Surprisingly Plausible Real-Life Explanations For Mythical Creatures
Creatures like the narwhal, okapi, and Komodo dragon are on the short list of mythical creatures proven real. Yet, while scientifically interesting, these examples aren’t in the realm of more fanciful and legendary animals like unicorns, Bigfoot, or the more hilarious mythical creatures that cryptozoologists fawn over. Mythical creatures in real life often fail to live up to the expectations formed by old legends, fairy tales, or cartoons.
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@343guardian5
December 14, 2025 at 12:25 pm
Werewolf – Bear with Mange
Chupacabra – Coyote with Mange
El Chupacabre – Probably a Coyote with a full case of mange
Mothman – Some guy who woke up in the middle of his camping trip and saw the shadow of a moth on his tent wall from his lantern which looked really big.
Big Foot – Some dude who had a crazy idea with his fursuit and went viral (Which could also be plausible for dogmen sightings)
Wendigo – Some Indians who weren't keen on their land being stolen, so they decided to use a little phycological warfare and speak of stories of a immortal cannibalistic monster to scare the white men away.
@natefontana5757
December 14, 2025 at 12:25 pm
Bears don’t run on their hind legs have flatter primate like faces
@Alexámenos9275
December 14, 2025 at 12:25 pm
Me da risa cuando pretenden hacernos creer que los unicornios son los narvales, solamente comparten el cuerno, pero nada más.
@waltercv
December 14, 2025 at 12:25 pm
For a split second, I thought that cyclops was Joe Rogan
@btetschner
December 14, 2025 at 12:25 pm
11:41 The company Lisa Frank was established in 1979.
What if Anne Frank and Lisa Frank combined forces to create a colorful journal?
Hopefully that would not become a type of monster called a FRANKenstein!
@btetschner
December 14, 2025 at 12:25 pm
10:44 Reminds me of the awesome board game Hungry Hungry Hippos!
@btetschner
December 14, 2025 at 12:25 pm
x 9:32 The film Pottersville is about a guy that dresses up as Bigfoot during the Christmas season and the town goes crazy with excitement because they believe Bigfoot lives nearby.
@btetschner
December 14, 2025 at 12:25 pm
That Cyclops didn't turn out well, there seems to be a significant different between frying local eggs (from chickens around here) and store-bought eggs.
That will need some adjusting…
@btetschner
December 14, 2025 at 12:25 pm
Having ANOTHER Weird History meal!
Eating a Cyclops*†…while watching this Weird History video!
I fried a egg without turning it and then put pepper on the egg like a pupil, looks like the one eye of a cyclops!
* Inspired by the Weird History videos about mythology!
† Relating to the Odyssey, Odysseas Elytis (whose name is potential the same as the main character of the Odyssey) won the Nobel Prize in Literature the year I was born (1979) and he used a lot of Greek tradition.
@btetschner
December 14, 2025 at 12:25 pm
The best way to establish the idea of the Land of Lighthouses is to remind everyone that:
x Michigan easily has the most lighthouses in the country.
x Due to the first fact, it is deserving of the name Land of Lighthouses.
@btetschner
December 14, 2025 at 12:25 pm
Doing a Weird History Sequence!
Continuing a sequence*†… as I watch this Weird History video!
* Inspired after watching all these great Weird History videos!
† It goes on…
@jenniferbethparishwhite688
December 14, 2025 at 12:25 pm
“And Livyatan! Can you catch him with a fishhook or hold his tongue down with a rope Can you put a ring in his nose or pierce his jaw with a barb? Will he entreat you at length? Will he speak with you softly? Will he agree with you
to be your slave forever? Will you play with him as you would with a bird or keep him on a string to amuse your little girls? Will a group of fishermen turn him into a banquet? Will they divide him among the merchants? Can you fill his skin with darts or his head with fish-spears? If you lay your hand on him, you won’t forget the fight, and you’ll never do it again!" Iyov [Job] 40:25-32
“Look, any hope [of capturing him] is futile — one would fall prostrate at the very sight of him. No one is fierce enough to rouse him, so who can stand up to me? Who has given me anything
and made me pay it back? Everything belongs to me under all of heaven. I have more to say about his limbs, his strong talk, and his matchless strength. Who can strip off his [scaly] garment? Who can enter his jaws? Who can pry open the doors of his face, so close to his terrible teeth? His pride is his rows of scales, tightly sealed together — one is so close to the next
that no air can come between them; they are stuck one to another, interlocked and impervious. When he sneezes, light flashes out; his eyes are like the shimmer of dawn. From his mouth go fiery torches, and sparks come flying out. His nostrils belch steam like a caldron boiling on the fire. His breath sets coals ablaze; flames pour from his mouth. Strength resides in his neck, and dismay dances ahead of him [as he goes]. The layers of his flesh stick together; they are firm on him, immovable. His heart is as hard as a stone, yes, hard as a lower millstone. When he rears himself up, the gods are afraid, beside themselves in despair. If a sword touches him, it won’t stick; neither will a spear, or a dart, or a lance. He regards iron as straw bronze as rotten wood. An arrow can’t make him flee; for him, slingstones are so much chaff. Clubs count as hay, and he laughs at a quivering javelin. His belly is as sharp as fragments of pottery, so he moves across the mud like a threshing-sledge. He makes the depths seethe like a pot,
he makes the sea [boil] like a perfume kettle. He leaves a shining wake behind him, making the deep seem to have white hair. On earth there is nothing like him, a creature without fear. He looks straight at all high things. He is king over all proud beasts.” Iyov [Job] 41
@GaryCarpenter-y2k
December 14, 2025 at 12:25 pm
Cyclops also affects animals I've seen a goat 🐐, pigs 🐖 a cow 🐄
@Susieq26754
December 14, 2025 at 12:25 pm
They used these stories to put fear into their people. So they could control them. Nothing has changed.
