June 5, 2025 • 27 mins
In 1909, a man named GE Kincaid claimed to have discovered an ancient underground city deep within the Grand Canyon—complete with hieroglyphics, statues, mummies, and lost technology. The Smithsonian got involved... and the site vanished.Today, you’re not allowed to visit that part of the Canyon.In this episode, we follow the trail of Kincaid’s discovery, the areas of the Grand Canyon you’re not allowed to enter, and the long-standing accusations that the Smithsonian has been hiding evidence of a forgotten civilization—perhaps even one connected to Egypt… or the Anunnaki.#losthistory #anunnaki #grandcanyon
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(00:00):
Yeah. In the early 1900's, the Grand
(00:39):
Canyon was still the Wild West. Before it became a National
Park, before it was fenced off and sanitized for tourism, it
was open ground, an untamed landscape of cliffs, caves and
uncharted territory. And in 19 O 8, just as President
Theodore Roosevelt prepared to lock it down forever, one last
(01:00):
explorer slipped through the gates.
His name was GE Kincaid. Officially, he was working a
mineral survey. Unofficially, he was chasing
legends. Kincaid took a small boat down
the Colorado River, about 40 miles up river from El Tavar,
Crystal Canyon. He saw something strange,
(01:21):
discoloration in the sediment far above the waterline.
He tied off his boat, climbed the Canyon wall and found steps.
Not natural erosion, not a game trail, but these were carved,
ancient and winding up into the stone like a forgotten staircase
to somewhere no one was meant tofind again.
(01:41):
At the top, hidden beneath desert brush, was the mouth of a
cavern. The entrance to was clearly man
made. Inside, Kincaid found nothing
that made sense, at least not ifyou believe the standard history
of North America. The walls were covered in
strange symbols, hieroglyphs. Not Hopi, not Mayan, not
anything local. They looked Egyptian, but not
(02:04):
quite. He went deeper.
Chambers opened up, dozens of them, hundreds rooms laid out
like a complex, like an ancient city.
Buried within the rock. There were mummies, statues,
tools and weapons forged from copper and other metals, some
still unknown today. He found a crypt filled with
(02:27):
perfectly arranged skeletal remains, each resting on carved
shelves, accompanied by urns andbroken swords.
All the mummies were male. Elsewhere there were storage
rooms, granaries still holding seeds, pottery lined neatly on
stone shelves. There were signs of metallurgy,
slag and mat from a smelting operation, workbenches still
(02:48):
littered with charcoal. These people had mastered the
art of copper hardening. They weren't primitives, they
were engineers. And then there was the statue.
A massive figure carved from Blackstone, seated cross legged
in the Lotus position, a flower in each hand.
Not Egyptian, not Native American.
(03:09):
Something else, something foreign, something sacred.
Kincaid estimated the complex could have housed 50,000 people.
He sent artifacts and documentation to the
Smithsonian. They responded with urgency,
dispatching a team led by Professor SA Jordan to assist
with excavation. According to Kincaid's final
(03:31):
reports, over 40 researchers arrived to explore the caverns.
They catalogued artifacts. They drew diagrams.
They found more rooms, hundreds more barracks, workshops,
temples, every hallway carved with precision, every passage
engineered with purpose. The story was published only
(03:52):
once. On April 5th, 19 O 9, the
Arizona Gazette published an article titled Explorations in
Grand Canyon and then Silence. The Smithsonian denied it ever
happened. The Cave was never logged, the
artifacts never shown, the coordinates lost or erased.
(04:14):
The Cave was never open to the public.
In fact, it's location, somewhere near the area now
known as the Isis Temple, was quietly sealed off.
Restricted from hikers, from rafters, even from the air.
The site is now part of a no flyzone.
Anyone who approaches is intercepted, in some cases
(04:35):
arrested, in others simply turned away by force.
And yet the stories haven't stopped.
Black helicopters, unmarked planes flying below the rim,
cement anchors embedded in stone, artifacts from the early
1900s. And always the sense that
(04:56):
something is still being guardedup there.
Officially, Kincaid never existed.
The Smithsonian denies the expedition.
They say the story was a hoax, just old newspaper
sensationalism. But what if it wasn't?
What if Kincaid did find something?
What if an ancient civilization,a highly advanced culture with
(05:18):
ties to Egypt, Tibet or something even older, once
inhabited the Grand Canyon? And what if the reason we're not
allowed into those caves is because what's buried inside
could change everything we thinkwe know about history, human
origin, and the gods? This is the Anunnaki connection.
(06:05):
In 19 O eight, President Teddy Roosevelt sought to protect the
Grand Canyon from timber and mining operations.
