Brothers of the Serpent: Recent Episodes
Russ & Kyle Allen
Is it possible that some mythological creatures that ancient people spoke of were inspired by the fossil bones of extinct animals? Leah, one of our discord members, joins us to talk about an interesting theory that the mythological Griffin may have had it's origins in ancient gold miners discovering the fossil bones of a dinosaur called Protoceratops.
Here is the book referenced during the show: The First Fossil Hunters: https://a.co/d/0fc9kt0c
And the Paleontology blog we read from: Mark Witton's Blog: https://markwitton-com.blogspot.com/2016/04/why-protoceratops-almost-certainly.html
You can find Leahs channels and website through the links below:
Gaming YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@DorkyDodo Art YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@naturenerdart Nature YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@World-of-Dodo Website: www.leahck.com Coloring Book: https://www.amazon.com/Paleozoic-Pals-Coloring-Book-Klehn/dp/B0GBCTLG3N/ref=sr_1_1?sr=8-1 You can support us through Patreon or Paypal by going to our support page on our website: https://www.brothersoftheserpent.com/support
More investigation into the strange sets of "cart ruts" we explored in the Phrygian Valley in Turkey. We show more drone footage and photos, look at examples of "cart ruts" from the "Oregon Trail" in Wyoming, as well as actual ruts in mud for comparison. We read more emails with suggestions and ideas and discuss them.
Thank you all for your emails and comments! The ruts are a fascinating and enduring mystery.
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Chapters
00:00 Intro 00:50 The Watcher Joins 01:54 Guest Cat 03:00 Wine Medal 07:04 Accent Drift Accusations 08:43 Rock n Roll Update 18:21 Spaceweather News 21:14 Main Topic Begins - Cart Ruts 2
We discuss the mystery of the "cart ruts in stone" we visited while we were in Turkey; looking at video on the ground as well as drone footage of several large groups of well-preserved ruts in ancient volcanic tuff. Who made the ruts, when were they made, and how were they made? We address these questions and more, as well as reading emails from listeners who have their own possible answers.
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Chapters
00:00 Introduction to the Podcast and Setting the Scene 01:51 Space Weather News and Updates 04:21 Celebrating Wine Achievements and Science News 08:51 Innovations in Biointegrated Electronics 13:50 Exploring the Mystery of Cart Ruts 20:10 Investigating Cart Ruts in Turkey 25:23 Analyzing Drone Footage of Cart Ruts 39:03 Complexities of Cart Rut Formation 41:56 Understanding Cart Ruts and Their Mechanics 43:12 Exploring Theories Behind Cart Ruts 45:51 Analyzing Drainage and Irrigation Theories 47:47 The Role of Volcanic Tuff in Cart Rut Formation 50:25 Sleds, Plows, and Alternative Theories 52:51 Debunking Common Misconceptions 55:34 Creative Theories and Humor in Cart Rut Explanations 58:24 Flooding and Its Impact on Cart Ruts 01:01:10 The Boat Theory and Its Plausibility 01:04:10 Final Thoughts on Cart Ruts and Theories 01:15:56 Geological Comparisons and Ancient Technologies 01:19:01 Theories on Ruts: Boats, Vehicles, and Mining 01:30:02 Innovative Theories: Jet Skis and Shamirs 01:33:06 Mining Machines and Their Impact on Ruts 01:39:00 Clapham Junction: A Comparative Analysis 01:46:59 Conclusions and Future Discussions
First episode in separate studios! Went well, and we had a fun discussion about the recent JRE Eric Weinstein episode, with the possibility that the science of Physics has been stalled, or purposefully distracted, by the beautiful but seemingly useless mathematics of String Theory. Is it possible that "real physics" simply went "black"...that work is being done in secret that is actually making progress in unlocking the secrets of the universe?
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Chapters
00:00 Welcome to the Brothers of the Serpent Podcast 07:09 Space Weather Insights 09:55 The State of Modern Physics 22:26 The Intersection of Physics and the Supernatural 34:39 Mysterious Disappearances of Scientists 48:21 Speculation on Missing Persons Cases 51:52 Skepticism and Conspiracy Theories 54:50 Exploring Advanced Physics and UAPs 01:01:06 Theoretical Physics and Its Limitations 01:07:03 Consciousness and Noetic Sciences 01:14:21 Assumptions in Modern Science 01:18:21 The Nature of Gravity and Dark Matter 01:32:43 The Secrets of Advanced Technology 01:41:50 Space Exploration and Hidden Agendas 01:50:02 The Great Pyramid: A Survival Guide? 02:07:14 The Impact of Language on Memory and Cognition
Reading emails always leads to great discussions! Cosmic mysteries, ancient civilizations, dowsing, how long does it take after civilization collapse for cannibalism to start...you know, normal conversations you might have with anyone.
Enjoy!
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Still catching up on listener emails, we have some great ones in this episode as always, pyramid questions, ancient Australian Aboriginal stories, consciousness, and more. At the end we discuss the future of the podcast, our plans, and Russ' upcoming move out of Texas.
Randall reads from a published paper that attempts to date the Great Pyramid using erosion patterns on foundation blocks that used to be partly covered by casing stones. Because we can pinpoint the time the casing stones were removed to within a few years, the erosion on the stone that used to be protected by the now-missing casing stones can be used to establish a baseline for the amount of time required for such erosion to occur. This can be compared to the erosion on the portions of the stone that was never protected, and thus a date for construction can be estimated. This leads us to studies on limestone erosion in general, and the evidence for catastrophic flooding along the Nile Valley, which leads us back to the Sphinx, and the erosion seen in the enclosure walls around it.
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And his website here: https://randallcarlson.com/
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Chapters
00:00 Introduction to the Conversation 01:24 Redating the Khufu Pyramid 11:04 The Relative Erosion Method Explained 17:21 Exploring the Erosion of the Sphinx 19:13 Quarrying Techniques and Erosion Patterns 30:11 Theories on the Sphinx's Construction 39:18 Coastal Limestone Erosion Studies 41:06 Erosion Rates and Environmental Factors 43:22 Historical Perspectives on Erosion 45:47 Comparative Erosion Studies 47:39 The Sphinx and Erosion Rates 51:41 Freshwater Erosion Dynamics 53:37 Wetter Periods and Erosion 57:11 Subterranean Structures and Ancient Civilizations 01:01:53 Catastrophic Events and Civilization Planning 01:05:25 The Moon as a Refuge 01:10:12 Comparative Flood Events 01:13:18 Periodic Catastrophes and Human Survival 01:18:28 Ancient Technologies and Future Strategies
The one and only Randall Carlson joins us to discuss lunar mysteries, sacred geometry, ancient architecture, energy sources of the ancients, and more! This is the first half of a very long conversation we had with Randall, so look for Part 2 next week.
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Chapters
00:00 Introduction and Podcast Reunion 03:03 The Significance of 108 in Astronomy 06:01 Ancient Civilizations and Advanced Knowledge 09:03 Mass Extinctions and Civilization Cycles 12:00 The Younger Dryas and Its Impact 14:59 The Holocene and Climate Stability 18:02 Plato, Atlantis, and Historical Correlations 21:09 Geological Insights of the Finger Lakes 26:31 The Impact of Glacial Activity 32:41 Exploring Ancient Civilizations and Catastrophes 39:12 The Intersection of Technology and Spirituality 44:00 Preserving Civilization's Legacy 46:53 Cosmic Catastrophes and Human Survival 48:12 Breakaway Civilizations and Energy Sources 49:21 Recognizing Ancient Technologies 52:51 Gobekli Tepe and Ancient Civilizations 56:14 The Vajra: Symbol of Power and Technology 01:08:18 Symbolism and Meaning in Mythology 01:09:30 Decoding Ancient Symbols 01:10:32 Mithras and the Sun God 01:12:08 Myths as Encoded Knowledge 01:13:34 Universal Traditions and Catastrophism 01:15:59 Survival and Strategic Planning in Myths 01:18:07 Indigenous Flood Myths and Forewarnings 01:19:50 Forensic Analysis of Ancient Events 01:22:11 Preserving Knowledge Through the Stars 01:25:15 Connecting the Dots of Ancient Wisdom 01:28:44 Plasma Technology and Ancient Knowledge 01:32:55 The Intersection of Science and Mythology
We start off by revisiting the Artemis II mission and some ideas of future space expansion. We then move to the main topic: a recap of some of the new places we visited in Egypt, such as KV5(a "tomb" complex in the Valley of Kings) and Tell Al-Roba, a massive 200 acre site in Egypt that holds the buried remnants of a temple complex and features an absolutely enormous single-piece granite shrine.
We also talk about some new obvservations regarding the floor of the "Queen's Chamber" in the Great Pyramid, as well as some interesting aspects of the Grand Gallery. We then move on to our travels in the Faiyum and out into the desert, looking for traces of paleo and neo lithic people.
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Chapters
00:00 Introduction to the Podcast and Artemis Mission Discussion 03:01 Transient Lunar Phenomena and Mission Insights 05:56 Space Elevator Concepts and Material Science Challenges 09:10 The Future of Space Travel and Rocket Technology 11:59 Exploring Ancient Egypt: New Discoveries at Tell Al-Roba 14:47 Lithics Project and Archaeological Findings 18:04 Understanding Egyptian Civilization and Its Layers 20:53 The Great Pyramid and the Queen's Chamber Insights 31:36 Exploring the Great Pyramid's Intricacies 34:53 The Grand Gallery: A Marvel of Engineering 38:34 Unveiling the Secrets of the King's Chamber 39:45 Insights from the Abruhuash Descent 45:27 Investigating KV5: The Valley of the Kings 56:54 Reflections on the Sinai Peninsula Adventures 01:02:11 Exploring Ancient Civilizations and the Fertile Crescent 01:05:30 The Mysteries of Mount Sinai and Pre-Pottery Neolithic Sites 01:09:08 Navigating Bureaucracy in Egypt: A Tourist's Experience 01:12:34 Discovering Ancient Artifacts and Sites in the Desert 01:17:10 The Significance of Pre-Pottery Neolithic A in Sinai 01:20:15 Uncovering Lithics and Ancient Technologies in the Faiyum 01:26:43 Exploring the Labyrinth and Pyramid Structures 01:30:14 Geological Insights and Flood Impacts 01:32:28 Basalt Quarries and Ancient Construction 01:35:15 The Oldest Road and Transportation of Materials 01:41:34 Ancient Lake Levels and Docking Structures 01:45:51 Petrified Forests and Fossil Discoveries 01:51:00 Valley of the Whales and Extinction Events 01:52:44 The Fossilization Process and Environmental Changes 01:55:48 The Silica Cycle and Its Geological Impact 01:56:55 Discovering Ancient Creatures: The Basilisk Imprint 01:58:08 Ancient Roads and the Legacy of Our Ancestors 02:00:28 Exploring the Descent to Lake Levels 02:04:12 Disaster Mapping: Understanding Ancient Floods 02:10:37 Future Projects and Community Engagement
In light of the Artemis II mission to the moon, we discuss the history of Transient Lunar Phenomena - astronomers and other observers have been recording strange phenomena on the moon for a thousand years. We go through some of the more notable observations, and the fact that many of them take place in the same few craters and areas.
We also discuss the future of spaceflight and what we hope the long term goals are for humanity in space.
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Prof Shy joins us live for the second half of his presentation on the Dragons of Legend.
We go over the SAR Scans of the Giza Plateau again in light of Biondi's appearance on the Joe Rogan Experience. We discuss what we see as the promising aspects of the technology and our concerns over the analysis of the data.
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Another Live episode reading more of your excellent emails and discussing all manner of SnakeBros topics!
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We give a brief update on the current state of the precision vase research, followed by more Listener Comms as we continue to try and catch up to 2026 in our emails!
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Matt Shy joins us again with a presentation on another kind of legendary giant: dragons. We look at ancient depictions of dragons and giant serpents across the world from Sumer to China. We talk about the significance of the Ouroboros, about ancient artifacts depicting dragons and serpents, about the many ancient gods who were depicted as serpents, or had serpent or dragon-like aspects.
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Chapters
00:00 Welcome to the Brothers of the Serpent Podcast 06:02 New Year Reflections and Podcast Plans 12:06 Ancient Chinese Dragon Depictions 18:05 The Ouroboros and Its Significance 24:04 The Candle Dragon and Protruding Eyes 29:00 Concluding Thoughts on Historical Artifacts 34:11 Cosmic Serpents and Their Symbolism 37:02 Indra and the Slaying of Vritra 39:33 Agency of Nature: Serpents and Spirits 42:05 Cognitive Dissonance and Perception 44:29 Shesha: The Cosmic Serpent 46:40 Tiamat: The Dragon of Chaos 49:10 Feathered Serpents in Mesoamerica 58:19 Quetzalcoatl and the Temple of the Feathered Serpent 01:00:22 The Serpent as a Symbol of Wisdom 01:03:07 Psychedelics and Altered States of Consciousness 01:06:56 Mythical Creatures and Their Symbolism 01:09:49 Historical Accounts of Serpents and Dragons 01:12:41 Pterosaurs and Native American Legends 01:15:34 The Evolution of Dragon Myths 01:18:31 The Serpent in Religious Texts 01:21:52 Epic Tales of Heroism and Dragons 01:32:08 The Value of Knowledge 01:32:59 Mythical Creatures in Gaming and Literature 01:34:03 The World Serpent and Its Symbolism 01:36:05 Arthurian Legends and Their Origins 01:36:57 Saints and Dragons: A Historical Perspective 01:37:56 The Legend of Loch Ness 01:39:11 St. George and the Dragon 01:39:56 Japanese Dragons and Their Significance 01:41:58 The Concept of Dragons in Civilization 01:44:08 The Role of Dragons in Different Cultures 01:47:01 Slavic Dragons and Their Mythology 01:49:11 The Connection Between Dragons and Kingship 01:51:01 Dragons as Ancient Demons 01:53:02 The Serpent as a Symbol of Knowledge
Another Listener Comms as we try to get through our massive backlog of excellent emails. As ususal the combination of emails and comments from the live chat spur all kinds of snakey discussion on multiple topics. Enjoy!
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This week we spoke to author and researcher Jason Quitt. He discusses his out-of-body experiences and how they reshaped his understanding of existence, leading him to explore the connections between ancient texts, astronomy, and the cycles of nature. He demonstrates the significance of celestial bodies in ancient cultures, the symbolism of fertility, and the agency of nature as perceived by ancient civilizations. Quitt emphasizes the importance of the pyramids as celestial clocks and the interconnectedness of symbols across different cultures, suggesting a shared ancient knowledge that transcends time and geography. We discuss the duality of the serpent in various cultures, including its representation in Christianity, and how these ancient stories have been passed down through generations, revealing a shared knowledge across civilizations.
A really amazing conversation that hit all the points we love to discuss on the podcast!
You can find more of Jason's work at his website: https://thecrystalsun.com/
If you want to buy the books for the subjects discussed on the show, you can find them on amazon:
Gates of the Annunaki https://a.co/d/9ZF3raA
Astral Genesis https://a.co/d/bHzsHpc
Jason is also active on X: https://x.com/jason_quitt
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Chapters
00:00 Introduction to Jason Quitt and His Journey 02:47 Exploring Ancient Texts and Spirituality 05:04 The Language of the Stars and Mythology 08:13 The Connection Between Ancient Cultures 10:50 Archaeology and Rediscovery of Ancient Knowledge 13:29 The Role of Symbols in Ancient Civilizations 16:04 Agency of Nature and Spiritual Realms 18:56 The Importance of Cycles and Fertility in Ancient Cultures 21:47 Consciousness of Nature and the Sun 24:18 The Symbolism of Serpents and Healing 26:52 The Myth of Orion and Its Significance 29:55 The Interconnectedness of Myths Across Cultures 32:51 The Role of Meteor Showers in Ancient Stories 39:27 Celestial Storytelling and Meteor Showers 40:59 Mythology and Astronomy: The Scorpion and the Bull 42:50 The Tilt of the Earth and Ancient Measurements 45:22 Solar Symbolism in Ancient Civilizations 48:27 The Language of Angles and Seasons 52:10 Equinoxes, Solstices, and the Sphinx 56:23 Creation Myths and the Benben Stone 58:44 Pyramids as Solar and Lunar Clocks 01:01:42 Fertility Symbols and Ancient Technology 01:07:59 Resurrection Myths and the Two Mounds 01:10:21 The Symbolism of Osiris and Creation Mounds 01:13:03 The Necropolis and the Journey to the Afterlife 01:16:48 The Gates of the Underworld and Celestial Navigation 01:20:15 The Duality of Stories in Ancient Religions 01:23:24 The Serpent as a Symbol of Knowledge and Fertility 01:32:07 The Temple of Hathor and Astronomical Alignments 01:39:13 Decoding Ancient Geometry and Astronomy 01:45:51 The Celestial Stories Behind Ancient Structures 01:53:14 Mythology and Its Repetition Across Cultures 02:01:06 Connecting the Dots: Trade and Knowledge Across Civilizations
At long last, another Listener Communications episode! We are so far behind on emails that we are reading emails from June of 2024. But as always there are lots of great points and questions, this time the theme is mostly religion, spirituality, consciousness, and a bit of Gobekli Tepe and ancient mysteries.
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We went live to discuss our 5 week trip to Peru, and of course we ended up focusing on the possible construction techniques used to build a site like Sacsayhuaman. Throughout the conversation, we are referencing footage we took from the site, so check our youtube channel if you want to see what we are talking about!
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This conversation with Peter delves into the rich history and culture of Britain, exploring the interplay between myth and reality, particularly through the lens of Arthurian legends and the influence of Christianity. We also delve into the exploration of ancient civilizations, focusing on archaeological finds, the Neolithic period, and the connections between zodiac symbols and historical narratives. We discuss the significance of cultural exchanges, the influence of geography on ancient societies, and the legacy of figures like Arthur in the context of myth and history. Peter also touches on the idea of secret knowledge being passed down through generations, highlighting the intertwining of history and mythology in understanding our past. We look for connections between the Holy Grail, the Bronze and Iron Ages, and the historical context of King Arthur.
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Chapters
00:00 Introduction to the Brothers of the Serpent Podcast 04:43 The Legends of Lud and His Sons 12:04 Historical and Mythological Figures in Welsh Tradition 16:29 The National vs. Regional Arthur 18:12 The Significance of Memorials and Inscriptions 20:59 Discussion on Archaeological Findings 25:36 The Significance of Burial Practices 27:26 Christianity's Arrival in Britain 30:11 Joseph of Arimathea's Role in Early Christianity 33:07 Cultural Interactions and Language Barriers 36:01 Legends of Jesus' Missing Years 38:33 Neolithic Monuments and Their Mysteries 43:00 The Zodiac and Ancient Mapping 47:16 Exploring the Legacy of Arthurian Legends 47:45 Exploring Ancient Monuments and Zodiacs 49:12 The Transition from Neolithic to Bronze Age 51:17 The Story of Queen Albine and Her Legacy 52:39 Cultural Exchanges and Influences in Ancient Britain 56:20 The Role of Adventurers in Knowledge Exchange 01:01:25 Connecting Myths: The Epic of Gilgamesh and Welsh Traditions 01:07:23 The Significance of Mapping and Surveying in Ancient Cultures 01:12:16 Hidden Knowledge and Ancient Traditions 01:15:25 The Glastonbury Zodiac and Its Significance 01:19:10 Arthurian Legends and Secret Knowledge 01:22:38 The Ark of the Covenant and the Holy Grail 01:24:45 The Bronze Age and Trade Routes 01:32:39 Hillforts and Their Historical Context 01:38:40 Political Upheaval and Innovation 01:40:59 Chariots: A Historical Perspective 01:42:58 The Continuation of Ancient Traditions 01:44:06 The Etruscans and the Fall of Troy 01:44:57 The Legend of King Arthur 01:48:09 Mythologizing Historical Figures 01:52:00 The Role of Oral Tradition 02:00:00 Druidism and Its Evolution 02:10:00 Cultural Interactions and Historical Contexts
In this live episode, Russ delivers his presentation on flood myths from around the world. It is amazing how many common elements are found in this common story that comes from the ancestors of so many different peoples!
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Lots of topics in this live episode, we discuss possible biosignatures on Mars, the possibility that the universe is inside a supergiant black hole, and much more! Enjoy!
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Peter Chesbrough joins us to discuss his research into the pervasive legends of King Arthur. Is this person a true historical figure? What is the basis for the myths and stories? It is a complex and interesting subject, and Peter delivers on both primary sources and in explaining the cultural and political context in which many of the Arthurian legends are based.
You can find more of Peter's research on the channel "Britan's Hidden History" https://www.youtube.com/ @BritainsHiddenHistoryRoss
More research into the topic of Arthur and the history of Britain can be found at these channels as well: https://www.youtube.com/ @orgolwg https://www.youtube.com/@paulsmith-esotericexplorer
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Chapters
00:00 Introduction to the Podcast and Guests 02:04 Exploring Arthurian Legends and Their Significance 06:03 The Influence of Textual Analysis on Historical Understanding 10:04 The Role of John Dee in British History 14:02 Celtic vs. Brythonic: Understanding Historical Terminology 17:59 The Roman Influence on Britain and Its Legacy 22:03 The Archaeological Evidence of Arthur's Time 25:58 Christianity in Britain: A Historical Perspective 29:56 The Debate Over Arthur's Historical Existence 36:10 The Unpublished Works and Conspiracies Surrounding Arthur 39:39 Ambrosius vs. Arthur: Historical Perspectives 41:08 Prehistoric Records and the Dark Ages 46:47 The Controversy of Arthurian History 47:39 The Story of Arthur: Early Sources and Battles 01:01:10 Arthur's European Campaigns and Legacy 01:10:49 The Mythology of Technology and Storytelling 01:11:41 Exploring Welsh Legends and the Mabinogion 01:14:25 The Intertwining of Arthurian Legends and Historical Figures 01:19:11 The Cosmic Elements of Arthurian Mythology 01:24:20 The Academic Dismissal of Arthurian History 01:28:02 Political Influences on Arthurian Narratives 01:38:24 The Grail Legends and Their Origins 01:41:37 The Creative Force of Arwen 01:44:44 Welsh Bardic Traditions and Necromancy 01:47:42 The Complex Brithonic Tradition 01:49:19 Flood Myths and Their Connections 01:50:45 Prince Maddock and the Discovery of America 01:52:20 The Sword in the Lake and Excalibur 01:56:40 The Significance of Swords in Mythology 02:01:34 The Art of Sword Making and Its Secrets 02:07:46 The Importance of Modern Technology in Historical Research
Kyle delivers his latest presentation on Gobekli Tepe and the wider "Tas Tepeler Civilization" topic. How far back do these ancient megaliths really go? The evidence we have cannot actually tell us, because all of the dating is based on the material found around the megaliths. And is there a connection between the people who inhabited these t-pillar sites and the area of Giza in Egypt?
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Filipo Biondi and Armando Mei are the Italian scientists heading the project to scan the Giza Plateau with satellite-borne Scanning Aperture Radar(SAR). In this interview we discuss the technical aspects of the technology in an attempt to get a basic grasp of how it works. We also discuss the history of the technology, including the epxperiments and testing it underwent before being used at Giza. We also talking about the Giza findings themselves, what the confidence level is for the depictions of the underground structures, and what they might be.
Thanks to George and Steph of the Cosmic Summit for helping us arrange this interview!
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00:00 Introduction to the Podcast and Interview 01:14 Exploring Pyramid Scanning Technology 08:21 Meet the Researchers Behind the Scans 10:43 Understanding the Scanning Methodology 25:10 Results and Findings from the Scans 34:47 Future Research Directions and Implications 52:45 Exploring the Pyramid Project and Ancient Civilizations 58:05 The Megastructures Beneath the Pyramids 59:46 Technological Advances in Mars Exploration 01:02:41 Future Excavations and Discoveries 01:03:16 Conferences and Future Collaborations 01:04:33 Reflections on the Conversation and Insights
We return from the New York trip to floods and devastation very close to us. We Bring Dozer Dan on in the first part of the episode to talk about the destructiojn he witnessed first-hand. We also show some maps of the watersheds so people can understand a bit more about how this happened and why.
After that we discuss the New York event and the trip to Boston. Many ancient Egyptian artifacts were scanned in the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, and we had a great time with the attendees of the "Evening at the Explorer's Club" event.
We finish by discussing where our minds are at regarding ancient mysteries - there are plenty of mysteries still to explore!
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Dr. Trevor Lohman is an assistant professor and researcher into the neuroscience of aging. He joins us in this episode to give us a crash course on the physical functions of the brain, and how current science still has no good explanation for the phenomena of consciousness. We discuss the history of quantum physics experiments into the "double slit" problem and the collapse of the wave function, and how consciousness seems to be fundamental to how the universe works. If you are interested and want to know more, you can get Trevor's book, "God's Eye View" here: https://a.co/d/fvMPyJ9 Hemispheric Press Substack: https://hemisphericpress.substack.com/BOTS Happy Fools Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/happy-fools/id1782845057 Thank you, hope you enjoy this epsiode! Join our Patreon, support the show, get extra content and early access! https://www.patreon.com/brothersoftheserpent Support the show with a paypal donation: https://paypal.me/snakebros Chapters
00:00 Introduction to the Podcast and Guest 01:36 Exploring Consciousness and Neuroscience 05:12 Near-Death Experiences and Consciousness 07:06 AI and Consciousness: A Complex Debate 13:41 The Double Slit Experiment: Understanding Reality 22:36 The Nature of Matter and Consciousness 28:12 Quantum Mechanics and Consciousness 34:54 The Intersection of Science and Spirituality 36:09 Cultural Shifts in Science and Skepticism 41:44 Understanding Consciousness Through Neuroscience 56:41 The Complexity of Consciousness and Its Mechanisms 01:10:11 The Complexity of Consciousness 01:18:19 AI: Magic or Complexity? 01:25:44 Theories of Consciousness: Transmission vs. Production 01:32:09 Transducers and the Nature of Perception 01:45:25 The Nature of Light and Consciousness 01:47:52 Near-Death Experiences and Consciousness Transduction 01:49:50 Anesthesia and Consciousness: The Microtubule Connection 01:55:36 Microtubules: The Mechanism Behind Consciousness? 02:01:42 Quantum Effects and Consciousness 02:09:51 The Role of Microtubules in Light Emission and Consciousness 02:12:37 Exploring Spirituality and Science 02:17:10 Community and Collaboration in Scientific Inquiry
Seriah, the host of the excellent show "Where Did the Road Go", joins us this week for a swapcast conversation about all the topics we're interested in. We talk UFOs, ancient civilizations, pyramids, Gobekli Tepe and Derenkuyu. We throw in some scifi discussion as well for good measure.
You can find Seriah's podcast here: https://wheredidtheroadgo.com/
Join us, Ben from UnchartedX, Adam Young, and Karoly Poka for an afternoon at The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York where we will peruse their collection of Ancient Egyptian artifacts, then we will move to the Explorer's Club for dinner and presentations from us and Ben! https://eveningattheexplorersclub.eventbrite.com/
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00:00 Introduction to the Podcast and Guests 03:06 Exploring UFOs and the Unknown 05:52 The Nature of Alien Encounters 08:53 Consciousness and Perception in the Paranormal 12:02 The Absurdity of Encounters 14:57 Sci-Fi Inspirations and Cultural Reflections 24:07 Skepticism Towards New Discoveries 25:49 Exploring Promising Technologies 28:01 Debating the Validity of Claims 30:00 Understanding the Water Table Dynamics 32:00 Unraveling the Mysteries of the Giza Plateau 34:56 Investigating the Sphinx's Secrets 39:00 Diving into Ancient Wonders 43:59 Connecting Cultures: Egypt and Turkey 50:00 The Enigmatic Sabians and Their Legacy 54:02 The Origins of Megalithic Structures 57:43 Gobekli Tepe: A Turning Point in Archaeology 01:02:38 The Evolution of Tools and Techniques 01:10:12 Dating Gobekli Tepe: Challenges and Discoveries 01:21:14 The Purpose and Symbolism of Gobekli Tepe 01:29:31 Future of Archaeological Research
We start off with some good old spaceweather news, which leads into a discussion of the earth's rapidly weakening magnetic field and the possibility of a polarity flip. We then move on to some discussion of further observations on the construction of pyramids and new things we learned in our recent trip in Egypt.
In the second half of the show, we talk about the amazing cart ruts we visited in the Phrygian Valley in Turkey. We show lots of pictures and video, and discuss and discard multiple hypotheses on what they are and how they were formed.
Join us, Ben from UnchartedX, Adam Young, and Karoly Poka for an afternoon at The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York where we will peruse their collection of Ancient Egyptian artifacts, then we will move to the Explorer's Club for dinner and presentations from us and Ben! https://eveningattheexplorersclub.eventbrite.com/
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00:00 Welcome to Brothers of the Serpent 02:01 Space Weather News 05:32 Earth's Magnetic Field Dynamics 10:05 Geomagnetic Excursions and Their Implications 15:49 Magnetic Field Weakening and Its Consequences 20:08 Mars, Venus, and Planetary Magnetic Fields 24:22 Life on Other Planets: The Case of Europa 28:08 Life in Extreme Environments 29:51 Theoretical Life Forms and Energy 31:21 Science Fiction Inspirations 33:35 Podcast Reflections and Communication Barriers 34:35 Debating Ancient Structures 37:43 Pyramid Construction Insights 39:20 The Anatomy of Pyramids 42:30 Theories on Pyramid Design 50:30 Mythology and Historical Interpretation 58:24 Exploring the Met and Event Details 59:08 The Mystery of Cart Ruts 01:01:03 Colonial Cart Ruts: A Historical Perspective 01:03:20 Investigating Turkish Cart Ruts 01:06:03 Analyzing the Characteristics of Ruts 01:09:12 Theories on Rut Formation 01:12:32 Erosion and Its Impact on Ruts 01:15:58 The Case for Hand-Carved Ruts 01:19:20 Challenging Conventional Explanations 01:27:59 Concluding Thoughts on Cart Ruts 01:29:25 Exploring the Mechanics of Ruts 01:36:00 Drone Footage Insights 01:43:11 The Mystery of Disappearing Ruts 01:50:06 Theories and Speculations on Cart Ruts
We actually recorded this just before we left for Egypt in March this year; it's been in the hopper for a while! Dan Friday, a Native American craftsman and professional glassmaker, joins us to talk about his fascination with glass artifacts of ancient Egypt. Dan was with us on one of our Egypt tours a few years ago, and shared some of his fascination with us at the time.
Along with glassmaking and ancient glass, we also discuss the egyptian vases, the fascinating topic of the Rupert's Drop, connections between ancient mythologies, and much more.
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00:00 Introduction to Glass Making and Artistry 05:56 Historical Significance of Glass in Egypt 11:56 Precision in Ancient Glass Artifacts 18:01 Vibration and Polishing Techniques in Glass Making 27:01 Exploring Ancient Glass and Polishing Techniques 29:36 Precision in Ancient Vase Production 30:28 The Art of Glass Annealing 32:00 Vibrations and Stone Cutting Theories 33:37 Understanding Rupert's Drop and Internal Stress 36:54 The Fragility of Glass and Its Applications 39:03 Machinery and Tools for Glass and Stone Work 42:24 The Complexity of Stone Cutting in Peru 46:53 The Aesthetic and Functional Aspects of Ancient Stones 52:19 Exploring Ancient Civilizations and Shared Histories 54:28 The Importance of Human Connection and Education 56:57 Experiencing the Mystique of the King's Chamber 01:00:26 The Enigma of Ancient Structures and Their Builders 01:03:09 Mysteries of Peru and the Anunnaki 01:06:50 Theories on Ancient Construction Techniques 01:10:01 Unexplained Phenomena and Ancient Technologies 01:15:10 Cultural Myths and Their Significance 01:22:16 Cultural Narratives and Flood Myths 01:24:51 Art as a Reflection of Heritage 01:27:26 The Process of Glassblowing and Artistic Creation 01:32:27 Exploring the Intersection of Tradition and Modernity 01:39:02 Symmetry in Art: A Deeper Look 01:48:01 Ancient Engineering and Mythology 01:49:19 Exploring Ancient Materials and Techniques 01:51:11 Advancements in Archaeological Projects 01:53:32 Controversies in Archaeological Preservation 01:54:52 Debates on Excavation Practices 01:56:50 The Future of Archaeological Discoveries 02:00:06 Diving into Underwater Archaeology 02:02:34 The Importance of Shared History 02:06:15 Repatriation and Cultural Heritage 02:09:25 Evolving Perspectives in Egyptology
We are joined by Marc Young to discuss the Khafre Scans, the credibility of the conclusions from the scan data, and the future of this type of technology if it is viable.
In the second half of the show, we talk about Marc's encounters with fraud in academia, and the problems with the peer review system.
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Join us, Ben from UnchartedX, Adam Young, and Karoly Poka for an afternoon at The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York where we will peruse their collection of Ancient Egyptian artifacts, then we will move to the Explorer's Club for dinner and presentations from us and Ben! https://eveningattheexplorersclub.eventbrite.com/
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00:00 Introduction to Geophysical Archaeology 01:30 Understanding Synthetic Aperture Radar Technology 04:59 Applications of SAR in Archaeology 08:49 Challenges in Validating Geophysical Data 12:00 Exploring Potential Sites for Scanning 16:00 Natural Features and Geological Considerations 20:02 Interpreting Geophysical Data and Findings 24:58 The Role of Water in Archaeological Structures 26:37 Exploring Ancient Structures and Water Tables 29:19 Theories of Ancient Civilizations and Doomsday Bunkers 30:47 Geological Insights and Ancient Engineering 34:24 Hydraulic Systems and Water Management in Ancient Egypt 36:56 Data Interpretation and the Search for Hidden Structures 39:20 Skepticism and Media Representation of Scientific Findings 46:31 The Challenges of Peer Review and Data Release 54:37 Skepticism and Scientific Methodology 01:02:31 The Sun et al. Paper and Its Controversies 01:20:42 Investigating Scientific Fraud 01:23:05 The Consequences of Whistleblowing 01:27:10 The Integrity of Scientific Research 01:29:49 The Role of Money in Science 01:33:04 The Challenges of Peer Review 01:38:59 Corruption and Conspiracy in Academia 01:48:01 The Future of Scientific Publishing 01:58:24 The Intersection of Science and Political Narratives 02:01:15 Conspiracies in the Scientific Community 02:04:49 The Evolution of Skepticism in Alternative History 02:09:31 The Journey from Speculation to Scientific Inquiry 02:12:55 Future Endeavors and Academic Integrity 02:16:51 The State of Science and Integrity in Research
This was a fun discussion! Back in the tangent cube at last, we cover some of the highlights of our long trip through Egypt and Turkey, from Cappadocia and Derenkuyu to Gobekli Tepe and Karahan Tepe, the Pyramids and the Osirieon, ancient tools and lost vaults of knowledge. We talk about the mythology connected with the structures, and focus a lot of time on the Osiris Myth. Thank you all for your patience as we travel, and your continued support!
