WEBVTT - What are crystal skulls? 0:00:00.200 --> 0:00:03.760 Hey, Chuck, yo, we're in the present time, yes, which 0:00:03.800 --> 0:00:06.040 means that we need to take this opportunity to do 0:00:06.160 --> 0:00:09.840 a little bit of an intro for the episode. Everybody's 0:00:09.840 --> 0:00:15.120 about to hear because it's a yeah, this has never 0:00:15.160 --> 0:00:18.040 happened us before. But you said, hey, I thought we 0:00:18.079 --> 0:00:21.880 already recorded one on Crystal Skulls. Yeah, I think you're right, 0:00:22.239 --> 0:00:25.320 and Jerry went, oh, it's right here in my desk drawer. 0:00:25.600 --> 0:00:28.000 We forgot to publish it. Yeah, so this is a 0:00:28.080 --> 0:00:30.440 long lost episode and we decided to publish it anyway, 0:00:30.880 --> 0:00:33.279 and just with a little caveat because it might. I'm 0:00:33.280 --> 0:00:35.479 sure there's some stuff that sounds stated. It stated right 0:00:35.479 --> 0:00:38.280 off the bat. We talked about whether the world's gonna 0:00:38.320 --> 0:00:40.360 end or knowledge it doesn't as well, that's kind of 0:00:40.360 --> 0:00:42.800 the dead giveaway. There's some dating to it. But yeah, 0:00:42.840 --> 0:00:45.680 so it's a lost episode. And thanks to whoever it 0:00:45.760 --> 0:00:48.920 was on Twitter that suggested a Crystal Skulls episode, because 0:00:48.960 --> 0:00:50.760 that's what started this whole thing in the in the 0:00:50.800 --> 0:00:53.760 first place. Well you certainly gave them their due, but 0:00:53.920 --> 0:00:57.560 calling them whoever it was, thanks whoever? Alright, so cool, 0:00:57.600 --> 0:01:02.480 So here we go with Crystal Skulls Welcome to Stuff 0:01:02.480 --> 0:01:11.399 you Should Know from house stuff Works dot com. Hey, 0:01:11.440 --> 0:01:15.280 and welcome to the podcast. I'm Josh Clark. There's Charles W. Chuck, 0:01:15.560 --> 0:01:19.840 Oh my god, everything's coming to it, and Brian that 0:01:19.880 --> 0:01:22.520 makes this stuff you should know? Right? How you doing? 0:01:23.080 --> 0:01:25.160 I shouldn't even ask. My life is a little upside 0:01:25.200 --> 0:01:28.640 down right now. I'll be all right. It's not like 0:01:28.720 --> 0:01:32.280 it's my in and it's twenty twelve or anything. Well, 0:01:32.319 --> 0:01:35.560 we've already done that one. And I guess we know 0:01:35.680 --> 0:01:39.000 that the the world isn't necessarily gonna end in twenty twelve, 0:01:39.040 --> 0:01:42.920 so that kind of presupposes how we feel about this podcast. 0:01:42.959 --> 0:01:45.679 I guess right. That's actually but let me let me 0:01:45.760 --> 0:01:48.760 give some news first. And you know this because you 0:01:48.840 --> 0:01:51.480 found this and it's literally today's news. Yeah, that has 0:01:51.520 --> 0:01:54.680 done often happen. Yeah. Um, but we're talking about crystal skulls. 0:01:54.760 --> 0:01:58.360 And there was a piece on crystal skull that was 0:01:58.400 --> 0:02:03.240 found recently in a home in a Bavarian village. Um 0:02:03.280 --> 0:02:07.640 and this crystal skull, it weighs I think nine pounds. Um, 0:02:07.720 --> 0:02:10.320 it's life size. No, it was nearly twenty pounds. It's 0:02:10.400 --> 0:02:14.440 life size, maybe a little bigger. Uh. It matches the 0:02:14.520 --> 0:02:19.800 death's head insignia worn by Nazi SS officers UM, which 0:02:19.880 --> 0:02:23.680 is appropriate because this crystal skull apparently belonged to Heinrich Himmler, 0:02:23.919 --> 0:02:26.280 that's right, who was the chief of the s S. Yeah, 0:02:26.280 --> 0:02:28.400 and I wrote an article we should podcast on that 0:02:28.520 --> 0:02:31.840 sometime about the Nazis interest in archaeology. They were like 0:02:31.880 --> 0:02:33.960 all the Indiana Jones stuff was right on the money. 