What is the Oldest Mummy in the World?

[@brendanrouth3807]

Okay but Caitlin walking through the desert in a jacket with an oversized handbag and wearing hoop earrings and those Mariah Carey shades is a LOOK tho

[@31michelle64]

Fallon is a high desert, and it gets quite cold there. She could have been anywhere between 3500-5000 feet. She's lucky she didn't find snow, but they have gotten most of their snow in Feb this year.

[@bcbindle]

Brendan Routh i agree Brendan

[@adrienneandcarlie]

Yaas dahling😘

[@ocandro]

Brendan Routh the desert Sun is almost as bleak as fluorescent lighing, hence the ensemble, dahling! hats of to anybody, who can Mimify a sentence even more

[@TSwEzzY1992]

right she slaying out in the desert

[@pinkdirt6869]

19 minutes?!? I thought Christmas just passed but apparently it's today!!

[@AskAMortician]

Corpsey Claus

[@Allen21395]

Merry december twenty fifth

[@AlyRoad]

so agree!!

[@nicolascanselo5838]

@@AskAMortician Merry deathmas

[@catrinadollsandsugarskulls9865]

Truthhhhh

[@LindsayEllisVids]

pff what kind of youtuber travels to topic-relevant locations? ridiculous

[@AskAMortician]

Was just gonna be a family vlog like "hey guys! Let's find some mmuuuummmiiieesss!!"

[@AnnoyingAsianWitch]

DARK MOTHERS UNITE

[@jezzyjenn]

Maybe a good youtuber? Rather they show us what they’re talking about than just talk about it...

[@catamitee]

@@jezzyjenn its supposed to be joke of sorts- lindsay does this in her videos ^^

[@claudiarcade]

a fave watches another fave? my world is brighter now

[@spencersaunders1990]

the really sad thing about the chinchoro mummies was that they where mostly children. young children and fetus. theres a theroy that they preserved the children like this for the mothers to be able to continue to look after their babies. its believed that high levels of natural arsenic contributed to a high child mortality rate and people living in the area today are still effected due to water contamination... its all kinda... really depressing

[@cassandrahepp6445]

They have introduced ways for the people still living there to purify the water now. But it's still facinating to see that very tangible link from the present to the past. I just hope they manage to save the mummies. It's tragic to think that they could be lost so quickly after surviving for so long.

[@vinny9868]

Do you think the local people could have evolved in a way to make the slightly more resistant to it?

[@spencersaunders1990]

@@vinny9868 you realise its arsinc right? you dont evolve to be resistant to it, it still impacts them in the same ways it effected the chinchro people, and its still documentable today, they just have better water purification and teatments for the litteral poison in their water suply

[@MikkiManson13]

Really? There are 282 mummies, they appear to be mainly adults. What I think got you confused is articles about a group of 15 mummies, mostly children, that were being used for some research?

[@Avituchita]

Hey guys, I live in the city that you're talking about, like an hour and a half from where the child mummy was found. We are pretty much ok, this country has laws about the water potability and all that, even if people still prefer purify water, it's cheap, but, if you choose water from the sink... well, you will be mostly fine. Also, about Chinchorros, "you may lift a rock and find a Chinchorro mummy", like... we have a lot, A LOT. They're lovely and everywhere.

[@nella_paulina]

I am from Chile, Arica, where chinchorro mommies are from, and it feels really nice to see more people talking about them

[@nella_paulina]

@@robertevilla338 Arica is the city

[@amethystrain2513]

Is this practice still in use at all? It's very interesting, and you must really honor the dead to want to do this. Thanks.

[@nella_paulina]

@@amethystrain2513 not at all, chinchorro's culture died thousands of years ago, but their remains can still be found. Also, in the Anzota caves you can find their drawings on the walls :)

[@amethystrain2513]

@@nella_paulina thank you, I'll definitely be looking into that. Have a great Sunday.

[@nella_paulina]

@@amethystrain2513 no problem, have a nice day too :)

[@MorganThaGorgan]

My respect grows every day for Caitlin. Most people don't understand the Native American Protection and Repatriation Act, and I am often told by excited people how they found a Native American bone and they display it in their collection of oddities. And it always horrifies me, not just as an Indigenous person but just as a person. I also have a collection of oddities, but my collection does not include human remains. And I am always astonished by how Indigenous remains, no matter how old or how recent, are seen as things to collect ...like pretty rocks or animal bones. I even respect how Caitlin talked candidly about how she wanted to delve deeper and be the one to tell the story, just because she was genuinely interested and was coming from a good place. But I like that she respected the wishes of the Nation who claimed their ancestor and who wished to keep some things from her, and us because most Indigenous cultures are closed.

[@skeletoninyourbody9896]

When i saw that TikTok white boy collecting human spines that have been apparently misplaced native american dead people's spines...i felt so sick to my stomach. Like that's criminal, immoral, disgusting. Dead deserve to rest.

[@DanielleBaum]

this so much. not native in any sense but I do have several friends in the Lakota Sioux tribe of south Dakota and what I learned from them and reading books from people with actual heritage vs well....white people makes me feel protective of the stories and memories they shared with me and not to be upset when they don't include me in things because it isn't mine to know. I also try to use the knowledge I do have to educate others....and smack people in the back of the head to respect sacred spaces and to stop fing them up just because they exist.

[@ramonpineda1807]

Threre are not from India, so they are not indigenous

[@kaerstyx]

@@ramonpineda1807 That's not what the word indigenous mean LMFAO

[@Nerevarine420]

​@Danielle Shuping bruh white people have heritage your being racist af. Is native heritage cool, sure, but I'm getting tired of the constant putting down of white culture

[@paris-elizabethfreeman9477]

The twist in the end, with your clear discussion of "this is not my story to tell" is so... refreshing. The respect you have for the dead, even the ancient dead is much appreciated.

[@ericharkleroad7716]

You saying "It's all kind of 2019" in early 2019 has a whole new meaning here in Marprilay of 2020

[@grandmabea6471]

What a golden era 2019 seems like now. ;-; And how sad a comparison that is.

