i did not know i needed this until now.

The scientific documentary version of beer goggles wearing off

I was thinking the same exact thing

Columbus- "Mermaids are not what I expected." Peasant- "Did you...um...." Columbus- "Of course, but they were not what I expected."

I will make that one day mark my word

Now THAT would make a good "found footage" program. Mermaid hit squads coming to find people who revealed they were real....

@@markl2322 Whatever you do, don't take a bath! Stay out of the pools! Never flush! It might let them get you!!!

@@markl2322 theyll send ya to sleep with the fishes! wait .

_"I'm a fishman hitman and I made a deal with a sea witch to come after you. Shouldn't have talked _*_racks pistol_*_ "_

It's not the mermaids *IT'S THE GOVERNMENT*

Big brain teacher, teaching about fake news before it became a cotastrophical problem as it stands today

geez buddy, you might wanna listen to some big brain teachers more often with word garbage like "cotastrophical" coming out of your mouth

@@yami_the_witch English is not really my thing dude

Wow. That's pretty clever and cool. Really good lesson to teach to kids at a hool that people often forget is important. Your teacher is awesome!

Reminds me of in a computer class in elementary school they had us spend a whole class researching "tree octopi", a fictional octopus that lives in pine trees in oregon, and then told us at the end of the class period that the whole thing was a hoax and not to believe everything you read on the internet.

Probably because nobody sits through all of the credits.

That happen to me with the McPherson abduction.

That's because i really believe they never claimed it wasn't fake until X amount of time later. Reason is because I remember watching it on TV when it first came on and thinking to myself "no way, this has to be a joke!" So I did as much research as I could on the guide info and watching all the credits that I could and never once saw where it was stated that it wasn't real.

i was completely unconvinced by the mermaid doc but my grandpa seemed to believe it, until my dad pointed out that the supposed 2003 phone camera footage had a zoom in it and my dad was like "yeah thats fake they couldn't zoom like that back then"

yep, fuck I was stupid lol Mockumentary? That doesnt exist, all the science is real!

I was the same gullible child

Same, although to my shame I was 14 ... I believed a lot of weird stuff back then.

Dont be hard on yourselves. No matter how many of us will admit it, 90% of us were very guillable as children especially the way our parents would openly lie to us just to try n keep us in line and prevent us from discovering the truth about alot of things in life and rebelling because if we rebelled and had all that knowledge we would be unstoppable lil shitheads.

@@boogityhoo7452 y'all are still gullible. You believe nasa and the mainstream news. A lot of people still believe money is backed by the gold in fort knox. Y'all think a paper mask you never wash will stop you from getting the flu- err, the super flu. People in general are very gullible that's why communism and socialism and other evil people gain power so often and it's so hard to get rid of, even if some people figure out, the masses are still sitting there fooled.

That catchphrase indicates that Animal planet is indeed a shallow corporation made to cash in on factoids, which makes sense.

If I hear underwater fish people I think of One Piece

😭😂

@@SlapstickGenius23 Discovery networks has been going downhill for a while now. I watched a Netflix documentary simply named Rats made by discovery Channel of course. It was one of the most batshit insane documentary I've ever watched. They legit try and fail to make rats seem like serial killers.

No but dolphins are early man who evolved to be more adapt because they fished up the shorelines and had to go further and further out

I think she might be onto something lmfao😂😂😂

No, the flood didn't kill them it was CIA. Source:trust me bro

You know what else is crazy? People indoctrinate their children into religion. Then they have idiotic thoughts like this instead of.... Wait mom there are hundreds of different species of each animal, he had room for all those? And if he only had 2 of every animal what did the predators eat? 😂 And these are only 2 of the simplest holes in this delusional bullshit

Yes... THAT would most certainly be the straw that broke the camel's back when it comes to weirdness & unbelievable stories in the Bible stories 😂

I grew up in a crazy people church that didn’t believe in dinosaurs. They had a whole sermon after the dragon thing aired, basically to say that Animal Planet was evil lol I LOVED dinosaurs as a kid and one time in sunday school I gave the same exact idea. That maybe noah just couldn’t fit them on the ark lmao

Bless your heart! 😢❤

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Its funny cuz I had discussions with friends ib elementary school and we both agreed it was real- Maybe we were stupid...