Explorer GE Kincaid, anticipating the closure,
mounted an expedition to the area to find minerals.
But what he discovered there wassomething completely unexpected.
Approximately 40 miles upriver from El Tavar Crystal Canyon,
(06:28):
Kincaid observed unusual sediment stains and upon
investigation found a cavern entrance with steps leading to
it suggesting a man made structure.
Inside. Kincaid found writings on the
walls, not in English or Native American scripts, but in ancient
Egyptian hieroglyphics. This finding suggested a
(06:48):
historical connection far beyondlocal or known civilizations.
The Cave system revealed a vast underground city estimated to
house up to 50,000 people, complete with granaries, cooking
areas and artifacts indicating asophisticated society with
knowledge of metalwork and possibly agriculture.
(07:09):
Among the findings were granaries with preserved seeds,
tools made of copper indicating a lost art of hardening the
metal, and various artifacts that pointed to a
technologically advanced civilization.
The complexity of The Cave system, with engineered
passageways and rooms, challenged contemporary
understandings of ancient civilizations in North America.
(07:32):
Kincaid's findings led to a Smithsonian expedition led by
Professor SA Jordan, which further explored The Cave
system, uncovering a central chamber with a statue resembling
Buddha, hinting at a cultural amalgamation or influence from
distant lands. The artifacts and the layout of
The Cave suggested a deliberate,sophisticated design
(07:54):
contradicting the notion of an isolated or primitive local
civilization. Despite significant discoveries,
mainstream researchers and the Smithsonian have labeled the
account as a hoax and dismissingthe claims of an advanced
civilization predating Native Americans in the Grand Canyon
and the possibility of ancient transoceanic contacts that might
(08:15):
have influenced pre Columbian American civilizations.
Any and all attempts to further explore or validate Kincaid's
findings face governmental restrictions with areas off
limits for exploration. This remarkable discovery aligns
with local tribal legends such as those of the Hopi, suggesting
(08:37):
a historical basis for tales of ancient peoples and non human
entities emerging from the GrandCanyon, blending myth with
tangible archaeological intrigue.
(09:09):
According to Hopi tradition, theGrand Canyon isn't just a
Canyon, it's a portal, a gatewayto the underworld.
They call it Sipapuni, the placewhere the first people emerged
after a great cataclysm. The Hopi believed that humanity
was destroyed and reborn not once, but three times, each time
saved by mysterious underground beings known as the Ant People.
(09:34):
These Ant People weren't insects.
They were described as small, pale skinned humanoids with
large eyes who lived in vast subterranean cities beneath the
earth. They sheltered the Hopi during
times of fire and flood, fed them and taught them survival,
and possibly more. In some versions of the myth,
(09:56):
the Sky People described as godswho descended in flying Shields,
guided the Hopi to the Ant People, and then returned to the
stars. Sound familiar?
In one Hopi account, the original people who emerged from
the Canyon were lizard like reptilian beings who transformed
into human form. Other versions say that giants
(10:17):
once ruled the region, only to be destroyed by divine wrath and
buried beneath the stone. Modern researchers dismiss these
tales as metaphor, but they lineup uncannily with global
stories. The Nagas of India, reptilian
underworld dwellers with immenseknowledge and power.
The dragon kings of Chinese mythology who ruled from crystal
(10:39):
palaces beneath the earth. The watchers from the Book of
Enoch, who descended from the sky and were later buried
underground after corrupting mankind.
What if these aren't just metaphors?
What if they're fragments of a real event, a global
catastrophe, A migration underground and the survival of
a forgotten people? The Zuni speak of Kachinas, God
(11:01):
like beings who descended from the sky and brought knowledge,
language, agriculture and order to the people.
But when their time was over, the Kachinas retreated into the
earth where they remain in vast underground chambers hidden
until the world is ready again. The Acoma Pueblo holds similar
beliefs of divine teachers who did not come from this land, but
(11:23):
who shaped it, then vanished into sacred mountains and deep
caverns to sleep. And in nearly every one of these
traditions, the sacred lands arelocated around one specific
place, the Grand Canyon. When early American
archaeologists encountered thesestories, they dismissed them as
primitive folklore. Not history, not real.
(11:45):
But those same institutions believe the Iliad was inspired
by a real war at Troy. They admit that Norse myths
preserve details of actual weather events and migrations.
So why are native myths treated as imagination when they may be
eyewitness accounts passed down through time?
(12:17):
All across North America, strange artifacts, massive
earthworks, and unexplained ruins hint at civilizations far
more advanced than mainstream history is willing to admit.
