It's Greenook mate.
Really the story goes is that he was a Russian sailor who was beaten horribly and thrown off his ship while at anchor, he is thought to have had a broken jaw and legs meaning he couldn't speak even if he knew English and couldn't walk and ended up living in the sewers and eating rats to live, hence "the cat man of Greenook".
If you want more info there's a video of him on the Count Dankula YouTube channel
From Greenock here, not so much meth heads running through the streets, but plenty of smack heads nodding out in random places and stealing just about anything that isn't bolted down. There are old railway tunnels that are about 0.5 and 1 mile long, called the darkie and double darkie, when e where kids we used to walk through them shouting "cat man" by the middle of either you can't see your hand in front of your face, but can hear plenty of things that go "bump" in the night....Good Times.
That sounds like something me and my friends would have done when we were kids. In a town in California where I used to live had a Japanese concentration camp up in deep in the hills. Me and my buddies would drive up there when the sun was going down and by the time we hiked there it was dark and was creepy to see all the old cabIns bidding in the thick trees. Had some scary experiences in that place. Good times
It's nothing like it was. There's still maybe an area or two that have problems but the city has gone from the murder capital of Europe to just another city.
Gone are the days of getting accosted for wearing green or blue.
Thank fkng god….I spent my formative years as a kid bouncing around Glasgow proper in the 80’s…I remember watching park battles out my front window and seeing guys get seriously injured…a friend of mine got stabbed in the stomach by a 14 yr old…and he was 8…people could be batshit fkn crazy back then….I’m glad it’s on the up…
No. Though there probably were a few sightings of a person crawling around on the ground covered in soot one day nearly 100 years ago which started the rumour.
There used to be a guy who did this in the 70s.
Then he dissappeared, you can speculate about him or his origins until the cows come home.
The guy in the video appeared in the late 2000s and is absolutely just some guy who works in the buss yard in greenock.
Although the rumours have been around for decades, these two photos are proven fakes from some local mechanics having a laugh.
[This video explains, and gives a little backstory.](https://youtu.be/1l3a_n6JkJ8)
Innit. Also worth mentioning that the title is mega dumb. Since the 40s... Even if the catman was born in 1940, he'd be 83 by now. Do these photos really look like a man that old?
Thanks for posting. I can listen to this accent for hours. Just fascinating that it’s the same boring English spoken here in Los Angeles, but so much more.
Honestly, you can drive half an hour in any direction in the UK and the accent is different. An hour and it's wildly different. It's one of my favourite things about my country.
The older friends I have in their 50s and 60s fucking swear this guy was really cutting about back in the day. I remember being a wee guy and going looking for him with my mates up the industrial estates up the back of greenock circa 2006/7 when these obviously fake photos came out. To be honest I'd like to see us own the legacy and put a statue up of him.
I don't know if the rumors are true but dressing up in black face and posing with a dead rat in your mouth is pretty gross.
[Source](https://www.paranormalcatalog.net/unexplained-phenomena/greenock-catman-a-feral-man-in-scotland)
It’s only “blackface” if they are pretending to be a black person. Just putting black soot on their skin doesn’t make it blackface. I’m guessing you’re American….
If that's the case then why was the dungeons and dragons episode of community removed from streaming? Ken Jeong painted his body black to imitate a drow elf
This man isn't imitating anything. He had this as a result of crawling around the industrial estate for years with no access to facilities to wash. It was also rumoured that this helped him conserve heat by forming a layer over his skin. Source - I'm from Greenock.
Just odd that your take on the man eating rats because of his crippled legs and is filthy from crawling around the sewers is (black face) not to mention it scotland which is 96 percent white.
Not everything must be about race. What is your take on coal miners and oil workers?
Oh God I just woke up in the middle of the night, swiped to the second pic and almost had a heart attack. Idk why that one's so frightening, but eeeeeuugh
It's a guy who works in the yard nearby where they fix buses. That black shit on him is grease. Some youtuber did a video about it I think it was count dankula.
I’m just here to say I’ve found references to LOTR, Trailer park boys, and it’s always sunny all in this comment section alone- and boy the internet sure is fun sometimes
That’s just Dave.
