Hello and welcome back to the Most Amazing Channel on the internet.
I am your host, Rebecca Felgate and today we are talking the Top 10 Scary Things Pulled
from SWAMPS.
SWAMPS!
I often feel like a bit of a swamp monster so I am down for this video!
Before we get into it though, why don't you guys let me know if you have ever found anything
weird.
Do you live near a swamp?
Let me know .... Lets get this swamp chat going!
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10 - Doll Graveyard In November 2014 21 porcelain dolls impaled
on bamboo sticks were found in the middle of Bear Creek swamp in Alabama.
Some of them were very much missing their heads.
The Autauga County Sheriffs department travelled by canoe to recover the dolls, all of which
appeared to have been dressed up.
The dolls were on private land but people were getting stressed out because they could
see them from the road and they were worrying passers by.
The swamp itself is associated with legends of a swamp monster and mystery lights have
been reported at night.
Does the monster collect dollies?!
9 - The Statue The Shigir Idol is the oldest known wooden
sculpture in the world - twice as old as the Egyptian pyramids...and it was pulled from
a bog!
It was found by Gold Miners in 1894 in Shigir Russia.
Look at it....
It is pretty scary to look at... its face.. its kind of Wickerman in vibe.
Amazingly, 100 years after it was pulled from the swampy wetland, it was radio carbon dated,
revealing 11 and a half thousand years old.
It is thought that statue is depicting a forest spirit... which would worry me for fear of
disturbing the spirit.
8 - The Soviet War Tank Watch this amazing footage of a world War
Two tank being pulled out of a swamp in Belarus!
The tank was discovered by workers near the town of Senno.
The KV1 was dragged from the murky depths and had a K41 mounted 75 millimetre gun on
top of it.
A whole recovery crew was assembled to drag it from the swamp.
The video is in Russian language so I can't really understand what is being said but it
is really impressive to see a 75 year old tank pulled out of the mud.
Similarly at number 7 we have The Swamp Ghost A spooky name for a very epic discovery - The
Swamp ghost is a boeing B177E Flying Fortress that made an emergency landing on a swamp
Paupa New Guinea in 1942 during the second world war.
It was intercepted by Japanese air forces and was running out of fuel so the pilot was
forced to retreat.
After landing the aircraft, the crew managed to escape before the plane was dragged down
into the bog.
The survivors had to treck out if the Agaiambo Swamp.
The plane was rediscovered in 1972 and given its name of swamp ghost.
It was dragged from the swamp in 2006 and transferred back to the USA where it is being
restored for display.
6 - The Gator We all know that Alligators live in swamps,
most famously in states like Florida and Alabama.
Gators are like the original OG Swamp Monsters.
IN August 2014, a 15 foot, 1011 pound monster was pulled from a swamp in Camden, Alabama.
It was the largest ever caught to date.
WHAT a giant!
5 - Bog Butter URGH that makes me feel pretty sick.
For me this is one of the grossest things on this list....
So basically over the past few hundred years, wooden barrels filled with a greasy butter
like substance have been regularly pulled from bogs in Europe.
This terrifies me...and old barrel of something greasy....yuck.
For want of knowing what it actually was, people started calling it Bog Butter...only...it
turns out it actually was butter.
In Ireland, burying bog butter dates bake to the first century AD to basically preserve
the spread when they had a surplus.
Here is a picture of Bog Butter found in Fermanagh Ireland dating back 500 years.
Buuut here is a chunk of 2000 year old butter...also found in ireland,.....and people ate it.
RANK.
Talking about the butter, one of the people that studied it said : It still retains the
marks of the hand and fingers of the ancient dame who pressed it into its present shape"
and that "tastes somewhat like cheese."
HARD NO.
I was talking to Jack Finch from Top 5 Scary videos and he said that he would eat it.
Rather him than me, though!
Bog butter reminded me of something else disgusting that I think you should know about.