0:02:34.160 --> 0:02:38.600 They had all sorts of programs, archaeology programs basically to 0:02:38.680 --> 0:02:43.359 try and prove through historical research that the Aryan race 0:02:43.520 --> 0:02:46.400 was superior. Right, Yes, that was behind it all. And 0:02:46.480 --> 0:02:50.919 supposedly the UM the Nazi Party arose from some sort 0:02:50.960 --> 0:02:53.840 of kind of like UM good time sex cult that 0:02:53.919 --> 0:02:56.560 like all of the people who were eventually like the 0:02:56.600 --> 0:03:00.600 head of the Nazi Party were members of Hitler comes 0:03:00.600 --> 0:03:02.480 along as like, you guys are freaks, but I'm going 0:03:02.520 --> 0:03:05.480 to use this to my advantage and bada boomboada being 0:03:05.560 --> 0:03:10.680 under fere and everything starts to go horribly horribly awry. 0:03:10.720 --> 0:03:15.200 But back to UM Today's news, a crystal skull was found, 0:03:15.240 --> 0:03:18.480 which is a very unusual thing, and it was found 0:03:18.680 --> 0:03:22.880 hidden on a rafter in the attic of this house. 0:03:22.880 --> 0:03:27.160 In Bavaria. Um that belonged to a woman who had 0:03:27.160 --> 0:03:30.600 been married to a high ranking SS officer, and it's 0:03:30.639 --> 0:03:33.839 now in the possession of Swiss journalist Luke Bergen. Yeah, 0:03:33.840 --> 0:03:36.880 he makes quite a claim. He claims that quote, I 0:03:36.920 --> 0:03:39.440 am sure that this is one of the skulls of 0:03:39.480 --> 0:03:42.240 the Mayans, but we need clarity and all available tests 0:03:42.240 --> 0:03:46.080 will be carried out to ascertain authenticity. So what what 0:03:46.360 --> 0:03:49.680 Luke um Bergen has just said is that he's about 0:03:49.720 --> 0:03:52.240 to be very very disappointed. It's spoken like a man 0:03:52.320 --> 0:03:55.160 who just got his first crystal skull. Yeah, exactly, and 0:03:55.200 --> 0:03:58.720 it's done zero research on it. Basically, Um, the the 0:03:58.760 --> 0:04:04.880 prevailing chuck, we should hold on. Let's bring spring sarcasm down. Uh. 0:04:05.200 --> 0:04:10.040 The the the legend behind the crystal skulls, and anybody 0:04:10.040 --> 0:04:13.280 who has not seen crystal skulls type them into your 0:04:13.320 --> 0:04:16.920 favorite search engine and um find an image and you'll 0:04:16.960 --> 0:04:20.520 be like, oh, yeah, crystal skull, crystal skull. Um. The 0:04:20.520 --> 0:04:23.120 there's supposedly thirteen of them that were crafted by the 0:04:23.160 --> 0:04:28.880 Mayans um and they were scattered throughout the globe and 0:04:29.080 --> 0:04:32.360 um nine of them were colored to represent the races 0:04:32.400 --> 0:04:35.279 of man, and then four of them were clear to 0:04:35.400 --> 0:04:42.839 represent the animals that crawl, walk, slither, slides, and fly, 0:04:43.760 --> 0:04:47.640 um and you. Basically, the world's supposed to end on 0:04:47.720 --> 0:04:54.400 December twenty one at eleven eleven am. And if the 0:04:54.400 --> 0:04:58.440 these thirteen skulls aren't reunited, discovered and reunited in a 0:04:58.560 --> 0:05:01.919 specific alignment I would imagine probably at some sort of 0:05:01.920 --> 0:05:04.680 Mayan temple um, then the world will end. If we 0:05:04.720 --> 0:05:08.440 can get them aligned in this proper alignment by this time, 0:05:08.839 --> 0:05:11.919 we can prevent the world from ending. The problem is, though, Josh, 0:05:11.920 --> 0:05:14.680 there's a lot more than thirteen of these things floating 0:05:14.680 --> 0:05:18.719 around the world. Yes, and so there's some doubts as 0:05:18.760 --> 0:05:23.680 to their legitimacy and if it depending on what this 0:05:23.760 --> 0:05:26.480 skull looks like. I don't know if the The Daily 0:05:26.560 --> 0:05:29.120 Mirror was the news source that you got this from. 0:05:29.240 --> 0:05:34.800 It they're not exactly They're tabloid. There are tabloids tabloid actually, well, 0:05:34.839 --> 0:05:36.960 I believe that this skull was found, I'm sure, But 0:05:37.040 --> 0:05:39.240 the picture that they've used, I don't know if that's 0:05:39.279 --> 0:05:42.880 the skull that was supposedly found or whatever. But um, 0:05:42.920 --> 0:05:46.880 there are some telltale signs that a skull might be 0:05:46.920 --> 0:05:50.760 a fake, that it could be real. Let's start digging in, Chuck, 0:05:51.320 --> 0:05:54.800 Let's dig into crystal skulls. Uh. Well, they can vary 0:05:54.880 --> 0:05:57.360 in size and