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This episode of the Y Files is brought. to you by the basement. >> Let's make the most of this beautiful. day. Since we're together, we might as. well say, "Would you be mine? Could you. be mine? Won't you be my neighbor? Won't. you please? Won't you please? Please, won't you be my neighbor?". >> Hey, television neighbor. Ah, it's me. Oh, wait. I think we got to.

do this otherwise people get upset. Hey, it's me and this is the basement. >> Good morning. We're getting some unusual. reports this morning. Apparently, there's a new podcast coming out. It's. called The Basement. [music]. >> The Basement. >> The Basement. >> 30 years of broadcast journalism. I have. never, and I want to be very clear about. this, [music] I have never reported on. something we know absolutely nothing. about. >> Hold on. You're telling me the guy. behind the Y files is launching.

something called the basement? >> We've reached out to every major. platform, [music] Spotify, Apple, YouTube, none of them have any record of. The Basement. It's as if it doesn't. exist. >> The channel that covers government. conspiracies, UFOs, secret programs, ancient mysteries, and nobody knows what it is. >> The Y Files doesn't miss ever. So, whatever this is, >> it's going to be [music] huge. >> But why the basement? What's he hiding. down there? This is either the greatest. marketing campaign ever or we are not. ready for what's coming.

>> Federal investigators are now involved. We don't know why. [music]. >> We're now hearing reports from multiple. intelligence agencies. >> If what we're hearing is accurate, the. American people are not prepared [music]. for what's coming out of that basement. >> The basement has been detected in 12. countries. The Y files guy is doing. something new. Something called the. basement and like nobody knows what it. is. >> But here's what's weird. He's not. promoting it. >> A basement is where you hide things, where you keep secrets. I don't think.

that name is an accident. I [music]. think he's about to go deeper than he's. ever gone before. >> The basement isn't just a podcast. It's a transmission. If you've been following the W files for. a while, you know that a lot of research. goes into the episodes. So, the purpose. of the basement is to bring all those. interesting people behind the research. Uh, bring them in here, have. discussions, and help us dive a little. deeper into the topics that I can't.

cover in 30 or 40-minute episodes. Now, if you like the Y files, you'll probably. enjoy the basement. But there's one big. difference. I'm known for ending each. episode of the Y files with debugging. and analysis. >> Yeah, I hate that part. >> Well, on the basement, we'll just do the. analysis. No debunking. >> Yeah, see. >> Ultra was real. Co-intel Pro was real. In the basement, AJ connects documented. programs to ongoing patterns. [music]. That's valuable work. UAP phenomena, cryptozoolology,

ancient anomalies. >> Now, of course, if someone makes a wild. claim, I'll want to know how they. arrived at that conclusion. But no. aggressive conversations, no debating, no gotcha questions. Really, I just want. to hear them tell the story. >> Anyone can tell you what happened at. Roswell or Skinwalker [music] Ranch, >> but the basement gives you the people. who were there, the investigators who. spent years on these cases, the. witnesses who've never spoken publicly, the researchers who lost careers over. [music] this. The basement takes these. experiences seriously. That matters. And.

just like on the Y files, it's up to you. whether you want to believe it or not. >> This isn't folklore. It's data. The. basement treats it that way. Mainstream. academia won't touch alternative. theories. [music] AJ does. And the. basement gives researchers space to. explain why these artifacts matter. When are we doing this? >> Well, we start shooting next week and. episodes will roll out a few weeks after. that. >> That soon? Uh, okay. I'm going to need. to move up my Botox appointment. >> Uh, you're probably not going to be in. too many of these.

>> What? >> Just Just relax. You still have the main. show to do whatever it is you do. What I. do is make you successful, human. >> Do you though? >> Oh, when this new thing bombs, watch how. fast you bring me back. >> We can discuss. >> Actually, you and my lawyers can. discuss. >> Now, don't worry. Nothing is changing. We'll still be doing the Y files like. always. The basement is something new. and it's coming soon. I'm very excited. and very nervous. I hope you check it. out. >> Long- form dialogue, unscripted,

with people who actually know things. This could change the medium. >> Hey, thanks for checking out another. compilation, Tim. >> Oh, no. >> Excuse me, human. >> I'm not going to. >> Excuse me, human. >> What is it? I'm trying to set up the. compilation. >> You promised I could do this one. >> Yeah, but I already said.

>> You promised. >> Fine. Go ahead. >> Thank you. [clears throat]. Roll it.

>> [music]. >> Hecklefish doesn't respond to the CIA. [laughter]. >> [music]. >> Ah, hello human. It's me, Morgan. I am a. beaver. [clears throat]. Today we're showing a compilation of. videos as chosen by the Y files team. Come on, follow me. [music].

Hey Gertie, how they humping? [music]. Hey, boys, hold the work. We have. guests. Hey, what are you doing? Who said you. could take a break? Whoa, whoa, whoa. You're not my single mold. Hey, get back. here, you filthy rodent. [music].

Check it out. This is where the human. and hecklefish do the show. Pretty cool, huh? >> [music]. >> That's better. Hang on a sec. Can I get. a coffee, please? So hard to find good. help, isn't it? [clears throat] Okay, where were we? Hang on. There's something wrong with. the prompter. What does that mean? Play.

us out. Play us out? I don't know what. that means. Play us out. Forget it. We'll do it live. I'll write it myself. and we'll do it live. The whole thing. stinks. [clears throat]. >> Here we go. The first episode was picked. by Jen. You know, Jen, aka Mrs. Wiles, aka the Queen Bee. And B doesn't stand. for brunette, if you catch my drift. So, the queen bee chose the dark side of.

DARPA. Oh, come on, man. You trying to. get us demonetized? Fine. We'll play it. Roll it. In the early days of the space race, the. Soviet Union racked up a lot of firsts. Sputnik, the first satellite. Leica, the. dog, the first animal in space. Yuri.

Gagarin, the first man in space. Valentina Terishova, the first woman. ZH. 5, the first spacecraft to the moon. Meanwhile, America's space program. lagged, plagued by setback after. setback. There were some successes, but. not enough to keep pace with the. Soviets. America was still planning its. first satellite while Sputnik circled. the Earth. Then Sputnik 2 went up. American citizens were terrified. What. if the Russians put weapons in space? Maybe they already have. Paranoia was.

starting to become hysteria. President. Eisenhower was under pressure to act and. to act fast. The United States. government knew what it had to do. Create an organization to develop the. most technologically advanced military. systems in the world. And just 3 months. after Sputnik 2 was launched, the. Advanced Research Project Agency or ARPA. was born. Later, ARPA became DARPA. The. D stands for defense. Because DARPA. would be both a sword and a shield,

creating offensive weapons and defensive. systems. No project was too [music]. expensive, and no program was too. immoral. DARPA's secret research would. cost many lives. But sacrifices had to. be made for the sake of security. But. after all these years, it's time to ask, who are they really protecting? [music]. Here's.

the scene. You're driving. It's late and. the road ahead is dark. You make a turn. and then another. You finally realize. you're lost. If this were the not too. distant past, you'd pull over and grab. your Thomas guide. >> Yeah, for you kids, that's a map. >> And if you didn't have a map, you'd try. to find a gas station or 7-Eleven to ask. for directions. Then your fate would be. in the hands of the guy working the. night shift. >> who may or may not be a serial killer, >> right? But now all the answers are in.

your pocket. You tell your phone the. address and GPS guides the way. Some. cars will even drive for you while you. sit back, relax, and listen to your. favorite podcast. >> Oh, you know the Y files is also a. podcast. >> No plugs yet. Please, we save those for. the end. >> Sorry. Sorry. I I could sniff out a plug. opportunity like a trouble pig. The technology I described that got you. to your destination, it was created by. DARPA. All of it. And there's a lot more.

of DARPA in your pocket than you think. Your cell phone uses microprocessors. designed by DARPA. They also created the. batteries to power those. microprocessors. Your phone uses wireless technology made. possible by DARPA. The touchscreen and. the microphone came from DARPA. Voice. recognition and GPS come from DARPA. And of course, all this data transfer. happens using the internet, which was. created by DARPA. >> Excuse me if I may. >> Uh, is this going to be a highly.

predictable and hack joke about how Al. Gore said he created the internet? >> I I yield the rest of my time. Thank. you. >> Mhm. >> Yes, DARPA created the internet. Well, technically they were still ARPA then. Remember the D was added in 1972. In the. 1960s, researchers were trying to figure. out a way to ensure reliable. communications in case of a nuclear. attack. Traditional telephone lines and. radio transmitters would be the first to. go.

They came up with a radical idea. Packet. switching. >> Now all of a sweet nerd. Some of us went. to our prom instead of staying home to. write code on our Apple 2. Well, packet. switching is not as complicated as it. sounds. Here's how it works. You want to. send a message or file from New York to. LA. But what if half the country's lines. are down? So, you break that message. into small chunks called packets and. send each one independently over the. network. On the receiving end, the.

message waits for all the packets to. arrive and then reassembles them back. into the original message or file. Each. packet will independently try to find. the most efficient route through the. network at any given moment. The. internet still works this way. [music]. Most people didn't use the internet. until the late 1990s or early 2000s. Some nerds like me were using our phones. to dial bulletin board systems in the. late 1970s and early 80s. But this new. network called Arpanet was conceived in. 1966.

You were online all the way back then. when you were like 12 or 13 years old. >> Yep. I was even younger than that when I. first got online. >> And you're proud of this? >> Well, yeah. Shouldn't I be proud? We. didn't know girls existed. >> Yes, I knew they existed. >> Nah, now I see. >> what. >> girls didn't know you existed. >> I was a late bloomer. >> Boomer. >> Bloomer. >> What' I say? >> Under DARPA's guidance, TCPIP became the. universal language for online computers.

They also developed the concept of email. and invented domain names. DARPA worked. with UC Berkeley to create the BSD Unix. operating system. BSD Unix heavily. influenced the operating system you're. using right now, no matter what OS it. is. It started with DARPA. Now, these. technologies may seem modern, but DARPA. sent the first internet message in 1969. Now, this shouldn't be surprising. DARPA. technology is said to be about 20 years. ahead of civilian tech.

Like self-driving cars, DARPA built one. in 1984. DARPA had GPS in 1973. Microprocessors, motion sensors, and. wireless communication. DARPA had these. decades ago, but eventually these. innovations became available to the rest. of us. DARPA's technology has made our. lives so much better, it's easy to. forget that those innovations weren't. originally meant to improve lives. They. were meant to [music] end them.

>> [music]. >> It's the middle of the night and you're. lying prone on top of a dusty building. in some far corner of the world. You hug. your 50 caliber Barrett sniper rifle. It's pitch dark, but your light. gathering high magnification scope gives. you full visibility of the alley 1,200. yd away. A door opens. It's your target. Right on schedule. You hold your breath and put your finger.

on the trigger. Suddenly, a van appears. Your target. leaps in and speeds off. Years ago, he'd escape. Mission [music]. failed. Not now. You fire confident in. DARPA's latest innovation, a self-guided. bullet. With optical sensors and real-time. guidance, it maneuvers mid-flight locked. onto its target. Skilled snipers engaged targets up. to,300 yd away or more. The farthest.

confirmed kill 2.2 m by Canadian special. forces in 2017. Impressive. But DARPA's. extreme accuracy task ordinance or. exacto bullet hits targets five or six. miles away, maybe farther. DARPA keeps. the details a secret. Many DARPA. projects seem like science fiction, [music] some like magic. Scepter lets. you see through walls. The Mojave. project bends light, making objects. invisible. DARPA's engineering living.

materials program uses living fungus as. [music] a construction material. Structures will no longer be built, they'll be grown. [music]. Instead of shipping finished materials, we can ship precursors and rapidly grow. them on site using local resources. And. since the materials will be [music]. alive, they'll be able to respond to. changes in their environment and heal. themselves in response to damage. DARPA likes fungus, but it loves bugs.

Project Insect Allies modifies flying. insects to attack crops. These insects. resist disease and repair each other's. injuries in the field. Then there's the. hybrid insect microelectrical mechanical. systems or highs. This project along. with project dragonfly creates miniature. flying cyborgs. Beetles, moths, and. dragonflies become undetectable spies. with cybernetic implants and solar. powered guidance systems. They could be. controlled remotely or operate.

autonomously using AI. They've created. remote controlled rats. DARPA trains. bees to find landmines. They're. developing clonics, programmable. shape-shifting matter. They're. developing nuclearpowered spacecraft. autonomous vehicles and weapons of all. kinds. DARPA's technology is meant to. keep people off the battlefield. Why. risk a battalion of human soldiers when. you can deploy a fleet of drones? But. sometimes you need boots on the ground, and that means people with guns. But.

DARPA has a better idea. Don't give a. soldier a weapon, turn them into one. >> [music]. >> The human body is an amazing machine. Our muscular skeletal system allows us. to do gymnastics, lift heavy weights, and walk long distances. Still, our. bodies have limitations. DARPA is. developing technology to overcome these. limitations. The goal is to increase.

strength, endurance, alertness, and the. overall health of soldiers. DARPA's Warrior web project is one of. several exoskeleton programs in the. works. It's an exo suit, lightweight and. flexible, similar to a scuba suit, but. this is a smart suit. Using machine. learning and onboard sensors, the suit. knows when and where to firm up to. augment muscles. It performs its. function, then becomes flexible again. DARPA has also developed hard.

exoskeletons, just like you've seen in. movies like Aliens and Edge of Tomorrow. These exoskeletons not only increase. strength and endurance, but they're. modular. They can be equipped with all. kinds of weapons. There's even a jetpack. in development. The tallow suit turns a. soldier into a real life Iron Man. It's. bulletproof and weaponized. It increases. strength, speed, and endurance. It. monitors the user's vital signs and has. sensors that analyze the entire. environment [music] around them. The. tactical augmented reality or T project.

is a headset that overlays information. over your normal vision. This gives. soldiers real-time information like. displaying maps, enemy locations, and. other vital data right in their line of. sight. Project Zman was inspired by. geckos. DARPA is creating a material. that would let soldiers climb walls. without ropes or ladders. Now, everyone. knows the Air Force gives their pilots. aiments. >> I feel the need. The need for speed.

>> The need for speed. Yep. They literally. take illegal narcotics to [music] stay. alert. But the continuous assisted performance. or CAP program is focused on keeping. soldiers awake, alert, and effective for. up to 7 days straight [music] without. side effects. DARPA's brain initiative. program connects soldiers brains to. [music] computers. They can control. drones and other systems with thought. They can truly multitask [music] where. one part of the brain is operating a. drone while the other part of the brain.

is analyzing the area looking for. targets. In the early 2000s, DARPA started. exploring ways of giving humans. superhuman abilities without equipment. This is DARPA's [music] bio-revolution. program. They studied how animals. attack, defend themselves, and. regenerate from injuries. DARPA felt that if they could find those. answers, these abilities could be. transferred to humans. They could give soldiers improved. senses, [music]. perfect eyesight, and limb regeneration.

without external devices. [music] Now, to do that, you'd have to alter human. DNA. So, DARPA is exploring crisper gene. editing technology. [music] Crisper can snip out unwanted. genes and insert new ones. Crisper could. accelerate [music] healing. Injuries. that might have sidelined soldiers for. weeks or months could heal in days. Crisper technology has already sparked a. revolution in medicine with the. potential to cure genetic disorders and. even [music] combat aging.

>> Link below and how crisp and AI are. about to end the whole world. >> Yeah, that episode is scary, but it's. interesting and it's real. Now, some of. these projects [music] have failed and. some haven't and some are still in. development. I have no doubt that DARPA. will turn soldiers into superhuman. weapons eventually, but they haven't. yet. [music] So, how do you put boots on. the ground and keep humans off the. battlefield? DARPA's [music] answer, killer robots.

DARPA started working on robotics in the. 1960s. Its first project was Shaky, the. first mobile robot to reason about its. actions. Shaky wasn't sleek or fast, but. it was a start. Ah, >> you know, I I feel like if you name your. project Shaky, you're kind of setting. yourself up to fail. Well, since then, DARPA's robotics has come a long way. In. the early 2000s, DARPA launched the Big. Dog program. [music] In partnership with. Boston Dynamics, these four-legged.

robots can carry heavy loads and. navigate difficult terrain. They can. also be outfitted with weapons like. sniper rifles or machine guns. The LS3. can follow soldiers autonomously and. carry up to 400 lb of gear. And then. there's the Atlas robot. And now we're. getting serious. Atlas was launched in 2013, and you've. probably seen various versions of this. robot over the years. Atlas could run, jump, and navigate obstacle courses. A. couple of years ago, Atlas used AI to.

teach itself how to walk and then run. and then do gymnastics. Yeah, you humans. realize it's only a matter of time. before these things take over and. enslave you, right? >> Uh, some of us realize it. >> Investigative journalist Annie Jacobson. has covered DARPA for years. She says. there's no doubt that the Pentagon is. investing heavily in robotics. DARPA's plan through 2038 states without. [music] question that the Pentagon is.

moving towards robotic warfare. They. want to have hunter killer drones that. can swim, crawl, walk, run. Drones that. can fly 13,000 m an hour, which is 22. times faster than a commercial jet to. get to a target really quickly. Ballistic missiles have limitations. Speeds over Mach 20 require too much. power and make the rockets dangerously. hot. But thanks to DARPA, that's no.

longer a problem. Missiles can now. travel at hypersonic speed without. overheating. A target 500 m away can be. destroyed in 6 minutes. Weapons like. these certainly keep humans off the. battlefield. But DARPA is going to take. it one step further. [music] It's. creating the technology to wage war. without needing humans at all. Remember. [music].

how DARPA is always about 20 years ahead. of civilian technology, maybe more? Well, as early as the 1960s, DARPA. started developing computers that can. learn independently. In the 1980s, DARPA launched the. Strategic Computing Initiative or SEI. The goal of SEI was to create military. strategies by running simulations and. learning from them. Are. >> you describing war games?

What's it doing? >> War Games was originally going to be a. science fiction story about a dying. scientist who's saved by a kid genius. But then the writers met Peter Schwarz. from the Stanford Research Institute or. SRRI. >> SRI. I know those guys. >> You do? SRRI has been the launchpad for. many secret government programs. I've. talked about them a lot on this channel, and they've long been connected to the. CIA, NSA, and DARPA. Well, Schwarz was.

fascinated by a new computer subculture. called Hackers. He suggested that they. make a movie about a kid hacking a. military supercomput. >> Oh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. What was it? It. was called The Big Mac. >> No, whopper. War operation plan. response. >> Oh, right. I'd still rather have a Big. Mac. >> Me, too. Well, the Whopper spends all its time. thinking about World War II. 24 hours a. day, 365 days a year, it plays an.

endless series of war games using all. available information on the state of. the world. >> At the very same time that this movie. came out, DARPA was working on its own. military supercomput. Here's how they. described it. The machine envisioned by SC would run. 10 billion instructions per second to. see, hear, speak, and think like a. human. The degree of integration. required would rival that achieved by. the human brain, the most complex.

instrument known to man. If you haven't. caught on by now, we're talking about. artificial intelligence. Today, AI is. everywhere and accessible to everyone. And it feels like it came out of. nowhere, but it didn't. It came out of. DARPA. As of today, 70% of DARPA's projects use. or are focused on AI and machine. learning. DARPA started working on AI in. the 1960s. They built their first AI. system, a speech recognition computer in.

the 1970s. In 1983, the strategic. computing initiative project received. billions for AI research. Then in the. 1990s, DARPA launched another. supercomputing project. It was and still. is highly secret. It's affecting you. right now. And once I tell you what it. is, you're not going to like it. Now, it's time to get this video. demonetized and censored.

>> Yeah, boy. >> Yeah, if I'm not on a list by now, I I'm. about to be. >> No, they're watching you, human. >> Yeah, I I really don't want to talk. about this. Honestly, I'm about to put. everything that I have at risk. >> Uh, you're actually scaring me right. now. I'm scared, too. Here we go. [clears throat].

[music]. >> Welcome. >> Like the steam engine which sparked the. industrial revolution of the late 1700s, the internet is changing everything it. touches. And at the cutting edge of the. revolution is Wall Street. [music]. >> So we are now 6 and 3/4 points above. fair value. >> The early 1990s was the beginning of the. tech boom. Internet startups were. getting millions in investments. [music].

of data, personal data. The intelligence. community wanted to gather this data to. create a digital fingerprint of everyone. using the internet. If they could. identify bad actors, criminals, terrorists, whatever, they would compare. that fingerprint against others. They. called this the birds of a feather. approach. If Joe's a bad guy and Bob's a. bad guy, and they both go to certain. websites, then other people visiting. those same websites were potential bad. guys. So, let's track them. So,

surveillance? >> Yes. >> Of Americans? >> Yes. >> Legal? >> No. >> Well, officially illegal as of 2010, but. the law was murky in the 1990s. And for. the intelligence community, murky means. opportunity. Still, the intelligence agencies didn't. have the ability to manage all this. data, but they knew people were out. there working on it, and they were all. looking for funding. But if you're the. NSA or CIA or DARPA, you can't drop by. an internet startup and ask them to.

build you an illegal digital. surveillance program. >> Yeah, it's kind of a bad look. >> It is, but it also gives away the game. Surveillance is only valuable if the. target doesn't know they're being. watched. So, this technology would need. to be funded privately and quietly. So, in 1994, the Highlands Forum was. founded. Ever hear of the Highlands. Forum? You probably haven't. and they. like it that way. [music]. The Highlands Forum or Highlands Group. was formed as a think tank, a bridge.

between technology companies and the. Pentagon. The Highlands Forum is an invitationonly. group of government officials, academics, and executives from tech and. defense companies. Their discussions are. private and off the record, operating. under the Chattam House rule, meaning. members can disclose information from. the meetings as long as it doesn't harm. anybody, but they can never reveal who. said it. Not ever. Although hardly anyone knows about the.

Highlands Forum, the group is highly. influential on US defense policy, especially regarding technology. And. they're a private organization. No. auditing, no oversight, no Freedom of. Information Act requirements. They're a. black box. The perfect conduit for. transactions you want to keep off the. books. So tech is booming, data is. flowing, and we've got our think tank to. connect us with the people capturing the. data. Now we need the money to fund. them.

That same year, the massive digital data. systems or MDDS program was launched. MTDS would fund scientists, researchers, and companies who worked with big data. sets. The Highlands Forum would help. identify, facilitate, and coordinate. these transactions. To keep these transactions private and. secret, the MDDS moved money through. unclassified mainstream agencies like. the National Science Foundation. Computer scientists were getting. millions in grants from the NSF. Totally. normal. They didn't know who was really.

behind the money. And MDDS was highly. compartmentalized. It had tons of. projects and departments. Nobody knew. what anyone else was doing or who was. even in charge. And this was by design, but the overall program was managed by. the CIA, NSA, and DARPA. So, we've got black budget money flowing. through the NSF, and we've got our. private organization, the Highlands. Forum, looking for opportunities. So, the word goes out to researchers in. academia. If you can handle big data,

we'll give you big money. Then a promising project emerged. Two. Stamford graduate students working on a. search engine made a breakthrough. In the early '90s, searching the. internet was difficult. Popular engines. like Alta Vista and LOS produced hit or. miss results. Searching hiking gear would show pages. mentioning hiking or gear, often.

irrelevant blog posts or articles. Users. had to scroll through pages of useless. results. It took forever and I remember. it well. Two Stamford students developed. a system that changed everything. [music]. Their automated webcwling system. identified a web page's context, [music]. not just the text. Then pages were. ranked based on relevance to specific. queries. Pages actually discussing. hiking gear would rank higher for that.

query. High traffic pages and pages with. lots of incoming links ranked even. higher. These were signals to the. algorithm that a page was a good match. for that query. Using this search engine. felt like magic. Usually the first or. second result was exactly what you were. looking for. Somehow it knew. The system. used an optimization technique called. association rule mining or query flocks. This assumes birds of a feather stick. together, meaning people searching.

specific keywords tended to click the. same result. Query flocks worked with. people, too. The search engine learned. that people with similar online habits. search for similar things. If you. searched hiking gear, the system assumed. you liked outdoor activities and were. probably within a certain age group. And. the more you used the search engine, the. more it learned about you. So your. searches always gave you relevant. results. Using information you willingly. provided, these students had developed a.

method to create your digital. fingerprint. Jackpot. [music]. The CIA, NSA, and DARPA learned about. this project [music]. and through the National Science. Foundation, the NDDDS funded it. If you haven't guessed by now, those two. students were Sergey Brin and Larry. Page. And the search engine was Google. You won't find MDDS in Google's origin.

story, but this is public unclassified. information. It's just hard to [music]. find. In Brennan Page's famous 1998. research paper, the anatomy of a. large-scale hypertextual web search. engine, [music] they thanked DARPA for. their support. You can see this for. yourself. It's on page 16, section 7. under acknowledgements. Now, there's a. lot more to this rabbit hole. The. connection between intelligence agencies. and technology companies is so hang on. hang on. >> What? >> Pop quiz.

>> Go ahead. >> How do you make your living? >> YouTube. >> And who owns YouTube? Google, >> right? Bye-bye channel. Now would be a. good time to ask for Patreon support. >> I don't do plugs until the end of the. episode. >> Make an exception. We're in the deep. water now. >> He might be right. Truly and honestly. I. won't know until it's too late. But. telling you the story might have been a. terrible mistake. So yes, please go to. patreon.com/theiles. I don't know if we will, but we might.

need your help. Anyway, this video isn't. about Google. It's about DARPA, specifically the dark side of DARPA. [music] And it's about to get a whole. lot darker. [music]. When John F. Kennedy took office in. 1961, America had allies everywhere. Cuba, Ethiopia, Nicaragua, Laos, Vietnam, Cambodia, Iran, Lebanon, and.

many others. But the Soviet Union was. fueling insurrections against USfriendly. governments. Kennedy promised to stop. the spread of communism, but the Soviets. were pouring billions into military. technology, rocket and missile systems, even space exploration. [music]. JFK was committed to keeping pace. He. wanted more resources in science and. technology. He modernized the military. and doubled DARPA's budget. And the. timing couldn't be better. The global. cold war had evolved into regional proxy.

wars with the Soviets. A new type of. warfare was being fought, guerilla. warfare. [music]. Old military strategies wouldn't work. The situation in Vietnam was especially. bad. The Vietkong were hidden under the. thick jungle canopy. You can't kill an. enemy that you can't see. DARPA proposed a solution, Project. [music] Agile. It was pitched to Kennedy. as both a scientific and military. endeavor. Kennedy signed off. immediately.

The first phase was called Operation. Ranchhand. Its purpose was to clear the. jungle. DARPA developed the rainbow. herbicides, named for their container. colors to kill the foliage. Agent Purple. was first, then green, then pink. DARPA. was combining different herbicides, defoliants, and toxins, looking for the. perfect formula to destroy Vieton cover. Agent Orange was the winner. Millions of. gallons of Agent Orange was sprayed over. miles of jungle every day. Leaves fell. from trees almost immediately. Another.

application and the trees died. [music]. Next, Project Agile targeted farms. Asian Orange [music] could destroy miles. of crops in a day. They asked South. Vietnamese President DM if he knew which. farms were Vietkong and which belonged. to innocent civilians. He said yes, he. knew and he didn't care. If they weren't. traitors yet, they would be soon. Kill. them all. Now, the US didn't want to do this, but. it only had a few hundred military.

advisers in Vietnam at this time. They. didn't want to send more. Better to. sacrifice North Vietnamese farmers than. US Marines. So, it was done. Guilty or. innocent, friend or foe, if you were a. North Vietnamese farmer, you were. targeted. Your crops were destroyed and. your soil was poisoned. Replanting. [music] was impossible. Ancient Orange's effects were instant. and devastating, and nobody knew it was. only the beginning.

[music]. As the Vietnam War escalated, so did the. use of Agent Orange under DARPA's. Project Agile. [music]. Project Agile used other tactics. DARPA. contractors included social scientists. and experts in human psychology. Propaganda spread through leaflets, loudspeakers, and media control. Subliminal technology kept people in. heightened emotional states from minor. discomfort to absolute terror.

>> Subliminal warfare mind control link. down the alley. Sally. >> psychological warfare teams targeted. villages, turning neighbor against. neighbor. Civilians were forced into. strategic hamlets for their safety. 4. million people were relocated against. their will. Meanwhile, soldiers. complained of headaches, nausea, stinging eyes, and rashes. Agent Orange. did more than clear jungle and kill. crops. It tortured people for life. Thousands exposed to Agent Orange.

developed cancer. Children were born. with defects. Agent Orange caused. reproductive problems like infertility. and miscarriages. Heart disease and. diabetes increased. Agent orange was. first used in 1962. In 1965, scientists. discovered it contained dioxin, a highly. toxic compound that causes cancer and. birth defects. They kept using it. In. 1967, a study proved dioxin causes birth. defects even at low concentrations.

[music] They kept using it. In 1969, a. Department of Defense report. acknowledged Agent Orange's severe. health risks. They kept using it. Public. outcry forced President Nixon to stop. the use of Agent Orange in 1970. They. kept using it. They stopped spraying the. following year, 1971. Now, even in war, there are rules. PS. must be treated humanely. Medical staff.

and facilities are off limits. Humanitarian aid must be allowed. Breaking these rules is a war crime. In. 1907, the Hay Convention banned the use. of poison in war. The US signed the. treaty. Agent Orange was poison. That's. what herbicides are. So, was using Agent. Orange a war crime? No. The United. States said Agent Orange wasn't a. poison. It was an herbicide. The treaty. didn't specifically mention herbicides. Oh, that's some lawyer loophole.

>> In 1925, the Geneva Protocol banned the. use of chemical weapons. The US signed. this treaty, but Agent Orange was a. chemical. Of the 12 companies producing. Agent Orange, the primary [music]. manufacturer was the DAO Chemical. Company. The word chemical is in the. company's name. So, is using Agent. Orange a war crime? Nope. The United. States said Agent Orange wasn't a. chemical. It was an herbicide. But wait, how is that even possible? >> It's not.

In 1949, the Geneva Conventions. established that civilians and their. property must not be intentionally. targeted. Only combatants and military. targets were allowed. The US signed this. treaty. But civilians and their farms. were intentionally targeted with Agent. Orange. So, is using it a war crime? No. The United States said the intent was to. disrupt the enemy's logistical support. and visibility, not cause direct harm to. people. In other words, it was an.

accident. So, what about the destruction. of plants and trees on civilian land? Those weren't military targets. Isn't. this a war crime? No. The United States. said it was a military necessity to. defoliate the area in order to deny the. enemy cover, which makes trees, any. trees anywhere, a military target. What about destroying civilian crops? Again, the US only intended to destroy. crops of the enemy, not civilians. It. was unintentional, so no war crime. [music] In 1977, the Geneva Conventions.

were amended to specifically ban the use. of herbicides and reinforce civilian. protection. The US signed this new. treaty, but still denied any liability. for the damage caused by Agent Orange. However, in 1984, US veterans sued the. chemical companies who settled for $180. million. But the settlement was to support. veterans, not an admission of [music]. guilt. In 2004, Jill Montgomery speaking. for the Monsanto Company, one of the.

major suppliers of Agent Orange, uh she. set the record straight. We're sympathetic with people who. believe they've been injured and. understand their concern to find the. cause, but reliable scientific evidence. indicates that Agent Orange is not the. cause of serious long-term health. effects. In 1991, finally, the VA started providing. benefits to vets exposed to Agent.

