1 00:00:00,080 --> 00:00:03,880 Speaker 1: Today's classic episode is about Stonehenge, and I know it's 2 00:00:03,960 --> 00:00:07,560 Speaker 1: something that all of us like grew up reading about 3 00:00:07,680 --> 00:00:09,760 Speaker 1: and you know in those time life Mysteries of the 4 00:00:09,840 --> 00:00:13,600 Speaker 1: Unknown series, and you know, people have learned a lot 5 00:00:13,640 --> 00:00:18,640 Speaker 1: more about Stonehenge in the time since uh we were 6 00:00:18,720 --> 00:00:22,720 Speaker 1: reading about it in our younger days. There's continuing research 7 00:00:22,760 --> 00:00:26,599 Speaker 1: on it. But riddle me, this guy's what the heck 8 00:00:26,680 --> 00:00:31,960 Speaker 1: is Stonehenge? Like, why why? Why is Stonehenge? Well, it's yeah, 9 00:00:32,040 --> 00:00:34,040 Speaker 1: it's really interesting, and like you said, there's been some 10 00:00:34,120 --> 00:00:37,440 Speaker 1: revelations since we're we recorded this in two thousand and fourteen. 11 00:00:38,159 --> 00:00:41,720 Speaker 1: It's been a while, you guys. But really this episode 12 00:00:41,720 --> 00:00:43,800 Speaker 1: is going to give you an overview of what was 13 00:00:43,840 --> 00:00:46,040 Speaker 1: thought about at the time, what we you know, a 14 00:00:46,080 --> 00:00:49,680 Speaker 1: lot of the best information that still exists on Stonehenge um. 15 00:00:49,720 --> 00:00:52,920 Speaker 1: But we would just say, once you finish this, go 16 00:00:52,960 --> 00:00:55,960 Speaker 1: ahead and do some of your own research. You we 17 00:00:56,000 --> 00:00:58,240 Speaker 1: think you're going to be interested and excited by it. 18 00:00:59,520 --> 00:01:02,720 Speaker 1: From you opposed two ghosts and government cover ups. History 19 00:01:02,840 --> 00:01:06,039 Speaker 1: is really with unexplained events. You can turn back now 20 00:01:06,440 --> 00:01:13,840 Speaker 1: or learn the stuff they don't want you to. Now. Hello, 21 00:01:14,000 --> 00:01:16,840 Speaker 1: welcome back to the show. My name is Matt. I 22 00:01:16,959 --> 00:01:21,160 Speaker 1: am Ben and this is the show about crazy things 23 00:01:21,280 --> 00:01:25,120 Speaker 1: happening now on your radio. That's stuff they don't want 24 00:01:25,120 --> 00:01:27,600 Speaker 1: you to know, Ladies and gentlemen. And it looks like 25 00:01:27,680 --> 00:01:31,240 Speaker 1: we've got some new intro music in the mix on that. Yeah, 26 00:01:31,680 --> 00:01:34,240 Speaker 1: I'm sure that went perfectly with the music that was 27 00:01:34,280 --> 00:01:39,640 Speaker 1: fading out just now. Uh So, that's an interesting thing 28 00:01:39,680 --> 00:01:42,440 Speaker 1: when we talk about the power of music and audio, 29 00:01:42,520 --> 00:01:44,640 Speaker 1: and it, oddly enough, it's going to come up to 30 00:01:44,760 --> 00:01:49,320 Speaker 1: date in this episode. I'm all right, I just threw 31 00:01:49,360 --> 00:01:51,400 Speaker 1: that out there and you you got it all the 32 00:01:51,400 --> 00:01:54,320 Speaker 1: way around. Yeah. Well, uh let me's steal a joke 33 00:01:54,360 --> 00:01:57,120 Speaker 1: from my my dad. Here. Nine out of ten women 34 00:01:57,160 --> 00:01:59,840 Speaker 1: think I'm pretty good. Problem is I'm dating number ten, 35 00:02:00,520 --> 00:02:05,760 Speaker 1: uh dad, jokes man, I've got no segue with Dad's. 36 00:02:05,800 --> 00:02:09,760 Speaker 1: So let's just get right into it. Ancestors, ancestors. There 37 00:02:09,760 --> 00:02:13,160 Speaker 1: we go, Nice save Matt, Nice save. Uh So, ladies 38 00:02:13,160 --> 00:02:15,840 Speaker 1: and Gentlemen's always you know, we're here with our super 39 00:02:15,919 --> 00:02:22,239 Speaker 1: producer Noll to take a look at yet another thing, event, secret, 40 00:02:22,480 --> 00:02:27,800 Speaker 1: or phenomenon that may not be getting the coverage it deserves. Right, Yes, 41 00:02:27,880 --> 00:02:30,480 Speaker 1: and in this case, it's a bunch of stones in 42 00:02:30,560 --> 00:02:32,880 Speaker 1: the middle of a field, a hinge if you will, 43 00:02:33,160 --> 00:02:36,600 Speaker 1: hinge some sort of hinge of stone. That's right, we 44 00:02:36,639 --> 00:02:40,400 Speaker 1: are talking about Stonehenge. Now, this is something that is 45 00:02:40,440 --> 00:02:43,760 Speaker 1: familiar to I would say the vast majority of people 46 00:02:43,760 --> 00:02:46,120 Speaker 1: in the world. You've seen it, you've seen a picture 47 00:02:46,160 --> 00:02:48,760 Speaker 1: of it, you've heard all kinds of crazy things about it. 48 00:02:49,000 --> 00:02:52,360 Speaker 1: But what the heck is it? Actually the best part 49 00:02:52,440 --> 00:02:54,880 Speaker 1: is that we don't know for sure, but there're a 50 00:02:54,880 --> 00:02:56,520 Speaker 1: lot There are a lot of facts about it that 51 00:02:56,600 --> 00:02:58,639 Speaker 1: we can point to, and there are a lot of theories. 52 00:02:59,040 --> 00:03:01,960 Speaker 1: So that's what we're doing to day. The biggest question, 53 00:03:02,000 --> 00:03:04,000 Speaker 1: like you said, what the heck is it? Well, we 54 00:03:04,080 --> 00:03:07,320 Speaker 1: do know this is a prehistoric ruin in southern England 55 00:03:07,480 --> 00:03:11,760 Speaker 1: near Salisbury, that's right, But we don't know who built it. 56 00:03:11,800 --> 00:03:15,639 Speaker 1: But it's thought to date back to about hundred BC 57 00:03:16,160 --> 00:03:19,560 Speaker 1: and who have been designed for some kind of ritual 58 00:03:19,720 --> 00:03:23,600 Speaker 1: or at least a ceremonial purpose or b c e. 59 00:03:23,880 --> 00:03:26,240 Speaker 1: If you're if you're one of those people, starting to 60 00:03:26,280 --> 00:03:30,040 Speaker 1: type the email right now, where we will get an 61 00:03:30,080 --> 00:03:33,400 Speaker 1: email either way, regardless of what initials you want to 62 00:03:33,520 --> 00:03:37,520 Speaker 1: stamp on. That time period remains of cremated human bodies 63 00:03:37,560 --> 00:03:40,360 Speaker 1: have been found buried at Stonehenge, and this indicates that 64 00:03:40,400 --> 00:03:43,080 Speaker 1: it may have been used as a burial ground, assuming 65 00:03:43,120 --> 00:03:46,320 Speaker 1: of course, that the people of Stonehenge knew there were 66 00:03:46,360 --> 00:03:50,360 Speaker 1: bodies there. Yeah, well, depending on what, like, if there 67 00:03:50,360 --> 00:03:52,520 Speaker 1: were people using it after it had been built for 68 00:03:52,760 --> 00:03:56,160 Speaker 1: different purposes than when it was originally built. Oh boy, 69 00:03:56,240 --> 00:03:59,240 Speaker 1: we're gonna get in all kinds of stuff here. One 70 00:03:59,280 --> 00:04:02,280 Speaker 1: thing that should be noticed that Stonehenge is in itself 71 00:04:02,360 --> 00:04:06,040 Speaker 1: not a unique structure. It's one of some eighty British 72 00:04:06,080 --> 00:04:10,880 Speaker 1: prehistoric ruins that are characterized by this large circular embankment 73 00:04:11,200 --> 00:04:14,600 Speaker 1: that encloses, or at least at one point enclosed some 74 00:04:14,720 --> 00:04:18,640 Speaker 