The Most Terrifying Ocean Mysteries

hello everybody welcome back to the channel and happy halloween and i'll be honest for halloween i was kind of struggling to come up with what concept i wanted to do a video on because you know i could talk about like scary movies or demons or whatever but that's just like me any other day of the year so i decided for halloween why not talk about the one thing that truly deeply terrifies me and that is the ocean see i suffer from immense thalassophobia and it's not like a specific fear of sharks or water or swimming or anything like that it is the infinite depths of the ocean itself there have been countless stories throughout history of the largest grave on earth taking in people and refusing to give them back for humans the majority of our fear revolves around the idea of the fear of the unknown and the ocean itself has proved to be the one unknowable consequence of this world there is such a horrific nature to the fact that it just exists that it's almost mesmerizing and to prove 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we are going to go ahead and get into it but as always thank you for watching to start out if i'm making a video about ocean mysteries then i'd be amiss if i didn't talk about the most famous ghost ship of all of history the mary celeste well you may be asking what is a ghost ship and we're going to find out right now the mary celeste was a ship originally built in the 1860s and this wasn't a small ship either it was 103 feet long and 25 feet wide the ship was originally called the amazon before it was in a wreck and salvaged and reconverted into the mary celeste so if you believe in bad karma and juju this ship was already off to a bad start the next year the ship was bought by a man named winchester who hired a captain by the name of benjamin spooner briggs and know that was his real name captain briggs was to take the ship on its maiden voyage from new york city to genoa italy briggs himself was a seasoned sailor as you can imagine with a name like that and hand-picked a crew of not only his close friends but other trained professionals after stopping in new york the ship loaded up on 1701 barrels of denatured alcohol or in other words pretty much ethanol like it's still alcohol but you wouldn't use it to drink captain briggs also brought his wife and young daughter along which was a thing that i guess people did back then so between him his family and the crew there was a total of 10 people aboard the mary celeste and on november 5th they set sail across the atlantic to italy that was the last time that any of the crew was ever seen again eight days after the mary celeste set sail the de gracio which had left from another nearby port was basically on their track and going to a similar location it was then on december 4th that the de gratia spotted a ship simply floating in the middle of the ocean this is a weird thing to happen so the captain of the de gracia tried to make contact with the floating ship upon coming up to this ship the captain noticed two really alarming things for one the cells seemed to be in a sort of in-between state as in some of them were furled out and some of them were folded up kind of implying that it was at a transition period as well as the much more alarming fact that there was nobody on board which is probably a bad thing this ship that had been found completely abandoned was the mary celeste it was found in this state 600 miles off the coast of gibraltar which while closer to europe than the original starting point for sure was still basically the middle of open ocean the captain of the gracias sent two of his men to go search the mary celeste to which this is the site that they came across upon getting on deck they noticed that several aspects of the ship were in a sort of ruffled condition to start off several of the ropes were tied to the sides of the ship and the ropes themselves dangling over in the water implying that someone had untied something and quickly tossed the rope into the water behind them two of the covers to the lower parts of the ship were wide open this is traditionally a bad thing to do especially in long periods because if there's any rain or dew it will get down into the lower parts of the ship as well as a large device that holds the compass and other measurement devices was cracked on its glass and pushed over out of its place which normally wouldn't be a big deal but these are massive pieces of metal and it's not like someone would just pick up a 300 pound block and set it over for no reason there was also something known as a sounding rod laying on the deck a sounding rod is basically a makeshift device that's used to determine water depth within a ship or in other words if you feel that there's water within your ship you can use a sounding rod to see how bad the situation is and it was just lying there on the floor of the deck we'll come back to that one later perhaps most notably one of the lifeboats was missing not only that but the rope that was in the place of where the lifeboat would have been located was not untied but cut see when you're out in the middle of the ocean especially as a sailor you've only got a limited amount of rope so you wouldn't cut it unless you were in a really big hurry upon further investigation in the ship within the cabin they found the captain's log captain briggs logged everything from the hour so there was a very intense and descriptive description of everything that happened within the boat up until 8 am on november 25th because of this we can safely assume that whatever happened to the mary celeste happened between 8 and 9 00 am on november 25th that would mean that this event occurred nine days before its discovery and given the coordinates that the captain logged at 8 am on november 25th that would also place it 400 miles away from wherever this thing happened and one of the strangest things of this entire mystery is absolutely everything was in its place everyone's personal supplies all of the food rations and the alcohol barrels were all in their respectable locations as if nothing had happened the only thing that could not be found was the captain's personal navigation equipment in the very bottom hold of the ship there was