This Is Why Divers Are Afraid Of The Ocean

Today's episode takes us underneath the ocean and lakes where divers and swimmers share their terrifying face-to-face encounters...
This Is Why Divers Are Afraid Of The Ocean
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What Lurks Beneath is a channel focused on true scary stories and true horror stories, I cover the supernatural cryptids, bigfoot, dogman and scary mysteries. In this channel, you'll find storytelling of the unkown, the supernatural and the paranormal. If you enjoy shows like Unsolved Mysteries or Paranormal Witness, you'll enjoy What Lurks Beneath

[@besoforreal506]

I’m obsessed with ocean horror stories lately & freaked myself out today considering this: there aren’t as many ocean stories available because there are fewer survivors 😳

[@Read..Matthew-11..28]

Exactly! 😬😅

[@Lindsey578]

me too i dont know why, but i keep looking for mor, sure as hell not going out past my ankles into the water

[@notoftentold4076]

"We got evidence, but sorry public cant see it" Bullshit.. Its called a Psy-op. Dont trust the military or intelligence services unless you a sheep

[@rize-ikuza]

Makes you wonder what the last thing they saw was before they drowned or disappeared. Especially in cases where accidents people didn't think could happen, happens to an experienced diver

[@Mondomeyer]

Or people just don't go into the ocean as often as the woods and other land based places.

[@ericcook8254]

My mom was a certified Diver in the Army. She knew lots of Divers who quit simply because they ran in to fish that were big enough to eat a human. I can't even fathom divers continuing to do operations after they experienced these stories.

[@larrybarron6184]

I worked for Texaco in the late 90’s and we always had divers around to either do platform inspections, or to jet out ditches to bury pipelines in the shallow lakes so ships wouldn’t damage them. We had one diver who had gone on a platform inspection and was descending when he noticed a huge barracuda of close to 10’ kind’ve mirroring him as he descended. Suddenly the barracuda turned slightly then just left in a hurry. The diver was sitting there puzzled when he glanced down and saw a MASSIVE dark shape over 20’ slowly patrolling in the deep. He immediately went back up to the surface and got out of the water. They asked him why and he said I don’t know but anything that makes a 10’ barracuda run like that I don’t want to be in the water with lol

[@Barbieinawheelchair]

​@@larrybarron6184 terrifyingly fascinating. Was he in the ocean or lake ?

[@larrybarron6184]

@@Barbieinawheelchair out in the blue water of the Gulf of Mexico.

[@larrybarron6184]

Our diver told us at the time that there was not a documented case of a shark attack on a professional diver, but one had been sucked some down by a Goliath grouper about the size of a Volkswagen bug and spit back out. I would’ve retired from salt water diving quick after that lol.

[@dustinscott1419]

​@larrybarron6184 I've seen a Goliath Grouper that was the size of a small school bus. It was more intimidating than the 23 foot Tiger Shark.

[@lovelyladyguido]

MARKER#6:00 approx. I cannot believe this is actually being talked about here? Wow!?! I know where it happened too. Along the Catalina Islands. My ex-husband's brother almost lost his life there. He used to do underwater demolition as a Navy Seal. Almost the same exact story that you are speaking right now is what happened to him. Those things pulled out his mouthpiece and because he was so far down he got bubbles under his skin. He also had radiation burns on his legs and face where they made contact with him. He was in ICU for like 3 months in a medically-induced coma. He died a couple of times while he was there and when he came out of the coma and was healed enough. Some six months later? What he told us was so hard to believe but, I know he was telling the truth. He has never been one to mince words. He's a pediatrician now. He still has some scars on his legs some 30+ years later.

[@graceyjewels7148]

Whoa, what he went through sounds so harsh! Thank you. I heard of an incident near Catalina of two lobster fisherman and one was eaten by a very large aquatic crocodile/dinosaur like animal. The survivor reported that the animal appeared shortly after a breach in the ocean floor, temperature change. It also attacked a ship and it was covered up. A dew claw was found embedded in the wreckage, it was about 10" in diameter. The Navy sent out dolphins to destroy it. The surviving diver left town under threat. I believe it was early '80's?

[@cruise_missile8387]

Catalina fuckin' wine mixer!

[@leahseim6635]

Whoah. Is that similar to the telepathic crock creature hybrid someone sent a phot to Donovan Dread on Lake Superior a few months back?

[@Barbieinawheelchair]

Thank you for sharing how horrifying. The ocean covers most of the planet and is so dark and deep there is all manner of creatures hiding in the depths. My biggest fear is being in the middle of the ocean !!!

[@margaretpoulyon]

@@graceyjewels7148😊

[@Robin-rj8vg]

My granddaddy lived in a high rise apartment overlookimg the Tennessee River. He was an avid fisherman, and he'd watch the river with binoculars from his window. I'll never forget him telling my sister and I to never swim in the river as he had seen catfish as large as a volkswagon bus coming to the top to turn on the surface. Then we heard stories of divers refusing to go down over at the dam due to catfish big ebook to easily swallow a man playing around the locks at the bottom of the dam... my granddad wasn't one to lie either...