1: kind of structure. Yeah. And although the original meaning of 75 00:04:18,680 --> 00:04:21,760 Speaker 1: the phrase hinge is not known, that word is now 76 00:04:21,960 --> 00:04:25,080 Speaker 1: used for any ruins of this type. And we have 77 00:04:25,240 --> 00:04:28,640 Speaker 1: learned a little bit about how these things looked in 78 00:04:28,720 --> 00:04:32,919 Speaker 1: their heyday, right. Yeah. In most of these structures of 79 00:04:32,960 --> 00:04:37,000 Speaker 1: things that we call hinge um there were they were 80 00:04:37,000 --> 00:04:40,679 Speaker 1: primarily made out of wood. But Stonehenge, which was built 81 00:04:40,680 --> 00:04:45,039 Speaker 1: in three phases, uh, contained a wooden structure. At least uh, 82 00:04:45,120 --> 00:04:47,719 Speaker 1: it's believed that it contained a wooden structure in its 83 00:04:47,760 --> 00:04:51,080 Speaker 1: first phase, but it was eventually made up completely of stones, 84 00:04:51,240 --> 00:04:54,240 Speaker 1: so they replaced the parts that were there with these 85 00:04:54,320 --> 00:04:59,120 Speaker 1: giant stones which are heavy. Yeah, how heavy, you might ask, Oh, 86 00:04:59,200 --> 00:05:01,800 Speaker 1: we are glad you it. Let's talk about the structure 87 00:05:01,920 --> 00:05:05,080 Speaker 1: of Stonehenge in its final form, which does make me 88 00:05:05,120 --> 00:05:09,760 Speaker 1: think of various various things from our childhood. Uh. Stonehenge 89 00:05:09,760 --> 00:05:13,239 Speaker 1: had thirty upright stones. These were each about eighteen feet 90 00:05:13,360 --> 00:05:16,440 Speaker 1: or five and a half meters high, seven ft two 91 00:05:16,480 --> 00:05:18,760 Speaker 1: point one meters thick, and there were in an outer 92 00:05:18,880 --> 00:05:23,280 Speaker 1: ring that was about thirty meters across. Now only seventeen 93 00:05:23,360 --> 00:05:27,560 Speaker 1: of these megaliths called Sarson's are now standing. The the 94 00:05:27,640 --> 00:05:31,040 Speaker 1: large stones that are one piece, Yeah, the the vertical ones, 95 00:05:31,160 --> 00:05:35,120 Speaker 1: and the ones that uh span the top of those Sarson's, 96 00:05:35,240 --> 00:05:39,280 Speaker 1: those are called lentils uh l I n t e 97 00:05:39,520 --> 00:05:42,960 Speaker 1: L s less my accent full some of you. Uh. 98 00:05:43,000 --> 00:05:46,400 Speaker 1: And these are about ten and a half foot uh 99 00:05:47,160 --> 00:05:52,880 Speaker 1: stones that create that um almost doorway looking part of Stonehenge. 100 00:05:52,960 --> 00:05:54,919 Speaker 1: And then you got the blue stones, which are the 101 00:05:55,160 --> 00:05:58,240 Speaker 1: smaller upright stones that are on the inside. They make 102 00:05:58,320 --> 00:06:02,240 Speaker 1: that inner ring. If you haven't watched our video yet, 103 00:06:02,320 --> 00:06:04,240 Speaker 1: I would recommend watching it. There are a ton of 104 00:06:04,400 --> 00:06:07,800 Speaker 1: pictures of this. Again, we're fairly certain that you were 105 00:06:07,839 --> 00:06:11,680 Speaker 1: aware of what it looks like, but you might get 106 00:06:11,680 --> 00:06:14,039 Speaker 1: a better picture maybe if you have our video while 107 00:06:14,080 --> 00:06:17,320 Speaker 1: you're listening to this. Hey why not? Uh so? And 108 00:06:17,360 --> 00:06:21,200 Speaker 1: that's funny because the video is probably under five minutes 109 00:06:21,200 --> 00:06:23,279 Speaker 1: in this podcast will probably be a little bit longer, 110 00:06:23,320 --> 00:06:26,880 Speaker 1: little bit, yeah, but then just keep replaying it. So 111 00:06:26,960 --> 00:06:30,359 Speaker 1: within Stone Hinge there was this horseshoe of five what 112 00:06:30,400 --> 00:06:34,240 Speaker 1: are called trill athons, and these are two upright Sarson's 113 00:06:34,320 --> 00:06:38,200 Speaker 1: capped by a lentil. Three of those remain standing. At 114 00:06:38,200 --> 00:06:42,800 Speaker 1: the center was this horseshoe of bluestones around a pillar 115 00:06:43,160 --> 00:06:47,080 Speaker 1: known as the altar stone. Oh yes, the good old 116 00:06:47,200 --> 00:06:50,560 Speaker 1: altar stone, where all kinds of fun rituals could take place. 117 00:06:51,080 --> 00:06:54,920 Speaker 1: Some of them we just have been uh fantasizing about 118 00:06:54,920 --> 00:06:56,599 Speaker 1: what could have taken place. There's some of it. We 119 00:06:56,640 --> 00:06:59,599 Speaker 1: have an idea because of things that we found there. 120 00:06:59,640 --> 00:07:01,919 Speaker 1: We're to get into this. But the best part is 121 00:07:02,200 --> 00:07:04,880 Speaker 1: there was an alter stone. Ben If you're going to 122 00:07:04,920 --> 00:07:08,800 Speaker 1: have a great monolithic structure from ancient times, there's got 123 00:07:08,800 --> 00:07:10,560 Speaker 1: to be a place where you can have a ritual. 124 00:07:10,960 --> 00:07:15,400 Speaker 1: Do you remember that time that I became obsessed with Skyrim? 125 00:07:15,480 --> 00:07:21,239 Speaker 1: That Skyrim? What is that? Ben? Al Right, so guys, 126 00:07:21,480 --> 00:07:24,720 Speaker 1: I have nothing against video games. I don't play them 127 00:07:24,840 --> 00:07:29,440 Speaker 1: very often, but when I do, I have very strange 128 00:07:29,520 --> 00:07:31,920 Speaker 1: relationship with them because I have no sense of moderation. 129 00:07:32,240 --> 00:07:34,920 Speaker 1: I was playing Star Skyrim all the time, you know, 130 00:07:34,960 --> 00:07:39,000 Speaker 1: in the Moraines evenings. One time I left work early 131 00:07:39,440 --> 00:07:41,960 Speaker 1: to play Skyrim, and that's when I realized I had 132 00:07:41,960 --> 00:07:45,520 Speaker 1: a problem. But I always think of Skyrim when I 133 00:07:45,520 --> 00:07:50,240 Speaker 1: hear about these prehistoric alter stones. Um. And of course 134 00:07:50,640 --> 00:07:54,560 Speaker 1: you know, Skyrim, being fictional, is just inspired by a 135 00:07:54,600 --> 00:07:57,200 Speaker 1: lot of those structures. But it's important for us to 136 00:07:57,240 --> 00:08:02,040 Speaker 1: remember across the world, things like this exists, and many 137 00:08:02,120 --> 00:08:06,320 Speaker 1: of them remain utterly mysterious today. But we do know. 138 00:08:06,920 --> 00:08:09,320 Speaker 1: We do know that we've been able to perform some 139 00:08:09,440 --> 00:08:12,360 Speaker 1: forensic stuff here and that's why we know. The outside 140 00:08:12,480 --> 00:08:15,960 Speaker 1: of the Sarson Circle at Stonehenge, there's a ring of 141 00:08:16,080 --> 00:08:19,880 Speaker 1: fifty six pits and they're called Aubrey holes, and they're 142 00:08:19,960 --> 00:08:22,880 Speaker 1: named after John Aubrey, who investigated the Hinge in the 143 00:08:22,920 --> 00:08:27,360 Speaker 1: seventeenth century, and he found these four small stones and 144 00:08:27,360 --> 00:08:32,679 Speaker 1: then this circular bank of earth that's surrounded by this ditch, right, 145 00:08:32,760 --> 00:08:36,240 Speaker 1: and two stone pillars flanked an entrance through the earth bank. 146 00:08:36,520 --> 00:08:39,760 