothermia at one point, and having a familiarity with the medical progression. In the end stages your brain function is reduced to a panic response. This one is where I combine personal experience with medical explanation. The way the body protects itself from cold is to stop circulating blood to the extremities, hands and feet, then arms and legs, eventually even the head (delusional phase if you will). At a certain point near the end of life, the body can no longer keep the blood isolated in the core, or it's a now or never kind of last-ditch effort, either way it starts circulation back up. I believe (I'm not sure if this is based fully in the medical facts of hypothermia) that recirculation of warmer blood is what causes the stripping of clothes. I can tell you my circulation system was shut down at the elbows and knees and the burning sensation from the knees and elbows down when I started warming back up was intense. I'm pretty sure that is why it is common for people to strip at the end.

[@DancingAlldayLong]

I cannot explain how excited I am to hear Papa cry at the end of Borraska. It is the most conclusive ending to an old creepypast I've ever heard.

[@mr.cheesytoad5845]

Same!! I know only very little of the story and loved learning it alongside these Creepy boys

[@prodbytarantino]

I can’t believe we gotta wait another two weeks😭

[@SKVLLFVCK]

​@@prodbytarantino we gotta wait 2 more weeks? 😭😭😭

[@Mike-official]

@@SKVLLFVCKyep they do a video every other saturday/sunday

[@EMoney1295]

Spoiler alert

[@draculinalilith396]

best cryptid is def Wendigo/skinwalker combo. Its based on native folklore, can not only shift skins to people, but also shift voices to lure prey. The deer skull aesthetic is epic also. They be sounding like your mom in the woods at 4am and then it turns into some otherworldly yet naturalistic demon creature. Like an ancient evil.

[@shaggyssandwich]

yes, would definitely not have been able to pit wendigo against the moth man. cause i like both, jersey devil ain't as high as them on my list

[@MegaOverclocked]

It's so weird that EVERY time someone mentions the Wendigo / Skinwalker they mention a plus to them is that they're "native folklore". Honestly every time; and I don't know what the take away is suppose to be.

[@douglasnevins1598]

​@@MegaOverclockedIts the shock that it's so old it was around before our society as Americans was even a thought, is what makes it so much more compelling, especially if you're an American.

[@demiliomason1565]

See that's where the wendigo is stupid. Ain't nobody going to be fooled into thinking their mom is just randomly in the woods at 4am.

[@hazenewman3558]

@@MegaOverclocked I think it just is to further explain its origin/significance. Like papa said, this is an ANCIENT creature that has haunted their culture for centuries. So, it seems to have a big impact on them and their lives and culture overall.

[@CodeEthos]

The Wendigo for me is scarier because of the stories I've heard being associated out in the woods or people who live in isolation to get away from the city life. I plan on building my own home like this but that cryptic to me is more frightening because if something happens, no one is there to help or find you.

[@JohnKimble-bl9wv]

The wendigo feels like an alien that tried to replicate earth animals like the dear head but it fucking sucks at it

[@alaron5698]

In my mind, this tournament isn't just about what's scariest, but also what's most interesting and impactful. I find the Mothman more eerie. A part of me wants to meet the Mothman in the hopes of having some mysteries of the universe unraveled. The Wendigo might be scarier, but I find it less interesting. I agree with the Mothman pick.

[@bluchismoon]

That's because it's the internet/white folk interpretation of the wendigo. That's not what it looks like in the og myths. ​@@JohnKimble-bl9wv

[@funnymomentoinc.42069]

If you want to know a really weird cryptid, it's the Loveland Frogman. Basically, he's a really big frog and can walk on it's two legs and was spotted in the Little Miami River in Loveland, Ohio. He has two abilities (that I know of) in which he can emit some kind of toxin that is only fatal to humans (unless if provided with an antidote) and his second ability is (and I'm not kidding when I say this) can use sticks like tools and emit electricity from them. Yeah Idk who came up with that but it's kinda funny idk.

[@donutreplie4056]

As an Ohioian, the absolute absurdity of the Loveland Frogman is very near and dear to my heart.

[@russell6clacks]

All right, who let the frogman get a hold of the taser gun

[@supertetleman]

These have always been in my top 5 cryptids. Especially because they've been spotted at least twice.

[@ek6878]

I loooved this one as a kid

[@kevinmunn666]

Moth MAN is sick

[@mckeeganator5844]

Traditional depictions of the wendigo with all that I can do is so so damn terrifying especially during those cold winter nights in the woods where the air is still and quiet

[@GanuSing-yv8ex]

Wendigo is one of the most horrifying creature I have come across, listening to audio books on it gives me goosebumps

[@negative6442]

I think the more modern design of it is much cooler than the traditional one. There's so many horror monsters that are just lanky hairless dudes, and that doesn't really jog the imagination

[@StopLyin2Yourself]

Research your local area for cannibalism if so?? don’t say its name

[@mattkeene3084]

Wendigo ate my 🐓.

