The Ancient Tool Found in a Colorado Coal Seam Was Too Large for Any Man to Hold

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In October 1893, eleven hundred and forty feet inside the Anthracite mine above Crested Butte, Colorado, a Slovene miner named Tomaž Kastelic drove his pick into a swelling coal seam and struck iron. What the crew uncovered over the next three days was a tool no man could hold: a shaft sixty-four inches around, a round pommel pierced by a clean hole, and a double crescent head, one blade sharpened, the other cut into thirteen teeth. The company engineer measured it at seventeen feet, eight inches and wrote one line he underlined: the coal formed around it. Within three weeks the heading was sealed.

Forty-three years later, on the Uintah and Ouray Reservation in Utah, an Uncompahgre Ute elder described the same tool to the anthropologist Anne M. Smith. Two moons, back to back. One cuts. One bites. He counted the teeth on his fingers. The Ute already had a name for it: the moon with teeth.

This film follows six records: an engineer's field book, the tool itself, an unpublished notebook page from 1936, a geologist's return to the sealed heading in 1919, objects found in coal and worlds that ended in fire, and a state inspection form from 1986 that ends with three words: left in place. The mainstream explanations are set out in full.

This documentary examines historical records, archaeological research, and Indigenous oral traditions. It presents documented findings alongside long-standing questions that remain open. Where accounts differ, both are presented. Nothing here is offered as a settled conclusion.


By https://www.youtube.com/@erasedtime1