There is Something in the Water

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What lies beneath the rippling surfaces of our lakes, rivers and oceans? Could prehistoric predators, long thought extinct still roam? Or huge, deep dwelling creatures that are as elusive as they are mysterious? Truly, there is something in the water. The question is what?
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[@nev9266]

"...a Japanese whale research vessel..." yeah sure

[@littletickedoff2640]

😂😂😂 thought the same fucken thing 😂😂😂

[@scraplord6390]

Perfectly said.

[@safe-keeper1042]

[Margareth] "But, but, they're not always very compliant about coming back alive!"

[@patbiss7742]

It's much easier to research them when they're dead... especially on round, white ceramic surfaces... Apparently the best way to research them is in sushi

[@Cenzurat]

im sure they were researching the effects of telling the whales fuck you!

[@ubaldoa.rosario1832]

"The next time you go paddling in a lake, river or sea, take a moment to consider what might be lurking beneath your feet." Thank you very much. Now my beach day this Sunday is screwed.

[@marhawkman303]

The one in the Thames, my first thought was "Basking shark(edit should be Bull shark)". They're known to occasionally enter fresh water. The only defense against them swimming upriver is for the river to have a waterfall or dam. The Thames has neither. They also are responsible for more shark attacks than any other species. mainly due to how close they stay to land. Great Whites are big, but they usually stay in the deep sea. So the answer to "what is in the water?": Carnivorous fish. Most of them aren't man-eaters, most.

[@boblaryson3621]

@@marhawkman303 you are mistaken. Basking sharks are very large but filter feed like some whale species. Bull sharks are the ones that enter fresh water due to a unique adaptation to allow salt regulation outside salt water and are the most aggressive of the shark species

[@marhawkman303]

@@boblaryson3621 oh right, sorry. :/ But yeah Bull sharks will swim anywhere they can find food.

[@marhawkman303]

@Madam Meouff yeah but the historical record shows that won't stop them from eating people anyways. We're not what they LIKE to eat, but they'll eat us anyways.

[@archangel5627]

I think about that every-time I go skinny dipping in the ocean in pitch black water at night.

[@benmallett4070]

Being a submariner myself, the idea of these creatures inhabiting where we operate sure does make me question my career choice 😂

[@kingbmw01]

Man! That's crazy, I can't do what you do.

[@benmallett4070]

ThatVanceGuy That’s how I’d like it, at least it would be quick.

[@benmallett4070]

King BMW meh it’s not too bad really. You tend to forget that you’re underwater as it is, it’s more the boredom’s of routine that’s the challenge.

[@benmallett4070]

Juni Post now that would be pretty badass, I might suggest that to navy command 😂👌

[@benmallett4070]

Juni Post I must admit that anime has not really ever been my cup of tea, but I might just give it a whirl. Thank you for the recommendation 😄

[@BlueLizardKing]

I remember when I was a kid, giant squids were sort-of a myth everyone was looking for. I used to watch documentaries that ended with the scientists disappointed but hopeful. Now I live in a world where they're real. It's so cool to have lived through that happening.

[@connorlancaster7541]

Hello do you believe in Jesus?

[@UnseenHitman-1932]

@@connorlancaster7541Jesus was a mad man and god never existed. If god existed he would've given money to me

[@connorlancaster7541]

@@UnseenHitman-1932 Why should he give you anything? If it wasn’t for him you wouldn’t even exist. How is Jesus a mad man? I can prove Jesus rose from the dead which Proved Everything he says is true. We have 25 thousand ancient manuscripts of Jesus more then any ancient man. So if Jesus was the most written up person in the ancient world and we don’t even have his bones. So how come the most popular the most radical world changing person but we don’t have his bones But we have the bones of Muhammad though. Not to mention we also have 500 eyewitness of the risen Christ and the apostles are a witnesses. Why would they die for something that is a lie?

[@UnseenHitman-1932]

@@connorlancaster7541 These manuscripts of yours are all fiction, if god really exists, why is life so hard and miserable? Wouldn't he make it better? All your proof is a dumb book, hahahahah, a book, it's fiction, one day, someone will find the Lovecraft books, and claim it all happened too, that can be said about every single book.

[@UnseenHitman-1932]

@@connorlancaster7541 Anyways, there's no proof god exists, and no proof he doesn't exist

[@noevilea624]

Yeah I stopped swimming decades ago. If I cant see the bottom then I`ll take a pass...........

[@Bluesit32]

Words of wisdom.

[@noevilea624]

This originates from a personal experience I had as a teen where I was in a river and something came up then grabbed my legs while I was already submerged. Also been under water then discovered a 2.5 metre shark above me and all I had was a snorkel but was already down about 15 or so feet. Got others too.

[@ytsm]

@@noevilea624 what grabbed your legs? Was it hands? Sounds terrifying 😲

[@noevilea624]

Not entirely sure Steven but it came out from a rock and went around my legs then started pulling me further down. Had another experience where a Manta Ray was only about 200 metres off the beach and I could see it`s shadow but not the animal. While they don't eat flesh or large animals like fish or people the size of this a 2.5 metres wide and following me into the shore was rather terrifying till I was able to stand up and see exactly what it was. That same day I thought there was a sea cucumber floating but that turned out to be a sea snake. I`ve had my feet dangling in the water from a rock then looked down to see a shark at my toes just about to bite. In that same area I had a sting ray actually follow me along the waters edge then come out at me like it was after something to eat. Never in my life did I think a ray would try to come onto land to gain a feed. I was bloody stunned

[@keefjunior4061]

Noevilea yikes! Are there octopuses in the area? That’s about the only thing I know of that would or could make grabbing motions.

[@MrFutago87]

17:15 "So what are we to make of these sea, river and lake monsters?" Some bomb ass sushi.

[@BedtimeStoriesChannel]

Haha!

[@StarryStarryNocturne]

Considering how rare it is to encounter one, if they actually exist, let alone actually capturing one, I'd say each would cost upwards of $500,000 per sushi roll. 😲

[@arnantphongsatha7906]

StarryStarryNocturne who said anything about the heresy that is the sushi roll? Megalodon flesh deserve to be on proper sushi only.