[@James-tj7qg]

⁠@@negative6442no offense but that's because they're all based off of bastardized 4chan/reddit regurgitations of the creature. it's also not supposed to be "cool" since its a part of Algonquin folklore. knowledge is power 👍

[@Sharsis8]

Wendigo is my all time favorite crytid because it not only has that ever present malevolence you mentioned via the mimicry and thermoregulation in extreme cold, but the fact that one is born via cannibalism is just metal as hell

[@ShadowFox178]

I want a lore video on the Ya-te-vo now. The ida of this malevelont creature who sees you and by implication just knows. Its just so ominous and how do we know it cant move, and isnt just patiently waiting for a key moment to strike and embed terror into all who witness it.

[@woomybeeb]

Fingers crossed we get a CreepCast video on it after Borraska!

[@tominieminen66]

We assume it can't move since most plants, especially trees are not the biggest explorers once they have settled down Even if it could move it does feel like it couldn't move faster than a snails pace In the end it's a tree, we do not have instinctual fear of trees

[@PaperMidnight]

I love the idea that being a tree, it's roots could spread. So walking through a forest any of the trees could be its spawn. So it really could have already seen you from anywhere: Pando forest in Utah vibes

[@dt3008]

Ya te veo(v-eh-oh)

[@ShadowFox178]

@@tominieminen66 That's not fun. Plus how do we know it's not flesh and blood instead of an actual tree. Plus it has an eye. No plant I can think of has any eyes.

[@duck_overlord877]

Wendigo and ya-te-vo are both absolutely terrifying, but it would be so cool seeing like a big budget horror film made out of either

[@billyhubert5643]

watch the movie antlers its a decent movie about a wendigo victim and his family

[@demgyk1819]

apparently they're making an until dawn movie so maybe if they do it right?

[@matthewbailey376]

Popo Bawa is worse

[@cheezisamazing7295]

@@billyhubert5643I was going to comment this lol

[@downbreak1498]

There actually is it's called the ritual

[@Callimasrawr]

Wendigo have always been the scariest in my opinion. The idea of the hunger for human flesh and that they will lure you in with mimicking humans is terrifying! They are truly the scariest cryptid, ever

[@miskullaneous]

We kept debating over the wendigo in our cryptid war video but if somebody in the room would have mentioned that they can do that the debate would have been over lol

[@shirleymaemattthews4862]

Imagine they take a form of kawaii anime girls to eat dat yummy weebs

[@MarviMofoVarietyShow]

If you drew the animations for a 2D fighting game using cryptids as the characters, I’d buy that in a heartbeat. I can already see it being a competitor to Skull Girls or Killer Instinct.

[@genevievec.8002]

For me, Wendigo wins and runner ups are Mothman, purely because of the association to a real tragedy, and Ya-te-vo. The footprints filling with blood, the creepiness of its general look, the human mimickry... I just thing the Wendigo is the one that'd most make me wish I'd worn brown pants when I came across it. Ya-te-vo has the cool meaning behind the name. Also the spikes on the tentacles - yeowch. Just overall cool.

[@SydneyStewart-d3f]

Yeah the footprints thing is just so sick Mothman can't match up

[@undertowlil]

Yatevo is so cool cause it’s the only plant cryptid and we never see those. It’s not a crazy concept but it’s original and so cool

[@NicArtistic]

As an artist and native West Virginian, I am extremely excited for the Mothman outcome. 🙌🏻 I fully support this decision 🎉

[@elijahhayden3354]

Mothman just feels like the perfect blend between old world stories and modern stories of ufos/men in black. It feels like it's a foreboding spirit of tragedy and some kind of representation of the collective unconscious. Granted that all sounds crazy but man oh man mothman is just so friggin cool.

[@empirion502]

The telephone scene in the movie was genuinely pretty creepy

[@HCRBerhan]

And I am genuinely happy that he won!! Go Mothman!!!🎉🎉

[@winkertinker]

@@HCRBerhan EAST COAST SUPREMACY!!!!

