The idea of an Elasmosaurus singing, speaking and laughing sends chill down my spine. It is like the uncanny valley effect.
@toyotatacoma1616
Жыл бұрын
This would make for a spectacular movie if done right. Imagine a director like Guillermo Del Toro having a go at this plot.
@prasetyodwikuncorojati2434
Жыл бұрын
True. Rather usual human turned animal but still retain human mind, this concept is rather rare to see in fiction
@ReysaAdam
Жыл бұрын
@@prasetyodwikuncorojati2434agree, i feel like the concept was rarely used in movies, it needs to be done right and not to goofy. would be a pretty sick movie to behold.
@rheahorvath9274
Жыл бұрын
Yes!!! Dark and serious!!!!! Muhahahahaha.....
@infinityzer054
Жыл бұрын
if so, then the design HAS to be disgusting (may not be scary to us, but it will make paleontologists cry and vomit)
@kennethsatria6607
Жыл бұрын
That would be amazing
@sicksalt7765
Жыл бұрын
It's unfortunate that Fremmingham's mental deterioration only really happens over the course of one entry. That seems like the most terrifying part of the story. Imagine being McLennegan, coming down to the shore every day and slowly realizing that your friend is starting to disappear. You'd probably approach slower and slower, day by day, hiding in the foliage until you're sure that he's still there, somewhere. Imagine the day that beast looks at you with its big dark eyes and neither of you recognize the other. I'd love more of that.
@curtailedbike4123
Жыл бұрын
What could make it more scary is the creature using fremmingham mind to trick mclennegan to Lear him close enough to attack him, showing that the creature own mind was altered to be smart enough to get revenge on the man who harmed him
@Megaspinosaurusrex
Жыл бұрын
Considering the elasmosaurus still has some human aspects to him in the end, it almost feels like Framingham was still there to some extend, and instead of just being replaced by the monster, he might have lost his sanity after being trapped for so long in another body. Especially considering he seemed to lose his enthusiasm for studying the lake at the end. It's clear McLennegan isn't a saint, so maybe he kept pushing him and insisting on using his body for science. His deteriorating mind and anger toward his friend causing him to finally kill him. I'm probably reading too much into it, but it felt weird how quickly he seemed to have accepted his situation, maybe it weighted on him after a while?
@TheMemeLord700
Жыл бұрын
He may have also worried his friend would eventually kill and stuff him.
@ChrissieBear
Жыл бұрын
I assume that elasmosaurus neurons were growing into the human brain and slowly replacing it.
@fgjjdgb3949
Жыл бұрын
We see the fusion of two monsters: Frankenstein's Monster+The Loch Ness monster. "A human being in his depravity is always scarier than any non-human" - Howard Lovecraft.
@WoobooRidesAgain
Жыл бұрын
Come for the promise of a swashbuckling monster adventure, stay for the existentialist body horror.
@goncalocosta9550
Жыл бұрын
Crazy to think this guy wrote this story at the same time that arthur morgan got tuberculosis
@Keet626
Жыл бұрын
ten years before actually. game took place in 1899
@xxANTIFA
Жыл бұрын
@@Keet626which is when this story was first published. I doubt it took him 10 years to write.
@Keet626
Жыл бұрын
@@xxANTIFA ohhh I missed that. I stand corrected
@rivera229
Жыл бұрын
Rockstar should have made a dinosaur DLC, like a Lost World kind of story. Honestly, considering the game touched upon early paleontology, time travel, AND a mad scientist in the main game, I could have sworn they were hinting some interesting stuff for the future. But alas, nothing. Undead Nightmare was the last good Rockstar DLC.
@goncalocosta9550
Жыл бұрын
@@rivera229there was a cut mission were you hunted a loch ness monster type creature the audio files and early model are in the game
@randomleydave8846
Жыл бұрын
People dont understand how scary dinosaurs are. Some birds and lizards have some brutal ways to kill you.
@mastercharlesdiltardino8058
Жыл бұрын
Yeah, not alot of animals let their prey die of old age
@minicle426
Жыл бұрын
The Shrike impaling mice on thorns springs to mind...
