November 28, 2014 • 35 mins
It's ancient, it's huge, and it's cited in all sorts of fringe theories, from stories of lost civilizations to ley lines and more. But what is Stonehenge, really?
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
From UFOs two, ghosts and government cover ups. History is
riddled with unexplained events. You can turn back now or
learn the stuff they don't want you to now. Hello,
welcome back to the show. My name is Matt. I
am Ben and this is the show about crazy things
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happening now on your radio. That's stuff they don't want
you to know, Ladies and gentlemen. And it looks like
we've got some new intro music in the mix on that. Yeah,
I'm sure that went perfectly with the music that was
fading out just now. Uh So, that's an interesting thing
when we talk about the power of music and audio,
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and oddly enough, it's going to come up today in
this episode. I'm all right, I just threw that out
there and you you got it all the way around. Yeah. Well, uh,
let me's steal a joke from my my dad. Here.
Nine out of ten women think I'm pretty good for
blam is um dating number ten, Uh dad jokes man,
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I've got no segue with dad's, so let's just get
right into it. An ancestors, there we go. Nice Save Matt,
Nice save uh So, Ladies and gentlemens always you know,
we're here with our super producer Noll to take a
look at yet another thing, event, secret, or phenomenon that
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may not be getting the coverage it deserves. Right, Yes,
and in this case, it's a bunch of stones in
the middle of a field, a hinge if you will, hinge,
some sort of hinge of stone. That's right, we are
talking about Stonehenge. Now, this is something that is familiar
to I would say the vast majority of people in
the world. You've seen it, you've seen a picture of it,
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you've heard all kinds of crazy things about it. But
what the heck is it? Actually, the best part is
that we don't know for sure, but there're a lot
There are a lot of facts about it that we
can point to, and there are a lot of theory.
So that's what we're doing today. The biggest question, like
you said, what the heck is it? Well, we do
know this is a prehistoric ruin in southern England near Salisbury,
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that's right, But we don't know who built it. But
it's thought to date back to about eight hundred BC,
and who have been designed for some kind of ritual
or at least a ceremonial purpose or b c e.
If you're if you're one of those people starting to
type the email right now, where we will get an
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email either way, regardless of what initials you want to
stamp on that time period. Remains of cremated human bodies
have been found buried at Stonehenge, and this indicates that
it may have been used as a burial ground, assuming
of course that the people of Stonehenge knew there were
bodies there. Yeah, well, depending on what, like, if there
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were people using it after it had been built for
different purposes than when it was originally built. Oh boy,
we're gonna get in all kinds of stuff here. One
thing that should be known is that Stonehenge is in
itself not a unique structure. It's one of some eighty
British prehistoric ruins that are characterized by this large circular
embankment that encloses, or at least at one point enclosed
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some kind of structure. Yeah. And although the original meaning
of the phrase hinge is not known, that word is
now used for any ruins of this type. And we
have learned a little bit about how these things looked
in their heyday, right, Yeah. In most of these structures
of things that we call hinge um, there were they
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were primarily made out of wood. But Stonehenge, which was
built in three phases, uh, contained a wooden structure at least. Uh.
It's believed that it contained a wooden structure in its
first phase, but it was eventually made up completely of stones.
So they replaced the parts that were there with these
giant stones, which are heavy. Yeah. How heavy? My ask? Oh,
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we are glad you did. Let's talk about the structure
of Stonehenge in its final form, which does make me
think of various various things from our childhood. Uh. Stonehenge
had thirty upright stones. These were each about eighteen feet
or five and a half meters high, seven ft two
point one meters thick, and there were in an outer
ring that was about thirty meters across. Now only seventeen
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of these megaliths called Sarson's are now standing. The the
large stones that are one piece, yeah, the the vertical ones,
and the ones that uh span the top of those Sarson's.
Those are called lentils uh l I n t E
L s less my accent full some of you. Uh,
And these are about ten and a half foot uh
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stones that create that um almost doorway looking part of Stonehenge,
and then you got the blue stones, which are the
smaller upright stones that are on the inside to make
that inner ring. Um. If you haven't watched our video yet,
I would recommend watching it. There are a ton of
pictures of this. Again, we're fairly certain that you were
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aware of what it looks like, but uh, you might
get a better picture maybe if you have our video
while you're listening to this, Hey why not? Uh so?
And that's funny because the video is probably under five
minutes in this podcast will probably be a little bit longer,
little bit, yeah, but then just keep replaying it. So
within Stone Hinge there was this horseshoe of five what
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are called trill athons, and these are two upright Sarson's
capped by a lentil. Three of those remain standing. At
the center was this horseshoe of bluestones around a pillar
known as the altar Stone. Oh yes, the good old
altar stone, where all kinds of fun rituals could take place.
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Some of them we just have been uh, fantasizing about
what could have taken place. There's some of it. We
have an idea because of things that we found there.
We're going to get into this. But the best part
is there was an alter stone. Ben. If you're going
to have a great monolithic structure from ancient times, there's
got to be a place where you can have a ritual.
Do you remember that time that I became obsessed with Skyrim?
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That Skyrim? What is that? Ben? Al Right? So, guys,
I have nothing against video games. I don't play them
very often, but when I do, I have very strange
relationship with them because I have no sense of moderation.
I was playing Star Skyrim all the time, you know,
in Maureens evenings. One time I left work early to
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play Skyrim, and that's when I realized I had a problem.
But I always think of Skyrim when I hear about
these prehistoric alter stones. Um. And of course, you know, Skyrim,
being fictional, is just inspired by a lot of those structures.
But it's important for us to remember, I'll crow the world,
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things like this exists, and many of them remain utterly
mysterious today. But we do know. We do know that
we've been able to perform some forensic stuff here, and
that's why we know the outside of the Sarson Circle
at Stonehenge, there's a ring of fifty six pits, and
they're called Aubrey holes, and they're named after John Aubrey
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who investigated the Hinge in the seventeenth century, and he
found these four small stones and then this circular bank
of earth that's surrounded by this ditch, right, and two
stone pillars flanked an entrance through the earth bank. One
of them remains. There's an upright megalith, the heel stone,
that's outside the entrance. Um, let's talk a little bit
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about the astrology. Huh, the astronomy rather, Oh yes, So
I let's imagine that you're standing in the center of
Stonehenge and it's the summer solstice. Now, let's imagine that you,
the person listening to the are standing in the center
of Stonehenge on summer solstice. Now that's around June one.