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Join us, Ben from UnchartedX, Adam Young, and Karoly Poka for an afternoon at The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York where we will peruse their collection of Ancient Egyptian artifacts, then we will move to the Explorer's Club for dinner and presentations from us and Ben! https://eveningattheexplorersclub.eventbrite.com/
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00:00 Welcome Back and Reflections on the Journey 02:53 Exploring Cappadocia's Underground Cities 05:42 The Role of Special Permissions in Archaeology 08:51 Airflow and Structural Integrity of Ancient Tunnels 11:39 Connections to Ancient Myths and Stories 14:45 The Evolution of Gobekli Tepe's Structures 22:02 Symbolism of the Lion's Gate and Sphinxes 26:52 Samson, Gilgamesh, and the Cycle of Civilizations 33:35 The Significance of Hair and Statues in Ancient Egypt 45:36 Exploring Ancient Symbolism and Mythology 47:06 The Osiris Myth: Variations and Interpretations 49:40 Experiencing the Osirian: Personal Reflections 51:32 Architectural Insights: The Construction Techniques of Ancient Egypt 54:38 Theories on Ancient Tools and Techniques 57:41 The Connection Between the Temple and the Osirieon 01:00:21 Excavation Insights: The History of the Osirieon 01:02:56 The Alignment and Purpose of Ancient Structures 01:06:26 The Osiris Myth: A Foundation of Civilization 01:25:06 The Evolution of Myths and Civilizations 01:27:15 The Eye of Horus and Lunar Symbolism 01:29:26 The Sabians: Pilgrims of Knowledge 01:31:46 Hermeticism and Ancient Astronomers 01:35:08 Exploring Gobekli Tepe and Its Mysteries 01:39:02 Lithics and Their Connection to Ancient Cultures 01:42:57 Contrasting Technologies: Lithics vs. Megaliths 01:48:22 The Evolution of Craftsmanship in Ancient Civilizations 02:01:17 Midden Accumulation and Cultural Practices 02:05:48 Future Discoveries in Neolithic Archaeology
We recorded this in a hotel room right next to the Giza Plateau in Egypt, and we spend the first hour discussing the results of the now-famous Synthetic Aperture Radar scans of the Khafre Pyramid, and the claims of large structures hidden in the bedrock below the pyramid proper. We also talk a bit about the strange "well shaft" of the Great Pyramid, which we explored again this year, and the mysterious "Grotto" chamber at the top of the well shaft.
Finally, we read some very interesting new findings by physicist Max Fomitchev-Zamilov in the subject of the Egyptian stone vases. Max has discovered that there is a higher concentration of radioactive elements in vases of higher quality and precision, at least in the limited samples he has been able to scan. We read about his preliminmary results from his website, which can be found here: https://maximus.energy/index.php/2025/03/30/excess-of-thorium-232-in-ancient-egyptian-stone-vessels/
We also read from a related article on Max's website, about "nuclear machining", a technique that Max says could explain the seeming ease with which the ancient vases were manufactured, as well as the higher concentration of radioactive materials in the quality samples. https://maximus.energy/index.php/2025/01/14/nuclear-machining-hypothesis/
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Adam Young is the owner of the "OG Vase", the original ancient egyptian stone vase that was scanned with a high precision structured light scanner. Adam has since formed the Artifact Foundation, a non-profit dedicated to doing research on these ancient objects in the field and in the lab.
Join us, Ben from UnchartedX, Adam Young, and Karoly Poka for an afternoon at The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York where we will peruse their collection of Ancient Egyptian artifacts, then we will move to the Explorer's Club for dinner and presentations from us and Ben! https://eveningattheexplorersclub.eventbrite.com/
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Chapters 00:00 Introduction to the Artifact Foundation and Adam Young 02:06 Adam Young's Journey into Egyptology 07:10 The Purpose and Goals of the Artifact Research Foundation 14:26 The Anomalous Nature of Ancient Artifacts 19:10 The Influence of Background on Research 23:40 Challenges in Understanding Ancient Craftsmanship 36:22 The Legacy of Petrie: A Pioneer in Egyptology 51:10 Exploring the Step Pyramid: Recent Discoveries 01:04:24 Challenges in Archaeology: Preservation and Access 01:04:52 Access vs. Preservation in Archaeology 01:07:01 Historical Destruction and Preservation Efforts 01:09:02 The Role of Local Communities in Archaeology 01:11:02 The Complexity of Archaeological Layers 01:18:59 Future Prospects in Archaeological Research 01:23:00 Upcoming Events and Collaborations 01:27:00 The Artifact Foundation's Mission and Goals
This was a live show to discuss upcoming trips and plans, and dive into some listener emails. As always, the emails are excellent, and we discussed ancient cataclysms and the beginnings of civilization, scanning vases and how they were made, materialism and spirituality and the intersection of these two realms at the quantum level.
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00:00 Introduction and Exciting Plans for Egypt 02:57 Exploring Saturn's Rings and Gravity Theories 14:45 Listener Communications and Community Engagement 24:46 Cataclysms, Survival, and Ancient Knowledge 32:03 Building Monuments After Catastrophes 40:58 The Evolution of Language in Isolation 44:08 Exploring Ancient Technologies and Techniques 46:47 Challenges in Scanning Ancient Artifacts 50:57 Innovative Solutions for Artifact Analysis 53:43 The Role of Ultrasonic Technology in Ancient Construction 01:00:44 Spirituality and Materialism: A Personal Journey 01:25:37 Exploring the Intersection of Materialism and Spirituality 01:30:21 The Nature of Synchronicities and Their Impact 01:39:39 Understanding the Universe: A Spiritual Perspective 01:47:04 The Hero's Journey: Trials and Growth in the Physical Realm 01:54:39 The Cycle of Life and Death: Cooperation and Civilization 02:01:45 Consciousness and Cultural Evolution: A Deeper Look
We are joined by Károly Póka from the Ancient Technology Podcast to discuss the ongoing project to get high resolution, high quality scans of artifacts from Ancient Egypt in order to determine if there really is anomalous, anachronistic precision in these objects. You can visit Károly's channel, the Ancient Technology Podcast, here:
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We are joined by Ben from UnchartedX, and Prof Shy from the "Evidence for Giants" episodes to discuss our recent trip to Peru. We look at multiple mysterious sites in Peru and discuss the megalithic stonework, the possibility of a lost civilization and lost technology that far pre-dates the ancient Inca to which these structures and carvings are normally attributed to. We originally streamed this episode live to youtube, you can watch it here if you want to see the images and videos:
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https://paypal.me/snakebros Chapters 00:00 Introduction and Guest Introductions
07:43 Peru Trip Overview
18:08 Exploring the Quarry and Stone Blocks
27:30 Spiritual Connection and Future Tours
31:54 Exploring the Beauty of Peru
38:01 Ancient Irrigation Canals
42:01 Connectivity Issues and Solutions
43:14 The Quarry and Its Significance
46:32 Community Support and Fundraising
50:02 The Enigmatic Stone Blocks
51:00 Exploring the Quarry and Its Significance
53:59 Adventures in Cusco: Almost Dying
59:51 Tour Itinerary Insights and Future Plans
01:05:03 Megalithic Sites and Their Mysteries
01:14:54 Exploring the Chinkanas and Underground Tunnels
01:16:12 The Magnificence of Ancient Stonework
01:17:43 The Smoothness of Ancient Stones
01:19:47 Filming and Documenting the Sites
01:21:21 Geological Insights and Historical Context
01:23:01 The Impact of Catastrophic Events on Ancient Sites
01:25:18 Debating the Age of Tiwanaku and Pumapunku
01:27:39 Unusual Stone Features and Their Purposes
01:30:31 The Future of Archaeological Excavations
01:34:16 Exploring the Mysteries of Ancient Structures
01:38:04 Insights from Tiwanaku and Puma Punku
01:41:20 The Impact of Reconstruction on Historical Sites
01:50:10 The Frustrations of Modern Tourism at Ancient Sites
01:54:57 Mosquitoes and High Altitude Travel
01:56:14 Challenges of High Altitude Activities
01:59:01 Experiences in Ghost Towns
02:00:07 Understanding Oxygen Levels at High Altitudes
02:02:06 Exploring Tiwanaku and Its Historical Significance
02:05:09 Tour Planning and Future Expeditions
02:07:50 Emotional Connections to Ancient Sites
02:10:08 Mysterious Carvings and Ancient Techniques
02:12:06 Wrap-Up and Future Plans
We go live in this episode to discuss Russ's ten day trip to Peru with Ben from UnchartedX. Photos and video from many sites are shown and details discussed. The stonework in some of these places really is very mysterious and of a quality that is difficult to explain if the builders were using "conventional" stoneworking methods. Thank you for watching and supporting the show! We will be in Turkey in 2025 with Ben and Yousef, join us! See the itinerary here:
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https://paypal.me/snakebros 00:00 Introduction and New Streaming Experience
02:04 Exploring Peru: Initial Impressions
03:49 Cusco: A Blend of Ancient and Colonial Architecture
10:09 The Stonework of Cusco: Techniques and Observations
19:45 Anomalies and Mysteries in Stone Construction
30:07 Comparing Peru and Egypt: Ancient Civilizations and Their Legacies
39:20 The Beauty of Nature: Mountains vs. Desert
41:24 Ancient Stonework: Connections Between Cultures
42:36 Exploring Inca Rosa Palace: Stonework and Technology
46:11 Theories of Stone Softening and Construction Techniques
51:43 The Hutchison Effect: Changing the Laws of Physics?
56:23 Mysterious Stone Textures and Their Implications
01:00:02 Long-Headed Skulls: Anomalies in Ancient Cultures
01:15:10 Exploring Natural Rock Features
01:18:00 Mysterious Stone Carvings and Their Origins
01:21:52 Glacial Carvings vs. Man-Made Structures
01:25:54 The Enigma of Sacsayhuamán
01:29:48 Ollantaytambo: The Sun Temple and Its Secrets
01:38:00 Reflections on Ancient Civilizations and Their Mysteries
01:47:05 Exploring Ancient Megalithic Structures
01:50:13 The Mystery of the Chulpa Towers
01:52:56 Viracocha and Ancient Iconography
01:56:41 The Quarrying Techniques of the Ancients
02:01:49 The Terracing and Agricultural Practices
02:06:32 The Legacy of the Inca and Ancient Giants
We have Mike from Wandering Wolf on to discuss his recent travels to Michigan, where he was investigating another strange feature that looks like a constructed wall, similar to Sage Wall in Montana.
We also look at some photos he took of possible enormous megaliths in Peru. Are these features natural, or manmade? Find Mike's website here:
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https://www.youtube.com/wanderingwolf And his Hemp business here:
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We go live with Ben from UnchartedX for the first episode of 2025! We get Ben's take on the scanning project and the end of year trip to Egypt to scan vase fragments and giant boxes in situ. We also discuss the upcoming trip to Turkey, and revisit some of the strange and mysterious sites we will be visiting there, including Mt. Nemrut, the cart ruts in the Phrygian Valley, and the underground complexes in Cappadocia. We will be in Turkey in 2025 with Ben and Yousef, join us! See the itinerary here:
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We went live to discuss Kyle's trip to Egypt to do scanning and photogrammetry. Lots of interesting details and observations! We will be in Turkey in 2025 with Ben and Yousef, join us! See the itinerary here:
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Author and explorer Andrew Collins joins us for a fascinating conversation about the origins of civilization, agriculture, and megalithic construction in the deep past, as evidenced by sites like Gobekli Tepe, Karahan Tepe, and others in modern day Turkey. We discuss Giants, Nephilim, Annunaki, the mysterious Denisovans, and a possible cult of the Cosmic Serpent in deep prehistory. Much of this discussion is on the subjects in Andrew's latest book, "Karahan Tepe: Civilization of the Annunaki and the Cosmic Origins of the Serpent of Eden", which you can get here:
https://a.co/d/2l2CUoC Or here:
https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/karahan-tepe-andrew-collins/1144630685 See Andrew's website here:
https://andrewcollins.com/page/news/index.htm Thanks to Troy for the episode art! We will be in Turkey in 2025 with Ben and Yousef, join us! See the itinerary here:
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We are joined by an expert in cutting edge battery technology, James Kaschmitter, who gives a fascinating presentation on the state of modern energy storage technology and manufacturing. James is the Founder/CEO and Senior Battery Specialist at SpectraPower, LLC. He has more than 30 years of experience in the battery industry. Jim and his team developed some of the first Li-ion cells in the U.S. and invented the carbon aerogel supercapacitor. https://www.spectrapowerllc.com/ Thanks as always to Troy for the episode art! We will be in Turkey in 2025 with Ben and Yousef, join us! See the itinerary here: https://unchartedx.com/turkey2025/ We will also be back in Egypt in 2025! Join us and Ben from UnchartedX for one of the most amazing experiences of a lifetime in Egypt: https://unchartedx.com/site/egypt2025/ Join our Patreon, support the show, get extra content and early access! https://www.patreon.com/brothersoftheserpent Support the show with a paypal donation: https://paypal.me/snakebros
We recorded this in the UK while we were there to scan vases and cores in the Petrie Museum. Learn about the process, the amazing technology of the structured light hand scanner, and the preliminary findings! This is a swapcast with the Ancient Technology Podcast. Check out his channel here: https://www.youtube.com/c/K%C3%A1rolyP%C3%B3ka We will be in Turkey in 2025 with Ben and Yousef, join us! See the itinerary here: https://unchartedx.com/turkey2025/ We will also be back in Egypt in 2025! Join us and Ben from UnchartedX for one of the most amazing experiences of a lifetime in Egypt: https://unchartedx.com/site/egypt2025/ Join our Patreon, support the show, get extra content and early access! https://www.patreon.com/brothersoftheserpent Support the show with a paypal donation: https://paypal.me/snakebros
We went live to discuss the pyramid construction episode and respond to listener comments and questions. Enjoy! We will be in Turkey in 2025 with Ben and Yousef, join us! See the itinerary here: https://unchartedx.com/turkey2025/ We will also be back in Egypt in 2025! Join us and Ben from UnchartedX for one of the most amazing experiences of a lifetime in Egypt: https://unchartedx.com/site/egypt2025/ Join our Patreon, support the show, get extra content and early access! https://www.patreon.com/brothersoftheserpent Support the show with a paypal donation: https://paypal.me/snakebros
In order to understand how and why the Ancients built monuments like the pyramids, we must first understand what, exactly, they did to build them. In this presentation, we look at the hidden aspects of the structure of pyramids. We will be in Turkey in 2025 with Ben and Yousef, join us! See the itinerary here: https://unchartedx.com/turkey2025/ We will also be back in Egypt in 2025! Join us and Ben from UnchartedX for one of the most amazing experiences of a lifetime in Egypt: https://unchartedx.com/site/egypt2025/ Join our Patreon, support the show, get extra content and early access! https://www.patreon.com/brothersoftheserpent Support the show with a paypal donation: https://paypal.me/snakebros
We continue our report on the strange missing persons cases in David Paulides' third Missing 411 book, "North America and Beyond".
We only cover a small amount of the enormous number of cases in this book. If you are interested in learning more go to https://www.canammissing.com/missing-411-north-america.html
You can purchase the book directly here: https://www.nabigfootsearch.com/catalog/item/6180213/9774908.htm
Thanks to Troy for the amazing episode art!
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UFOs part 15! This episode is packed with historical information in the traditional Marty style. Prompted by the upcoming congressional hearings on the new whistleblower information about a possible program called "Immaculate Constellation", Marty leads us through more than 5 decades of history to provide a much more clear understanding of what this program may be involved with, and how it came to be.
Thanks to Troy for the episode art!
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We traveled to the UK to participate in a project to scan artifacts from the Petrie Museum, including the famous Core #7 and many vases. In this episode we discuss the project in general; eventually we will be able to discuss it in detail and the massive amounts of data that were captured will be released to the public.
Thank you all so much for watching and supporting the show! We intend to do much more like this in the future, this is exactly the kind of thing we feel that helps better understand the mysterious past, and ancient human achievements. Many thanks to the following Producers for this episode: Executive Producers: Robert Dresel Philip Baklamov Matt Shy Peter Shell Zachariah Baker Laura Coutu Chandra Chell Chris James Alessandro Rovati Anne who Knits Associate Executive Producers: Hagen Thomann Captain River Rat Dave Cortes Patrick Hicks Luka Rajčević Alexander Lane Join us for an afternoon at the San Antonio Museum with Luke, dinner and presentations after! https://www.eventbrite.com/e/afternoon-at-the-museum-tickets-1025270661147 We will be in Turkey in 2025 with Ben and Yousef, join us! See the itinerary here: https://unchartedx.com/turkey2025/ We will also be back in Egypt in 2025! Join us and Ben from UnchartedX for one of the most amazing experiences of a lifetime in Egypt: https://unchartedx.com/site/egypt2025/ Join our Patreon, support the show, get extra content and early access! https://www.patreon.com/brothersoftheserpent Support the show with a paypal donation: https://paypal.me/snakebros
We went live on Youtube to discuss Luke's recent trip to Peru, and the many amazing sites he visited there. Strange stonework in Cuzco and Machu Picchu abound! How did the ancients build these amazing sites?
Join us for an afternoon at the San Antonio Museum with Luke, dinner and presentations after! https://www.eventbrite.com/e/afternoon-at-the-museum-tickets-1025270661147
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We begin a new exploration into the topic of strange missing persons cases with David Paulides' third Missing 411 book, "North America and Beyond".
We only cover a small amount of the enormous number of cases in this book. If you are interested in learning more go to https://www.canammissing.com/missing-411-north-america.html
You can purchase the book directly here: https://www.nabigfootsearch.com/catalog/item/6180213/9774908.htm
Thanks to Troy for the amazing episode art!
Megalithic Martin joins us again for part 4 of his series on his research into megalithic structures in England and the evidence for numerous alignments between the structures themselves, and with astronomical events. Near the end, Martin also gives an excellent argument for the date these structures were built, based on their alignments. Thanks to Troy for the amazing episode art! Join our Patreon, support the show, get extra content and early access!
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We discuss some very interesting new developments in the maverick research being done on the ancient stone vases from Egypt. Ben and Russ took a trip to Florida to get some fragments of vases examined using a Scanning Electron Microscope. No copper was found, but there were traces of other metals that the ancient Egyptians are not supposed to have had access to. We were streaming this live, so we were also responding to questions from the chat.
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We went live for a short episode mid-harvest season to discuss some new thoughts on Assembly Theory, but got distracted by questions from the live chat about the winemaking process. We do, eventually, discuss Assembly Theory. You can watch the video on youtube here:
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Marty joins us again for the 5th installment in the "Spooky Story" series, and the 14th UFO episode. Ancient Egypt plays a part in this episode, as we read about a startling discovery made by none other than Flinders Petrie himself. Does a mysterious substance found at a lost Egyptian temple hold secrets of early contact?
Thanks to Troy for the amazing episode art!
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Marty Garza joins us again for the 13th part in his series on the strange history of UFOs, aliens, magic, demons, spirituality, consciousness, psychic abilities, dark government agencies, wars, and weapons development.
In this episode we look at more possibilities of historical contact, and the origins of "supernatural" prophecy.
Thanks to Troy Hoover for the amazing episode art!
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Luke Caverns joins us again in the cube to continue our discussion of his explorations into the mysterious Olmec culture. Who were these people, where did they come from, and how old is their civilization? Are all of the artifacts designated as "Olmec" really from a single culture, or are there multiple distinct cultures being lumped together?
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We go live in this episode to discuss our continually changing impressions and ideas about ancient Egypt. We go live and share photos and videos from our most recent trip on the construction of the pyramids, and the boxes in the Serapeum.
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Back from the Cosmic Summit, we dive in to some listener emails and questions from the chat. Thank you all for participating in the livestream! We apologize for the audio glitches in the beginning of this episode. Hopefully the issues causing this have been fixed. Join our Patreon, support the show, get extra content and early access! https://www.patreon.com/brothersoftheserpent Support the show with a paypal donation: https://paypal.me/snakebros
This is the presentation we will be giving at the Cosmic Summit 2024 conference. We wanted to publish it here on the podcast first, for all of you to see. Also, it's good practice for us!
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Michael Collins from Wandering Wolf Productions joins us in studio to discuss his travels around the world to visit ancient and mysterious sites in Peru, China, Malta, Easter Island and more. We discuss the mystery of the cart ruts of Malta and how they compare to the ones we investigated with him in Austin Texas. We also talk quite a bit about his travels in China, the infamous Yanshan Quarry, and the Longyou Grottoes.
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We went live on youtube to read and respond to listener emails, and questions and comments in the chat. Thank you all so much for listening and supporting the show!
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Luke Caverns joins us in studio to discuss one of the most mysterious ancient peoples of the Americas: the Olmecs. Luke has visited many of the known Olmec sites and shows us just how little we know of this strange and fascinating civilization. Join our Patreon, support the show, get extra content and early access!
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Prof Shy returns for the third and final part of his presentation on the evidence for giants in the ancient world. This time we look at tales of giants from the old world. Thanks to Troy for the fantastic episode art!! If you are interested in hearing the patreon segment that follows this episode, you can sign up to our patreon here:
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Prof Shy joins us again, this time remotely, to continue his presentation of his research on the historical and archaeological evidence for giants. The first half of the show is a deep dive into the subject of the legendary giants of Lovelock Cave. In the second half, we read through multiple accounts of giant encounters and discoveries in Mexico, central and south America. Thanks to Troy for the Episode Art!!
Matt Shy joins us in studio to discuss his research and reading into the evidence for ancient giants around the world. In this episode we cover the mounds of North America and the mythology and oral traditions of Native Americans, as well as confirmed accounts of findings of large skeletons by the Smithsonian. We also discuss the differences between normal humans with "gigantism" vs large human skeletons that show no signs of such a "disorder".
Streaming live from the Tangent Cube, with Ben from UnchartedX in studio with us for the first time. We discuss the eclipse event, then continue our conversation from last week about our recent trip to Egypt. We show some videos of Giza around the satellite pyramids, and new video of the well shaft and grotto in the great pyramid. If you want to see the videos we are discussing, check the youtube version of the episode here:
https://youtube.com/live/whRcPHx9E3w
Ben from UnchartedX joins us in our first episode since returning from our six weeks in Egypt. We discuss discoveries and observations we made at many different sites across Egypt, our adventures in the Fayum and the surrounding desert, diving in the Red Sea, and more. Find Ben and his fantastic content here:
https://unchartedx.com/ Join us for the Eclipse in Texas!
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/eclipse-at-the-canyon-tickets-733419546607 We will be at the Cosmic Summit in June, join us there or watch the livestream:
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Martin takes us through more of his research into alignments of the megalithic structures in the UK, demonstrating that some of these monuments may be aligned with each other across vast distances, implying that there could have been an overall plan for all of them, rather than simple random placement. We also look at some alignments of sites with the word "Devil" in the name, and how those may be correlated with churches named after St. Michael. Thanks to Troy for the excellent episode art!
Martin returns for the second part of his presentation on his research into the possibility that at least some of the megalithic landscapes in the UK are enormous star maps that span many miles. This episode is heavy on the visuals, so be sure to check the YouTube version so you can see the images Martin is referencing. https://youtu.be/13P53NktVN4 Stay tuned for part 3, which we will post just before we depart for Egypt! Thanks to Troy for the excellent episode art!
Martin Green (MegalithicMartin from our discord) joins us this week to begin a three part discussion on his research into megalithic structures in the UK and the possibility they were sophisticated star maps that span for miles across the landscape. This episode, we look at The Devil's Arrows, the Thornborough Henge, and possible connections to Orion and the Pleiades. The BBC program mentioned in the episode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SGDPfPoIj8Q Paul Devereux simulation of complex layout - https://www.cantab.net/users/michael.behrend/repubs/devils_arrows/pages/main.html DNA Analysis video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rXsNKNZtdM0 Download for Stellarium - https://stellarium.org/ Download for Inkscape https://inkscape.org/release/inkscape-1.3.2/ http://megalithic.co.uk http://www.archiuk.com/ Executive Producers:
Robert Dressel
Philip Baklamov
Matt Shy
Peter Shell
Zachariah Baker Associate Executive Producers:
Hagen Thomann
Jim Niggles
Captain River Rat
Chris James
Daniel Gandy
Dave Cortes
Patrick Hicks Thanks to everyone who supports the show! And thanks to Troy for the amazing episode art!
We stream live from the Tangent Cube, reading and responding to listener emails and questions and comments from the chat!
Luke Caverns joins us live in the Tangent Cube to discuss his recent excursion into southern Mexico, exploring the deep jungle, looking for Mayan ruins, and worrying about snakes. Support Luke on Patreon:
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Thanks to everyone who sent the great emails! We love reading and responding to them on the show. We also read and respond to questions and comments from the live chat, thanks to everyone who donated, and for the 1up boxes! Executive Producers:
Li
Peter Shell
Clueless Krees
Philip Baklamov
Matt Shy
Zachariah Baker
Associate Executive Producers:
Johnathan Bracken
Edfu_TextYa_Later
Jim Niggles
Captain River Rat
Chris James
Daniel Gandy
Dave Cortes
Patrick Hicks
We have Marty with us in the Tangent Cube once again, talking UFOs and answering questions from the livestream chat.
We have Ben from UnchartedX on to talk about the latest research and information on the ancient stone vases from Egypt. Clearly, someone was capable of high tech, high precision work in the deep past. https://unchartedx.com/ Thanks to Troy for the Episode Art!
Scotty is back! We have Scotty Baldwin on once again to discuss interesting moments in his career as Front Of House engineer for some of the biggest names in American(and now Chinese) music. We also discuss archaeoaccoustics, sasquatch, exploring the wilderness of the Boundary Waters, and more. Thanks to Troy for the episode art!
In this episode, we read from the five papers recently published by the Comet Research Group in their new journal, about evidence for an airburst that destroyed Abu Hureyra ~12,800 years ago, and comparisons of impact proxies at Meteor Crater to materials found at known nuclear test sites. There is also a paper about a possible impact or airburst much more recently, around 700BC, over Kansas, that was witnessed by the native american Pawnee. We also discuss the new paper about Gunung Padang, a megalithic mound in Indonesia that has evidence it's earliest building phase may be as much as 24,000 years old. The Cosmic Tusk post on the new CRG Journal:
https://cosmictusk.com/airbursts-and-cratering-impacts/ "Airbursts and Cratering Impacts" Journal
https://www.scienceopen.com Gunung Padang paper
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/arp.1912 Thanks to Troy for the amazing episode art!!
We read and respond to listener emails in this episode, which was live streamed to YouTube. Thank you all so much for the great emails, and the support for the show! Executive Producers:
LalaC
Philip Baklamov
Matt Shy
Peter Shell
Zachariah Baker
Associate Executive Producers:
Edfu_TextYa_Later
Jim Niggles
Captain River Rat
Chris James
Daniel Gandy
Dave Cortes
Patrick Hicks
Drew joins us for the final episode on his collection of tales about little people, fae folk, and pygmies, this time from the Americas. It is amazing to hear the striking similarities with stories from the other side of the world. Thanks to Troy for the episode art!
We discuss some recent scientific discoveries in detail, reading from articles and the source papers about ancient solar storms that caused a massive increase in Carbon 14 in the atmosphere, and fossil prints at White Sands that definitively breaks the "Clovis First" model of the peopling of the Americas. In the final segment we discuss a bit about where our minds are at regarding all these mysteries, as well as future plans for exploration on the podcast and in the field. Hard to believe we've published 300 2+ hour episodes! Thanks for sticking with us, there's more to come! Solar Superstorm article:
https://earthsky.org/human-world/solar-superstorm-tree-rings-14300-years-carrington-miyake/ Paper:
https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/pdf/10.1098/rsta.2022.0206 Footprints article:
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/ancient-footprints-affirm-people-lived-in-the-americas-more-than-20-000-years-ago/
Our guest this week, Heather Shy, has degrees in business and finance, but her true calling is in spiritual and physical healing using meditation and hypnosis visualization techniques to access the "Akashic Records" and ancestral knowledge. Heather is also an accomplished astrologer. We discuss the connections between these different techniques, and the philosophical implications of the existence this kind of access to information. Thanks to Troy for the episode art!
This week Drew takes us through the Arthur Conan Doyle saga with the fairies, and how he fell for hoaxed photographs....but we also read some of Doyle's writings on the subject of fae encounters, and they seem entirely rational.
We then spend some time reading and discussing the topic of Homo Floresiensis, also known as the "hobbits" of the island of Flores. There are tales of encounters with "little people" that persist on this island to this day, despite the fact that the fossil evidence of these "hobbit" people is at least 12,000 years old, and perhaps as old as 50,000 years. We then move on to tales from Japan, with very similar themes, trickster beings that can be beneficial as long as the humans interacting with them abide by their word. We will be performing at Howl at the Holler for the annular Eclipse on October the 14th, see the link for details:
https://howlattheholler.com/ The Lebanon extension for our upcoming Egypt trip in February has a pre-extension, see the link for details:
https://unchartedx.com/site/2023/09/28/feb-24-lebanon-tour-baalbek-still-available-now-with-8-day-jordan-option/ Thanks to all of you who support the show with donations and through Patreon. If you want to add your support, go to https://www.patreon.com/brothersoftheserpent Executive Producers:
Anne who Knits
Philip Baklamov
Matt Shy
Peter Shell
Zachariah Baker
Associate Executive Producers:
Captain River Rat
Chris James
Daniel Gandy
Dave Cortes
Patrick Hicks
Marty Garza joins us again for the 12th part in his series on the strange history of UFOs, aliens, magic, demons, spirituality, consciousness, psychic abilities, dark government agencies, wars, and weapons development.
This time we dive deep into some strange connections in myth from ancient biblical and Hebrew texts, shamanism, contact with the spirit world, angels and demons, the Book of Enoch, and CIA projects researching psychic abilities. As always, Marty brings the goods with his detailed approach. We hope you enjoy this latest installment in the UFO series. Thanks to Troy Hoover for the amazing episode art!
Drew returns for Part 2 of Tales of the Little People, an in depth look at the high strangeness contained in the stories of people's encounters with the supernatural in the form of the Fae Folk. We discuss similarities with UFO and cryptid sightings in modern times, as well as ghosts, hauntings, and poltergeists. The discussion then spills over into a Patreon extension.
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Long time listener and friend of the show Drew(LP McQuack in the Discord) joins us this episode to discuss one of our favorite SnakeBros topics - the Little People. Fairies, the Fae, the Good Folk, the Sidhe....they are known by many names and come in many forms.
In this episode, the first of a series on this topic, Drew takes us through a collection of tales of the Little People, with weird common elements and high strangeness.
Executive Producers: Jess Redmon Andrea Johnson
Harvest was crazy this year, over 30 tons of grapes, but it's all fermented and in barrels or tanks at this point. Hopefully we are almost back to a regular podcasting schedule. We returned with a live show, talking about the winemaking process and showing some videos, then reading and responding to listener emails.
Executive Producer: Luke Miller
Associate Executive Producer: Edfu_TextYa_Later
We met Dr. Ballard at the Cosmic Summit, and decided we'd love to have her on the podcast to discuss her work. She is a Geologist and Biogeographist, and a member of the Comet Research Group. She became interested in the YDIH and started drilling lake cores looking for evidence of biomass burning.
She joins us this episode to discuss her background, her interest in the YDIH, and her related field and lab work, as well as some of her current interests and possible future projects.
You can find out more about here here:
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Joanne-Ballard/research
Links to her thesis as discussed in the episode:
A Lateglacial Paleofire Record for East-central Michigan
https://etd.ohiolink.edu/apexprod/rws_olink/r/1501/10?clear=10&p10_accession_num=ucin1250268463
Joanne Ballard PhD Dissertation, https://trace.tennessee.edu/utk_graddiss/3492/
Evidence of Late Quaternary Fires from Charcoal and Siliceous Aggregates in Lake Sediments in the Eastern U.S.A.
She also sent us a lot of interesting links to articles and papers after the episode, listed below:
Sergei Leshchinskiy study on bony malformation of late Pleistocene mammoths of Siberia and Poland, acidification of the landscape
https://siberiantimes.com/science/casestudy/features/f0081-new-theory-on-why-the-woolly-mammoth-became-extinct/?comm_order=best
https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/616417
Did inbreeding doom the mammoths - fossils from the North Sea, Jelle Reumer
https://www.science.org/content/article/did-inbreeding-doom-mammoth
Pygmy mammoths of the Channel Island of California
https://www.amazon.com/Pygmy-Mammoths-Channel-Islands-California/dp/0962475084
Other late occurring relict populations of mammoths occurred on Wrangei Island (Siberia), Pribolof Island, St Paul Island.
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2004/06/040618070946.htm#:~:text=Using%20accelerator%20mass%20spectrometer%20(AMS,after%20the%20last%20glacial%20maximum.
Hartnagel and Bishop 1921. Online book, read about Mastodons, Mammoths and other Pleistocene mammals of New York state, buried in the peat. 161 pages.
https://books.google.com/books?id=9rxRAQAAIAAJ&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false
Blue Babe, bison carcass 50,000 years old, Professor Dale Guthrie
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/ancient-bison-stew-blue-babe-alaska A North American permafrost study. For reference regarding the shaken--not stirred cocktail of mammals/trees/sediments/ice.
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/bor.12036
Harvest time is here, busy season for us, but we're still trying to catch up on your emails! Laura joins us in studio for this live-to-youtube episode of Listener Comms. We read a bunch of interesting and funny emails, and get into a long conversation about the "end of the world", and how we think about it. What are the ways the world could be destroyed? Do we think about the destruction of civilization, or a huge extinction level event? How do you survive? Do you want to survive?
Executive Producers:
deal99
Associate Executive Producers:
Johnathan Bracken
Edfu_TextYa_Later
We dive deeper into the latest science on Gobekli Tepe and Karahan Tepe, discussing the dating, the retaining walls, the midden mounds around the sites, and the lithics, bones, and other artifacts discovered in the enclosures.
We streamed this episode live on youtube, so we also respond to comments and questions from the chat, and read some emails at the end of the episode.
The lines between UFOs, religion, magic, the paranormal, and government intelligence agencies have never been more blurry and difficult to define as they are in this installment of Marty Garza's series on the UFO subject. Marty's deep research and ability to reveal threads of an enormous hidden web of conspiracy and connection is unparalleled in the UFO world. Come with us down the rabbit hole of The Spookiest Story Never Told, Part 2!
And if you want to hear some of our conversations between segments, which is always interesting when we have Marty on, you can join our Patreon and hear the full episode, with extra audio between the segments:
https://www.patreon.com/posts/psode-022-291-2-85736995?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link Thanks to all of you who support the show, it really helps! Here are our Producers for Episode 291:
Executive Producers:
Charles Mills
Philip Baklamov
Matt Shy
Peter Shell
Zachariah Baker
Associate Executive Producers:
Captain River Rat
Chris James
Daniel Gandy
Dave Cortes
Patrick Hicks
This was a live-to-youtube stream where we are joined in the Cube by Laura to talk about the Cosmic Summit, the many great speakers and presentations there, and to respond to listener communications and live chat questions. Thanks to all of you who joined the live show! Here is our affiliate link for purchasing the Cosmic Summit presentation videos:
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(The first half of the show is the presentation Russ will be delivering at the Cosmic Summit. It is heavy on the visuals, if you want to skip past it to the discussion, go to 1:20:30)
We've been condensing and refining this presentation in preparation for the Cosmic Summit, and we wanted to publish it here before it is given at the Summit. Some of you will have seen/heard some of this material before, as we went through it in a much less refined form in Episode 243. But this version is much more concise, and it has new observations as well as some helpful diagrams.
It definitely relies on the visuals, however, so be sure to watch the YouTube version! (there will be a link here as soon as the video is ready)
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Luke is an Anthropology student who specializes in the study of the ancient Maya. He is also one of the presenters for the Cosmic Summit. When we heard what Luke was going to talk about at the Summit, we decided we had to get him on the show. We contacted him, and it turned out he was right in our area, so he drove out to join us in person in the Tangent Cube to talk about his background and his experiences traversing the deep jungles of Mexico and Belize, looking for lost Mayan ruins.