@OhHeckNono
Жыл бұрын
I'll never forget that video of a woodpecker killing and eating another bird.
@burntrap123
Жыл бұрын
Some snakes After poisining you. They leave you to die slowly and painfully by their Venom.
@chancegivens9390
Жыл бұрын
@burntrap123 Well that's most likely not intentional.
@dragonfang1235
Жыл бұрын
1:35 That is literally the plesiosaur from Curage the Cowardly dog
@Slappap
Жыл бұрын
I could see this as a shlocky 40's-50's movie. Somebody could make a cool body horror with this while keeping it a nod to the older monster movies back in the day.
@michaelconnell1010
Жыл бұрын
So Frankenstein but with dinosaurs…How has that not been a movie?!
@purpleYamask
Жыл бұрын
As someone from Colorado who goes up to Wyoming a lot, there's a lot of realism to "explorers got absolutely fucked sideways by a flash flood"
@mrviking2mcall212
Жыл бұрын
Damn, I clicked on this video expecting the story to just be the usual Jaws shtick of ‘beast appears, kills people and then gets shot’. But the All Tomorrows-esque body horror and uncanny valley stuff was such a nice twist.
@chaysereis1637
Жыл бұрын
That elasmosaurus looks like it would be in a horror movie it looks like he has seen so many things he wants to unsee
@purplehaze2358
Жыл бұрын
0:28 This paleo art straight up has the same energy as a Bosch painting.
@PlanetZoidstar
Жыл бұрын
I wonder if this short story inspired H.P. Lovecraft? I personally LOVE the outdated 'Antedeluvian Dinosaur' style, even if it is grossly unaccurate and massively outdated, I just love how monstrous they look. Like prehistoric Dragons that carry on the tradition of Medieval-Era Dragon art.
@eratasutol
2 ай бұрын
I don't believe so, the story was written in 1899, so he wouldve been just 9 years old.
@PlanetZoidstar
2 ай бұрын
@@eratasutol He could have learned of it later. Lovecraft spent much of his chilhood reading fictional works.
@eratasutol
2 ай бұрын
@@PlanetZoidstar OHHH I misread your comment nevermind, I'm actually an idiot I thoughrt you meant the story inspired BY HP Lovecraft.
@camiilou4u
Жыл бұрын
Really cool video! I find it fascinating that the story echoes Shelley's Frankenstein in it's reference to creatures "living" beyond death and the transference of a brain into the body of another creature. I'm surprised there wasn't a lightning bolt that happened to hit during the machete operation! Thank you for sharing literature that would otherwise be lost, forgotten, or missed by many.
@Boneworm852
Жыл бұрын
I first ran into this story via The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen Volume 2; Mina Harker and Allan Quartermain meet and chat with Framingham on their trip around the world. It brings up some of the "unreliable narrator" possibilities in the original story.
@ctdaniels7049
Жыл бұрын
I love these old-timey pulp stories. Weird pulp feels like the closest ancestor to the modern world of New Weird a la SCP wikis and such.
@kennethsatria6607
Жыл бұрын
Retro dinosaurs are pretty scary looking, if anyone ever decides to adapt this story I hope they keep the beaked elasmosaurus idea
@ctdaniels7049
Жыл бұрын
At 10:05 I'm like "This guy fell in love with a dead elasmosaurus didn't he?"
@chancegivens9390
Жыл бұрын
What an amazing story! Honestly, it'd make a fantastic movie if done right.
@paulmarfil6188
Жыл бұрын
That hiker saw the Victorian-era version of the "Monday left me broken" cat.
@45proteinconsumer
Жыл бұрын
This sounds like the setup for a classic HP Lovecraft tale, something like: "The Tides That Wrought Terror"
@xandan1668
Жыл бұрын
Considering it was laughing i think he just gave into his beastly hunger. And if the regenerative properties of the beasts body was still working they probably won't find him unless he revels himself again.
@sirpepeofhousekek6741
Жыл бұрын
I wonder if there's a kernel of truth in this story. I'm not saying it was an actual dinosaur, but an interesting thought about something unknown hiding in the deep jungles just tickles my brain.