[@battleisreal6593]

They are the same size at the Hover Dam between AZ and NV

[@dinarusso3320]

I heard that EXACT same thing about men who worked building the bridge on the Ohio River in West Virginia, fish the size of cars

[@andoncroft]

Robin and I attacked by a mystery sea creature 😁

[@andoncroft]

Your granddaddy, your DEFINITELY American 😂

[@sluggak1363]

​@dinarusso3320 I live in cincinnati I don't ever jump in the river

[@RonaldHawes-sr3cr]

My brother is a yacht captain. He was taking an 83’ cutter rigged sailboat from Jacksonville Florida to St. Thomas USVI. A few days out in the Atlantic Ocean in the middle of the night something picked up the boat and spun it 180 degrees around. The crew sprung up and the deck was dry. Not a water spout. It was something under them. They made it it the Virgin Islands and there was no damage to the hull. Just scuffs. They didn’t see anything that night. Whatever did it was soft or it would have damaged the boat. It was the SV Mustang.

[@dinarusso3320]

😮😮. Giant squid, they're real

[@bahamasun]

Love that you mentioned the Bahamas my home country, I'm an island gal and there are stories of salt water 'ponds' that have massive sea monsters in them, they are land locked and there have been divers in them past years, you speak to the older locals in the areas and you'd probably get good info. We a small but big fishing community and am very grateful our boats and crews have never seen anything but big sharks out to sea. Love your channel

[@ispeakmucho]

I just got back from Bahamas. My family trini. I love your island as well. Great waters!

[@humongousfungusamongus3871]

I am so invested into your sea/ocean horror stories! Has anyone ever told you that you have a gift when it comes to storytelling? You...are...awesome!

[@jacobsalasis]

Check out Mr ballin. He has good ocean stories

[@elsvaughn7959]

I would assume *someone* has yold him, sering that its literally in which his entire channel is based lol

[@andoncroft]

Your very beautiful ❤️❤️❤️

[@Spy.Duckie]

​@@elsvaughn7959- funny the coincidence. 😂

[@schectermeister]

People don't realize what a tiny percentage of knowledge we actually have about the ocean and what kind of things are in it.

[@Barbieinawheelchair]

💯 so many ppls stories corroborate with each other. Absolutely fascinating

[@sunnystormy4973]

-the pics are like unreal- -so kool ...- -the creature ones-

[@paperbagbrown6733]

YES YES & YES

[@flashgordon6670]

That’s why they want us to drive electric vehicles. Bc the deeper water we have to go to get oil. The more and the bigger sea monsters there are. Nothing to do with the deep waters themself, or pressure.

[@RatsJones]

I have had the privilege of diving the blue hole in Santa Rosa new Mexico. That was many years ago so I am sure things have changed. However , it was interesting. My sympathy to all military and their families for their losses. I am so angered that government threatens people in the guise that "average" individuals are considered too uneducated and hair brained to face reality.

[@autonomoustronomous5264]

I have Thalassophobia. And i wont stray to far from shore in a lake because of it. I once saw a giant fish or snake surface at the lake i grew up by. It mustve been the length of a school bus. We lived about 150 ft from the shore atop a hill. Growing up my parents would tell stories of a giant fishlike creature in the waters and that all the lakes in the area were connected by underwater tunnels. Edit: i grew up in North Eastern Alberta Canada. There are no lake sturgeon here. And when we would set nets (because its our native heritage and right on the reservations we reside) there would be strange fish i could explain away such as some sorts of salamanders and eels. What i saw on that lake was something so big it wouldve taken the net with it.

[@claymore9032]

Hey fellow native on youtube lol, south east from ya

[@natejoe9924]

That was an amazing story thank you

[@dineenhorse6665]

How's it going my fellow native. I'm from Central Sask Canada 🇨🇦 . Where is this location? I would love to explore

[@natejoe9924]

@@dineenhorse6665 I'm part native American to Blackfoot Indian

[@dineenhorse6665]

@@natejoe9924 that is awesome 👌 I'm Plains Cree

[@sparkesman1980]

There is a well known story regarding a German U boat submarine during the Second World War that was supposedly attacked by a Sea Serpent off the Scottish coast. A British Royal Navy Ship came accross the Submarine on the surface of the ocean which they thought was strange at the time. As they approached, the German sailors where gesturing for the Ship to pick them up. Most of the German submariner's along with the Captain, were interviewed and they all provided the same account of a large Serpent attacking the U boat, to the point of where the Sub was forced to surface, however it did not stop there, the Serpent then continued its attack the Submarine on the surface, and so the U boat captain ordered that the main cannon be fired at the creature in the hope of deterring it, which seemed to help. The Royal Navy ship confirmed at the time that the majority of the German Submarriners where very distressed, and that the main submarine Gun turrent was damaged beyond recognition as an actual Gun due to the Serpent attacking it

[@DH-kl5rx]

I recall reading the account you referenced.

[@TheRealPDizzle]

Let’s not go scuba diving

[@davidtacy2293]

Me to

[@ThedurbFoBoIo-df1vv]

I seen a docu story on this the turret was turned to fire the sub sank

[@rkitchen1967]

I believe that story actually dates back to WWI.

[@charlesbenz2064]

I love to hear you tell or narrate your stories. I always look forward to hearing you tell or narrate another one of your stories. You are a very talented speaker and enthusiasm and intonation makes your stories come alive. Thank you, Chuck Benz

[@sadbear420]

When I was working as a commercial salmon fisherman on the ocean, we all wore bright orange fishing gear. I was looking overboard one day and saw the figure of a man dressed head to toe in orange (I could see entire body outline from head to feet of a man) It looked like a mirage under the water. I believe I saw the ghost of someone who drowned …

[@joshportie]

You saw a demon, there's no such thing as ghosts.