See more of Luke and his work at his YouTube Channel:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCFestibN7lYXvEj_BMEh29w
Thanks so much to everyone who supports the show! Here are our producers for this episode:
Executive Producers:
Anne who Knits
Annabel & James
Alisa Voronova
Peter Chesbrough
Associate Executive Producer:
Charles Meredith
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We went live on youtube again for another Listener Communications episode, with Laura(SnakeWife) in studio. Thank you all for the wonderful emails, maybe soon we will actually get caught up!
We went live on YouTube to discuss our recent trip to Turkey with Ben from UnchartedX. We talk about Gobekli Tepe and the popular narrative that has been built around the site, and the newer scientific information that is being published that changes what archaeologists think about the site. We also discuss Karahan Tepe, Sogmatar, Nemrut Dagi, and the general area of Turkey around the city of Sanliurfa.
Executive Producers: Troy Peter Shell Johnathan Bracken NewPhaze
We are joined by John from Living Dreams Mexico to talk about the Maya, their long history, and the development of their culture and building styles. John runs a tour company in Mexico and is very familiar with many of the Mayan sites, and he gives us a lesson in the basic Mayan history and the associated architectural styles. We also discuss a bit about Mayan theology, astronomy, and the connection with the Olmecs.
After the interview with John, we give an Ag update and tackle some emails.
We went live on Youtube to talk about the amazing sites we visited in Turkey, and to show some of our video footage and photos. We discussed Nemrut Dagi, Gobekli Tepe, Karahan Tepe, Sogmatar, and more. If you want to see the video with all the images and footage, check it out on our YouTube Channel:
https://youtube.com/live/utTC8_XPDjU Thanks to all who participated in the live chat with questions and donations!
We are back in the cube from our trip to Turkey, discussing the culture of the country, the beautiful city of Sanliurfa, and the many amazing ancient sites we visited. After an overview of the trip itself and some brief discussion of other sites like Karahan Tepe, Harran, and Sogmatar, we get into some details about Gobekli Tepe that we observed, as well as some of what we learned from reading the scientific literature associated with the site. As always, there is more to come. Enjoy! Thanks very much to everyone who has donated! here are the Producers for Episode #283:
Executive Producers:
Andrea Johnson
Anton Karl
Edward Goy
Jim Coogler Associate Executive Producers:
Donna Sneden
Adam Knudsen
Roshan Choxi
We're about to leave for Turkey and we have so many great emails from listeners to catch up on before we go, we decided to tackle some of them in a live-to-youtube broadcast. Once again this was a lot of fun, thanks to everyone in the chat and all the superchat donations.
This will be the last of the regular episodes until we get back from Turkey. Meanwhile, check our youtube channel for livestreams, the discord for pics, vids and boots-on-the-ground updates, and maybe even the RSS feed for audio uploads, if we can manage it.
Also, as was mentioned during the show, Russ/Brothers of the Serpent now has an "affiliate link" for purchasing a livestream ticket for the Cosmic Summit event. Use the link below to get a ticket and also support us! Thanks!
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With our trip to Turkey coming soon, we sit down to record this episode with Gobekli Tepe on our minds, and this leads to a discussion about the origins of civilization. What came first, the temple, or civilization? How do hunter gatherer people become farmers and ranchers?
Obviously, we don't have the answers. But we work through our thoughts in this episode, and it will be interesting to see how much we learn, and how that will change what we think now, after we see Gobekli Tepe for ourselves.
We tried something new with this episode and streamed it live to the Youtube channel. It was fun, thanks to everyone who participated in the chats(and donated!!) We read lots of emails and played some music and enjoyed ourselves immensely. We hope you enjoy it as well.
Executive Producers: Peter Shell Matt Shy Johnathan Bracken Associate Executive Producers: Daniel Gandy Pepe LE PewPew Garry Piatt Adrian Johnson
Ben from UnchartedX joins us to discuss the amazing high quality scan data of a pre-dynastic Egyptian stone vase. Ben has discussed this object, the data from the scan, and the implications of the staggering precision evident in the manufacturing process several times on his channel. Since the STL file of the data has been made available for download on the UnchartedX website, many people from around the world have been performing their own analysis of the vase, and we discuss some of the results of that on this episode, as well as some interesting results that Kyle has discovered on his own in his attempt to better understand the initial analysis techniques used by professional metrologists Alex Dunn and Nick Sierra.
There is a lot of visual data being referenced on this episode, so be sure to check out the YouTube version(it should be out within a few days of the publishing of this audio).
Ben's website: https://unchartedx.com/
Mark's article we read from on the episode: https://unsigned.io/granite-artifact/ Also see the work Marián Marčiš is posting to Twitter: https://twitter.com/mariusderomanu3
Link to download the STL file: https://unchartedx.com/site/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/Vase.stl
Links for the initial vase report: https://unchartedx.com/site/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/VASE-REPORT-INCHES.pdf https://unchartedx.com/site/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/VASE-REPORT-METRIC.pdf
Another UFO conversation, this time with Darren and Graham from Grimerica joining us in a swapcast, and of course Marty Garza as a guest, making it more of a round table discussion.
We talk UFOs, coverups, government and academic involvement in the subject, physics, secret projects, and more. A lot of the conversation was in regard to the JRE episode #1945 with Eric Weinstein as well, if you're interested in the UFO topic and haven't listened to that episode yet, go listen to it!
The second half of the conversation with Grimerica and Marty will be available on our Patreon feed, or on the Grimerica Outlawed feed.
You can get more Grimerica here: https://grimerica.ca/
Despite being out of town on vacation, Marty Garza joins us remotely for the first half of the show to discuss the current events regarding the objects that have been sighted and shot down over the Americas. We discuss possibilities, ideas, speculation, and conspiracies surrounding these objects. Marty also talks about a sighting he had while driving on a remote desert highway on his way to his Vegas vacation. He stopped his vehicle and managed to get some video with his phone, which is included in the video version of this episode.
See the youtube version here: https://youtu.be/je8ZVTyKn-s
The final part of this (long) book report series. We finish up Hapgood's thoughts on evolution and how the idea of repeating crustal displacements might fill some gaps in the understanding of the process, then move on to the final chapter for Hapgood's conclusion, and suggestions for future research. We also read from some of the many notes and addendums following the main body of the book, including some correspondence and meetings with Einstein, work on the physics of the axial stability of a rotating sphere, and more. There is a lot of great information in this section of the book, much of which we did not discuss. We really do recommend you all get a copy so you can read it for yourselves.
Get the Kindle version of the book here: https://www.amazon.com/Path-Pole-Cataclysmic-Shift-Geology-ebook/dp/B003F7PEFG/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=
We continue exploring the fascinating information in Charles Hapgood's book, Path of the Pole, starting this week with a detailed look at pleistocene deposits in South America that contain enormous amounts of megafauna and, sometimes, human remains. In caves, valleys, and massive mud deposits, these fossil remains speak of a geologically recent catastrophic event.
We then move on to Hapgood's discussion on the subject of evolution, and how his crustal displacement theory may help to fill in gaps in the explanatory power of natural selection and mutation.
Get the Kindle version of the book here: https://www.amazon.com/Path-Pole-Cataclysmic-Shift-Geology-ebook/dp/B003F7PEFG/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=
Executive Producers: Cortes Studio Matt Shy Peter Shell Associate Executive Producers: Daniel Gandy Frank M.
We are joined on this episode by Marty Garza, guest and researcher from the UFO series, and Seriah Azkath, host of the excellent podcast Where Did the Road Go, for a full length roundtable discussion on the topic of UFOs. We start with the current state of things in the UFO/UAP subject, then the conversation morphs into a much more broad discussion on the nature of the phenomena itself.
You can find Seriah's podcast here: https://wheredidtheroadgo.com/
We continue our in-depth reading and discussion on Charles Hapgood's Path of the Pole, finishing up the section on megafauna extinctions in North America at the end of the last ice age, and moving into evidence for massive geological upheaval in South America in the recent past. Hapgood talks about the Altiplano area of Peru and Bolivia, Lake Titicaca, and Tiahuanaco, all of which show signs of being involved in an enormous geological uplift that brought the lake from contact with the ocean to its present location far above sea level.
Get the Kindle version of the book here: https://www.amazon.com/Path-Pole-Cataclysmic-Shift-Geology-ebook/dp/B003F7PEFG/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=
George Howard joins us to discuss his knowledge of the Alaskan Pleistocene bonebeds we were reading about in Path of the Pole. George has a lot of interesting information about these deposits, including a Comet Research Group study on cosmic material recovered from sediments embedded in the bones themselves.
We also discuss a similar massive bonebed right here in Texas that George has known about for many years. For various reasons, these bonebeds haven't really been properly studied, but maybe that will change in the near future...
Back to the book report! We had a great time in Egypt, and there are more Egypt episodes coming, but meanwhile we still have to complete Charles Hapgood's Path of the Pole. This week we complete the section on mountain building, continental drift, and crustal composition, and move into chapter ten, which is about the extinction of the Pleistocene megafauna.
Executive Producer: Annabel
Laura joins us in studio again for a Listener Communications episode. Thanks to all of you who have written in with your questions, comments, and stories about how you found the podcast!
We are joined in studio by Laura for more discussion on the 2022 Egypt trip. We talk about what we learned, further observations we made, and plans for the future. Laura asks us about the goals we had for this trip and if we accomplished any of them...which we did....mostly. Kyle talks about mapping the Serapeum and jumping in and out of the boxes, checking the interiors and using resonance to get rough measurements. We also discuss the statues, the differences in skill and style you can see between them, and the possibility that the large object that was being cut out at the Aswan Quarry might have been a rough block for a standing statue.
We're getting back into the normal swing of things here at the SnakeBros Institiute, so we finish up with some Space Weather news and a few emails, and a 1Up box present for Laura.
Thanks very much to everyone who supports the show! We have the following Producers for this episode:
Executive Producers: Anonymous Gordon Plant Olesia Voronova Tara Lee Sanders Tri-Vest Inc Associate Executive Producers: Claire Quinn
Marty Garza and Chuck Kizina join us for this episode, discussing their observations and speculations from the Egypt trip.
Marty, who has been on the show many times for the UFO episodes, has decades of experience with engineering from his years in the Monster Truck industry. Chuck is a geologist by education, specializing in planetary science, and has a lot of experience in stone cutting and shaping.
There will be a video version of this episode coming out within the next couple of days, so if you want to see the images Marty was showing toward the end, look for it on our YouTube channel!
We're back from our epic three week trip in Egypt! We learned so many things and explored many new places. We have Ben from UnchartedX on with us to discuss some of the sites we visited and our evolving thoughts on what we learned. There is so much to discuss, expect more Egypt episodes in the coming weeks!
UnchartedX website: https://www.unchartedx.com/
Note: We are leaving for Egypt, this will be the last normal episode for a few weeks!
In Part 7 of our deep dive into Charles Hapgood's The Path of the Pole, we continue the discussion of the mysteries of "orogenesis" or mountain building. What forces can cause the enormous uplifts of so much rock? What is the cause of the numerous "basalt plateaus", where enormous amounts of magma poured out from underground and covered hundreds of square miles in layers of basalt hundreds of feet thick?
These questions and more are described in detail by Hapgood, in this week's episode.
Get the book here:
https://www.amazon.com/Path-Pole-Cataclysmic-Shift-Geology-ebook/dp/B003F7PEFG/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1662657062&sr=8-1
Continuing our deep dive into Charles Hapgood's The Path of the Pole, we discuss the evidence that advances and retreats of the massive Pleistocene ice sheets in North America and Europe were apparently in opposition, such that whenever there was an advance in Europe, for example, there was a retreat of ice in North America, and vice versa. Hapgood points to this as evidence that these advances and retreats were not caused by global cooling or warming, but perhaps they may have been caused by lithosphere displacement.
Near the end of the episode we start in on "orogenesis" or the process of mountain building, and the mysteries of how the world's enormous mountain chains came to be.
Get the book here:
https://www.amazon.com/Path-Pole-Cataclysmic-Shift-Geology-ebook/dp/B003F7PEFG/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1662657062&sr=8-1
Executive Producers:
Anne who Knits
Peter Beebee
Associate Executive Producers:
Laura Coutu
Bradley Justice
Douglas Obie
Below are some excellent images of the fossil human footprints at White Sands, evidence that humans were in North America ~20ka, as provided by listener Greenman in an email we read in the last segment of the show.
If you can't see the images, check our website.
Continuing our deep dive into Charles Hapgood's The Path of the Pole, we discuss the evidence that advances and retreats of the massive Pleistocene ice sheets in North America and Europe were apparently in opposition, such that whenever there was an advance in Europe, for example, there was a retreat of ice in North America, and vice versa. Hapgood points to this as evidence that these advances and retreats were not caused by global cooling or warming, but perhaps they may have been caused by lithosphere displacement.
Near the end of the episode we start in on "orogenesis" or the process of mountain building, and the mysteries of how the world's enormous mountain chains came to be.
Get the book here:
https://www.amazon.com/Path-Pole-Cataclysmic-Shift-Geology-ebook/dp/B003F7PEFG/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1662657062&sr=8-1
Executive Producers:
Anne who Knits
Peter Beebee
Associate Executive Producers:
Laura Coutu
Bradley Justice
Douglas Obie
Below are some excellent images of the fossil human footprints at White Sands, evidence that humans were in North America ~20ka, as provided by listener Greenman in an email we read in the last segment of the show.
If you can't see the images, check our website.
Getting into the depths of the Path of the Pole in our ongoing book report. We talk about volcanism and its possible role in drastically affecting climate during catastrophic crustal shift periods, causing all the glacial and interglacial periods we see evidence for in the recent glaciation.
Hapgood also details evidence showing the timeline of the advance, retreat, and complete disappearance of the last ice age, and how this timeline is very short, meaning the disappearance of the ice cannot be explained by standard slow-moving geological processes.
Get the book here:
https://www.amazon.com/Path-Pole-Cataclysmic-Shift-Geology-ebook/dp/B003F7PEFG/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1662657062&sr=8-1
Executive Producers:
Chandra Chell
Philip Baklamov
Matt Shy
Peter Shell
Zachariah Baker
Associate Executive Producers:
Chester Hunter
Daniel Gandy
Dave Cortes
Patrick Hicks
Part 4 of our deep dive into Charles Hapgood's The Path of the Pole.
This week, we look at evidence for a warm arctic during the last ice age, with islands currently within the arctic circle showing evidence for much warmer climates in the late pleistocene. We also read about evidence from other key places around the world having climates that align with the hypothesis of a north pole at Hudson Bay. Hapgood also briefly discusses Maps of the Ancient Sea Kings and the Oronteus Finaeus map.
Get the book here:
https://www.amazon.com/Path-Pole-Cataclysmic-Shift-Geology-ebook/dp/B003F7PEFG/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1662657062&sr=8-1
Executive Producer:
Paul Haslinger
Kyle is on vacation at the beach and the Watcher is off fighting space battles in a space ambulance, but we still managed to get this episode recorded in time to publish this week. We took some time off from the Path of the Pole book report to respond to listener emails, which, as always, generates some excellent discussions, jokes, and laughs.
Thank you all so much for the excellent emails! Keep 'em comin'.
Check our website to see the images we discussed in this episode if you can't see them in the show notes.
Executive Producer:
Ryan Lowry
Part 3 of our deep dive into Charles Hapgood's The Path of the Pole. This week, we look at more evidence of past pole configurations different from the present, as well as evidence against the idea that in the past, the earth spent long periods of time with a uniformly warm or cold climate, which was one of the attempts to explain away evidence for warm climate flora and fauna in what are now polar regions, and evidence for polar conditions in what are now tropical and sub tropical areas.
Get the book here:
https://www.amazon.com/Path-Pole-Cataclysmic-Shift-Geology-ebook/dp/B003F7PEFG/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1662657062&sr=8-1
Executive Producers:
Andrew Ryan
Randal Bruck
The long-awaited part 10 of our UFO series with Marty Garza is actually the first in a subseries of episodes exploring more of the topic of what kinds of "technologies" have been gleaned from interactions with the phenomena of UFOs and otherworldly entities. How much does this topic really overlap with the occult? With ancient myths of gods, demi gods, "demons", "angels", and "ancestor spirits"?
This episode we start with strange psychological effects of polar exploration, take a look at large studies of strange and "paranormal" occurrences by Russian and German scientists in the era leading up to the world wars, and how these studies seem to have affected the course of history moving forward.
More on this subject to come in future UFO episodes!
Executive Producer of this episode:
The Grimerica Show (thanks guys!)
Part 2 of our deep dive into Charles Hapgood's book, The Path of the Pole. This week we cover more of Charles' ideas on how the crust may have moved catastrophically, as well as the possible evidence for drastically different arrangements of continents in the distant past, such as evidence for large glacial masses in what are now tropical areas in India and Africa.
Get the book here:
https://www.amazon.com/Path-Pole-Cataclysmic-Shift-Geology-ebook/dp/B003F7PEFG/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1662657062&sr=8-1
Executive Producer:
Michael Hale
After our interview with Maartin from MarioBuildreps about ancient sites possibly being aligned to previous north pole positions on the earth, we decided we should take a deep dive into Charles Hapgood's book, The Path of the Pole, and look at historical research into this topic.
The second edition of this book, published in the 1970s, is over 50 years old at this point, and is a revised edition of the 1958 printing of the original work, Earth's Shifting Crust. It's certain that geophysical science has progressed since then, but it is still worth looking at the state of the art at the time.
Get the book here:
https://www.amazon.com/Path-Pole-Cataclysmic-Shift-Geology-ebook/dp/B003F7PEFG/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1662657062&sr=8-1
Hugh Newman from @MegalithomaniaUK joins us to discuss the very ancient and mysterious site of Karahan Tepe in Turkey, a site very similar to the nearby and much more well-known Gobekli Tepe. Hugh has visited the site several times and spent time exploring the area both before and after excavations began. He brings his first hand experience of the site to us in this interview with a fascinating series of images and insights.
You can find more of Hugh's work and information about his tours and other projects using the links below:
Website: www.megalithomania.co.uk
Patreon: www.patreon.com/megalithomania
Facebook: www.facebook.com/MegalithomaniaOfficial/
Youtube: www.youtube.com/MegalithomaniaUK
Twitter: https://twitter.com/megalithomania
Merchandise: https://teespring.com/stores/megalithomania
Tours/Travel: www.megalithomania.co.uk/tours.html
Here is a link to the video we mentioned during the interview: https://youtu.be/m6Z-Dqljv5c
In the second half of the show, we read some articles on physics and cold fusion.
Executive Producer: Anne who Knits
Hugh Newman from @MegalithomaniaUK joins us to discuss the very ancient and mysterious site of Karahan Tepe in Turkey, a site very similar to the nearby and much more well-known Gobekli Tepe. Hugh has visited the site several times and spent time exploring the area both before and after excavations began. He brings his first hand experience of the site to us in this interview with a fascinating series of images and insights.
You can find more of Hugh's work and information about his tours and other projects using the links below:
Website: www.megalithomania.co.uk
Patreon: www.patreon.com/megalithomania
Facebook: www.facebook.com/MegalithomaniaOfficial/
Youtube: www.youtube.com/MegalithomaniaUK
Twitter: https://twitter.com/megalithomania
Merchandise: https://teespring.com/stores/megalithomania
Tours/Travel: www.megalithomania.co.uk/tours.html
Here is a link to the video we mentioned during the interview: https://youtu.be/m6Z-Dqljv5c
In the second half of the show, we read some articles on physics and cold fusion.
Executive Producer: Anne who Knits
Conversation on the main topic starts in the second half of the episode.
It's the end of August, and for us, it is the harvest season. We discuss this year's harvest of the grapes and the beginnings of this season's winemaking. Kyle reads a few news stories and we discuss those, then in the second segment Russ reads a long story from the Mysterious Universe website about four cases of strange mass animal deaths.
In the second half of the show, Kyle talks about the "philosophy of narrative", how common stories have a powerful influence on people and culture. How much have ancient mythologies influenced us? We also talk about the ability to focus on one thing versus the need to pay attention to the big picture, and how to balance these two ways of looking at the world, and how that connects to ancient mysteries, structures, and mythology.
Thanks very much to everyone who supports the show! And big thanks to the following producers of this episode:
Executive Producers:
Michael Burroughs
Philip Baklamov
Matt Shy
Peter Shell
Zachariah Baker
Frank M.
Associate Executive Producers:
Daniel Gandy
Dave Cortes
Patrick Hicks
You can support the show as well through paypal or patreon, just visit our website for details:
http://www.brothersoftheserpent.com/p/support.html
Conversation on the main topic starts in the second half of the episode.
It's the end of August, and for us, it is the harvest season. We discuss this year's harvest of the grapes and the beginnings of this season's winemaking. Kyle reads a few news stories and we discuss those, then in the second segment Russ reads a long story from the Mysterious Universe website about four cases of strange mass animal deaths.
In the second half of the show, Kyle talks about the "philosophy of narrative", how common stories have a powerful influence on people and culture. How much have ancient mythologies influenced us? We also talk about the ability to focus on one thing versus the need to pay attention to the big picture, and how to balance these two ways of looking at the world, and how that connects to ancient mysteries, structures, and mythology.
Thanks very much to everyone who supports the show! And big thanks to the following producers of this episode:
Executive Producers:
Michael Burroughs
Philip Baklamov
Matt Shy
Peter Shell
Zachariah Baker
Frank M.
Associate Executive Producers:
Daniel Gandy
Dave Cortes
Patrick Hicks
You can support the show as well through paypal or patreon, just visit our website for details:
http://www.brothersoftheserpent.com/p/support.html
We invited Laura to join us on this episode of listener communications, where we catch up on news stories and listener emails. There is some physics and cosmology discussion at the beginning after Kyle reads some science articles, then we dive into the emails on all manner of topics: the moon and the Younger Dryas, the Mississippi Mounds, ancient tech and tools, skeptics and the standard model.
Thanks to the following Producers of episode 255!
Executive Producer:
Greg Kaighin
Associate Executive Producer:
Antonio Kasljevic
Is it possible that human civilization is much older than we've been taught? Maarten from Mario Buildreps has put together an enormous body of research that implies humans have been constructing complex structures going back hundreds of thousands of years, through multiple catastrophic periods of crustal displacement.
Mario Buildreps website:
https://www.mariobuildreps.com/
Mario Buildreps YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/MarioBuildreps
Saved by the swapcast! This was originally scheduled as a guest appearance on the excellent Where Did the Road Go podcast with Seriah, but our plans for our regular episode this week fell through, so Seriah kindly allowed us to use this episode as a swapcast. We discuss Charles Fort and the Book of the Damned, Feynman, cosmology, physics, electric universe, cryptids, UFOs, and the limits of human knowledge, as well as reading a few news stories and discussing those.
Find Where Did the Road Go here:
https://wheredidtheroadgo.com/
In this final episode of our book report on The Character of Physical Law, we go through Dr. Feynman's final lecture, Seeking New Laws, in which he describes how science works, and the methods physicists must use to attempt to discover new fundamental aspects of the natural world.
See the full set of lectures here:
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLez3PPtnpncQLg_H7f6T9yJmJ2aCIBUHS
Get the book here:
https://www.amazon.com/Character-Physical-Law-MIT-Press/dp/0262533413
Get the new Fifty Dollar Dynasty album "Precession" here:
https://www.fiftydollardynasty.com/
Support the band here:
https://www.patreon.com/fiftydollardynasty
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Executive Producers:
Philip Baklamov
Matt Shy
Peter Shell
Frank M.
Associate Executive Producer:
Daniel Gandy
Continuing our book report on The Character of Physical Law, we read through the 5th and 6th lectures, The Distinction of Past and Future and Probability and Uncertainty. These are discussions on entropy and quantum mechanics, done in Dr. Feynman's unique style.
See the full set of lectures here:
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLez3PPtnpncQLg_H7f6T9yJmJ2aCIBUHS
Get the book here:
https://www.amazon.com/Character-Physical-Law-MIT-Press/dp/0262533413
Get the new Fifty Dollar Dynasty album "Precession" here:
https://www.fiftydollardynasty.com/
Support the band here:
https://www.patreon.com/fiftydollardynasty
Support the podcast here:
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Here's the black hole video Kyle mentions:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jeRgFqbBM5E
We finish the chapter on The Great Conservation Principles, and move on to Symmetry in Physical Law. We understand what it means for an object to have symmetry, but what about a mathematical expression of a physical law?
This chapter is full of interesting concepts, delivered in Feynman's unique style as always. We discuss relativity, lightspeed, gravitational lensing, angular momentum, and how to tell an alien the difference between "right" and "left".
Find the full playlist of the lectures on YouTube here:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLez3PPtnpncQLg_H7f6T9yJmJ2aCIBUHS
Get the book here:
https://www.amazon.com/Character-Physical-Law-MIT-Press/dp/0262533413
Support the podcast through Patreon and get extra content here:
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Get the new Fifty Dollar Dynasty album, Precession, here:
https://fiftydollardynasty.com/
Support the band through their Patreon and get extra content here:
https://www.patreon.com/fiftydollardynasty
We dive back in to The Character of Physical Law by Richard Feynman, again using short clips pulled from the lectures themselves and reading excerpts from the book. This episode we focus mostly on the second lecture, "The Relation of Mathematics to Physics", where Feynman talks about how Nature seems to follow sets of mathematical rules, and how those mathematics might be related--at least in some cases--to large numbers of simple processes in the physical universe.
Near the end of the episode we start on the third lecture, "The Great Conservation Principles", discussing the various "conservation" laws in physics such as the conservation of charge, the conservation of energy, etc.
At the beginning of the episode we also take a quick look at the working relationship between Tycho Brahe and Johannes Kepler, their backgrounds, and the standard history of their story.
If you want to support the podcast and get extra content, bonus episodes, and bumper music, sign up to our Patreon:
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Meanwhile you can get all of the music from the new album, Precession, for free on their website:
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Having just returned from the Montana megafloods trip with Randall Carlson and crew, we aren't ready to continue the Character of Physical Law series yet, but we did have a backlog of emails we needed to get to, so we dedicate yet another episode to reading and responding to a series of fantastic and sometimes hilarious communications from listeners.
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Check out Kyle's band, Fifty Dollar Dynasty, and their new album release "Precession" at their website, the music is free!
http://www.fiftydollardynasty.com
Support the band and get special content through their Patreon:
http://www.patreon.com/fiftydollardynasty
Thanks to all of you who do support the band and the podcast! Our producers for this episode are listed below:
Executive Producers:
Anne who Knits
Matt Shy
Philip Baklamov
Peter Shell
Frank M.
Associate Executive Producer:
Daniel Gandy
For this special episode we have most of the members of Kyle's band Fifty Dollar Dynasty in studio with us for a long-form conversation about making music, writing songs, and specifically, making the new Precession album. Through clouds of smoke and many beers we joke and laugh and poke fun at each other while also giving our history of making music and this album.
This episode is scheduled to drop the day of the public release of Precession, so go check it out at the FDD website:
https://fiftydollardynasty.com/
Want to support the band and their continued efforts to make amazing music? Join their Patreon and get early access and special content:
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We tackle the first in the series of seven lectures by theoretical physicist Dr. Richard Feynman titled "The Character of Physical Law", this first lecture being on the Law of Gravitation, the history of its discovery, and its wider application in the methods of science and the further discoveries of physics. Copernicus, Tycho, Kepler, Newton, and Einstein are among the giants on whose shoulders modern physics stands.
Get the book from Amazon:
https://www.amazon.com/Character-Physical-Law-MIT-Press/dp/0262533413
Get the audiobook from Audible:
https://www.audible.com/pd/The-Character-of-Physical-Law-Audiobook/B00CS962AS?source_code=AUDORWS0718179KY7
Below are some of the images we were looking at of Tycho's planetary observation tools.
Brandon is a Jujitsu instructor and teaches the Wim Hof Method. He has joined us on many of our Contact at the Cabin events, running breathwork sessions and ice bath instruction for attendees.
Brandon was in our area to teach some classes over the weekend so we invited him out to the Tangent Cube for some podcasting. We talk about Jujitsu, Wim Hof, shamanism, the power of the breath, and general life hacking for physical and spiritual improvement.
Find Brandon on Instagram:
@brandonpowell369
Brandon's website:
http://onphyr.com/
YouTube:
Much of the music in this episode is Brandon's work. The track in the last break can be found here:
https://youtu.be/sboxgSFIfI0
If you want early access to Fifty Dollar Dynasty's new album, join their Patreon:
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We have a lot of your emails to catch up on, but first we give a big Rock n' Roll update - Kyle's band Fifty Dollar Dynasty is releasing their new album, "Precession", on June 21st, the summer solstice!
You can check their website for the countdown, and also join their new Patreon if you want access to an early digital release. Support the band and get cool behind-the-scenes content as FDD adds them to their Patreon feed.
Our SpaceWeather News section also goes a bit further this week, discussing the upcoming possible contact of earth with the fragment stream of comet Schwassmann-Wachmann at the end of this month. It might be the end of civilization as we know it, or simply a spectacular meteor shower, or maybe nothing at all.
After all that, we tackle your emails, of which there are many and they are all excellent. We have the best listeners. Thank you all!
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Executive Producers:
Philip Baklamov
Matt Shy
Peter Shell
Zachariah Baker
Frank M.
Associate Executive Producer:
Daniel Gandy
Jahannah recently got involved with the team from the "Builders of the Ancient Mysteries" documentary to help them with the English narration, and she's become fascinated by the mystery of the amazing rock-cut chambers in India called the "Barabar Caves".
These chambers are explored in the documentary itself, along with many other megalithic mysteries of the ancient world, and the BAM team is working on a new documentary that focuses on the Barabar Caves.
Jahannah joins us to talk about her work with the BAM team, her fascination with the Barabar Caves, and possible upcoming trips to visit these enigmatic chambers.
There is video for this episode! Check it out on our YouTube channel:
https://youtu.be/kse6AqBqR0w
Visit the BAM website to see the new version of the documentary with Jahannah's narration:
https://builders-of-the-ancient-mysteries.com/
Visit Jahannah's YouTube Channel:
https://www.youtube.com/c/FunnyOldeWorld
We explore over 180 images we took on our recent trip to Egypt, discussing the megalithic stonework of Menkaure at Giza, the Osireion of Abydos, the quarry at Aswan with the Unfinished Obelisk, and the Serapeum of Saqqara. At these sites, there is evidence of anomalous, unknown techniques of stoneworking, evidence of multiple stages of construction with vast amounts of time between them, and evidence that the people doing the work seem to have just vanished in the middle of the job, never to return.
Shout out to Ben from UnchartedX for some of the images from Peru that we show near the end of the presentation.
This is a video presentation, so it is probably better watched than listened to. Below is the link to the video on our YouTube channel:
https://youtu.be/EiwW8TipA8o
Executive Producers:
Philip Baklamov
Matt Shy
Peter Shell
Zachariah Baker
Frank M.
Associate Executive Producers:
Daniel Gandy
Dave Cortes
Patrick Hicks
Ben from UnchartedX joins us this week for a long-form discussion on the technical aspects of some of the anomalous ancient megalithic stonework we see around the world. Are these sites connected stylistically? Do the precision, difficulty, and advanced engineering evident in many of these sites indicate the presence of a lost precursor civilization in deep history?
We tackle these questions and many more in this episode.
This episode was also broadcast live to our Discord Server, which we do from time to time. If you want to join in on the fun of the live broadcasts with fellow Snakes, join the server by clicking the "connect" button on the widget at our website, linked below:
https://www.brothersoftheserpent.com/p/discord-chat.html
George Howard, member of the Comet Research Group and owner/operator of the excellent Cosmic Tusk website, joins us this week to deliver a presentation he gave at the recent WorldViewzMedia conference in Sedona.
In this presentation, George lays out the evidence for the Younger Dryas Impact Hypothesis as an explanation for the massive changes that took place on Earth at the onset of the Younger Dryas period, just before the beginning of the Holocene.
Many of you will be familiar with much of this information, but there's always something new to learn about this fascinating period in Earth history, and George delivers the information with style, as always.
Visit George's website here:
https://cosmictusk.com/
Visit the Comet Research Group website here to support this work:
https://cometresearchgroup.org/
See the removed NOVA documentary here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EX9meGeMlUQ
We're back from the conference in Sedona and ready to dive into listener emails and some long-form rambling discussions, SnakeBros style. Laura also joins us in the Tangent cube for this episode.
We read some great emails of experiences and encounters, questions about UFOs and spirituality, travelling the world on foot looking at ancient sites, and a visit to one of the Smithsonian's "storage" buildings.
Executive Producers:
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Join us on the first SnakeBros Meetup:
http://www.brothersoftheserpent.com/p/meetups-and-events.html
Get Darren Grimes' book, "In Their Own Words":
https://www.amazon.com/Their-Own-Words-Indigenous-Residential/dp/B09XZ8J57H
In the final installment of our deep dive into Charles Fort's The Book of the Damned, we read about strange enormous revolving wheels of light in the ocean, of mysterious shadows cast in storm clouds, objects that seem to transit the sun or moon in the sky, and luminous objects that sound very much like sightings of UFOs. Join us on our first SnakeBros Meetup! A weekend on the river in Texas for some BBQ and kayaking and talking about pyramids:
http://www.brothersoftheserpent.com/p/meetups-and-events.html
Get the Audible version of The Book of the Damned by our friends over at The Grimerica Show and AdultBrain Publishing:
https://www.audible.com/pd/The-Book-of-the-Damned-Audiobook/B09QD5Z484
Get the digital or paperback version of The Book of the Damned from Amazon:
https://www.amazon.com/Book-Damned-Charles-Fort/dp/1514608618
Executive Producer:
Greg Kaighin
Marty Garza returns to the Tangent Cube with more of his in-depth writings on the subject of UFOs, aliens, spirits, "demons and angels", and how encounters with these things seem to merge at the edges. This episode we dive into the subject of channeling, automatic writing, messages from beings claiming to be from space, and the formation of UFO cults with "apocalyptic" prophecies...all of which seem very similar to the formations of much more ancient religions with similar beginnings and similar prophecies of the end of the world.
Artwork for this episode is Procedural Magic Circle by artist Yuanlong Dai.
If you're interested in joining us for the inaugural SnakeBros Meetup, check our website for details and send us an email! Hope to see you there.
https://www.brothersoftheserpent.com/p/meetups-and-events.html
To get the info for the Telegram Group or phone number for messages to the podcast, you'll have to join the discord chat!
We read about strange objects seen in transit of both the moon and the sun by astronomers, of earthquakes and anomalous darkness and strange storms and lights in the sky and falls of sand, fish, and leaves. Unpredicted eclipses and shadows on the moon and sun. Thanks very much to Christopher Catalogna for the artwork for this episode! Go to https://chriscatalogna.com/ to see more of his work.
Get The Book of the Damned on Audible, by our friends over at AdultBrain Publishing and the Grimerica Show:
https://www.audible.com/pd/The-Book-of-the-Damned-Audiobook/B09QD5Z484
Get a digital or physical copy of The Book of the Damned:
https://www.amazon.com/Book-Damned-Charles-Fort/dp/1514608618
Executive Producers:
Peter Shell
Zachariah Baker
Frank M.
Associate Executive Producers:
Daniel Gandy
Dave Cortes
Patrick Hicks
We apologize for the delay on this episode!
This week we dive back into Charles Fort's The Book of the Damned, and we are joined in-studio by our friend and frequent podcast guest, Archer Finley, AKA "GMA". We discuss high-atmosphere ice formation, falls of rocks and pebbles, falls of giant blocks of ice, giant strange objects transiting the sun visible in astronomers' telescopes, and the possibility of transient intra-mercurial worlds.
Also, happy birthday to listener Yoni!!