appearance. Some of them are sort of 0:05:57.440 --> 0:05:59.919 crudely shaped. Some of them are really detailed. Some of 0:06:00.000 --> 0:06:02.599 them are beautiful and clear. Some of them are hazy 0:06:02.640 --> 0:06:05.359 and colored. Some of them have detached jaws, some of 0:06:05.360 --> 0:06:07.240 them do not. Some of them have I sockets, some 0:06:07.320 --> 0:06:10.280 of them don't write. That's just a brief off for you. 0:06:10.480 --> 0:06:14.320 That's there's crystal skulls of the appearance, and some people 0:06:14.360 --> 0:06:17.560 believe that they are, you know, from the ancient Mayans, 0:06:17.680 --> 0:06:23.640 descendants of the h what's the underwater Atlantis? Atlantis? Is 0:06:23.640 --> 0:06:25.920 that where the minds came from? Some people say that, 0:06:26.839 --> 0:06:29.400 some say they're a direct ascens of of Atlantis, But 0:06:29.560 --> 0:06:32.159 I don't know. So this, this whole idea that the 0:06:32.160 --> 0:06:37.000 the Mayans creating crystal skulls, or that these crystal skulls 0:06:37.000 --> 0:06:41.160 are of Mayan descent, are based somewhat on fact the 0:06:41.320 --> 0:06:45.640 Miyands did. Um they do reference crystal skulls in their 0:06:45.680 --> 0:06:48.719 creation myth. Yeah, So I mean like that's not like 0:06:48.760 --> 0:06:54.120 somebody's like crystal skull and Maya. There's there's there's definitely 0:06:54.279 --> 0:06:58.040 a legitimate connection between the two. But whether the crystal 0:06:58.080 --> 0:07:00.640 skulls that are in existence right now are Mayan in 0:07:00.720 --> 0:07:03.400 origin is what what's up for debate and not really 0:07:03.480 --> 0:07:06.200 up for debate, and whether or not they have they're 0:07:06.200 --> 0:07:10.320 a rumor to have healing properties. Um, the visions like 0:07:10.360 --> 0:07:12.880 a crystal ball that you can see into the future, 0:07:12.920 --> 0:07:15.560 into the past. It's like a crystal ball but cooler. 0:07:15.880 --> 0:07:17.720 What else is there they say they can do? They 0:07:17.800 --> 0:07:23.480 make sounds, yes, choir, I think it's mainly healing and visions. 0:07:24.520 --> 0:07:29.320 That's pretty good ones enlightenment of some sort. Um. The 0:07:29.480 --> 0:07:31.640 but the world of crystal skulls that when you start 0:07:31.760 --> 0:07:35.200 to kind of dig into it is what It doesn't 0:07:35.200 --> 0:07:38.120 really matter what you believe. It's a really interesting world 0:07:38.760 --> 0:07:45.520 filled by almost caricatures of people, adventurers and broadsters and bucksters. 0:07:45.720 --> 0:07:49.080 To talk about him. Yeah, so let's let's start with um, 0:07:49.120 --> 0:07:51.360 I guess the most famous crystal skull of all the 0:07:51.400 --> 0:07:54.680 Mitchell Hedges skull. This one kind of set the tone 0:07:54.840 --> 0:07:59.680 for most other Basically, the Mitchell Hedges said, this is 0:07:59.720 --> 0:08:03.880 what Crystal Skull study is going to be all about. 0:08:04.000 --> 0:08:06.120 We're going to provide all the character for it and 0:08:06.200 --> 0:08:09.840 everybody else following our footsteps. Okay, that's right. And supposedly 0:08:09.840 --> 0:08:12.200 it was discovered and we're gonna say allegedly and supposedly 0:08:12.240 --> 0:08:16.040 a lot because these stories are not verified as fat 0:08:16.600 --> 0:08:18.960 and out of reverence for a dead one year old 0:08:18.960 --> 0:08:24.120 woman who Anna, she's dead now A seven? Really yeah, 0:08:24.200 --> 0:08:27.920 that's a bummer. Uh yeah. So it was discovered allegedly 0:08:27.960 --> 0:08:30.320 in the nineteen twenties by who we just referenced, Anna 0:08:30.360 --> 0:08:33.319 Mitchell Hedges, who is the adopted daughter of F. A. 0:08:33.360 --> 0:08:38.360 Mitchell Hedges World Adventurer. Yeah and he really was too. Yeah, 0:08:38.440 --> 0:08:40.760 from the from the sounds of it, he was. Um. 0:08:40.920 --> 0:08:43.840 She says that she found the skull beneath the Mayan 0:08:43.920 --> 0:08:48.319 temple at an Altar and uh lu Batan. He pronounced 0:08:48.320 --> 0:08:50.080 that that's what I took. Have you seen