The True Origin of Zombies, Vampires, and Werewolves

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The True Origin of Zombies, Vampires, and Werewolves

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8 жыл бұрын

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Western society has made everything from vampires to wolf-man and everything in between, but do some of these "monsters" have real origins in history?
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Vampires: Fact, Fiction and Folklore:
www.livescience...
“Vampires are a perennial favorite around Halloween, but they can be found year-round in movies and on television, in books and on blogs."
From Dracula To The Strain: Where Do Vampires Come From?:
www.bbc.com/cul...
“The first season of the US TV series The Strain ended with The Master, source of New York’s vampire infection and one of the oldest vampires in existence, escaping our human heroes again."
Zombies: The Real Story Of The Undead:
www.livescience...
“From 'World War Z' to ‘The Walking Dead’ to 'Shaun of the Dead' to 'Pride and Prejudice and Zombies' and countless brain-dead rip-offs, zombies - re-animated corpses with an unstoppable craving for human flesh, especially brains - have invaded pop culture like never before."
The Tragic, Forgotten History of Zombies:
www.theatlantic...
“In the original script for 1968’s Night of the Living Dead, the director George A. Romero refers to his flesh-eating antagonists as 'ghouls.'"
Why Is It That Zombies Eat Brains?:
gizmodo.com/why...
“Zombies have been a pop culture staple for decades, and in that time the concept of the dead coming back to life somehow to feast on the living has proliferated virtually every form of media that exists."
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@taylor_drift1 8 жыл бұрын

I never knew the history of zombies and the slave connection. This is very interesting stuff! I love this channel!

@DNewsPlus 8 жыл бұрын

Crazy right?! Thanks for tuning in!

@WhatsTheWordHipHop 8 жыл бұрын

I agree, just recently found it! 3rd video in I had to subscribe! I love little cool bits of info, they make great Cards Against Humanity games 😉

@mysteriousmind68 8 жыл бұрын

Yes you should do a whole entire series on werewolves, that would be cool 😊

@titmusspaultpaul5 8 жыл бұрын

FOR SURE.... a whole video/ series on werewolfs

@branimirantic3625 8 жыл бұрын

The origin of the name "Vampire" is a serbian word "Vampir". Creature is from a slavic mithology and represents the creature whose skin is not punctured in anyway during life, and died not being baptized. No bones, only bloated soft body red from the blood inside of it. Can squeeze itself through a small openings. Also, the werewolf is the same creature, just another name. Later, Hollywood decided to separate them and and new exciting features to both. I can wait until Hollywood discovers "Drekavac" (Screamer). A slavic mithology creature. A child died in pain, unbaptized, short, with so long body hair that with every step steps on it and screams in agony. Lives in deep woods and attacks people with it's long claws.

@michaouwens3574 8 жыл бұрын

I would really like a whole video series on werewolves!

@AlexSmith-gr4hp 8 жыл бұрын

Me too

@wandererstraining 8 жыл бұрын

Howl to the Moon if you want a series on werewolves!

@pocket1122 8 жыл бұрын

+wandererstraining 🐺 awoooooooooooooooo 🌛

@THE_BIGGEST_HATER 7 жыл бұрын

Abdullah Almousalli werewolves of London

@mjag2834 6 жыл бұрын

She Wolves of London...Were Bitches of New York.

@KWood-eh3nw 8 жыл бұрын

Yes, do a whole series on werewolves!

@TIMBUDTENDER 8 жыл бұрын

series

@eightbit6464 8 жыл бұрын

Hodor

@KWood-eh3nw 8 жыл бұрын

Wait hold the door! What are you on about man?

@Vanilla_Wh0op 8 жыл бұрын

yes!

@EpicPredator01 8 жыл бұрын

Team Werewolf

@InhabitantOfOddworld 8 жыл бұрын

Absolutely, get that werewolf video made, DNews!

@gabrielalmqvist444 8 жыл бұрын

Werewolves!!!!!!

@unknownflapjack7O7 8 жыл бұрын

y'all should do an episode about voodoo and it's many iterations around the world and werewolves 👍

@TheSpreadCoach 8 жыл бұрын

Yes! please do a whole series on werewolves and vampires and every other monster you can think of

@TylerOath 8 жыл бұрын

Yes, a whole episode on werewolves would be great!

@michaelpesavento8268 8 жыл бұрын

Hi Trace,some of the legends I have heard about were the"Ravino" similar to he"Revanant" sometimes called a"Raviger" not necessarily an animated corpse but still a nasty character with animalistic tendencies and the ability to tear you limb from limb.Stalking its prey in the night like a predator in human form:P Mighty Night,don't let the Dead things Bite!:) Thanks

@TheEnlightenedFool 8 жыл бұрын

All these Plus series are awesome, so I don't care what you do next.

