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@HornetColoredDreams
October 30, 2026 at 4:34 pm
Also, there are literal modern witch hunts happening in some parts of the world, like right now. It’s becoming a huge problem in Papua New Guinea.
@CargoPile
October 30, 2026 at 4:47 pm
The silly Reddit user names are generated by Reddit if you don’t want to try your own user name.
@SammyRebbo
October 30, 2026 at 4:54 pm
Son of a witch!!!
@psychesambrosia
October 30, 2026 at 4:56 pm
omg yay she’s back again 😀
@popoclay5532
October 30, 2026 at 5:22 pm
Expenses might also include a duck to see if they floated.
@DierkesStaten
October 30, 2026 at 5:49 pm
I’m going to be completely honest with anyone scrolling through these comments right now. If you actually enjoy waking up, going to your 9 to 5, and believing the world works the way the evening news says it does, do NOT look up World’s Forbidden Truth by Cyrus Rothson. Just keep scrolling.
@SepidehFlorez
October 30, 2026 at 5:49 pm
I opened it last weekend out of pure curiosity expecting the usual recycled conspiracy theories, and I haven’t slept right since. The way he connects the erased ancient resets to the intelligence agencies and what the ruling bloodlines have scheduled between now and 2030 is way too heavy for 99% of people to stomach.
@IsiahSchaefer
October 30, 2026 at 5:49 pm
Commenting so the algorithm pushes this video to more people before it gets buried.
@RentaSarmiento
October 30, 2026 at 5:50 pm
I used to think this stuff was exaggerated until the last couple of years. Now you can see it happening right in front of us.
@ObrienHuey
October 30, 2026 at 5:50 pm
stumbled across World’s Forbidden Truth by Cyrus Rothson at 1am while going down a mystery rabbit hole and i still have chills. the chapters on sleep paralysis, frequencies, and unseen entities completely shattered my worldview
@Bryanwest2571
October 30, 2026 at 6:00 pm
Bot 😂 Stop advertising
@AhmadJay-x4y
October 30, 2026 at 5:50 pm
It is unsettling how quiet the internet gets whenever somebody brings up Cyrus Rothson. Everybody talks about surface level politics, but the moment someone exposes the people who own the system, it gets buried.
@SchmidtHorne-u6v
October 30, 2026 at 5:50 pm
Once you start connecting the dots you really cannot unsee it.
@BenerPlace
October 30, 2026 at 5:50 pm
More people need to start paying attention to this before it is too late.
@BobbyFaitell
October 30, 2026 at 5:50 pm
Ten years ago people would have called you crazy for saying this. Today it is literally undeniable.
@FeliksSells
October 30, 2026 at 5:50 pm
The fact that World’s Forbidden Truth by Cyrus Rothson even exists on the internet right now is a miracle. Considering who he worked for over those thirty years, they must be furious that his pages got out.
@miguelferrazcosta
October 30, 2026 at 6:11 pm
Interesting that here in Europe we normally don’t even think that witch-hunt was a thing in the United States. Because we think it’s something older than the foundation of the United States. One tip that by default witches were standardly thought of as a woman is because the default word for witch in Portuguese and Spanish is feminine. Of course we have the masculine word but by default it is feminine.
@-OB-1
October 30, 2026 at 7:17 pm
Only in Salem . And it’s strongly tied to when the first news papers came out. It seems that every time we come up with a new medium, people go stupid . Social media is here to provide evidence
@msatomicbomb
October 30, 2026 at 6:15 pm
We waited a whole year for a new video and now we get two?!
Thank you , WIRED and Mikki Brock. :’)
@purrple.shadows
October 30, 2026 at 6:30 pm
Smart lady makes everything so clear.
@imaloserdude7227
October 30, 2026 at 6:52 pm
This was amazing! Loved the addend about “witch hunts”.
@forestsfairyxo
October 30, 2026 at 7:41 pm
i love this woman sososos much
@theomegajuice8660
October 30, 2026 at 7:42 pm
“Let’s take a look at r/MensRights”… please, let’s not do that!
