I guess you could say that ghost guide breaks the mould.

I've heard the Tobin's Spirit Guide is a great reference book.

@@chillimack 🎤 drop! Boom!

Id love to read it. I want to go exploring abandoned buildings, not fot ghosts but for the architecture and just being nosy

@@_ZeroQueen_ "An Investigator's Guide to Paranormal Safety," by Elaine Davison.

My fave representation of this is the movie What We Do In the Shadows. When they discover technology. 🤣

I had never made the silver-photography connection before. Thank You!

Currently mirrors are often produced by the wet deposition of silver, or sometimes nickel or chromium (the latter used most often in automotive mirrors) via electroplating directly onto the glass substrate. You are chatting BS.

I heard a different version. Supposedly, some folklore states that mirrors reflect the soul, which is what you're actually looking at, and since vampires have none, they likewise have no reflection. I admit that I'm no expert, but the idea that silver is inherently holy is new to me. I am aware of it being able to harm werewolves, but traditionally, vampires did not seem beholden to the same rules.

According to my completely valid and expert source vampires can actually be seen in mirrors. The myth of them not being visible was started by vampires themselves. This was a way to protect themselves from vampire hunters as all they had to do was stand in front of a mirror and since they would be reflected they could claim they weren’t a vampire. Pretty smart if you think about it. Oh wait. ……. I saw that in True Blood on HBO. Never mind.

I had some neighbors with pet wolves, and they were gigantic. Easily 4x the size of our Border Collies.

Oh come on man! We are not looking for facts here. We are looking for aliens, shapeshifters and ghosts! Your rational facts make this more difficult!

Not all wolves are bigger than dogs

Maybe they were just standing 3x's closer than they thought...

​@@secularbelt I've never seen a wolf smaller than a Chihuahua.

Raptors, what else

That was my initial reaction to the cows as well. It's how not just scavengers but predators too tend to get in the body. Cow skin is TOUGH yo.

I thought the whole thing about the cow mutilations were that the cuts to the animals were laser precise and very surgical in nature. Plus they were completely drained of blood with no evidence of having bled out.

Well that's better than the first conclusion!

@@grayfoxv There is a lot of misinformation going around.

A good way to sum up reality itself, actually.

Is "Decoding the Unknown" just a reboot of "Scooby Doo, Where are You?"

Subtitle: "Or Aliens. Definitely not aliens either. It's never aliens. What is WRONG with you?"

I'm 40, I've spent most of my life denying anything that science didn't support. These names we give things, often give us more of a misunderstanding of something. Instead of helping us understand it. The past 3 years, I've been shown some things that are incompatible with my old understanding of our world. There's definitely aliens. Ghosts as we understand them, are not real, but the phenomena is very real. Infact, it's ALL very very real. God, "ghosts", demons, Angles, aliens, cattle mutilations, abductions, et al. Should we be afraid? No. Anything coming, or that's going to happen. Good, or bad. Cannot be stopped or prevented. I doubt however, that those things will be "unexpected" by the time it does happen.

But I have seen ghosts.

Yeah, apparently the British during WW2 demanded US shipments of dry corn and were mystified and really annoyed they kept getting U.S. corn shipments (maize). The Brits made due with it anyway for a while, but they wanted wheat. 😆🤣

If you read older literature wheat is always referred to as corn

That’s really cool and all but what did that have to do with the story told?

@@Foxracing218 Simon's tangent at 9:48

... *Maize.* As not in *corn maze.*

😸🙌😆

I hear proper British people hold their pinkie finger up when holding the crack pipe. Because it's PROPER!

The wild thing is, corn originally mean grain - which is why the KJV of the bible has references to corn in it - and maize was originally called "Indian corn" by the English, eventually shortening it to corn. So, pre-American colonization English could have called the wheat field the corn field without any confusion.

@@annwilson7750 The REALLY wild thing is, I think I actually learned that from Simon Whistler years ago. 😅

"he thought it was cornbread" Legitimately laughed out loud. Outstanding.

