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0:00 - Introduction
5:57 - The Story of Vottovaara
26:27 - Conclusion
29:06 - Credits
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[@user1029xspl8dy]

The Finns letting the Soviets ascend the mountain were living the principle of "never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake."

[@AmbuBadger]

Must be like the neighbors in Amityville watching a new family move into _that_ house...

[@shadowsfall5394]

Finns are tough and pragmatic folks , if they don't mess around in a certain area you can be assured that there's something unpleasant there .

[@norger]

It's just a story though

[@JamesAlexander14]

@@norgerOr is it…..?

[@packleaderstealthcamping1808]

Look up the deadliest sniper ever. It was a Finn during the Era of the Winter War. I think something like 200+ confirmed kills. Even during the height of the viking age, the Norse knew that the Shamanic Finns could mutilate you and offer you up to their strange gods with the widest smiles on their painted faces.

[@Red0543]

As someone from the Nordics I will say this: If the locals tells you to stay away from a place or just refers to a place as “bad/evil/wicked”, listen to them! Anyone who has been out there in those woods, hills and mountains knows that there’s some places you just don’t go to…

[@DillonJohnson216]

Any places in mind?

[@aleksandarvil5718]

Don't forget warnings from American Natives, Africans, Afghanis, Hindu, older people from Balkans ( Romania, Serbia & Bulgaria for start ), etc. about THEIR cursed places...

[@tan4uk69]

You know Russians aren't very good at listening

[@tan4uk69]

​@@aleksandarvil5718don't forget about a hookers cursed places either!

[@scockery]

@@aleksandarvil5718 Don't forget warnings from your abuelita and take a jacket!

[@YimmyYames513]

Thanks for actually reading these stories and not using Ai.

[@mistral-unizion-music]

He is too skilled and have a perfect voice already to do it. That would be a waste of talent and lazy as F....

[@johnssmith4005]

I don't blame people that do use AI since not all of us have a cool sounding voice 😅

[@mistral-unizion-music]

@@johnssmith4005 Indeed! 🙂

[@Brandon-sg2xt]

@@johnssmith4005 I just wish they wouldn't all use the same three AI voices lol

[@1heavyelement]

i can't stomach AI narration.

[@emho5135]

This is what happens when you try to skimp on costs and don't hire a witcher.

[@logancolston8061]

You're what happens when a 46 year old can't afford an abortion for his teenage second cousin punching bag of a girlfriend

[@AmbuBadger]

Maybe the MOS didn't exist yet...

[@AverageAmerican]

hire a witcher? i live in the wrong area. here, when you need something witched, you pretty much do it yourself.

[@muhammadnursyahmi9440]

​@@AverageAmericana witcher is a professional monster slayer.

[@AverageAmerican]

@@muhammadnursyahmi9440 Okay. No wonder you have to hire them!

[@AmericanMephistopheles]

In Soviet Russia, mountains climb you.

[@AverageAmerican]

ouch

[@damiens6465]

Best comment

[@GlazerKing]

@@damiens6465and you have the worst 🍅🍅🍅

[@AaronK-ir7tm]

So true mountains made those reds there girl friend

[@phuckyoucensorme]

When you turn 16 you wrestle bear.

[@singingcrow439]

I mean, while I'm not going to doubt the finnish's hunting and tracking abilities and their capabilities of identifying animal signs. If I were a soldier who came across that scene after being subject to the sound of screams, gunfire, and grenades for 2 days straight, I personally wouldn't stick around for very long looking for clues.

[@HtcForever]

Honestly fair, I mean, to take the story at face value, to be so afraid of something to take your own life, and to come across such a scene, the stuff of nightmares.

[@tsiegy]

That’s not really that unrealistic, most militaries have it in their doctrine to search dead enemies for intel and possible survivors

[@sullyway51]

But then again the Finnish forces were made up of Sami and local Finns who would not disrespect the mountain like the Russians.

[@al145]

Pretty sure Soviet armies had tons of desertions, for several various reasons, but also where you going to desert TO when you're that deep in random enemy territory/literal wilderness?

[@Princess_Celestia_]

​@@HtcForever More likely then not those men just killed each other in the dark and the local boys on the other side just chucked it up to "evil mountain did it, let's go home".

[@lauraholmes2402]

Superstitious or not, I’m not going somewhere a local tells me not to. They could tell me it’s a murderous beast and it might not be, but these stories exist for a reason

[@kats9755]

This point exactly! I don't have to necessarily believe in the supernatural to know that I would rather not fk around and find out in case I piss SOMETHING off (supernatural or natural).

[@DWH84]

I live near a 7-11. Take it from me, don't go to my local 7-11 at night

[@lauraholmes2402]

@@DWH84 well I don’t live in America so chances of me being near your 7-11 are pretty low

[@theangrymidget8471]

I live by that , it’s just better to be safe then sorry. Native peoples have lived in those areas for thousands of years , so if they tell me something evils in that woods I’m not going in those woods

[@dlxmarks]

It can also be a low-key way of the locals saying "We won't like it if you go there."

[@luke5767]

As someone who grew up with "The Twilight Zone" on the tube, and the "CBS Radio Mystery Theater" coming from my little radio at night, this channel touches home. Just love it.

[@filiplubos1981]

How old are you ?

[@audreymuzingo933]

Ha what serendipity to find your comment. I was just thinking that Luke's narration somewhat reminds me of Rod Serling. And I believe I've watched all his uploads but never had that thought before.

[@michaelmichelsson]

As a Finn, I would like to slightly correct the video's interpretation of the Sami people. Vottovaara is located in the Karelia region, no Sámi have lived in this region for hundreds of years, native Karelia people live in the Vottovaara region.the Sami people live in northern Lapland in Finland and the Kola Peninsula in Russia

[@noth606]

Kiitos, karjalaisen suvun suomalaisena ei mun sit tartte tota lähtee selittää, mietinkin alusta asti et mitä ihmettä lapin saame mun suvun kotinurkilla tekis, ei ole kun se 500km+ hutiin mennyt tuo.

[@brianOcurradhin]

Never let a lie get in the way of a good story they say

[@buKzone]

Luuletteko te oikeasti, että saamelaiset ovat aina eläneet tietyillä lapin alueilla? Eikä ole missään vaiheessa liikkuneet muualla Suomessa tai Norjan , Ruotsin ja pohjois venäjän alueilla. Ja toiseksi. Kukaan ei pysty sanomaan tarkkaa aikaa. Koska nuo seidat on sinne väsätty. Tuskin 200 vuotta sitten. 2000 vuotta voi olla lähempänä. Nuo ovat asuttaneet suurta osaa Suomesta kauan ennen kuin "Karjalaiset" ovat alueelle tulleet....Eipä muuta..Omituisia olettamuksia millä ei ole mitään tekemistä todellisuuden kanssa.