These are not the simple tribal encampments described in
textbooks, but the fingerprints of complex organized societies
with metallurgy, astronomy, social hierarchy, and a sudden
(12:40):
disappearance. In the Ohio and Mississippi
River valleys lie thousands of earth and mounds, some small,
others massive and geometricallyperfect.
The most famous Serpent Mound inOhio stretches over 1300 feet
long and precisely aligns with lunar and solar cycles.
(13:00):
Not random, not decorative. Intentional engineering by a
people we no longer understand. In Cahokia, just outside present
day Saint Louis, once stood A sprawling city larger than
London in the 12th century. It had a grand Plaza,
astronomical observatories, complex trade networks and a
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population in the 10s of thousands.
And then, mysteriously, it was abandoned.
No war, no famine, just silence.And then there are the Giants.
All through the 1800s and early 1900s, newspapers across America
ran stories of massive human skeletons unearthed from burial
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mounds. Men ate sometimes 9 feet tall,
with double rows of teeth and elongated skulls.
At Spiro Mounds in Oklahoma, at the Kanawha Valley in West
Virginia, in Lovelock Cave, Nevada, in mound after mound.
Across the Midwest, these reports were always the same.
Strange bones unearthed. Smithsonian officials arrive,
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and the artifacts disappear. There are even accounts from
early settlers and archaeologists of skeletons
buried with armor and weapons, swords of bronze, breastplates
of unknown metals, tools too advanced, metallurgy too
sophisticated for the tribes known to inhabit these lands.
And there's the question no one in mainstream academia wants to
(14:27):
ask. If these were truly isolated
cultures separated by time and distance, why do we find the
same symbols, serpents, Suns, spirals repeated in identical
styles from the Ohio River Valley to Arizona to the
Yucatan? Why do we find pyramid building
traditions in Illinois? Why do burial rituals in
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Tennessee match those found in ancient Mesopotamia?
Even now, the official stance isthat pre Columbian America was a
cultural vacuum, that nothing crossed the oceans, that all
high civilization rose elsewhere.
What if it didn't? What if it also rose here and
someone erased it? It's not just the mounds or the
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legends, it's the silence that followed the sudden vanishing of
these societies, the pattern of discoveries followed by
disappearances, and always the institutions that step in to
control the narrative. If Kincaid's cave in the Grand
Canyon was real, and we believe it was, then it wasn't a one off
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anomaly. It was a missing chapter in a
story that stretches across an entire continent.
A story of civilizations far older and far more advanced than
we've been allowed to remember. And the deeper we dig, the more
that story begins to surface. In the northern part of the
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Grand Canyon, inside the area that's now federally restricted,
there's a strange cluster of names.
Names that don't belong. Isis Temple, Tower of Set,
Osiris temple, Horus temple, theChaos Pyramid and nearby Buddha
temple, Krishna shrine, Shiva temple, Manu, Brahma, Egyptian
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gods, Hindu gods, all crammed into the same narrow stretch of
Canyon, right where Kincaid claimed to have discovered an
underground city filled with non-native artifacts,
hieroglyphs, statues and mummies.
Mainstream historians will tell you the names were just chosen
by early explorers in the 19th and early 20th centuries.
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Adventurous geologists who likedmythology.
They'll say it's just poetic labeling, just a coincidence.
They were formalized by the US Geological Survey and placed
onto official maps, government maps at a time when most of the
country had no knowledge, let alone reverence for Hindu
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cosmology or obscure Egyptian deities like Set and Osiris.
Why were the most sacred gods ofancient Egypt and Vedic India
chosen to name remote cliffs in an American Canyon?
And more importantly, why are these places now off limits?
You can't hike to the Isis Temple.
You can't fly over Chaos Pyramid.
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According to Kincaid, the entrance to the hidden city he
found was just east of the Isis Temple, and somehow, a few
decades later, that part of the Canyon, along with the
surrounding peaks was suddenly full of names tied to gods of
resurrection, destruction and divine knowledge.
The same gods that appear in myths around world, shaping
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floods and skyborne visitors. Is that just romantic
coincidence? Or were the early explorers
tipped off by something they found, Something now buried,
classified and forgotten? These names are clues, bread
crumbs left on official documents by people who may have
known more than they were allowed to say.
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And the deeper you go, the more deliberate it all begins to
look. Because if a lost civilization
did exist here, one connected toEgypt, to Tibet, to ancient gods
and ancient wars, then the nameswere never just names.
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The Smithsonian Institution is the largest museum and research
complex in the world, with over 154,000,000 artifacts in its
possession. It is the final authority on
what counts as history and what doesn't.
But what happens when that authority is used not to
preserve the past, but to bury it for decades?
