Just thinking about waking up in an alien body on a alien world that is about to be destroyed is so incredible terrifiying i lack words for it.

Hear me out, but I remember reading an argument that humans were indeed compatible. Didn't Peaslee himself successfully mindswap and meet other like-swapped humans? The Great race did take interest in the learnings of human race, so it's not like humans weren't totally incapable. But the Great race selects species carefully to mass evacuate, particularly if there was a dire threat. They chose the beatles, because their circumstance of living was more "compatible" with the Great race's ideal situation. So it begs the Lovecraftian question: What happens to the human race that even the great race feared to swap with us? Something really bad must've happened to the human race that the Great race just saw humanity and thought "nope!". I like that horrific thinking.

technically it was before the dinosaurs - during the The Permian period

Humans,it would appear are barely worthy of a long weekend by Yithian standards. On a darker note I have no doubts that humanity would,egos aside, do the exact same thing if the chips were down.

I always pictured the dead unseen civilization from Forbidden Planet like the cone shaped Yithians.

I know this was posted 4 years ago, but the algorithm has blessed me. Keep doing what you are doing. Great work!!

All about that Yith, no Deep Ones...

I thought the Flying Polyps were responsible for the Permian Extinction Event (~95% of all life on Earth gone) when they _arrived_ on Earth, which occurred before the K-T Extinction event (~75 of all life, hundreds of millions of years after the PEE). Granted, Lovecraft didn't have the asteroid theory to work with when he wrote TSOOT, but I never got the idea he even considered the extinction of the dinosaurs in that scenario/timeline. And lest we forget, dinosaurs _did_ persist long after the Polyps' supposed revenge and/or the K-T event (under the watch of the Elder Things in Antarctica at least). I always assumed the Polyps' revenge upon the Yithians was localized/focused exclusively against the ancient enemy squatting directly above the ruins that imprisoned them. Remember, TSOOT was adamant that the Polyps' power was largely spent and degrading, leading to millions of years of plotting and gathering strength to destroy Pnakotus/other hypothetical Yithian cities. One could easily argue that their last cataclysmic hurrah was only strong enough to destroy the Yithians' cone bodied civilization, and did not spread far beyond that.

Shadow out of Time is probably one of the most horrific stories I've ever read

I really like they brought in a Cimmerian Chief, Crom-Ya, from the Hyborian Age.

Beetles are good doctors.

Great Sandy!! Thanks for keeping a Chanel. You are some kind of deity here in my Call of Cthulhu RPG group in Concepción, Chile. Thanks from the bottom of our eldritch hearts for making this world weirder and wonderful

I was pleasantly surprised when upon reading TSOOT, Western Australia was featured which is where I live.

Couldn't the meteor strike be the Great Race's attempt to wipe out the flying polyps to stop them from following them on the next world?

"There's still intelligent life on Earth after The Beatles" - well yes, I was born in 1970 :)

Didn't the story say that the reason the Great Race skipped humans was because the Flying Polyps still exist during our time?

The deep Ones Will Crush the Beatles.

Except the cone-Yithians survived the KPg extinction, and the polyps were still underground at that time. The polyps didn't emerge until 16 million years after the extinction, because they left the cone bodies 50 million years ago, not 66. Granted radiometric dates have been refined and adjusted over the decades, we had it at 65 million years ago for a long while, but dinosaurs have been stitched into pop culture for a long, long time and I can't remember ever hearing the figure of 50 million before. The 50's Toho movies throw around 70 million and I think 60 million was used before then in like the Lost World or something? Granted I don't have perfect recall on all pre-1950's paleo adjacent media or pop sci books, but Lovecraft was a student of this stuff even if a definite amateur, and they never seemed to have a fixation on dinosaurs in particular but rather all of prehistory. In fact... well, I shouldn't say "fact" because there's a chance I'm getting this wrong too, but was catastrophism even accepted as consensus in the 1930's? I know it was a thing in the 1800's and then it got kinda struck down, but honestly I don't think people started taking mass extinctions seriously until like the 1960's or 1970's. That Chicxulub crater wasn't just a big deal for the KPg extinction, I'm pretty sure I read about it being the thing that made talking about mass extinction no longer taboo. I remember growing up we never had pop sci documentaries in the 90's about the other big five, I didn't learn about the Siberian Traps and the Atlantic rifting explanation for PTr until the mid 2000's, and the Ordovician and Devonian extinctions are still kinda open questions, although the Ordovician one less so. So I'm not really convinced Lovecraft even thought there was an extinction to even explain, let alone that the polyps where his explanation in the first place.

Really cool vid! ^^. Though i thought it would have been Cats they chose over Humans x))

“Don’t want humans to know about US” huh? 🤔

It's kind of strange that the Great Race didn't mind swap with the flying polyps. Maybe their bodies or brains didn't work well for the Great Race.

Great vídeo. Anyone knows how much lore the new Malleus Monstrorum is going to have on the various mythos races?

makes me wonder if it is possible for the great race to eventually run out of beings to swap with, not any time soon but eventually and how they would respond to such a situation if it could.

So you are saying the speed of light moves at a snail's pace?😮 ♤♤♤

When the cone yithians start possessing members of the beetle species do they send their most high status yithians minds across time and space to call dibs on the most high status beetles or do they send the lowest status yuthians to possess the low ranking beetles and prepare for more possessions. Maybe they all just possessed all the beetles in a jiffy like that; all at once. No complications what so ever.

09:16. Except they did in some of the stories? Peaslee ring any bells to you?

My character got mind swapped, I am now playing a yithian in the body of my old character with no memory if the group or my character’s life. Any tips on how to roleplay this? The keeper gave me a bunch of science skills and 300 int and 80 in every language. I used to be a monk/ninja two-fisted (pulp).

Can you do how powerful is cthulhu?! Please!

The Dark Brotherhood says they are the same form on a different planet... The internet says August Darleth was the primary writer of that story. Any thoughts on this contradiction?

Why does no one mention he says "We dont want humans to know about us?" 5:20 maybe 15 or 30 seconds back

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Correction: The great race of yith werran alien race. The creatures from the dinosaur Era they inhabit were on earth and they just happened to transfer their minds into fhem.

It’s not really genocide if you’re not destroying them physically though.

I love your videos, but I don't like the echo effect. It makes it hard to listen to your videos while doing something else.