throughout time people across the world told each other Tales of how they came to be of Heroes and monsters romance and tragedy death and rebirth mythology helped shape the ancient world explaining the unexplainable this is mythology Unleashed in many cultures human skeletons have been associated with dark and chilling imagery some Legends have monsters and revenants that resemble human skeletons that can move without skin muscle or organs even the Grim Reaper the artistic incarnation of death from medieval Europe was popularly depicted as a cloaked skeleton with a scythe but one skeletal monster from Japanese mythology stood head in rib Cade above all the others gashadokuro gashadokuro whose name translates to rattling skeleton are skeletal Giants that wander the countryside in the dead of night some are said to be up to 10 m or just shy of 33 ft in height though some depictions of them show them as being taller than ancient trees as they move about their teeth chatter and their bones rattle echoing through the night and freezing the marrow of any who happened to hear them but when on the hunt the Monsters make no sound at all silently creeping up on their victims before crushing them in their bony hands or biting off their head whereas a traditionally mystically animated skeleton was once a human being who died and whose body decayed to Bones a single gashadokuro was made up of many dead bodies welded into a gigantic demonic being the deceased who were most likely to become gashadokuro Were Soldiers whose bodies were left to rot on battlefields victims of famine or plague piled in ditches and those who died in the wilderness and were not granted proper ferary rights unable to pass on to the next life their souls were damned for eternity with Everlasting anger pain and hate in their hearts that remained long after their flesh had decayed as their bodies decayed their anger would turn to Supernatural Vengeance against the living twisting the bones of hundreds of corpses weaving them together into one mass and they given a new Undead life as gsha dokuro the monster's overwhelming hatred of humanity would lead it to Prey Upon human beings and no other living creature unlike other man eting Monsters of Legend who eat humans as a means of sustenance the gsha dokuro eats people simply because it can rather than because it would need to grinding them with their teeth and swallowing them into a dark abyss to make matters all the scarier the gsha dokuro have no known weaknesses they are too large and they are too powerful to be fought or killed and so the gsha dokuro maintain their existence until the energy and Malice stored up in their skeletal bodies has run its course falling in the wild and dissipating into a demonic m Miss gsha dokuro appear in a number of myths and urban legends throughout Japan but perhaps the most famous involves the real life figure Tyra n masakado a renowned Samurai Warrior from the Kanto region in the 10th Century CE masakado ignited a rebellion in Kyoto referred to as the Tango noan attacking major Outpost po s and conquering strong provinces in order to Quil this Revolt the Kyoto officials put a price on his head and the call was answered by masato's own cousin Tyra noore and fujiwara nois who beheaded him for the promised reward according to Legend masato's daughter takasha himim was a renowned sorceress vowing revenge against her father's Killers she conjured up the First gsha dokuro with the bones of those who had fought alongside her father and Unleashed her skeletal monster upon kiyoto it ransacked the city demolishing buildings and consuming all who strayed into its path until the Beast recovered masato's head and returned it to shibasaki the fishing Village that would go on to become to K masakado was forever remembered for his Uprising and the gashadokuro would be tied to his Legend skeletons are common place in Dark Fantasy and horror imagery but none are as massive in scale as the gasa dokuro formed from the violent rage that refused to die with the body and metamorphosed into a giant skeleton many times the size of a human being these yo-kai are among the most menacing ever imagined with their immense size strength nigh invulnerability and compulsion to haunt and devour any human being that they come across the gashadokuro are truly nightmarish creatures if you ever hear an eerie rattling sound out in the dark it would be wise to run [Music]