@@annwilson7750 "John Barleycorn Must Die" - great classic rock album by Traffic, 1970.

Tangents within tangents xD

I want them to watch boku no pico and tell me that.

To be fair thats just ingrained survival instinct. Thats why the majority of us dont like dark places or freak out when we think theres something crawling on our arm or leg only for it to be a piece of hair.

Thats like me saying I dont believe in you!

@@nickstav08 The difference is that Simon knows it is a survival instinct and not ghosts, ghouls, tribbles or nargles.

I don’t believe in ghosts or anything like that. However, when I house sit for my parents I get super creeped out at night. They have a humongous house with tons of windows and I always feel like somebody is looking at me, but I know it’s all in my head. Even rational people can get freaked out over nonsense.

Yes, we have those here ;)

Sounds familiar for Australia this time of year.

Mate, hold me Vegemite... do I gotta yarn about a 'Roo for ya... 'Straya™

they don't run away from people? (I'm from the states)

@@nicole6323 Not the rabid ones lassie, nay they come straight atcha.

Exactly. I'm not afraid of the dark, I'm afraid of what else might be in the dark with me.

This is why darkvision is the bane of DMs everywhere. Can't make your players afraid of the dark if they can see in the dark.

Exactly. I've long believed that we never outgrow our fear of the dark, it just transforms from "I don't like the dark because it's scary" to "Someone could sneak into my room and kill me, and I wouldn't see them coming because it's so freakin' dark in here"

He's most afraid of not having a beard to blaze.

Yes!!!!!

yes a small % are made by losers with boards. however you cant account for everyone on earth thats been made. less alien more geomagnetic.

Did he manage to travel all over the world doing them too.?

@@jpmonkman what one man can do, many others can too. Crop circle groups operate all over the world, though I imagine their numbers have dwindled since the heyday in the 90s

@@jpmonkman what's your point? Why does it matter if he went around the world doing that?

I grew up on farms my whole life..i did it for fun till my grandfather whooped my butt for ruining his crops..yeah as a 9 yr old i knew they were so easy and completely fake lol

Nope, they have corn ears depicted on old churches in Scotland etc. It was a crop used by the natives well before modern times. Big fat juicy corn is new, old corn only has 8 or 10 rows of kernels. All modern corn is GMO.

@@Ashphinchtersayswhat One church and even that is not definitvely proven to be corn.

'Corn' as in maize is indeed a new world crop.the word .'corn' in English can apply to any grain, especially historically. Hence the much maligned 'Corn Laws', the repeal.of which was a key milestone on the road to democracy, didn't refer to maize, which isn't commonly grown in the UK's damp climate, but to wheat, barley and oats, the main British crops.

@@Ashphinchtersayswhat that's not corn, it's barley, corn doesn't grow in ears and the climate of Scotland has never been warm enough ot dry enough to grow corn. It is linguistically described as 'corn' because the word 'corn' is used, and in the past more commonly used, to describe any arable crop. In Scotland the primary grain crops are barley and oats which are Hardy enough for the climate, wheat is grown in the Lothians, Fife and Angus. Everywhere else it is pretty much barley and oats as grain crops. This is why, historically, oats were always the stable carbohydrate in Scotland. I am a farmer and an archaeologist, who lives in southern Scotland

@@somniumisdreaming prove its not.

I live in southern Utah and really want to go there as someone never raised christian but the old ways and see with video and pictures if maybe it's a native thing or just fake cause I don't know any recommendation for me

Some billionaire bought it to produce shows and get on tv he has private security that lives there.

So the ranch is purportedly on a piece of land the local tribe considers taboo. Few of the native people will intentionally visit the ranch, and even with the show becoming more popular there's only been a visit by one tribal shaman, and interviews with local tribes people typically occur off the ranch. Since the popularity of the show. Incidents of trespassers and wariness of trespassers went up. Most of the on site security is off duty local police, so there's some vertical integration that if something goes down there's going to be a greater police presence, because let's face it, small town cops have nothing to do and while show up to look at anything exciting going on. It's why you'll see 4 cops pulled up behind a speeding ticket.

