1 00:00:00,080 --> 00:00:02,960 Speaker 1: Imagine this for a second. You're not just reading a 2 00:00:03,040 --> 00:00:08,119 history book. You're looking through a tear in the page. 3 00:00:08,160 --> 00:00:10,839 You're out there, maybe tricking through the deepest jungle you 4 00:00:10,880 --> 00:00:14,839 can imagine, or looking into the darkest, coldest lake. 5 00:00:15,359 --> 00:00:17,679 Speaker 2: And you see something, something that shouldn't be. 6 00:00:17,640 --> 00:00:22,239 Speaker 1: There exactly, something that just completely defies the textbook, defies 7 00:00:22,280 --> 00:00:26,000 the entire timeline of evolution that we've all been taught. 8 00:00:26,039 --> 00:00:30,519 Speaker 2: It challenges everything, and that exact feeling, you know, that 9 00:00:30,640 --> 00:00:33,240 sense that maybe our textbooks are missing a few chapters 10 00:00:33,359 --> 00:00:35,880 or maybe a whole volume. It's what we're getting into today. 11 00:00:36,000 --> 00:00:38,960 Speaker 1: Yeah, this deep dive is all about looking at sources 12 00:00:39,000 --> 00:00:41,840 that really push back on our neat and tidy understanding 13 00:00:41,880 --> 00:00:44,960 of biology, of history, of reality itself. 14 00:00:45,200 --> 00:00:48,640 Speaker 2: What if the wildest legends, the stories that just refuse 15 00:00:48,759 --> 00:00:52,079 to die, giant apes, sea monsters, what if they're not 16 00:00:52,119 --> 00:00:55,880 just folklore, what if they're actually well misunters did historical records. 17 00:00:55,960 --> 00:00:58,640 Speaker 1: We've got some really fascinating sources here, and they connect 18 00:00:58,719 --> 00:01:02,119 things you would never think to together. We're talking gigantic 19 00:01:02,200 --> 00:01:08,640 prehistoric apes, theories about ancient aliens literally engineering human beings, and. 20 00:01:08,599 --> 00:01:13,120 Speaker 2: Then there's unexplained aerial phenomena UFOs tied to very specific 21 00:01:13,120 --> 00:01:16,519 spots on the planet, and of course ancient sea monsters 22 00:01:16,560 --> 00:01:17,719 that might still be down there. 23 00:01:17,879 --> 00:01:21,040 Speaker 1: Our mission really is to unpack the connections between all 24 00:01:21,040 --> 00:01:23,439 of these and just see how deep this rabbit hole 25 00:01:23,480 --> 00:01:26,239 goes and maybe what it all says about what it 26 00:01:26,280 --> 00:01:27,519 even means to be human. 27 00:01:27,719 --> 00:01:30,200 Speaker 2: And the starting point for this whole journey, funnily enough, 28 00:01:30,599 --> 00:01:35,640 isn't some ancient ruin. It's a small, probably pretty dusty 29 00:01:35,680 --> 00:01:36,840 medicinal shop. 30 00:01:36,879 --> 00:01:40,280 Speaker 1: In nineteen thirty five Hong Kong, of all places. 31 00:01:39,959 --> 00:01:43,920 Speaker 2: A completely mundane transaction that well, it unearthed a giant. 32 00:01:44,000 --> 00:01:47,519 Speaker 1: It's an amazing story. So you have this German paleontologist, 33 00:01:47,640 --> 00:01:50,799 doctor Gustav von Konixfault. He's browsing in one of these 34 00:01:50,840 --> 00:01:53,719 traditional shops, you know, the kind filled with jars of 35 00:01:53,719 --> 00:01:56,879 herbs and dried bits of well everything. 36 00:01:56,599 --> 00:01:58,840 Speaker 3: Right, believe to have all sorts of curative properties, and 37 00:01:58,879 --> 00:02:02,959 he spots these huge teeth, just massive molar teeth, and 38 00:02:03,000 --> 00:02:05,599 the shopkeeper is selling them as dragon teeth, you know, 39 00:02:05,640 --> 00:02:09,240 a folk remedy from some ancient mythological serpent. 40 00:02:09,319 --> 00:02:11,159 Speaker 2: So of course he's a scientist. He knows what he's 41 00:02:11,159 --> 00:02:11,599 looking at. 42 00:02:11,759 --> 00:02:15,960 Speaker 1: Instantly, he recognized them right away as primate teeth, just 43 00:02:16,360 --> 00:02:19,039 primate teeth on a scale nobody had ever seen before. 44 00:02:19,199 --> 00:02:22,840 And that purchase, probably for just a few bucks, became 45 00:02:22,919 --> 00:02:26,639 the very first fossil evidence of an extinct species that 46 00:02:26,719 --> 00:02:29,400 just completely changes the game for primate history. 47 00:02:29,479 --> 00:02:32,680 Speaker 2: So let's start there with the sheer reality of this creature, 48 00:02:33,439 --> 00:02:36,599 the one von Conis Fould named Gigantopithecus. 49 00:02:36,680 --> 00:02:39,120 Speaker 1: Yeah, let's establish the scale, because when we say largest 50 00:02:39,159 --> 00:02:41,680 known primate, I think people picture a big gorilla. 51 00:02:41,800 --> 00:02:44,280 Speaker 2: This is not that, oh, not even close. You have 52 00:02:44,319 --> 00:02:47,199 to completely reset your mental image. We were talking about 53 00:02:47,199 --> 00:02:50,159 a creature that stood on average ten feet tall ten 54 00:02:50,240 --> 00:02:52,960 feet and its weight is estimated up to twelve hundred pounds. 55 00:02:53,039 --> 00:02:55,439 That's over half a ton of primate. It's just immense. 56 00:02:55,639 --> 00:02:56,000 Speaker 3: Wow. 57 00:02:56,080 --> 00:02:58,919 Speaker 2: And what's really crucial here is that this wasn't some ancient, 58 00:02:58,960 --> 00:03:01,759 distant awshoot that out long before us. Our sources are 59 00:03:01,759 --> 00:03:06,719 clear Gigantopithecus lived alongside early hominids for tens of thousands 60 00:03:06,759 --> 00:03:08,599 of years. They were sharing the same landscape. 61 00:03:08,719 --> 00:03:13,240 Speaker 1: That is terrifying to imagine our tiny ancestors running into 62 00:03:13,240 --> 00:03:15,960 that thing. Let's get into the anatomy though, because that's 63 00:03:15,960 --> 00:03:18,919 where the connection to modern legends really starts to click. 64 00:03:19,360 --> 00:03:20,599 What did the skull tell us? 65 00:03:20,840 --> 00:03:24,039 Speaker 2: Okay, so the fossils, especially the jawbones, tell a very 66 00:03:24,080 --> 00:03:29,240 specific story for its huge body size. Gigantopithecus had a 67 00:03:29,280 --> 00:03:32,879 relatively small brain, okay, but its jaws and teeth were 68 00:03:32,919 --> 00:03:36,520 absolutely massive, just far more robust than any primate we 69 00:03:36,599 --> 00:03:40,039 know of. And to anchor the muscles you'd need to 70 00:03:40,080 --> 00:03:40,680 power those. 