The Disappearance of the Nanjing Battalion

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Despite modern advances in communications and surveillance technology, human beings continue to vanish from society without leaving a trace. Often such disappearances are eventually explained, but this proves more difficult when the incident involves hundreds, or even thousands of people. Join us as we explore the disappearance of the Nanjing Battalion.
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[@BedtimeStoriesChannel]

For this video, we thought we'd do a one-off special Eastern art style to compliment the story's setting. Hope you enjoy!

[@renegadetrooper7224]

Bedtime Stories love the eastern art style.

[@neopagan1976]

I'm just loving this new art style. I would just love to see more episodes like this one.

[@user-vp7lo2qx1c]

Such good artwork

[@donut6502]

I love these ones where thousands of soldiers just disappeard

[@tritanicwolf518]

Bedtime Stories okay so this is a one off thing. I prefer the style that is used in all the other videos.

[@silphibuka225]

1. War against the japanese, check 2. Troops vanished, check It was ninjas

[@snarglesnargington9344]

Yooooooooooooooooo!

[@cece4589]

Check

[@yudhiadhyatmikosiswono9082]

They going home to play FORTNITE ?

[@The_Str4nger]

and yokais

[@chen_plays4173]

@@yudhiadhyatmikosiswono9082 SHAMEFUR DISPRAY!!!

[@brankeane2830]

Note: The Chinese forces which were attacked in the Marco Polo Bridge Incident were Nationalists under Chiang Kai Sheck, not the Communists (they were still fighting a civil war at that point). The Communists at that time were bottled up far away from there.

[@peroz1000]

Oliver Keane Exactly .Same with the Chinese forces in and around Nanjing .

[@joshb7300]

* so what was the great march?

[@MrTaylGunner]

@@joshb7300 whao man lets not bring facts into this someone has to beat the anti-Communist drum

[@jjdogbutte]

josh B You mean the “Long March” or the communist retreat from the Nationalist Chinese army? It didn’t have anything to do with the Japanese...

[@ilyademchenko5595]

@* Really? Did you know that it were actually chinese communists, who first declared war on Japan?

[@minminli6248]

Nanjing Battalion soldier to his fellow comrades... Soldier: "you guys wanna be remembered forever?" Comrades: "yes. How?" Soldier: "follow me."

[@pauloluciomachadodebrito8107]

Hahaha great one

[@nodidb3976]

I love asian women

[@JohnDoe-ee6qs]

If you don't mind me saying so, You are an extremely attractive young woman, hope you are having a good day 🙂

[@jimdavies9354]

This is funny lol. Good job.

[@raduque]

@@JohnDoe-ee6qs SIIIIMP!

[@bodhiutthan9507]

I remember reading the story about the missing 3,000 Chinese troops in a book about 35 years ago and it fascinated me. In the book was also a story about 300 villagers in Saskatchewan somewhere that also mysteriously disappeared without a trace one night around 1930. The village was visited each year by a trapper passing through who was the one that discovered the whole village empty of it's people even though all the cooking fires in the house were alight and the men's guns were standing beside the doors in all the houses. I wish I could remember the name of that book it was brilliant.

[@musicallyfedmonkey]

Just type into Google as much as you can remember then search it. Wiki says there's 4 books written on this incident so you should find it. There is one titled battle for the doomed city that looks good. If you do find it. Let me no name of book etc on here as Id like to buy a copy 👍

[@derekholton8958]

Strangely enough...is the name of the book.

[@rigid73able]

​@@derekholton8958thank you

[@AlwayslookingNeverlookedfor]

How are the fires still going if they disappeared

[@user-io9ie5cs8j]

​@@AlwayslookingNeverlookedfor I know right?

[@milkapeismilky5464]

I hate how KZbin prevents creators use of the the term "rape", despite the well established historical use of the word, ie. "The Rape of Nanjing"

[@francdollar163]

The Ramree island one is REALLY misleading. They know exactly what happened, it was the the crocodiles. One or two soldiers survived and confirmed it. Their general was crazy and made them march through waist deep mangrove swap that was a breeding ground for salties. They were wiped out, it’s terrifying.

[@louisjwiese5515]

I would agree, but, to catch and consume around a thousand men, it would take a massive amount of crocodiles. If it was perhaps maybe a hundred soldiers, I might believe it. But even then it is a bit much. Perhaps the story has become a bit muddled in terms of factual details.