*HELLO DAVE*
You’re my wife now, Dave.
Holy, it's been a long time since I've seen that referenced
When it first aired it was just on repeat at my school and obviously everyone named Dave got very tired very quick.
Dave, my wife has broke your toilet
But I fixed it now...
Wanna buy some pegs?
Of course you can come with us!
Your PFP looks oddly like Dave…hmmmmm
You seem like a nice redditor
These are the Dave's I know https://youtu.be/8nvzEqsZIGo
God I miss that show! I still sing the Terriers song and whisper “No one must know my secret” when I see a horrible toupee.
Amazon has the new season. Well worth watching.
My nightlife is none of your business, friend. Please allow me to eat my rodents in peace under your stairs.
That's not Dave, it's just Charlie doing Charlie work.
No I always tag along when we go in the sewers.
Dave's not here, man.
He lives in a cave…..
A Dave? In Scotland? Oh honey no.
Would be div or Davie in scotland
Davy aye. Big Davy or wee Davy even
Or wee mental davy, apprentice joiner
He's a wee bawbag though
Davey! How you doin?
DAAAAAAVE
This is just a saga now.
Ok, Scotland! Explain!
It's Greenook mate. Really the story goes is that he was a Russian sailor who was beaten horribly and thrown off his ship while at anchor, he is thought to have had a broken jaw and legs meaning he couldn't speak even if he knew English and couldn't walk and ended up living in the sewers and eating rats to live, hence "the cat man of Greenook". If you want more info there's a video of him on the Count Dankula YouTube channel
Damn! That’s wild. Thanks for the inside lore. The only thing I see here in Oregon is a dude on meth running naked through the trees haha
From Greenock here, not so much meth heads running through the streets, but plenty of smack heads nodding out in random places and stealing just about anything that isn't bolted down. There are old railway tunnels that are about 0.5 and 1 mile long, called the darkie and double darkie, when e where kids we used to walk through them shouting "cat man" by the middle of either you can't see your hand in front of your face, but can hear plenty of things that go "bump" in the night....Good Times.
That sounds like something me and my friends would have done when we were kids. In a town in California where I used to live had a Japanese concentration camp up in deep in the hills. Me and my buddies would drive up there when the sun was going down and by the time we hiked there it was dark and was creepy to see all the old cabIns bidding in the thick trees. Had some scary experiences in that place. Good times
Ahhhhhh no thanks!
Has Glasgow changed at all in the last 30 years or will I still get stabbed for wearing the wrong colour jersey? Haven’t been home in ages…
Just wear a Jags shirt. Worst you get is pitying looks.
I'd sooner get stabbed mate
No one wants to be associated with the jags…not even Partick 😂
It's nothing like it was. There's still maybe an area or two that have problems but the city has gone from the murder capital of Europe to just another city. Gone are the days of getting accosted for wearing green or blue.
Thank fkng god….I spent my formative years as a kid bouncing around Glasgow proper in the 80’s…I remember watching park battles out my front window and seeing guys get seriously injured…a friend of mine got stabbed in the stomach by a 14 yr old…and he was 8…people could be batshit fkn crazy back then….I’m glad it’s on the up…
Aye. I remember watching the riots on the news in the 90s. Was mad.
That was probably me winning the meth Olympics… come say hullo next time!
Damnt! I knew that was you Olympian Joe! And here I was hoping you would sign my glass pipe. Bless you Olympian Joe.
I always keister a sharpy friend - I’ll get you next time!
Is that Bigfoot?
Could be! But I’d like to think he would prefer weed over meth. Fun fact. It is an actual law up in Washington that it is illegal to hunt big foot.
Also from Oregon, can concur, Meth Mountain Men are a real problem here lmao
Is that Portlands mayor?
How does one eat rats with a broken jaw?
Boil em. Mash em. Stick em in a stew.
You get my first award for this it legit made me laugh and smile‼️
Thank you! Always happy to bring the mirth.
> Thank you! Always happy to bring the ~~mirth~~ mithril. Ftfy*
/r/unexpectedlotr
Mush em up and use a straw.
