Tesla Tech, Pyramid Knowledge & Medieval Legends (best of episode)

Nikola Tesla is a man absent from history books, but who is responsible for futuristic technologies that we still enjoy today. One of the greatest minds of the modern era, his genius really shaped the world as we know it today, pioneering the alternating current, which is the electrical system which powers almost everything around the globe. His influence can be seen all around us, from remote control and radio to wireless communication. It seems that Tesla's mind went beyond conventional technologies as we think of them. In fact, did you know that Nikola Tesla registered a fascinating patent in 1928? It was patent number 1655144, which details this flying-like machine that strangely resembled both an airplane or helicopter, or as you might say, a UFO. And then before his death, Nikola Tesla developed what he called a space drive, which was like an anti-electromagnetic field propulsion system. And one of my favorite Tesla quotes is this. Tesla famously stated, quote, if you want to find the secrets of the universe, think in terms of energy, frequency, and vibration. And so it seems to me that Tesla somehow rediscovered or tapped into some of the same lost ancient technologies that were used by the ancient architects who made the Great Pyramids and who made many of the megalithic marvels, as I call them, that were during the golden age or this anti-Teluvian world. Therefore, I believe it's important to study the life of this man, Nikola Tesla. So in this episode, we're going to explore the early years of Tesla's life, and we're going to look at, again, some of the more interesting moments and the mysteries that shaped him. I think you're really going to find this fascinating. So we're going to, in a nutshell, look at his first 26 years of life from the day he was born till about when he was 26 years old. So Tesla was born July 10th, 1856. He was born in a town near what's called Gospik, I believe, in present day Croatia. He was the fourth of five children. Now right out of the gate here, it gets crazy. Apparently, Tesla was born at the stroke of midnight while lightning was also striking during a summer storm. Okay, that's pretty crazy. And apparently, the midwife commented, quote, he'll be a child of the storm, end quote, to which his mother replied, quote, no of light, end quote. Again, right out of the gate, there's so much here we could stop and talk about. In this video, we don't have time, but in future videos, we'll definitely come back and talk about Tesla's birth. This is crazy. Tesla was baptized in the old Slavonic church, right? His father, Malutin Tesla, was a priest of the Eastern Orthodox Church. I find this very interesting. His father was a priest. I wonder how much Tesla's faith or his family's faith impacted who he was and who he became. Tesla's mother, her name was Duca. Apparently, she had a talent for making home craft tools and mechanical appliances. And it's said that she had an incredible photographic memory and that she had the ability to memorize these Serbian epic poems, which were these very long poems, rhythmic poems. As far as we know, she had never received a formal education, but Tesla credited his photographic memory and his, what we would call, total recall to his mother's genetics and influence. So we can see here very early that his mom was greatly influencing him. Okay, let's jump to 1863. Tesla's older brother and his only brother, whose name was Dane, unfortunately died at the age of 12 after falling off a horse. And this scarred Tesla. And according to some accounts, there's thought that Tesla may have accidentally caused the horse to get spooked. So I can only imagine how this really impacted his life in a horrific way. 1870, Tesla moved to a different city called Karlovac, I believe is how it's pronounced, to attend high school. And this is where he lived with his aunt and his uncle. Tesla later wrote that he became interested in demonstrations of electricity by his physics professor, whose name was Martin Sekulic. Now this Professor Martin is said to have had a huge influence on Tesla. And Tesla noted that the demonstrations that Martin did of this, quote, mysterious phenomena, end quote, made him want to know more of this wonderful force. So we see Tesla's greatly influenced by this Professor Martin. Tesla, it's said, was known to perform integral calculus in his head, which led many of his other teachers to think that he was cheating. But he finished a four-year term in three years of high school. In 1873, after graduating, Tesla returned to his hometown, sadly only to contract cholera. And he was bedridden for like nine months and came near death multiple times. In a moment of despair, apparently his father, who had originally wanted him to enter the priesthood like himself, promised Tesla to send him to the best engineering school if he recovered from the illness. 