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Independent researchers, Journalists and even former
insiders have accused the Smithsonian of being at the
center of a long running cover up, one that spans ancient
giants, lost civilizations, forbidden artifacts and
explosive discoveries quietly erased from the historical
record. And it's not just speculation.
(19:21):
In 1881, geologist John Wesley Powell, best known for mapping
the Grand Canyon, was appointed the head of the Bureau of
Ethnology at the Smithsonian. It was Powell who first
implemented what would come to be known as the Powell Doctrine,
an institutional mandate to explain all Native American
history as isolated, undeveloped, and having no
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contact with ancient Old World civilizations.
From the mid 1800s through the early 1900s, hundreds of reports
appeared in American newspapers describing the discovery of
giant human skeletons. These weren't fringe tabloids,
they were front page headlines in the New York Times, the Saint
Louis Dispatch and the Washington Post.
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In West Virginia, skeletons over8 feet tall were found in burial
mounds. In Lovelock Cave, Nevada,
remains with red hair and oversized skulls were uncovered.
In Spiro Mounds, OK, and Astolan, Wisconsin, similar
remains were reported, only to vanish after Smithsonian
representatives arrived in each case.
(20:23):
The pattern was the same artifacts and bones sent to the
Smithsonian and never seen again.
In 1984, researcher Frederick J Pole inquired about 7 foot long
stone coffins discovered during a Geological Survey in Alabama
in 1892. The Smithsonian confirmed they
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had received the coffins but couldn't locate them in the
collection. Later, they claimed the coffins
had been contaminated with asbestos and were locked in an
inaccessible warehouse. Other discoveries, such as metal
artifacts from mound sites or South American style statues
found in the American Midwest, have been documented in private
(21:04):
letters or local reports, but never entered into the
Smithsonian's official database.Over the years, a handful of
museum staff, archaeologists, and researchers have come
forward quietly and often anonymously accusing the
Smithsonian of systemic suppression.
One anonymous former archivist described entire rooms of
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unfiled materials, discoveries that didn't fit the timeline,
sealed crates labeled not for public release, and policies
that discouraged cataloguing anything that challenged the
accepted narrative. Other researchers have reported
that their grant funding or publication opportunities were
revoked when their findings veered too close to topics like
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pre Columbian transoceanic contact, giant skeletons, or
anomalous metallurgy in North America.
When one artifact goes missing, it's a mistake.
When hundreds of reports vanish,when names disappear from
archives, when caves are sealed and the public is told nothing
to see here, that's a pattern. And that pattern points to
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something deeper than incompetence.
It suggests that someone, somewhere, is invested in making
sure the story of North America stays a blank slate until
Columbus arrives. Mainstream history tells us that
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North America remained untouchedby the rest of the world until
1492, and that lie is already exposed.
We know the Vikings reached the coast of Newfoundland nearly 500
years before Columbus, establishing camps and trade
routes along the North Atlantic.We know the Chinese may have
sent exploratory fleets as earlyas the 1400s.
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Polynesians reached South America.
West Africans may have crossed the Atlantic.
The myth of isolation is alreadydebunked, and the truth goes
even further. When we look past the colonial
lens, past what we're allowed tobelieve, we find something much
older and far more advanced. All across the world, ancient
civilizations speak of a time before time, a golden age, a
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world united not by trade or war, but by knowledge, energy,
and the presence of gods who walked among men.
The Egyptians called it Zep Tepi, the first time when the
gods ruled the earth, before therise of dynasties.
In India, it was the Satya Yuga,the Age of Truth, when sky
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beings descended and taught mankind the Arts and Sciences.
The Maya remembered it as the time before the last sun, when
the world was wiped clean in fire and flood.
And in nearly every tradition, this lost age ends the same way,
with a great cataclysm, floods, earthquakes, a fall from the
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heavens, a scattering of survivors.
Atlantis, Lemuria, MU. They say these are just myths.
So why do we find pyramids on every continent?
Why do we find the same sacred geometry in Peru and Egypt, in
Cambodia and Illinois? Why do we find identical myths
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of sky gods and underground shelters of giants, floods and
star teachers, and now in North America, physical remnants?
What if the civilizations that rose in summer Egypt and
Mesoamerica weren't the beginning, but the rebuilding?
What if the knowledge attributedto Thoth, to Quetzalcoatl, to
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Enki was not invented locally, but restored from what was lost?
And what if the Anunnaki, who gave humans language, math,
agriculture, and kingship, visited North America too?
Maybe they didn't just come to Mesopotamia.
Maybe they came to the Four Corners, to the Great Lakes, to
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the Mississippi River Valley, tothe Canyonlands.