Orange. But the US still denies. liability. My father-in-law served in. Vietnam. He was exposed to Agent Orange. He's watching, so I won't list his. illnesses, but he suffered almost all of. them. So, in 1991, he applied for his. benefits. [music] And I'll admit, the. government kept its word. He did receive. his benefits. In 2021, it took 30 years. Like so many vets, when his country. needed him, he didn't hesitate. But when. he needed his country, they said, "Take.

a number, get in line, and hope you're. still alive by the time we call your. name." Do I sound angry? That's because. I am. Between 1955 and 1975, 2.7 million. people were deployed to Vietnam. 58,000. dead, 300,000 wounded, 3,000 missing or. prisoners of war, 1500 still missing.

That's tragic, but it's much worse. The. VA estimates 300,000 to 400,000 veterans. may have died from illnesses caused by. the exposure to Agent Orange. May have. to this day. To this day, no single person, agency, company, or government has admitted any. wrongdoing or assumed any liability for. the millions of lives destroyed by Agent. Orange. Now, ordinary people like us. have so many rules we have to follow.

Don't speed. Check grandma's shoes. before she gets on a plane. Pay your. taxes even though we're going to steal. it and waste your money. Pick up a gun. Shoot at those people. Do what you're. told. [music] If we break a law, the. government will take our money, seize. our property, force us into labor, or. lock us in a cell. It all depends on the. crime. So, we follow the law. But if. you're a big chemical company or a. government agency, don't worry about the. law. You can get away with murder.

I needed a minute. The story of DARPA is. hard to debunk, and that's because most. of it's true. What we know about DARPA's. projects come from them. Their websites. and official YouTube channel openly. share information. They have a podcast. called Voices of DARPA. Even the experts. in covering DARPA, Annie Jacobson and. Sharon Weinberger, get their information. from the agency they're writing about.

When Jacobson gives a speech, writes a. book, or appears in an interview about. DARPA, she's not sharing classified. information. She's not speculating. She's reporting. She never claims to. know anything that we can't find out for. ourselves. But still, most information. is secret. [music] What we know about. DARPA is what they want us to know. There's no transparency. None. Also, DARPA is exempt from laws that other. government agencies have to follow. Specifically about hiring practices, managing personnel, and managing. budgets. They can run the agency however.

they like. [music] DARPA is only 220. people. That's it. with a budget of. almost $4 billion. Now, that's a lot of. freedom and power, but it's much more. than that. DARPA is allowed to fund. projects through what's called other. transactions. No congressional approval. needed. No reporting required. Choose. the projects you want to fund and fund. them. So, who's choosing the projects? Annie Jacobson gives us an unsettling. answer. The real problem is that the individuals.

who are responsible for deciding what. weapon systems are being financed and. created in these classified DARPA. programs are the very CEOs of defense. contractors who stand to financially. benefit from these contracts. [music]. Annie Jacobson has said that DARPA is. the agency driving the. military-industrial complex. That agency. is run by the companies that profit from. the technology they create. This is.

exactly what President Eisenhower said. would happen. If you make war. profitable, you'll always have war. But. to be [music] fair, DARPA's innovations. have made our lives better. Not just. because of cell phones and GPS. DARPA's. achievements in prosthetics have allowed. paralyzed children to walk again. They've created medical techniques to. diagnose illnesses earlier. They've. bio-engineered tissue and organs that. can be used for transplants. They've. developed machines that can stabilize.

injured people in emergency situations. Advanced medical imaging such as. ultrasound, MRI, and brain imaging. All. created by or alongside DARPA. Now, does. the good outweigh the bad? Do DARPA's. contributions offset the damage they've. done? I don't know. That's not for me to. judge. But this story reminds me of the. courtroom scene in A Few Good Men. You. can't handle the truth, >> right? When the colonel says, "My. existence, while grotesque and. incomprehensible to you, saves lives.".

>> You don't want the truth because deep. down in places you don't talk about it, parties. You want me on that wall. You. need me on that wall. >> Right. So, is DARPA a necessary evil? Is. evil even the right word? I don't know. When DARPA was formed in 1958, its. mission was to make sure the United. States was never again surprised by. advanced technology. And for 66 years, DARPA has succeeded in its mission. The. US has never been surprised by. technology,

>> except for the UFOs. >> Okay, the US has never been surprised by. another country's technology. >> Better. >> I can't forget all the suffering that. DARPA has caused. But DARPA's done so. much good. [music] Can I forgive? I. don't know. I'm disgusted by some of. DARPA's actions, by our government's. corruption, by the fact that because of. DARPA, bad [music] people get rich from. war. But if I'm being honest, which I always. am with you, I have to acknowledge that.

as an American, we need DARPA on that. wall. I told you that was going to be a dark. one. Okay, what's next? Aha, yes,

zombies. This one was chosen by my. editor, Brandon. He loves creepy stuff. Yep. If DARPA wasn't dark enough for. you, here's the episode about con plan. 888. M brains.

[music]. Staff Sergeant Ryan Martinez was the bo. death sergeant on duty at off at AFB a. few miles south of Omaha, Nebraska. He sipped cold coffee, updated the. bladder, and checked in with patrols. Reports confirmed the monitors. RC135. sitting dark in the flight line, guards. walking posts and perimeter fences. quiet. At 0400, this was routine. Martinez was fighting a yawn when the. claxon fired up.

Then an announcement. Alarm red. Perimeter breach. Martinez checked the. cameras. A wave of shadows was stumbling. across the field toward thousands of. onbase personnel and their families. Then he saw them. The shadows were. people. Or at least they used to be. The. loudspeaker barked commands to halt. The. horde kept coming. Flares went up. Warning shots were fired. The horde kept. coming. Then came the command Martinez. never expected to hear. Weapons free.

Gunfire erupted. Thousands of rounds. creating a wall of sound and smoke and. steel. Bodies fell. The entire base held. its breath. A few seconds later, the bodies rose. again, and the horde kept coming. Martinez tore through a cabinet, searching for the protocols no one took. seriously, remembering the training no. one thought necessary. Every soldier at. offet was prepared for this exact. scenario, outlined in a military. document most Americans had never heard. of. Con plan 888, the Pentagon's guide.

for surviving a zombie apocalypse. And. tonight the plan [music] goes. operational. [music]. The plan [music] that Staff Sergeant. Martinez pulled from that cabinet is. real. I have a copy of it. You can. download it and read it for yourself. In. 2009, United States Strategic Command.

released Con Plan 8888-11, Counter Zombie Dominance Operations. [music] 31 pages of detailed military. strategy for surviving a zombie. apocalypse, complete with operational. phases, threat assessments, and rules of. engagement. >> Whoa, whoa, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. This is a real thing? Army vers zombies? >> Yep. >> Okay, I'm terrified right now. Hold me. >> No. The document opens with standard. Pentagon formatting. Official letter. head, proper classification stamps.

Everything looks mundane until you get. to the documents. Purpose statement. >> US Stratcom Con Plan 88.88. Purpose: To. undertake military operations to. preserve non-zombie humans from the. threats posed by a zombie horde. Because. zombies pose a threat to all non-zombie. human life, hereafter referred to as. humans, US Stratcom will be prepared to. preserve the sanctity of human life. The. document was declassified in 2011 thanks. to a foyer request. [music] Now that's a. quick turnaround from classified the.

public. A section of con plan 8888. reveals why. >> US stratcom con plan 8888 security. instructions. This document is. unclassified to ensure maximum utility. during times of crisis. Classified. capabilities used to counter zombies. will be addressed in appropriate orders. and crisis plan will be adapted to. current operational conditions. Con plan. 8888 assumes a complete breakdown of. society. It lays out five distinct. operational phases from monitoring.

through the restoration of civil. authority. Phase zero is shape the environment. [music] Stratcom watches for non-state. actors with chemical and biological. WMDs. They monitor disease vectors, outbreaks, and epidemics. Phase one is. deter. This prevents enemies from. creating zombies and nuclear armed. countries get notified that counter. zombie tactics aren't a preparation for. war. >> Phase two is seize the initiative. Stratcon provides security assistance to. local authorities. Quarantine zones get.

created and enforced. Civilian areas. stay protected until they're overrun. Then conplan 8888 enters phase three. Dominate, respond, and counter. During. phase three, the US military locks down. and retreats to fortified positions for. at least 40 [music] days. >> US Stratcom Conplan 888, phase three. Upon receipt of a US StratCom order, all. forces will begin preparations to. conduct combat operations against zombie. threats. US Stratcom will shelter all.

personnel in place for at least 40 days. >> After that, phases four and five focus. on stabilizing and restoring government. Reconnaissance teams deploy to assess. the zombie threat. [music]. >> US Stratcom, con plan 888, phase 4 and. 5. No earlier than 40 days after the. initiation of phase 3 operations, US. Stratcom forces will initiate local. reconnaissance ops to determine the. severity of the remaining zombie threat. Assess the physical and epidemiological.

security of the local environment and. survey the status of basic services, water, power, sewage, infrastructure, and communications. If the threat is. neutralized, rebuilding begins, but as. long as zombies exist, the military. stays locked down. Kong plan 8888. outlines these phases step by step. [music] But notice what's missing during. the military lockdown. Civilian. protection. The document says that. during the first critical weeks, local. law enforcement handles zombie attacks.

until martial law is declared. After. that, no civilian assistance, no rescue. missions, [music] no exceptions. The. plan assumes most government officials. die within 24 hours. Cities become. uninhabitable. Infrastructure collapses. completely. Compan 8888 ensures military. command and control continues. Now, that's great if you're inside a. fortified facility, but for anyone. outside a military fence, con plan 8888. makes it clear you're on your own.

[music] To survive the collapse of. society, you need to understand the. threat. The military knows where zombie. apocalypses could start and what we'll. face beyond the safety of fortified. installations. >> US Stratcom, con plan 888, section 4, subsection [music] 5. Conditions for. implementation part A. Zombies have the. potential to seriously undermine. national security and our way of life. While the US currently enjoys several. asymmetric advantages and against zombie.

infections originating in the Eurasian. landmass, these advantages can easily be. negated by air and sea traffic that. could transport the source of a zombie. infection to North and South America. >> But conplan 8888 is clear. [music]. Zombie threats come from anywhere and. affect anyone. The Pentagon organized. zombies into distinct categories. According to complan 8888, the most. likely threat comes from pathogenic. zombies created when viruses or bacteria. infect humans. [music] And the Pentagon.

isn't guessing. Existing diseases could. mutate and trigger real outbreaks. Take. [music] rabies. The virus attacks the. central nervous system, creating. aggression and violence. Infected. animals foam at the mouth and attack. anything that moves. [music] That foam. carries the rabies virus. One bite from. a rabid animal means almost certain. death. Movies like 28 Days Later and. World War Z show virus-based zombies. Animals also become zombies through pron. diseases. A pron is a misfolded protein. that [music] destroys brains and nervous.

systems. Chronic wasting disease makes. deer and elk lose their natural fear. They stumble around like zombies, easy. prey for predators. Mountain lions. actually target infected deer, but. eating these animals is risky. [music]. Eat a pron diseased brain and you become. infected. Mad cow disease is a pron. disease. Humans who eat infected beef. [music] develop kudfeld yakob disease. The symptoms are rapid mental. deterioration, loss of coordination and. aggressive behavior. Sounds a lot like.

zombies. Kuru affects cannibalistic. tribes in Papa Nagini. They eat the. brains of dead relatives as a funeral. ritual. Stop. Stop. Stop. Why did they. uh h How did What? Why? >> Eating the brain helps the spirit reach. the afterlife. >> So, how was grandma's funeral? A little. chewy. >> I don't feel so good. >> Yeah, technically it's against the law. now, but rumors are that some tribes. still do this privately. >> Keep my wife's brain out your mouth.

Keep my wife's brain out your mouth. And that's how it continues. Eating an. infected brain spreads kuru. Victims. experience severe mood changes. They. become violent and unpredictable. >> like ex-wives. >> Like zombies. >> Ah, that makes more sense. >> The Zombie Land movies feature pron. [music] zombies. And beyond bacteria, viruses, and prons, parasites can create. zombies. These are called symbient. induced zombies. And what makes these.

parasites so dangerous is [music] you. don't know you're carrying one. >> [music]. >> Conplan 8888 says pathogenic zombies are. most common and that makes [music]. sense. Diseases affect every animal on. Earth and sometimes those diseases jump. to humans through zuonosis. AIDS, SARS, H1N1, Ebola, plague, anthrax, Lyme.

disease, malaria. Dozens of deadly. diseases jump from animals to humans. And most diseases kill their host, but. not all. Conplan 888 calls these sis. symbient induced zombies. Instead of. killing you, the parasite uses you, at. least for a while. In Costa Rica's. rainforests, the jewel wasp attacks. cockroaches. The wasp injects venom. directly into the roach's brain. The. roach becomes docel and compliant. >> Uh, you said this was the Cosby wasp.

>> The jewel wasp. No, I don't remember. Jewel doing anything this inappropriate. >> The jewel wasp grabs the roach by its. antenna and leads it to a burrow like. walking a dog. The roach doesn't flee, it follows. [music] Then the wasp lays. an egg inside the roach and leaves. The. roach stays put, waiting peacefully. [music] When the larvae hatches, it eats. the cockroach alive from the inside out. That's mind control. Conplan 8888 calls. it zombification. And if you play the. Dead Rising games, those zombies are.

created by these parasitic wasps. Then. there's of Cortiseps. This fungus turns. ants into zombie ants. Infected ants. abandon their colonies and climb high. branches. They bite down on leaves with. a death grip. The fungus then consumes. the ants body and burst from its head, reigning spores on the colony below. The. ant's final act spreads infection and. creates more zombies. The Last of Us. games and HBO series feature the. Cortiseps fungus jumping to humans. African sleeping sickness affects.

thousands of people every year. It's. transmitted by titif flies. Victims. become confused, disoriented, and. violent. >> Like my. >> like zombies, >> right? >> Those parasites kill the host. eventually, but some keep the host alive. forever. Athosephilim worm starts by. infecting insects that birds like to eat. because the worm's final destination is. in a bird's gut. The parasite hijacks an. insect survival instincts. [music] It. abandons cover and wanders into open. areas where birds hunt. Some climb to.

the tops of plants and stay exposed. Birds eat the zombified insects. The. worm infects the bird. More worms. [music] spread through the bird's feces, and the bird never knows the worm is. there. [snorts] In fact, there's a. dangerous parasite that's already living. in almost half of the human population. And if you don't have it, there's a good. chance that somebody living in your. house does. >> [music].

>> Toxopplasma Gandhi is a single-sellled. parasite that lives in contaminated. water and undercooked meat. Between 30. and 50% of humans carry it. Most don't. know they're infected. The reason it's. so common, cats. >> I knew it. Those filthy hell beasts of. boweapons. >> Okay, settle down. About half of all. cats have toxopplasma antibodies from. past infection. [music] And this bug is. tough. It survives months in cat feces, years in soil and water. It can.

withstand refrigeration and even. freezing. Chlorine won't kill it. Neither will soap or detergent. Sulfuric. acid kills it, but it takes almost 2. years. It's easily spread by household. insects like cockroaches and flies and. rodents. And there's an argument that. toxopplasma gandi evolved to help cats. Infected rats and mice lose their fear. of cats. They become slower, less alert. They're actually attracted to cat urine. Poxopplasma programs rodents to get. eaten.

It's the perfect parasite. Indestructible, persistent, widespread, [music]. undetectable. The military knows that in. a real outbreak, every cat becomes a. disease vector. You couldn't trust any. of them. >> If you trust a house cat, you deserve to. get eat. That's why conplan 8888 takes. biological threats seriously. Once a. pathogen enters the pet population, containment becomes impossible. >> You could eliminate all the kids. >> Stop that. >> I'm just saying if you want to make an. omelette, you got to break some kittens.

>> But here's what keeps researchers awake. at night. Most people don't know they're. carrying toxopplasma. Studies show. infected humans take more risks. They. drive aggressively. Some researchers. link it to personality changes, decision-making problems, even mental. health issues. This is why conplan 8888. exists. This is why the Pentagon plans. Because zombies aren't coming. They're. already here.

Dr. Annie Lou was a molecular. gerontologist and the latest darling of. Silicon Valley. She discovered a. telomeir extending virus, the holy grail. of life extension. She called it Project. Lazarus.

The ultra wealthy from all over the. world poured billions into Lazarus. If. there's one thing billionaires really. hate doing, [music] it's dying. But Dr. Lou hit an impass. The Lazarus virus worked perfectly in a. petri dish. But once it was injected. into a live rat, the rat died within. hours. Could it be the delivery vector? Maybe a cytoine cascade? Why do the. telomeurs lengthen then trigger. apoptosis?

Immune storm in every test subject. Ours. to death. What am I missing? [snorts]. [music].

Dr. Lou checked the time. It was after. 3:00 a.m. Her third allnighter in a row. Ah, she needed to get some sleep. Better to. deal with this with fresh eyes.

>> Hello. >> I'm fine. It was just a hard day at the. lab. >> But Dr. Lou didn't realize how hard a. day it was. She never noticed the three micron tear. in her hazmat suit. A human hair is. about 60 microns wide, but not the. Lazarus virus. Those are 0.02 microns. wide. Plenty of room for a virus to.

enter. In fact, that's enough room for. hundreds of them to enter. >> Of course, I'm coming. I wouldn't miss. my little sister's wedding for anything. >> Dr. Lou took every precaution. N95 masks. block particles 0.03 microns wide. But. that's not enough to stop Lazarus. Even if Dr. Lou knew about the tear, she. wouldn't have been that concerned. Lazarus wasn't an airborne virus. Lazarus only worked if it was injected.

directly into the bloodstream. [music].

But now Lazarus was airborne. >> [music]. >> The next zombie classification in. conplan 8888 RZ radiation zombies. Organisms become zombies after absorbing.

extreme electromagnetic radiation. Nuclear accidents, dirty bombs, cosmic. radiation. The Pentagon says any of. these can create zombies. Solar flares. bombard earth with charged particles. A. coronal mass ejection could expose. entire populations to dangerous. radiation. The 1859 Carrington event. knocked out telegraph systems all over. the world. A similar event today could. deliver radiation doses that alter brain. chemistry on a massive scale. After. Chernobyl, emergency responders who.

entered the reactor core experienced. rapid cellular breakdown. Some survivors. reported hallucinations and aggressive. behavior before dying. But radiation doesn't always kill. [music] We covered how Chernobyl's dogs. and wolves adapted to high radiation. An. entirely new wolf species emerged, highly resistant to cancer. If radiation. can create a new type of wolf, it can. create a new type of human. [music] And. in the wrong hands, that human becomes. the perfect soldier. Conplan 8888 calls.

these weaponized zombies. WZs are. specifically created for military use. The Pentagon causes us a threat because. the technology exists and they should. know they created it. >> Wuhan. >> No, you're going to get us canled. >> Oh. Oh, I meant uh Wuhan. Solo really. showed Greo who's boss. >> Nice save. Chemical weapons affect brain. function and behavior. During the Cold War, both superpowers. developed psychochemical agents to. incapacitate enemy forces. BZ tested by.

the US Army caused hallucinations and. confusion. Similar compounds could. create zombie symptoms. Crisper gene. editing alters organisms at the genetic. level. [music] Synthetic biology creates. entirely new biological systems. A. hostile nation could engineer a pathogen. that [music] creates controllable. zombies. >> Controllable zombies. And we already got. those. They're called cable news. viewers. >> Con plan 8888 shows the military. preparing for zombies that can come from.

anywhere, even outer space. Space zombies come from outer space or. result from alien contamination of. Earth's environment. US StratCom con plan 8888 section 4. subsection 6 zombie threat summary part. four space zombies SCS are zombie life.

forms originating from space or created. by toxic contamination of the earth. environment via some form of. extraterrestrial toxin or radiation. [music]. >> NASA and the military already have. protocols to prevent contamination from. space missions when Apollo astronauts. return from the moon they spend 21 days. in quarantine. The concern was that. lunar microorganisms might be dangerous. to life on Earth. >> You mean when the astronauts returned. from the sound stage in Burbank, they. had to make sure they didn't pick up a. bug from the San Fernando Valley.

>> Let's not do this now. >> The Valley flu, they call it. Symptoms. include attraction to shopping malls, degraded parking skills, and an. insatiable appetite for Baja Fresh. >> They make good burritos. >> Dot do. But NASA protocols won't help if toxins. land outside the jurisdiction of the. United States. Because SC's come from. space, they can affect any place on. Earth. >> US StratCom Con plan 888 section 4.

[music] subsection 5 conditions for. implementation part A continued. Asteroids and nuclear space radiation. that can convert people into zombies can. affect any land mass or population on. Earth. Given the rapidity [music] at. which zombie outbreaks spread, decisive, overwhelming, and possibly unilateral. military force may be required to negate. the zombie threat. Real scientific research shows organisms. survive where life should be impossible. These extreophiles include tardigrades.

that withstand the vacuum of space. If. similar organisms exist elsewhere in the. solar system, they might be incompatible. with human biology. Large asteroids or comets could carry. alien microorganisms or radioactive. materials. The Tagusa event in 1908. flattened over a thousand square miles. of Siberian forest. If a similar impact. happened over a populated area, alien. contamination would spread before anyone. could respond. [music]. Con plan 888 states nuclear weapons.

would be the most effective counter. [music] to space zombies. The logic, if. contamination can't be contained, incineration at nuclear temperatures. becomes the only option. [music] But. there's one zombie type that concerns. the military more than any other. It. can't be killed with conventional. weapons. It can't be killed with nuclear. weapons. [music] The only way to fight. this zombie is with God.

>> [music]. >> Evil magic zombies. The document. actually uses those words. The Pentagon. has an official position on supernatural. threats. >> US StratCom con plan 888. Section 4, subsection 6, zombie threat summary, part three. Evil magic zombies. Of the. classes of zombies, one type is caused. by occult phenomena that cannot be.

reliably monitored, predicted, or proven. to exist. Zombies caused by occult. phenomena are EMZs. The only way to ensure a zombie is dead. is to burn the zombie corpse. EMZs are. the only class of zombie that may not be. vulnerable to this measure. Despite. being the hardest threats to eliminate. directly by attacking the zombie life. form, EMZs can usually be eliminated if. the source of evil magic is destroyed.

There is evidence to suggest the. Chaplain Corps may prove integral to. countering these threats. The military takes this seriously enough. to assign the Chaplain Corps as primary. defense. Now, think about that. The. Pentagon believes defeating these. zombies might require divine. intervention. >> You're Jon Snow intervention, >> right? Thousands of years ago, there. came a night that lasted a generation. Kings froze to death in their castles, same as the shepherds in their hoods. Women smothered their babies rather than. see them starve and wept and felt the.

tears freeze on their cheeks. So is it. for the long night and the white. walkers? >> Oh man, >> I know what it is. But yes, white. walkers and whites in Game of Thrones. are evil magic zombies. Fighting the supernatural isn't new to. the military. During World War II, both. sides employed occult research. divisions. The Nazis had the Aderva. The. Allies had their own paranormal units. Churchill consulted astrologers. The US. Army investigated psychic warfare during. the Cold War. Now, it may seem that the.

military has everything figured out. They've identified each type of zombie. threat. They understand how to fight. them. But not so fast. [music]. Buried on page 16 is a single unsettling. section. US stratcom con plan [music] 8888. section 4 subsection 13.3 shortfalls and. limiting factors adequate zombie. defenses require sandbags, sand, barbed. wire, anti-personnel mines, riot control.

chemical agents, and petroleum to create. flame barriers. These supplies may not be present in. sufficient volume to defend against. zombie incursion and could severely tax. available logistical support. infrastructure. US Stratcom forces do not currently hold. enough contingency stores, food, water. to support 30 days of barricaded counter. zombie operations. And US Stratcom has. no ground combat [music] forces capable. of repelling a zombie assault.

>> Several zombie types identified, specific tactical recommendations, containment protocols, resource. requirements, but not enough soldiers in. the army to actually win. So, the. military created a new army, an army of. millions of soldiers, all trained to. survive the zombie apocalypse. And for. years, these soldiers have been learning. how to organize, how to fight, and how. to rebuild civilization. This army has. been built in secret, but also in plain. sight. Because the soldiers of this army. are us.

[music]. The military knows how to fight zombies. They have a plan, but they don't have. the soldiers. So, they created them. Us. The military developed a psychological. operation that trained millions of. civilians without them knowing it. The. Walking Dead premiered on October 31st, 2010, the same year conplan 8888.

finished development. World War Z. started filming in 2011 and was released. in 2013. The Last of Us game launched in. 2013, all during the exact time this. military document was finalized and. declassified. Think about what these shows taught you. Survival tactics, supply management, team dynamics, trust no one, secure your. perimeter, always have an escape plan. Millions of Americans absorbed zombie. apocalypse protocols through. entertainment. The training was subtle. but effective. I've watched every.

Walking Dead episode. >> Okay. I watched up until season 5. >> I played The Last of Us games. >> I played the first one. >> The Walking Dead, Last of Us, World War. Z. We've all consumed the same content. and we learned the same lessons. The. military didn't need boot camps. They. had Netflix. But the SCUP might distract. from the real secret. Con plan 888. contains multiple references to. classified annexes never released. publicly. The document repeatedly. mentions Annex C detailing space control.

capabilities. Page after page references. classified sections stripped from the. public version. AnnexS covers special. technical operations. AnnexD handles. classified logistics. [music]. Throughout the document, footnotes point. to information marked secret or higher. The zombie scenarios were unclassified. The real military capabilities stayed. hidden. The most telling detail is buried in the. tactical sections. Conplan 888 works.

alongside other military plans. Con plan. 8035 for space operations. con plan 8531. for flu pandemics and con plan 8099 for. combating WMDs. These are active. military plans, not training exercises. Because the zombie plan is unclassified, it implies the threat isn't real. But. the classified military capabilities are. real. There's clearly some kind of. threat. So the big question is, how do. you survive it?

When the outbreak starts, you have about. 48 hours before everything falls apart. >> Darkness falls across the land. The. midnight hour is close at hand. >> The creatures crawl in search of blood. to terrorize y'all's neighborhood. >> You got that out of your system? >> Almost. >> Great. The people who survive aren't. lucky. They're prepared. Your location.

determines your survival. If you're in a. city, get out fast. Cities become death. traps. All those people packed together, that's a zombie buffet. And in a dense. population center, the infection will. spread faster than it can be contained. Hospitals fill with infected who don't. know what's happening to them. They. stumble into emergency rooms and spread. the virus to medical staff and don't. call 911. Police stations get overrun by. panicked citizens looking for weapons. The smart cops go home to protect their. families. The rest become casualties.

You need to be somewhere remote. A. cabin, a homestead, or a farm. If you. don't own one, better know someone who. does. Those places have what matters: food, water, and people who know how to. defend them. Guns are loud. They attract attention. you don't want. A bow and arrow works. better. So does a knife, a bat, or a. crowbar. Quiet weapons keep you alive. longer. Skip the supermarkets. They're. already swaring with desperate people. You need supplies ready before disaster.

strikes. Prep a bugout bag. Forget the. [music] bottled water. Carry water. purification tablets or a life straw. water filter. Iodine pills for radiation. exposure. You'll need food. MREs last 30. years, but food is heavy. [music] Better. if you learn how to hunt, clean, and. cook your own meals. Pack paracord rated. for 500 lb. [music]. It could be used for everything. Securing shelter, making tourniquets, starting fires, and it works as fishing. line. Pack a solar radio. Solar. flashlight, real band-aids, and N95.

masks. Take signaling mirrors and. whistles, [music] toothbrush, toothpaste, toiletries. When you're. stuck in the wild, you'll be happy you. remembered those. In my kit, I keep. thermal blankets, a small propane stove, and glow sticks. I've got a fire. starter, a multi-tool, three different. kinds of knives. Bring a needle and thread. Good for. repairing clothes and sewing up wounds. And if you don't have the stomach to. stitch a cut, crazy glue will do in a. pinch. And don't forget duct tape. It. fixes everything and reinforces. barricades. I even keep mini bugout bags.

in all my vehicles. You can pick one up. for about 40 bucks and I'll link below. to the gear I use. Once you're out of the chaos, find a. place where you can rest. [music] Watch. your lines of sight. Learn to set a. perimeter. Trip wires and snares. Anything to alert you to danger and find. other people. Pull resources. Exchange. knowledge and skills. [music] Know your. strengths and find people to shore up. your weaknesses. Some people are. fighters, some are farmers, some are. planners, some are builders, their.

safety and numbers. [music] But when. connecting with strangers, trust your. gut. Whether it's conplan 8888 or some. generic survival guide, they'll tell you. the same thing. When the end of the. world comes, the most dangerous thing. you'll face isn't zombies, it's other. people. [music]. >> [music]. >> We followed con plan 8888 from a zombie.

outbreak at Offet Air Force Base through. classified space operations and. potential psychological warfare. The. military created detailed protocols for. fighting the undead. So what's actually. real? Well, comp plan 8888 is exactly. what the Pentagon says it is, a training. exercise. Junior officers created it to. learn planning procedures. Using an. impossible scenario avoids diplomatic. problems. So rather than create a plan. to defeat Russians or Chinese, the. enemies are evil magic zombies. Everyone. understands its practice. The zombie.

scup theory also doesn't hold up. The. timing of conplan 8888 being released at. the same time as zombie movies and TV. shows wasn't coordination. It was. coincidence. Hollywood always follows. the money. Remember we had 10 or 15. years of superhero movies released one. after the other. Now not so much. >> Yeah, thanks a lot Disney. [music]. >> We had zombies before conplan 8888. White Zombie came out in 1932. George. Romero created modern zombies with Night. of the Living Dead in 1968. Dawn of the.

Dead in 1978, set the template for. everything that followed. The Walking. Dead comics started in 2003. Studios see. profit and then fled the market. But. dismissing this as just a joke would be. a mistake. Con plan 8888 connects to. real military plans. [music] Con plan. 8035, COP plan 8531, conplan 8099. These. aren't exercises, they're operational.