Yeah man, me too. I would tell people that dragons were real because of this too

Teachers are just kinda dumb. They spend 5 years in college for 1 of the lowest paying government jobs. Also teaching itself is increasingly low skill.

@@hopefulmayhem5744 maybe in you country but in mine it's really well paid ans require a lot of passion and resilience, handling students isn't that easy...

I think its more like how you can still get a job while underqualified. Send your resume even if it asks for 5 years of experience and you have none.

@ferret teaching in the US is quite literally showing power points and giving opinions (usually wrong and poorly informed).

@@hopefulmayhem5744 the US education system has been purposefully failing for a long time.

Good to know across all borders we share this trauma.. 😂

@@dr.k1012 I remember making a facebook post on it, shit got me good!

My dad is an uber-religious man, and believes sirens are real and were the cause of something that happened in the book of Enoch.

I remember thinking it was real, especially after I saw the sequel a few years later

✋🏽 Same. I was shook when this aired in middle school. At least I have the excuse of having been a kid at the time, but my mom also believed it as well, so there’s that.

OMG I saw this back in the day at my Grandma’s house, and I actually thought it was real because it had ‘legit face-shadowed people for their privacy’, so I thought it _Had_ to be real… Animal Planet is so scummy for misleading people into thinking it actually was real...

@@crazysilly2914 I saw it at my grandma’s house too! And you know what was worse? I’m from Mexico and I didn’t know english, so the documentary being in english with spanish subs made it harder to realize they were doing a mockumentary AND made it sound more official, hahaha!

Considering I was flipping through channels as a kid and saw the word dragon in the guide I stayed on the channel. I never saw the beginning that said it is fake so I took it as fact for several years

SAME

I had these dragonology books as a kid and they made me 100% sure dragons were real I still wonder why so many regions came up with the idea of dragons around the same time despite not having much contact.

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Me and my family have a running joke that if you ever wanted something nautical captured, you must send Jeremy to do it. Fictional or otherwise, he will both hook it and capture it

Problem is, 90% of the fish caught were catfish. Great show, but gets a little boring after the 10th catfish in episode 3.

Random comment but I love your pfp. :)

I’m actually binging it right now on Hulu

@@snowrider6669 Good choice

I was the same age when I watched it... and totally bought it. Luckily it only took a year to figure out it was fake. And I’m not an anti-vaxxer!

You have good parents.

I was young when the fucking dragon documentary came out. I had it prerecorded and told people it was real and when other kids my age and a bit older said I was stupid I would invite them over to watch a documentary. Because we're all retarded little kids and "animal planet is smart and nerdy and it's those sciency type things why would they lie!?" Only a year later with me leaving the school did I realize I was stupid

@@WhyYouMadBoi You weren't... that ableist slur. Kids are just more gullible and prone to looking up to authority figures because of less life experience and a still developing brain.

That mermaid mockumentary influenced my writing and art including mermaids a lot honestly. I saw it half asleep as we were staying over at a family friend's house, and had some pretty Funky Dreams tm

I did too 😭😞

Yea it kinda made me believe too but it mostly scarred me bc the trailer for the documentary was too freaky for my 10 year old brain

"They thought he was crazy because he kept saying crazy shit with zero evidence... now, he's on a mission to prove them all wrong! Zaney McCryptids is... The Discredited Guy!"

OMG I saw this back in the day at my Grandma’s house, and I actually thought it was real because it had ‘legit face-shadowed for privacy people’, so I thought it _Had_ to be real… Animal Planet is so scummy for misleading people into thinking it was real...

@@crazysilly2914 yes gurr don't you hate that scummy animal planet for convincing you DRAGONS are real cause that is something that is definitely realistic and not at all fantasy

@@luislora8953 the one about dragons was clearly labeled as fiction, my issue was with the mermaid one...

@@crazysilly2914 once again mermaids are fictional and that should be incredibly obvious to anybody older than 5

Saaaaame I actually never watched it because the previews were too scary 😭😭

Dude I fucking remember that scared the shit out of me

That scene STILL gets me as a jump scare

omg i remember that!! it literally terrified me as a kid, i think it was late at night when i saw it too, thanks for reawakening that memory from deep within my psyche

The fucking clip of the mermaid jumpscareing the dude on the beach scared the absolute shit out of me as a child, I couldn't sleep for a day

I mean if you think about they did find a kraken considering that a giant could probably drag down a small longship which could possibly be the origin of the myth and the myth just got bigger

@@dragonking8085 Humboldt Squid are a force two be reckoned with.