[@kayleed2497]

This

[@flowxrpot]

At 11:49 she said "the government is shut down" and I thought this was a recent video

[@fitari]

@@flowxrpot same

[@ganymededarling]

@@flowxrpot that was the federal government shutdown of early 2019 which feels like a million years ago

[@tigerlily8117]

This video was so awesome! As a Native American I am SO happy that you showed so much dignity and respect for the wishes of the tribe in Nevada. My father was a strong proponent of the repatriation act and once had a lengthy legal battle with a museum in Michigan that had a very old Ojibwe body on display. Long story short, I have attended secret reburials (which is common with "special" corpses so they aren't messed with by the curious) and it's very emotional for everyone as we mourn this very human connection to our past. It's so great that you have shown that honor in this video. It's one of the many reasons I'm a huge fan of your channel.

[@cassiebush8288]

My tribe has had a similar experience with a Museum and the day we got our ancestors,(there were two)we all cried of joy. I'm Potawatomi and from Michigan, interesting to see someone with so much in common with me.

[@tigerlily8117]

@@cassiebush8288 That's wonderful that you were able to get both ancestors returned to you! I know how difficult the historical societies here in MI can be to deal with. I am also part Potawatomi so this is really cool for me to hear from you too here on KZbin. Aniin my relation, I'm happy to meet you!

[@cassiebush8288]

Kristina Starck it’s nice to meet you too. Here’s a little of my introduction, I figure people can’t stalk me because most won’t understand : mgizi ndotem, matchebnashiwish ndebendagwis, mdadso zitch shwadso Nde ponges, mine Bradley ndochbya.

[@tigerlily8117]

@@cassiebush8288 That's smart! Here is a little of mine too: Shawana Cadepineshi Ozawa-megwin endow. Nim makwa indoodem. Nim imbaabaa gii-Midewiwin. Nimaamaa ayaa Cherokee. Niin ayaan niso ingoziis. ndininiim ayaa Dominick.

[@crissus89]

I'm honestly curious, I'm Central American and as you know our blood is extremely mixed. In my county even do we have some people who have more native blood, most of the kids don't care anymore for traditions and the stories of the elders. Some groups and individuals are trying to record the eldest people's tales, the Nahuatl just a few still speak and save a much as we can. Unfortunately due to the process of the conquest, the globalization and all, the vast majority of it it's gone. We have very few archeologist, historians and anthropologist that try to investigate a long forgotten time. I would love to learn more about our own past and the one of other civilizations. Do you guys feel like there are things of your traditions that might have gotten lost in time? Are there efforts to record the stories before the kids stop hearing them? Are there any collaborations between researchers/scientists and tribes to try and learn more of the ancestors in a respectful way? I believe oral and written tradition is very valuable, but at least in our location it can be hard to get and even at times unreliable (much of what we have is even from after the Spanish came and some got mixed with the Aztecs and other tribes during the process of colonization) and we are only left with the remains of people, artifacts and structures of the past to learn more about it. I'm just curious about how it's handled in North America. Btw I'm really sorry if I'm being disrespectful or my English is bad. 😓

[@serioushex3893]

imagine being a random guy 10,000 years ago, and suddenly you're one of the most scientifically important corpses on the planet

[@ketchup016]

I think I'd love it. If anyone digs me up in 10,000 years I hope they study the hell out of me. Might as well be remembered through death if I won't be remembered for my life!

[@kristinemcgowen7842]

“Suddenly” lol

[@storm___]

and they weren't allowed to be kept safe, preserved and studied because some random modern people's feelings would be hurt

[@frances-if5fp]

​@@storm___Lack of empathy and compassion for other cultures is so "colonizer" of you. It's about demanding respect for tradition, not "feelings".

[@ThatGirlHoney]

​@@storm___it's about dignity for the deceased and preservation of that dignity, not feelings.

[@buringplumbranches]

otzi is dabbing. he may not be the oldest mummy but that is the oldest known dab

[@Zedigan]

Otzi is best Mummy

[@CapnUnicorns]

Floss like a bötzi I’m sorry I did that.

[@julianfantasia9033]

True.

[@mr.whatareyadoin889]

nah he's about to crank that soujla boy

[@trevorkooken2382]

Nah otzi cranking that Soulja boi

[@lorekeepermeerah]

Native here, repatriation is still a HUGE issue. Like to this day, this kind of thing happens all the time. Its awful. These bones are our family. Ty for covering this story in a respectable way, Caitlin!

[@lisam5744]

The level of ignorance and arrogance shown in this country (and in some of the comments here...seriously, wow!) towards native culture/custom is still very much on display. If what was done, under the guise of science, to native and other POC in this country was done to their families, they'd be screaming from the rooftops. But since it's not, they just don't understand what the big deal is.

[@tzukishiro]

@@lisam5744 poor jackass

[@lazyhomebody1356]

@@lisam5744 No I wouldn't It's tha past, it happened to other people. It does not involve me. Dig up my great-great-grandfather if you so desire

[@loriburnip]

I think as long as it's old enough it becomes more acceptable. It's the difference between archaeology and grave-robbing. I'm Scandinavian & Viking burials are dug up all the time. Doesn't bother me even if I am distantly related to them. On the contrary. I find the information found during those digs to be fascinating! Of course it should be done with respect, but part of how we learn about who we are is learning about where we came from & those who came before us.

[@myriamd3152]

@@loriburnip It is interesting to us westerners because it is part of our culture. It seems not to be culturally acceptable for these native Americans. And maybe natives are fed up with westerners fiddling with their ancestors without even asking

[@Monocromal]

Hey Caitlin! Another deathling from Arica, Chile here! Chinchorro mummies are very important in our city, yet not very known in the rest of our country. We're taught that chinchorro mummies are older than Egyptian ones yet people always say that the chinchorro ones "oficially" don't count as the oldes in the world since the mummification process is different somewhow. So it was such a nice surprise to see them properly featured here, I didn't think you'd consider them in the nomination! hahaaha it felt like we actually won the award

[@helmaschine1885]

Really? I have never heard anyone argue that Egyptian mummies are the only true mummies. I mean, pretty much everyone knows about those natural monk mummies in Tibet and those incan or whatever sacrificed mummified children. If you're dealing with bullshit gatekeeping of mummification again, now you have a video to shove in their face! :)

[@SJ-98]

I’ve taken a couple of classes about mummies and ancient Egypt, and the Chinchorro mummies were always brought up as being the oldest

[@cyanoplast]

i thought of the chinchorro mummies immediately when the question was presented. western ideas of what's proper screws everyone over, especially since we know the brits couldn't keep their paws off of anyone's culture

[@perlapereira6157]

It's true here in Chile we don't know much about the Chinchorro mummies. I heard on the news the were melting but nothing else. It's nice to know I am not the only one from Chile! Greetings from La Serena.