[@anonymousbosch9035]

@@arnantphongsatha7906 skip the rice, straight up sashimi, yo!

[@anonymousbosch9035]

Better invite some friends, if you want it eaten while it's still fresh...

[@belisauriusfish9406]

The issue with the whole megalodon thing is that we know exactly how they went extinct. It takes large meals or energy efficient meals to keep large carnivores fed. It’s why great whites will ignore small fish and focus on larger prey, such as seals. There was a large set of extinctions in marine ecosystems following a changing climate, wiping out a lot of the megalodon’s food, and what prey survived was often migratory, meaning that it was only within reach certain times of the year. Furthermore, they faced competition from ancestors of modern marine predators like the orca and aforementioned great white. Megalodon starved to death. Furthermore, they were fairly shallow water animals. So far as we can tell, they preferred warm coastal waters. Suggestions that they found refuge in the deepest parts of the ocean, where not only is it immensely cold, but there is not enough food to sustain it, are nonsensical. Something killed that shark, but I’d bet any money I have made and ever will make that a megalodon was not the culprit. A realize now that this is a large block of text, and apologize. I’m just really enthusiastic about fish and like to talk about them maybe a bit too much.

[@62redhead]

the only evidence, or lack there of, that can counter this is that we don't have fossil records of the deepest parts of our oceans so anything could've been down there and we wouldn't know. although i do agree with you - it's a nonsensical notion.

[@ATeamFan007]

The fact remains that we still have little knowledge about giant and colossal squid but we know they exist from finding some smaller dead ones as well as marks on whales from their attacks, it is quite possible that one or a couple Megalodons exist in the deepest depths of the ocean feeding on these large creatures as well as possible other large animals like whales or things we don't know even exist at those depths. Plenty of space to remain undiscovered in an area that covers roughly 70% of our planet with only about 5% of it explored.........

[@ShadorianPrince]

Ocean gigantism is a thing in the depths. And as long as the body is not releasing that food into energy rapidly, large predators can go a long time without a meal. Take the colossal squid. It hunts to be sure, but they seem to be everywhere, suggesting they spread out and move efficiently with little energy used up, or they don’t hardly move at all and prefer to ambush their prey.

[@belisauriusfish9406]

@@ShadorianPrince deep sea ocean gigantism on the scale you’re suggesting occurs among only three species, two of which are cephalopods, and the other being a filter feeder which eats microorganisms exclusively. Every other large aquatic species is at least partially epipelagic, and I’m sorry, but there is a world of difference between the metabolism of a mollusk and that of chondricthyes. The remaining animal mentioned, the megamouth shark, is still smaller than the largest predatory shark alive, and Is only able to survive deep down because it uses bioluminescence to lure plankton towards its mouth. Mackerel sharks like megalodon are ram ventilators (as is the megamouth). They need to remain active, constantly moving, or they suffocate. Beyond that, if they stop moving for too long, there is a risk of a fatal buildup of lactic acid. When I worked with sharks in aquarium settings, that was always a concern when giving them medical treatment. So a megalodon would have to be constantly moving, and would require a constant supply of food to fuel that movement. There really isn’t an ecological basis that would provide a healthy population of 40 ft long predators with enough food down there.

[@trakeface1979]

Sperm whales, beluga whales, great white sharks, Krakens.

[@finderoftheunknown4295]

The ocean is both beautiful and down right terrifying. It’s obvious there’s stuff down there we haven’t discovered yet

[@chet-hy2js]

That's what she said

[@MegaWillinator]

>Is sailor >Lives alone >Right before bed time Jfc why do I do this to myself

[@kos2919]

I heard Ningen is pretty nice tho. So you don't need to worry about that one 😉

[@AustinTexas6thStreet]

Because you may one day have to fist fight a Kraken!!!

[@ronnieronson4390]

Sperm

[@lighthoused.]

Piratebuttseckz Ye best be careful next time ye go venturin’ out there, Captain Buttseckz.

[@TheMattc999]

Piratebuttseckz 🤔

[@lornaginetteharrison414]

If you live in Flint, Michigan USA, then unfortunately, YES!!! - "There IS [DEFINITELY!] Something In The Water"!

[@badgerbro1172]

That's just willy wonka

[@duncanwatson2516]

heavy metal gang where we at.

[@grimlund]

Whats that? Do you got a lake monster there?

[@eliedgecomb4903]

Unrelated. I think I love your dog.

[@Trev359]

@@grimlund I think you need a lesson in grammar

[@davidpearsall7318]

Around the year 1985 my younger brother. William Pearsall operated a large dredger. Dredging silt from the muddy waters of the Trinity river just outside Grand Prairie Texas (a suburb of Dallas). On this particular day he'd dipped the huge dredger bucket deep into the silt of the river when it became stuck. Thinking he had snagged a large stone, he increased power the the massive dredger engine. It bulked to the point of dying. Each time he increased power. Only to have the same result. Finally he increased power to the maximum the huge engine could provide, and the bucket began to rise ever so slowly. It took at least five minutes of engine strain to the maximum to bring it to the surface. But as it rose above it an entire crew of men gasp! Because there, draped over the large dredger bucket was what can only be described as the body of a large snake! It's width was described as being as tall as a man. The dredger raised it as high in the air as it was able. Around thirty five to forty feet. Neither the head nor the tail of the beast ever came out of the water. After a minute or two, the beast rolled it's body sideways. Rolling off the bucket and disappearing back into the muddy waters of the trinity river. Every last man of the crew, including my brother Will. Fled that work site, and refused to ever return to it. This is a true story as it was related to me by my considerably shaky brother. So you see...there really is....something in the water!

[@jksjksjsjks]

Sounds like a cable

[@Jasona1976]

Cool story bro

[@NodDisciple1]

Was it a water moccasin?

[@twns1076]

On today’s episode of things that never happened

[@PoochieCollins]

@David : uh huh, you're totally not making that up. Link to an article on the story? You won't have one b/c it never happened.