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It shifts around a little bit, but if you're standing there,
the sun is going to rise from behind this stone,
the heelstone that you just mentioned, and it's gonna come
up over across this thing, and essentially he's just going
to create this amazing almost spiritual feeling just from the
way the sun is going to come through these sarson's
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and come across that Heelstone, and we can tell that
it was a majestic experience. It was created while inside
this which you're yeah, yeah, we know. It is inarguable
that Stonehenge was built by someone who had knowledge of
the heavens right and the solstices, and that they built
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Stonehenge to reflect these great moments throughout the year. In
the nineteen sixties, met some astronomers theorize that these Aubrey
holes and some of those stones could be used to
keep track of solar and lunar years to predict eclipses,
which is just so amazing. I mean, ask ask yourselves,
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if we were transported back in time and we were
tasked with predicting an eclipse, how on earth will we
do it? I think that's something that escapes pupil's minds
often about time travel, and always think, oh, if I
if I went back and you know, into the uh,
the twelve hundreds or even the eighteen hundreds, I'd be
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amazing because I know so much stuff. But do we
do we? Because I can't build a smartphone. Yeah, something
as simple as keeping track of the time and seasons
and where the sun is, and wow, that's that's a
really interesting way to look at it in. So yeah,
we know that. Um, this has led a lot of
people to believe that Stonehenge was a primitive astronomical observatory,
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but not everyone agrees. Now that hypothesis is disputed by
a lot of archaeologists who contend that there's really no
evidence to suggest the builders of Stonehenge had a lot
of knowledge of or interest in astronomy. But yeah, I
still think it's inarguable, though. I think it cannot be
a coincidence that they just lined it up. But maybe
I'm just seeing what I want to see. Either way,
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somebody is seeing something that they want to see, all right, Yeah,
Uh that's a fair point. Uh, you're not wrong. Stonehenge
didn't just start out in its current form, as we said,
in its first phase, like you have mentioned earlier, Matt,
it had a lot of wood components, wouldn't components. Stonehenge
was just a few stones wouldn't post and closed by
this circular embankment. Uh. The current theory nowadays is that
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this was used for religious gatherings and then around two
thousand BC, people with slightly more advanced technology figured out
how to get these blue stones there. They heat weighed
four tons or thirty six krams for everybody outside of
let's see Namibia, Burma and the US. And the crazy
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thing is that they were, at least in the current theory,
they were floated by raft from southwestern Wales. Yeah, they
were set up to form that inner circle within the embankment,
and several centuries later uh Stonehenges builders up the ante
and transported the Sarson's, each of which weighs about twenty
five tons. They were brought from as far as twenty
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miles away and set up outside the Blue Stones. That
that is insane to me, and that is one of
the reasons people have issues with the idea of humans
building these things, these giant stones, right, because if you
go to ancient alien theory, some people believe that there
must have been some kind of advanced technology to get
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these stones set up the way they are and for
what purpose been for what purpose meant right? But we
know that. Of course, in the absence of concrete proof,
speculation runs rampant. You will often hear that Stonehinges acted
with the druids somehow, Oh, druids totally, the classic Druid
move people are saying. But there's really not any hard
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evidence that they that the druids played a part in
the construction of Stonehenge. However, we do know that a
couple of ingenious modern day humans have demonstrated methods that
could be used in theory to build Stonehenge, and they
make a pretty convincing case. Yeah, physics is pretty awesome,
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and if you can figure out how to use simple
tools like pulleys levers, you can you can make some
really heavy things do some pretty incredible stuff. Right. There's
some great YouTube videos where you can see demonstrations of
this by a couple of different sources who reach the
same conclusions. But that's not the million dollar question. We've
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We've at this point explained u some of the dimensions
of Stonehenge and and some of the best guesses at
its evolution. But what the heck was it for? You know,
why did people use it? Well, there are a lot
of theories been and let's get into them. Right after
a quick word from our sponsors and we're back. So
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let's get into what are the possible things Stonehnded was
meant for. So one of them is some people think
it was a sacred hunting ground prior to those big rocks,
the Sarson's being up there. They it's believed that this
was an ancient or migration route. Rocks are these fun
looking creatures that you can hunt for meat, which is
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nice when you could have Yeah, you're not anymore. They
are no longer existing in our world. To think of
them oxen like you know, Okay, yeah, that's a really
good way to put it. So this was migration route,
like you were saying that thousands of years before for
Stones came around. There's another site about a mile away
from the Wiltshire, England Megaliths, and it contains evidence of
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human occupation spanning three thousand years, including thousands of those
orc bones, flint tools, and evidence that they made and
used fire. One of the coolest things that you can
see evidence of construction at the site of Stonehenge as
far back is eight thousand, five hundred years or almost
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to ten thousand years ago. Uh. Where are these these
pine posts that were sticking out of the ground that
were at one time raised to create some kind of
ancient structure, right, Yeah, And the archaeological evidence hence that
this site was originally this ancient hunting feasting kind of
a kind kind of a hall, party hall, a party hall,
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a community center. And uh maybe the megaliths they say,
were raised to memorialize this. Um. But of course that
is not the final word. There's another idea. It's similar
but a little bit different. It's thought that maybe Stonehenge,
this huge, seemingly important monument, was more than just some
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kind of barbecue cookout area. Um. Some people believe that
these were erected to celebrate peace or some type of unity,
gathering together in harmony, with different groups coming together there.
You know, I love it, but I don't really see
the causation here because there is a correlation. The argument
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here is that, uh, during that intense building period which
you know, as as we've shown, Stonehenge took a long
time to build between three thousand and the culture of
the British Isles was increasingly unifying. Um. And they say
that you can see this because there are more similarities
in regional pottery. But here's the here's the problem to me,
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and this is just my personal beef with it. I
just don't think that a unification of a culture necessarily
means that Stonehenge was built to celebrate that. Maybe it
means that people were more likely to get together. But
I don't think they were likely to get together to say, hey,
let's let's make a monument about what good friends we are.
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You guys, why don't we ever make monuments about our friendships? See?
I don't know enough about it. But what if all
of the different sarcens are representing different tribes? Would that
be cool? It's kind of like the American flag, all
the different you know, all the different states of provinces
in the thirteen Colonies and so on. They just did
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it with these giant stones, which is cooler. In my book,
that might be. Yeah, it's just I guess you can't
build too many because you certainly couldn't carry those rounds.
Or maybe you could get a smaller version, like a
mini hinge. That's how you do it. We should be
we should be the marketing. You think they had a mockhee,
like a early set up Kings where a bunch of
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guys got together they were like, um, I think we
need to put it here and here and there little marbles.