Truth, I have camped all over the area but personally saw a bunch of weird shit camping on the Duschene River about 20 miles away from Skinwalker Ranch.

​@xXnoclaf68Xx what have you seen? I've seen things as well. I believe there's something else here with us, but only because I've experienced things.

I can't wait until the pop culture bandwagon changes their tune on them; they are totally grifters. But they "conjure" (pun fully intended) up a lot of revenue for a lot of people so I don't see it happening soon. Plus it also ties into some people's profoundly held beliefs so that also might play into it. Either way, they're terrible people.

Their stories were made up and they exploited poor families with real struggles to make money off them. They're disgusting con artists.

That's a great idea! Especially about Amityville Horror where there guy who killed his family was up for some kind of parole hearing just as the "hauntings" began, and Annabelle, and the Conjuring--it could almost be a series and I think it would do very well. Those two were big-time frauds!

I’m from CT and we love the Warrens, they are very highly regarded. Don’t really like the guy (I think their son in law) who seems to have control of their stuff and stories now though but… I would love a show about them. :)

Simon should buy Annabelle.

Your mother was a hampster and your father smelled of elderberries

Ethan Klein would go crying to his buddy the CEO of KZfaq and that would stop Simon.

Yep no sound

We need a rereupload

Do....do other people have sound? I dont

I don't

Soundless here too

I'm gonna go out on a limb and say at least 8 other people are having the same problem.

Ohmigosh I thought it was just me!!!

This ^

I can't hear the audio ?

Yep no audio

Same

Haha that was a great line!

Same here. When I first started my astronomy degree in college I stopped believing in any kind of alien visitation. When you start getting a grasp on how huge space is you realize that the likelihood of something coming all the way here for no real reason is not very high. Also, they come all the way here and don’t want to be seen but then immediately turn on their high beams and fly over populated areas. Sure.

Exactly what I thought. Also, the classic "cattle mutilation" symptoms line up well with natural insect activity on dead livestock, and as for the "giant wolf"...wolves were extremely uncommon in the American West into the mid-90s after a successful extermination attempt in the early 1900s. Only in the last 20-30 years have they made a comeback, and even then it's mostly in more northern states like Montana and Idaho. Chances are, nobody in Utah had SEEN a wild wolf on anything like a regular basis. I have some experience with wolves, and I can tell you, they ALWAYS turn out to be bigger than you're used to if you're used to dogs and coyotes. The "giant wolf" was probably a wolf. Or a big dog.

@@onbearfeet according to Utah's DWR, there's no established wolf pack in the state but there's about 20 wolves hanging around. The sightings are almost always lone dispersed wolves or misidentified domestic dogs and coyotes.

Much more pedestrian and likely explanation: Radon gas buildup. This is described as the result of opening a covered well; if there is ground radon leaking in the well water, the water will also release some of it, and the gass builds up for a while, and you open it? Actually radiation burns are perfectly possible. This isn't paranormal. Dangerous yes, but not even terribly interesting.

Radioactive gas

I definitely agree. And I really enjoy this channel and Simon, that being said I don't think it's right to so abashedly dismiss skin walker ranch. The series on history was a " series" so of course there was some Hollywood shit going on. But that being said, they had a legitimate physisost. I can't remember his name to save my life but he was the blonde fella with a southern accent. Besides him they brought a gang of legitimate folks in throughout the seasons. And a lot of the stuff they found was genuinely amazing. Like for instance there was a cattle mutilation during the series, and they documented how no animals were insects touched the carcass for months. And the carcass was placed in the spot they usually put dead animals and they are always taken care of by the wildlife. That's just one example of many events that happened on the show that we're not easily explained away by, "conspiracy people are crazy." And I'll honesty as time goes by more and more "crazy conspiracy theories" end up being proven true. Shits wild.