[@lazarus870]

Now hear me out... I do have thalassophobia. I do believe there are massive sea creatures we've never seen. I've been on a ship during storms and I've seen how the waves lash at the ship. Imagining I was a sailor back in the time of wooden ships, I could see how much worse those waves would throw around the ship. You could compare the the lashing of the waves to swipes from a monster. In the heat of the moment, it'd be easy to mistake a wave washing somebody off the deck for a tentacle swiping somebody off. Maybe the Kraken isn't a literal monster, but a metaphor for the ferocity of the ocean in a storm. Or at the very least a trick of the eyes. This theory doesn't make the ocean any less terrifying though.

[@Speculativedude]

That is a pretty sound theory. Makes good sense.

[@matty6848]

Good theory, but remember we’ve covered more surface of the moon than we have our own seabed..

[@onemoreday1550]

The Kracken has been seen. Just like giant snakes big enough to eat an entire cow. Seen by soldiers.

[@newfic2290]

++++++++++

[@cameronpolite2199]

@@matty6848 yes but just cause something isn't explored means you'll find something down there. Ofc there's something but it's still going off the fallacy of thinking. Since there is no evidence against, then it's true.

[@smii6180]

This is one of the best channels on KZbin. Fantastic narration, talented artwork, extremely well written, researched, and presented. I hope you continue to make us happy!

[@Cipher71]

I wouldn't say it's 'well-researched', but it's certainly entertaining.

[@hugovasquez8222]

Sorry but his "research" is 90% Fiction....

[@marhawkman303]

@Slavic Yeah some of his videos are GREAT. This is not one of them. That bit about the hark tag would have been nice if it was the whole video, but throwing in a bunch of "this also happened" bits that feel unresearched just ruins it.

[@TheLithp]

​@@marhawkman303The paranormal trope of "here are some nitpicks about sensible explanations that may or may not be true, so I'm heavily implying it must be a monster/ghost/alien/etc."

[@marhawkman303]

@@TheLithp Some people just "want to believe".

[@Skippy19812]

I'm more inclined to give credence to sea based cryptids than to their land based counterparts, since we know effectively bugger all about what's down there. A lot of these sightings could simply be mis-identification, or maybe even a mutant strain of an already discovered species. It's not hard to believe that people happened to spot a particularly large saltwater crocodile and mistook it for some kind of sea monster. The great white case is quite compelling. My first guess would have been Orca. Maybe it is an undiscovered species, but I doubt it would be a Megalodon. Those things are so massive there would be absolutely nowhere for them to hide, and besides, current theory suggests they would need to return to shallower waters to birth. If that was the case we'd be seeing them all the time.

[@BedtimeStoriesChannel]

Very true regarding Megalodon. Although an Orca attack has already been ruled out of the Great White case due to the depth. My gut feeling is it was a bigger great white, but it's not in keeping with their behaviours.

[@dorelbaz8939]

It was a giant squid, probably twice or thrice the size of the shark. Squids are known to be snatchers, they snatch their prey and drag it deep below to kill the prey from sheer pressure, also that would explain the high temperture.

[@kitsulu8576]

I love sharks, especially the Great White! How amazing would it be if there were a small handful of Megaladons out there 😊. I know there isn't... Probably better that way lol.

[@Bluesit32]

@@BedtimeStoriesChannel Well, the issue with the idea of it being simply a larger great white is that it would still be descending faster than a shark could. While it is nearly certain that the tag was swallowed, we don't know if it was during its descent. What if it got caught in a whirlpool or some similar event? This could dislodge the tag while pulling it down at a high speed. Once the waters calmed, it could have been swallowed by any curious creature of sufficient size. There are plenty of sea creatures that would react to an unusual object by swallowing it. Plenty of possibilities.

[@texmex8220]

Of all the theories Ive heard that one sounds the most plausble, although I have to admit I know next to nothing regarding marine animal habits and feeding patterns.

[@nielsenth1801]

2:21 Just to clear things up for those who don’t understand why we haven’t explored 95%: 1. The 5% is the sea mapped out meaning that even if YOU explore a new place in the sea, it remains unexplored untill you draw a map of the area. 2. Sand doesn’t stay in one place meaning that the depth changes (How important that is to know, if you’re mapping a new area, I don’t know) To sum up: Don’t take the word “explore” literally in this context.

[@Veladus]

"We HaVe BeTtEr MaPs Of MaRs ThAn ThE oCeAn FlOoR" Crazy shit. It's almost like it's harder to see through miles of water than it is to see through LITERALLY NOTHING AT ALL

[@chrisnorman9980]

To quote an old friend, “I’m not getting into an ocean until they tile and filter it”. :)

[@chendaforest]

😂

[@davida5379]

LMAO hilarious

[@harrietharlow9929]

LOL

[@jamesfracasse8178]

Ha 😀😃

[@tinkersans]

same.

[@eringaughn8082]

Even without sea monsters, I'm not keen on swimming in lakes and such. You can never tell where the flesh eating bacteria is and that is a horrific enough death.

[@psychshift]

There's fresh water sharks aswell. I E bullsharks

[@thegent6134]

I'm not sure how I stumbled across this channel, but I'm definitely glad I did. Good stuff.

[@ArleneF]

The Gent Same here! 🙂

[@safe-keeper1042]

This is why Subnautica is such a great game. We feel a kind of foreboding feeling about the oceans which we know so little about.

[@GhostTrueCapitalist]

"Let's go fishing!" they said... "It'll be fun!" they said...

[@phantomwalker8251]

whats for dinner they said,, YOU.

[@jackalenterprisesofohio]

@@phantomwalker8251 kool....I want to die from vore Buttt. Noooooooo! Die on my own terms they said.

[@CedarHunt]

I remember hearing the theory that giant squids, being predatory toward certain types of whales, would be sensitive to the sounds whales make when they are injured or sick. The theory is that a wooden sailing ship in rough seas would make a similar noise and attract an attack or at least a probe by a giant squid. A sailor would see a massive shape in the water or a tentacle would hit the hull and report seeing or being attacked by a kraken or whatever.

[@PACstove]

A bunch of drunk singing sailors through the hull and water might sound like a dying whale too.

[@janglenutter3820]

The bloop doesn't actually sound like most people think it does. What most people know as the bloop, is the original sound sped up like 23 times. The actual sound is like 3 minutes long.