[@dereksmith9345]

I feel like you were going for this but that's your reflection lol

[@0blivvy8]

I love ocean and underwater stories and deeply enjoyed this one! I think that if any otherworldly creatures were here, the ocean depths would be a great place for them to hide since it's so unexplored. There're so many reports of divers seeing strange things, and of people seeing UFOs submerge underwater, and rise from it. Creepy ocean stories are some of my favorites; there's just so much mystery. Let's go scuba diving!

[@Impossibly-Possible]

I read a story from a police diver said he had a catfish brush up against him with a eye a large as a car hubcap and it was big enough to swallow him easily , it was larger than a SUV.

[@GarathWolfe]

Heard similar story of divers looking for bodies when plane crashed in lake/rivers they would go touch what thought at first that was a body turn to be massive fish .

[@southfieldtrill9690]

It happened in the Ohio River💯

[@GarathWolfe]

​@@southfieldtrill9690 Yep I use to live in Ohio that were parents told the story .

[@roosternm6830]

Similar encounter by a New Mexico State Police rescue diver who was diving by the dam at Elephant Bute lake near T or C NM. Same exact story. I know this man well. He wasn't exaggerating.

[@azazel6342]

I still kinda believe in the existence of the "Black Carpet" sea creature. I knew a dude who did deep sea welding and he swore up and down that he encountered something horrifying similar to stories of the black carpet, though I and him wouldn't learn about other stories until years later.

[@StephanieFlynn-y3i]

He and I. Dude.

[@Starry_Skye22]

Dude. I never thought of ghosts being under the water if they died there.... this is honestly terrifying. It reminds me of the "Are you afraid of the Dark" episode where the bloody scary skeleton comes out of the pool vent..... scared me bad as a kid 😂

[@ToastyDanzig]

oooooh duuude! same! remember the part w/the chemical they poured on it at the end ? I used to think it was chlorine they poured on him.

[@JeanMarie561]

YES!!!

[@susiesunshine43]

Hahaha, SAME!!!! I'll never forget that one

[@melsnailsasmr]

Legit the scariest episode

[@nomadjensen8276]

@ starry skye22 lol damn you just caused a suppressed memory to resurface. I remember that very episode, the door to the pool room was covered by lockers or something and there was a point where they had to dump chlorine or some other pool chemical to try and hurt the monster, lol that red skeleton covered in seaweed was legit scary as a kid. I love seeing others comment about things that I experienced as well and bringing back old long forgotten memories.

[@CherylChilipka-fk7ph]

I saw a orca pull a sailboat around by the anchor! And it was not a tiny little sailboat. The owner had come back and was looking for it, we found it being pulled out towards open ocean! I am not kidding you.

[@dinarusso3320]

😮 lucky no one was on the boat

[@Spy.Duckie]

Orca would not have hurt anyone..just playing. I'd swim with them anywhere except where they are kept captive.

[@raypizanis9939]

These ocean/water topics are my favorite, it seems many others feel the same.

[@JewelsLeigh]

Let's go scuba diving in a nice safe swimming pool. Love the underwater stories!

[@meganthearchitectbrown6912]

This is some of my favorite types of content you provide, man. Thank you!!❤❤😊😊

[@kieranhart5776]

He is genius right

[@eddiegreencheez]

Ironically, a lot of the time, the wildest and craziest stories are the true ones

[@LetHimRead]

The same way they all lied about being abducted by aliens in the 90s. Poof camera phone everywhere, now the aliens suddenly won't abduct anyone. Not to mention fishermen and sailors love a good story and they never let the truth get in the way of that.

[@robotnoir5299]

@mikael557 There's a guy who dresses as a bat and fights crime at night in my town. If you've ever heard a similar story, it must be true.

[@miggyclark1613]

I don't care but u gotta be CRAZY to be diving at 100 feet in the pitch dark at night

[@DavidSmith-vc5rn]

You never dive at night ,it can get you killed and eatin. I have had some interesting encounters in the ocean when I dive deep,somethings I can not explain,and other things I don't want to. 10% of the worlds oceans have only been explored so there is a lot of ocean for things to hide in...

[@Based808]

@@DavidSmith-vc5rndiving at night is common

[@DavidSmith-vc5rn]

Night diving is stupid,I never suba dive at night,to many things can go wrong.

[@Based808]

@@DavidSmith-vc5rn Ive been on scuba at night a hundred times. Awareness is key.

[@DavidSmith-vc5rn]

Good for you I still won't dive at night.

[@thevillainy1783]

I remember stories of divers in Louisiana that went down to check the bottom of a damn to clear out debris. One came flying up and white as a ghost in a panic and clawed to get back in the boat. He said he saw a catfish the size of a small bus casually swimming by.

[@trishg5820]

Imagine the fish fry we could have with that. We could feed a whole town.

[@thevillainy1783]

@@trishg5820 I thought of that! Imagine how big the Hush puppies would have to be, lol! YUM!

[@trishg5820]

@@thevillainy1783 I love hush puppies. Can't get them in Oregon. Drat!

[@Zubstep1315]

@@trishg5820the parasites in them are probably the same size as your dog

[@keikurooka5105]

😂😂😂😊​@@trishg5820

[@stevebracken225]

Just thinking about the ocean life we know about makes me wonder what we might not know about. I’ll swim in a pool.

[@josellers1376]

Don't let fear cheat you out of having fun in the ocean. Just be alert, pray and be smart, God bless you and your family.