[@QueenBeeBeautyXO]

My sister is FINALLY going to MORTICIAN SCHOOL!! SHE'S 52!! SO PROUD OF HER!! SHE'S BEEN WANTING TO GO SINCE SHE WAS A KID! I directed her to YOUR CHANNEL 😊 I'm going to a work shop with her on 3/12/19.They will have a dead body there! Excited to go with her😊💀😊

[@AskAMortician]

Good for her! Go girl.

[@eugefederico1178]

Congratulations to you and your sister! 🎉

[@KayleeCee]

That's awesome! My mom wanted to go back to school to become a paralegal via an online program. The only problem was that the program would have required her to spend a few weeks at the campus, which is 3 hours away from her home. She still had my younger brother and sister living with her at the time, and they were still quite young. Now that they've both graduated and are grown I keep hoping that she'll try again. She works 3 different jobs just to make ends meet, and it would be so nice if she could get just one really good job and only have to do that. She's 55, and she would make an awesome paralegal. She's so good at research and compiling facts, and I think it's something that she would enjoy doing.

[@melindaroop1346]

Lucky!!! I've always wanted to do it but chose to be a stay at home mom instead

[@sammygirl6910]

That's amazing! I'm about to turn 50, she's an inspiration to me. Give her a high five from me!

[@kelzbelz313]

I’m really looking foreword to the video with Caitlin ranting for twenty minutes about Kim Kardashian and frogs.

[@AskAMortician]

Thank you, you see me.

[@ciel9112]

@@AskAMortician please do make another video including those topics

[@crystallacy3581]

Plot twist they’re related

[@dawnmidnightsun2521]

Yes, we need this......and of course a cameo from *benthom's head*

[@sarahmcguire6092]

Me too I can’t wait plz do rant videos

[@SMFortissimo]

It is absolutely fascinating that this tribe knew about the remains and let them rest there for literally thousands of years. Generations of people telling their children and their children's children etc. about the Spirit Cave and how you shouldn't disturb it. Incredible. They have so much more reverence for their dead than my culture does.

[@littlesnowflakepunk855]

The incredible thing we often miss about tribal culture as members of a settler colonial state is that there is evidence of tribes passing down relatively reliable records of both myths and actual events for hundreds of generations. There are Aboriginal Australian tribes that still accurately tell stories about islands that were covered by the sea ten thousand years ago.

[@fart63]

@@littlesnowflakepunk855every culture that stayed in one place has stories like this.

[@littlesnowflakepunk855]

@@fart63 not necessarily, not every culture, and not as far back as ten thousand years without losing accuracy

[@NA-AN]

@@littlesnowflakepunk855It’s crazy how much information oral tradition holds.

[@claytonpaisley9721]

My husband is a Blackfoot tribal member. glacier national park representatives contacted the tribe because they were making a visitor center display about the creation stories of the various local tribes. The display was nearly done, but they needed to know the Blackfoot creation beliefs. Well, the Blackfoot don't share that information. It's private to tribal members. So the park was forced to have part of the display that just informs visitors that the creation story is private. Cracks me up every time I see it. They deserve a right to privacy. Thanks for the respect.

[@mollymcdade4031]

My empathic side 100% agrees that private matters should remain private and it’s not our place to demand that information. My nosey side meanwhile is doing to ‘let me in! LET ME IIIINNNN!’ meme (although it’ll never win)

[@sammihebert6493]

@@mollymcdade4031 I just looked it up, the Blackfoot believe that the Sun made the Earth, that he is the creator. One of the names in which they call the sun is called -Napi- “Old Man”

[@TobiahThornwood]

@@sammihebert6493 That... I'm not Blackfoot, I'm from a bit further north west but that was really disrespectful right there. You literally just saw someone say it should be a private matter, and you still went out of your way to share information that wasn't yours to share. And don't you dare say that 'well it was on the internet' because there are videos of horrible crimes on the internet, and people with sense don't go around sharing that all over the place. It's about having some respect. Just because you can, doesn't mean you should. I sincerely hope you think about your actions and how disrespectful it is to trample all over the culture of a people who have already suffered enough, have some shame and respect others, these are not your stories to share.

[@muggzsinopa5296]

Yaaas I love my blackfeet cousins♡ *unironically* GIVE THEM NOTHING! Only way my friends get stories about Blackfoot people is if they do an act or service to me first. Gotta work for it more than a quick Google search. Same should go for any government institution or any non-tribal member asking for our stories. It was illegal for us to know and share our stories just a few decades ago, people were beaten and killed for speaking our language. If a palm-colored person wants to know our stories they have to show it in every action they take around their storyteller til they earn the right and show they aren't going to ignorantly ignore our words and actions.

[@TobiahThornwood]

@@muggzsinopa5296 Exactly!

[@hashimotoqueen7227]

You inspired me so much this year that I volunteered at a hospice!

[@cheekymonkey5200]

Becky Lynn 💚

The hospice field needs warm and compassionate people, not just anybody can do it. Thank you for stepping up 💞

[@sandramorrison99]

Deathling FAMILY is GETTING better & better!! Fly- FLY MY BEAUTIES!!! 🌠🌠🌠

[@snoopy1965]

That is great that you did that. God blessings

[@izzie9526]

Its a bit like the saying "At what point does grave robbing become archaeology?"

[@ruthrouse]

I was going to ask the exact same question

[@octogonSmuggler]

When you do it for knowledge and preservation instead of for money?

[@Persephonemybff]

@@octogonSmuggler agreed, archeology is about preserving and learning from say a grave sight or something like that, not personal profit. Though the lines get blurry with commercial archeology and more recent/ younger sights.