about three and a half feet of water now you may be thinking that that sounds like a really bad thing and the ship is sinking that's actually a pretty normal amount see back when boats were made of you know like wood they weren't exactly sealed up all the time and it wasn't uncommon for water to seep in also the deck itself wasn't exactly airtight either so if there was something like rain all of that rain would go down into the bottom of the boat there were pumps in place in order to get water out of the bottom whenever that happened and the three and a half feet indicate that the water hadn't been pumped for some time that's the purpose of the sounding rod i met earlier because you could eyeball the water in the bottom of the boat and it's a very thin line between ah we need to pump it in everyone needs to leave right now the degradia which is the ship that found the mary celeste decided to bring it into port in order to get the salvage earnings see the way it used to work is if you found salvage or some sunken treasure or something along that line and you were to bring it into port and sell it back to either a state government or private ownership or whatever whoever bought the supplies would pay you a handsome finders fee for recovering the wreckage so the captain of the degradia seen a literal empty floating ship full of potential money decided to bring it into port however because he was trying to get money for it there was a sort of trial held to determine if the ship was gained by moral means basically confirming that the captain wasn't trying to commit some elaborate form of insurance fraud overseeing this trial was a man by the name of attorney general flood and i have to mention this because it's too funny not to in research for this there was one historian who said and i quote he was a man whose arrogance and pomposity were inversely proportional to his iq pomposity that is a fantastic word i'm keeping it during the course of this trial they went through a whole slew of different theories of what happened to the crew of the ship see the most crucial piece of evidence and really the only piece of evidence that anyone has is the fact that one of the lifeboat tethers was cut implying that with whatever happened someone had an opportunity to try to get away not only that but it had to be a pretty desperate situation if they cut the ropes in order to get off in what's pretty much the middle of the ocean one of the initial theories that got tossed around was the idea of a giant storm that came through and wrecked the ship to a point that they thought it was sinking and everyone left and remember there were more lifeboats so the idea that everyone hopped on one and hurriedly cut it implied they thought something was happening right away or the winds of the storm were threatening to capsize the boat however an investigator who was sent to look at the ship found several open vials of both ink and oil setting up on tables which as you could imagine if it was a massive storm that was threatening to sink the boat and the waves were tossing it around those vials wouldn't just be sitting there upright not having been spilled and also all of the alcohol barrels and personal belongings would be all over the place if that was the case but like i said everything was in perfect order that attorney general fled that i mentioned earlier really had some dumb ideas about this he was convinced that there was foul play involved in some way just for eventually this new captain to bring the boat in for insurance fraud or technically salvage fraud but pretty much same thing but this captain is a seasoned captain who's been working for years and makes good money and captain briggs was also a seasoned captain who was making good money doing what he's doing so it does make sense for them to ruin their whole careers and livelihoods just to make a quick buck that didn't stop the attorney general from getting some weird evidence like for example there was a sheathed sword found underneath captain briggs's bed while which inspecting the sword there was something that he said could have been blood as well as on the deck of the ship there was other stuff that he said could have been blood and if it sounds like i'm being vague with those descriptions that's because he was also being vague with those descriptions his theory was that the crew members got really really drunk killed the captain and his family and then took the one lifeboat and just paddled out to sea now this doesn't make sense for a lot of reasons for one one of his points of evidence was that whenever those two men i mentioned earlier the first ones who got on board the mary celeste whenever those two guys went down beneath deck they said they could smell alcohol because if you'll remember the ship was shipping alcohol however this attorney general took that to mean that the guys were drunk and i guess totally just ignored the over 1 000 barrels of ethanol that were stored in the ship even though there are absolutely no signs of a struggle or murder or anything of the like this attorney general was so adamant about this theory that whenever the owner of the ship winchester came over to europe in order to you know get his ship back the attorney general immediately began accusing him of how he would be so evil as to allow such a crew of rap scallions to kill a good captain and his family to which i imagine winchester was like what and the two got into several heated arguments in court over this before it was eventually decided that no one had any idea what happened to the ship also remember the whole blood on the sword thing and blood on the deck thing someone analyzed that and it wasn't blood it was like rust and dirt and by the time the trial was over the attorney general paid the captain of the degradia like a third of what it should have been because the attorney general was still poopy that you know they didn't stab each other and it was like a bloody fight or whatever but that doesn't answer the question of what happened to the crew of the mary celeste well there were several people who still believe the insurance scam story or the idea that briggs had put this whole thing together in order to get money off the ship but again it was way way less than