@DNewsPlus 8 жыл бұрын

@Valivali91867 8 жыл бұрын

+DNews Plus In Romania when people get mad or get angry they say. Offf Țepeş :D Withc is a reference about Vlad Țepeş (Vlad The Impailor). :D

@lilianacarp87 8 жыл бұрын

I am Romanian and I never heard that expression.

@IkhtionikosVDS 8 жыл бұрын

Are you sure? Never in my nearly 30 years have I heard this.

@Valivali91867 8 жыл бұрын

Daca sunteti din romania si sunteti din Ardeal apoi ati auziyo daca nu apoi nu sunteti din ardeal :D-

@razvanradoi2139 8 жыл бұрын

lol, hearing you pronouncing "Ţepeș" is so funny. It's actually "Tzaepaesh".

@jackfantom9041 4 жыл бұрын

Is actually "Țepeş" but some people messed ap his name

@Frugality 8 жыл бұрын

wow! thanx so much for this. I didn't know the connection between Africa and zombies.

@FrostGamingandVlogs 8 жыл бұрын

resident evil 5 op

@UndercoverSkinner 8 жыл бұрын

The walking Dead with Michome having 2 Zombie slaves in chains xD

@cedavelickovic9501 7 жыл бұрын

First Vampire Story originates from Serbia

@holdmybeer5165 5 жыл бұрын

@@captainmacmillan735 lol hows that? First of all vampires are myth. Not real u get it? Story orginate from Serbian villages and the word itself is serbian 'Vampir.' Then we have 'first' vampire in romania but he isnt real vampre hahahaha he is called vampire because he drink blood of enemies. What a stupif people

@rinneganss-3242 4 жыл бұрын

HoldMyBeer and watch this.

@anakinuchiauzamaki3441 4 жыл бұрын

HoldMyBeer he said vampire “story” dickhead

@Rithkingwill 8 жыл бұрын

I'd like for you to do a video on witches, sorcerers, magic-users, etc. and their histories and culture significance. Not just including how Christians demonized them as devil-worshipers.

@Yepkarma455 8 жыл бұрын

Jesus....you slaughtered the pronunciation of Vlad Tepes. I love it

@ValkrazIasis 8 жыл бұрын

Any series about Vampires, Werewolves, Zombies, Dragons or anything else related to Sci-Fi or Fantasy would be amazing!

@elaineandmariedolaundry 8 жыл бұрын

This channel is the only channel that I could marathon. Great job on this!

@InMaTeofDeath 8 жыл бұрын

*HOLD THE DOOR*

@brandonread4638 8 жыл бұрын

too soon :(

@FocusMrbjarke 8 жыл бұрын

+moradierethamster hodor :)

@deion541 8 жыл бұрын

hodor become a white walker

@DORC101 8 жыл бұрын

stahp im gon cri :'(

@gemmi42 7 жыл бұрын

De Vliegende Gamer incorrect. Got is just where it belongs.

@abunaiN1 8 жыл бұрын

Vlad the impaler !

@drcrowlee 8 жыл бұрын

Do a whole week on werewolves!

@nsmandic 8 жыл бұрын

The Oxford English Dictionary dates the first appearance of the English word vampire (as vampyre) in English from 1734, in a travelogue titled Travels of Three English Gentlemen published in The Harleian Miscellany in 1745.Vampires had already been discussed in French and German literature. After Austira gained control of northern Serbia and Oltenia with the Treaty of Passarowitz in 1718, officials noted the local practice of exhuming bodies and "killing vampires". These reports, prepared between 1725 and 1732, received widespread publicity. The English term was derived (possibly via French vampyre) from the German Vampir, in turn derived in the early 18th century from the Serbian vampir (Cyrillic: вампир) when Arnold Paole, a purported vampire in Serbia was described during the time when Northern Serbia was part of the Austrian Empire. So not Hungary but Austrian Empire and present Serbia

@wheelsndealz 8 жыл бұрын

I like the Irish folklore origin of zombies. At the end of Samhain dead loved ones would come back to life and it was the families responsibility to present a feast for them because their hunger had grown while they were dead. If they didn't provide enough food it could lead to the "zombie" eating their entire family until it's full. I think this is closer to how we describe zombies today more than the Haitian lore.

@GoforKrogh 8 жыл бұрын

whole series on vampire please! I've read everything about them my entire life

@Unalochy 8 жыл бұрын

A series on lycanthropy would be awesome! I'd love a single video at least but it would be seriously good eats!