Speaker 1: One of them remains. There's an upright megaleth, the heel 147 00:08:39,880 --> 00:08:43,600 Speaker 1: stone that's outside the entrance. Um, let's talk a little 148 00:08:43,640 --> 00:08:48,280 Speaker 1: bit about the astrology. Huh, the astronomy rather, Oh yes, 149 00:08:48,880 --> 00:08:51,840 Speaker 1: So let's imagine that you're standing in the center of 150 00:08:51,960 --> 00:08:57,160 Speaker 1: Stonehenge and it's the summer solstice. Now, let's imagine that you, 151 00:08:57,440 --> 00:09:00,280 Speaker 1: the person listening to this, are standing in the center 152 00:09:00,520 --> 00:09:04,600 Speaker 1: of Stonehenge on summer solstice. Now that's around June one. 153 00:09:04,679 --> 00:09:08,240 Speaker 1: It shifts around a little bit, but if you're standing there, 154 00:09:08,280 --> 00:09:12,080 Speaker 1: the sun is going to rise from behind this stone, 155 00:09:12,080 --> 00:09:14,719 Speaker 1: the heelstone that you just mentioned, and it's going to 156 00:09:14,800 --> 00:09:18,319 Speaker 1: come up over across this thing, and essentially he's just 157 00:09:18,360 --> 00:09:23,480 Speaker 1: going to create this amazing almost spiritual feeling just from 158 00:09:23,520 --> 00:09:25,040 Speaker 1: the way the sun is going to come through these 159 00:09:25,080 --> 00:09:29,480 Speaker 1: sarson's and come across that heelstone. And we can tell 160 00:09:29,559 --> 00:09:34,800 Speaker 1: that it was a majestic experience. It was created inside 161 00:09:34,840 --> 00:09:38,319 Speaker 1: this which you're yeah, yeah, we know. It is inarguable 162 00:09:38,600 --> 00:09:42,920 Speaker 1: that Stonehenge was built by someone who had knowledge of 163 00:09:42,960 --> 00:09:47,160 Speaker 1: the heavens right and the solsticeaes, and that they built 164 00:09:47,240 --> 00:09:53,360 Speaker 1: Stonehenge to reflect these great moments throughout the year. In 165 00:09:53,400 --> 00:09:56,920 Speaker 1: the nineteen sixties, Matt, some astronomers theorized that these Aubrey 166 00:09:56,960 --> 00:09:58,800 Speaker 1: holes and some of those stones could be used to 167 00:09:58,880 --> 00:10:03,520 Speaker 1: keep track of soul older and lunar years to predict eclipses, 168 00:10:03,600 --> 00:10:07,280 Speaker 1: which is just so amazing. I mean, ask, ask yourselves, 169 00:10:07,679 --> 00:10:11,920 Speaker 1: if we were transported back in time and we were 170 00:10:12,040 --> 00:10:16,640 Speaker 1: tasked with predicting an eclipse, how on earth will we 171 00:10:16,679 --> 00:10:19,240 Speaker 1: do it? I think that's something that escapes people's minds 172 00:10:19,280 --> 00:10:22,040 Speaker 1: often about time travel. You always think, oh, if I 173 00:10:22,440 --> 00:10:25,319 Speaker 1: if I went back and you know, into the uh, 174 00:10:25,480 --> 00:10:28,640 Speaker 1: the twelve hundreds or even the eighteen hundreds, I'd be 175 00:10:28,679 --> 00:10:30,920 Speaker 1: amazing because I know so much stuff. But do we 176 00:10:31,880 --> 00:10:35,400 Speaker 1: do we? Because I can't build a smartphone. Yeah, something 177 00:10:35,440 --> 00:10:38,319 Speaker 1: as simple as keeping track of the time and seasons 178 00:10:38,360 --> 00:10:41,880 Speaker 1: and where the sun is and wow, that's that's a 179 00:10:42,160 --> 00:10:44,560 Speaker 1: really interesting way to look at it in so yeah, 180 00:10:44,559 --> 00:10:46,480 Speaker 1: we know that. Um. This has led a lot of 181 00:10:46,480 --> 00:10:50,679 Speaker 1: people to believe that Stonehenge was a primitive astronomical observatory, 182 00:10:50,800 --> 00:10:54,360 Speaker 1: but not everyone agrees now that hypothesis is disputed by 183 00:10:54,440 --> 00:10:57,320 Speaker 1: a lot of archaeologists who contend that there's really no 184 00:10:57,400 --> 00:11:00,760 Speaker 1: evidence to suggest the builders of Stonehenge had a lot 185 00:11:00,800 --> 00:11:04,720 Speaker 1: of knowledge of or interest in astronomy. But yeah, I 186 00:11:04,760 --> 00:11:07,360 Speaker 1: still think it's inarguable, though. I think it cannot be 187 00:11:07,400 --> 00:11:10,280 Speaker 1: a coincidence that they just lined it up. But maybe 188 00:11:10,280 --> 00:11:13,960 Speaker 1: I'm just seeing what I want to see. Either way, 189 00:11:14,240 --> 00:11:18,600 Speaker 1: somebody is seeing something that they want to see, all right, Yeah, Uh, 190 00:11:18,640 --> 00:11:22,200 Speaker 1: that's a fair point. Uh, you're not wrong. Stonehenge didn't 191 00:11:22,240 --> 00:11:24,280 Speaker 1: just start out in its current form, as we said, 192 00:11:24,280 --> 00:11:26,680 Speaker 1: in its first phase, like you have mentioned earlier, Matt, 193 00:11:27,040 --> 00:11:30,200 Speaker 1: it had a lot of wood components, wouldn't components. Stonehenge 194 00:11:30,440 --> 00:11:32,720 Speaker 1: was just a few stones wouldn't post and closed by 195 00:11:32,720 --> 00:11:37,320 Speaker 1: this circular embankment. Uh. The current theory nowadays is that 196 00:11:37,640 --> 00:11:41,400 Speaker 1: this was used for religious gatherings and then around two 197 00:11:41,440 --> 00:11:46,040 Speaker 1: thousand BC, people with slightly more advanced technology figured out 198 00:11:46,120 --> 00:11:50,319 Speaker 1: how to get these bluestones there. They heat weighed four 199 00:11:50,440 --> 00:11:55,720 Speaker 1: tons or thirty six ms for everybody outside of let's 200 00:11:55,720 --> 00:11:59,920 Speaker 1: see Namibia, Burma, and the US. And the crazy thing 201 00:12:00,080 --> 00:12:02,920 Speaker 1: is that they were, at least in the current theory, 202 00:12:03,000 --> 00:12:08,120 Speaker 1: they were floated by raft from southwestern Wales. Yeah, they 203 00:12:08,120 --> 00:12:11,080 Speaker 1: were set up to form that inner circle within the embankment, 204 00:12:11,200 --> 00:12:15,880 Speaker 1: and several centuries later uh Stonehenges builders up the ante 205 00:12:16,200 --> 00:12:19,560 Speaker 1: and transported the Sarson's, each of which weighs about twenty 206 00:12:19,720 --> 00:12:23,400 Speaker 1: five tons. They were brought from as far as twenty 207 00:12:23,400 --> 00:12:26,840 Speaker 1: miles away and set up outside the Blue Stones. That 208 00:12:26,840 --> 00:12:30,400 Speaker 1: that is insane to me, and that is one of 209 00:12:30,400 --> 00:12:35,079 Speaker 1: the reasons people have issues with the idea of humans 210 00:12:35,120 --> 00:12:38,960 Speaker 1: building these things, these giant stones, right, because if you 211 00:12:39,000 --> 00:12:41,439 Speaker 1: go to ancient alien theory, some people believe that there 212 00:12:41,520 --> 00:12:43,640 Speaker 1: must have been some kind of advanced technology to get 213 00:12:43,679 --> 00:12:45,520 Speaker 1: these stones set up the way they are and for 214 00:12:45,640 --> 00:12:49,480 Speaker 1: what purpose been for what purpose met? Right? But we 215 00:12:49,559 --> 00:12:53,160 Speaker 1: know that of course, in the absence of concrete proof, 216 00:12:53,400 --> 00:12:58,319 Speaker 1: speculation runs rampant. You will often hear that