[@buKzone]

Ps. Saamelaiset olivat Nomadeja. Ja aikoinaan tuhansia vuosia sitten Ilmasto oli erinlainen. Porojen muutto vaellus oli aivan erinlainen. Ennen muinoin porot vaelsivat jopa pohjois saksaan lähelle tanskaa. Ja siellä on todistettavasti ansoja poroille tehty kivistä. Jotka ovat tuhansia vuosia vanhoja. Juuri noin vuosi pari sitten oni löytynyt kivinen aitaus johon poroja on aikoinaan ajettu.

[@andrewhall7176]

Don't you just love it when Americans project American identity politics onto other countries.

[@nemo7782]

As much as modern man might think that some forces do not exist, an ugly wakeup is sometimes warranted.

[@joerussell9574]

While an interesting story it was most likely wolves as they are known to slaughter their prey and leave good "meat" lying on the ground to go to waste as I recall stories from Imperial German and Russian troops teaming up in winter months of WW1 to combat hordes of starving uncannily intelligent wolves. i guess one could say the "wolves" were controlled by the boogie man, but the Soviets were pathetic soldiers at the time and were probably scared of their own shadow. The only curious thing about the wolf theory is the Finnish lack denoting any animal bodies the Soviets undoubtedly must have hit, I still say the animal attack explanation is a FAR more realistic and likely truth than some supernatural foe no one has seen since. The Soviets did take the territory eventually after all and nothing of note happened since that one time....does that mean the vaunted "Stallu" bowed before the might of the Red Army juggernaut lol?

[@pingviini666]

I recall finnish troops mutilating bodies to make russians afraid

[@claudiodominguez.]

​@joerussell9574 Knowing that some German officers conducted ocullt practices and searched for a supernatural "big stick.". I can't put it past the Soviets finding something supernatural and keeping it under wraps.

[@joerussell9574]

@@claudiodominguez. You would think all those occult practices would produce some benefit if real. It's like i always say if the "supernatural" curses and practices were real someone would be using them to conquer the world. I am an open minded skeptic that has seen a UFO but I am not sold on the ghosts and such.

[@jaymin8928]

​@@claudiodominguez.They searched for many things.

[@huupper]

As a 🇫🇮 person I've never even heard of this fascinating story. Thanks for sharing! That Finnish English accent was a bit too Russian though 😂 If you have other Finnish war stories and ever need a Finnish voice over, let me know and I'll help.

[@SairanBurghausen]

Honestly same, count me in. I can do French, Italian and Japanese voice overs too 🫡

[@TheDriller571]

Did anyone ever do Mineral Exploration in the Area ? There is more to Mineralized areas than people are willing to accept or believe. I have some stories but I’ll keep them to myself this time because in the past I have had too many negative responses about my comments and a lot of them,KZbin has deleted. Kind of makes me think that they are looking at me as a Liar or troublemaker.

[@SNP-1999]

Finland had 4 million people and 4,000,000,000,000 mosquitos in 1939 - and possibly even more today. A friend of mine went on holiday there back in the 1970's and came back looking like Frankenstein's monster, his face nearly unrecognisable through swolen midge bites.

[@AverageAmerican]

gawd that sounds like Alaska!

[@janejones8672]

Wow, I didn't know mosquitoes could live in cold weather

[@SNP-1999]

@@janejones8672 In the summer, my friend, in the summer.

[@SNP-1999]

@@AverageAmerican Really ? Didn't know that. In Finland in the summer, due to the countless lakes, you literally get eaten by mosquitos. It is a beautiful country and well worth the visit but one has tp plan accordingly to avoid the season of little flying vampires.

[@bogoljubdjordjevic7528]

That's why Siberia are mostly empty

[@25aida]

Oooh, a mystery from the Winter War.

[@transmascdruid77]

More people need to know about the Sami and the indigenous tribes of Siberia. They were there during WWII and played pivotal roles, but because their populations are so small and strewn across such wide and desolate distances, they are often erased.

[@randomlyentertaining8287]

Don't forget the active effort by the Soviet Union to erase the history of things they don't like.

[@themanformerlyknownascomme777]

@@randomlyentertaining8287 the Soviets actually liked the Tribals.

[@josh10722]

Sadly i only even know about the Sami because of Crusader Kings 3, had it not been for that i never would have even glanced at that part of the world

[@RonLawrence-ut2yr]

They’re basically Russia’s American Indians .

[@legogenius1667]

In all fairness, I wouldn't say they're being erased so much as just overlooked due to small numbers and lack of history-changing events.

[@Khyle1735]

Reminds of the Secret War episode of Love, Death, and Robots.

[@dimitrilitovsk2372]

YESSSSS! Thank you for noticing the connection

[@Picture_Purrfect]

i was gonna make this commet to!!!

[@skip2094]

I was going to say that too.

[@tiredman99]

Yeah maybe that's what it was based on.

[@_Jaspy_]

That was the first thing i thought as well. Damn, i wish we could have a full series based on just that one episode, it was so good

[@MarkfromInfectous2]

Here I am, painting toy soldiers and listening to Luke's dulcet tones, and a fresh video pops up. It's meant to be.

[@welshman8954]

What soldiers are you painting, mate

[@marsar1775]

im painting my first battletech mini as i listen to this myself

[@MarkfromInfectous2]

@@welshman8954 couple of Chaos Space Marines and a few dwarves.

[@MarkfromInfectous2]

@@marsar1775 have fun, homie! Remember to thin your paints and don't forget about dry brushing

[@-VOR]

​@@MarkfromInfectous2 nice! I'm modeling a gang for Necromunda Ash Wastes inspired by the Moritifiers from the new Furiosa madman flick.

[@benitoharrycollmann132]

Hostile landscape, cantolizing terrain, and a demon possessed mountain. And yet the scariest thing in Finland still manages to be the Finns. Great video as usual, bro. Keep up the awesome work

[@einienj3281]

We are scary if you piss us off.. otherwise we are pretty chill 🐻

[@rn5896]

They are very mysterious people, like their land

[@wyattpeterson6286]

The Finns are not to be underestimated. They were able to hold out against the soviet union when stalin was in power. They are brave and resilient people.

[@CodyHomes]

Their descendants of my fellow Norse/Viking ansisters, so they are either your best friend and teacher, or your worst nightmare. It's in our nature.

[@SairanBurghausen]

@@CodyHomes Finns are NOT Norse, dude. I know it's an easy misconception to arrive at because we're neighbours, but it's no different than calling Amazigh/Berbers as Arabs just because they've lived alongside one another.