[@zoeadkins9095]

I've never seen that Wendigo design before and it's easily my new favorite. The skull is metal as fuck and the emaciated, bare-boned physique conveys it's torturous existence so well. It looks like it has a maddened grin too. Love it! Beautiful 👌 😮‍💨

[@milkmanman]

7:58 is definitely an elephants head sticking out of the water. The neck is the trunk

[@SpellboundSpectre]

Or a penis

[@joseyphipps]

Wampus Cat mention! 🗣️🗣️💥💥 I love this cryptid, it’s my favorite one as a Cherokee person. I’m glad you like her too! It’s kinda funny the difference between how Cherokee and Appalachian people treat her. To the Cherokee, she’s revered as a dangerous but respected protector of their territory, while the Appalachians say she’s stinky and just steals their farm animals. It’s great lmao

[@CiggyButtBoi]

Uh…cool…?

[@bmiller7419]

The first interpretation sounds so much better

[@jaxonkohle2174]

Me go wampus you cat🤫🧏

[@fluffyflareon4152]

I love her

[@WIldMike527]

Papa Meat, you should make an animated cryptid show. With your art and insane creativity, I bet it would be one of the best animated shows to this date.

[@contagiousremorse]

What would the show entail with the cryptids?

[@l0lan00b3]

@@contagiousremorsekids getting ate on a camping trip

[@cptnbustanut]

​@l0lan00b3 yes, every episode the same story just with a different cryptid eating the kids

[@jacobmills7824]

Cryptid Influencer house

[@l0lan00b3]

@@cptnbustanut would watch this dudes art style is wild

[@nikidessi]

It is my national duty to clarify that the Chupacabra originated in Puerto Rico in 1995 and was later seen in other areas of the Americas. This is the witness description: A woman named Madelyne Tolentino said she saw the beast through a picture window outside her house in Canóvanas, Puerto Rico, during the second week of August 1995. In a 1996 interview, Tolentino said the bipedal animal had dark gray or black eyes that “were damp and protruding, running up to its temples and spreading to the sides,” like typical alien eyes. Its height was “about 4 feet, more or less. At the time, it was walking like a human, on both legs. Its arms were drawn back in an attack position, as though it were a TV monster.” She said it had three long, skinny fingers and that its arms were also very long. Its hair “was rather short, and close to its body. Rather well-combed in fact.”

[@Maxisamo1]

Hold the fuck on, I'm the same age as the Chupacabra myth???

[@Nopleaseeeeeee]

Yeah right

[@xblast2701]

good to know the chupacabra combs its hair

[@ambidexterity1]

It's unfortunate that mainstream depiction of the Chupacabra is the hairless dog variant. The original 1995 spiny alien depiction is much cooler and creepier.

[@jkid3525]

Love from Mayaguez 🇵🇷

[@ssa_drpepperdude8162]

Moth man was always the one that scared me most growing up, I think anything that big that can fly is just terrifying

[@erikmckoul2478]

It would totally need bigger wings to fly than in the pictures at least without magic assisting it.

[@PixelatedFaerie]

Same. But now I think Mothman is sexy.

[@SmirkInvestigator]

The Mothman story sounds like the town water was contaminated with Benadryl. I personally believe it to be a paranormal event. I think current reality is fracturing at a world wide level in a similar fashion to that town.

[@PharaohJonson]

Nah he used to freak me out whenever I watched videos about him

[@Maimface]

skunk ape has a special place in my heart, because when I lived in GA a train full of oranges derailed and the prevailing rumor was that skunk ape did it

[@rawman44]

That's hilarious

[@Houlgravely]

The Deer Woman and Skinwalkers are pretty creepy as far as cryptid stuff goes. I remember reading about the sea witches that Henry Hudson supposedly encountered in America's early days as well.

[@zazacollector4_2_0]

The chupacabra actually originated in Puerto Rico. Im from the island and when I was little it was used as a way to scare kids into being obedient. The first "encounter" reported was by a farmer in 1995, but now its spread all over latin america but more in Mexico.

[@Sunrie]

Lived by Fresno. I've seen the nightwalkers outside Lemoore by the rivers. That was in the late 90's

[@HakuFreak19]

I live in Fresno and I remember hearing about it. Also I remember watching the fact or fiction episode on it and I remember them doing a lot of things to see if they can mimic the movement. I've also seen many local artist here in Fresno selling prints, pens, and patches of them.

[@deeriggs3319]

They are sooooo odd.. what do locals think they are? Aliens? Paranormal?

[@rawman44]

I love the walking pants

[@jaxonkohle2174]

Those just my plugs they chill if y’all know each other

[@JohnKimble-bl9wv]

I shall move to fresno in search of these mysterious creatures wish me luck on my journey

[@creepykato]

As a resident of WV, I am so happy to see that mothman won your little tourney. Mothman is such a cool cryptid and the fact that a little urban legend from WV has spread all over the world by now is so cool to me!!