@connorkelly4578 8 жыл бұрын

let's do one all on werewolves and other animals that people turned into I think that would be cool

@joshuahallett6235 8 жыл бұрын

we need werewolf week

@Dingus_Khaan 7 жыл бұрын

That bit about werewolves reminded me of Jontron's one video on Goosebumps movies. "Please, Larry, you don't understand! You don't know what you're doin' here!" " *STAHP* "

@hexazalea1793 8 жыл бұрын

"Vlad tepes was not a blood sucking monster" he was blood thirsty however you dont get the impaler title for being nice. Hes not the only bloodthirsty monster in history but hes among them. Also in european culture ghouls predate zombies sometimes they're very very similar. Undead people with an appitite for human flesh. Also it nice that you pointed out that 1816 was that bleak that writing horror stores was more fun then living the horror story that was the little iceage. Then again just about anything is better then living in a horrorific wintery apoclaypse come real. (sure it wasnt that bad but if it kept going it would start killing enough crops for even more famine to spread.)

@AkeN996 8 жыл бұрын

Another blood-thirsty woman was Bathory of Transylvania (or so) that lived in the same period as Vlad the Impaler. She had a castle (now in ruins) where she brought virgin girls to kill them in order to bath in their blood and drink it, thinking that'd be the key to long life. The weird part is that this actually happened...

@hexazalea1793 8 жыл бұрын

Alexandru Nan Ernest i beliveve they ended up walling her up in her room eventually cant rember if they fed her or not but either by starvation or isolation that bitch got what she deserved. unless ive got her fate mised up with someone else. but yea there have been some really fucked up people in postions of power.

@AkeN996 8 жыл бұрын

HexManiacMaylein It's still kind of shocking that a woman did all these atrocities... :(

@hexazalea1793 8 жыл бұрын

Alexandru Nan Ernest Not really men and women are equal over all capeable of the same level of good or evil the only differnce is strenght and psychology. Men are built to use direct methods women will use indiect psychologial methods that can be even more damaging if used right. Her cruelty was how she would've kept power. keep in mind they didnt outright kill her they put her in solitary for years before she died.

@thesenate5510 8 жыл бұрын

Even though Vlad was a ruthless man towards his enemies. I heard he was a fair ruler and was nice to his people.

@mrejj04 8 жыл бұрын

A whole series on Werewolves? Yes please!

@cidayinnahuat7204 8 жыл бұрын

And then there are the two amazing vampires, The Salvatore Brothers ❤️

@livr3315 8 жыл бұрын

You should defiantly do a whole series on werewolves x)

@laquan017 8 жыл бұрын

I really appreciate the back story and depth of the African history of zombies. Great vid!

@kmklonowski 8 жыл бұрын

An episode on werewolves-- please! Would be fascinating!!

@peteri9973 8 жыл бұрын

LOL i love the instant shots fired at twilight series lmaooo

@rabidseamonkey1422 8 жыл бұрын

A whole series on werewolves would be awesome, and zombies too.

@kylethomson7583 8 жыл бұрын

Yes please do a whole series on werewolves!!!!

@emilyp8928 8 жыл бұрын

I read a story in my American History class about how some soldiers took out the guards in a concentration camp, and let the inmates free, and the inmates were so starved that they turned on the injured/ dead guards and ate them. I always thought that's where the zombie legend stemmed from.

@madelinegreen 8 жыл бұрын

Dnews rocks seriously my mind is zoomed after a long day to watch this so great!

@rayanourari3205 5 жыл бұрын

Your vidéos are so addictive

@Sam_on_YouTube 8 жыл бұрын

Stoker only got the name "Dracula" from Vlad "The Impaler" Dracul (among other names he was called). He wrote the whole book before hearing of the historical figure send only changed the name before publication because it was way better than the name in the original story (which I can't remember). While some similarities between the legend of the Impaler (many of which were exaggerated or false) and the fictional vampire were noticed by Stoker, they weren't planned in advance or intentional.

@crudman123 8 жыл бұрын

werewolves have to be the most interesting monster of all time with the modern zombie and vampire motifs being possible with a werewolf Base (unfortunately this hasn't become a mainstream idea), the fact that werewolves are one of (if not) the most ancient monsters, they have fascinating origin stories and very diverse and varied forms (as many as vampires) please please please do a whole series on werewolves alone?!

@sayantanchakraborty8530 8 жыл бұрын

An episode on werewolves would be great!!!

@ayanagraves5335 8 жыл бұрын

I would love a whole series about werewolves :))

@baconking1595 8 жыл бұрын

''I never called them zombies because those back then were voodoo mindslaves"- John A. Romero

@BedjamRivera 8 жыл бұрын

A werewolf series is a must.

@taeprice9560 7 жыл бұрын

do a whole series bout werewolves. new sub btw

@thebatmanover9000 8 жыл бұрын

Can you do a video on discoveries of animals we once thought died out that have been confirmed to still alive?

@flameshadow117 8 жыл бұрын

I want Trace's face and "I don't know how to pronounce it" on a t-shirt :P

@anniemax239 8 жыл бұрын

definitely would love to hear more on werewolves!

@wentworthandmandi 8 жыл бұрын

Yes!!! More info about werewolves and vampires, please!!!