[@punctuationman334]

Louis J Wiese well it wasn’t just crocs. Marching through the swamps probably killed many people through getting stuck or contracting disease.

[@juliusseizure4983]

I knew the answer was somehow Chinese incompetence when I heard the first part about their soldiers being farmers.

[@Mrrshal]

@@juliusseizure4983 And your are vat-grown supersoldiers?

[@ENiceGeo]

@@louisjwiese5515 Search for Mark Felton's video on the topic, 'Japanese Army vs. Killer Crocodiles 1945'

[@franjay5585]

We know what happened to the Sandringham company. Any survivors of the attack were executed by Turkish troops and it didnt help how the Turkish government refused to acknowledge the fact that turkish soldiers executed the survivors who surrendered.

[@Gen_Kael]

The Turks denying mass murder? Unheard of 🤷‍♂️

[@peterkeyes1814]

@@Gen_Kael Of Course! - A certain Turk Circa 2020

[@oldoldpilgrim7898]

To this day the Turks deny the Armenian Genocide.

[@Samm815]

​@Christine Taggart The 911 moon landings were an outside job!?!

[@freedomisslavery6840]

@@Gen_Kael Yep, an absolute scumhole of a country and people. Always have been.

[@JohnDoe-ee6qs]

Mmm... the Chinese government in 1937 was a Nationalist one, nothing at all to do with the PLA or the communist, Chiang Kai-shek's nationalist government was fighting both the communist insurgency of Mao Zedong and also the Japanese from 1937-1945, only during that later conflict was a temporary truce between the nationalist Government and the communists agreed in order to deal with the Japanese first and deal with each other later. In fact if the Soviets didn't hand over all of Manchuria to the communists, and remember Manchuria at the time was China's industrial equivalent to Britain's Sheffield, the Nationalist government would in all likelihood have crushed the communists in due course.

[@galahad6189]

@@erikkirby6509 brainlet

[@GreenGlo1991]

Heck that history is gorgeous.

[@itsjohndell]

@@erikkirby6509 Knowing History makes him a Nerd? Not his fault you don't.

[@JohnDoe-ee6qs]

@@erikkirby6509 history is a thing of beauty.

[@jasonjanes8424]

This is a pretty big mistake. To any older person it is like talking about a p.c. in the 1970`s. Dosen`t look good. Incidentally this is why most people don`t understand the current Tiwan crises. The defeated Kuomintang retreated to Tiwan when they lost the rest of China in `49. They inisisted that Tiwan was "Nationalist China" and Biejing was not the real Chinese Government. That is why the Chinese won`t let people use the "Tiwan`s flag" online. Because it is not "Tiwan`s" flag. It`s the flag of China`s old Nationalist Republic. It`s treason tjust to show it o them.

[@theodorewai2864]

9:34 WW2 ended in 1945, and China regained all territory in 1945. Nanjing was captured by the Communists in 1949. Also, the Nanjing forces weren't socialist, the KMT was quite pro-Western values.

[@WildMorgan]

Yes they said that the PLA captured Nanjing in 1949. The PLA was the communist army, founded by the Chinese Communist Party. Until then, Nanjing was controlled by a collaborationist government as they quite rightly stated. LISTEN!

[@JohnDoe-ee6qs]

@@WildMorgan mate you are miles out

[@WildMorgan]

@@JohnDoe-ee6qs 🤣 You saying Nanjing wasn't captured by the PLA in 1949?

[@luttefisk]

“Pro western values”? They were Chinese nationalists😂.

[@Stuffnsuch736]

Who allied with the West

[@STRAKAZulu]

Ooohhh... another Lost Legion tale! First the Roman's, then the soldiers in WWI, now this one. Not saying it was aliens. It was a Predator.

[@rastiga9196]

Ben Affleck, you are the bomb in Phantoms!

[@xikungao2376]

Yes, they abducted the soldiers and now those soldiers are parrying combistick Berserkers with their combat knives on the hunting preserve planet.

[@bluegreenglue6565]

It's flattering, really.

[@brianjungen4059]

The Demon who makes trophies of men.

[@RDAScout]

The predator is an alien

[@anonymousmedusa9667]

I loved the page turning. Great work as always. Bedtime Stories is the best on KZbin. Thank you!

[@alexg3832]

Love this channel..

[@Natej3ds]

Low-key wish it was flipping the reverse direction...