[@crd88918]

sometimes even in a pool i’m sure some giant beast is going to devour me lol 😂

[@trishg5820]

I used to have a reoccurring dream that it was night & I was going to dive into a rooftop swimming pool. The water was a beautiful green from the lights in the pool & I could see it was empty so I dove in. When I surfaced I was swimming with all manner of scary sea creatures from great whites to eels. I just remember looking around & thinkng how do I get outta here then the dream was over. I'm sure it meant something but not sure what.

[@zeusedoo9291]

I am so delighted that I found your channel. What a fantastic storyteller you are. You know we know more about the moon than the sea and that is good. Where ever man goes he destroys and unfortunatley we are destroying the oceans at an alarming rate. My father in law was on the Minnieapolis and saw alot of weird things he was told not to speak of. We finally got to hear some of his stories before he died. Thank you for your hard work and your service. I really love your channel and glad I found it.

[@taleandclawrock2606]

Please share your Dads stories!

[@doasyoulikefawkes7127]

This is a great and thought provoking video. The volume of the ocean is so vast, and we seem to know only a small percentage of the reality of what this other world contains.

[@terriehall4234]

I truly believe a lot of older movies with giant octopus, legend of boggy creek, ECT.,are based on actual happenings. Government hides everything!!! Funny how movies are closely related to these people's encounters.

[@robertabray-enhus3198]

We need to study the oceans so much more than we do outer space. The oceans are so vast,we don’t know what’s down there.

[@trueindividual1417]

It's stories like these that make it clear our governments won't allow us to excavate or venture enough in these areas and environments to prevent us from finding out what else is living on this planet besides us. As you said, we should know more about our own planet than we do of space and it seems that's being done intentionally.

[@trishg5820]

The Kaiju.

[@crazylifeofcvm6595]

That’s what NASA was created for

[@Justin-kk9ir]

Space is clear and the pressure is extremely low, that makes it much easier to explore than the oceans that are clouded, dirty and closed off to light on top of being extremely high pressures making it near impossible to fully explore easily.

[@ozwizardof5235]

I don't think our government want to tell us what is on ocean bottom. They want to explore space. No interest whatsoever, regardless of cean pressure. Maybe something is nefarious on bottom .

[@dineenhorse6665]

Love these types of stories! Great content 👌

[@elenavonpavel-pitts3442]

No, YOU go scuba diving! Am more than happy to listen to ur great stories rather than to be part of them!! 😊

[@kieranhart5776]

17:00 That white shark the size of a bus reminds me of a story I heard many years ago of some fishermen, I think near Australia, they thought they saw a Megladon, as it was over 60 ft in length, and was completely white. Now that I hear a story of a totally different person in a different time which likely never heard of this other story to influence him, I now believe even more. I’m not saying it’s a Megladon, but there is something massive out there that resembles a shark. Undiscovered. Exciting stuff!!

[@stunner9005]

Maybe it’s a Megladon or whatever the Megladon evolved into.

[@kieranhart5776]

@stunner9005 Yeah that’s what I’m thinking!

[@Barbieinawheelchair]

He tells another story on this channel about a deep sea diver who comes across a 50 ft shark that's jet black in the depths

[@kieranhart5776]

@Barbieinawheelchair Yeah it’s crazy there’s so many things down there we don’t know about. Not sure what motivation the government would have in hiding the creatures they have secretly discovered

[@saint013]

Black demon of the sea of Cortez

[@sstigger38]

"LETS GO SCUBA DIVING!" Love the Stories, and always stay til the end to hear every one! Thanks for the Hard Work putting these together for your listeners!

[@kieranhart5776]

I’m down

[@spencerboaz2385]

I started diving when I was 15 I’m 66 now . I’ve never seen anything like the stories I’ve heard and I have thousands of hours diving including 13 years as captain of a sheriff department dive team. But they are fun to listen to. Have a blessed day.

[@danielb7253]

Ur so very blessed

[@darkangel-ve8pn]

How many of those dives are past 50 feet

[@dinarusso3320]

That doesn't mean there's not creatures that haven't been discovered, the ocean is barely explored by humans!

[@2012coan]

I feel that this speaks volumes.❤

[@donnaenglund-pd4vy]

“Location, location, location!”

[@greggo7978]

Apparently When a oil company was extracting oil from the gulf of Mexico there were submersible ROV's used to view leaking oil stacks,study wildlife in the area along the seabed,and monitor certain life forms considered important by those who were responsible for their existanc. "Deep Water Horizon" was the title for the rov operations further identified by a "well number". The footage can no longer be found but at the time when it was anyone could log on and see exactly the same footage the operators of the rov were viewing. There were many very strange events .In One event a rov was sent down to untangle a cable from a structure very deep under water. As the mechanical arms of the rov were attempting to untangle this cable,which by the way was huge and obviously very strong ,out of the view of the rov camera something attacked the rov. Whatever attacked it had snapped the cable and torn part of the mechanical arm off.The whole attack lasted less than 3 seconds and the attacker was not identified. Other footage was of part if the cable emitting a green glow and the cable was clearly moving on its own in a was that could only be described as swimming away from the rov.Ive been warned to be quiet so this is as far as I'll go into this topic,besides,it's so bizarre unless one saw it themselves Noone would believe it.

[@Zubstep1315]

Giant squid are known the inhabit the abyssopelagic zone in the Gulf of Mexico and they do have bioluminescent capabilities at that depth it’s a biological advantage but aliens does sound a lot cooler.