he was making as a captain anyway and also that still doesn't change the idea that why would he take not only his crew but his wife and young daughter out to open ocean in order to make a few bucks another popular theory at the time was pirates because pirates were in fact a problem in the 1800s however as i mentioned earlier there was no signs of a struggle or anything likewise and also if it was pirates it would be weird for pirates to kidnap people not take anything on the ship including one of the one thousand barrels of alcohol and then never hold any of that crew they kidnapped for ransom because you know pirates are in it for the money and the gold and all that stuff so for them to just kidnap people and then seemingly not do anything with them doesn't make a lot of sense also that doesn't explain the lifeboat thing people are still so questioning over this whole story that there was one theory that a historian did in the 20s where he said that perhaps because captain briggs was religious he decided to become a fanatic and murdered everyone threw them overboard before committing suicide and somehow not leaving any trace of this i should also mention that historian apologized to the family after he did it because yeah that may be a little and that's coming from the guy who's about to say the crack and did it two of the more popular theories was that it was either a water spout or a sea quake in other words like a small tornado on the ocean or an earthquake because that may cause enough turbulence and enough water being thrown around that the ship may begin to sink however if it was something like a water spout that was big enough that it threatened to sink the ship there would have been for one a lot more water in the bottom of the ship and also everything wouldn't have been as neatly packed as it was and the same thing can be said about the sea quake if it was an earthquake that this season captain and his entire season crew thought was at risk of drowning them all then why was everything in such a perfect condition also the whole lifeboat thing doesn't make sense for either of those like sure that may make sense for why they were in such a hurry and everyone piled into one and cut the ropes but if you're in a tornado and like as a seasoned captain you're not gonna be like quick everyone get onto the much smaller boat in the middle of the ocean don't get your stuff there's no time one theory that i think holds more weight than most of them is that of the explosion see denatured alcohol or ethanol has a problem with producing vapors that have a tendency to blow up and in the captain's log that i mentioned earlier he had mentioned throughout the trip that they just heard random explosions coming from beneath the deck because i guess that's just a thing that happens so perhaps one day there was a rather large explosion and that may explain why both of the lower deck doors were open whenever the two men came on board implying that they were trying to air out the bottom cargo hold and in 2005 the channel 5 broadcasting station actually recreated this theory and it turns out that even if there is a very large vapor explosion and a very large fireball it wouldn't destroy any of the interior that was the issue everyone had with the explosion theory because whenever they walked into the bottom deck everything was fine and you could probably tell if it you know blew up but these vapor explosions are just a quick fireball and there's no lasting damage however as i mentioned the captain had logged in his book that this had been happening over the course of the entire journey and again none of these guys were rookies so i can't imagine a scenario in which a slightly bigger one of these fireballs go off and they're all like we should paddle into open ocean just to be safe so that still leads into the mystery of what happened in the mary's celeste and i think i've been respectful and reverent enough of the dead that i can now say it was the kraken the kraken definitely did it i didn't mention this detail earlier because it was too dumb at the time but one of the notes that the attorney general said in his entire case is at the front of the ship there were several scratch marks these weren't like enough to puncture into the boat or anything but they were enough to be noticeable the attorney general's theory was that after the crew got drunk and murdered the entire family they swam around to the front of the ship and cut it in order to make people think that it ran aground in the middle of the ocean however that's lame wouldn't it be a lot cooler if a kraken swam up there and it was latched on to the front and that's why the scratch marks are there and then while everyone's on deck it just starts grabbing people with these giant tentacles and then a couple people try to get away by hopping on a lifeboat and cutting it real quick before they too get sucked under water or float out to see and die of the elements whichever's worse and you know the best part about that theory is you can't tell me i'm wrong because cameras didn't exist yet and neither did i so we're moving on i think one of the reasons that the mary celeste is such a well-known story and so infamous too among people like me who are absolutely terrified of the ocean is because it kind of embodies a lot of the things that make me afraid of it in the first place it is absolutely unexplainable and your imagination is pretty much the deciding factor in whatever could have happened to these people because just like with the ocean itself if we're taking a scenario that is so beyond our minds of anything that we can know or understand then our deepest fears might as well be the truth and if you're thinking well that was in the 1800s and people just used to die back then which to be fair people did just up and die for no reason back then then allow me to turn your attention to the cause 2 cause k's i'm going to call it cause whatever now the cause 2 was admittedly shorter than the mary celeste boasting a 32-foot span however it was still a yacht-class vessel and definitely capable of sailing in the ocean on april 15th in 2007 a three-man crew decided to go out on a recreational expedition aboard the cause 2. they set out from queensland australia and