When Animal Planet Made Up a Bunch of Stuff | Billiam

the honey promo is too ironic for this video. bada bing, bada boom you just lost your commotion

Obviously it’s a bunch of pseudo historical nonsense, but I actually found the one about dragons to be quite creative and would make for a good fiction novel, movie or TV show. Speculating how dragons would’ve evolved if they were real is actually an interesting idea

I genuinely remember believing the mermaids were real from this

Oof… that honey sponsorship did NOT age well…

I'm so lucky I was a "Drgaon documentary" kid and not a "mermaid documentary" kid

Oh man, I thought Lost Tapes was real when I was a kid and i recalled the desert worm episode to a friend. It ended with the police not believing a bunch of people disappeared due to the desert worm even though the "footage " survived.

Then she said "if the documentary people got the tapes, why didn't the police see the footage"?

Snapped me right out of the fantasy lol

9 year old me watching the chupacabra episode that also had the aliens with it had me wigged out 😂 i remember closing my blinds and curtain to my room window 😂😂😂

Now its fish tanks and treehouse so thank you for nothing

Kind of funny that the main reason my family didn’t believe in the mermaid documentary was because it was biblically inaccurate.

Fuck, you're weird looking. Good video tho

You want to know a channel that's truly gone full wacko mode?
Travl Channel used to be about other locations... now all it talks about are haunted houses and cryptids. Literally nothing involving traveling, just spooky ghosts and demons that are all fake

The lost tapes host looks a lot like Leonard Nimoy!

To be fair dragons in the mesozioc era would seem realistic and likely even not real, without the fire breath ofc, but a lizard/snake/croc looking thing with wings of any size if existed would be probably the closest if not a dinosaur, and alot of prehistoric sea/water creatures do look like dragons

I was waiting for lost tapes to be mentioned from the beginning lmaooo a cool nostalgic part of my childhood

Watching this in 2025 and immediately getting mad at the fact that people trusted honey.

"this episode is possible thanks to Honey" that didnt age well...

That Honey add though 😂

The Honey add read aged well.

I remember watching these when I was a kid. Even then I knew it wasn’t real. My thoughts were more or less just childish thinking. Wanting them to real but I knew they weren’t.

This is like with the DVD release of Peter Jackson’s King Kong which had a mocumentary of Skull Island and as a kid I actually thought Skull Island was real

I’m still forever giggling over the Mothman lost tapes episode where the wife yells “GET SOME HELP, ROY!!” The acting was far too melodramatic for a show about Mothman 😂😂😂

I really do miss when the least educational shows on animal planet were about vets and dog shows. Geez. Casual Geographic is more educational than anything on Animal Planet now.

You might wanna edit out the honey segment before you get into more hot water.

Interesting take on appealing to experts and "science" when it came to vaccines, as if lies cant be told avout those sacred subjects. Wonder if his mind has changed in the last 3 years considering, ya know, that we were all lied tol about the vaccines.

My seventh grade science teacher played the mermaid mockumentary for us in class with NO preface that it was fake. I went home and tried to convince my parents that mermaids were real- thank god they shut that down quick

A quick search says Sasquatch either means "wild man" or "hairy man". Whichever is true, this makes way more sense than "big foot". I mean it's clearly wild and hairy for a humanoid, it checks out. What's the deal with "big foot" though? Who thinks of the Sasquatch and immediately goes to foot size? WHY ARE AMERICANS SO OBSESSED WITH FEET?! 😭🤮😭

Well the Honey sponsorship aged well

I am not an Anti-vaxxer ... but there is so much misinformation about this topic that i also dont think its correct to ridicule n force people to get vaxxed either...

Its not like the vaccine prevents you from catching the virus or helps you eliminate the spreading process completely... it just improves your personal immunity... you will still be able to spread the disease...

All my relatives got the vaccine and on top of that got covid where they were spreading the virus to each other... n thanks to the vaccine everyone made a quick recovery but its not like its some sort of magical force field... i never got sick cuz im a hermit and an agoraphobe n a germophobe.

People did die from adverse reactions to early vaccine due to blood clotting... it was a very small number but not insignificant ... and we have to assess the risk vs reward aspect of getting vaccinated and if someone doesnt want to put something in their blood stream ... they should have the right to... they will not be harming us (the vaxxed folks)...

So live and let others play russian roulette with their own health n safety... they don't impact us at all! Now Masks... masks are non-invasive and definitely help reduce the spread of germs ... those are the people you wanna ridicule!

Now that I know you have seen buffy can I please request a series on buffy 🙏 I need a retrospective in the way you did Lost 😁

Paleontology here! Elephants are descended from aquatic animals, this is not a theory, we have the fossils. Elephants lost their hair/fur when they became aquatic and mammoths re-developed long fur when they moved to colder environments. Also, teeth and jaws are plenty to compare Gigantopithecus to other ape species and therefore determine it was most likely semi-upright like its closest relatives.

Things that no matter what, I will believe in:
1) The hysterical way that Rasputin reportedly died
2) Everything is dumplings
3) ❤Mothman❤

This was labeled a mockumentary because there are actually mermaids. The very wealthy people of the world pay top dollar to eat them. If this aired as a proper documentary, it would have been scrubbed.

The mermaid made me think it was real for so long until I watched it when I was like 17 😂 they had me fooled for so long

Dover Demon 😈 and Jersey Devil 👿 do exist in America 🇺🇸

rip the honey ad in this. If you know you know. Also, boy... the mermaid doc. And Lost Tapes was my FAVORITE.

I remember being super young watching the dragon docu on AP. I remember telling my mom it was real and I couldn’t understand why she thought it was fake 🤣

lol not the Honey sponsorship

When I see the people in the Aquatic Ape conference photo, I just think of the Arrested Development magic group and the “we demand to be taken seriously” sign

All that you don't have a clue do you the mountains in rocks mostly were living also but the truth will be shown soon to all of you this information buffoons

This is my first time watching your videos and you unlock my memories of those animals documents in this video intro 😢😢❤❤ but it's a good intro 👍

I loved the Dragons Mockumentary to the point I have it bookmarked. To this day, I watch it every now and then. The Megalodon mockumentary was my 2nd favorite. That being said, Lost Tapes was another great Mockumentary series that I enjoyed.


Also, much love to the Roboraptor in the background.

Forgot honey existed especially after it was revealed to be a scam

Does anyone know what book Billiam is flicking through at the start of the lost tapes segment?

I'm pretty sure the reason why we have slightly webbed hands is for extra gripping power for tree climbing and we have much finer hair because our ancestors moved to the Savanah and plains not the coast lines. We're able to run and sweat because of it :) but I could be wrong been a while since I thought of this lol