[@OswaltSamuel]

But a bear against 100 men with rifles and grenades? I don't think that's possible. Sure it could get one or two, but not the whole company. I don't even think a polar bear could have done that. Maybe if they all had 9mm pistols. But there are stories of single people killing brown bears with 9mm. Rifles bullets have the power to penetrate, which would easily kill a bear.

[@dimitrilitovsk2372]

The self ending is what really makes it seem supernatural. Let's say it's a bear, you don't shoot yourself, you get into a group so nobody gets picked off. Like you say, if a few were taken, then everyone else would team up on the bear/pack of wolves.

[@Briselance]

A polar bear, shot by 100 men armed with 9 mm pistols? The bear would still hurt.

[@muhammadnursyahmi9440]

@@OswaltSamuel i think a bunch of Finns ambushed those Soviets and mutiliated them, to strike fear among the Soviet ranks, if they sent out a search party to find out what happened to them.

[@apexthebear8676]

Unless the bear was itself was supernatural

[@youta5]

@@muhammadnursyahmi9440 Word would get out after some time, very unrealistic.

[@Rautaneito69]

Russian soldiers: wtf was that thing? Simo Häyhä: let me cook

[@pechkin9474]

Who let that lier cook?

[@dpinoy5642]

@@pechkin9474 name and subscriptions check out

[@markjackson3531]

That guy is a one man army

[@markjackson3531]

@@pechkin9474 why do you call him a liar?

[@pechkin9474]

@@markjackson3531 because he lied about his number of kills. In his words, he made more attacks in different months what Soviets recorded officially. I guess he fought his own vision problems

[@janihalttunen5501]

"Do not dig the holy ground"... There are so many interesting war stories about finnish border areas. Like battle of Raate road. People are still hearing clicking sounds of reloading a rifle and tank tracks ratling in those woods. Soviet 44th division was destroyed there in January 1940. Thank´s for your awesome channel and greetings from Finland!!

[@GggGgg-ek3dw]

Lmao weapons cant be ghosts relax 😂 ya cooked that shrooms wrong

[@audreymuzingo933]

@@GggGgg-ek3dw So let's see, you know for a fact that ghosts are real .... and you're laughing because someone mentioned stories that sound to you like ghost stories but you know they're impossible because you know precisely what ghosts are and aren't. Also you think shrooms are cooked.

[@GggGgg-ek3dw]

@@audreymuzingo933 ghosts are real, many ppl saw them but they never shoot iron things so story above is exagerrated obv. I would pass this story if id be sceptic tho

[@sherriweibert3311]

I've heard of the accounts of phantom sounds of artillery, cannon and gunfire on the civil war battle fields. Like a recording of events replaying itself in the environment.

[@youta5]

@@GggGgg-ek3dw Ghosts can produce such sounds, I would say, or produce that impression in our minds.

[@Skaitania]

The artworks accompanying your great narration are fantastic. I always get a nice shiver when I spot some glowing eyes, a humanoid shape or a dark silhoutte on the edge of the picture during the story.

[@HarrowsThoms]

Finland *and* Wartime Stories? Dinner is *served*!

[@charlesblithfield6182]

Years ago I came across the remains of a moose that had been brought down and eaten by a pack of wolves. The event happened probably the night before I saw it and you could almost picture the scene as it unfolded because the evidence was all over the snow. It’s a scene I won’t forget. I can imagine how much more terrible this must have appeared.

[@robdegraw1568]

This definitely made my evening having wartime stories show up

[@dimitrilitovsk2372]

We need more of these lesser known stories. Perhaps the answer is mundane, but i have seen things that make me think that theres somethings we just dont comprehend. The world is so spectacular, how could it be so mundane?

[@blue_jm]

Bears are most unlikely candidate because they mostly spend their winters in hibenation. They may occasionally wake up from the hibernation but won't wander off from their nest.

[@dlxmarks]

And the idea of multiple bears banding together to destroy an infantry company on a mountain top over 2 days is silly.

[@PhillyEaglesFanatic]

​@@dlxmarks It might be silly but whatever dogmatic skeptics can pull out of their butts to grasp at to avoid having to grapple with the fact that paranormal entities might just actually exist, they will take it. Anything but the paranormal *must* be the explanation they say. Anything, no matter how far reaching the answer is, no matter how much more a paranormal explanation makes sense than more mundane explanations in a certain case, etc, must be the answer instead of the paranormal.

[@shizlittlebam]

Giants

[@marhawkman303]

@@dlxmarks yes, and no.... waking up hibernating bears can be a deadly mistake. BUt.... this would need more than one....

[@napatora]

and they most definitely wouldn't expend all that energy if they did wake up

[@johnathancoker8671]

im sorry but 100 soldiers throwing high power rifle rounds and grenades at a pack of wolves or a bear and losing? uh uh, no way. just 1 bullet can kill either animal. so even if they were terrible shots and had a 40% hit ratio they still woulda won that fight EZ. and for them to off themselves? whatever they encountered had to be a unimaginable horror

[@uk6396]

I thought, because there is no real vegitation and no animals it might be a enviromental hazard

[@PhillyEaglesFanatic]

Dogmatic skeptics: Yeah but there is no such thing as the paranormal, it's all a bunch of woo. Believers in the paranormal: So you aren't even going to consider the possibility that this might have been some type of horrible paranormal entity that ripped these entities to shreds? Dogmatic skeptics: Nope, not gonna do it.

[@blair3549]

Soviets probably were fighting their own troops because some try to get out of the mountain before the cold took them, but the military didnt allow that to happen. "Not one step back!"

[@PhillyEaglesFanatic]

@@blair3549 seriously dude

[@uk6396]

@@PhillyEaglesFanatic Maybe what we consider paranormal isn‘t paranormal at all, but we can‘t comprehend it with our materialistic brain. Over the centuries much ancient knowledge got lost and today we know how to build phones and cars, but we can‘t be sure of what exactly lives beyond the borders of our save cities. The possibility exists, that some ancient species manage to hide away from us, just because we don‘t, pay attention anymore

[@Herbymac0811]

I did my time in the Marines and like most I went all over the world and loved it. But for all the fun I had I'll admit there were times where things weren't "normal". children laughing at night in the middle of the jungle where only a helicopter can take you. Finding wolf tracks the size of your hand while at MWTC in Bridgeport CA. Or being in Iraq in the middle of summer at 3AM and the temperature all of a sudden dropping from 98 to the low 40's in just a few minutes and stayed that way for almost 30 minutes before returning the 90's along rout Fiesta...! SFMF!

