WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.120 --> 00:00:01.600 O d of des are. 2 00:00:34.719 --> 00:00:35.799 That of desire. 3 00:01:10.920 --> 00:01:14.920 Hello, and welcome to the show. This is the Cult 4 00:01:15.079 --> 00:01:19.640 of Conspiracy. And my name's Jonathan. I'm Jacob and today Jacob. 5 00:01:19.719 --> 00:01:22.000 Let the COLT members know what the fuck we're talking 6 00:01:22.040 --> 00:01:22.799 about today, sir. 7 00:01:23.719 --> 00:01:26.480 So there, I was doing my little historical deep dives, 8 00:01:26.519 --> 00:01:28.879 as I am one to do from time to time, 9 00:01:29.560 --> 00:01:31.799 and uh, you know, I was looking into some Vietnam 10 00:01:31.840 --> 00:01:35.200 war stuff. I do enjoy looking at that, not just 11 00:01:35.239 --> 00:01:39.680 for the warfare of it all, but also the political 12 00:01:39.760 --> 00:01:44.000 time frame, the era in American history and a lot 13 00:01:44.000 --> 00:01:46.319 of the things that we did as and we, I 14 00:01:46.400 --> 00:01:48.959 mean the Royal we as far as what we did 15 00:01:49.040 --> 00:01:51.159 in Southeast Asia. And I find it to be a 16 00:01:51.280 --> 00:01:55.040 very interesting conversation because like, for instance, Vietnam is one 17 00:01:55.079 --> 00:01:57.840 of the only countries where we have been to war 18 00:01:58.079 --> 00:01:59.719 or at war with them at one point in time 19 00:01:59.719 --> 00:02:02.799 in the last two hundred years, where pretty much as 20 00:02:02.799 --> 00:02:05.040 soon as the war ended, give them a ten year 21 00:02:05.120 --> 00:02:06.719 time gap, and then they got. 22 00:02:06.599 --> 00:02:08.719 Real cool with us, like real cool. 23 00:02:08.759 --> 00:02:11.800 You have a lot of Vietnam era veterans that will 24 00:02:11.800 --> 00:02:16.919 go to Vietnam today and the Vietnamese people hold no grudge, 25 00:02:17.319 --> 00:02:19.360 like they are not some type of way about the 26 00:02:19.400 --> 00:02:21.639 fact that you killed so many of us. And oh, 27 00:02:21.759 --> 00:02:24.120 look the old guy sitting in the room of their 28 00:02:24.159 --> 00:02:27.120 missing an arm. That's because of year fifty cows. Nah, 29 00:02:27.319 --> 00:02:30.319 they're just whatever about it right now to this day. 30 00:02:30.599 --> 00:02:31.240 Why is that? 31 00:02:32.280 --> 00:02:36.360 I wish I knew. I mean, granted, Vietnam, the Vietnam 32 00:02:36.400 --> 00:02:39.159 War was about communism, really and truly. You had the 33 00:02:39.199 --> 00:02:44.960 North Vietnamese, the NVA or the Vietcong, who wanted communism 34 00:02:45.000 --> 00:02:51.439 to take over as the premier government type in Vietnam, 35 00:02:51.919 --> 00:02:53.960 and you had the South Vietnamese that were very pro 36 00:02:54.000 --> 00:02:56.719 democracy and they were very pro American and because of 37 00:02:56.719 --> 00:02:59.240 that a war spurned up, as it did during the. 38 00:02:59.199 --> 00:03:00.520 Cold War all of the world. 39 00:03:01.120 --> 00:03:04.719 But after we left, and which for the record, we 40 00:03:04.800 --> 00:03:07.000 won the Vietnam War. I know a lot of people 41 00:03:07.039 --> 00:03:10.000 will argue that point, but that's neither here nor there. 42 00:03:10.319 --> 00:03:13.319 The fact of the matter is how you declare who. 43 00:03:13.159 --> 00:03:17.360 Loses a ward, who was forced to come to the 44 00:03:17.439 --> 00:03:21.360 table to sign a treaty that was not beneficial to them, 45 00:03:21.919 --> 00:03:23.400 That is who lost the war. 46 00:03:23.840 --> 00:03:26.439 Vietnam lost the war against us. 47 00:03:26.479 --> 00:03:28.960 We left two years later, we had that whole embassy 48 00:03:29.000 --> 00:03:31.800 situation and that's what the optics were to show the 49 00:03:31.800 --> 00:03:34.879 world that we lost. The war didn't happen. But whatever, Kay, 50 00:03:34.960 --> 00:03:38.800 Communism took over Vietnam for a while. They're pretty democratic 51 00:03:38.840 --> 00:03:41.759 these days. But that's neither here nor there either. So 52 00:03:41.960 --> 00:03:44.639 as I was looking into some stuff, I heard about 53 00:03:44.759 --> 00:03:46.800 the Secret War, which I had heard about. 54 00:03:46.879 --> 00:03:47.080 It was. 55 00:03:47.560 --> 00:03:49.479 It took place in Laos and Cambodia and some of 56 00:03:49.520 --> 00:03:53.080 the neighboring countries to Vietnam, and I stumbled upon a 57 00:03:53.159 --> 00:03:57.159 place called the Plane of Jars, Jonathan, have you ever 58 00:03:57.199 --> 00:03:58.280 heard of this place? 59 00:03:58.439 --> 00:03:59.560 Before we get into it? 60 00:04:00.000 --> 00:04:03.919 Oh, but secret War sounds very marvel of you, sir Ah. 61 00:04:04.199 --> 00:04:04.719 There you go. 62 00:04:04.840 --> 00:04:08.680 So the Secret War was basically the Huchi Minh Trail. 63 00:04:08.719 --> 00:04:09.439 Have you ever heard this? 64 00:04:10.199 --> 00:04:11.719 I don't think so. 65 00:04:11.719 --> 00:04:14.159 So Hou Chi Minh or Ho Chi Minh, however you 66 00:04:14.159 --> 00:04:18.000 want to say, was the leader of the North Vietnamese Army. Okay, 67 00:04:18.040 --> 00:04:21.079 he the guy Huci Minh, right, And there was something 68 00:04:21.120 --> 00:04:23.639 called the Huchi Minh Trail, which was a combination of 69 00:04:23.680 --> 00:04:27.360 trails through the jungles, underground cave networks that had been 70 00:04:27.439 --> 00:04:29.160 dug out all these things, and it was a way 71 00:04:29.160 --> 00:04:34.560 that they would send supplies and weapons and manpower from 72 00:04:34.560 --> 00:04:37.560 point A to point B. Basically, these dudes you would 73 00:04:37.839 --> 00:04:40.240 see nothing in the jungle, and out of nowhere you'd 74 00:04:40.240 --> 00:04:43.639 have like two platoon sized elements swarm you, and by 75 00:04:43.639 --> 00:04:45.680 the time you looked up, the fighting was over and 76 00:04:45.720 --> 00:04:48.319 they were gone. It's because they popped out of man 77 00:04:48.360 --> 00:04:50.879 holes that are like one foot by one foot squares 78 00:04:50.920 --> 00:04:52.839 carved out of rock, and we couldn't see them. That's 79 00:04:52.839 --> 00:04:55.839 where tunnel rats became a thing, right, American soldiers with 80 00:04:55.920 --> 00:04:58.240 a forty five in a light that would dive into 81 00:04:58.279 --> 00:05:00.439 these caves and these tunnels to see what the hell 82 00:05:00.519 --> 00:05:02.399 was down there. Right, So all of this was all 83 00:05:02.399 --> 00:05:04.959 a part of the Huchim Introil. Now, there was a 84 00:05:04.959 --> 00:05:07.800 section of this trail that went through Laos and Cambodia 85 00:05:08.199 --> 00:05:11.279 because we weren't allowed to go there. The war was 86 00:05:11.319 --> 00:05:14.959 in Vietnam. American forces couldn't go to Laos and couldn't 87 00:05:14.959 --> 00:05:17.439 go to Cambodia because they were not in open war 88 00:05:17.519 --> 00:05:21.240 with America. It's kind of similar to think of Afghanistan, 89 00:05:21.360 --> 00:05:24.759 right Osama bin Laden hung out in Pakistan. We couldn't 90 00:05:24.800 --> 00:05:27.319 go there because we weren't at war with Pakistan. 91 00:05:27.560 --> 00:05:28.360 You see what I'm saying. 92 00:05:29.639 --> 00:05:33.519 Okay, so a section of this trail went through Laos 93 00:05:34.240 --> 00:05:37.439 and this is where the plane of Jars is located. 94 00:05:37.560 --> 00:05:43.720 But before we get into the possible connections thereof let's 95 00:05:43.720 --> 00:05:44.879 talk plane of jars. 96 00:05:45.360 --> 00:05:45.680 Okay. 97 00:05:45.759 --> 00:05:53.040 So this place has thousands of giant stone jars, some 98 00:05:53.120 --> 00:05:56.720 of them way up to like eight or ten tons, okay, 99 00:05:57.240 --> 00:06:00.800 and they are scattered around this area. No one knows 100 00:06:00.800 --> 00:06:02.759 exactly where they came from. We're going to get into 101 00:06:02.800 --> 00:06:06.240 a lot of archaeological conversations about who might have carved them, 102 00:06:06.519 --> 00:06:09.759 where they came from. They were mined from a quarry 103 00:06:10.120 --> 00:06:14.720 eight miles or kilometers rather away from this site, and 104 00:06:14.759 --> 00:06:16.920 no one knows exactly who brought them here or for 105 00:06:16.959 --> 00:06:20.959 what purpose. This good cult members is why I brought. 106 00:06:20.720 --> 00:06:21.399 It to the show. 107 00:06:21.439 --> 00:06:24.079 This is a weird situation where we are going to 108 00:06:24.160 --> 00:06:28.319 be blending the modern day, We're gonna be blending the 109 00:06:28.639 --> 00:06:36.879 ancient world, the unexplained folklore giants and why the US 110 00:06:37.079 --> 00:06:42.079 dropped two hundred and sixty two million cluster bombs. 111 00:06:41.680 --> 00:06:42.920 All over this area? 112 00:06:43.480 --> 00:06:46.480 Could this be because they wanted to cover up the 113 00:06:46.560 --> 00:06:49.879 ancient origins of these jars? 114 00:06:50.319 --> 00:06:53.480 Are we going like, how do we know how far 115 00:06:53.639 --> 00:06:54.759 these jars date back. 116 00:06:55.800 --> 00:06:58.319 No one knows for sure. There are and we're gonna read. 117 00:06:58.360 --> 00:07:00.560 There's articles that I've brought on, there's videos that I 118 00:07:00.639 --> 00:07:03.800 brought on. Good cult members, you're gonna want to see this, okay, 119 00:07:03.800 --> 00:07:07.000 But I'm gonna tell you now, the best estimates for 120 00:07:07.040 --> 00:07:10.879 the longest time were twelve hundred years ago, right, But 121 00:07:11.040 --> 00:07:15.480 then they became two thousand years ago. Now the arguments 122 00:07:15.480 --> 00:07:17.240 are over three thousand years ago. 123 00:07:18.120 --> 00:07:19.000 And here's the kicker. 124 00:07:19.879 --> 00:07:23.720 Some of them are made from sandstone, which is relatively 125 00:07:23.759 --> 00:07:26.399 easy to carve out. I mean, how bronze tools could 126 00:07:26.399 --> 00:07:30.120 carve out standstone beautifully with no issue. But some of 127 00:07:30.120 --> 00:07:33.720 these are made of granite, meaning that they were carved 128 00:07:33.839 --> 00:07:38.360 with iron. Jonathan, they didn't have iron three thousand years ago. 129 00:07:39.040 --> 00:07:42.319 The iron age didn't exist three thousand years ago. 130 00:07:43.199 --> 00:07:44.319 So this is what I'm saying. 