I wonder, you know, because it took so long to build.
The previous iterations, like the wooden parts probably existed as
a model of sorts. Um and uh boy, can you
imagine they had to have some kind of planning. Can
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you imagine? We always hear about ancient monuments being made
with such precision and perfection and skill, but we never
hear about, you know, the ones that got messed up
because they're in Easter Island head somewhere where they got
the nose wrong and they said, ah, barry this one. Monuments. Yeah,
there where the botched monuments where the ancient Machu Picchu
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walls that just aren't really well put together. I guess
they crumbled the ancient subpar artists. Yeah, what happened to
those guys? There's a comedy sketch in there somewhere. But um,
it is true, as we said before that one of
the big one of the big theories force Stonehenge is
the astronomical calendar idea that this was where ancients would
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celebrate winter Solstice. In particular. They say this because the
avenue near Stonehenge alliance with the winter solstice sunset, and
nearby archaeological evidence suggests that pigs were slaughtered during December
and January, maybe a midwinter feast of sorts, And it's
also known that the site faces the sunrise during the
summer solstice, and that thousands of visitors go to this
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site every year even now to celebrate that time. And
here's something really cool, something a little different. So there
were these two pipers playing in a field around Stonehenge
and they would have heard the uh sound canceled out
at certain spots. There's a sound allusion that might have
inspired the Stonehenge builders. This comes from a presentation at
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the American Association for the Advancement of Sciences, So hardly
uh fringe research here. Yeah, So it's thought that perhaps
these mega lifts were cred to augment the sound that
was already naturally occurring in the site. And it's actually
really interesting. The monument is often nicknamed the Piper Stones
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in England, and the legend holds that these magic pipers
would lead maidens out into the field and then turn
them into stones as they are today. Bizarre. Yeah, And
even those who don't buy this whole sound illusion theory
agree that Stonehenge has astonishing acoustic qualities with the cavernous
echo echo echo. Oh, it's really cool because it's all
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of those different flat surfaces that it's reflecting from depending
on where you stand. You can have crazy auditory things
like where uh, sounds from the right will be coming
in from the left side. Uh. It's really cool. There's
a presentation online that you can find if you search
for Stonehenge acoustics, I think and model. Search for that
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and you can find just really cool stuff and even
models online that you can look at many hinges, well sorry,
not many hinges. It's it's models of what the acoustics
would be like if Stonehenge was the way it was
I guess originally meant to look. Okay, yeah, so we
can we can picture it already. You can start to
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see the sights and hear the sounds that ancient people
would encounter when they saw the sun go down on
winter solstice during the chanting resonating from the stones, you know,
the sound of uh, pigs being slaughtered or yeah, cremation,
which brings us to the next one. The Elite Cemetery.
We talked about this earlier before the break, the mysterious
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monument that may have once been a burial ground for
the Creme de la Creme of the ancient societies. Thousands
of skeletal fragments of at least sixty three individuals have
been exhumed from around the area with an equal proportion
of men and women and children. So this is interesting
because I've heard I've heard that there was a debate
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about the proportion there. You'll hear some people say, well,
it's primarily men and very few women. Uh. So this
would leave people to say, well, maybe it's the burial
ground of warriors or something. But the thing is, these
burials date to three thousand BC, and as construction of
the monument was getting started, archaeologists have also found some
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things that are usually associated with the swells of ancient society,
things like instance, bowls on mace head, et cetera. But
that is not the crazy idea yet, No, sir, I'm
gonna mention a name here that you know. Eric Fontanakan
i s author of Chariots of the Gods, among other things,
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the primary advocate of ancient alien theory, even more so
than that guy who shows up on History Channel. He's
a gloriously exciting person to see on television. I always
love it when his name pops up. I'm like, oh, yes, Fontanenan.
So he thinks that the creation of Stonehenge and the
Neolithic period was a model of our solar system. Yes,
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a celestial map that was created with stones. I it
seems like it's a lot of trouble to make a map. Yeah,
so here's the idea. But it is kind of permanent. Yeah,
there's that too. But here's the idea. He's saying that
observing the circularly positioned uh trench surrounding Stonehenge, connecting a
point that extends hundreds of meters away from the site
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with an extending pathway pointing directly upon the position the
sun would lie in during the summer solstice, uh he
says this represents a model of the Neolithic star system
that they believe consisted of nine planets, and from this
early representation of our solar system, or in von Dannikin's opinion,
uh he proposed that the stone circle served as a
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landing pad for spaceships or an observatory for extraterrestrial activity
amid the skies. Yeah. I love it, I know it,
I know, but where where is the other proof? You
know what, what would we have found if that was
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really happening. It's a really fun idea. I appreciate it
on so many levels, but unfortunately I can't put any
weight behind that. Yeah, well, I wonder if you know.
Von Dnikin gets a heck of a hard time because
he is often accused of just ignoring what doesn't fit
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his ancient alien theory, you know, and he's also been
called racist because the implied the implied thing about ancient
aliens is that ancient people were not capable of the
same ingenuity as modern people. Still fascinating though, it's so
much fun to think about. Oh and here's a deep
cut to one of our earliest earliest videos. Uh, the
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idea of lay lines that Stonehenge is sort of a
node for these electro magnetic or geomantic lines of energy
that criss cross the globe sort of like uh, sort
of like veins and flesh. It's like the Earth's spiritual energy. Um. Again, man,
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I hate to I don't want to influence anybody either way.
If you want to believe in ley lines, that's fine. Uh,
there's not a lot of evidence, and it seems to
be a whole lot of coincidence, but you know, maybe, well,
we do know that, we do know that there have
been various sites around the world that have been built
to line up with a solstice in that part of
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the world. And we do know that Earth has a
magnetic field, and certain areas of that magnetic field functioned
differently than other right, Um, but I don't know if
that necessarily proves the idea of ley line. It just
seems that when I go online I look at maps
of ley lines, at every single one is different, and
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every single one kind of just decides where they want
them to be. Uh, I don't know just what I've seen. Well,
I'd like to hear from some listeners to just what
I want to. I'd like to hear from an expert
that could sit sit me down and explain to me
exactly what it is, because from what I found online, right,
maybe I just don't get it. I'm now I'm picturing
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this conversation you'll be having with an expert, sort of
like a Law and Order episode Law and Order coolon
lay lines, dom domm don't tell me, give it to me.
I don't give it to me straight. I don't know.