1874, Tesla became a fugitive and evaded being drafted into the Hungarian army by running away to another city where he ended up exploring the mountains and was known for wearing hunter's garb. So he's trying to play the part. I bet he was trying to just disappear and blend in. And so I just find that fascinating that he was wearing, quote, hunter's garb, end quote. And Tesla is on record by saying that the contact with nature made him feel stronger, both physically and mentally. And he read many books in the mountains. And he later said that Mark Twain's books really helped him to miraculously recover from his earlier illness. So, so interesting. He's hiding out in the mountains, dressed in hunter's garb, reading Mark Twain. 1875, Tesla enrolled at the Imperial Royal Technical College in Graz. In his autobiography, Tesla said that he worked hard and earned the highest grades possible. And in his first year, he received a letter of commendation from the dean of the technical faculty to his father, which stated, quote, your son is a star of the first rank, end quote. That had to make Tesla feel very proud, especially being that it was sent to his father, I imagine, because you just don't get that his father was as influential in his life as his mother, his uncles that we're going to learn about, and some of these professors. At Graz, Tesla noted his fascination with the detailed lectures on electricity presented by Professor Jacob Postul, I believe it's pronounced. And Tesla described how he made suggestions on improving the design of an electric motor that this professor was demonstrating. Now, unfortunately, in Tesla's second year at this Imperial Royal Technical College in Graz, Tesla came into conflict with this professor regarding basically the ideas and suggestions Tesla was giving the professor regarding this machine. And so there was conflict. And I think that has a lot to do with by the end of the second year, Tesla loses his scholarship and apparently goes into some kind of depression and he takes up gambling. So quite a turn of events. Now, at the end of his third year at this college, Tesla stopped attending lectures altogether and drops out of college. So in 1878, Tesla's family did not hear from him after he left school for a while. And they're probably concerned about him because there was a rumor amongst Tesla's classmates at that college that he had drowned in the nearby Mir River. But in January of 1878, one of these classmates runs into Tesla in the town of Maribor across the border in Slovenia. And somehow word gets back to his family that he's alive. So it turns out that Tesla had been working there as a draftsman for an engineering firm. And during this time, he would spend his spare time at a pub called the Happy Peasant, where he enjoyed playing chess and cards. My mind can only imagine back in the day at this Happy Peasant pub, being one of the poor souls, having a beer inside the pub and playing Nikola Tesla in a game of chess or cards, if you can imagine. For some reason, I'm guessing that he might have made some side money in the Happy Peasant. 1879, Tesla's father finally locates his son and tries to convince him to return home and take up his education in Prague. Well, Tesla eventually returns home. Again, the town was called Gospik later that month because he was deported for not having a residence permit. Well, it's a good thing he did return home because sadly, his father died the very next month, I believe from when Tesla came back home. So one can only imagine what that month was like, catching up with his father, spending time together. Because in April 1879, at the age of 60, his dad died of an unspecified illness. Apparently during the rest of that year, Tesla taught a large class of students in his old school in Gospik. 1880, two of Tesla's uncles named Peter and Pavel, they put together money to help Tesla leave Gospik for Prague, where he was to study at Charles Ferdinand University. Again, I find the family dynamics very interesting because we know Tesla's mother was very influential on him. His father sadly dies. We know before he lived with his uncle and aunt, but now his two uncles are coming together. It's almost like they realize his father passed away and they're stepping up because his father wanted him to study in Prague. And now they're saying, hey, here's some money. We're going to help you get to Prague. So Tesla goes to Prague to study at Charles Ferdinand University, but unfortunately he arrived too late to enroll. Tesla did, however, attend lectures in philosophy at the university as an auditor, but he did not receive grades for the courses. It's said that during this time, he spent most of his time in the library and at the local cafe. 1881, Tesla's uncle Pavel arranges for Tesla to move to Budapest, Hungary to work at a telegraph company. So it's kind of like, you know, the college thing didn't quite work out there, or the university he couldn't enroll. And so his uncle saying, hey, let's, let's get you working