The plan's real value is seeing the. military acknowledge how fast society. could collapse. It admits there are. scenarios where the military can't win. A plan to defeat zombies is hard for the. public to take seriously, but maybe. that's the point. Maybe conplan 8888 is. a clever distraction. The story isn't in. the document they show us. It's in the. documents they hide. Conplan 8888. repeatedly references classified annexes. that were stripped from the public. version, but we know they exist. We just. don't know what they are. We know they.

reference space-based operations, but we. don't know what threats they address or. what capabilities they describe. and. they're not going to tell us. And that's. why I believe con plan 8888 is an. important document. [music] In some. ways, it paints the American people as. distracted and selfish. And there's some. truth to that. But things change in a. crisis. [music] To save our families and. our communities, people will step up. Not everyone, but enough to matter. And. whether intentional or not, Conplan 888. teaches valuable lessons about.

preparation and resource management. Those are good skills to learn and start. learning them now. When society. collapses, nobody's coming to save us. [music] We are the first responders. So. train like one. Prepare like one. The. difference between a life lost and a. life saved could be you. So get to know. your neighbors. Learn how to. communicate, how [music] to plan, how to. survive. If you don't learn these skills. now, it could come back to bite you. [laughter].

zombies, [laughter]. right, L? Next episode was chosen by the. hybrid. You heard that right, the. hybrid. His real name is Rich Dick. Okay. Okay. Come on, Morgan. Be a. professional. Next episode is about. liinal spaces. Beaver keeping it creepy.

Roll it. >> In the past year or so, three internet. mysteries popped up that really got my. attention. They may seem very different, but trust me, they're connected. [music]. The first one is about a girl who found. a door in the basement of her Airbnb. She opened it and inside there was an. abandoned shopping mall. The second. story is about Javier who woke up in a. hospital in the year 2027 in an. alternate universe. In his version of. the future, everyone on Earth has. vanished. He's the only one left, and he.

has the video to prove it. The third. mystery is known as the back rooms. A. reality adjacent to ours that if the. conditions are just right, you can. accidentally fall into. Then you find. yourself lost in an endless maze of. dingy carpet, fluorescent light, and. yellow wallpaper. And around every. corner, An abandoned mall, a deserted world, a. maze in another dimension. What do these.

have in common? >> Uh, terrible places to have a vacation. Um, uh, good places to hide a body. >> What are you doing? >> Hello. You asked what those places have. in common. I'm answering your question. >> I was being rhetorical. I'm trying to. build drama and suspense. >> Oh, well, you're on the wrong channel, buddy boy. What these locations have in. common is limonality, or more. specifically, they're liinal spaces. A. liinal space is defined as a place of.

transition, a threshold between two. distinctly different points, signaling. the end of one and the beginning of. another. Limitinal spaces do exist as. physical locations, but they can also be. an emotional experience. They occur. during periods of uncertainty and major. life changes. Events like a divorce or. breakup, the death of a loved one, the. birth of a child, moving to a new city, ending or starting a new career. All. these create limonality in our mind. Meaning [music] our life before this. event is over and a new period of life.

is about to begin. Limmonality is the. unease and apprehension we feel during. this transition. Limitable spaces in the. real world are a bit more difficult to. define, but you know one when you see. one. Think of an airport in the middle. of the night, school during summer. break, a house just after someone moves. out, or in this case, an [music]. accidentally discovered abandoned. shopping mall.

Now, you could tell by the video that. she's having fun, but she's also a. little uncomfortable. She's experiencing. the anxiety of a liinal space. Now, while not all liinal spaces are so. unsettling, the type of space currently. coursing through the internet will have.

a few common features. They'll feel both. familiar and strange. If you browse. through photos on the liinal space. subreddit, you'll come across many. locations that you could swear you've. been to, evoking a strange feeling of. nostalgia for a place you've never been. Another common trait is that places are. out of context, [music]. like a waiting room with one chair, a. plane with no seats, a flooded metro. station, or a submerged staircase. Have. you ever watched a video of the Titanic. on the bottom of the ocean? When you see.

the staircases and furniture completely. underwater, this evokes limonality. This. outof context imagery triggers anxiety. similar to uncanny valley, the feeling. that something is just not right. Limitinal spaces are often places you. might have visited as a child. Roller. rinks are commonly thought of as liinal. Bowling alleys, arcades, or an empty. Chuck-e-Cheese. >> The only thing scarier than an empty. Chuck-e-Cheese is a crowded. Chuck-E-Cheese.

You got that right. But something you'll. notice about all these places, they're. empty. And that seems to be the most. unsettling [music] aspect of all. These. spaces are transitional because they're. in between places, not meant for anyone. to stay very long. But they're still. meant for people. Yet, these sit empty, waiting to fulfill their use, waiting. for people. people that in some cases. never arrive. Now all of us from time to.

time stumble into a liinal space, a. supermarket in the middle of the night, an empty office, an amusement park off. season. But what if you woke up one day and the. entire world was deserted and every. space was a liinal space? Tik Tok has no shortage of quote unquote.

timetravel accounts. Some are. entertaining, but they're mostly just. goofy. But one account stands out from. the rest. Javier, a Spanish creator. whose account is Unigo Viente, which. means. >> only survivor. >> Oh, you speak Spanish now? >> Well, this account. Okay, I get it. Do you mind if I. >> No problem, amigo. >> Well, this account is unique because he. posts actual videos of deserted. department stores, supermarkets, even.

entire football stadiums. Javier woke up. in a hospital in Valencia on February. 13th, 2027, and claims to be in an. alternative universe. Apparently, at. some point in the near future, every. human on Earth just disappears. He said. that when he woke up, he couldn't. remember his name or where he lived. He. went outside and everyone was just gone. Everything appeared just like 2021, but. electronic devices showed 2027. Now, his. videos are fascinating, and I'll link to.

his account down below. And when you're. watching, remember that Valencia has a. population of over 800,000 people, and. the surrounding area has almost 2. million people. And despite Valencia being a big city, there are no people in these videos. He. goes to random apartments. He crashes at exclusive hotels.

He accepts challenges to go to places. that most people can't go. Fire and. police departments, even steals a few police cars. He goes to a military base.

Some skeptics claim he's recording all. this early in the morning. He responds. by recording himself walking by public. signs with a time on them. And there aren't many Tik Tockers who. can reprogram a public digital sign. He's challenged to go to a hospital, not. an old deserted one, an actual modern. hospital. And he does it. A lot of the places he visits do have. off hours, but hospitals are full of. people 24/7, but not these. Javier also.

claims our two worlds are connected. He's able to interact with objects in. his world, which affects objects here. For example, a Spanish television show. challenged Javier by leaving a book. hidden on their set and told him to find. it and move it. He did.

Oh my god. And when the studio went back to watch. the security footage, you can see the. door open and close. And just for a. quick moment, you see some kind of. figure flash by. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

No, no, no. Now, it would be terrifying to wake up. alone in the world where every place you. visit is a different liinal space. But. worse than that would be waking up in a. single liinal space that goes on. forever. And that place has a name, the. back rooms.

[music]. The Back Rooms is an internet mystery. that began like many internet mysteries. do on 4chan. Someone asked members to. submit disquing images that just feel. off. An anonymous user posted this. photograph. Everyone who saw the image. agreed it was strangely familiar but. unsettling, though nobody could explain. why. Finally, a follow-up comment. described it. If you're not careful and.

you no clip out of reality in the wrong. areas, you'll end up in the back rooms. where it's nothing but the stink of old. moist carpet, the madness mono yellow, the endless background noise of. fluorescent lights, and maximum hum, and. approximately 600 million square miles. of randomly segmented empty rooms to be. trapped in. God save you if you hear. something wandering around nearby. because it sure as hell has heard you. >> Uh, no clip. Well, no clip is a video. game term. When two objects overlap,

that's clipping. No clipping means. crossing boundaries in a game that. you're not supposed to cross and ending. up in areas not meant for the player. The back room's theory says it's. possible to noclipip into a different. reality adjacent to ours, a reality. you're not meant to ever see. [music]. Remember, liinal spaces are. transitional. You're not supposed to. stay there very long. You instinctively. want to get out to move on. The back. rooms are unnerving because you can't. It's an endless liinal space with no. escape. Something about the back rooms.

connected with people and an entire. culture was organically developed around. the concept. Completely communitydriven, the back rooms has become crowdsourced. IP with its own cannon and lore. And. there are now hundreds of levels of back. rooms, each with their own stories, their own rules, inhabitants, objects, even hazards. Fans can contribute to the. lore through a few different wikis. completely dedicated to the back rooms. Still, [music] the back rooms lived in. dark corners of the internet. What.

brought the concept to the mainstream. was a series of short videos by a. creator named Kane Parsons. Using an. ingenious combination of liveaction and. 3D animation wrapped in a low tech. package, these videos give us a glimpse. of what being trapped in the back rooms. would feel like. The videos also prove. that liinal spaces are not a fringe. theory. Millions of people have watched. these. Clearly, the concept of. limonality is universal. The video. series begins with a group of kids. shooting what looks like a student film.

in 1996. [music]. The camera operator suddenly no clips. through the ground and falls into the. back rooms. >> A little more. >> A little more. >> Yeah. Yeah. >> [snorts]. >> Hello. >> It doesn't take long for us to realize. that we're not alone in the back rooms. There's some entity aware of us and. seems to follow us through the maze of.

empty yellow office space. >> Hello. Some moments are definitely scary, but. even when not being outright terrifying, the entire series is unsettling. As you, through the eyes of the lost cameraman, explore the back rooms, you have a sense. that you've been here before. I. certainly have. There are certain angles. and ways the walls are arranged that. remind me of offices that I've worked at. at different points in my life. I worked. jobs where the only light was overhead. bulbs and the only time you'd see the.

sun or the sky was if you were lucky. enough to run out for lunch. That was my. job last year, actually. For anyone. who's worked in an office like this, there's a feeling of claustrophobia, of. being trapped like a prisoner, where. time seems to slow down and hours feel. like they last for days. Unfortunately, for people trapped in the back rooms, time doesn't exist at all. There is no. past and no future. So no brief rest bit. for lunch, no exhilaration at the end of. a long boring day. The only time is the. present. And like the space itself, the.

present is infinite. Eventually our hero. discovers graffiti on a wall which tells. him to stay still. That turns out to be. a terrible idea. After fleeing from the entity, we're. taken to various locations which are. essentially recreations of common photos. of liinal spaces. the empty apartment, the deserted quad. And Kane's short film. then builds on tried and trueue horror. movie tropes like pursuit, claustrophobia, disorientation, and of.

course, the jump scare. Kane's subsequent videos build on the. lore of the back rooms. The tone shifts. from jump scare horror into more of a. dystopian sci-fi thriller. It seems that. there are ruptures in our world that. allow people to accidentally pass into. the back rooms. This explains why the. number of missing people is on the rise. Eventually, a corporation creates a. prototype machine to access the back.

rooms. And this is hailed as a. world-saving technology. Because the. back rooms are so large, hundreds of. millions of square miles, they can be. used for storage, housing, even. transport. Now, of course, things go. wrong along the way. We have researchers. trying to map the back rooms, getting. lost, [music] and falling into different. levels and all kinds of chaos. >> Oh my god. >> What do you say? >> Everything okay? >> Uh, get the camera over here.

>> across. Okay, just hurry. Okay. The series is still ongoing, so. subscribe to Cane Pixels if you want to. see what happens next. But you don't. have to wait for Kane. Other creators. have picked up the mantle and attempted. to continue the story. I think we just. saw someone running.

Missing Juanita Estz now [music] age 16. last seen Yuba City California November. 27th 1984 call 800. sir. >> Hello can you help me get down there's.

something up. >> Please. >> stay right where you are. Stay right. where you are. We're going to try and. get you down. >> To me, all these versions are equally. interesting and unsettling. The. backroom's concept has spawned other. media as well. A viral Tik Tok shows. someone using Google Earth to zoom in on. a location in Japan. As they move inside. the building, we see the familiar. wallpaper, carpet, fluorescent lights, and this time, different objects and. entities. Indie developers are. publishing video games based on the back.

rooms and liinal spaces. Anamoyopoulos. is one that looks interesting. It. combines the uncanny Illiminal space. concept with classic firstperson horror. and puzzle solving elements. Illimmonality may seem like the cool new. thing and it's no coincidence that its. popularity surged during co lockdowns. when everyone was feeling isolated, but. the concept has been around a long time. The phrase was created by Arnold van. Gennup in his book rights of passage. released in 1908. And Gup was more. focused on life experiences like.

transitioning from childhood to. adulthood, graduating high school or. moving to a new city. And this concept. of an in between place whether physical. or emotional has been explored in media. and pop culture for years. Rod Surling. famously said, >> "It is the middle ground between light. and shadow, between science [music] and. superstition, and it lies between the. pit of man's fears and the summit. [music]. of his knowledge.". >> The Shining is an entire movie based. around the idea of limonality, the.

abandoned hotel, spooky hallways that go. on forever, and you never know what. lurks around each corner. Horror movies like It Follows and Silent. Hill also used liinal spaces to amp up. the creepiness. And recently, the Apple. TV sci-fi thriller Severance uses liinal. spaces as a backdrop for the entire. series. The large empty spaces, hallways. that create such a confusing maze that. you have to draw maps to find your way.

around. And the dual reality concept of. Severs is similar to the back rooms. You. have one reality where you live your. life as you normally would. But when you. get to work, you are severed from this. reality and transition to a new reality. A reality comprised completely of. limonality. And you can't have a. post-apocalyptic story without. limonality. That feeling of being the. last person on Earth, walking through. spaces once teameming with life, now. left abandoned and forgotten. The human. brain is not wired for this kind of.

isolation, which is why these tropes are. so effective. And speaking of the. apocalypse, let's circle back to our two. other mysteries and see if we can figure. out what's really going on. Javier, the lonely survivor in Spain, >> he has a very interesting and compelling. Tik Tok account, and people are. constantly trying to debunk him. Some. say his hands look different in each. video, implying that he's actually a. team. [music] And there may be something. to that. You have to dig really deep,

but it turns out that Javier is working. with the city of Valencia on a media. project called [music] The Lonely. Survivor, which is why he has access to. all these places and why he's able to. clear out entire stadiums, busy streets, even sections of hospitals. So, it's not. some future reality. It's just a TV. production team with filming permits. Now, Javier won't admit his account is. just a project, and I don't blame him. It's fun to maintain an air of mystery, but if you watch enough of his videos, you realize it would be so easy for him.

to prove that he's in a different. reality or in the future. He could show. the dates on tombstones. He could. time-lapse an entire weekend at a. typically busy airport or just fly his. drone around the city at rush hour. He. never does this. His environments are. highly controlled, but still, the videos. are fun. and the young lady who. discovered an abandoned mall in the. basement of her Airbnb. The video has a. supernatural feel to it, but it's really. not that strange. Her Airbnb is actually. a hotel that shares a building with the.

Oceanwalk Mall in Hollywood Beach, Florida. An Oceanwalk is what's called a. dead mall, though a better name for a. dead mall is probably a zombie mall. It's a shopping mall that nobody really. goes to anymore, but it's still open and. somewhat functioning. And dead malls are. everywhere all over the country. And. it's not hard to understand why malls. are dying. >> Amazon. >> Well, pretty much online shopping and. the online economy. But when I was a. kid, you bought your groceries at the. supermarket and you bought everything. else at the mall. Clothes, electronics,

sporting goods, toys, everything. And in. many suburban towns like the ones I grew. up in, the mall was a community social. center. Families would spend all day. there. You'd shop, eat, shop, and eat. some more all day. And as a teenager, we'd hang out at the mall. [music] We'd. go around lunchtime. We'd see a movie, lurk in the arcade, and talk to girls. >> You would talk to girls? >> Well, I wanted to, but I wasn't very. good at it. >> Checks out. >> Well, high school and college kids from. the area often work at these shops. In.

fact, this is the mall that we went to. when I was a kid and worked at all. through high school and college. Back in. those days, the mall was always packed. When was that? The 1950s. >> Not that long ago, [music] but close. enough. But now look at it. That's not. the mall I remember. There's a sadness. to these spaces. There's nostalgia. There's the reminder that everything. moves forward. Everything changes. What. once was will never again be. These. transitions and rights of passage are an.

important part of life. They show our. courage, our resilience, our. perseverance. They [music] make us who. we are. But whether a location in the. world or a transitional moment in our. lives, every liinal space has the same. point to find your way out. >> Ready for the next one? This episode was. chosen by Haley. She's our spicy ginger. Seriously, she writes the dirtiest. jokes. She's so nasty.

We're taking a trip down to the. Grooveyard for the episode about John. Wils Booth. Roll it. >> Everyone thinks they know how Lincoln. died. John Wils Booth shot the. president, escaped, and was killed 12. days later on a Virginia farm. But the FBI's own forensic tests, discovered Booth's diary is missing 86. pages. Pages filled with names, payments, [music] and secrets. Lincoln's. assassination wasn't the work of a.

single extremist. It was a plot to take. control of America, and it worked. [music]. The evidence exposes secret allies, strange cover-ups, and why the truth was. buried for more than a century. This. isn't the story of how John Wils Booth. died. This is the story of how he. escaped and who helped him do it. In early 1865, the Civil War was in its.

fourth brutal [music] year. The. Confederates were losing, but they. continued to fight and Union casualties. continued to mount. During this time, John Wils Booth was. one of the most famous actors in. America. [music] He was known for his. emotional performances and striking good. looks. Dark hair, unusually dark eyes, he was lean and athletic. He was the. first documented celebrity to have his. clothes torn by infatuated fans. I am. ever so grateful, sir. [laughter]. >> It is my pleasure entirely.

>> Booth was obsessed with Shakespeare's. Julius Caesar, a play he performed with. his brothers. He saw Lincoln as a tyrant. like Caesar. Booth was from Maryland, a. slave [music] state. He identified as a. southerner, so when war broke out, he. became a Confederate spy. As [music] an. A-list celebrity, he could move freely. in polite society. He socialized with. wealthy businessmen, politicians, and. all kinds of important people. He then. sent their secrets to the Confederates. Through a clerk with access to Lincoln's. private correspondence, Booth saw the.

president's plan for after the war, and. it horrified him. Confederate leaders. would be tried for treason. Their land. would be given to former slaves who. would also get the right to vote. Everything the South stood for would be. erased from history. He had to act. Booth came up with a bold plan. [clears throat] Kidnap Lincoln. If the. North wanted their president back alive, they would have to [music] release all. Confederate prisoners of war and give. the South better terms. Booth assembled.

a team and after months of planning, they were ready. Then, just before the. plan went into motion, General Robert E. Lee surrendered at Appamatics. Booth was. devastated. The war was over and now the. kidnapping plot was useless. Then Booth had a stroke of luck. He. overheard that the president would be. attending a play at Ford's Theater in. Washington DC. Booth knew the theater. well. He performed there many times. He. even knew where the president would be. sitting [music] because Lincoln attended. one of Booth's performances there. So.

Booth came up with a new plan. Kill the. president during the [music] play. He knew he could move around the theater. freely without raising suspicion. So. getting in wasn't a problem. Getting out. was. But John Wils Booth had friends in. high places who wanted Lincoln dead as. much as he did. [music] They would help. him escape. His contacts weren't. Confederate spies deep in the South. They were right here in Washington. inside Lincoln's own cabinet.

[music]. Abraham Lincoln's second inaugural. address was about unity. He called. slavery a sin, but he avoided placing. blame on the South. He famously said, "With malice toward none and charity for. all." Lincoln wanted to pardon most. southerners and allow the states to. regain their rights, but no slavery. The. plan was not universally wellreceived. Like Julius Caesar, Abraham Lincoln was.

surrounded by enemies. On one side were the Democrats. They. wanted a quick return to the status quo. They wanted most southerners pardoned. and most Democrats voted against freeing. the slaves. On the other side were the. radical Republicans. They wanted all. slaves freed and given the land seized. in the war. They wanted federal military. control of the southern states and harsh. punishment. Radical Republicans weren't. just in Congress. They were in Lincoln's. own cabinet.

Secretary of War Edwin Stanton was the. most powerful man in America after. Lincoln. He controlled the military and. all federal law enforcement agencies, but he [music] could not control. President Lincoln. Stanton believed showing mercy to the. South was a betrayal of everything the. Union soldiers died for. [music] Lincoln. wouldn't budge, but Vice President. Andrew Johnson would. His loyalty was. flexible. Stanton could control him and. become the real power in Washington. Through his intelligence network,

Stanton contacted John Wils Booth and. gave him everything he needed to kidnap. Lincoln. With Lincoln gone, Congress. would impeach him. Johnson would step in. and Stanton would control the. government. But if the public learned of a coup, it. would divide the country. But if Lincoln. were kidnapped by a Confederate. terrorist, the country would unite. behind Johnson, essentially behind. Stanton. Booth was the perfect choice. He was wealthy, famous, and an outspoken. critic of Lincoln's. The whole country.

would believe it. Booth agreed. Stanton. gave him Lincoln's schedule, security. details, funding, maps of escape routes, everything he needed. But the war ended. The kidnapping plot. wouldn't work. Stanton was trying to. think of another solution when he. learned that Booth was going to kill. Lincoln instead. It would happen in. public during a play in a Washington. theater. Now, Stanton had a decision to. make. warn Lincoln and save his life or. let Booth go through with it. Stanton. made his choice. He made sure that the.

assassination would succeed. He removed. military escorts and left escape routes. open. General Ulissiz Srant was supposed. to join Lincoln at the theater. Stanton. gave him different orders. Lincoln. requested that Major Thomas T. Eert be. his bodyguard, but Stanton said he was. needed elsewhere. He left [music]. Lincoln exposed. The more Stanton. thought about the plan, the more he. liked it. It was clean and dramatic. [music] It was perfect. But as the plot. to kill Lincoln unfolded, things would. go very, very wrong.

>> [music]. >> He gives our slaves freedom that they. take up arms against us. I swear the. man's gone mad. >> You know what he'll do next? Bring his. carpet baggers down here. Northern men.

with clean coats and dirty hands buying. up what's left for pennies. I did not. fight to live under a Yankee boot. Lincoln cannot be allowed to continue. This is tyranny. If Lincoln will not. listen to reason, we must take our. grievances to the Congress. This is not. merely about politics anymore, sir. It. is about the future of the Republic. We. have to move against him now while we. still can. And what would you have us. do? The wars lost, the Confederacy's. ashes. What's left but survival?

Sometimes survival is cowardice. Sometimes history demands blood to. balance the scales. You speak. of treason. I speak of patriotism. Careful, John. Union spies are everywhere. These walls have ears. Oh, let them. hear. History listens, too. I'll not. stand by while Lincoln crowns himself. emperor of a mutilated nation. You're an. actor, not a soldier.

Don't play hero in the wrong tragedy. >> Every play needs its villain. History. will decide which one I am. [music]. [music]. On April 14th, 1865, Washington DC was. celebrating. Roberty Lee had surrendered. at Appamatics 5 days earlier. The Civil. War was over. [music] But something had. Lincoln rattled.

During a cabinet meeting, [music] he. mentioned a recurring dream he had about. a president being assassinated, killed. by a shot to the back of the head. Secretary of War Edwin Stanton listened, [music] but said nothing. President. Lincoln and his wife Mary Todd decided. to celebrate by watching a performance. of [music] Our American Cousin that. night at Ford's Theater. Booth's plan. went into motion. That morning, he. drilled a peepphole in the door of the. presidential box at the theater. he'd. know exactly when to make his move. Evening came and the president and first.

lady settled into their seats. Outside. the door, Lincoln's [music] bodyguard. was replaced by John Parker, who had a. history of being drunk and sleeping on. duty, assigned by Edwin Stanton. Once the play started, Parker left his. post and headed for the saloon. The only. person left outside the door [music] was. Charles Forbes, Lincoln's valet. Forbes. wasn't a bodyguard. His job was to run. errands and plan travel. So when Booth. approached the presidential box, Forbes. let him pass. Just another celebrity.

stopping by to see the president. Once inside, Booth quietly wedged a. piece of wood behind the door and broke. the lock. Now all he had to do was wait. [music] for the right moment. And that. moment would come during the third act, the biggest laugh of the night. The. line, "You suckizing old man trap.". [music] He knew exactly when this line. was said. At 10:15 p.m., the audience exploded in. laughter.

Booth stepped forward and raised his. pistol. [music]. Ever thus to tyrants. One shot. Lost in the roar of 1500. people laughing. President Lincoln. slumped in his chair. [music]. Booth jumped from the box and onto the. stage. At first, the crowd did nothing. They thought this was part of the show. Then Booth raised his knife and yelled. six seer tyrannis. Thus always to. tyrants. The line Brutus said when he.

stabbed Julius Caesar. It's also the. state motto of Virginia. Booth turned to. run and felt pain shoot up his left leg. He broke his ankle, but adrenaline kept. him moving toward the unguarded back. door. Outside, a horse was waiting. Within the hour, Edwin Stanton took. control. He [music] shut down every. bridge leaving Washington except one. The one Booth used for his escape. Everything had gone according to plan. Lincoln was dead and Stanton [music]. would control the investigation himself. There was just one final loose end.

Stanton had to deal with. John Wilks. booth. [music]. Within hours of Lincoln's assassination, Secretary of War Edwin Stanton mobilized. the largest manhunt in American [music]. history. Every bridge out of Washington. was sealed. Every road was blocked. Every [music] farm was searched. The.

reward for John Wils Booth and his. conspirators was a staggering $100,000, almost 2 million in [music] today's. money. The authorities preferred him. alive, but Edwin Stanton preferred him. dead. Booth hooked up with another. conspirator, David Harold. [music]. Together, they slipped through the Union. drag net and headed toward Virginia. Their first stop was Dr. Samuel Mud's. farm in southern Maryland. Mud set. Booth's [music] broken leg and gave them. a place to rest. By dawn, word of the. assassination had spread. mud. Suddenly. realizing the danger forced them to.

leave. David Herald guided them deeper. into Confederate country. [music] They. moved at night. They hid in swamps. during the day. Other Confederate agents. gave them food and newspapers. 6 days. later, they crossed the Ptoic River into. Virginia. They thought [music] they'd be. safe in Virginia. The Confederacy was. dead, but Confederate sympathy was still. very much alive. [music] They found. shelter, food, and horses from local. farmers who still hated the Union. But. the manhunt was closing in. On April. 24th, Booth and Herald reached the.

Garrett farm near Port Royal, Virginia. Richard Garrett, a tobacco farmer, offered them a place to stay. He thought. they were Confederate soldiers heading. home from the war. [music]. For 2 days, Booth rested and played with. the Garrett children. His broken leg was. feeling better. He talked about going to. Mexico or maybe heading west. The future. looked possible again. But on the night. of April 25th, everything changed. 26. soldiers from the 16th New York Cavalry. surrounded the barn. They called [music]. for the men to surrender or they would. set fire into the building. David Herald. immediately gave up. He stumbled out of.

the barn with his hands raised, yelling, "Don't shoot. I'm David Herald." But. Booth refused to surrender. As the flame. started to grow, a soldier saw a figure. moving around inside. The man was. holding a rifle. The soldier raised his. pistol [music] and shot the man through. the neck, severing his spinal cord. He. couldn't move, but he could still. breathe, but just barely. The soldiers. dragged Booth out of the barn. He. whispered, [music] "Tell mother I die. for my country." By sunrise, John Wilk's. Booth was dead. Justice had been served.

The case was closed, and America could. finally move on. But John Wil's [music]. Booth had a secret. At the height of his career, John Wils. Booth was one of the highest paid. entertainers in the world, earning close. to half a million dollars a year in. today's money. His career depended on. his bachelor image. But in 1859, Booth. secretly married actress Isola Martha.

Mills. Within the years, Isola gave. birth to their daughter, Ogarita. Booth. quietly supported them. The arrangement. worked until the assassination, and. after reports of Booth's death, John. Stevenson proposed to Isla. He'd loved. her for years, but she refused. She. quietly told him she was still married. Booth was alive and hiding in San. Francisco under a false identity. [music] She was meeting him there in a. few weeks. On the other side of the. country, a British passport was issued. to John Byron Wilks. Wilks and his wife.

boarded the Indian Queen, a former Civil. War blockade runner. John and Isla. sailed to India, but Isla couldn't stay. The heat, the unfamiliar culture, the. isolation. She was pregnant again and. couldn't imagine raising a child in. India, so she returned to the States. Months passed without a word from Booth, so John Stevenson proposed again. This. time she accepted. She needed stability. for her unborn child. Stevenson said he. would claim the child as his own. Not. long after, Isla gave birth to her son,

Harry Jerome Stevenson. Back in Bombay, John Wils Booth wrote out a last will. and testament. He signed it, John Byron. Wilks, and mailed it to the States. The. will was detailed. Money and property to. his wife Isla, his daughter and son. Ogorita and Harry Jerome Stevenson. He. named Sarah Scott and Mary Louise Turner. as his other daughters by other women. He left money for his personal valet. Henry Johnson and his wife Sarah who. looked after the children. Word of the. will spread. Ulissiz Sgrant himself.

ordered an investigation to locate all. the heirs. Eventually, John Wils Booth's. estate was distributed exactly as the. will instructed, but Grant never let it. go. How could a man named John Byron. Wilks know every detail about Booth's. secret life, his lovers, his children, his financial affairs, information that. only Booth would know? But aside from. the will, Grant had no real evidence. He. was forced to let it go. So, the. official story was John Wils Booth was. killed on Garrett's farm in 1865. [music].

But in the summer of 1872, someone saw a. ghost in a dusty saloon in Texas. And. that ghost was pouring whiskey and. reciting Shakespeare. [music]. [music]. The man behind the bar was John St. Helen. average [music] height, lean build, dark.

hair, going a little gray at the. temples. He quoted Shakespeare from. memory, and when he thought nobody was. looking, he practiced drawing a pistol. from his coat. St. Helen drifted into. town in the spring of 72. [music] He. said he was from back east, but didn't. talk much about his past. That suited. everyone fine. Texas in 1872 was full of. men running from something. After a few. whisies, John St. Helen would recite. full Shakespearean saliloquiz. It was during one of these performances. that finest Bates first walked into the.

bar. [music] Bates was a young lawyer. from Memphis. Smart, ambitious, easy to. talk to. The kind of man who bought. drinks for interesting strangers and. listened to their stories. St. Helen and Bates hit it off. immediately. The bartender was well. read, articulate, and had opinions about. everything from politics to poetry. They. spent hours talking after the saloon. closed, sharing whiskey and stories. Well, Bates shared stories. St. Helen. mostly listened. They spoke about the. war and the future of the country. St. Helen never mentioned his past.

That winter, St. Helen caught pneumonia. For days, he ran a high fever and. drifted in and out of consciousness. Bates sat by his bedside, convinced his. friend was dying. On the third night, St. Helen grabbed Bates by the wrist and. pulled him close. He was still running a. high fever, but his eyes were bright and. focused. >> Finus, I need to tell you something. before it's too late. I'm not [music]. who you think I am. My real name is John. Wilks Booth.