71 00:03:40,599 --> 00:03:43,120 Speaker 1: Jaws, you need a different skull structure exactly. 72 00:03:43,479 --> 00:03:46,280 Speaker 2: The skull needed these extra crests and ridges of bone 73 00:03:46,360 --> 00:03:48,759 running along the top like a bony mohawk. 74 00:03:48,840 --> 00:03:51,240 Speaker 1: That's the sagital crest, right. We see that in modern 75 00:03:51,240 --> 00:03:52,080 gorilla precisely. 76 00:03:52,120 --> 00:03:54,439 Speaker 2: It's a huge anchor point for the temporalis muscles that 77 00:03:54,479 --> 00:03:57,639 control the jaw. A creature that big, with that kind 78 00:03:57,680 --> 00:04:00,639 of crushing power, was built for a diet of incredibly 79 00:04:00,680 --> 00:04:04,800 tough stuff bamboo roots, things you need to hatch it for. 80 00:04:04,879 --> 00:04:07,919 Speaker 1: The massive brute strength, but a tradeoff in brain capacity. 81 00:04:08,000 --> 00:04:11,080 Speaker 2: That's the blueprint. It's a specialized boot force animal, and. 82 00:04:10,960 --> 00:04:13,599 Speaker 1: That physical profile leads us straight into one of the 83 00:04:13,599 --> 00:04:17,600 most persistent, if you know, controversial cryptids out there. What 84 00:04:17,720 --> 00:04:21,519 does this ten foot tall, small brain, powerfully jawed ape 85 00:04:21,959 --> 00:04:22,879 mean for Bigfoot? 86 00:04:23,279 --> 00:04:25,800 Speaker 2: Well, the most popular theory presented in the sources is 87 00:04:25,800 --> 00:04:29,519 that creatures like bigfoot, Sasquatch, the yetty they may be 88 00:04:29,639 --> 00:04:33,879 the direct descendants of a surviving population of Gigantipithecus. 89 00:04:33,959 --> 00:04:34,959 Speaker 1: Okay, walk us through that. 90 00:04:35,079 --> 00:04:37,800 Speaker 2: Well, think about it. You have a species perfectly adapted 91 00:04:37,839 --> 00:04:41,120 for deep forest or mountain survival. It's got that immense size, 92 00:04:41,199 --> 00:04:44,680 incredible power, and probably a natural ability to stay hidden. 93 00:04:45,199 --> 00:04:48,199 If a population of those survived the last extinction events 94 00:04:48,399 --> 00:04:51,079 and just retreated into the most remote wild parts of 95 00:04:51,079 --> 00:04:54,480 the world, North America, the Himalayas, it fits the description. 96 00:04:54,759 --> 00:04:59,079 It fits perfectly the eyewitness descriptions of sasquatch. Yeah, huge, hairy, 97 00:04:59,160 --> 00:05:02,399 immensely powerf often with that sort of conical head shape. 98 00:05:02,600 --> 00:05:05,600 It aligns with what you'd expect from descendative Gigantipithecus. 99 00:05:05,680 --> 00:05:07,519 Speaker 1: Okay, I can see the anatomical link, but you know, 100 00:05:07,560 --> 00:05:10,759 my skeptical hat comes on here. Gigantopithecus fossils are found 101 00:05:10,800 --> 00:05:14,160 in Asia. Sasquatch is a legend of the Pacific Northwest. 102 00:05:14,399 --> 00:05:16,959 How do you bridge that gap and the bigger question, 103 00:05:18,600 --> 00:05:22,240 if they're still around, why no bodies, Why no definitive 104 00:05:22,240 --> 00:05:23,040 fossil record? 105 00:05:23,199 --> 00:05:25,519 Speaker 2: And that's the multi million dollar question, isn't it. It's 106 00:05:25,600 --> 00:05:29,120 the reason it's a legend and not in a biology textbook. 107 00:05:29,720 --> 00:05:33,120 But the sources suggest a couple of things. First, the 108 00:05:33,160 --> 00:05:37,600 ancestral Gigantipithecus was incredibly widespread across Asia, showing a high 109 00:05:37,639 --> 00:05:40,680 degree of adaptability. And second, if the whole point of 110 00:05:40,720 --> 00:05:44,040 their survival is elusiveness, it stands to reason they don't 111 00:05:44,040 --> 00:05:45,480 die out in the open for us to find. 112 00:05:45,560 --> 00:05:48,480 Speaker 1: They'd retreat to a cave or deep part of the forest. Right. 113 00:05:48,600 --> 00:05:51,720 Speaker 2: But what really gives the theory weight beyond just anatomy 114 00:05:52,040 --> 00:05:53,800 is the cultural ubiquity of the legend. 115 00:05:53,839 --> 00:05:56,920 Speaker 1: Okay, yeah, let's talk about that, because that's harder to dismiss. 116 00:05:56,959 --> 00:05:59,240 It is not just a North American thing. This idea 117 00:05:59,279 --> 00:06:02,319 of a giant, hairy wild man is everywhere. 118 00:06:02,480 --> 00:06:06,600 Speaker 2: It's everywhere, and that raises a really powerful question. Why 119 00:06:06,639 --> 00:06:10,279 do so many cultures across the entire globe, cultures separated 120 00:06:10,279 --> 00:06:14,279 by oceans for thousands of years? Yeah, we're talking South America, 121 00:06:14,399 --> 00:06:17,839 Native American tribes, Russia and China, Tibet, Australia. Why do 122 00:06:17,879 --> 00:06:20,160 they all have these strikingly similar legends. 123 00:06:20,360 --> 00:06:24,480 Speaker 1: A giant bipedal hairy man beast that lives just outside 124 00:06:24,480 --> 00:06:25,879 of civilization exactly. 125 00:06:26,279 --> 00:06:29,639 Speaker 2: The prevalence is so widespread it suggests, as the sources 126 00:06:29,639 --> 00:06:33,360 put it, these creatures were very, very prevalent and widespread 127 00:06:33,439 --> 00:06:36,360 across the world in times past. This isn't just a 128 00:06:36,360 --> 00:06:38,839 campfire story. It feels like a shared ancient memory. 129 00:06:39,000 --> 00:06:41,600 Speaker 1: And if that biological reality was so common, it only 130 00:06:41,639 --> 00:06:44,199 makes sense it would get woven into our very first stories, 131 00:06:44,199 --> 00:06:44,920 our first. 132 00:06:44,639 --> 00:06:47,680 Speaker 2: Epics, which brings us to ancient Sumeria. 