the pictures 0:08:50.080 --> 0:08:54.480 of that place, like a ruined Mayan city and believes 0:08:54.520 --> 0:08:58.160 it's awesome. It's like overgrown temples and stuff like that. 0:08:58.200 --> 0:09:01.280 It's very neat, I like the mind temples. So anyway, 0:09:01.320 --> 0:09:04.280 Anna says that she found this thing near Belize on 0:09:04.320 --> 0:09:07.400 her seventeenth birthday, and she said that the Mayan's actually 0:09:07.400 --> 0:09:09.440 told her that it was a skull used to will 0:09:09.520 --> 0:09:13.599 death so a priest would be too old to continue 0:09:13.679 --> 0:09:17.160 his priesting and he would lie down and transfer his 0:09:17.320 --> 0:09:21.640 knowledge to a younger priest via the powers of the 0:09:21.640 --> 0:09:24.760 skull and then die. Right. So that's her story. That's 0:09:24.760 --> 0:09:27.760 what the skull was for. That's what she says, um, 0:09:27.840 --> 0:09:31.199 and said, sorry, that's right. So the and the Mitchell 0:09:31.280 --> 0:09:34.280 Hedges skull is like the it's a trendsetting skull in 0:09:34.280 --> 0:09:38.480 another way in that it's pretty much the pinnacle of 0:09:38.600 --> 0:09:43.640 craftsmanship of crystal skulls. It's clear courts crystal is very pretty. Um, 0:09:43.679 --> 0:09:47.640 it's life size, um. It had it's about five inches high, 0:09:47.640 --> 0:09:52.280 five inches wide, eight inches long, UM. Totally transparent, twelve 0:09:52.320 --> 0:09:56.599 pounds UM. It's got the the ridges and cheekbones and 0:09:56.720 --> 0:10:00.600 nose socket and eye sockets that are like very anatomically correct. 0:10:01.000 --> 0:10:03.360 And as far as I know, it's the only one 0:10:03.600 --> 0:10:08.520 that has a detachable jawbone, which is really anatomically correct. 0:10:08.559 --> 0:10:12.800 Like this is just an amazing work of art, you know, 0:10:13.040 --> 0:10:16.040 and that's how they should be viewed. Josh, right, did 0:10:16.080 --> 0:10:18.199 I just ruin it? Do you want to poke some 0:10:18.280 --> 0:10:23.160 holes in Anna's story? Yeah? Um, First of all, in 0:10:23.280 --> 0:10:26.480 nineteen thirty six, m a description of this skull was 0:10:26.559 --> 0:10:29.280 in a British journal called Man, but they said it 0:10:29.320 --> 0:10:32.280 was owned by a guy named Sydney. Bernie Anna says, 0:10:32.280 --> 0:10:35.920 oh no wait, my dad Um f A UM gave 0:10:35.960 --> 0:10:38.920 it to Sydney and he um auctioned it off to 0:10:39.000 --> 0:10:41.800 pay a debt in the in the forties and then 0:10:41.920 --> 0:10:45.000 we bought it from Sotheby's from him to get it 0:10:45.000 --> 0:10:46.880 back in the family, right like it came down to 0:10:46.960 --> 0:10:49.840 the wire at the Southebeast all. So basically what you 0:10:49.880 --> 0:10:52.240 can take from that story is that f A. Mitchell 0:10:52.280 --> 0:10:56.880 Hedges acquired this Mitchell Hedges skull at South Beast. That 0:10:57.000 --> 0:11:02.199 part is completely documentable and um but that they they 0:11:02.240 --> 0:11:03.720 think that that may be where he got it for 0:11:03.720 --> 0:11:07.560 the first time, probably because in that nineteen thirty six journal, 0:11:08.080 --> 0:11:13.000 Um the the author, I guess Bernie UM wrote a 0:11:13.080 --> 0:11:16.160 letter that was I'm sorry it was quoted later, but 0:11:16.160 --> 0:11:19.240 but Um Bernie, the guy who actually had that Mitchell 0:11:19.280 --> 0:11:22.320 Hedges skull before Mitchell Hedges, said that he acquired it 0:11:22.360 --> 0:11:25.199 from a collector who had it for several years, and 0:11:25.400 --> 0:11:29.080 Um that collector bought it from another collector who had 0:11:29.080 --> 0:11:31.760 it for several years. No mention of F. A. Mitchell, 0:11:31.800 --> 0:11:33.840 who was not a collector, he was an adventurer. He 0:11:33.880 --> 0:11:36.000 probably called it the Bernie Skull to Yeah, I'm sure 0:11:36.440 --> 0:11:39.840 and um so that that that was in nineteen thirty three, 0:11:40.040 --> 0:11:43.240 which by this time F. A. Mitchell had just supposedly 0:11:43.280 --> 0:11:47.120 already had it or owned it. Um and then the 0:11:47.480 --> 0:11:51.360 other well, there's several other weird parts. Uh Mitchell hedges 0:11:51.520 --> 0:11:56.800 fa we'll just call him or faugh um he he 0:11:56.840 --> 0:11:59.360 only wrote about the skull once. This is my favorite 0:11:59.360 --> 0:12:02.079 part of this article. In the name of his book taken. 