>> Bates thought John was delirious, but he. wouldn't stop. He told Bates everything. The conspiracy, the escape, the years in. hiding. He described details that only. Booth would know. The layout of Ford's. Theater, the feeling of the wooden stage. beneath his feet, the sound Lincoln made. when the bullet hit. Bates was stunned. Either his friend was having the most. elaborate fever dream in history, or he. was the most wanted man in America. By morning, the fever had broken and. John St. Helen was going to live. And.

that's when the panic set in. He said. too much. >> What have I done? [sighs and gasps]. [panting]. >> 3 days later, he was gone. All that was. left of John St. Helen was an empty room. and a bartender's apron hanging on a. hook. John Wilk's booth had once again. disappeared. >> [music]. >> Bates didn't tell anyone about John's.

confession, but he never stopped. wondering. Was John St. Helen really. John Wils Booth, or was that a sick. man's delusion? Well, in 1903, a painter. in Oklahoma committed suicide. When they. searched the man's belongings, they. found a handwritten note. [music] It. said, "If anything happens to him, contact a lawyer named Finest Bates.". The telegram reached Bates 3 days later. [music] After 26 years of questions, he. was about to get an answer. When Bates. arrived at the funeral parlor, his hands. were shaking. The undertaker led him to.

a back room where a body lay on the. table. He was told the man was David E. George. Bates pulled back the sheet and. stared for a long moment. The man on the. table was older and thinner, but it was. unmistakable. It was John going by the. name David E. David E. George had been. living there for several years working. as a painter. He was quiet. He kept to. himself. He was forgettable, but he had. secrets. David E. George drank too much. He talked to himself. Late at night, neighbors in the boarding house heard.

him reciting Shakespeare. The landl, Mrs. Harper, said David George had been. acting strange for weeks. He was nervous. and paranoid. He kept saying they were. coming for him. She thought he meant. bill collectors. On January 13th, 1903, David bought a bottle of strick nine. from the pharmacy. He told the clerk. that he had a rat problem. That night, he drank the poison. He lived long enough to call for a. minister. The minister found David. writhing on his bed, foam coming from. his mouth. The minister held his hand. when David made his confession. He.

whispered that he was John Wils Booth, the man who killed Abraham Lincoln. He. begged God's forgiveness and then he was. gone. Among David's possessions were. newspaper clippings about Lincoln's. assassination and the man hunt for. Booth. Some pages were yellow with age. there for decades. Bates was convinced. this was John Wils Booth. He asked the. local authorities to preserve his body. If this really was Booth, then this was. the most important corpse in American. history. The body was embalmed and put.

on display. For months, crowds lined up. to stare at the preserved remains of. David E. George, aka John St. Ellen aka. John Moes Booth. The mummy toured across. the country. It appeared at carnivals, state fairs, and local museums. Doctors. examined the body and found intriguing. details. The corpse had a broken left. leg just like Booth, a deformed right. thumb, also like Booth, and there was a. scar on the back of the neck that. matched the location of a scar Booth had. from a tumor removal. The mummy.

eventually disappeared into storage and. then into legend. But the story. continued. >> [music]. >> John Wilm Booth had lived for 38 years. after supposedly dying at Garrett's. farm. So, how did Booth [music] get out. of that burning barn? Well, he didn't. The man who was shot on Garrett's farm. was someone else. When Union soldiers surrounded Garrett's.

farm that night, they had orders capture. Booth alive. But Secretary of War Edwin. Stanton let it be known that if Booth. were found dead, the reward would still. be paid. After Booth was killed, the. military demanded an autopsy. The body. was quickly wrapped in a horse blanket. and transported from a wagon to a steam. ship, then to a government tugboat, [music] and then finally to the USS. Monttok at the Washington Navy Yard. The. identification was hasty, highly. controlled, and deeply suspicious.

Surgeon General Joseph K. Barnes. conducted the autopsy. A photograph was. taken of the body, but it's never been. released to the public. This was. probably the most important autopsy in. US history to that point, but the. photograph has either been lost or. suppressed. Dr. Barnes allowed three civilians. aboard. None of the three knew Booth. personally. Booth had friends all over. Washington, actors, politicians, socialites. Barnes didn't call any of. them. Instead, he called Dr. John.

Frederick May. May had removed the. growth from Booth's neck a few years. earlier. He was brought to verify the. scar. May examined the body and hesitated. In. his memoirs, he wrote that he didn't. recognize it as Booth's. He wasn't sure. about the scar. [music] He noticed that. the body had an injured right leg, but. Booth fractured his left leg. Now, maybe. the witnesses got that wrong, but the. injury on the corpse was old. Booths. wasn't. He broke it less than 2 weeks. before. And despite his protests, Dr. May was pressured into signing off that.

this was John Wils [music] booth. Other. witnesses raised doubts. The man had the. wrong proportions, the wrong bone. structure. The body was buried quickly in secret. beneath the floor of a military prison. Booth's family begged to see the remains. they were denied. If this wasn't John. Wils Booth, then who did the soldiers. drag out of that barn? Well, they asked. David Harold and he told them.

David Herald came out of the tobacco. barn with his hands up. The first thing. he said was, "Don't shoot." Then he. said, "That's not Booth in there." Then. Harold named the man James William Boyd. The soldiers ignored him. Boyd was an ex-confederate soldier. the. same build as Booth, same complexion, and coincidentally the same initials. Harold said Booth was a day ahead of. them in Harper's Ferry. The plan was to. catch up, and Boyd would help them sail.

across the PTOIC. But Boyd was a double. agent. He was just released from prison. by Stanton personally, and there was a. reason for that. Stanton and Booth had a. deal. Booth would be allowed to escape. to India with his wife. Boyd would stand. in and take the fall. So Boyd and Booth. swapped coats, but Booth forgot to take. his diary, which revealed everything. Names, meetings, payments, all pointing. back to Edwin Stanton. When Stanton. received the diary, he destroyed it. He.

destroyed all the evidence and created. the official story that Americans. believed for 150 years. John Wils Booth walked away from. Garrett's farm. He sailed to India as. John Byron Wilks. He returned to America. as John St. Helen and died in Oklahoma. as David E. George. Three vertebrae were removed from the. body during the autopsy. A DNA test. could prove or disprove that the bones. came from Booth. No testing has been. allowed. His body is allegedly buried in. the Booth family plot in Baltimore. And.

now people leave pennies on the. gravestone they believe to be John Wils. Booths as if giving Lincoln the last. word. And the family has requested that. the body be exumed for testing. That. request was denied. Nobody even knows. where in the cemetery he's buried. His. brother Edwin didn't mark the grave out. of fear it would be vandalized. And John. Books Booth has a lot of descendants. alive today all through his marriage to. Isola. History says Booth didn't have. children, but his descendants believe. that he did. And as far as they're. concerned, they're living proof.

I'm a big fan of American history. If. you made it this far, you are, too. And. this story was fun, but if Booth. escaped, we have to rewrite history. [music] So, did he? Well, let's pull it. apart. Dr. John Frederick May identified. Booth's body. It's true that he said he. didn't recognize it at first, but that. was because it was badly decomposed. When he saw the surgical scar, he was. convinced it was Booth. [music] He would.

know he performed the surgery. And. multiple witnesses confirmed the body's. identity. The broken leg was also. confirmed. [music] Now, John Wooks Booth. did keep a diary, and it was tampered. with. that's documented. But he didn't. use his diary as a journal. It was more. like a day planner. [music] The missing. pages may contain incriminating. evidence, but probably not. Still, nobody knows for sure. James William Boyd was a real person. He. [music] was a Confederate captain and. prisoner of war, and Secretary of War. Edwin Stanton authorized his release.

That's true. But this wasn't unusual. Boyd had seven children. His wife had. [music] died and they would starve. without him. He requested compassionate. release and Stanton granted it. The. story of Boyd being a double agent comes. from Finest Bates. [music] The man who. discovered John St. Helen wasn't just a. lawyer. He was also an entrepreneur. In. 1907, 30 years after his supposed. encounter in Texas, Bates published a. book, The Escape and Suicide of John. Wils Booth. >> There's always a book. >> Oh, now you're here. Why so quiet?

>> Well, dead presidents are only funny. when they're in my wallet. >> Fair enough. The book was a hit and. [music] made Bates famous. More. importantly, it made Bates money. Bates went on speaking tours. He brought. the mummy with him. He charged. admission. The man who claimed his. friend had confessed to being Lincoln's. assassin built an entire career on that. story. But here's what Bates never. mentioned. When experts studied the. handwriting samples he claimed came from. John St. Helen, [music] they didn't. match John Wils Booth's confirmed.

writing. Not even close. They were from. different people. The Isla story that. came from a 1937 book called This One. Mad Act written by Isla Forester. Forester claimed to be Ogorita's. daughter, the granddaughter of Booth and. Isla Mills. [music]. And just a few years ago, the. descendants of both Ogorita and Harry. Jerome Stevenson had their DNA compared. against confirmed Booth [music] family. DNA. No match. Neither family was. related to John Brooks Booth. >> I love it when paternity tests come back.

negative. So Booth never married and. didn't have children, at least none that. we found so far. [music] And remember, when he killed Lincoln, he was only 26. >> If I was a 26-year-old movie star with. ladies grabbing at my gills, I'd stay. single, too. >> The entire romantic subplot was fiction, just like Booth's Will. Most of the. story elements come from a 1977 book and. movie called The Lincoln Conspiracy. And. this wasn't a historical research. project. It was entertainment. The. authors even admitted they created. composite characters and invented.

dialogue to make the story more. dramatic. It [music] was fiction. >> Uh, don't you do that. >> Quiet. The Lincoln conspiracy was. fiction, but people treated it like. fact. [music] The book recycled Bates's. debunked claims and added new ones. The. body double theory, the government cover. up, the missing diary pages that. implicate Stanton. And speaking of. Stanton, let's clear his name. Edwin. Stanton was a villain in the story, but. he was just as interested in helping. freed slaves as Lincoln. He definitely. thought Lincoln was too lenient on the. South, but he was much closer to.

Lincoln's idea of reconstruction than. Andrew Johnson, a self-described racist. [music]. Johnson's leniency toward the South led. directly to the Jim Crow era, and those. are wounds that still haven't healed. [music]. But the most damning evidence against. the escape theory isn't what's missing, it's what's there. the detailed. day-by-day record of Booth's movements. during his 12 days as a fugitive. There. were multiple witnesses at every stop, Confederate sympathizers who helped him, Union soldiers who pursued him. You.

can't fake that kind of evidence. >> You can't. >> If you can fake a moon landing, you can. fake this. >> Now, I think John Wils Booth died on. Garrett's farm. But many people, including some of Booth's alleged. descendants, believe he got away. There's a reason stories like this. capture our attention. They let us. reimagine history. [music] Everybody. likes to play what if. What if John Wils. Booth got away? That's a fascinating and. fun question. A more interesting. question is what if Lincoln wasn't.

killed? What if he were able to serve. out the almost 4 years [music] left in. his second term? What if Lincoln oversaw. reconstruction? What if Andrew Johnson, who owned slaves before the war, never. became president? Would Lincoln have. allowed the KKK to form in 1866? [music]. Probably not. But Johnson did. Johnson. vetoed almost every civil rights bill. that came across his desk. [music] He. has the dishonor of being the first. president ever to be impeached. >> Oh, back when impeaching a president. meant something. >> Yep. If Lincoln lived, I suspect we'd be.

living in a very different country, a. better country, a more just and united. country. And [music] John Wils Booth. took that from us, from all of us, black. and white. 150 years later, his actions. are still felt today. [music]. Now, I enjoyed this mystery, but I will. not celebrate the man. Whether shot to. death in a barn or mummified, humiliated, and turned into a sideshow. exhibit, either is a fitting end for one. of the most despicable villains in. American history, [music]. there's only one thing I can tell you.

for sure about this story. If there's a. hell, John Wilks Booth is in it. Boom. Shaka Laka. Okay, Eric picked the. next episode. Eric runs the merch store. and does all kinds of stuff around here. I swear that guy never sleeps. Speaking. of merch, go to shop.wyfiles.com. for Yfiles t-shirts, [music] fistable. coffee mugs, and all kinds of sweet.

swag. We've got a big Black Friday sale. going, by the way. Beaver merch. For his. episode, Eric picked simulation theory. Do you ever think we're in a simulation? I sure do. Roll it. Is this reality? Well, we're. experiencing something right now. So. maybe the better question is, what is. reality? Could everything we see, everything we experience, everything. that exists in our entire universe be. artificial? Supporters of simulation.

theory believe that not only is it. possible that we're living in a. simulation, it's likely. And the more we. look for evidence, the more we find. Let's find out why. The idea of the universe being a. simulation is not a new one. Theories. exist in ancient cultures around the. world. Modern simulation theory comes. from Nick Bostonramm, a philosopher at. Oxford who wrote an influential paper on. the subject in 2003. Assuming that.

living in a simulation is possible, Bostonramm presents the simulation. trillemma, which says one of the. following must be true. One, we destroy. ourselves before we're able to create a. simulation. Two, we're able to create a. simulation but choose not to. Or three, we are definitely in a simulation. Boston believes each of these is equally. likely to be true. Now, I don't think. that's controversial. We use computer. models to study the human population, predict the weather for entertainment. Uh we simulate everything. And when a.

civilization can create a realistic. simulation, the most obvious one to. create is that of its own early. existence. Boston calls this an. ancestral simulation. And a civilization. that can do this wouldn't just create. one simulation. It would create many. And those simulated civilizations might. create their own simulations of the. universe. and on and on like Russian. nesting dolls of reality. >> Now you're a character in that world and. you think you have free will and you say. I want to invent a computer. So you do. Hey, I want to create a world in my.

computer. and then that world creates a world in. its computer and then you have. simulations all the way down. >> When Elon Musk was asked what he thought. the chances were that our reality is the. original base reality, >> the odds that we're in base reality is. one in billions. Neil deGrasse Tyson is a little more. conservative. He thinks the odds that we. are in base reality versus a simulated. reality is 50/50. A 50/50 chance that. everything we experience is artificial, that's still pretty high. And even.

though we mostly hear what scientists. think about this, it's not scientific. theory. Simulation theory isn't math, it's philosophy. It isn't physics, it's. metaphysics. So what we need is hard. evidence that we live in a simulation. And to find proof, all you have to do is. look. Let's start at the beginning. There was. no space or time. The contents of the.

entire universe were concentrated to the. size of a tennis ball and had a. temperature of a quadrillion degrees. Then suddenly the big bang. Everything. explodes outward faster than the speed. of light. Then about 14 billion years. later, we've got galaxies and planets. and ice cream and K-pop. >> Ice cream. >> Yeah, I could do without the K-pop. >> Me, too. Okay. If before the Big Bang, there was no space and no time, what was. there? What about the beginning of the. universe from the religious point of. view? God created everything. Fine.

Where was he before? What caused the Big. Bang to happen in the first place? or. what made God decide to snap his fingers. or wiggle his nose or whatever he did to. make everything happen. If you ask a. physicist to explain what existed before. the universe, they'll give you an answer. about quantum foam, dark energy, or. something just as bonkers as the Big. Bang. Ask a theologian what existed. before God created the universe, and. you'll get an answer equally as. confusing. But what does make sense is. that the universe was just sitting there.

dormant. Then someone somewhere decided. to [music] boot up a program. And in. that program, our program are all the. laws of the universe. Electromagnetism. and gravitational force are written into. the program. The speed of light gets a. value. There's code for plank's. constants of mass, speed, and time. Avagadro's numbers in there along with a. bunch of other rules that govern the. behavior of everything that exists. All. part of our program. Even consciousness. itself is part of our simulation. If.

you've never heard of simulation theory, then this might sound far-fetched. But. some of the world's most respected. scientists, technologists, and. philosophers believe that it is more. likely than not that we are living in an. artificial reality. So, how do we prove. it? [music]. If we live in an artificial reality, it. would make sense for there to be. occasional glitches. Philip K. Dick is.

one of the most influential science. fiction writers of all time. Movies. based on his books include Bladeunner, Total Recall, Minority Report, The. Adjustment Bureau, and plenty of others. He believed there are many universes, and sometimes those other realities. bleed into ours. He claimed to have. visions of this, and even wrote stories. like The Man in the High Castle based on. these visions. that in fact plural. realities did exist superimposed onto. one another by so many film. transparencies. >> One way other realities blend into ours.

could be the Mandela effect. The Mandela. effect is when a large number of people. have memories of events that don't match. reality. This is called the Mandela. effect because millions of people. specifically remember Nelson Mandela. died in prison. He didn't. People. remember his wife walking beside his. casket in a funeral procession that was. on television for two hours that day. This never happened. Or the Baron Stain. Bears, which people insist were always. called the Baronstein Bears. People. remember the tycoon from Monopoly having.

a monle that he never had. What was. Darth Vader famous for saying? >> Luke, I am your father. >> Nope, he never said that. >> What? >> What about Stoofer's stove top stuffing? >> Best part of Thanksgiving? >> No, it isn't. Because there's no such. product. Stove top is made by craft. >> Uh, no. >> The evil queen from Snow White who. looked into her mirror and said, >> "Mirror, mirror on the wall.". >> Nope. >> Magic mirror on the wall. Who is the. fairest one of all?

>> My reality is shattered. >> People remember Freze being spelled with. two e. People remember Jiffy peanut. butter, but there's no such thing. And. there are a lot more. A lot more. Personally, I don't have most of these. false memories, but there are a few that. get me. The Flintstones. [music]. There are two T's in the Flintstones. I. remember just one. And what about the. Fruit of the Loom logo? I could swear it. looks like this, but it doesn't. This is. the actual logo. No cornucopia.

>> Corna what now? >> Basket. >> Didn't you say basket for crying out. loud? >> And at the end of Moonrakaker, a. terrible but excellent James Bond movie, I remember Jaw's girlfriend is having. braces. I mean, I specifically remember. it. She didn't have braces. I just can't get my brain to accept it. That's the Mandela effect. [music] So, why do millions of people distinctly. remember different things?

>> Glitch in a simulation. >> Yep. Philip K. Dick also felt when we. experienced deja vu is because something. in our simulated universe changed and a. new timeline branched off of the current. one. >> We are living in a computer programmed. reality and the only clue we have to it. is when some variable is changed. >> Ever feel like you've lived a moment. before? That's because according to. Philip Kadik and others, you have. Dja. Vu is the simulation correcting itself.

with new information. But skeptics can. easily dismiss these theories. The human. mind is terribly unreliable. They don't. accept this as evidence. But we're not. done yet. We live in a huge universe, 200 billion. trillion stars. And even if life is. rare, you'd think there'd be some. evidence of it somewhere. This is Ferm's. paradox. But according to the Drake.

equation, there should be over a million. technologically advanced civilizations. just in our galaxy. And on average, the. nearest one should be just a few hundred. lighty years away. But there's nothing, at least not that we can see. So where. is everybody? Are we really alone in the. universe? Or does our program only focus. on us? And what about the physical rules. that are in place? Max Tegmark, a. cosmologist at MIT, said, "The strict. laws of physics point to the possibility. of a simulation. Putting a cap on the.

speed of light sure is a good way to. keep your Sims from venturing out too. far from home." Theoretical physicist. James Gates thought simulation theory. was crazy. Then he started studying. quarks and electrons. He found error. correcting code buried deep inside the. equations used to describe string. theory. So you're saying as you dig. deeper, you find. computer code written in the fabric of. the cosmos into the equations that we.

want to use to describe the cosmos. Yes, computer code. Computer code. Strings of. bits of ones and zeros. >> Dr. Gates has changed his mind about. simulation theory. In 2017, a group of. scientists at the University of. Washington proved they can embed. computer code into strands of DNA. Everything in nature is math. Look at. the Fibonacci sequence. You get the. Fibonacci sequence by adding two. previous numbers in the sequence. together. So 1 + 1 = 2, 2 + 1 = 3, 3 + 2.

= 5, 5 + 3 = 8, and so on forever. [music] You get the golden ratio, also. called fee, by dividing two consecutive. Fibonacci numbers. So the number 89 is a. Fibonacci number. The next number in the. sequence after 89 is 144. 144 divided by. 89 is the golden ratio. It's about. 1.618. We see Fibonacci numbers and the. golden ratio everywhere. The number of. petals on a flower is usually a. Fibonacci number. Liies have three. petals. Buttercups have five, chory has.

21, and a daisy has 34. And the spacing. of each petal is arranged in a circle. according to the golden ratio. As trees. grow, the number of branches they form. is a Fibonacci number. And not just. plants, animals, too. The ratio of. female to male honeybees in a colony is. the golden ratio, 1.618. The human body. conforms to the golden ratio, too. Most. of the body follows the numbers 1 2 3. and 5. One nose, two eyes, three limb. segments, five fingers, five toes. The.

proportions of the body like the length. of your shoulder to your elbow and from. your elbow to your fingertips. That's. the golden ratio. Even a DNA molecule. measures 34 anstroms long by 21 anstroms. wide. Fibonacci numbers and the golden. ratio. From the spiral of sea shells to. the spiral of a galaxy and everything in. between, Fibonacci numbers are. everywhere. Now, some claim this is a. coincidence that humans look for. patterns in chaos because that's what. we're programmed to do. >> What we're programmed to do. And isn't.

that interesting? By trying to debunk. simulation theory, they actually end up. proving it. No matter what we study, whether it's something the size of a. galaxy or as small as an electron, everything in the universe seems to. follow patterns and rules. In other. words, a program. [music]. To simulate an entire universe, you'd. obviously need more advanced technology. than we have. But that doesn't mean we.

won't get there. Moore's law says that. computing power doubles every 18 months. And this has held true for about 50. years now. That is slowing down a little. bit, but only because of physical. limitations. Assuming we can learn to. make microchips smaller, and there's no. doubt that we will. It's predicted that. artificial intelligence could surpass. human intelligence within the next 100. years. As Elon Musk points out, when he. was a kid, the world's most advanced. video game was Pong, two rectangles on a. screen. 40 years later, video game.

technology is barely distinguishable. from reality. He said that 6 years ago. And even in that short time, video game. engines have become even more realistic. Look at this footage from Unreal Engine. 5. >> When a world we can build feels as real. as our own, [screaming]. what just happened? Imagine what games. are going to look like in the next 6. years or the next 60 or the next 6,000.

but simulating an entire universe. How. big of a computer will we need? Well, it's estimated that there are 10 to the. power of 80 atoms in the universe. Let. me put that on the screen just for fun. Okay, that that's a lot. If each. particle needs 128 bits to calculate its. position and momentum, you're at 10 the. power of 83 bits. And that's just for. data storage. We also need computing. power to track what each of those. particles is doing. If we say two. floatingoint operations per second or.

two flops per particle, we're at 2 * 10. to the 80th power flops. There aren't. even words for these numbers. And this. is the computing power for just the. stuff in the universe. What about human. intelligence? The human brain can. perform 100 trillion calculations per. second or 100 teraflops multiplied by. billions of people. The numbers are. ridiculous. To power all of this, the. simulation would need access to multiple. Dyson spheres, the mega structures that. capture 100% of the energy of a star. Or.

the simulation would have to harness the. energy from black holes. This is why. famous physicists like Dr. Mitchioaku. are not on board with simulation theory. He claims that simulating a universe is. not scientifically possible. The only. computer capable of simulating a. universe is the universe itself. Now, at. first glance, this makes sense. But with. all due respect to Dr. Kaku, that's not. how simulations work. When you're. playing a 3D video game, the entire game. world isn't rendered. Instead, the game. engine only calculates what the player.

can see and interact with at that. specific moment. If we are living in a. simulation, then it would make sense. that the creators of the simulation. would use a similar technique. And. wouldn't it be interesting if there was. evidence that this is exactly what. happens? >> Wait a minute. Do we have proof? Sweet. fancy Moses. Supporters of simulation theory often. point to video games as a way to.

explain, if not prove that our reality. is artificial. In a video game, the only. data that is rendered is what the player. sees or interacts with. If you're. playing a video game and there's a car. or building a mile away, that entire. object isn't rendered. The game engine. only renders the bare minimum of. information to make the object look. real. A distant building is rendered as. just a few pixels. Not that complicated. As you get closer, the engine renders. more details, but still it's just a. facade. The engine doesn't bother. calculating what's inside the building. to actually go in. The game engine.

always knows how much data to send you. and doesn't bother with anything else. If we live in a simulation, it would. make sense that our reality is rendered. the same way. And we could test this. >> Wait, what do you mean we can test this? Specifically, we can use the double slit. experiment. Here's how it goes. If we. fire particles in a straight line at a. screen, after passing through a single. slit, we would expect to see this. clumping pattern on the screen. If we. try this with a wave, we expect to see a. pattern like this, where particles are.

most dense in the middle of the screen, but radiate outward, similar to the. clumping pattern. When we add a second. slit, it starts to get fun. When the. waves pass through the double slit, each. slit creates its own wave. When those. waves intersect, they cancel each other. out. That creates a pattern like this. It's called an interference pattern. So, particles passing through two slits. create clumping patterns. Waves through. two slits creates an interference. pattern. Make sense? >> Yeah, I'm with you. >> Good. If we fire electrons through the.

slit, we see the clumping pattern as. expected. An electron has mass, so it's. a tiny bit of matter. So, if we fire. electrons through two slits, we should. see two clumps. But, we don't. we see. the wave interference pattern. This. shouldn't be happening. What's going on. here? For years, scientists assumed that. the electrons were colliding with each. other, causing the wave pattern. But in. the '60s, the experiment was modified so. that only one electron at a time was. fired through the slits. There was no. way the electrons could interact with.

each other. Yet, we still see an. interference pattern. Scientists wanted. to see what was causing this, so they. added a detector to observe electrons as. they pass through the slits. That's when. things go from weird to paranormal. As. soon as the detectors were installed, the interference pattern went away and. the clumping pattern returned. Take the. detectors away and the wave interference. pattern is back. But that's a different. result to what we had earlier. So, here's the last bit of sneakiness that.

we can play with atoms. Surely now, you. know, we we're going to get to grips. with it. Leave the detector there, but just very. quietly go and unplug it. Don't let the atoms know that you're not. spying on them. Run the experiment again. [laughter]. Now, if you can explain this using. common sense and logic, do let me know [laughter].

because there's a Nobel Prize for you. It's as if the particles are aware. they're being observed. [music] Then. physicist John Wheeler had an idea. He. called it the delayed choice experiment. How it works is photons are projected. through the double slit, but the. detector is not activated until after. they pass through the slit, but before. they impact the [music] screen. Photons. were emitted as waves, pass through the. slits as waves. [music]. But when the waves were observed before. hitting the screen, they suddenly. behaved like particles again.

>> [music]. >> still don't think there's an. intelligence at work. Well, what. Wheeler's experiment showed is that even. though the electrons started as waves. but behaved like particles after being. observed, at the moment the decision to. observe them was made, the electrons. recorded themselves as having passed. through the slits [music] as particles. The electrons changed their state by. going back in time. time. >> I personally find that I gravitate more. towards the information theoretic point.

of view and and believing that uh that. I'm I the universe that I exist in is a. very good highquality simulation. >> Now this experiment is happening on a. table in a lab a very short distance. So. what happens when we observe light. coming from vast distances like say a. galaxy 100 million lighty years away. If. light from a distant galaxy is projected. through the double slit, it creates the. wave interference pattern. But if we. push those photons through a measuring. apparatus to observe them, the wave.

again collapses all the way back to its. source. This is called retrocausality. Simply by choosing to observe the. photons this way, they reach back. through time 100 million years and alter. their state on the other side of the. galaxy. But like a video game engine, it. only does this if we're looking. Even. though our universe is full of galaxies, those galaxies may not actually be. there. If we're living in a simulation, then stars and galaxies could simply be.

projections. And only when we get up. close would those projections become. more detailed. This is an excellent way. to save computational resources. And. because we're stuck with the hard limit. of the speed of light, getting to far. off places is really difficult. Limiting. the speed of light is a useful rule to. have in place. Quantum mechanics like. the double slit experiment and quantum. entanglement only make sense if there's. a program at work because only the. program can ignore the laws of physics. and ignore the concept of time itself.

[music]. A convenient case for simulation theory. is you can't disprove it. The Big Bang. That was the simulation booting up. We. haven't found aliens. They're not in the. simulation. How come UFOs seem to. violate the laws of physics? Well, because they're programs operated by the. simulation creators. They don't have to. follow the laws of physics. >> Yeah, but who created the simulation? >> Well, that's the big question, isn't it? When you think of the simulation creator.

as an omnisient intelligence who exists. outside of our understanding of space. and time, it sounds an awful lot like. you're describing God. And just like you. can't prove we're not in a simulation, you can't prove there is no God. If. something miraculous happens or. something horrible happens, you can say. it's part of the simulation just as. easily as you can say it's part of God's. plan. Something I find very interesting. is that many believers of simulation. theory are fierce atheists. They dismiss. the idea of God as corny superstition.

And there are plenty of devoutly. religious people who dismiss provable. science like evolution and the age of. the earth. People on the religious side. say that if there is no God and life is. just a simulation, then nothing matters. Without God to guide us and sometimes. punish us, depending on what you. believe, our actions don't have. consequences. I disagree. Even if we. don't live in base reality, we still. live in our reality. And our actions. here do have consequences. As for what.

happens after we die, simulation or not, nobody really knows. Both sides argue. that faith and science are not. compatible. Isn't this hypocritical? Whether you believe in God or you. believe in simulation theory, the real. question is, what's the difference? [music]. The next episode was picked by Victoria. Victoria pretty much runs things around. here. Don't cross her, she'll cut you.

Okay, Victoria chose the episode about. Ooh, this is a good one. Victoria chose. go Beckley Teepe. I hope I said that. right. Teepe. Teepe. Whatever. Roll it. We are the descendants of an ancient. civilization. One which mastered. technology, mapped the cosmos, and. understood our relationship with the. natural world. Our ancestors traveled. the world and built enormous structures.

They scaled their creations into cities. They shared a common governance and. similar religious beliefs. Our ancestors. lived as we do today as a global. society. Then around 14,500 years ago, this global superpower started to. collapse. First [music] came. uncontrollable change and then a. cataclysm. In less than a week, everything and almost everyone was gone. Those left behind built monuments. Monuments not as tributes to gods or.

homage to kings. The monuments are a. warning to future generations. To us, that warning is simple. Danger is. coming. Our civilization has ended. before and it will end again. This is. one story that big archaeology and world. governments don't want you to know. because once you hear it, you'll never. trust them again. Because the danger. that's coming, there's not a thing they. [music] can do to stop it.

In 1994, German archaeologist Clash. Schmidt was touring Turkish Neolithic. sites when he spotted a limestone block. poking out from [music] a hillside. The. locals called the area potbelly hill or. in their language, Gobeclete. Schmidt and his team began excavating. the hillside around the limestone. [music] And though they didn't know it. at the time, what they discovered would. change everything we know about human. history. We've all been taught the.

official story, the big archaeology. story of the origin of human. civilization. Stone age hunter gatherers emerged from. the last ice age and eventually. discovered farming. These people. organized into settlements in. Mesopotamia, the fertile crescent. [music]. Then about 6,000 years ago, the first. civilization was born, ancient Sumer. Stone age [music] humans before Sumer. were primitive. Their most advanced. technology was stone tools. At Quebec, archaeologists uncovered four man-made.

