And we’re back! I haven’t seen any comments from David R asking for a new kind of video,
so we’re just gonna do more from the Divine Comedy!
No better way to look deep inside and wonder if your constant sinning will be worth it
in the end. Obviously it will, but if anyone’s gonna
convince you otherwise, it might as well be Dante!
Too many creative and terrifying punishments to count, and we’re going to take a closer
look at a few more today! Grab your favourite bottle of holy water,
and pray for forgiveness, or don’t! The choice is yours!
Hello horror heads, and welcome back to the scariest channel on YouTube: Top5ScaryVideos!
I’m your horror host, Keegan Hughes, and today we’re counting down the Top 5 Scariest
Monsters From Dante’s Inferno - Part 2! Before we get started, make sure to give this
video a big thumbs up, and subscribe for more poetic justice!
Once you enter limbo you know there’s no turning back, so steel yourself and keep moving
forward. Remember: abandon all hope ye who enter here!
NUMBER FIVE: LIMBO Huh? This one doesn’t seem too scary!
Plus there’s no monsters here! What's the big idea?
All will make sense in due time, give it a moment.
The first circle of Hell, Virgil’s home, a place for all sorts of people without any
sort of harmful sin. Limbo is full of unbaptized, virtuous pagans.
Those who were not sinful enough for damnation, those who did not accept Christ.
Also, those who could not choose Christ, but did choose human virtue.
It’s a place full of poets, merciful military leaders, virtuous statesmen, genius polymaths,
and more. They are here forever, and have naught to
do but sit around and discuss whatever they might have discussed in the living world.
Again, this doesn’t seem to disagreeable. Which is true: there’s nothing super wrong
about the predicament our lovely limboers find themselves in.
BUT! These are the finest folk to exist upon Earth, save for their lack of Christian faith.
And like I mentioned earlier, many of them never had the option to follow Christ, being
born before him, or in places where his messages never reached.
Imagine living a full life, complete with hard work, virtue, and excellence.
You did all sorts of amazing things, treated people well, benefitted the world at large;
all of your own accord. Then, you get plopped down into Limbo, to
watch a bunch of filthy sinners be paraded through ad infinitum.
You’re existing in some grey circle full of not much, doomed to a mediocre existence.
It would be cool to hang out with all sorts of other exceptional pagans, sure, but come
on! That close to paradise, and you’re just
sitting there, inches away forever? It would be absolutely maddening.
NUMBER FOUR: CENTAURS We’re all familiar with Centaurs, right?
Horse-men? Excellent archers? Eternal tormentors? Wait that last one is new.
Our last non-fraud monster for today’s episode, Centaurs are some hardcore torturers.
Like, more than you think would be possible from a seemingly peaceful and lovely race
of creatures. In the first ring of the seventh circle, there
is a river. That river is full of boiling blood and fire.
Within all this boiling blood and fire lay all sorts of murderers, warmakers, plunderers,
and tyrants. If you’ve ever spilled blood in rage, or
for profit, you’re spending eternity in this river.
For wallowing in blood during their lives, these neighbor-killers are immersed in boiling
blood forever, each according to the degree of their guilt.
So if you killed a little bit, you’ll be in shallower burning blood.
If you’re a tyrannical mass-murdering maniac, then you’re going neck deep, and you’ve
gotta tread water. Or tread blood. You get what I’m saying.
This torture would be pretty terrible on its own, but you know that can’t be it.
Nope! The centaurs are here to guard the river, and ensure nobody is emerging higher than
they’re allowed. How do they keep the sinners bathing in burning
blood? The centaurs, being expert marksman, fire
arrows into anyone far enough above the surface to cause concern!
So if you mess up your calculations, and pop up a little bit more than you should, you’re
taking a scorching hot hell arrow to the flesh. Ow.
And they’ll keep doing this all day long. No breaks.
Tread your burning blood perfectly, or welcome a brand new hole to your body. Your choice.
NUMBER THREE: MALEBRANCHE That means evil claws.
Already, you know they’re bad news. These winged demons guard the fifth bolgia
of the eighth circle, fraud. This ring houses barrators, or corrupt politicians
who made money by trafficking in public offices. Those with sharp tongues and sticky fingers
get their comeuppance here. Firstly, the sinners are submerged in a lake
of boiling pitch. Pitch is basically an old-timey way of saying
tar. Needless to say, it is sticky, and dark, and
represents the dark secrets and trickery abound in politics at the time.
Definitely not a problem any more, though. Definitely.
So as their skin burns, and their limbs are stuck in place, these sufferers must hold
their breath and stay below the surface of the pitch.
If a Malebranche catches someone above the lake, they will be torn to pieces by claws,
and spears, and grappling hooks. Then, they’re thrown back into the pitch,
open wounds blistering and cauterizing under the heat.