Oh wait, yes, but before we go on, it's time
for word from our sponsor. Alright, So here's one of
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my favorite theories about Stonehenge, Matt. The idea that Stonehenge
is a hoax. It was built in nine four. Uh,
and there's a there's a great website where you can
see these purported pictures of people building Stonehenge. All right, well,
I guess we're done here. Yep. Uh. You guys have
a great rest of your day. Uh you find us
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on Twitter. Oh no, all right, well okay, so how
does somebody get to Stone Nge. That's one of the
most exciting things to me is you can actually go there.
Oh yeah, and I think you have to make special
arrangements if you want to go up and walk around Stonehenge,
go and just drive by. Yeah, but you can. You
can go and visit. There's this really great new uh
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I don't know exactly. It looks like a big tent structure,
but it's the main visitor center for the Stonehenge. There
are all kinds of things that you can go look
at their objects from the past from Stonehenge Um. Sometimes
they give to have speakers there lecture series on the
history of the area. You can if you'd like to
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go to Stone Innge, you can visit ww dot English,
dash Heritage dot org dot UK and you'll see where
or you can book the tickets. I think for adults.
It's somewhere, it's a little less than fourteen pounds, uh
to visit. Of course kids get a different rate, and
certain groups are allowed to practice spiritual rights there. Um.
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But yeah, you're the stone, just walk up anymore. Somebody
ruined it. Somebody probably went and you know what happened,
knowing human beings, Matt, here's what happened. Someone committed a
crime there. Possibly someone urinated on a stone, definitely, because
that's how people are. Um. And maybe maybe somebody said, oh,
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how romantic, let's uh, let's go have an intimate. Yeah,
let's go have an intimate encounter in Stonehenge. And so
now because of people doing those things, they ruin the
fund for everybody. But we should point out, Matt, you
and I have never been to Stonehenge. Right, it is
a goal in my life. Now. No, you have not
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been to Stonehenge either, right, Nope. So even our superproducer
Ol has not been there yet. But no has been
somewhere else. Ah, yes, And so have we met? Well?
I have not, you have, Oh I thought you would went?
Who was that guy? Then, ladies and gentlemen, we are
talking about the United States own Stonehenge. The Stonehenge of
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the Southeast, sometimes Georgia's own Stonehenge, the Georgia Guidestones, erected
in Elberton County, Georgia, which touts itself as the Granite
capital of the World. Under very mysterious circumstances. Oh yes,
it was commissioned by a fellow named R. C. Christian,
which is we're assuming a pseudonym. Definitely. The monument is
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built to convey astrological information and it contains multi lingual
directives for a new world paradigm. Seriously, that's what that's
what it is, instructions for the new world. Like if
we if you look at these commandments, which are in Russian, English, Spanish,
I think, Mandarin's, Swahili, couple other things. Um, then you'll
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you'll read the same few directives over and over and Matt,
you and I quickly read these off. Now one maintain
humanity under five hundred million in perpetual balance with nature,
guide reproduction wisely, improving fitness and diversity. Unites humanity with
a new living language. I wonder which language they're talking
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about there, hopefull you're doing rule, passion, faith, tradition, and
all things with tempered reason. Protect people and nations with
fair laws and just courts. Let all nations rule internally,
resolving external disputes in a world court, avoid petty laws
and useless officials. Balance personal rights with social duties. Prize truth, beauty,
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love seeking, harmony, with the infinite. Be not a cancer
on the earth. Leave room for nature, Leave room for nature.
The last guy kind of stuck out here was the
John Hancock of that crew. But yes, this is a
real place built by a group of people who refer
to remain anonymous in um Alberton, Georgia, which is not
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not exactly a hub of New Age thinking. It is
a hub though for granite, which is why they built this,
this huge thing out of grantite. And they've got a
time capsule under there with no date on when it
should be opened. Overall, this thing, uh is is huge.
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The four major stones are sixteen ft four inches high.
They each way about a little bit less than forty
two thousand, five hundred pounds, And we have spent a
lot of time talking about this. The reason we mentioned
Noel going there is because Noel actually did a documentary
on the Georgia Guide Stones, which is fantastic. Is there
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any way for us to find that. Will you give
us before you go? Will you go on here and
say how you can find it? I don't even have it,
um it, so I think it out perfect. Well, you
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gotta let our people know me too, please, Yes, and listeners.
We get quite a bit of email about the Georgia
guide Stones. You know, every every few maybe every two weeks,
somebody sends us something about the Georgia guid Stones and
we're planning to do something special there. But we want
to go on site and we would like to, uh,
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we would like to really make a good show or
series with this one. So let us know if you
think it's worth it for us to go up there
and do a on the spot show about the Georgia Guidestones. Yeah.
I want to analyze it, just I want to talk
to as many people as possible. And now, I mean
Nole's already got this thing. We can use that as
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historical context. I'm excited. Yes, so check this out because
there's so much more about this, about this monument that
we we haven't got to. Maybe we could do a
podcast just on the Georgia Guidestones too. Um, there's one
last thing we should do before we get out of here, Matt,
We're going to do a ritual. Oh man, okay, so yeah,
(32:35):
you're probably wondering where I'm wearing this robe. I mean
I was gonna ask. I didn't want to offend you
or anything. I am just I am covered in pig
blood under this robe. Man. It's uh yeah, I could smell. Yeah. Well,
things have got kind of crazy, but we are doing
something that may becoming ritual met today we are announcing
the winner of our Facebook caption contest. Oh you have
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a winner already. That's right, everybody. If you hang out
with Matt and Nolan I on Facebook or Twitter at
Conspiracy Stuff, then you will have already heard about our
caption contest that we just sort of decided to do
for yeah, fun time. See if it's see if it
was worthwhile. And we got so many responses, we uh
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we went through them all knowing a lot of close calls.
There are some great ones. There are some moments of
bit creepiness, maybe a little awkward or unnecessary. I said,
I I really enjoyed some of these. One of my
favorites was one that in all the caps just said soon, Yeah,
that's pretty great. But we did find a winner. We do.
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We have a winner, and I think it's just I mean,
he wins for me because I like the reference and
I didn't realize when we were shooting that picture how
similar it was to this. So I'm just gonna say it,
Ben Adam Reid, you win, buddy. And what did Adams say?
Adam said, you can turn back now or watch us
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Mr Adam Read, and thank you for playing the game.
We thoroughly enjoyed your caption. You have the winning caption,
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when we talk about the power of music and audio,
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and oddly enough, it's going to come up today in
this episode. I'm all right, I just threw that out
there and you you got it all the way around. Yeah. Well, uh,
let me's steal a joke from my my dad. Here.