[@thinecuprunnethoverwithblood]

I asked my girlfriend out using a pin I got at the mothman museum a month before. My favorite cryptid helped me get the woman of my dreams and I will never forget that... Also the museum is just cool as hell, I'm gonna have to visit again eventually. Not sure why the architect of the statue decided to make mister mothman thick as hell though.

[@NauticalFish]

I shouldn't have looked at the comments before the video was done

[@dachuckbuck669]

Man you should know west virgins and northern Maryland are the worlds cryptid and haunt lands. We all grew up fighting skin walkers, that why everyone from that areas crazy

[@MikeyJFox23]

Flatwoods Monster too

[@creepykato]

@@NauticalFish sorry 😭 I didn’t even think about the spoiler lol

[@shagohad3]

The Chupacabra is NOT Mexican. It's Puerto Rican, and was originally a strange reptile monster before it went mainstream and people in the states started claiming it was some kind've dog.

[@Thunderwolf4]

I find it weird that people keep saying it's a Mexican cryptid instead of Puerto Rican. Where the tale originated. edit: autocorrect put the wrong word

[@RealElongatedMuskrat]

ah I didn't know that, thanks for sharing! I'm in Europe so I've only heard of it referenced by Americans, who like you said, refer to it as Mexican. I wonder could the story have reached mainland US via a lot of Mexican story tellers (ie people from PR told it to Mexican folks, they spread it amongst their community and in the US), so more people heard about it from people of Mexican origin than PR? I mean by population, Mexico dwarfs PR so I could see someone be like "well I've only ever heard it from Mexican people!" when they've just not met many PR people by comparison lol.

[@karlanazario2903]

Thank you! I dont know why it always urks me when people say the Chupacabra is from Mexico ☹️ when its not. Not to mention that the Mexican Version and the Puerto Rican Version of the Chupacabra arent even alike. The Mexican one is dog like and the PR one is more Reptilian.

[@jose_rgu]

@@RealElongatedMuskratim Puerto Rican and from what I been told, the story was spread by Puerto Ricans who moved to Texas. After that, it reached Mexico. Not just that but other Latin American countries like Argentina and Honduras also have their own chupacabra stories/sightings.

[@jvbon646]

​@@RealElongatedMuskrat Given how poorly educated Americans are, they most likely heard it from a puertorrican and their brains just went "he speaks spanish, spanish = mexican, chupacabra = mexican". In their minds everything below Texas is just Mexico, even the caribbean islands. I mean they aren't even aware of the fact that USA *owns* us, or that you can't reach Puerto Rico driving 💀 (unironically something I heard)

[@quintonwine6648]

The flatwoods monster story is really interesting, everyone who saw the creature was put into separate rooms and asked to draw the creature to their best ability and everyone’s illustrations looked the same with minor differences

[@rawman44]

Yeah he glazed over flatwoods monster, definitely needed more credit

[@psycless]

i wish he read the letter for skunk ape that actually made it scary

[@LeetSack]

I cant wait for the new CreepCast episodes! Some of these would go great on there

[@neonicon8500]

Creepcast has been great. I hope they cover PenPal

[@neonicon8500]

@@fungusghoul I need to read that one. I randomly came across PenPal one night, and read all of it. Best creepypasta in my opinion.

[@superkoopatrooper4879]

Ya, maybe Wendigoon can talk about his skincare routine lol. I'm asking for a friend.

[@Justdont693]

I just found out about it from this video! Imma check it out! Wendigoon is a great guy!

[@GeorgeRamsey22]

I hope they do the Jersey Devil on either Creepcast or The Red Thread.

[@jvbon646]

Hey Papa, a few things to know -The "veo" in "Ya Te Veo" is pronounced with a strong E, not a weak one. So the e in the "ve" part of "Veo" would sound the same way you pronounced the e in the "Te", not like "bee" -The Chupacabra isn't a Mexican cryptid, it's from Puerto Rico. But there's been some reports from Mexico. The name "chupacabra" comes from a joke made by a comedian during the time the first reports started to pop-up

[@squidkid8722]

The most interesting thing about the wendigo, is that is believed to have originated as a folk lore tale about what would happen to those who practiced cannibalism. One would turn/be possed by the wendigo for eating human flesh. The reality is that eating human flesh will often harm the person, resulting from prion diseases. TlDR there are bacterias and proteins in our bodies that will cause harm to other humans should we be eaten. The most common disease is Kuru, which like many other prion diseases, causes psychosis among other diseases. It's literally a folk law that if isn't true, is still partially true as a 'warning' against the practice of cannibalism.