133 00:06:47,399 --> 00:06:48,920 Speaker 1: The epic of Gilgamesh, one. 134 00:06:48,800 --> 00:06:51,600 Speaker 2: Of our oldest written stories, almost four thousand years old. 135 00:06:51,680 --> 00:06:54,639 And who is Gilgamesh's great companion and Kidu? 136 00:06:54,879 --> 00:06:58,319 Speaker 1: And the description of NQW is very specific. 137 00:06:57,959 --> 00:07:01,639 Speaker 2: Incredibly specific. He's described as a hairy wild man or beast. 138 00:07:01,959 --> 00:07:04,000 He has immense strength, and he lives in the wilderness 139 00:07:04,000 --> 00:07:07,079 with the animals, totally outside the rules of human society. 140 00:07:07,399 --> 00:07:10,199 He is, for all intents and purposes, a force of nature. 141 00:07:10,439 --> 00:07:12,360 Speaker 1: And the sources we're looking at suggest that if you 142 00:07:12,519 --> 00:07:16,040 just read that description literally in kido, could be interpreted 143 00:07:16,120 --> 00:07:19,399 as and un quoting some kind of bigfoot sasquatch figure. 144 00:07:19,560 --> 00:07:22,959 Speaker 2: It's an example of our earliest civilizations actually encountering and 145 00:07:23,000 --> 00:07:25,920 having to deal with one of these large, hairy hominids. 146 00:07:25,959 --> 00:07:28,240 Speaker 1: But this is where the story takes a sharp turn, right, 147 00:07:28,399 --> 00:07:32,759 It moves away from just zoology and into something much 148 00:07:32,800 --> 00:07:33,560 more radical. 149 00:07:33,879 --> 00:07:36,439 Speaker 2: This is where it gets really wild. The sources claim 150 00:07:36,480 --> 00:07:39,439 that Nktu's origins might not be purely of this Earth. 151 00:07:40,079 --> 00:07:42,920 The Sumerian accounts are interpreted to imply he had a 152 00:07:43,000 --> 00:07:45,240 possible extraterrestrial origin. 153 00:07:45,360 --> 00:07:48,680 Speaker 1: Okay, let's unpack that. When the sources say extraterrestrial in 154 00:07:48,720 --> 00:07:51,759 the context of Samaria, they're talking about the Nunaki, right. 155 00:07:52,000 --> 00:07:56,759 Speaker 2: The Ananaki, in these radical interpretations are the Samerian sky gods, 156 00:07:57,120 --> 00:07:59,959 powerful beings who came to Earth from another solar system. 157 00:08:00,240 --> 00:08:03,319 Sometimes they're linked to the Grays of modern Ufo lore, 158 00:08:03,680 --> 00:08:05,040 and they came here for a reason. 159 00:08:05,279 --> 00:08:07,399 Speaker 1: So in this view, and Kidu wasn't just some wild 160 00:08:07,439 --> 00:08:10,839 creature they found he was a prototype, the. 161 00:08:10,720 --> 00:08:14,319 Speaker 2: First test subject. The sources suggest he was the first 162 00:08:14,360 --> 00:08:16,360 being genetically fashioned by the Anonachy. 163 00:08:16,680 --> 00:08:18,000 Speaker 1: Why what was the purpose? 164 00:08:18,279 --> 00:08:20,879 Speaker 2: The theory is that these beings put their genetic marker 165 00:08:21,000 --> 00:08:24,920 onto an existing large ape like creature, maybe a descendant 166 00:08:24,920 --> 00:08:28,879 of Gigantopithecus. To create a worker, they needed a labor force. 167 00:08:29,399 --> 00:08:32,120 Certain interpretations of the tablet suggest it was for mining 168 00:08:32,200 --> 00:08:34,279 gold or other practical tasks. 169 00:08:34,440 --> 00:08:37,600 Speaker 1: The biblical phrase make man in our image and after 170 00:08:37,679 --> 00:08:38,480 our likeness. 171 00:08:38,720 --> 00:08:41,279 Speaker 2: That's the connection the sources make. This idea of genetic 172 00:08:41,320 --> 00:08:44,240 manipulation turns the hairy wild man from just a monster 173 00:08:44,759 --> 00:08:48,240 into a foundational piece of our own origin story. And 174 00:08:48,279 --> 00:08:50,399 it sets the stage for an even more radical question, 175 00:08:51,000 --> 00:08:53,200 what if we are the real manufactured product. 176 00:08:53,320 --> 00:08:55,639 Speaker 1: That's a perfect bridge. Let's pivot from NK do the 177 00:08:55,679 --> 00:08:59,080 supposed engineered brute and look at us, Homo sapiens. If 178 00:08:59,120 --> 00:09:01,320 you put a gigantic eithic a skull next to a 179 00:09:01,399 --> 00:09:05,120 human skull, the evolutionary jump is well, it's jarring. 180 00:09:05,240 --> 00:09:09,480 Speaker 2: It's a massive, I mean massive discrepancy. The human skull is, 181 00:09:09,519 --> 00:09:13,279 as the sources say, remarkably smaller overall. But and this 182 00:09:13,440 --> 00:09:16,639 is the key, it has a hugely expanded cranial capacity. 183 00:09:16,720 --> 00:09:19,840 Speaker 1: Our brains are enormous for our body size, enormous. 184 00:09:20,279 --> 00:09:23,559 Speaker 2: And look at our jaws, they're delicate. The muscles that 185 00:09:23,679 --> 00:09:27,960 drive them are tiny compared to a gorilla, let alone gigantopithecus. 186 00:09:28,080 --> 00:09:30,840 We don't have those big bony crests on our skulls. 187 00:09:31,279 --> 00:09:34,600 All that space, all that bone structure was repurpose for 188 00:09:34,679 --> 00:09:35,559 the frontal lobe. 189 00:09:35,759 --> 00:09:38,679 Speaker 1: It's the ultimate evolutionary trade off, isn't it. We gave 190 00:09:38,759 --> 00:09:42,200 up that crushing bite strength for complex thought, for language, 191 00:09:42,240 --> 00:09:42,879 for planning. 192 00:09:43,080 --> 00:09:46,120 Speaker 2: We did. But the sources really challenged the idea that 193 00:09:46,159 --> 00:09:50,120 this happens slowly through natural selection. What accounts for such 194 00:09:50,120 --> 00:09:53,639 a rapid dramatic change in what should be a related species. 195 00:09:53,799 --> 00:09:57,240 Speaker 1: This is the classic missing link problem. Mainstream science says 196 00:09:57,240 --> 00:09:59,440 there's a gradual progression, we just haven't found all the 197 00:09:59,440 --> 00:10:00,440 fossils yet. 198 00:10:00,480 --> 00:10:04,120 Speaker 2: But the sources were analyzing today they proposed something else entirely. 