[@minecraftah]

Not quite true on the Norfolk Regiment front. There were survivors who reported back about being machine-gunned at a thin pass causing a break with the force splitting up, some being picked off and not found, with others covering around a mile totaling 180 odd, with many having tried holding out at a farm house; the owner, a turk, confirmed the location of bodies of those who tried holding at the farm in a ravine, where he had put them. We also have letters from some of the men of it, some from hospital and some from turk PoW camps. One survivor, a one Private Sidney Pooly even mentions he heard no mention nor sight of charging into a forest until he'd returned home and heard the rumours, which is mildly amusing. The cloud story also came from a New Zealand regiment; with the rumour the regiment went completely missing, combined with PTSD from mustard gas attacks, a yellow cloud removing soldiers seems like it may be a case of misremembering.

[@Kainlarsen]

Yes, do you remember that dramatisation of it on BBC, some years back?

[@fuzzydunlop7928]

The Ninth Legion also likely didn't disappear, as the more recent archaeological evidence is beginning to dispel the legend. It's remarkably hard for thousands of people to disappear without SOMEONE hearing something about it or someone coming back to tell the tale. Dozens - sure, look at those students that disappeared in Mexico (but even then, people escaped to tell the tale) - hundreds, MAYBE. Thousands? No way, there's always at least ONE protagonist in the bunch. Even in the German-Polish war or the early stages of Operation Barbarossa, when things were so chaotic and entire formations were being wiped off the map in a matter of hours, we can still account for those formations. To make thousands of people disappear requires thousands of people to do the deed, and out of those thousands of people, at least one will have a guilty conscience or will take pride in the deed and brag. We know what happened at Teutoberg Forest, even. CENTURIES ago with the destruction of the entire force (at least, to me knowledge no one escaped), the information still got out and we can still piece together the events.

[@larss337]

@@Mike_Spilligan it was a very good film.

[@Tacitusreborn]

Actually, we do know what happened to the 9th Legion. They suffered a rather serious defeat at the hands of the native Britons and what was left of the legion was absorbed into other units and it was relocated to... Syria, I believe. The reason everyone assumes they vanished is because they aren't mentioned very often thereafter. Evidence suggests that tensions in Syria were waning at that period and the 9th legion wasn't very active and due to the embarrassing fact that they'd lost their standard in Britannia, the legion was largely relegated to ignored and unpleasant postings, limiting their presence in records even further.

[@Feadim]

Romana didn't reuse numbers of legions that where destroyed, like the ones in teotoburg forest

[@fuzzydunlop7928]

THANK YOU. The Ninth Legion is an accidentally-apt example, as the same thing is likely true of the Chinese unit in this scenario - historical misunderstanding.

[@allybally0021]

Which defeat did they suffer? What was the name of the battle or campaign?

[@465marko]

OR.... Aliens. So..... yeah.

[@nvmffs]

@@465marko I prefer Aliens.

[@MandyMan24]

I love how each Sunday night, I get to end the week settling into bed with the latest Bedtime Stories’ story! Obviously, tonight’s an exception cause Saturday but there’s nothing wrong with changing it up a little. For future videos, can I request the Order of Nine Angles, Dulce Base/underground lizard people, Sawney Bean and the Toronto Tunnel.

[@Gruntvc]

Reptilians? Sure. 👍

[@sephirothdomain1]

Order of the nine angles , sounds interesting

[@kenshin891]

@@sephirothdomain1 it is. Iirc it was a serial killer in new england in the 1930s who left letters. Highly likely related to secret societies or espionage

[@jacknthbx]

it's Saturday.

[@sephirothdomain1]

@@kenshin891 thanks, im definitely going to be looking into this now

[@Mirokuofnite]

I remember reading about this in the book Strangely Enough long ago. That book has a lot of great inspiration in it.

[@JohnDoe-ee6qs]

Do you remember the title and author of the book?

[@Necron990]

@@JohnDoe-ee6qs C.B. Colby

[@rastiga9196]

Ben Affleck, you are the bomb in phantoms!

[@TheICE1024]

Can we get an update on Skinwalker Ranch with findings from the new mini series

[@supernautacus]

Wait! That'll be released, at the proper time. Before 10 years go by. It's all for important reasons.

[@anaiswatterson1696]

That is one of the reasons why i keep my subscription to this channel tbh

[@johnv6806]

New mini series?

[@supernautacus]

@@johnv6806 , on the History Channel, "The Secret of Skinwalker Ranch"....they best be careful of that wormhole! It IS the real deal.