And maybe some part of their legacy still waits beneath the
earth, untouched, guarded, forgotten.
Why wouldn't they have come heretoo?
Why wouldn't the Anunnaki have left behind temples in the Grand
Canyon, giant skeletons in the mounds, and symbols carved in
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stone that no one can read? The real story of North America
hasn't been lost. It's been buried.
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The. None.
Yeah. In the early 1900's, the Grand
(00:39):
Canyon was still the Wild West. Before it became a National
Park, before it was fenced off and sanitized for tourism, it
was open ground, an untamed landscape of cliffs, caves and
uncharted territory. And in 19 O 8, just as President
Theodore Roosevelt prepared to lock it down forever, one last
(01:00):
explorer slipped through the gates.
His name was GE Kincaid. Officially, he was working a
mineral survey. Unofficially, he was chasing
legends. Kincaid took a small boat down
the Colorado River, about 40 miles up river from El Tavar,
Crystal Canyon. He saw something strange,
(01:21):
discoloration in the sediment far above the waterline.
He tied off his boat, climbed the Canyon wall and found steps.
Not natural erosion, not a game trail, but these were carved,
ancient and winding up into the stone like a forgotten staircase
to somewhere no one was meant tofind again.
(01:41):
At the top, hidden beneath desert brush, was the mouth of a
cavern. The entrance to was clearly man
made. Inside, Kincaid found nothing
that made sense, at least not ifyou believe the standard history
of North America. The walls were covered in
strange symbols, hieroglyphs. Not Hopi, not Mayan, not
anything local. They looked Egyptian, but not
(02:04):
quite. He went deeper.
Chambers opened up, dozens of them, hundreds rooms laid out
like a complex, like an ancient city.
Buried within the rock. There were mummies, statues,
tools and weapons forged from copper and other metals, some
still unknown today. He found a crypt filled with
(02:27):
perfectly arranged skeletal remains, each resting on carved
shelves, accompanied by urns andbroken swords.
All the mummies were male. Elsewhere there were storage
rooms, granaries still holding seeds, pottery lined neatly on
stone shelves. There were signs of metallurgy,
slag and mat from a smelting operation, workbenches still
(02:48):
littered with charcoal. These people had mastered the
art of copper hardening. They weren't primitives, they
were engineers. And then there was the statue.
A massive figure carved from Blackstone, seated cross legged
in the Lotus position, a flower in each hand.
Not Egyptian, not Native American.
(03:09):
Something else, something foreign, something sacred.
Kincaid estimated the complex could have housed 50,000 people.
He sent artifacts and documentation to the
Smithsonian. They responded with urgency,
dispatching a team led by Professor SA Jordan to assist
with excavation. According to Kincaid's final
(03:31):
reports, over 40 researchers arrived to explore the caverns.
They catalogued artifacts. They drew diagrams.
They found more rooms, hundreds more barracks, workshops,
temples, every hallway carved with precision, every passage
engineered with purpose. The story was published only
(03:52):
once. On April 5th, 19 O 9, the
Arizona Gazette published an article titled Explorations in
Grand Canyon and then Silence. The Smithsonian denied it ever
happened. The Cave was never logged, the
artifacts never shown, the coordinates lost or erased.
(04:14):
The Cave was never open to the public.
In fact, it's location, somewhere near the area now
known as the Isis Temple, was quietly sealed off.
Restricted from hikers, from rafters, even from the air.
The site is now part of a no flyzone.
Anyone who approaches is intercepted, in some cases
(04:35):
arrested, in others simply turned away by force.
And yet the stories haven't stopped.
Black helicopters, unmarked planes flying below the rim,
cement anchors embedded in stone, artifacts from the early
1900s. And always the sense that
(04:56):
something is still being guardedup there.
Officially, Kincaid never existed.
The Smithsonian denies the expedition.
They say the story was a hoax, just old newspaper
sensationalism. But what if it wasn't?
What if Kincaid did find something?
What if an ancient civilization,a highly advanced culture with
(05:18):
ties to Egypt, Tibet or something even older, once
inhabited the Grand Canyon? And what if the reason we're not
allowed into those caves is because what's buried inside
could change everything we thinkwe know about history, human
origin, and the gods? This is the Anunnaki connection.
(06:05):
In 19 O eight, President Teddy Roosevelt sought to protect the
Grand Canyon from timber and mining operations.
Explorer GE Kincaid, anticipating the closure,
mounted an expedition to the area to find minerals.
But what he discovered there wassomething completely unexpected.
Approximately 40 miles upriver from El Tavar Crystal Canyon,
(06:28):
Kincaid observed unusual sediment stains and upon
investigation found a cavern entrance with steps leading to
it suggesting a man made structure.