199 00:10:04,600 --> 00:10:06,600 They argue the missing link isn't a fossil we're going 200 00:10:06,639 --> 00:10:08,879 to dig up one day. They say the missing link 201 00:10:08,960 --> 00:10:12,320 is extraterrestrial intervention. That without some kind of outside push, 202 00:10:12,519 --> 00:10:15,320 our evolution just wouldn't have happened this way this fast. 203 00:10:15,559 --> 00:10:19,039 Speaker 1: And it's not just the brain size. What about our skin, 204 00:10:19,519 --> 00:10:23,039 our hair. If we evolve from these hairy hominids, why 205 00:10:23,039 --> 00:10:26,200 are we than naked ape for hundreds of thousands of years. 206 00:10:26,200 --> 00:10:28,960 Being hairless was a huge disadvantage. We had to wear 207 00:10:29,000 --> 00:10:32,840 animal furs hide in caves to stay warm. It doesn't seem. 208 00:10:32,559 --> 00:10:36,320 Speaker 2: Optimal, that's the argument exactly. Our ancestors must have been 209 00:10:36,399 --> 00:10:39,519 covered in fur for protection, yet we lose it, and 210 00:10:39,559 --> 00:10:42,039 at the same time we get this massive brain. It 211 00:10:42,080 --> 00:10:44,559 feels like a really strange nonlinear change. 212 00:10:44,679 --> 00:10:46,960 Speaker 1: The sources also point to things like the difficulty of 213 00:10:47,039 --> 00:10:48,080 human childbirth. 214 00:10:48,200 --> 00:10:52,360 Speaker 2: Yes, another great example. Our skulls got bigger faster than 215 00:10:52,360 --> 00:10:55,840 our pelvises could adapt for bipedal walking. That creates an 216 00:10:55,840 --> 00:10:59,799 evolutionary bottleneck that for millennia was incredibly dangerous for both 217 00:10:59,840 --> 00:11:03,480 my mother and child. Again, it cited as evidence of non optimal, 218 00:11:03,720 --> 00:11:07,440 maybe even rushed engineering. We don't seem perfectly adapted for 219 00:11:07,480 --> 00:11:07,960 this world. 220 00:11:08,120 --> 00:11:10,200 Speaker 1: So this leads us to the core of the radical 221 00:11:10,279 --> 00:11:14,720 hypothesis that our ancient hairy hominid ancestors were genetically manipulated 222 00:11:14,720 --> 00:11:15,840 and spliced. 223 00:11:15,639 --> 00:11:20,159 Speaker 2: By beings from another solar system, the Aninachi, the grays, 224 00:11:20,320 --> 00:11:22,440 whatever you want to call them. The idea is that 225 00:11:22,480 --> 00:11:27,159 they injected their own DNA into these existing Earth primates. 226 00:11:26,759 --> 00:11:28,960 Speaker 1: And the goal wasn't just to make them smarter. It 227 00:11:29,080 --> 00:11:32,799 was to create a suitable, maybe more docile workforce that 228 00:11:32,840 --> 00:11:37,440 could understand complex instructions to make man in our image. 229 00:11:37,600 --> 00:11:41,000 Speaker 2: Right. So if you accept that premise, then the leap 230 00:11:41,080 --> 00:11:44,200 from say a Neanderthal to a chromagnet a modern human 231 00:11:44,559 --> 00:11:47,600 wasn't a slow natural climb. It was a genetic jumpstart, 232 00:11:47,799 --> 00:11:51,639 an alteration. The missing link wasn't missing, it was installed. 233 00:11:51,720 --> 00:11:54,000 Speaker 1: Wow. Okay, So if that's the theory, if we were 234 00:11:54,039 --> 00:11:57,879 manufactured with a blend of alien and hominid DNA, it 235 00:11:57,960 --> 00:12:01,320 begs a huge question what happened to the originals? Where 236 00:12:01,320 --> 00:12:02,919 did the unspliced creatures go? 237 00:12:03,120 --> 00:12:05,679 Speaker 2: And that brings us right back to Bigfoot. The sources 238 00:12:05,679 --> 00:12:09,600 propose two main possibilities. One, creatures like Sasquatch are the 239 00:12:09,679 --> 00:12:12,919 last surviving examples of the prehistoric comitidts who were here 240 00:12:12,960 --> 00:12:14,000 before the invention. 241 00:12:13,799 --> 00:12:15,320 Speaker 1: The original dominant species. 242 00:12:15,440 --> 00:12:18,320 Speaker 2: Or two, they're the ones who escaped experimentation. They're the 243 00:12:18,320 --> 00:12:21,480 control group, the evolutionary line that continued on its own, untainted. 244 00:12:21,679 --> 00:12:25,679 Speaker 1: That is a staggering idea because it just completely flips 245 00:12:25,679 --> 00:12:27,879 the script on who the anomaly is on this planet. 246 00:12:27,960 --> 00:12:31,960 Speaker 2: It does if humans are the product of this genetic engineering. 247 00:12:32,440 --> 00:12:35,399 Then we are the real alien creatures. We are the 248 00:12:35,519 --> 00:12:36,559 hybrid species. 249 00:12:36,600 --> 00:12:40,919 Speaker 1: And if that's true, then Bigfoot's elusiveness suddenly makes a 250 00:12:40,919 --> 00:12:43,200 different kind of sense, a lot more sense. 251 00:12:43,600 --> 00:12:46,120 Speaker 2: Why do they hide from us. Maybe it's not because 252 00:12:46,120 --> 00:12:48,759 they're scared of our guns or our technology. Maybe they're 253 00:12:48,759 --> 00:12:50,480 elusive because they recognize us. 254 00:12:50,559 --> 00:12:54,919 Speaker 1: They see us as the product of the experiment they avoided. 255 00:12:55,120 --> 00:12:59,639 Speaker 2: Exactly. We are the alien interlopers, the manufactured hybrids. They're 256 00:12:59,799 --> 00:13:03,360 in distinctively afraid of the unnatural path we represent. They're 257 00:13:03,399 --> 00:13:07,360 the original intelligence of Earth, and they're just staying away 258 00:13:07,360 --> 00:13:09,399 from the weird experiment that took over the planet. 259 00:13:09,559 --> 00:13:11,720 Speaker 1: That is a chilling thought, the idea that the monsters 260 00:13:11,759 --> 00:13:15,639 were hunting might just be the planet's original untampered residence. 261 00:13:15,279 --> 00:13:18,399 Speaker 2: And it connects this giant hominid category directly to our 262 00:13:18,440 --> 00:13:22,360 earliest documented conflicts, our first figures of absolute terror. 263 00:13:22,399 --> 00:13:23,600 Speaker 1: You have to talk about Goliath. 264 00:13:23,960 --> 00:13:27,320 Speaker 2: You have to the biblical story of David and Goliath. 265 00:13:28,320 --> 00:13:33,519 Goliath fits the description perfectly. He's described as huge, big, hairy, 266 00:13:33,919 --> 00:13:37,679 immensely strong, a true warrior machine. He wasn't just a 267 00:13:37,720 --> 00:13:40,000 tall guy. He was deployed as a weapon of terror 268 00:13:40,039 --> 00:13:41,039 against the Israelites. 