Stoneheing is 217 00:12:58,440 --> 00:13:02,800 Speaker 1: connected with the Druids somehow, Oh, druids totally, the classic 218 00:13:02,880 --> 00:13:07,880 Speaker 1: Druid move people are saying. But there's really not any 219 00:13:07,920 --> 00:13:11,320 Speaker 1: hard evidence that they that the Druids played a part 220 00:13:11,400 --> 00:13:17,080 Speaker 1: in the construction of Stonehenge. However, we do know that 221 00:13:17,640 --> 00:13:23,680 Speaker 1: a couple of ingenious modern day humans have demonstrated methods 222 00:13:23,720 --> 00:13:27,000 Speaker 1: that could be used in theory to build Stonehenge, and 223 00:13:27,080 --> 00:13:31,040 Speaker 1: they make a pretty convincing case. Yeah, physics is pretty awesome, 224 00:13:31,360 --> 00:13:34,120 Speaker 1: and if you can figure out how to use simple 225 00:13:34,120 --> 00:13:38,840 Speaker 1: tools like pulleys levers, you can you can make some 226 00:13:38,920 --> 00:13:42,280 Speaker 1: really heavy things do some pretty incredible stuff. Right. There's 227 00:13:42,320 --> 00:13:45,200 Speaker 1: some great YouTube videos where you can see demonstrations of 228 00:13:45,240 --> 00:13:48,240 Speaker 1: this by a couple of different sources who reach the 229 00:13:48,400 --> 00:13:54,000 Speaker 1: same conclusions. But that's not the million dollar question. We've 230 00:13:54,120 --> 00:13:57,319 Speaker 1: We've at this point explained uh, some of the dimensions 231 00:13:57,320 --> 00:14:01,319 Speaker 1: of Stonehenge and some of the best ses at its evolution, 232 00:14:02,440 --> 00:14:06,160 Speaker 1: But what the heck was it for? You know, why 233 00:14:06,160 --> 00:14:08,640 Speaker 1: do people use it? Well, there are a lot of 234 00:14:08,679 --> 00:14:11,880 Speaker 1: theories been and let's get into them. Right after a 235 00:14:11,920 --> 00:14:22,080 Speaker 1: quick word from our sponsor and we're back. So let's 236 00:14:22,120 --> 00:14:26,040 Speaker 1: get into what are the possible things Stonehenged was meant for. 237 00:14:27,360 --> 00:14:30,320 Speaker 1: So one of them is some people think it was 238 00:14:30,320 --> 00:14:33,360 Speaker 1: a sacred hunting ground prior to those big rocks the 239 00:14:33,400 --> 00:14:37,320 Speaker 1: Sarson's being up there. They it's believed that this was 240 00:14:37,360 --> 00:14:41,840 Speaker 1: an ancient rock migration route. Rocks are these fun looking 241 00:14:41,880 --> 00:14:44,520 Speaker 1: creatures that you can hunt for meat, which is nice 242 00:14:44,840 --> 00:14:48,760 Speaker 1: when you could have yeah, you're not anymore. They are 243 00:14:48,920 --> 00:14:51,640 Speaker 1: no longer existing in our world. To think of them 244 00:14:51,640 --> 00:14:53,880 Speaker 1: oxen like you know, Okay, yeah, that's a really good 245 00:14:53,880 --> 00:14:58,000 Speaker 1: way to put it. So this was migration route, like 246 00:14:58,040 --> 00:15:00,360 Speaker 1: you were saying that thousands of years before where those 247 00:15:00,360 --> 00:15:03,640 Speaker 1: first stones came around. There's another site about a mile 248 00:15:03,720 --> 00:15:07,560 Speaker 1: away from the Wiltshire, England megaliths, and it contains evidence 249 00:15:07,600 --> 00:15:11,920 Speaker 1: of human occupation spanning three thousand years, including thousands of 250 00:15:11,960 --> 00:15:17,560 Speaker 1: those orc bones, flint tools, and evidence that they made 251 00:15:17,600 --> 00:15:20,600 Speaker 1: and used fire. Nice. One of the coolest things that 252 00:15:20,680 --> 00:15:23,360 Speaker 1: you can see evidence of construction at the site of 253 00:15:23,400 --> 00:15:26,560 Speaker 1: Stonehenge as far back is eight thousand, five hundred years 254 00:15:26,680 --> 00:15:30,760 Speaker 1: or almost to ten thousand years ago. Uh. Where are 255 00:15:30,800 --> 00:15:33,280 Speaker 1: these these pine posts that were sticking out of the 256 00:15:33,320 --> 00:15:36,200 Speaker 1: ground that were at one time raised to create some 257 00:15:36,280 --> 00:15:40,720 Speaker 1: kind of ancient structure, right, Yeah, And the archaeological evidence 258 00:15:40,760 --> 00:15:44,760 Speaker 1: hence that this site was originally this ancient hunting feasting 259 00:15:45,040 --> 00:15:48,600 Speaker 1: kind of a kind of a hall, party hall, a 260 00:15:48,680 --> 00:15:52,600 Speaker 1: party hall, a community center, and maybe the megaliths they 261 00:15:52,640 --> 00:15:56,840 Speaker 1: say were raised to memorialize this um. But of course 262 00:15:57,120 --> 00:16:00,240 Speaker 1: that is not the final word. There's another idea. Yeah, 263 00:16:00,280 --> 00:16:04,120 Speaker 1: that's similar but a little bit different. It's thought that 264 00:16:04,240 --> 00:16:10,720 Speaker 1: maybe Stonehenge, this huge, seemingly important monument, was more than 265 00:16:10,840 --> 00:16:15,800 Speaker 1: just some kind of barbecue cookout area. Um. Some people 266 00:16:15,840 --> 00:16:19,760 Speaker 1: believe that these were erected to celebrate peace or some 267 00:16:19,840 --> 00:16:24,160 Speaker 1: type of unity gathering together in harmony, with different groups 268 00:16:24,360 --> 00:16:26,720 Speaker 1: coming together there. You know, I love it, but I 269 00:16:26,760 --> 00:16:31,560 Speaker 1: don't really see the causation here because there is a correlation. 270 00:16:31,840 --> 00:16:35,000 Speaker 1: The argument here is that, uh, during that intense building 271 00:16:35,080 --> 00:16:38,120 Speaker 1: period which you know, as as we've shown, Stonehenge took 272 00:16:38,120 --> 00:16:42,080 Speaker 1: a long time to build between three thousand and the 273 00:16:42,080 --> 00:16:46,120 Speaker 1: culture of the British Isles was increasingly unifying. Um. And 274 00:16:46,160 --> 00:16:48,400 Speaker 1: they say that you can see this because there are 275 00:16:48,440 --> 00:16:54,040 Speaker 1: more similarities in regional pottery. But here's the here's the 276 00:16:54,080 --> 00:16:57,040 Speaker 1: problem to me, and this is just my personal beef 277 00:16:57,040 --> 00:17:02,040 Speaker 1: with it. I just don't think that a unification of 278 00:17:02,040 --> 00:17:06,760 Speaker 1: a culture necessarily means that Stonehenge was built to celebrate that. 279 00:17:07,080 --> 00:17:10,760 Speaker 1: Maybe it means that people were more likely to get together, 280 00:17:11,440 --> 00:17:13,720 Speaker 1: but I don't think they were likely to get together 281 00:17:13,840 --> 00:17:17,840 Speaker 1: to say, hey, let's let's make a monument about what 282 00:17:17,880 --> 00:17:20,480 Speaker 1: good friends we are. You guys, why don't we ever 283 00:17:20,560 --> 00:17:23,360 Speaker 1: make monuments about our friendships. See I don't know enough 284 00:17:23,400 --> 00:17:26,439 Speaker 1: about it, but what if all of the different sarcens 285 00:17:27,119 --> 00:17:30,679 Speaker 1: are representing different tribes? Would that be cool? It's kind 286 00:17:30,680 --> 00:17:34,679 Speaker 1: of like the American flag, all the different you know, 287 00:17:35,640 --> 00:17:39,240 Speaker 1: all the different states of provinces in the thirteen colonies 288 00:17:39,280 --> 00:17:42,320 Speaker 1: and so on. They just did it with these giant stones, 289 00:17:43,000 --> 00:17:45,680 Speaker 1: which is cooler. In my book, that might be. Yeah, 290 00:17:45,720 --> 00:17:48,440 Speaker 1: it's just I guess you can't build too many because 291 00:17:48,480 --> 00:17:51,440 Speaker 1: you certainly couldn't carry those rounds. Or maybe you could 292 00:17:51,480 --> 00:17:55,160 Speaker 1: get a smaller version, like a mini hinge. That's how 293 00:17:55,160 --> 00:17:57,560 Speaker 1: you do it. We should be we should be the marketing. 