[@rossfreakes3164]

@@supernautacus Imagine thinking the History Channel is still believable. Hahahahahah.

[@Jdne199311]

Also the hands coming out of thin air was more scarier then I thought it would have been

[@InfiniCalendar]

You guys should do a video on the Chinese village of Shaanxi. Supposedly everyone there vanished overnight.

[@lughemblem]

The love your team puts into these videos is obvious. Thank you for the quality content!

[@AJadedLizard]

1:47 Fortunately, the KMT, who actually fought the Japanese for most of the war, including at the Marco Polo Bridge, were neither socialist, nor poorly trained, nor under-equipped, being vehemently anti-communist and trained and equipped with the finest in German engineering and material, though factionalism within the Nationalist camp kept them from being a truly effective fighting force.

[@Theaielman]

At the onset of the war they certainly were poorly trained and still pretty poorly equipped. They had some german equipment but most of it was domestic copies or outdated, along with relatively outdated equipment from a bunch of other countries such as France and Czechoslovakia. It didnt start to get better until a while later.

[@ErwinHistory]

Only two divisions (The 88th and 87th) were trained by and equipped by the Germans.

[@PanzerIVAE]

While it is very true that the Kuomintang did the bulk of the fighting (And it is highly questionable why this video keeps referring to what were clearly KMT military actions as actions by the PLA) the Chinese forces were indeed poorly trained and underequipped As for """Finest in German engineering and material"""" that's like saying the US Elite forces is representative of the entire US Armed Forces which is obviously wrong. China did have well-trained and equipped divisions in the German style but they were an extreme minority against the entire KMT armed forces

[@NodDisciple1]

Yes, I am VERY disappointed in Bedtime Stories atm. They usually do MUCH better research then this, even if they sometimes come to pretty radical conclusions. The majority of the troops in China were NOT Marxist as China was in the Middle of a Civil War when Japan attacked.

[@iamhungey12345]

Indeed, not one of Bedtime's better videos I tell you that much.

[@TheAKgunner]

Love the art style, and the subject! Keep it up! Would enjoy seeing this style again!

[@Geister7]

I love stories like this involving war and soldiers, just so much weirder

[@sadderdays5613]

MCpl. Geister next video should be on how you commented on a videos 5 days before it was out..

[@mutanttugboat9266]

@@sadderdays5613 It's a Patreaon early access thing I do believe. That used to confuse me as well.

[@kidofsteel0362]

There’s always weird supernatural shit happening in major human conflicts. Since thousands of years ago. It’s so creepy

[@Specter463]

The artwork continues to be fantastic! Especially found the Roman picture wallpaper worthy. Great job as always!

[@ivechang6720]

I truly appreciate how you express well wishes for the unfortunate in your videos. I have never once felt you were being disingenuous. That means something. As it should. ♡

[@rogerhargreaves2272]

Brilliant all round, especially the artwork by Mikey. Thank you.

[@tinderboxcreations]

I came to bed. I checked my phone. I saw a new Bedtime Stories video. I listened and as always, I loved it. You guys are great.

[@josephwear9572]

I mean wow, and wow again! You guys have once again outdone yourselves! Use styles like this more often. It makes it look even more like something out of a story book.

[@aery3854]

This is AMAZING!! Yes we need more of these unique, special artwork once in awhile please 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻

[@DeusNyx]

I'm liking the new art style, very striking! But I feel it doesn't have the same 'spooky' effect as Black & white art does. But still great. Great vid!

[@mikerryan85]

As creepy as these accounts are, the real horrors come from events like the Nanjing massacre or the USS Indianapolis. Nightmare fuel, man 😳

[@levitatingoctahedron922]

only one of those events actually happened. history is written by the victors. tens of thousands of people fled a wartorn city and the chinese later called it a massacre.

[@eachtundra1668]

@@levitatingoctahedron922 there were reporters inside Najing at the time

[@levitatingoctahedron922]

@@eachtundra1668 you're right, just like all of the reporters at the "death" camps in europe.