269 00:13:41,120 --> 00:13:44,240 Speaker 1: Can you imagine for an ancient army seeing a creature 270 00:13:44,320 --> 00:13:47,320 like that on the battlefield must have been psychologically devastating. 271 00:13:47,320 --> 00:13:50,960 It would have defied their understanding of biology absolutely. 272 00:13:50,399 --> 00:13:52,080 Speaker 2: And when you look at how scholars have tried to 273 00:13:52,080 --> 00:13:55,879 interpret him, some suggest Goliath might have been an early 274 00:13:55,960 --> 00:14:00,279 representation of a bigfoot type creature, something that's clearly not 275 00:14:00,399 --> 00:14:02,480 human but clearly is also present here. 276 00:14:02,600 --> 00:14:06,159 Speaker 1: But others using that intervention hypothesis, suggests he was something 277 00:14:06,200 --> 00:14:08,399 more manufactured. 278 00:14:07,759 --> 00:14:11,720 Speaker 2: More sinister, perhaps, as the sources spiculate, an extraterrestrial or 279 00:14:11,759 --> 00:14:15,559 a human abomination, a half alien, half human creature. 280 00:14:15,360 --> 00:14:18,399 Speaker 1: A genetic experiment that either went wrong or was specifically 281 00:14:18,440 --> 00:14:20,480 designed as this terrifying super soldier. 282 00:14:20,799 --> 00:14:25,559 Speaker 2: Precisely, his presence was so unnatural, so terrifying, that David 283 00:14:25,600 --> 00:14:28,360 had to vanquish him. It wasn't just a battle, it 284 00:14:28,399 --> 00:14:33,080 was about eliminating this non standard, perhaps engineered creature that 285 00:14:33,159 --> 00:14:37,159 threatened the new human order. It suggests these massive, unusual 286 00:14:37,200 --> 00:14:40,200 beings have been popping up throughout our recorded history, not 287 00:14:40,360 --> 00:14:42,080 just in some distant folklore. 288 00:14:42,200 --> 00:14:45,759 Speaker 1: So we've got this pattern building prehistoric survivors, blending with 289 00:14:45,879 --> 00:14:49,519 theories of ancient alien engineering. Let's shift now to a 290 00:14:49,559 --> 00:14:53,919 more modern phenomenon where mysterious creatures and unexplained technology seem 291 00:14:53,960 --> 00:14:57,840 to intersect at very specific geological locations. We're going to 292 00:14:57,919 --> 00:14:59,720 Elizabeth Lake in southern California. 293 00:15:00,000 --> 00:15:02,519 Speaker 2: Elizabeth Lake is a fascinating place. The Spanish settlers called 294 00:15:02,519 --> 00:15:04,000 it Laguna del Diablo. 295 00:15:03,840 --> 00:15:06,000 Speaker 1: The Devil's late exactly. 296 00:15:05,600 --> 00:15:08,159 Speaker 2: And its location is key. It sits directly on top 297 00:15:08,200 --> 00:15:10,759 of the San Andreas Fault at a powerful junction of 298 00:15:10,840 --> 00:15:14,080 tectonic plates. You're talking about a place with immense inherent 299 00:15:14,440 --> 00:15:15,720 seismic energy, and. 300 00:15:15,639 --> 00:15:18,840 Speaker 1: The local history is just steeped in this unexplained terror. 301 00:15:18,879 --> 00:15:21,720 From the mid seventeen hundreds up to the late eighteen hundreds, 302 00:15:21,840 --> 00:15:23,600 something was plaguing the ranchers there. 303 00:15:23,840 --> 00:15:26,399 Speaker 2: They had a legend that the devil kept his pet 304 00:15:26,440 --> 00:15:28,360 at the bottom of the lake and that it would 305 00:15:28,360 --> 00:15:31,600 come out through a portal, which is their way of 306 00:15:31,600 --> 00:15:33,679 trying to rationalize something they just. 307 00:15:33,639 --> 00:15:35,639 Speaker 1: Could not explain, and what were they seeing. 308 00:15:36,240 --> 00:15:40,480 Speaker 2: The ranchers who settled there complained constantly of a monstrous 309 00:15:40,519 --> 00:15:43,639 beast It would supposedly emerge from the lake, which is 310 00:15:43,639 --> 00:15:46,759 technically a sagpond created by the fault line, and it 311 00:15:46,759 --> 00:15:50,559 would steal cattle, terrorize their horses, menace the people and. 312 00:15:50,480 --> 00:15:53,720 Speaker 1: Their vocabulary for it. Devil's Pet, Devil's Lake was just 313 00:15:53,759 --> 00:15:56,799 them trying to fit this bizarre phenomenon into the only 314 00:15:56,879 --> 00:15:58,840 framework they had, the religious one. 315 00:15:59,000 --> 00:16:02,080 Speaker 2: Right, the story gets really specific, and this is the 316 00:16:02,120 --> 00:16:05,639 crucial part. One of the creatures they described seeing was 317 00:16:06,159 --> 00:16:06,919 the thunderbird. 318 00:16:07,000 --> 00:16:10,919 Speaker 1: A thunderbird, and this description was almost identical to the 319 00:16:10,919 --> 00:16:15,039 creature that cowboys reported seeing over in Timstone, Arizona, around 320 00:16:15,120 --> 00:16:15,919 eighteen ninety. 321 00:16:16,039 --> 00:16:18,559 Speaker 2: It is, and we have this detailed account from one 322 00:16:18,639 --> 00:16:20,759 rancher who finally had enough and decided he was going 323 00:16:20,840 --> 00:16:23,279 to shoot this thing. He fired several shots at it. 324 00:16:23,519 --> 00:16:26,480 This is what makes the account so vital. He described 325 00:16:26,480 --> 00:16:30,559 the creature as being bulletproof and metallic. The bullets just 326 00:16:30,639 --> 00:16:31,480 ricocheted off it. 327 00:16:31,639 --> 00:16:35,679 Speaker 1: Bulletproof and metallic. Okay, that takes it out of the 328 00:16:35,679 --> 00:16:38,399 world of biology and puts it squarely into technology. 329 00:16:38,480 --> 00:16:41,279 Speaker 2: It does. After he shot at it, the creature flew 330 00:16:41,320 --> 00:16:45,320 east and just vanished. Nobody, no feathers, nothing, just the 331 00:16:45,360 --> 00:16:47,720 story of this impenetrable flying thing. 332 00:16:47,879 --> 00:16:50,159 Speaker 1: So if we step back from the devil's pet legend 333 00:16:50,240 --> 00:16:53,159 and look at the location again. That San Andreas fault 334 00:16:53,159 --> 00:16:54,679 connection seems critical. 