Get The Book of the Damned Audible version from our friends over at Grimerica and AdultBrain Publishing:
https://www.audible.com/pd/The-Book-of-the-Damned-Audiobook/B09QD5Z484
Get The Book of the Damned digital or physical version:
https://www.amazon.com/Book-Damned-Charles-Fort/dp/1514608618
Executive Producer:
Jeff Saucerman
Associate Executive Producer:
Judy Schwartz
We tackle a long and detailed article from ancient-origins.net about a possible discovery of a new standard of measure that appears to have been used in many ways across multiple civilizations and structures going back 7,000 years. We're taking a break from the book report this week, as Russ is gone to help with Randall's Middle Cumberland tour at the last minute, so we pre-recorded this episode before he left.
Link to the article on Ancient Origins:
https://www.ancient-origins.net/history-ancient-traditions/unit-length-0016466
Out of place artifacts, objects embedded in stone and coal, giants, and "little people" are some of the accounts and topics we tackle in part 6 of our deep dive into Charles Fort's The Book of the Damned.
Get the Audible version of The Book of the Damned, produced by our friends over at Grimerica:
https://www.audible.com/pd/The-Book-of-the-Damned-Audiobook/B09QD5Z484
Get the paperback or digital version from Amazon:
https://www.amazon.com/Book-Damned-Charles-Fort/dp/1514608618
Executive Producers:
Douglas Chick
Peter Shell
Zachariah Baker
Frank M.
Associate Executive Producers:
Gregg Taylor
Daniel Gandy
Dave Cortes
Patrick Hicks
Thunderstones, lightning strikes, bronze axes, and other artifacts fall from the skies during storms in this episode of our deep dive into Charles Fort's The Book of the Damned.
We're also joined in the first segment by Chris Cottrell of the Dabbler's Den to discuss new information on the possible age of the formations known as the Carolina Bays. Chris presents compelling new data that implies the Bays are hundreds of thousands of years old, and thus have nothing to do with the much more recent Younger Dryas period.
See the link below for the images Chris showed us during the discussion.
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1I6BoyGna0DfTzuATW37OTKO5CEwMovtb4of0wLa94Ts/edit?usp=drive_web
Get an audiobook version of The Book of the Damned here, from our friends over at Grimerica and AdultBrain Publishing:
https://www.amazon.com/The-Book-of-the-Damned/dp/B09QD49FM3
Get a digital or physical copy of The Book of the Damned here:
https://www.amazon.com/Book-Damned-Charles-Fort/dp/1514608618
We tackle rains and snows of coal, grains, frogs, "fishes", and SNAKES in this episode, Part 4 of our deep dive into Charles Fort's The Book of the Damned. Can "whirlwinds" account for all this biological material falling to earth? Can storms keep fish up in the skies long enough for them to begin to rot? Maybe. Or maybe something much more bizarre is happening in these instances of the damned.
Get the Audible version of The Book of the Damned, narrated by our friends at The Grimerica Show, here:
https://www.audible.com/pd/The-Book-of-the-Damned-Audiobook/B09QD5Z484
Get the book itself, or the digital version, here:
https://www.amazon.com/Book-Damned-Charles-Fort/dp/1514608618
Associate Executive Producer:
Edward Goy
Fibers, cobwebs, cereals, manna, worms, and phosphorescent jelly rains out of the skies in this week's continued exploration into Charles Fort's The Book of the Damned.
We also talk about Russ' most recent excursion with the Contact at the Cabin crew, and his trip to Petrified Forest National Park in Arizona.
You can see pictures of the petrified forest at our website.
We also want to thank Todd, Jeremy, and the crew at Rock the USA for the amazing engraved Brothers of the Serpent megalithic monolith. It's so awesome, we used it as this episode's show art.
We expect it will be puzzling archaeologists and delighting students of the strange 10,000 years from now.
You can get The Book of the Damned from Amazon here: https://www.amazon.com/Book-Damned-Charles-Fort/dp/1514608618 Audible version by Grimerica: https://www.amazon.com/The-Book-of-the-Damned/dp/B09QD49FM3 Learn more about our Egypt 2022 Tour with UnchartedX and Grimerica: http://www.unchartedx.com/tour/ Executive Producers: Shawn Havasi Anne who Knits
We continue our exploration of the strange and weird in Charles Fort's The Book of the Damned, reading about more strange falls of red rains, yellow rains, organic material, dried fish, and "beef flakes".
You can get The Book of the Damned from Amazon here: https://www.amazon.com/Book-Damned-Charles-Fort/dp/1514608618 Audible version by Grimerica: https://www.amazon.com/The-Book-of-the-Damned/dp/B09QD49FM3 Learn more about our Egypt 2022 Tour with UnchartedX and Grimerica: http://www.unchartedx.com/tour/
Time for a book report. We've been wanting to do Charles Fort's The Book of the Damned for a while now, as in many ways it is the foundation of much of modern investigations into the strange, weird, and wonderful. As always, we begin by reading through the various intros and forwards to the book. There is an introduction by Jim Steinmeyer, which gives us some insight into Fort himself and his life. Then there is Fort's own introduction to The Book of the Damned, which gives us some insight into his goals and some of his thinking regarding the subjects of the book. It also gives us an introduction into Fort's unique style of writing. After these two intros, we begin tackling the main subjects, starting with strange atmospheric effects, colored hail, and weird rain. You can get The Book of the Damned from Amazon here: https://www.amazon.com/Book-Damned-Charles-Fort/dp/1514608618 Audible version by Grimerica: https://www.amazon.com/The-Book-of-the-Damned/dp/B09QD49FM3 Thanks to listener and supporter AJ Schlechten for the 1up box of art, find his work at his website, https://www.ajschlechten.com/, and on Instagram, @ajschlechten
This week we welcome another listener and long time supporter of the show on as a guest to talk about his explorations of the area in which he lives. Brandon Ricks, AKA "HistoryShift", who has been making our YouTube videos for years, has immersed himself in the exploration of the public wilderness areas near his home in Montana, where there are many fascinating geological formations, some of which are so strange that it raises the question of possible human construction or at least modification. We did record video for this episode, so if you want to see the many photos and videos Brandon showed us of his discoveries, look for the YouTube video, which will be up as soon as Brandon finishes it. You can also see many more images and videos at Brandon's website, and you can even get google earth coordinates and maps, if you're interested in hiking out to see these formations yourself.
Listener Josh Smart joins us to discuss and show his field explorations of the numerous old stone walls, chambers, and possible effigies that dot the landscape of Vermont. Listeners may recall that we have been to Vermont many times due to having family up there, and the last few times we have been, we have taken a day or two to drive around and look for these structures ourselves, including visiting an area known as the "Smith Farm" which has many of these strange and beautiful stone mounds and walls.
Josh, being a native to Vermont, has developed a system for finding these structures and has hiked out to see them and take pictures. He shares his photos and thoughts with us on this episode, explaining what he has found and the questions he has been unable to get answers for, despite consulting local authorities, libraries, and historical societies.
We did record video for this episode, so look for it on our YouTube channel if you want to see Josh's photos. The "Line Dragon" in the Azores: https://youtu.be/Txbsx8-y1p8
"Hidden Vermont" Smith Farm site: https://youtu.be/vDSBOInLOUM
Associate Executive Producers:
Antonio Kasljevic
Yet another three hour show(this is a habit we're going to have to break), where we catch up on listener emails for the first half of the show, then tackle the remaining sections of "The Pyramids and Temples of Gizeh" that Kyle picked out. Sir William Matthew Flinders Petrie lays out his relatively "standard model" perspective of how the pyramids may have been built, logistically speaking, using a core of year-round specialists, and an annual influx of unskilled labor from the general population during the Nile Flooding period. We find his reasoning....well...reasonable....and he also stands out from the standard model in two important respects: he believes the pyramid builders had access to iron and bronze, and that they had mechanically-assisted cutting tools with "jeweled tips" to help them in sawing and drilling of hard stone. He also gives some fascinating observations on the measurement details of the Great Pyramid, the use of Pi, and the many interesting mathematical "coincidences" of geometrical "harmony" contained in the layout of the structure.
We thought we were going to take this week off for the holidays after last week's three hour marathon episode with Marty in which we continued going through his prepared material for the UFO series. But, there was so much information in that episode, and in the previous two episodes, that there wasn't much time for normal discussion. So we asked if Marty could return for a follow up episode to discuss the material, and also to respond to listener communications that have been building up regarding the subject of aliens and UFOs. Marty agreed, so here we are...another three hour episode as a bonus, on what was supposed to be our week off from podcasting at the end of the year. Enjoy!
Executive Producers: Peter Shell Zachariah Baker Frank M. Associate Executive Producers: Daniel Gandy
Marty returns for the end-of-year episode to dive back in to the more esoteric aspects of the UFO subject with us. As always, Marty brought an enormous amount of prepared work and research with him, which we presented on the show by having Russ read it, as we did with the previous two UFO episodes.
We covered everything Marty brought this time in one episode, which means this is a massive episode that extends for more than three hours, with Marty bringing up more occult connections, strange visitations and visions, altered states of consciousness, the Collins Elite, and the seeming interest of various intelligence agencies in these phenomena.
Article discussed at the end of the episode: Stanford Professor Garry Nolan Is Analyzing Anomalous Materials From UFO Crashes
Executive Producer:
"Anne who Knits"
Associate Executive Producer:
Laura Coutu
Sebastian Lonberg joins us again this week, this time we do take a look at, and listen to, some of the video and audio Kyle and Sebastian recorded while in Egypt. Specifically we listen to the resonant qualities of some of the boxes in the Serapeum, and Kyle and Sebastian use various tools for analysis of the frequencies, and we talk about the details we noticed regarding the quality of the boxes themselves.
Sebastian also reads some excerpts from a book called Egyptian Sonics by John Stuart Reid, who did some very interesting experiments in the Great Pyramid using cymatics. The book is not available for free unfortunately, but you can find a link to John's website and a link to purchase a PDF of the book below.
Egyptology :: CymaScope Website
Egyptian Sonics PDF
There is video of this discussion, so check our YouTube Channel if you want to see the images and video we're looking at during the show, as well as the diagnostic tools Kyle and Sebastian use.
Executive Producers:
Judy Schwartz
We are joined this week by Sebastian Lonberg, an audio engineer from Sweden who was with us on the Egypt trip. Sebastian was very interested in the resonant properties of the sites and objects we visited, and we had great discussions with him while we were there about his thoughts and theories on these effects.
On this episode we talk about our overall thoughts on the acoustics and the possible reasons for them. Sebastian also reads from an excellent article by Tom Danley about his explorations of the acoustical properties of the great pyramid in the late 1990s. A link to this article can be found below. We had planned on going through some of our own recordings of the various resonant properties we investigated, but we didn't have time to get to it on this show, so we will probably be recording another episode with Sebastian soon. The Great Pyramid: Early Reflections & Ancient Echoes by Tom Danley Associate Executive Producers:
Antonio Kasljevic Gregg Taylor
We give a brief outline of the almost 3000 years of the ancient Egyptian timeline as currently understood by standard model archaeology. Dynasties, Periods, Kingdoms, what they are, when they occurred, how long they lasted. Hopefully this will help a bit when you read or hear things like "in the 19th dynasty" or "this is an Old Kingdom structure". Much thanks to listener Patty for suggesting we do this.
After that, Kyle reads selections from Petrie's The Pyramids and Temples of Gizeh, specifically parts where Petrie is discussing his research on evidence for "anomalous" stone cutting evident on some artifacts from Egypt.
| | | Plate 14 from Petrie's book, referenced in the show |
Executive Producer:
Matt Elder
We're joined by Seriah from Where did the Road Go podcast for a swapcast discussion about our Egypt trip. Seriah always asks great questions, so we have an excellent discussion about our evolving thoughts on the things we learned, and the things we unlearned, during our two weeks in Egypt.
Executive Producers:
Mark Rendina
We continue our musings on the Egypt trip this week by responding to many excellent questions and comments from listeners by email and through the Discord server. (To join our Discord, click the connect button on our website here)
We learned a lot from that trip, but in the end we have no answers, only better questions.
Executive Producers:
Chandra Chell Michael Burroughs Associate Executive Producer: Liam Johnston
We're back from our epic two week trip in Egypt with Ben from UnchartedX and Yousef from the Khemit School. We have many things to say about what we saw and experienced, and a mountain of photos and videos to go through.
For this episode we are joined in-studio by The Watcher to attempt to give an overview of our thoughts and some highlights of the trip. Expect many more episodes like this to come as we dive deeper into the questions we have about what we saw in Egypt. Thanks so much to all of you who have listened to the show and supported us in various ways, this would not have happened without you!
We're busy preparing for Egypt but we did want to get another episode out before we left, and what better time to catch up on listener emails right before we leave for two weeks and get way behind again?
Kyle reads some excellent news stories on human origins and humans in the "new world", as well as some strange and interesting new physics. We then tackle your emails for the rest of the show, which, as always, results in some great and fun discussions.
We're finally back from our Scablands trip and long road journey home, and, with only a week before we leave for Egypt, we plan to release a couple of episode to make up for the weeks we missed.
Ben from UnchartedX was with us in the Scablands, so we got to hang out and get to know him better, and we agreed to do an episode together before we headed off to Egypt. Unlike our earlier swapcasts with Ben, this one is audio only and consists of a great philosophical discussion about the reasons we are fascinated with ancient mysteries and why we make these podcasts and videos. We talk about the origins of life, consciousness and spirituality, the rise and fall of civilization and intelligence, aliens and UFOs. We talk about Egypt and Peru and exploring ancient ruins, and at the end we go over the itinerary for our upcoming trip to Egypt.
We're on the road, driving the whole family from the Scablands in Washington State all the way to Texas, and stopping at lots of cool and beautiful places along the way.
We recorded this with a little handheld recorder in a sweet AirBnB cabin in Wyoming. It's raw and unedited.
Hope you all enjoy. We'll be back to regular podcasting soon!
This episode is a free-form discussion about the topics and information presented by Marty in the UFO episodes, specifically focusing on the previous two episodes, 213 and 214, but also referencing some of the earlier UFO episodes as well.
Do these complex rituals actually work? Or are they also a form of deception? Or, are they possibly Quant Suff of an actual science/technology of an earlier age? What is the nature of the things people call the "spirit" realm and the "supernatural"? Are these things accessible to science if it is advanced enough? What is the "simplest hypothesis" for the UFO phenomena? As usual, we have plenty of questions, and no answers.
This is the second episode in the two-part series of episodes titled "A History of Unlikely Coincidences" with Marty Garza. We recorded both of these in one sitting, reading through Marty's prepared material(which will hopefully become a book at some point) and discussing.
By the time we finished with this episode all of us were too tired to record more, so there will be follow up to discuss these topics more at some point in the future. In this episode we continue from where we left off in the last episode with Jack Parsons, and continue forward discussing L. Ron Hubbard and Scientology, the Collins Elite, the Philip Experiment, and much more.
Marty Garza returns once again with more of his excellent research and insights into the history of the UFO phenomenon.
Marty had so much material prepared that this is the first in a two-part series, the second of which will be released next week as Episode #214. We recorded both episodes in one sitting. Lots of excellent material, as usual, fascinating stuff. This time we tried something different; Russ did all the reading of Marty's prepared material, like a normal book report, allowing Marty to guide the conversation through both his written material and with further comments and responses to questions from us. As this is the first in a two part series, there isn't actually much mention of "UFOs" in this episode....that will come in the next episode as we reach the conclusions of this part of Marty's research. This episode sets the stage for what we will be exploring next week, as we look at a series of historical accounts and events starting with John Dee and his Enochian Magic, and ending with Jack Parsons, L. Ron Hubbard, and Aleister Crowley and the Babylon Working.
David Mathisen joins us once again to discuss the celestial origins of mythology. This episode we focus on Dionysus, the god of wine and revelry. This discussion syncs up well with our current situation here in Texas, as we are in the middle of harvest season and we are making wine ourselves.
David tells the story of Dionysus, the thrice-born, giving many of the details and aspects of this mythological personality, and then shows how these details and aspects can be seen in the stars and constellations. As always, David's presentations are entertaining and informative. There was video recorded with this episode, so look for that on our YouTube Channel. You can find out more about David's work at his website, https://www.starmythworld.com/ Blog, books, videos, everything.
We've been so far behind on listener emails for so long now that we decided it was time to catch up with a Listener Communications episode. We spend this entire episode reading your emails and responding to the topics and points you bring up. As always, the emails are excellent; fun to read, insightful and funny.
We also streamed this show live to the Discord Chat, which is always fun. If you want to get in on the occasional live stream and join hundreds of like-minded snakes in excellent conversations about topics we cover on the show, use the link above and join the chat!
Every once in a while we decide we need to make an episode that can serve as an "entry point" for new listeners, and also to talk about our current state of mind and ideas on all the topics we discuss, and how they're connected.
We first tried this in Episode 82, at the request of a listener. It was a good idea, and we now think we ought to do it every so often, to talk about these subjects broadly, and to work out where we stand now.
So this episode is a rambling, free-form conversation that hopefully can serve as an overview of some of the topics we explore on this podcast, and a bit about why we explore them.
Long time listener and friend of the show Shannon joins us from across the pond in Yorkshire to discuss the fascinating legends, myths and folklore of the area she lives in, as well as a few of her experiences visiting some of the numerous ancient sites that dot the landscape. We talk about legends of druids and devils, giants and dragons, and of course, the fae.
Shannon provided copious notes, images, and links for this episode, some of which we will include below, along with a few extra images of specific sites. Yorkshire
York A city in northern England, Old English Eoforwic, earlier Eborakon (c. 150), an ancient Celtic name, probably meaning "Yew-Tree Estate" but there are numerous references to the origin of the name York, so it just remains obscure and open to interpretation… Malham Cove, North Yorkshire Geology PDF Drone footage The Devil's Arrows, Boroughbridge The Coming of the Fairies (Audiobook) by Arthur Conan Doyle The Cottingley Fairies
Miscellaneous Yorkshire Stuff
https://www.theguardian.com/travel/2013/oct/29/yorkshire-third-best-region-in-the-world-2014-lonely-planet
https://www.hulldailymail.co.uk/news/history/bermuda-triangle-east-yorkshire-inhabited-5468144
https://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/news/its-official-dna-tests-show-yorkshire-people-really-are-different-breed-1879236
https://www.english-heritage.org.uk/visit/places/whitby-abbey/history-and-stories/dracula/
https://www.doveheritage.com/folklore/
https://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/news/fee-fi-fo-fum-yorkshire-land-where-giants-roam-324075
https://www.hello-yorkshire.co.uk/blog/tales-of-yorkshire-giants/
We are joined this week by friend of the show Kyle Delisle. We met Kyle on the trip we took to the channeled scablands in Washington State earlier this year with Randall Carlson. Kyle is a Native American of the Iroquois, of the Mohawk nation, and he has been researching Iroquois traditions, legends, and mythology regarding the creation of the world, the creation of humans, giants, and other strange beings that were said to exist long ago.
Kyle tells us about the formation of the Iroquois Confederacy, and the possible travels of the ancestors of his people. We read and discuss some of their stories and traditions about encounters with giants. We talk about their detailed creation stories, and speculate on the possibility that some of the symbolism in the traditions may be referring to constellations, and past catastrophes, especially the Younger Dryas period. All in all, a fascinating and illuminating conversation! Here is Kyle's conversation with David Mathisen that is mentioned during the show: https://cloister.org/david-warner-mathisen/post/y5xgccr6/Celestial-connections-in-the-Mohawk-and-Onondaga-creation-accounts And here is a link to the First Nations Technical Institute where you can find out more about the prophecies that we speak about in the show: https://fnti.net/
Years ago we went over some of the cases in David Paulides' book, Missing 411-Western United States & Canada. Now we're tackling some of the cases in the next book, Missing 411-Eastern United States & Canada. We've chosen a specific set of cases from the book that are less well known and for the most part show a specific pattern: very young children who go missing and are found alive, days later, miles from where they disappeared. This is part 2 of that case study.
We are using the book for reference but we are only covering a very few of the hundreds of cases in this book. We can't stress enough that if you really want to dive into this particular mystery, you should go to David's website, the CanAm Missing Project, purchase the books, and follow his YouTube channel. https://www.canammissing.com/page/page/8396197.htm https://www.canammissing.com/missing_411.html https://www.canammissing.com/missing_411eastern_us.html https://www.youtube.com/user/canammissingproject
Years ago we went over some of the cases in David Paulides' book, Missing 411-Western United States & Canada. Now we're tackling some of the cases in the next book, Missing 411-Eastern United States & Canada. We've chosen a specific set of cases from the book that are less well known and for the most part show a specific pattern: very young children who go missing and are found alive, days later, miles from where they disappeared.
We are using the book for reference but we are only covering a very few of the hundreds of cases in this book. We can't stress enough that if you really want to dive into this particular mystery, you should go to David's website, the CanAm Missing Project, purchase the books, and follow his YouTube channel. https://www.canammissing.com/page/page/8396197.htm https://www.canammissing.com/missing_411.html https://www.canammissing.com/missing_411eastern_us.html https://www.youtube.com/user/canammissingproject
Marty Garza joins us once again in the Tangent Cube, this time to deliver an episode on legends of the Skinwalker, and the history of Skinwalker Ranch. Marty says this is in preparation for the material he will be presenting for Part 5 of the UFO series.
We discuss the history of the skinwalker and the American Indian legends regarding them in the Uinta Basin, the wars and skirmishes between the Utes, the Navajo, and the European settlers of the area, leading up to the land of the ranch itself. We discuss the history of ownership and occupation of that area, Bigelow and NIDS and its connection to government projects. We also talk about some of the reported strange activity in that area and the surrounding region, some of which are very, very weird.
This is the final episode of our reading of The Hidden History of the Human Race by Michael Cremo and Richard Thompson. We finish the sections on the problems of "dating by morphology" in which anthropologists use their preconceptions about the evolution of man to place their fossil findings in a chronologically linear timeline even though the actual evidence does not present so clear a picture.
The final section of the book that we look at in detail is about reports and sightings of "wildmen", sasquatch, bigfoot, the yeti, and other hominid-like cryptids from around the world. With this section Cremo and Thompson are making the point that such reports possibly indicate that archaic hominids may still exist today alongside us, just as modern Homo Sapiens Sapiens may have existed alongside relict species of hominids in the ancient past.
Continuing with The Hidden History of the Human Race by Michael Cremo and Richard Thompson, we finish the section on the Piltdown Man discoveries and the later exposing as a very complex hoax. We then look at the details of the Beijing Man discoveries, the funding by the Rockefeller Foundation, and the methods used by the people involved to popularize this discovery when it was only a couple of teeth.
Again, it should be made clear that studying these discoveries through this book is not necessarily about trying to "disprove" evolution. It is about comparing the way the discoveries that supported the mainstream ideas about evolution were treated, versus the way that discoveries that did not support mainstream ideas, were treated.
Back to our deep dive into The Hidden History of the Human Race by Michael Cremo and Richard Thompson for part eight! We continue on from where we were in part seven, looking at the "Java man" discovery of what would later be come known as Homo Erectus, by Eugene Dubois, and the problems and arguments surrounding those finds at the time.
We read about another paleoanthropologist, von Koenigswald, returning to the same site in Java to look for further evidence of this "missing link", and the problems with his methods. There is also an interesting event in which a Jesuit priest, who had been involved in the discovery of Beijing Man and the Piltdown fossils, arrives and helps von Koenigswald get connected with the Carnegie Institute for funding of his work.
This episode is a celebration of 200 episodes of the Brothers of the Serpent podcast. (If you're wondering why we did this on episode 201 instead of 200, it's because the podcast starts with episode 002!)
Using an extensive list of clips from older episodes, all marked and prepared by listeners, we look back at how the podcast has grown and changed, and mostly at how many dumb jokes we've made.
We're joined in studio by Marty, from the UFO episodes, as a representative of the Discord SnakeForce, and they spring a huge surprise on us during the break after the first segment.
It was amazing.
Thanks so much to all of the Snakeforce in the discord for all the support and the huge list of clip suggestions. Thanks to LP for putting all those suggestions together in a spreadsheet. Thanks to Janus for taking our picks and actually extracting all the clips for us. And thanks to everyone who participated in the super-secret channel to put together the amazing super secret secret!!
Hope you all enjoy this, and don't miss out on the special end-of-show mix! See you in the next 200 episodes!
We take a break from the book report to talk about the ongoing UFO conversation happening in the mainstream right now. Russ gives a synopsis of Jacques Vallee's new book, TRINITY: The Best-Kept Secret, that he co-authored with Paola Harris, about a possible crash in the New Mexico desert several years before the infamous Roswell incident.
We also discuss Vallee's previous works, which Russ has been re-reading, and how utterly strange this phenomena is, and how the current "disclosure", whatever it may end up disclosing, cannot possibly approach the true strangeness, or breadth and scope, of the "UFO" phenomena. In the final segment we read some Listener Communications.
Continuing on in what is becoming one of our most in depth and lengthy book dives, we move forward in The Hidden History of the Human Race by Michael Cremo and Richard Thompson, finishing up the anomalous human remains section with some extremely anomalous finds, including well-documented and discussed sets of human-like footprint tracks in Carboniferous strata.
We then move on to Part II of the book, which details finds of ancient human remains that are well accepted in the literature and by modern science as part of the human evolutionary story, and all of the interesting and sometimes strange circumstances that surround them.
Continuing along in our exploration of The Hidden History of the Human Race by Michael Cremo and Richard Thompson, we finish up the cases of anomalous objects and artifacts found in very ancient contexts, placing them as far back as 2 billion years in the most extreme case, and move on to the section on actual human remains. Most of these are bones in various states of mineralization, all of which were found in strata that makes them anomalously old for hominids with modern morphology.
We return from our Scablands trip and dive right back into The Hidden History of the Human Race by Michael Cremo and Richard Thompson. We finish up the anomalous stone tools section with Sandia Cave in New Mexico and the finds in the Gold Rush mines in California, then move on to even more anomalous finds of advanced quarrying tools, embedded nails and vases, gold chains and chalk spheres, then finish up the show with the infamous Nampa Figurine, found in Idaho.
This show was streamed live to the Discord chat, which we do from time to time. so if you want to be in on that next time, join the discord! You can find a join button on our website.
Thanks to listener Janus from the Discord for this episode's show art!
As we continue our reading of The Hidden History of the Human Race by Michael Cremo and Richard Thompson, we look at paleolithic tools, evidence of fire usage including hearths and slag indicative of kilns, and bones of extinct animals with stone tools embedded in them, in geological contexts that place them into extremely ancient times, up to tens of millions of years old.
Artifacts in glacial till in Canada, in pliocene sediments in Argentina, and advanced neolith tools in Hueyatlaco, Mexico, all point to hominids in the Americas for hundreds of thousands, sometimes millions, of years. We also look at how the scientific and paleoanthropological establishment has worked to discredit and bury these finds.
Continuing our reading through The Hidden History of the Human Race by Michael Cremo and Richard Thompson, we look at more examples of ancient stone tools found in very ancient contexts through the late 1800's and into the early 1900's. In Portugal, France, Brazil, Chile, and the U.S., there were discoveries of eolithic and paleolithic tools, that were studied by many scientists and paleontologists of the day, and presented at conferences and scientific congresses for study and debate. Many times the scientists of the time decided the tools were genuine evidence of very early humans, and yet much of this evidence is now completely forgotten and does not appear in modern discussions, scientific literature, or textbooks.
We are joined by master jeweler Jeffrey Appling to discuss ultrasonic technology in the use of cutting and shaping stone. Jeffrey has been using an ultrasonic drilling and coring machine to cut, drill, and shape even the hardest of stones and jewels with ease. The bit of the machine does not spin, the ultrasonic vibration simply allows the bit to sink into the stone, so it is possible to core out shapes that are more complex than a simple circle, and do it in minutes with relatively little work.
We talk about the machine and how it works, and we talk about the possibility that the ancient Builders may have used something similar to this machine, only probably much larger in many cases, to do some of the astonishing work we see at certain ancient sites. We also look at some of Jeffrey's jewelry work, and discuss the interesting possibility that an old mission building in California may show signs of containing very old, high tech stonework concealed within rough adobe and cobblestone walls.
Be sure to take a look at Jeffrey's blog and his YouTube Channel to see more of his work, and his research into the possibility of the ancients using ultrasonic technology. Jeffrey sent us a bunch of images which we discuss on the show. Here they are, more or less in the order we discussed them:
In part 2 of our deep dive into The Hidden History of the Human Race by Michael Cremo and Richard Thompson, we finish up on the "cut bones" section of the book and move on to looking at stone tools found in exceedingly ancient geological contexts.
Once again the authors give many examples of excellent finds of stone tools, bone implements, tool workshops, and fires, in sediments that are considered to be many millions of years old, far too ancient to fit the current paradigm of human evolution.
This week we join Ben from UnchartedX and Hugh Newman, one of the founders of Megalithomania. We turn once again to Egypt and Ben's excellent footage and photos to look at the Valley Temple on the Giza Plateau, and the Osereion, as possible examples of megalithic structures showing different stages of construction, possibly built at very different times. Again, it is in the details that really interesting possibilities about these structures come forward, and we take a close look at these details on this episode. We have some excellent discussions about the possible purposes of these mysterious structures, and Hugh Newman brings new and interesting insights for us to consider. We also talk about upcoming Egypt tours. Hugh Newman is cohosting one later this year, get more details here: http://www.megalithomania.co.uk/egypt2021.html
Hugh Newman is an explorer, megalithomaniac and author of Earth Grids: The Secret Pattern of Gaia’s Sacred Sites (2008), Stone Circles (2017) and co-author of Giants on Record (2015) and contributed to Megalith: Studies In Stone (2018). He has been a regular guest on History Channel’s Ancient Aliens and featured in Search for the Lost Giants. As well as organising the Megalithomania conferences and tours, he has spoken at events in the UK, Malta, France, Peru, Egypt, Bosnia and North America. He lives very close to Stonehenge.
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We start our next book report series, this time on The Hidden History of the Human Race by Michael Cremo and Richard Thompson. This book, which is a condensed version of their original work, "
Forbidden Archaeology", is filled with fascinating anomalies of archaeology and paleoanthropology, ranging from evidence of butchering in fossilized bones, to complex constructions, all found in geological contexts that seem to put them into far earlier times that current science allows for. This episode, we read the various forwards, prefaces, and preambles of the book, establishing the methods of research and identifying the limitations of understanding in the field. We then take a look at the first set of anomalies presented in the book, which are fossil animal bones with signs of human butchering.
We return again to swapcasting with Ben from UnchartedX, and this week we are also joined by Jahannah James (check out her youtube channel here) who was on the recent Egypt trip with Ben. The four of us go through Ben's footage and their observations and memories of the trip and the sites of the Karnak and Luxor temples in Egypt. We discuss the beautiful dynastic architecture, and how it seems to be surrounding and enclosing objects of a much different and possibly much more ancient nature....the monolithic statues and obelisks, for example.
There are also incredibly beautiful monolithic doorways carved from single pieces of hard stone, some of which seem to have undergone a mysterious event that caused incredible damage to them. We ponder these mysteries and many more as we look at the footage and the imagery that Ben provides. And yes, we know that it is sometimes frustrating to listen to something like this when you can't see the visuals. The video will be up soon on all of our channels, so look for it there, and thanks for your patience.
Tony joins us this week to revisit the topic of Atlantis. This time we look at the details of the city and civilization itself, and the many possible places and times people have theorized it may have existed. Was it an antediluvian civilization, or might it have existed much more recently, in the bronze age? Was it somewhere in the Atlantic ocean, or in another body of water? We look at Morocco, Malta, Richat, Azores, Bolivia, and many other places.
Possibly, as with so many of these ancient mysteries, we will never really know.
We return to our series of video swapcasts with Ben from UnchartedX, this time to look at Ollantaytambo, the Coricancha, and a site known as "The Temple of the Moon" in Peru.
As always, Ben's footage is excellent, and we spend much of the show discussing details of the strange, rock-cut and apparently heavily damaged stonework, as well as the enigmatic megalithic work of Ollantaytambo and the Coricancha. So little is known about the origins of these sites and structures, that all we can do is observe the details, ask questions, and wonder.
This week's winter storm that came through Texas put everything on hold, including our podcast schedule, as we were iced in and the power was flickering on and off. Finally, on Friday, the snow and ice started to thaw, and we were able to get in the studio to record a show.
This is a correspondence show, since we had nothing else planned. Great emails from everyone, and they spark some interesting discussions.
We are joined in-studio once again by Marty Garza to continue our discussion on the topic of UFOs, aliens, extraterrestrials, spiritual/interdimensional beings, and the incredibly varied and strange nature of this phenomenon.
As usual, Marty has done a ton of research and prepared copious notes for the show, and he guides us through multiple encounter stories from the military and civilians. For a while we focus on "USO" reports, or Unidentified Submerged Objects, also known as "Trans-medium vehicles", as they seem to operate as well in the water as out of it.
We look at some of the stranger aspects of "Skinwalker Ranch", and how the phenomena there seemed to range from entity sightings, to UFOs, flying orbs, cattle mutilations, voices, ghosts, and "demons".
Marty then takes the show in an interesting direction, looking at Gnostic, Hermetic, and old Christian considerations of "daimons" as beings both physical and non-physical, good and evil, existing at the periphery of perception.
We wrap up the discussion with talk about what the possible limits are, if any, to "technological advancement", as well as the breadth of possible configurations of life in the universe, and/or in "other universes" that may touch ours in certain ways, or perhaps in certain places....places that have been considered "sacred" since before recorded history.
For our third installment in the series of swapcasts we are doing with Ben from UnchartedX, we are joined by Matt from the excellent Ancient Architects YouTube channel. The four of us take a look at Ben's raw footage of the amazing and mysterious megalithic site of Sacsayhuaman in Peru, as well as the remains of beautiful megalithic, polygonal, "cyclopean" masonry in the city of Cuzco below.
Unlike Egypt, there is far less information available about these sites, what their true origins are, who built them, and why. We ponder these questions, as well as the questions of how these sites were constructed, as they seem almost unbelievable in the details of the masonry....and yet there they stand. Someone did it. Who they were and how they did it are still mysteries. The video for this episode will be released on all of our YouTube channels, so stay tuned!
Taking a break this week in the swapcast series we've been doing with Ben from UnchartedX, We take the time to respond to emails, which sparks some great discussion on the Serapeum and the pyramids and ancient, lost technology.
We then turn to the legends of a particular lost object which we have spoken of before, the legendary Shamir, which was said to have been able to cut and shape stone with ease. In some cases the Shamir itself was said to be a stone, but also maybe a living creature, a worm of some kind, or perhaps an herb or some other plant. Whatever the Shamir was, it seems clear that some ancient people could work stone in ways that we do not understand in modern times.
In our second swapcast in the series with Ben from UnchartedX, we are joined by Chuck, host of the excellent YouTube channel cf-apps7865. The four of us spend a couple of hours watching Ben's footage inside and around the "second great pyramid" at Giza, also known as the Pyramid of Khafre. There are lots of fascinating details about this structure, which doesn't receive nearly as much attention as its nearby companion, the Great Pyramid. Ben shows us the tunnels beneath it, the chambers in the bedrock below it, the enormous amount of work the builders went through to cut a flat area from the bedrock in which to build it, and the line of granite rubble that surrounds the bottom of it, all that is left of the granite casing stones that used to cover the first few courses of core masonry. We also look at some other interesting features of the Giza plateau related to this pyramid, such as the Sphinx Causeway, the Valley Temple, and the megalithic "tile" stones that were used to make a flat surface around the pyramids.