at this telegraph company. It was called the Budapest Telephone Exchange, which was owned by Hungarian inventor, Tividar Puskas, I believe is how it's pronounced. So upon arrival, Tesla realizes that the company was basically under construction. It was not functional. And so he worked as a draftsman in the central telegraph office. Instead, within a few months, the telephone exchange becomes functional and Tesla was moved to the chief electrician position. So we see him moving right up the ladder swiftly. And during his employment, Tesla made many improvements to the central station equipment and claimed to have even perfected a telephone repeater or amplifier. This was never patented nor really publicly described, but apparently, this was a pretty important Tesla. 1882, Tesla's employer, Tividar Puskas, owner of the Budapest Telephone Exchange, he basically gets Tesla another job in Paris. Okay, so he must really believe in Tesla because as far as I can tell, he's saying, hey, quit working for me and go work for this bigger place in Paris with the Continental Edison Company. Tesla moves to Paris, begins working in what was then a brand new industry, basically installing indoor incandescent lighting citywide in large-scale electrical power utilities. The company had several subdivisions and Tesla worked at the division in a suburb of Paris. He was in charge of installing the lighting systems. So there he gained a great deal of practical experience in electrical engineering. Soon, management took notice of his advanced knowledge in engineering and physics and had him designing and building improved versions of generating dynamos and motors. So again, he's moving up the ladder. He's gaining notoriety. Management also sent him out to troubleshoot engineering problems at other Edison utilities being built around France and Germany. So he's becoming known as quite the expert. Again, in 1882, we'll end here in this episode, Tesla, he becomes obsessed with solving the riddle of alternating current. And apparently, he suffers a mental breakdown to the point where he wasn't expected to even live much longer. So it must have been very bad. However, Tesla miraculously begins to recover and he's taking a walk in this Budapest city park with a friend named Anthony. And apparently, the solution comes to Tesla in a vision in this park while he's walking. In his recollection of the event, Tesla stated that he looked at the setting sun and began to recite a passage from Goethe's Faust, considered by many to be the magnum opus and the greatest work of German literature. So at that very moment, apparently the idea comes to Tesla in a flash of light and he drew the diagram of the motor in the sand with a stick. So fascinating. And this is really one of the seminal moments in the early years of Tesla's life. And we'll end here in this episode. In part two of this topic, we will look at Tesla's middle years, which started in 1884 when Tesla boards a boat to New York and will eventually go on to become one of the greatest inventors of all time. The Bent Pyramid, it still possesses many of its casing stones, which is just an amazing sight to see. But mainstream Egyptology says this pyramid was built under old kingdom of Pharaoh Sneferu approximately 2600 BC. And the walls of the lower part of the pyramid, they rise at an angle of 54 degrees. And then about 161 feet above the base, there's this abrupt flattening of the slope to 43 degrees. And so that's why they call it the Bent Pyramid because prominent theories regarding its strange shape include that it was either damaged during construction or that the builders made a miscalculation during construction and therefore changed their plans. But the reason this was one of my highlights because going inside this pyramid, which is way smaller than the Great Pyramid of Giza, yet the massive descent that you make inside of it to get to the bottom and then go up was very hard. Seemed like it might have been about 200 feet or so down into this thing. When I say down, you have to go up, you know, there's scaffolding built to get about halfway up the pyramid on the outside. And then you go down all the way, like 200 feet, and then you hit the bottom, it levels off, and then you go up a little bit, and then you get inside of it at its base and you're looking up. And this thing is anything but a mistake. Inside it's precision, trapezoidal perfection. And if you're watching on YouTube or Spotify, you're going to see images of me taking a photograph, looking up inside this thing. And really, again, the sense you get is that this was some kind of ancient machine. And then the other highlight would be on the last full day of our tour, our group had a private visit inside the Great Pyramid of Giza, two hours just by ourselves, just our group, this whole entire, every minute of this two-hour visit, private tour was incredible. But especially the part at the end, there was about 20 minutes left of our two-hour