131 00:07:44.319 --> 00:07:46.839 We're blending, We're blending a lot of different ideas and 132 00:07:46.879 --> 00:07:51.160 perspectives on this. 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And also you 182 00:10:12.399 --> 00:10:14.799 do have access on there, you know, obviously you know 183 00:10:15.320 --> 00:10:18.840 the Cajun Night and Meta Mysteries is also on this 184 00:10:18.879 --> 00:10:22.440 platform as well, so you know, I mean, it's an all, 185 00:10:22.759 --> 00:10:24.960 it's one big family, and we're just trying to open 186 00:10:25.080 --> 00:10:28.039 up third eyes across the board. So whatever you're into, 187 00:10:28.159 --> 00:10:30.039 maybe you want to get your Biblical third eye all 188 00:10:30.080 --> 00:10:31.840 the way opened up. Then you go to Josh Monday, 189 00:10:32.000 --> 00:10:35.960 maybe you want to get your what is Peach into, 190 00:10:36.120 --> 00:10:39.279 like the Murder Mystery third eye opened up, you know 191 00:10:39.279 --> 00:10:41.159 what I mean. 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So if you're into the light, witchy stuff 217 00:11:46.080 --> 00:11:49.799 for the light, philosophical stuff, the light, magical stuff, the religious, 218 00:11:49.879 --> 00:11:52.600 the spiritual, all of it over there, you like the 219 00:11:52.759 --> 00:11:56.440 looking at the gnostic versions of things, and you know, 220 00:11:56.679 --> 00:11:59.759 like that kind of hermetic stuff and just get real 221 00:11:59.799 --> 00:12:02.600 wide out over there, and uh yeah, that is that's 222 00:12:03.039 --> 00:12:05.159 that's my baby over there. That's just my little baby, 223 00:12:05.200 --> 00:12:07.440 This cult of Conspiracy, that's my that's my big boy. 224 00:12:07.759 --> 00:12:10.559 You know, meta mysteries. That's my little baby, and I'm 225 00:12:10.559 --> 00:12:12.639 trying to trying to nurse it off of my own teat, 226 00:12:13.120 --> 00:12:18.080 and well Shawn's teat as well, you know. And but yeah, 227 00:12:18.120 --> 00:12:20.679 it's it's always awesome over there. So we appreciate everybody 228 00:12:20.679 --> 00:12:22.639 that goes and checks out Meta mysteries, and by the way, 229 00:12:22.679 --> 00:12:25.519 anybody that's curious as to why it's even called meta mysteries, 230 00:12:25.840 --> 00:12:28.960 Meta is kind of like all. I know, some people 231 00:12:29.200 --> 00:12:31.080 look at it that you want to look at what 232 00:12:31.120 --> 00:12:34.440 the what the Hebrews meant whenever they said meta meta 233 00:12:34.440 --> 00:12:37.720 translates to dead. I don't agree with that. I think 234 00:12:37.759 --> 00:12:40.639 that it's probably more of a Nasa Nasha kind of situation. 235 00:12:40.720 --> 00:12:42.960 Maybe it's a slight mix up or something along those lines. 236 00:12:43.120 --> 00:12:46.039 The way I look at it is for it's metaphysical stuff, 237 00:12:46.159 --> 00:12:49.600 all encompassing, across all planes, across all dimensions. That's what 238 00:12:49.639 --> 00:12:53.440 I mean by meta and the mysteries, because I personally 239 00:12:53.480 --> 00:12:56.159 believe that every single topic that we talk about you 240 00:12:56.200 --> 00:12:59.679 wouldn't have been privy to fifty years ago, forty years 241 00:12:59.679 --> 00:13:02.440 ago unless you were in a mystery school or in 242 00:13:02.559 --> 00:13:06.080 a secret society or something along those lines. So we're 243 00:13:06.120 --> 00:13:08.960 not asking you to sacrifice any body limb, We're not 244 00:13:09.120 --> 00:13:11.799 asking you to, you know, do anything kind of crazy. 245 00:13:11.840 --> 00:13:14.000 It's just third eye all the way open over there, baby. 246 00:13:14.000 --> 00:13:14.840 That's what we're all about. 247 00:13:15.519 --> 00:13:17.720 Absolutely, And with the CA tonight, if you want to 248 00:13:17.720 --> 00:13:21.600 get into geopolitics and some news stories that may not 249 00:13:21.799 --> 00:13:24.960 be as mainstream as what you'll see on Fox and 250 00:13:25.000 --> 00:13:28.279 CNN right now, especially now because everything's going on with 251 00:13:28.320 --> 00:13:30.679 the Epstein Files, we will be dropping an episode on 252 00:13:30.720 --> 00:13:33.320 the updates on that here soon cult members, I promise you, 253 00:13:33.960 --> 00:13:34.799 But I. 254 00:13:34.759 --> 00:13:37.440 Actually imagine I'm sorry, I don't mean to cush off, 255 00:13:37.480 --> 00:13:39.120 but I imagine we're going to be getting into that 256 00:13:39.360 --> 00:13:42.240 heavy tomorrow night for the live show. 257 00:13:43.000 --> 00:13:44.840 Yeah, I could. I could imagine that. 258 00:13:44.879 --> 00:13:49.399 Well, we say tomorrow as of time of recording, it's tomorrow. 259 00:13:49.480 --> 00:13:51.840 This episode I believe, is going to drop on Thursday. 260 00:13:51.480 --> 00:13:55.200 So in your case, two days ago. Yeah, but yeah, 261 00:13:55.399 --> 00:13:56.840 my point unless you're on Patreon. 262 00:13:57.720 --> 00:13:58.360 Unless you're on. 263 00:13:58.279 --> 00:14:01.440 Patreon, then you're listening to this day of and like, good, 264 00:14:01.440 --> 00:14:03.440 thank you for joining me. But my point is there's 265 00:14:03.440 --> 00:14:04.879 a lot of things that are going on that you're 266 00:14:04.919 --> 00:14:08.200 not gonna hear a lot about. For instance, Israel just 267 00:14:08.240 --> 00:14:12.600 bonded Gaza's only cathedral, killing the priest. 268 00:14:13.159 --> 00:14:15.240 Wow yeah yeah, yeah yeah. 269 00:14:15.240 --> 00:14:17.840 So like you know, certain news outlets are talking about that, 270 00:14:18.399 --> 00:14:21.240 but that's not exactly the main story of what's going 271 00:14:21.279 --> 00:14:23.240 on right now because there's a lot of other things 272 00:14:23.279 --> 00:14:25.600 that are hot news right now. Right everybody's talking about 273 00:14:25.679 --> 00:14:28.519 spilling the hottest of teas. So over on the Caju 274 00:14:28.519 --> 00:14:30.840 to Night, we do talk about some geopolitics, we talk 275 00:14:30.879 --> 00:14:33.399 about some tech news going on, We talk all over 276 00:14:33.480 --> 00:14:36.080 the place, all the things, all the stuff. It is 277 00:14:36.120 --> 00:14:39.519 a more uh you know, relaxed yet you know, open 278 00:14:39.600 --> 00:14:42.159 form yet educational kind of conversation when it comes to 279 00:14:42.159 --> 00:14:45.879 the geopolitical conversation. To join into that Cajun Night, we 280 00:14:45.919 --> 00:14:48.440 only have one tier for entry every Wednesday night at nine. 281 00:14:49.120 --> 00:14:50.919 I look forward to seeing more people there as we 282 00:14:50.960 --> 00:14:52.080 continue to grow this thing. 283 00:14:52.320 --> 00:14:55.679 Fuck yeah, baby, we're just expanding upon the cult of conspiracy. 284 00:14:55.759 --> 00:14:58.960 Each one of these are our individual shows are expansions 285 00:14:59.399 --> 00:15:03.440 and almost like the evolution of the characters of Jonathan 286 00:15:03.480 --> 00:15:06.039 and Jacob. Not to go through it exactly, no. 287 00:15:06.320 --> 00:15:07.840 One hundred percent with you. That's agreed. 288 00:15:08.039 --> 00:15:12.759 So all right, now let's get into the plane of jars. 289 00:15:12.759 --> 00:15:16.440 I'm gonna go ahead and share the screen at this time, Like. 290 00:15:15.840 --> 00:15:18.039 Princess, look at these things. 291 00:15:18.039 --> 00:15:22.879 They are massive stone containers and none of them really 292 00:15:22.919 --> 00:15:26.240 makes sense as far as how they got there, Who 293 00:15:26.279 --> 00:15:30.039 built them, how did they get brought here from a 294 00:15:30.080 --> 00:15:33.360 stone quarry eight kilometers away from this location? 295 00:15:33.840 --> 00:15:35.480 How old are they? Now? 296 00:15:35.600 --> 00:15:38.679 I will say this before we get into it. There's 297 00:15:38.720 --> 00:15:41.120 a couple of different theories as to what they're supposed 298 00:15:41.159 --> 00:15:44.879 to be used for, and the going theory as of 299 00:15:44.919 --> 00:15:47.960 this moment is something along the. 300 00:15:47.879 --> 00:15:49.480 Lines of burial. 301 00:15:49.919 --> 00:15:53.799 Okay, there were some skeletal fragments found in one, there 302 00:15:53.799 --> 00:15:58.480 were some charred charred remains rather found in another, some trinkets, 303 00:15:58.480 --> 00:16:01.080 some beads, some little things like this, and okay, that 304 00:16:01.159 --> 00:16:05.240 makes sense. But if you look at it grand scheme 305 00:16:05.720 --> 00:16:08.480 looking at one individual, because they laid it out in 306 00:16:08.519 --> 00:16:11.440 grid squares. There's like zone one, zone two, zone three, 307 00:16:11.519 --> 00:16:14.480 all these zones, and that's how archaeology is done, so 308 00:16:14.559 --> 00:16:16.559 you don't miss anything. Everything is laid out in grid 309 00:16:16.600 --> 00:16:19.000 squares and you dig your entire square through and through, 310 00:16:19.320 --> 00:16:21.799 and that's like this person is designated for this one 311 00:16:21.840 --> 00:16:24.240 square and that's their whole job to make sure that 312 00:16:24.279 --> 00:16:26.759 you're getting as many eyes on as much area as possible. 313 00:16:27.559 --> 00:16:30.759 If you look at one of the burial then okay, 314 00:16:30.799 --> 00:16:33.600 that makes perfect sense, and you could understand why they 315 00:16:33.639 --> 00:16:37.360 would say that all of these were basically burial tombs. 316 00:16:37.519 --> 00:16:41.080 Okay, fine, except none of them line up. 317 00:16:41.639 --> 00:16:47.000 Every style of burial goes completely against the other type 318 00:16:47.039 --> 00:16:49.480 that was found in this jar, which is completely different 319 00:16:49.480 --> 00:16:52.279 from this type found in this jar. It makes no 320 00:16:52.480 --> 00:16:54.679 sense if this was all done by the same culture 321 00:16:54.720 --> 00:16:57.159 and in the same region, even for hundreds, if not 322 00:16:57.240 --> 00:16:59.879 thousands of years, there would at least be some kind 323 00:16:59.919 --> 00:17:01.440 of rhyme or reason to it. 324 00:17:01.519 --> 00:17:04.359 All right, It's not like for Egyptian ummification. 