294 00:17:57,600 --> 00:18:00,159 Speaker 1: You think they had a mockheinge, like a early up 295 00:18:00,200 --> 00:18:03,040 Speaker 1: mock hinge where a bunch of guys got together they 296 00:18:03,040 --> 00:18:05,640 Speaker 1: were like, I think we need to put it here 297 00:18:05,640 --> 00:18:09,000 Speaker 1: and here and there little marbles. I wonder, you know, 298 00:18:09,240 --> 00:18:13,840 Speaker 1: because it took so long to build the previous iterations, 299 00:18:13,880 --> 00:18:17,480 Speaker 1: like the wooden parts probably existed as a model of 300 00:18:17,560 --> 00:18:21,320 Speaker 1: sorts um and uh boy, can you imagine they had 301 00:18:21,320 --> 00:18:23,080 Speaker 1: to have some kind of plan and can you imagine 302 00:18:23,680 --> 00:18:26,520 Speaker 1: We always hear about ancient monuments being made with such 303 00:18:26,600 --> 00:18:30,399 Speaker 1: precision and perfection and skill, but we never hear about, 304 00:18:30,560 --> 00:18:32,840 Speaker 1: you know the ones that got messed up because they're 305 00:18:32,840 --> 00:18:36,080 Speaker 1: an Easter island head somewhere where they got the nose 306 00:18:36,119 --> 00:18:39,920 Speaker 1: wrong and they said, ah, barry this one. Monuments. Yeah, 307 00:18:40,080 --> 00:18:43,640 Speaker 1: they where the botched monuments where the ancient Machu Picchu 308 00:18:43,720 --> 00:18:46,440 Speaker 1: walls that just aren't really well put together. I guess 309 00:18:46,440 --> 00:18:49,960 Speaker 1: they crumbled the ancient subpar artists. Yeah, what happened to 310 00:18:49,960 --> 00:18:54,560 Speaker 1: those guys. There's a comedy sketch in there somewhere. But um, 311 00:18:54,600 --> 00:18:57,399 Speaker 1: it is true. As we said before that one of 312 00:18:57,440 --> 00:19:01,280 Speaker 1: the big, one of the big theories for Stonehenge is 313 00:19:01,320 --> 00:19:05,880 Speaker 1: the astronomical calendar idea that this was where ancients would 314 00:19:05,920 --> 00:19:09,520 Speaker 1: celebrate winter solstice. In particular, they say this because the 315 00:19:09,560 --> 00:19:13,240 Speaker 1: avenue near Stonehenge alliance with the winter solstice sunset, and 316 00:19:13,400 --> 00:19:17,680 Speaker 1: nearby archaeological evidence suggests that pigs were slaughtered during December 317 00:19:17,680 --> 00:19:21,720 Speaker 1: and January, maybe a midwinter feast of sorts. And it's 318 00:19:21,720 --> 00:19:24,600 Speaker 1: also known that the site faces the sunrise during the 319 00:19:24,600 --> 00:19:27,840 Speaker 1: summer solstice, and that thousands of visitors go to this 320 00:19:27,920 --> 00:19:31,040 Speaker 1: site every year even now to celebrate that time. And 321 00:19:31,080 --> 00:19:34,199 Speaker 1: here's something really cool, something a little different. So there 322 00:19:34,240 --> 00:19:37,200 Speaker 1: were these two pipers playing in a field around Stonehenge 323 00:19:37,400 --> 00:19:40,720 Speaker 1: and they would have heard the uh sound canceled out 324 00:19:40,760 --> 00:19:44,159 Speaker 1: at certain spots. There's a sound allusion that might have 325 00:19:44,880 --> 00:19:48,399 Speaker 1: inspired the Stonehenge builders. This comes from a presentation at 326 00:19:48,440 --> 00:19:54,040 Speaker 1: the American Association for the Advancement of Sciences, so hardly 327 00:19:54,640 --> 00:19:58,800 Speaker 1: uh fringe research here. Yeah. So it's thought that perhaps 328 00:19:58,920 --> 00:20:02,080 Speaker 1: these megalifts were created to augment the sound that was 329 00:20:02,080 --> 00:20:05,880 Speaker 1: already naturally occurring in the site. And it's actually really interesting. 330 00:20:05,960 --> 00:20:10,320 Speaker 1: The monument is often nicknamed the Piper Stones in England, 331 00:20:10,359 --> 00:20:13,600 Speaker 1: and the legend holds that these magic pipers would lead 332 00:20:13,760 --> 00:20:17,080 Speaker 1: maidens out into the field and then turn them into 333 00:20:17,200 --> 00:20:21,000 Speaker 1: stones as they are today. Bizarre. Yeah, And even those 334 00:20:21,040 --> 00:20:24,040 Speaker 1: who don't buy this whole sound illusion theory agree that 335 00:20:24,119 --> 00:20:31,200 Speaker 1: Stonehenge has astonishing acoustic qualities with the cavernous echo echo echo. Oh, 336 00:20:31,200 --> 00:20:34,080 Speaker 1: it's really cool because it's all of those different flat 337 00:20:34,160 --> 00:20:37,240 Speaker 1: surfaces that it's reflecting from. Depending on where you stand, 338 00:20:37,320 --> 00:20:42,080 Speaker 1: you can have crazy auditory things like where uh sounds 339 00:20:42,080 --> 00:20:45,200 Speaker 1: from the right will be coming in from the left side. Uh. 340 00:20:45,440 --> 00:20:48,160 Speaker 1: It's really cool. There's a presentation online that you can 341 00:20:48,160 --> 00:20:52,080 Speaker 1: find if you search for Stonehenge acoustics, I think, and 342 00:20:52,240 --> 00:20:55,640 Speaker 1: model search for that and you can find just really 343 00:20:55,760 --> 00:20:59,080 Speaker 1: cool stuff and even models online that you can look 344 00:20:59,119 --> 00:21:02,640 Speaker 1: at many hinge is well sorry, not many hinges. It's 345 00:21:02,720 --> 00:21:05,400 Speaker 1: it's models of what the acoustics would be like if 346 00:21:05,440 --> 00:21:09,600 Speaker 1: Stonehenge was the way it was I guess originally meant 347 00:21:09,680 --> 00:21:12,800 Speaker 1: to look. Okay, yeah, so we can. We can picture 348 00:21:12,840 --> 00:21:16,080 Speaker 1: it already. You can start to see the sights and 349 00:21:16,200 --> 00:21:19,960 Speaker 1: hear the sounds that ancient people would encounter when they 350 00:21:20,040 --> 00:21:23,520 Speaker 1: saw the sun go down on winter solstice during the 351 00:21:23,600 --> 00:21:27,359 Speaker 1: chanting resonating from the stones, you know, the sound of uh, 352 00:21:27,640 --> 00:21:32,040 Speaker 1: pigs being slaughtered or yeah, cremation, Which brings us to 353 00:21:32,080 --> 00:21:34,520 Speaker 1: the next one. The Elite Cemetery. We talked about this 354 00:21:34,600 --> 00:21:37,560 Speaker 1: earlier before the break, the mysterious monument that may have 355 00:21:37,800 --> 00:21:41,080 Speaker 1: once been a burial ground for the Creme de la 356 00:21:41,160 --> 00:21:46,399 Speaker 1: Creme of the ancient societies. Thousands of skeletal fragments of 357 00:21:46,480 --> 00:21:49,560 Speaker 1: at least sixty three individuals have been exhumed from around 358 00:21:49,600 --> 00:21:52,800 Speaker 1: the area, with an equal proportion of men and women 359 00:21:53,160 --> 00:21:57,440 Speaker 1: and children. So this is interesting because I've heard I've 360 00:21:57,440 --> 00:22:01,880 Speaker 1: heard that there was a debate about the proportion there. 