0:12:02.600 --> 0:12:04.640 He wrote a book about his adventures, I guess, some 0:12:04.679 --> 0:12:08.520 sort of memoir and it was called danger My ally 0:12:08.679 --> 0:12:10.920 that's the way you say it too. And that was 0:12:10.960 --> 0:12:14.720 from nine fifty four, I think. And in that book 0:12:14.760 --> 0:12:17.040 that's the first and only mentioned he makes of the 0:12:17.040 --> 0:12:19.520 crystal skull. By this time it was in his possession, 0:12:19.559 --> 0:12:21.439 he owned it. Seems like he would have mentioned it, 0:12:21.960 --> 0:12:25.800 yeah prior to this he he um. He says chuck 0:12:25.880 --> 0:12:28.559 that it dates back at least thirty six hundred years, 0:12:29.679 --> 0:12:31.560 that it took about a hundred and fifty years to 0:12:31.760 --> 0:12:35.440 rub down with sand from a single block of courts. 0:12:35.800 --> 0:12:38.559 So he alleges it was not it was shaped from 0:12:38.679 --> 0:12:41.559 rubbing sand on it and not actually carved with tools 0:12:41.880 --> 0:12:44.520 over the period of a hundred and fifty years, which 0:12:44.559 --> 0:12:46.640 I mean that's a lot of dedicated people, a lot 0:12:46.679 --> 0:12:51.320 of sand rubbing. Yeah. Um. He never mentions that his 0:12:51.679 --> 0:12:55.120 adopted daughter find found it. He actually says that he 0:12:55.160 --> 0:12:58.880 has reason to not mention how it came in his possession. Yeah. 0:12:58.920 --> 0:13:03.199 He warns very forebodingly about several people have cynically laughed 0:13:03.200 --> 0:13:06.280 at it and died. Others have been stricken ill. So 0:13:06.760 --> 0:13:08.720 he says, how I got it, I have reasons to 0:13:08.800 --> 0:13:11.240 not tell you. This is a really easy way to 0:13:11.240 --> 0:13:15.640 get around not telling people. Um, that's what That's what 0:13:15.679 --> 0:13:18.560 we should say whenever somebody wants to know, like, what's 0:13:18.640 --> 0:13:21.320 what's your backstory? How did you guys meet? We have 0:13:21.400 --> 0:13:23.760 reasons to not tell you. We have very important reason 0:13:23.760 --> 0:13:26.880 because it's very important. Um. And then also, Chuck, there 0:13:26.880 --> 0:13:29.720 were two people so f a Mitchell head just did 0:13:29.760 --> 0:13:34.959 actually go down to lu Batan and he was there 0:13:35.000 --> 0:13:39.280 in that's documented. There's plenty of photos of the dig 0:13:39.559 --> 0:13:42.920 two friends who went with them, who later wrote about this. 0:13:42.920 --> 0:13:47.080 This experience never mentioned Anna being there certainly never mentioned 0:13:47.080 --> 0:13:50.680 the crystal skull. Yeah. Lady Richmond Brown and Dr Thomas 0:13:50.800 --> 0:13:56.440 Gan and then lastly Anna Um in different interviews, gave 0:13:56.480 --> 0:13:59.720 different dates of when she acquired the skull, never the 0:13:59.720 --> 0:14:03.320 correct one. So um, there's a lot of holes in 0:14:03.360 --> 0:14:05.880 her story. Yet up to her deaths she alleged that 0:14:05.920 --> 0:14:09.320 this was the truth. Um. And she had what I 0:14:09.440 --> 0:14:12.600 take to be an indomitable spirit, like you could tell 0:14:12.640 --> 0:14:15.280 her just about anything, but she knew what was right 0:14:15.320 --> 0:14:18.360 with the crystal skull. Yeah. And she also claimed um 0:14:18.400 --> 0:14:20.480 not verified, but claimed that it had been used for 0:14:20.560 --> 0:14:22.880 healing a number of times and she didn't get very 0:14:22.920 --> 0:14:25.880 specific with that, and that she hoped one day it 0:14:25.880 --> 0:14:28.000 would go to an institution where it could be studied 0:14:28.400 --> 0:14:31.600 and that might happen. Um. If you go on to 0:14:32.320 --> 0:14:35.920 Mitchell Hedges skull dot com or Mitchell Hedges dot