325 00:17:04.880 --> 00:17:08.759 Okay, looking at an Egyptian mummy from the first and 326 00:17:08.799 --> 00:17:11.880 the oldest mummy that we can find, to King tut 327 00:17:12.119 --> 00:17:16.799 to Cleopatra, there's wide, wide centuries worth of gaps that 328 00:17:16.880 --> 00:17:20.920 I just said with those three things. Okay, the mummification 329 00:17:21.079 --> 00:17:24.680 principles and practices are the same. They kept it the same. 330 00:17:25.720 --> 00:17:29.279 None of these are the same. It makes no sense whatsoever. 331 00:17:29.400 --> 00:17:34.119 So as far as these uh, these jars go, is 332 00:17:34.160 --> 00:17:37.119 it like are they buried into the ground like an 333 00:17:37.160 --> 00:17:40.480 easter Island type of situation, or are they is there 334 00:17:40.519 --> 00:17:42.799 a hole beneath them? Like how deep do they go 335 00:17:42.920 --> 00:17:44.039 or is it just surface level? 336 00:17:44.519 --> 00:17:46.839 No? No, they're enclosed. They're enclosed. 337 00:17:46.880 --> 00:17:50.359 There's absolutely a bottom of these, not like Easter Island 338 00:17:50.599 --> 00:17:52.319 where it's like it's right there and then you dig 339 00:17:52.400 --> 00:17:54.119 down and it's like there's more to it. 340 00:17:54.200 --> 00:17:56.160 No, no, No, it's what you see is what you get. 341 00:17:56.200 --> 00:17:59.039 You might have it like a foot below the dirt, 342 00:17:59.519 --> 00:18:02.440 you know, like some erosion and some soil has gone 343 00:18:02.480 --> 00:18:04.960 up the sides. Very normal for it being there upwards 344 00:18:04.960 --> 00:18:07.039 of three thousand years kind of thing, But not to 345 00:18:07.480 --> 00:18:10.279 not to say that there's like a whole complex underneath 346 00:18:10.279 --> 00:18:12.799 them or something like that. There's no tunnels that connect 347 00:18:12.799 --> 00:18:16.440 them or anything like this. They're just out here and 348 00:18:16.599 --> 00:18:18.759 no one can give any real reason as to why, 349 00:18:18.759 --> 00:18:21.519 although the local legends say that they were giants that 350 00:18:21.640 --> 00:18:24.279 made them for specific reasons. We're gonna get to. 351 00:18:24.240 --> 00:18:29.240 It all cauldrons, do I not like cauldrons. 352 00:18:29.359 --> 00:18:33.079 Like this was allegedly giant jars that were used to 353 00:18:33.200 --> 00:18:36.720 hold whiskey when a great king won a battle and 354 00:18:36.759 --> 00:18:37.480 wanted a party. 355 00:18:37.519 --> 00:18:37.799 Hard. 356 00:18:38.200 --> 00:18:39.359 Oh I hope that's real. 357 00:18:40.200 --> 00:18:41.319 I hope so too. 358 00:18:43.039 --> 00:18:45.039 But for the amount of jars, It's like, bro, how 359 00:18:45.119 --> 00:18:47.440 drunk did these people get There's hundreds of these things? 360 00:18:47.920 --> 00:18:50.079 Are you're talking about giants? Bro? I mean they probably 361 00:18:50.079 --> 00:18:51.480 can a few, you know. 362 00:18:51.599 --> 00:18:53.440 They could they could throw it down, Yeah, no doubt. 363 00:18:53.680 --> 00:18:54.039 All right. 364 00:18:54.079 --> 00:18:56.279 So from the first first video we're gonna play here 365 00:18:56.319 --> 00:19:00.160 is from R M R U I n K. The 366 00:19:00.160 --> 00:19:05.400 Plane of Jars Medalist Jesus Mesalithic. 367 00:19:04.960 --> 00:19:09.319 Mystery in Laos megalithic Yeah, thank you, let's check it out. 368 00:19:11.359 --> 00:19:14.880 Since their discovery in the nineteen thirties, the giant stone 369 00:19:15.000 --> 00:19:19.160 jars scattered throughout central Laos have remained a prehistoric puzzle. 370 00:19:19.759 --> 00:19:23.640 These megalithic jar sites, collectively known as the Plane of Jars, 371 00:19:24.039 --> 00:19:27.359 cover over two thousand square kilometers and are filled with 372 00:19:27.480 --> 00:19:31.920 thousands of enormous stone jars, some weighing up to fourteen tons. 373 00:19:32.400 --> 00:19:36.440 Who put them there and why archaeologists are still puzzled. 374 00:19:36.839 --> 00:19:39.759 One theory suggests that the jars were used for burials 375 00:19:39.839 --> 00:19:43.440 or ritualistic purposes. Another legend tells of a race of 376 00:19:43.519 --> 00:19:46.880 giants who used the jars to brew and store rice wine. 377 00:19:47.240 --> 00:19:50.200 The jars themselves give little clue as to their origins 378 00:19:50.279 --> 00:19:54.160 or purpose. Carved of rock and varying in shape and size, 379 00:19:54.519 --> 00:20:01.319 they are predominantly constructed of sandstone, Brescia conglomerate, granite, and limestone. 380 00:20:01.359 --> 00:20:05.640 After decades of speculation, a team of researchers used optically 381 00:20:05.680 --> 00:20:09.440 stimulated luminescence to date the jars. They discovered that the 382 00:20:09.519 --> 00:20:13.440 jars were constructed between twelve forty and six hundred sixty BC. 383 00:20:14.119 --> 00:20:16.680 The function of the jars is still debated, with some 384 00:20:16.759 --> 00:20:20.480 suggesting they were mortuary vessels or used to capture rainwater 385 00:20:20.559 --> 00:20:24.519 for caravans passing through the region. Researchers have also found 386 00:20:24.599 --> 00:20:28.839 intricately carved discs buried with the jars. These discs feature 387 00:20:28.880 --> 00:20:33.359 geometrical images of concentric circles, human figures, and animals. Some 388 00:20:33.440 --> 00:20:36.640 believe they may have served as burial markers. The Plane 389 00:20:36.680 --> 00:20:41.319 of Jars in Laos remains a mysterious and enigmatic archaeological site. 390 00:20:41.480 --> 00:20:44.799 Despite years of research, the true purpose of these giant 391 00:20:44.839 --> 00:20:47.119 stone jars continues to elude us. 392 00:20:49.799 --> 00:20:50.119 Now. 393 00:20:50.279 --> 00:20:54.880 There's no one set pattern to their placement or even 394 00:20:55.039 --> 00:20:57.440 how they look. Some of them have a lip, some 395 00:20:57.519 --> 00:21:00.160 of them look like they were pretty much just kind 396 00:21:00.200 --> 00:21:01.640 of carved into some sort of a. 397 00:21:01.559 --> 00:21:02.759 Bowl shape and then left. 398 00:21:03.240 --> 00:21:05.720 Some of them are short as and they only come 399 00:21:05.799 --> 00:21:08.240 up to maybe your knee. Some of them are eight 400 00:21:08.279 --> 00:21:11.920 foot tall. Some of them have lids and or you know, 401 00:21:12.039 --> 00:21:14.400 lids next to them, these discs that were next to 402 00:21:14.440 --> 00:21:17.079 them that they believe were lids to them. 403 00:21:16.920 --> 00:21:17.319 Some not. 404 00:21:17.440 --> 00:21:19.559 But even still, even if that is a lid for 405 00:21:19.599 --> 00:21:22.200 that jar, bro, what kind of manpower do you think 406 00:21:22.240 --> 00:21:25.079 you're gonna need to lift the lid to go on 407 00:21:25.200 --> 00:21:27.240 to a fourteen ton jar. 408 00:21:28.480 --> 00:21:31.400 This is why this is and this is the kind 409 00:21:31.400 --> 00:21:35.039 of shit this along with the Pyramids, amongst other things 410 00:21:35.279 --> 00:21:37.480 like we just mentioned Dester Island and stuff like that. 411 00:21:37.839 --> 00:21:41.720 This is why, like I honestly truly believe that history 412 00:21:41.799 --> 00:21:44.640 is a lie agreed upon because history has no fucking 413 00:21:44.759 --> 00:21:47.160 answer for shit like this. You know what I'm saying. 414 00:21:47.480 --> 00:21:48.680 How do you just not know? 415 00:21:49.680 --> 00:21:52.680 Well, they were allegedly found quote unquote by found, I 416 00:21:52.720 --> 00:21:56.640 mean like by Western scientists in the nineteen thirties. The 417 00:21:56.720 --> 00:22:01.160 locals have known about them for thousands of years, right, 418 00:22:01.240 --> 00:22:05.319 And that's what you're saying. Their best estimates were twelve 419 00:22:05.440 --> 00:22:10.519 hundred to twenty eight hundred BC. Like we're talking coming 420 00:22:10.599 --> 00:22:13.519 up on four thousand years old, and they didn't know 421 00:22:13.599 --> 00:22:17.200 that until recently. They the last burial that was done 422 00:22:17.279 --> 00:22:20.319 was in twelve hundred AD in one of these jars, 423 00:22:20.680 --> 00:22:23.160 which made them believe that maybe they were a little 424 00:22:23.240 --> 00:22:26.200 earlier constructed than what you know, the people are thinking. 425 00:22:26.720 --> 00:22:30.880 The new evidence is pointing to three thousand plus years old, 426 00:22:31.440 --> 00:22:35.079 So we're talking about prehistory for this region, which is 427 00:22:35.119 --> 00:22:37.880 where it goes more into the line of the legend 428 00:22:37.960 --> 00:22:38.640 and lore to it. 429 00:22:38.680 --> 00:22:40.319 But I mean, look at these things, all of them. 430 00:22:40.359 --> 00:22:42.880 You got some that are shorter, some of them that 431 00:22:42.920 --> 00:22:45.640 are way larger like this. I couldn't stand up and 432 00:22:45.680 --> 00:22:47.680 like look into this like that's. 433 00:22:47.519 --> 00:22:49.960 Why there was a whole like grown up standing right 434 00:22:50.000 --> 00:22:51.559 next to the one of those and it was way 435 00:22:51.559 --> 00:22:52.039 over him. 436 00:22:52.680 --> 00:22:52.920 Right. 437 00:22:53.000 --> 00:22:55.319 Look, these are the people, I mean, I mean they're 438 00:22:55.359 --> 00:22:59.200 probably right. Yeah, yeah, that's true. We're talking about Laos 439 00:22:59.319 --> 00:23:02.799 or Laoshian people, so they are smaller in stature than 440 00:23:02.839 --> 00:23:06.799 most like European or Westerns. But even still, these people, 441 00:23:07.839 --> 00:23:10.640 as compared to these things that are way in the background. Bro, 442 00:23:10.720 --> 00:23:12.359 like you might be able to stay on your tiptoes 443 00:23:12.359 --> 00:23:13.799 and peer into that jar. 444 00:23:14.160 --> 00:23:18.799 Maybe, oh man, I cannot wait to hear some of 445 00:23:18.839 --> 00:23:21.200 the theories about this. You ready to go? 446 00:23:22.000 --> 00:23:22.279 Yeah. 447 00:23:22.279 --> 00:23:24.880 So this is from Archaeology magazine, and this is going 448 00:23:24.960 --> 00:23:28.000 to be the first article that we read talking about. 