[@laurengilliland8355]

Painting my bathroom. Love these stories!!!!!!!!!

[@jenniferlonnes7420]

Let's go snorkeling.

[@kieranhart5776]

Im down.

[@timbuckxxi9690]

Freshwater lakes are very good as long as it's not the DEEP SOUTH OR FLORIDA...

[@Element-tu8jw]

I’ll try anything twice

[@a.noriega-gonzalez6801]

thanks, but… I’ve been “kissed" by jellyfish one too many times

[@dancingwiththedogsdj]

@@a.noriega-gonzalez6801 eeks! I wonder if anyone has ever purposefully kissed a jellyfish and only had their lips stung .... Not gonna Google it and check. Too scared. Be safe y'all! 🍻🌎❤️🌮🎶

[@jeffreymcrae3853]

Ok, as a kid I would have been enthusiastic to go scuba diving 🤔 after hearing these... and other frightening aquatic stories... I will be more than happy to keep my feet on dry land ☺️

[@wonderXweapon]

This was great ! Thanks for looking into and presenting stories from the water genre ,, I saw ogopogo in 1992 with my wife and it was huge looking down from a bluff I estimated 6 tons , I’m a scuba diver as well but due to a bad back have had to quit. Please put out more stories like this , this is my main field of research.

[@lenBrill1971]

WonderXweapon. . . . .I live in Kelowna also. My friend and his wife were on a bluff on the West side, above Casa Rio Waterfront Park. From there, they watched an elongated serpant as wide as a school bus but twice as long swimming just a few hundred feet from the waters edge. They watched it until it dove and remained out of sight

[@ryanyounie8692]

I'm from Penticton. Very cool. I want to have a Ogopogo sighting.

[@manaash4316]

Hello from your redneck neighbors in Alberta.

[@fifthgencanuck8663]

I’m from Alberta and we used to go to the Okanogan every summer for vacation and this was the 1970’s/80’s, and I remember seeing Leonard Nimoy’s show about the Ogopogo on “In Search Of” and being terrified to go swimming in the lakes around Penticton/Kelowna and Osoyoos. I never did see anything but a few years ago I was watching a show with that South African biologist, Jeremy Wade, and he seemed to think it could possibly be a very large sturgeon or some kind of prehistoric remnant of a massive freshwater eel that got trapped in the chain lakes after the last ice age. Who knows…I have always felt uneasy swimming in the Interior lakes in the Kootenays though!

[@stilllaughing7285]

I love how you talk about subjects that the rest of humanity isn't over reporting. Look forward to seeing me. Thanks for being original 😊

[@kelanar1]

these aquatic stories are my favorites, thank you for telling them!

[@humblewarrior773]

What i love the most? The fact the oceans are so unexplored we can have all these fables and mythical stories come with a percentage possibly being truth.

[@darktemplar446]

Let's not go scuba diving...and I absolutly love how you gave us some alien stories as well!

[@gmac3716]

Quick stories, but good detail. I enjoyed this thoroughly.

[@archangel5627]

I want nothing more for Cthulhu to be a real creature or entity. Who knows, maybe he does exist. There’s so much we don’t know about our entire planet especially what lurks in the depths of our oceans.

[@seanrh4294]

I once had a dream that reminded me of the events in this video. I dreamed that I was in a very simple empty small hut made of stone with only one door. I was in the hut with several people and thought I should go outside to take a look at where I was. When I got outside I was almost stunned by the view. The hut was on a beach and it was nighttime with a clear sky. I could see the stars and noticed right away that they looked very different from Earth. Some were very bright so it was possible to see everything like on a full moon on earth. When I looked to my left I noticed a variety of different dinosaur-type creatures standing at the beach and looking out at the ocean. I watched them for a while before I noticed that they were statues. I then walked closer to the water and was thinking about testing the water to see if it was warm enough to swim in. Suddenly the people I was with screamed in a panic that I should get away from the water and only a second later several dark-skinned lizard-like creatures rushed out of the water and tried to grab me. The people I was with then pulled some type of weapon and shot white glowing beams at them. The creatures then retreated back into the ocean and I woke up.

[@kieranhart5776]

Maybe you had a glance at the future my friend !!!

[@DoorsToHideBehind156]

😊 😊0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000😊 6 Yy. yyYy . 0

[@johnjones2nd667]

Maybe you remembered a blackout drunk memory?

[@seanrh4294]

@@johnjones2nd667 lol. I like beer, but I only got drunk once to the point that I passed out and fell asleep on the sidewalk.

[@taleandclawrock2606]

Heck, that should be a movie!!😬 Maybe ancestral memory....maybe remote viewing, maybe just fabulous imagination, but consciousness is something we dont fully understand.

[@racerothery2716]

Iv been on the Columbia River many times in my life. In several places too. Anywhere from Portland in Jantzen Beach to Columbia river dam and everything in between. I can tell you that there is definitely big creatures stalking that river for a meal. As you said it feed directly into the ocean in Astoria so anything that breaths air can travel or if it’s adapted to both fresh and salt water which I imagine a massively illusive sub aquatic monster would be.

[@matthewhanacek8771]

From Portland, are you referring to sturgeon or what other encounters have you had? I’ve wondered if bull sharks could eventually make their way up

[@MikeMak951]

I was at Sauvies with my dog this past summer and saw a large serpent/snake looking creature in that damn water.. I was so shocked at what I was seeing and in disbelief. At least 15-20ft long, possibly bigger. It would come to the surface where it would stick its head out of water, then would disappear under water, then come back up again to the surface after a significant distance covered moving down Columbia. Told myself I’d never go into that water again. Definitely something in there.