@@tomabram8629just because somebody is a physicist doesn’t mean they aren’t a liar collecting an easy check from an idiot who believers this hogwash. As usual there isn’t a single solitary shred of evidence to substantiate any of this nonsense. We’re all just supposed to take peoples words. I don’t think so.

bcuz the lack of blood, predator prints ? is that wutchu mean ?

Except for the ones that are proven correct

@@kochspostulates6149 Do you mean flying saucers and presidential elections?

From criminals to conspiracy theories Simon's going to tell you how to be better at it because you just can't get it right.

@@kochspostulates6149 Which ones?

@@archstanton6102 mk ultra, lab leak theory, gulf of Tonkin incident, project paper clip, bohemian grove, Tuskegee syphilis study, operations north woods, Iran contra, project sunshine, deep state

Yeah, no sound here either 🤷🏻‍♀️

+1

I'm especially happy to hear the REAL mythology. Oftentimes people just say "these are all myths of old for this exotic people" and it's not right.

"every bit of it is natural" - this is an assertion of faith, akin to asserting the 2020 US election was rigged.Depends on your usage of 'natural' of course

Birds seems most likely. Snakes and lizards eat things whole, so they don’t really take bites out of dead cattle.

It's "silly" because...it's beyond your experience? or because it's beyond modern science? Viruses were once "beyond modern science", and lots of things are "beyond your experience". There's no reason to dismiss the paranormal aside from being afraid of it.

@@XavionofTherait’s silly because the topic is totally ridiculous and none of it ever happened. Make sure your mind isn’t so open your brain falls out.

I never cared for the whole ancient alien conspiracy shows. Theses people don't give our ancestors any credit. There not as stupid as they think they are. The techniques on how they constructed these ancient structures could still be out there we just haven't found it yet.

Same. I miss the old discovery network. I miss actual scientific Content.

It’s always sarcastically mysterious which fits

Casual criminalist is dogs bollocks but I njoy this channel alot

Casual criminalist best show from the bearded brain

Brilliant? because he can read a teleprompter? lol....

Demonized or something?

i just looked this place up and it’s apparently about an hour away from me too! I’m afraid to even read any of it just in case 🤣

They already know

They know they’re liars and fools. That’s what most ufoologists are. Lying for attention is their stock and trade.

I get what you're saying and I'm new to the legends because I recently moved near-ish to skinwalker ranch. Also being Native I can tell you most tribes have a shapeshifter legend, but pop culture has latched on to the skinwalker legend. Various areas of Utah went back and forth between Native tribes, especially the larger tribes like the Ute and Navajo. The Shoshone is also more likely with their native range though. I can tell you some local natives from the reservation take that closer fence line to the res VERY seriously with deer offerings so if it started as a con man some local natives have bought into it I'm afraid and created their own traditions about it. As far as air traffic goes it may be busy for Eastern Utah, but I haven't seen an aircraft in the air since I moved out here in October so I'm not sure what you mean by aircraft.

@@lizziebreath9 By air traffic I was referring to the helicopters and drones I'd mentioned earlier. Thanks for the information you include in your comment.

Is there money in it? Lmao...oh boy. You could probably whip up a quick script/treatment idea and as long as you can pitch it, Discovery + will green-light you for a few test episodes at least. Good luck in that endeavor

I used to live out in Vernal, Utah and have lots of family from Duchesne and Roosevelt. Skinwalker Ranch makes me roll my eyes, because it's not like it's out in the middle of nowhere. It's less than 4 miles from a high school (Uintah River High School). In fact, there are a BUNCH of different Uintah tribe office buildings within like 5 miles of the ranch currently. Roosevelt itself is like 10 miles away, and has existed since 1906. It may have been a bit of a trek back when the ranch was first settled in 1934, but it's only like 10 minutes away by car. In fact, if you are driving out to Vernal from Provo (going along Deer Creek Reservoir to Heber, and then take Route 40 to Duchesne where it connects with Route 191) you'll end up driving within a couple of miles of the ranch since it's fairly close to the highway. All of that is to say that the ranch isn't anywhere close to as isolated as it is depicted in many of the stories you will hear or read. There's probably like 15,000 or so people living within a 30 mile radius of the place too.