We join Ben from UnchartedX in the first of a series of swapcast episodes where we go through some of his amazing footage of ancient sites he's visited. In this episode we focus on the Serapeum of Saqqara in Egypt and the mystery of the massive, precision stone "boxes" in that site. How did they make them, what were they for, how did they move them into place through those small tunnels? How old are they really? We look at a lot of the little details in Ben's footage that shows us how deep the mystery of these artifacts really is. Since this is a visual episode, there will be video of the entire conversation that includes the clips Ben showed us. So look for that on our YouTube channel, or on Ben's. But we did our best to provide descriptions for audio listeners.
In this episode Russ gives a presentation, with slides, about the standard model processes that take place in stars to generate elements, how that process eventually results in novas and supernovas, and how supernovas and other similar very high energy events generate cosmic rays. When these cosmic rays hit earth, they result in "cosmogenic nuclides" like the radioactive Carbon 14 that is so often used to date material in archaeological settings.
We also run through a short list of the most often used dating techniques, how they work, what the problems are, what the ranges are, and what the margins of error are. We also look at the various assumptions and methods and theory behind these techniques.
As this was a slide show presentation, it may help to watch the video, so look for that on our youtube channel.
This is our final episode for 2020, and we streamed it live to the Discord, which is always fun. The Watcher was there, plus a lot of the Discord Snakeforce, trolling us non-stop in the chats while we recorded the episode.
We had a lot of listener emails backed up, plus we had a "stack of stuff" that we hadn't yet gotten to on the show, so for this episode we go through all the emails and respond to them, plus we read some articles on possible alien signals being detected, the sun may be actually about to enter into a really powerful new solar cycle rather than a weak one, and a jeweler who uses ultrasonic tools that leave very similar marks on the stones he works, as what is often seen in Egypt, Peru, and other places with mysterious ancient stonework.
In the last segment, Kyle talks about his renewed interest in the "search for dark matter" being undertaken by standard model physicists, what he is learning, what he hopes to learn, and what he thinks so far about what he is discovering. Dark matter, and dark energy, may be part of a resonant effect that permeates the entirety of the observable universe.
See you all in 2021!
George Howard joins us once again on the show, this time to talk about his recent trip to Egypt with Ben from UnchartedX. We talk with George about his impressions of the pyramids, the Sphinx, the Valley Temple, the Osireion, the Bent Pyramid, the unfinished obelisk, the Temple of Hathor, and of course, the Serapeum and the enigmatic stone boxes inside it. George tells us about the somewhat harrowing experience of descending over a hundred feet into a narrow shaft to see other granite boxes beneath the Giza plateau. We talk about George's overall impressions of the constructions he saw, and about the possibility of some of the objects being "precursor" artifacts, surround by later dynastic constructions.
George has posted about the trip on his excellent blog, The Cosmic Tusk.
He has also posted a collection of over 500 images from the trip.
Aside from the conversation with George, we also open a bunch of 1-up boxes (it was like Christmas in the Tangent Cube), and we read articles about the re-discovered Dixon artifact from the Great Pyramid, papers showing that Issac Newton believed the pyramid contained ancient secrets about the Earth and the apocalypse, and that the modern Venus is like ancient Earth while modern Earth is like ancient Venus.
Also, we got our TeePublic account upgrade, so be sure to visit our TeePublic storefront to get yourself some sweet SnakeBros merchandise!
Archer Finley joins us again, this time from afar, for a continued discussion of Tesla's wireless transmission project and to answer questions that episode generated from listeners (and us).
This leads to a discussion of one of Tesla's other projects, "Telegeodynamics", or, the transmission of mechanical energy through the body of the earth....also sometimes referred to as "the earthquake machine". Then we read an article sent by a listener about a project to understand what kinds of long-term geological signatures might be left on a planet by an advanced civilization, and how we might look for these kinds of signatures in earth's geological history, and how this could help us find signatures of advanced civilizations on distant exoplanets. This leads into a discussion of the current state of the search for exoplanets, what astronomers are finding, and what this data implies about the actual number of planets out there in the universe. We also discuss the concept of an astronomical "standard candle", also known as a Type 1a Supernova, the standard model theoretical process by which these events happen, and how modern astrophysicists and cosmologists used them to measure the expansion rate of the universe, which lead to the concept of "dark energy". We end the show with a special bonus segment where we talk about large resonant systems, and how they tend to want to synchronize the component parts, and how this possibly applies to Velikovsky's ideas. Also it explains pyramids. Link to the metronome synchronization video: http://demoweb.physics.ucla.edu/content/160-spontaneous-synchronization
This week we are joined again by Laird Scranton to talk about The Velikovsky Heresies, as a follow up to our deep dive on that book. We talk through many of the questions we developed during the course of the deep dive series, such as the problem of calendar changes and how some cultures made changes to their calendars long after the 7th century BC. We talk about the ancient Chinese and Korean records of astronomical observations that don't seem to match up with current solar system models. We talk about the Dogon and their traditions that correspond to ancient Egypt and their calendars.
We also take some time to ask Laird some questions that listeners posted in the Discord, about a wide range of subjects that leads in many interesting directions.
Thanks to Henry Hablak for the awesome show art!
Archer Finley joins us in studio once again, this time to give us an electrical engineer's perspective on the topic of Tesla's experiments into wireless power transmission. Archer starts with the basics, interspersing the history of Tesla's work with basic circuit diagrams, and working up to Tesla's actual patents related to the wireless transmission of electricity.
We discuss how the system would work, according to the patents, and whether it could actually be implemented on a global scale. We talk about whether this system involves "free energy" or not, and about why Tesla lost the funding for the project. Archer did this presentation as a slide show, and the images he used were very helpful in understanding the way the system should work. Be sure to check our youtube channel for this episode, as we did record video for the whole presentation.
We are joined this week by Seriah Azkath, from the Where Did the Road Go podcast, to talk about an idea he's been working on for a while now. We discuss poltergeist activity, bigfoot, UFOs, time loops, ghosts, EVP, Point Pleasant and the Mothman, Men in Black, Near Death Experiences, parapsychology and ESP abilities, and retrocausality, and how all of these might in some way be either part of the same phenomena, or be multiple phenomena resulting from the same underlying cause.
A big part of this is Seriah's point that many of these seemingly disparate types of events have similar features; for example, the kinds of things that people call "poltergeists" when they happen in a house, are attributed to sasquatch when they happen in the wilderness. A glowing light floating around in an abandoned building is a "ghost", while a glowing light in the sky is a "UFO".
Retrocausality is a big part of the function of the Mechanism that Seriah is proposing....that events in the future can have an effect on the present, through the medium of consciousness. We discuss how this has been demonstrated multiple times in different studies, and how this might tie together a lot of incidents that are attributed to different types of experiences.
We are joined once again by Snakeforce member Tony Petrangelo to continue discussing the topic of Plato's Atlantis, and whether this story could have possibly been referring to the time period of the bronze age collapse and the invasion of Egypt by the mysterious "Sea People".
Tony leads us through the complexities of bronze age civilizations in the Mediterranean, looking at clay tablets of letters being written from one king to another describing the state of their kingdoms and the problems they were facing. We also look at the description of the invasion and defeat of the Sea People in Egypt, how they were described, and what they were called, and where they may have been from.
In the end, what Tony is showing us are the correlations to these events and some of the details given by Plato. He doesn't have a "location" of Atlantis, or an idea of "who" the "Atlanteans" were. Rather, he is looking at the evidence to see if this may have been the time period for the events described by Plato.
Here is a list of the sources Tony used for this episode:
Books
Meet me in Atlantis by Mark Adams
Sunken Kingdom by Peter James
1177 BC by Eric Cline
Sea Peoples of the Bronze Age Mediterranean c.1400 BC–1000 BC by Andrea Salimbeti & Raffaele D’Amato
Seagoing Ships & Seamanship in the Bronze Age Levant by Shelley Wachsmann
Exodus to Arthur by Mike Baillie
Papers
Literary History in the Parian Marble by Andrea Rotstein
A Mycenaean Fountain on the Athenian Acropolis by Oscar Broneer
Athens in the Late Bronze Age by Oscar Broneer
Landscape Changes around Tiryns during the Bronze Age by Eberhard Zangger
The Great Karnak Inscription of Merneptah: Grand Strategy in the 13th Century B.C. by Colleen Manassa Darnell
Libyan Trade and Society on the Eve of the Invasions of Egypt by Seth Richardson
The Role of the Lukka People in Late Bronze Age Anatolia by Trevor Bryce
The Ethnicity of the Sea Peoples by Frederik Christiaan Woudhuizen
Connected Histories: the Dynamics of Bronze Age Interaction and Trade 1500–1100 bc by Kristian Kristiansen & Paulina Suchowska-Ducke
New technologies and transformations in the European Bronze Age: the case of Naue II swords by Paulina Suchowska-Ducke
Marty Garza returns yet again to continue our deep dive into the subject of UFOs. This time we focus specifically on accounts centering around WWII. For the first two segments, Marty recounts many sightings of anomalous objects seen in the sky in the Americas and Europe from the 1930s through the 1950s, especially during the period of the war, and how these objects were reported.
In the second half of the show, we look at the evidence of Nazi secret technologies, what the Axis powers thought of the many anomalous sightings, and what tech the Nazis may have had that could have accounted for(or couldn't account for), the sightings of these objects.
This is the final part of our deep dive into Laird Scranton's The Velikovsky Heresies. For this final part we look at more evidence of ancient astronomers apparently seeing Venus in strange places or in ways that do not match current models. We read about Venus' apparently young surface, thin lithosphere that consists of one single "tectonic plate", its active vulcanism, and evidence of upper atmospheric lightning. We read about Venus having a very rare chemical in its atmosphere that is usually only found associated with cometary bodies.
The book wraps up with a concise list of interesting points that seem to indicate that modern scientific discoveries do sometimes support some of Velikovsky's predictions, and whether this means all of his ideas were right or not is still a matter up for debate.
Much thanks to our friends over at Inner Traditions for allowing us to read large excerpts from one of their publications. Make sure to visit their online store and purchase a copy of The Velikovsky Heresies for yourself, or you can get it from Amazon.
Thanks to Henry Hablak for the awesome show art!
After returning from our trip through Arizona and Utah with Randall and Brad, we come back to the Tangent Cube at the end of the week for the next installment of our deep dive into The Velikovsky Heresies by Laird Scranton.
This episode we talk a lot about magnetism, remnant magnetism in lunar rocks, and calendar changes made by multiple ancient civilizations all around the same time. We talk about immense climate changes that accompanied the sudden change from a 360 day calendar year to a 365 day calendar year.
We also read about problems with various types of radioactive decay dating techniques, and how without knowing the exact amount of certain materials that existed in rock at the time of its formation, these techniques cannot give accurate dates, even assuming that the radioactive decay rate is a constant.
Much thanks to our friends over at Inner Traditions for allowing us to read large excerpts from one of their publications. Make sure to visit their online store and purchase a copy of The Velikovsky Heresies for yourself, or you can get it from Amazon.
Thanks to Henry Hablak for the awesome show art!
Here's the roadsode. We talk about the Arizona/Utah trip with Randall. More to come soon!
We're going to bed now.
Enjoy!
For part two of our deep dive into The Velikovsky Heresies by Laird Scranton, we talk about the mechanics of the solar system, of circular orbits, of retrograde motion. We talk about the "n-body problem" of physics and how the motions of all the bodies in the solar system is, over the long term, an exercise in chaos mathematics.
We read about how Velikovsky was in communication with Einstein before his death, and that Einstein was skeptical at first but was impressed when one of Velikovsky's predictions proved to be accurate. We read about ancient records comparing Venus to comets and supernova that were visible in the daytime, and about the strange properties of the core of Jupiter.
Much thanks to our friends over at Inner Traditions for allowing us to read large excerpts from one of their publications. Make sure to visit their online store and purchase a copy of The Velikovsky Heresies for yourself, or you can get it from Amazon.
Thanks to Henry Hablak for the awesome show art!
Kyle was out of town for most of this week so this show was late, but on Friday night we finally managed to get in the Tangent Cube and record it. We're starting a new SnakeBros book report, this one on Laird Scranton's excellent book The Velikovsky Heresies.
On this episode we cover Laird's intro to the book and the first few chapters, discussing the controversy that Velikovsky's work caused, and Laird's purpose in writing the book, which was to see if Velikovsky's ideas hold up to modern science and the enormous amount of new understanding we have gathered about our solar system since the writing Velikovsky's works.
Much thanks to our friends over at Inner Traditions for allowing us to read large excerpts from one of their publications. Make sure to visit their online store and purchase a copy of The Velikovsky Heresies for yourself, or you can get it from Amazon.
Thanks to Henry Hablak for the awesome show art!
This week we are joined once again by Bob Johnson for the first hour of the show to talk about his experiences in Egypt and Saudi Arabia as a geologist, this time in the context of the subject of the story of Exodus. Bob directed us to watch a short documentary detailing a possible "alternate route" to the legendary Mount Sinai, the Mountain of Moses.
That mountain is commonly thought to be in the Sinai peninsula, but the documentary shows that it may actually be in Saudi Arabia, on the eastern side of the Gulf of Aqaba. There are many features and places besides the mountain itself that seem to match up with the story told in Exodus, lending credence to this possibility.
Bob spent decades working in this area and knows the geology very well, so as we go through the evidence for this alternate possibility, he gives his own thoughts on the pros and cons of the concept.
There is a lot of map work in this part of the show, so we did record some video of Bob pointing to places on the map for the first hour, which you can see if you go to our Youtube channel. Below are links to the documentary itself and a few screenshots of the maps of the area.
Finding the Mountain of Moses documentary
| | | The Red Sea |
| | | Gulf of Suez(left) and Gulf of Aqaba(right) on the north end of the Red Sea |
| | | Gulf of Aqaba |
| | | Nuweibaa Delta in the Gulf of Aqaba |
| | | Straits of Tiran on the southern end of the Gulf of Aqaba |
| | | "Split Rock" geological feature in Saudi Arabia |
This week we are joined by another SnakeForce guest, Tony Petrangelo. Tony is an active member in the Discord and has been heavily researching Plato, Socrates, the Mediterranean Bronze Age civilizations, and Atlantis.
We asked Tony to come on the show and talk to us about his research and his take on the Timaeus dialogue. He gives an excellent presentation, taking us through select parts of the text, providing context, opinions of academics, Neo-Platonics, and other researchers, along with his own particular take on what Plato may be talking about. This is excellent information for anyone interested in the concept of Atlantis.
See more of Tony's research on Atlantis at his website, https://atlantis.fyi/
Below are some links Tony sent for anyone wishing to do further research:
Timaeus (Jowett translation)
Critias (Jowett translation)
Timaeus and Critias (Taylor translation)
Plato’s Forms, Pythagorean Mathematics, and Stichometry by JB Kennedy
The Musical Structure of Plato’s Dialogues by JB Kennedy
The Cosmic Serpent by Victor Clube and Bill Napier
Literary History in the Parian Marble by Andrea Rotstein
Atlantipedia
Atlantis-Scout
And of course, check the Library of the Serpent, which is full of relevant material.
| | | Shadows in a Cave |
Marty Garza returns to the Tangent Cube for a second round of discussion on the topic of UFOs, alien abductions, and the history of this subject in modern times. Last time, we mostly discussed governmental responses to the phenomena. This week, Marty takes us through a few select cases, one of which lead to an extremely widespread and very detailed study of thousands of cases from people all over the world. Marty gives some of the information resulting from this study, and in many cases the information is very different from the picture of the phenomena that has been painted by media, movies, and documentaries. We end the show with some discussion of the possibility that old Biblical texts may, in some cases, be depicting more of this kind of phenomena as well.
This week we are joined by Ed Nightingale to discuss his extensive work on the layout of the Giza monuments. Ed has uncovered a "master plan", a kind of architectural mathematical layout of the Giza plateau that incorporates sacred geometry and encodes precessional numbers and universal constants like pi, phi, and the speed of light.
The concepts themselves are relatively simple geometric processes, but they are difficult to explain using only words, so Ed shows us some slides during the show. These slides will be available in the YouTube version of the show, we encourage you all to watch it!
We will be having Ed on in future shows to get more into the material, as this show was mostly an overview of the process and a quick look at some of the geometry.
Ed's website: The Giza Template
Get Ed's book from Amazon: The Giza Template
This is a special bonus episode (bonusode) for us to catch up on listener emails, news stories, and other things that have been piling up recently. We also streamed the recording of this episode live to the Discord chat, if you missed it, sign up and join so you can be there next time we stream live!
This week we are joined by Adam and Serfiel, hosts of the Conspirinormal podcast, for a long-form round-table discussion of everything from cryptids to conspiracies to the Custodians of the Gods of Eden.
We also take a few minutes in the middle of the show to discuss their upcoming Strange Realities Conference, a digital conference they are hosting at the end of the year with some excellent guests giving talks on fascinating topics.
With all the UFO stuff in the news recently, we've been thinking we need to do an episode dedicated to the topic. So this week we are joined in-studio by Marty Garza, a former MUFON investigator with decades of interest and research in the subject of UFOs.
We invited Marty to come spend a day with us. We hung out, drank beers and talked about UFOs. Then we got in the studio and recorded an episode on the subject. Marty brought a stack of books with him and had copious notes, and we could tell half way through recording this episode that it was going to have to be a multi-part deep dive. So there will be future UFO episodes with Marty until we finish going through all of his notes.
This week, the topic mostly centers on the beginning of the "modern" era of UFO sightings starting after WW2, and the government response to the phenomena.
(Marty also happens to be a member of the championship winning monster truck team "Overkill Evolution". Sadly, he did not pull up to the tangent cube in the actual monster truck. Next time, maybe.)
This week we speak with Linda Zimmermann, author of Mysterious Stone Sites, about the stone effigies, dolmen, balanced rocks, and chambers of the Hudson Valley area. Linda has done extensive research on the archeo-astronomy of the chambers, walls, and other strange stone features found in the northeastern United States, and she shares a wealth of information and experiences with us, detailing her efforts to travel to various sites during solstices and equinoxes to witness for herself the celestial alignments.
At the end of the show she also gives us a quick rundown of the many interesting UFO cases in the Hudson Valley area, and relates one of her own experiences with a strange object in the sky.
Find more about Linda and her extensive work in many areas of mystery at her website.
| | | North Salem Balanced Rock |
| | | Glacial Chatter Marks |
We talk with Glenn Kreisberg, author of Spirits in Stone, about the many megaliths, dolmens, standing stones, and stone effigy sites in the northeastern U.S.
Although there are undoubtedly many colonial artifacts like stone piles and stone border walls throughout the northeastern United States, Glenn describes how some of these sites display celestial and internal alignments that make them unlikely to be the constructions of farmers clearing land and marking borders. He also gives several ways of trying to determine if one is looking at a "colonial" construction, or something much more ancient and interesting.
We also briefly discuss some of his work on Malta, and the seemingly anomalous acoustical properties of the Hypogeum.
You can find Glenn's book at the link above, and follow his work at his website, overlookmountain.org.
This episode's show art was made by Henry Hablak. Check out his website and follow him on instagram.
| | | Art by Henry Hablak |
We have an excellent conversation with author Laird Scranton about his research into the wisdom of the ancients; the Dogon, the ancient Egyptians, the ancient Hindu traditions, and more, all seem to contain parts of a precise scientific understanding of the cosmos, life, consciousness, and the nature of matter and energy. Laird describes how many of these ancient traditions express this understanding through the use of symbols that are often the same or very similar even across distant cultures.
We talk about the "civilizer gods", the Apkallu, the Seven Sages, and the Viracochas...all of which may be the result of beings from the "immaterial realm" crossing over during the times when our universe is closest to theirs, in order to teach and establish systems of knowledge that will survive across many thousands of years when the two realms are too "distant" to fully interact.
A very interesting conversation that left us with a lot to ponder.
Enjoy!
In this final episode of our deep dive into the hybridization and evolution topic, we continue to go through Dr. Eugene McCarthy's material on his website about hybridization and stabilization. After a few final words on the subject of "species", we read about hybridization itself and how common it really is in the wild. We talk about generational hybrids, reciprocal crosses, backcross breeding, extinction and absorption, intermediacy in characteristics, and more.
Near the end of the show we also read some excerpts from the section of the website that discusses the possibility that modern humans are a product of hybridization long ago, and that we all still show the evidence of it in fertility, morphology, and characteristics as well.
| | | Comparison of eyes of Chimpanzee, Human, and Pig |
Continuing on from last week's discussion, we read and respond to emails about evolution and how people think about it in various ways, with analogies and references to consciousness and a possible spirit realm, or other more mechanistic ways of thinking about it. We talk to the Watcher about genetics and genetic expression in reproduction, and chromosome pairing.
Then we continue to dig through the information on MacroEvolution.net and the work of Dr. Eugene McCarthy, and his Stabilization Theory of evolution. We read about the "fuzzyness" of terms like "species", and how the entire process of the categorization of life is based in an idea of immutability of form, even though that concept has long since been discarded.
Prompted by listener emails, we discuss the topic of evolution and our thinking on it, and how our thinking on it has evolved over the years. This leads to some reading from the excellent website of Dr. Eugene McCarthy and his theory of hybridization and stabilization as a better version of the evolutionary theory.
This is a topic with a lot of details, many of which we don't fully understand. We intend to work on it some more and perhaps dive deeper in the next episode.
We once again join Alex Tsakiris from the Skeptiko podcast to talk with author Bruce Fenton about his research that he details in his books, Into Africa and Exogenesis. Alex hosts the swapcast and plays clips from a video he produced with Bruce called 780,000: Our Alien Origin Story(see embedded video below).
In the hour we have with Bruce and Alex we talk briefly about some of the Into Africa material and the evidence for humans in South America in extreme antiquity, then move to the main topic, which is the information in Exogenesis. Following a trail made of dreams, shamanic experiences, and other similar immaterial sources, Bruce uncovers a lot of evidence that a series of extraordinary events took place on earth almost one million years ago, and these events may have shaped both the planet and the human race into what it is today.
We've gotten way behind on listener emails because of the guests on the last three shows, so after we open some 1up boxes and do the drawing for the SnakeBros Hat prize, we read through a lot of excellent emails that spark conversation on many topics.
In the third segment Kyle reads some articles on recent information about the rings of Saturn, volcanism and extinction events, and how the Mayans didn't predict the end of the world, again.
The final segment goes long as we discuss the problem of time dilation in relativity, and how there might be different and interesting ways to picture that in your mind, and what that might mean for how the electromagnetic spectrum actually interacts with the universe.
The host of the excellent podcast Skeptiko, Alex Tsakiris, joins us for a wide-ranging conversation covering many topics from ancient aliens to the nature of consciousness to conspiracy to the question of evil. Alex has interviewed hundreds of researchers and scientists on his show in his quest to gain a better understanding about who we are and what we are "supposed" to be doing here in this existence, and his show has taken him on a path of "following the data" as much as possible to find answers to these questions, or at the very least, to find better questions to ask.
This is another special show with a guest who joins us in-studio. Bob Johnson is a geologist, now retired, who spent 35 years traveling extensively in North Africa and the Middle East. He has visited many of the ancient sites we have discussed on our show, and gives us his personal perspectives of the many places he has visited, including the Serapeum, the Giza Plateau, Ba'albek, Petra, Malta, and many more.
We also discuss a very interesting case he worked on as a scientist and geologist, where mysterious, spontaneous fires were plaguing a small village, and the people living there were convinced the fires were being caused by the jinn.
We also talk about the science of geology itself, about uniformity and catastrophism, climate change and ice ages, flood myths and other ancient stories that may be supported by geological data, and much more.
We are joined in-studio by David Getzin, a longtime friend of the show, many of you may remember us reading his emails about good pipe tobacco and constructing a Djed Drill. He was on a cross-country road trip and stopped by to visit us here on the plateau, and once we started talking about ancient mysteries and other similar snakebro topics, we realized, we had to record a podcast with him. So we all climbed into the tangent cube and, amidst copious clouds of fine tobacco smoke and a few glasses of wine, we recorded this episode.
The discussion ranges across many topics, but the main idea David describes is something called the "Prime Symbol" in architectural expression of cultures and civilizations across the ages, how it changes, and what it means for us now in the modern age. We talk about the categorizations of Prime Symbol in past cultures and what they tell us about how those cultures viewed the world around them, and how that may help us understand how to better express a modern Prime Symbol in our own architecture.
You can follow David and his work through his podcast, A History of Architecture, his YouTube channel Living Process, and his website, Living Process, LLC.
This episode is one of those rambling conversations that is difficult, in retrospect, to give a concise title. We do talk about entropy and the arrow of time, but we also discuss gravity and astrophysics, orbital mechanics, lagrange points and trojan points, geomagnetic anomalies and an "activated" asteroid in a Jovian orbit, the Dead Sea Scrolls and DNA testing, and the Rosetta Stone and a brief history of the attempts to translate ancient Egyptian hieroglyphics.
We also read a couple of really great emails, and open three 1up boxes, which takes a long time, and is part of why this show is longer than usual. We probably will have to restrict ourselves to one box per episode in the future.
| | | 1up Boxes loot - Beers, books, shirts, notes, and crafts |
| | | Enki Kyle, with shamir and portal |
| | | Quicksand Russ, with snake, portal, and "light at the end of the tunnel" |
This is the final part of our deep dive into William Bramley's The Gods of Eden. We pick up where we left off last week with the Count of St. Germain, and his strange ability to travel back and forth between warring aristocracy in Europe and England, the part he played in the coup of Catherine II over Peter III in Russia, and later, the implications that he may have staged his death and lived on, or even the possibility that he was, if not immortal, at least very long-lived.
We also look at Joseph Smith and the formation of the Mormon church, and some of the information said to have been written on the "metal plates" that Joseph was supposedly told to recover from a hidden place, which detail terrible catastrophes that fell on a civilization now lost to history.
Finally, we end with Bramley's message to anyone who wants to carry his research forward, and his outlining of several threads to pull on.
We hope you all enjoyed this deep dive as much as we did!
We are back to our regularly scheduled program of our deep dive into William Bramley's The Gods of Eden after last week's break. This week we finish up with the sections on the Plagues and begin moving into more recent history, following the corrupted Brotherhood's machinations as they foment war and strife across Europe. We look at the Protestant rebellion, Calvinism, the Eighty Years War, the strange cult known as the "Friends of God", and Rosicrucianism. We end in the middle of the chapter on the Count of St. Germain, a very strange and mysterious figure from the 1700s.
Russ is sick this week(not with Covid19, don't worry), so we had to put the Gods of Eden book report on hold because Russ can't read when he's sick. (Well, really, it's just hard to talk so much with a sore throat).
So instead we have Chris Cottrel from The Dabbler's Den on for a segment to talk to us about a new and fascinating idea that he and Antonio Zamora have been working on, related to the Carolina Bays, called "Splash Chevrons". Chris shows us some of the LiDAR images he has been looking at that show these features(if you want to see the images, you can check our YouTube Channel for the video for this episode, as we did record video during the interview with Chris), and we talk about what they might be.
We also have on our good friend Brendan Lea, who some of you may know from recent emails to the show about "nothing". We talk with him about his work with world champion martial artist Peter Ralston, but we talk not about "fighting", really, but something much deeper about the nature of reality itself and what that means(or doesn't), because part of the training he has undergone with Peter is about having an "enlightenment" experience of something absolute, and that changed his life and his entire outlook on reality itself.
We hope you enjoy this show, and the book report will resume next week!
We continue our reading of William Bramley's The Gods of Eden, following the corrupt Brotherhood and the Custodial machinations to the end of the Crusades. Bramley focuses briefly on the ancient Americas, talking about the Custodial influences there, with the same legends of "gods" from other worlds or the stars. We then go back across the Atlantic and begin looking at the Black Death and the plague years, and the strange sightings in the sky of lights and objects during this period,as well as the unknown cloaked figures reported in the outskirts of towns that later became the popularized image of "Death", holding a scythe.
We continue to follow Bramley's "Custodial" powers up through history as the Brotherhood continues to splinter and create warring factions across the globe, keeping humans splintered and scattered and fighting amongst each other while these ancient powers pull strings in the background. We look at the early formation of Christianity and how it changed when governmental powers moved in and absorbed it. We look at the beginnings of the Islamic faith, and the splintering and factioning that happened soon after. We look at the crusades, the Knights of St. John who became the Knights of Malta, and the Templars who became the Knights of Christ and later, the Freemasons. We look at the Assassins, and the powerful tool of the "lone assassin".
We also read a lot of listener communications talking about the previous Gods of Eden episodes, read an article from the Cosmic Tusk about space bacteria, and Kyle reads another great article written by a skerptard on the life and ideas of Dr. Freeman Dyson, which spurs a short conversation on the concept of "macrostructures" like the Dyson Sphere.
We pick up where we left off last week with William Bramley's book, The Gods of Eden, following the "corrupted Brotherhood" through history as it spreads across the world, bringing conflict to mankind and obscuring true understanding.
We continue our deep dive into William Bramley's book, The Gods of Eden, looking at ancient traditions and accounts of the "gods" that have seemingly ruled mankind since furthest antiquity, and may be the cause of the continuous conflict all over the world, for thousands of years.
We begin a new book report into William Bramley's book, The Gods of Eden. In this first part, we go through Bramley's introduction into his reasons for writing the book, what his original research was searching for, and what he actually found. What are the real reasons behind humanity's constant wars? Is there a hidden third faction lurking in the shadows of these conflicts?
Bramley starts at the beginning of recorded history to track down the answers of these questions, starting with the Sumerian civilization.
Both of our parents join us in the tangent cube for this episode, to talk about their backgrounds and tell stories of the shenanigans we got up to as kids, and their philosophy of education that had such a huge impact on how we go about life, always trying to learn new things from the natural world around us.
This is a special episode for us, and as so many families around the world are spending a lot more time together right now, we thought it would be fun to have all four of us crammed into the cube for a good old fashioned Allen roundtable. Many listeners are already familiar with the Snake Stache from his previous appearance on episode #84, and this is the first time the Snake Mom has been on the show.
We hope you all enjoy listening to this episode as much as we enjoyed making it!
| | | Masked in the Cube with the fam |
| | | Optical prism bars |
| | | Mom's optical prism bars |
| | | Working on the internal welding machine |
| | | Pipeline right of way |
| | | Side booms |
| | | Mom on the job |
| | | Mom cleaning Stache's welder |
| | | Finished welding hotpass |
| | | Fill pass welders |
| | | Clay Johnson rustling Venezuela calf |
| | | Russ on right, cousin on left |
| | | SNAKES |
We have an excellent and mind-expanding discussion with Dr. Chandra Wickramasinghe about panspermia and the cosmic origins of life, and how evidence has been building for decades that space itself may contain a "micro-biome" consisting of vast numbers of single-cell life forms and viruses, and that these are constantly raining down upon the earth, changing and affecting life here on the planet, and possibly contributing to evolutionary changes throughout the history of life on earth.
We also talk about how this cosmic distribution of life in the universe may have caused the sudden onset of plagues and sicknesses throughout history, and that it may be the origin of the current viral crisis the world is facing in the form of COVID19.
We have to give special thanks to George Howard from The Cosmic Tusk blog for helping us set up this fantastic interview with Dr. Chandra. You can find the recent articles George has written regarding Dr. Chandra's work here, and here.
For more information on Dr. Chandra and his enormous body of work, you can go to his website.
| | | Dr. Chandra Wickramasinghe |
We take a break from the book reports and deep dives and relax a bit, talking about whatever comes to mind through the course of the show. We also streamed this episode live to the Discord chat, which was fun, and is something we plan to do more of in the future.
We catch up on listener emails and Kyle reads an excellent story about an exoplanet where it actually rains metal. We talk ancient aliens, space genes, and viruses. We also read through a three part article from MessageToEagle.com about redheaded mummies, worldwide mythology, and a possible Atlantean connection.
Enjoy!
We finish our long deep dive into Velikovsky's Earth in Upheaval with this 6th installment of the series. In this episode we look at fossil plants and insects preserved in coal seams, seemingly shredded into small pieces yet preserved so well that the color of the insects is intact and leaves still contain chlorophyll. We also look into the mystery of the formation of coal itself, and how there are often dozens or even hundreds of layers of coal separated by layers of marine sediment.
Near the end of the book, Velikovsky again takes a look at the works of Charles Darwin and the problems of speciation in evolution by the mechanism of natural selection, and the assumptions about "missing evidence in the geological record" that must be made in order to make the uniformitarian view work.
We also open some great 1-Up boxes and read some emails, and Kyle reads a couple of very interesting space related articles.
Diving deeper into Velikovsky's book, Earth in Upheaval, we look at submerged caves and rising seas, stranded shorelines and ancient lakes, old water levels now tilted many degrees off the horizontal, strange glacier flow evidence and always unexpectedly young dates for artifacts, fossils, and geological features. We talk about the magnetic field of the earth and the evidence for field reversals in recent times, and what a field reversal might cause in the biosphere, and what could possibly be the mechanism for such an event, deep within the planet.
We talk about enormous lava flows, more erratics, sea caves that are now dry, and dry caves that are now submerged. All of which seem to have happened very quickly, and catastrophically.
Also, what is the Fine Structure Constant?
Furthering our deep dive into Velikovsky's book, Earth in Upheaval, we read and discuss about the evidence of sea-bottom sediments not matching up with expectations of uniformitarian theory, with deep sea clays showing evidence of cosmic dust from meteorites being over a thousand times more abundant than was expected, with sands from what was once seashore beaches being found miles underwater.
We also read about the enormous African Rift, which spans one third of the distance from pole to pole, and shows evidence of having been formed recently, by the sharpness of its features. We also dive into the problems if past ice ages seemingly having taken place in what are now equatorial regions, and what that might mean for possible pole shifts, or crustal shifts, and how that process might work in terms of physics and geophysics.
We also discuss some things going on in our work lives with the olive orchard and leaf cutter ants, as well as give a brief overview of our thoughts on the Coronavirus.
Continuing with Earth in Upheaval, we first loop back again to the section on Charles Lyell and the beginnings of Uniformitarianism in geology, re-read some of the quotes of Lyell, and parse them more carefully, just to make it clear exactly what this man was saying about early geologists and their "indolent" tendencies.
We then skip ahead to where we left off last episode, continuing forward with more mass depositions of fossil bones of enormous amounts of animals, all packed into relatively small areas, caves, tar pits, and strata. We talk about mountain ranges moving miles across plains, about huge uplifts that must have happened relatively recently, and end with a discussion of the Altiplano in Peru, and Lake Titicaca, where the ancient and anomalous Tiahuanaco is located.
We continue our deep dive into Velikovski's excellent book, Earth in Upheaval, first backtracking a bit from the last episode to go over the "beginnings of Uniformitarianism", the early study of mass ice movements in places around the globe, and some of Charles Darwin's observations of the evidence for the catastrophic extinction of species. Then we move forward in the book to look at more instances of enormous amounts of plant and animal remains that are found broken, shattered, and crammed into caves and crevices around the world, where they are found fossilized today.
Also, in the second segment of the show, we interview Marc Young, an archaeology student from Australia who has been helping George Howard assemble a bibliography on the Younger Dryas Impact Hypothesis on the Cosmic Tusk website. We talk to him briefly about how he became interested in archaeology and how he got involved with George.
We then spend a lot of time talking with him about his work in Northern Mongolia, where his University has been doing some archaeological work on ancient cultures, and how Marc began to recognize the geological signs of catastrophic events that must have taken place in the relatively recent past. He then takes us on a fascinating Google Earth tour of the area, showing the path of meltwater and the signs it has written into the landscape.
Anyone interested can follow his placemarks by clicking here and opening the file in Google Earth or Google Maps.
Enjoy!