335 00:16:54,840 --> 00:16:58,120 Speaker 2: It really does. There's a compelling theory that these major 336 00:16:58,159 --> 00:17:01,399 tectonic fault lines, because the immense friction and the piece 337 00:17:01,440 --> 00:17:04,480 of electric energy they can release, might act as portals 338 00:17:04,519 --> 00:17:07,240 to another dimension, or at least weak spots in the 339 00:17:07,240 --> 00:17:08,279 fabric of our reality. 340 00:17:08,359 --> 00:17:10,559 Speaker 1: So the location itself could be an anchor point, a 341 00:17:10,599 --> 00:17:15,400 place where something from somewhere else can manifest more easily. 342 00:17:15,480 --> 00:17:17,319 Speaker 2: That's the idea. The energy of the fall line might 343 00:17:17,359 --> 00:17:19,839 act as a sort of conduit, allowing things that shouldn't 344 00:17:19,880 --> 00:17:21,279 be here to pop in and out. 345 00:17:21,519 --> 00:17:24,720 Speaker 1: Let's break down that thunderbird description again, but using modern terms, 346 00:17:24,759 --> 00:17:27,359 it was enormous. It made enormous. 347 00:17:26,960 --> 00:17:30,640 Speaker 2: Noises, suggesting something like a jet engine not flapping wings, 348 00:17:30,799 --> 00:17:31,279 and its. 349 00:17:31,160 --> 00:17:33,920 Speaker 1: Eyes could literally pierce and emanate fire. 350 00:17:34,319 --> 00:17:37,880 Speaker 2: So you have a giant, loud, metallic flying thing that 351 00:17:37,960 --> 00:17:41,640 shoots light from its propulsion system. That whole package sounds 352 00:17:41,640 --> 00:17:43,839 a lot more like some sort of craft than any 353 00:17:43,880 --> 00:17:44,480 kind of bird. 354 00:17:44,680 --> 00:17:47,279 Speaker 1: And this is the core of an idea the sources 355 00:17:47,359 --> 00:17:48,559 call cultural tracking. 356 00:17:48,680 --> 00:17:52,240 Speaker 2: Yes, let's unpack that because it's a really elegant explanation 357 00:17:52,279 --> 00:17:53,480 for a lot of historical. 358 00:17:53,200 --> 00:17:54,440 Speaker 1: Myths, So how does it work? 359 00:17:54,559 --> 00:17:59,799 Speaker 2: Cultural tracking is the idea that these unexplained phenomenal UFOs UAP, 360 00:18:00,079 --> 00:18:04,720 whatever they are, can essentially mask themselves to appear as 361 00:18:04,799 --> 00:18:08,559 almost anything that the local culture can process. The phenomenon 362 00:18:08,640 --> 00:18:11,160 is real, but our brains filter it through the only 363 00:18:11,200 --> 00:18:13,200 mythological or linguistic lens we have. 364 00:18:13,519 --> 00:18:17,359 Speaker 1: So an advanced loud flying machine shows up over nineteenth 365 00:18:17,400 --> 00:18:21,000 century California. The Ranchers have no concept of jet propulsion 366 00:18:21,079 --> 00:18:24,440 or advanced alloys. They know birds and they know thunder. 367 00:18:24,279 --> 00:18:27,519 Speaker 2: So they see a giant metal thunder making bird the 368 00:18:27,559 --> 00:18:31,119 thunderbird wow. And this pattern holds up globally throughout history. 369 00:18:31,279 --> 00:18:35,359 In ancient China, flying phenomena were often described as flying dragons. 370 00:18:35,880 --> 00:18:38,960 In ancient Egypt, they were flying boats. For the Romans, 371 00:18:39,240 --> 00:18:44,440 they were flying shields round metallic defying physics. The underlying 372 00:18:44,440 --> 00:18:47,680 technology might be the same, but the interpretation is shaped 373 00:18:47,720 --> 00:18:49,200 by the observer's world. 374 00:18:49,000 --> 00:18:51,759 Speaker 1: And the sources have that perfect modern example to lock 375 00:18:51,839 --> 00:18:55,240 it in the Native American tribes in the Southwest seeing 376 00:18:55,480 --> 00:18:56,559 the first airplanes. 377 00:18:56,759 --> 00:18:59,720 Speaker 2: It's the perfect case study. When the first fixed wing 378 00:18:59,720 --> 00:19:02,279 air planes flew over their land. They called the metal 379 00:19:02,319 --> 00:19:05,440 birds literally, and in one case in Zuni, when one 380 00:19:05,440 --> 00:19:07,960 of these planes actually landed, the tribe went out and 381 00:19:08,000 --> 00:19:11,359 began to worship it. They immediately integrated this piece of 382 00:19:11,440 --> 00:19:15,240 unknown technology into their spiritual framework as a divine object. 383 00:19:15,960 --> 00:19:18,720 It shows you how quickly our minds will slot something 384 00:19:19,079 --> 00:19:22,640 advanced and inexplicable into the category of mythology. 385 00:19:23,000 --> 00:19:25,680 Speaker 1: So the thunderbird legend might not be a legend about 386 00:19:25,680 --> 00:19:28,039 a monster at all. It's a historical record of a 387 00:19:28,079 --> 00:19:31,599 technological encounter, translated through the only language they had. 388 00:19:31,799 --> 00:19:34,640 Speaker 2: That's the theory, and it makes you wonder how many 389 00:19:34,680 --> 00:19:38,400 of our ancient monster myths are really just misinterpreted technology. 390 00:19:38,599 --> 00:19:42,759 Speaker 1: It really blurs the line between biology, technology, and mythology 391 00:19:43,000 --> 00:19:44,400 until it almost disappears. 392 00:19:44,720 --> 00:19:47,519 Speaker 2: And if these things can appear at fault lines, we 393 00:19:47,599 --> 00:19:50,480 have to consider the other most remote, unexplored parts of 394 00:19:50,519 --> 00:19:54,680 our world, the deep dark water. If a creature truly 395 00:19:54,720 --> 00:19:58,039 wants to avoid detection for millennia, that's where it would go. 396 00:19:58,400 --> 00:20:00,920 Speaker 1: This brings us right back to the idea of survivors 397 00:20:00,920 --> 00:20:03,039 from the Great Extinction event, the one that wiped out 398 00:20:03,079 --> 00:20:06,480 the dinosaurs sixty five million years ago. We know the 399 00:20:06,519 --> 00:20:09,319 asteroid hit near the Yucatan Peninsula, but the question has 400 00:20:09,359 --> 00:20:11,640 always been did everything die? 401 00:20:11,960 --> 00:20:15,799 Speaker 2: And the answer is clearly know. We have irrefutable evidence 402 00:20:15,920 --> 00:20:19,519 of relic species. The Koala camp, for example, a fish 403 00:20:19,559 --> 00:20:22,079 everyone thought went extinct with the dinosaurs until we found 404 00:20:22,160 --> 00:20:23,880 one alive and well in nineteen thirty eight. 