361 00:22:02,680 --> 00:22:07,280 Speaker 1: You'll hear some people say, well, it's primarily men and 362 00:22:07,800 --> 00:22:11,240 Speaker 1: very few women. Uh so this would leave people to say, well, 363 00:22:11,240 --> 00:22:14,560 Speaker 1: maybe it's the burial ground of warriors or something. But 364 00:22:14,640 --> 00:22:17,720 Speaker 1: the thing is, these burials date to three thousand BC, 365 00:22:18,240 --> 00:22:22,400 Speaker 1: and as construction of the monument was getting started, archaeologists 366 00:22:22,400 --> 00:22:25,280 Speaker 1: have also found some things. They are usually associated with 367 00:22:25,400 --> 00:22:29,040 Speaker 1: the swells of ancient society, things like instance bowls, a 368 00:22:29,200 --> 00:22:33,320 Speaker 1: mace head, et cetera. But that is not the crazy 369 00:22:33,359 --> 00:22:37,479 Speaker 1: idea yet, No, sir, I'm gonna mention a name here 370 00:22:37,520 --> 00:22:41,080 Speaker 1: that you know. Eric fontanak In. I s author of 371 00:22:41,160 --> 00:22:46,480 Speaker 1: Chariots of the Gods, among other things, the primary advocate 372 00:22:46,600 --> 00:22:49,040 Speaker 1: of ancient alien theory, even more so than that guy 373 00:22:49,040 --> 00:22:51,960 Speaker 1: who shows up on History Channel. He's a gloriously exciting 374 00:22:51,960 --> 00:22:54,320 Speaker 1: person to see on television. I always love it when 375 00:22:54,320 --> 00:22:58,080 Speaker 1: his name pops up. I'm like, oh, yes, Fontanenkan. So 376 00:22:59,280 --> 00:23:03,280 Speaker 1: he inks that the creation of Stonehenge and the Neolithic 377 00:23:03,359 --> 00:23:08,280 Speaker 1: period was a model of our solar system. Yes, a 378 00:23:08,560 --> 00:23:13,000 Speaker 1: celestial map that was created with stones. I it seems 379 00:23:13,000 --> 00:23:16,520 Speaker 1: like it's a lot of trouble to make a map. Yeah, 380 00:23:16,560 --> 00:23:19,560 Speaker 1: so here's the idea. But it is kind of permanent. Yeah, 381 00:23:19,720 --> 00:23:22,520 Speaker 1: there's that too. But here's the idea, saying that observing 382 00:23:22,520 --> 00:23:27,840 Speaker 1: the circularly positioned uh trench surrounding Stonehenge, connecting a point 383 00:23:27,920 --> 00:23:30,439 Speaker 1: that extends hundreds of meters away from the site with 384 00:23:30,520 --> 00:23:33,720 Speaker 1: an extending pathway pointing directly upon the position the sun 385 00:23:33,760 --> 00:23:37,040 Speaker 1: would lie in during the summer solstice, uh he says 386 00:23:37,119 --> 00:23:40,679 Speaker 1: this represents a model of the Neolithic star system that 387 00:23:40,720 --> 00:23:44,399 Speaker 1: they believe consisted of nine planets, and from this early 388 00:23:44,400 --> 00:23:48,479 Speaker 1: representation of our solar system, or, in von Danikin's opinion, 389 00:23:48,840 --> 00:23:52,600 Speaker 1: uh he proposed that the stone circle served as a 390 00:23:52,760 --> 00:23:57,960 Speaker 1: landing pad for spaceships or an observatory for extraterrestrial activity 391 00:23:58,080 --> 00:24:02,879 Speaker 1: amid the skies. Yeah, I love it, I know, man, 392 00:24:03,000 --> 00:24:07,920 Speaker 1: love it, I know. But where where is the other proof? 393 00:24:07,960 --> 00:24:13,080 Speaker 1: You know what, what would we have found if that 394 00:24:13,200 --> 00:24:17,280 Speaker 1: was really happening. It's a really fun idea. I appreciate 395 00:24:17,359 --> 00:24:21,160 Speaker 1: it on so many levels, but unfortunately I can't put 396 00:24:21,160 --> 00:24:25,639 Speaker 1: any weight behind that. Yeah, well, I wonder if you know. 397 00:24:25,960 --> 00:24:29,320 Speaker 1: Von Dnikin gets a heck of a hard time because 398 00:24:29,480 --> 00:24:34,200 Speaker 1: he is often accused of just ignoring what doesn't fit 399 00:24:34,720 --> 00:24:37,399 Speaker 1: his ancient alien theory, you know, and he's also been 400 00:24:37,440 --> 00:24:42,119 Speaker 1: called racist because the implied the implied thing about ancient 401 00:24:42,160 --> 00:24:46,439 Speaker 1: aliens is that ancient people were not capable of the 402 00:24:46,520 --> 00:24:51,000 Speaker 1: same ingenuity as modern people. Still fascinating though, it's so 403 00:24:51,119 --> 00:24:53,440 Speaker 1: much fun to think about. Oh and here's a deep 404 00:24:53,440 --> 00:24:57,080 Speaker 1: cut to one of our earliest earliest videos. Uh, the 405 00:24:57,200 --> 00:25:00,760 Speaker 1: idea of lay lines that stoneheng just sort of a 406 00:25:00,800 --> 00:25:07,240 Speaker 1: node for these electro magnetic or geomantic lines of energy 407 00:25:07,320 --> 00:25:10,439 Speaker 1: that crisscross the globe sort of like uh, sort of 408 00:25:10,440 --> 00:25:18,080 Speaker 1: like veins and flesh. It's like the Earth's spiritual energy. Um. Again, man, 409 00:25:18,160 --> 00:25:21,479 Speaker 1: I hate to I don't want to influence anybody either way. 410 00:25:21,520 --> 00:25:24,040 Speaker 1: If you want to believe in late lines, that's fine. Uh, 411 00:25:24,160 --> 00:25:26,960 Speaker 1: there's not a lot of evidence, and it seems to 412 00:25:27,000 --> 00:25:30,920 Speaker 1: be a whole lot of coincidence. But you know, maybe, well, 413 00:25:30,960 --> 00:25:33,080 Speaker 1: we do know that we do know that there have 414 00:25:33,359 --> 00:25:36,560 Speaker 1: been various sites around the world that have been built 415 00:25:36,600 --> 00:25:39,119 Speaker 1: to line up with a solstice in that part of 416 00:25:39,160 --> 00:25:42,040 Speaker 1: the world. And we do know that Earth has a 417 00:25:42,080 --> 00:25:46,240 Speaker 1: magnetic field, and in certain areas of that magnetic field 418 00:25:46,320 --> 00:25:50,600 Speaker 1: functioned differently than other right, Um, But I don't know 419 00:25:50,640 --> 00:25:53,240 Speaker 1: if that necessarily proves the idea of ley line. It 420 00:25:53,359 --> 00:25:55,600 Speaker 1: just seems that when I go online I look at 421 00:25:55,640 --> 00:25:58,960 Speaker 1: maps of ley lines at every single one is different, 422 00:25:59,040 --> 00:26:01,400 Speaker 1: and every single one and kind of just decides where 423 00:26:01,440 --> 00:26:04,719 Speaker 1: they want them to be. I don't know just what 424 00:26:04,760 --> 00:26:07,760 Speaker 1: I've seen. Well, I'd like to hear from some listeners 425 00:26:07,760 --> 00:26:09,600 Speaker 1: to just what I want to. I'd like to hear 426 00:26:09,600 --> 00:26:11,719 Speaker 1: from an expert that could sit sit me down and 427 00:26:11,800 --> 00:26:16,240 Speaker 1: explain to me exactly what it is, because from what 428 00:26:16,359 --> 00:26:21,280 Speaker 1: I found online, maybe I just don't get it. I'm 429 00:26:21,320 --> 00:26:24,600 Speaker 1: now I'm picturing this conversation you'll be having with an expert, 430 00:26:24,800 --> 00:26:27,920 Speaker 1: sort of like a Law and Order episode. Law and Order, 431 00:26:28,320 --> 00:26:32,919 Speaker 1: coolon lay lines, don't do don't tell me, give it 432 00:26:32,920 --> 00:26:34,439 Speaker 1: to me. I don't give it to me straight, I 433 00:26:34,440 --> 00:26:37,439 Speaker 1: don't know. Oh wait, yes, but before we go on, 434 00:26:37,640 --> 00:26:50,440 Speaker 1: it's time for a word from our sponsor. Alright, so 435 00:26:50,720 --> 00:26:55,320 Speaker 1: here's one of my favorite theories about Stonehenge, Matt, the 436 00:26:55,400 --> 00:26:57,760 Speaker 1: idea that Stonehenge is a hoax. It was built in 437 00:26:57,880 --> 00:27:01,760 Speaker 1: nine uh, and there's a there's a great website where 438 00:27:01,760 --> 00:27:06,440 Speaker 1: you can see these purported pictures of people building Stonehenge. 