[@miskullaneous]

That is fascinating

[@sethgarland586]

As someone who grew up in the deep south I am very glad to see the Wampus Cat make it as far as it did.

[@DJezdic]

Papa meat had quickly become my favorite KZbin channel.

[@citrusbutter7718]

The Mongolian death worm will always be it for me. It's one of the oldest, and even when we know it most likely don't exist we still feel like it's out there, under the sands of any desert, just crawling and we don't know it.

[@gideonmele1556]

And it inspired Dune

[@caboose759]

The Jersey Devil scared the shit out of me when i was a kid and its funny you mentioned poisoning water. I grew up across rhe river from Philadelphia in New Jersey and spent alot of time in Gloucester City. There is a part of town coloquially named "Ghost Town" just off of Jersey Avenue with a bunch of old abandoned warehouses. At night you would hear alot of commotion from those warehouses and sometimes see lights coming from inside. Now that im older I know there were homeless people in those warehouses with fires but when i was a kid my imagination ran wild with it. A friend of mine who was a real jerkoff told me thats where the Jersey Devil goes to take his victims to eat them alive. He drags them down Jersey Avenue then throws their bodies in the river when hes done. Totally bought it and whenever i slept over his house just a block away from Jersey Ave, I'd stay up all night hiding under the covers or play on my GBA to help not think about it. About poisoning though, one day we were up hanging outside his house by the fire pit when we heard yelling, banging and what sounded like chains rattling coming from Jersey Ave of course and we decided to investigate. We saw a man with a long trenchcoat or sport coat climbing over a fence to a warehouse screaming and cursing about being hungry and i was 1000% convinced that it was him. He was screaming about making "Them" pay and that he was going to kill someone. It was probably some crack head having a tantrum over something but i made a huge logical leap that it was the Jersey Devil and he was going to curse the town or something. About a week later there was what seems like hundreds of dead fish washing up on the riverbanks of Westville and Brooklawn which are both not even half a mile from Ghost Town Gloucester City. I was about 12 or so back then and im 30 now. Im not supersticious and dont get lulled into ghost stories or cryptids but every now and then i think back to that and im just like... what if? lmao

[@Mouradin1224]

The scariest part of that story is just being in Gloucester City

[@caboose759]

@@Mouradin1224 especially under the Walt along Broadway lmao

[@rawman44]

I can't believe you went to investigate as a kid. I wouldn't even do that now, as a grown man. Kudos to you, I guess lol

[@victoriadoh3385]

There's actually a Mothman Festival that happens every year in Point Pleasant where that statue is! It's just a weekend's length and it honestly looks so fun - they have a dedicated Mothman museum, merch, speakers, cosplay, vendors...basically a mini comic con but for cryptid lovers. Might be a fun lil video idea? I really hope I can go one day 😍🦇

[@winkertinker]

We like our moth man

[@ShawnSimmons-t9h]

20:09 homie I am so happy you chose to use both depictions of the Wendigo.

[@Lenape_Lady]

You’ve come over to the cryptid dark side! Welcome! And the horrible food tournament was top tier. Really want a 2nd one.

[@benmcreynolds8581]

The jersey devil myth was interesting growing up. There was an old stone cabin where the lady gave birth to the deformed baby. The thought of some deformed human lurking around the Jersey woods had a real "wrong turn" vibe to it.

[@Mouradin1224]

Supposedly it was a hit piece against her and her family. I live in an area where everything is named after the Leeds family

[@AleCat2305]

The Flatwoods Monster was my favorite local legend growing up, and to this day, I love everything about him.

[@STeadyPLanez]

sheesh. it's not gonna f*** you dude

[@Wyaldisthebestapostle]

Papa making a cartoon on these cryptids would be so amazing

[@yourgrandpabillyjohnson1888]

OMFG, the flatwood monsters were used in Legend of zelda Majoras Mask When you have to stop the alien invasion from the Lon Lon Ranch, and they literally show up as a ball of light and look exactly like the picture. Thats super awesome. That they got the idea of the cryptid and put it in the Zelda of all games.

[@FamousAaron99]

I loved that sidequest. Wish more games had cryptids in them 😂

[@evanr7782]

There's a town close to where I live, Itasca Texas. Their high school mascot is the Wampus Cat. Always thought that was pretty wild and random

[@kangaroocourt9507]

Goat Man, Moth Man and Wendigo are in a tier of their own

[@redrc9771]

Honestly Mothman is a terrifying cryptid because I watch a video of Mothman being sighted after the bridge fell that it was spotted in Russia and Japan where both have the nuclear reaction thing, the sighting in Chicago back in 2017, and I listen to a podcast called Monsters Among Us where this guy from Florida encounter Mothman and a few months a hurricane. There's a reason why it's called the Harbinger of Death

[@Orangnus]

I had a stroke while reading this

[@cherylh2347]

I’m just so glad you included the Wolpertinger! No one ever knows what it is. I have a large arm tattoo of one and people just call it a “scary bunny”. My mom is from the area of Germany where they are supposedly from.