449 00:23:27.799 --> 00:23:29.839 Some of the finer points of this situation. 450 00:23:30.359 --> 00:23:36.359 I'm following Belgian archaeology archaeologist Julie Vanderberg around Laos remote 451 00:23:37.039 --> 00:23:39.759 Jeang Xuang province. Did I crush that? 452 00:23:40.519 --> 00:23:40.960 I think so? 453 00:23:41.440 --> 00:23:45.240 Hell yeah. We're inspecting giant ancient vessels which are scattered 454 00:23:45.240 --> 00:23:48.880 through rice patties, forests, and hilltops at more than sixty 455 00:23:48.880 --> 00:23:51.079 sites across what is known as the Plane of Jars. 456 00:23:51.400 --> 00:23:56.200 Archaeologists think the jars were mortuary containers, perhaps two thousand 457 00:23:56.279 --> 00:23:59.240 years old, but no one knows for sure their precise age, 458 00:23:59.279 --> 00:24:02.160 who built them, or why they are swathed in mystery 459 00:24:02.160 --> 00:24:06.240 and surrounded by unexploded bombs. Unexploded bombs. 460 00:24:06.920 --> 00:24:10.160 So they're gonna get into it more off more throughout 461 00:24:10.200 --> 00:24:13.160 the articles and the videos and things. But it's not 462 00:24:13.279 --> 00:24:15.400 like you can even go and check these out to 463 00:24:15.480 --> 00:24:17.440 this day, like you can. There's a few of them 464 00:24:17.440 --> 00:24:19.640 where they have cleared the path and it's okay to 465 00:24:19.680 --> 00:24:23.720 go there. Operation Barrel Roll, which we're gonna go into 466 00:24:23.720 --> 00:24:28.160 more in depth. We dropped more bombs on the plane 467 00:24:28.240 --> 00:24:31.160 of jars, then we dropped on the entirety of Europe, 468 00:24:31.160 --> 00:24:32.640 in the entirety of World War II. 469 00:24:34.119 --> 00:24:39.039 O okay, well, Jiang Kwang Province is one of the 470 00:24:39.079 --> 00:24:41.920 most heavily bombed places on Earth. Between nineteen sixty four 471 00:24:41.920 --> 00:24:45.000 and nineteen seventy three, the United States dumped four billion, 472 00:24:45.559 --> 00:24:49.480 four billion pounds of bombs on the country and a 473 00:24:49.599 --> 00:24:55.240 secret war against Pathet Lao and North Vietnamese communists. Up 474 00:24:55.279 --> 00:24:57.880 to a third of them never exploded, and they litter 475 00:24:57.960 --> 00:25:02.880 the land today. While generally s to tread upon buried UXO, 476 00:25:03.119 --> 00:25:08.720 unexploded ordinance can detonate when an erratic fuse is inadvertently triggered. 477 00:25:09.440 --> 00:25:12.599 The earth around here is dangerous to farmers plowing fields, 478 00:25:12.880 --> 00:25:16.519 children staking buffalo out to graze, and to archaeologists. The 479 00:25:16.640 --> 00:25:18.799 jars are huge, up to nine feet tall and the 480 00:25:18.960 --> 00:25:23.960 largest weighing fourteen tons. Most are carved of sandstone, others 481 00:25:24.039 --> 00:25:28.839 of granite conglomerate or calcified coral, some around, others angular, 482 00:25:29.000 --> 00:25:32.720 and few have discs that appear to be lids. Tools 483 00:25:32.720 --> 00:25:35.519 and human remains found inside and around the jars suggest 484 00:25:35.559 --> 00:25:39.920 their use and manufacture spans centuries. The bulk of material 485 00:25:40.000 --> 00:25:46.559 dates from five hundred BC to AD eight hundred AD, 486 00:25:47.119 --> 00:25:49.720 and additional carbon dates are expected this summer. 487 00:25:50.079 --> 00:25:51.319 Are quick, real quick. 488 00:25:51.799 --> 00:25:54.200 So the bulkan materials that they have found inside these 489 00:25:54.319 --> 00:25:58.559 jars date to between five hundred BC and eight hundred AD. 490 00:25:58.720 --> 00:26:00.359 That's just okay, stuff that's inside them. 491 00:26:00.880 --> 00:26:02.880 That's just the stuff that's inside of them. 492 00:26:03.240 --> 00:26:05.920 And the most recent studies are showing that they were 493 00:26:06.079 --> 00:26:11.240 constructed twenty eight hundred BC, so we are talking about 494 00:26:11.400 --> 00:26:15.200 over two thousand years before this earliest remains that we 495 00:26:15.279 --> 00:26:18.279 have inside of there being found. No one has a 496 00:26:18.400 --> 00:26:20.319 clue where they actually came from. 497 00:26:20.519 --> 00:26:23.680 Oh, what's that other place over in I can't remember 498 00:26:23.720 --> 00:26:28.400 if it's England or Ireland with the bunch of all 499 00:26:28.440 --> 00:26:30.799 the little statues, not not Easter Island, but all the 500 00:26:30.880 --> 00:26:35.359 little Stonehenge Stonehenge, That's what I was thinking of. I've 501 00:26:35.400 --> 00:26:38.920 actually heard several theories that that you know, that goes 502 00:26:38.960 --> 00:26:42.519 back super far and that maybe some people as time 503 00:26:42.599 --> 00:26:45.240 went on, started to use them for something different as 504 00:26:45.319 --> 00:26:48.079 opposed to what they were originally created for. And so 505 00:26:48.119 --> 00:26:50.400 I bet you that that's what's going on here. Because 506 00:26:50.599 --> 00:26:53.400 if you got something here that these things were, that 507 00:26:53.440 --> 00:26:56.079 there was something possibly in these jars, you know, five 508 00:26:56.160 --> 00:26:59.960 hundred BC. But even but they were created damn near 509 00:27:00.000 --> 00:27:02.000 one thousand years before that, or a little bit more than. 510 00:27:01.960 --> 00:27:04.240 A thousousand years before that, dude. 511 00:27:04.000 --> 00:27:08.480 Right, So clearly somebody created it for something and somebody 512 00:27:08.519 --> 00:27:11.200 else started using it for something else, Right, isn't that 513 00:27:11.200 --> 00:27:11.759 what it says? 514 00:27:12.279 --> 00:27:14.480 That's what I'm saying to say that these were meant 515 00:27:14.559 --> 00:27:18.759 to be burial sites. I understand the theory behind that, 516 00:27:18.839 --> 00:27:20.599 and at least the trail of thought that would lead 517 00:27:20.640 --> 00:27:23.839 to that conclusion. Right, you find some skeleton remains inside 518 00:27:23.839 --> 00:27:27.200 of some but again, none of the burial practices align 519 00:27:27.319 --> 00:27:30.359 with each other. And I understand that, like cultures change 520 00:27:30.400 --> 00:27:34.200 over time, perhaps in these centuries, these people buried themselves 521 00:27:34.240 --> 00:27:36.440 like this, and in these centuries they buried themselves like this, 522 00:27:36.519 --> 00:27:38.960 And like, okay, I could at least understand Outlaud, where 523 00:27:38.960 --> 00:27:42.480 you're going with this, big dog. There is no way 524 00:27:42.559 --> 00:27:46.000 that that was the actual intended design and function of 525 00:27:46.079 --> 00:27:46.839 these vessels. 526 00:27:47.960 --> 00:27:51.440 Yeah, why would you go through all that trouble just 527 00:27:51.480 --> 00:27:53.839 to I mean, I get it. You know, it's pretty 528 00:27:53.839 --> 00:27:56.920 honorable to bury somebody going through all this craziness. I 529 00:27:57.000 --> 00:27:58.680 get it, but I. 530 00:27:58.640 --> 00:28:02.079 Mean it's not like that's the normal way of burying 531 00:28:02.119 --> 00:28:05.000 somebody in the country of Laos. This is in one 532 00:28:05.119 --> 00:28:08.960 select region that has these jars. Like the country has 533 00:28:08.960 --> 00:28:12.039 been around for forever, Burma has been around for forever, Vietnam, 534 00:28:12.160 --> 00:28:14.559 all these places, they're neighboring to each other, like they 535 00:28:14.640 --> 00:28:19.119 share a lot of cultural similarities. Nobody buries their dead 536 00:28:19.279 --> 00:28:23.440 like this enshrined in a giant jar shaped tomb. That's 537 00:28:23.519 --> 00:28:26.519 not something that the people have done in this area. 538 00:28:26.640 --> 00:28:29.720 Even like if we're gonna go ancient times here, two 539 00:28:29.799 --> 00:28:32.240 tribes over, they were just burying them as you would 540 00:28:32.240 --> 00:28:35.519 bury anybody, or burning them as you would burn anybody 541 00:28:35.519 --> 00:28:37.559 in the You might have charred remains in a jar 542 00:28:37.599 --> 00:28:40.759 of some type, but like an urn, not a fourteen 543 00:28:41.000 --> 00:28:46.640 ton nine foot tall stone carved jar. This is very, 544 00:28:46.799 --> 00:28:50.160 very This is something that has not no precedence anywhere 545 00:28:50.160 --> 00:28:50.880 else in this region. 546 00:28:51.079 --> 00:28:55.839 That's a little extra. Yeah, so it says archaeologists are 547 00:28:55.920 --> 00:28:58.640 certain the Plane of Jars is one of Southeast Asia's 548 00:28:58.680 --> 00:29:02.880 most important archaeola sites, but it is one with more 549 00:29:02.960 --> 00:29:08.960 questions than answers. French archaeologist Madeline Kolani pioneered research and 550 00:29:09.200 --> 00:29:12.680 Jang Shuang in the nineteen thirties. She found jars with 551 00:29:12.799 --> 00:29:16.240 cremated human remains and a nearby cave with burned bones 552 00:29:16.240 --> 00:29:20.000 and ash. Kilani speculated the cave was a crematorium, the 553 00:29:20.079 --> 00:29:24.559 jars were mortuary vessels, and the fields were ancient cemeteries. Today, 554 00:29:24.640 --> 00:29:28.319 more than two thousand jars have been identified across the province. 555 00:29:28.599 --> 00:29:30.359 Two thousand of those things. 556 00:29:30.720 --> 00:29:33.519 Two thousand and all of them. And like you said, 557 00:29:33.559 --> 00:29:35.759 some of it's out of coral like from the ocean, 558 00:29:36.240 --> 00:29:38.839 some of it's from sandstone, some of it's from granite. 559 00:29:39.400 --> 00:29:42.000 And none of them were carved in place. They were 560 00:29:42.039 --> 00:29:46.599 all carved from other areas and brought here. That it's 561 00:29:46.799 --> 00:29:50.079 mind blowing to see and to think of why these 562 00:29:50.079 --> 00:29:50.680 things happen. 