[@robinrichardson9279]

nick of time - as soon as the body or anything else is removed from the grave. I suppose the body could be removed, tests run (little to no damage) & then returned, but as soon as you remove something...

[@plngym]

Ask jasper the know I all cultural spokesperson. I am an indigenous person, but he obviously knows more about my beliefs then I do.

[@cassandrahepp6445]

Recently watched a documentary on these mummies. If I remember correctly they discovered that the long bones had been split in order to access the marrow inside. The only explanation they had for that was cannibalism. They also stressed that if this was in fact the case that they probably didn't view it the way modern humans would suggesting that it potentially served 2 purposes. The first being to cut down on waste in times where it was harder to survive. The second was potentially the idea that consuming their loved ones was a way to take them into their bodies so that they became part of them. The discovery that they mummified not only adults but children, babies and even fetuses confused scientists at first because it's extremely unusual. There was even the question on infanticide. That seemed contradictory to the care taken towards the babies though and didn't explain the high number of not only babies but fetuses as well. It was discovered that the land contained a very high level of arsenic. So with that evidence they have come to the belief that the high mortality rate among fetuses and newborns was actually from arsenic poisoning of the mothers. Sorry for the long comment. I just found the whole process of reasoning and deductions facinating.

[@BiancaNazari]

Awesome video! And about the longer videos: the more we see of you, the better! Keep up the great work, we missed you :)

[@edwardsfamilychannel5807]

She's so cool love this channel

[@BumbieJen]

I second this!

[@krisydoman8492]

Mummy custody battles with reverse paternity tests? Absolutely fascinating.

[@31michelle64]

You think this one was interesting, the one in WA was LONG and drawn out and very public... I've forgotten his name, but his mummy opened the eyes of archeologists to how long natives had been settled in the PNW... ooo what was his name?

[@keiththurston3016]

@@31michelle64 Italy and Austria had a big fight over who owned Otzi the iceman. As his remains were pretty much found on their border in the mountains.

[@Ceibhfhionn]

Michelle DeSelms Kennewick Man?

[@31michelle64]

Yes! Kennewick man! Thank you!

[@wouldntyouliketoknow8904]

YOU ARE LIKE, THE BILL NYE OF DEATH!!

[@mattgates8865]

She’s even coming for the creation museum lol!

[@isabellescales3763]

Did you know that? Now you know

[@Fenrisaconite]

DEATH DEATH DEATH DEATH!

[@beckiboohoo]

The only difference is she isn't an actor

[@debbieearnest3175]

No comparison. SHE knows what she is talking about.

[@endergamer7483]

“We don’t make mistakes, we make happy accidents.” *while painting a photo of The Tollund Man*

[@TheHealthKitten]

I saw a mummy in person for the first time last March. I’ve always been fascinated by ancient Egypt so I was pretty excited. But when I saw them, in their glass cases and on display for the masses, I was sad. They had been people who were loved enough to be mummified. They had once walked and talked and shared stories with friends. It was odd for me. I didnt know those women. No one in a thousand years had known those women. I still felt like I was intruding on something intimate, like being at a wake of a family I didn’t know. I’m glad to know I’m not the only one who felt this way, even if you didn’t see the mummy personally.

[@MeganMcIntosh]

I just went to the museum the other day and I felt this exact way! I was surprised because I've seen mummies in museums before, but it never struck me this way until now.

[@oliveoconnor5589]

I dont know how to feel about this too. Knowledge is important and it is just a body after all but it belonged to someone and they tried so hard to preserve them and let them rest in peace, hard topic:/

[@knoophouse]

I love your sensitivity..

[@Khenfu_Cake]

Well, Ancient Egyptians would certainly want you to remember them or at least their name, since oblivion was considered to be the ultimate horrible fate. But I'm not entirely sure if that includes their earthly remains being gawked at by strangers though😕 I do find more museums are trying to display artifacts and human remains in a way that makes the viewer think of the people who created these objects or became these corpses in a much more sympathetic and humanizing way. Like facial reconstruction, so you can get an idea of how they looked like in life, explain what kind of life they probably lived etc. That sort of thing. I definitely think it's changed a bit over the years.

[@GreebleClown]

I will admit: when i first saw photos of the edmontosaurus mummy I actually wept tears of awe. And again when the nodosaurus was discovered. I was so fricking jealous of those scientists who got to see and even touch those fossils!

[@SupportMensMentalHealth]

Always a dream of mine when I was a child, I wanted to be either a vet or archaeologist, I ended up working with animals though in a rescue centre for greyhounds which I love but I'd still love to go digging for fossils for real

[@lazyhomebody1356]

@@SupportMensMentalHealth It's the dream of many people. That's why there are alot of digs open to ameteur groups. Experts included

[@herpderp3916]

Two years later, I still find it absolutely amazing. Might be the closest we'll come to seeing a dinosaur face-to-face, at least barring some other massive scientific breakthrough.

[@alexdiduk4611]

I am LIVING (is dying more appropriate for this channel??) FOR THE LONGER VIDEOS

[@thatssoasia1424]

Alex Diduk has

[@abnormallynormal8823]

Damn, I never thought I’d hear the phrase “this body is older than your culture” as an actual argument 😂😂😂😂

[@alexythemechanic8056]

What's so odd about it?

[@basedokadaizo]

@@alexythemechanic8056 not OP bit i think what makes it odd and thus come off as funny is the sheer fact that no american is nearly as aware as everyone else that our country and its "culture" are so young. the United States of America as we know it is still under 500 years old in a world full of a few younger nations and SEVERAL older ones.

[@fart63]

I mean it makes sense. If a body is being treated a certain way for religious reasons, surely the person I belonged to would’ve also had to follow that religion right?

[@Rose_tinted_heart_eyes]

Wait wait wait the amphibians are dying? And mummies are MELTING?!??? Can you do a video fully explaining how climate change is affecting preserved dead bodies and Earth’s living population?

[@Primalxbeast]

Miss Overthinker There has been a problem with frogs dieing off for decades. I think I first heard about it in one of my biology classes in the early 90's. They're very susceptible to pollution in general.

[@Rose_tinted_heart_eyes]

Primalxbeast Jesus I’ve never heard of this and now I’m suddenly really sad. Thanks for the fact!