[@eachtundra1668]

@@levitatingoctahedron922 there were several including a member of the Nazi party who wrote about it

[@jacobblackard60]

How is the Nanjing massacre nightmare fuel because it's rather sad

[@balargus319]

As a half-Japanese history buff, there is nothing I love more than when the Fortean intersects with established history. Like in the Dab Tsog episode, the two elements inform, feed into, and almost symbolize one another. I must be a bit of a nitpick on some historical details: First, as others have noted, the Chinese soldiers who fought at Marco Polo Bridge, Nanjing, and most of the early conflict were not socialists but Nationalists under the Authoritarian/Capitalist KMT. The main point stands though, that these ill-equipped Chinese soldiers were horribly outclassed. Also, while the *communist* PLA army under Mao did win the civil war in 1949, the KMT itself had regained control of Nanjing after the end of ww2.... Of course, many ordinary Chinese by 1949 had grown to hate the KMT almost as much as the Japanese. (almost)

[@AtomicFire1972]

And after the KMT retreat to Taiwan (known as Formosa at the time by everyone outside of China), the Chinese learned, to their dismay, the truth of the old Western saying of "better the devil you know". What they got in exchange was far, far worse: a brutal psychopath who became the worst mass murderer of the 20th Century.

[@balargus319]

@OtherwiSe known as the 'Bruk' I am more offended by the fact that this single word slur got more upvotes than robert watts' multi-sentence reply, then by the slur itself. EDIT: nvm

[@hanchiman]

Of all the half assed comments that don't know much about the whole history about the Sino Japanese war and later the Civil war in real detail (Basically a big fucking hotpot mess with no Black and White, since the Nationalist are not exactly really "good guys" as there is a reason they lost China to Mao due to them not treating the poor peasant any much difference than the Japanese, while Mao at least kinda promised them better treatment, be it propaganda or not), you get a like from me for being the most accurate detail of this war.

[@mapleflag6518]

But later I imagine they would wish the KMT would have won.

[@MR-xo6sh]

Oh Simon, your closing phrases always touch my heart. Lovely. This channel is so underrated.

[@RenerDeCastro]

Are we going to get Yamashita's Gold at some point?

[@leolied6766]

I hope so.

[@gulliblebard7328]

Part of that gold and treasure was found by local Filipino treasure hunter named Rogelio Roxas.... Sadly for him, president at that time was Ferdinand Marcos, who ruled as dictator, and was notoriusly corrupted and greedy. He ravished all of Roxas finding, and even imprisoned him for some time . Roxas later sued him and won, but i dont remember if he was ever compensated by Marcos, i wathed some documentary about this case long ago....

[@b.griffin317]

@RavnDream I wouldn't put it past Marcos.

[@zackakai5173]

A few years back I actually made a short demo video about that for a channel concept a cousin of mine was pitching to the media company he was working for at the time. Didn't get picked up but I had never heard of Yamashita's gold before that and the research was pretty interesting. That being said I'm not sure how well of a fit it would be for this channel. It's definitely mysterious but I'm not sure it's quite spooky enough.

[@scottsmith4315]

Such great artwork. Great story as always, thank you all!

[@WORLD8NSH5KNIGHT1]

Usually you guys do good research. But you keep calling the Chinese forces 'socialist' At that time the Kuomintang (Nationalist) forces were holding power with the Communist insurgency under Mao and others advancing in the Chinese Civil War Today, the Communist regime take credit for wartime fighting against the Japanese but the truth is Mao saw it as an opportunity to defeat the Nationalists. In theory the two sides united to defeat the Japanese (along with the western Allies of course) and when the Communists got the upper hand and declared the PRC in 1949 (ending the main battle phase of the civil war) the Nationalists went to Taiwan. Summed up the CCP takes credit for the Kuomintang sacrifices.

[@yukeenakamura1398]

Love the art style!

[@madisonatteberry9720]

"And 3,000 soldiers marched into his forward command post." Uh, gang, thanks for coming but it's kind of getting a little bit crowded in here.

[@okay9906]

*Do a video on the "Paranormal encounters of US army soldiers with the Dead spirits of Russian soldiers still haunting in Afghanistan/Belochistan.*

[@wheresthegovernance4350]

Any links?

[@RIBBIT85]

There’s a video by them called “There’s something in the desert” that talks about ghosts encountered by the American military in Afghanistan.

[@rexthefighter5833]

Oddly enough, I just finished reading a book by David Goldman called "The Traveller" that featured the lost Nanjing battalion and the 9th Legion and what happened to them according to the book series' mythology.

[@lockedon8953]

@Fred Dixon it's probably all theories

[@rexthefighter5833]

@@lockedon8953 lol! The book is fiction. I just found it odd that I had just read the book and bedtime stories released this video.

[@mutanttugboat9266]

@@rexthefighter5833 Was the book any good? Sounds pretty interesting from what you've said.