Inside. Kincaid found writings on the
walls, not in English or Native American scripts, but in ancient
Egyptian hieroglyphics. This finding suggested a
(06:48):
historical connection far beyondlocal or known civilizations.
The Cave system revealed a vast underground city estimated to
house up to 50,000 people, complete with granaries, cooking
areas and artifacts indicating asophisticated society with
knowledge of metalwork and possibly agriculture.
(07:09):
Among the findings were granaries with preserved seeds,
tools made of copper indicating a lost art of hardening the
metal, and various artifacts that pointed to a
technologically advanced civilization.
The complexity of The Cave system, with engineered
passageways and rooms, challenged contemporary
understandings of ancient civilizations in North America.
(07:32):
Kincaid's findings led to a Smithsonian expedition led by
Professor SA Jordan, which further explored The Cave
system, uncovering a central chamber with a statue resembling
Buddha, hinting at a cultural amalgamation or influence from
distant lands. The artifacts and the layout of
The Cave suggested a deliberate,sophisticated design
(07:54):
contradicting the notion of an isolated or primitive local
civilization. Despite significant discoveries,
mainstream researchers and the Smithsonian have labeled the
account as a hoax and dismissingthe claims of an advanced
civilization predating Native Americans in the Grand Canyon
and the possibility of ancient transoceanic contacts that might
(08:15):
have influenced pre Columbian American civilizations.
Any and all attempts to further explore or validate Kincaid's
findings face governmental restrictions with areas off
limits for exploration. This remarkable discovery aligns
with local tribal legends such as those of the Hopi, suggesting
(08:37):
a historical basis for tales of ancient peoples and non human
entities emerging from the GrandCanyon, blending myth with
tangible archaeological intrigue.
(09:09):
According to Hopi tradition, theGrand Canyon isn't just a
Canyon, it's a portal, a gatewayto the underworld.
They call it Sipapuni, the placewhere the first people emerged
after a great cataclysm. The Hopi believed that humanity
was destroyed and reborn not once, but three times, each time
saved by mysterious underground beings known as the Ant People.
(09:34):
These Ant People weren't insects.
They were described as small, pale skinned humanoids with
large eyes who lived in vast subterranean cities beneath the
earth. They sheltered the Hopi during
times of fire and flood, fed them and taught them survival,
and possibly more. In some versions of the myth,
(09:56):
the Sky People described as godswho descended in flying Shields,
guided the Hopi to the Ant People, and then returned to the
stars. Sound familiar?
In one Hopi account, the original people who emerged from
the Canyon were lizard like reptilian beings who transformed
into human form. Other versions say that giants
(10:17):
once ruled the region, only to be destroyed by divine wrath and
buried beneath the stone. Modern researchers dismiss these
tales as metaphor, but they lineup uncannily with global
stories. The Nagas of India, reptilian
underworld dwellers with immenseknowledge and power.
The dragon kings of Chinese mythology who ruled from crystal
(10:39):
palaces beneath the earth. The watchers from the Book of
Enoch, who descended from the sky and were later buried
underground after corrupting mankind.
What if these aren't just metaphors?
What if they're fragments of a real event, a global
catastrophe, A migration underground and the survival of
a forgotten people? The Zuni speak of Kachinas, God
(11:01):
like beings who descended from the sky and brought knowledge,
language, agriculture and order to the people.
But when their time was over, the Kachinas retreated into the
earth where they remain in vast underground chambers hidden
until the world is ready again. The Acoma Pueblo holds similar
beliefs of divine teachers who did not come from this land, but
(11:23):
who shaped it, then vanished into sacred mountains and deep
caverns to sleep. And in nearly every one of these
traditions, the sacred lands arelocated around one specific
place, the Grand Canyon. When early American
archaeologists encountered thesestories, they dismissed them as
primitive folklore. Not history, not real.
(11:45):
But those same institutions believe the Iliad was inspired
by a real war at Troy. They admit that Norse myths
preserve details of actual weather events and migrations.
So why are native myths treated as imagination when they may be
eyewitness accounts passed down through time?
(12:17):
All across North America, strange artifacts, massive
earthworks, and unexplained ruins hint at civilizations far
more advanced than mainstream history is willing to admit.
These are not the simple tribal encampments described in
textbooks, but the fingerprints of complex organized societies
with metallurgy, astronomy, social hierarchy, and a sudden
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disappearance. In the Ohio and Mississippi
River valleys lie thousands of earth and mounds, some small,
others massive and geometricallyperfect.