[@Bluesit32]

So it's more like "the blooooooooooooooooop"?

[@sirpepeofhousekek6741]

TheBlues32 The blooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooop.

[@mjames7674]

I think they found out that it was a chunk of glacier or something hitting the bottom of the seafloor

[@davemeddlehed564]

@@mjames7674 Close. It was sea ice scraping the continental shelf.

[@aaezero8606]

@@davemeddlehed564 still doesn't explain how the sound can be picked up 3000 miles away

[@bettyvanderhooven-schmaasc4235]

I just traveled Missouri's state cave parks. The thought of creatures inhabiting those waterways... I felt creeped out the entire time I was there.

[@killingofthemind6309]

Hope your trip was eventful. As I am one who has never been? What state park would you recommend?

[@JohnYoung-ls6dd]

I fished on trawlers in cape Breton Nova Scotia, I saw lots of whales,small dolphins, huge basking sharks, seals but no so called sea creatures, but a man my father grew up with was only about a mile off shore one day fishing mackerel for bait for his lobster fishing , he told everyone he saw a strang creature pop up only about 15 feet from his boat his boat was forty feet , he said it was about 50 feet long wth hair on it , large pectoral fins and a head that looked exactly like an alligator, when we all heard about it , I asked my father about it who fished in the 60s and 70s what he thought Wallace saw , he said I don’t know but he new Wallace all his life and he would never make up a story like that , he definitely believed him , Wallace was a huge man but very laid back and quiet not one to make up stories. Wallace Cartwright sea monster sighting it was on google but I didn’t check for a long time to see if it’s still there .

[@micheljavert5923]

Shout out to the engineer who made a GPS tag for an apex predator, but also ensured it could survive being eaten and pooped out 🤣

[@morgan6321]

or boo to the engineer who f-ed it up (battery malfunction, explaining both heat readings and "stomach" acid???) causing all this hubbub

[@roseCatcher_]

@@morgan6321 yes battery malfunction totally explains 'stomach acid' as we learned from Basic Electricity 101

[@morgan6321]

@@roseCatcher_ if you knew how batteries worked then you would know that yes, they leak acid.

[@ericmahoney9357]

Australian made it even transmitted the depth while it was warm so wake up to your dumb assumption Morgan and co 😒

[@Bigslam1993]

There is something in the water... And it turns the fricking frogs gay!

[@RichterTheRat]

I'd love to hear Alex Jones read creepypasta.

[@awacslongcaster7394]

DO YOU UNDERSTAND THAT!!

[@baddragonite]

I'm gonna be honest with you. I... I'm kinda retarded

[@safe-keeper1042]

@@RichterTheRat He'd mistake it for actual reports and make a raving podcast episode about Slenderman.

[@stephenjoseph9752]

Lobsters are psychic

[@britisharmedforcesmilsim3015]

This show expands my vocabulary. It really well-narrated and animated and is endlessly fascinating and creepy.

[@templar19]

Finally, a creepy ocean video that's actually about the creepy ocean.

[@horsepower523]

If a living Megalodon would really be discovered then I don't think anyone would dare to set their foot near an ocean ever again.

[@sirpepeofhousekek6741]

Quantum singularity That 11,000 year old Megalodon tooth though....

[@dirtyjew1974]

Quantum singularity nah, I don't think it would bother many ppl, we've been going to the ocean thus far without being attacked by one, besides, I don't think a 65ft shark could fit in 5 or 6ft of water at the beach anyway.

[@residentidiot9694]

dirtyjew1974 maybe it has been working out on the treadmill and now has a streamlined body and can fit anywhere? LOL!

[@residentidiot9694]

Quantum singularity you will be amazed at the stupidity of those two legged nutters called humans!

[@dirtyjew1974]

Resident Idiot or the eliptical! Lol

[@madnessbydesign1415]

This is why I take showers instead of baths: I don't want to get all relaxed in the tub, and have a damned Megalodon or Kraken attack me. I don't need that... :)

[@madnessbydesign1415]

Moreno12, Sorry to disappoint, but I'm all man - and I'm not looking wrestle another dude's Megalodon...

[@Bluesit32]

"Ghost Shark". Just saying.

[@madnessbydesign1415]

TheBlues32, Thanks, now I need therapy...

[@stanislavkostarnov2157]

a friend of mine was attacked by a bat in a shower once....

[@MsHhhunter]

Madness by design I hate it when that happens.

[@rottytherottski522]

I actually worked with one of the people to get to the bottom of the Marianas trench when I was studying oceanography. Deb is a real badass, we worked together mapping undersea volcanoes and I studied chemosynthetic ecosystems around geothermal vents.

[@Steamcrow]

That sounds amazing

[@rottytherottski522]

@@Steamcrow its really fantastic, the ocean is such a wonderful place and there's so much to learn. As much as it seems scary its also so beautiful and can be a window to the very origins of our planet. The chemosynthetic ecosystems I studied are actually similar to the very first forms of life on earth. Before photosynthesis which has become the basis for all conversion of energy to food for nearly every ecosystem on the planet it was solely chemosynthetic bacteria and organisms that sustained any life on our watery ball of heat and chemicals.

[@karencoelho1663]

Wow

[@MarvinHartmann452]

The idea of creature feeding on sulfur and other minerals is amazing and otherworldly to me.

[@rottytherottski522]

@@MarvinHartmann452 It definitely makes life on other planets feel a lot less impossible thinking about how life can exist so differently from how we see it. Everything on our planet started from that and its almost impossible to imagine how different things could be in other environments since everything we know gets energy directly or indirectly from the sun. Its the closest forms of life we have as a frame of reference for something truly alien, food literally being created from toxic gasses.

[@tacticoolnukes849]

17:08 "nothing this big has ever been seen [in the thames] before." actually, sea creatures as large as blue whales have been seen in the thames albeit rarely. there was a recorded incident of a small pod of whales beaching themselves on the shores of the thames a few hundred years ago when a king died. in addition to this, though at the time of filming this hadn't happened yet, a whale was actually spotted in the thames during 2018 thus making it more likely that the "large black mass" was likely actually a blue whale or something for the sorts.