@hmpz36911 6 жыл бұрын

These things are interesting because so many separate cultures have folklore describing similar things. Dragons, for instance...

@jaggerra7 8 жыл бұрын

I would happily watch a whole show on werewolves. I love delving into the reality that could have given rise to the lore. It reveals so much about peoples cultures and mindsets. Please do it. Thank you.

@cosmicdoggo9296 Жыл бұрын

Probobly rabies

@crazy4meganfox 6 жыл бұрын

There was a famous slave in brazil called "zumbi (zombie) dos palmares", that he became famous because he resisted and helped others to run away

@Meme033094 8 жыл бұрын

werewolves are awesome definitely make a whole episode about it

@fibulalart 8 жыл бұрын

that's not how you pronounce Valahia and Tepes

@Scorchstar678 8 жыл бұрын

I would love a whole series on specific "monsters"!

@darknightx33x81 8 жыл бұрын

the one thing that make them so unrealistic is the fast changes that turn the humans into monsters

@Pareltje333 8 жыл бұрын

I would definitely be very interested in more about the werewolves.

@marcelbullock8709 8 жыл бұрын

I really like the channel excellent content keep it up dude.

@jordangillick5993 8 жыл бұрын

+DNews plus A series on Werewolves would be awesome! Also a series on the fear/ scepticism around science which is my take on Mary Shelly, that would be awesome as well I think.

@blackdragonstory1122 8 жыл бұрын

Vampires are definetly a better thing to do a whole video series about.

@manukid91 8 жыл бұрын

I'm going to love this series :) I'll be staying tuned :D

@RobertF- 6 жыл бұрын

It's just a guess, but I think saber tooth tigers were ingrained in people's brains from prehistoric times, and I think their fangs were what unconsciously inspired the vampire image.

@sebaseba6710 8 жыл бұрын

GREAT VIDEO TRACE !!!!

@heirembae4389 8 жыл бұрын

BURNING QUESTION So if water goes through the Stomach which contains acids etc, which will make the acid dilute, how does the water in pure form is aborb by the intestine or is there something I dont know. Please answer or if you dont understand ask me to clarify

@UndercoverSkinner 8 жыл бұрын

Personally I liked the way that the WolfMan movie at the beginning relates the origin of the werewolf with the passage of Daniel were it talks about how nebuchadnezzar is punished by God turning him in a creature-like apperance with claws and long hair

@kashifsmith4037 8 жыл бұрын

I would love a werewolf series! Please do it, you can't take it back now.

@druidesskalex 8 жыл бұрын

I would love to see a series on werewolves.

@a_wyrd_witch 8 жыл бұрын

YESSS SERIES ON WEREWOLVES

@AlexTalArt 8 жыл бұрын

please do a werewolf one

@i2G67fLE 8 жыл бұрын

I'd love a series on werewolves!

@ahmedessa1364 8 жыл бұрын

do an episode about black magic, sorcery, and witches please !!

@mikenwanguma 8 жыл бұрын

You guys should definately do one on werewolves

@leonardoruiz4064 8 жыл бұрын

Love all of these series, Also it would be great to have one of werewolves!

@staticmut84 8 жыл бұрын

I would love to see a video on the mythology of werewolves.

@wolflybeauty330 8 жыл бұрын

I feel like the dislikes are from people who are mad about him saying "sparkling lame ones"

@sharu812 8 жыл бұрын

I am having a hard time finding episode from May 10 and after of dnews plus in podcast version on itunes please help

@myrmidonarrow6904 8 жыл бұрын

yes, do a history of werewolves! that would be awesome.

@Jalbesbe 8 жыл бұрын

Yea break downs on each monster would be awesome

@laststarfighter5335 8 жыл бұрын

vampire slayer kit: one flashlight, and a few tooth picks. dealing with zombie or Frankenstein? walk away, they can't catch you if you just move faster. werewolf hunting you? dog treats, unless it is windigo ( blackfoot Cherokee ancient American myth original man-beast ), then leave offering of fresh raw meat and fire water.

@UltimateGenosyko 8 жыл бұрын

1816 was the year without a summer- Rasputina

@ramangera6205 8 жыл бұрын

someone give these first second and third comments trophies for being so early they need it 😝😝

@UrskogTrolle 8 жыл бұрын

I'd love a series about werewolves.

@simonlordraise5660 3 жыл бұрын

Puberty. My highschool mates doing crazy things is just them being werewolves. 😂😂😂😂😂😂

@yazanherbawi 6 жыл бұрын

Vlad the Impaler aka Dracula was a monster indeed. He massacred nearby Turkic villages and hung over 20,000 bodies (including women and infants) on stakes to provoke the Ottoman Sultan. Long story short, he was later defeated by an Ottoman army led by his own brother, who joined the cause of the Sultan and converted to Islam.