The most famous Serpent Mound inOhio stretches over 1300 feet
long and precisely aligns with lunar and solar cycles.
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Not random, not decorative. Intentional engineering by a
people we no longer understand. In Cahokia, just outside present
day Saint Louis, once stood A sprawling city larger than
London in the 12th century. It had a grand Plaza,
astronomical observatories, complex trade networks and a
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population in the 10s of thousands.
And then, mysteriously, it was abandoned.
No war, no famine, just silence.And then there are the Giants.
All through the 1800s and early 1900s, newspapers across America
ran stories of massive human skeletons unearthed from burial
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mounds. Men ate sometimes 9 feet tall,
with double rows of teeth and elongated skulls.
At Spiro Mounds in Oklahoma, at the Kanawha Valley in West
Virginia, in Lovelock Cave, Nevada, in mound after mound.
Across the Midwest, these reports were always the same.
Strange bones unearthed. Smithsonian officials arrive,
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and the artifacts disappear. There are even accounts from
early settlers and archaeologists of skeletons
buried with armor and weapons, swords of bronze, breastplates
of unknown metals, tools too advanced, metallurgy too
sophisticated for the tribes known to inhabit these lands.
And there's the question no one in mainstream academia wants to
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ask. If these were truly isolated
cultures separated by time and distance, why do we find the
same symbols, serpents, Suns, spirals repeated in identical
styles from the Ohio River Valley to Arizona to the
Yucatan? Why do we find pyramid building
traditions in Illinois? Why do burial rituals in
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Tennessee match those found in ancient Mesopotamia?
Even now, the official stance isthat pre Columbian America was a
cultural vacuum, that nothing crossed the oceans, that all
high civilization rose elsewhere.
What if it didn't? What if it also rose here and
someone erased it? It's not just the mounds or the
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legends, it's the silence that followed the sudden vanishing of
these societies, the pattern of discoveries followed by
disappearances, and always the institutions that step in to
control the narrative. If Kincaid's cave in the Grand
Canyon was real, and we believe it was, then it wasn't a one off
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anomaly. It was a missing chapter in a
story that stretches across an entire continent.
A story of civilizations far older and far more advanced than
we've been allowed to remember. And the deeper we dig, the more
that story begins to surface. In the northern part of the
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Grand Canyon, inside the area that's now federally restricted,
there's a strange cluster of names.
Names that don't belong. Isis Temple, Tower of Set,
Osiris temple, Horus temple, theChaos Pyramid and nearby Buddha
temple, Krishna shrine, Shiva temple, Manu, Brahma, Egyptian
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gods, Hindu gods, all crammed into the same narrow stretch of
Canyon, right where Kincaid claimed to have discovered an
underground city filled with non-native artifacts,
hieroglyphs, statues and mummies.
Mainstream historians will tell you the names were just chosen
by early explorers in the 19th and early 20th centuries.
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Adventurous geologists who likedmythology.
They'll say it's just poetic labeling, just a coincidence.
They were formalized by the US Geological Survey and placed
onto official maps, government maps at a time when most of the
country had no knowledge, let alone reverence for Hindu
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cosmology or obscure Egyptian deities like Set and Osiris.
Why were the most sacred gods ofancient Egypt and Vedic India
chosen to name remote cliffs in an American Canyon?
And more importantly, why are these places now off limits?
You can't hike to the Isis Temple.
You can't fly over Chaos Pyramid.
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According to Kincaid, the entrance to the hidden city he
found was just east of the Isis Temple, and somehow, a few
decades later, that part of the Canyon, along with the
surrounding peaks was suddenly full of names tied to gods of
resurrection, destruction and divine knowledge.
The same gods that appear in myths around world, shaping
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floods and skyborne visitors. Is that just romantic
coincidence? Or were the early explorers
tipped off by something they found, Something now buried,
classified and forgotten? These names are clues, bread
crumbs left on official documents by people who may have
known more than they were allowed to say.
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And the deeper you go, the more deliberate it all begins to
look. Because if a lost civilization
did exist here, one connected toEgypt, to Tibet, to ancient gods
and ancient wars, then the nameswere never just names.
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The Smithsonian Institution is the largest museum and research
complex in the world, with over 154,000,000 artifacts in its
possession. It is the final authority on
what counts as history and what doesn't.
But what happens when that authority is used not to
preserve the past, but to bury it for decades?
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Independent researchers, Journalists and even former
insiders have accused the Smithsonian of being at the
center of a long running cover up, one that spans ancient
giants, lost civilizations, forbidden artifacts and
explosive discoveries quietly erased from the historical
record. And it's not just speculation.