[@randallbesch2424]

Sounds interesting----tell us more! I would like to see if those wolf tracks were abnormal. Were there 2 or 1 set of tracks?

[@Herbymac0811]

@@randallbesch2424 We heard wolves twice but never saw them. All we saw were tracks and those were the largest set in the pack of tracks. They’re used a muddy road for maybe 500 yards or so before heading back into the woods. Having rained that morning and being as defined as they were we figured they were only hours old tracks. The only reason we saw the “big” tracks is cause I think it was in the back of the pack so it’s prints weren’t trampled. 2 sets by the way.

[@lea-anne9133]

​@@randallbesch2424Wolves are huge animals.. their paw prints are massive

[@eliannafreely5725]

I live in the woods in a temperate forest, and the fox has one of the creepiest vocal ranges I have ever heard. One of its barks sounds exactly like a little girl sobbing, especially if a little distant and broken up by the wind. It is so unnerving to hear a little girl sobbing in the dark forest up a mountain at 2am, where obviously no little girl should be.

[@devinparvin2707]

Each one of these stories reminds me of my grandpas stories of being in the jungle of vietnam and mysterious things would happen to his unit. Nothing violent just weird and creepy

[@rebeccalove9169]

Ooohhhh...can you elaborate at all? I love reading creepy stories in the comments!

[@devinparvin2707]

@rebeccalove9169 well one of em was on a dark night no moon out or any natural light out except stars. His squad was away from the main unit not by far maybe 100 yards at most. Everyone was asleep except for him and his buddy. There was 12 of em at the time all sleeping in a small area taking turns on guard duty. Well my gramps and his buddy were up telling stories of their childhood on their watch. When what he could only describe was the wailing of a dieing woman in the trees that sounded very close. The noise was loud enough it woke the rest of the troop. Their sarg asked em what the hell that was and neither could answer because they had no idea what just happened. The sarg has 3 people after that be on watch. We'll the next morning they scout around the area and close to were they stopped to rest for the night was something none of them could expect. Less then 30 yards away there was the remains of a fire and small tombstone that read "here lies a mother taken to soon from her family by her evil husband." He claims it was dated 1885 to 1915 with no name on it. He went onto claim more stuff similar happened but none with as vivid of clarity of sound like on that night. His squad also kept having personal effects go missing and how some would have their bags moved on em.

[@zesc1911]

PLEASE TELL 😂

[@devinparvin2707]

Well they ran into weird and terrifying sounds at night that came from destroyed huts and burned villages. Once he told me his squad was doing a 2 day patrol and that night they stopped to get some sleep. Only to be waken by a animalistic scream and a pack missing. They checked out the area it came from and there was a family graveyard in that direction with the pack in the middle of the graves

[@devinparvin2707]

There's more but those I remember because he seemed really creeped out just telling me em. That man never got creeper out by anything

[@danielarens9941]

Absolutely one of the BEST channels on KZbin!! Great job again to all involved in the making!

[@sircdrom]

Great episode! I'm from Sweden and I was entirely unfamiliar with this tale from our neighbours in the north. Also great to see your illustrations just get better and better, they add so much atmosphere to the stories.

[@TheBestVillain]

This is another one for the horror playlist, nice job

[@DioDCynic]

I see new a Wartime stories upload and I just click.

[@TheBabyCaleb]

I really appreciate you drawing and reading these stories instead of using an annoying AI voice and stock images

[@cuddlepaws4423]

Spotted this on our KZbin home page and thought, 'Ooh, Friday night treat!' Grabbed some nibbles and sat to watch. Very interesting and bizarre story. My husband finds it particularly interesting as he worked with someone Finnish, who was a petite HR person and a real sweetie. He would stop and chat to her often and learned from her what Finland was like. And because of her he looked up the history of Finland on Wikipedia, which he would advise anyone to do, and learned what a troubled history they have had with Sweden or Russia taking it in turn to invade. The one thing that seems to have held them together as a country is their language, which is very unique in comparison to surrounding countries. As others have said, we could listen to you for much longer. You are a great narrator and the scripts are very well written. And of course there is the brilliant artwork and the dialogue with the characters. Gives a sense of reality and puts you in the moment. Keep up the great work. Love from England.

[@DJVideso]

Never Ever Call Someone Petite again

[@sullyway51]

They are kind of like the Basque between Spain and France and yet have their own language.

[@user-io9ie5cs8j]

​@@DJVideso Well, what if she is petite? What's another option? Tiny?

[@DJVideso]

@@user-io9ie5cs8j Calling someone petite is so weird

[@ByronScott348]

@@DJVidesomidget then

[@MrWolff97]

Who makes the digital artwork for your videos man its looks amazing

[@staytuned2L337]

I think he does? If I remember properly from one of his other videos

[@mistral-unizion-music]

@@MrWolff97 At first it was Mickey Turcanu like on the sister channel "Bedtime Stories" but I think it's someone else now. Mickey got too busy doing Bedtime Stories if I recall correctly. I would like Luke to confirm just to be sure.

[@AverageAmerican]

@@mistral-unizion-music Negative. The reason Luke wanted to partner with Bedtime Stories was bcuz his artwork was so similar to Mickey's, and his channel was just as unique, and it seemed a no-brainer. When approached with the idea, Bedtime Stories decided to make Wartime Stories a sister channel. But Luke did his own artwork and maybe still does... He has an audio person that does all the sound editing.

[@mistral-unizion-music]

@@AverageAmerican Ok, good to know. If so, then he has even more talent than I thought!

[@Ian_Paneque]

History class with a bonus horror story in the middle. Amazing as always

[@olli9441]

The thing that makes me doubt that they were attacked by animals is that they were apparently torn apart but not eaten. If it had been animals there would probably not be much left of those soldiers. I feel there's definitely something spooky going on in that mountain. Anyway, love from Finland, it's always cool to hear new stories about my country 💙🇫🇮

[@riftvallance2087]

Ya I'm going to go out on a limb here and assume that the average finn soldier is familiar with what a wolf or bear attack looks like.

[@AverageAmerican]

Probably sub terrestrial giants they like to go by ET nowadays but they have a horrible MO that ties into cattle mutilations and they like to attack Russians in the mountains like they did at Dyatlov with the ten or eleven hikers...

[@blair3549]

its finland, not like the local wildlife could clear hundreds of bodies within hours or days.