This wasn't found in a swamp... but some say the sewers of London are LIKE a soo at number
4 we are going with FATBERG Hello this is gross.
There have actually been a number of fatbergs found in London and this is apparently as
a result of aging victorian sewage systems and the rise in people flushing face wipes.
It seems that the fat in faecal matter and human waste has congealed, picking up wet
wipes, napkins, condoms, food and tampons as it goes along, taking a huge form.
Would you like to see a picture of one of the fatbergs that clogged the London sewage
swamps?
Here you go!
Mmm.
In 2017 a fatberg the size of 11 double decker buses was blasted up under Whitechapel over
the course of a week....
That's 130 tonnes of fat.
NOPE.
3 A Nuclear Bomb This is one of the scariest things still in
a swamp and yet to be pulled is a 24 megatron nuclear bomb dumped by a cold war era pilot.
In 1961, a B-52 bomber lost its wing in a storm and was forced to eject its bombs as
was required at the time.
The first of the two nuclear weapons was retrieved but the other went headlong in to the Nahunta
Swamp where recovery teams decided to leave it.
The incident is referred to as the Goldsboro incident and it has more recently been revealed
how close the bombs came to detonating.
It seems there are 6 switches that need to be activated, and 5 were triggered during
the fall.
If the bomb is ever removed from the swamp, it could still very much be active.
2 - Thousands of Bones In 1996 an amateur conservationist was out
walking by the Tollense riverside, a boggy swampy area 120 kilometres north of Berlin.
During their walk they found a human arm bone sticking out if the river valley so they encouraged
a team to dig a small test excavation.
When they found even more bones, archaeologists drained the area and excavated between 2009
and 2015.
From that one arm bone, it was discovered that the wetland was covering up the remains
of hundreds of men and horses that we now know died in a bronze age battle in the area
3200 years ago.
Literally, they fell down and the earth took their bones and laid there for over three
millennia.
Incredible...but also terrifying.
1 Old Croghan Man Europe has a history of Bog Bodies; a special
term given to bodies preserved in peat bogs - low temperatures and low oxygen work to
slow the rate of decay dramatically.
One of the most famous bog bodies to be pulled from wetlands is the Old Croghan man.
Take a look at this and tell me you wouldn't lose it if you discovered this in a swamp.
YIKES!
Old Croghan was found in an Irish Bog in County Offaly.
He dates back to the Iron age and - thought to be from 362 BCE, making his body well over
2,000 years old.
From the grizzly torso, scientists have concluded he was in his early 20s when he died and may
well have been a king sacrificed by his people as a result of a bad harvest.
It is thought he was 6ft 6 which was pretty giant at the time!
It is likely, from the legions on his body, that he was tortured while he was alive.
His body is also attached to the legend of Croghan hill - each year Irish men went to
woe a beautiful maiden - but for every man that would woo her, one of his people would
die.
Bones, tanks, dead people, butter....
What else is lurking in the swamps of the world waiting to be uncovered?
I literally dread to think.
From this list what do you think is the scariest thing found in a swamp.
Are you a swamp monster like me.
Comments from Top 10 Scary Shanghai Urban Legends
American Expat says: Rebecca Needs to be the next assistant on Doctor WHO.
YES PLEASE this would be my life's dream come true and I am soooo reaaaaaaady!
Lets start a petition.
Someone start a petition!
Emma Pataialli said : Come on New Zealand urban legends!
Maori culture is so interesting and fierce.
Even if you don't believe here, you still don't mess with Maori spiritual protocol?
Oooh I would LOVE that.
Scavengers Daughter said: I'm from Colorado Springs and I know Colorado is full of ghost
stories and urban legend.
I know for a fact that the Natural History Museum is haunted by an old pioneer woman.
They keep her entire house presevered and she has never left her home.
It'd be great to have a Colorado urban legend video.
You're awesome Rebecca!?
Ooooh is it!
That is interesting!
And hey, thanks, you are awesome for watching!