563 00:29:50.759 --> 00:29:50.960 Bro. 564 00:29:51.279 --> 00:29:54.240 I mean, I know some people they maybe you have 565 00:29:54.400 --> 00:29:57.519 a little bit of faith and respect in regards to 566 00:29:57.640 --> 00:30:01.200 history up to a certain point. I feel like once 567 00:30:01.240 --> 00:30:05.200 you start reaching to twenty five hundred, three thousand years ago, 568 00:30:05.279 --> 00:30:08.200 four thousand years ago, it starts to get so damn murky. 569 00:30:08.480 --> 00:30:09.440 It's hard to follow. 570 00:30:10.279 --> 00:30:12.240 This is and see, this is this is the part 571 00:30:12.240 --> 00:30:14.319 of history that I love. I do love all of it, 572 00:30:14.400 --> 00:30:15.079 don't even me wrong. 573 00:30:15.119 --> 00:30:15.519 I love the. 574 00:30:17.279 --> 00:30:20.759 Written down, the archaeological history that backs the written history 575 00:30:20.799 --> 00:30:21.400 and all these things. 576 00:30:21.480 --> 00:30:22.400 I do love that. 577 00:30:23.039 --> 00:30:25.759 But this is where it goes into the legends and 578 00:30:25.839 --> 00:30:28.920 the myths and the lore that's surrounding certain things, because 579 00:30:29.359 --> 00:30:32.920 that's pretty much all we have to go on, especially 580 00:30:32.920 --> 00:30:35.880 when it's something like this in this area of the world, 581 00:30:36.440 --> 00:30:40.880 three thousand year old carved vessels that no one even 582 00:30:40.920 --> 00:30:43.799 the local legends and Lord just say, oh yeah, giants 583 00:30:43.839 --> 00:30:46.720 carve those that they could drink to celebrate a victory. 584 00:30:46.799 --> 00:30:49.759 It's like, wait, I'm sorry, come back with that, Like 585 00:30:50.200 --> 00:30:52.359 you have no other story that backs this claim. 586 00:30:52.359 --> 00:30:53.480 But we're gonna get to it all. 587 00:30:53.519 --> 00:30:56.559 I mean, we're talking about different humans, dude. You know 588 00:30:56.599 --> 00:30:59.359 what I'm saying. I'm not necessarily saying it Lantian or 589 00:30:59.359 --> 00:31:02.240 anything like that, but I'm saying, like, these these people 590 00:31:02.279 --> 00:31:05.680 were very different than the people of today, right, And 591 00:31:05.720 --> 00:31:07.920 so I get that, Like maybe even now you'd look 592 00:31:07.960 --> 00:31:10.119 back and be like, all right, well, if we were 593 00:31:10.160 --> 00:31:13.960 those people with the technology and the understanding of you know, 594 00:31:14.039 --> 00:31:16.279 how rocks work, and you know, you want to get 595 00:31:16.319 --> 00:31:19.000 weird with the lay lines and what grid and maybe 596 00:31:19.000 --> 00:31:22.400 there's something along there, right, But I just don't know 597 00:31:22.440 --> 00:31:24.799 if you can even try to get into the mind 598 00:31:24.839 --> 00:31:27.880 of somebody four thousand years ago, Like it's probably literally 599 00:31:27.960 --> 00:31:28.680 night and day. 600 00:31:29.079 --> 00:31:31.880 And again if it was sandstone, if all of them 601 00:31:31.880 --> 00:31:35.400 were sandstone, it's very interesting, it's very cool. 602 00:31:35.440 --> 00:31:36.960 Why did they do it, how they do it? Who 603 00:31:37.000 --> 00:31:38.039 did it? Who knows? 604 00:31:38.319 --> 00:31:40.960 Right, But at least you could understand, bro, some of 605 00:31:41.000 --> 00:31:44.599 these are granite and coral. You're not chipping away at 606 00:31:44.640 --> 00:31:49.599 these things with bronze. I'm sorry. It requires iron and 607 00:31:49.680 --> 00:31:52.640 we didn't have iron three thousand years ago. 608 00:31:53.720 --> 00:31:56.720 Well, it says these archaeological treasures sits on one of 609 00:31:56.759 --> 00:32:01.039 the world's poorest regions. That's why Vanderberg, a UNESCO consultant 610 00:32:01.079 --> 00:32:04.359 from the Hong Kong based Archaeological Assessments, is here. She 611 00:32:04.440 --> 00:32:06.960 hopes to turn the Plane of Jars into a UNESCO 612 00:32:07.160 --> 00:32:11.400 World Heritage Site. The UNESCO lab I'm sorry. The UNESCO 613 00:32:11.599 --> 00:32:15.200 LAO project to safeguard the Plane of Jars aims not 614 00:32:15.279 --> 00:32:19.319 only to protect the vessels, but to rehabilitate, rehabilitate this 615 00:32:19.400 --> 00:32:24.119 remote province by clearing bombs, restoring agricultural lands and promoting tourism. 616 00:32:24.440 --> 00:32:28.240 A specialist in geoarchaeology with a decade of experience in Asia, 617 00:32:28.359 --> 00:32:31.640 Vanderberg has worked in Laos on six week stints for 618 00:32:31.720 --> 00:32:35.839 four years now in conjunction with the Lao government and 619 00:32:35.880 --> 00:32:39.400 a geographer from Bangkok. The project I just had to 620 00:32:39.440 --> 00:32:40.799 put a little oh on that one. 621 00:32:40.960 --> 00:32:41.440 I get it. 622 00:32:42.160 --> 00:32:46.359 The project includes training Laosians to recover, record, and store 623 00:32:46.480 --> 00:32:50.759 archaeological material, create a precise map of the jar fields, 624 00:32:50.960 --> 00:32:55.000 and identify key areas for preservation and tourism development. The 625 00:32:55.000 --> 00:32:58.200 project also enlists local villagers to help with these tasks 626 00:32:58.200 --> 00:33:03.079 and involves the British based Minds Advisory Group or MAG, 627 00:33:03.599 --> 00:33:08.000 a non governmental organization hired to remove explosives from the 628 00:33:08.000 --> 00:33:11.440 most popular Jar sites. Some dubbed the Plane of Jars 629 00:33:12.279 --> 00:33:16.079 the world's most dangerous archaeological site, and Vanderberg readily agrees. 630 00:33:16.319 --> 00:33:22.000 While archaeologists occasionally encounter UXO in war torn countries and 631 00:33:22.039 --> 00:33:25.480 military testing grounds around the world, perhaps no archaeological site 632 00:33:25.519 --> 00:33:28.880 is as contaminated as the Plane of Jars. Two archaeologists 633 00:33:28.880 --> 00:33:32.480 conducted limited excavations in the nineteen nineties without incident, but 634 00:33:32.599 --> 00:33:36.319 that's just luck. Vanderberg says, I've come home from surveying 635 00:33:36.400 --> 00:33:38.720 and thought, I'm happy to be getting into the car 636 00:33:38.759 --> 00:33:39.480 and coming home. 637 00:33:40.160 --> 00:33:42.640 So this picture you see right here, this is in 638 00:33:42.799 --> 00:33:48.839 basically the welcoming tourist attraction. This is just a handful 639 00:33:49.480 --> 00:33:53.440 of the two hundred and sixty two million bombs that 640 00:33:53.480 --> 00:33:55.680 were dropped in the plane of jars field. 641 00:33:56.599 --> 00:34:00.519 Oh man, Yeah, that's uh, that's quite a bit sure there. 642 00:34:01.039 --> 00:34:04.960 So insane, man, it says. The writer of this article says, 643 00:34:05.000 --> 00:34:08.559 my husband Jerry, and I first visited sheng Chuang in 644 00:34:08.679 --> 00:34:14.039 nineteen ninety eight. Back then, the capital fon Savan was 645 00:34:14.079 --> 00:34:16.519 a wild West sort of town with a main street 646 00:34:16.639 --> 00:34:21.800 of mud on again off again water and equally unreliable electricity. 647 00:34:22.159 --> 00:34:24.639 You could count on three fingers the tourists arriving each 648 00:34:24.760 --> 00:34:27.679 day on three fingers. 649 00:34:27.960 --> 00:34:28.480 That's wild. 650 00:34:29.119 --> 00:34:31.719 We stayed at a dimly lit guesthouse with a lobby 651 00:34:31.960 --> 00:34:35.880 full of bomb casings, mortarshells, grenades, and guns. Back then, 652 00:34:35.960 --> 00:34:39.400 we knew uxo still polluted the ground, but we didn't 653 00:34:39.400 --> 00:34:41.880 know the jar sites still remained riddled with bombs, or 654 00:34:41.920 --> 00:34:45.679 that UXO continued to kill villagers every week in jeng Chuang, 655 00:34:46.760 --> 00:34:50.519 And we didn't know our guest house displayed four live bombs, 656 00:34:50.559 --> 00:34:55.400 no worries, MAG removed them. When we arrive in fon Savan, 657 00:34:55.639 --> 00:34:58.920 this time, it's still a dusty cowtown, but the knights 658 00:34:58.920 --> 00:35:02.639 are ablaze with flure essence. Cheap restaurants and guesthouses line 659 00:35:02.679 --> 00:35:05.360 the streets, and tourists from all over the world fill them. 660 00:35:05.960 --> 00:35:09.800 Vanderberg drives us half an hour outside of town over 661 00:35:09.840 --> 00:35:12.440 a bone rattling road to a wooden house where MAG 662 00:35:12.519 --> 00:35:17.320 bases its operations. There we meet Stuart Broome, a jovial 663 00:35:17.880 --> 00:35:21.000 ex military man from Australia who heads the clearance team. 664 00:35:21.400 --> 00:35:24.519 The staff, about two dozen strong, are celebrating. Beer is flowing, 665 00:35:24.639 --> 00:35:27.719 music is thumping. A week ahead of schedule. They've just 666 00:35:27.800 --> 00:35:30.519 finished clearing jar sites one, two, and three, the most 667 00:35:30.519 --> 00:35:34.000 popular tourist stops, each within a forty five minute drive 668 00:35:34.199 --> 00:35:39.239 of Fonsevin. Visitors can now can safely explore those sites, 669 00:35:39.280 --> 00:35:43.400 provided they stick within Mag's red and white concrete markers. 