405 00:20:24,079 --> 00:20:27,799 Speaker 1: Right an alligators, sharks, turtles, They're all from that same era. 406 00:20:27,920 --> 00:20:31,319 Speaker 2: They survived exactly. The fact that these species are still 407 00:20:31,319 --> 00:20:34,079 with us gives real credence to the belief that, quoting 408 00:20:34,079 --> 00:20:37,960 the sources, ancient prehistoric monsters are still living in remote 409 00:20:37,960 --> 00:20:41,799 areas of the world right down to today. Biological persistence 410 00:20:42,079 --> 00:20:43,359 is a proven fact. 411 00:20:43,160 --> 00:20:45,680 Speaker 1: And there's no more famous example of this idea than 412 00:20:45,720 --> 00:20:47,359 the Lochness monster Nissi. 413 00:20:47,799 --> 00:20:50,599 Speaker 2: The accounts go back a long, long way. The first 414 00:20:50,640 --> 00:20:53,920 significant sighting is dated to five sixty five AD. 415 00:20:54,039 --> 00:20:55,960 Speaker 1: With the Irish monk sink Columba. 416 00:20:56,079 --> 00:20:58,799 Speaker 2: That's the one the story goes. He comes across some 417 00:20:58,920 --> 00:21:00,960 locals burying a man who had been killed by a 418 00:21:00,960 --> 00:21:04,400 water beast in the lock. So Columba, to show his power, 419 00:21:04,759 --> 00:21:06,880 sends one of his own followers to swim in the water. 420 00:21:07,079 --> 00:21:10,640 All move very and sure enough, the great beast emerges 421 00:21:10,799 --> 00:21:13,599 ready to attack, but Columba makes the sign of the 422 00:21:13,640 --> 00:21:16,319 cross and commands it not to harm the man, and 423 00:21:16,359 --> 00:21:20,039 supposedly the beast was terrified and fled back into the depths. 424 00:21:19,720 --> 00:21:24,200 Speaker 1: Which immediately puts NeSSI into this weird, semi religious context. 425 00:21:24,240 --> 00:21:26,240 It's not just an animal, it's an entity that can 426 00:21:26,240 --> 00:21:27,319 be commanded by faith. 427 00:21:27,640 --> 00:21:30,319 Speaker 2: It is, But if we set the folklor aside for 428 00:21:30,359 --> 00:21:32,279 a moment and just look at the lock itself, you 429 00:21:32,279 --> 00:21:35,759 couldn't design a better hiding place for a surviving prehistoric creature. 430 00:21:35,839 --> 00:21:37,200 Speaker 1: Geographically it's perfect. 431 00:21:37,319 --> 00:21:40,240 Speaker 2: It's immense, twenty three miles long a mile wide, and 432 00:21:40,279 --> 00:21:42,920 it's deep, over eight hundred feet deep in places, and 433 00:21:42,960 --> 00:21:46,519 the water is very very dark and dense. It's stained 434 00:21:46,519 --> 00:21:48,960 with pete, so visibility is almost zero. 435 00:21:49,240 --> 00:21:53,160 Speaker 1: So a large air breathing creature like a plesiosaur could 436 00:21:53,200 --> 00:21:56,279 live there and sort of bypass detection because it wouldn't 437 00:21:56,319 --> 00:21:57,559 need to surface very often. 438 00:21:57,640 --> 00:22:00,519 Speaker 2: It's the perfect self contained ecosystem for a creature to 439 00:22:00,680 --> 00:22:03,559 just survive unnoticed. 440 00:22:03,599 --> 00:22:07,359 Speaker 1: So the big question is is NeSSI a dinosaur remnant, or, 441 00:22:07,640 --> 00:22:10,000 as the sources ask, is it something which is out. 442 00:22:09,799 --> 00:22:12,160 Speaker 2: Of this world, and you have to ask that because 443 00:22:12,200 --> 00:22:15,759 you can't ignore the other phenomena reported around the lock. 444 00:22:16,279 --> 00:22:19,920 There are a significant number of UFO sightings over the 445 00:22:19,960 --> 00:22:24,960 lock itself. Really oh yeah, strange brightly lit objects seen hovering, 446 00:22:25,319 --> 00:22:28,640 sometimes diving into the water or emerging from it, things 447 00:22:28,640 --> 00:22:31,079 that are definitely not conventional aircraft. 448 00:22:31,240 --> 00:22:33,440 Speaker 1: So, just like Elizabeth Lake, we have this junction point, 449 00:22:33,519 --> 00:22:36,839 a physical anomaly, the deep dark Lock, and the presence 450 00:22:36,880 --> 00:22:40,319 of both a mysterious creature and mysterious aerial phenomena. 451 00:22:40,599 --> 00:22:42,759 Speaker 2: It suggests lock nests might be another one of these 452 00:22:42,799 --> 00:22:46,799 locations where the boundaries are just thinner, and it connects 453 00:22:46,880 --> 00:22:51,480 NeSSI to this whole global category of mythological sea beasts. 454 00:22:52,000 --> 00:22:54,519 Are they all just surviving dinosaurs or is something else 455 00:22:54,559 --> 00:22:54,920 going on? 456 00:22:55,160 --> 00:22:56,960 Speaker 1: Let's start with the big one, the Leviathan. 457 00:22:57,279 --> 00:23:00,480 Speaker 2: The Leviathan is described in so many ancient texts as 458 00:23:00,519 --> 00:23:05,279 this colossal serpent or dragon or crocodile like beast. Its 459 00:23:05,279 --> 00:23:09,880 domain is specifically the deepest, most unknown parts of the ocean. 460 00:23:10,160 --> 00:23:12,039 Speaker 1: It lurks in the abyss, and. 461 00:23:12,000 --> 00:23:15,319 Speaker 2: In some traditions it's described as the gatekeeper to a 462 00:23:15,359 --> 00:23:18,519 portal to Hell at the bottom of the sea. Which 463 00:23:18,559 --> 00:23:21,480 suggests that the deepest, high pressure parts of our oceans 464 00:23:21,880 --> 00:23:25,400 might hold entities that are well not from our known 465 00:23:25,440 --> 00:23:28,039 biological tree. Maybe they're literally guarding something. 466 00:23:28,319 --> 00:23:31,240 Speaker 1: Then you have the Greek hydra, which is just a 467 00:23:31,279 --> 00:23:33,799 biological nightmare, complete nightmare. 468 00:23:33,960 --> 00:23:36,920 Speaker 2: This multi headed sea serpent, a descendant of the earth 469 00:23:36,960 --> 00:23:40,480 goddess Gaya, and this story of Hercules fighting it is 470 00:23:40,519 --> 00:23:41,240 so detailed. 