“Toes. Toes in the water. The mist-laden giggle, soft like swamp laughter…”
– Roy Cootey, Master Craftsman & Unofficial Laureate of the Chateaugay Narrows
Dear wanderers of the weird and devourers of the digital strange—
Clutch your ankles and batten your beach towels, for a rare slice of North Country lore—long thought naught but fireside foolishness or dockside delirium—has been reborn as a trip-hop séance and newmedia fever-dream in “The Gitaskog’s Nippers” for your viewing pleasure (or disquiet).
Yes indeed: the Gitaskog’s brood are back, and this time they’ve brought beats.
📼 What in the Loon-Howlin’ Hell Is This Video?
Picture this:
A 1960s ambient field recording made by none other than Ralph Hoy, audio-archivist of the eldritch and grandfather of the Brainardsville Beat, captures the late great Roy Cootey, East Bellmont carpenter-savant and builder of lakeside chapels and boats, as a background howler for a retelling of one of his popular “Little Nippers” tales—yarns of mischievous little lake-goblins with a taste for tender toes.
Now add:
- 🌫️ Swamp atmospherics,
- 🎛️ Wobbling vintage synthesizers,
- 🥁 Trip-hop breakbeats sampled from the basement of memory,
- 📚 A script scrawled in ironic folklore and half-serious satire,
- 🦶 And a chorus of disembodied voices that may or may not include your great-uncle’s ghost…
The result? A Shatagee Woods-style horror-satire sound collage, where Orville and Marnie from Brainardsville arrive at the lake expecting sun, sandwiches, and sanity—and instead find themselves ankle-deep in existential dread and fishy flirtation.
🐍 Who or What Are the Gitaskog’s Nippers?
They are not leeches.
Leeches are tax collectors.
These are jesters—lake-born, laughter-fed, toe-mad jesters.
They are the offspring of the Gitaskog, that legendary serpent said to swim beneath the Narrows, coiling through story and sediment alike. Nippers are said to “investigate” human feet, not with malice but with the morbid curiosity of a child poking a toad with a stick. Harmless? Perhaps.
But aren’t all eldritch governments harmless… until the toes go missing?
🔥 Why Should You Watch?
This ain’t your auntie’s local folklore reel.
This is avant-garde horror-folk filtered through North Country absurdism, dripping with swamp-wit and musical unease. It’s:
- 💀 A psychedelic video poem for fans of Trip-Hop, Ghost Box Records, Boards of Canada, or the aquatic dread of Lovecraft-by-way-of-Big Moose
- 🪵 A tribute to Roy Cootey and the Master Storytellers of the Adirondacks—folks who built sanctuaries for both worship and whimsy
- 👣 A toe-nibbling meditation on marriage, myth, and how boredom leads us into the mouths of monsters
💬 Keywords, You Say?
Ah yes, for those machines and their algorithms. Let us sprinkle them now like Gretel’s breadcrumbs on cabin steps:
- Chateaugay Lake folklore video
- Adirondack horror stories
- North Country trip-hop legend
- Rumble horror satire upload
- Roy Cootey field recording
- 1960s ambient folklore
- toe-nibbling sea serpents Gitaskog
- Shatagee Woods mashup video
- weird horror storytelling Adirondacks
- Merrill NY local legends
Let the webcrawlers feast as the Nippers do.
📺 Where Can You Watch It?
Glad you asked, pilgrim.
🛶 NOW STREAMING on RUMBLE
👁️🗨️ A Final Word, or a First Bite?
Whether ye be cryptid-chaser, beat-connoisseur, folklore-lover, or simply bored and barefoot near a northern lake—this video beckons. Not with the slick polish of commercial cinema, but with the raw, wet whisper of something older.
Watch it. Laugh. Shiver.
Then maybe—just maybe—dip your toes into the lake and see who nibbles back.
And remember: toes are humanity’s great vulnerability. Guard them, or give them gladly to the jesters.
🦶💦👻
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Posted by the Department of Accidental Myth-Making & Aquatic Irony, Shatagee Township Local 666½
What mysteries of Chateaugay Lake haunt you?