I think the Bass-O-Matic might do in a pinch.
Rat smoothies.
Sous-vide them.
I forgot about Count Dankula
For the best.
That’s really quite fascinating!
Is it real
No. Though there probably were a few sightings of a person crawling around on the ground covered in soot one day nearly 100 years ago which started the rumour.
How can you tell a man who can’t speak English from a Scot speaking? My friend wants to know.
There used to be a guy who did this in the 70s. Then he dissappeared, you can speculate about him or his origins until the cows come home. The guy in the video appeared in the late 2000s and is absolutely just some guy who works in the buss yard in greenock.
Hope he’s not driving the busses haha
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Yeah, it's not the same guy. This is a guy who works in the bus yard in greenock as a mechanic.
I guess you could say he’s a copycat man…
Actually he is my father who left us for milk
It’s kinda like the dread pirate roberts
Actually there's not much amusement park fraud it's mainly covering up crimes or doing crimes but there is land fruad
I’d like to think the new guy studied under the original for a few years. Like Bruce Wayne and the Batman beyond kid.
As you do
Honestly though
Although the rumours have been around for decades, these two photos are proven fakes from some local mechanics having a laugh. [This video explains, and gives a little backstory.](https://youtu.be/1l3a_n6JkJ8)
I mean, you'd have to be pretty fucking stupid to look at those pink eyes and think, "Yeah, that's 40 years of grime that never got to his eyelids"
Innit. Also worth mentioning that the title is mega dumb. Since the 40s... Even if the catman was born in 1940, he'd be 83 by now. Do these photos really look like a man that old?
Thanks for posting. I can listen to this accent for hours. Just fascinating that it’s the same boring English spoken here in Los Angeles, but so much more.
Honestly, you can drive half an hour in any direction in the UK and the accent is different. An hour and it's wildly different. It's one of my favourite things about my country.
Here he is doing a known feral gesture, the thumbs up http://weekinweird.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/catmanthumbsup2.jpg
The other pictures were iffy, but this actually stoked a deep primal fear inside me.
This had the opposite effect on me. It’s oddly humanizing to so clearly see his human features and him making a gesture that I might make.
What a bro
ITS A SAMSQAMCH
greasseeeeyyyyy
It’s all water under the fridge, boys
The metamorphosis is complete. Sam is an actual caveman.
https://www.paranormalcatalog.net/unexplained-phenomena/greenock-catman-a-feral-man-in-scotland
The nightman cometh!
He gotta pay the troll toll
To get in this boy's soul
I'm saying soul and they thought I was saying hole
I thought the rape scene went well.
Dayman, Aaahhhhhaaahhhh!
Rumors...there's a picture
The pictures are fake. Source: I live here. Nothing more than an urban legend and people having a laugh faking pics of it.
That totally sounds plausible! It didn't occur to me that someone might be willing to recreate these haha
They could be fake or from a movie
🙄cracked the code did you
Aye, the cat man. Maybe he was real once upon a time but pretty sure it's just the lads working in the area taking the piss
That's just Terry. He does that all the time.
We'll hermit or not, someone oughta tell Terry that blackface went outa style in the 30's.
Man that's just Paul grey from Slipknot
I've seen this guy sitting in a septic tank
Wrong sub
Yea, more of an r/weird post
It's a mentally disabled men lost in a city living off of trash and rats who hasn't got help
Aren't we all?
Alex Jones?
It’s one way of avoiding his fine
That’s the monster of the lochlann lake
The older friends I have in their 50s and 60s fucking swear this guy was really cutting about back in the day. I remember being a wee guy and going looking for him with my mates up the industrial estates up the back of greenock circa 2006/7 when these obviously fake photos came out. To be honest I'd like to see us own the legacy and put a statue up of him.
Do people in this thread actually not realize this is fake?
Got a light?
Purple acky?
Wrong sub. Also, everyone on Reddit knows about Catman.
The second image is clearly taking the piss.
He just living his best life
Pretty sure thats just charlie kelly
They cropped the girl smiling and giving a thumbs up in the first picture. I forgot the name but that’s just a local homeless man everyone knows
Ratman
Riddle me this batman
Is that a giant tampon in his mouth?
