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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The vampire one makes sense, curious when people started referring to Vlad the Impaler as "Vlad Dracula" and how much that had to do with the Vampire Myth.
Off topic: Since this is a history channel. I was hoping a video about the Filipino – America War of 1899.
Hippopotamus in Arabic is river horse as well 😉
Kinda disappointed they failed to mention the Narwhal tooth in regards to the unicorn.
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Didn’t the story of vampires originate w/the very real Vlad the Impaler?? That’s what I was taught. His brutal war tactics inspired the myth that he was a vampire.
Serbian unicorn 😂🇷🇸🦄
One eyed people can be considered cyclopes's ( not an eye in the center)
There are some snakes that can flatten their body and briefly glide from tree to tree.
They’re the Buzz Lightyears of the animal kingdom: “This isn’t flying….this is falling *with style*!”
I think "dragons" were based on fossilized dinasores.
1970: "UFOs are myths made up from people who saw swamp gas." 2023: "UFOs are totally real and the US government has been monitoring them for years." It's a bit foolish to write off every unexplainable report as a misunderstanding by our "primitive" ancestors.
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….no mentions of griffins? Shame.
The chupacabra is easy to explain away to. Def a dog with mange
Vampires kiss he doesn’t turn into a vampire he gets rabies madness thinking he’s turning into a vampire
The unicorn was goat sized originally, if I remember correctly. So rhino doesn't add up
It's also worth remembering that optometry is a relatively recently practiced science.
you do realise 39 thousand years ago modern man Homo Sapiens Sapiens (just like anyone you see in the street today) roamed the earth right?
‘A Clove a day, keeps the the Vampires away!!!!!’🧄🧛♂️
-Uncle Gino
Actually the vampirism was a royal inbreed disease. I don't feel like writing a long text, but look it up
Some people thought the “krakens” and some “sea monsters” that they saw were also whale dicks
NO MENTION OF THE THUNDERBIRD??!
4:15 so you just confirmed the existence of giant sea serpents and yet you say they didn't exist? 😂😂
I'd love to see a video on apartheid if you're looking for ideas!
The myths around vampirism also come from a disease called porphyria.
I still remember gorillas as mysterious creatures or people, as the Greeks and Romans reported it.
they could have included that the Kraken is likely based on the giant squid.
That was great, thank you guys and girls, and all involved :D! 😀
Thanks for this! 🐉 #WeirdHistory #MythicalCreatures
Do christian mythology next and real-life explanations for Jesus' magic tricks. Lbs
sorry, but u kinda sound like Cleveland Brown from Family Guy 🙈
Can you do a video on the history of the country of Bohemia in Eastern Europe?
Could you do a video on insulin please
I know of a giant, one-eyed monster……in my pants!! 😂
Why is there a dutch manuscript at 10:10 ? I live in the netherlands and never seen a bigfoot or yeti , well i have big foot but still… And no i don't live in "The Neitherworld "but i could give the host with the most a run for his money! Try me Tim Burton!!
Lisa Frank notebooks, lol. Proof I watched to the end 😉
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I wouldn’t be surprised that people from those time periods was getting everything right. It’s that us modern humans are so full of ourselves and our “knowledge” that we underestimate our ancestors intelligence. We might just be the stupid ones.
Thank you for the Laurel and Hardy reference! 🤭
One thing you didn't mentioned about vampires, that is vampire turning into bats are have bring mistaken for actual vsmpire bars who do suck blood from people at night and can spread rabies, though they live South and Central America, not in Europe.
"how are unicorns fake but giraffes are real like what’s more believable a horse with a horn or a leopard-moose-camel with a 40 foot neck"
I suspect giant sloths inspired Native American legends about huge hairy men living in the forests.
Another Fine Myth, first book in the series by Robert Lynn Aspirin.
Serbia was mentioned unnecessarily, it’s SYBERIAN not serbian unicorn
I really can’t pin down why, but the possibility that rhinoceros’ might’ve been what people were actually talking about when unicorns became a thing of myth, is one of the funniest things I’ve heard in a minute. Thanks for the awesome vid, WH! ❤️😂
Whenever my wife hears these videos she asks "are you listening to Steven Colbert's history channel again?"