Megalithic Marvels

This episode combines two of my favorite topics when it comes to history: the discovery of ancient hidden ruins and cowboy exploration of the wild west. In this episode I read a chapter from the book "Mysteries of the Old West," that recounts a fascinating true story from 1888 where two cowboys mistakenly stumble upon a lost city hidden in the cliffs of southwest Colorado while searching for their lost cattle. How would they find their way inside the ancient cliff dwellings? What did they see and experience deep inside? Who were these ancient inhabitants and why did it seem that they had suddenly vanished without a trace? So what really happened to the Anasazi? Why do the legends of the other four-corners tribes whisper that the Anasazi disappeared? Why does the ancient rock art of the Anasazi seem to depict strange spiral vortexes, portals, and what appears to be entities that came through them such as humanoids, chimeras and giant, six-fingered and six-toed footprints? At the end of this episode I share the shocking details of an archaeological excavation that appears to reveal that the Anasazi met a horrific end... SHOW NOTES:
JOIN ME ON A TOURBook: Mysteries of the Old West by E.B. WheelerBook: Unearthing the Lost World of the Cloudeaters by Tom HornVideo: Tom Horn talking about the Anasazi

Across North America, enormous ancient mounds and precisely engineered geometric earthworks preserve the legacy of sophisticated Indigenous cultures—and some have also inspired enduring mysteries. In this episode, we explore these remarkable monuments, unusual artifacts discovered within them, and controversial historical reports of unusually large skeletons unearthed from ancient mounds. What do these discoveries really reveal about the people who built America’s mysterious earthworks thousands of years ago?

Deep in the mountains of southern Vermont lies a region known as the Bennington Triangle—a place surrounded by eerie legends, unexplained events, and a series of mysterious disappearances. In this episode, we investigate the strange stories connected to the area, the people who seemingly vanished without a trace, and the enduring question: is there something unusual about the Bennington Triangle, or can its mysteries be explained?

Deep inside Utah’s remote canyons and basins hides some of the strangest ancient petroglyphs and pictographs on planet earth. This mysterious rock art features strange anthropomorphic figures that feature bizarre characteristics such as six fingers, insect-like eyes, massive feet, elongated skulls, horns and varying scenes of chaos. Some of these depictions portray the victors carrying severed heads, and some figures stand as tall as nine feet. Were the ancient artists depicting what they saw or what their ancestors said they saw according to their oral traditions? And what might their connection be to the infamous Skinwalker Ranch, which is located only thirty miles from the most fantastic and fierce of all these petroglyphs? I will dive into all of these questions with explorer & landscape photographer Abbie Warnock-Matthews who lives in Utah and explores the many ancient petroglyph sites of the region.
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Article - Utah’s Ancient Six Fingered “Bigfoot” Petroglyph⁠

At Baalbek in modern-day Lebanon lie some of the most colossal stone blocks ever quarried in the ancient world—some estimated to weigh well over 1,000 tons. In this episode, we investigate the mysteries surrounding these enormous megaliths, how ancient builders cut and attempted to move stones of such incredible size, and the theories surrounding the engineering knowledge behind them. Were they simply an extraordinary achievement of ancient construction, or could Baalbek preserve evidence of lost technology from the distant past?
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