[@maldetete431]

I just found that another had been found in May 2021. They suspect it was a baby Minke whale. That still amazes me that a whale can get into the Thames.

[@NodDisciple1]

"We're gonna need a bigger boat."

[@Bluesit32]

Slow ahead? I can go slow ahead. Why don't you come down here and chum some of this shit?

[@MLaak86]

Or, you know, torpedos.

[@phantomwalker8251]

ship,ship,my dear boy,boats just aint big enough..i just wander when they went to the bottom of the mariana trench,what footage got cut.?.

[@luckystars1632]

Porkers? I’m talking about Sharrrkin.

[@Codoloco1]

Now instead of JAWs I think about when a piece of seaweed rubs up against me.. I'll be thinking of this now lol... Great video!!

[@arthas640]

Is it weird that I've actually nearly been bit by a shark and killed a different shark but I'm actually more freaked out by slimy seaweed brushing my leg?

[@Addyx_00]

yea. if i cant see wats under the water a feel a piece of seaweed rub up a against i start flipping out

[@AustinTexas6thStreet]

I hate when seaweed in the ocean or other weeds in lakes rub against me.....Freaks me the hell out!!

[@hardmcshaft5665]

Only thing worse is when u kick something solid with ur foot when ur in murky deep water. Nothing more terrifying then that

[@leftphilange69]

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[@scherrypierce]

I read a article about this! One thing about the ocean, it is so massive we have barely explored it.

[@imsquiddly6836]

“Consider what may be lurking beneath your feet” My anxiety: BRILLIANT IDEA! I’ll start 19 years ago.

[@ylvarasmussen625]

Wonderful video! Aside from the kraken, there are two other Nordic sea monsters: hafgufa and lyngbakr. Norway also has its own version of Nessie, called Selma, who lives in Seljord lake.

[@BedtimeStoriesChannel]

Thank you!! We would have loved to include those, but due to time constraints we couldn't unfortunately. Maybe we could do an episode on Nordic cryptids and legends at some point in the future, it's an amazing part of the world!

[@lainiwakura4678]

And Jormungand

[@judithlough6]

@xc5647321 xc5647321 that was actually interesting, thank you

[@judithlough6]

@xc5647321 xc5647321 it was! I'm surprised I hadn't heard about it on a documentary or anything

[@javierruiz8472]

👍

[@sirpepeofhousekek6741]

"There is something in the water" is one of the scariest phrases I can think of. Well, that and "you *are* the father."

[@malachimatcho7583]

Kyle Lambert Hahahahahahaha!!! 😁😆🤣

[@chopperman8042]

Lol

[@xaraxen]

How about "There is someone in the house"

[@jackalenterprisesofohio]

Suddenly _pineapples_

[@jamieburnette2438]

Many large species can go undetected, even previously thought of extinct ones. The pygmy whale , thought to have died out in the time of the Megalodon, and was a favorite prey of the Megalodon, was recently discovered alive and well. So if the Megalodon's prey is still alive , why not the Megalodon.

[@lukec410]

So many reasons, sadly. It was a gigantic shark which inhabited coastal warm waters. At the very least, we’d have found some of its prey by now, in the form of shredded whales

[@quote6013]

"why would such a large predator ever go extinct?" same reason we see no large birds today, it takes less food, even though larger animals are more efficient, they require more food, same goes for sharks

[@Runch78]

Omg thank you. I was looking for a while for someone to answer the question which has been answered countless times.

[@quote6013]

@@Runch78 lol

[@wynnie_margeaux]

The only thing I could think of when I saw the title was: "THE'RE TURNING THE FREAKING FROGS GAY."

[@sgtwolf7391]

I can't tell if I want to bon... I mean if you are a guy or a girl.

[@sgtwolf7391]

@@wynnie_margeaux Yes I'm talking about your profile picture. But I was joking so don't worry about it.

[@arthas640]

I always think of the study about a princess kissing that frog prince. Lime, how bad of z kisser was she that the frog decided "you know what, maybe I like dudes?"

[@yakethejake]

Wont you fight for your life!

[@ryanjapan3113]

백장미 Alex jones reference

[@WWZenaDo]

Megalodon? Absolutely not. The data fits an attack by a SPERM whale, an apex predator in its own right and known to dive to at least 4,000 foot depths, with a warm mammalian body that would have maintained the elevated temperature noted by the GPS tag. Remember the whaling ship Essex was sunk by an aggressive bull male Sperm whale. If the female shark had threatened a sperm whale calf or it appeared that the shark threatened a sperm whale, a sperm whale would not hesitate to attack with great ferocity. And as to the diving speed of the sperm whale, old-time whalers who harpooned such whales often saw their coils of rope pulled out at such speed that the remaining rope had to have buckets of sea water poured over the rope to keep it from smoking & possibly bursting into flame.

[@cappadocius9379]

I would have to agree with looking at this info I found "The body temperature of a whale is around 38 degrees Celsius, or 100 degrees Fahrenheit." Seems more then plausible that temp could match it. Though that was just from a google search and as we all know you can trust everything on the internet.

[@Skrixm]

But you have not discovered the entire ocean so its best not to say they dont exist anymore.

[@WWZenaDo]

@@Skrixm - "Discovered"? An apex predator like a Megalodon would be attacking and consuming whales. Some whales would show the scars of such combat. There are NO marks from a Megalodon on ANY whale caught in modern times. On the other hand, many sperm whales show CLEAR marks of having been attacked by giant squid. Not to mention the many squid beaks found in the stomachs of sperm whales: scienceblogs.com/notrocketscience/2009/03/17/what-the-stomach-contents-of-sperm-whales-tell-us-about-gian

[@liam7930]

@@Skrixm megalodon went extinct 1000s of years ago, deal with it!

[@MrHaoshoku]

@@Skrixm no we haven't but we also haven't any evidence of a live megaladon

[@alison4316]

I love your channel so much. The illustrations are perfect. I love that you're unlike any other channel I've come across. Keep up the great work!

[@hollieheron-stamp5660]

There's been several whales swim up the Thames. A bottlenose whale in 2006, a humpback in 2009 and a beluga in 2018. Just from a cursory google search. I remember it being all over the news. The footage showing the what was millennium dome, could have been the beluga, they have strangely round heads.