670 00:35:43.800 --> 00:35:49.000 Tourists come unaware of how dangerous jiang Zhuan is. Vanderberg 671 00:35:49.039 --> 00:35:53.199 says the jars have attracted travelers as long as Laos has, 672 00:35:53.440 --> 00:35:56.159 but many recent visitors never knew that they were crossing 673 00:35:56.199 --> 00:36:02.400 contaminated land. That's sketchy. Some local guides mistakenly told their 674 00:36:02.440 --> 00:36:06.239 guests all was their guests, all was safe and clear, 675 00:36:06.360 --> 00:36:09.679 long before it was here. The ordinance problem isn't visible 676 00:36:09.880 --> 00:36:13.920 as as it is in neighboring Cambodia, where land mines 677 00:36:13.960 --> 00:36:18.840 have left thousands of amputees. If UFO or if UXO blows, 678 00:36:19.199 --> 00:36:21.599 it'll just kill you. Brim says, no limbs lost, no 679 00:36:21.679 --> 00:36:26.159 person left, nothing to illustrate the danger. Sket gee, dude, 680 00:36:26.280 --> 00:36:28.000 you want to turn that into a tourist town. 681 00:36:28.840 --> 00:36:31.440 Well, I mean, and that was the problem in the 682 00:36:31.599 --> 00:36:36.360 jungle warfare, in the gorilla fighting that took place. It 683 00:36:36.480 --> 00:36:39.039 was seen as, I don't want to say, a necessary evil, 684 00:36:39.079 --> 00:36:42.119 but for lack of better words, yeah, a necessary evil. 685 00:36:42.119 --> 00:36:45.079 It wasn't like when we think of dropping ordinance from 686 00:36:45.119 --> 00:36:48.840 a plane, usually people will think of something akin to 687 00:36:48.880 --> 00:36:51.559 World War Two. Right, You have these big bombers that 688 00:36:51.559 --> 00:36:53.960 would open those bay doors, and you just have a 689 00:36:54.079 --> 00:36:55.880 string of bombs that follow after it. 690 00:36:55.960 --> 00:36:57.719 Boom boom, boom boo boom, And that was just it. 691 00:36:58.480 --> 00:37:03.360 These dudes were dropping mines and cluster bombs that won't 692 00:37:03.360 --> 00:37:07.119 explode until you step on them, right, So they did 693 00:37:07.199 --> 00:37:08.760 all of this, and like they said, it did in 694 00:37:08.840 --> 00:37:13.760 Cambodia as well, but most of Cambodia. You well, maybe 695 00:37:14.079 --> 00:37:16.039 it depends on if you look into this region or not. 696 00:37:16.719 --> 00:37:20.920 It's a lot more documented in Cambodia because still to 697 00:37:20.960 --> 00:37:24.599 this day, people will a farmer will be, you know, 698 00:37:24.679 --> 00:37:27.199 plowing his new fields and he'll hit a bomb and 699 00:37:27.239 --> 00:37:29.760 he'll blow up, and like he'll lose a limb or 700 00:37:29.760 --> 00:37:34.320 something like that. America stopped using these pretty much after 701 00:37:34.440 --> 00:37:38.320 the Vietnam War because that was seen as inhumane, which 702 00:37:38.599 --> 00:37:41.559 I personally agree with. But then to drop them in 703 00:37:41.559 --> 00:37:44.400 an area like this and then not pick them up afterwards. 704 00:37:44.440 --> 00:37:47.440 If you're gonna use these things for warfare, I get it. 705 00:37:47.519 --> 00:37:50.000 I'm with you one hundred percent. But it's also on 706 00:37:50.320 --> 00:37:53.440 you to clean up your mess after the fact so 707 00:37:53.519 --> 00:37:57.639 that life can continue and resume as scheduled after the 708 00:37:57.679 --> 00:38:00.920 war is over. We pretty much say, nah, Son, we 709 00:38:00.920 --> 00:38:03.440 weren't even in Cambodi or a Laos, which you're talking about. 710 00:38:03.719 --> 00:38:05.639 We went back and cleaned up a lot of Vietnam. 711 00:38:06.159 --> 00:38:08.320 We didn't do shit for Laos because that was a 712 00:38:08.320 --> 00:38:10.639 part of the secret war. We didn't do shit in 713 00:38:10.639 --> 00:38:13.440 Cambodia for the same reason. So a lot of these 714 00:38:13.519 --> 00:38:16.559 locals were just left to figure it the fuck out. 715 00:38:17.400 --> 00:38:20.480 Oh it makes sense. So it says there is no 716 00:38:20.599 --> 00:38:24.960 reliable tally of UXO victims, but experts here of at 717 00:38:25.039 --> 00:38:29.159 least one a week. They admit that's probably low. Oh 718 00:38:29.280 --> 00:38:29.920 my god. 719 00:38:30.320 --> 00:38:32.079 Oh yeah, like real shit. 720 00:38:32.119 --> 00:38:34.400 Dude, Like you're dying, they said. They like, you're not 721 00:38:34.400 --> 00:38:36.639 getting limbs blown off, You're just done. And there's like, 722 00:38:36.960 --> 00:38:38.960 there's never gonna be a record of you ever again. 723 00:38:39.840 --> 00:38:42.920 Somewhere I've seen Essaman saying somewhere between one to five 724 00:38:42.960 --> 00:38:45.119 a week pretty much, and it's been that way for 725 00:38:45.159 --> 00:38:46.199 the past few decades. 726 00:38:47.119 --> 00:38:50.599 Oh man, So they admit that's probably low. Broom tells 727 00:38:50.679 --> 00:38:54.519 us of tells us of eleven accidents the week before 728 00:38:54.559 --> 00:38:57.960 we meet that we know of. Uh, there were four 729 00:38:58.079 --> 00:39:00.599 two weeks before that that we know of in quotes, 730 00:39:00.800 --> 00:39:03.000 but later we learn of eight more for a total 731 00:39:03.039 --> 00:39:06.400 of twelve that we know of. Is an often used 732 00:39:06.480 --> 00:39:10.960 qualifier here. Mag's clearance records are staggering. Since work started 733 00:39:11.000 --> 00:39:12.559 in July of two thousand and four, the team has 734 00:39:12.559 --> 00:39:15.360 successfully removed and destroyed one hundred and twenty seven pieces 735 00:39:15.360 --> 00:39:20.000 of UXO. Cleared six acres. Visually searched fifty five acres 736 00:39:20.039 --> 00:39:23.440 and found thirty eight and fourteen pieces of scrap metal. 737 00:39:23.519 --> 00:39:27.440 And that's just Site one. Finding explosives using a variety 738 00:39:27.440 --> 00:39:31.159 of metal detectors covering fifteen inch to seven foot swaths 739 00:39:31.519 --> 00:39:35.960 is a scrupulous task. Workers move back and forth up 740 00:39:36.000 --> 00:39:39.039 and down a grid of red rope lanes, detectors in hand. 741 00:39:39.280 --> 00:39:41.400 Each signal was marked with a red chip, and each 742 00:39:41.480 --> 00:39:44.159 chip is investigated by a technician with a shovel. They 743 00:39:44.199 --> 00:39:46.599 always dig down and toward the source, starting half a 744 00:39:46.719 --> 00:39:49.840 foot back. We don't dig on top, Broom explains, because 745 00:39:49.840 --> 00:39:54.000 that could cause uxos to blow up. UXO is a 746 00:39:54.199 --> 00:39:58.199 UXO that is safe to move. Is stored until each Friday, 747 00:39:58.480 --> 00:40:02.320 when Mag detonates the entire higher the entire week's cash. 748 00:40:02.719 --> 00:40:07.000 It's really similar archaeology and bomb disposal, they explain. When 749 00:40:07.079 --> 00:40:09.800 mag clears a sight, all the scrap metal is plopped 750 00:40:09.840 --> 00:40:12.440 into a bucket. Broom Is is first to peek at 751 00:40:12.440 --> 00:40:15.599 the findings, and Vanderberg's quick to follow. Both are curious 752 00:40:15.639 --> 00:40:17.880 about the bucket because its contents can tell a story 753 00:40:17.880 --> 00:40:21.159 about the site, either through bomb fragments or metal artifacts, 754 00:40:21.599 --> 00:40:26.199 brom or broom rather and I examined the bucket one morning. 755 00:40:26.360 --> 00:40:31.119 A projectile fragment, cartridge cases, barred wire cans. I pick 756 00:40:31.199 --> 00:40:35.360 up a piece. It's a cartridge case from a recoils rifle. 757 00:40:35.800 --> 00:40:38.760 You said that recoil Liss rifle. Yeah, basically it's an 758 00:40:38.800 --> 00:40:39.400 anti tank. 759 00:40:39.599 --> 00:40:41.920 It's a recoilss rifle. 760 00:40:42.039 --> 00:40:44.480 It's a cannon. It's a fucking cannon. 761 00:40:44.599 --> 00:40:46.760 I know dudes that were shooting in the carl goostaf 762 00:40:47.519 --> 00:40:51.719 Recoilist rifle. For the record, you're only allowed quote unquote 763 00:40:51.719 --> 00:40:54.400 to shoot like five of those a day, like five 764 00:40:54.519 --> 00:40:57.159 rounds because of the concussive force in the sound. 765 00:40:57.199 --> 00:41:01.239 And shit. Yeah, they're bad piece of equipment. As for show. 766 00:41:01.880 --> 00:41:05.559 So they found one, he says, uh, he ogles an 767 00:41:05.599 --> 00:41:08.719 aluminum bit. I think it's part of a rocket motor's. 768 00:41:09.280 --> 00:41:11.519 It was all found in the in the parking lot 769 00:41:11.599 --> 00:41:15.079 at Site three. One bright Saturday, Vanderberg leads us through 770 00:41:15.119 --> 00:41:17.840 side one, pointing to hundreds of jars scattered over parched 771 00:41:17.880 --> 00:41:21.119 grasslands and rolling hills just outside of a town. A 772 00:41:21.159 --> 00:41:24.800 few cow's grays through the area. Western tourists trundle downhill 773 00:41:25.280 --> 00:41:30.000 ignoring the MAG markers. Lausen kids scramble uphill doing the same. 774 00:41:30.159 --> 00:41:33.679 It will take time for people to learn. I think 775 00:41:33.679 --> 00:41:35.039 that would be a pretty good lesson. 776 00:41:35.599 --> 00:41:38.000 You would think so, but there's always people that are like, ah, 777 00:41:38.039 --> 00:41:40.280 fuck it, I'll be fine. I've I've been here a 778 00:41:40.360 --> 00:41:45.360 thousand times, I've never found one yet, and then kaboom, it'd. 779 00:41:45.119 --> 00:41:45.480 Be like this. 780 00:41:45.599 --> 00:41:48.840 Yeah, you're lucky until you're not, you know exactly. So 781 00:41:49.039 --> 00:41:52.880 we walk from jar to jar, each in small clusters. 782 00:41:52.960 --> 00:41:56.559 Vanderburgh only has permission to survey on site. All our 783 00:41:56.639 --> 00:42:00.119 excavations are connected to the MAG excavation, she explains. We 784 00:42:00.159 --> 00:42:03.280 don't have permission to excavate for research. She suspects the 785 00:42:03.280 --> 00:42:07.039 ground below our feet is rife with archaeological information, perhaps tools, 786 00:42:07.119 --> 00:42:11.440 burial urns, bones, or charcoal that could more precisely pin 787 00:42:11.519 --> 00:42:14.239 a date or offer conclusions on the historical background of 788 00:42:14.280 --> 00:42:17.360 the site. But Vanderbergh is here solely to help prepare 789 00:42:17.400 --> 00:42:21.039 the sites for nomination for World Heritage status. Taking inventory, 790 00:42:21.039 --> 00:42:25.159 mapping jars, and creating database. Working with MAG provided a 791 00:42:25.239 --> 00:42:28.159 bonus the chance to see below the surface, so while 792 00:42:28.199 --> 00:42:31.719 they dig, we collect the information. She says. In fact, 793 00:42:31.840 --> 00:42:35.800 the jars have not been studied much archaeologically. Laos is 794 00:42:36.400 --> 00:42:41.920 almost terra incognita, writes THONKSA, fuck that last name, Yeah, 795 00:42:41.920 --> 00:42:47.639 I try that savant COMMANDI the countries. That was pretty close. 