allotment. By this time, most people had already been down to the subterranean chamber in the Great Pyramid and had left. And I had spent most of my time up at the so-called King's Chamber and in the so-called Queen's Chamber. And I had 20 minutes left. I was dog tired from going up and down this pyramid. I mean, it's so hot inside and humid, you're baking, you're dripping sweat. And so I thought, man, maybe I should just call it a day and just kind of enjoy the upper courses of this pyramid. But the adventurous side of me kicked in and I said, no way, there's no way I can miss going to the subterranean chamber of the Great Pyramid. Let's go. And so I made my way to the entrance or the descending passageway, goes down 300 feet, I believe, into the subterranean chamber underground, under the pyramid, the basement. And I told my buddy Hank on the trip from San Francisco, I said, bro, if I don't come back in 20 minutes, promise me that you're coming after me. And he gave me his word. And so I had my flashlights and it was just me all by myself going all the way down the descending passageway towards the subterranean chamber. You know, if I turn the flashlights off, it's pitch black. And I finally get all the way down to the bottom where it levels off and you literally have to do a belly crawl into the opening that takes you into the subterranean chamber. But once I was inside, this was such an incredible experience because I was literally all by myself, nobody else talking. And so there was a couple of moments in there where I was just silent, you know, shining my flashlight, just taking it all in that I was in the subterranean chamber all by myself. And how many great explorers had been inside this chamber? And even more, who were these ancient engineers that originally created this? And when did they create it? Was this 10,000 BC? Was this 50,000 BC? And why did they create it? Obviously the mainstream narrative states that this subterranean chamber was some kind of tomb the pharaohs were using before they decided they wanted to go up to the nicer chambers of the so-called queen's chamber and king's chamber. But if you subscribe to Christopher Dunn's theories that these pyramids were some kind of ancient energy generators, Chris Dunn believes that this pit inside the subterranean chamber is where a lot of the chemicals were in the equipment that provided the priming pulses that generated this ancient energy generator. He believes it was in the subterranean chamber and in the pit. And if you're watching again on YouTube or Spotify, you might see video or photos of the giant pit that's in down inside the subterranean chamber. So let's dive into this mystery of the medieval green children of Volpit. Now this tale comes from the 12th century during the reign of King Stephen or the reign of King Henry II. King Stephen reigned 1135 to 1154. King Henry reigned from 1154 to 1189. So the sources we have on this tale say that this happened during one of the reigns of one of those kings. And the origins of the story come from two main sources, both of whom were quite respected historians in their day. We've got William of Newburgh, who wrote the book, The History of English Affairs. And he wrote this around 1150. And his book is basically about the history of And William states that he was so overwhelmed by the many competent witnesses regarding this tale of the green children that he just had to add the account to his book. And then our other source is known as Ralph of Coggeshall. And he wrote the book, English Chronicle, written about 1189. So the story takes place in the village of Volpit in Suffolk, England. Now Volpit comes from the old English word wolf pit, where they used to make these stone chambers in the ground, apparently to catch wolves that were coming after the sheep, I believe. So Volpit, Volpit. Now this story also takes place during harvest season when families and reapers are out gathering crops. And on this specific evening, the sun was beginning to set and light was starting to fade when suddenly some of the reapers noticed something strange in the distance. What appeared to be two children standing beside one of the wolf pits. Now as the villagers drew near, they saw a young boy and a little bit older girl holding hands. The children appeared weak and seemed dazed and confused. But what's more, both children had green colored skin. That's right. Green colored skin. Now the children pretty much collapse in the arms of the villagers due to exhaustion. And as the townsfolk ask the children who, who they are and where they came from, the children just mumble in a language the villagers don't understand. Now Ralph of Coggeshall's account states that the children were soon taken into the home of a Sir Richard Decane. I believe he might've been a knight even. And it becomes clear that both children are in a dreadful state of health. Therefore meat, bread and ale are, are brought out, but the children refuse to eat these