@Thumbsdwn
Жыл бұрын
Reminds me of that time David Cho went to the Congo in search for a dinosaur 😂
@rheahorvath9274
Жыл бұрын
Ditto!!! Burrr........
@pebuh6706
Жыл бұрын
Theres something really unsettling about this plot, its like an actual nightmare i would have.
@Godzillakuj94
Жыл бұрын
god I did not expect this type of story, good stuff! would love an adaptation of this.
@26th_Primarch
Жыл бұрын
And have it done in the Gwangi style
@WhatDillionYT
Жыл бұрын
Same
@itszeronizer597
Жыл бұрын
I can see it working but with some changes. Instead of a brain transplant which I’m pretty sure is impossible the theoretical movie would have experiments in gene splicing different organisms to create superior life forms.
@caucasoidape8838
Жыл бұрын
Heck of a lot better than "Tammy and the T-rex"
@chubibi06
Жыл бұрын
A story exploring transhumanism in a western-victorian setting ; with dinosaur, a potential lost world and wild science thrown in... Love it. Thx for sharing your discovery ; and the link in the description :) Edit : the story was dope, love it
@quinndecker8772
Жыл бұрын
Well…. That escalated quickly.
@DChatc
Жыл бұрын
The monsters healing abilities makes me think of SCP-682, and transplanting his collegues brain moreso in a way: An intelligent, communicative, self-healing reptile.
@alang.bandala8863
Жыл бұрын
The comic League of Extraordinary Gentlemen Vol.2 had a reference to this story, I never understood why that story was referenced there, but WAOH, what a story
@mr.wheels6212
Жыл бұрын
This is horrifying. The part where the elasmasaurs singing it sounds like the behavior a siren would have!🥶😨
@primrosevale1995
Жыл бұрын
I hate how this and Tammy and the T-Rex have the same basic premise.
@WhatDillionYT
Жыл бұрын
Real
@bloodstoppin
Жыл бұрын
this was weirdly ahead of its time tbh
@glarnboudin4462
Жыл бұрын
AYYYY, I love this story so much! It's just absolutely fucking bonkers, it's incredible.
@curtailedbike4123
Жыл бұрын
This is both horror and tragedy. Horror for obvious reasons as we see a man loses himself slowly to the dinosaurs but sad as we see a man not wanting to give up on his companion so he stays hoping for the best but we know his mind is slowly disappearing
@laurachapple6795
Жыл бұрын
I wonder if the people who made 'Tammy and the T-rex' read this story.
@arachnoskull6311
Жыл бұрын
i feel like this is the backstory to a lot of resident evil monsters.
@grahamsmith2022
Жыл бұрын
History has taught us that a monster's mind has been combined with the human body many times.
@leoncaw326
Жыл бұрын
Thanks for doing this one. It gave me a good laugh when I came to it in an anthology I bought. 10x better after seeing the original illustrations of the noodle-necked, bug-eyed creature.
@i.m.evilhomer5084
Жыл бұрын
Oh yeah, I remember hearing a similar story on an episode of I Know Dino Podcast about early dinosaur fiction. I think I even mentioned it in a comment of one of your videos. Early dino fiction was very odd. It wasn't uncommon for writers to describe Sauropods as being "sinister" & for a brief time, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle & his ilk pushed to make Megatherium an adjective describing something outlandish, in the same we use "Mammoth" as an adjective to describe something big.
@mateusgreenwood1096
11 ай бұрын
As a kid i saw a non horror picture of a brachiosaur crossing a river and it terrified me because i almost drowned.
@Chamomileable
Жыл бұрын
If you've not read the story, I highly recommend The Terror of Blue John Gap. Don't want to spoil much but it's very similar as a prehistoric horror tale.
@LaBibliotecaEterna
Жыл бұрын
That plot escalated quickly, thanks for sharing it, I will give it a try
@Georgering3
Жыл бұрын
Glad to see more Dino short stories. Missed these videos!
@thomasackerman5399
Жыл бұрын
Interesting story, very much a proto-H.P. Lovecraft story, with many of the same elements that would be seen in that writer's works: an explorer or someone who is doing scientific or is an investigator who's work disturbed or they make discoveries that lead to a moment of sanity-destroying horror. Compare this to such stories as "At the Mountains of Madness", "The Statement of Randolph Carter", "Herbert West: Reanimator", or "The Nameless City".