796 00:42:48.159 --> 00:42:51.800 The country's only certified archaeologists and one of few to 797 00:42:51.840 --> 00:42:55.960 have excavated the jars. He, like Vanderberg, relies heavily on Kolani, 798 00:42:56.000 --> 00:42:59.440 who documented her findings in two massive volumes titled The 799 00:42:59.480 --> 00:43:03.079 Megalith of Upper Laos. Seventy years later, there remained the 800 00:43:03.119 --> 00:43:06.039 primary source on the jars. The plane of Jars seems 801 00:43:06.079 --> 00:43:09.079 to coincide with the Karat Plateau in Thailand and the 802 00:43:09.119 --> 00:43:14.119 North Kartshar Kotcher Hills of India, where jar burials have 803 00:43:14.199 --> 00:43:17.400 also been found. These were transformative times some two thousand 804 00:43:17.480 --> 00:43:22.519 years ago, of agricultural advancement, metal manufacturing, religious expansion, widening 805 00:43:22.559 --> 00:43:27.159 Asian trade routes, and the societal precursors to urbanization. Kalani 806 00:43:27.199 --> 00:43:30.400 speculated the plane of jars lay at an important intersection 807 00:43:30.440 --> 00:43:33.360 of trade routes that stretch perhaps from India to Vietnam. 808 00:43:35.239 --> 00:43:38.199 She found beads and bronze and iron tools the cave 809 00:43:38.280 --> 00:43:40.760 she discovered on site one has blackened walls and two 810 00:43:40.840 --> 00:43:44.400 chimney openings that signaled to her that bodies have been 811 00:43:44.440 --> 00:43:49.280 cremated here before placement inside the jars. Japanese archaeologists I. 812 00:43:49.639 --> 00:43:53.440 Jai E. G. Nita excavated some of the jars in 813 00:43:53.519 --> 00:43:56.280 nineteen ninety four and Thongs have followed a couple of 814 00:43:56.360 --> 00:43:59.719 years later. Both found burial pits containing human bones among 815 00:43:59.719 --> 00:44:01.840 the j and both concluded the sites were used for 816 00:44:01.880 --> 00:44:06.920 secondary burials. Vanderberg wonders about the archaeological discoveries over time. 817 00:44:08.039 --> 00:44:12.960 Kolani found burned bones, Tonsa and Nita found unburned. Did 818 00:44:13.000 --> 00:44:16.480 they stem from different periods where they half hearted cremations. 819 00:44:16.679 --> 00:44:18.800 It seems the deceased were either buried or put in 820 00:44:18.840 --> 00:44:22.559 a stone jar for defleshing. Then the bones were either 821 00:44:22.639 --> 00:44:25.679 cremated or placed directly into an urned and buried. But 822 00:44:25.840 --> 00:44:30.920 questions nag Her Nita found an urn with human bones 823 00:44:30.920 --> 00:44:33.519 and teeth beneath a jar at Site one. It looked 824 00:44:33.559 --> 00:44:36.880 like it looked to him like tenth century pottery from 825 00:44:36.920 --> 00:44:41.760 the Kemer Empire, and he concluded that the stone jar 826 00:44:41.920 --> 00:44:44.679 directly above this urn could be no older than that. 827 00:44:45.039 --> 00:44:47.119 If so, that would make the jar a thousand years 828 00:44:47.159 --> 00:44:50.320 younger than previously thought. VanderBurg doesn't dispute this date, but 829 00:44:50.360 --> 00:44:54.599 thinks the jar sites were occupied and used over many centuries. Nito, 830 00:44:54.760 --> 00:44:57.719 who returned to Japan, has sent his reports to Vanderberg, 831 00:44:58.000 --> 00:44:59.960 but she has not been able to reach him since. 832 00:45:00.239 --> 00:45:03.119 She has spoken with Doanxa several times, but he now 833 00:45:03.159 --> 00:45:05.480 studies in Australia and their work at the jars has 834 00:45:05.559 --> 00:45:09.280 yet to coincide. He declined to be interviewed for this article. Furthermore, 835 00:45:09.280 --> 00:45:12.320 many of Kolone's artifacts have disappeared from Laus over the years, 836 00:45:12.360 --> 00:45:14.960 so Vanderberg plugs along with what she has. 837 00:45:15.480 --> 00:45:19.480 She artifacts have disappeared over the years. 838 00:45:20.320 --> 00:45:22.239 Ah, that's probably pretty common, I would imagine. 839 00:45:22.679 --> 00:45:24.559 Maybe you would think, if this is going to be 840 00:45:24.599 --> 00:45:27.880 a UNESCO World Heritage Site, that they would want to 841 00:45:27.960 --> 00:45:30.960 keep all the artifacts very close to where they were discovered. 842 00:45:31.280 --> 00:45:33.199 I don't know that for a fact, but that makes 843 00:45:33.239 --> 00:45:36.599 sense to me, especially if this is supposed to be 844 00:45:36.760 --> 00:45:37.760 a burial site. 845 00:45:38.239 --> 00:45:41.679 Allegedly that would be desecration of graves. 846 00:45:41.960 --> 00:45:44.840 But well, again, the same can be said for Egypt 847 00:45:44.840 --> 00:45:47.119 with the Pyramids. There's a lot of shit that's just 848 00:45:47.280 --> 00:45:49.639 like literally scattered all over the place, Like people go 849 00:45:49.679 --> 00:45:51.599 down there and visit and they're like, it's so sad 850 00:45:51.599 --> 00:45:53.960 that this place is just not being kept up. Like 851 00:45:54.039 --> 00:45:57.480 you'll find like certain bricks that maybe were some they 852 00:45:57.480 --> 00:45:59.440 were part of something important, but here they are just 853 00:45:59.480 --> 00:46:02.480 scattered at alongside the road. Or you know, whatever happened 854 00:46:02.519 --> 00:46:04.480 to the gold tops of the pyramids and you know 855 00:46:04.559 --> 00:46:06.960 that kind of shit to where maybe it was desecrated, 856 00:46:07.000 --> 00:46:09.320 maybe it was used for other purposes, or maybe people 857 00:46:09.400 --> 00:46:12.159 just want to steal things to sell it online or something. 858 00:46:12.199 --> 00:46:15.599 I don't know, maybe or maybe the artifacts had been 859 00:46:15.639 --> 00:46:18.559 taken on purpose, because it's more of a cover up 860 00:46:18.599 --> 00:46:19.440 type of situation. 861 00:46:19.559 --> 00:46:20.039 I don't know. 862 00:46:20.239 --> 00:46:22.360 That's probably the most I think there's multiple things happening 863 00:46:22.400 --> 00:46:23.360 at the same time here. 864 00:46:24.880 --> 00:46:28.800 I think that's probably the most likely. She questions villagers, 865 00:46:28.840 --> 00:46:31.039 hoping that they'll know something about the jars, but they 866 00:46:31.039 --> 00:46:33.400 always return to the same legend of the ancient king 867 00:46:33.599 --> 00:46:37.400 named kun Chung. I think I. 868 00:46:37.360 --> 00:46:39.280 Don't know how to pronounce it either, but yeah, that's 869 00:46:39.400 --> 00:46:40.000 that's the gap. 870 00:46:40.679 --> 00:46:43.039 An epic battle against an evil enemy and a grand 871 00:46:43.119 --> 00:46:47.000 victory celebrated with copious quantities of alcohol. Some fifteen hundred 872 00:46:47.039 --> 00:46:51.280 years ago, the jars they say, stored tons of loo lao, 873 00:46:51.559 --> 00:46:54.440 a hammering rice whiskey still enjoyed today. 874 00:46:55.760 --> 00:46:59.000 Lou lao, Yeah, loo lao, which is it's like there, 875 00:46:59.239 --> 00:47:03.159 it's their drink of choice, right, So like, okay, dope, 876 00:47:03.280 --> 00:47:06.280 I get it, But dude, to say you got two 877 00:47:06.320 --> 00:47:11.280 thousand jars that are massive, like the amount of gallons 878 00:47:11.360 --> 00:47:14.039 per per capita of one of these jars, of how 879 00:47:14.119 --> 00:47:15.480 much whiskey they could hold, I. 880 00:47:15.480 --> 00:47:17.119 Mean, how shitfaced were you trying to get? Bro? 881 00:47:17.599 --> 00:47:19.280 Bro what? 882 00:47:19.320 --> 00:47:21.519 I mean it. 883 00:47:20.800 --> 00:47:23.840 Hundred years ago, even though the jars date back over 884 00:47:24.199 --> 00:47:25.559 three thousand years ago. 885 00:47:26.079 --> 00:47:27.960 But it did say that there could have been some 886 00:47:28.079 --> 00:47:31.239 kind this could have been like some kind of place 887 00:47:31.320 --> 00:47:33.599 that people would meet up for trade routes. So maybe 888 00:47:33.599 --> 00:47:36.320 it was if it was the alcohol thing, not suggesting 889 00:47:36.320 --> 00:47:38.519 that it was, but if it was, it would suggest 890 00:47:38.559 --> 00:47:41.280 that maybe they were trading their whatever they were cooking 891 00:47:41.360 --> 00:47:43.000 up in these jars to other countries. 892 00:47:44.079 --> 00:47:46.400 I could see that, Like if this was a storage 893 00:47:46.480 --> 00:47:49.320 vessel of some type for some sort of good that 894 00:47:49.360 --> 00:47:51.519 you are trading, I get this as well. 895 00:47:51.920 --> 00:47:53.840 But then the way they also brought up. 896 00:47:53.800 --> 00:47:57.519 The Indian jars and the Vietnam thing, they're showing that 897 00:47:57.599 --> 00:48:01.880 this is like this crazy cross section of trade routes. Yes, 898 00:48:02.639 --> 00:48:06.280 but not necessarily Like when we think of trade routes, 899 00:48:06.320 --> 00:48:08.880 you also think of like the East India Trading Company, right, 900 00:48:09.559 --> 00:48:12.320 and you think of the Opium Wars. There was a 901 00:48:12.360 --> 00:48:16.599 direct connection between Chinese grown opium and then Laos and 902 00:48:16.599 --> 00:48:18.719 and Burma and all these places that were growing the 903 00:48:18.800 --> 00:48:22.039 good shit and it would go into India through the 904 00:48:22.079 --> 00:48:25.199 northeast and then it would make its way to Europe 905 00:48:25.239 --> 00:48:28.440 that way. It's not like this was a hotbed for 906 00:48:28.599 --> 00:48:31.400 that type of trade. I mean, yeah, you might have 907 00:48:31.440 --> 00:48:34.440 a passer by that would be a part of that conversation. 908 00:48:34.519 --> 00:48:38.960 But also that was not three thousand years ago, so. 909 00:48:38.960 --> 00:48:41.639 It wasn't like Ukraine being the bread basket of bread 910 00:48:41.639 --> 00:48:43.519 basket of Europe type of situation. 911 00:48:44.119 --> 00:48:45.840 Well, I mean, for the Opium Wars, there was only 912 00:48:45.880 --> 00:48:48.079 one spot on Earth that they knew for sure it grew. 913 00:48:48.440 --> 00:48:50.480 It was before they knew how to really cultivate poppy 914 00:48:50.519 --> 00:48:53.679 around the world in other places. But yes, to that point, 915 00:48:53.760 --> 00:48:57.119 it's not like this was the bread basket of Southeast 916 00:48:57.119 --> 00:48:59.519 Asia by any stretch of the imagination. 