[music]. stone enclosures covering 100,000 square. ft of land. That's interesting, but. there was a problem. The earliest parts. of Gbecepe were built 11,600 [music]. years ago. That's 6,000 years before the. ancient Samrians were doing anything. Now, this didn't make sense at all. 11,600 years ago was the end of the last. ice age. Big archaeology said this far. back in time, humans were following the.

migration of animals. They built. temporary camps or at most mud huts. Humans were not building enormous. [music] permanent stone structures. They. didn't have the knowledge. They didn't. have the tools. They didn't have the. talent. [music] Yet, here it was. So, the more they dug, the more things. stopped making sense. Soon, archaeologists learned that the. enclosures weren't built at the same. time. This indicates [music] long-term. occupation of the site. Well, how long?

Well, the newest structure was built. about 10,500 years ago. That means. Gobecletepe was occupied for over 1,000. years. Now, 1,000 years doesn't sound. that long, but in [music] human history, 1,000 years is a very long time. That's. enough time for the Roman Empire to rise. and fall and rise and fall [music]. again. The excavation of Gobecletepe continued, and from the perspective of the. scientific establishment, things just.

kept [music] getting worse. Gobecée. wasn't haphazardly thrown together by. Stone Age primitives. It was built. strategically for a purpose. The four enclosures are circular between. 20 and 200 ft across and all are angled. toward the star Sirius. Sirius is the. brightest star in the sky. [music]. Many cultures throughout history built. temples angled at Sirius, but not 12,000.

years ago. Yet here it was. Over the course of 1100 years, Sirius's. alignment moved across the night sky. So. the builders of a Gbeclete created newer. enclosures to follow each realignment. To build these monuments required an. understanding of astronomy, mathematics, and engineering. A project of this size. would also require skills like community. planning, administration, and division. of labor. Big archaeology said people.

during this time had not yet acquired. these skills. Yet, here it was. Within each enclosure are T-shaped. pillars, [music] some of them 16 ft. tall, each weighing up to 10 tons. 43. pillars have been excavated so far, but. the Gobeclete story is just getting. started. Only 5% of the site has been. uncovered. [music] Recent LAR imaging. revealed at least 15 to 20 additional. structures and enclosures buried beneath.

the main site and there are more than. 200 additional stone pillars. Now. [music] about those stone pillars, there's something very strange going on. Engraved on the pillars are depictions. of humans, animals, and human animal. hybrids. There are foxes, lions, scorpions, snakes, boar, wild donkey, gazels. There's all kinds of things. And. the work is very advanced, but the most. advanced carvings are on the oldest. pillars. As the site gets newer, the.

designs get less intricate. It's like. technology and craftsmanship suddenly. appeared out of [music] nowhere. Somehow, 7,000 years before Stonehenge. and the Great Pyramids of Giza were. built, and 6,000 years before the. invention of writing, humans were. capable of building this. >> [music]. >> Where did the builders get this sudden. knowledge? >> Theunnaki. >> Well, the answer to that question is. controversial. >> The Anunnaki.

>> Maybe the human story doesn't start at. the end of the last ice age like big. archaeology wants us to think. Maybe before the last ice age, the earth. was home to an older and much more. advanced civilization. That civilization. then taught the primitive local hunter. gatherers about mathematics and. engineering. They also taught these. primitive humans astronomy and told them. to pay very close attention to the sky. These ancients then told the local. people their story of the time before.

the ice age [music] when their. civilization flourished. Pillar 43 in enclosure D has become. known as the Vulture Stone. On the. vulture stone, there's a detailed. carving that tells the story of these. ancient people. Unfortunately, it's also. the story of the end of the world. [music]. Pillar 43 in enclosure D, also known as. the Vulture Stone, depicts the worst day.

in human history. Engraved on the pillar. are asterisms, which are bright star. clusters like constellations. Pillar 43. points to Scorpius. Now, to be fair to. skeptics, every culture is going to have. different representations for their. constellations. But look at the drawing. on the vulture stone. Without a doubt, that is a scorpion. [music] When the. constellation Scorpius is lined up with. the night sky, all the other drawings. fall into place, each of them. representing constellations. A sun sits.

at top the vulture's wing in the design, showing its placement in the sky in. relation to the stars. If we use the. central sun as a guide to line up the. constellations, it reveals a star map. And every star map is a date stamp. Take the Hoover Dam for example. Engraved on the floor of the dam is the. exact configuration of the stars as seen. from that location on the day the dam. opened. >> Ew. Why did they carve that in the damn. floor?

>> So, if the structure is found thousands. or millions of years from now, archaeologists will know the exact date. The day the damn people made it, >> right? >> Damn good idea. >> The vulture stone shows the only time in. history that this specific configuration. of stars could be seen from Gobeclete. It was a 100-year window between 10,900. to 10,800 BC, about 13,000 years ago. But wait, this is more than a,000 years.

before Gobecletepe was built. [music] So. this tablet is telling a story of. something that happened in the past. It's the story of a time period commonly. referred to as the younger dus and the. terror from the sky that changed the. face of the earth. The ice age lasted about 2.6 million. years. Most of the northern hemisphere. was covered by miles thick sheets of. ice. 30% of the earth's surface was. covered by glaciers. This sounds bad,

but for the human race, it was good. Sure, the climate was cold, but it. wasn't cold everywhere. Most of Africa and the Middle East were. warm with plenty of plant and animal. life. And the climate was consistent for. [music] 2.6 million years. Hominids had. a nice, stable climate in which to. evolve during this time. Homo sapiens, modern humans, emerged during this time. We were born in the ice age. We thrived. in it. [music]. Then the climate started changing.

Temperatures became warmer year after. year. The ice [music] sheets slowly. melted. Sea levels gradually rose. This. would have been a concern for the human. civilization. But they were helpless to. do anything about it. >> Oh, so you admit that even if the. climate is getting warmer, there's. nothing we can do about it. >> Well, that's an open debate. >> How dare you? Then suddenly around 12,900 years ago, the earth got cold again. Not as cold as.

before, but cold enough that humans. understood how to survive and thrive in. these conditions. This mini ice age was. essentially a return to normal. But a. thousand years later, this age of. normaly ended violently and suddenly. The ice sheets melted as they had. before, but not over 2.6 million years. This time, the ice melted in weeks. There was no time for civilization to. adjust. This was the cataclysm. And. there's evidence of this cataclysm in.

ice core samples taken from Greenland. and Antarctica. There's evidence in. sediment cores from the bottom of lakes. and oceans. There's evidence in organic. material that's been carbonated. [music]. But there's also evidence of this. disaster on Pillar 43, the Vulture. Stone. Along with giving us a date, the tablet. also depicts the comet impact of the. younger Dus. At the bottom of the pillar. is a headless man linking the date to. death. There's also a snake coming from.

the south. This has been said to. represent three giant waves washing over. the earth. Those could have been the. tsunamis that we know for sure happened. But pillar 43 is only a piece of the. story. Pillar 56 depicts more of the. younger dus impact. Waves crashing, animals fleeing. Now those are scary, but to me, pillar 18 is the most ominous. depiction at Gobecletepe. First of all, it contains the only word on the whole. site. The word is God. >> Maybe it was saying, "Oh god, WE'RE.

GOING TO DIE. Oh god, please save us.". >> I think it was saying exactly that. >> Wait, wait. I was just joking. >> Well, I think something very bad. happened. And this pillar is a plea for. help. Oh, my my joke isn't very funny. anymore. >> Pillar 18 in enclosure D focuses on the. constellation we know as Aquarius, but. when it was built, the pillar was. probably centered on Taurus. Now, if. that's true, we now have a very big.

piece of this puzzle. The comet Enki was. discovered in 1786 and takes about 3. years to orbit the sun. Anki is about 3. mi wide. Not a huge comet, but not small. either. >> [music]. >> The thing is, it used to be bigger, much. bigger. It was part of what scientists call a. mega comet, 100 miles wide, and not just. made of ice, but also glass, metal, and. rock. About 20,000 years ago, the mega.

comet broke up. >> This is good, right? >> Oh, no. This is bad. Really bad. When the 100mile mega comet broke up, it. created an enormous debris field. Now, instead of one mega comet, you've got. millions of smaller comets ranging in. size from grains of sand to over a mile. across. [music] When the Earth passed. through that cloud of debris, the people. at Quebec would have seen a firestorm of. comets raining down on the Earth, all.

coming from the Aquarius constellation, just as is depicted [music] on Pillar. 43. But here's the scary part. We fly. through that same debris field every. year. It's called the torid meteor shower and. it's caused a lot of damage through the. years. [music] And if you're watching. this in September, October, or November, we're flying through it right now.

When Gobecley Teepe was discovered, big. archaeology had no choice but to admit. they had underestimated the. technological abilities of early man by. oh about 5,000 years. It must be a. mistake, they said. After all, their. grant money depends on them being right. No need to fund a search for, let's say, a mummy in a pyramid. [music] That's not. going to be there. But in 2019, more bad. news for the mainstream. That year, excavation started at Kahantepe, [music]. about 40 mi from Gobecletepe. Initial.

estimates say it might have been settled. before Gobecletepe. Gobecletepe seems to have been built for. a single [music] purpose, maybe a place. of worship or an observatory. Kahantepe. is very different. It shows obvious. signs of a structured society. Now, there are many different types of. buildings at Kahantepe. Some could be. shops or residences or food storage. vessels, grindstones, [music] flint, plates, and all kinds of other objects.

have been found at Kahantepe. These types of artifacts haven't [music]. been found at Gobecée, suggesting the. two sites served very different social. functions, but these places existed. [music] at the same time. So, it's. possible Gobeclete was a religious. center [music] where Kahantepe was a. residential neighborhood or maybe a. shopping district. And if that's true, there must be more settlements in the. area yet to be found. >> There's more. >> Lots more.

In 2021, the Turkish government. announced the discovery of at least 11. additional hillsides which contain. structures very much like Gobeclete. The. hillsides make up a 100mile ring with. Gobecée in the center. These sites are. known collectively as Taspler. Now. instead of an area inhabited by nomatic. primitives, Tas Templar is a metropolis. Cyborg was uncovered by archaeologists. in 2021 around 10 mi from Gobeclete.

Cyborg is one of the most complex. settlements in the area. Archaeologists. [music] found communal buildings big. enough to seat 50 people. There are. communal halls covered with countless. engravings of humans and animals. To the. south of the communal buildings are. ancient residential homes. The layout of. each of [music] the Tas Templer. archaeological sites suggest hundreds of. thousands of people live there. permanently right after the younger dus. changed the face of [music] the world.

But there's a site discovered in 2008. about 180 mi away which really broke. history and suggests Tas Templar may. have been a capital in what was a very. busy region. While digging a dam in the. area, engineers rediscovered the. settlement of Bankulu Tarla. >> Damn engineers. >> Look, you don't have to keep tagging. that joke. >> You don't like my damn jokes, huh? >> The Banclu Tarla settlement is between. 12,000 and 13,000 years old. That means.

it was built within the younger driest. cold period before the flood. The. structure found has similar features. with Gobeci and the structures belonging. to this period in the region. [music]. The building has a unique architectural. style, shape and interior arrangement. [music] unique with these features. We. can say that it is a temple that dates. back to 12,000 years. This is where the. existence of an ancient advanced. civilization starts to become almost.

irrefutable. Bonukuluta has all the. things we find on Tas Temple. private. buildings, public spaces. It's got. storage rooms, tools, ornamental. objects. It's got mega and microliths. The people of Vanklutara were so. advanced they even built a sewer system. [music] More than 130 skeletons have. been found there, each buried with. hundreds of thousands of beads. The. [music] manufacturing of beads proves. that there was a division of labor, an. artisan class. It proves that the people.

had time for more than just hunting and. gathering. They had time to make art. >> Making beads is more of a craft than. art. But I get your meaning. >> So big archaeology was wrong again. Very, very wrong. This area of Turkey. shows that thousands of people lived. there in organized communities. They. built neighborhoods and temples. They. had shops and large halls for gathering. They had division of labor. They were. experts at stonework. They understood. mathematics and astronomy. They [music]. were talented engineers. And this was.

12,000 years ago. But where's the. evidence of people learning these. skills? If the people at Gobeclete were. putting up 10 ton stone pillars 10 to. 12,000 years ago, shouldn't we see. communities learning these skills 15,000. years ago, 20,000 years ago? We should. see an evolution of technology that. [music] takes thousands of years. But we. don't. This advanced technology just. appeared.

But that's [music] not exactly true. The. people in the area around Gobeclete, Bankuk Tarla, and Cybbert were taught. this technology after the great flood. It was a gift to them. A gift from the. people of the sea. Mainstream or big archaeology gets. things wrong. A [music] lot of things. Gobecé shouldn't be there. Neither. should Kahanepe. Bunkuk Tarla or any of.

the other settlements in the area. [music] We're told the Great Pyramids of. Giza are tombs built for pharaohs. But. no mummy has ever been found in a tomb. Not one, not ever. But in the Great. [music] Pyramid, we did find evidence. that it might have been used as an. ancient power plant. [music] Big. archaeology hates that idea. Now, when I. was growing up, we were taught that. Native Americans first arrived in North. America by crossing the Bearing Land. Bridge in Alaska between 10 to 12,000.

years ago. This was called the Clovis. first model because some stone tools. were found in Clovis, New Mexico. Big. archaeology wasn't even close on how. people got to the Americas or when. [music] the Monte Verde site in Chile. blew up the Clovis model when it was. dated to 14,800. years ago. Buttermilk Creek complex in. Texas was dated to about 15,500 years. ago. The Bluefish Caves in Yukon, Canada. have evidence suggesting human activity.

as far back as 24,000 years ago. Plus, there's hard evidence that people from. Polynesia in the South Pacific traded. with and mated with tribes in Guatemala. many years before Columbus. And they. didn't cross the Bearing Land Bridge in. Alaska. [music] They sailed thousands of. miles across the Pacific Ocean. This. means they had advanced shipmaking. skills and seammanship. They had. knowledge of astronomy and the weather. >> You had to make that trip. They also had.

to have balls of steel. I would have. preferred that you said nerves of steel, but but yeah, they were brave. Big archaeology knows the mine culture. had a large population, but they were. not considered to be very. technologically advanced. But [music] in. 2023, researchers deep in the Guatemalan. jungle discovered a sprawling Mayan. civilization. It covers more than 650. square miles. And here's the crazy. thing. The cities were interconnected by. a series of superhighways. And these.

weren't just paths or dirt roads. The. roads were elevated to allow for. drainage and even paved with white. plaster. The Romans get a lot of credit. for creating the first roads, but the. Mayans beat the Romans to it by about. 2,000 years. They're the world's first uh superighway. system that we have. What's amazing. about them is that they unite all these. cities together like a spiderweb, which. forms one of the earliest and first. state societies in the Western. Hemisphere.

>> So big archaeology was wrong about Mayan. technology, but they still had to get in. the last word. Mainstream said, "Sure, they had hundreds of miles of roads, but. they didn't have vehicles. They just. walked. No animals or people pulling. carts. They just walked hundreds of. miles." Big archaeology said this is. because the Mayans didn't discover the. wheel. But Mayan toys have been. discovered that have wheels. Big. archaeology says the Mayans never. thought to scale them up to put them on. carts. How do we know this? Big.

archaeology says we know this because we. haven't discovered the carts. Oh, but a year ago, big archaeology would. have said there's no way the Mayans. could have built a highway system. Why. not? Well, because we haven't found one. yet. There it is. Big archaeology is. quick to take a lack of evidence at face. value regardless of common sense. Like. there was no such thing as the city of. Dwarka, [music] the advanced and. prosperous city in India that was. consumed by a great flood. That was all.

a myth. Then Dwara was found and dated. to the younger Dryus. There's no such. thing as Atlantis, but it's hard to. explain the biminy road in the Bahamas. or the ancient city off the coast of. Cuba that could be anywhere from 6,000. to 50,000 years old. There's no such. thing as MW, the continent that once. connected Greece to Easter Island. [music] Yet, the languages from those. two cultures share about a thousand. words, and the Anuguni monument off the. coast of Japan is right where Mu would.

have been. There was no such thing as. Darren Cuyu, the secret underground city. that hid 20,000 people from danger for. thousands of years. That was just a. local myth. Then a man tried expanding. his basement and realized it's already. been expanded and the lost city of. Darenuyu was discovered. And that's why. big archaeology says there was no. advanced culture before the flood. because there's no evidence of it. Except there is.

>> [music]. >> Every culture has a flood myth. Long. before Noah built the ark, a great flood. turned up in Mesopotamia in the epic of. Gilgamesh. The ancient Samrians, Egyptians, Greeks, Hindus, they all have. a legend of a deluge that wiped the. earth clean. The flood myth really is. worldwide. The Norse have their own. version of the Noah's Arc story. >> [music]. >> the Inca, the Aztec, tribes across. America, Japanese, Chinese, Hawaiian,

Australian, Aboriginal. This is [music]. just to name a few. The list is much. longer. Now, the legends vary, but. they're all basically the same plot. People are misbehaving, so a flood is. sent to wipe them out and start over. with a few survivors. Now, I don't know. about the misbehaving part, but we're. pretty sure the flood really [music]. happened. But some of the flood legends. have a twist. >> [music]. >> Those legends say that before the flood,

there were advanced civilizations who. flourished on their own continents. While primitive humans were still. figuring out stone tools, Atlantis was a. powerful and advanced island nation. It. was larger than Asia and ruled by the. descendants of gods. Atlantis was. prosperous and technologically advanced. But the people became corrupt, prompting. the gods to sink the island into the. ocean in a single day and night of. catastrophic earthquakes and floods. Lamoria was a huge continent in the.

Pacific Ocean. Lamoria was home to a. spiritually advanced civilization that. was sometimes ally and sometimes enemy. of Atlantis. And then there was MW. Mu. was a continent either in the Pacific. Ocean or Indian Ocean. [music] It was. once inhabited by an advanced. civilization. The survivors of MW. brought their wisdom and began the. civilizations of ancient Egypt and the. [music] Maya. Atlantis, Lamoria, and MW. are all similar stories in that they. were highly advanced civilizations. All. existed around 9600 BC, all destroyed by.

a great [music] flood. But in all three. stories, there are a few survivors. After the flood waters recede and their. homelands are destroyed, these survivors. seek refuge on the mainland. The people. they find are kind but primitive. So, the survivors grant them the gift. [music] of civilization. >> And when you show up somewhere, it's. always polite to bring something. Flower, bottle of wine, civilization. >> I agree. That's just good matters. But.

it's at this time that agriculture. explodes across the Middle East. Megalithic structures now appear. Complex cities emerge all seemingly. overnight. In Hindu, Matsia takes the form of a. fish and guides King Manu to reestablish. civilization. In Mesopotamia, Aanas. emerged from the sea as half man, half. fish. >> A mermaid. >> Yep. >> Hey, ask him if he has a sister, will. you? >> Aanas teaches the Samrians agriculture,

writing, law, and all knowledge crucial. for civilization. Quaaddle, also. associated with water, brought. civilization to the Aztecs. In Egyptian, Polynesian, Japanese, Chinese, Norse, Hawaiian, Native American, there's a. godlike teacher who comes from the sea. to help restart civilization. And these. saviors or teachers or whatever you want. to call them, they all appear after the. great flood at the end of the younger. dus. And they all transfer wisdom and.

knowledge to the primitive people that. they meet and restart civilization. And there is more evidence. The cultures. around the world seem to have been given. the same knowledge. For example, Sirius is the brightest. star in the sky. Every culture knows. about it. But every culture, new and. old, refers to Sirius [music] as a dog. or a wolf. In ancient Iraq, Sirius was. called the dog star that leads. [music]. In China, it was known as the heavenly. wolf. Assyrians and Aadians knew Sirius.

as the dog of the sun. >> [music]. >> And in North America, native tribes used. largely canine terminology, like dog. that follows mountain sheep or wolf star. when referring to Sirius. Most cultures. holding a reverence for the brightest. star in the sky is understandable. But. all of them referring to the same star. as a dog or a wolf, that seems like a. big coincidence. >> We don't believe in those. >> We don't. And then seemingly out of.

nowhere, Bangkoka, a bustling city, appears in Turkey. Khanepe with its. homes and halls and magnificent art. appears. And Gobecletepe is built. An. entire complex dedicated to the star. Sirius. And within the complex, 10 ton. stone pillars that tell the story of. man, the fire from the sky, the flood. that swallows the earth, and of. civilization given a second chance. The. pillars also offer a warning for future. generations. For us, all that has.

happened before will happen again. The builders gave us symbols on stones. [music] and told us to watch the sky. They showed us the constellations to. study. They gave us the exact date of. the last disaster so we could prepare. for the next one because there's always. a next one. The images carved in the. stone pillars could be a guide to ensure. humanity's survival. But if all that's. true, why was it all intentionally. buried?

Around 10,000 years ago, the people of. Gobecée took up a massive project. [music] They filled in the entire. compound with stone and debris. Then. they covered it with earth and mud to. make it seem like it was never there. There are [music] two theories for why. they did this. One, to preserve it, or. two, to hide it. [music]. An advanced society destroyed by an.

ancient cataclysm. The survivors venture. out into the world, spreading wisdom and. knowledge and sewing [music] the seeds. of civilization. Then, in an instant, agriculture explodes, cities are born, and a new era of man begins. Just not. the first era of man. Not only is this a. great story, it's [music] one of my. favorite stories. I read Graham. Hancock's book, Fingerprints of the. Gods, in the 1990s, and I was hooked. I've been an ancient civilization junkie. ever since.

But is it true? [music]. Well, big archaeology says it's. absolutely not true. But we've shown. that lack of evidence is proof enough. for the mainstream to say that something. never existed. Only when dragged, kicking and screaming to evidence of the. great flood do they finally acknowledge. it. And only when Gobeclete is. discovered does the date of the first. civilization get pushed back. Then. [music] Buklutar is found and the date.

changes again. And it may change again. and again. So big archaeology was wrong. about how advanced the people of the. stone age were. They were clearly. advanced enough to build monolithic. monuments and huge complex cities. It. appears as if this skill and technology. comes out of nowhere. We don't see. older, smaller structures that show an. evolution of technology that leads to. something as magnificent as Gobeclete. The [music] technology just appeared and. it appeared at the end of the younger.

Dus after the great flood. So, it must. be a transfer of technology from. survivors of an ancient society whose. civilization was lost beneath the waves. But let's be fair, there was an. evolution of technology leading to. Geekbecepe. [music]. Nufian culture existed in the same area. about 15,000 years ago. They were. unusual in that they settled the area. permanently. There's evidence of. cemeteries, architecture, food. production, animal domestication, and.

burials with elaborate mortuary. treatments. The Nufians built organized. stone structures decorated with art. [music] This is 2,000 years before. Gobecletepe. A Malaha was a Nufian. settlement built around 12,000 years. ago. They too used circular structures. like those found at Gobecletepe. Pinatuian culture goes back to 23,000. years ago. Now, it's rare to find. evidence of this culture, but it's not. impossible. There are engravings,

ornaments, and beads that are older than. Gobecletepe, thousands of years older. The monoliths at Gobecletepe are. impressive. But the Nufians also created. huge slabs of decorated limestone. Not. as elaborate, but they were made with. skill and craftsmanship. Cortik Teepe is. another mound discovered in the Anatolia. area of Turkey. Found there are pieces. of very elaborate pottery, [music]. carvings, jewelry, tools, and fishing.

hooks. Cortep has been dated from 12,400. years ago to 11,700 years ago. So, not. only older than Gobeclete, this. settlement existed during the cold snap. of the younger Dus. Now, it is worth. noting that Cortepe [music]. disappears around the time of the flood, but before the flood, people lived there. for a thousand years. So, there is. evidence of an evolution of technology, not just with jewelry and engraving, but.

even building large monoliths all. thousands of years before Gobecletepe. One of the great mysteries is why. Gobecletepe was deliberately filled in. Now, the working theory is the earlier. structures were pretty big and dug into. a mound. An earthquake hit, knocked. everything into the mound and made a. mess of things. Then, everyone in the. area filled in the rest of the hole and. built newer, smaller structures around. the older, larger ones. Structures that.

were designed to withstand earthquakes. Now, no one really knows for sure, but. it's a theory that makes sense to me. And there are some issues with the dates. as well. The date on pillar 43, the. vulture stone, that's 13,000 years ago. That doesn't line up with the end of the. younger Dus. So, it's not describing the. great flood. But that date does line up. with the beginning of the younger Dryus. Was there an impact at that time, too? Well, there probably was.

It's believed that the abrupt cooling. 13,000 years ago was caused by a series. of events that happened at [music] the. same time. There are icecore samples. that show an impact 12,887. years ago and that date is accurate. within 5 years. And this happened at the. same time as a large volcanic eruption. in Germany. This caused the earth to be. covered in soot which caused years of. darkness. Meanwhile, the impacts. disrupted the ocean currents. So.

everything got cold again. Not as cold. as before, but still cold. Then about a. thousand years later, another event. Maybe another impact. Maybe a massive. solar event. We don't really know for. sure, but something did happen to warm. the Earth and melt the ice caps really. fast. We do have evidence of cultures. that existed before, during, and after. the younger dryness. Now, did we debunk. the idea of an advanced culture before. that? Absolutely not. I'm just trying to.

give you the full picture. There. absolutely could have been someone else. here long ago. And we've talked before. about how it would take only about. 10,000 years before all evidence of the. human race is gone. But here's the thing. about that number. Civilization. disappearing in 10,000 years assumes the. Earth is peaceful. If one of these years. the torid meteor shower threw a rock at. us like it did during the younger dryus, well, it wouldn't take 10,000 years to. erase our civilization, we'd be gone in.

a day. Here's how it happens. It's a brisk. November evening. Maybe this year, maybe. 20 years from now, it doesn't matter. [music] Every November, the Earth passes. through the torid meteor cloud and the. Earth's sky lights up. People gather all. over the world to see the event. Meteor. watching parties are common. [music] You. and a few friends decide to get together. and see the show. The sky does not. disappoint. Shooting stars zip across.

the night sky like fireflies. There are. even larger comets that streak by for a. full second or two before burning. [music] out. And once in a while, a big. one. It's a fireball that lights up the. sky. And for a moment, night turns to. day. [music] Now, everyone's heart. races. But fireballs like these are. known to happen during the torid shower. People remember the torids of 2015. That. year, fireballs hit the earth in swarms. In 2020, a torid fireball exploded over.

Japan that sounded like a bomb going. off. That one set off car alarms for. miles. You continue to watch the sky and notice. the shooting stars getting denser, thicker, [music] then a fireball, then. another. You feel a little anxiety, but. the torid meteors have been happening. your whole life, and they've been. nothing more than a light show, then. another fireball. This one looks like.

it's close. It vaporizes in a flash of. light so bright that you have to shield. your eyes. [music] You and your group of. sky watchers giggle nervously. Then 3. seconds later, a crack, then a boom. So. loud you feel it in your stomach. Everyone agrees. This was fun, but let's. go home. But now there's another. fireball. Everyone turns [music] to see. This one is different. It's not really. streaking across the sky. It's expanding. somehow. No, it's not expanding. It's.

coming closer. [music]. It comes closer and closer. And there's. no way to tell how big it is. From where. you're standing, it's like a mountain. made of fire. Just as panic sets in, it. disappears somewhere over the horizon. You let out a deep sigh. You didn't. realize it, but for the past 30 seconds, [music]. you've been holding your breath. You and. your group are now frantically gathering. your belongings. That was more than. enough excitement for one evening. You. even ask yourself if you even want to do.

this again next year. But that question. has already been answered for you. You. [music] just didn't know it yet. Over. the horizon, where the fireball. disappeared, a ball of light emerges. Everything is lit up like the day. No, brighter than that. [music] It's so. bright, everything is just white. The. ball of white light grows larger and. larger. And you feel something deep in. your brain. That part of your brain that. evolved 2 million years ago, that. blizzard brain, it sends you a single.

message. Run. You run. About 3,000 miles away, there has been. an event. The meteor hits and vaporizes. everything around the impact point for. miles. Water, rock, cities, all vanish. Then the shock waves start. Earthquakes. radiate out from the impact point over. and over again as the earth reverberates. like a bell. These earthquakes move.

faster than the speed of sound. They're. so powerful they disrupt the tectonic. plates of the earth. That sets off a. chain reaction of earthquakes and. volcanoes across every major fault line. Forget LA and San Francisco. The San. Andreas will either eat or burn the. entire California coast. Then you've got. the Cascadia subduction zone in the. Pacific Northwest. The Hayward fault, the Calaveris fault, the Garlock, the. Wasach. They all erupt. From western. Canada to Baja Mexico is leveled.

Everything within 20 miles of the coast. crumbles into the sea. Then the shock. waves roll back around the planet again. and again and again. The biggest fault. system in the United States is the New. Madrid seismic zone. The most powerful. earthquakes in US history have come from. here. When that fault goes, say goodbye. to Chicago, Indianapolis, St. Louis, and. down to New Orleans. All gone, crumbled, on fire or underwater. The New Madrid.

fault connects to the Ramapo fault in. the east and sets it off like a fuse. Ramapo extends through Pennsylvania, New. York, and New Jersey. Then the. Charleston fault in South Carolina goes. next. From Boston to Seattle, from Maine. to Miami, and everything in between, earthquakes rock the country over and. over again. And this is happening. everywhere in the world. Then comes the. wind. A category 5 hurricane has wind. speeds of 150 to 160 mph. A Cat 5.

hurricane is going to seem like a gentle. afternoon. Rushing around the planet is. a storm with winds over 1,000 mph. This. is called the air blast. Anything wooden. is gone. Cars, boats, people, all gone. Only the sturdiest stone structures. could survive the wind. But most stone. structures have already been turned to. rubble by the earthquakes. In some. places, the wind lasts for 16 hours. And. within the wind is everything.