fine medieval delicacies. Now both primary sources, Ralph of Coggeshall and William of Newburgh agree that the refused all the food for several days, maybe even weeks until the children noticed some recently harvested raw broad beans, which they gestured for. And when they were given these beans, they consumed them eagerly. Now their benevolent host Sir Richard decided that the Sadly, however, the boy, again, the younger of the two, he grew sicker still and soon died after the water baptism. Now the girl slowly gains her strength and begins to acquire a taste for normal food. And she begins to learn and even speak English as she adjusts to her new life. Now, later, when she's pressed again about how they came into Wolpert, the girl begins to share the fascinating story of how her and her brother were from a distant place that they call the St. Martin's land, where there was apparently no sun or sunshine, but perpetual twilight. She continued to share that on this fateful day, they were helping to herd their father's cattle when the herd suddenly went down into a dark cave. The children followed after the cattle inside. And once inside the cave, they begin to hear some loud noises, kind of like the sound of bells, the story goes. And then next, they saw a bright light, and they followed the light and the sound which led them out of the cave and into the fields of Wolpert. Quite a story. Now, based on his research into the knight who was their host, Sir Richard de Cairns, family history, an astronomer and writer named Duncan Lunan, he concluded that the girl, based on his research, was given the name of Agnes later on, and that she even married a royal officer, a royal official named Richard Barr. So apparently, the girl Agnes goes on to live a somewhat normal life. Now, the tale resurfaces of the Green Children in the mid-Victorian period, when folklorist Thomas Neatly included it in his book, The Fairy Mythology. And he was associating them, obviously, with possibly being fairies. Even later, a couple hundred years removed from the actual supposed event, we have a few more contemporary accounts highlighted in the 1620s by a Bishop Francis Godwin. This guy was a priest and historian who wrote a science fiction text called The Man in the Moon. Now, it's interesting to note that this book, The Man in the Moon, from the 1620s, is actually the first mention we have in written text about aliens. So very interesting. And this guy, Godwin, references this account of the Green Children, and he uses it as evidence for aliens, where he says people on the moon beamed people down to Earth, children specifically, to the human race and exchanged them for human children. Fast forward to 1998, a guy named Paul Harris was writing a publication about strange phenomena, and he proposes that the children might have been actually Flemish orphans who were fleeing from a nearby town where there was a battle in 1173, and that he believes maybe the parents were killed in this battle, because guess what? The name of the village is Fornham St. Martin, and it's apparently just a few miles away from Woolpit. And so he theorized that the green color may have been caused by a condition caused by a kind of anemia called chlorosis, I believe, from dietary deficiency. This is where your skin color changes due to diet, which is not necessarily unheard of. They also call it the green skin, this condition of, I think another word for it is hyperchromic anemia, and it used to be known as the green sickness due to its tendency to cause green patches on skin due to iron deficiency. Now, before we get off this topic of skin color changing due to physical deficiencies, have you heard of the blue people of Kentucky? Well, crazy enough, the Fuget family, commonly known as the blue Fugets or the blue people of Kentucky, check this out, were an ancestral family living in the hills of Kentucky starting in the 19th century, where they are known for having a strange genetic trait that caused the skin to appear blue. There's even a specific word for it, but I cannot pronounce it. Now, this Fuget family, they settled in an area of Perry County, Kentucky, literally in the year 1800. And again, they had a recessive gene related to their blood hemoglobin that caused them to have this blue tint of skin. Now, this area of Kentucky they were living in is very remote in the hills, and it was a very remote area up until even the 20th century. And so the Fugets and a handful of other families, they intermarried for decades, and the result was what they called the Fuget founder effect, this blue tint gene becoming dominant in that area of Perry County by the mid 19th century. And so some theorize perhaps the green children of Woolpit were part of a simulated isolated community. Now, others like medievalist Jeffrey Jerome Cohen offers a different kind of historical explanation, arguing that this story is an oblique account of the racial differences between the English and indigenous