YouTube Digger

Well, there certainly is a lot of crap to be waded through on YouTube, but I did find some reasonably good videos to help you celebrate Halloween.

These scary and sometimes weird videos feature ghost and orb sightings – or at least what the people believe to be ghosts and orbs. I think the haunted swing is the best, even though I could only embed the video that says it has proven it’s not haunted. I think the debunking videos are as interesting as the actual videos of the events.

And don’t worry; none of these videos are those silly pranks that get you to look close before cutting to scary face and playing a scream.

(I got scared by one of those before learning to look at the comments before watching the video. I really do hate those ones.)

Haunted Castle

Haunted Swing Explanation (Haunted Swing video not available for embedding)

Ghost Sighting?

Monte Cristo - Australia’s Most Haunted
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4cPbIb5fXSE

YouTube, video, ghosts, orbs, sightings, halloween

Happy Halloween everyone! May your costumes be spooky, and may you get a large variety of sweets in your stash. Or, may many of your favourite spooky movies be on.

Halloween was always a love/hate part of my child. Love because of the fun and candy, hate because it reminded me how much money we didn’t have, given I usually had to make costumes out of things we could find at home.

Still, it’s a holiday many look forward to around the world.

But it didn’t quite start out that way…

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Australians might not celebrate Halloween as widely as other places, but I thought I’d get into the Halloween spirit anyway and post up a twisted video.

Hitchhikers are a pretty classic part of horror story history for decades now, and this video plays one that element quite well.

When a woman, all alone except for her dog, pick up a hitchhiker, only bad things can happen when the dog is the only thing keeping the hitchhiker from touching her…

Then the dog falls asleep…

I have to say I saw the ending of this one coming for the most part. The dog (you’ll see what I mean) I didn’t expect, but otherwise… It’s still a good creepy short and quite enjoyable.

Another good aniboom channel video to go in the YouTube Digger archives.

This is what happens when people with a lot of time and an imagination have fun.

Balloon bowl skateboarding!

I admit it; I am completely jealous of this guy. Or I would be if I could skateboard. This looks like so much fun. Just imagine being in a bunch of balloons that, put together, are taller than you.

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I love Saturday Night Live, but there is nothing like the classic Saturday Night Live days with Christopher Walken, Mike Myers, Chris Farley, Adam Sandler, Eddie Murphey, and more.

In this hilarious clip, Steve Martin gets down King Tut style with his “King Tut�? song. The beauty of Steve Martin’s comedy is it doesn’t have to be outrageous to be funny. He can have fun with whatever he’s doing and you can’t help but laugh because he’s just plain funny when he’s having a good time.

This video is no different as he sings and dances – Nile style – along with a full entourage of Egyptian musicians and groupies.

If the Steve Martin dressed up as Tut can’t make you laugh, then I have no idea what will.

YouTube, video, King Tut, Saturday Night Live, Steve Martin, Christopher Walken, Mike Myers, Chris Farley, Adam Sandler, Eddie Murphey, Nile, Egypt, singing, dancing, costumes, music, comedy

In a duel unlike any gamer has seen, Lara Croft and Prince of Persia face of in a…sing off?

In this funny video, Lara Croft and Prince of Persia face off singing “Anything You Can Do, I Can Do Better�? featuring the voices of Bernadette Peters and Tom Wopat from Annie Get Your Gun.

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Obviously I have, once again, missed all the controversy, but this is a bit strange when you look at them side by side…

Family Guy and Simpsons have the same family set up – parents, boy, girl, baby – so you’d expect things to overlap just a bit. Some of these comparisons are a tiny bit of a stretch. But still, put them all in one video like this, you can’t ignore there is a lot that Family Guy does that has been on the Simpsons.

Part One

Part Two

Interesting, isn’t it? Still, I honestly don’t much care. Family Guy and Simpsons still present their comedy in different enough ways for me to like watching both shows.

What do you think about it? Does seeing the comparisons put you off watching Family Guy?

YouTube, video, simpsons, family guy, plagiarism, stealing ideas, copy

Rowr! Growl! Hiss! This world is a sad place full of YouTube addicts and little misguided punks wandering the streets when they’re not logged into YouTube and deciding what’s popular and what’s not!