[@jones8102]

This is why all the seals moved up the Willamette River to milwaukie

[@brawndothethirstmutilator9848]

@jones8102, There are no seals in the Columbia or the Willamette. There are sea lions that swim up the Columbia to the dam to feed on salmon, and they aren’t gone, I just saw two dozen of them a few weeks ago swimming around adjacent to Sauvie’s Island on the Washington side of the river.

[@ericwright8177]

Gigantic Sturgeon that are decades old they have big ones on display there's one's reputed to be 100 years old. Prehistoric monsters. They're not human eaters. We think ???

[@frankorfranky3094]

You are an amazing story teller. Thanks for all your hard work you put in. Your channel is always freaking me out. I can not imagine having any freaky stories like the ones you tell.

[@lynnjohnson1413]

Let’s go scuba diving. Great stories! Your the best story teller.

[@slickmet]

"you're"

[@lindaevanko5002]

You are an incredible orator…I try to NEVER MISS YOUR VIDEOS! PLEASE NEVER STOP doing what you do so perfectly👏🏼👍🏻❣️Linda, CT…

[@admiralhowdy]

Wow. If there are ghosts, of course there are underwater ghosts. Of course there are. Never considered before.

[@misschievous5071]

A high up navy man said you'd never swim in the ocean if you knew what was in it.

[@TheRealEdicius]

Aside from years and years of pollution? Yeah probably not😅

[@voideon5179]

And who was it? Any source?

[@MarianneSawit]

Destination Truth was ahead of its time hope they bring Josh Gates and his crew back

[@susanbelida6981]

❤ Let's go scuba diving!! Great video. Thank you sir!!😊

[@thevictorianconservative1093]

Lol as he said “I don’t wanna talk about my ex like that” an ad for mermaid rainbocorns came on and I was looking away and came back confused as hell XD

[@Madita_nsn]

Nothing about diving but that video triggered a childhood memory that was so creepy! I remember being in the open ocean for the first time. Scary as nothing I can compare! Never felt anything like that before and after that in my life. I was on Holiday with my fam and I could swim very good since age 4(had lessons) so my fam wasn’t scared when I was swimming at the beach alone cuz at the time I was like nearly ten. So there I was, swimming 🏊‍♀️ just enjoying life and within a blink of an eye, it got cold af! My whole body felt strange in an negative way like..idk from deep within me, I felt really uncomfortable and unsafe in a way.. I looked down and it was pitch black. I swam past the shore 😮all happened so fast and scared me to death and I got back to land asap!

[@Ms.Mewitdabullshit]

Ooo 😮 was there like a deep hole or something?

[@Madita_nsn]

@Ms.Mewitdabullshit no I just swam past the beach shore, so there was no land under me anymore like the whole open ocean u know.. I got past the land part literally away from the country into opean seas 🫣😫

[@Moisterthananoyster]

Thought you were building up to a good ending then boom, something totally normal and disappointing 🙃

[@39cochise8]

@@Moisterthananoysterdon’t dismiss what she felt. I can’t imagine the literal difference from land beneath your feet to a plunge into depths of the sea. Gravity has something to do with it. Your body feels when you’re further from ground.

[@Barbieinawheelchair]

​@@Moisterthananoyster lmao i like ur username i fckn hate when ppl do that 😑

[@Angel_Adams13]

Love the content. No one knows what is in the depths of the ocean's

[@kenzhope9671]

Probably even stranger things then we could even imagine 😅

[@transcendentsacredcourage]

​@@kenzhope9671 Probably things much scarier than Bigfoot and Dogmen.

[@CharliStar]

When I was 17 I started learning how to scuba-dive… however the opportunity ended when my friend who took me lost their driving licence cuz of DUI and we stopped doing it as I could not drive yet. I then became disabled so that put an end to it completely. However….. These encounter stories of yours and Mr.Ballen’s are enough to make me glad I never finished learning how to do it properly….! Way too many bad things can happen for my liking after listening to you both for a few years 😂😂😂

[@beautruex7012]

The Location was in Lake Bikal, Russia. Where the divers encountered the Beings underwater.

[@WhattheNewTestamentReallySays]

Yes...Paul Stonehill tells the story on Paranormal Research

[@maryv5644]

Your content it's always awesome, you're my favorite storyteller 🔥

[@brianmsahin]

Very entertaining video ! As an old veteran 30 year scuba diver who has dived in the Atlantic, Pacific, Indian oceans, the Black Sea, Aegean, and now living on the Mediterranean coast, I feel disappointed that I've never seen a ghost despite diving in many ancient ship wrecks! 😱. Big fish, I have seen and had some close encounters over the years including almost bumping into a Great White and getting snuck up on by a Tiger Shark, luckily it wasn't hungry! It's possible to see some strange things and I have heard similar stories from dive buddies so nothing is totally unbelievable. Just to note that hallucinations from oxygen deprivation and even a bad gas mix, in the tank are not so uncommon. Of course not everything can be attributed to that but it's definitely the case in some instances. Still, there are many mysteries in the sea, generally it's as unexplored as the universe. There are many things we don't know. A note to everyone. Never dive alone.