[@Primalxbeast]

Miss Overthinker I'm not sure I've ever had anyone thank me for making them sad, but, you're welcome? I guess? Am I supposed to say that in this situation?

[@Rose_tinted_heart_eyes]

Primalxbeast haha whoops you didn’t make me sad. The dying planet did. I guess that’s not much better but at least it wasn’t you!

[@PerkyHedgewitch]

That would be a fascinating video! Great idea!

[@carolcoates3750]

I, too want to see longer videos. Five or six minutes is NOT ENOUGH!!!! I'd like you Caitlin to make a full length documentary about your day at work, of course with that sensitive, gentle humour of yours.......PLEASE!!!!!

[@doll_dress_swap12]

This video makes me think about how we tend to view America and American history strictly through the lens of modern America as it is today, and even look down on it for being a young culture when compared to the history and culture of other societies in the rest of the world. Thank you for the reminder that the North American continent does have a rich culture of ancient civilizations and people in its indigenous peoples that often gets forgotten and overlooked.

[@ellectronic]

Caitlin: How can we do better by our mummies? Me: Shit that reminds me, forgot to text her back. Sorry Mum!

[@monicaholm2575]

I'd like to see a segment on Victorian death photos. I find them fascinating

[@Minam0]

Could’ve sworn she did in an early video

[@enyawdable]

i think she already did that

[@michrain5872]

We still need a longer one. More morbid one. Uh... yeah, longer one :D

[@raggedyanarchist]

I've seen the nodosaur! It's kept about three hours from where I live. I was so excited to go see it, but when I finally got to, I couldn't stop shaking. I'm NOT an emotional person, but I was just so overwhelmed to be looking at a dinosaur! And to live in a world so full of things to discover! And... I dunno. A million other thoughts. My life as a science buff just sorta reached its pinnacle right then and there. DEFINITELY check that one out if you're any kind of dinosaur nerd and you happen to be in the area.

[@JaneAustenAteMyCat]

It sounds awesome!

[@Fangtastic94]

I love visiting the dinosaurs! I go at least once a year! (We went twice in 2018)

[@mokko759]

I was crazy excited when they put the nodosaur on display. The nodosaur and the "Hellboy" regaliceratops. They truly are as beautiful and well preserved as the video shows. I try to visit the Royal Tyrrell every year.

[@jn819]

I get freaked out by the big skeletons room in Drumheller's museum, just feeling like they'll somehow "wake up" and become real again. They're very ominous, truly. It's such a silly, but fully primal reaction to seeing something so big.

[@wyomingadventures]

If ever in Wyoming we have alot of dinosaurs bones and digs here. Check out Thermopolis Wyoming

[@Zedigan]

It's a common thought in this day an age that "nothing really matters" or "no one will care who you are thousands of years after you die". Over ten thousand years, climates changed, species became extinct, new species arose through domestication, empire rose and fell, Bronze, iron, steel, the industrial revolution, the first car, the first man on the moon, the rise of the internet, And this man is still respected and cared for by his ancestors. Who he was and what he did forgotten, but his body and the acknowledgment that he existed is still there. This is why culture and ritual is important.

[@JoyLeaf41]

not ancestors but his descendants.

[@steviemichelle7271]

JoyLeaf41 ty. I can’t believe it took 9 months for someone to say something

[@shantasiahaynes4490]

You deserve a Grammy for this comment

[@shantasiahaynes4490]

@@steviemichelle7271 my EXACT thought

[@camogrrl]

Sounds like you have the ability to write an essay but never have.

[@extinctoart]

"It's all very 2019." Oh honey. Oh sweetie. Oh bless your soul

[@hollie9487]

The Bob Ross bit destroyed me. I loved it.

[@JennWanderer]

The nodosaur mummy is on public display at the Royal Tyrrell Museum in Drumheller, Alberta. I highly suggest going to see it, it's unbelievably cool in person. I have to admit, as a huge dinosaur nerd, I teared up a little when I was there.

[@debbieculpepper2260]

It IS amazing

[@rainebowdoe]

Hiiii! :) I recently found your channel, and I have anxiety disorder so death and that kind of thing really freaks me out - it's one of my main worries I'd say. But ever since I've been watching your channel, I've been watching lots of your videos daily, and my anxiety has decreased A LOT surrounding death and dying. So I just wanted to say thank you for that :)

[@warriorbushi]

Same here, not saying its fixed all my problems but it has help my anxiety around death a lot and even got me talking about it a bit with others.

[@aka3426]

I feel the same way. I was suicidal most of my life due to depression and death was something I was thinking of a lot. Yet it was a subject I would not be comfortable with, I didn't know much about what happens to us after we die as for the body and it caused anxiety. It does not help that nobody wants to talk about death, it's the subject most avoid. This channel has helped me so much in accepting and understanding, I feel comfortable with death now, it's not something I fear, but something I see as a natural way of life. This is a positive thing, made me a lot less suicidal actually. And on the days I struggle with life I think to myself "I cannot die now as THERE ARE STILL NO NATURAL BURIAL OPTIONS IN MY AREA" and it keeps me going. So yeah, big fan. Of both, the channel and natural burial.

[@remymage]

@@aka3426 A lot of what you say mirrors myself, and to that I say You Are Not Alone. Stay strong, friend.

[@Brituhknee]

Same. She has helped me a lot.

[@KM-ld9ln]

Rhia E she alleviated all of my death anxiety. Rarely I have faith worries around death but she always calms me down through existential crisis. And I mean ones where I couldn’t have left bed for a week. I love her

[@lizard3755]

I love how respectful of other cultures Caitlin is and how she always go out of her way to advocate for minority groups facing disadvantages and/or discrimination.

[@IDGAFWYT]

But yet she makes fun of Creationists? Hmm ...

[@lizard3755]

@@IDGAFWYT That's a fair point.

[@iheartdelrey]

@@IDGAFWYT creationists should be made fun of

[@ailish2284]

@@IDGAFWYT as she should

[@POtterAAngERagon]

“Give this dinosaur the cookie prize, it’s 26 dollar value” That was so funny :)

[@quesarahsarah5026]

Love the longer video. And as someone with Native American Heritage, I love how you handled the "controversy" of archeological remains. Yes, scientific research is important, but so is culture.