Britons. Others suggest that the two children may represent simultaneously life and death, and that the children's pigmentation change would symbolize the passing from death to life, and that this is a tale regarding the cycles of nature and rebirth with crops. And lastly, it should also be noted that there's another medieval tale surrounding a mysterious green knight, or the green man, who was a heroic character in a 14th century poem known as The Matter of Britain, I believe. And this green knight has kind of this role in the Arthurian literature, and it includes him being a judge and a tester of knights. And as such, other characters consider him as friendly, but terrifying and somewhat mysterious. And so this green knight or the green man, again, is in medieval lore also, because his skin is apparently green. And the meaning of his greenness has also puzzled scholars. Some identify him, again, as the green knight, some as the green man. Some identify him as being a vegetation being of medieval art. Others as a reflection of a figure from Celtic mythology. Others as a Christian pagan symbol that maybe personifies the devil. But even medievalist C.S. Lewis said the character of the green knight was, quote, as vivid and concrete as any image in literature, end quote. So what do you guys think of the green children of Woolpit? Were they from hollow earth? Are they fairies? Were they actually aliens? Did these kids fall into some kind of time slip? Was the cave a portal or a stargate? Or is this all just made up folklore or legend? Leave me a comment below from wherever you're listening, and I'd love to know what you think about this story. All right, let's travel to Utah now and talk about the ancient six-fingered Bigfoot petroglyph. And this incredible petroglyph and the petroglyphs around it were first brought to my attention by Abby Warnock Matthews, who I follow on Instagram. And I'll link her in the show notes below. But she had posted photographs, her own photographs, of these strange petroglyphs. And so I reached out to her for more information. And we actually did a podcast episode more in-depth about this a couple years ago. But I was looking at these photos recently, and I thought, man, I've just got to, for all my new listeners, new viewers, I got to at least talk about this one six-fingered petroglyph because it's so fascinating. But if you want to see all these photos and learn even more, just click the link in the show notes to be taken to Abby's photos. And again, a lot of this information comes from her. So Utah's Uinta Basin is home to some very unique rock art featuring depictions that aren't found really anywhere else. And these petroglyphs are often referred to as classic Vernal style. And they're believed to have been created by the Fremont culture sometime between 1 and 1200 AD. Now, unlike other rock art in Utah, which depicts mostly animals, hunters, and faceless anthropomorphs, these dry fork petroglyphs depict varying scenes of chaos. These anthropomorphic figures have intensely decorated heads and shoulders highlighted by horns, jewelry, and headpieces. Many are holding severed heads in their hands, which these severed heads feature pecked trails of tears flowing down their faces. And some are painted, you can still see, with red streaks of blood, red for coloring. Simply fascinating. Now, the most fantastic figurine of all of these, featured amongst these dry fork petroglyphs, again in Utah, is what is known as the Bigfoot, for obvious reasons. And he is indeed rare, as no other figure we know of possesses feet of this size, in this proportion of nature anywhere else in this style or region. And when you look at this photo, it is incredible. You see this being, or this entity, he has gigantic feet. I mean, gigantic feet in proportion with his body. But when you look at his head, he's got a cone-shaped head that looks very elongated. Now, was this an elaborate headdress, or is this rock art depicting an elongated skull with horns? Because you see this elongated conical-shaped head, but then you see what looks like horns coming off the sides. So again, is this a very elaborate headdress, or is this an elongated skull with horns? You can see eyes, you can see the mouth. This thing looks to have some kind of necklace on it. He's wearing some kind of clothing, but what's more, on the left hand, there it is. Six fingers on his left hand. Six fingers. Now, the other hand might have six fingers as well, and I think I lean towards that it does, but unfortunately it's been a little bit damaged, and so it's hard to tell for certain how many fingers are on the right hand. But was this ancient artist depicting what he saw, or was he depicting maybe what his ancestors said they saw according to their oral traditions? That's where my mind goes. Might this be depicting some hybrid demigod from the old world that descended into the American Southwest in ages past? Now, as you look at some of these other amazing