com, 0:14:36.640 --> 0:14:39.760 I think there's a hyphen in there, not Benson and Hedges. Um. 0:14:40.120 --> 0:14:42.520 The The skull is now in the possession of its 0:14:42.560 --> 0:14:47.000 newest owner, Bill Hollman, who is very dashing guy, likes 0:14:47.040 --> 0:14:50.680 to wear like in Indiana Jones hat Um. He loves 0:14:50.720 --> 0:14:54.080 posing with the crystal skull. It's very cool. But his 0:14:54.200 --> 0:14:58.760 aim is to build a museum for the skull in Sedona, Arizona, 0:14:58.960 --> 0:15:01.320 so they can be study ead and and basically be 0:15:01.400 --> 0:15:03.800 available to the public all the time, which is pretty cool. 0:15:03.840 --> 0:15:06.160 Where he would sell tickets, I don't know. I'm sure 0:15:06.160 --> 0:15:08.840 he would. Who knows. There's not a free museum. Actually 0:15:08.840 --> 0:15:11.080 that's not true. It's plenty of free museums. I take 0:15:11.120 --> 0:15:14.840 that back completely, okay, but there's plenty that aren't as well. 0:15:15.120 --> 0:15:17.240 I agree with you. So that's what that's what's going 0:15:17.240 --> 0:15:19.360 on with the Mitchell Hedges skull right now. Bill Hollman 0:15:19.480 --> 0:15:22.560 has it here in the US, and there may be 0:15:22.720 --> 0:15:26.280 Ah well, I don't know if it will be reunited. 0:15:26.520 --> 0:15:29.320 Surely people who own crystal skulls are going to take 0:15:29.360 --> 0:15:35.280 them to Mexico or something in November. See what happens. Right, 0:15:36.440 --> 0:15:40.080 Um So, Mitchell Heades skull is is the most famous, 0:15:40.080 --> 0:15:42.320 but it's far from the only one, right, Yeah, there's 0:15:42.600 --> 0:15:45.800 one another famous one in the British Museum, and I 0:15:45.840 --> 0:15:49.280 believe they just called this the British Museum skull, right, Yeah, 0:15:49.360 --> 0:15:53.040 it's kind of let down. They called the Paris skull 0:15:53.120 --> 0:15:56.280 the Paris skull, and it's also life size. It's not 0:15:56.400 --> 0:16:00.520 quite as detailed as the Mitchell hedges, and the jaw 0:16:00.600 --> 0:16:03.080 does detach as you say, and it's cloudy courts. It's 0:16:03.120 --> 0:16:05.920 not completely clear. And this was purchased. We know a 0:16:05.920 --> 0:16:08.200 little bit about the real back story on this one. 0:16:08.880 --> 0:16:11.720 It was purchased by the museum from Tiffany and Company 0:16:11.760 --> 0:16:16.520 in supposedly came from Mexico. And here is where we 0:16:16.560 --> 0:16:21.400 have a guy entered the picture named Eugene Bouban. Yeah, 0:16:21.480 --> 0:16:23.840 he's kind of an important character as well. Yeah, he's 0:16:23.880 --> 0:16:26.280 a French art dealer and a lot of these skulls 0:16:26.400 --> 0:16:29.880 seemed to have passed through his ownership at one point 0:16:29.960 --> 0:16:33.440 or another, which isn't necessarily fishing in and of itself. 0:16:33.480 --> 0:16:38.600 Like a dealer can specialize in something, and Boban specialized 0:16:38.640 --> 0:16:42.440 in Mayan relics another and the pre Columbian stuff. So yeah, 0:16:42.440 --> 0:16:44.480 it's not like that makes it hinky. I'm just pointing 0:16:44.480 --> 0:16:46.760 that out. Then you got the pair of skull and 0:16:46.840 --> 0:16:50.360 it's a more crude still than the other two and 0:16:50.400 --> 0:16:51.960 has a hole cut in the top that they think 0:16:52.360 --> 0:16:54.760 it is supposed to hold across. Yes, and that is 0:16:54.760 --> 0:16:56.960 in Paris at the a You're gonna pronounce that one 0:16:56.960 --> 0:17:01.960 for me, the muse de lom okay, the Museum of 0:17:02.080 --> 0:17:05.119 the Museum of Man. Is that what it is? Do 0:17:05.160 --> 0:17:13.679 you speak French? Um, I'm piquito. I used to do that. 0:17:13.720 --> 0:17:16.080 It took German in high school and then learned just 0:17:16.160 --> 0:17:19.119 sort of rough Spanish by working in the Mexican restaurants. 