439 00:27:06,480 --> 00:27:10,679 Speaker 1: All right, well, I guess we're done here. Yep. Uh, 440 00:27:10,840 --> 00:27:13,360 Speaker 1: you guys have a great rest of your day. Find 441 00:27:13,440 --> 00:27:15,720 Speaker 1: us on Twitter. Oh no, all right, well okay, so 442 00:27:15,760 --> 00:27:17,960 Speaker 1: how does somebody get to stone Nge. That's one of 443 00:27:17,960 --> 00:27:20,040 Speaker 1: the most exciting things to me is you can actually 444 00:27:20,040 --> 00:27:22,919 Speaker 1: go there. Oh yeah, and I think you have to 445 00:27:22,960 --> 00:27:26,359 Speaker 1: make special arrangements if you want to go up and 446 00:27:26,400 --> 00:27:29,520 Speaker 1: walk around Stonehenge, go and just drive by. Yeah, but 447 00:27:29,640 --> 00:27:32,399 Speaker 1: you can. You can go and visit. There's this really 448 00:27:32,440 --> 00:27:35,960 Speaker 1: great new uh I don't know exactly. It looks like 449 00:27:35,960 --> 00:27:39,119 Speaker 1: a big tent structure, but it's the main visitor center 450 00:27:39,160 --> 00:27:42,679 Speaker 1: for the Stonehenge. There are all kinds of things that 451 00:27:42,720 --> 00:27:45,520 Speaker 1: you can go look at their objects from the past 452 00:27:45,600 --> 00:27:49,880 Speaker 1: from Stonehenge Um. Sometimes they give to have speakers there, 453 00:27:50,560 --> 00:27:53,840 Speaker 1: lecture series on the history of the area. You can 454 00:27:53,920 --> 00:27:55,639 Speaker 1: if you'd like to go to Stone Innge, you can 455 00:27:55,720 --> 00:28:00,200 Speaker 1: visit ww dot English Dash, Heritage dot org dot you ay, 456 00:28:00,640 --> 00:28:03,560 Speaker 1: and you'll see where you can book the tickets. I 457 00:28:03,600 --> 00:28:06,320 Speaker 1: think for adults it's somewhere it's a little less than 458 00:28:06,359 --> 00:28:10,159 Speaker 1: fourteen pounds uh to visit. Of course, kids get a 459 00:28:10,200 --> 00:28:13,080 Speaker 1: different rate, and certain groups are allowed to practice spiritual 460 00:28:13,160 --> 00:28:16,720 Speaker 1: rights there. Um like yeah, you're not allowed up to 461 00:28:16,720 --> 00:28:20,160 Speaker 1: the stone, just walk up anymore, somebody ruined it. Somebody 462 00:28:20,200 --> 00:28:23,160 Speaker 1: probably went and you know what happened, knowing human beings, Matt, 463 00:28:23,240 --> 00:28:28,600 Speaker 1: here's what happened. Someone committed a crime there. Possibly someone 464 00:28:29,000 --> 00:28:33,240 Speaker 1: urinated on a stone, definitely, because that's how people are. Um. 465 00:28:33,359 --> 00:28:37,040 Speaker 1: And maybe maybe somebody said, oh, how romantic, let's uh, 466 00:28:37,400 --> 00:28:40,160 Speaker 1: let's go have an intimate. Yeah, let's have an intimate 467 00:28:40,240 --> 00:28:44,520 Speaker 1: encounter in Stonehenge. And so now because of people doing 468 00:28:44,520 --> 00:28:49,000 Speaker 1: those things, they ruin the fund for everybody. But we 469 00:28:49,040 --> 00:28:51,680 Speaker 1: should point out, Matt, you and I have never been 470 00:28:51,760 --> 00:28:56,240 Speaker 1: to Stonehenge. Right, it is a goal in my life. Now. No, 471 00:28:56,720 --> 00:29:00,480 Speaker 1: you have not been to Stonehenge either, right, Nope. So 472 00:29:00,560 --> 00:29:03,440 Speaker 1: even our superproducer Noel has not been there yet. But 473 00:29:03,520 --> 00:29:05,840 Speaker 1: Noel has been somewhere else. Ah, yes, And so have 474 00:29:05,920 --> 00:29:09,320 Speaker 1: we met? Well? I have not. You have? Oh I 475 00:29:09,360 --> 00:29:15,840 Speaker 1: thought you would? Went Who was that guy? Then, ladies 476 00:29:15,880 --> 00:29:20,800 Speaker 1: and gentlemen, we are talking about the United states own Stonehenge, 477 00:29:20,880 --> 00:29:25,040 Speaker 1: the Stonehenge of the Southeast sometimes Georgia's own Stonehenge, the 478 00:29:25,120 --> 00:29:30,760 Speaker 1: Georgia Guidestones erected in Elberton County, Georgia, which touts itself 479 00:29:30,800 --> 00:29:35,640 Speaker 1: as the granite capital of the world under very mysterious circumstances. Oh. Yes, 480 00:29:35,680 --> 00:29:38,760 Speaker 1: it was commissioned by a fellow named R. C. Christian, 481 00:29:39,320 --> 00:29:43,440 Speaker 1: which is we're assuming a pseudonym. Definitely. The monument is 482 00:29:43,480 --> 00:29:47,120 Speaker 1: built to convey astrological information and it contains multi lingual 483 00:29:47,200 --> 00:29:51,800 Speaker 1: directives for a new world paradigm. Seriously, that's what that's 484 00:29:51,840 --> 00:29:55,160 Speaker 1: what it is, instructions for the new world. Like if 485 00:29:55,200 --> 00:30:01,360 Speaker 1: we if you look at these commandments, which are in Russian, English, Spanish, 486 00:30:01,480 --> 00:30:06,400 Speaker 1: I think, Mandarin's, Swahili, couple other things. Um, then you'll 487 00:30:06,520 --> 00:30:10,360 Speaker 1: you'll read the same few directives over and over and Matt, 488 00:30:10,440 --> 00:30:13,880 Speaker 1: you and I'll quickly read these off. Now. One, maintain 489 00:30:14,000 --> 00:30:18,640 Speaker 1: humanity under five hundred million in perpetual balance with nature, 490 00:30:19,680 --> 00:30:25,640 Speaker 1: guide reproduction wisely, improving fitness and diversity. Unites humanity with 491 00:30:25,760 --> 00:30:29,760 Speaker 1: a new living language. I wonder which language they're talking 492 00:30:29,760 --> 00:30:34,880 Speaker 1: about there. Hopefully you're on rule, passion, faith, tradition, and 493 00:30:34,960 --> 00:30:39,040 Speaker 1: all things with tempered reason. Protect people and nations with 494 00:30:39,200 --> 00:30:43,640 Speaker 1: fair laws and just courts. Let all nations rule internally, 495 00:30:43,720 --> 00:30:48,200 Speaker 1: resolving external disputes in a world court. Avoid petty laws 496 00:30:48,240 --> 00:30:55,960 Speaker 1: and useless officials. Balance personal rights with social duties, prize truth, beauty, 497 00:30:56,200 --> 00:31:01,120 Speaker 1: love seeking, harmony, with the infinite being a cancer on 498 00:31:01,160 --> 00:31:05,160 Speaker 1: the earth. Leave room for nature, Leave room for nature. 