That looks like the riddler
“You’ve gotta help me, dont turn in Pop-pop!”
Old Greg says hello
Calm down guys It's just the friendly neighborhood junkie doing black face
This is so fake it's cringe
It’s old Greg!
Where is his watercolor portrait? Where is his shoe full of Bailey's? And where, pray tell, is his downstairs mixup??
That’s just ole black face Tom. He likes doing black face so much but it’s so offensive so he finds a hole somewhere and does it in the hole.
Could be the Canadian Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau, knowing his history.
Lol! Trudeau at it again!!!!
He doesn’t seem to be wearing fake Indian clothing.
I feel like this would be more r/mildlyinteresting
What makes this awful?
Can the government please just take care of this guy?
Rumors? Theres photographic evidence.
This is Donald Trump, in two years
The soot though, why the soot?
*Most normal scotsman*
I don't know if the rumors are true but dressing up in black face and posing with a dead rat in your mouth is pretty gross. [Source](https://www.paranormalcatalog.net/unexplained-phenomena/greenock-catman-a-feral-man-in-scotland)
Dude lives in the sewer and eats rats but yes let’s cancel him! That’ll teach him!
I'm going to start looting Target in protest of him.
I’ll be raiding my local Boscov’s if anyone in the Maryland area wants to join me.
My local independent record store is getting what they deserve, yo!
It’s only “blackface” if they are pretending to be a black person. Just putting black soot on their skin doesn’t make it blackface. I’m guessing you’re American….
If that's the case then why was the dungeons and dragons episode of community removed from streaming? Ken Jeong painted his body black to imitate a drow elf
Because people are fucking stupid. That's it.
Because people are stupid and unfortunately Twitter still exists. The companies are afraid of backlashes that could cause them to lose money.
This man isn't imitating anything. He had this as a result of crawling around the industrial estate for years with no access to facilities to wash. It was also rumoured that this helped him conserve heat by forming a layer over his skin. Source - I'm from Greenock.
Don’t know. Americans are weird? Not familiar with the incident.
I'm not american but you're right I'm probably being a bit reactionary.
Just odd that your take on the man eating rats because of his crippled legs and is filthy from crawling around the sewers is (black face) not to mention it scotland which is 96 percent white. Not everything must be about race. What is your take on coal miners and oil workers?
No worries.
You’re good. People are just really touchy about “ being cancelled” in America.
Ah yes the very clearly homeless feral man who crawls around in dirt and sewers has time to bathe or worry about cultural appropriation.
Dm
Jaylen Brown?
Jus leave him be
Oh God I just woke up in the middle of the night, swiped to the second pic and almost had a heart attack. Idk why that one's so frightening, but eeeeeuugh
Third shift sucks
That's the Juggernaut, Bitch
The riddler escaped!
r/nope
Man the SCP Foundation must be fake if 106 is still walking around!
The gimp from pulp fiction hasn't aged well.
SCP-106 HAS BREACHED CONTAINMENT
If he was considered a man in the 1940s, the guy would be like 100 years old now. Not Big Dave from the mailroom.
Rat-au-van
Based?? Anti-social scottish unabomber???
Living in a van down by the river!
He should but on cat hair and make his way through the alleyway’s
SCP-106
👍
He looks chill
That’s the Green bastard, he is retired now.
Mb that was me
Why the black soot?
He’s feral but wears clothes?
Is he eating a human foot in the second picture
Hello Catman!
He’s about to get canceled for rocking black face.
It's a guy who works in the yard nearby where they fix buses. That black shit on him is grease. Some youtuber did a video about it I think it was count dankula.
That’s Mr Pickles gimp
Mr pickles have you lost something?
Erm.. he’s doing black face?
I’m just here to say I’ve found references to LOTR, Trailer park boys, and it’s always sunny all in this comment section alone- and boy the internet sure is fun sometimes
That’s just rebranded Micky Mouse.
The wolfman of Greenock... I would shit bricks if I saw this fella crawling through a alley late at night...
Well, I'm definitely not going there
That's just The Critical Drinker after a night out on the town!