from everything that i've read of the family members of the people who were on the boat it seems that they were just going to spend a few days going from different docks and sailing about at sea that was until on april 18th a helicopter spotted the boat and noticed that there didn't seem to be anyone on it after some reports and investigations eventually on april 20th the boat was found and boarded about 88 miles off the coast of australia and similar to the mary celeste whenever they got onto the boat the entire crew was missing now notably the situation aboard the cause 2 was noticeably more unnerving there was food laid out on plates along with silverware implying that everyone was just about to sit down to eat the laptop was open and still on implying that someone had just been using it even the engine was running everything pointed towards the idea of everyone simply just hiding as if the boat was being used only moments ago furthermore all the life jackets were still hung up and none of them being used the gps was still working along with all distress functions that the boat had although none of them had been activated even more so on the front of the boat the small life draft as well as the anchor were still tied up and not being used meaning that it seemed no one tried to stop the boat or make an escape the one thing that was amiss on the boat is that one of the sails were very badly shredded as if something had cut through them and torn them until they were useless the police were able to use the gps that was on the boat in order to backtrack the path that the cause 2 took and then on the gps path you can see the boat go out from port on the first day of their journey slow down all at once and then just start drifting until it was eventually found as if the boat was just sailing out and then for some reason the engine went into neutral and those three guys just disappeared off the face of the earth besides from the sail the only one thing that i mean doesn't really count as a miss was the fact that the lure from the fishing pole was hooked into one of the side ropes off the side of the ship which also paints another picture of what was happening when this all went down they were out fishing there was a pair of sunglasses found setting on one of the front chairs on the boat and there was a coffee mug on the back deck just sitting on a table again the whole picture implies that everyone was about to eat they were out fishing they were bathing in the sun and then just disappeared now unlike the mary celeste this is a modern investigation so there had to be a modern proceeding of how this all went out because three people can't just disappear and then the government not do anything about it so at the final investigation where they went into the whole story of what probably happened the coroner's report which it sounds weird for a coroner to give a report with no bodies but i digress in the corners report for what he proposes might have happened it sounds like a slapstick comedy like his story was that one of the guys got his hook stuck on that rope on the side that i mentioned earlier and when he bends down to pick it up he just falls in the water to which the second guy says don't worry buddy i'll come get you and he jumps off the boat but he forgot to turn the engine off so the third guy puts the engine in neutral and then he undoes the sail but the sail swings all the way around the boat and smacks him and throws him off the side so his idea was in the span of 30 seconds all three of them were so incompetent that they managed to like three stooge their way into the ocean but as far as official reports go that's all that we got but despite that as well as large-scale searches along the coast of australia no evidence of them was ever found and what's so shocking about this in particular is you imagine that someone who's taken every precaution between the gps and the radio equipment and all of that would not have the capability to go missing in the modern world however that's exactly what happened and this is a much more recent occurrence and the families of those who were lost are still alive so i'm not going to make a joke that it was a cracking so i'm just going to move on and you may be listening to all this and thinking well that sounds pretty creepy i guess i'll just stay on land where i'm safe but see that's how the ocean gets you and to prove that there is no safety from the most disturbing thing in the entire planet look no further than the flanin isles lighthouse mystery off the west coast of scotland there is a series of small islands known as the flanan isles with one of the largest being that of the elaine moore island in 1899 a very large lighthouse was built on a landmark island as a way of signaling sailors who were coming into port our mystery begins on december 7th after the new relief comes in order to stalk the island with its new set of wikis i love that word see there were four workers who worked at the elaine moore lighthouse year round and they worked in two week shifts in other words there's always three people on the island and every six weeks someone gets to take a break and it rotates like that so on december 7th they make their trade the relief comes to stay on the lighthouse as the guy who's taking a break is able to go back to shore so the three men within the lighthouse should not come into contact with anyone else for two weeks however something weird was noted on december 15th whenever a boat that was coming into shore did not see the light from a lighthouse which is again a bad thing see lighthouses have to be on all the time when it's night because even if it's a perfectly clear night a ship coming in may not see the island and may hit it which again bad thing so for the lighthouse to not be shining either those guys are really slacking off or something's wrong on december 20th which would have been the normal relief time anyway a crew tried to go out to the island however there was an uncharacteristically thick fog at the time and they weren't able to go until the 26th as a matter of fact on december 7th whenever those three were placed on the island in the first place there was a mention of a fog beginning to settle in the area and again at the 20th it