Nine out of ten women think I'm pretty good for
blam is um dating number ten, Uh dad jokes man,
(01:05):
I've got no segue with dad's, so let's just get
right into it. An ancestors, there we go. Nice Save Matt,
Nice save uh So, Ladies and gentlemens always you know,
we're here with our super producer Noll to take a
look at yet another thing, event, secret, or phenomenon that
(01:26):
may not be getting the coverage it deserves. Right, Yes,
and in this case, it's a bunch of stones in
the middle of a field, a hinge if you will, hinge,
some sort of hinge of stone. That's right, we are
talking about Stonehenge. Now, this is something that is familiar
to I would say the vast majority of people in
the world. You've seen it, you've seen a picture of it,
(01:47):
you've heard all kinds of crazy things about it. But
what the heck is it? Actually, the best part is
that we don't know for sure, but there're a lot
There are a lot of facts about it that we
can point to, and there are a lot of theory.
So that's what we're doing today. The biggest question, like
you said, what the heck is it? Well, we do
know this is a prehistoric ruin in southern England near Salisbury,
(02:10):
that's right, But we don't know who built it. But
it's thought to date back to about eight hundred BC,
and who have been designed for some kind of ritual
or at least a ceremonial purpose or b c e.
If you're if you're one of those people starting to
type the email right now, where we will get an
(02:31):
email either way, regardless of what initials you want to
stamp on that time period. Remains of cremated human bodies
have been found buried at Stonehenge, and this indicates that
it may have been used as a burial ground, assuming
of course that the people of Stonehenge knew there were
bodies there. Yeah, well, depending on what, like, if there
(02:51):
were people using it after it had been built for
different purposes than when it was originally built. Oh boy,
we're gonna get in all kinds of stuff here. One
thing that should be known is that Stonehenge is in
itself not a unique structure. It's one of some eighty
British prehistoric ruins that are characterized by this large circular
embankment that encloses, or at least at one point enclosed
(03:15):
some kind of structure. Yeah. And although the original meaning
of the phrase hinge is not known, that word is
now used for any ruins of this type. And we
have learned a little bit about how these things looked
in their heyday, right, Yeah. In most of these structures
of things that we call hinge um, there were they
(03:38):
were primarily made out of wood. But Stonehenge, which was
built in three phases, uh, contained a wooden structure at least. Uh.
It's believed that it contained a wooden structure in its
first phase, but it was eventually made up completely of stones.
So they replaced the parts that were there with these
giant stones, which are heavy. Yeah. How heavy? My ask? Oh,
(04:00):
we are glad you did. Let's talk about the structure
of Stonehenge in its final form, which does make me
think of various various things from our childhood. Uh. Stonehenge
had thirty upright stones. These were each about eighteen feet
or five and a half meters high, seven ft two
point one meters thick, and there were in an outer
ring that was about thirty meters across. Now only seventeen
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of these megaliths called Sarson's are now standing. The the
large stones that are one piece, yeah, the the vertical ones,
and the ones that uh span the top of those Sarson's.
Those are called lentils uh l I n t E
L s less my accent full some of you. Uh,
And these are about ten and a half foot uh
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stones that create that um almost doorway looking part of Stonehenge,
and then you got the blue stones, which are the
smaller upright stones that are on the inside to make
that inner ring. Um. If you haven't watched our video yet,
I would recommend watching it. There are a ton of
pictures of this. Again, we're fairly certain that you were
(05:09):
aware of what it looks like, but uh, you might
get a better picture maybe if you have our video
while you're listening to this, Hey why not? Uh so?
And that's funny because the video is probably under five
minutes in this podcast will probably be a little bit longer,
little bit, yeah, but then just keep replaying it. So
within Stone Hinge there was this horseshoe of five what
(05:31):
are called trill athons, and these are two upright Sarson's
capped by a lentil. Three of those remain standing. At
the center was this horseshoe of bluestones around a pillar
known as the altar Stone. Oh yes, the good old
altar stone, where all kinds of fun rituals could take place.
(05:52):
Some of them we just have been uh, fantasizing about
what could have taken place. There's some of it. We
have an idea because of things that we found there.
We're going to get into this. But the best part
is there was an alter stone. Ben. If you're going
to have a great monolithic structure from ancient times, there's
got to be a place where you can have a ritual.
Do you remember that time that I became obsessed with Skyrim?
(06:16):
That Skyrim? What is that? Ben? Al Right? So, guys,
I have nothing against video games. I don't play them
very often, but when I do, I have very strange
relationship with them because I have no sense of moderation.
I was playing Star Skyrim all the time, you know,
in Maureens evenings. One time I left work early to
(06:41):
play Skyrim, and that's when I realized I had a problem.
But I always think of Skyrim when I hear about
these prehistoric alter stones. Um. And of course, you know, Skyrim,
being fictional, is just inspired by a lot of those structures.
But it's important for us to remember, I'll crow the world,
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things like this exists, and many of them remain utterly
mysterious today. But we do know. We do know that
we've been able to perform some forensic stuff here, and
that's why we know the outside of the Sarson Circle
at Stonehenge, there's a ring of fifty six pits, and
they're called Aubrey holes, and they're named after John Aubrey
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who investigated the Hinge in the seventeenth century, and he
found these four small stones and then this circular bank
of earth that's surrounded by this ditch, right, and two
stone pillars flanked an entrance through the earth bank. One
of them remains. There's an upright megalith, the heel stone,
that's outside the entrance. Um, let's talk a little bit
(07:45):
about the astrology. Huh, the astronomy rather, Oh yes, So
I let's imagine that you're standing in the center of
Stonehenge and it's the summer solstice. Now, let's imagine that you,
the person listening to the are standing in the center
of Stonehenge on summer solstice. Now that's around June one.