[@User-ko3jm]

Dark death queen is back! Greetings, mother 👏

[@mikeylikesit525]

If your profile pic is you, you look just like her.

[@donelleglatt]

Ya mean "Dork Death", right? "BWAAWHAHAHHAHAAHA!!" j.k.

[@eej1983able]

Greetings fellow deathling!!! Namaste yes lol.

[@User-ko3jm]

@@mikeylikesit525 i think its our hair, haha!

[@traditionalnative]

I'm not Paiute-Shoshone, but as a Native American i can tell you I greatly appreciate your respect and restraint here. Thank you for being such a good example of respect and dignity for the dead. Love your channel, definitely keep doing longer videos please!

[@clickergirl98]

my ethics class briefly mentioned Bentham recently and I was like.....hmmm sounds familiar....where have heard that name before??....BENTHAM'S HEAD!!!

[@denia1594]

It is so adictive 😅

[@nymphaeales9149]

To me, the Chinchorro mummies have a strange macabre beauty to them. I think that the mummies were kind of a way of making, say a family member, immortal: making them live forever in a sense. Today, when a family member dies (or anyone for that matter) they're either kept in an urn or kept underground (of course there are other ways, like sea burials and mausoleums, but the same concept applies if you get me). You can visit their grave, hold their ashes, but it's never quite the same as kissing *them*, touching *them*, talking to them face to face. I think that's what the Chinchorro people thought of. Uncle Fred might not move or speak, but maybe he can hear us, see us. I don't know, just a thought I guess.

[@kaylap61]

It’s official: this is the most interesting video on KZbin

[@SageK253]

Thank you so much for respecting the wishes and culture involved. I've been in museums with my grandmother, and had her point out baskets that *her* mother made. And they're just. In a case, as if we're not still here. I apprecaite you handling this with respect and care.

[@xyz7572]

Something made two generations ago and something made 7000 years ago are very different…

[@ginny3491]

I just wanted to say I’m 11 and I love your channel I watch it 24/7!! I hope to meet you one day!

[@AskAMortician]

Same! (As in I hope to meet you, not that I'm also 11.)

[@ginny3491]

Ask A Mortician THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR NOTICING ME IM SO HAPPY!!!!!!!!!

[@CaponeCabin]

Its awesome you live this Channel.... but not 24/7 at your age....get off line and do things in real life😁

[@ginny3491]

KK Capone *love *don’t worry I go outside and play

[@CaponeCabin]

@@ginny3491 makes this Grandma happy😁 good going!!

[@torirose3445]

My favorite KZbinr by far.

[@aurorad3522]

I know the anthropologist who was in charge of the Spirit Cave Man investigation in the 1990s. The tribes' oral history all claim that there was another group, and they all take credit for destroying them. The items found in the cave are not traditional for any of the known historic tribes in the area. He may have been repatriated to his enemies.

[@bennitori4]

Well that's just heartwarming. Would that man have ever known that his people loved him so much that thousands and thousands of years later people would be fighting for his rights, and crying at his return home. Sometimes humanity is awesome.

[@a.j.c.908]

That man lived thousands of years ago, he spoke a different language, had different beliefs and customs and belonged to a different, long disappeared culture. He wouldn't recognize himself in modern tribes, they'd be wholly alien to him.

[@camillehenley5238]

Before she even finished saying "american" i was picturing her singing the american mummies thing

[@stratosphere94]

Camille Henley SAME

[@ember-brandt]

WHY DIDN'T SHE THO lol

[@DrewMatyasik]

The 16 dislikes are competing funeral homes

[@DravenGal]

Drew Matyasik Or Daddies who are jealous of the Mummies getting all the attention! No corpses were ever named after THEM! Hmmm, now I wonder where the term “Mummy” came from. Given that most languages have the term for Mother as something close to “Mama” (because babies learning to speak have similar first sounds everywhere), I wonder if there is a connection...

[@DrewMatyasik]

DravenGal lol

[@Narnia1963]

I respected you before, but now, I wholeheartedly have gratitude for you and your work. I’m here bawling with thankfulness for your respect for indigenous culture. If I had the money, I’d flood your Patreon with donations... and when I can afford it, I will be supporting monthly.

[@kaitlynmaxwell1613]

Hey! The nodosaur is in drumheller alberta, where I live. I currently live 4 minutes away from the oldest mummy in the world... super cool!

[@rachellopez3445]

I've lived in Nevada almost my whole life, I had no idea I'm not even an hour away from the site! Thanks for the info!!

[@ThePhantomofFilm]

Caitlin, I started watching your videos over a year ago. I had never really lost anyone close to me and experience the whole death process. Last February my dad was diagnosed with cancer and died 2 weeks later. Your videos were a godsend in helping me help my mom navigate the process. So thanks for all the good work you do! The videos you make are truly fascinating!

[@Englishalc]

Sorry to hear about your dad :( mine went the same way in 2017. Got diagnosed with pancreatic cancer and 6 months to live. He died 5 days later. No directive because he was relatively young and healthy. That's the same way I found Caitlyn's channel - trying to grieve positively and become more knowledgeable about my own death options

[@ThePhantomofFilm]

@@Englishalc sorry about your dad as well. Cancer sucks :(

[@sabbath2112]

so much has been taken from native americans, letting them preserve an ancient ancestor’s body in secrecy is like.... the least the government can do.

[@locktock9]

yeah I was very happy to learn that the government of america decided to not be a dick to the native americans (for once)....you know...after steaing their country....and slaughtering countless numbers of their people....killing their wildlife and enviornment.....raping and pillaging.......stealing...then settling and calling it theirs forever and that they belong there........ apart from all that, im glad they didnt dick them over and steal their ancestor and defile yet another grave

[@AsTheWheelsTurn]

I disagree, that is HUMAN history and they destroyed it. they should not have had a say in it. 10,000 years standing the test of time and they think its a good idea to fucking bury it? that is insane and ought to be criminal. the greatest honor for that mummy would be to be displayed and remembered for all time not buried to rot after all that.