[@Username_not_found__try_again]

Just watched the "something in the woods" video and now this....I won't leave my house anymore

[@blacknwhitehound]

Jared Moore it’s looking in the window

[@Username_not_found__try_again]

Jeff Harte bro you’re actually lucky it’s day time or else I’d beat you up for mentioning that to me

[@manassurya2019]

Next video: There is something in your house

[@talentleesdorito9771]

Good that i dont stay near forest

[@safe-keeper1042]

Next episode: There's something in the House (damnit, Surya beat me to it)

[@solidshadow01]

Hi. I'm a lurker who rarely posts anything. Just had to mention that giant squid may not be as docile as believed. Arthur C. Clarke Mysterious World S01 E02 Monsters of the Deep (Which can be watched online), tells the story and shows the circular scars of a Lt. R.E. Grimani Cox who when his troop ship sank in the North Atlantic during WW2 tells the horrific story of tentacles from a large underwater mass, grabbing sailors off of life rafts.

[@Crysomandiaz]

solidshadow01 Giant squid has been filmed in their natural environment. They are active hunters.

[@TheKyrix82]

I was under the impression they were like the humboldt squid, ferocious hunters that will go after anything they think they can eat...which is more or less anything smaller than them. Which is more or less anything.

[@morrisondavidson8814]

Yeah I have read about another case of this happening. It was either during the 1800s or early 20th century where these two guys were on a wooden boat at night, and one of them got snatched up by a large tentacle, never to be seen again. Can't fathom how scared shitless the survivor was.

[@pant104]

@@morrisondavidson8814 I'd really love to believe that story but isn't it more likely that the survivor killed the other guy and made it up?

[@farmerboy916]

solidshadow01 ... Arthur C Clarke was a fiction author about such things.

[@mystictomato9466]

You should have reviewed the St. Augustine Monster. It is by far the best evidence we have for the kraken myth. It is one of the few sea monster sightings which has photographs, official report written and a detailed analysis by an academic.

[@nicholaslienandjaja1815]

Speaking of the Loch Ness Monster, there is a Titan mentioned in Godzilla: King of the Monsters called Leviathan (Titanus Leviathan) that is heavily implied to be Nessie (the outpost it's contained in is located in Loch Ness). Also, the Kraken appears in the novelization of the movie as one of the Titans awakened by King Ghidorah, and there is a deceased Titan called Margygr discovered in the Arctic in the novel that somewhat resembles the Ningen (it was implied that Margygr was killed by Godzilla).

[@Jorge-dg7jv]

13:05 "japanese whale research program" you mean japanese whale recipes program

[@lekhaclam87]

They researched the best whale dishes.

[@Sharkboyproductions11]

When i saw this i instantly thought of pearl from spongebob

[@thriddoctor]

The largest saltwater crocodile ever recorded was 28 feet 4 inches.

[@thriddoctor]

@casual complaints i'm not saying that's what it was. I think these creatures are the descendants of the mososaurs or pliosaurs.

[@Veladus]

Lolong was the largest saltie ever recorded and he was 20 feet, 3 inches.

[@totallynotalpharius2283]

Yeah ..nah ..I'm good

[@spicyreptile9080]

Time to move on to the metric system guys

[@thecrepeofdeath]

@@Veladus poor Lolong. the only potentially larger croc I can think of is Gustave, and he's neither a salty or measured.

[@similaritiesendhere]

From what I understand there's at least two types of giant squid: The traditional one and the Humboldt type. There's footage from a camera attached to a normal Humboldt showing it coming in contact with a much larger specimen. The scary thing about Humboldts (besides them attacking humans) is that their tentacles are shorter compared to their bodies. If you see a 10ft long Humboldt tentacle, the body is about 10ft long. 10ft is just an example. Not the upper limit. The scientists in the video had no reference to accurately measure it's actual tentacle span. Imagine a 15 - 20ft long tentacle.

[@sputnik5366]

Somebody I know is a truck driver in the Pacific Northwest, and travels the pacific highway for decades, as he is now in his 70’s. He told me he was driving along the Oregon coast one day. Along the edge of the guard rails are some cliffs with massive drop offs. One of these cliffs had a small uninhabited cove that you couldn’t get to unless you scaled the slippery dangerous wet rock. One day, as he was driving by, he looked down at the cove, and saw a creature that looked to be about 15 feet long with a very long neck, and four flippers. It was moving very fast back towards the water kind of like a seal would. He said it most definitely was not a seal, and he’s never seen anything like it ever again.

[@rauld.m.3296]

The truth is out there

[@sputnik5366]

@@rauld.m.3296 what do you think it was, it sounds crazy to think it was a pliesiosaur.

[@littleloud8283]

This is one of the best paranormal/creepy channels I've ever watched. You guys should have a million times the subscribers you have now. The quality of your work is so professional.

[@tommulliner4397]

After watching Blue Planet II, I think anything is possible! Great video!

[@BedtimeStoriesChannel]

Awesome documentary series!

[@WoodsPrecisionArms]

The narrator has one of those spot on English accents that could get seemingly get REALLY DARK at anytime. One of these days I will be all into one of his stories a really creepy ass story and then on the middle of the story he says “and as you’re listening to this - you hear a knock at your door. (Knock at door) when you ask who it is - the voice seems very familiar.”

[@RedShazam]

Why is it that when mythical creatures are photographed, it’s always with crappy quality

[@punctuationman334]

Because they don’t exist.

[@PokeFan-yx7cs]

ILuv Cram the actual creatures most likely don’t. I would write most of these off as oddities in an already recorded species.

[@Titan52berg]

Because the photographer(s ) plan it that way...

[@CaptainDijango]

Stealth 100. Seen so rarely that thought extinct

[@pjlav6304]

Hmmm I live in New Zealand and I've never heard of a prehistoric sea monster being spotted off our shores...? 🙄

[@matty6848]

So because you live New Zealand you advanced information on the aquatic bio diversity around the seas of N.Z? I live in the U.K. But I have no idea of every species that exist the seas around Britain..