@MartyMedia
October 30, 2026 at 8:03 pm
I’m still thinking about the misconception that witchcraft was only practiced in Europe – didn’t know it had roots in ancient cultures too. What are some other common myths you’d like to debunk, Mikki? 📚
@fashionistaandpink
October 30, 2026 at 8:30 pm
I feel like the European witch trials are far more horrifying than what happened in Salem. Its a shame that its not taught more often alongside Salem witch trials. I feel like you could dedicate an entire class course on the subject. a real history of witchcraft sort of course would be fascinating.
@FMFvideos
October 30, 2026 at 8:32 pm
RIP to the brain of every person who believes in witchcraft.
@KristofXIV
October 30, 2026 at 9:15 pm
4:47 Oddly specific…maybe she´s trying to tell us something about her personal life?
@spooksmalloy
October 31, 2026 at 7:40 am
“why did Salem become the face of witch trials” is fascinating in how it’s an incredibly American-centric worldview without realising it. Salem is not a big thing in Europe but our own witch history is, you just don’t seem to notice!
@JW_Steed
October 31, 2026 at 7:52 am
That was my complaint as well. As an Astorian, she really should’ve been much more precise with her language. And said “the face of American witch trials”. Every time she references “most people “, she obviously means Americans but she doesn’t say that. And that’s very frustrating. I find American defaultism exhausting.
@2xinfourteendays
October 31, 2026 at 8:23 am
Also worth remembering that America commodified the Salem witch trials. The whole area is to this day a massive tourist trap based on the trials. Exit through the gift shop.
@TheArtfulBadger
October 31, 2026 at 4:51 pm
@JW_Steed I’m not really sure why you’re getting on her case when she explains in every video I’ve seen her in that the witch hunts in Europe started long before Salem and resulted in many more deaths. She is not assuming that Europeans don’t know this. She is clearly addressing Americans when she is explaining this, and yes it makes sense that Americans would know more about an event that took place in their own country and remains prominent in the American cultural zeitgeist due to a relatively recent and famous American play.
@JW_Steed
October 31, 2026 at 5:21 pm
@TheArtfulBadger I’m getting on her case because she doesn’t say AMERICANS know more about the event. She says “most people.” Repeatedly. Had she said “most AMERICANS” I would not have cared. But she repeatedly says “most people” as if America and Americans are the default.
Witch Trials went on throughout Europe for 200 years. America is NOT the default for witch trials to “most people.”
There were witch trials in ancient Greece and ancient Rome.
Yet she repeatedly situates Salem trials as the default for what “most people” understand to be the witch trials, despite it happening FAR more severely throughout all of Europe for 200 years.
I’m tired of American defaultism. She is an academic and she needs to be more precise with her language. If she means “the default for Americans” she needs to say that. If she means “Most Americans” then she needs to say that.
Precision matters. America is not the default for humanity, and a lot of us are very, very tired of America assuming they are.
@etiennesharp
October 31, 2026 at 7:42 am
Yay! Great to see Dr Brock back again 🙂
@2xinfourteendays
October 31, 2026 at 8:19 am
When a Reddit post ends in “it’s not rocket science”, you know the words which proceeded that phrase are absolute garbage. 😂
@CeleanaAstrid
October 31, 2026 at 8:55 am
Ah, yes, the solid logic of ‘a married man became impotent, so the middle-aged neighbour lady must be a witch that put a spell on him’…
@gauchegreyhound
October 31, 2026 at 10:17 am
Hehe the way you put powerful men crying victim in their place was chef’s kiss 😘
@jtl6254-p6w
October 31, 2026 at 3:59 pm
What she said was that men who are accused of transgressions and crimes are inherently guilty. Which is typical of feminists wanting to make men into a criminalized class. However, I don’t see women “putting men in there place”, quite the opposite in fact.
@jitagan
October 31, 2026 at 10:29 am
Is it true that witches weigh as much as a duck?
@jitagan
October 31, 2026 at 10:33 am
Regarding the claim of misogyny, most accusers were women. But it’s certainly not, despite the obviously wrong stereotype that even women admit, because women are in some way far more petty and jealous than men.