[@spiralrose]

If the Russians had been attacked by animals, they wouldn’t have been taking their own lives because animals aren’t as terrifying as all that. With animals, they would’ve had a chance to shoot and kill… No reason to kill themselves

[@janemiettinen5176]

Wolves can get the same frenzy as dogs, when they just start pulling shit apart in manic fashion and even fight among themselves, eating only later. I think the Russians couldve surprised a pack and this was the result. Bears usually eat readymade carcasses they come upon and lynxes are loners, same as wolverines, I doubt they are the culprit here, company of soldiers is just too big. Moose would be a possibility, they are absolutely unpredictable and easily spooked savages. Another point is we did a lot of psychological warfare, we kinda had to against enemy so massive, this story might just be part of that.. but that would completely ruin a great story :)

[@wildwest5436]

We as humans think we have ot all figured out. Ignorance and Egotism is our biggest downfall. There is so much we just cannot comprehend.

[@barger5329]

I was not expecting a video about Karelian Skinwalkers today

[@AverageAmerican]

yikes

[@TealWolf26]

Makes me think of an Until Dawn Wendigo zipping around. Maybe the same supernatural creature tales are based on, like widespread vampire and wolfman tales across the globe. Or a cousin of it. Very fascinating.

[@AverageAmerican]

@@TealWolf26 monsters are real

[@spao9411]

@@AverageAmerican They're not, unless we're speaking of humans that act like monsters.

[@AverageAmerican]

@@spao9411 Sure, certain Hebrew Sheeple act like monsters. But do you think all people came from Adam while Holy Scripture is clear about two races who did not?

[@jackgilchrist]

Skinwalker specifically refers to several types of evil Navajo witches. Even in traditions of neighboring tribes like the Hopi or Ute, skinwalkers are Navajo witches. Other tribes may have their own witches that can shapeshift, and medicine people that may shapeshift, but they are not the same as skinwalkers, which are specifically types of Navajo witches. No wonder the Navajo don't want to talk to outsiders about such things (apart from not wanting to attract their attention, same reason many Irish and Scottish people don't talk about fairies. If they do they use nice euphemisms like "the good people" or "the noble people" so as not to piss them off). We get ahold of an idea and next thing we end up with Finnish "skinwalkers" or turn them into pop culture figures and horror stories. Same with Wendigos, which are a specific type of being (a type of evil spirit or demon, and those who become possessed by that demon) in the traditions of certain tribes of Eastern Canada and Northeastern U.S., but now they apparently turn up anywhere and everywhere and bear little to no resemblance to the indigenous tradition. Heck, we've done the same to some of our European traditions. Leprechauns have become funny little guys looking for their lucky charms (or murderous creatures), fairies have become essentially bugs with human bodies, elves make toys or cookies, gnomes hang out in gardens getting shat upon by birds and squirrels... 🤷🏻 That's what we do, I suppose. But the sad thing is the original traditions, which are inportant parts of human history and culture, end up getting lost or forgotten, replaced by the caricatures we created.

[@kats9755]

Thank you for this comment. I always scratch my head when I hear a story about, for instance, a w*ndigo in the desert SW of the United States. Like uhhhhh those aren't from these parts. You probably encountered something weird but, my friend, I do not think it was a desert w*ndigo. I think the only thing about specifically "skinwalkers" is that the word sounds like a generic catch-all for "things that walk in different skins". Kinda like how "shaman" is used as a generic term for holy person or medicine worker when it's actually a specific title from a specific people.

[@SairanBurghausen]

@@kats9755 The Finnic Koirankuonalaiset are not that different from skinwalkers tbqh

[@joaogomes9405]

The internet takes a people's culture and turns them into a meme. It's how it's always been

[@SairanBurghausen]

There are countless stories about such events in Finnish war history, all the way from ancient sagas about Bjarmians and Kvens to spooky stuff from the 1600s. Specific areas too like Koli are filled with folklore about "dangerous spirits", known on mount Koli as "the murderous men of the black chest".

[@amethyst1826]

Where can we find these, preferably in English, please, if possible?

[@SairanBurghausen]

@@amethyst1826 Pretty much impossible in English. They're even difficult to find in Finnish online. Usually you already gotta know what you're looking for and the specific key words.

[@riftvallance2087]

That's a terrifying name

[@SairanBurghausen]

Oh and for those who are into Missing 411: in Finland we have a folklore phenomenon called Metsänpeitto which is pretty much identical to those disappearances as well as Native American/Japanese/etc legends about "spiriting away" in general. Everything from "the forest suddenly going quiet" to "people taking their clothes off or wearing them in reverse" to "the person is found in a spot searched many times over because they haven't actually moved far away, they're in the same spot but within another 'layer' of reality." It's scary how similar these beliefs are despite these peoples being disconnected by thousands of kilometers.

[@SairanBurghausen]

@@riftvallance2087 I'd say the most terrifying name/term in our military history is one that's been used to refer to the most horrifying/deadly of the Finnish (including Tavastian and Karelian) guerrilla chiefs: "Murhanenkeli", or "Angel of Murder". Interesting characters from this category (which will definitely be to your taste if you're into both spooky folklore and military history), would be.... Pekka Vesainen, an ostrobothnian chieftain who fought the Russians for decades and had his family massacred multiple times over. He carried out the massacre of the monks at the Kandalaksha monastery. Musta Nykyri, a similar figure who had tanned skin and dark hair, loud as a beast and a giant of a man. Vesainen also had a Karelian rival called Iivana Rokačču. All of them are famous for being these shadowy figures leading men through rivers and forests and snowy plains to ambush and assault larger forces and towns, taking no prisoners and waging war with terror. All of them are also associated with supernatural abilities, ancient Finnish shamanism and the like.

[@Lejeron]

As a finn, there are definitely some unknown things out there in our deep woods that we dont know of. I’ve had several encounters with things that got me the chills and real fear.

[@abcdefg7046]

In Finland or vottovaara?

[@spuqe69]

Yeah same, many wierd things. Just week ago when we were on Halla-Aho's familys cottage we took some pics of our drunken friend and after coming home we saw some old lady standing on the picture outside at 2am in the middle of nowhere. Still gives me the creeps. And didn't help that my friend woke up in the middle of the night hearing scratching sounds coming from the wall of the sauna building where he was sleeping, after banging at the wall where he heard the sound just jumped toward the door and he called my friend to go save him. Only thing he saw was a humanoid figure but more an animal looking that didn't fit into its body... scary stuff

[@nocturessa]

​@@spuqe69 lmao im never going to finland omg

[@SairanBurghausen]

@@spuqe69Ei perkele jätkä on päässy Halla-Ahon mökille :DDD mutjuu, kuulostaa kyl aika perus suomalais-ugrilainen metsä keissiltä

[@abcdefg7046]

@@spuqe69 Ok aika raju tarina luulin et suomi on tylsä paikka missä ei ikinä tapahdu mitään creepyä. Ok pretty sick story i always thought that Finland is a boring place were never happends anything creepy.