(08:06):
It shifts around a little bit, but if you're standing there,
the sun is going to rise from behind this stone,
the heelstone that you just mentioned, and it's gonna come
up over across this thing, and essentially he's just going
to create this amazing almost spiritual feeling just from the
way the sun is going to come through these sarson's
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and come across that Heelstone, and we can tell that
it was a majestic experience. It was created while inside
this which you're yeah, yeah, we know. It is inarguable
that Stonehenge was built by someone who had knowledge of
the heavens right and the solstices, and that they built
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Stonehenge to reflect these great moments throughout the year. In
the nineteen sixties, met some astronomers theorize that these Aubrey
holes and some of those stones could be used to
keep track of solar and lunar years to predict eclipses,
which is just so amazing. I mean, ask ask yourselves,
(09:09):
if we were transported back in time and we were
tasked with predicting an eclipse, how on earth will we
do it? I think that's something that escapes pupil's minds
often about time travel, and always think, oh, if I
if I went back and you know, into the uh,
the twelve hundreds or even the eighteen hundreds, I'd be
(09:30):
amazing because I know so much stuff. But do we
do we? Because I can't build a smartphone. Yeah, something
as simple as keeping track of the time and seasons
and where the sun is, and wow, that's that's a
really interesting way to look at it in. So yeah,
we know that. Um, this has led a lot of
people to believe that Stonehenge was a primitive astronomical observatory,
(09:52):
but not everyone agrees. Now that hypothesis is disputed by
a lot of archaeologists who contend that there's really no
evidence to suggest the builders of Stonehenge had a lot
of knowledge of or interest in astronomy. But yeah, I
still think it's inarguable, though. I think it cannot be
a coincidence that they just lined it up. But maybe
I'm just seeing what I want to see. Either way,
(10:15):
somebody is seeing something that they want to see, all right, Yeah,
Uh that's a fair point. Uh, you're not wrong. Stonehenge
didn't just start out in its current form, as we said,
in its first phase, like you have mentioned earlier, Matt,
it had a lot of wood components, wouldn't components. Stonehenge
was just a few stones wouldn't post and closed by
this circular embankment. Uh. The current theory nowadays is that
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this was used for religious gatherings and then around two
thousand BC, people with slightly more advanced technology figured out
how to get these blue stones there. They heat weighed
four tons or thirty six krams for everybody outside of
let's see Namibia, Burma and the US. And the crazy
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thing is that they were, at least in the current theory,
they were floated by raft from southwestern Wales. Yeah, they
were set up to form that inner circle within the embankment,
and several centuries later uh Stonehenges builders up the ante
and transported the Sarson's, each of which weighs about twenty
five tons. They were brought from as far as twenty
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miles away and set up outside the Blue Stones. That
that is insane to me, and that is one of
the reasons people have issues with the idea of humans
building these things, these giant stones, right, because if you
go to ancient alien theory, some people believe that there
must have been some kind of advanced technology to get
(11:45):
these stones set up the way they are and for
what purpose been for what purpose meant right? But we
know that. Of course, in the absence of concrete proof,
speculation runs rampant. You will often hear that Stonehinges acted
with the druids somehow, Oh, druids totally, the classic Druid
move people are saying. But there's really not any hard
(12:09):
evidence that they that the druids played a part in
the construction of Stonehenge. However, we do know that a
couple of ingenious modern day humans have demonstrated methods that
could be used in theory to build Stonehenge, and they
make a pretty convincing case. Yeah, physics is pretty awesome,
(12:32):
and if you can figure out how to use simple
tools like pulleys levers, you can you can make some
really heavy things do some pretty incredible stuff. Right. There's
some great YouTube videos where you can see demonstrations of
this by a couple of different sources who reach the
same conclusions. But that's not the million dollar question. We've
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We've at this point explained u some of the dimensions
of Stonehenge and and some of the best guesses at
its evolution. But what the heck was it for? You know,
why did people use it? Well, there are a lot
of theories been and let's get into them. Right after
a quick word from our sponsors and we're back. So
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let's get into what are the possible things Stonehnded was
meant for. So one of them is some people think
it was a sacred hunting ground prior to those big rocks,
the Sarson's being up there. They it's believed that this
was an ancient or migration route. Rocks are these fun
looking creatures that you can hunt for meat, which is
(13:43):
nice when you could have Yeah, you're not anymore. They
are no longer existing in our world. To think of
them oxen like you know, Okay, yeah, that's a really
good way to put it. So this was migration route,
like you were saying that thousands of years before for
Stones came around. There's another site about a mile away
from the Wiltshire, England Megaliths, and it contains evidence of
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human occupation spanning three thousand years, including thousands of those
orc bones, flint tools, and evidence that they made and
used fire. One of the coolest things that you can
see evidence of construction at the site of Stonehenge as
far back is eight thousand, five hundred years or almost
(14:27):
to ten thousand years ago. Uh. Where are these these
pine posts that were sticking out of the ground that
were at one time raised to create some kind of
ancient structure, right, Yeah, And the archaeological evidence hence that
this site was originally this ancient hunting feasting kind of
a kind kind of a hall, party hall, a party hall,
(14:49):
a community center. And uh maybe the megaliths they say,
were raised to memorialize this. Um. But of course that
is not the final word. There's another idea. It's similar
but a little bit different. It's thought that maybe Stonehenge,
this huge, seemingly important monument, was more than just some
(15:11):
kind of barbecue cookout area. Um. Some people believe that
these were erected to celebrate peace or some type of unity,
gathering together in harmony, with different groups coming together there.
You know, I love it, but I don't really see
the causation here because there is a correlation. The argument
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here is that, uh, during that intense building period which
you know, as as we've shown, Stonehenge took a long
time to build between three thousand and the culture of
the British Isles was increasingly unifying. Um. And they say
that you can see this because there are more similarities
in regional pottery. But here's the here's the problem to me,
(15:55):
and this is just my personal beef with it. I
just don't think that a unification of a culture necessarily
means that Stonehenge was built to celebrate that. Maybe it
means that people were more likely to get together. But
I don't think they were likely to get together to say, hey,
let's let's make a monument about what good friends we are.
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You guys, why don't we ever make monuments about our friendships? See?
I don't know enough about it. But what if all
of the different sarcens are representing different tribes? Would that
be cool? It's kind of like the American flag, all
the different you know, all the different states of provinces
in the thirteen Colonies and so on. They just did
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it with these giant stones, which is cooler. In my book,
that might be. Yeah, it's just I guess you can't
build too many because you certainly couldn't carry those rounds.
Or maybe you could get a smaller version, like a
mini hinge. That's how you do it. We should be
we should be the marketing. You think they had a mockhee,
like a early set up Kings where a bunch of
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guys got together they were like, um, I think we
need to put it here and here and there little marbles.
I wonder, you know, because it took so long to build.