471 00:23:41,319 --> 00:23:43,960 Speaker 1: He learns pretty quickly that just fighting it normally doesn't work. 472 00:23:44,039 --> 00:23:46,279 Speaker 2: It's a disaster. Every time he slices off one of 473 00:23:46,319 --> 00:23:48,599 his heads, two more grow back in its place. This 474 00:23:48,640 --> 00:23:51,920 isn't normal healing. This is some kind of radical, accelerated 475 00:23:51,920 --> 00:23:54,079 regeneration that just defies biology. 476 00:23:54,359 --> 00:23:56,920 Speaker 1: He only succeeds when his nephew gives him the idea 477 00:23:57,039 --> 00:24:00,799 to use fire to cauterize the next stump after each cut. 478 00:24:01,039 --> 00:24:05,240 Speaker 2: And that detail, the absolute need for fire to stop 479 00:24:05,279 --> 00:24:09,400 the process is what makes it so strange. It implies, 480 00:24:09,680 --> 00:24:12,559 as the sources say, a category of creature you would 481 00:24:12,599 --> 00:24:13,559 expect not to see. 482 00:24:13,720 --> 00:24:15,720 Speaker 1: This doesn't sound natural, no, which is. 483 00:24:15,640 --> 00:24:18,839 Speaker 2: Why the sources suggest the hydra could be an example 484 00:24:18,880 --> 00:24:23,319 of something that was genetically engineered or which genetically went wrong. 485 00:24:23,759 --> 00:24:26,359 A runaway experiment. Maybe that was so terrifyingly hard to 486 00:24:26,440 --> 00:24:27,960 kill it became a legend. 487 00:24:28,000 --> 00:24:31,039 Speaker 1: And finally you have the kraken, the Scandinavian legend that's 488 00:24:31,079 --> 00:24:33,759 all about pure unimaginable scale. 489 00:24:34,079 --> 00:24:35,759 Speaker 2: The kraken was said to be the size of a 490 00:24:35,759 --> 00:24:39,000 small island. Sailors were afraid of it, not just because 491 00:24:39,000 --> 00:24:41,200 it might attack them, but because they might accidentally crash 492 00:24:41,200 --> 00:24:41,599 into it. 493 00:24:41,640 --> 00:24:43,799 Speaker 1: And the real danger was what happened when it moved. 494 00:24:43,799 --> 00:24:47,200 Speaker 2: The secondary effect if a beast that size suddenly submerged, 495 00:24:47,480 --> 00:24:50,599 the displacement of water would create such a great whirlpool 496 00:24:50,640 --> 00:24:52,759 that it could pull a ship under. It's another one 497 00:24:52,759 --> 00:24:57,319 of these persistent global legends of monstrous biological forces surviving 498 00:24:57,319 --> 00:24:57,759 in the deep. 499 00:24:57,960 --> 00:25:00,799 Speaker 1: So we have covered some absolutely remarkable gaps. We started 500 00:25:00,799 --> 00:25:05,880 with a few tief and medicine shop the reality of Gigantopithecus, and. 501 00:25:05,799 --> 00:25:08,799 Speaker 2: That led us straight to the global legend of sasquatch 502 00:25:09,319 --> 00:25:12,039 and even to the Sumerian myth of angki Do the 503 00:25:12,119 --> 00:25:13,039 engineered slave. 504 00:25:13,640 --> 00:25:16,119 Speaker 1: From there we dove into the radical theory that maybe 505 00:25:16,160 --> 00:25:21,279 we Homo sapiens are the real engineered product the alien hybrids. 506 00:25:21,039 --> 00:25:25,400 Speaker 2: Which reframes creatures like Bigfoot as the original, untainted intelligence 507 00:25:25,400 --> 00:25:27,880 of this planet, just watching us from the sidelines. 508 00:25:28,319 --> 00:25:31,160 Speaker 1: We tracked the thunderbird over the San Andres Fault and 509 00:25:31,200 --> 00:25:35,160 saw how a metallic bulletproof craft can become a flying 510 00:25:35,319 --> 00:25:38,759 dragon or a flying shield through the lens of cultural. 511 00:25:38,359 --> 00:25:42,319 Speaker 2: Tracking, and we ended in the deep dark water, plausible 512 00:25:42,359 --> 00:25:46,640 prehistoric survivors in lockness and genetically aberate nightmares like the hydro, 513 00:25:46,839 --> 00:25:48,759 maybe even guarding portals in the deep ocean. 514 00:25:48,920 --> 00:25:51,119 Speaker 1: When you connect all these sources, they paint a picture 515 00:25:51,160 --> 00:25:54,880 of a hidden history, a world where biology, ancient mythology, 516 00:25:54,880 --> 00:25:57,640 and maybe even extraterrestrial tech are all tangled together. 517 00:25:57,839 --> 00:26:00,880 Speaker 2: The common thread through all of it sasquad which Goliath 518 00:26:00,880 --> 00:26:04,440 the Hydra, is the sheer persistence of the stories. They 519 00:26:04,440 --> 00:26:06,880 all point to the idea that some form of non human, 520 00:26:07,279 --> 00:26:12,079 intelligent or maybe engineer life has always been here, coexisting 521 00:26:12,119 --> 00:26:13,279 with us, just out of sight. 522 00:26:13,599 --> 00:26:15,440 Speaker 1: It's hard to dismiss, and. 523 00:26:15,359 --> 00:26:18,960 Speaker 2: The sources believe that eventually we won't have to that 524 00:26:19,039 --> 00:26:21,759 with our technology getting better and better, we will eventually 525 00:26:21,799 --> 00:26:26,759 find quote real, irrefutable evidence of the existence of these creatures. 526 00:26:27,640 --> 00:26:29,680 The truth might be waiting in the legends. We were 527 00:26:29,680 --> 00:26:30,480 always told to. 528 00:26:30,400 --> 00:26:33,880 Speaker 1: Ignore, which leaves us with a final pretty provocative thought. 529 00:26:34,200 --> 00:26:37,240 If all this evidence of ancient contact and genetic alteration 530 00:26:37,400 --> 00:26:40,079 is even partly true, and if the creatures we call 531 00:26:40,200 --> 00:26:43,119 monsters are just the ones who escape that whole experiment, 532 00:26:43,519 --> 00:26:48,440 then here's the question. What original, untampered evolutionary path was 533 00:26:48,519 --> 00:26:51,920 humanity truly meant to follow before that intervention, And what 534 00:26:52,039 --> 00:26:56,039 part of our modern behavior, our conflicts, our societies, our fears, 535 00:26:56,079 --> 00:27:00,160 still echoes the instincts of those original brute humanoids that 536 00:27:00,160 --> 00:27:02,279 the aliens supposedly found and changed forever. 537 00:27:02,680 --> 00:27:04,400 Speaker 2: It's a big question. We want to hear what stands 538 00:27:04,400 --> 00:27:05,920 out to you. Head over the comments and let us 539 00:27:05,920 --> 00:27:06,440 know your thoughts.