[@LadyAnneJT]

@@AsTheWheelsTurn The question is - whose body is it? It's not the Unega's (white man's). It belongs to the people, the family to whom that person belonged. Would you want your gramma hung up and put in a museum, too far away for you to ever visit?

[@BJGvideos]

@@LadyAnneJT Why would I care? I wouldn't care if someone did that to ME. I'd be dead, incapable of caring what someone did.

[@BJGvideos]

But just because he was native American doesn't mean he was their ancestor. Neither tribe existed at the time, so they claimed someone with no connection to them. How is that any different from what the scientists did?

[@tookitogo]

Long format: so much yes! You could do hour long episodes, as far as I’m concerned! (Actually, I love the mix of lengths, so I can choose an episode based on my immediate time availability.)

[@graciethebelle]

Caitlin: SOOOOOO strap in. Me: YAY! (nestles under blankets)

[@QuetzalOvejasElectricas]

Frog Kardashain video please.

[@akemdam9824]

[@thedearleadersdoctor5814]

I’m so confused

[@maitea597]

I live in Chile, I went to see the Chinchorro mummies at the museum when I was a child and you could even see the little fingers of the babys, with their little finger nails, it looked like a wooden sculpture.

[@jenniferzsarko7389]

Thank You for being so morbid and funny! As an ER Nurse if 21 years, I deeply appreciate it!!!

[@ScarletDeath]

Have you covered Zoroastrian burial rituals yet? I'd like to see those if not

[@31michelle64]

Ooo me too!

[@missykurtz979]

She does discuss it in her second book.

[@mathieuleader8601]

ahh yes the first people to properly perform a rite of cermation

[@canoefor-one1102]

Ask A Mortician: You have really upped your game! Your new, longer & on location format is very interesting. I see you reaching the golden 1M mark. Kudos!

[@vickinoeske1711]

Great information! Great video! And, while respecting the mummy's & American Indian traditions, I wish we could learn more.

[@jerryvr]

Especially the part that "global warming" . (a whopping 0.7 degrees Centigrade since 1875 is killing the mummies (especially amazing since the difference between summer (21C )and winter (9C) of course has much less effect ......)

[@vickinoeske1711]

@@jerryvr Amen.

[@damienvalentine5043]

​@@jerryvr I know it's tempting to turn your brain off whenever you hear the words "climate change". But you're going to have to resist that temptation if you don't want to look like a complete fool, because the narrator specifically told us the problem is a change in humidity, not in temperature. Like...less than a minute after she said the words "climate change". Soooooo.

[@jerryvr]

@@damienvalentine5043 you got the part "complete fool" right where it comes to confused Millennials using their beliefs in man-made global warming as a scapegoat for all things bad. Especially the part of accepting a 30 year old semi-scientific field of study where the scientific method and peer reviews are merely replaced with the consent of a "majority" of (subsidised) scientists

[@chaelao.4321]

Native not Indian. Thank you

[@GamaScythe]

Props for mentioning Dino-Mummies at all. I didn't think you had it in you.

[@WouldntULikeToKnow.]

Why not?

[@Mkbevington]

The way you chose to express education and knowledge by not disclosing cultural intimacies is amazingly eloquent. You’re amazing!

[@ruiqiumai323]

I’m so happy with your coverage of Nevada! Typically people mispronounce our name and think we’re all about gambling, but we’re actually big on history and culture here (at least the northern part of the state is...). Idk if you got to go to the part of Fallon that has a ton of fish fossils, but that’s a school field trip we always do. We also have a whole thing on Ichthyosaurus fossils (which is also our official state fossil, btw). Knowing the specific Native American tribes and their rights is also a big deal. Unfortunately the people who live on the reservations tend to get screwed, but I hope we turn it around. :(

[@caughtinastorm]

Does it drive you nuts too that so many people pronounce it wrong?? I feel like i spend my life correcting people now that i live in the south

[@miso.1993]

so its "na-va-da" and not "ne-va-da"?

[@blondieYorkie]

Thank goodness, I cringe when I hear "Na Vah Dah" from other Americans

[@camogrrl]

I’m from New Zealand and we pronounce it the way Caitlin does. Hope that’s okay by y’all. But yes, sorry, I didn’t know anymore about Nevada Than gambling and the persecution and devaluing of your indigenous cultures. Americans have a reputation for racism and war so of course that’s the message we mainly get over here. Or “down here” if you like

[@ulalaFrugilega]

Main thing I knew about Nevada is that there's a good Western called "The Nevadan", starring Randolph Scott and Dorothy Malone. And I hear that there are people still in prison in Nevada for having smoked a joint 40 years ago, that true?

[@ashjotunthor5550]

This is one of those rare moments where I find a Ken Ham joke in the wild and you seriously made my day, babe. Thank you so much!

[@fotofemale1]

Question for you: What's the most interesting/unique/wild outfit that a family has dressed their deceased loved one in?

[@TallulahFoxxx]

In her first book, she describes how someone brought in sexy underwear to put on their very elderly mother 😭😂 to quote; “the G in G String does NOT stand for grandma” 😂😭

[@susanfanning9480]

Yes, that would be cool.

[@alekzandrat4455]

I love love love how intersectional all of your videos are - you mention every aspect of stories/issues that is inclusive and it's so refreshing. I know so many people that would've dove into this and showed far less understanding for empathy for the Native American tribes and it's really so wonderful (sad that common courtesy is so wonderful) to see you asking so appropriately and setting such a good example of this! All the time! I love you so much!!! (from a recovering death-phobic (like actually phobic))

[@nicolascanselo5838]

Tbh, you've helped me get over my fear of death in general. I went to about 3-4 therapist for this but, you helped me. Thanks for teaching me death positivity.

[@Kaykayslayer1]

I appreciate that you respected the First Nations people's wishes in sharing information on the mummy.

[@joypratte]

Actually, I love the longer videos. I’m disabled and I like the longer, more in-depth documentaries rather than shorts. They are a richer experience. :)

[@cassandraw8390]

I love these longer videos. I really liked the Donner party one too, and I like the approach to answering these questions by telling it like a story. I think that this is a great way to get to the important parts while both maintaining respect for the dead and keeping the public's interests. Keep it up!