We start a new deep dive into another book, Immanuel Velikovsky's Earth in Upheaval. Unlike his earlier, very controversial book "Worlds in Collision", which sought to tie ancient myth and legend together with ancient texts and oral traditions found around the world into a coherent narrative of global cataclysm, Upheaval has no myth, no legend, no lore. Instead, it is packed full of geological observations by some of the world's most renowned scientists and geologists. It paints a clear picture of a catastrophic past that is written into every feature of the planet.
This is the first of a series of episodes where we will be focusing on the material in this excellent book.
Also, we tried a little experiment with this episode....we streamed the audio of the show live to our Discord chat members, who got to hear some of the inside baseball of producing the podcast, and of course the banter between the breaks. They also got to troll us live in the chats window, which we did have open during the recording of the show. It was a lot of fun, and we'll probably do it semi-regularly from here on! So join the Discord if you want in....link can be found here.
Enjoy!
Darren from the Grimerica Podcast flew all the way down from Canada to hang out on the Plateau and do Texas stuff with us(guns, bbq, and podcasting). We had a lot of fun, sent a lot of lead downrange, blew some shit up, brainstormed future Contact at the Cabin events, and sat down in the Tangent Cube for a bit of podcasting.
We talk about how we got started, what it is like as the show grows and the support starts coming in, what it's like trying to get guests, and more. We tell Darren we try to keep politics out of our show, and he tells us if we talked politics we'd probably have a million listeners by now.
After the hour with Darren we went off to party for a few days, returning to the Tangent Cube on Monday to finish up the episode by catching up on listener communications and spaceweathernews.
Enjoy!
After the excellent conversation we had with Chris Dunn, Robert Vawter, and Eric Wilson last week regarding new developments in Chris' work on lost technologies in ancient Egypt and the Giza Power Plant concept, we still felt we had to return to the final chapters of the book and complete the deep dive properly.
We also have George Howard on for a long segment to give us an update from the front lines of the Younger Dryas Impact Hypothesis debate, focusing on Dr. John Hoopes' claim that The Bibliography, available at George's website, The Cosmic Tusk, is "biased". We also talk some Carolina Bays, which is always fun.
At the beginning of the episode, we read a bunch of emails that have been backing up, and also open a couple of 1-Up boxes.
Enjoy!
As we reach the penultimate episode on our deep dive into Christopher Dunn's work, we are joined by none other than the engineer and author himself, as well as two of his colleagues: Robert Vawter, a sound engineer with a degree in anthropology, and Eric Wilson, an engineer who works for Rolls Royce, who has recently become interested in Chris' work in Egypt, and has had some interactions with members of the ScanPyramids Project. We are also joined in-studio by Archer Finley, our engineer friend who gave us a lesson on the History of Precision in episode 117.
The six of us have an excellent and fascinating conversation about Mr. Dunn's work, focusing especially on the idea of the Great Pyramid being a machine for the purpose of generating power. We are able to ask Chris a few of the questions that have come up as we went through his books, and Robert and Eric both give explanations of their work and perspectives and how they compliment Chris' original ideas, as well as how that idea has evolved as more information has come out since the writing of the book.
Don't forget to visit Chris' website, for more information and to follow his continued work.
We hope you all enjoy this interview as much as we did!
We cover material from chapters 9-12 on this episode, diving deeper in the the strange features within the Great Pyramid, and reading about Chris Dunn's hypothesis on what this ancient structure may actually have been for.
Kyle also reads a relevant article about the story of Caliph Al-Mamun who supposedly dug his way into the great pyramid, creating the rough cut tunnel that tourists use today to enter the structure.
We still haven't completed the book by the end of this episode, so there will most likely be a part 5.
We continue our deep dive into Christopher Dunn's excellent book, "The Giza Power Plant" in this third installment of the series.
We follow Mr. Dunn's musings on the enigma of Coral Castle, and how one small man was able to move enormous amounts of weight around and construct a megalithic park by himself, with no help from anyone else, and how this should change our perspective on ancient megalithic builders.
We also start looking at the resonant qualities of the Great Pyramid, it's connection to earth dimensions, and what that might tell us about what the purpose of this structure actually was.
To see images for this episode, check our website.
We continue in our exploration of the history of discovery in the Great Pyramid, on the Giza Plateau, and in Egypt in general, by way of Christopher Dunn's book, "The Giza Power Plant".
We make some corrections from part one, then dive into the mysterious "Well Shaft" feature that connects the Descending Passage to the bottom of the Grand Gallery. We also read through Dunn's consulting with various experts in stonework, and his own experiences inside the Great Pyramid, the second(Khafre) pyramid, observations at Aswan, and inside the Serapeum.
Having enjoyed Christopher Dunn's "Lost Technologies of Ancient Egypt" so much, and having finished with John Anthony West's excellent "Serpent in the Sky", we decided to "stay in Egypt" and tackle Dunn's earlier work, "The Giza Power Plant".
And, like in "Lost Technologies", Dunn's practical engineering mindset and perspective immediately appeals to us. He also gives so many fascinating details regarding the Great Pyramid that are completely absent in most popular literature. We spend this show immersed in the first chapters of the book, reading excerpts and discussing the many strange aspects of this most ancient and mysterious structure.
After we catch up on space weather news and listener emails, we read an excellent article on an ongoing experiment to "domesticate" foxes, as remarked upon by many astute listeners in response to Russ talking about "no modern analogues" of animal domestication.
We were wrong, as we often are! But this story still holds interesting implications re: ancient domestication of animals.
After that, we dive back into the final parts of John Anthony West's "Serpent in the Sky", finishing up with the Sphinx, and finally reading about how skerptards are still skerptards and no one can seem to do anything about that.
We have an excellent discussion about all things ancient and mysterious with Mike and Maurice from the Mind Escape podcast. We talk about ancient structures, the mystery of the beginnings of agriculture and animal husbandry, global mythic stories, the deluge, the confusion of tongues, and much more! We also talk about how we all got started in podcasting and in exploring mysteries in general, and the value of seeking better questions rather than "answers".
Happy Thanksgiving to all our listeners in the US! Having just arrived back from the EarthKeepers Arklantis conference, and with holidays and family stuff tomorrow, we couldn't do a full show, so we did half of one. This SnakeByte is one hour of talk about the conference, listener emails, and a bunch of really great articles on the ScanPyramids project, new ancient sites discovered in Turkey(how apropos), a weird space sickness, and other interesting stuff, with our usual ridiculous commentary from the nickel seats. Enjoy! CLICK TO PLAY Brothers of the Serpent SnakeByte 005
We continue our deep-dive into John Anthony West's excellent work, "Serpent in the Sky". In this episode, we finish with the main body of the book, but there are three appendices regarding the Sphinx, each written later in time as things developed. We are able to get through the first one, and partway through the second(which is about the arrival on scene of Dr. Robert Schoch), but even though we went a bit long, we weren't able to finish it or get to the third.
So the next episode will have the conclusion to this series.
After completing our three-part deep dive into Christopher Dunn's "Lost Technologies of Ancient Egypt", which was a very technical look at evidence for advanced engineering in Egypt, we thought it only fitting to dive right in to John Anthony West's excellent book, "Serpent in the Sky", which is another look at evidence of advanced concepts in ancient Egypt, only this time in a much more philosophical, metaphysical, and mathematical way.
Unlike Dunn's book, "Serpent in the Sky" is not interwoven around a travel narrative, and is also full of rather deep philosophical and esoteric concepts, which makes it more difficult to "synthesize" for a podcast, but we are going to do our best. This is part one of the attempt.
We conclude our deep dive into Christopher Dunn's excellent book, "Lost Technologies of Ancient Egypt" in this final episode of a three-part series by looking at Dunn's work and observations in Dendera, at the Temple of Hathor, and the ultra-precise machining evidence there. We also read some of his quotes from Flinders Petrie, the "father" of Egyptology, about the evidence for anomalous cutting of very hard stones in ancient Egypt.
And we conclude with a reading of part of Chris' conclusion of his book, where he lays it all out and basically says the standard model is wrong, whoever built these monuments and carved these objects had machine tools, and more importantly, machine-guided tools.
This is part two of what is now obviously going to be a three-part series on a detailed look at engineer Chris Dunn's book, "Lost Technologies of Ancient Egypt". In this part, we go back to the beginning of the book where Dunn is studying aspects of the many enormous monolithic statues that can be found in temples all over Egypt. Again and again, his studies find evidence of advanced planning, advanced machining, and the ability to check precision to a very high degree of accuracy.
We also read some very interesting accounts from the book, taken from the writings of explorers from previous centuries who delved into the Serapeum tunnels when the entrance was still concealed under sand.
There is so much information in this book! Part three coming next week.
Ben from UnchartedX joins us to talk about "the case for rewriting history", his travels to ancient sites around the world, and his excellent work on his fast-growing youtube channel. Ben has been to Peru and Egypt several times each, traveled with Graham Hancock and Brien Forester, and taken many terabytes of high quality video and photographs of mysterious aspects of ancient sites, some of which are not easy to get to.
All in all it was a great conversation covering many of our favorite topics.
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Ben has a fantastic gallery of images from his travels already available on the web. Take a look! most of the topics we cover on this episode have relevant images in the gallery.
UnchartedX Website
We catch up on listener emails and comments and open a couple of 1up Boxes. Then Kyle reads a story about recent cattle mutilations in Oregon and we spend some time discussing the history of this strange phenomena and what the "popular" explanations are.
For the second half of the show, we dive into Christopher Dunn's excellent book "Lost Technologies of Ancient Egypt", looking at the Unfinished Obelisk in Aswan, an anomalous piece of granite with strange tool marks in Abu Roash, and the infamous "Core #7" found by Petrie. All of these objects hold clues as to the methods for working stone that were used by the ancients, and Dunn does an excellent job investigating them.
Check our website to see photos for this episode.
Archer joins us again in the Tangent Cube to give a slideshow presentation about precision. What does it mean to do precision work? How do you get a perfectly straight edge, or a perfectly flat surface? How do we do it in the modern day, and what does that mean for highly precise work done in ancient times?
This was an awesome conversation. We really recommend watching the youtube video so you can see the slides, or you can visit our website.
We go through a bunch of news stories and listener emails that have been building up, leading to discussions on numerous topics such as accoustic levitation, cosmology, cosmic rays, the Edfu Building Texts, and more.
We also talk about our recent week-long trip to the state of Vermont, and our explorations there to find the Calendar 1 and Calendar 2 stone chambers, our tour of a Serpentine Marble Quarry, and also a bit about our explorations of another site that is somewhat controversial in terms of its possible origins.
To see the images from this episode, check our website.
We are joined by the hosts of the Conspirinormal podcast for an excellent swapcast-style discussion on ancient mysteries, strange conspiracies, comparative mythology, cryptids, ufos, Men in Black, the paranormal, and many other topics.
We discuss a wide-ranging array of topics, from cosmology and dark energy to mysteries of the ancient Americas. Continuing our conversation from the previous episode regarding the Anzick skeleton, we dive deeper into the enigma of the mysterious Clovis culture, and the possible tool-type connections to the ancient Solutreans of Europe.
The Watcher joins us for the final segment to talk about the oddities of the DNA connections.
We discuss the mystery of the Clovis people, and the strange fact that there has only been one set of human remains discovered that are linked to the tens of thousands of artifacts and habitats spread across much of North America that are considered part of the "Clovis Complex".
In the second half of the show, we talk about the Suspicious0bservers youtube channel and their take on past extinction events being linked to the sun from superflares and/or micronovas.
We continue our exploration of the anomalous phenomena detailed in the book "Unexplained!" by Jerome Clark. More strange rains of weird stuff, anomalous ice falls, animals being discovered encased or "entombed" in stone, concrete, coal, and wood, luminous phenomena in the open ocean, and sightings of Unidentified Submarine Objects.
We also read an article about quantum teleportation of information, and an old underground "temple" that may be linked to the Knights Templar.
This is the first of a series of podcasts where we look at strange anomalies of all sorts - ufo sightings, stange clouds, poltergeist-like phenomena, rains of stones, rains of fish, frogs, snakes, salamanders, blood, tissue, bones, rotting flesh, and more.
We also discuss the amazing metallurgy of a 2,500 year old sword found in a tomb in China, and the legends of "flexible glass" invented by an ancient Roman.
This week we have Scottie Baldwin join us to talk about his career as a FOH Engineer for world-class music acts, traveling the world, the philosophy of science, ancient mysteries, the physics of sound, and a possible encounter with a ghost in an old theatre.
All in all it's an excellent conversation, much thanks to Scottie for coming on the show!
David Mathisen joins us to talk about comparative mythology, astronomy, and constellations as symbols that cross cultures and enormous swathes of time in human history. We did some screen sharing of images and the Stellarium application in this interview, so if you want to see what David was showing us, check our YouTube channel for the video.
We also talk a little bit about some interesting gelological concepts, and discuss the upcoming Contact at the Cabin event we'll be hosting along with Grimerica and David in Utah.
We are joined once again by the one and only Randall Carlson for an epic show on numerology, sacred geometry, astronomy, ancient mysteries and knowledge, magic, symbolism and esoterica... all that great stuff Randall talks about when he's not talking about geology.
Also joining us is Brad Young, who has worked with Randall for over two decades, planning and organizing Randall's trips into the field to examine and study the marks of past catastrophes in the geological record.
To see the slides Randall showed us during the course of the podcast, check our website. If you want to see the screen sharing video to get the full effect, check out our YouTube channel!
We are joined by Chris Cottrell, the man behind the Dabbler's Den, to talk about his ongoing research into the Carolina Bays, the Younger Dryas, and the possibility of a large oblique impact into Saginaw Bay in the Great Lakes region.
Chris gives us the rundown of the work of Antonio Zamorra and others who have done work on the Carolina bays and what they think may have caused this enormous field of geomorphic features in the landscape of the eastern seaboard of the United States. He also gives a great(and terrifying) minute-by-minute description of the catastrophic event that resulted in the Bays, and what it would have looked like from the ground.
To see the images for this episode, check our website.
We talk with Dr. Martin Sweatman about his book, Prehistory Decoded, and his work on the symbols on the pillars of Gobekli Tepe. Dr. Sweatman applies his understanding of statistical analysis and the scientific method toward testing new ideas about Gobekli Tepe's symbols possibly being related to zodiacal imagery and the Precession of the Equinoxes.
From there, he is able to take another look at ancient symbols across a wide range of time, from as far back as ~40,000BP and as recent as late neolithic to the early bronze age, showing that there may be a commonality across an enormous expanse of time, and that humans have been using a "language of the stars" that possibly stems from an exceedingly ancient common source.
He also has a section in his book detailing the work of the Comet Research Group and the Younger Dryas Impact Hypothesis, and how recent developments in the science of astronomy show that earth encounters cometary debris far more often than had previously been thought.
All in all it is a fascinating discussion!
Follow Dr. Sweatman and his continued research on his blog and on Twitter @martinsweatman1
To see some of the images referenced in this episode, check the episode page at the Brothers of the Serpent website.
We take a deep dive into genetics and tracing ancestry by way of The Watcher, who knows a lot more about this subject than we do, and thus is better able to explain how no one really knows wtf is going on.
We also read a bit about possible connections between Pictish symbols and images seen at Gobekli Tepe, and also the now-infamous planned mass-incursion into Area 51 by millions of Naruto runners.
We read and discuss several articles detailing new discoveries in human origins, that push back the timeline of the spread of homo sapiens around the world, and their interbreeding and interactions with other hominin species such as Neandertal and Denisovans.
We also read an article about a remote region in Russia that has strange magnetic fields, where compasses and even watches don't function properly, and people often report bizarre sightings and physiological effects.
In the final segment, we talk about physics and cosmology, and how some things just don't seem to add up in the standard model.
We talk about the mystery of civilizing knowledge, esoteric information, and technology being "injected" into cultures around the world from time to time across history. Where does this information come from, really?
We also read our regular spaceweathernews updates and lots of new listener communications.
We have a two hour conversation with Darren and Graham, the hosts of the excellent Grimerica podcast, about censorship, ancient mysteries, podcasting, pyramids, going to Mars, and much more! We had a lot of fun with this conversation.
This swapcast went out live in full video through the Grimerica stream, so if you want to watch the video, you can find it on Grimerica's YouTube channel.
We have a fantastic chat with Tom, a fellow CAC attendee, who has followed Randall Carlson's work for years and brings a unique perspective to the study of catastrophic geology in North America.
His decades of experience working as a scientific glass blower and seeing the patterns and reactions of molten glass to various stimuli have led him to a new way of analyzing very large patterns in the geology around certain areas of North America. We talk about his ideas and vision on this subject, and much more!
We give an in-depth description of what we saw and what we learned at Contact at the Cabin. The archaeology, the geology, an much more!
Also, we read a few news stories, and some listener emails and comments.
This is an update on what's going on with the podcast and what our plans are for the future, plus some spaceweathernews and other weird news stories. Enjoy! CLICK TO PLAY Snakebytes Update
For our last episode in the double digits we interview Seriah Azkath, host of "Where Did the Road Go" podcast(which everyone should subscribe and listen to, if you don't already). Seriah has tackled just about every mysterious topic there is on his podcast, and we talk about a little of everything, getting his take on ancient civilizations, poltergeists, UFOs, ghosts, consciousness, physics, cryptids, electric universe, and of course, pyramids.
Get more of Seriah's work on Where Did The Road Go podcast and website.
Follow Seriah on Twitter @WhereDidRoadGo
From Pagosa Springs, CO, with Randall Carlson and Grimerica. We spent an amazing ten days at the Elk Lake Lodge, having fascinating conversations, going on hikes, exploring the wilderness, visiting Chimney Rock and Mesa Verde, looking at mysterious ancient ruins, having our minds blown by Randall's fantastic presentations, jammin' live music, looking for UFOs, getting snowed on, visiting the hot springs, and much more. It was magical and amazing.
In between all of that it was hard to find time to podcast, but we did it, and even managed to get everyone down into the podcast room for a big roundtable, which you will hear on this episode, plus some audio from Randall's presentation on Lake Nipigon, ice age catastrophes, and possible future expeditions.
Joshua Cutchin joins us for an excellent conversation about all things paranormal. We talk a bit about his book "A Trojan Feast", but mostly we just take a fascinating dive into all kinds of paranormal topics, from cryptids to ufos to fairy folklore.
This is the final CAC call before we all head to Colorado at the end of the week. Enjoy! CLICK TO PLAY CAC 5-13
We read some listener emails and comments, which are always great, and discuss those. Then Russ reads an article about Alien Abduction Insurance.
After we laugh about that, Russ reads an article from the excellent website ancient-origins.net, about enormous ancient stone mesoamerican sculptures that have areas of anomalous magnetism embedded in them, and we talk about how the standard model picture of ancient civilizations, with no access to iron, would have no way of figuring out there was magnetism in the stone.... so how did they know it was there?
Kyle talks about the diagrams of ancient mounds and geoglyphs, and how they seem to be attempting to "square the circle" in some of these structures. We also speculate on what it would be like for ancient people to have tried to comprehend the night sky, and what things they may have noticed without all the modern understanding about stars and planets getting in the way.
This is the May 6th conference call for Grimerica's Contact at the Cabin event. All the Randall you can handle! CLICK TO PLAY CAC Conference 5-6
This is part 2 of our deep dive into the excellent book, "The Ancient Giants Who Ruled America" by Richard J. Dewhurst.
This is the zoom conference call we host with Randall Carlson on the lead up to the Contact at the Cabin event set up by our friends at Grimerica. Enjoy! CLICK TO PLAY Contact at the Cabin 4-29
We dive into the excellent book, "The Ancient Giants Who Ruled America" by Richard J. Dewhurst, reading excerpts and discussing as we go. One of our favorite topics.
This is our interview with Randall Carlson(episode 90) compressed into one minute. We had a lot of fun making this! CLICK TO PLAY Randall Carlson in One Minute
This is part 2 of our two-episode megapodcast on "The Sign and the Seal" by Graham Hancock, about the lost Ark of the Covenant.
This is the audio from the April 15th Contact at the Cabin video conference with Randall Carlson, Graham from Grimerica, and yours truly, the Brothers of the Serpent, hosting. CLICK TO PLAY Contact at the Cabin Conference 4-15
We start working our way through "The Sign and the Seal" by Graham Hancock, about his initiation into ancient mysteries by way of his search for the final resting place of the lost Ark of the Covenant.
This is audio from the first Contact at the Cabin conference call we hosted with Randall Carlson. Enjoy! CAC 3-18-19
We interview Dr. Brian Keating about his book, "Losing the Nobel Prize", and we talk physics, the Big Bang, the Multiverse, inflation, gravity, cosmic microwave background, Antarctica, and more. Russ gets pretty much everything wrong, while Kyle publishes his first physics paper.
"Dr. Brian Keating is a professor of physics at the Center for Astrophysics & Space Sciences (CASS) in the Department of Physics at the University of California, San Diego. He is a public speaker, inventor, and an expert in the study of the universe’s oldest light, the cosmic microwave background (CMB), using it to learn about the origin and evolution of the universe. Keating is a pioneer in the search for the earliest physical evidence of the inflationary epoch,[1] the theorized period of expansion of space in the early universe directly after the Big Bang."
Find out more about Dr. Keating and his projects at his website, briankeating.com
Follow him on Twitter @DrBrianKeating
Find his book on Amazon, Losing the Nobel Prize, and on Twitter, @L_TheNobelPrize
| | | SpaceWeatherNews: Fuzzy Sun |
| | | Losing the Nobel Prize |
| | | The BICEP Telescope, Antarctica |
| | | Duck and roll, Dr. Keating! We'll pick you up at dawn, six months from now |
| | | Polarized CMB light |
We have a fantastic discussion with the one and only Randall Carlson about vulcanism, ancient mysteries, extinction events, the Younger Dryas, the Missoula Flood, Drumlins, Carolina Bays, the Great Chicago Fire, and much more!
We also discuss the upcoming Contact at the Cabin event with Randall and the guys from Grimerica in late May, which we will be attending, to go on field trips to sites of geological and archaeological interest.
Enjoy!
| | | Glaciers carrying thick sediment layers |
| | | Isostatic Rebound causing multiple shorelines |
| | | Isostatic Depression and Rebound |
| | | Fossil Shoreline of Lake Bonneville visible on mountains in Utah |
| | | Fossil Shoreline in Utah |
| | | Enormous volcanic ash layer |
| | | Non-uniform volcanic ash layers, indicating catastrophic change interspersed with massive eruptions |
| | | Diagram of Wisconsin Glaciation |
| | | The Laurentide and Cordilleran Ice Sheet during the Wisconsin Glaciation |
| | | Modern day glacial outburst flood |
| | | Modern Glacial outburst flood |
| | | Outburst Flood |
| | | Outburst flooding |
| | | 1980s Mt. St. Helens eruption |
| | | St. Helens Cloud |
| | | St. Helens Cloud |
| | | St. Helens Cloud from far away |
| | | Mt. St. Helens just before the eruption |
| | | Mt. St. Helens from the same spot as above, four months after the eruption |
| | | Helens explosive blast effect on nearby forests |
| | | Destruction from Helens |
| | | Helens forest devastation |
| | | Forests destroyed |
| | | Helens Aftermath |
| | | Car buried in Helens ash fall |
| | | Shattered tree trunk, Helens aftermath |
| | | Mt. St. Helens today, forest and ecosystem recovered |
| | | Carolina Bays LIDAR |
| | | Carolina Bays |
| | | Carolina Bays |
| | | Original survey collage that showed Carolina Bays |
| | | Lunar crater chain, possibly from disintegrating comet |
| | | Lunar Crater chain |
| | | Lake Superior, with Lake Nipigon possible impact crater to the north |
| | | Lake Nipigon |
| | | Nipigon southern boundary flood zone |
| | | Nipigon flood zone empties into north lake Superior |
| | | Isle Royale in Lake Superior, with clear flood flow etching of the basaltic bedrock |
| | | Terrain view of Isle Royale |
| | | Chicago Fire, Artist rendition |
| | | Chicago fire, art |
| | | Chicago fire, Art |
| | | Chicago fire aftermath |
| | | Hinckley fire,"The Suicide Express" |
| | | Hinckley Fire Memorial |
| | | Hinckley Fire paper |
| | | Peshtigo Fire, art |
| | | Peshtigo fire, survivor's testimonies |
| | | Peshtigo fire, well marker |
| | | Peshtigo fire cemetary marker |
| | | Peshtigo fire mass grave marker |
| | | 2017 Napa Valley fire |
| | | 2017 fire aftermath |
We spend some time on listener comments and correspondence, reading them and responding in kind. Kyle then reads some fascinating news stories about ancient CMEs, and advanced mathematics describing why hipsters are the first to be annoying, anywhere.
After that, we read excerpts from Graham Hancock's book Underworld about the mysterious Jomon people of ancient Japan, whose culture survived for at least 12,000 years. Jomon pottery is by far the oldest pottery ever discovered, by many thousands of years, and they had some oldest known organized planned settlements in the world.
| | | Dragon Aurora |
| | | More sky dragons |
| | | Definitely a dragon |
| | | Drip painting on canvas by Nathan J Taylor, artist's impression of Ezekiel's Wheel |
| | | Another artist's impression of Ezekiel's wheel |
| | | Jomon site of Sannai-Muryama, reconstructed |
| | | Interior of reconstructed Jomon longhouse at Sannai-Muryama |
| | | Kuromata Yama in the distance, a sculpted 'pyramid' mountain |
| | | Kuromata Yama |
| | | Very ancient Jomon stone circles |
| | | Jomon circle |
| | | Jomon stone circle |
| | | Very ancient Jomon pottery, with "rope" impressions |
| | | Examples of Jomon pottery |
| | | Jomon "incense burner" |
| | | Jomon pottery vessel |
| | | Ancient fragment of Jomon pottery, with cord marks |
| | | Very ancient Jomon pottery |
| | | Highly stylized Jomon vessel |
| | | Jomon pottery |
| | | Jomon maze pattern vase |
| | | Tiny birdpoint arrowhead we found, with a dime for relative size |
| | | Jomon "Dogu" figurine |
| | | Dogu |
| | | Another example of strange Dogu figures |
| | | Dogu with characteristic giant slit eyes |
| | | Dogu figure |
| | | Very old dogu figurine |
| | | Dogu |
| | | Showing the relative size of the average Dogu figurine |
We speak with Sheldon from the C-Word podcast and mine his brain for valuable nuggets of geological data. He has a degree in geology and has experience in using his degree in the field for oil, gas and mining industries.
We talk about uniformitarianism, catastrophism, the Younger Dryas, plate tectonics, the Mohorovicic Discontinuity, vulcanism, rock formation and dating technologies, and pirates at strip clubs.
Thanks very much to The C Word for letting us borrow their geologist for one show! Check them out on Twitter @cwordpod and on iTunes.
Enjoy!
| | | Exposed mantle material at Gros Morne National Park, Newfoundland |
| | | "Ultramafic" rock, Gros Morne |
| | | Subduction of oceanic crust |
| | | Back-arc Basin and volcanic result of subduction |
| | | The Mid-Atlantic Ridge |
| | | Standing on the Mid-Atlantic Ridge exposed in Iceland |
| | | Oceanic Gyre currents |
We focus on mysterious ancient codices and untranslated written languages and texts from around the world, leading to all manner of discussion on a wide range of subjects.
We also deliver the weekly SpaceWeatherNews update, a few interesting news articles, and some listener correspondence.
| | | Dragon Aurora |
| | | Fire Falls |
| | | Humpback whale in Amazon |
| | | Cretan Hieroglyphs on Phaistos Disc |
| | | Wadi el-Hol script |
| | | Sitovo inscription |
| | | Olmec writing |
| | | Singapore Stone |
| | | Rongorongo |
| | | Proto-Elamite |
| | | Indus Valley script, with Unicorn |
| | | Mohenjo-daro |
After reading the entirety of the Upuaut Project info from Gantenbrink's website in episode 85, we follow up on the topic of the "air shafts" in the Great Pyramid by reading articles and info on the more recent explorations of the shafts, finishing up with the ScanPyramids data about the "voids" discovered above the Great Gallery. We discuss the possible ways that Gantenbrink's data may coincide with the ScanPyramids data, and much more.
| | | Mercury after sunset, spaceweather.com |
| | | ScanPyramids Big Void |
In this episode we do a deep-dive into German Engineer Rudolph Gantenbrink's exploration of the mysterious "air shafts" in the Great Pyramid, reading at length from his website where he meticulously records every detail of the project to use a robotic crawler to drive a camera up the shafts and inspect them up close, block by block, culminating in the discovery of the now infamous "secret door".
So many interesting features were discovered by Gantenbrink and his "Upuaut" robot, most of which were so overshadowed by the "door" that these other details are rarely reported. We remedy that with this show.
(All the pictures below come from Gantenbrink's website, www.cheops.org)
| | | Settling of the shaft blocks |
| | | "Dixon's Rod" |
| | | An illustration showing the partially completed shaft block, which the robot could not pass |
| | | Block assembly where one of the King's Chamber shaft ends on the exterior of the pyramid |
| | | Entering the "Mankiller" tunnel |
| | | Cleaning the access to exterior shaft point |
| | | The 100 year old wheeled "battering ram" |
| | | Installing the protective cover over an exterior shaft exit |
| | | Recessed niches in King's Chamber shaft. You can see the laser dots on the wall, inside the niches |
| | | Ventilator blower |
| | | Upuaut 2 entering a shaft |
| | | Lateral displacement of a shaft block |
| | | Static forces damaged the floor block of the shaft, making a giant "tank trap" step up to the next block |
| | | The infamous "door" |
| | | Close-up of the copper rods, with circular "seals" discoloration |
| | | Graphic showing shaft block arrangement |
| | | Shaft block assembly |
| | | Shaft block assembly, showing how the builders changed block sizes to keep the assembly from sliding down into the chambers |
| | | Strange vertical shaft seam(it looks tilted from the robot's perspective) |
| | | Dixon's "hook" |
| | | Black mark on the shaft wall, with horizontal chisel marks across it |
| | | Double vertical black mark with chisel marks |
| | | Object with two holes in it, beneath Dixon's Rod |
| | | Wooden square rod trapped beneath Dixon's Rod |
| | | Dixon's Rod curving to the right where it is jammed against the wall. To the left is the square rod, with a mysterious boxy shape barely visible at the far end of it |
| | | Very rough block surfaces |
| | | Horizontal "Scratch lines" along the block wall, just above floor level |
| | | Remnants of mortar glue stuck to shaft wall |
| | | More glue in a different area |
| | | Floor groove |
| | | A second floor groove |
| | | Graphic depicting saw being used to clean the sides of casing stones |
| | | Groove beneath casing stone seam |
| | | Broken piece of copper rod from the "door" |
| | | Fine Limestone natural veins visible in cieling |
| | | Remnants of gypsum on copper rod |
| | | Bottom right corner of the "door" |
This week we had a very special guest(our dad) on the show to regale us with stories about moving and lifting very heavy loads in massive construction projects, the associated headaches and difficulties and, sometimes, outright disasters that can occur when trying to lift object A and place it on point B. His decades of experience allows him to explain very well how complex such operations are, and how much engineering and technology is required to complete them.
We compare some of the modern world's most powerful lifting machinery to what would have been required to complete some of the ancient megalithic structures still standing today, and even do some basic math to get the specs for a crane for building the Great Pyramid.
Spoiler alert: it would have to have been way bigger than anything we have today.
| | | Pink Aurora |
| | | Steel Counterweight Boxes being lowered into the bridge towers |
| | | Bridge span being constructed on land |
| | | 1400-ton completed bridge span being slowly rolled towards the barge |
| | | 18-20 axle bridge span transports |
| | | Bridge rolling onto the barge |
| | | Ballast pump keeping barge level as bridge weight is added |
| | | Two ballast pumps working |
| | | Bridge span almost completely on the barge |
| | | The next day, 90-ft wide barge carrying 300-ft bridge span to the channel |
| | | Barge with bridge approaching the bridge towers |
| | | Completed bridge in the down position for railroad crossing |
| | | Completed bridge in the up position for channel traffic |
| | | Japan Imperial Palace walls coming out of canal |
| | | Parabolic curve of the Imperial walls |
| | | Relative Size image of Imperial Palace wall corner ashlar blocks |
| | | Crane sliding a concrete table out of the side of the building |
| | | UPS docking bay doors, pre-poured, rigged for lifting |
| | | Lifting a door--note the crane getting "light" on the back track |
| | | A lifted door |
After the customary SpaceWeatherNews update, we read the story of the three year old boy who was lost in the woods for 48 hours and, when he was found, said he "hung out with a bear". People seem to think he was actually hanging out with sasquatch. So we get our resident three year old to look at a picture of sasquatch, and he says "Inuno its a gorilla" so, he, at least, would not have called sasquatch a bear.
The rest of the show is about spacetime gravity waves, time dilation, red shift, relativity, string theory, and other similarly simple cosmological concepts.
In this episode we try to give an overview of the topic of ancient mysteries and why we explore alternative views of ancient history. We try to cover as much ground as possible with as broad a brush as possible. For long term listeners or people who are already versed in this subject, this show gives a good outline of our current thinking. For those who are new to the topic, we hope this will initiate you into this most fascinating of subjects.
We take some time in the beginning of this episode to give a shout out and a farewell to a friend of ours who passed away recently. He was a great friend and a SnakeBro. Rest in peace, brother.
After a spaceweathernews update and some other interesting and funny headlines and stories, we move to our main topic for this show, which is the island of Malta and its mysterious and incredibly ancient megalithic structures and subsurface hypogea, the anomalous skeletons and skulls found there, the "Venus Statues" found in some of the above ground structures, and the fact that no one really knows who made these places, why they seemed to appear suddenly out of nowhere, and vanish just as quickly.
GMA of LateNite fame joins us in the Tangent Cube for the 2019 inaugural episode, bringing his engineering expertise to the subject of impossiblocks, and also recounts a snake expedition he took into the mountainous wilderness of New York State to look for an ancient serpent effigy aligned to the constellation of Draco.
LOTS of pics for this show!
| | | Aurora Borealis by Alexander Kuznetsov via spaceweather.com |
| | | "Serpent Effigy" boulders and dry-laid walls on Overlook Mountain, NY |
| | | Museum of the American Indian. Obsidian Mirror is the black circle on the upper right |
| | | Demonstrating the reflectivity of the mirror |
| | | Granite-carved object, said to be a "yoke" of some kind |
| | | Note the difference in quality between the sculpture and the "yoke" |
| | | 'Em'r ducks From Lovelock Cave |
| | | Overhead map of the Serapeum, with Serapeum Box locations marked and numbered |
| | | Serapeum Entrance |
| | | One of the Serapeum boxes |
| | | Serapeum box with "relative size people" |
| | | Rough hewn box still in the tunnel. Not much room to get hundreds of slaves and ropes around that thing |
| | | Christopher Dunn, measuring precision inside one of the boxes |
| | | Precision between box and lid |
| | | The infamous "Core #7", note the feed rate lines circling the core |
| | | Feed rate lines inside a core bore |
| | | Another core bore with visible feed marks |
| | | Zoom in on this image to see the incredibly thin core drill width that is being pointed out |
| | | More evidence of advanced Computer Numerical Control(CNC) machining on Giza |
| | | ...and still more evidence |
| | | "Ramses II"(if that's who this really is) colossal statue facial symmetry |
| | | Facial symmetry evidence of tool diameter symmetry |
| | | Tool diameter symmetry in the z axis |
| | | Giza plateau basalt sheathing slabs |
| | | Flat basalt slabs cut to fit eroded limestone below |
| | | Basalt sheathing |
| | | Ba'albek Trilithon - The three blocks marked in red. Note relative size people on the ground below |
| | | Ba'albek Trilithon - the weights listed are way on the low end of possibility. These blocks are probably closer to 1100-1200 tons |
| | | More impossiblocks at Ba'albek |
| | | "Stone of the Pregnant Woman" in the Ba'albek quarry, 1 kilometer from the site. Until recently was the largest known cut stone ever made |
| | | Stone of the Pregnant Woman, relative size people |
| | | Another perspective on the Stone of the Pregnant Woman |
| | | The EVEN LARGER blocks found below the Stone of the Pregnant Woman |
| | | Another enormous cut stone, partway between the quarry and the site |
| | | Someone was MOVING this block through the mountains, when they suddenly dropped it, left, and never returned. It has not moved since |
Just a quick shout out to all our listeners and friends from the whole SnakeBros family. We love you, merry christmas/happy holidays to you all!! Brothers of the Serpent Merry Xmas
We talk with Walter Bosley on his book "Secret Missions II: The Lost Expedition of Sir Richard Francis Burton", which, if you haven't read it...go read it.