was so bad that they couldn't even make their way to the island whenever the relief boat finally got to the island they came to the east stock and for one saw that there were several boxes and supplies sitting on the dock that hadn't been brought up to the lighthouse yet furthermore there was no one to greet them and no signal that a ship was coming in see lighthouses are always supposed to be on the watch and there's always someone looking for ships to come off the coast so if a ship's coming towards you you're supposed to raise a specific kind of flag in order to indicate it although that hadn't happened the relief vessel thinking this is weird shoots a flare into the air and sounds the whistle but no one comes out to greet them so they decide to send a small search party to shore to see what they can run into and this is the site that they find the fenced in gate to the front of the lighthouse entrance was closed as well as the front door of the lighthouse itself furthermore inside the lighthouse itself every other door was also closed all of the beds were unmade and food had been set out as if someone again was in the middle of eating and just going about their day now there's also a mention here that all of the clocks were stopped and while i really wish that was a super creepy thing as if there's some weird time glitch happening here the way clocks worked back then is you had to wind them up so that just means no one wound him up in a while i know we were really close to like time ghost stories but don't worry i'll try to make it fun and among the belongings of the three men who were staying at the lighthouse one of their coats was still present see this is on the ocean in northern scotland in december there was no way anyone was stepping outside much less doing work outside without wearing their coat so the fact that one of the coats was still hung up next to the door implies that someone didn't have intention to go outside when whatever this was happened so the entire relief party does a huge search and comb over of the island now if you remember earlier i said they arrived at the e-stock whenever they went to the west dock they did find some weird stuff the west dock seemed to have been completely destroyed with iron bars ripped out of the ground and cracks in the dock itself and wood thrown everywhere and some reports even saying a giant several hundred pound boulder had been rolled across the dock now while searching everything within the first wiki's log book of the island i still love that word he had mentioned that the west dock did need repairs and there were several broken things however from my reading he didn't say anything to the effect of like the entire dock is destroyed it was kind of just general repair stuff so for whatever reason it seems that the west dock had gotten worse keep in mind the contrast between that and the e-stock that the crew arrived on where there were just boxes setting around everywhere within this log that i mentioned a moment ago there was a day by day account of everything that had happened on the island itself these were general readings of barometric pressure and how many ships were spotted however it noted the intense fog that i mentioned earlier as well as very turbulent weather now here's the thing right this island while yes off from shore it isn't like horribly off from shore as a matter of fact there was a guy i'm going to mention in a second whose job was to live on his home near the coast and report that he could see the light from the lighthouse every night so it's close enough too sure that you can make visual contact with it however there were no storms reported within this time period and again it's right next to shore so if there were these massive storms that were mentioned in the log book someone should have known about it remember that guy i said who his entire job was to make sure that he could see the light every night well when he was questioned about it he said that the fog was so thick that you could only see it on the night of the 12th and every other night he couldn't even make out the island or the light or anything and my favorite part about this entire story is the second wiki's log of what had happened and i know that historically there's been some people who have said there's no way to validate if this is real or not and i'll be honest i don't care this is my favorite part of the story in the assistant wiki's log which complimented the main wikis log that i mentioned earlier the assistant spoke of how the storms were getting worse and worse by the night as the official log was saying that the storms were getting worse the assistant began to say things like the storm is so bad it's causing all of the men to begin to pray along with saying that now the men are beginning to cry and they don't know what they're going to do the last entry of the original log book was on december the 15th specifically on 9 am of december 15th which if you'll remember the night of december 15th is when the boat that was passing by said the light wasn't on and also if the storms were this dramatic i imagine the boats passing by the island would also have mentioned them so we can assume that whatever happened to this crew happened within 9am on december 15th to whenever that ship passed on the same day as well to which the only entry for december 15th in the second hand's log is storm ended c calm god is over all and there was never another entry and the crew of the elaine moore lighthouse were never seen again all right so now that i've got all the pieces there i can put my evil puzzle together as i want to mention i'm not the only one to make it a weird thing there are stories within the flanin isles that there's these three crows that stalk the island and that those crows are the spirits of these three men or in some cases quite literally the men got turned into birds for some reason the area of the flanden isles is notorious for its legends of sea monsters several stories of mermaids and sirens that lure men to their death as well as creatures known as sprites which i am not kidding will hop onto your boat and then drown you if you do not beat them in a rhyming duel so these are underwater mermaid things that rap battle you or else they kill