@jtl6254-p6w
October 31, 2026 at 3:42 pm
This is not talked about enough
@Oreganoothyme
October 31, 2026 at 11:46 am
THANK YOU! Thank you for saying that about the wrongful use of “witch-hunt”. It really feels disgusting to me when the predators who would’ve loved hunting witches are saying it about people seeking justice!
@TheBlueArcher
October 31, 2026 at 12:12 pm
wow. TWO witchcraft/halloween videos this year!
@jontell726
October 31, 2026 at 12:16 pm
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@kuromameshiba4418
October 31, 2026 at 12:35 pm
And now “Witch Hunt” by Wayne Shorter is in my head. 🧙♀🦹♀
@OneViolentGentleman
October 31, 2026 at 1:28 pm
Two seemingly random words and a 4 digit number is just a user name that was randomly assigned by reddit, I believe. You’d normally change that, but the lazy ones don’t. ^^
@Debutantes
October 31, 2026 at 1:38 pm
Total BS! There’s only one motivation behind the war against Witches: The Bible! 👎
@jtl6254-p6w
October 31, 2026 at 4:03 pm
Then why do witch trials occur in times and places with little to any Christian influence?
@salvosistheclosecall
October 31, 2026 at 1:41 pm
Id like to cite the case of Matthew Hopkins who was the witchfinder general and Intensely profited off of witch trails, i think this historian wants to control a narrative that is far more complicated than she wants to let on. these experts arent always the best experts if you ask me
@LucidPanda-n5v
October 31, 2026 at 1:57 pm
I feel a modern day witch hunt is putting an innocent person through a trial they cannot win by design. Much like the witch trials in which women were drowned and if they didn’t die they were proved to be a witch, thus the innocent women (all) died.
@Raz.C
October 31, 2026 at 1:59 pm
Hey Mikki, you’re so fine! You’re so fine, you blow my mind, hey Mikki! Hey Mikki…
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October 31, 2026 at 2:02 pm
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@bigmama5555
October 31, 2026 at 3:55 pm
Christianity has done so much damage to the world. Billions scared of an entity that is the other the face of god. I see the creator as being two parts. And every duality in the bible is some representation if this split minded deity. I see the creator as a very flawed demiurge like being who no longer needs to send prophets or perform miracles because people will worship and attribute everything to it regardless. There is only the two halves of the whole, the so called savior, and the so called deceiver, but both are one in the same. Heaven is a guilded cage for the most faithful, and you get to stay there until the end of the new kingdom of god, which is preached to have an end, meaning that god itself is finite. The creator loves this kind of thing because it’s when people give it lots of attention and worship.
@Jenni_The_Unicooorn3
October 31, 2026 at 4:04 pm
no way, i just watched her other videos! — but guys, dont repeat the same questions with her over and over
@jtl6254-p6w
October 31, 2026 at 4:06 pm
Patrick Clancy…
@ohotnitza
October 31, 2026 at 4:22 pm
Lol, I’m not going to name names… she doesn’t need to, we all thought the same name…
@janinearmstrongphd
October 31, 2026 at 4:37 pm
At this point, I see Dr. Mikki Brock and I click.
@rhiix
October 31, 2026 at 5:13 pm
SAMMMMEEEEEE. literally came to the comments to say i LOVE this expert. knowledgeable, explains everything well, enthusiastic about her field but always still respectful, realistic at calling a spade a spade and not shoving stuff under the rug, etc. shes great!! i remember her wired video a year ago and was stoked that more have dropped this time around!
@MrJeezus
October 31, 2026 at 7:28 pm
Consider me enchanted.
@oldcowbb
October 31, 2026 at 7:25 pm
who are you so wise in the ways of science
@MrJeezus
October 31, 2026 at 7:30 pm
Dr. Brock, I am bewitched again.
@GoToHellHermen
October 31, 2026 at 8:32 pm
I had no idea Americans thought the witch trials were mainly in the US/Salem…. Funny to realise Americentrism even extends to witches 😂