@@dragonking8085 and the fact the biggest ones live so far under water, they wouldn't see them all the time and have alot of time to actually see the details of it. They would just see the tentacles and maybe part of the head/body so that is most likely where the Kraken story came from. Also I wouldn't doubt back before all the chemicals n trash were in the ocean alot of ocean animals could possibly be alot bigger in size. Their wooden boats never stood a chance and thats another possible explanation is they witnessed their prized ships just get sunk and they would not know any better .

There was a later episode where they went to a ranch in South America and found out that the monster was actually a type of bear that was very rare in the area

Monster queef

It was a great show in the first 4 seasons, after that it started veering too much into demon bat and mountain monsters territory. Though, even then you still had the occasional gem of an episode. But I much preferred the less sensationalized early seasons.

Mans actually completed that side quest we all keep putting off

He is going for the 100% completions

I love River Monsters, ine of my favorite shows to watch after school

He needs that hat that says “women want me, fish fear me”

I had a friend who sat through the entire thing waiting for the "real footage," then got mad when it came up and was obviously CG. She was an adult when she watched it, though, so I guess that makes all the difference.

Bruh I also thought they were real Until I got older and into anime and tech. I remember hearing someone who also had just watched that episode and I re-watched it and was laughing the whole time.

My dad defend it as real proof the goverment doesn't want you to know, my 12 year old self knew it was fake like do you know animation????

i dont think it was a fact but when they had the mermaid fight a megalodon i thought megalodons were 50x the size of a great white instead of 3x or 5x a great white

I remember that when I was a kid I believed every single "real alien video" good times

Imagine a school failing to teach students something. Surprising! Just kidding, your school did just as good as any other school at ruining kids education.

@@D-Vinko Nah, kids are just dumb, LOL.

@@nikitaivachtchenko6375 well im a kid and i dont beileve this

@@D-Vinko at least they tried

Technically, they are right. Everyone believed something that was real

now thats a good teacher

Jeez louise

Well after long amounts of consideration I’ve decided I definitely want to go into anthropology

yeah I bet he'll also says to bring any giant skeletons you find to the Smithsonian's

@@vanomzero idk I don't remember

@@vanomzero they have, reportedly, covered them up.

@@DismemberedHat 🤣this was funnier than i expected

Obsessed with the implication that Billiam isn't a real person.

Weird all my friends say the same thing about me.

He's a ghost haunting KZfaq

@@solchapeau6343 chill.

Imagine how billiam would feel coming across this comment. He just looks like a dude guy, anyway. Chill lol

i watched that mermaid doc when i was younger and i belived it till my bro told me it was a lie. i haven't liked or trusted animal planet since

@@CrazyFlyingMonk I was in middle school at the time. In my subconscious, I knew it wasn’t real because I thought (the majority of) stuff on TV was fake; but I never gave it much thought to consciously say it was fake. When my teacher said it was fake, that’s when I thought “Oh yeah. Of course.”

OMG I saw this back in the day at my Grandma’s house, and I actually thought it was real because it had ‘legit face-shadowed for privacy people’, so I thought it _Had_ to be real… Animal Planet is so scummy for misleading people into thinking it was real...

This phenomenon was before my time, but my friend saw the dragon documentary a while after the fact, and thought it was real We were like eight then though so

Damn

😭😭😭

I made a whole presentation about it for school 🙃🤠

I think the only reason my dad had me and my brothers watch it with him was to test out our intelligence for if it's real or not. We failed I think

I'd like to hear what conversation you had ahaha

I got got by it too it’s not your fault I’m assuming you were a kid when freaking ANIMAL PLANET makes/airs an entire documentary you take that as fact when you’re young and naive! It’s really sickening that they took the trust people had for their channel and completely butchered it for ratings!

You genius

That would be amazing

This would be a perfect comedy movie.