you i don't even have to add anything to that that speaks for itself i'm moving on the story that i love to go with and the one that terrifies me so much is perhaps the men were being judged or some form of supernatural occurrence was happening within that fog that settled over the island think about it a fog so thick that no one on the island could see them on shore and within that fog themselves they reported there being severe thunderstorms that got to the point that they were praying and crying and everything else before he said god is over all and they all disappeared off the face of the earth now do i believe in that probably not but i really want to and similar to my mary celeste saying what are you gonna do tell me no that's no fun see it's stories like that that captured the mystique of the ocean or the idea that no matter how much we discover about it there's still so many ridiculously unanswered questions that there's never going to be a way for us to bottle it up and then figure out every piece of it because just like with the elaine moore lighthouse how do you naturally explain that other than the fact that a giant mist came and settled in put them in through the trials of god and turbulent storms before they went to the west dock and the crack and destroyed it as it dragged the men into the sea i really don't see what the hang up with you believe in it is and what's so interesting to me about this is these ideas of ghost ships and ocean creatures are by no means anything new think of stories like the flying dutchmen old legends of ghost ships that would pass you and then on deck there would be the souls of sailors who have died who asked you to give a message to their loved ones back at home isn't that just horrific and like the best way or the fact that every old world nation had pictures of giant sea serpents drawn off the map with the idea that if you go too far off the map there you will be monsters or the idea that every religion judaism christianity islam hinduism all of it have some legend of a giant leviathan that lurks beneath the waters or legends like the kraken don't we think it's weird that for literally hundreds of years every single civilization had stories of this giant octopus thing that would attack ships and then kill sailors and wreck the ship and we were all collectively like haha weren't those guys idiots and then you know like 30 years ago we found colossal squids that are like the size of four school buses and we're like oh look they are real but aren't those stories stupid and fake haha they definitely didn't kill people in some cases with things like that we understand the colossal squid to exist and we understand them to be ferocious predators it's almost comforting to think that situations like the mary celeste could be caused by something so explainable it's as if we would be fortunate to wrap our heads around these paranormal instances that occur and i could go into a whole rant now about the bermuda triangle but i'll be honest it's like surface level stuff like who compasses work funny here like we're down here we're way past that and way past that we can get into the modern stories of sea monsters being found like for example in 1848 there was a british naval ship known as the daedalus the entire crew of the daedalus attested the same story of seeing a 100 foot long massive sea serpent off of the side of their ship they said it slithered along the side of the ship before diving underwater there are several drawings and depictions put together of what this creature looked like and if you think for some reason the entire crew was just high and had no idea what they're talking about the united states brig known as the daphne also saw the exact same thing and they didn't only see it within the same month they fired their guns at it and chased it down saying that it was a giant ocean monster so you have two different militaries both full of very experienced crewmen who one of them shot at it and then tried to run it down and historians have said that it was probably a whale i hate that that makes me more upset than anything whenever there's a story like this people can't just be like oh i guess we'll never know they give it the stupidest explanation like yeah 400 experienced crewmen who have you know seen every kind of well imaginable they were probably just dumber than i am more recently during world war one there were other stories of ocean monsters being found in 1950 a german u-boat sank a british ship off the coast of ireland the british ship was holding explosives and after it went just beneath the water the explosive blew up to which the entire crew of the german u-boat said that they saw what they called a 60-foot crocodile get shot out of the water before landing belly up and then sinking underneath what is a 60-foot crocodile doing off the coast of ireland i don't know and i don't want to know maybe it just ate the crew of the flanin isles lighthouse we'll never know in the same war in 1918 there was a german u-boat that a british ship came across to which the u-boat was just sitting on top of the water and immediately surrendered after the british bought the germans on board the captain of the u-boat had said that they were just going about their day when they were attacked by a massive sea monster that destroyed all of their guns and then made them go to the surface and they surrendered because they were afraid it may come back like there's groups of people seeing monsters sure and then there's an entire submarine surrendering to the enemy because they're scared so with stories like this you may ask yourself where where did all these things go if they were so active and attacking ships for hundreds of years where did they seemingly just disappear to well one of the more popular theories is the idea of vertical migration or in other words super predators that we know of like colossal squids and again that we know of were just okay with them existing they have been known to dive deeper whenever there is increased traffic around their normal grounds or at least we've seen other squid do that and can assume the colossal squid does that we haven't really seen them in the wild which is even more terrifying so if we know that smaller fish and