[@garymcewan5876]

Thanks Luke. I always love a new episode from you!

[@LilDeppHead777]

Who's Luke and how do u know this is luke

[@user-xo2tt4yd2q]

There’s horrible entity’s we don’t know about that’s the scary thing

[@dollyhorton2579]

Thank God, something decent to listen to that isn't just politicians bitching. Thank you so much for all the hard work, your videos are appreciated so much! Always interesting and informative, and produced very professionally.

[@helenjones4550]

Thank you for the wonderful narration. This channel should have a million subscribers! ❤

[@einienj3281]

Trolls/goblins/evil fae live in places like that. Between the big rocks. And bears.. I had a Karelian bear dog. Best dog I have ever had. Great video, Thank You and Greetings from Finland 🇫🇮

[@Pembroke.]

Werewolves

[@donovanbradford8231]

maybe the berserker werewolves created by Odin himself.

[@BreandanOCiarrai]

Anyone hearing the descriptions of the mechanism of injury of the corpses and claiming it was a bear or wolves is some cube gopher who's vast knowledge of the wilderness comes from watering their houseplants. I live in Alaska and I've seen bear mauling victims- both survivors brought into our ER and those who's bodies were eaten that we had to recover- and have seen remains scavenged by wolves (they didn't kill the person, post-mortem scavenging up north of here) and they don't leave bodies in the conditions described. That isn't even taking into account that I live with these creatures, there's a wolf pack not a half mile from here and a momma bear and her cubs currently snoozing away three hundred yards up the mountain behind the hospital I'm working in right now. There is no way in the nineteen flaming hells of tap-dancing China that they would attack a large group of armed men over two nights and kill all of them. They might attack and pick off a straggler or two, but to engage the entire unit in what sounds like a full-on frontal assault? No way in hell, their goal is food, not vengeance. One or two men would be enough to feed a pack and they would snatch and drag the bodies off to a safe place to feed, not stick around for two nights going John Wick on the ten frillion men with the bang sticks and boom rocks. I also know Finns, and I know the Sámi by reputation, they aren't prone to BSing so if they say it happened I believe them. If they say the Soviet troops were torn apart like this, with no animal bodies found, I say stay the hell off of the mountain and call it a day.

[@SairanBurghausen]

The sámi though have absolutely nothing to do with this story. Seems a foreign (most likely American) misreading and conclusion has had them take the term "native" (here referring to local Karelians and Finnish-Karelians) and assume it refers to the sámi.

[@CherokeeFlutist59]

The fact you can positively identify and know for certain the abilities of these predators and you saying there's no way in hell they would've done what happened just makes this story all the more terrifying. It makes one think that Vootavaara is home to something ancient and vengeful. And those dudes came in too big a number with malicious intent and that probably pissed it off.

[@marhawkman303]

@@CherokeeFlutist59 To me, the real question here is just how accurate any descriptions even are. We have very little more than a handful of anecdotes. I can't call it a good example of anything.

[@CherokeeFlutist59]

@@marhawkman303 that's a fair assumption. Does make for a scary ass thought, though. But that is a true thing, it did happen over 70 years ago and details could've been lost and mixed up.

[@CherokeeFlutist59]

@@marhawkman303 you gotta admit though, even with those flaws, it's still a pretty good war horror story. Question is how real is it? We may never know.

[@Just_a_Danish_viking]

Hey love your videos but im sorry but"Sami Are indigenous to Scandinavian" and say that the Sami Are in Danmark is not true. The Sami Are nadiv to Lapland and also live in the most north part of Norway, Sweden, Finland and Russia The Sami have never been to Danmark As Dane i felt the need to say Anyway love your videos, keep posting

[@rommerro17]

I don't know too much about Sámi, but even I thought it is impossible for them to be natives of Denmark. Luke really needs to do more historical research before making his videos.

[@Puttrich]

Also, the people who were to become the Swedes and Norwegians settled before the Sami, at least in the southern parts of Scandinavia. So, we are the true indigenous peoples.

[@patrickkelmer6290]

10:20 the Sami are pretty much far away from Denmark, the closest thing is that the danish crown reigned over them when Denmark and Norway were in a personal union until the early 19th century.

[@laurenmontine]

You have the best videos out there. you and mr ballen are my favorite channels.

[@osakarose5612]

Don't forget Bedtime Stories!

[@achristine80]

The indigenous folks know. Listen to them when they tell you to stay away from specific areas. You’d think after all this time, we non indigenous would have figured this out.

[@andrewhall7176]

Many of them also tell you to smoke dung for a cold...

[@JesiWhyte]

Hi Luke! Keep doing what you're doing man! Love from Jamaica 🇯🇲.

[@chrish.6934]

I absolutely love this channel. The narration, the black & white animation.

[@ssokolow]

The twisted, stunted trees make me think "microclimate". That tends to happen when trees are surviving, but struggling to do so in the face of icy winds. Likewise, I'd always do your best to go back to primary sources on any kind of indigenous-sourced information. For example, the original Mansi that Kholat Syakhl (the mountain where Dyatlov Pass is) translates from does mean "dead mountain"... but it can also translate as "silent peak" and, if you ask them for an explanation, it's meant more as "Nothing to hunt there. Don't bother." than as something creepy.

[@SairanBurghausen]

The Kholat in Kholat Syakhl is a cognate with Finnish Kuolo (also meaning death), as Mansi and Finnish are related languages. There's a somewhat corresponding mountain in East Finland called Koli, where legends have long been told about deadly and hostile spirits known as "mustarinnan murhat miehet" or "the murderous men of Black Chest." Also a local legend about a Finnish shaman using a "cave temple" inside the mountain to conduct rituals, making the rocks shake and the waters boil.

[@SairanBurghausen]

Yeah, Kholat Syakhl is basically the Mansi sister of Koli mountain in Finland, based on the presence of evil spirits and even down to the meaning of the name

[@ssokolow]

@@SairanBurghausen I think I'll trust the sources dug up by The Lore Lodge's Aiden Mattis (who is a trained historian and folklorist and, thus, knows how to dig up trustworthy sources) which say they named it "dead peak" because they named it before the climate warmed (relatively recently) when it was cold enough that the mountaintop was all bare shale and snow.

[@SairanBurghausen]

@@ssokolow I'm very familiar with Aiden and I don't recall saying anything contradictory. You sound very autistic.

[@Dimetropteryx]

You're exactly right, it's microclimate, but especially the amount of soil and consequently the amount of water and nutrients. Much of the area is exposed rock and I guarantee you won't be able to sink the blade of a shovel all the way into what little soil there is.