Somebody give this guy a medal

@@darthrevan5976 the Medal of Honor for best idea ever

Oh, how I wish I could believe that was overthinking things. How I wish...

Imagine an alternate reality where they just acquired a bigfoot to play chewwy. Like they just train him to follow the actors and feed him when he does a good job.

@@hamsandvich8956 they just hired Mr.Mayhew to stand in as an actor to keep up the secret.

@@novaiscool1 oh shit you’re right, lol

@@hazukichanx408 Bigfoot is real btw

I was so pissed I cancelled my cable

fake

Same here dude, but these mockumentaries gave me inspiration to create my series.

same here. i went around telling everyone about the "aquatic ape theory" and how it makes so much sense

Same bit i was a bit more lazier (maybe because I was a bit younger) but I was remembered by that now and I got to know it was a mockumentary now

Honestly it would scare me too. And I work in film 😂

@@natasha8007 It's good to see more deer getting jobs in the film industry.

@@airysama8812 truly! We still have a long road ahead when it comes to quality representation thought.

@@natasha8007 Even worse if you consider that a Moose had only a cameo appereance in Monty Pyton and the Holy Grail, and that was back in 1975

It's a deer. A mouse probably sneezed

Lol I dont know there are a lot of mysteries about ocean we cant begin to understand. We know more about space than we know about the ocean. One thing I learned in my years is that its always some truth in a myth

@Hunter Smith how would you know? I don’t believe in mermaids but I’m curious as to what your reasoning is for why they could only exist on the surface, if you don’t mind my asking, wouldn’t want to intrude

@@frankiefrankie1120 If mermaids are mammals, they would need to breath air. And this would need to rise to the surface. They also wouldn't have the lung capacity that many whales have so would need to surface much more often.

@@arcticdino1650 we discovered a new whale just 4 years ago and over 20 new sea mammals in the last 2 decades, jsyk we don’t know everything that’s on the surface and are currently still unraveling the mysteries of our big blue marble

@Hunter Smith there are hundreds of known sea mammals, with new ones being found all the time as well as other land primates, at least 30 have been found in the last 20 years. I agree with the notion that sea dwelling primates is an absurd concept, but I also have to admit that I have no concrete evidence to disprove their existence at this time, and as a wise man once said “the absence of evidence, is not the evidence of absence”

Same

@Robin The God - Fake ASMR Is Being Stupid and stop trying to doxx people

You weren't dumb as shit. Animal planet was a con channel. Easy as that.

@@alexsch2514 it wasn't always like that, Jeff Corwin and Steve Irwin are what made that channel real for me. It taught me so many things and gave me my wildlife inspiration. My whole life shifted into a positive direction because of Animal Planet instead of mindless cartoons every weekend. Lol

@@meaningfulmindfulness15 me too, absolutely. I can understand that. But the mermaid "documentary" borders on fraud.

I can imagine how magical it was until reality hit you in the face.

Y’all got fuckin played

Technecally dragons exist, but not as the mythology would like to depict them.

Well, dinosaurs and by extension birds may as well be classed as real-life dragons. Look up Barosaurus for example.

I'm convinced people thought dragons were real because of ptedarxly bones

#MeToo... I remember when I was like 10 years old and I told my Grandma to cancel my Discovery Magazine subscription because it got too dumbed down.

yeah At lest I don't feel so alone now

@@ShojoBakunyu the metoo # probably isnt the best use in this case

@@darkmario3321 #metoo

Fr like bruh😭 I deadass thought it was real in sixth grade and I also thought the world was gonna end- I was really sheltered and I didn't have a phone until then so like...ofc I fell for EVERYTHING.

@@jeanne5922 SAMEEEEE I saw that once when i was like 12 and I believed it for years lmaooo I was a dumb ass child

Same! I thought it was real for years!

it effects*

The hell 😂😂😂

She could have Schizophrenia, which actually kinda sad

@@rebeccawest3608 Nah people are dumb

I don't think she was ok...

Wow, that's completely backwards

There was a movie with a plot very similar to that that.

@@SupaKoopaTroopa64 What movie was it?