creatures in the ocean dive down if there's a bunch of stuff around where they're at then what's to say that these massive super predators wouldn't do the same with increased traffic along waters in 2003 a group of researchers pinned a tag on a great white shark which was about nine feet long the purpose of this was to observe migration routes and where the shark went along its journey however years later they found the tag just washed up on shore somewhere this was weird so whenever they analyzed the tag which is pretty much the black box they could see that the shark was just going about his day before immediately getting sucked to 1600 feet below sea level at breakneck speeds way faster than something a great white shark can pull off diving straight down implying that something took said shark and then brought it down to where the big boys play out i spoke of something in my conspiracy theory iceberg series known as the ocean at night theory short version is essentially they made this giant thermal reactor and set it on the ocean as a means of cooling it but what it accidentally caused was a bunch of super predators to swim up to the surface which led to a theoretically like cthulu sized creature attacking a group of researchers and militaries which is comforting but if massive creatures and some of which we know to exist have gone underwater in order to get away from us and what's to say they can't get the courage to come back up they're ships such as the uss scorpion which is an american submarine that completely disappeared in 1968 before pieces were found of it shredded at the bottom of the ocean about 9 000 feet down and it itself was only one of four submarines that completely went missing in 1968. there are more famous things such as the bloop which was an underwater sound that was recorded across microphones about 3 000 miles apart implying that whatever made the noise was way bigger than anything currently on our books as well as all your general horrors about the ocean there are countless stories of sailors who had spent long time at sea seeing the ghost of people walk across their ships or stories of men who sit on the back of the ships at night how they can hear sinking from somewhere out across the waters when you think of the number of people that have died in the ocean and if you're someone who believes in the idea of haunted locations how could there not be a more haunted and infested poltergeist than the seas themselves there's also stories like the island of baimaha which is off the coast of mexico and just disappeared like this island had been charted on maps ever since the 16th century it was a known fact that the island was right there off of the yucatan peninsula and everyone knew about it and it was even marked as recently as 1921. then in 1997 whenever mexico was making land deals with the united states they said that they wanted that island and whenever they went to like put a stake on it they couldn't find it and they're like huh that's weird we should probably look into that so then in 2009 they launched a full-scale search for this island to which they determined that after hundreds of years it just doesn't exist which when you think of the ocean as being so massive that things like islands can just be there and then they can't that is awful and i hate it but the seas are not only horrific for the missing persons that i've talked about earlier and ocean monsters and ghosts and things of the like but in a purely physical sense they are a testament to the uselessness of humanity concepts such as the island of atlantis which it's believed by many modern historians that perhaps it was a city that sunk beneath the waves off the coast of greece have always stuck with people because ideas of something as important as a city to us being completely overtaken by the waves in nature is almost appalling whenever i think of tales like atlantis it reminds me of a post-apocalypse the idea of nature reclaiming what man built no matter how much effort we put into it there's a specific horror associated with the ocean which i have in small spurts known as submechanophobia which is the fear of man-made structures beneath the water the reason that this is so terrifying to me is because it honestly encapsulates everything that i've talked about up until this point and that is the idea of the ocean having absolutely zero regard for you think about this any other scenario being lost in the woods being stuck in the middle of the desert whatever you still have your legs you still have your sight you still have the ability to move however the ocean does not care that we are in no way adapted to it and that any second that we spend in it without some man-made creation is completely at its mercy but in the same regard the ocean doesn't really care about our understanding of it it seems in a sort of mystic way with stories like the flanin isles lighthouse or the crew of the mary celeste that people can simply be plucked off the earth and were never given an explanation otherwise but not only does the ocean not care about you or care about our reasoning it doesn't care about our monuments either whenever you look at images of sub-mechanophobia and you see these great things that we built however big or small sentimental or otherwise and you see them beneath the water there's this destitute sense of something being forgotten it's like no matter what level of sentimental nature we apply to something as always the ocean just doesn't care and it almost creates this sort of weird liminal space that while we're looking at it and we want there to be some sense of cherishedness or memory or just something sacred there isn't any roughly nine percent of species within the ocean are officially logged as to where they fit onto a larger tree and about 20 percent of the ocean is charted that means 80 percent of the single largest body on the entire planet is a complete mystery as with many of the events that take place on and within it within the marianas trench it is so deep that you can take the entirety of mount everest put it at the bottom and you would still have a mile to go before you reach surface think about that the single largest thing that we can comprehend and the largest structure that we could