0:17:19.800 --> 0:17:24.359 And I would always mixed German and Spanish up in 0:17:24.640 --> 0:17:27.360 my college days. I was mixing up a lot back 0:17:27.359 --> 0:17:34.080 then though, anyway. Uh. And then in this one's a 0:17:34.119 --> 0:17:38.119 little weird in the Smithsonian received a crystal skull in 0:17:38.160 --> 0:17:41.640 the mail anonymous Yeah, with an anonymous note that said, hey, 0:17:41.680 --> 0:17:44.240 this is Aztec. I bought it in nineteen sixty in 0:17:44.280 --> 0:17:47.640 Mexico City and do what you will with it. Brought 0:17:47.640 --> 0:17:50.080 me nothing but bad luck. Yeah, maybe please don't ever 0:17:50.119 --> 0:17:51.919 try to track me down. And that one is hollow, 0:17:51.960 --> 0:17:56.200 which is slightly unique as well. Yeah. Um, so here's 0:17:56.520 --> 0:17:58.399 there's a couple of points that you've just brought up. 0:17:58.480 --> 0:18:03.520 One Eugene boban remember um um. Secondly, this anonymous skull 0:18:04.160 --> 0:18:07.000 is thought to be as Tech or was mentioned as Aztec. 0:18:07.760 --> 0:18:13.800 The British Museum skull is possibly considered as tech possibly, 0:18:14.119 --> 0:18:18.080 so that kind of knocks the mayan Um legend out 0:18:18.200 --> 0:18:23.640 a little bit. Let's do that some more. Okay, um, Well, 0:18:23.680 --> 0:18:26.880 first let's talk about some more um crystal skulls real quick. 0:18:26.920 --> 0:18:29.879 There's there's uh again, there's a whole world of crystal 0:18:29.920 --> 0:18:33.639 skull collectors and some people have a few, some people 0:18:33.680 --> 0:18:36.360 have one, but all of them are pretty like if 0:18:36.359 --> 0:18:39.640 you have a crystal skull, like you're a well known individual. Yeah, 0:18:39.640 --> 0:18:42.919 it's not like a being a commemorative plate collector, right 0:18:44.119 --> 0:18:49.720 like Joanne Parks who owns Max the Texas Crystal skull. Um. 0:18:49.920 --> 0:18:53.520 She apparently got it in the eighties and it's supposed 0:18:53.520 --> 0:18:58.040 to be from Guatemala, which is my end. Yeah, we've 0:18:58.040 --> 0:19:03.520 been there. And Jake Jake van Deeton, who suposedly owns 0:19:03.600 --> 0:19:07.280 a few of them, joke, joke, yoke, what I call him? Jake? Yea? 0:19:07.640 --> 0:19:11.240 This is she? Okay? Now? She says that her skull 0:19:11.320 --> 0:19:14.639 et healed her brain tumor. That's right, and that's a 0:19:14.640 --> 0:19:17.280 pretty cool name for a skull. If you're a skull owner, 0:19:17.320 --> 0:19:20.280 I would say a movie fan. And then what else 0:19:20.359 --> 0:19:23.840 is there? There's Shanna Ra not shann Annah, and it's 0:19:24.000 --> 0:19:26.080 a big one. It weighs about thirteen pounds, owned by 0:19:26.200 --> 0:19:30.439 Nick no Serino, and he is a self described expert, 0:19:30.520 --> 0:19:34.000 which are a favorite kind of experts in crystal skulls, 0:19:34.320 --> 0:19:36.879 and he claims he found that one in Mexico. And 0:19:36.880 --> 0:19:41.159 then lastly there's an amethyst goal called amy am I 0:19:41.320 --> 0:19:45.280 or me if you're speaking French, um, and that is 0:19:45.560 --> 0:19:50.000 supposedly has a squiggly white line around the circumference of 0:19:50.040 --> 0:19:54.880 this skull. No idea what that means, and supposedly mine. Yeah. 0:19:55.160 --> 0:19:57.440 And then there's a bunch of smaller skulls like little 0:19:57.480 --> 0:20:00.119 ones um that are about an inch in diameter, have 0:20:00.200 --> 0:20:02.360 holes drilled through them, and they think that they were 0:20:02.480 --> 0:20:05.200 ambulance or pendants or some sort of They were worn 0:20:05.240 --> 0:20:08.280 as necklaces. They were sold at the gift shop, the 0:20:08.280 --> 0:20:10.600 crystal skull get shop back in the day. So is 0:20:10.680 --> 0:20:12.760 the deal do all these people think they have one 0:20:12.760 --> 0:20:15.080 of the thirteen? Is that? Is that pretty much what's 0:20:15.080 --> 0:20:19.480 going on here? That's the impression I have, Okay, um, 0:20:19.640 --> 0:20:22.639 especially if you if you're if you consider your crystal 0:20:22.640 --> 0:20:24.560 skull is the source of the healing of your brain 0:20:24.600 --> 0:20:31.560 tumor and chuck, there's it's there's a certain um, there's 0:20:31.560 --> 0:20:34.879 a certain rationale to the idea that a crystal skull 0:20:35.000 --> 0:20:38.359 can allow you to see visions, and there's just something 0:20:38.400 --> 0:20:41.720 more going on there besides it being just a lump 0:20:41.760 --> 0:20:45.159 of courts. And that actually is um one found in 0:20:45.200 --> 0:20:48.880 one of the properties of courts, which is piezza electricity. 