[@pjlav6304]

@@matty6848 Oh yes we do sir... its one of the smallest western countries in the world. We hear and see everything that is news worthy concerning our country. Plus a simple Google search will deflate your comment (If the random content creator of this video somehow found information on the monster im sure us kiwis would've heard about it too)

[@pjlav6304]

@@matty6848 and actually yes we have access to all documented species in and around nz

[@NunyaBesnas]

A current theory as to why colossal squid used to been seen more commonly is that now we have engine and rotor noise. The idea is that the vibrations and sound trigger the squids to dive deeper making sightings much less frequent.

[@audreymuzingo933]

Great compilation, but why show sightings clips so tiny with the 'Bedtime Stories' book framing taking up most the screen, especially when the creatures are filmed so far away they are tiny within that screen?

[@mickoseay]

Your literally the best KZbinr ever 😄😍😍 Your videos never fail to send a shiver up my spine. Keep up the amazing work!

[@rekt_assassin690]

Wullen Gayming/YT jj

[@dontmindme333]

Don Burgundy lol

[@mortaldilemmas5636]

This is one of the best story channels on KZbin. Thanks for the quality content!

[@ethant7843]

It's 12.11pm, and i need to be up for work soon, but goddam, I can't stop listening to these, Keep up the amazing work!

[@pistabacsi462]

This by far one of the most captivating bed time stories videos. Especially the shark story in the beginning, it’s just fascinating

[@Ariantez]

i just subbed and youtube recommended watchmojo and i've never been so insulted in my life. @youtube don't pretend watchmojo has the same production quality as this channel.

[@sundaymourning5329]

Ariantez That is quite insulting indeed! Lol!

[@V0L74GE_H4CK]

a brilliant video as always, and I really like the art style, do you draw these or does someone else draw them?

[@BedtimeStoriesChannel]

They are drawn especially for each episode. We're a four man team; two writers, one researcher and one artist :-)

[@wagnerp1213]

Bedtime Stories then you guys are bad ass! What a team.

[@AmsterdamHeavy]

bullshit, they are altered images you take from elsewhere; apply a "paint" or "drawing" filter. Ive seen this in several videos Ive watched after looking at original sources, which you generally plagiarize directly. Fucking hack.

[@queenmolmolly7962]

AmsterdamHeavy interesting, do you have any proof?

[@queenmolmolly7962]

AmsterdamHeavy links would be great

[@CantStayAway]

I started t get scared of swimming in open water a few years ago, which was really random and weird because i'd always loved swimming at the lake, and had also loved movies like "Lake Placid" and "Jaws" for years. But one summer, the darkness of the lake water just really started to spook me, and I didn't want to go in, and even if I did, I would NOT swim under water...still won't.

[@DOCTORFREEDOM]

Im surprised you didnt mention the Coelacanth. Coelacanths were thought to have become extinct in the Late Cretaceous, around 66 million years ago, but were rediscovered in 1938 off the coast of South Africa.

[@1995HunterKiller]

5:52 "never been seen at the surface" except for multiple videos of one grabbing onto a boat... the japanese even tried to catch one but it died when they lifted it out of the water

[@joshuahadams]

Way late, but there’s loads of stories - and corpses - coming from sailing finding dead or dying giant squid on the surface too.

[@ChappyGrimdark]

"Stop to consider what might be lurking under your feet" I do, and it's why I stay out of the water.

[@davida5379]

LMAO that last closing line had me laughing "Whats lurking beneath my feet as i swim!!"

[@Seven.And.The.RaggedTiger]

I love this channel.. I listen at night before falling asleep to the whole Playlist of them Thanks for these stories

[@charlesgoldberg8825]

The photo of the decomposing creature pulled out of the ocean is actually the corpse of a basking shark rotted away beyond recognition.

[@charlesgoldberg8825]

Nessie has basically been confirmed to be giant European Eels living in the loch.

[@charlesgoldberg8825]

This was after a DNA analysis of the water in the lake itself.

[@jackalenterprisesofohio]

I had a theory that the lochness was a Viking ship...I mean look at them....they literaly look like the lockness monster..

[@Raccon_Detective.]

Tray the explainer has a theory that Nessie is a giant leech, Scarier then a giant ell and surviving Plesiosaur.

[@maldetete431]

There's a book called The Loch that, while fictitious in nature, operates on the assumption that Nessie is a giant eel. It's a great read

[@hugorune766]

"The Kraken Wakes" was a novel by John Wyndham, I read it in my youth, I was born 1957 and the novel was written in 1953... keep up the good work, I'm loving your channel, subbed.

[@Bluesit32]

Ever since I went jet skiing as a teenager, I have a CRIPPLING fear of the deep. It was just a lake, but the water was murky and brown. I was riding...not driving, mind you...with my sister and I looked down. It was like flipping a switch. I was never fond of the ocean, but lakes, ponds, even rivers never bothered me until that moment. I couldn't see beneath me. Not a thing. My body went ridged and it was a good thing I wasn't the one driving. I wouldn't have been able to steer back to the dock at a reasonable speed. The fear has remained ever since.

[@jenniferbrewer5370]

Is it possible the tag was torn off the shark and swallowed, but the shark escaped? The physical evidence would also support that scenario.

[@lekhaclam87]

It's funny how not many people thought of that scenario.

[@farmerboy916]

Jennifer Brewer Swallowed by what, that would only have gotten the tag? At that point it's really irrelevant tbh, because something (almost certainly a sperm whale or maybe giant squid) did swallow it

[@jenniferbrewer5370]

@@farmerboy916 A larger shark perhaps, or an orca?

[@BigAutisticDaddy]

the Loch ness monster had gone through a series of descriptions, started out as a giant slug, then a camel, then when movies like king Kong and journey to the center of the earth people start describing it as a plesiosaur, the amateur eyewitness account tends to misjudge size, and like in the bones on mars video humans tend to recognize shapes portraying something it's not, a famous example of this would be describing what the shapes of clouds look like.

[@KaiM2583]

“Next time you go paddling or swimming in a lake or river...” Are you kidding? I’m never doing that again, just in case, all these strange ghost hauntings and potentially unknown cryptids in our waters, you think I’m just jumping in?!? HELL no!!!