@Tsotha
Жыл бұрын
also touches on some of the same body swap themes as in "The Whisperer in Darkness"
@killercompy631
Жыл бұрын
The singing part reminds me on larpras from pokemon
@Tser
Жыл бұрын
Ohhh, I'm so glad that all my GI troubles can be explained by overexerting my brain. Being an elasmosaur sounds kind of a pain, so I'm just going to stop thinking.
@lasarousi
Жыл бұрын
Spooky Triassic noodle is really cute
@residentreptile
Жыл бұрын
buying this book immediately once i heard gothic horror ...
@residentreptile
Жыл бұрын
@KitsWithMits179 Gothic refers to the time period in this case, not the fashion! :)
@sirpepeofhousekek6741
Жыл бұрын
5:40 when you drink too much Pepsi.
@purplehaze2358
Жыл бұрын
"It is an elasmosaurus, one of the largest of antediluvian animals." Oh, how poorly that's aged..
@Tonatiub
Жыл бұрын
What I found weird is that over like a year no other scientist he was writing to went to see the fucking talking dinosaur
@princessmaly
Жыл бұрын
There are definitely animals I'm afraid of, but that's a different kind of fear from the fear of fictional monsters that are meant to be scary. Even animals that pose a serious threat to human life can be appreciated on their own terms. I got stung once by a bee when I was a kid, and it was the most excruciating pain I had ever felt in my life up to that point, and ever since then I do *NOT* fuck around with bees, *PERIOD*. But I don't have anything against them, I don't think they're monsters, I don't think they're out to kill me in particular. In fact they're some of my favorite animals, they're really fascinating and humans have been intertwined with them for millennia, it's a pretty special relationship. I just... y'know... keep them the fuck away from me. The exception to this is chimps. Chimps are actual monsters. When I was little my dad used to tell me that the only real monsters are humans, but that's not true. Humans are a mess but we are predisposed to be capable of immense compassion and understanding and we naturally seek to form communities to support each other. As a species our history is riddled is warts, but most people aren't interested in hurting anyone, we're just trying to get by same as anything else on this planet. But chimps? Chimps are what you get when you take all of the worst parts of humans, and strip them of every redeeming aspect, and then amplify their physical strength and territorial paranoia a thousand fold. If we could ever be justified in specifically targeting a single genus to intentionally wipe from the face of the Earth forever... it would be chimps. Also there are plenty of dinosaurs I'm scared of. Most raptors, if they really wanted me dead they could do it, they just don't. Shrikes are also terrifying, not because they're a threat to me but just because of how utterly cruel their feeding strategy is. By contrast, there is nothing about extinct dinosaurs - or any other extinct animal - that scares me. They're not here, they don't pose a threat. Like in a story where they are there, then sure, they can be scary in that story. But that's not because I'm scared of tyrannosaurus, it's because in the context of the story, where being killed by one is a possibility, I'm able to recognize that such a possibility is scary. But outside of the "threat to my safety" level situation, dinosaur stories are never really, like, *actually* scary. At the end of the day, I just can't see real animals as something disturbing, predation is a basic fact of life on this planet and has been for billions of years. You can use the threat of death to create tension, suspense, and thrills, but if that's all you have, it's not horror. Horror is when something upsets you on a far more fundamental level, something seriously upsetting that even if you survive you won't be able to forget. This story has that, because that elasmosaur is *not* natural, nor is the hybrid human brained creature it became, there's something really fucked up and creepy going on there and it has nothing to do with the what type of animal it is. You could swap the elasmosaur for literally any other large non-human animal and it would be just as effective. According to me, if you want to do dinosaurs and horror, the high water mark is Dinosaurs Attack. Nature documentaries aren't scary, you know what's scary? Completely fictional and irrationally pure evil demon dinosaurs sent to wage a full scale war on humanity by Dinosaur Satan. That's even scarier than chimps, really.