Buildings, cars, trees, everything. It's. a food processor that pulverizes. everything for hours. What happens next goes one of two ways. Option one, the rock hits solid earth. Now, if that happens, heat and ejecta. cause wildfires for thousands of miles. around the impact point. Radiating out. from the center is a fireball moving at. twice the speed of sound. This fireball. is hotter than the surface of the sun. A.

land impact also launches millions and. millions of tons of ejecta into the. atmosphere. In fact, millions of tons of. molten rock will leave the atmosphere. and go into space. The rock cools and. forms a shell of debris in orbit around. the Earth. No more space station, no. more satellites. The ejecta that remains. in the atmosphere blocks out the sun for. months. But it only takes a few days for. plant life to start dying. The entire. food chain is disrupted within a week.

and completely collapses in a month. All. food is gone. And that's a land impact. Option two is an ocean impact. This is. probably worse. The rock hits, vaporizes the ocean. water, and collides with the bedrock. The earthquakes begin like before, but. what's really dramatic is the tsunami, but it's much more than a tsunami. More. than a mega tsunami. What this is,

there's really no name for it. A wall of. water rises about a mile and a half in. the air. The water would be higher than. the clouds if there were clouds. The. shock waves and air blast dissipated all. the clouds, leaving only dark streaks of. smoke that turn the sky blood red. The. wall of water extends in all directions. It moves at 500 mph. By the time it. makes landfall, it's even higher. As the. water tears across the land, it collects.

debris. Every object the water touches. is captured and becomes part of the. wave. [music] Within minutes, the front. face of the wall is a solid mass of. debris moving hundreds of miles per. hour. The devastation is extreme. As the. Earth reverberates, the secondary waves. begin. These are smaller waves compared. to the first, but they're still hundreds. of feet high, and they pummel the coasts. over and over and over again.

About 24 hours later, the Earth settles. Volcanoes continue to erupt and there. are thousands of earthquake aftershocks, but most of the violence is over. This. is the worst day in human history. But here's what's really scary. The. scenario I just described has happened. many times. So a question for the. skeptics, how much evidence of human. civilization would be left after this. type of event? Skeptics say there would. be evidence of trash, plastic, and.

steel. But would there after the comet. strike, the fireball, the shock waves, the 1,000 mph wind, the string of mega. tsunamis, I'm not sure how much of. anything would be left after that. Now, you would think that this event would. leave a mess of debris across the. landscape, but it would be nothing like. that. The land would be pristine. Well, pristine in a way. From horizon to. horizon is mud. Nothing but mud. Everything has been pulverized into.

dust. Any object larger than a. basketball is buried under mud 1,000 ft. deep. Big archaeology says there was no. early civilization because they haven't. found one. Or maybe they just haven't. dug deep enough. There is evidence of an ancient advanced. civilization in myths and legends from. cultures around the world. Not just.

evidence that a civilization was here, but also how it was destroyed. The book of Revelation describes events. that could be interpreted as impacts. And I beheld when he had opened the. sixth seal, and lo, there was a great. earthquake, and the sun became black as. sackcloth of hair, and the moon became. as blood. And the stars of heaven fell. unto the earth, even as a fig tree. casteth her untimely figs, when she's. shaken of a mighty wind. And the heaven.

departed as a scroll, when [music] it is. rolled together, and every mountain and. island were moved out of their places. Revelation 6. >> That sounds exactly like the impact I. described earlier. The stars fall to the. earth, the darkness, the mighty wind and. earthquake strong enough to move. mountains. In Indian texts, the Vadus. and the Mahabarata, they contain. descriptions of celestial events and. weapons that have been interpreted as a. comet or meteor impacts.

Gigantic elephants burnt by that weapon. fell all around, uttering fierce cries, loud as those of the clouds. Other huge. elephants, scorched by that fire, ran. hither and thither and roared aloud in. fear as if in the midst of a forest. conflration. Mahabharata, book seven. >> That sounds like molten ejecta hitting. the earth and setting everything on. fire, just like we'd expect. The Lasco. caves in France are some of the most.

famous cave art ever found. One drawing. called the shaft scene features a dying. man and several animals. Researchers now. say this describes [music] a comet. strike around 15,200 BC. Petroglyphs all over the world depict. [music] celestial objects with multiple. tails. These have been suggested to. represent the torid meteor swarm. This. petroglyph from Forsythe County, Georgia. is a star map. It suggests a comet. impact event in 536 AD. Icecore samples.

from Greenland confirm an impact. sometime between 533 and 540. That. impact [music] had global ramifications. and cooled the Earth over 5°. There are. more examples of impacts, and these are. just the most obvious ones. [music] And. notice that they're not all from. thousands of years ago. Some are from. just hundreds of years ago. The Tongusa. event in 1908 is thought to be a torid. meteor that strayed from the debris.

field. These impacts happen periodically. and they usually happen in the autumn. when we cross the torid debris field. And maybe that's the story being told on. the vulture stone at Gobecletepe. [music]. Not the story of what happened in the. past, but the potential danger we face. right now. The torid comets come every. year September to November. This year, the torid comets peak on November 6th. You can see them for yourself. Now, sure, most of them look like shooting. stars, but some of them are fireballs.

that light up the entire sky. Now, why. does big archaeology and every world. government discount this story? Because. there's not a thing they can do about. it. Every time we pass through the tour. Comet Cloud, we're playing Russian. roulette. Every year, a new spin of the. chamber, a new pull of the trigger. Now, chances are when we pull the trigger, all we hear is a click. But there are. objects in the torid cloud that are a. mile wide. So, even though the chance is.

small, there is a chance, a real chance, that one of those objects will find its. way to us. And when that happens, our. civilization ends once again. And there. will be only a handful of survivors. The. few people lucky enough to hide in. mountain caves. And maybe those. survivors will create cave paintings or. rock carvings describing this. worldending event. However they do it, they'll want to tell our story, and it's. an important one. Every year, we take. our chance with the Torids. One year.

we're going to lose. Then the only thing. left of us, our entire civilization, will be one more very short story. Okie dokie, little Smokey. The next one. comes from Ryan. So, Ryan is another one. of my editors. He chose Oh, you got to. be kidding me. Seriously, dude. Ryan chose the episode about the Lerta.

Files. You know why he chose that one? Because the aliens a freaking smoke. show. That's right. My editor has a. thing for aliens. Look, I'm not going to. kink shame. It's not like I haven't had. a little extraterrestrial crush now and. then. Hey, what happens on Zeta Reticuli. stays on Zeta Reticuli. You dig me? And. now the Lerta files. Roll it.

On December 16th, 1999, three things. happened in Old K's office. His pencil. levitated. His coffee froze solid. And. the woman sitting across from him wasn't. human. K had built his career debunking. every alien story, every paranormal. claim, every supernatural sighting. He'd. seen every trick. He knew every. technique. His articles had ruined. careers and earned him a reputation as a. tough professional skeptic. But now his. pencil was floating above his desk. The.

being across from him called herself. Lucerta. She told him how humanity was. created and how it would end. and she. could prove it. The world's most. notorious UFO skeptic was about to. understand why some stories can't be. debunked. [music]. K arrived early to set up his equipment. One camera, one tape recorder. That's. all Lerta allowed. Every hoaxer had.

rules. He didn't argue. He figured he'd. be out in an hour. The story was. obviously fake. Lerta claimed to be from. a race of beings living deep within the. earth. >> Lizard. >> Some say they're shape shifters. They. don't change shape. They change the way. the human brain sees them. >> They're highly evolved and intelligent. with extremely advanced technology. They. are. >> reptilians. >> Lizard people. >> The Lerta files appeared online in the. early 2000s. They're transcripts of two.

interviews, one from 1999 and one from. 2000. A journalist known as K spoke with. a female reptilian who calls herself. Lerta when she's with humans. Apparently, we can't pronounce her real. name. And mispronouncing someone's name. in her culture is offensive. >> Uh, this sounds like a millennial. lizard, people. Uh, how old is she? Is. she on TikTok? >> She's 28 years old. >> Checks out. >> She was around 5'5 and humanoid. Her skin was pale green with brown dots, and her eyes were larger than human eyes.

with vertical slits for pupils. And when. she blinked, a transparent membrane slid. sideways across your eyes. Her species. is called the turn. They lived beneath. the earth for millions of years in vast. cities carved from solid rock. I linked. to the full text and you'll want to read. it, but here's what matters. Lerta knew. things. Things about ancient cultures, quantum mechanics, computer science. She. said, "Humans didn't evolve. We were. engineered by aliens who needed slaves.". Yeah, >> right. They have many names.

The beings you call the Elohem, we knew. them as the Iligim. They needed workers. They found primitive apes [music] and. began their experiments. But you aren't. the first attempt. You're the [music]. seventh. >> Wait, wait, wait. What? You humans are. version seven? >> Well, each version was an experiment. Create, test, destroy, then start again. Bill left Earth before finishing version. 7. [music] Now they're coming back to. fix their mistake.

Lerta's story began not with her. species, but with ours. She said, "Human. evolution is a lie. We were created by. aliens called the illeg. They come from. the star system we call Alderaron.". >> I I thought the Death Star blew up in. >> Alderon. >> What I say? >> The Ilog arrived on Earth 1.5 million. years ago to mine copper. This would. require a large labor force. So they. altered a primitive ape's genetics and.

created a new species to do the work. Version one was promising but flawed. So. they wiped it [music] out and started. again and again. Lerta says the evidence. of these earlier versions is all around. us. Archaeologists say the great pyramid. of Giza was built around 2500 BC. >> Big news. It's way older than that. >> Bulerta agrees. The Egyptians didn't. build the pyramids. They found them. The. Great Pyramid was built 75,000 years ago. by the fifth version of humanity.

The underwater ruins near Biminy were. built 16,000 years ago by the sixth. version. Perfect angles cut into massive. stone blocks using techniques we only. mastered in the last century. The. illegated our evolution. Look at our. timeline. 2 million years to improve a. spear. Then in a few thousand years, writing electricity, landing a man on. the moon. >> Well, that never happened. Ah, but you. monkeys got to orbit. I I'll get to. that. >> Fine. My point is we went from hunter. gatherers to a space fairing species in.

a fraction of the time it took to go. from homohabilis to homo erectus. >> Stop it. Our DNA contains genes that. don't match our ancestors. Dr. James Gates found error correcting. code embedded in human DNA. Proof we. were engineered, not evolved. Now, this. is not a new concept. Almost every. ancient culture tells the same creation. story. Beings of light arrived in. massive ships. They created humans, gave. them knowledge, not from kindness. They. needed intelligent slaves, but not too.

intelligent. That's why they destroyed. versions five and six. Millions died. because they asked too many questions. >> Oh, how they whack a whole planet. >> Earthquakes, volcanoes, sometimes. floods. >> Younger, driest flood. >> That was the last reset. Every culture. has a flood myth because it happened. Lerta expects the Iligim to return and. finish their work. And we have no way to. stop them. We don't have the technology. to fight. And there's nowhere to hide. We can't go underground. Underground.

belongs to the lizards. The Darren Kuyu underground city in. Turkey is a puzzle. 18 levels deep, almost 300 ft below the surface. It has a ventilation system, a fresh. water system. Acoustic chambers are. tuned to specific frequencies. It was. allegedly built with Bronze Age. technology. But the truth is, nobody. knows who built it or when. >> Darren Cuyu linked down in the old.

washed up. >> According to Lerta, Darren Kuyu isn't an. ancient human city. It's an entrance to. the Turan civilization, a vast network. of cities underground. Their main. settlements are 14,000 ft below the. Earth's surface. And each city is about. a mile and a half wide, carved into. solid bedrock. At the center is the. column, a 700 ft tower. It regulates. climate, generates artificial sunlight, and manages the air flow. >> Oh, it's like a lizard Alexa, >> I guess. So, yeah.

>> Hey, Alexa. >> No, no, don't do that. >> Hey, Alexa, write a dirty limick about. the crab kit. >> Why did you do that? We have kids. watching. >> See you the crab kit. The hypo gamm in Malta has similar. mysteries. Discovered in 1902, this. underground structure also features. unusual acoustic properties. How the. huge stones were cut is still debated. Giants of mortal link down in the old. gibble goblet. Cave systems in China reveal extensive. tunnels. South American myths describe.

vast underground networks. Geological. surveys have detected hollow spaces deep. beneath the surface, but our technology. can't reach them. There is one place. underground that our technology can. reach that's raised a few questions. Geologists studying the Chikshulu impact. crater in the Yucatan Peninsula found. layers of rock transformed by intense. heat and pressure, but not from above, from below. According to Lerta, these. aren't random formations. They're scars, evidence of a war. A war [music] for.

copper. [music] we know would killed the. dinosaurs. An asteroid hit the Yucatan. Peninsula about 66 million years ago. The impact left aridium in the. geological record, but Lerta says we. have it backwards. The idium wasn't from. space. It was fallout from a nuclear. weapon that used copper as fuel. >> What's so fancy about copper? >> When copper underos nuclear fusion under. specific conditions, it creates elements.

that shouldn't exist. >> Copper is a very important material. If. you induce a high electromagnetic field. in the right angle, you produce an. overcrossing of fluctuating fields. The. fusion of copper with other elements in. such a magnetic radiation field chamber. can produce a force [music] field of. special nature that is very useful for. various technological tasks. >> Oh, thanks s that cleavs it up. What is. she talking about? I don't speak lizard. >> She said copper can produce energy.

fields that can manipulate gravity, space, and time. UFOs use this for propulsion. The craft. creates a field oppositeely aligned with. the Earth's magnetic field. >> I also know you big lizard. >> When the same poles from two magnets are. close to each other, they create a. repelling field. UFOs use copper fusion. to create a field that pushes against. the Earth's magnetic field. [music] This. is how they fly. >> It actually makes sense. >> But the magnetic field of the Earth is.

constantly moving. The UFOs have to. adjust their alignment, and this is hard. to do. Sometimes they fail. That's what. happened to Roswell in 1947. Two ships. crashed. According to Lerta, two alien. species discovered Earth at the same. time millions of years ago. Humanoids. from Proion arrived [music] first. They. built copper mines in Antarctica and. Asia, and their ships filled the skies. Then another species arrived, reptilians, with their own copper fusion. technology, and they wanted Earth's. copper. The Proons refused to share.

The war lasted months. The Proons were. winning until the reptilians deployed. their ultimate weapon, a copper fusion. bomb. It detonated in Yugatan. They. expected it to kill all surface life. while preserving mineral deposits. But. something went wrong. Earth's seawater. triggered a chain reaction and the. nuclear winter lasted 200 years, and. most dinosaurs died, but some escaped. underground. One species, an advanced. iguanadon, evolved into the turret, Lera's ancestors.

Before the extinction event, iguanadons. were evolving [music] to walk on two. legs, and they were evolving an. opposable thumb. Your human scientists today [music] see. the iridium concentration in the ground. as an evidence for an asteroid impact. that [music] killed the dinosaurs. That. is not true. But how should you know. that? Modern militaries are trying to recreate. copper fusion technology, but Lerta says. they're following blueprints they don't. understand. The process requires a.

[music] deeper knowledge, not just of. physics, but of biology. Because the real power of copper fusion. isn't just about manipulating matter. It's about manipulating human. consciousness. During the second interview with OK, Lerta demonstrated the turn's psychic. abilities. First telekinesis. Lerta held. out her hand. [music] His hot coffee. froze instantly. A pencil rose from the.

table. Kay was stunned. This isn't magic. It's biology. We are. able to use telepathy and telekinesis. from our birth. The structure of our. brain is a little bit different and more. [music] active than yours, especially. when we are in sunlight. When we are on. the surface and we meet human beings, we. are able to touch their mind and induce. them via telepathy, the command, see us. as one of your kind. And the weak human.

mind will accept this order without. refusing. And they will see us despite. [music] our reptilian look as normal. humans. Wait, lizard people could be. anywhere looking all human. >> It could be. [music] What the most important thing in. our [singing] lives is what for we have. come to this [music] world in general. Not only on New Year's Eve but basically. every day to cultivate this. >> I knew it did Illuminati. >> The turn are not the Illuminati.

>> Okay. >> Different reptilians are. >> Lerta's people avoid humans but another. reptilian race controls Earth. If you. know David Ike's work, her story. confirms a lot of it. Ike said that a. race of shape-shifting reptilians from. the Draco star system has infiltrated. the world's power structures. >> Say that the the people that actually. live on the island are part of this. There are people there's there's a. network on the island that are. >> big time there. I mean the island of. white is a beautiful place and if. [music] you pick up the higher levels.

vibrational levels of it, it's a very. pleasant place to be. But my goodness. me, there is a network of Freemasons, Satanists, and pedophiles that run this. island. They run its government, [music]. the government, everything. >> They're disguised as leaders in finance, media, and politics. They manipulate. global events, steering us toward a one. world government. >> This is common knowledge. >> Ike says they operate from the moon, an. artificial base built by ancient aliens. >> Hollow moon link down in your bento box.

>> The moon broadcast frequencies that. create negative emotions. The reptilians. feed on this. >> humans a lizard people lunch episode. link down in your uh I got nothing. >> Yeah, I've covered bits and pieces of. Ike's work here and there, but he needs. his own episode. He has a lot of. interesting theories. >> Now, if you want to see that, let me. know. All right, where we at? >> Uh the wizard lady was throwing pencils. around and manipulating your weak-minded. humans. >> Right. Old K sees Lerta's true form only. because she allows it. She normally.

appears as an attractive brunette. >> Oh, what? Nobody wants to appear as a. chunky ginger. >> Be nice. Lerta says that humans have these same. abilities, but the illegs. are aware of this. The Pentagon's ESP. research wasn't just about human. psychics. They studied sites where. magnetic field fluctuations altered. children's brain waves. The classified. report concluded the iligum left. something in human DNA. And whatever it. is, it's waking up. [music].

Earth's magnetic north pole is moving. faster than ever recorded, about 35 mph. The world magnetic model can't keep up, and scientists don't fully understand. why. Lerta says these disturbances are. part of the illegum's plan. They built. triggers into human DNA. Programming. that activates under specific. conditions. The shifting magnetic field. affects human consciousness. The Ilo Jim didn't just want workers.

They wanted weapons. Living weapons that would evolve exactly. as [music] planned. Your rapid. technological advancement wasn't an. accident. It was programmed into your. DNA. Three alien species are coming for. Earth. One needs human genetics. Another. wants hydrogen from our oceans. And the. third wants copper for weapons. The. illegum engineered us to defeat them. all. Your creators didn't just give you. intelligence. They gave you aggression,

territorial instincts, pack mentality. They built you to fight. The seventh. version wasn't their final creation. It. was their first successful prototype. So, the Ilog aren't coming to destroy. humanity. They're coming to complete. what they started. The question isn't. whether we'll survive. It's whether. we'll still be human when they're done.

When the Lerta files landed on the web. in the early 2000s, it got people's. attention. Dinosaurs killed by alien. wars, humans engineered by ancient. astronauts, underground reptilian. cities, [music] magnetic fields. controlling human consciousness. It's an. incredible story and has a lot of. supporters. But is it true? [music]. Let's separate fact from speculation. Darren Kuyu exists. It's an underground. city in Turkey extending roughly 280 ft. below the surface. Its ventilation. system still fascinates engineers. Some.

say the stonework shows signs of. advanced technology, but most experts. believe that people were just really. [music] talented. The Malta hypogum is. famous for its acoustic properties. Chambers are tuned to 110 hertz and. nobody knows [music] why. The site. stonework is also very precise. While no. mainstream evidence suggests it's beyond. [music] Neolithic capabilities, the. skill involved is still impressive. But. geological surveys confirm vast cave. networks winding deep beneath the. earth's surface. And this brings out the. hollow earth theories. Now, until we can. see with our own eyes, all we can do is.

guess. Deep sea monitoring stations. record unexplained sounds like the. bloop. Experts say they're ice quakes or. a marine life. Maybe, but parts of the. ocean are too deep to reach for now. The. chick crater marked an asteroid impact. that killed the dinosaurs, and most. scientists agree. But there are some who. say that the heat and pressure came from. below. A scientist laugh at those. people, but honestly, the asteroid. killing the dinosaurs theory is pretty. new. When I was a kid, people got. laughed at for believing this. It wasn't. until the early 1990s that the crater.

was found. So, as always, the only thing. separating a conspiracy from the truth. is time. [music] Our own evolution. raises questions, too. It took early. humans hundreds of thousands of years to. refine stone tools. Then, suddenly, agriculture, written language, advanced. technology. Anthropologists say once we. learned to write, technology could. accelerate because now we had a way of. passing information along. I'm. open-minded about the ancient advanced. civilization theory, but I'm not a full.

believer. Still, I'll watch and [music]. read anything that Graham Hancock puts. out. Earth's magnetic pole moves between. 25 and 35 mph, the fastest [music] rate. ever recorded. It's definitely happening. now. I don't think aliens caused it, but. if you want nightmares about pole. shifts, watch our episode on the Adam. and Eve story. Adam and Eve nightmare. fuel link down in your honeyhole. >> Now read the transcripts. It's either. scientific genius or nonsense. And I'm. not smart enough to tell. It's full of. terms like quantum technology for bubble. walking in the omniverse and reptilian.

parathalamus matter interaction. >> Who wrote this thing? Terrence Howard. >> Please don't say that. He he watches. this channel. Now the biggest problem. with the Lerta file story is that old. K's identity has never been confirmed. He's called Kay after Tommy Lee Jones's. character from the Men in Black. Here. come the Men in Black, the galaxy. defenders. >> True or not, the Lerta Files is a fun. read. [music] Now, so far, there's no. documented proof of contact with. non-human intelligence. Every year, we. get teased about disclosure, but I won't.

hold my breath. I think we've had. contact, but [music] I don't think. they're going to tell us. And you've. heard me say that I don't think UFOs are. from another planet. If you look at the. ancient structures underground, the. patterns in our history, the anomalies. in our DNA, the evidence doesn't point. to something from another world. It. [music] points to something that never. left. Oh, great. I'm already getting comments. on how to pronounce Go Beckley.

Stop commenting. Next episode was picked by Gino. You. know, Gino from Gino's story hour on the. After Files. H, now that I think about. it, Gino does a lot of stories about. alien erotica. I'm sensing a theme. around here. Gino chose the episode. about the hollow moon theory. I know. that sounds wacky, but trust me, you'll. like this one. Roll it.

Despite it being humanity's constant. companion through all of recorded time, the moon is still a mystery. Science. hasn't been able to explain how the moon. was formed, [music] its unusual orbit, its distance from us, its density, its. composition, its structure. These are. all still questions. Now, there are. theories about the moon that solves some. of these puzzles. But they don't solve. all of them. There's only one theory. that answers every scientific question. about the moon, just one. That the moon. is a hollow artificial structure brought.

here by someone else. Let's find out. why. >> [bell]. >> Let's start at the beginning. We're. taught that the moon has been here. forever. But there's controversy about. this because scientists can't agree on. how the moon was formed in the first. place. The first theory of how the moon. became linked to the earth is the. capture theory. It says the moon was. just floating along, drifted near the. earth, and was pulled into orbit. This. is almost impossible. Another.

explanation is the accretion theory that. the moon and earth formed out of dust. clouds in the early solar system. But. when systems formed through accretion, they share similar traits. If the moon. was formed this way, it would have an. iron core like the earth. It would spin. on an axis like the earth. But neither. of these are true. [music] The vision. hypothesis was popular for a while and. this says the early earth was spinning. so fast that the moon was formed out of. rock in the Pacific Ocean that was flung. into space. But we later learn that moon. rock is much older than the bottom of.

the ocean. So this is unlikely. [music]. The most popular explanation is the. giant impact theory. This says that a. large object about the size of Mars. smashed into the proto earth. The debris. field from the collision coalesed to. create the earth moon system. Again. these conditions would have to be so. perfect that the odds are. >> astronomical. Right now, a recent theory. is a combination of all of these that a. large object collided with the Earth. about 4 1/2 billion years ago, essentially vaporizing it. [music] And.

this vapor is called a Sinestia. And the. Sinestia was spinning very rapidly, forming a Taurus. And the moon formed on. the edge of this Taurus. >> Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. Hold on. Taurus? What's a Taurus? >> Well, this shape is a Taurus. >> Uh, that looks like a donut. It does. But in geometry, if you revolve a circle. around an axis in threedimensional. space, it's called a Taurus. >> And you wonder why you're not popular at. parties. >> I'm very popular at parties, aren't I?

So, we still don't know how the moon was. created. You would think that actually. going to the moon and collecting rock. samples would solve some of these. puzzles, but when moon rocks were. brought back and studied, it only. created more questions. >> [music]. [music]. >> Since landing on the moon in 1969, there. the moon landing was as fake as a.

teenager's Instagram. >> I knew you were going to do this. Look, do you like the idea that the moon is a. hollow spaceship? >> Well, yeah. I got to admit, I I do kind. of like this idea. >> Okay, so for us to explore this theory, you need to concede that we went to the. moon. Fine, [snorts] I will concede. We went. to the moon. >> Thank you. >> But those were unmanned missions. The. landings were actually filmed in a. studio in Burbank, California. >> Fine. I I'll take what I can get. Moon. rocks and soil samples brought back from. the moon are [music] strange. On Earth,

the newest rocks are at the surface, and. the rock gets older as you go deeper. Now, this is obvious and logical. But on. the moon, the soil on the surface is. older than the rocks underneath. And the. surface rocks are older than the rock. underneath them. It's [music] backwards. The only way this happens on Earth is. when we drill, dig, and mine, bringing. older material to the surface. But we. see this all over the moon. Now, if the. moon was somehow hollowed out, older.

rock would be on top. But the list of. anomalies goes on. Typical planetary. structures have denser materials toward. the core and lighter materials toward. the surface. On the moon, this too is. reversed and no one could really explain. why. The moon's surface is pockmarked by. asteroid impacts that have happened for. billions of years. So, you would expect. the rock around the impact craters to be. different ages. But there is a strange. uniformity in the age of these rocks. The chemical makeup of lunar dust is. also very odd. If lunar dust is the.

result of billions of years of impacts, why does it have a different chemical. makeup of the rocks around it? The moon. doesn't have a magnetic field. Yet, moon. rocks are strongly magnetized. The Earth. [music] is 4.6 billion years old, but. the oldest rocks we found are much. younger than that. Moon rocks are older, much older. [music]. Some rocks have been dated to the very. beginning of the solar system, and some. are said to be even older than that. Uranium 236 and Neptunium 237 are found.

on the [music] moon. This is notable. because those radioactive elements don't. occur naturally. [music] The only way we. see those isotopes on Earth is if we. create them. Titanium, chromium, and. zirconium are rare on Earth. But these. are found in abundance on the moon. If. the Earth and Moon were formed together, why such a big discrepancy? [music]. And those metals happen to be some of. the most strongest materials that are. known to exist, and they're highly. resistant to corrosion. If you wanted to.

reinforce a structure, these are the. metals you would use. This structural. reinforcement could explain why moon. craters all seem to be the same depth no. matter [snorts] how wide they are. Shouldn't craters of different sizes be. of different depths. It's as if there's. a resilient metallic shell just beneath. the surface of the moon preventing. anything from penetrating further. Now, if there was some type of instruments on. the moon's surface that could detect. seismic activity, we [music] could test. the hollow moon theory by intentionally. colliding objects with the moon.

>> This sounds like a setup. We did this, didn't we? [music]. >> We did. >> And is it hollow? >> Well, >> hey. After returning to the command module, the Apollo 12 crew intentionally. released [music] the lunar lander, crashing it into the moon surface. Then. something very unexpected happened. Seismic measurements showed that the. moon rang like a bell [music] and.

reverberated for more than an hour. This. was with a very small object compared to. the size of the moon. So during Apollo. 13, an even heavier object was crashed. into the surface. This time the moon. rang for over 3 hours and vibrations. traveled to a depth of 20 m. This. doesn't happen on Earth. Reverberations. last only a few minutes because of the. Earth's density. [music] And on Earth, vibrations slowed down as they moved. toward the Earth's center, where. material is denser. But the vibrations.

on the moon actually got faster around. 40 mi down, indicating the interior of. the moon is not only far less dense, but. perhaps has large hollow cavities. The. density of the moon is something that's. difficult [music] to explain. The moon. is about 25% the size of the Earth, but. it's only about 1% of the Earth's. density. If the moon were a hollow. shell, this would explain that. Besides. the density issue, the moon has a lot of. characteristics and coincidences that we.

don't see anywhere else. The moon is. actually more like a planet than a moon. At one quarter the Earth's size, no. other object in the solar system has a. moon this large. This occurs nowhere. else, not in our solar system or any. other solar system that we found. And. the moon orbits much more closely than. it should. And its orbit is also a. mystery. It's the only object we've ever. observed with a near perfectly circular. orbit. We don't see this anywhere else. either. Because of this near perfect. orbit and its size and distance from the.

Earth, the moon appears in the sky as. almost the exact [music] same size as. the sun. This is what allows us to have. eclipses. Our distance to the sun is 400. times our distance to the moon. And the. size of the sun is [music] 400 times the. size of the moon. Could this be a. coincidence? >> Nah. Well, when enough coincidences pile. up, we may have to adjust our [music]. thinking and be a little more. open-minded. And that's what happened in. 1970. Two Soviet scientists looked at. all the evidence and all these.

coincidences and came to what they felt. was the only logical conclusion. And. they agreed that their theory sounded. crazy, but said not only is the moon. hollow, but it's also a spacecraft that. traveled here in the distant past. So. now we have to ask, who built the moon?

Every ancient culture on Earth has. stories about the moon. But it's. interesting that the further back you. go, the fewer stories there are. And if. you go back far enough, there are. stories that talk about a sky before the. moon arrived. Roman and Greek authors in. the fifth century BC have stories about. the procelines and they lived in an area. called Arcadia and they said they've. been here since before there was a moon. in the heavens. Now on the other side of. the world the ancient culture of Tuanaka. in Bolivia also refers to a time when.

there was no moon. The Tuanaka claim the. moon arrived between 11,500. and 13,000 years ago. If you're into. ancient theories as much as I am, you'll. recognize that this time coincides. perfectly with a period called the. younger Dus. And all kinds of myths and. mysteries are said to have happened. during the Younger Dus, and we'll cover. them on this channel. Now, going back to. Africa, there are Zulu legends that. specifically say the moon is hollow and. living inside is an intelligent race of.

reptilian extraterrestrials. >> Lizard people. >> Yep. >> Lizard people built the moon. >> That's what they believe. Lizard people. are very industrious. >> They seem to be. The Zula believed the. moon was put into orbit by two brothers. who were gods. And this legend is. similar to what the Samrians believed. The Samrians also had a legend of two. brothers, Enkien and Leil, who were. called. >> Anunnaki. >> Yep. Anunnaki. The extraterrestrial gods. who created mankind. >> Everything is falling into place with.

this one. >> Oh, you ain't seen nothing yet. How. about this? The Zulu also believed that. before the moon arrived, the climate of. the Earth was very different. There were. no seasons and a blanket of thick water. vapor covered the entire planet. And we. now know that the moon does stabilize. our climate. Without the moon's gravity, the Earth's axis would wobble. There. would be no consistent seasons, no. tides, extreme weather. The presence of. the moon is what allows life on Earth to. thrive. So, back to the Zulu. The Earth.

was covered by a thick layer of water. vapor, and you could only see the sun. through this hazy mist. When the moon. was finally placed into orbit, all this. water vapor fell at once, and it created. a cataclysmic global flood. >> Always a flood. >> Always. Every time. Every ancient. culture has a flood myth. And there's. mounting evidence that this did indeed. happen during the Younger Dus. Cultures. around the world have myths that are in. perfect sync with each other. The. coincidences keep piling up. The Zulu.

legend talks about how the arrival of. the moon changed the tides and. stabilized the climate. And this is. something that wasn't understood by. science until the past 100 years. Yet. somehow the ancient Zulu were able to. make the connection between the moon and. the tides and the seasons. All of these. myths and legends, plus strange. coincidences and anomalies about the. moon, start to add up to a compelling. theory that the moon is hollow, is. artificial, and was placed here by. intelligent beings long ago. But.

coincidences aren't proof, and myths. aren't proof. We need to know what's. been happening on the moon lately to see. if we can make our case with hard. evidence. Lucky for us, the evidence is. there. >> [music]. >> Science tells us that the moon is a. cold, lifeless place. It has no. atmosphere. There hasn't been seismic. activity for millions of years. Its.

core, unlike the Earth's, is cold. For. supposedly dead world, there's an awful. lot of activity up there. On March 7th, 1971, a cloud of water vapor appeared on. the moon that covered 100 square miles. And it was there for 14 hours before it. dissipated. There's not supposed to be. atmosphere on the moon, but for those 14. hours, there was. In fact, six. astronomers in the past 100 years have. documented a glowing mist in the crater. named Plato. The same mist, the same.

crater over many years. Boulder tracks. are seen on the moon all over the place. And that's weird enough, but how do. boulders roll for miles and then go. uphill like in this photo? And since the. days of Aristotle, astronomers have seen. strange lights appear on the surface of. the moon, sometimes visible with the. naked eye. NASA even reported that. between the years 1540 and 1967, there. were 570 sightings of light flashes on. the moon that couldn't be explained.