[@josephmontanaro2350]

You have a link where to buy it? Cant seem to find it online

[@henrydumont5470]

I thought you guys were already great but you just keep getting better and better. By far one of the most underrated yt channels

[@kc_cobra]

-Gets ready for bed -Notices a new Bedtimes Stories video Perfect

[@jonseon5952]

God was playing his RTS game and deleted his units so he could get some resources back.

[@admiralkipper4540]

Jonseon hoi5 confirmed

[@tommyknockers5492]

Thunder is his Mom yelling at him to get to bed.

[@RDAScout]

Wow

[@omgwtfbbqownage]

Another great one.Thank you very much @ Bedtime Stories !

[@maxtraveler3409]

Thanks for posting this. I had read of this mysterious incident many years ago. I would suggest one of edit though. It is incorrect to refer to a 3000 man unit as a ‘battalion’. No army has a battalion with that many troops. It would be more accurate to describe them as the missing Nanjing ‘Brigade’.

[@gerrickmurphy5115]

The new art style was great and you guys did amazing. It was a change and I absolutely loved it. Maybe another few episodes could be like this?

[@hanloncaldwell8571]

Love your videos man! Thanks for the awesome content, I listen to it while at work when I can. Really appreciate all of your hard work that goes into your videos. Keep up the good work! 👍🏻

[@KoreanBackdash]

your channel has blown up, guys. First time I watched you, you barely had 20k subs and overall views of maybe 16k per video (except for a few which had more), Fantastic work guys. Also the voice AND art IS part of the videos and a reason people watch them. Keep it up. Let's reach 1 mill.

[@alaricmo]

I’m going with a severe case of, “let’s not and say we did”.

[@ZeonNoOukoku]

Great story and narration. I find the relatively accurate representation of the Japanese and Nationalist Chinese uniforms in the art to be pretty impressive.

[@MissSweeTSmarT1983]

Yayyy!!!! Thanknyou so much for uploading!!!!!!! I been waiting for one from you!!!!

[@wesbaumguardner8829]

The graphics keep getting better and better. I always love your stories. Good job!

[@janjoedicke2507]

Great job as always guys the artwork in this is amazing.

[@istherenoother]

Love the art work and loved the ending. It was very respectful. Your channel never disappoints.

[@YankeePendragon]

Well done. You always treat your subjects with great dignity and care, as well as with all seriousness of any honest documentary effort. Thank you.

[@AoGbeverage16]

Love these videos! Always happy to see an upload from this channel 😄✌🏻

[@ericdobrien]

Time to turn Bedtime Stories into Graphic Novels. Artwork 👌

[@SatNavDan]

This reminds me of the Yangste Incident in 1949 I believe. Would be interested to see that get covered.

[@eagleeye5148]

Bro how TF do you not have at the very least a million subs the production quality is amazing and just makes the story 100% better since there are visuals unlike other creepy story tellers

[@johnj5011]

Your production value just took a huge step once again, Great video!

[@Sabrasmkk]

Only referring to the Chinese of that period as socialist or their military as the PLA? Absolutely no mention of the Nationalist government or their troops? A blatant disregard for historical fact is what that is. A blatant and very obvious disregard.

[@OperationEndGame]

TJ Newport Yep... PLA didnt exist back then... China was broken up by multiple factions/warlords with no centralized military...

[@chamade166]

Do you have a hard time dealing with the historical fact that is if wasn’t for the communist resistance in Russia, China, Yugoslavia etc, nazi Germany and imperial Japan would have survived?

[@Lasertrain]

Love the art style to this one. Any chance of doing a future episode on hellmouths like Houska Castle in Prague, that supposedly was built to keep things from hell getting out? Just google it if you like.

[@JohnDoe-ee6qs]

I did hear a story that the Germans lowered some unfortunate's down there who were either pulled up dead or had totally lost their marbles

[@jerrycohencohen8901]

Maby they got lost?

[@johnseed624]

I didn’t even realize this was one of your videos when i clicked on it, but boy was I an for a good treat. Like the new art style

[@Slammer_1970]

Yes, a new video!!! I've been waiting a new video. This was a great one and I can't wait for the next one. When will we see the next volume of the you released? I really enjoyed it as well.

[@Arto257]

I certainly hope that we get an entire video dedicated to the Ninth Legion. Really great material

[@BoxStudioExecutive]

there's literally nothing supernatural about the 9th legion unless you want there to be

[@ssw1988]

There was some suggestions that the dissapprance of the 9th Legion was due to lack of surviving material for the post-Britain history for the legion. Less than 1% of ancient primary sources have survived.