Right now. We'll wait.
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Done? Ah yes, you have the classic "omg my mind is blown" facial expression. Good. We talk about that mind blowing book in this episode, and more.
For those who have seen the movie "The Lost City of Z" about the adventures of Col. Percy Fawcett, this is like that, only more. And before. Basically, the stuff in that movie happened because of the stuff in Bosley's book.
You can find Walter Bosley on Facebook, and follow him on Twitter at @WBBosley. His books are available on lulu. He also has a blog called Empire of the Wheel .
We have a very special episode for all you snake sibs out there, we interviewed Mr. George Howard, who has been involved with the Comet Research Group from the very beginning in the work on the Younger Dryas Impact Hypothesis, which we have spoken of many times in previous episodes. George gives us all kinds of insider insights on the evolution of the hypothesis over the years, leading up to and including the recent publications on the Hiawatha Crater in Greenland, and where he sees the research going in the future and how this new data might affect the "standard model" of human development.
George also sets the record straight on the attempted character assassination of Dr. Allen West, discusses the Carolina Bays, the Alaska Muck, and at least once refers to skerptards as "skerptards".
Follow George on Twitter @CosmicTusk
and at his website and blog, The Cosmic Tusk.
Enjoy! (we certainly did)
| | | Hiawatha Crater in Greenland |
| | | Carolina Bays |
| | | LIDAR of the Bays |
| | | Image of a double rimmed bay from George's website |
| | | Location of bay groups across the US |
| | | The bays are "Conic Sections" |
--==WARNING==-- This episode contains drunk people While Kyle and Russ slept the sleep of innocent serpents, the ten by ten by ten Tangent Cube of Science was hijacked by drunk friends who secretly recorded themselves attempting to make a podcast episode in the best SnakeBros tradition. This is the result. Of course, they never thought we would publish it. But once we heard it, we knew we had to. Not only is it hilarious, it also has some really excellent content on ancient mysteries. Enjoy! Brothers of the Serpent LateNite Hiawatha Crater
We read and discuss articles about recent earthquake mysteries, vanishing quasars, and a very strange standalone doorway in Rome called the Porta Alchemica which has inscribed upon it numerous riddles which we endeavor to solve on the fly.
In the final segment, Russ reads from Michael Cremo's book Hidden History of the Human Race, focusing on a few of the anomalous discoveries of human artifacts buried in strata that is normally considered to be hundreds of millions of years old.
Mr. Clint Beckham is back again, joining us in the infamous Tangent Cube of Science to discuss all things arrowheads and ancient Native American cultures and mysteries. It was a fantastic and fun show.
clint.beckham@yahoo.com
(830) 313-2648
Aoudad Adventures & More
We talk about the Greenland Impact Crater in the first segment and what that means for the Younger Dryas Impact Hypothesis and the history of the human race in general. We read select sections from Graham Hancock's book Magicians of the Gods regarding unexplained and highly scientific artifacts on the Altiplano around Lake Titicaca including the megalithic sites of Tiahuanaco and Puma Punku, anomalous advances in agriculture from thousands of years ago, and the Aymara language itself appearing to have been constructed instead of arising organically.
In the final segment we go through some of the really astonishing astronomical, biological, and philosophical correlations contained in ancient metrology, ancient structures, and mythology, respectively.
Respect.
| | | Bolivian Corrugated Fields |
| | | Corrugated Fields |
| | | Greenland Hiawatha Crater Beneath Giant Tusk courtesy of @CosmicTusk |
We spend most of this episode going through cases from David Paulides' book, Missing 411: Western United States and Canada. We discuss each case briefly, then finish up with a more in depth discussion in the final segment.
After a fantastic SpaceWeatherNews update we do some listener maintenance and read some emails and promote our brand new Twitter feed (@SnkBrs), re-re-explain Precession again in another different way, then move on to some serious Missing 411 stuff in the second hour of the show.
| | | Clearly, Kyle identifies with the Physicists. Russ, on the other hand, is not even on this graph. |
After SpaceWeatherNews and a SunProbe update, we read a story about a mystery boom heard at the Serpent Mound in Ohio, and Brenner (returning as a special guest for this special episode) reads a story about the return of the Skull Asteroid of Certain Death this Halloween.
Russ then recounts some personal anecdotes about strange sounds and other "ghostly" phenomena.
We then get to the main topic of the show, which is the Precession of the Equinoxes. Of course. Because 72.
| | | Kyle's Precession Diagrams, showing how the axial wobble shifts the seasons around the orbit of the sun, and thus the zodiacal constellations relative to the sun's position in the sky |
After our normal SpaceWeatherNews update and some pontificating about quantum mechanics and other things we completely do not understand, we spend the rest of the show going through a selection of fairy folklore tales from the excellent book "The Fairy Faith in Celtic Countries" by W. Y. Evans-Wentz, and discussing the many connections to other mythologies, both ancient and modern.
In this episode we have a wide ranging discussion on everything from the philosophy of falsification in science, to the ramifications of being a species with amnesia, to the similarities between the Samaipata Megalith in Bolivia and the Yonaguni Monument in Japan.
| | | Stonehenge Heel Stone |
| | | Uluru (Ayers Rock) |
| | | Temple of Man, Tiahuanaco. Note the many faces protruding from the lower wall |
| | | Faces in the wall |
| | | More faces |
| | | Closeup of some of the odd faces |
| | | Puma Punku |
| | | Some of the many intricately carved blocks of Puma Punku |
| | | Samaipata Megalith, Bolivia |
| | | Model of the megalith |
We discuss a wide range of topics on this episode including the mystery of the ever-burning lamps, a new scientific paper proposing that the octopus is an alien species that came to Earth in cometary ice over 200 million years ago, crop circles and stone circles and subtle earth energies, and the role that science fiction has played in the advancement of science.
After a SpaceWeatherNews update we discuss a weekend trip to Big Bend National Park and the observations of the geological mysteries there by Russ and The Watcher.
Russ talks about a new Aptronym he discovered, then we move into some follow-up discussion on the Epic of Gilgamesh and how that story may be connected to the mysteries of Viracocha/Quetzalcoatl and the giant basalt heads of the "Olmec".
For the second half of the show, we play a brief clip from a lecture given by Dr. Manly P. Hall, where he touches on many of the topics we talk about, essentially proving that he was, in fact, a SnakeBro. Even if he didn't know it at the time.
In this episode Kyle gives us a detailed and fantastic rendition of the oldest known written tale, the Epic of Gilgamesh. We discuss the possible meanings and symbolism and hidden truths contained in the story, but mostly, we just sit back and enjoy this most epic and ancient tale of Gilgamesh, King in Uruk.
In this episode we take a deep dive beneath the Antarctic ice into a conspiracy-laden rabbit hole of UFOs, ancient aliens, ruins of a lost civilization, WWII era German nationalist breakaway civilizations, geopolitics, the airship sightings mystery, abductions, contactees, Project Blue Book and much more.
In this episode we discuss the Snakebros Glossary terms, which leads to all kinds of different topics ranging from the philosophy of science to ancient megalithic sites.
In the second half of the show, we discuss common arguments made by skerptards and by people who aren't skerptards but who are unknowingly regurgitating common skerptardian fallacies.
Subtitle: Giant Stone Lizards and Hands and Eyes and Heads and Belts and Jars and Balls and Ba'albek and Pyramids and Beerpong
After some news updates about spaceweather and immortality vitamins, we read some more sections from Graham Hancock's book Underworld, this time focusing on the Yonaguni monument of the coast of Japan.
We also discuss the Plain of Jars in Laos, and the correlations to other megalithic monuments around the world.
| | | 3D Model of Yonaguni Monument |
| | | 3D Model |
| | | Divers over the monument |
| | | The two upright megaliths near the monument |
| | | Between the megaliths |
| | | A channel or trough in the monument |
| | | Plain of Jars, Laos |
| | | Drone image of a more dangerous area of the Plain of Jars |
| | | One of the largest jars |
| | | The large jar |
| | | A jar split by a tree |
| | | Stone jars in the Bada Valley in Sulawesi |
| | | Another Bada Valley jar |
| | | Stone lid for jar in Sulawesi |
| | | Another lid |
| | | Strange stylized monolithic statue in Bada Valley. Note the way the arms are held |
| | | Another stylized monolithic statue from Sulawesi |
| | | Chullpa towers, Peru |
| | | The high relief mark on the tower |
| | | Close up of the relief |
| | | Bell Cave, Jordan, with oculus in the ceiling |
| | | Bell Cave with eroded triangular pockets |
| | | Triangular pockets |
| | | In the labyrinthine tunnels around the Bell Caves, with pockets in the walls |
| | | Auroral arc at the beginning of September |
| | | Venus Shadow, in the Atacama desert |
After some excellent Spaceweathernews updates Russ goes through some missing information he missed when discussing missing people in episode 61. This eventually leads to a brief discussion on the topic of alien abductions, implants, and the possible connections to shamanism.
In the second half of the show, we read portions of Graham Hancock's book Underworld, in which he describes the mysterious pyramids dotting the tropical jungles of Maldive islands that are off limits to tourists, and what this might mean regarding possible submerged ruins in and around the Maldives.
This then leads to the topic of rock-cut temples found around the world, and how they are basically impossible to explain as being cut by hand using conventional tools.
| | | Fireball orbits intersecting Earth |
| | | STEVE |
| | | Shiva Linga |
| | | Konark Temple |
| | | Wheels of Konark |
| | | Note the incredible detail |
| | | The top portion has no detail. Note the sharp horizontal line across the wheel where the detail stops |
| | | The Maldives |
| | | Maldive Islands and atolls |
| | | A Google Earth view of the Maldives |
In this episode we have Clint Beckham in the 10x10x10 Tangent Cube of Science with us to discuss all things arrowheads and hunting and how to survive out in the desert with nothing but a goat skin and a single straw.
Clint does paid digs and hunts all over Texas and elsewhere and has been doing these things most of his life, so he has a lot of knowledge and experience and some fantastic stories to tell.
Anyone interested in going on one of Clint's hunts or digs, or if you're a land owner and are interested in having Clint run hunts or digs on your property, you can reach him at the following contacts:
clint.beckham@yahoo.com
(830) 313-2648
Aoudad Adventures and More
| | | Angostera |
| | | Pandale |
| Valverde | | Cumberland |
| | | Cumberland Points |
| | | Clovis |
| | | Hinge on a point |
| | | Petrified Wood Point |
| | | Petrified Wood Point |
| | | Pedernales |
| | | Pedernales |
| | | Pedernales Points |
| | | First Stage Pedernales |
| | | Atlatl Buttflap |
| | | Eccentric Montell |
| | | Eccentric Castroville |
| | | Cody Tripp Eccentric Andice |
| | | Eccentric Andice |
| | | Mayan Eccentric |
| | | Corner Tang |
| | | Corner Tang |
| | | "Charm" (Or Plumbob) |
| | | "Charms" |
| | | "Charm" Types |
| | | Waco Sinker |
| | | Waco Sinker |
| | | Waco Sinkers |
| | | Atlatl Weight (Bannerstone) |
| | | Atlatl Weights |
| | | Base Tang |
| | | Base Tang |
| | | Mid-Back Tang |
| | | Grooved Axes |
| | | Andice (Rocket) |
| | | Broken Andice |
| | | St. Mary's Hall, from the Sandpit |
| | | Plainview |
| | | Plainview Points |
| | | Possible Axe, found by our friend |
| | | Folsom |
| | | Folsom |
| | | Modern Knapped Folsom-style point, with flute flake |
| | | Standard Model Point Timeline |
| | | Kerville Knife (KK) |
| | | Mesoamerican Eccentric (This is a replica) |
| | | Kyle working a screen at Mason Creek 4 Paid Dig |
After an awesome new SUNPROBE update and a few other interesting news items, we dive into the mystery of Edward Leedskalnin and his megalithic Coral Castle, the enigmatic Voynich Manuscript, and multiple cases of mass disappearances that have occurred throughout history. We also take some time to discuss the new emerging physics of Quantum Field Theory.
| | | Coral Castle |
| | | Sculpture garden at Coral Castle |
| | | The Tower at Coral Castle |
| | | Coral Castle Spiral Well |
| | | Voynich Manuscript |
| | | Strange Flora of the Voynich Manuscript |
| | | "Magic Circles" of the Voynich Manuscript |
| | | Astrological Circles of the Voynich Manuscript |
| | | Naked Ladies in weird tubes. Note the calligraphic nature of the script |
We open the show with spaceweathernews about NASA making the "coldest place in space" using incredibly hot lasers, and giant rogue MagnePlanets hurtling through the interstellar void sucking up all the spacemetal. We then read a couple of articles regarding a new spate of mystery booms in Tennessee.
Kyle proposes a brand new hypothesis involving a black hole and local time dilation and how that may be a possible explanation for why the rest of the universe looks so weird in some ways, and why alien civilizations seem to be scarce when they shouldn't be.
We finish the show discusing the mystery of giant spiraling wheels of light reported seen in the oceans and seas around the world, and what their possible causes may be.
We start this episode with some space news and space weather updates, salty puddles on Mars possibly containing bactaliens, and new low frequency Fast Radio Bursts, possibly from other, more intelligent, technologically advanced bactaliens.
From there we move on to an article from Mysterious Universe containing reports of many strange and bizarre encounters and experiences that people have had in the deep wilderness, which leads to discussions of carnivorous rocks and ufos and samsquanches and dead goats and smokesnakes.
| | | Clearly this is ruins of the Castle Ahhhhhg |
Octopus camo
In this episode we interview Mrs. Patti Canup from Rockwall, Texas, about the famous(some would say infamous) rock wall that has been found buried there all through the county since the pioneer days of the 1800s. The interview goes for about an hour, then we spend the final two segments of the show discussing the photographs and newspaper articles Mrs. Canup sent us along with some follow-up research we did on the geology and possible ancient connections of this enigmatic stone edifice.
Conclusion? Somone built it, and they weren't called Nature.
| | | An actual natural sandstone dike |
| | | Another natural dike |
After a brief sun probe update we read a short article on weird spacewhale sounds coming from a moon of Saturn, which sort of makes sense because the moon is covered in water but is still pretty weird because the water is all ice.
We then spend the next few segments describing our most recent SnakeBros SnakeForce Field Trip where we drank hundreds of beers in a river named after the devil, found lots of amazing ancient artifacts and dozens of world-class fossil footprints, located ancient beach sand in the middle of the desert, ate tons of tacos and pancakes, and destroyed an innocent cloud with mind bullets.
The mysteries we saw in the field lead us into a conversation about the larger mysteries of human habitation in the Americas, ranging from the controversial Huyatlaco site in Mexico to strange carved stones found in the northeastern U.S.
Enjoy!
Note: The following images are screenshots of the actual photos, which was done to mask the geolocation data in order to protect the landowner's privacy.
Note 2: The stock iPhone podcast app does not display images. iPhone users should use the following link to see the images: Episode 57 webpage
| | | This is one of the best sets of hominid prints |
| | | The "mine shelter". This is taken from across the canyon; the grassy area beneath the overhang is the ancient scree of gravel sliding down the hill from the shelter. Just like mine tailings of modern mines. |
| | | SnakeBros Cave Case - All the artifacts we found while digging |
| | | Note the Neanderthal print outline, top center... |
| | | ...now compare it to this print |
| | | Look at the center print, labeled Homo Erectus...see how the big toe is prominent while the other toes are missing....and the age given, 1.5 million years |
| | | ....now compare that to this print...narrow profile, big toe prominent.... |
| | | ....and another one, same profile, right foot instead of left |
| | | ....and another, right foot |
| | | This print is degraded by water erosion , but is still recognizable as a hominid print |
| | | Perhaps an animal print? Or a degraded human print, very small, wearing some kind of footgear |
| | | This looks like a very large human print, angled to the left, with a smaller print on its right side, angled right |
| | | Degraded but still visible, size normal for a human print |
| | | The lighter is next to a fairly clear print, notice all the degraded imprints around it |
| | | Prints and toe marks |
| | | I think this guy slipped a bit |
| | | Two prints side by side, right one larger than the left. Again note all the imprints around them, particularly the print on the lower right |
| | | Lots of prints, toes are clear in most of them |
| | | Very clear set of toe marks from a right foot. Forgot to place lighter on this one, dammit |
| | | Large foot. Toe prints. |
| | | Small foot. Toe prints. |
| | | This and the following two images are of very similar large prints of similar depth and size, but I have no idea what they are |
| | | Mammoth? Or some other very large animal. |
| | | Another mammoth-ish print. |
| | | If this is a print, it is enormous. Forgot lighter, but the print was at least a yard long |
| | | Big print, some animal |
| | | The Hominid Path |
| | | The whole field of prints. Note the definite walking pattern of the large circular prints heading away from the camera. Note that they continue underneath the hill to the right, because it wasn't there at the time the prints were made |
| | | Incredibly deep, absolutely enormous print. Note the lighter inside the print to upper left |
| | | For comparison, here is a huge sauropod print from Australia |
| | | Possible tail swipe between unidentified, degraded prints |
| | | What looks like fossil bone protruding from the solid rock |
| | | A distant view of the shelter Russ hiked to |
| | | A closer view of the shelter, from the base of the hill it was on |
| | | The "giant coral brain" ceiling inside the shelter |
| | | On the left is the fossil found in the shelter, possibly of an ancient giant version of the Gastropod shell on the right. |
| | | Beach sand from inside the shelter |
| | | Lighter inside a curve of petrified bark |
| | | More petrified bark or wood stuck to the side of a large boulder |
| | | Petrified wood protruding from stone |
| | | Kyle walking along the wall where the rock paintings are in the mine shelter |
| | | Faint rock painting marks |
| | | Very faint but still visible |
| | | Almost looks like some kind of script. NONSENSE SIR THAT IS ABSOLUTELY IMPOSSIBLY RIDICULOUS HOW ABSOLUTELY DARE YOU SIR SnakeBros SnakeForce GO!! |
We open the show with some snakenews about how scientists are going to touch the sun from behind a supershield from 4 million miles away.
We talk about the superstition of "knock on wood" and where it came from, and Russ reads an article on Ouija and then flips out about bananas, which Brett explains is a berry that grows on an herb that looks like a tree with potatoes for roots.
After that, we talk again about doppler and redshift and how the universe is probably not what we think it is.
After a quick mention of the Lavanado in Hawaii being even more terrifying than a Sharknado, we will have been going to eventually then diving into a discussion about retrocausality and its wider implications for how it does previously later affect our future past actions.
Once after we have will be finished that topic, we finally did eventually get our timeline straight by reading an article about the ancient Sumerian Kings List, which leads into a discussion on possible precessional clues and longevity of the gods and space genes.
We finish out the episode discussing the carbon cycle and the fact that so much benefit to the biosphere has been shown to take place by increasing CO2 levels and thus massively increasing the awesomeness of plant life.
We begin by determining the plausibility of excited soccer fans in Mexico causing a 2.0 richter earthquake by converting the total energy of the earthquake into equivalent Black Cat explosions and dividing that into the estimated number of excited soccer fans. At roughly 72 Black Cats per fan, we here at SnakeBros have deemed that this is a plausible explanation(given the estimated number of tacos and nachos consumed prior to the goal being made).
Kyle then reads several excerpts from Forgotten Civilizations, starting a whole conversation about electromagnetic fields and giant blocks and glowing crystal obelisks and the Yuga cycle and longheads and Vimana and secret Nepha spaceships and space genes and smartwater and basically that magnets can help you read minds and explode meteors over Russia and build pyramids and grow space genes. Also, Dolmens are involved. Somehow.
Anyway hopefully you still have your appendix. Enjoy the show.
After reading an excellent email from Mr. England about the simulation hypothesis, Russ reads a section from Dolmens: Part 2 in an attempt to show why he didn't understand wtf the author was trying to say even though it's clear the author does know
a hell of a lot about those dolmen.....things.
Kyle reads an excerpt from Dr. Robert Schoch's book Forgotten Civilizations about 12ft giants on Easter Island that moved the Moai statues by the simple expedient of allowing the volcano to explode and blow them all over the island.
We go through three excellent Mine The Hive articles, on the Michigan Mines, evidence of precolombian contact with the Americas, and the London Hammer. We laugh about how uniformitarians explain away the latter by totally discarding uniformitarianism.... but you know, just that one time. Which is also very un-uniformitarianesque(we are allowed to make up words here at Snakebros).
We finish off the show with some select axioms about truth-seeking and conspiritards.
| | | The Newberry Tablet |
| | | Newberry Tablet Script |
| | | Ship Petroglyph |
| | | One of the mine entrances |
| | | Handprint in stone, possibly of one of the miners. The hand is....kind of large. Just sayin' |
Russ starts the show with a fantastic headline from the Flat Earth Society and then proceeds to flip out about aptronyms. Kyle then reads an article that points out that humans can live on Mars provided they are in space suits.
We then turn to the topic of dolmens, the fact that over 90,000 of them have been found around the world, they are precisely engineered, are of uncertain age, and have no known function. We(mostly Kyle) gives several possibilities as to the function of these mysterious ancient constructions.
After explaining that we'd love for people to help us pay to go get lost and die, we wrap it up with an overview of the picture of the ancient world that we have been outlining throughout the past 52 shows.
Thanks for sticking with us this far, and enjoy the show!
No description. Might be about the sun causing the last mass extinction. Listen and find out!
Kyle has been "reading" Velikovsky's "Worlds in Collision" so we spend most of the show discussing the alternate view of history Velikovsky proposes in that book, and in the fourth segment, Russ reads some excerpts from William Brambley's "Gods of Eden" regarding the medieval plagues and how those epidemics seemed to be a result of objects being seen in the sky and strange black clad figures moving through crop fields at night.
Why do ancient ruins align astronomically, or incorporate fundamental universal constants such as π(Pi) or φ(Phi)? Why was world-changing, mind-opening knowledge made esoteric, concealed behind symbols in stories and works of art? Why do so many ancient ruins appear like mysterious puzzles, with clear traces of technology but unfathomable function? Why are pyramids so cool and who the fuck builds a stonehenge?
These are some of the questions we completely fail to answer on this episode, continuing our discussion from previous episodes, stemming from Kyle's perusal of the Book of Enoch(by Enoch). References in the notes of that hoary tome led Russ to acquire Megalithic Architects Book 1: Thoth, the Architect of the Universe, by Ralph Ellis, a book that is concerned mostly with ancient metrology, or systems and units of measure. Why couldn't the ancients just use the metric system like normal, sane people who find simple arithmetic understanding like nine equals 3/4ths of 12 (9in. is 3/4 of one ft) too hard? Why are there three feet in a yard when we only have two feet? Why aren't inches called toes and why are there twelve in a foot when we only have ten, five to a foot? And which yard are they talking about anyway, the front or the back?
We don't know the answers to these questions. Maybe the ancients hadn't "progressed" to the point where they needed to use fingers and toes to help them do basic arithmetic. That's evolution for ya, baby.
We talk about all these things and more on this episode. Enjoy!
P. S. To all you Metric System devotees out there: How long is a parking meter?
We emerge puffy-faced and bleary-eyed from a five-day internet blackout, unbathed, unshaven, clothes worn ragged on our backs, only to realize it's Tuesday and thus time to record a podcast. Having been able to do no research at all because of the blackout, we decide that it doesn't really matter because we've never done research for these shows anyway.
But Kyle recalls something from ancient times that may help us, an archaic alchemical practice involving the use of caustic acids to acquire organic fibres extracted from certain deciduous growths, which are then embedded within the matrix of a special resin aggregate. This is followed by the precise and minute application of a special solution comprised of a mixture of obscure dark powders from deep in the Punjab in India, which are completely dissolved into carefully filtered and distilled alcohol. When this is done properly, beneath the light of a waxing gibbous harvest moon, with the precise performance of all ritual movements, burnt sacrifices, and praises raised to the dark gods of hidden knowledge, the result is an actual physical object shaped like a small box, which contains within it all manner of complex and secret knowledge and practices.
This thing, which the ancients were aware of and of which they made plenty, was called a "book".
Mind => Blown
So the first two segments are spent discussing the contents of a book Kyle has been going through(a little number some of you might be familiar with called "The Book of Enoch", by Enoch) as well as a book Russ has been studying(called "The Velikovsky Heresies" by Laird Scranton). Actually, the discussion was supposed to be focused on the Book of Enoch, but Russ keeps bringing up the Velikovsky Heresies almost as if he's trying to say "Hey, look, I can read books too" or something.
For the second hour our longstanding resident Show Observer and Fact Checker extraordinaire, Mr. Brett England, B. Sci, EMT, MiB, WtF etc etc joins us in-studio because the conversation wasn't confusing enough in the first two segments. The three of us ponder the origins of the esoteric traditions and make fun of materialists before moving, in the final segment, to a minor expose on the strange subject of Zoroastrianism and their singular god of the winged disk and small asian cars, Ahura Mazda.
| | | The Book of Bigoted Old Shaman |
| | | Kyle's phone reads this to him at work |
| | | The 50th Parallel is the curved red line crossing the upper part of the map |
| | | The ruins in a Siberian lake |
| | | Ahura Mazda: The Man in the Winged Disc |
| | | Being depicted on cylinder seals makes Ahura Mazda most happy |
Some interesting "weird news" items this week, 50,000 year old carved stone heads found in Texas and Pleistocene Buttflappers used the Distraction Dance on Giant Sloths when hunting them, for example. Some obligatory ridicule of the paradigm here as well.
Russ reads an article about the strange "Cicada 3301" superpuzzles that have appeared online, leading thousands of some of the most intelligent and knowledgeable people on the planet through a bewildering crypto-labyrinth where Mayan numerology, Victorian Gothic poetry, and obscure magical grimoires from the Middle Ages are just a few of the many things that people are required to have knowledge of in order to solve the puzzles and acquire the clues for locating more, until eventually the people at the head of the game, the ones solving it better and faster than everyone else, are whisked away into the shadows, never to be heard from again; like they got hired to be MiB or something.
There is also mention of the similar strange metagame from KanyeQuest, that leads one toward "Ascension" for an as-yet unknown goal, that Russ participated in briefly and helped solve a few of the puzzles and decipher a clue or two.
In the second half of the show, for the first segment we discuss Episode 045, the interview with Mr. Spriggs about the Missing 411 mystery, and what our developing thoughts are on that whole topic.
The final segment is spent talking philosophical concepts concerning the primacy of frequency in the material realm, and how some of it seems to originate from some other, perpendicular non-material realm. Kyle describes his thoughts about musical instruments and how they seem to be in some ways transducers of emotion into actual physical form.
It's a good show. Enjoy.
We have author Thomas Spriggs with us for this show to discuss his excellent book "Into Nowhere", an examination of the regions and patterns of disappearances enumerated by Dave Paulides in his Missing 411 series of books.
This is a very heavy topic, one that is discussed often on this podcast as one of the most pressing and disturbing mysteries of our times, and we were hoping to have a productive conversation on the topic that does not simply recount strange stories of missing persons, and Mr. Spriggs certainly delivers. He has been keeping up with the tracking of what he calls "active regions" since publishing his book, and he weaves a description of an intelligent and aware predator that knows enough about humans and human civilization to spread the abductions just far enough apart in time and distance to keep them from reaching the collective awareness as a distinct phenomena, but that once you connect the cases, you can detect the linear movement of this.... whatever this thing is.
All in all it is a fascinating discussion, and we just go straight through for two hours, no breaks, do not pass Go, do not collect $200, go directly to end of SnakeBros 45 and at least a few sleepless nights, huddled in the blankets, every light on in the entire house, trying not to disappear, like so many others, Into Nowhere.
Link to Mr. Spriggs' book, Into Nowhere:
Amazon: Into Nowhere
Pics and other notes:
| | | Mr. Spriggs' updated regions map. Click to enlarge. |
| | | Region Map Legend. Click to Enlarge. Note the similarity in orientation of the regions for south California and central California, as mentioned by Kyle during the show |
Arizona Central: The Jesse Wilson Death: 8 Things We Know
Outside Online: Leave No Trace
USA Today: Man Dissapears in NY, Reappears in CA With No Memory
The Virginian Pilot: Portsmouth sailor missing at Yosemite National Park didn't have car, left belongings, park says
The Virginian Pilot: Remains found in Yosemite National Park identified as Portsmouth sailor missing since May
https://www.amazon.com/Bigfoot-Pennsylvania-Wild-Men-Gorillas-Monsters/dp/154551397X
We're still in the Electric Universe rabbithole for this show, so we've been looking at various signs, sigils, symbols, petroglyphs, rock art, ancient structures, and modern mysterious phenomena in light of the EU cosmology. In this episode we consider the Paracas Candelabra, the Nazca Lines, the Atacama Giant, the Band of Holes, and many other strange artifacts of the ancient past. We look again at Bermuda Triangle phenomena, the Hutchison Effect, the Dragon's Triangle off the coast of Japan, and the concept of other universes coexisting in the same space as ours, yet forever out of reach.
What's a show about fringe science, alternative cosmologies, ancient mysteries, and snakes without some good ole' Chinese Dragons surfing the enormous Universe-Waves of the Cosmic Æther while Thunderbolts of the Gods flash between planets/stars/galaxies keeping those islands of light and warmth energized as oases against the Stygian Darkness of the in-between, where nothing is, yet from whence all nightmares come; without Pyramids as Catalysts for a gold-dust Tesla-inspired Supershield against the catastrophic chaos of intra-solar gravito-electric regime-change and shifting plasma sheaths of suns, without the ponderous zodiacal Wheel of Time spinning backward in prediction of all things future?
Nothing, that's what.
But this show, ladies and gentlemen, delivers.
'Nuff said. Enjoy.
Pics because it happened. Below is a selection from the Arp Catalogue of Peculiar Galaxies:
| | | Plasma forms that ancient man may have seen in the skies. The one on the left in particular may be the origin of the "crouching shaman" shape below. |
| | | More plasma forms |
| | | Ancient Chinese Seismoscope. The spheres held in the dragons' mouths would drop into the mouths of the frogs, indicating the direction of an earthquake. |
| | | Seismoscope was invented by this guy, who probably only invented things like seismoscopes in his spare time away from being a wispy bearded kung fu badass. |
| | | The Carolina Bays |
| | | This sizable bay is referred to as "Grass Lake" by the indigenous suburbanite natives in the area |
| | | LIDAR scan showing the landscape covered in the elliptical shapes of the bays |
| | | Map of the eastern and central US, showing locations of known bay structures, and their common origin in the great lakes becomes clear |
We have two guests joining us from MineTheHive for this episode, so we talk about their experiences with lucid dreaming and out-of-body/astral travel, and that leads to sleep paralysis and aliens and eventually, pyramids. If there's one thing we've learned doing SnakeBros, it's that everything eventually comes back to pyramids. Which in this particular case is good because, this being episode 42, the theme was "Life, The Universe, and Everything", and since everything eventually comes back to pyramids, we just talk about pyramids for the rest of the show and call it good.
But while we're talking about pyramids we also ask our guests about the website and why they decided to build it, what the name means, and where did their interest in these topics originate.
In the second half of the show, we continue talking about everything(pyramids) and about the interesting fact that so many ancient and mysterious sites have unfinished blocks or statues or obelisks in the associated quarries, and how that may be a kind of "signature" of the lost civilization that (hypothetically) built so many of these sites.
| | | Stone of the Pregnant Woman, Ba'albek, Lebanon. Until recently, this was the largest known cut stone block in the world. Estimates range from 1000-1400 tons. That's up to 2.8 million pounds. |
| | | More recent photo. Block from the first pic is the one on top. It is sitting on top of two more giant blocks that are even larger, estimates range between 1400-1800 tons, or up to 3.6 million pounds. |
| | | Stone of the South. Somewhere between the Ba'albek quarry and the Ba'albek ruins, like it was in the process of being moved but something caused the work to stop, and it was never started back up. The lines and notches in the block are from people much more recently using the block itself as a quarry. |
| | | The Unfinished Obelisk at Aswan Quarry, Egypt. This is the place where a lot of the high-quartz-content granite used in many ancient monuments in Egypt came from, the famous "pink granite" of Aswan. This obelisk is enormous, as can be seen by the size of the people standing on it. It is more than one third larger than the largest known standing obelisk. |
| | | Yangshan Quarry, China. This is one of three gigantic objects in the quarry, supposedly parts of a stele that was going to be erected in a nearby city but these were abandoned as being far too large to be actually moved. We find this very hard to believe. That is a lot of work and a huge mistake, no pun intended. |
| | | Another part of the "abandoned stele" in Yangshan Quarry. Seems like somebody should have figured out "this is waaaaaay too big guys" long before they did so much work. You know? |
| | | Huge unfinished Moai at Easter Island. |
| | | Some of the enigmatic stone spheres of Costa Rica. The large ones are more than 8 ft. in diameter, and they are all geometrically perfect spheres. |
| | | The weird crystal cube bowl gear thingies from the Giza plateau. |
We start this episode by giving props to Flat Earther Mike Hughes for his ingenuity and attempting to find out the truth for himself, and also for the enormous cojones required to launch oneself towards outer space in a steam powered home made rocket, because holy fucking shit that is awesome.
After briefly mentioning a few more Weird News stories, we read an excellent article from MineTheHive about a very strange site in China that may be remnants of ancient technology upwards of 150,000 years old, then segue smoooooothly into the main topic of this episode, which is Kyle's developing ideas regarding the ancient sites around the world that are referred to as places where "men became gods".
We finish the show by detailing the very strange and infamous incident at Dyatlov Pass, a topic that came up because a hiker has been reported missing out there just last week.
We brave a Tangent Cube full of Trolls, Bad Dad Jokes and restless dogs to bring you Episode 40 on the Vernal Equinox, and a continuation of our discussion about ancient astronomy and our work on the Great Texinian Hill Henge Project which we broke ground on early this morning, using the equinoctial dawn to locate True East, and from there, the other three cardinal directions. We also installed our first wooden post marking the East, with an Avenue of the Sun and the beginnings of a sun dial using the shadow of the post.
We have special guest Matt Stone in studio with us, he has circumnavigated the globe at least twice without lifting a finger simply by maintaining a berth on various ships of the U. S. Navy. He has been to many exotic places but apparently has failed to visit even a single pyramid. When asked about any ancient or mysterious places he has seen, he tells a story about a redhead from Malta that was attached to the UN. (Purely anecdotal, of course. We saw no evidence of a Maltese Redhead, clearly Matt is just trying to make money selling books, or something)
Still, talking about redheads leads inevitably to the topic of redshift, so we go over the whole problem of Doppler and redshift in cosmology, and how it is fundamental to mainstream science's picture of the universe.