499 00:31:06,280 --> 00:31:08,560 Speaker 1: The last guy kind of stuck out. He was the 500 00:31:08,760 --> 00:31:11,880 Speaker 1: John Hancock of that crew. But yes, this is a 501 00:31:11,920 --> 00:31:15,720 Speaker 1: real place built by a group of people who referred 502 00:31:15,760 --> 00:31:20,600 Speaker 1: to remain anonymous in um Alberton, Georgia, which is not 503 00:31:20,600 --> 00:31:24,720 Speaker 1: not exactly a hub of New Age thinking, is a 504 00:31:24,840 --> 00:31:29,880 Speaker 1: hub though for granite, which is why they built this, 505 00:31:30,360 --> 00:31:32,800 Speaker 1: this huge thing out of grantite. And they've got a 506 00:31:32,840 --> 00:31:36,200 Speaker 1: time capsule under there with no date on when it 507 00:31:36,240 --> 00:31:41,200 Speaker 1: should be opened. Overall, this thing uh is is huge. 508 00:31:41,280 --> 00:31:44,160 Speaker 1: The four major stones are sixt ft four inches high. 509 00:31:44,480 --> 00:31:47,560 Speaker 1: They each way about a little bit less than forty 510 00:31:47,600 --> 00:31:52,600 Speaker 1: two thousand, five hundred pounds, And we have spent a 511 00:31:52,640 --> 00:31:55,640 Speaker 1: lot of time talking about this. The reason we mentioned 512 00:31:55,640 --> 00:31:59,840 Speaker 1: Noel going there is because Noel actually did a document 513 00:32:00,320 --> 00:32:03,240 Speaker 1: on the Georgia guidestones, which is fantastic. Is there any 514 00:32:03,240 --> 00:32:10,560 Speaker 1: way for us to find that? Will you give us 515 00:32:11,360 --> 00:32:14,560 Speaker 1: before you go? Will you go on here and say 516 00:32:14,560 --> 00:32:16,960 Speaker 1: how you can find it? I don't even have it 517 00:32:18,480 --> 00:32:23,960 Speaker 1: um sitting on it, so I think to let it 518 00:32:24,000 --> 00:32:28,080 Speaker 1: out perfect. Well, you gotta let our people know and 519 00:32:28,120 --> 00:32:32,800 Speaker 1: me too, please, yes, and listeners. We get quite a 520 00:32:32,800 --> 00:32:36,400 Speaker 1: bit of email about the Georgia Guidestones. You know, every 521 00:32:36,400 --> 00:32:41,040 Speaker 1: every few maybe every two weeks, somebody sends us something 522 00:32:41,080 --> 00:32:44,880 Speaker 1: about the Georgia Guidestones and we're planning to do something 523 00:32:44,920 --> 00:32:47,920 Speaker 1: special there. But we want to go on site and 524 00:32:48,120 --> 00:32:51,160 Speaker 1: we would like to, uh, we would like to really 525 00:32:51,200 --> 00:32:54,200 Speaker 1: make a good show or series with this one. So 526 00:32:54,480 --> 00:32:56,720 Speaker 1: let us know if you think it's worth it for 527 00:32:56,840 --> 00:33:00,760 Speaker 1: us to go up there and do way on the 528 00:33:00,800 --> 00:33:03,840 Speaker 1: spot show about the Georgia Guidestones. Yeah. I want to 529 00:33:03,880 --> 00:33:06,880 Speaker 1: analyze it, just I want to talk to as many 530 00:33:06,920 --> 00:33:10,880 Speaker 1: people as possible. And now I mean Knowle's already got 531 00:33:10,920 --> 00:33:16,680 Speaker 1: this thing. We can use that as historical context. I'm excited. Yes, 532 00:33:16,800 --> 00:33:20,720 Speaker 1: so check this out because there's so much more about this, 533 00:33:21,240 --> 00:33:23,720 Speaker 1: about this monument that we we haven't got to. Maybe 534 00:33:23,760 --> 00:33:27,440 Speaker 1: we could do a podcast just on the Georgia Guidestones too. Um, 535 00:33:27,480 --> 00:33:29,520 Speaker 1: there's one last thing we should do before we get 536 00:33:29,520 --> 00:33:33,080 Speaker 1: out of here, Matt. We're going to do a ritual. 537 00:33:34,360 --> 00:33:38,240 Speaker 1: Oh man, Okay, so yeah, you're probably wondering where I'm 538 00:33:38,240 --> 00:33:41,120 Speaker 1: wearing this robe. I mean I was gonna ask. I 539 00:33:41,160 --> 00:33:43,239 Speaker 1: didn't want to offend you or anything. I am just 540 00:33:43,400 --> 00:33:46,160 Speaker 1: I am covered in pig blood under this robe. Man. 541 00:33:46,280 --> 00:33:49,520 Speaker 1: It's uh yeah, I could smell. Yeah. Well, things have 542 00:33:49,560 --> 00:33:52,840 Speaker 1: got kind of crazy, but we are doing something that 543 00:33:52,880 --> 00:33:56,120 Speaker 1: may becoming ritual met. Today we are announcing the winner 544 00:33:56,240 --> 00:33:59,960 Speaker 1: of our Facebook caption contest. Oh we have a winner already. 545 00:33:59,840 --> 00:34:03,120 Speaker 1: That's right, everybody. If you hang out with Matt and 546 00:34:03,280 --> 00:34:07,440 Speaker 1: Nolan I on Facebook or Twitter at conspiracy Stuff, then 547 00:34:07,920 --> 00:34:11,880 Speaker 1: you will have already heard about our caption contest that 548 00:34:11,920 --> 00:34:15,879 Speaker 1: we just sort of decided to do for yeah, fun times. 549 00:34:15,880 --> 00:34:17,560 Speaker 1: See if it's see if it was worthwhile. And we 550 00:34:17,640 --> 00:34:21,520 Speaker 1: got so many responses. We uh, we went through them all. 551 00:34:21,920 --> 00:34:23,640 Speaker 1: You know, a lot of close calls. There are some 552 00:34:23,719 --> 00:34:28,240 Speaker 1: great ones. There are some moments of bit creepiness, maybe 553 00:34:28,400 --> 00:34:33,240 Speaker 1: a little awkward or unnecessary. I saw. I really enjoyed 554 00:34:33,520 --> 00:34:35,160 Speaker 1: some of these. One of my favorites was one that 555 00:34:35,160 --> 00:34:38,520 Speaker 1: in all the caps just said soon, yeah, that's pretty great. 556 00:34:39,080 --> 00:34:41,080 Speaker 1: But we did find a winner. We do. We have 557 00:34:41,160 --> 00:34:44,960 Speaker 1: a winner, and I think it's just I mean, he 558 00:34:45,000 --> 00:34:47,880 Speaker 1: wins for me because I like the reference and I 559 00:34:47,920 --> 00:34:51,240 Speaker 1: didn't realize when we were shooting that picture how similar 560 00:34:51,280 --> 00:34:54,600 Speaker 1: it was to this. So I'm just gonna say it, 561 00:34:54,640 --> 00:34:58,880 Speaker 1: Ben Adam Reid, you win, buddy. And what did Adams say? 562 00:34:59,200 --> 00:35:02,600 Speaker 1: Adam said, you can turn back now or watch us 563 00:35:02,640 --> 00:35:07,279 Speaker 1: recreate that car park scene from Highlander. So congratulations to you, 564 00:35:07,680 --> 00:35:11,360 Speaker 1: Mr Adam Read, and thank you for playing the game. 565 00:35:11,920 --> 00:35:15,680 Speaker 1: We thoroughly enjoyed your caption. You have the winning caption, 566 00:35:15,840 --> 00:35:19,040 Speaker 1: and uh, based on how many people liked your comment, 567 00:35:19,160 --> 00:35:22,000 Speaker 1: it seems that Matt and I are not the only 568 00:35:22,000 --> 00:35:25,360 Speaker 1: ones who agree. In fact, super producer Nol and I 569 00:35:25,400 --> 00:35:28,279 Speaker 1: were talking off air about this too, and uh, I 570 00:35:28,360 --> 00:35:30,479 Speaker 1: was asking him, you know, which one do you think 571 00:35:30,600 --> 00:35:35,080 Speaker 1: is a favorite? 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