[@btr82ifv25]

Like the new style keep it up!!!

[@OceanSwimmer]

Great story! Well researcher and beautifully illustrated. Another winner.

[@obsidianblade8762]

Couldn't wait for your next video! Thanks! 😁😁

[@Coco-qk8sg]

Awwwww you absolute champion! You did the Sandringham Company!!! To this day, on rare occasion you might find a button or cap badge of the company for sale in Turkish markets. Totally check out the black dog of Monzs. Which stalked no man's land in the fog of war. Love the channel

[@johndavies1090]

I think the 'Black Dog of Mons' - they're also known as the 'hell hounds of no man's land' are reasonably well known to be a myth, on a par with the Angel of Mons. Apparently Ernest Machen, who wrote the original story which inspired it, became quite embarrassed by the Angel's enduring popularity. The Great War spawned a number of these myths - the 'Angel' reappeared in 1918 in some tales, followed by something similar in a battle between Poles and Russians in about 1920, and within the last three weeks has also been claimed in Ukrain. The psychologists have a great time with such incidents!

[@JANEMBA9000]

Art style Amazing & Narrator Awesome . This is the best KZbin Channel .

[@Rodrigo-ei4ht]

Really enjoyed the art style and transitions. Made it feel like a bedtime story being read aloud

[@appsstore11]

Just discovered your channel,awesome scary stories,creepy and more,thank you for the hard work..

[@dammitanothername]

there's another account of the nanjing brigade (battalion is smaller). The colonel saw a funnel like tornado with different colors wash over the battlefield and leave no humans as it vacuumed up everything then disintegrated. Nothing fell back to earth. so, it came, mopped everything up, but did not depart- it evaporated, unfolded upon itself, and nothing was returned.

[@springfieldpervert2736]

"and what followed was one of the most notorious atrocities in human history" was that a reference to unit 731?

[@nureallycool]

That or The Rape of Nanjing.

[@kyleshiflet9952]

Both of which proves hell exsist on Earth

[@JohnDoe-ee6qs]

No, it refers to "the Rape of Nanking" which shocked even Hitler's Germany, Did you know that many of the key players in that unit got off Scot free in exchange for them sharing both their research and their expertise in biological warfare with the Americans.

[@internetzenmaster8952]

@@JohnDoe-ee6qs True, but in the grand scheme of things it was better that the Americans got it than the Soviet Union did, if for no other reason than it kept such research from being abused by the Soviets.

[@gimzod76]

it was a reference to the Rape of Nanjing. Look up John Rabe book if you want the full details.

[@johnharmon9466]

Great artwork fella, love the channel always well presented and detailed, love it. This is a crazy story but wartime always throws up unexplained events like this. Keep this brilliant channel going it's the most underrated channel of its type on youtube, thank you and god bless fella.

[@krakatau123]

Beautiful artwork and narration ! Thank you !

[@robloxsavage3407]

Could you guys please cover the Tamam Shud mystery aka the Somerton Man case? It is arguably the greatest Australian mystery and I would love it to be shared with everyone :)

[@josephmontanaro2350]

Not famaliar with it, any background info?

[@robloxsavage3407]

@@josephmontanaro2350 Sorry for late reply. Long story short a man was found at a beach in Australia recently deceased with an unknown cause of death, identity and a strange note in his pocket saying "Tamam Shud" meaning the end in Persian.

[@robloxsavage3407]

@OtherwiSe known as the 'Bruk' I love Dyatlov Pass too it's such a compelling mystery. I've seen the Bedtime Stories video many times :)

[@kelleren4840]

Just a friendly suggestion/request: What if you guys did art in the style of the culture the story takes place in? So future Eastern videos with Eastern Art, Native American Videos with Native American style art (in line with their tribe), etc. Could be pretty cool!!!

[@murphyrutledge5590]

Kelleren While that would be awesome, it would probably be difficult to display the details they usually do with some of those art styles.

[@kelleren4840]

@@murphyrutledge5590 Yeah, I thought about that too. Some are a lot more interpretive etc. Could be cool where applicable though!

[@mendagy]

Wonderful, as always!!! Thank you for all your hard work!! 😊

[@freshprinceofnightcity]

I want to see this more often. The different style of art is brilliant.