photos of these petroglyphs, you see these circular shapes around some of the figures, and they've been called shields by some archaeologists, but we find it very interesting that all of the figures are depicted standing in the middle of these circles with their bodies visible, like through the shield. So it seems almost more, according to Abbey, like it's a depiction of a figure standing inside a specular light source, like a spotlight or a tunnel. And there are definitely aspects of these that seem shamanic or psychedelic in nature, especially when compared to other motifs in shamanic cave art. When you look at the heads of many of these other figures, I mean, there's some that look like they've got giant horns. Again, so I kind of lean towards these aren't headdresses, but these are actual horns. And again, they're holding severed heads with tears. Could this have been a tribe of fierce warriors defeating their enemy? Or again, are these possibly depictions of vengeful gods smiting their followers? In a couple of the scenes, I mean, it shows what looks like either pygmy or normal sized entities and then giant entities behind them. So again, there's really something going on here. Are these midgets or pygmies with normal size leaders, or are those normal size people with giants behind them? I would love to know what you think. Again, from wherever you're listening, leave me a comment. Let me know what you think about these crazy, insane petroglyphs in Utah. All right. And last but not least, let's talk about this 1867 report that's literally in the digital archives of the Library of Congress. So this isn't me saying this. This is an 1867 newspaper that you can click on in the Library of Congress. And again, I'm going to put this link in the show notes if you want to click on this and see the original article yourself. And this account comes from the newspaper called The Aegis and Intelligencer on June 21st, 1867. And here's what it says. The headline is, quote, Wonderful Relics of the Pre-Adamite Age. The article reads as follows, quote, A well-known literary gentleman of Middletown, Connecticut, has made public the following remarkable geological discoveries upon the banks of Connecticut River. On the east bank of the Connecticut are the Portland stone quarries, which have been worked for 150 years. At present, in three quarries, about 1,000 men are at work, and 30 or 40 vessels are employed in quarrying the stone to the great markets. These excavations, which have reached the depth of 150 feet below the surface of the water in the river, have revealed untold wonders. The stone is said to be full of fossil remains in its lowest depths. It is God's great book of records, which has been here carefully preserved and hermetically sealed up until within the last few years. On the countless leaves of this book are found the records of the past ages. They tell us of the climate, of the seasons, and of the storms, of the birds and animals, and more wonderful still, they tell us of the men of those age. Show us their implements, and shadow forth something of their customs. They also open to us their graves, and show us their modes of burial, the men lying in one posture, and the women in another. These men had all three fingers, and a thumb, and four toes. The comparatively more recent of them were six to seven feet high. But as we unfold the leaves further, and proceed far back in the cycles of time, to the lowest depths of the rock, we come to a race of giants twelve feet high, with shoes, and who had domesticated animals of peculiar structures and great size. The only human instruments so far discovered were made of stone. They had saws and long knives made of slate. This sandstone basin is believed to be the same geological age as the basin of Paris in France, but the fossil remains are more numerous than those in the Paris basin, more wonderful, and in a better state of preservation. The most indefatigable observer, and the most industrious collector of these facts is Dr. Barrett, who has spent almost a lifetime in collecting fragmentary evidence and surmounting difficulties. Many years since the fact of a pre-Adamite race dawned upon him, and he announced it in conversation. Precisely similar discoveries have been made in Europe. Dr. Barrett says men trod this valley at least 90,000 years ago. Not our race. The present race is a new and distinct creation. So a very interesting article to say the least, from 1867, right there in the digital archives of the Library of Congress, talking about a possible pre-Adamite race from 90,000 years ago. I love these, finding these kind of stories. I mean the article mentions not just seven foot tall skeletons, but 12 foot. It mentions these skeletons with like four fingers and four toes. Very strange to say the least. Well, I hope you enjoyed this episode. Reminder to subscribe to this podcast or platform from wherever you are watching or listening. And until next time, keep exploring.