[@Tanner-Gillman]

i was dying laughing when Hunter took a full minute at the end of the video to defend his choice of chicken feet meatballs over the piss egg. don’t worry Hunter- there are those of us who believe chicken feet meatballs were the correct choice. literally dozens of us

[@SephirahPlasma]

No he chose the piss eggs over the chicken feet meatballs...

[@Homvncvlvs]

@@SephirahPlasmayou know I still don’t really know how to feel about that

[@Hammerponcho]

​@@SephirahPlasma imagine lying about not watching a video of some KZbinr

[@artsyvidsy5232]

This was actually stressful! Glad my favorite made it to the top, but each round had me on the edge of my seat!

[@squaddizzle85]

Love to see how gets hyped over details like the “Ya te veo” name is dope u can tell hes a real horror connoisseur

[@D.boys6t9]

I live in Fresno and I actually have heard stories from my friends about the Fresno night crawlers. So bizzare but funny. They saw it running next to their car

[@HakuFreak19]

For real! I just remember FOX26 talking about and how we were on Fact or Fiction show. I know some artist are selling prints of it.

[@mythcat1273]

As someone who's lived in Jersey Devil territory my whole life, the way I heard the story was this: the mom(who wasn't a witch) cheated on her husband and got pregnant. The super religious husband proclaimed "I would sooner have the DEVIL in my home!" when he found out. When the child was born, the husband's wish came true and out came the Jersey Devil, which flew up through the chimney out into the world to go and haunt the woods of NJ and Eastern Pennsylvania. To be honest, definitely not as interesting as Papa Meat's story.

[@eraserheadbaby69]

also from jersey, can confirm

[@ramyadigerolamo3600]

I grew up about 20 minutes away from the pine barrens and heard a combination of both. I was told that the mother was the one that cursed the child, but she wasn’t a witch and that the creature flew out of the chimney. I’ve never heard about the cheating part though.

[@Mouradin1224]

The truth I’ve always read (also Nj) is that it was a hit piece from some guy in Philadelphia made to discredit the Leeds family in a manner of a pissing contest. One of the earliest tabloid pieces

[@weezingargonian6523]

Don’t know if it can be considered a cryptid, but in Wales there tales about a creature called Llamhigyn Y Dwr. It is basically a big frog with wings that capsizes boats. Definitely my favourite

[@ZNGraceland]

Papa Meat! Been a huge fan of your animations and an even bigger fan of the Papa Meat channel. Mothman and Wendigo are my go to fave cryptids and I even did a college presentation on the Wendigo. I will say the Moth man deserves the place at the top.

[@frofrozzty]

As a longtime Ya-Te-Veo enjoyer, it made me happy seeing Papa Meat have such a profound reaction to it.

[@rantsinarobe4099]

0:01 Sloth from Goonies? How u been pal?

[@uncanny4038]

OOOH!

[@DavidK-r7w]

DUDE the eyes effect is absolute GOLD!!! The timing of it along with the visual chefs kiss ×1000

[@JustTie]

Mothman sounds so goofy but mythical at the same time i love it 😂😂

[@xerxes7416]

It was seen in germany too and was called "Freiburg Shrieker".

[@GeorgeRamsey22]

Pretty sure there is also a similar looking Owl Man in Britian.

[@chaos97506]

"I feel like I could slap the sh*t outta Champ, if I'm being honest" 😂 Papa Meat just built different

[@TopsyTriceratops]

I think the "I see you already" carnivorous plant should've won just from how new of a concept it is in comparison to all the other cryptids. Most cryptids are big animals, dinosaurs, apes, owls, fish, but this is a freaking plant. I've never heard of a cryptid plant monster!

[@mr.cheesytoad5845]

My heart pounds for Hunter

[@JRyan56]

hunter would probably pound your ass.

[@HesTheCook]

As a West Virginian man, I love that two of our cryptids made it into the second round, but I’m absolutely elated that Mothman brought us home the W. If there’s one thing we’ve got going for us over here in “Almost Heaven”; it’s good cryptids! Loved the video!

[@Nobody734-qk6ed]

Everybody y’all need to look into weird and wild cards. They were the thing back in the day. Underrated but that’s what this young generation needs.