[@BlackCrystal615]

I mentioned this in another video involving diving. If you have security or protection for those on land, you need security or protection for those underwater.

[@davelockwood7837]

Let's go SCUBA Diving!!! I am a former SCUBA AI (Assistant Instructor) and a former SAR diver is Spokane, WA. Thanks for the upload! it was thoroughly enjoyable. Alas, or to my relief, I have never had an experience such as you relayed to us. Keep the uploads coming!

[@Artofficial1986]

Imagine being an animal that hangs out on the bottom of the ocean all the time for hundreds of thousands of years and suddenly a submarine shows up and is like what's up?

[@Bob-te3le]

That's crazy to think about. Humans have come along way.

[@SaryChanTheGreat]

Welp, I'm now convinced we live on the octopus' planet. Aliens aren't here for us, we're like cattle - they talk with our octopi overlords x___x

[@dextermorgan1]

You have no idea how close you are.

[@laugheveryday5870]

@@dextermorgan1huh?????

[@TheJudiBambiPurrsParadox]

*Love the jokes, puns, etc., Josh....let's go SCUBA diving!*

[@obsidian00]

Love the channel...Love the presentation...INSANE with jealousy due to your magnificent MAN MANE...keep up the great work!

[@berserk_9581]

These stories are so fascinating. I have a deep fear of large bodies of water and am really gratefull that other people discover this insteresting stuff.

[@thomasrobertson8109]

Let's go, Scba ???thank you for sharing your experience with us. God bless you??

[@dustbin5044]

Deep sea crocodiles do exist, and they are much bigger than regular saltwater crocodiles. They are very elusive and will not hesitate to eat anything when they are hungry.

[@chriscolton6329]

👍 Possibly descendants of the Kronosaurus/Mosasaurs...

[@robertbamza7253]

Just saw The Meg 2 at my local AMC movie theatre. It was 10 times better than I expected and almost reminded me of a cartoon in some spots... great for a laugh and some good shark kills

[@JamesMichael333]

19:48 Is that a real photo taken from Destination Truth? If yes, blurry or not, it would be hard to imagine that as anything other than a giant octopus

[@christyedwards7787]

I remember watching this episode and Josh and his crew was very frightened.

[@tailwhup]

I use to be absolutely terrified of lakes from watching “The Creature from the Black Lagoon” as a child. Hearing all these stories about humanoid creatures under the water is starting to bring back that fear I had.

[@skateordie27xx]

I remember me and my grandma were out on a dive in the bahamas once... Out of nowhere a very large squid like creature just appeared from the depths and grabbed her :o All i can remember is hearing the blood curdling screams through the coms... which turned into frantik gurgling noises as i heard her bones begin to break and snap under the pressure of the squids immense grip :/ I was fortunate enough to somehow be able to escape... but i remember just looking back, only just to see the very red blood stained water... and i realized, she was gone :o You know, its just like... every day i wake up... i just cant stop thinking about that day. And just thinking maybe i couldve done more... and then maybe, you know maybe id still have the opportunity and privilege to be able and share more time with her :/

[@dextermorgan1]

Wow. Seriously? If that actually happened, that's horrible.

[@dinarusso3320]

That's not funny

[@MeshuggahDave.]

youre pretty good

[@foxofthejedi]

Makes me think of my grandma :⁠-⁠\ We were in Hawaii collecting star fish and a giant fish monster came from behind and swallowed her head and crushed it instantly :⁠-⁠\ All I could do is drop my star fish and swim back to shore as I watched the creature finish off the rest of her body with on big gulp and chomp. :⁠-⁠\ The water was filled with blood and when I reached the shore I turned around and screamed at the monster in fit of rage. She was 88 yrs old and loved star fish. :⁠-⁠) I wonder if I could have used the star fish in some way to try and save her from that fish monster thing :⁠-⁠\ I was still gripping hold of one star fish in my hand that I never let go and it was covered with blood. :⁠-⁠\ I keep that Star fish on my desk as reminder of how fortunate it was for me to spend that time with her before the attack..

[@bklynjoe12]

I love your program, especially this one.. I love to Dive and was an ACHRN for years. Let's go scuba diving.

[@TimeMakerMan]

It's time to get nightmares tonight.

[@donnysath9084]

I used to dreams that I could breath in water. When I was young fellow bigger than me held me down until I ran out of breath. Maybe this is why I dream such dreams.

[@peggyparks7742]

Scuba diving loved your upload❤❤❤

[@13Doses]

I don't know why, but all of your thumbnails for your videos give me sarcastic Ben Stiller Tropic Thunder vibes.

[@dartmart9263]

When I was 7 I had a very horrific experience with a very aggressive blue shark, on what was supposed to be the “safest” beach in Puerto Rico. So I think I have developed a little bit of thalassophobia (I think that’s the word). These ocean stories are a bit therapeutic, and addictive. :)

[@Teddy-ev1zo]

I saw a 50 foot hydra swimming up out of the ocean when I was in the navy. It was black, had a long neck and huge rows of spines on its back, neck, and head and it spew fire out of its mouth. I was on the smoke deck alone when I saw this and I was too afraid to tell other people cause I knew they would think I was lying and would just laugh at me.

[@damonc911]

This episode was Badass!!! I love Sea Monsters!!🧐👍lets go scuba diving!!!

[@adamwest8256]

Josh, great Jacques Cousteau impersonation! Amphibians don't have scales. They are very self-conscious about their weight. We're still living with dinosaurs. They now identify as birds and are very delicious.