Sightings of strange lights continued to. this day. The Aristarus crater was. photographed in 1992, and it shows a. glowing blue light, now called the blue. gem. And this anomaly has been seen by. Earth-based telescopes every few years. since. Some have even speculated it's a. fusion reactor. And these events of. mysterious light and mist happen so. frequently that there's even a name for. them, transient lunar phenomena, or. TLPS. But things get even more weird. There are plenty of photographs of what.

appear to be artificial objects on the. surface of the moon. Towers that reach. several miles high. [music] Pyramids, symmetrical structures. These have been. photographed by astronomers, probes, even the astronauts themselves. And the. biggest anomaly of all, why haven't we. gone back to the moon? Sergeant Carl. Wolf was working as a technician for the. Air Force. And he was repairing. equipment that transferred images from a. lunar satellite. Those photos, according. to Sergeant Wolf, showed artificial.

structures on the moon, what he. described as a base. And this is. corroborated by another technician. working with Wolf. And Wolf wasn't a UFO. ET, moon theory guy. He was just a tech. He said he was excited to see the. pictures on the news and have NASA. explain what they were. He was surprised. when the photos never turned up. The. photos were found in a very early. release from NASA. These structures are. very large and very tall. You can even. see they cast shadows. And these are. photos I'd like to learn more about, but.

I can't. They no longer exist. Now, almost immediately after landing on the. moon, the Apollo 11 crew said they saw. something that shook them up. Watch the. press conference they gave when they. returned. These men aren't acting like. they made history or had a life-changing. experience. It's a beginning of. a new age. They look sad, frightened, [music].

uncomfortable, even depressed. Why is. there a reason we haven't returned to. the moon? And could it be that the. Apollo missions discovered something. that ancient cultures knew centuries. ago? something that reputable scientists. believe is the only answer to this list. of mysteries. That the moon is not what. it seems or what we've been told. The. moon is hollow, artificially. constructed, and appeared in Earth's. orbit from somewhere else far away. >> Makes sense to me.

>> Does it [music] make sense to you? So, what can science explain about the. Hollow Moon spaceship theory? Well, the. formation of the moon is still unknown. So, score theory one. Science zero. The. density problem is said to be because. after the giant impact, the Earth's. upper mantle form the moon. The mantle. is much less dense than the core. [music] Okay. The problem with this is. the giant impact theory probably isn't. what happened. And the theory about the. Earth and the Moon forming out of that.

big donut shape. >> Um, in geometry that's called a Taurus. >> Taurus. Well, that wouldn't explain the density. discrepancy. We're told the moon ringing. like a bell is because the moon is much. less dense and the moon's rock has much. less water, so vibrations reverberate. longer and farther. This can't be. proven, but okay. The perfect eclipses. Well, here's where science wins. The. eclipses aren't exact. They're close, but not perfect. Besides, the moon is. drifting farther away from the Earth.

every year. So, eclipses are becoming. less and less perfect all the time. And. whether the moon arrived 14,000 years. ago [music] or was formed billions of. years ago, it was much closer to the. Earth, so it was much larger in the sky. Now, NASA claims that we know the moon. isn't hollow because of seismic. observations. And that's fair, but it's. still conjecture. Look, we don't know. for sure what's at the center of the. Earth, much less what's at the center of. the moon, >> if there's anything at all. >> Right now, the structures are said to be.

shadows or optical illusions. >> Nope. And the lights are from meteor. impacts or reflections from glassy. patches on the surface. Nope. [music]. But the bottom line is this. Yes, the. hollow moon spaceship theory is a wild. one. I admit that. And many of the. anomalies found on the moon can be. explained. The explanations aren't. perfect, but they're enough to satisfy. skeptics. And I consider myself a. skeptic. But I'm open-minded. I just. want to know the truth. When I started. researching this story, I thought it. would be a fun ride, a pure tinfoil hat.

experience that we could button up with. science. That's not what happened. There's just so much unknown and. unexplainable that something doesn't. feel right about what we've been told. about the moon. But as always, the space. agencies and the governments they serve. are very selective about the images and. information they release. So, I have a. message for them. for NASA, [music] the. European Space Agency, Russia, China, Elon Musk, Richard Branson, Jeff Bezos, and anyone with the resources to put.

people back on the moon. The message is. this. If you want us to believe your. explanations, you're going to have to prove it. Houston, Houston, come in, Houston. Beep. Houston, we have a problem. Beep. Houston, we have an iate goldfish. complaining about cheap vodka. Please. advise. Beep. While we're waiting for. the vodka issue to be resolved, let's.

play another episode, shall we? Next one was chosen by Deputy Joe. Good. old Joe. Joe does lots of different. things here with the stage, the control. room. Heck, the guy even does carpentry. Hands off, ladies. He's married. Okay, Joe's episode is about Yay, Giants. Woohoo. You know what comes next? >> Roll it. >> In 1886, mining engineer John T. Reed.

was told the Pyute legend about a race. of giants. Giants who, after a long and. bloody war, were defeated by the natives. near Lovelock Cave, Nevada. Reed's. belief in this legend stirred great. interest in the secrets held within. Lovelock Cave. Official excavations were. undertaken in both 1912 and 1924 by the. University of California with [music]. reports telling of thousands of. artifacts being recovered. Of these. artifacts, the most puzzling were human. remains. Well, they [music] were almost. human. Skeletons measuring between 8 and.

10 ft tall were said to be found during. the dig. Skeletons belonging to who are. now known as the Lovelock giants. Legends of people of enormous size are. told across a myriad of cultures. And. [music] despite what we've been told by. mainstream science, there is evidence to. suggest they really existed. The remains. of giants have been found all over the. US and all over the world. So why aren't. these amazing finds on display in any. museum or taught in any classes or.

mentioned in any history books? Well, it's because the existence of giants, for some reason, has been [music]. covered up. >> [music]. >> To say giants don't turn up in history. books isn't exactly accurate. Many. ancient cultures refer to giants. In. Indian mythology or the vadas, there was. a time called the satyauga or the golden. age when all of humanity existed in. complete harmony. Humans during this.

time were believed to be 32 feet tall. In the Old Testament, there are beings. called the Nephilim, and they're. mentioned in Genesis. >> There were giants in the earth in those. days, and also after that, when the sons. of God came in unto the daughters of. men, and they bare children to them, the. same became mighty men which were of. old, men of renown. >> One interpretation of this suggests that. the sons of God were giant fallen angels. who seduced human women, and their. offspring were the Nephilim. Well, how.

does a giant seduce a human woman? >> Oh, right. >> Giants show up quite a bit in the book. of Enoch, one of the religious texts. found among the Dead Sea Scrolls. The. Nephilim were said to have been men of. the old times who existed before the. great flood. Ancient Indian texts say. the same thing. The book of Samuel also. introduces us to one of the most famous. giants in history, >> Andre. >> Goliath. [music] Goliath was a. Philistine warrior who challenged the. Israelites to send out a champion for.

single combat. David, armed only with a. slingshot and faith in God, brought the. giant down with a single stone. Goliath. was said to be between 7 and 11 ft tall. and possibly descended from a people. known as the Anakites or the Anakim. And. the Anakim were descended from the. Nephilim. [music]. But references to giants in history go. back even further. The ancient Samrians. had an equivalent to the Anakim, a race. of gods who are sometimes described as. giants. >> Anunnaki.

>> Yep. The Anunnaki. And if you don't know. who the Anunnaki are, here's a hint. Look in the mirror. According to interpretations of ancient. Samrian and Babylonian texts, the. Anunnaki were a race of extraterrestrial. beings from the planet Nibiru. Now, Nibiru is not some distant planet on the. other side of the galaxy, but is right. here in our own solar system. It passes. near Earth every 3600 years. [music] And.

this extra planet theory was dismissed. as pseudocience for many years, but it's. now widely believed that there is an. extra planet or some kind of large. object in the far reaches of our solar. system. In fact, NASA has been searching. for this object for years, though they. call it planet 9 or planet X. Oh, they. can't give Zechariah Sitchens any. credit, eh? >> They won't admit that, but I bet it's a. big part of it. In 2015, Caltech. researchers thought they found evidence. for this planet. And in 2016, they said.

they were almost sure the planet was out. there. And then in 2017, researchers. agreed that data and computer models. prove with almost 100% certainty a large. secret dark planet is lurking in the. distant solar system. And they expect. this to be confirmed within the next few. years. And perhaps then we'll finally. learn if this could actually be planet. Nibiru, home of the Anunnaki. Now, according to the tablets, when the. atmosphere on Nibiru started to. deteriorate, [music] the Anunnaki came. to Earth for resources, specifically.

water and especially gold. And after. their slaves rebelled, the Anunnaki. needed a new workforce. And they. performed genetic experiments on. different Earth animals to try to create. a new slave race. Eventually, they were. successful. By splicing DNA from the Anunnaki with. cavemen called Homo erectus, a new. species emerged, Homo sapiens. In. Sumerian and Babylonian texts, this new. species was called the first men or. Adamu. And the Hebrews translated this.

to be men of Adam. >> Oh, the first men were bred to work for. the Anunnaki. The Hebrew word avod means. work for. Avod also means worship. And. so humans worshiped their gods, the. Anunnaki, who were giants compared to. puny humans. Though it was forbidden, some Anunnaki bred with humans and their. offspring became known [music] as the. Nephilim. Now, obviously, the story of. the Anunnaki needs its own episode. So, if you'd like to see that, >> yes, please. >> If you'd like to see that, let me know.

[music] The tablets say the next time. Nibiru passed near the inner solar. system, it caused severe electromagnetic. disturbances. Dark spots appeared on the. sun and waves of color streak the sky. This is referring to extreme aurora. borealis and astralis indicating a. weakening of the earth's magnetic field. With less protection from the sun's. energy, the ice caps melted and a great. flood swept across the entire planet. To. escape the devastation, the Anunnaki. boarded sky ships with their gold and. returned to Nibiru.

But on Earth, great cities were. destroyed and sunk beneath the waves. When the waters finally receded, only a. small number of humans were left to. rebuild civilization. And this creation. myth is told in almost every culture on. Earth. [music] And recently, we're. starting to discover evidence that a. great flood did indeed occur. But what. about evidence of giants? Well, there is. evidence. [music]. And some of that evidence has been found. right here in our own backyard.

Many Native American tribes tell of the. long-forgotten existence of a race of. humans that were much taller and. stronger and sometimes more cruel than. ordinary men. The Choctaw tribe has a. legend about the Nahulo, a race of. giants who ate human flesh. The Chalkaw. killed these giants whenever they could. Eventually, those giants were driven. west. The Pyute settled in the Nevada desert. thousands of years ago and passed down. the story of a race of red-haired giants.

called the sitka. The sitka literally. means tulie eaters. And tulie is a. strong type of reed found in swamps. Legend says the giants built rafts out. of tuli and arrived in Nevada thousands. of years ago. But tuli wasn't the only. thing that the giants ate. Like the. nahulo, siddika also ate humans. The city cow waged war on the Pyute and. all other neighboring tribes. The human. tribes fought bravely, but the giants. were too strong. The city cow would.

often eat the people captured in battle. So after years of conflict, the tribes. united, and that turned the tide of war. And in the final battle, the red-haired. giants were driven into a cave. The. tribes stuffed the cave entrance with. sticks and brush and set it ablaze. The. last remaining city either suffocated or. burned alive. Sarah Winnamaka Hopkins, daughter of Chief Winnamaka, was the. first to write down and print the story. of the city. But she said this wasn't a. legend. It was history. She even wore.

red hair taken from a giant woven into. some of her clothes. When mining. engineer John T. Reed heard the story in. 1886, he asked to be taken to the cave, the final resting place of the city. giants. Reed wasn't able to finance the. excavation of the cave at that time, but. when valuable bat guano was discovered, people started digging. >> Bat guano? >> Yep. It was used to make gunpowder and. explosives. >> No, I mean, what is bat guano? >> Oh, guano is the uh waste of bats and.

birds. >> You can make explosives out of. >> You can. >> Okay. Okay. Okay. Do me a favor. When. you clean my bowl, uh can you save it. for me? Fourth of July is coming up. I'm. going to make fireworks. I'm not saving. your I'm not I'm not I'm not saving that. for fireworks. >> Fine then to celebrate I'll just light. my thoughts. >> You better not. >> Why do you hate your country? >> Love Cave was excavated in 1912 and in. 1924 and in 1929 the findings were.

published and they were surprising. Well, they weren't surprising to the. Pyute. At the entrance to the cave, there was evidence of extreme scorching. At some point, a fire burned very hot. and for a very long time. On one of the. cave walls, an enormous handprint was. found. Inside the cave, over 10,000. artifacts were recovered, including many. human bones. Some of the bones showed. that marrow had been removed, a sign of. possible cannibalism. A sandal was found. that would have fit someone who wore a.

size 29 shoe and would have been over 8. ft tall. and clothing was found that was. too big to fit a normals-sized human. During the first dig, it was reported. that the mummified remains of two giants. were found. A female almost 7 ft tall. and a male almost 9 ft tall and both had. red hair. In addition to the initial. findings, even more evidence exists in. Lovelock Cave and its surrounding area. According to a 1931 article published in. a Nevada newspaper, two giant skeletons.

had been found buried in a dry lake bed. close to Lovelock Cave, Nevada. >> Were these giant changing, too? >> Yep. They also had red hair. But giants. weren't just found in the Nevada desert. They were found from coast to coast. Apparently, long before native tribes. arrived, America was the land of the. giants. In Peebles, Ohio, the Great Serpent. Mound is a 1370 foot long prehistoric.

effigy mound. Nobody knows why it was. built, but due to a nearby meteor impact. crater, the area is full of. gravitational and magnetic anomalies. Some researchers like Richard Hamilton. believe the location for Serpent Mound. was chosen specifically because of these. anomalies. And for many years, there. have been stories of freak weather. patterns, UFO sightings, and strange. lights in the area. And also found near. Serpent Mound, the remains of giants. In. 1872, a report appeared in the book.

Historical Collections of Noble County, Ohio. Someone had stumbled across. enormous skeletons. The remains of three. skeletons were found whose size would. indicate they measured in life at least. 8 ft in height. The remarkable feature. of these remains was they had double. teeth in front as well as in back of the. mouth and in both upper and lower jaws. Upon exposure to the atmosphere, the. skeletons crumbled back to mother earth. >> In 1891, anthropologist Frederick Ward.

Putnham found large skeletons in the. same area that measured 7 ft or taller. with skulls twice as thick as a humans. In 1894, a local farmer found unusual. graves. The find was even covered by the. New York Times. >> Farmer Warren Cowan recently discovered. several ancient graves a mile from the. famous Serpent Mound where Professor. Putnham of Harvard made interesting. discoveries. Upon opening one of the. graves, a skeleton of upwards of 6 ft. was brought to [music] light. In another.

grave was the skeleton of a man equally. large. It seems that the region was. populated by a fairly intelligent people. and that the serpent mound was an object. of worship. Ross Hamilton writes about giant. skeletons found in Miamiisburg Mound. about 70 mi from Serpent Mound. >> The body of a man more gigantic than any. ever recorded in human history has been. found in the Miami Valley in Ohio. The. skeleton, it is calculated, must have. belonged to a man 8' 1/2 in in height.

It was found within a half mile of. Miamiisburg in a location which contains. many relics of the mound builders. Edward Gart and Edward Kaufman. discovered it while they were working in. a gravel pit. Professor Thomas Wilson, curator of prehistoric anthropology, Smithsonian Institute, says of the find, "The authenticity of this skull is. beyond any doubt. Its antiquity is. unquestionably great, though it is. impossible to have a good guess as to. its age. To my own personal knowledge,

several such crania were discovered in. the Hopewell group of mounds in Ohio.". Hamilton said the bones were put on. display at a local museum, but they're. no longer anywhere to be found. In just. a short trip down the Ohio River Valley, another extraordinary skeleton was. found. In 1959, Dr. Donald Dragu, curator for the Carnegi Museum, unearthed a 7'2in skeleton during the. excavation of the Creap Mound in West. Virginia. In 1868, a report surfaced.

that quarry workers with the Sock Rapids. Water Power Company unearthed the. remains of a 10-ft tall skeleton along. the shores of the Mississippi River. A. few days later, the bones were nowhere. to be found, rumored to have been. whisked east on a late night train and. sold to the circus. In 1897, the. Worthington Advance describes the. Smithsonian Institution's work on the. Eastern Mounds in Iowa. The paper quoted. the director of the Bureau of Ethnology, John Wesley Powell. >> It is a matter of official record that.

in digging through a mound in Iowa, the. scientists found the skeleton of a giant. who, judging from actual measurement, must have stood 7'6 in tall when alive. The bones crumbled to dust when exposed. to the air. >> In Steelville, Missouri, there's a. documented case from the Steelville. Ledger, June 11th, 1933. An ancient. Ozark giant dug up near Steelville. A. boy looking for arrowheads turned up the. complete skeleton of an 8-foot giant.

The grizzly find was brought to Dr. RC. Parker here and stretched out to its. enormous length in a hallway of his. office, where it has since remained the. most startling exhibit Steelville has. ever had on public view. Some believe these Midwest giants. traveled west and occupied all of North. America and perhaps they made it all the. way to the Pacific. San Diego, California has reports of enormous. remains found all over the area. A giant.

skeleton found in 1895 measured 8'4 in. The skeleton was carefully inspected and. measured by Professor Thomas Wilson and. other scientists. Wilson was an. anthropologist for the Smithsonian. Institution. Also in Southern California. on Catalina Island, amateur. archaeologist Ralph Glidden found a. total of 3,781. skeletons on the Channel Islands between. 1919 and 1930. In 1833, Mexican soldiers.

were digging a pit for a powder magazine. at Lampak Rancho, California. They. hacked their way through a layer of. gravel and found a 12t long sarcophagus. The skeleton of a giant man was found. inside. The grave was surrounded by. carved shells, huge stone axes, two. spears, and thin sheets of quartz. And. the sheets of quartz were covered with. symbols. And he had another interesting. feature, a double row of teeth, both. upper and lower. Over the past 200.

years, more than 1,000 accounts of 7 ft. and taller skeletons have been found. across North America. Newspaper. accounts, town and county histories, letters, scientific journals, diaries, photos, and Smithsonian ethnology. reports have carefully documented this. The Smithsonian Institution is mentioned. dozens of times as the recipient of. enormous skeletons from across the. entire United States. And if that's. true, then where are the bones?

From New York to California and almost. every state in between, thousands of. relics and over a thousand giant. skeletons have been discovered and. documented. They've been found in. mounds, caves, burial chambers, stone. crypts, and even on ancient. battlefields. Many of the skeletons have. strange physiology like elongated skulls. and double rows of teeth. In dozens of. cases, the bones were turned over to the. Smithsonian Institution in Washington,

DC. So, where are they? The Smithsonian. was never really suspected of. wrongdoing, but then something strange. happened in 1950. In 1892, ancient. wooden coffins were discovered in a. place called Crumps Cave in Alabama. The. coffins along with some other artifacts. were sent to the Smithsonian. This is. all well documented. So, in 1950, researcher Frederick J. Paul wrote to. the Smithsonian to inquire about them. It was a curious find because Native. Americans didn't use coffins or caskets.

Paul received a reply from the. Smithsonian. >> We have not been able to find the. specimens in our collections, though. records show that they were received. >> The matter was pursued again in 1992 by. another researcher, David Baron. [music]. He was told the coffins were wooden. troughs. >> Troughs? >> Yes, troughs are long rectangular. containers for feeding cattle, horses, or pigs. But before the Europeans. arrived, North America didn't have any. cattle, horses, or pigs. And [music].

even if they did, why would a trough. have a lid on it? >> Well, did this guy mention this to the. Smithsonian people? >> He did. He was told. Yeah. Well, even if. he wanted to see the coffins or troughs. or whatever they were, he couldn't. because they were in a warehouse that. was contaminated with asbestous and was. closed for cleanup. >> Closed for how long? >> 10 years. >> 10 years to clean up as best. >> Yep. >> O, they must have been union. >> Yeah. It starts to smell like a cover. up. The suppression of Native American. archaeological evidence allegedly began.

in 1881. Up until that point, the. Smithsonian was under the direction of. John Wesley Powell, the geologist famous. for exploring the Grand Canyon. Powell. had spent a lot of time with the. Winnebago Indians, and he found them to. be thoughtful and intelligent. So Powell. and the Smithsonian actually promoted. the idea that Native Americans who were. at the time being exterminated in the. Indian Wars were descended from advanced. civilizations who communicated with and. traded with cultures all over the. country and possibly all over the world.

This widespread dispersion of culture is. called [music] diffusionism which the. Smithsonian supported. But then Powell. appointed Cyrus Thomas as the director. of the Eastern Mound division at the. Smithsonian and then things got. political. Thomas wasn't a fan of Native. Americans. He thought of them as nothing. more than howling savages. Thomas. thought it was impossible for savages. from one side of the Mississippi to. visit savages on the other side. And to. think that people as primitive as Native. Americans could sail over an ocean was.

just ridiculous. This is called. isolationism. Isolationism says that. civilizations develop independently from. each other and have very little contact. with other civilizations, especially. across oceans or lakes. The debates in. the Smithsonian raged and Cyrus Thomas. eventually won the battle of. isolationism verse diffusionism. [music]. Soon the Smithsonian took an official. stance that any archaeological evidence. supporting diffusionism was fraudulent. It was believed that contact between the.

civilizations of the Ohio and. Mississippi valleys were rare and. contact between the Mississippian. cultures and the Mayas, Pekks or Aztecs. in Mexico or Central America, well that. was absurd. So the history books were. written. Native [music] Americans were a. primitive and sometimes savage people. and that was that. But not so fast. When. those ancient mounds and pyramids in the. Midwest were studied, it was shown that. the Mississippi River valleys was at one. time home to an ancient and. sophisticated culture. At the time, the.

cultures capital city, Cahokia, was. bigger than almost any city in Europe. When the Spiro Mounds in Oklahoma were. excavated between 1933 and 1935, a man. over 7t tall was discovered. He was in. full armor, and buried next to him was a. pot of thousands of pearls and other. artifacts. This was one of the largest. treasures ever discovered at that point. in time. We know that the man in armor. was found and the Smithsonian was. contacted. So, where is he? Many human. remains were found in graves next to.

artifacts, but the remains were. discarded. And we're told that most of. the rare and priceless objects. disintegrated before scholars could. reach the site. >> How convenient that priceless objects. vanish before anyone gets there. And. when the excavation was finished, dynamite was used to destroy the burial. chamber, and any remaining artifacts. that were considered valuable were sold. off. The Yakamara artifacts were discovered. in Mexico in 1994 and have been the. center of controversy. Over 33,000.

unusual artifacts, including many. ceramic and stone figurines, were found. Initial laboratory testing suggests the. artifacts were about 6,500 years old. But here's where things get. controversial. Some figurines depict. dinosaurs living alongside humans. And. there's a famous carving of a human. warrior riding a triceratops. Diverse. ethnic [music] groups are represented. Blacks, whites, and Asians are depicted. But those races should have been unknown. in the Americas 6,500 years ago. And.

there were strange creatures like. mermaids, human animal hybrids, even a. Bigfoot. Also found were teeth from an. extinct ice age horse and the skeleton. of a mammoth. Neither of these animals. should have been there. Archaeologists. Charles C. Deepeso and John H. Tierney. examined the collection and. authenticated the find. Carlos Perea, the director of archaeology for the. Akamaro zone, also authenticated it. But. the Smithsonian and other authorities.

dismissed the findings as fraudulent. Despite laboratories dating the objects. to 4,500 BC, the Smithsonian declared. the artifacts 30 years old and said the. whole find was a hoax. John Tierney, who. later collaborated with Professor. Charles Hapgood, said the Smithsonian. Institution and other authorities had. conducted a campaign of disinformation. against the discoveries. If you remember. from the Adam and Eve episode we did, Charles Hapgood was dismissed as a. pseudocientist because [music] he. claimed the continent's drift over.

millions of years. Oops. Yeah. So, John. Tierney filed a Freedom of Information. request and asked for all the Akamara. files from the Smithsonian. Well, turns. out the files are missing and all the. Akamara objects in the Smithsonian's. [music] possession have been put into. storage and may not be viewed by the. public. >> Until when? >> Didn't say. Tierney went on to write a. book called Akamaro: [music]. Archaeologyy's Astounding Scandal, but. good luck trying to [music] find it. The. phrase, "A skeleton in the closet,". refers to a secret that if exposed.

[music] would cause shame, guilt, or. even a scandal. And we all have a. skeleton or two in the closet. For us, that's just a metaphor. But for the. Smithsonian, they're actual skeletons. Giants in America. A government. conspiracy. A Smithsonian coverup. It's. a fascinating story. [music] But is it. true? Well, let's unravel it. Ohio has. been the epicenter for giant skeletons, especially in the 19th century. When.

early discoveries made the news, the. stories were a national sensation. Now, [music] this amount of attention also. brings out the hoaxers and scammers. >> Hey, you want to buy a hecklefish NFT? >> I do not. And by the way, if you bought. an NFT relating to the W files or. hecklefish, you got scammed, but not by. me. >> No refunds. >> In 1882, enormous skeletons were. discovered in a lake bed near. Cincinnati. The Columbus Dispatch ran. with the story. The problem was it was. all a hoax. The alleged discoverer was. charging admission to visit his property.

and view the skeleton. Now, it may or. may not have been a real skeleton, but. either way, it was about 5'8, so not a. giant. >> Uh, maybe the guy who found it was. really short. Maybe. But the story was. so exciting the newspapers around the. world ran it without factchecking. >> Journalists running stories without. checking the facts. No, it can't be. >> As more stories about giants popped up. in the news, it was hard to separate. fact from fiction because the newspapers. ran every story. >> Hey, you want the truth or you want to. sell papers? Am I right?

>> Right. >> Nothing ever changes. >> That's true. Ralph Glidden was the. archaeologist who found over 3,000. [music]. giant skeletons in 800 graves on. Catalina Island. That turned out to be a. huge hoax. He did find one skeleton and. took a picture of himself standing near. it. He showed the picture to a friend. who said that looks like a giant, which. it does, but only cuz the skeleton is. closer to the camera. Glidden ran with. the idea to make some money, but it was. all a scam. And since the early days of. the internet, photos have been floating.

around of people excavating sites with. giant bones. Some of the pictures are. great, and I used a lot of them today, but most of the pictures are from a. Photoshop contest held in 2002. In. [music] fact, science says that giant. humans could not exist. Yes, there are. human beings who grow very tall, but. that's due to medical conditions and. genetic disorders. Gigantism often. happens when someone has a tumor on. their pituitary gland. But this is a. serious medical problem and people who. [clears throat] suffer from gigantism. often die very young due to the strain.

on their hearts and other organs. Then. there's Marfan syndrome, a genetic. condition that can cause limbs to be. much longer in relation to the rest of. the body. It's believed that Abraham. Lincoln might have had Marfan syndrome. At 6'4, he was much taller than most of. the men of his time. >> Uh, he also died young. >> O, >> what? Still too soon. >> But the reason humans can't grow to be. giants is the square cube law. This. states that as the size of any object. grows, its volume grows faster than its. surface area. If a giant is 60 ft tall,

or about 10 times the size of someone 6. feet tall, the giant's body would have. to be 100 times the volume of the 6'. man. A cubic in of bone can support. 19,000 lb. That's a lot. But at 60 feet. tall, bone would need to support well. over 550,000. lbs. Human bones would shatter and. crumble under this weight. >> Oh yeah, but who says giants are human? >> Now that's a fair point. There are. discoveries of giants where it was.

reported that the bones of the body and. the skull were much thicker than humans. So is the Smithsonian covering this up? Well, debunkers say no. The story about. John Wesley Powell nominating Cyrus. Thomas to the Smithsonian first appears. in an article written by David Childress. in 1993. The article caught fire and has. been in circulation ever since. Now, that doesn't mean Childress is wrong, but I do get suspicious when stories. about the 19th century don't emerge. until the late 20th century. So, have.

the authorities been suppressing. knowledge that the Americas were once. inhabited by advanced civilizations? civilizations who made contact with. cultures around the world. Well, to get. this answer, we're going to need [music]. a sweet potato. >> Whoa, whoa, whoa. Do I have sea monkeys. in my ears or did you just say sweet. potato? [music]. >> For over a hundred years, the. Smithsonian and mainstream archaeology. has supported isolationism. that the. cultures that emerged in North America.

did not have contact with Central. America or South America and definitely. did not contact cultures across the. oceans. It's absurd to even think it. But the Smithsonian has a problem. The. sweet potato. Sweet potatoes are native. to the Americas. But an ancient sweet. potato was found in the Cook Islands, which are in the middle of the Pacific. Ocean. The potato was carbon dated to. the year 1. That would mean that 500. years before Columbus, a Native American. tribe traveled across the Pacific and. landed in Polynia and brought sweet.

potatoes with them. Or Polynisians. traveled to the Americas and back. The. counterargument is that the sweet potato. fell off a boat near Central America and. floated to Polynia over 5,000 mi away. >> That's one lucky potato. And linguists. have found that the word for sweet. potato in early Polynesian languages is. kumala. In Native American dialects. spoken in Ecuador, the word is kumar. Now, it could all be a coincidence, but. we're not done yet. Even more compelling. is DNA analysis of Polynesian chickens.