[@umbradread8703]

Look. If Papa Meat actually made a horror cartoon about any of these cryptids, it would be so damn good. I'd vote for Wendigo though. The way O'l Meaty is able to create psychological horror with a cartoon is just simply amazing

[@limakwail7936]

Sorry that my ancestors made the wildest cryptid. Wendigo's genuinely freaked me out so much as a kid.

[@BenjaminRegen]

Wendigo is the best (the absolute scariest) in my opinion.

[@ultraviolence6136]

I'm a new Papa Meat listener and I'm from the place in NJ where Joseph Bonaparte was exiled. I can't believe how excited I was to hear Bordentown, NJ mentioned and when Sir Meat said "Bordertown" I shed a single tear lmao

[@ShadowFox178]

I've heard of mbembe in Goblin Slayer. The one who stops rivers. Never knew it had a real world inspiration.

[@L-kun]

That second season was such a mess, lol.

[@ShadowFox178]

@@L-kun Oh I haven't watched the anime, so I have no knowledge about that. I've only read the light novels and the manga. And the story with the dinosaur in goblin slayer is book 7 the elven marriage in the light novels. Book 2 would be the water town with the exploration of the sewers and killing a knock-off beholder.

[@milkmanman]

The picture was definitely an elephant head sticking up out of the water. Think it was around 7:58 give or take a few seconds

[@samanthasoares4806]

I love my cute cryptids, so many just seem misunderstood. I always thought the Fresno nightcrawler was just really cute lol, i wanna push it over and see how it gets up 😂

[@wifi8366]

For real, but I here seen nightcrawler before

[@JustinWright-u3b]

I encountered a lesser known cryptid in the woods of New Hampshire. Its called the Coos (ko-aus) County Wood Devil. I dont care who believes me , im convinced and will never be swayed otherwise on its existence. The W.D. is a different variant of "Sasquatch". It was about 10 feet tall , very skinny with dark grey, short , shaggy hair( also seen in brown also). Its eyes were big and all black like an owl. Its nose was flat and almond shaped , almost like holes not prominent. Its mouth was very wide. I believe its nocturnal because of the eyes. Its seldom seen obviously but is especially adept at using the trees as a type of camouflage. They stay extremely still when around people , but if one is somehow spotted , they can run extremely fast and emit a high pitched scream when approached or cornered. The native legends say they are cannibalistic as well. When i saw one it took alot of investigating to find the identity of said cryptid. Most encounters are not visual but auditory . Most testimonies have heard them not seen them. My mind is now much more open to cryptids , i realize some may be made up but not all. Its a big, amazing world with many undiscovered or unproven phenomena and life forms. Just wanted to say big fan of the channel and the subject. Keep coming with the heat Papa Meat! Stay safe yall and keep your eyes open people, you never know whats around the next corner.

[@boogiemann9363]

Ogo-pogo. Champ is footage of a log, nessie is a toy submarine. Ogo-pogo is a god damn plesiosaur

[@roytheshort]

He died in a car INTENTIONAL

[@boogiemann9363]

@@roytheshort you're my new best friend

[@spoopycatstudio]

Mothman is one of my favorites, so I'm happy to see him take the win, although that plant monster is now on the list of favorites. The Fresno Nightcrawlers will always hold a special place in my heart by virtue of them essentially being goofy pairs of walking pants.

[@hybrid_hawkins7206]

Papa Meat: "I think there are too many cryptids with glowing red eyes." Also Papa Meat: "Moth Man is my winner." Like, can we all agree that the Wendigo is much cooler and more brutal than the Mothman?

[@Pooptheslayerr]

im so hype for the next creep cast episode

[@thatsphreshish]

We all know the BBL Sasquatch is the best cryptid

[@Chris-rt5qu]

I recommend checking out Hammerson Peters if you want to know more about Canadian indigenous lore, such as the Wendigo.

[@studio-stirko5596]

I’m glad he acknowledged the meatball-gate scandal

[@grzybekgrzesio5759]

For me the Ya-Te-Weo was the first place... imagine living in a vilage where recently many people wemt missing in a forest. You're going with other volountiers to search for them, but spread to widen the seatch area. You walk through the fog while suddenly You sense something weird is going on.. it's too quiet and the mosqiutoes stopped biting You a while ago. You look up and notice something hanging in the branches. As terror pierces Your mind You're able to describe the sight: it's all your recently gone missing friends hanging massacred. You try turning, but Your legs are stuck in the roots. As You desperatly try to free Yourself there's just one eye at the distance looking directly at you. The plant embraces You, crushing Your body entombing You until You sufocate or loose enough blood. For the last moment You try crying it's name to warn other people, but it's already too late. Your ribs are broken. You slowly die in silence, only bloody branches and fog around You..