[@ashleybrooke2087]

Kholat Syakhl has been real quiet since this dropped.

[@ufosrus]

Who is Kholat?

[@SairanBurghausen]

Bruh I've literally brought it up in the comments here a few times. Insane. And well, Voittovaara isn't too far from the haunted mountain of Koli, which is a Finnic variant of the same word as Kholat: a word in Finno-Ugric languages meaning "death". Though I assume you already knew the Mansi meaning of the word.

[@ashleybrooke2087]

@@SairanBurghausen The Dyatlov Pass tragedy is why Kholat Syakhl is infamous though the ominous name the Mansi gave it was because the mountain is sparse with game to hunt. Though that definitely doesn't necessary mean there's not dangerous wildlife or something else prowling around.

[@andrewhall7176]

The Finns and the Germanic peoples are also indigenous to Scandinavia. It seems many Americans have been programmed to view all hunter-gatherer/sedentary population relationships as basically the same as that between Native American Indians and Europeans.

[@andrewhall7176]

@@x-wing8785 Indigenous does not mean "the original settlers who have remained a minority when another population or culture takes over". I don't know where you got that made up definition from. It means "originating in, or native to". The Sami were the first identifiable people in parts of the Nordic countries, but that doesn't mean the Finns and the Germanic peoples are not indigenous to those countries either. In fact, there are parts of Scandinavia for which there is no evidence that the Sami were the first people in those particular areas, and evidence of other groups going back a very, very long time. Drop the narrative of indigenous people necessarily being some oppressed minority who had all their lands stolen, and of current majority populations as some sort of invaders who just took everything (and who by implication either have no right to their countries, or who owe the "indigenous" people for the crimes they have committed against them). The whole world's history doesn't work the way a left-wing American professor thinks it does.

[@andrewhall7176]

​@@x-wing8785 KZbin deleted my original response to you, I see. Basically, the definition you gave is a nonsense definition; that is not the definition of the word "indigenous". "Indigenous" means "originating in, or native to". It does not mean "first in", and it certainly doesn't mean what you said it meant in your first comment. I did not use Wikipedia; I used general knowledge plus an actual dictionary. Wikipedia is unreliable, and the article you read was dead wrong when it claimed the Saami were the only indigenous Europeans. The Basques are indigenous. The Indo-Europeans are indigenous, because they originated on the steppe to the north of the Black Sea, which is in Europe. There are megaliths all over Europe from before the Saami. I know that your comment about Wikipedia was an attempted put-down, but all it really did is show you don't know much about this topic in reality and Wikipedia doesn't either. As for the oppression and politics, no , you didn't say anything about that, but it would be very American to start harping on about it at some point, and if you are an American I would not be surprised if this is the direction your mind automatically goes in whenever you start thinking about hunter-gatherers: they had their land stolen, they are oppressed, redress is needed, the majority population actually shouldn't be there. Based on the definition of "indigenous" you gave me I would not be surprised at all.

[@chrisseanrobson]

Amazing work guys !! ❤😍😇🙏🏻

[@packleaderstealthcamping1808]

Look up the deadliest sniper ever. It was a Finn during the era of this Winter War. I think something like 200+ confirmed kills. Even during the height of the viking age, the Norse knew that the Shamanic Finns could mutilate you and offer you up to their strange gods with the widest smiles on their painted faces.

[@markjackson3531]

Simo Hayha (spelling may be off)

[@generalmarkmilleyisbenedic8895]

The White Death(based)

[@RoseNZieg]

I was pleasantly surprised in my readings to learn that there were native people not of Nordic descent. the soviets should had listened to the natives. they were right.

[@CaptCKernel]

The Sami people are really fascinating and worth a deep dive, some really cool stuff

[@einienj3281]

They live in the most northern parts of Norway, Sweden, Finland, Karelia and Russia.

[@SairanBurghausen]

Finns and Sámi are of the same Finno-Ugric ancestry. Finns aren't "Nordic" (in the ethnic or linguistic sense) or rather Norse either.

[@einienj3281]

@@SairanBurghausen We Finns came from current Russia after the ice age.

[@kristofferhaugstad7616]

The samis are indigenous but not native to the region. They arrived 2000 years ago while the Scandinavians arrived 11 000 years ago to Scandinavia

[@amethyst1826]

Yaaaaaaay!! A new one, & I'm early to it for a nice change!! Hi everyone, I hope you're all well.

[@YuNherd]

yes, another cryptid/mystery story. thanks w.stories.

[@ella-bella19]

I don’t understand why people never listen to the locals in these stories🤦‍♀️ Also I don’t think it was any kind of animal that we are aware of in that area. If it was why didn’t it eat them, and why would the men kill themselves if there were 100 and they were armed

[@rommerro17]

I have read some weird stories about Soviet time here. I remember one story about meliorators wanting to move some large stone and elder locals warning not to do that or bad things will happen. And sure thing mysterious deaths soon followed for those who didn't heed the warning. Just because you think you are "advanced and educated" doesn't mean old curses or defenses of sacred places are cancelled.

[@Nyctophora]

This was truly chilling. Thank you. I think that the land has its own ideas about who should go there, and who should not. Or something(s) so old that they may as well be the land.

[@leghunter2316]

sooo underated this man need to get 1 million subscriber atleast for his effort

[@matthewmckitrick8592]

My Brother. As someone with both Sami and Norse blood, I can say with certainty that the Swedes, Danes, Finns, and Norse are all indigenous peoples of Scandinavia.

[@SairanBurghausen]

Please stop this, American...

[@LedgerBalance]

This is wrong in multiple ways. For starters, you said Swedes and Danes twice because you don't seem to understand that "Norse" doesn't mean (what I think you're meaning to say) Norwegian. It's a blanket term to refer to EVERYONE in the Nordic ethnic group, so Norwegians, Swedes, Danes, Faroese, and Icelanders, among some other insular groups of Nordic people. Second, not only are Finns not indigenous to Scandinavia, but they don't even inhabit Scandinavia! Finland is explicitly excluded from Scandinavia by every credible source. Finally, and most importantly, while the term indigenous can mean "from (i.e., native to) a certain region," that is the biological definition and is meaningless when comparing populations of people. The definition when talking about people you should use is the anthropological definition which refers to what group of people have inhabited the region the longest.

[@ianmacfarlane1241]

Fantastic storytelling as always - thoroughly enjoyed this episode.

[@chronictoasty-_-1969]

Now this is punctuality.

[@ec329]

doubt it was something benign like a pack of wolves or bear, no animal can survive a burst of a machine gun, let alone multiple ones and let alone stay fighting for 2 days...