[@peggyjonson9943]

My days been made! I get so happy when you put out a new video! I’ve worked in the medical field for over 25 years, so I have seen many people die, and have no fear of dying, but you make all this info so entertaining! I love your sense of humor.

[@maryc7217]

Bentham's head!!! 😍

[@pheart2381]

Yes,why isnt there a Bentham's head emoji?! Something should be done about it🕵

[@damienvalentine5043]

At last, the comment which I craved.

[@damienhughes3314]

This is one of my favorites ❤ I'm a little late to the party (2 years) but the respect indigenous people have for their elders is beautiful.

[@LoLo-cv8cp]

You are just honest to goodness one of my gosh darn favorite people on this planet.

[@chrismarie2079]

Question, why are you so amazing Bubba Cisrow.

[@sylwia7060]

Same here🤓 love love love Caitlyn🙏, Greetings from faraway Norway 🤗

[@deborahbradshaw6370]

Loved it! I love history and embarrassed to say anything to do with death or cemeteries. I have recently volunteered as treasurer with the association that manages the cemetery where I will be buried. My headstone is in place as my husband passed away 10 years ago and I purchased a double headstone. Now all that is missing is the date of death. At first it felt weird, but now I enjoy visiting it. Any place that I visit my first stop is always the local cemetery which always contains so much history of the area. My favorite tourist cemetery was the Titanic cemetery in Nova Scotia.

[@pogostix6097]

I'd like to see a video about the Chachapoya cave mummies of the Andes, and how they've been protected from tomb raiders by odd twists of fate, like a colony of killer bees, as well as just being really hard to find. I find "unusual" burial practices to be fascinating.

[@hookbillduck]

6:22 As far as i am aware of in Egyptian culture, everyone was mummified. The materials used and the steps taken for afterlife preparation were dependent on wealth. Mummification was just the normal funeral way. We just lost many thousands of mummies through the middle to modern ages (grave robberie and belives of panacea and so on).

[@Smauggish]

Hearing about climate change slowly destroying the chinchorro mummies as a fairly new and proud deathling *and* a natural resources student about to graduate... SAVE THE F*ING MUMMIES!! (and amphibians srsly)

[@ce4072]

Love the longer format, this was worth the wait! I certainly thought I knew what the answer was going to be, haha (I was right... until I was wrong). I find it disappointing that so much of Native American history is unknown to the public or just plain lost to history, so this was pretty cool to find out. Sorry the govt shutdown got in the way of exploring the caves during your road trip.

[@veridianroots]

Love the longer videos! Love your personality and sense of humor! Love how respectful you are! Thanks for existing and letting us into your world every now and again

[@oliquin-roo3420]

I'm slowly working back on your videos and I think this is one of my favorites.

[@lostmybadger]

question: is there a legal way for my loved ones to put my body in a bog after my death? because i really wanna have a go at this whole bog body thing.

[@whistlepunkz]

Yeah mood

[@whistlepunkz]

I hope so

[@AspienPadda]

This is a fantastic question! Well done on posing such an interesting question. I do hope you get an answer! Bogs freak me out but it's still a good conversation to have.

[@amethystrain2513]

They could do it in secret, just make sure those bogs aren't getting harvested anytime soon.

[@amethystrain2513]

One more thing there's bogs in Florida too that will do the same thing.

[@hopey486]

You've inspired me to want to become a mortician when I'm older🤗🤗(I'm 13)

[@AnnoyingAsianWitch]

I'm excited for you!

[@amuletk]

Don't be the traditional kind. Green burial!

[@dawnmidnightsun2521]

Wedneday Adams is that you? Lol joking aside though, I was like that at 13, not a mortician but an autopsy specialist. I realized real quick that it was not a job I could handle when we diccected our first grasshopper in high school (yeah I know most do frogs but we started with grasshoppers because my science teacher wanted us to see the differences between critters) and the smell ended up making me physically ill. I wish you the best budding mortician and hope you a steady journey!!!

[@innnnfinite]

That’s awesome! Pursue your dreams, through and through. Good luck!

[@emilykoeper6855]

I’m currently in college getting a degree in criminal justice, but I’m starting to think I want to be a mortician too! I have a lot of thinking to do!

[@sylviashults3142]

Okay, I'll admit it: I almost didn't watch this video because mummies squick me out something horrible. But I said to myself, "It's Caitlin, for heaven's sake. She'll do a great job." I never thought I'd say this, but I'm glad I watched. This was fascinating!

[@dianapeterson3404]

You know you rock right? I love how you respect everyone and pass on information that can help us understand and respect others.

[@justsammy2023]

"Human didn't live at the same time as the dinosaurs" Boy have I got a chicken for you

[@giselleb5499]

Jtzkb it’s a joke lmao. Lighten up.

[@sam_766]

We live in fallon, about 20 or so minutes away from Grimes point, this is the first I’ve heard about the mummy and we’ve been up there plenty of times to hike and check out the hieroglyphs and stuff, very cool. 😊

[@egyptbug5410]

If you go to the Fallon museum you can request a tour of the cave!

[@DieAlteistwiederda]

Missed your content so much and now I get to watch an almost 20min video, worth the wait I would say.

[@claireburr3718]

This video has been here for 5 years and this is the first it came across my feed. IDK how i missed it but thank you! Didnt think i could love you any more than i already do! Thank you for featuring the borealapelta in your talk here! we love this story so much! i help a paleontologist streamer so it comes up a lot. we run across those folks who dont know that humans are 66 million years removed from dinosaurs all the time, thank you for your awareness! lots of love and thank you so much for all you do Caitlin! Really enjoy your content!!

[@pastellecat]

We learned a bit about the Chinchorro mummies in one of my archaeology classes. I think their methods and the way their culture approached ancestor worship is really interesting!

[@theodosiaalexander1235]

I just want to say thank you as i have watched you for a long time. And my dog died today and i completely broke down and had panic attack. But i went to watch your videos and they help me came down and made me feel better. So thank you.

[@hvnscyld65]

Im absolutely fascinated with your videos. This one was amazing. I would have never known and im 53. Also thank you for being respectful.

[@tammystewart7615]

You do very well being respectful in your posts and your history surrounding the stories are awesome. Keep it coming!