"I created something real, Chaz! Something people will talk about for decades to come!" "Dude, you made me film you in a monkey suit and then lied about it." "It's real and significant!! D="

@@hydradriveemperor9371 It's called "Pottersville" I couldn't remember the name, but when I searched "movie with bigfoot and furries" it was the only thing that shows up. The protagonist finds out his wife is cheating on him with a furry, so he gets drunk, buys a monkey suit, and runs around in the woods screaming. Some people catch him on tape, thinking he is Bigfoot. This causes a huge boom in tourism, helping the struggling economy of the small town. There's also some furries that worship Bigfoot in the woods.

That reminds me of the guy who said he was visited by cat people aliens and he would have sex with them, I think there's more horniness involve into conspiracy theories than we thought

I used to be into ESP and psychics when I was a teen and my mom chewed me out on it. These days my mom got hard into ancient aliens and... well... I chew her out on it.

How the turn tables

I'm ashamed to admit that 14 year old me was initially caught out too, though I did appreciate it more after thinking it over and realising the main take away was the damage sonar and underwater sound pollution can do to marine mammals.

I was like eleven when i saw it and believed it all until the end and felt like I just watched Texas Chain Saw Massacre or something

I always believed the earth is flat but am not sure if it's flat enough.

The kids in my neighborhood and I used to act out our favorite episodes 😳

Please upload I’d pay to watch that

that is incredible

That's fucking epic

Demon Cow. Heh... and the only thing it fears is the Demonic Cowboy.

Well yeah it sounds stupid when you say it like that…

As a kid i knew, dinosaurs real, dragon myth

Are you gonna pretend that isn't a documented fact

They're the villains for sure

@@senabecool7232 But goddamn do I wish dragons were real anyways

Same I don’t know what was wrong with me

I was in like 3rd grade and I thought it was entirely true. I thought this for years, Animal Planet took advantage of all the children who would believe

ME TOO I remember seeing that one chunk of “Found footage” they kept showing so vividly and i was TERRIFIED FOR DAYS

While the mermaid thing might have been fake, I'm still glad to have seen it for introducing me to the aquatic ape hypothesis which I fully believe holds some measure of truth in regards to how we developed as a species.

oh my gosh, same. I never stopped thinking about it and till this day the image is just seared into my mind. It used to scare me a lot! Thankfully I've become a lot more rational....

Those "documentaries" made me suuuuper enthusiastic in biology bruv. Like I would go around telling all this shit to adults like it was the gospel.

I’m sorry but I sorta got that second hand embarrassment reading this as if it was me reaction to my own childhood doings 😂

I brought in a bigfoot presentation to my 2nd grade class. By presentation I mean 4 sentences with printed pictures at the bottom.

This is actually really sweet. Embarrassing but at least you were trying to make big changes

Lmao third hand embarrassment here

Was? It's still going as far as I'm aware (though covid kinda cut new episodes the past year). Has he retired? I was looking forward to new episodes once covid lockdown lifts in the world

Lol

@@sashascarah6533 really? I remember him leaving after finding that huge fish with teeth saying it was the fish he wanted to catch the most.

You mean a catfish

that show is genuinely entertaining to watch.

Reject crab. Become Opabinia.

Nice comment

Aye it’uh da nice reply section ya gat’ere, I’d be’uh shame if someone were to’uh ga’guch your place.

B e c o m e C r ā b

best comment.

bro took irl psychic damage because of how bad the documentary was

Fucking what

Funny thing is: we all know he was already drunk in the beginning of the video. It just got worse.

Just like the AVGN

He has to drown his frustrations with T H E C L A W

It's the only way to do it if you're going through some of the trash of Animal Planet

16:08 “And cue an angry panther attacking the crew because they’re sick of all that racket!” XD

Don't be silly. What is more likely - that deer was either spooked by some humans or a squach. Humans are not scary. Would you be afraid of some humans? I wouldn't. The answer is obvious, open your eyes.

@@LoisoPondohva we aren't scared of humans but deer are very scared of humans As a simple deer i would be very scared of the group of humans shining lights at me and making lots of noise

@@Bruh-hq1hx it's called irony,got it?

Don't forget the screaming , and banging the trees

The same thing happened to me but I think I was still in elementary school. I so vividly remember turning on my tv on a sunny weekend morning and being so traumatized by it and going to school and seemingly everyone also saw it

Which side won?