[@imppaxd2790]

Its finland so the wild life is built diffrent

[@logangarner3578]

This is probably where Love Death Robots got the inspiration for Secret War

[@SlanderFails]

I've never clicked on a video so fast.

[@benjaminbabus6466]

Of course wartime stories drops a banger right after I end work on a Friday ! Well gonna have to book mark it for Monday ! Love your content thank you from just a guy in a wood shop in New Jersey

[@LennyPayne-iz8lc]

This is one of the most professionally, captivating channels on this platform, he has a perfect voice for this type of content, not to mention how he enthralls the listeners as to almost put you at the scene of the event at hand

[@K._Oss]

Once again dropped everything I was doing for Wartime Stories.

[@abrahamwayman9864]

Hey bro you're back

[@billyjackson7943]

Dude you are the best these videos make my 12hr shifts way better

[@cynderfan2233]

During the Winter War, Finnish troops would sometimes take dead Soviet soldiers whose bodies had frozen solid and position them in strange poses, such as head down in the snow to scare the Soviets. This gave rise to a lot of myths about monsters in the forests.

[@_seekingthetruth_1447]

Man, I see a new video from you in my feed and everything else gets pushed back. I stop everything to watch it. You're a great storyteller! Thanks for such a great channel.

[@imppaxd2790]

Makes me scratch my head in confusion considering sami never had been that far south but a samic people yes but should be karelians and finns and not sami people

[@petergray2712]

Historically, they lived much further south than they do now, particularly around Lake Ladoga and Lake Onega. The name Vottovaara is of Sami origin, meaning "Mountain of Victory."

[@More_Row]

They used to live further south indeed, and were more numerous.

[@SairanBurghausen]

@@petergray2712 Uhh, no? Not at all! Voittovaara is literally Finnic. It would make absolutely no sense in any Sámi language. In modern Finnish, Voittovaara means "mount victory." In sámi on the other hand, gibberish. Both words derive from proto-Finnic and have no etymological connection to Sámic.

[@EphemeralProductions]

Ciao sir! Thanks so much for another mysterious, awesome video’ 👍🏼❤️

[@mistral-unizion-music]

Yes! New story! Keep it up! 😊

[@lifdohop]

Ooh story from Finland kinda! Finally something spooky from my country 😆😆

[@spuqe69]

Didn't think here has happened anything scarier than the budget cuts from our goverment... and they are even real!👹👹

[@adambishop4427]

Another banger

[@FiauraTheTankGirlGamer]

There are reasons beyond just the cold, why these places are unsettled by permanent human settlement.

[@TarahMatson-zz2hj]

Thank you for your hard work researching these stories. I love them. You just made my night better. Blessings to you and your family.🇺🇸

[@interpl6089]

The World is huge...it is said we have only documented about 10 - 20% of all animal types and that 80% or more remains *UNDISCOVERED* , waiting for us to show up.

[@lemarch57]

It is huge and impossible for most people to grasp that concept unless they have truly experienced the wilderness or the depths of the oceans. The world is a far stranger and more diverse place than we’re led to believe.

[@minimushrom]

To be fair, most of these are insects and small life in the deep sea.

[@lemarch57]

@@minimushrom If even 1% of those thousands of unknown species are larger than humans, that leaves a lot of potential creatures yet unknown to modern scientists that have the potential to to scare the hell out of us. 😁

[@AverageAmerican]

Oh man, if you only knew what the Lawless Ones look like, you can imagine the company of 'people' more terrible than your worst nightmares! That's right. I made a video about them called, _200 Nephilim in 300 Seconds_ that is the ultimate collection of pictures and illustrations of Hamites. They are a race of giants who like to go by ET nowadays. My video is intended to show the widely varied body styles of their race... But inevitably it also shows how hideous they are.

[@deenamorgan6674]

First of all, I love your channel. The script, Luke, the narrator, the artwork... All of it. It's amazing. And then (even though I truly enjoy the hair-raising mix of wartime and the supernatural), I'm going to be a bit of a wet blanket. Here goes: Hypothermia, especially extreme cases, can certainly cause hallucinations. I live in a reasonably northern area at a fairly high elevation. And I've done some amateur research, especially after researching the Dyatlov Pass incident. There. The logical part of my brain is satisfied. Needless to say, I also believe that some "border" type natural landscapes can be a type of gateway. As the famous, fictional detective says, "When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth." Wonderful stuff! Thank you!

[@Ray-zu4mt]

Wow what an incredible story. Chilling to say the least.

[@propakindustries22]

Dude, your channel is awesome. Thank you for all the work you put into these episodes.

[@klutttmuttsprutt6087]

Victory mountain, or Mountain of Victory. Who's the winner...

[@MarsupialMason]

Not the ruski's thats for sure

[@pechkin9474]

​@@MarsupialMasonwe control this territory, so think again

[@bill5982]

Bears would not be out in the winter or have cubs at that time of year.

[@casey3713]

Wow i was just thinking about this channel and how i wish there was a new monster video to watch. The animation takes this channel to the next level.

[@Aiden-wg4pu]

Another banger from WS! Love this story, so mysterious, so spooky! So well written, I love the descriptions and sound design! Thanks for the content, keep up the great work!

[@Dihechuwa]

love the integrity of your channel❤ entertainment achieved

[@DrBright5558]

Dude, I got chills SO hard when you said "Skinwalker". Such an amazingly talented buildup!

[@generalmarkmilleyisbenedic8895]

Cringe

[@DrBright5558]

@@generalmarkmilleyisbenedic8895 How so?

[@aleshapetrunak2974]

Finally a new one!!! Absolutely love your channel and the stories. Thanks fior sharing it to us

[@phenomagator]

Such a high quality channel. I think more frequent uploads would propel this channel to a million subs in no time!

[@koltondavis5975]

How can the Russians be so ill prepared for cold when their own country is just as cold

[@viktorsundberg3101]

They are just dumb corrupt drunks in European/American standards. Even today, if some installation or job is done poorly, we say "its russianed" in Finnish/Swedish.

[@petergray2712]

Because their leadership had too much trust in their mechanized units. They thought that the overwhelming force of tanks, aircraft, and artillery would blow through what they thought was an overglorified Christmas tree plantation and conquer the country in less than two weeks. Soviet High Command wanted a mechanized attack because they wanted to impress/intimidate the Germans, and they went ahead on Joseph Stalin's orders despite their own misgivings.

[@bluemoondaren]

They still are ill prepared

[@IvanIvanoIvanovich]

It was partly clothing, but more importantly logistics and culture. The Finns were in their own country, had both military and voluntary supply lines, and not all Soviet troops came from cold climates. The Finns had warming huts for men to take breaks from the cold, field cooking carts for warm food, and of course saunas.