The Sherman family sold the ranch at a major loss ($200k selling price when they paid way more for it) and refuse to talk about anything that happened. I don't think anything supernatural to the Shermans but something spooked that family bad.

Or just some good old fashioned American bs. I think people forget the desire of fame and fortune that American have

They did find "something" underground that emits electromagnetic pulses and low level radiation but they are not allowed to dig on the ranch. I'm thinking black opp military testing at some point. There is definitely some weird stuff going on there, dark back military stuff.

SkinwalkerU

That is interesting and potentially useful to know, thank you. Though I thought silver was linked to werewolves, not vampires... but then in the end silver has antimicrobial properties in real life so it makes sense that it would also work against other evils.

WRONG! oldtimy mirrors were backed with Mercury. and before that mirrors were polished metal. the most perfect mirror you can but Right now isnt glass at all. get your facts that have to do with fake creatures right dum-dum. im curious tho, why wouldnt it show up in a camera? its not a reflection

@@Isaiah42069 Actually, I just looked it up out of curiosity and there was definitely a process for making mirrors that hinged on 'silvering' glass, invented by the German Justus Liebig. I got that off Wikipedia, but the statement has a source linked that goes to a page called Zenodo, whose intention is to make research in the public domain accessible to everyone. The first sentence of this old paper reads (translated from German): "Due to the request of my colleague Herr von Steinheil, I was prompted to carry out some experiments to determine a process for silvering glass in the cold, in particular for the representation of unblemished optical mirrors, which I want to describe in the following". So they may not have been mainstream, perhaps, but there were definitely mirrors around that were made of silver and glass. The article was supposedly published in 1856. All this goes without mentioning that if you're going to make a mirror out of polished metal... what material would lend itself better than silver? Especially for noblewomen. If you have money for silver, you're not going to do your make-up while looking at some ordinary iron, and things like copper and gold don't reflect colors that much.

@@Isaiah42069 Separately, about the reflections thing: the idea was specifically that silver does not get along with evil entities of all types (for example the silver bullet being the only thing that can kill a werewolf - and as I mentioned, this makes sense in a way because silver does actually kill germs). So bainick's idea was that that may also be why vampires' reflections didn't show up in mirrors back when mirrors were still a layer of glass over silver, because the silver just kinda can't stand the evil creature and refuses to reflect it I guess. Remember this is about imaginary creatures anyway so an imaginary rule like this might as well make sense. Conclusion: It might as well make sense that a vampire's reflection wouldn't show up in a silver-backed mirror, and with that in mind, it would NOT make sense that a vampire's reflection would not show up on a modern mirror or in a camera because there's no silver involved. The only loose end would then be what you say about mercury (and other metal) mirrors... let's call it a plot hole. For starters, I don't remember vampire lore ever mentioning silver anyway... XD

@@trishapellis Silver in religious lore is considered a holy metal and thus unholy things like vampires, demons and the like cannot touch or interact with it or they will be harmed by it.

Me too. Weird.

Me too

Same. 🙁

Glad I'm not the nonly one having issues! It's wierd that it seem others are having no issues.

Same

It didn’t pop up on the subscription page for people so there was a ridiculous amount less views on the first upload

I was like "how is this a reupload i never saw it" XD so yeah didnt even know it was out.

I watched the first upload fine as well. But I'll watch it again

My guess is that the current owner claimed some bs reason to sue

I didn't get the sub notification on original upload but, still watched it and now went and rewatched it via re-up because I was wondering what changed which was nothing...