@Beedo_Sookcool
Жыл бұрын
Yeah, when people ask me "How could you not like the funny monkey?" I point them in the direction of Casual Geographic, and Mamadou's video about chimps. That shuts 'em up. Not too keen on baboons, either.
@WillDa713
Жыл бұрын
damn that was way more saddening a fate than i was expecting :( it's a good story i liked it thanks for the upload
@BriarLeaf00
Жыл бұрын
If you're going to get more into early sci fi/pulp magazine stuff I am VERY much here for it. Its a literary treasure trove hardly explored on the platform beyond the usual Lovercraft, etc. stuff.
@ShadeMeadows
Жыл бұрын
This makes me smile... Thank you.
@troin3925
10 ай бұрын
You’re right, the term “science fiction” wasn’t established yet at that time. During that time, it was called “Scientific Romance.”
@darklordofsword
Жыл бұрын
The whole premise is in keeping with Victorian ideas about how the form of the body dictates the mind. It's kind of thr reverse of The Island of Doctor Moreau, where animals are surgically twisted into the shape of humans, and that... somehow... gives them human intelligence and behavior, even as they suffer because of the brutal pain inflicted by their alterations.
@mateusgreenwood1096
11 ай бұрын
This plot would make for a great David Lynch film.
@troin3925
10 ай бұрын
I don't know, it feels too straightforward and conventional for a David Lynch film (minus all the weird genre mashups), especially with there being a clear creature/dinosaur in the story.
@bargainbrandmilk9858
Жыл бұрын
i recently learned that the US is filled with water based cryptids which i think is really cool, one specific horror that i like is from my home state of oklahoma if i can recall correctly, it tells of a monsterous man eating octopus living in a lake in oklahoma
@infinityzer054
Жыл бұрын
21:22 maybe it had a hindbrain in its body
@SuperFlashDriver
11 ай бұрын
For me this reminds me a lot of how Pokemon has acquired aspects of these Sci-Fi novels into their own series...Imagine myself seeing a Lugia, a Gyarados, or even a long serpent like Pokemon just singing, dancing, and having fun in the water, all awhile looking at me and feeling so embarrassed that it hides in the water, yet for me if I ever see a creature sing like that being happy and joyful, I'd be happy along with it and give him/her an applause for their singing...(Sighs)...God, if my younger self knew this story before, it would have given me dreams of seeing this sea dinosaur and me having fun with the creature, even though the sad part would be that he/she would die in their human body and transferred into a feral animal, only for the feral animal to kill the one whom inserted the brain into the creature in the first place....I find it to be a very cute story and very fun that ends in tragedy. And yeah, his friend was correct on being worried that he may not be able to stay, nor would he be able to talk with him further down the line....There's probably a reason that, if the scientist knew how to turn the creature into an anthro being similar to the height of humans, his friend and the scientist would have lived longer had the scientist figured out how to turn him from feral to anthro...But that's just me.
@josephmontanaro2350
9 ай бұрын
25:06 i agree, would add an extra layer of creepiness/tragic aspects
@sasha1mama
Жыл бұрын
Singing elasmosaur. Mein *gott,* this is turning into a late-70s children's cartoon. XD But yeah, that took a turn. Evil, cackling lazmo must die. God, Victorian scifi writers got up to some weird stuff in their heads, didn't they?
@LGJ_Productions
11 ай бұрын
That monster looks like an analog horror version of the lock ness monster in the thumbnail
@WileyCylas
Жыл бұрын
Thanks for sharing! I might have a new addiction to these stories 😜 it’s like the fly with Jeff goldblum 😆
@G1Grimlock94
11 ай бұрын
0:50 Scary art of dinosaurs
@thetophatchicken
Жыл бұрын
I’m guessing McLennigan actually died and Fremmingham was trying to hold onto him to keep him around and the Captain just misread the situation.
@hollowphobia
Жыл бұрын
So I googled dyspepsia wondering what horrible condition this man was suffering from! It's indigestion, he's 'suffering' from an upset tummy.
@ryangaskin4796
Жыл бұрын
Imagine having such bad indigestion that you want to die.