@andrewmurray9391
December 14, 2025 at 12:25 pm
History feels like some cheap gameshow. "OK, so, Moses has things coming out of his head, go…"
@phhdvm
December 14, 2025 at 12:25 pm
It’s a meteor until it’s on the ground, then it’s meteorite.
@DuhaMohammad
December 14, 2025 at 12:25 pm
I liked that of unicorn the most. If hippopotamus is dubbed river horse (btw, this is exactly how we call it in Arabic), then rhinoceros can very possibly be the unicorn.
@JosephWecker
December 14, 2025 at 12:25 pm
So… people may have thought the “mystical sea serpent” existed because they had seen a… sea serpent but, technically it’s a fish not a serpent. Silly ignorant fantastical ancients. I’ll bet they thought there were mystical hair-birds because they found a dead bat, and mystical fish-birds because sailors had reported seeing what were actually flying fish— they thought gliding was flying?? Hahaha, what a bunch of superstitious people believing all that magic… :-/
@farknado2930
December 14, 2025 at 12:25 pm
James Woods AI voice. lol
@doyoulikedinosaurs
December 14, 2025 at 12:25 pm
"sea serpents" were also often whale ahem members, which were out and flopping around while they were doing a barrel roll. you can google it if you want to, but it looks like what it sounds like it looks like, so you can also… not.
@celter.45acp98
December 14, 2025 at 12:25 pm
Connecting a meteor strike with a gigantic snake has got to be one of the biggest leaps in human history
@moshimedlin-sw6ov
December 14, 2025 at 12:25 pm
Don’t people with rabies die pretty quickly? It’s definitely fatal.
Moshi
@ivanvanogre-nd1sw
December 14, 2025 at 12:25 pm
4:31 It has been recently discovered that our Earth has another ocean, far deeper underground than our surface ocean and this ocean is larger than ALL of our oceans combined.
They live down THERE. And I believe that this is where our UFO's are coming from.
At the dawn of our time we crawled up out of the ocean but they burrowed down into the ocean floor.
And we both have evolved from there, so they are not space aliens, they are Earthlings too!
@ryanstephens4408
December 14, 2025 at 12:25 pm
It's seems funny to me that even just several hundred years ago we would have thought all these real creatures were just dumb myths created by our "dumb" ancestors. I wonder what else we're judging them on believing now that will turn out to be real?
@NZDLo
December 14, 2025 at 12:25 pm
Your pronunciation of Maori is shocking.
@ELisa-qf2mw
December 14, 2025 at 12:25 pm
Such great stories delivered in a great way!
Another one I've heard about vampires is related to the Black Death, alias the plague epidemic that killed an astounding 30% of European population in 1300s. As so many people was dying, especially in big cities a gruesome problem rose: lack of space for burying the deads. This led to accelerating the normal process of exhumating corpses dating back to more than, if I'm not mistaken, 80 years and transfer the remaining, which by this amount of time are not much more than dried bones, to a much smaller tomb or to a common pit. Exhume a corpse after only a few years, and what you see is very prone to fuel horror stories. In that situation of extreme distress and collective trauma people needed an escape goat, and this is when certain features of some decomposing human bodies (such as the linen shroud presenting a consumption hole on the mouth due to bodily fluids and decomposition gases) led to imagining gruesome "non-deads" who would awake from their tombs, "eat their shroud" and go mess around with the living, spreading the plague. Pinning them down with a stick in their chest was deemed necessary, another element that added to the vampire lore.
It's also possible that such a complex, long-lasting lore has more than one source so my story and your story don't mutually rule out one another.
@tinas_hotdog_sophie
December 14, 2025 at 12:25 pm
Fantastic Beasts and why are they
@bustysaintclair
December 14, 2025 at 12:25 pm
if only the maoris didnt come to new zealand
@imirrawashere
December 14, 2025 at 12:25 pm
Wanna know something about the elephant skull that doesn't make sense? These people lived off the land, therefore, probably hunted elephants from time to time and had come across their carcasses. They know what an elephant skull looks like.
@OTBTwenty_3
December 14, 2025 at 12:25 pm
I feel like if no one ever seen any of these things who just comes up w these type of things out of nowhere .. All of these things existed once idc what anyone says 😂💯
@jenn4593
December 14, 2025 at 12:25 pm
Lisa Frank!! I loved her. I haven’t heard anyone mention her in years!! ❤❤
@KKristof100
December 14, 2025 at 12:25 pm
8:07 Wait, am I the only one heard as "MACRO Polo"? Yeah, he's someone who definitely had acromegaly disorder, unlike his little brother Micro Polo who was suffering from dwarfism🤣.
@jarjarb1924
December 14, 2025 at 12:25 pm
Where is God on this list? Maybe in 1000 years you can make a new video, when humankind has finally moved on from religions!
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