Okay, I’m insulting this man a little too much, because he does have a point. We live in a world where obesity equals starvation. (Scientific American, baby. Read it.) The world is getting so small, and yet most of us just want to disconnect from life and sit online, desperate for a good YouTube video.

Hah. I guess you could count me as one of those people, given I write this site.

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I came across this like I come across most videos – by accident, but I’m glad I did.

The Irate Gamer might come across as a bit of a wanker when he throws his games around the room when he gets mad (he reminds me a bit of my eldest brother in his younger days when he does that, actually) but he does have easy to understand commentary on the games he plays.

This review might seem a bit long for some people by clocking in at 10:25. However, you have to keep in mind he’s actually reviewing more than one game and that people who are genuinely interested in it for the review are likely to overlook the time.

What I like about Irate Gamer is that though he pouts and throws things, he points out the simple things that all gamers are going to understand. They are also the things that can put off even the beginner gamer from playing.

Here are his reviews on the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles games. Enjoy.

YouTube, video, games, NES, review, game review, teenage mutant ninja turtles, super Nintendo

I could tell this one was a winner just from the title.

In another sketch from the Tales of Mere Existence, this is a tutorial of how to break up with your girlfriend in…

You read the title.

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I don’t know about you, but I’m a big fan of anime. I don’t have the resources to watch as much as I’d like, but I do like watching what I can.

The video titles are pretty self explanatory – the Simpsons have been drawn in human anime style.

Part One

Part Two

I think the drawings are great. I don’t like how some of them look – like Homer and Maggie – but I think Marge, Lisa, and Bart look awesome. Smithers looks a bit odd, but funny.

As for Krusty, it could be my dislike of clowns coming through, but he looks just plain creepy.

These all look like they’re from a poster of some sort, so if anyone knows where that can be found, please let me know. I would love to check out the whole thing.

YouTube, video, Simpsons, Homer, Maggie, Marge, Lisa, Bart, Smithers, Krusty, clowns, anime

‘A fine example of how a socially isolated youth discovered the opposing gender.’ (And another Tale of Mere Existence)

In this video, he talks about growing up with brothers and his lack of experience when it comes to females in general. From playing with female dolls to playing “I’ll show you mine if you show me yours�? in his back yard, I think his experience with women was pretty normal for a kid.

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“But occasionally…they come here to kill us.�?

In this documentary-like video, the interviewer talks to the characters of many ‘big’ alien movies about their methods and favourite ways of fighting off alien attacks. From Men in Black to War of the Worlds (very funny depiction of Tom Cruise), you cross pretty much all of the major alien movies – even Alien.

This video is hilarious. They even included Mars Attacks and Starship Troopers. I’m not sure which part is funnier – War of the Worlds or Predator, but they both make this video definitely worth watching.

My only nitpick is that I wish they would have had at least one more guy there to help out with voices. Some of them sounded a bit too similar.

As for the best method? I also prefer the internal explosion technique.

YouTube, video, alien, alien attack, Men in Black, War of the Worlds, Tom Cruise, Mars Attacks, Starship Troopers, Predator, internal explosion, how to survive an alien attack

“A psychological analysis of what happens when you go visit your new girlfriend at work.�?

I have already mentioned Tales of Mere Existence a couple of times, but I think the sketches have an appeal in that I often find myself agreeing or saying, “My life is like that, too!�? Plus they are often just plain funny.

In this sketch, he humorously talks about the scenario of ‘boyfriend visits girlfriend while she is working’ all in a very scientist-like way with diagrams and everything…

Put simply: do not do it. Watch the video, see what happens to him, and then prevent it from happening to you.

I find the ending especially funny, but you’ll have to watch it to find out what I’m talking about…

YouTube, video, tales of mere existence, relationships, new relationships, boyfriend, girlfriend, work

I think it is terribly sad that even though we know there are so many healing plants and the possibility of finding even more is almost definite, the rainforests are still being cut down at a massively fast rate.

In this National Geographic video, a respected shaman in Paraguay (which has one of the highest deforestation rates) leads researchers to different places to find certain medicinal plants. One in particular they go to find is of interest to scientists as part of cancer research.

Call me a tree hugger if you like, but the cutting down of rain forests makes me so mad. They keep cutting even though we know there are amazing forms of life in there and possible cures to some of the worst human diseases.

And yet they keep cutting.

YouTube, video, rain forest, rain forest destruction, medicinal plants, shaman, cancer research