Sounds quite painful, doesn’t it? In addition to being physically torturous,
the Malebranche are also generally sort of incompetent.
They have leaders who keep everything in order, but the lower level ones are hard to control.
Some will even consider bribes from sinners snatched from the pitch.
And, in a grandiose exit as any, two demons get in a fight above the lake, resulting in
them tumbling into the boiling pitch, which required a whole separate rescue party.
Oh and they start their marches by trumpeting their ass. Yeah, with a fart.
Would you want these buffoons watching over your eternal suffering? Absolutely not.
It’s equal parts embarrassing and horrifying. NUMBER TWO: SNAKES AND LIZARDS AND DRAGONS
AND SERPENTS Keeping with the fraud theme, we’re going
to take a look at what happens to thieves in Dante’s Inferno.
Bolgia number seven is dedicated to making those pickpockets, heist-pullers, and Robin
Hoods suffer. There is a pit, and the pit is full of monstrous
reptiles. The shades of thieves in here are pursued
and bitten by snakes and lizards. The sharp sting of the bite, the slow creeping
sickness of the poison, the panic that sets in, all of it.
But forever, and you never pass out or die. Indiana Jones could hypothetically be considered
a thief. I hope he’s ready for what comes next.
In addition to biting, the snakes also curl themselves around the sinners, and bind their
hands behind their backs. In doing so, they prevent the thieves from
lashing out at the creatures, and also makes them feel even more helpless.
And forget about bondage enthusiasts enjoying this torture, you already know those folks
have been relegated to the circle of lust. The true torture is revealed slowly, though.
As thieves stole people’s substance and sustenance in life, their very identity is
stolen here. Some are bitten in deadly places, and subsequently
burst into flame before being reformed from the ashes.
Others are turned into snake-like abominations, cursed to constantly exchange forms with one
another. The horror of never being able to settle,
never being one thing, constantly shifting between states.
And hey! There’s another Centaur appearance here! This time it’s the famous Cacus, who
arrives with a fire-breathing dragon on his back, and snakes writhing around on his equine
back. What do you think would be worse? Burning
to ash and reconstituting? Or forever shapeshifting, losing your human form over and over?
NUMBER ONE: EVERYTHING IN BOLGIA 10 Our fraudulent finale: the festering falsifiers.
In this circle, there are no monsters, per-se, but each different type of falsification gets
its own customized punishment. Horrible diseases, stench, thirst, filth,
darkness, and screaming abound, this is a place of hitherto unknown displeasures.
Some are forced to lay down, and witness the madness, while others run endlessly through
the pit, tearing others to pieces. Alchemists are cursed with eternal itching
leprous scabs, imposters are cursed to fight like wild animals forever.
Counterfeiters find their stomachs so bloated they cannot move, accompanied by an unbearable,
everlasting thirst. Perjurers suffer from burning fevers, and
are made to attack each other injuriously. This area, without monsters to call its own,
actually makes its own. Humans are the greatest monsters of all, of
course. Money itself is corrupted, every affirmation
has become perjury, and every identity a lie. All aspects of social interaction have been
destroyed here, and therefore all we are left with is beasts.
Humanity has been taken from these sinners, even though they keep their human form.
The pain and suffering they feel must also be inflicted upon their contemporaries, and
will always be dealt back to them. A vicious cycle of their own making.
OUTRO What a world we live in, huh.
All of these sins, all of these punishments. Which would you find easiest to deal with?
What punishment would break you immediately? Make sure you let me know down in the comments.
Speaking of comments, let’s have a look at some of your more fraudulent ones from
TOP 5 SCARY SCP MONSTERS FROM ANOTHER DIMENSION: Catonastik says “Getting dead D-class thrown
at me sure is a good form of communication!” Right? Super cost-efficient too! Just get
someone to stick-and-poke tattoo a message on them, and you’re good to go!
Ronald Nanoz says “The Unclean met its match; Tide”
You fool, the only detergent powerful enough to match the Unclean is OxyClean!
Ronald Mc Frickin Donald says “Ok, how the hell do you know that there are monsters in
other dimensions?” How the hell do you not? You’ve got a whole
bevy of McMonstrosities in the warehouse, don’t think I forgot about Grimace!
Jared Reaman asks “If toast has butter on one side and peanut butter on the other, does
it land sideways?” I would assume it would find a way to land
on the buttered side, bounce, and then also land on the peanut buttered side. Both butters
would then be fouled with whatever pet hair exists in your kitchen.
TheLimBoGod says “Man that’s a nice Cartoon Network chest tattoo”
Thanks! I’m saving up for a Nickelodeon face tat.
That’s all the time we have for today! Before I go antagonize a grizzly bear, make sure
you give this video a big thumbs up, and subscribe for more underworld understanding! Thanks
for watching, and I’ll see you next time.