[@The_Republic_of_Ireland]

Mate could you do a video covering The Wild Deserters or other WWI urban legends? They're always interesting to see

[@Jdne199311]

Love when you do one off style changes

[@texasbella576]

Another great narration! Kudos to the BTS team! And as you always do, thank you for the respect you show for all those who have lost their lives.

[@Brian-zo1ll]

One of my favorite Channels. Im always glad when I see a new vid.

[@Iamtheliquor]

Oooooh on a Saturday! Nice surprise Bedtime Stories🇬🇧😎

[@Dankalank]

Good story, but why is Legio IV Flavia Felix depicted while the story is about Legio IX Hispana?

[@LeReVid]

Great graphics on this one! The script os flawles as always!

[@fredjaneson1670]

most excellent and well done as always! Thank You very much

[@hawkticus_history_corner]

Leaving behind all that war material is extremely odd, particularly seeing as what it represented. The couldn't make mortars or Maxims, so to leave them lay like that would mean either a sudden and vicious attack (which there seems little evidence of) or something so horrid that it made them all run without thought. honestly, I'm not sure. If it was an attack, why didn't the attacker seize the supplies? And if they saw something, what could be so awful as to make them flee like that?

[@josephmontanaro2350]

Were any small arms missing? I assume if something horrific did happen they might try and run with their lighter, non crew serviced weapons, if the latter were still there then something got them without even alerting them

[@phukoffdegugle9084]

Because the attackers couldn't just simply pick up the equipment and carry it away? Explosive ordnance and machine guns aren't exactly light.

[@davidearea242]

Not if you're deserting....

[@hansnoor9637]

Wow...this is new style

[@DanielGutierrez-ih6sf]

I knew you were going to do this story as soon as I saw the artwork! I read about this story in a book called Strangely Enough 30 years ago, I highly recommend it.

[@shanelorrison5224]

Great video as always. The art is phenomenal, simple yet elegant. 👍🏻

[@radiooperator3176]

Bedtime stories: say socialist The internet: so you have chosen death

[@0332441139]

Hey Bedtime Stories, do one story about the Donner Party.

[@badgerstan9882]

Live for these uploads!

[@Cynsome1]

As always, classy and well researched. Thank you

[@ukmediawarrior]

Theres a very easy explanation to all these disappearances. They were taken by an alien race helped by a renegade Time Lord. The plan was to have all these soldiers from different time periods fight in war games and then make a supreme army from the survivors. It's all documented in the Patrick Troughton Dr. Who serial 'The War Games' :D

[@muzasbar]

Sadly i lost all my focus in the story with the historical inaccuracies that i assume are not your fault or your team’s fault, but rather the sketchy origins of the story itself. You see, there’s a great difference between the socialist/communist forces of Mao and the KMT/Nationalist (right wing, by the way) troops of Chiang Kai Shek and his warlords. Also, Nanjing/Nanking was given back to the KMT in 1945 as the Japanese were peacefully withdrawing from China following the surrender of the Emperor. So there are inconsistencies in the story that are hard to ignore, specially for someone who has studied History. The art is shockingly beautiful, so I guess I can give that and your wonderful narration to this, i believe, urban legend

[@JohnDoe-ee6qs]

Sloppy research has no excuse these days, anyone who has opened one book on the subject of world war two would know these things, and even if nothing was known of the history twenty minutes on a computer would fix it, just sloppy work.

[@ptonpc]

The problem is, it is so easy for him or his researchers to actually do some research nowadays , that he has no excuse for getting things so wrong. Unless it is done deliberately.

[@davidearea242]

@@ptonpc The problem is, it is so easy for you and other whining simps to provide constructive feedback rather than criticism. It's astounding you don't do it and therefore, your criticism comes across as rude and arrogant. There's no reason not to have tactful delivery of your opinion. Unless it is done deliberately. In your case, it probably just comes naturally for you.

[@ptonpc]

@@davidearea242 Are you being triggered by someone pointing out that this channel could have done some elementary research and made the stories factual rather than just make things up?

[@davidearea242]

@@ptonpc -No. not triggered. at all. Just a simple observation. I kept it simple so you could understand.

[@josephrothmeyer9173]

Just an FYI for everyone, the chinese soldiers that are portrayed in the video were the Nationalist "Nationalist Revolutionary Army", not the Peoples Liberation Army, I dont know how bedtime stories overlooked such a big mistake.

[@eastridge09]

Your videos are always worth the wait