[@skylermummert24]

Bird frogs my favorite

[@kimicaballero4935]

Let’s go scuba diving!! Love your stories!!!

[@PhillipJermakian]

Reminds me of the time I was diving with a group of playmates. They were sad because some supermodels I hang out with were hogging all my time but I told them it was cool we could go scuba diving. I had some time off from training Navy Seals how to defeat Great Whites in hand to hand combat so we went out to se. Me and the playmates were diving past some coral reefs and a gaggle of mermaids approached us. You might think that is the fantastical part of the story but mermaids are fairly common in my line of work. The crazy part was they told us that the black muck death army were in their village and were all terrified for their life's. Now I had never heard of the black muck death army but I decided to check it out for them. Leaving the mermaids and playmates behind I grabbed my diving knife and proceeded to check out the merpeople village. What I saw was pure horror. All the merman were dead and let me tell you merman are formidable. And there they were. The black muck death army. Half man, half octopus, all muscle. With heads where their feet should be and feet where their heads should be, a ferocious site. Fortunately for me my diving knife was forged in the fires of the deepest ocean volcanos and was enchanted by Aquaman's own personal shaman to glow around creatures that are evil, and it provided me enough light to fight past the black muck's primary ink weapons and defeat all 25,000 of them. Just glad I found this page so I could add another completely true story, the oceans are truly wierd.

[@paperplate4675]

😂😂😂 great story telling though😂

[@oneoflokis]

😂🙄

[@cherylgraves7382]

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@bmoon1960]

"Let's go scuba-diving" That last story reminded me of something out of Jurassic Park. Who really knows "What Lurks Beneath"? Great stories as always Josh!! Keep them coming!!

[@cindyhesson9213]

Let's go scuba diving 😳😱 Or maybe, I'd be safer at home, with a cold one, smoking a good one and listening to that famous host with the fabulous beard tell me great stories 🥰😍 You k know where to find me 😊

[@tinaplexico9790]

Me too

[@KingFluffs]

I love scuba stories. I read one before about a group of divers doing body recovery and being near a dam and seeing MASSIVE catfish just sitting by the warm dam water.

[@pikiesmith9236]

Smith mountain lake .VA.. divers went to the base of the dam to recover a small plane crash they ran into catfish bigger than the plane.. you can Google it!

[@melissalaw6634]

We have lots of those humongous monster catfish here in many of the dams in Missouri, especially Pomme De Terre, Beaver, Lake of the Ozarks and Truman. They do sit right near the dam, and when thr dam turbines get turned on, they gobble up anything that gets chewed up and minced. They are submarine sized, their eyes the size of a whole human body. Are there any divers who have swam in any of these dams and seen them?

[@LeeroyPorkins]

You must wait 5 hours after eating Sbarros before swimming

[@starlight-tour777]

😂😂 forrrrsturd Jenkins! 😂😂😂

[@PaandanimeManga]

i am a new subscriber after watching and hearing your videos i cant get enough

[@KyriToe]

If on land there are creatures that have freak genetic mutation become huge af imagine down below the depths where reaching big size is normal Wouldn't be surprised if deep sea Angler lantern fish becomes as huge as a car

[@code_enthusiast9170]

Love the brisk flow of your presentations and the brevity of your tales. subbed!

[@livingdeadgirl8074]

I dont dive anymore. Too scared.

[@saint013]

Please give us more of these stories I highly enjoyed this video

[@ugotpassed7241]

If there really was mermaids I don’t think they would like people AT ALL and probably be extremely aggressive anytime they see humans. Just think how you would feel if you found that guy that polluted the crap outa your home lol

[@danguts2844]

Id think the same, but Id think they'd be telepathic so they'd know everything about u shortly wether u posed a threat or seen u as a peaceful being. Ancient stories in africa tell storys of mermaids being eaten by humans that caused a war between reptilians and humans, being that the chitohauri (reptilians) attacked humans by using technology that caused hurricanes etc.. U can find the stories of a guy named Credo Mutwa, its a 6hr interview of how he was the 2nd to the last zulu shamin in Africa and his journey to join secret societys in the jungle to only learn the real truth of how we got here.

[@brianjacobi-p4u]

Excellent stories, extremely well presented. Thanks so much.

[@teresasparks9194]

This just confirms that my fear of the ocean are justified. We know so little and it's so dangerous. People don't realize that the ocean is so hugely vast we may never know or see everything. I believe the paranormal of supernatural has a whole universe of things we don't know

[@julianwhatever5312]

As a military diver, I've also seen some pretty weird things in the gulf of mexico and we are told to keep quiet..

[@dextermorgan1]

Care to elaborate? I've heard of a huge serpent type creature in the gulf.

[@Baalzz302]

I don't know why exactly, but if I saw something and was told to stay quiet about it, unless it would put individuals in harms way, It would piss me off enough to def tell people about it.

[@dextermorgan1]

@@Baalzz302 Me too

[@danielakurzbock3780]

Please also consider that as a scuba diver you can get a "divers high" below 40 meters - about 130 feet (sometimes higher, depends on your overall conditions), you can feel dizzy, and like you're drunk. also hallucinating is possible.

[@LadyAxe13]

Love these tales! Listening to them every day while working. LET'S GO SCUBA DIVING!

[@aggromando7323]

Destination Truth was a cool show. Josh Gates rules!

[@sargemarine3709]

Let's go dude ! I'm ready.