[@jamesconner1639]

I use to work off shore on an oil rig off the coast of Louisiana. One bright sunny day I was on the deck looking over the side when I saw this Massive dark shadow just under the surface of the water. This thing was bigger than my Ford Bronco I had at the time. It made my hair stand up on the back of my neck lol My buddy who's a professional fisherman said it was most likely a tuna. Who the hell knows what's down in those ocean waters I don't want to find out.

[@Bouldergaming123]

That poor ship is just getting bullied.

[@thenumbah1birdman]

Not sure why you used several disproved sea monster incidents such as the shark tag (perp was a sperm whale) or the meg teeh (incorrect dating method) when you could've used the incident where a US navy ship had to do repairs after an unknown species of giant squid attacked it's submerged radar dome.

[@WhistleAndSnap]

THE NOTORIOUS K.E.K oooh, tell us about that one! Sounds juicy.

[@thenumbah1birdman]

@@WhistleAndSnap A US navy ship was doing a routine inspection of its hardware when massive suckermarks were noticed on the bell of the radar device. It appears that a massive squid had struck the radar dome, fearing it was a sperm whale.

[@ulfenburg7539]

my friend i have heard alot about the shark tag but i never got the REAL explanation to it. care to shine some light?

[@thenumbah1birdman]

@@ulfenburg7539 Basically, a 9 foot Great White Shark was tagged and was tracked for scientific research. Suddenly, the tag dove extremely deep in the ocean while the shark's body temperature rose drastically, implying that something had eaten the specimen. The tag was eventually recovered after whatever it was defecated it out. There were many theories about what ate the shark but the basic profile of what happened matches a sperm whale to almost a T: It attacked and ate the shark, accounting for the temperature rise, dove to hunt squid, resurfaced to breathe several times, and then defecated the tag out.

[@Gardylmon51]

This illustrates why it is so important to only venture out into unknown waters while safely floating inside...an inner tube. In the night. In the dark. Alone.

[@hammer1349]

I do believe that there are ancient aquatic predators still lurking in the depths of our oceans, undisturbed and far removed from the consequences of human influences

[@boudicca6280]

Nothing like seeing a notification from bedtime stories 😍😍

[@StarryStarryNocturne]

(in bed)

[@tompatompsson]

Well the reason that Megalodon went extinct was likely because of it's size. During the Pliocene more than 30% of marine species died out due to an extinction event which likely left Megalodon unable to sustain it's size leading to the smaller Great White becoming the optimal size. The Mosasaurs also went extinct only 66 millions years ago not hundreds of millions.

[@matty6848]

It’s because the Earths core temperature dropped thus the food supply required to keep a Megladon going slowly died off and so did the Megladon itself. The size of any land or sea based creature is dictated by the Earths temperature. That’s why dinosaurs got so big, because the Earths core temperature was warmer than it is today, thus their prey grew bigger due too way more vegetation which means the plant eating prey evolved bigger too tackle and kill the prey, which grew too colossal sizes.

[@lordodysseus]

As the video progressed I kept wanting to pause and debunk the video or picture in question, but then you did it for me. That's always nice. When professionals so their jobs. Also, your got yourself a new subscriber. But that thing in the London river is probably a whale that simply for lost.

[@Primal_Waters]

Shark Alpha was the name of the Shark that went missing in 2004 Southern Australia, still today it's still unclear what eat Shark Alpha. This year in the same waters in Australia a diver came across a Great White Shark that had been bitten in half. These waters are home to big Great Whites and something else.

[@MTGOnlyOnPC]

Can't wait for you guys to have 100,000K subs! Keep it up and you'll have it in no time; this is some fantasic content.

[@criffermaclennan]

I'm never going paddling again lol Excellent video

[@goldenagenut]

A few years back in one of those long regatta races a giant squid attached itself to one of the racing boats. It was captured on film, it let go of the boat after several minutes.I've heard a few other similar encounters. I have no doubt in the past there were more large predators in the ocean, including giant and colossal squid, i.e. 'kraken'.

[@EphemeralProductions]

Interesting thing about the shark. Good thing she had that GPS on her ; that helped us know that stuff like that occurred & got us interested in the mystery :)

[@stempo1]

the "Sea Ice" excuse is much like the "Swamp Gas" excuse

[@srbrant5391]

It really _does_ feel hasty, doesn't it? Maybe they investigated and censored it out of pure nope?

[@RenerDeCastro]

Great job. You made a seemingly less creepy topic more creepy.

[@BedtimeStoriesChannel]

Really? I found this one more intriguing than creepy, haha. Looking at your Foo Fighters one for next season. Hope you're well!

[@RenerDeCastro]

Bedtime Stories It's the paranoia fuel that makes this unsettling. Like you guys said, we don't know what's down there.

[@godofthecripples1237]

Colossal squids have absolutely been found at the surface. It's uncommon, but it has happened multiple times. In fact, some of our first footage of a living one comes from sailors in an Arctic environment pulling one up with a fishing net, still alive. It's one of the first results you get when you search for colossal squids on KZbin.

[@Littleking1985]

Today we have motorized boats and with sound traveling 10× faster under water any sea creature can hear you coming from miles away. In the days of sailing ships there were way more reports of sightings of sea monsters. This makes sense since sail boats are quite going through the water.

[@ThtSunbreaker]

Somehow, a river within a populated city holding some undiscovered species seems... well, the nicest way to say it is far fetched

[@mr.onethirtyeight5088]

I tend to agree but what do u you think was in the videos? One looks like just one animal and a big one at that.

[@ThtSunbreaker]

@MR. ONETHIRTYEIGHT the chances of an undiscovered species of that size living in a river of a densely populated river is so unbelievably slim, besides it could honestly be 100 other things and I would bet money on it being I dunno a fuckin ore fish or something or straight up just fake

[@zachwinn9787]

Man I dont need that noodling around in my head I like to kayak on big bodys of water. Lol thank for the nightmares. Love the channel.man

[@sweettangerines8182]

Great video. Lots of different subjects covered, I enjoyed it very much. Thanks!

[@Loner-Wolf]

I like how the narrator gives a theory and than always says 'however....' excellent KZbin channel love the stories and tjd mysteries that surround them.