ever imagine on land the ocean will take all of it and bury it so deep that we would never have known otherwise if it had done so in the first place and this is what i meant by the beginning that it is so absolutely terrifying that there's almost a romance to it it is wrong in every single sense that something should be wrong it's inhuman it's unreasonable and it's uncaring and it's for that reason i love stories so much of men who brave the seas and sailors and skippers and everyone else who go out into that infinite nothingness like there's people who think that space is scary i mean you can see in space in the ocean it's quite literally infinite nothingness and it doesn't even give you the courtesy of being allowed to see the infinite and that's what's so tearing about the idea of absolute abyss all around you whenever i tell someone i'm afraid of the ocean a lot of them have a follow-up of oh do you not like sharks or oh do you not like insert some other generic creepy animal and as a matter of fact something like sharks would be comforting because while it would be terrifying if you know i was in the water and about to die for sure if i'm in the water and i see something like a shark that is something that is something tangible something i can comprehend but the idea of just a foreverness that won't even give me the courtesy of seeing standing or breathing within it that's more horrific than i could ever imagine and yet i don't have to imagine it because it's right there and it's as real and as terrible as it possibly could be for halloween i wanted to talk about something scary and there is nothing more scary to me than the concept of the infinite that is finite for halloween when a time that we're all talking about what scares us and what gets us afraid i wanted to not only tell you these stories would go in depth with some of my feelings towards it near the end in order to get the point across to you while i feel the sea is both infinite in its majesty and its terror and that there is nothing in our imaginations that can be both as beautiful and as dreadful as that of the abyss so hopefully if you weren't afraid of that upcoming family vacation before i hope that you definitely are now but what i hope even more is that you enjoyed the video that you have a happy halloween and thank you for watching like i said it was halloween i wanted to talk about the thing that's the spookiest and scariest to me and as i hopefully got my point across in the past hour and a half of recording i don't know how long this is going to cut down to hopefully i got that point across to you so thank you so much for watching if you're new here to this channel there's been a lot of new people lately hello hi thank you so much for coming and thank you for sticking around this long if you have this late in the video it means a lot you are fantastic and thank you for coming here i love all of my viewers you guys are great and you give me the ability to do this and it means the most and i feel like october's been great not only has it been such a fantastic month for growth on the channel and just meeting and talking to so many lovely new people i've also been able to really dive into a lot of the content i want to get into and that's thanks to you all and thank you so much um so as far uh well let me get into my thank yous first we have hit 750 000 subscribers three quarter of a million subs and i don't i don't like talk about all the time woohoo i made this much because i feel like it gets a little braggadocious and i know it can be annoying sometimes but i really am honored and blessed in a way i can't really describe and it's thanks to you all so thank you for being a blessing and it really means a lot thank you um thank you so much i'll go ahead to all of my patreons thank you here to my 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supporting me regardless i'm trying to think if there's anything else i believe that's it uh for all that so i will say videos that have come up coming up in the future i'm going to finish the serial killer iceberg and get in the next part of the conspiracy iceberg because we are almost done with that and it's going to be great thank you all for being so patient with me in the month of october too by the way i wanted this month to be just scary stuff and because of that and you're all's patience the channel has grown videos have done fantastic i've got like i i don't again this isn't bragging this is being thankful to you all three of my videos in october have all topped a million views which is something that's hard for me to even process and you guys are fantastic and you've allowed me to get that far so thank you um so i believe that should do it that should be everything again i hope that you enjoyed new videos coming out in november we're still going up and up and always uh up it's very late it's actually 8 30 right now a.m i guess i've been up all night doing this um which is why i can't speak but we're still going up and up and it's all thanks to you all so thank you so much for being a part of this thank you for supporting me i hope that you enjoyed and i will see you in the next one bye

Channel: Wendigoon

Views: 1,873,668

Keywords: iceberg, explained, scp, analysis, breakdown, scary, spooky, horror, creepy, comedy, funny, laugh, humor, cringe, intel, deep web, dark web, hidden, tier list, secret, top ten, top 10, countdown, compilation, meme, memes, meme compilation, internet horror, reddit, ask reddit, redacted, childhood, trauma, Mary Celeste, Flannan Isles, Eilean Mor, Island, Lighthouse, Kaz 2, Kaz II, Leviathan, Kraken, Ocean Monster, Sea Monster, Ocean, Sea, Deep Sea

Id: RdfuxE8ggQM

Length: 50min 28sec (3028 seconds)

Published: Sun Oct 31 2021

Reddit Comments

[u/GF8950]

This is a very interesting video. You know, Wendigoon is right. The ocean is one terrifying thing. Filled with creatures that we may not truly understand. Like Wendigoon said, if there’s one place that’s truly haunted, it’s the ocean.

Also, I’m a believer in concluding that any oceanic mystery can be answered with: “A Kraken did it.”

[u/WaldeBee]

Next sunday studies when?

[u/MenacingRocket19]

This is basically how I feel about the ocean

But nonetheless I like this video dad did on it