The previous iterations, like the wooden parts probably existed as
a model of sorts. Um and uh boy, can you
imagine they had to have some kind of planning. Can
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you imagine? We always hear about ancient monuments being made
with such precision and perfection and skill, but we never
hear about, you know, the ones that got messed up
because they're in Easter Island head somewhere where they got
the nose wrong and they said, ah, barry this one. Monuments. Yeah,
there where the botched monuments where the ancient Machu Picchu
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walls that just aren't really well put together. I guess
they crumbled the ancient subpar artists. Yeah, what happened to
those guys? There's a comedy sketch in there somewhere. But um,
it is true, as we said before that one of
the big one of the big theories force Stonehenge is
the astronomical calendar idea that this was where ancients would
(18:05):
celebrate winter Solstice. In particular. They say this because the
avenue near Stonehenge alliance with the winter solstice sunset, and
nearby archaeological evidence suggests that pigs were slaughtered during December
and January, maybe a midwinter feast of sorts, And it's
also known that the site faces the sunrise during the
summer solstice, and that thousands of visitors go to this
(18:27):
site every year even now to celebrate that time. And
here's something really cool, something a little different. So there
were these two pipers playing in a field around Stonehenge
and they would have heard the uh sound canceled out
at certain spots. There's a sound allusion that might have
inspired the Stonehenge builders. This comes from a presentation at
(18:48):
the American Association for the Advancement of Sciences, So hardly
uh fringe research here. Yeah, So it's thought that perhaps
these mega lifts were cred to augment the sound that
was already naturally occurring in the site. And it's actually
really interesting. The monument is often nicknamed the Piper Stones
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in England, and the legend holds that these magic pipers
would lead maidens out into the field and then turn
them into stones as they are today. Bizarre. Yeah, And
even those who don't buy this whole sound illusion theory
agree that Stonehenge has astonishing acoustic qualities with the cavernous
echo echo echo. Oh, it's really cool because it's all
(19:32):
of those different flat surfaces that it's reflecting from depending
on where you stand. You can have crazy auditory things
like where uh, sounds from the right will be coming
in from the left side. Uh. It's really cool. There's
a presentation online that you can find if you search
for Stonehenge acoustics, I think and model. Search for that
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and you can find just really cool stuff and even
models online that you can look at many hinges, well sorry,
not many hinges. It's it's models of what the acoustics
would be like if Stonehenge was the way it was
I guess originally meant to look. Okay, yeah, so we
can we can picture it already. You can start to
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see the sights and hear the sounds that ancient people
would encounter when they saw the sun go down on
winter solstice during the chanting resonating from the stones, you know,
the sound of uh, pigs being slaughtered or yeah, cremation,
which brings us to the next one. The Elite Cemetery.
We talked about this earlier before the break, the mysterious
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monument that may have once been a burial ground for
the Creme de la Creme of the ancient societies. Thousands
of skeletal fragments of at least sixty three individuals have
been exhumed from around the area with an equal proportion
of men and women and children. So this is interesting
because I've heard I've heard that there was a debate
(20:59):
about the proportion there. You'll hear some people say, well,
it's primarily men and very few women. Uh. So this
would leave people to say, well, maybe it's the burial
ground of warriors or something. But the thing is, these
burials date to three thousand BC, and as construction of
the monument was getting started, archaeologists have also found some
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things that are usually associated with the swells of ancient society,
things like instance, bowls on mace head, et cetera. But
that is not the crazy idea yet, No, sir, I'm
gonna mention a name here that you know. Eric Fontanakan
i s author of Chariots of the Gods, among other things,
(21:43):
the primary advocate of ancient alien theory, even more so
than that guy who shows up on History Channel. He's
a gloriously exciting person to see on television. I always
love it when his name pops up. I'm like, oh, yes, Fontanenan.
So he thinks that the creation of Stonehenge and the
Neolithic period was a model of our solar system. Yes,
(22:08):
a celestial map that was created with stones. I it
seems like it's a lot of trouble to make a map. Yeah,
so here's the idea. But it is kind of permanent. Yeah,
there's that too. But here's the idea. He's saying that
observing the circularly positioned uh trench surrounding Stonehenge, connecting a
point that extends hundreds of meters away from the site
(22:30):
with an extending pathway pointing directly upon the position the
sun would lie in during the summer solstice, uh he
says this represents a model of the Neolithic star system
that they believe consisted of nine planets, and from this
early representation of our solar system, or in von Dannikin's opinion,
uh he proposed that the stone circle served as a
(22:52):
landing pad for spaceships or an observatory for extraterrestrial activity
amid the skies. Yeah. I love it, I know it,
I know, but where where is the other proof? You
know what, what would we have found if that was
(23:13):
really happening. It's a really fun idea. I appreciate it
on so many levels, but unfortunately I can't put any
weight behind that. Yeah, well, I wonder if you know.
Von Dnikin gets a heck of a hard time because
he is often accused of just ignoring what doesn't fit
(23:34):
his ancient alien theory, you know, and he's also been
called racist because the implied the implied thing about ancient
aliens is that ancient people were not capable of the
same ingenuity as modern people. Still fascinating though, it's so
much fun to think about. Oh and here's a deep
cut to one of our earliest earliest videos. Uh, the
(23:56):
idea of lay lines that Stonehenge is sort of a
node for these electro magnetic or geomantic lines of energy
that criss cross the globe sort of like uh, sort
of like veins and flesh. It's like the Earth's spiritual energy. Um. Again, man,
(24:17):
I hate to I don't want to influence anybody either way.
If you want to believe in ley lines, that's fine. Uh,
there's not a lot of evidence, and it seems to
be a whole lot of coincidence, but you know, maybe, well,
we do know that, we do know that there have
been various sites around the world that have been built
to line up with a solstice in that part of
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the world. And we do know that Earth has a
magnetic field, and certain areas of that magnetic field functioned
differently than other right, Um, but I don't know if
that necessarily proves the idea of ley line. It just
seems that when I go online I look at maps
of ley lines, at every single one is different, and
(24:58):
every single one kind of just decides where they want
them to be. Uh, I don't know just what I've seen. Well,
I'd like to hear from some listeners to just what
I want to. I'd like to hear from an expert
that could sit sit me down and explain to me
exactly what it is, because from what I found online, right,
maybe I just don't get it. I'm now I'm picturing
(25:22):
this conversation you'll be having with an expert, sort of
like a Law and Order episode Law and Order coolon
lay lines, dom domm don't tell me, give it to me.
I don't give it to me straight. I don't know.
Oh wait, yes, but before we go on, it's time
for word from our sponsor. Alright, So here's one of
(25:49):
my favorite theories about Stonehenge, Matt. The idea that Stonehenge
is a hoax. It was built in nine four. Uh,
and there's a there's a great website where you can
see these purported pictures of people building Stonehenge. All right, well,
I guess we're done here. Yep. Uh. You guys have
a great rest of your day. Uh you find us
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on Twitter. Oh no, all right, well okay, so how
does somebody get to Stone Nge. That's one of the
most exciting things to me is you can actually go there.