We've started The Great Texinian Astronomical Hill Henge Project (Stone, Allen, Allen, et al) in which we propose to construct an astronomical observatory in the tradition of the great henges of Eld(Stonehenge, Adam's Calendar, etc). Like those venerable projects, we propose to start small, with a single central stake, about $2000 worth of calibrated optics, $120,000 worth of heavy equipment, 3 dogs, 2 wooden posts, several pencils, and a laser. You know. Gotta keep it simple to start.
We detail the difficulties we've yet to encounter but know are ahead of us, based on past experience. On the whole, we think the project will give us a much clearer perspective on the difficulties the ancients needed to overcome in order to construct their fantastic stone circles and henges. It will allow us to communicate this knowledge to all of you in a much more concise fashion, so that all of you will have a greater understanding of why it's really fucking hard to build these things.
We talk about the astronaut who returned to earth after nearly a year in space, two inches taller, smarter, with newly activated "space" genes, an increased life span due to an inexplicably higher telomere count, and a large genetic drift from his identical twin brother who stayed earthside while his bro was evolving in space.
We also discuss the newest research papers released by the Comet Research Group re: the Younger Dryas Impact Hypothesis, some responses and rebuttals, and how a totally innocent cow was framed for the enormous Great Chicago Fire.
We start out this show with a series of very strange moon mysteries with lots of terrible analogies by Kyle, and end up skipping the first break, and by the end of the hour we've basically proved the moon is a giant ancient spaceship.
From there we move on to a discussion of sacred geometry and metrology, and the difference between the Imperial and Metric systems and their relative utility in different circumstances.
In the final segment, we talk about people who seemingly appear out of nowhere, which leads to timeslips and the Mandela Effect and glitches in the Matrix and mass disappearances like Malaysian Airlines Flight 370 and Roanoke, and how all these things could be connected.
We kick this episode off with some choice soundbites from a major UFO event that occurred over the west coast on October 25th, 2017. Thanks to the hard work of some intrepid reporters who submitted FOIA requests to the FAA for all relevant material, we have access to recordings of the conversations between Seattle air traffic control and pilots who were observing the object, phone conversations between FAA officials and ATC and the military, and follow-up phone calls between FAA and the pilots who witnessed the object.
This leads to a discussion about the UFO phenomena in general, and whether this is a spiritual/consciousness related phenomena or physical biological entities operating "nuts and bolts" craft from some other solar system... or perhaps a bit of both.
From there we go on to discuss UFO-like sightings in the ancient past, how such events seem to have been playing a major part in all of human history, shaping our religions, our philosophies, our vision of the universe.
After that heady discussion, we segue into a talk about strange earth anomalies, bowls of fused silica glass in the middle eastern desert, bowls in the surface of the ocean, and how most of these anomalies can be solved (or caused) simply by exploding a nuclear weapon over them.
In this episode we begin by discussing the recent developments in Mexico and Guatemala, where evidence of ruins of enormous urban areas have been discovered associated with known sites. Basically, nerds showed up with helicopters and lasers and demonstrated how to do archaeology in the 21st century.
We also discuss a fascinating submerged cave system in Mexico that has been underwater since the end of the ice age, which was found to contain bones of pliestocene animals, human bones and artifacts, wall carvings and stone staircases and altars. Of course the constructions are attributed to the Mayans who were in this area around 900AD, which is a tad late considering the cave has been submerged for the past 10k years or so.
We talk about the odd association with gods and turtles in mythology all over the world, and how there is evidence suggesting these turtles actually represent some sort of mechanical vehicle piloted by a member of an advanced civilization(alien or not), and whether these vehicles could have been utilizing some form of mercury vortex engine, as is implied by the myths.
This episode kicks off with Russ asking "Are we recording?" clearly demonstrating the extremely high level of professionalism and broadcast skills he has acquired while recording 30+ episodes of Snakebros gold.
Having done that, we move on to discuss the recent news of the mysterious booms in Colorado, a selection of Snakebros Favorite Out of Place Artifacts, a couple of very interesting anomalous ancient sites in China, and how people who can listen to jazz with the fillings in their teeth prove that we destroy buildings with small kinetic oscillators.
We kick this episode off with some current news items, like the LiDAR survey in Guatemala around Mayan ruins, the possible detection of extragalactic exoplanets, and the complete falsification of anthropogenic global warming by world-reknowned, internationally acclaimed, nobel prize-winning physicist Richard Feynman, using physics.
Kyle then destroys the dreams of millions of people who have been trying to raise their vibrations and make the world a better place through meditation, when he reads an article about scientists who proved that meditation doesn't work by demonstrating that assholes who meditate are still assholes. He then renews their dreams by pointing out that, since life can be shit sometimes, having assholes around to deal with it is a good thing, so removal of all assholes would leave the rest of us to deal with the shit, which is no one's idea of a better world.
In the second hour, Russ reads from Ivan T. Sanderson's book Pursuing the Unexplained about coincidence and how, as a phenomena, it is not understood and therefore cannot legitimately be used as an explanation for other things we don't under stand. Also, rain dances are real, clouds can be busted with merely a few minutes concentration and an intense stare, and lots of weird shit rains out of the sky on a regular basis(further reinforcing the need for assholes, to deal with this sky shit).
So get out there and be an asshole, make the world a better place.
Episode 33! For this esoteric and mysterious episode we return to a subject which many of you expressed interest in and wanted to know more about: Manuscript 512, that fascinating and incredibly frustrating document of the discovery of an ancient, abandoned city deep in the highlands of Brazil and the Amazonian jungle, where the descriptions of all the best pyramids have been eaten by a worm(who was later nominated for, and subsequently won, the 20th Century's Most Annoying Lifeform Ever award as well as the prestigious Most Successful Destruction of Priceless Knowlwedge Since Alexandria Burned award).
We also discuss deep ocean impacts causing 20,000ft high tidal waves, whale fossils found high in mountains, marine animals trapped in freshwater lakes at 11,000ft above sea level, anomalous fossilized homo sapien footprints in deep geological strata, and give a much more detailed look at the travesty to archaeology and egyptology that was the entire episode with the shafts and the doors and Hawass and the National Geogaphic channel. Enjoy! (and be incredibly irritated)
| | | The Manuscript. Material missing due to worm infestation on upper right, which once contained all the best pyramids |
| | | Above are all examples of the odd script described several times in the Manuscript. Anyone recognize any of these symbols? Enochian, perhaps? |
| | | Gantenbrink's Door |
Clearly, **The Falcon** does not give af. And lastly, for those of you who think it can't or won't happen to *you*:
| | | A Fossilized Snakebro |
Keep your ears to the ground and your eyes on the skies people.
In this episode we got started really late due to some technical difficulties, so our conversations tend to meander a bit more than usual, and there are more than the usual number of bad puns and dad jokes. (We have determined that the number of puns and dad jokes is closely proportional to the number of hours it has been since we last slept.)
Nevertheless we have some good conversations about the Bermuda Triangle mysteries(as Russ reads more from Into the Bermuda Triangle by Gian Quasar), Nikola Tesla, electromagnetism and radio, skerptards skerpderping everything and swarming wikipedia articles, undocumented meteorites endangering the whole planet due to the government shutdown, and setting fire to flat earthers.
| | | A photo of the elevated TangentCube Studio monitor, which we use to display pertinent data during the show, as well as Brett's corrective/helpful/fact checking commentary. Shown here with the new Segment Time popup window |
In this very special unplugged episode we dyslexia discuss. Kyle had a very dyslexia slight when he was younger, and he continues to experience it today under very conditions specific. We talk about what could possibly be causing it, and Kyle gives an interesting description of feels it how to experience inside dyslexia.
We briefly touch on how someone can come close to touching you and you'll feel like they are touching you even though they totally aren't touching you, and how this sensation is similar to the "opressing" sensation people sometimes experience during sleep paralysis(which is probably because incredibly opressive demons are standing there totally not touching you).
Pressing on, we bring up the impressive story of the San Pedro mummy, and how Russ saw something in the traveling museum exhibit "Mummys of the World" that looked a lot like the now missing Pedro. Kyle didn't remember this at all, but after pressing him on the subject, he confirmed that true it was.
For the last few segments we go through some great pullquotes from the book Into the Bermuda Triangle by Gian Quasar, which leads into some great discussion on electromagnetic fields and cryptography and crop circles. Show the enjoy!
Episode 30 is a fantastic interview with a scholar of all things strange, credentialed ancient historian, Fortean initiate, and most importantly a dedicated Snakebros listener, mister Jeremy Figgins.
The official show observer Brett England joins us for the interview, throughout which we discuss....well, just about everything, and Jeremy gives us his unique insight on many classic Snakebro topics. Give it a listen, you won't be disappointed.
We start the first episode of 2018 with a great discussion about......about, umm.....wha.....? Well we intended to discuss the concept of anti-memes but....hmmm. Anyway, we talk about the universal and cosmological "twin" concept, also called symmetry, and how this concept seems to extend far back into the depths of prehistory by way of a curious twin mythology.
Kyle brings up the beneficial mental aspects of turning off the constant input and "unplugging", as it were, in order to process everything that has been learned and also to take some time for some self improvement mind-hacking goodness.
We finish this...oddly short episode....with a brief examination of the recently released UFO footage from the Pentagon and then a discussion of the inherently primitive "Lord of the Flies" culture caused by huge public schools.
We kinda feel like we forgot something...? But whatever. Enjoy the show.
We start out with the latest news on the ScanPyramids project, which is that there is no news. Then we discuss some crazy geology and paleontology factology because Russ is reading Velikovsky's Earth in Upheaval and it's blowing his mind. We're talking islands made entirely of mammoth bones and hippo teeth and glacial erratics so big people accidentally built villages on them.
In the second half of the show we discuss a topic that has become a permanent SnakeBro favorite: weird giant triangles. In this case the giant triangle is the Bermuda Triangle, so we discuss the nature of the disappearances and outline a few specific cases, then go into the many theories about the possible causes, and Kyle demonstrates his skerptard skills by skerpderping them all(after which he announces he might be "going profesh"). One of the theories involves pyramids from Atlantis, still activating on occaision from the ocean depths and disappearing everything in sight. So basically a giant weird triangle caused by giant weird triangles.
Plus there's fossil Kracken Plesiosaur Selfies in Australia and a bunch of bad dad jokes.
The Official Show Observer, the honorable and venerated Mr. Brett England, is in studio with us for this episode, here to offer his assessment of the work of Dr. Melba Ketchum and her team in DNA sequencing of possible Sasquatch hair and skin samples. Mr. England has relevant education and thus delivers what is most likely the only competent opinion on this work that has been delivered to the paranormal and podcasting communities(all other opinions having come from know-nothing Skerptards).
Aside from that, we discuss the ScanPyramids Project and the possibility of a huge unknown chamber in the GP, Kyle's trip to Italy and the ancient Egyptian artifacts he saw there, and we finish out the show with a few excellent OOPArts.
We start this episode discussing how modern sports teams can generate a sense of community and commonality in their home cities, creating a situation similar to the ancient "city-states" of Sumer, Akkad, Assyria, etc.
We briefly discuss the ongoing project to propose methods for encoding our modern civilization's knowledge into oral traditions, complete with an entertaining exoteric theme which conceals esoteric symbolism which encodes the knowledge.
For the rest of the show, we talk about NEPHAS. (aka Giants) Because Russ has been reading Jim Vieira's book, Giants on Record.
Sometimes, the Giants are real.
| | | We need to get our hands on this KMZ file. This lists many of the sites where giant remains(7+ ft in height or more) were reportedly found. |
Again no title or description. What is this episode about?
We don't remember. Listen and find out!
"C'mon you apes! You wanta live forever?" -Unknown platoon sergeant, 1918
We discuss life expectancy, from the microbiological causes of aging to theoretical possibilities of physical immortality, and the intriguing fact that many ancient civilizations recorded extraordinary long lives of remote ancestors.
We discuss the suppression of scientific knowledge that goes counter to contemporary scientific theory, and the fallacy of the concept of "indigenous", and a bunch of other stuff I can't remember right now but was all very interesting.
Here, have some dolmens:
On this post-eclipse pre-apocalypse episode we start out by speculating that the Solar Eclipse that just passed across the U.S. is the reason for the sudden macrosizing of Hurricane Harvey, which went on to drown large areas of Texas beneath immense floods of water and, for a brief time, turning the area back into something resembling the "late cretaceous inland sea" that supposedly covered the area. So we here at the SnakeBros compound decided it was time to get out the buttflaps and party like it's 70,000,000 B.C. (±1,200,000y adj).
We discuss the Foucault Pendulum Anomaly, where pendulums act very strangely beneath full solar eclipses, implying something is very wrong with Standard Model physics and the way it views gravity and mass and the interaction between them.
For the last part of the show, we give an overview of the Missing 411 mystery, followed by several actual accounts of the missing persons.
We start the show talking about how, in this day and age, there are actually still people out there who do not spend an appreciable amount of time thinking about Pyramids. I mean, it's 2017! How are there even people out there who don't think about Pyramids?? Can we get with the program here, on the right side of history please??
Well, we can say for certain that we don't know anyone who doesn't think about pyramids. We don't even talk to people like that. As if.
So we do a lot of thinking and talking about pyramids on this episode. We believe pyramids. The pyramids are settled. Build pyramids, not bridges. Questioning the Theory of Pyramids is like questioning the Theory of Gravity. If you do, you'll just die tired.
In this episode we discuss how many of the most mysterious ancient sites are connected to each other through sometimes obvious, sometimes subtle, stylistic similarities, and how this fits with the growing picture of ancient history as defined by pulling together ancient texts and myths from all over the world.
Bananas continue to not be discussed at all.
In this episode we spend a lot of time on the subject of modern so-called "skeptics"(AKA skerptards AKA skerpderpers AKA losers), the concept of "debunking" vs actually disproving or falsification, and the myriad ways that the modern "skeptic" movement is deeply deceptive in their methods and tactics. We also discuss and give examples of how the scientific community in many respects has also engaged in widespread acts of deception both large and small, and how "alternative" or "fringe" or "paranormal" researchers often have some of the most solid, well-supported evidence and arguments because of the constant attacks on their work by the mainstream, which looks for any possible way to discredit even if it is deeply disingenuous and/or fallacious. Since the mainstream does not even come close to holding itself to similar standards, much of it's work has later been shown to fall apart when attempts to recreate it are undertaken.
So basically what we're saying is, Nephas 1, Losers 0.
We explore the strange and interesting Mystery of the Maps; Portolano Projection maps made during the 15th and 16th century that appear to contain information incongruous with the state of cartographic and navigational knowledge and ability at the time. We explain "the problem of Longitude" which wasn't overcome until the late 1800s, yet there exist many 16th and 17th century maps with areas of very precise longitude, better than anything we could do up to as recently as the 1950s.
We also outline the work of Dr. Charles Hapgood, who studied many of these maps currently housed in the Congressional Library, who went on to publish a book called "Maps of the Ancient Sea Kings"
We also delve into the original Grail legend, wandering the vast and intimidating labyrinth of Grail Lore and esoterica, until eventually we surprise everyone(ourselves included) by emerging into the light on the other side with a possible solution to this age-old mystery.
In this episode we start out with a strange news item about alien/reptilian looking mummified bodies found in Peru, then from there we move on to the Ancient Alien hypothesis vs the Ancient Advanced Civilization hypothesis, consciousness and quantum mechanics, cryogenics and AI, life, the universe, and everything.
In this episode we have a guest, Archer Finley aka GMA(Greatest Man Alive), close friend and SnakeBro who has a degree in Electrical Engineering. So we spend most of the episode asking him questions about electricity and totally not understanding the answers. We also ask his opinion on whether ancient civilizations could have had some understanding of electrical forces. We talk about telluric currents, the Shuttle Tether mission(which was STS 75, not STS 80 as Russ said on the show), Nikola Tesla, and more.
| | | One of the strange objects that drifted past during the tether video, which is linked below |
| | | Huge anomalous sunspot |
| | | A couple of examples of earthquake lights |
We start this episode off with a few interesting news items that lead to another short discussion about the Elastic Universe Hypothesis and how it might be tested via an interesting anomaly that happens only beneath a full solar eclipse. And also how archaeologists are dumb because for like a hundred years they've been trying to study ancient astronomical observatories during the daytime.
We then move on to the subject of the Black Knight Satellite at the request of a listener(thanks J), which means we get into Long Delay Echoes, ancient space probes, Phillip K. Dick and V.A.L.I.S.
After that, we talk about a strange correlation between gigantic pyramids in Mexico, China, and Indonesia, then finish up with a brief discussion of a very mysterious place in China known as the Longyou Grottoes.
| | | Gravitic Lensing (theoretically) caused by the gravity of a galaxy cluster in the foreground, warping the light of galaxies behind it into circular arcs(btw the very bright object on the upper right is a star in our own galaxy) |
| | | Graph of LDEs |
| | | Epsilon Bootes constellation |
| | | Some believe this photo taken from the space shuttle captured the elusive Black Knight |
| | | NASA map of PHAs(Potentially Hazardous Asteroids) This map does not include comets. We're all gonna die. |
| | | Teotihuacan |
| | | It's pretty big.....I guess |
| | | Why was this place encased in Mica?? |
| | | Volcanic mountain near Teotihuacan |
| | | Pyramids in China |
| | | They refer to them as "mausoleums" |
| | | They're totally not pyramids. See the trees? Hills. Just hills. |
| | | Pyramid of the first Chinese emperor. The Terracotta warriors are nearby. |
| | | The top of Gunung Padang in Indonesia |
| | | The top level was made using basalt columns that form naturally when lava hits seawater |
| | | The top level is about 2500 years old. The lowest levels are 30,000 years old. |
| | | The Terracotta Warriors |
| | | This is just a few of them....there are over 6,000 in total, plus horses |
| | | That's a lotta clay mmkay |
| | | Note each has very unique individual features |
| | | One of the Longyou Grottoes. The light is coming through an opening that was the original pool on the surface |
| | | Who did this? Where did all the rock go? Where are the fish? |
| | | That would seem like a "bottomless" pool |
| | | Note the extremely uniform marks on the walls |
| | | Each grotto is many levels deep |
| | | The rooms are cavernous and huge |
| | | A close-up of the marks on the walls. Toothpicks and dedication? Or advanced machinery? |
| | | SnakeBros |
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There are aspects of this episode that do not correlate to anything "tangible" or "real", and instead seem to take 90 degree turns in directions that do not actually exist, then head off into impossible infinities only to discover god and/or aliens sitting out there calculating the digits of cake(the cake is a pi). This material requires a minimum of a Level 2.0 non-Tangetard brain and is NSFS(Not Safe For Skerptards).
There's not much more that can be said about the discussion in this episode; mostly because we don't really understand what we were talking about. Waves and pyramids. Cake and Pi. Snakes and bros. It all fits. We think.
But seriously, just keep in mind that there are pics down below that may help you in continuing to not understand wtf we're talking about. Just remember that all we're really saying is 3.141592653589793238462643383279502884
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8 therefore pyramids.
| | | Whole universe dispersion structure of matter. Note how "organic" or biological it looks |
| | | Zoomed in a bit on the previous image to focus on a sub-structure at the center. Keep in mind the scale here--individual galaxies are not discernable at this level, individual galactic clusters are not discernable either |
| | | Human Brain Neurons The similarities in structure are immediately apparent to anyone with a level 2.0+ non-skerptard brain |
| | | Cymatics pattern of sand on "Chiladne plate": an iron or steel plate with a tone generator or speaker attached underneath which vibrates the plate and results in patterns like this |
| | | Not sure why the microphone is there, but here is another cymatics pattern |
| | | Usually, higher frequencies result in more intricate patterns. The wavelengths are smaller, which allows for more detail |
| | | High resolution cymatics patterns for middle scale on a piano |
| | | This image has built-in caption. This caption was only added to say, if you are reading this one, you're doing it wrong |
| | | Another example of an early universe galaxy. You can see the rotation patterns beginning to emerge |
| | | A fuzzy image of a very distant, ancient proto-galaxy |
| | | This image is a good representation of time=space and what that means for high powered orbital astronomy |
| | | Artist's depiction of the "local bubble" |
| | | Feynman diagrams. These have to do with predicting the results of high energy particle collisions. |
| | | If anyone figures these out, let us know |
Our own video on Cymatics DIY.
| | | Ocean wave patterns... (The original caption of this photo said "stealth plane", but we couldn't find it.) |
| | | And of course...... snakes |
We start this episode with a recount of a daytrip we took to a nearby extinct volcano that we totally did not know was there even though we've lived here for decades. Usually volcanoes are pretty noticable because mountain, but this volcano is eroded flat, nothing but a small knob of igneous material remains where the volcano once stood. Still, we were excited to see it and do some geololololology.
Turns out it is entirely on private property. So we still haven't seen it. Instead, we went to McKinney Falls nearby, where we discovered an ancient dry-laid stone wall that bisected the park going directly east-west, atop a massive tounge of catastrophically deposited limestone(that in turn rested atop igneous materials, probably deposited by eruptions of the elusive mountainless volcano). Plus, evidence of massive flooding, giant oyster fossils, and creature shadows trapped in clay.
Then we got eaten by fish and started a microcult.
For the rest of the show, we discuss how to hear light and see sound, the almost total rejection of Russ' Yellowstone SuperColliding SuperVolcano Hypothesis by mainstream science, the complete rejection of Russ' Lithophonic Longhouses Low-hanging-fruit hypothesis by mainstream science, and how a steel drum is like an obelisk, but with dents.
| | | Geological Cross Section of Pilot Knob, the extinct volcano we couldn't find |
| | | Strange stuff in the igneous boulders we found, these look like.... veins?? |
| | | Yep. Those look like veins. Note relative-size quarter for scale. |
| | | Looks like... a tiny footprint.... with teeth stuck in it?? Right after taking this pic, we found an abandoned shoe, so we noped outta there |
| | | The limestone shows signs of enduring severe erosional flooding at several bottleneck areas at McKinney Falls |
| | | Erosion damage is clear from overhead images; note the widespread occurrence of "potholes", holes drilled into the stone by whirlpools in torrential floods |
| | | Screenshot from a video taken in Williams Creek at the back of McKinney Falls park. |
| | | Williams Creek: The odd layer of gray-blue clay can be clearly seen on the left |
| | | STEP BACK FROM THE EDGE, TREE!! YOU HAVE TOO MUCH TO LIVE FOR |
| | | Everything above the gray layer is river sediment deposit: a mix of limestone, caliche, flint, and lots of small rounded stones....river gravel |
| | | There is naught left of them but Shadows.....SHADOWS IN THE CLAY |
| | | Weird semi-spiraling bivalve / cephalopods ?? |
| | | Beneath the limestone characteristic of McKinney Falls, we discovered evidence of volcanism....pyroclastic deposit layers |
| | | Closeup of pyroclastic layers hidden beneath the limestone, note the crystalline structures |
| | | Some of the layers have a strange latticework structure |
| | | Graph of human hearing frequency range. Below the wavy line, the sounds are too quiet for us to hear them, above the line are audible sounds. |
| | | The human visual spectrum and where it lies on the full range of the electromagnetic spectrum. |
| | | Harmonics. Just picture these as guitar strings. The first one at the top shows the guitar string vibrating all across its length, making the Fundamental note. The next one has been touched lightly in the middle, splitting the vibration in half and silencing the fundamental, bringing out the harmonic. The next has been touched at the 1/3 spot, and so on. |
| | | This is an absolutely awful image depicting how redshift/blueshift works. |
| | | Sky view of Malta temples, which are very organic looking, everything is round, no sharp corners anywhere. |
| | | Malta temple megaliths. Uncut, unworked, unfinished, yet stacked and arranged so skillfully that they still stand, 7,000 years later |
| | | Interior of one of the Maltese temples. Note the doorway on the right... all temple doors in Malta are made this way, as a hole cut through a large stone, rather than a more conventional approach with just two supports holding up a lintel stone. Haven't the faintest idea why. |
| | | Interior shots of the Hypogeum on Malta |
| | | Hauntingly beautiful. Why did they build it? Who built it? |
| | | Looking through another round dooway piercing a stone slab in the Hypogeum. Remember that every room in this place was found 2/3rds filled with rubble and soil that had no stratigraphy(was not layered, implying it all was deposited at once), and scattered throughout the soil were the bones of upwards of 7,000 people, all of whom had anomalous elongated skulls. |
| | | Interior diagram of the Pyramid of Khufu/Cheops(The Great Pyramid), to show how far away the subterranean chamber is from the King's Chamber |
| | | 3D diagram of the Great Pyramid. Because why not. |
| | | The Ringing Rocks of Ringing Rocks Park. Note how tightly clustered they are.... trees don't even grow between them |
| | | The infamous, slightly foreboding Black Mountain |
| | | Slopes of Black Mountain, which is obviously not a mountain but an enormous pile of granite boulders that are so similar in size they look like gravel. |
| | | This is just incredibly strange, very difficult to explain how so many similar sized boulders came to be piled up so high in this one spot |
| | | And of course....... snakes |
In this episode we start off already completely distracted by Default Android Voice 001, which leads to Sitchin and aliens and Annunaki (of course), but eventually that leads to Ba'albek which completely distracts us a second time because it has Impossiblocks. Naturally that leads to the subject of Shamanism and Tibetan monks and fakin' it till you make it and a guy in Brazil named Jon OfGod and thousands of Inca getting killed trying to move an Impossiblock 10 feet.
We discuss the Third Man Effect, the rate of world records being broken and the advent of extreme sports which (obviously) ties right back into Impossiblocks and basically solves that whole mystery.
Elementary, really.
(Tangetards please note: there are only two (2) tangents in this entire episode)
| | | Ba'albek platform from space Note temple of Jupiter wing on the left, you can see the shadows of the 6 remaining columns from the south wall, which the Romans were unable to put all the way out on the southernmost edge of the platform |
| | | Six columns are all that still stands of the Roman temple of Jupiter |
| | | The still mostly-intact temple of Bacchus / Dionysius: note the tiny people at the bottoms of columns and things to get an idea of scale |
| | | Ba'albek is a sprawling confusion of ancient-to-modern stonework fragments |
| | | One of the truly immense blocks at Ba'albek....at the bottom levels of the stonework. Note difference in surfaces from the blocks above. Also, this block has square holes in it similar to the large core stones of the Temple Mount in Jerusalem |
| | | Immense blocks of the "secondary retaining wall" at Ba'albek |
| | | "Stone of the Pregnant Woman" in the Ba'albek quarry |
| | | After excavating around the Stone of the Pregnant Woman in the quarry, it was discovered to be sitting on top of two even larger blocks |
| | | Dropped Block in between Ba'albek and the quarry Look at this for a while and try to really grasp the fact that someone was actually fucking moving this thing |
| | | Another view of the "second retaining wall", you can see where later peoples have cut into the stones to make passageways |
| | | Biggest stuff is always at the bottom at Ba'albek, note the jumbled sculpt work on some of the blocks, indicating they were recycled |
| | | "Second retaining wall" is clearly disconnected with the remainder of the platform |
| | | Note heavy weathering on lowest blocks in the foreground |
| | | Truly immense entryway into temple of Bacchus |
| | | From "Archaeological Park" in Jerusalem, here is a very large core/foundation block with characteristic square "lifting" holes |
| | | Beneath the Temple Mount, where some of the truly large original core blocks remain to this day |
| | | Close-up of Temple Mount core block surface |
| | | Petrified wood stuck in core block in Jerusalem |
| | | Egyptian stone vase made from porphyry |
| | | Made of Andesite, a very hard type of granite |
| | | Egyptian bottle made from amethyst, a gemstone not known for softness |
| | | How about Holy Shit P.S. Why is Russ even in this comic? He doesn't say anything or do anything |
Episode ten! Wow.
Anyway, we dedicate this show to questions, comments, emails, catcalls, and heckling from listeners who just want us to slow down, chill out, and explain some things in detail, because we're always referring to these things but we've never actually explained what they are.
So we try to do that. Kyle does an excellent job despite constant interruptions from Russ, while Russ does a terrible job despite zero interruptions from Kyle, and in this way we go thru the Sumerian "creation myths", the erosion patterns on the Sphinx enclosure, and the catastrophic end of the recent ice age. Kyle ties all of these things together into a gigantic fucking conspiracy while Russ makes ominous sound effects.
Also, bananas are---once again---not discussed.
| | | The Big Rock |
| | | Dry cateracts in the channeled scablands |
| | | Grand Coulee Dry Falls |
| | | Potholes in Basalt in the channeled scablands |
| | | Giant potholes |
| | | Huge current ripples in Montana prairie land |
| | | Massive current ripples, taken from airplane |
| | | Enki, With horned elongated skull and shoulder rivers |
| | | The Annunaki as Bird Therianthropes Note Exoskeleton? on Leg |
| | | Madagascar. (In case you missed it) |
| | | Madagascar coastline with clear imprints left from immense tsunamis....note the scale at lower left |
| | | Madagascar coastline with multiple high water lines |
| | | Huge tsunami "chevron" deposits |
| | | 4,000 miles away from Madagascar, the Australian west coast, with clear signs of huge tsunamis |
| | | Sphinx enclosure walls displaying vertical erosion patterns from heavy rainfall |
| | | Ancient limestone core blocks visible above and behind newer granite casing |
| | | Limestone core blocks behind granite casing stones |
| | | Sphinx enclosure walls erosion |
In this episode, we discuss pyramids and Babel and pyramids and tacos and pyramids and Newton and pyramids and physics and pyramids and genetics and pyramids and alchemy and then we finish it off with a discussion about pyramids.
P. S. (Also, Kyle does the most amazing impersonation of Christopher Dunn ever done by anyone anywhere ever. It starts somewhere around 9 minutes in and it's amazing. Did I mention it's awesome?)
P. P. S. (All in good fun, btw. We have much respect for Mr. Dunn and his contributions to these mysteries.)
First up in this episode are excerpts from another Fortean Times article, this one details a whole list of event types that most people consider to be extraordinary, but in fact these happen nearly every day.
After that we touch on the topic of the Information Universe, then slide seamlessly into a discussion on dreams, where we ponder the question of why we can't use our smartphones in our dreams so we can Google how to do stuff like lucid dreaming, because for some reason the dream realm does not seem to have things like smartphones and computers. Sleep paralysis also comes up. Finally, we completely fail to bring closure to any of those topics by spending the last segment talking about Easter Island.
We have our first guest on the show, Ethan Hack, who sat in the studio with us and argued with everything we said and basically told us we're dumb. Generally this is an assessment we agree with, but we proved him wrong anyway, just to be nice. Other than that, we discuss an interesting document from the official CIA website, a whole list of odd events from the last hundred years taken from an article posted in the Fortean Times, stopping lasers with your mind, and how to become the Most Badass Martial Artist Ever.
Also, Mormons and metal books and truths hidden in lies.
In this episode we discuss the origin of the name of the podcast and how we both became interested in these topics. Then we talk ancient lost cities, Mormons, Nephas and Babel. Also, we take our very first caller/complaint who calls to bitch about Kyle not knowing who wrote Star Wars. We end the show with some more accounts of out of place artifacts and places allegedly found within the United States.
In episode five we outline the "Because Pyramids" hypothesis, which, in brief, posits that all of western civilization exists because around 6,000 years ago some dudes in buttflaps found giant stone triangles in the desert.
Keeping with the subject of ancient Egypt, we talk about the Book of the Dead and how the Egyptians seemed to have made a science out of investigating the afterlife, building a picture of the various trials and tests a human soul must face and pass after death in order to achieve ascension to the stars. Because of the 2-D nature of Egyptian illustration, Russ associates the depictions in the Book of the Dead with oldschool 2d "platform jumper" videogames, which totally ruins the whole "spiritual enlightenment" thing.
We also touch on the extraordinary nature of the so-called "air shafts" in the Great Pyramid, and specifically the "Queen's Chamber" shafts and the "door" discovered by Gantenbrink, which Zahi Hawass penetrated on live TV ten years later, and the strange, faint marks on the floor of the shaft beyond the door.
This show is almost entirely focused on ancient Egypt. Enjoy!
Book of the Dead. If this was a videogame strategy guide, this would be the creatures list.
Translation: Show up in a boat. Bring people with sun hats. Use the sun hats to build a Sputnik. When the birds come to steal the sun, stand beneath it and pretend it's a hat to confuse them. Do not give high fives to anyone sitting on a table.
The Weighing of the Heart, from the Book of the Dead. That Feather of Truth better have some heft to it.
Boss Fight!!
A side scrolling platform jumper game. See the resemblance? Look, there's even pyramids and mummies.
Queen's chamber. Air shaft opening on left.
King's chamber. Air shaft opening on right.
How the air shafts were formed
Structure of the shafts through the layers of the pyramid blocks. Note the locking blocks, labeled D, below...these keep the entire shaft structure from sliding down into the chambers.
The "door", as Gantenbrink found it
The door being penetrated ten years later
Some of the symbols found beyond the door
Manuscript 512. Note large, annoying worm-eaten area near top.
Some of the symbols from Manuscript 512
We start this episode with a rant about "daylight savings time" which everyone seems to hate and yet gets passed through every sitting congress, and possibly how the purpose of such a detestable rule is to disconnect us from the cosmos so we can't do magic. (hey, it's possible)
We introduce more of our patented SnakeBros terminology, such as "Longhead"(hominid with an elongated cranium), "Nephas" (a less formal version of the word Nephilim, as in "Whassup mah Nepha"). We talk about ancient giants with double dentition and the conspiracy to conceal them. We talk about reports of tombs full of loot, but with the primary corpse missing(looters took the corpse and left all the loot??)
There are other tangents here and there, then the final subject is climate change.
| | | Hypogeum |
| | | More Hypogeum |
| | | and even MOAR Hypogeum |
| | | Paracas Elongatus |
| | | Different morphologies of Longheads |
| | | The skull on the left has a cranial capacity of 2500-2800 cc |
| | | Artist renditon of a longead |
| | | The Coneheads from SNL "WE ARE FROM FRANCE" |
| | | Artist rendition of a human attacking a Nepha |
| | | Photo of the Siberian Taiga forest near the area of the Tunguska explosion |
| | | 800 square miles of trees blown down like matchsticks, radiating away from the epicenter of the explosion |
In this episode, Russ delivers a patented 100% Pure U.S.D.A. Certified and Approved Grade A Rantfest on the various problems inherent in the theory behind certain types of archaeological dating methods.
We ask the very important question, is it possible to bail out of a small Cessna aircraft mid-flight? Also, is it possible to walk barefoot down the slope of an active volcano, atop pyroclastic material? Does walking down the volcano in this stuff make one Satan himself?
Asking the real questions is what Snakebros is all about.
Here are some ancient weird "eye statues". Clearly these people have seen something that cannot be unseen(and now you won't be able to unsee them):
| | | "Dad, is that...." "Yes it is, son...." stare |
| | | Goddammit Right Head, stop looking up when I'm looking down |
| | | Looks like pieces to a board game. Probably one about being a creepy stalker. |
| | | Coffee bean eyes. Cool beans. |
| | | I just.... I just can't even. |
| | | The iChoir? |
| | | This is what Kyle was looking at at first. Creepy statues with huge weird eyes, but not like the ones above. |
This is the first episode. Really. Pay no attention to the repeated references in this episode to a previous "pilot" episode having been recorded.
Yes, that is technically ourselves making those repeated references to this mythical "pilot" episode. But really, who's gonna take us seriously? We certainly don't.
Meanwhile, the conversation in this ground-breaking first-ever recorded episode of Brother of the Serpent covers the "three A's of ancient civilizations", which are(in no particular order:
- Agriculture
- Architecture
- Astronomy
We discuss the difficulties inherent in "domesticating" plants(for crops) and animals(for any number of jobs).