In 2007, chicken bones were found at an. excavation site in Chile. The DNA of the. bones match chickens from the Pacific. islands of Samoa and Tonga and were. carbon dated to between 1304 and 1425. before the Spanish arrived in the new. world. In 2019, South American chickens. were studied and found to have an. unknown genetic component. It [music]. turned out that component was from. chickens found on Easter Island in the. middle of the Pacific Ocean. The study.

was so astounding that research was done. on human DNA. And in 2020, the study. showed that some Polynesian people had. DNA inherited from people who lived in. Colombia about 800 years ago. Specifically, Polynesians share DNA with. the Zenu tribe, who lived in Colombia on. the Caribbean side, not even the Pacific. Ocean side. It's too much to cover in. this episode, but there's evidence of. Chinese contact with the New World in. 1200 BC or Indian contact in 2000 BC and.

of Arab contact in the 9th century. There are even old maps from the Arabs. and Turks like the Pirice map that show. North and South America a thousand years. before Columbus was born. And there's. much more. Some mummies have been found. with traces of cocoa and nicotine. A. re-examination of the mummy of Ramsy's. II in the 1970s reveal the presence of. fragments of tobacco leaves in his. abdomen. Coca and tobacco are native to. the Americas. Now, mainstream science. says an archaeologist handling the mummy.

must have spilled his pipe. land is hot. cocoa. >> That's what they say. Now, remember, we. did an episode on Egyptian artifacts. allegedly discovered in the Grand Canyon. in 1909. The Smithsonian denies this and. claims the whole story is a hoax. But. for some reason, the part of the Grand. Canyon where the discovery was made is. off limits. You can't even fly over it. If you do wander into the area, within a. few minutes, unmarked planes and. helicopters appear in an area where. flying is not allowed.

I'll link to the episode below which. goes into detail. You'll even see the. planes and helicopters I'm talking. about. Once again, those artifacts were. sent to the Smithsonian and nobody knows. what happened. In 1990, a law was. passed. The Native American Graves. Protection and Repatriation Act. This. law says that any federal agency in. possession of Native American cultural. items, including human remains or sacred. objects, will be returned to the tribes.

upon request. Great. The Smithsonian is. a federal agency. So, can we get all the. skeletons from Ohio and have a look? Nope. United States Code, Title 25, Chapter 32, Section 30001, subsections 4. and 8 state. Subsection 4, federal. agency means any department, agency or. instrumentality of the United States. Such [music] term does not include the. Smithsonian institution. Subsection 8, museum means any institution or state or. local government agency, including any. institution of higher learning that.

[music] receives federal funds and has. possession of or control over Native. American cultural items. Such term does. not include the Smithsonian Institution. or any other federal agency. The law requiring the government to. return skeletons to the tribes. Well, the Smithsonian is exempt. So, if. history books need to be rewritten, don't look to the Smithsonian for help. And don't demand answers either. Mainstream science and especially the. media have a playbook. It's easy to. recognize once you look for it. The four. stages of suppression are criticize,

marginalize, attack, and censor. Now, here's an example. >> I don't claim to be an archaeologist or. a scientist. When Graham Hancock. released his documentary series called. Ancient Apocalypse, it was a huge hit. It explores the theory that ancient. advanced cultures existed thousands of. years ago but were wiped out in the. great flood of the younger trius. Now, you could agree with this theory or. disagree with it. Either way is fine. with me. But wherever you stand, we can. all agree that it's an interesting.

theory worthy of discussion, right? Well, wrong. The Guardian reviewed the. series in an article titled Ancient. Apocalypse is the most dangerous show on. Netflix. Now, there are stage one, criticize. Not only should we not. discuss alternate theories, it's. actually dangerous to discuss them. [music] But people like us don't care. about criticism, we don't care what the. media thinks, so they have to escalate. to stage two, marginalize. That same. article has a spicy subtitle which read, "A show with a truly preposterous theory.

is one of the streaming giants biggest. hits, and it seems to exist solely for. conspiracy theorists." So, if you. believe in or even have an interest in. this preposterous subject, you're. marginalized as a conspiracy theorist. The same article insinuates that people. who are curious about civilizations. before the flood are the same as. flatearthers. >> It still might be flat. >> We're 9/11 truthers. >> Inside job. Uh, >> not now. >> [music]. >> Being called a conspiracy theorist used.

to be a major insult, but we've heard it. so much that we're not affected by it. anymore. >> I take it as a compliment. >> I know. So, they escalate to stage three. attack. MSN reviewed the documentary in. an article with this headline. Graham. Hancock series promotes racist. conspiracy theories. >> And there it is. >> ABC ran with it. [music] Ancient. Apocalypse series uses racist. ideologies. Now, I watched and enjoyed. the documentaries. I enjoy discussing. alternate history and life before the.

younger dus flood. I'm not racist. Are. you? I don't care what color the people. were before the flood. I just want to. know about them. And I would guess that. you're the same. But calling someone a. racist without evidence is very much in. style now. But because that word is. thrown around so much, that attack is. also losing its teeth. So you. criticized, it didn't work. You. marginalized, it didn't work. Attacked, [music] it didn't work. That leaves. stage four, which does work. Censorship. [music] It's right there in that. headline from the Guardian where the.

author poses the question, why has this. been allowed? What does he mean allowed? Who does he want allowing or disallowing. free speech? Netflix, the government? I. suspect I know the answer. Now, I don't. agree with all of Graham Hancock's. assertions laid out in the documentary, but all of them are worthy of. discussion. Mainstream media and science. disagrees. These discussions are. preposterous, dangerous, and racist. somehow, so censor it. For a 100red. years, Egyptologists proudly claimed. ancient Egypt as the first major.

civilization with a minor shout out to. the Samrians who were there a thousand. years earlier. Any culture older than. that was nonsense and discussion was. censored. But then, Gobeclete was. discovered in Turkey and is found to be. 5,000 years older than Sumeriia. >> Oopsie. >> Yeah, that was embarrassing. Then Monuklu Tarla was discovered also. in Turkey. That culture dates back to. over 12,000 years ago. That's a period. of time called the pleaene. Now we were. taught that this was the time of the.

cavemen. But in Bonukuluta, they. understood agriculture and animal. husbandry. They could cut stone and they. engaged in city planning. A few years. ago, a sewer system was discovered. These weren't cavemen. They lived in. houses built around a central religious. center. A Netflix documentary discussing. different theories isn't dangerous. But. articles by mainstream television. writers who get their facts from. mainstream scientists, those articles. are dangerous. They're dangerous because. they suppress debate, [music] which in.

turn suppresses discovery. I'm so glad. the archaeologists who found Monklu. didn't read internet news. Otherwise, those racist conspiracy theorists might. never have found what is so far the. oldest culture on Earth. a culture that. emerged, by the way, right after the. great flood of the younger Dryus. As. more time passes, more evidence emerges. to support theories about alternate. history. If [music] giants walk the. earth, sooner or later, that too will be. discovered. But mainstream media will do. everything it can to prevent that news.

from getting out. If the Guardian, NBC, ABC, USA Today, CNN, and all the others. continue to be wrong over and over. again, maybe we have to start asking the. question about those articles. >> [music]. >> Should they be allowed? Oh, [clears throat]. sorry about that. We're still going. Next one is Rob's favorite. Rob is the. official artist of the Y Files. All that.

fun art you see on the shirts and. fistable coffee mugs, that's all Rob. Speaking of t-shirts and fistable mugs, grab some merch now at. shop.thefiles.com. Low prices, lots of deals, perfect. holiday shopping. That's. shop.thefiles.com. Go now. I could have been a great pitch. man. Rob chose the episode about. Operation High Jump. This was about the. secret mission to Antarctica. You're. going to love it. Ricketity roll it.

Operation High Jump commenced in August. 1946. It was the largest, most heavily. armed naval task force ever sent to. Antarctica. Leading the mission was. Admiral Richard E. Bird, one of the most. famous naval officers in history. The. official purpose for the expedition was. scientific research and military. training. [music] But that was just a. cover story. Operation High Jump had. other goals. One was to extend American. sovereignty over Antarctica, something.

that was denied many times by the US. government. Another was to locate and. destroy a secret Nazi base and capture. the Nazis new secret weapon, the flying. saucer. UFOs were seen all over the. area, suspected to be Nazi test flights. Admiral Bird was sent to find out. >> Did they find flying saucers? >> Oh, they found a lot more than that. [music]. In December 1938, aware that he was on.

the brink of war, Hitler dedicated. considerable resources to searching for. mysterious ancient artifacts said to. have incredible power. >> One of these expeditions launched on. December 17th, 1938. The SS Schwabinland. was sent on a secret mission to. Antarctica. On board were scientists and. engineers, but also members of the Tuli. Society, a German occultist group. [music] The Tuli Society believed that a. highly advanced race of human-like.

beings called Aryans, existed somewhere. deep inside the Earth, and the entrance. to their world was at the South Pole. The classified mission of the SS. Schwabinland was to find a location for. a secret underground base and make. contact with the Aryans living in the. hollow Earth. and once contact was made. negotiate for access to their. technology. The ship reached the. Antarctic coast a month later. For the. next 3 weeks, they mapped hundreds of. thousands of square miles of the. continent. About 150 mi inland, aerial.

reconnaissance found what is described. as an Arctic oasis, an area about 300. square miles that was free of ice, filled with warm water, and even. contained plant life. In the ocean. beneath the oasis was a geothermal vent. that kept the area relatively warm. This. was the ideal place for a base, especially for yubot. This is where the. Nazis would establish the infamous. underground facility known as [music]. base 211. Over the course of World War. II, base 211 became a massive complex as.

large as a small city. Initially, it was. designed as an offensive structure where. hubot and missiles could be deployed. But as the tide of war turned against. the Axis powers, it became clear that. the base would be an ideal way to. escape. In the final months of the war, huge amounts of equipment, supplies, and. personnel were transported to. Antarctica. At the same time, thousands. of Nazis escaped justice and were. smuggled to South America with most of. them hiding in Argentina. One of the.

infamous German officers to disappear. was Hans Cameler. Cameler was in charge. of Hitler's secret weapons program. Camel's engineers had created a. prototype long-d distanceance supply. plane [music] with a range of over 4,000. mi called the Ju390. Only two of these. were made. One of them belonged to. Cameler. And as of April 1945, neither. came nor his plane have ever been found. And just a few months later, thousands. of UFO sightings were reported all over. South America. The American government.

feared that Cameler and his scientists. had escaped to Antarctica where they. were continuing their work operating out. of a secret military base hidden deep. underground. But these were just rumors. There was only one way to find out. Go. to Antarctica. [music]. Okay, before we talk about what Admiral. Bird saw in Antarctica, >> Oh, come on. Just get to the weird. stuff. >> I will. But it's important that you. understand what kind of man Richard Bird.

was. He was not some pseudocience. conspiracy theorist cook. He was a. legitimate badass. Here are the bullet. points. Richard Bird reached the rank of. Rear Admiral by the age of 41, the. youngest admiral in Navy history. Now, that by itself is impressive, but how. about this? He was a recipient of the. Medal of Honor, the Navy Cross, the. Flying Cross, and the Silver Life-Saving. Medal. In all, he received 22 citations. and commendations, including nine for. bravery and two for extraordinary.

heroism. He was to this day one of the. most highly decorated officers in the. history of the Navy. Now, his resume. goes on, but I think you get the point. If Admiral Bird says he wants to be the. first man to fly over the North Pole, he. doesn't. And if the United States sends. a major expedition to the South Pole to. conduct a top secret mission, well, there's no more qualified person on the. face of the Earth to lead it than. Admiral Richard E. Bird. Operation High. Jump commenced in August 1946. The.

official purpose of the mission was to. train personnel and test equipment in. cold temperatures, to explore Arctic. geology, study the weather, and develop. techniques for establishing air bases in. frigid climates. Admiral Bird led a Navy. task force of almost 5,000 men aboard 13. ships, including a brand new. state-of-the-art aircraft carrier loaded. with dozens of planes, bombers, and. helicopters. This task force was armed. to the teeth. There were two destroyers, tankers, supply ships, ice breakers, two.

heavily armed sea planes, and an attack. submarine, all fully stocked with the. best weapons in the entire Navy. That's. a lot of firepower for training. exercises and studying the weather, >> right? That mission was the cover story. No personnel training or equipment. testing ever took place. No practice. maneuvers, no military exercises, no. scientific study of any kind was ever. done. [music] According to eyewitness. testimony, declassified records, and.

Bird's own journal, Operation High Jump. had other purposes. One goal was to. extend American sovereignty over the. Antarctic continent, something that was. denied many times [music] publicly by. the US government, >> naturally. >> The other goal was to locate and destroy. the secret Nazi military complex known. as [music] base 211 and to capture any. flying saucers they could. The Armada. arrived on January 15th [music] and. immediately started building a base. called Little America. But then the. Operation High Jump story takes a turn.

Originally meant to be a 6 to 8month. mission, after just 40 days, the base is. evacuated and the task force withdraws. This massive, expensive, and important. mission, is suddenly terminated. So what. happened? And this is where Admiral. Bird, a legend in his own time, becomes. a legend for all [music] time. The Navy task force retreated to Chile.

and as soon as they made port, rumors. spread about strange findings and. disasters that forced the mission to be. cut short. Admiral Bird himself spoke to. the media and rather than deny the. stories, he expressed deep concern about. the real possibilities of devastating. aerial attacks on the US. >> This doesn't sound like a guy on a. scientific mission. >> It sure doesn't. Bird warned that it was. imperative for the United States to take. immediate defensive measures against. hostile forces in the Arctic and.

Antarctic. The admiral went on to say. that he wasn't trying to alarm anyone. >> Too late. >> But the cruel reality is that in case of. a new war, the United States could be. attacked by flying objects that had the. ability to move from pole to pole at. incredible speeds. Admiral Bird. reiterated this in a few different. statements. He warned that there was a. new enemy that could attack any country. at any time, anywhere, no matter the. distance. When Admiral Bird got back to. Washington, he was immediately.

debriefed. And though he had just spent. 2 weeks making statements in the press, after a lengthy interrogation, Admiral. Bird never uttered another word about. Operation High Jump. The mission was. immediately classified top secret, and. any sailor who spoke about the mission. would be arrested and imprisoned. The. Navy then published a brief summary of. the mission's achievements and admitted. some sailors were killed, but they. didn't say how many. And officially, all. the deaths were accidents and the bodies. were buried bare, not brought home.

During one of his flights, Admiral Bird. was missing for 3 hours in an episode of. lost time, but that was officially. blamed on radio failure. The official. reason for terminating the mission early. was poor weather conditions, and that. was that. However, you know how Admiral. Bird was missing for 3 hours and. experienced lost time? >> Yeah. >> Well, Bird was meticulous at documenting. everything, but when he returned to the. States, his journals were confiscated. and classified. But the government.

didn't get everything. He had a secret. diary that he gave to his son right. before he died. And if any of what he. claims to have seen is true, well, it. changes everything. According. to Admiral Bird's diary, he fuels up for. a flight early in the morning. The. weather is clear and mechanically the. plane checks out. At 8:15, at an. altitude of 2,300 ft, he checks in. >> 0815 hours. Radio check with base camp.

Situation normal. >> At 10 after 9, he notices a color. pattern in the snow. Nothing extreme, but he circles the area to get a closer. look. He makes visual contact with camp. and radios in his findings. Then his. instruments start to act strange. He. writes that both his compasses are. gyrating so much that he can't even use. them. So he uses the sun to navigate and. maintains a visual of camp. He reports. that his controls are feeling sluggish. He's concerned about the wings icing up.

There's a little ice, but no indication. of a problem, so he continues flying. toward what he perceives as a mountain. range. 0949 hours 29 minutes elapsed. flight time from the first sighting of. the mountains. It is no illusion. They. are mountains and consisting of a small. range that I have never seen before. He. crosses the mountain range and descends. toward what he describes as a green. valley with a small river running. through it. >> There should be no green valley below. Something is definitely wrong and. abnormal here. We should be over ice and.

snow. To the port side are great forests. growing on the mountain slopes. Our. navigation instruments are still. spinning. The gyroscope is oscillating. back and forth. >> He drops down a bit and circles back for. a closer look. He reports the green as. being moss or tight grass. [music] The. light seems different here. He can see. the ground easily, but he can no longer. see the sun. Now, this starts to worry. him because he's using the sun to. navigate, but he gets distracted by. something he didn't expect. On the green.

valley below, a large animal is grazing. It appears to be an elephant. No, it. looks more like a mammoth. This is. incredible. Yet, there it is. Decrease. altitude to 1,000 ft and take binoculars. to better examine the animal. It is. confirmed it is definitely a. mammoth-like animal. Report this to base. cam. >> Admiral Bird flies over green pastures. that stretch for miles. And he's so. amazed by what he's seeing, it takes him. almost 30 minutes to realize it's not. cold anymore. Frost on his forward.

window is gone. Same with the bits of. ice that were on the wings. He removes. his gloves. The window of the canopy is. warm to the touch. He records an. external air temperature of 74° F. His. instruments are now back online, but his. radio is out. And remember, in the. official report, Admiral Bird was out of. radio contact for 3 hours. So, he flies. for another hour over what looks to be a. countryside or a pasture. On the. horizon, he sees the impossible. a large.

shining city. The plane shutters. Admiral Bird grabs the controls, but. they're not responding. He notices the. plane feels light and buoyant. Then, on. both sides of the plane, strange. aircraft are rapidly closing in. They're. disc shaped and seem to be radiating. light. And somehow, they're running. completely silent. Now, thinking this is. now a really good time to head back, Admiral Bird tries the controls again. No luck. The plane's engine suddenly.

cuts out, but somehow continues flying, controlled by some unseen force. The. craft are right up alongside his plane. now, close enough that Admiral Bird can. see markings. In that instant, his. wonder turns to terror. The markings are. swastikas. [music]. According to documents leaked in 1991, things back at Camp Little America take. a strange turn. Just 2 days after.

arriving, bright lights were seen on the. horizon. The sailors thought it was. another ship, but they were below the. Antarctic Circle in uncharted waters. The lights then ascended at a 45° angle. into the sky very quickly. They tried to. make radar contact, but were out of. range. 3 hours later, five more lights. appeared in the sky and began flying. directly toward the ships. Anti-aircraft. guns and 20 mm cannons were fired, but. had no effect. A radio operator. stationed on the USS Brownson gave.

testimony of how strange craft suddenly. appeared from the ocean. This is. corroborated by Lieutenant John Serson. who said objects shot vertically out of. the water at tremendous speeds. One. object flew between the mass of a ship. with such force that the radio antenna. oscillated back and forth from the. turbulence. An aircraft from the USS. Kuratuk took to the sky but was. immediately struck by a beam of energy. and destroyed about 10 mi away. The. torpedo boat USS Maddox burst into.

flames and began to sink. According to. the report, this was the first attack of. several that would occur over the next. few weeks. February 26th would be the. last engagement with the unknown craft. The Navy task force ordered retreat and. left the area a full 6 months before. their mission was supposed to end. Although Lieutenant Serson couldn't. identify the lights, he wondered if they. were what he called German wonder. weapons being operated by survivors of. the recently defeated Third Reich. operating out of a secret base under.

Antarctica. His testimony has fueled. speculation that still exists. And to. this day, investigators are trying to. determine what really happened during. Operation High Jump. [music]. Admiral Bird's radio, which hadn't been. working for at least an hour, suddenly. comes back to life. Though the signal. was distorted, a voice [music] starts. speaking English with a slightly German.

accent. Welcome, Admiral, to our domain. We shall land you in exactly 7 minutes. Relax, Admiral. You are in good hands. >> The plane gently lands itself, and. Admiral Bird is met by several men, all. tall with blonde hair. >> Arians. >> Sounds like it. Bird joins the strangers. on a platform that levitates and rushes. them toward the city at great speed. He's directed to an elevator that takes. him quickly and silently deep. underground. He is to have an audience. with the master. Admiral Bird is led.

into another room where an older man is. seated at a long table. Admiral Bird is. asked to sit down. The master says his. people are called the Ariani and they've. been observing humans for a long time, but only now are they choosing to. interfere. The master [music] says that. Admiral Bird's race is too immature for. atomic energy and are at risk of. destroying themselves. The master says. [music] every time they try to make. contact, their ships are fired upon and. pursued by fighter planes. So instead, they chose Admiral Bird to carry this.

message because he's a famous and. wellrespected figure. The master hopes. that the world will believe him. After. the meeting, the admiral is escorted. back to his plane. And after flying for. a few minutes, a voice comes through the. radio that control of the aircraft is. now his. A voice says, "Aidaane and. disconnects.". >> Definitely Aryans. When Admiral Bird. arrives at the Pentagon in March 1947, he is debriefed and interrogated for. hours. He relays the message from the. master and advises the president. He's.

ordered to remain silent about the. operation. And indeed, Admiral Richard. Bird never spoke a word about this. mission again. The final entry in his. diary is a number of years later. Admiral Bird feels what he calls the. long night coming, but doesn't want this. knowledge to die with him. Just as the. long night of the Arctic ends, the. brilliant sunshine of truth shall come. again. And those who are of darkness. shall [music] fall in its light. For I. have seen that land beyond the pole, that center of the great unknown.

Admiral Richard E. Bird, United States. Navy, 24th of December, 1956. And Admiral Bird passed away 3 months. later. This secret diary was found by. his son, Richard Bird Jr., and. subsequently released, as was his. father's wish. And 18 months after that, the Antarctic Treaty was signed, forbidding anyone from going to. Antarctica without special permission. from one of 12 signatory [music]. governments. And even with special. permission, you may only go in a few. small designated areas. Antarctica.

[music] is bigger than Europe, bigger. than Australia, bigger than the entire. United States, yet all that land is off. limits. Why was there a secret Nazi. base? Is there a civilization living. underground? The UFOs described by the. sailors in 1947 behave an awful lot like. UFOs we're seeing right now. Since we. can't go to their world, they could be. trying to come to us with the same. warning they gave Admiral Bird. So maybe. instead of trying to destroy these craft.

and destroy each other, we might want to. listen to what they have to say. And who. knows, the entire fate of the world may. depend on it. >> [music]. >> Okay, talk about a story having it all. UFOs, Nazi bases, government cover-ups, even Hollow Earth. And I've done a lot. of research on Hollow Earth. So, if you. want to see that video, let me know in. the comments. Anyway, I'll tell you. right up front, there's a lot of the. story that can be debunked, but not all.

of it. Let's start with Admiral Bird's. secret diary. It's not real. First of. all, the flight in the diary takes place. in the North Pole. So, we're already off. to a rocky start since Antarctica is as. far south as you can get. And some of. the log entries are almost identical to. actual published log entries from the. Admiral. The same types [music] of. instrument failures, engine issues show. up in both places for some reason. Also, whole paragraphs of what the master said. to Admiral Bird seem to be plagiarized.

from the 1937 film Lost Horizon, where. the main character is talking to the. Daly Lama, who issues the same kind of. warning. In 1964, a book about the. hollow earth was released by Walter. Siemeister under the pen name Raymond. Bernard. Admiral Bird is mentioned quite. a bit in the book. Bernard went on to. write lots of books about UFOs and. Hollow Earth. And later, when Bird's. Secret Diary appeared, guess who wrote. the forward? Yep, Raymond Bernard. But. the dead giveaway for me, the secret.

diary is full of exclamation points. Like lots of them. If you read any of. Bird's other logs, no matter how excited. he gets, he doesn't write like he's. posting on Reddit. He writes like a. gentleman. So, what about the Nazis? Here's where it gets tricky. The. Schwaban land did go to Antarctica in. 1938, but its mission was to secure new. ports for whaling to supply Germany with. its own whale oil for margarine. >> Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. A Nazi. mission to the South Pole for a. delicious buttery spread.

>> Exactly. Germany wasn't at war yet, but. Hitler was planning it. A lot of oil and. fat-based products were imported. Hitler. wanted to make sure that these. industries could continue and his army. could be fed in case foreign supplies. were cut off. The Nazi mission did claim. some land for Germany and it's widely. thought that they did look for a. location for a base and maybe even tried. to build one, but no evidence of a base. has been found. However, Nazi artifacts. have been found in the Arctic in the. north, which could be why this story.

continues to circulate, but so far. nothing in the [music] south. >> Could be underground. >> It could be. I'm not saying nothing's. there. I'm just saying we haven't found. it yet. >> Well, they found it and aren't telling. anybody. >> Well, that's always a possibility. The. US government did lie about the real. purpose of Operation High Jump. And it's. true Admiral Bird never spoke about it. publicly except for those cryptic. comments in the Chilean newspaper Elmer. Mercurio. Elmer Curio is a real paper. and Admiral Bird did give them an.

interview. Obviously the article was. released in Spanish, but when it was. translated back to English, his words. were twisted around to make the story. sound more dramatic. >> Never let the facts get in the way of a. good story. >> Right. Bird never said there are ships. that can fly poleto pole at tremendous. speeds. He said the United States could. be attacked by planes coming from the. polls and it should be ready for that. And Operation High Jump had a press. contingent about a dozen reporters. giving daily reports. There really.

wasn't much going on. So rather than. send back a three-word story, lots of. ice, the reporters added their own. flare. For example, Bird did find a. small lake that had uniquely warm. temperatures with algae growing in it, but it was reported as a land of blue. and green lakes and brown hills in an. otherwise limitless expanse of ice. >> and a UFO attack. >> Right in 1991, after the collapse of the. Soviet Union, millions of secret. documents were released. And one of.

those written in 1947 was a description. of Operation High Jump. And in 2006, a. Russian documentary was released based. on that secret intelligence report. The. Soviets did believe that Operation High. Jump was a mission to find and destroy a. Nazi base. And look, with all that. firepower, I don't think that's a. stretch. The reports of the battle with. UFOs comes from the Soviet documents. But it's iffy on the facts, and they got. some of the names of the ships wrong, but they did get some right. And the US. military has a history of changing a.

ship's name and rewriting the ship's. story if it serves Navy policy. >> Propaganda. >> always. The Soviet report said that UFOs. weren't trying to destroy the American. ships, which they easily could have. done. They just wanted the ships to turn. back. The mission was cut way short. The. official reason for that is weather. But. that's a lot of resources wasted because. of weather. Were there really UFOs. protecting something down there? [music]. or is this disinformation deliberately. leaked to the Soviets by US. intelligence? I don't know. I've.

debunked as much as I can for you. Even. though a lot of this story is false, not. all of it is. And it seems as the only. way we'll get answers is to go to. Antarctica. But if there's one thing. that every government in the world. agrees on, it's that whatever is down. there needs to stay there. But I'll. leave you with these final thoughts. Just a few months after Operation High. Jump, a UFO allegedly crashed in. Roswell, New Mexico. The location of the. crash is only a few miles from the.

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you get merch that's discontinued. You. get like a secret code [music]. on the store. Enter the code and you'll. see all kinds of merch in there that's. not publicly available. [music] You get. to see the episodes early with no. commercials. And [music]. I've been doing a pretty good job of. that lately. I think last week's episode. was four or 5 [music] days early, so you. get to see them way before anyone else. But the best perk is the private live. streams. We hop on Discord and you get. to meet me, the whole Wii Files team.

All [music] of our cameras are on and. you can turn your camera on. You don't. have to, but a lot of people do. Hop up. on stage, ask a question, [music] talk. about whatever you want. Um, but we also. have the chat running during those. streams. So, you can, if you're too shy. [music] for the camera, which I totally. get, ask a question in the chat. We just. we have a lot of fun in there. It gets. kind of kind of wild, but uh but it's a. lot of fun. And there's usually only. maybe 80 100 people in [music] there, sometimes even fewer. So if you're.

struggling to get through on the after. files when there's thousands of people, [music] the Discord Patreon live streams. are a great are a great way to just. reach us. So I think it's the best perk. [music] there is. Oh, another great way. to support the channel is grab something. from the Wi-Fi store. Grab a heck of a. t-shirt or one of these vegetable coffee. mugs you can stick your Christmas fist. in or whatever whatever you want to put. in. That's none of my concern. It's It's. the holiday season. Grab a hoodie and. slap my face on it or get one of these. squeezy animal adorable looking. Look.

how cute he is. Get one of these squeezy. animal head talking doll toys. >> I figures he [music] shows up for the. plugs. >> Yeah, of course I did. You're terrible. with the plugs. Um, before you buy. anything on the store, consider becoming. a member on YouTube. That's $3, [music]. but members get 10% off everything in. the store. So, if you're going to spend. $40 on the Wi-Fi [music] store, become a. member on YouTube. Use the code. It pays. for itself. And if you want to cancel,

that's totally fine. [music]. Um, that's not a profit center. In fact, all that money goes to the team. So, that's just something I wanted to put. out there as a value ad so you [music]. could save money. >> Yeah. keep that secret close to your old. dorsal fin. Eh, >> as you know, or maybe you don't, [music]. the um the merch in the Wow store is not. expensive. I keep those prices very, very low. So, you're not going to see. any [music]. $35 t-shirts or $30, $40 mugs like other. creators do. I don't do that. Um, we.

make a couple of bucks on it to help the. channel, but otherwise, what I care. about most is just [music] getting merch. out there. I love seeing people wearing. Wi-Fi shirts like in the airport and. stuff. Super fun. And [music] if you. wear your merch out in public, you're. going to make a new friend. Guarantee. you that. Is that everything? [music] I think. those uh those are the plugs. Are those. the plugs? Those are the plugs. All. right. Until next time, [music]. Mike is my boy. Be safe, be kind, and.

know that [music] you are appreciated. >> [music]. [bell]. >> I play Bolivia [music]. in Area 51. A secret code inside the. Bible [music and singing] said I would. I love my UFOs and paranormal [music].

fun as well as music singing like I. should. [music] then another conspiracy theory. becomes the truth my friends [music]. and it never ends. [singing]. No it never ends. [music]. [music] I fear the crab guy. I got stuck.

inside Mel's home with MK out. I feel. only aware. [music]. Did Stanley Cubrick fake the moon. landing alone on a film set of shadow. [music] people there? The Roswell aliens just fought the. smiling man. [singing]. I'm told [music]. and his name was cold. [singing] I can't. believe I'm dancing with the fishes.

on [music] Thursday night. and. all through the [music] night. All I ever wanted [music] was to hear. the truth. One more through the night. [music]. [music].

The M sightings and the solar storm. [music and singing] still come to gather. this young city underground. Mysterious number stations, planet. circle to [music] project star and what. the dark watches found. [music] in a simulation. Don't you worry. though the black night. [music].

Oh, I can't believe I'm dancing [music]. with the fish. on Thursday night when they chase you. and my [music] all through the night. All I ever wanted was to hear the truth. Cuz [music] my all through the night. when they change [music] you and me all. through the night.

[music and singing]. with me all through. life. [music]. >> [music]. >> Girl loves to dance. Your girl loves [music] to dance on the. dance floor because she is a camel.

Camel loves [music] to dance when the. feeling is wild way in time. [music]. Heat. Heat. [music]. [bell].