Oh yeah, and I think you have to make special
arrangements if you want to go up and walk around Stonehenge,
go and just drive by. Yeah, but you can. You
can go and visit. There's this really great new uh
(26:32):
I don't know exactly. It looks like a big tent structure,
but it's the main visitor center for the Stonehenge. There
are all kinds of things that you can go look
at their objects from the past from Stonehenge Um. Sometimes
they give to have speakers there lecture series on the
history of the area. You can if you'd like to
(26:52):
go to Stone Innge, you can visit ww dot English,
dash Heritage dot org dot UK and you'll see where
or you can book the tickets. I think for adults.
It's somewhere, it's a little less than fourteen pounds, uh
to visit. Of course kids get a different rate, and
certain groups are allowed to practice spiritual rights there. Um.
(27:13):
But yeah, you're the stone, just walk up anymore. Somebody
ruined it. Somebody probably went and you know what happened,
knowing human beings, Matt, here's what happened. Someone committed a
crime there. Possibly someone urinated on a stone, definitely, because
that's how people are. Um. And maybe maybe somebody said, oh,
(27:33):
how romantic, let's uh, let's go have an intimate. Yeah,
let's go have an intimate encounter in Stonehenge. And so
now because of people doing those things, they ruin the
fund for everybody. But we should point out, Matt, you
and I have never been to Stonehenge. Right, it is
a goal in my life. Now. No, you have not
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been to Stonehenge either, right, Nope. So even our superproducer
Ol has not been there yet. But no has been
somewhere else. Ah, yes, And so have we met? Well?
I have not, you have, Oh I thought you would went?
Who was that guy? Then, ladies and gentlemen, we are
talking about the United States own Stonehenge. The Stonehenge of
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the Southeast, sometimes Georgia's own Stonehenge, the Georgia Guidestones, erected
in Elberton County, Georgia, which touts itself as the Granite
capital of the World. Under very mysterious circumstances. Oh yes,
it was commissioned by a fellow named R. C. Christian,
which is we're assuming a pseudonym. Definitely. The monument is
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built to convey astrological information and it contains multi lingual
directives for a new world paradigm. Seriously, that's what that's
what it is, instructions for the new world. Like if
we if you look at these commandments, which are in Russian, English, Spanish,
I think, Mandarin's, Swahili, couple other things. Um, then you'll
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you'll read the same few directives over and over and Matt,
you and I quickly read these off. Now one maintain
humanity under five hundred million in perpetual balance with nature,
guide reproduction wisely, improving fitness and diversity. Unites humanity with
a new living language. I wonder which language they're talking
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about there, hopefull you're doing rule, passion, faith, tradition, and
all things with tempered reason. Protect people and nations with
fair laws and just courts. Let all nations rule internally,
resolving external disputes in a world court, avoid petty laws
and useless officials. Balance personal rights with social duties. Prize truth, beauty,
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love seeking, harmony, with the infinite. Be not a cancer
on the earth. Leave room for nature, Leave room for nature.
The last guy kind of stuck out here was the
John Hancock of that crew. But yes, this is a
real place built by a group of people who refer
to remain anonymous in um Alberton, Georgia, which is not
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not exactly a hub of New Age thinking. It is
a hub though for granite, which is why they built this,
this huge thing out of grantite. And they've got a
time capsule under there with no date on when it
should be opened. Overall, this thing, uh is is huge.
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The four major stones are sixteen ft four inches high.
They each way about a little bit less than forty
two thousand, five hundred pounds, And we have spent a
lot of time talking about this. The reason we mentioned
Noel going there is because Noel actually did a documentary
on the Georgia Guide Stones, which is fantastic. Is there
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any way for us to find that. Will you give
us before you go? Will you go on here and
say how you can find it? I don't even have it,
um it, so I think it out perfect. Well, you
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gotta let our people know me too, please, Yes, and listeners.
We get quite a bit of email about the Georgia
guide Stones. You know, every every few maybe every two weeks,
somebody sends us something about the Georgia guid Stones and
we're planning to do something special there. But we want
to go on site and we would like to, uh,
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we would like to really make a good show or
series with this one. So let us know if you
think it's worth it for us to go up there
and do a on the spot show about the Georgia Guidestones. Yeah.
I want to analyze it, just I want to talk
to as many people as possible. And now, I mean
Nole's already got this thing. We can use that as
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historical context. I'm excited. Yes, so check this out because
there's so much more about this, about this monument that
we we haven't got to. Maybe we could do a
podcast just on the Georgia Guidestones too. Um, there's one
last thing we should do before we get out of here, Matt,
We're going to do a ritual. Oh man, okay, so yeah,
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you're probably wondering where I'm wearing this robe. I mean
I was gonna ask. I didn't want to offend you
or anything. I am just I am covered in pig
blood under this robe. Man. It's uh yeah, I could smell. Yeah. Well,
things have got kind of crazy, but we are doing
something that may becoming ritual met today we are announcing
the winner of our Facebook caption contest. Oh you have
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a winner already. That's right, everybody. If you hang out
with Matt and Nolan I on Facebook or Twitter at
Conspiracy Stuff, then you will have already heard about our
caption contest that we just sort of decided to do
for yeah, fun time. See if it's see if it
was worthwhile. And we got so many responses, we uh
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we went through them all knowing a lot of close calls.
There are some great ones. There are some moments of
bit creepiness, maybe a little awkward or unnecessary. I said,
I I really enjoyed some of these. One of my
favorites was one that in all the caps just said soon, Yeah,
that's pretty great. But we did find a winner. We do.
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We have a winner, and I think it's just I mean,
he wins for me because I like the reference and
I didn't realize when we were shooting that picture how
similar it was to this. So I'm just gonna say it,
Ben Adam Reid, you win, buddy. And what did Adams say?
Adam said, you can turn back now or watch us
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recreate that car park scene from Highlander. So congratulations to you,
Mr Adam Read, and thank you for playing the game.
We thoroughly enjoyed your caption. You have the winning caption,
and uh, based on how many people liked your comment,
it seems that Matt and I are not the only
ones who agree. In fact, super producer Noel and I
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were talking off air about this too, and uh, I
was asking him, you know, which one do you think
is a favorite. So it's unanimous from the three of us.
So let us know if you enjoyed the captured contests,
if you want us to take this up for another
go round, and also let us know if you have
an idea for something we should cover an upcoming episode.
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