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In 1881, geologist John Wesley Powell, best known for mapping
the Grand Canyon, was appointed the head of the Bureau of
Ethnology at the Smithsonian. It was Powell who first
implemented what would come to be known as the Powell Doctrine,
an institutional mandate to explain all Native American
history as isolated, undeveloped, and having no
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contact with ancient Old World civilizations.
From the mid 1800s through the early 1900s, hundreds of reports
appeared in American newspapers describing the discovery of
giant human skeletons. These weren't fringe tabloids,
they were front page headlines in the New York Times, the Saint
Louis Dispatch and the Washington Post.
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In West Virginia, skeletons over8 feet tall were found in burial
mounds. In Lovelock Cave, Nevada,
remains with red hair and oversized skulls were uncovered.
In Spiro Mounds, OK, and Astolan, Wisconsin, similar
remains were reported, only to vanish after Smithsonian
representatives arrived in each case.
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The pattern was the same artifacts and bones sent to the
Smithsonian and never seen again.
In 1984, researcher Frederick J Pole inquired about 7 foot long
stone coffins discovered during a Geological Survey in Alabama
in 1892. The Smithsonian confirmed they
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had received the coffins but couldn't locate them in the
collection. Later, they claimed the coffins
had been contaminated with asbestos and were locked in an
inaccessible warehouse. Other discoveries, such as metal
artifacts from mound sites or South American style statues
found in the American Midwest, have been documented in private
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letters or local reports, but never entered into the
Smithsonian's official database.Over the years, a handful of
museum staff, archaeologists, and researchers have come
forward quietly and often anonymously accusing the
Smithsonian of systemic suppression.
One anonymous former archivist described entire rooms of
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unfiled materials, discoveries that didn't fit the timeline,
sealed crates labeled not for public release, and policies
that discouraged cataloguing anything that challenged the
accepted narrative. Other researchers have reported
that their grant funding or publication opportunities were
revoked when their findings veered too close to topics like
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pre Columbian transoceanic contact, giant skeletons, or
anomalous metallurgy in North America.
When one artifact goes missing, it's a mistake.
When hundreds of reports vanish,when names disappear from
archives, when caves are sealed and the public is told nothing
to see here, that's a pattern. And that pattern points to
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something deeper than incompetence.
It suggests that someone, somewhere, is invested in making
sure the story of North America stays a blank slate until
Columbus arrives. Mainstream history tells us that
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North America remained untouchedby the rest of the world until
1492, and that lie is already exposed.
We know the Vikings reached the coast of Newfoundland nearly 500
years before Columbus, establishing camps and trade
routes along the North Atlantic.We know the Chinese may have
sent exploratory fleets as earlyas the 1400s.
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Polynesians reached South America.
West Africans may have crossed the Atlantic.
The myth of isolation is alreadydebunked, and the truth goes
even further. When we look past the colonial
lens, past what we're allowed tobelieve, we find something much
older and far more advanced. All across the world, ancient
civilizations speak of a time before time, a golden age, a
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world united not by trade or war, but by knowledge, energy,
and the presence of gods who walked among men.
The Egyptians called it Zep Tepi, the first time when the
gods ruled the earth, before therise of dynasties.
In India, it was the Satya Yuga,the Age of Truth, when sky
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beings descended and taught mankind the Arts and Sciences.
The Maya remembered it as the time before the last sun, when
the world was wiped clean in fire and flood.
And in nearly every tradition, this lost age ends the same way,
with a great cataclysm, floods, earthquakes, a fall from the
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heavens, a scattering of survivors.
Atlantis, Lemuria, MU. They say these are just myths.
So why do we find pyramids on every continent?
Why do we find the same sacred geometry in Peru and Egypt, in
Cambodia and Illinois? Why do we find identical myths
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of sky gods and underground shelters of giants, floods and
star teachers, and now in North America, physical remnants?
What if the civilizations that rose in summer Egypt and
Mesoamerica weren't the beginning, but the rebuilding?
What if the knowledge attributedto Thoth, to Quetzalcoatl, to
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Enki was not invented locally, but restored from what was lost?
And what if the Anunnaki, who gave humans language, math,
agriculture, and kingship, visited North America too?
Maybe they didn't just come to Mesopotamia.
Maybe they came to the Four Corners, to the Great Lakes, to
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the Mississippi River Valley, tothe Canyonlands.
And maybe some part of their legacy still waits beneath the
earth, untouched, guarded, forgotten.
Why wouldn't they have come heretoo?
Why wouldn't the Anunnaki have left behind temples in the Grand
Canyon, giant skeletons in the mounds, and symbols carved in
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stone that no one can read? The real story of North America
hasn't been lost. It's been buried.
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