0:20:49.400 --> 0:20:52.760 You want to say, it's kind of Italian pizza electric right, 0:20:52.880 --> 0:20:57.879 So that is um the property of courts in particular, 0:20:57.960 --> 0:21:02.240 but generally crystals and ceramics to be able to generate 0:21:02.280 --> 0:21:06.960 an electrical charge just from pressure from like a what's 0:21:07.000 --> 0:21:14.679 called um mechanical uh energy stress stress. So basically just 0:21:14.760 --> 0:21:19.159 rubbing a like a piece of courts crystal skull, you 0:21:19.200 --> 0:21:23.400 should be able to generate electricity. And the harder you rub, 0:21:23.440 --> 0:21:27.520 the more electricity you generate. So that no one's ever 0:21:27.560 --> 0:21:31.200 been able to say, well, then that's why you would 0:21:31.200 --> 0:21:32.760 heal your brains from or anything like that. But the 0:21:32.800 --> 0:21:37.439 fact that courts is piezzo electric is one of the 0:21:37.600 --> 0:21:40.520 things that people who believe in the healing powers of 0:21:40.520 --> 0:21:44.040 these crystal skulls point to, and crystals in general. Yeah 0:21:44.160 --> 0:21:46.280 that you know Little five Points has had that crystal 0:21:46.280 --> 0:21:49.760 shop forever, is it's still around. Yeah, I think. So 0:21:50.000 --> 0:21:51.639 people go in there and they buy their crystal and 0:21:51.760 --> 0:21:55.159 hanging around their neck, and they believe it has healing 0:21:55.200 --> 0:21:58.000 properties or energy property, or at the very least it 0:21:58.040 --> 0:22:01.960 generates a mild electrical current. Yeah. Yeah. Um. Then there's 0:22:01.960 --> 0:22:06.679 also slightly wilder claims that UM that these these the 0:22:06.840 --> 0:22:11.359 Piazzo electricity isn't necessarily for healing. It's to um facilitate 0:22:11.480 --> 0:22:14.840 time travel or UM it serves as some sort of 0:22:15.119 --> 0:22:19.480 communication device between UM, the aliens who brought it here 0:22:20.240 --> 0:22:24.280 or Atlantis. We just haven't figured out how to tap 0:22:24.320 --> 0:22:26.199 it or unlock it yet. Yeah. What is it they 0:22:26.240 --> 0:22:30.600 compare it to is like a a computer chip potentially 0:22:30.600 --> 0:22:34.960 that has all this uh ancient wisdom and facts and 0:22:35.040 --> 0:22:37.600 knowledge just waiting, just waiting. We just don't know how 0:22:37.640 --> 0:22:41.320 to access. It's like the lunar doomsday are but in 0:22:41.359 --> 0:22:45.920 crystal skull form exactly. So speaking of Mitchell Hedges, which 0:22:45.920 --> 0:22:49.480 we weren't uh speaking of, but I'm bringing up in anyway, 0:22:50.080 --> 0:22:54.000 she UM has loaned it out for study a couple 0:22:54.000 --> 0:22:57.160 of times. Yeah. Some some people who own skulls are 0:22:57.200 --> 0:23:00.199 cool with them them being studied, But more frequent the 0:23:00.200 --> 0:23:03.560 ones that are in possession of a biomuseum. Those are 0:23:03.560 --> 0:23:05.919 the ones that have been studied. The most uh in 0:23:06.560 --> 0:23:09.800 vent and art restore named Frank Dorland studied the Mitchell 0:23:09.800 --> 0:23:12.800 head of skull for six years and he said he 0:23:12.800 --> 0:23:16.680 heard ringing bells, the sound of choir singing, he saw 0:23:16.720 --> 0:23:19.080 auras around the skull, and he could see images when 0:23:19.119 --> 0:23:21.320 gazing into it. Yeah, and this is an art restore. 0:23:21.359 --> 0:23:25.240 He's not necessarily like a crystal skull devote, right. But 0:23:25.280 --> 0:23:27.240 he also claimed, on the other hand, that it showed 0:23:27.240 --> 0:23:31.600 signs of mechanical grinding and holes drilled that we're obviously 0:23:31.720 --> 0:23:34.800 using modern techniques of metal drill. So he sort of 0:23:36.760 --> 0:23:38.520