@ericf112
Жыл бұрын
Good stuff. Science fiction has been around fo a long, long time... No individual can claim to be the founder of sci fi
@Beedo_Sookcool
Жыл бұрын
But God help you if you say it wasn't Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley.
@georgekostaras
11 ай бұрын
I just read this story before seeing this video and boy did I not expect the twist half way through
@blumoon131
Жыл бұрын
If done right, this story could be adapted into film in a very creepy, macabre, and just plain weird way.
@benkenobi834
Жыл бұрын
This would make a great movie
@dinosaurlady2
Жыл бұрын
This was disturbing af. I love your channel lol
@herobrinesblog
Жыл бұрын
"And expects that the peace and quiet of the mountain may help" oh the author was so cruel!
@TeethToothman
5 ай бұрын
I love your book recommendations! I bought Dinosaur Fantastic and Giraptor ebook lol
@wesleystockford2616
Жыл бұрын
Does it say what killed the guy? What if he had died of natural causes and what was left of framingham was looking for help for his friend? Makes the story quite sad then
@thegnarledpirate9198
Жыл бұрын
The two scientists nonchalantly discussing about violating God's creation and the laws of nature really wasn't far off from how scientists of that time thinked.
@SuperKingGhidorah
Жыл бұрын
Honestly this could be a short story for Halloween or something 🤔
@Beedo_Sookcool
Жыл бұрын
Great video! Thank you! I first heard of this story obliquely through the "League of Extraordinary Genltemen" comics, in the travelogue section. Looks like I'll have to track down an anthology with this story in it, now . . . .
@albatross4920
Жыл бұрын
Frankenstein vibes 🧟♂️
@HammytheDevourer
10 ай бұрын
I simply love antediluvian dinosaur art, if I like Pokemon, is because those drawings :D
@simonhassnilsson7009
Жыл бұрын
Great to see more people talk about this story, i gotta ask who was introduced to this one through Omni veiwer's Great video on it?
@captainhowdy2782
Жыл бұрын
Donovan's Brain meets the Loch Ness Monster!
@jonathanwarrdddedcxddeecec4787
Жыл бұрын
That is a damn good story. Would’ve made a great old black and white monster movie
@Operngeist1
Жыл бұрын
that is such an interesting story!
@Oppeldeldoc1
Жыл бұрын
I felt like the only one who knows this story, eve though it's shown up in horror anthologies.
@yueshijoorya601
Жыл бұрын
But well, it can regenerate, so it's definitely not dead.
@TheCow-j1l
Жыл бұрын
I loved this story, I wonder if I had read myself I would've found it funnier, cause I didn't find it that much. But the idea of being put in the body of an animal and losing sense of self really intrigued me!
@stevencisneros9306
Жыл бұрын
Wow, this NEEDS to get the silver screen treatment, a gothic, sci-fi, dark comedic horror film, directed by Guillermo del Toro, or even Sam Raimi, who knows!!!
@luke769animations
Жыл бұрын
This sounded a lot like Young Frankenstein for a while until shit hit the fan
@Professorlicme8
Жыл бұрын
lets goooooo another dino diego upload!
@tmlawson751
Жыл бұрын
I think the approach of the documentation of gradual degradation is more of a modern taste for a writing style/tone than i believe the writers at the turn of the 20th century were really capable of or even could grasp that type of subtlety (with no offense, they were certainly talented and driven enough to create and share stories). so that's probably more of the contemporary in you and me desiring that rather than something that could've been done at the time realistically, given the facts.
@arachnid_guy
Жыл бұрын
Now that is why demoman wanted to bomb the loc ness monster
@restionSerpentine
Жыл бұрын
Thank you for this video, because of a background scene of Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction November 1988, I fel in love with the cover and ordered it from Ebay, soley for the story "The Last Thunder Horse West of the Missippi. Have you ever read or reviewed Dinosaur Summer? It is set in the same world as Sir Auther Conan Doyles Lost word.
@Tsotha
Жыл бұрын
fascinatingly weird premise for a work of literature, reminds me of a cryptozoological equivalent to the "Black Hound of Mons" story from WW1 except "The Monster of Lake LaMetrie" was written long before that account circulated in the trenches
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