[@ellisbkennedy652]

My thought on the "i see you already" tree is that, like most plants that catch flies have some sort of trigger, a trap, that the animal has to run over before it actually bites, so what if the ya-te-vo has the same mechanism only its the roots trigger the limbs to freak out and start latching onto things, ripping and lunging, with or without the eye

[@touriian8371]

0:01 how I look irl

[@sidekickz2180]

I can't wait for part 2 of the latest CreepCast!

[@c.d.rstudios4691]

I love the idea of some researchers in Antartica seeing this 8ft tall pair of legs with a sad frog head slowly lumbering about. It isn't violent or anything, it just come into their base and stands next to their freezer for coldness every few days

[@Zynovom]

I wanted the Wendigo to win

[@patpatontheback]

The way you say “ya te veo” chef’s kiss 😂

[@htm5814]

Wendigo or Mothman have it, I’m calling it.

[@matthewsherman2085]

I love mythology and folklore (which now that I think about it includes cryptids) so I might as well put in my 2 cents. The Mothman is said to be an omen of doom, as the sightings were just before that bridge collapse. I think there's some debate over whether it was trying to warn us about the imminent disaster, or if it had something to do with it. The Wendigo has nothing to do with greed that I know of. Gluttony, maybe, but not greed. Also it doesn't just kill for the sake of killing. It's not just gonna tear open your stomach and leave you there to rot. It kills in order to try to sate its insatiable hunger for human flesh. According to Native American folklore, the Wendigo is the result of resorting to cannibalism to survive the harsh winter. It can mimic human voices as well as shapeshift. If you are ever in the woods around the Minnesota/Canada area and hear your name carried on the winds, that means you are its next victim. According to legend this can result in you going insane and running off into the woods, away from any potential campsite or companions, where it will then make a meal out of you.

[@starlawolf]

Dude, I held on to my Mothman plushie the whole time and freaked out when you picked him lol. This was such a cool video, and I loved all the cool cryptids especially the ones that were new to me (love u Wampus cat you are the true floppa cryptid lol) Your vids are awesome man.

[@banquetoftheleviathan1404]

Wendigo has low key been in a ton of horror lately, you can do allot with it because it has themes of starvation and cannibalism, can shape shift, can in essence be like a nature's satan. Ravenous is my favorite wendigo movie to watch every November for thanksgiving.

[@zetsubanned4308]

You missed the part in the Ya-Te-Veo description where it can excrete liquor, I think that detail could've carried it over the top. Personally I'd have always gone with the wendigo. It's terrifying in so many ways, and "compels its victims to hunger-crazed cannibal-madness sprees" is only pretty high up there on list of reasons.

[@thesixfootsixexperience8781]

Papa Meat been spending too much time with Wendigoon

[@emenefer]

Hello my future girlfriend

[@matthewhibiscus8316]

Hi

[@Lenape_Lady]

Hello

[@literallyvigilante9444]

Haiiiiii :3333

[@Mike-qz4by]

Hi son

[@lildink9529]

This is what I sound like.

[@itsahostiletakeover]

"Ogopogo...Champ is a picture of a log, Nessie is a toy submarine with a head made out of plastic and wood. Ogopogo is a plesiosaur, a fucking PLESIOSAUR! You're gonna tell me that a log or a beaver at best could kick the ass of a plesiosaur? OGOPOGO." - Henchman 21

[@paranoid2867]

just a PSA: wendigos and skinwalkers are NOT CRYPTIDS a cryptid is a species that has not yet been identified; but the two are based on mythology and spirituality, and both are products of Native American folklore and legend. to add to that, the Skinwalker is still considered a human as they are a practitioner of witchcraft for evil purposes, and the Wendigo is a spirit that possesses humans and turns them into the things we’re all familiar with. also, they don’t have deer skulls and antlers. it’s the same reason why we don’t consider vampires, werewolves, or ghosts as cryptids, because they were human at some point and all have a base in folklore and the supernatural.

[@jakeooob5090]

Ok nerd

[@paranoid2867]

@@jakeooob5090 history will forget your name

[@CarterNewton-j5o]

The best cryptid is obviously Willem Dafoe

[@TheMightyPika]

Thanks for introducing me to the Ya Te Veo. That thing is sick I love it.

[@parkerlamonica2661]

Love the podcast with you and wendigoon! And I have to say I’m glad you’re focusing on the papa meat channel. Really enjoy your personality and how you’ve progressed in your videos. You never fail to make great content