@@drgnlady13 None. It was mainly for laughs🤣🤣🤣

I am not gonna lie.... I'm a mite older and even I was taken in by that. It pissed me off royally to see 'Mockumentaries' on a channel that once prided itself on the 'Facts of nature' lol a LOT of people I know saw the doc as well and were taken in by it. Was well made for the time.

What a great “moment” you have I wish I had great “moment” as well

Basically my mom's reaction too lol.

It was the opposite for me. When I was a kid my mom told me to come watch a documentary about the evidence/discovery of mermaids with her. I looked at her and said something along the lines of "that doesn't look real."

I did the same to my science teacher.

Ouch. that stings

To be fair I've seen videos of women lifting cars to save their kids so that's not too far fetched XD

I don't care what anyone says, that was badass. Also, I think it's a neat little nod to the Jersey Devil's origin story that it seemed so pissed at the sight of her.

That deserves a 10/10.

I FUCKING REMEMBER THAT EPISODE

Damn I’ve been out of the loop, all I remember was the Thunderbird, skinwalker, hellhound and chubacabra episodes

Notice how all cryptids are basically humans with different pokemon types. Mothman- Flying type human Mermaid- Water type human Bigfoot- Leaf type human

@@heeshantbeharee9229 That’s it folks. It’s time to enslave some poke-man and put them in the fighting pit.

@@heeshantbeharee9229 I'd watch an anime about cryptids.

Go mothman I choose you use explosion!

@@heeshantbeharee9229 LEAF type nigga??😒

This is so funny to me

I love folklore and mythology

I mean, you were right in a sense so good job

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@@grouchygoat came here to say that!

Harrel! Sup!

At least ancient aliens have some claims that are fun to speculate

If only people could grasp the fact that someone else believing a thing is real, does not actually make it real. See also religion, valor, checks and balances etc.

@@hazukichanx408 I know right. I know so many ppl who believe in valor because their good friend or someone was totally convinced they saw a red gym.

@@hazukichanx408 It is, in fact, possible for someone to be mistaken, even if they think they're right.

Kind of reminds me of how in Grave Encounters 2, people acknowledge the bad CGI from the first movie without knowing that it was real in-universe which made me think “so are they saying that demonic ghost faces look similar to bad CGI?”

and buying all the cheap little erasers you can afford if you DID have money

Those book fairs were holidays honestly

I bought all the stuffed animals.

Same

@@TiddyTwyster Agreed

Same man I was so crushed haha

Honestly Same, deep down I'm still pissed off that dragons arnt real because they're freaking awesome. It's why I'm planning on getting red eyed crocodile skinks as they look like dragons

I remember that. I thought it was real for like the first half of it.

Same. I was obsessed with dragons as a kid

Didn't a lot of ideas for mythical creatures come from humans finding prehistoric bones (such as dinosaurs) and trying to imagine what the creatures looked like alive?

Peter Parker: but Mr Jameson what about Spider-Man

Bigfoot: Threat or Menace

Here’s a response I made to Billiam. 20:19-20:33 The entire episode (and the entire show), debates on the existence of Bigfoot and other creatures (there’s even a disclaimer at the beginning of every episode that says “the following is based on the possibility that hidden creatures exist” they’re saying that the found footage segments are fake but are inspired by cryptids and other creatures that may or may not exist “the debate continues” as it also says), every episode except Chupacabra which was the first episode, the narrator ends with the tagline “And so we are left to wonder, do they live among us...” In that Bigfoot clip you showed, the narrator was being cheesy and overly dramatic like he does in every episode and in that same clip he says the “do they live among us” tagline immediately after but you conveniently left that out and talked over it. Combined with my other comment, it looks like you’re either taking certain quotes too literally or taking certain clips out of context to make them sound more ridiculous than they actually were (this seems to be a pattern with other commentary channels who talk about these kinds of shows just to make fun of them without caring about researching the topic or giving any respect and seriousness because “lol they believe in ghosts 😂,” even if they’re talking about shows that deserved to be lampooned like Ghost Adventures. Keep in mind, I’m not talking about shit like 3 AM Challenge videos, Deep Web Mystery Box videos, Spirit Box channels or certain top 10 channels, KZfaq is a different beast altogether when it comes to this stuff).

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