917 00:49:00.199 --> 00:49:02.519 Yeah, well, they kind of look like bread baskets, giant 918 00:49:02.559 --> 00:49:07.360 bread baskets. You know she it, says. Vandenburgh doesn't discount 919 00:49:07.400 --> 00:49:10.599 this theory. Like any good Belgian, she likes her beer. 920 00:49:10.840 --> 00:49:14.119 When people die in Belgium, it always involves lots of drinking, 921 00:49:14.239 --> 00:49:16.599 she says, So I can understand lots and lots of 922 00:49:16.639 --> 00:49:19.159 loudlow on a gravesite, though she doubts the jars where 923 00:49:19.199 --> 00:49:22.400 ferm enters. As we continue touring Site one, she points 924 00:49:22.400 --> 00:49:25.920 toward a zigzag of a zigzag of war era trenches, 925 00:49:26.199 --> 00:49:29.519 to the bottoms of bomb craters where villagers dig for 926 00:49:29.719 --> 00:49:33.119 scrap metal, to a cavity in the hillside once used 927 00:49:33.119 --> 00:49:35.880 as a tank position. She points to broken jars, a 928 00:49:35.960 --> 00:49:40.119 cause of consternation. They've been bombed and looted. Cows rub them, 929 00:49:40.599 --> 00:49:44.079 tourists climb them, trees straddle them. Villagers fashion the jars 930 00:49:44.119 --> 00:49:49.159 into water troughs or knife sharpeners. Between the war, cattle, 931 00:49:49.199 --> 00:49:51.559 people and trees were losing a lot, she says. The 932 00:49:51.599 --> 00:49:54.800 weaker the jars get, the quicker they topple. So she 933 00:49:55.000 --> 00:49:57.320 has a few plans a bamboo fence. 934 00:49:57.119 --> 00:49:58.360 Wanting to show this real quick. 935 00:49:58.519 --> 00:50:02.519 These small Buddhists statues were found inside of a cracked 936 00:50:02.639 --> 00:50:05.440 jar at Site three, so we can at least see 937 00:50:05.480 --> 00:50:09.920 some very ancient Buddhist remnants in this area. 938 00:50:10.440 --> 00:50:12.760 That's pretty cool if they were able to, Like I mean, 939 00:50:12.840 --> 00:50:16.079 I know that I would imagine that people back then 940 00:50:16.159 --> 00:50:19.320 were pretty good at like carving stone or carving wood 941 00:50:19.559 --> 00:50:21.920 or whatever. But those are those look pretty cool to 942 00:50:21.920 --> 00:50:23.159 be a couple thousand years old. 943 00:50:23.559 --> 00:50:26.559 The people in this area are very good craftsmen. 944 00:50:26.960 --> 00:50:29.199 I will give the credit where it is due, for sure, 945 00:50:29.320 --> 00:50:33.159 but like that's my point as far as like an archaeological. 946 00:50:32.480 --> 00:50:35.400 Dig site goes. It's this. 947 00:50:35.800 --> 00:50:40.320 The jars themselves predate Buddhism, but they have Buddhist statues 948 00:50:40.360 --> 00:50:43.559 inside of a jar. This is why I'm saying none 949 00:50:43.639 --> 00:50:47.159 of the going narrative on these things makes sense. 950 00:50:47.320 --> 00:50:48.039 Overall. 951 00:50:48.360 --> 00:50:50.119 You could understand at least a little bit of why 952 00:50:50.159 --> 00:50:52.719 somebody they would use this as a burial site, they 953 00:50:52.719 --> 00:50:55.000 would use it as a crematorium, they would use it 954 00:50:55.039 --> 00:50:57.440 as a water vessel today or like, Okay, I could 955 00:50:57.559 --> 00:51:00.559 understand why that would happen, but that does doesn't explain 956 00:51:00.639 --> 00:51:03.320 the entire story, and unfortunately none of it does. 957 00:51:03.719 --> 00:51:06.360 So she does have a few plans for preservation a 958 00:51:06.400 --> 00:51:08.599 bamboo fence will enclose some of the jars to deter 959 00:51:08.719 --> 00:51:11.960 the cows, but she doesn't want an overly restrictive situation. 960 00:51:12.320 --> 00:51:14.679 After all, part of the charm is that people can 961 00:51:14.719 --> 00:51:17.320 walk freely among the jars, but the cows must go 962 00:51:17.480 --> 00:51:19.960 and some of the trees, and so must some of 963 00:51:19.960 --> 00:51:22.519 the trees. People come up here in picnic, she says, 964 00:51:22.559 --> 00:51:25.760 it's just not acceptable. We don't want people to We 965 00:51:25.760 --> 00:51:27.840 don't want people to stay on site. We just want 966 00:51:27.880 --> 00:51:32.000 them to visit. In fact, Vandenburg wants more visitors. About 967 00:51:32.079 --> 00:51:34.480 nine thousand traveled to Site one last year from all 968 00:51:34.480 --> 00:51:36.599 over the world, but only a third of those reached 969 00:51:36.599 --> 00:51:40.519 Site two, and fewer yet three, which lies farther outside town. 970 00:51:41.280 --> 00:51:45.840 Vandenburg hopes tourism can spur the local agrarian economy, which 971 00:51:45.880 --> 00:51:49.400 affords most people less than a dollar each day. Site 972 00:51:49.480 --> 00:51:52.800 one is run by the government, but at the other sites, 973 00:51:52.840 --> 00:51:56.840 surrounding villages get half of the seven thousand KIP, which 974 00:51:56.880 --> 00:52:01.639 is seventy cent entrance fees. Vandenburg hopes new jars new 975 00:52:01.719 --> 00:52:04.079 jar sites well up and soon, though they're not safe, 976 00:52:04.079 --> 00:52:07.280 of course, we just want we want more torres. You know, 977 00:52:07.280 --> 00:52:10.599 we got to set off those bombs. Yeah, so they 978 00:52:10.599 --> 00:52:14.440 haven't been cleared of Uxou. Funding for Mag's role in 979 00:52:14.480 --> 00:52:17.440 the project ended with clearance for Sites one, two and three. 980 00:52:17.760 --> 00:52:20.519 Van It's almost like a Rick and Morty type situation. 981 00:52:20.639 --> 00:52:23.639 How Rick always sends Mortian to test, like and taste 982 00:52:23.679 --> 00:52:25.360 something first, or test something first. 983 00:52:25.400 --> 00:52:28.639 It's like, yeah, basically guinea pigs basically. 984 00:52:28.719 --> 00:52:31.559 But that's the problem, right, nobody knows for sure where 985 00:52:31.599 --> 00:52:34.199 the bombs are. You can mind sweep and you could 986 00:52:34.199 --> 00:52:36.519 do all these things, but I mean, you're still gonna miss. 987 00:52:36.360 --> 00:52:38.840 Stuff, and it's it's horrible. But that's the thing. 988 00:52:39.159 --> 00:52:42.880 Sites one, two, and three that is not the entirety 989 00:52:42.960 --> 00:52:46.320 of the two thousand jars. This is just them starting 990 00:52:46.360 --> 00:52:49.679 the process. And that's only two thousand jars they have 991 00:52:49.719 --> 00:52:52.280 found thus far. Who knows if you were to do 992 00:52:52.400 --> 00:52:54.440 like some sort of uh what's it called, like a 993 00:52:54.519 --> 00:52:57.960 light oar scam or whatever, it's the ground penetrating how 994 00:52:57.960 --> 00:53:00.440 many of these jars are actually buried of foot or 995 00:53:00.440 --> 00:53:03.079 two beneath the surface. But we can't dig them to 996 00:53:03.360 --> 00:53:05.800 or we can't dig the area to find them because 997 00:53:05.840 --> 00:53:06.920 we don't want to blow up. 998 00:53:07.679 --> 00:53:10.039 Who knows how many jars there are in totality. 999 00:53:10.440 --> 00:53:17.360 Yeah, yeah, it's pretty interesting, so Vandenberg is. Vandenberg's is 1000 00:53:17.760 --> 00:53:20.519 a shoe string operation, evident as soon as we enter 1001 00:53:20.559 --> 00:53:23.599 her office. It sits on the second floor of a 1002 00:53:23.639 --> 00:53:27.800 wooden building, a rustic work room with back half stocked 1003 00:53:27.800 --> 00:53:30.840 with shelves and metal trunks. Her face brightens as she 1004 00:53:30.920 --> 00:53:34.880 reveals her treasures, collected from various sites, packed in plastic 1005 00:53:34.920 --> 00:53:39.800 bags and acid free paper, pottery, shirt shirts, a stone ads, 1006 00:53:40.400 --> 00:53:43.880 a bugle which is presumably French or Chinese left in 1007 00:53:43.920 --> 00:53:47.159 war era trench, a small buddha, six metal knives and 1008 00:53:47.199 --> 00:53:50.880 tools made of flaky white stone. Then she beckons to 1009 00:53:51.239 --> 00:53:55.199 the back, smiling, saying, our pride and joy There Wrapped 1010 00:53:55.239 --> 00:53:58.719 gingerly in a spandages and foam packed in wooden crates 1011 00:53:58.840 --> 00:54:02.519 are two urns found on found in a site one 1012 00:54:02.599 --> 00:54:05.679 trench during Uxo clearance. They're about two feet tall, brown 1013 00:54:05.760 --> 00:54:08.000 and coated in resin, and they look like bombs, which 1014 00:54:08.039 --> 00:54:11.199 is what Vandenburg was told when she took one to 1015 00:54:11.320 --> 00:54:14.000 the hospital for X rays. They also resemble the ern 1016 00:54:14.119 --> 00:54:17.840 Nita found with bones. Vandenberg's pots are stuffed with soil 1017 00:54:18.119 --> 00:54:21.199 too fragile to empty, but the X rays revealed a 1018 00:54:21.239 --> 00:54:25.400 possible bone fragment inside. Somedays she'll figure out a way 1019 00:54:26.239 --> 00:54:29.280 to get to get at the contents, but she doesn't 1020 00:54:29.320 --> 00:54:31.880 have the money right now. UNESCO is paying two hundred 1021 00:54:31.880 --> 00:54:34.039 and seventy five thousand dollars for the project, but that 1022 00:54:34.079 --> 00:54:37.760 includes overhead and fundraising costs. Only about half of that 1023 00:54:37.880 --> 00:54:41.079 amount reaches Vandenburg in the field. So a few years back, 1024 00:54:41.159 --> 00:54:44.119 project members started going village to village asking do you 1025 00:54:44.159 --> 00:54:47.079 have jars and if so, they could attract taurists and money. 1026 00:54:47.159 --> 00:54:50.679 Vandenberg still criss crosses the province, greeting villagers and sitting 1027 00:54:50.760 --> 00:54:53.280 for hours on wooden floors and homes on stilts. She 1028 00:54:53.400 --> 00:54:57.239 is accompanied by government officials and the meetings require exhaustive 1029 00:54:57.320 --> 00:55:01.199 explanations what the jars mean to archaeology. Tourists are interested 1030 00:55:01.280 --> 00:55:05.159 how tourism might help villagers. The jars are valuable relics, 1031 00:55:04.559 --> 00:55:07.960 she explains, and UNESCO hopes to protect them as as 1032 00:55:08.039 --> 00:55:14.480 World heritage, a status afforded to few. Villagers usually don't 1033 00:55:14.480 --> 00:55:16.800 think much of the jars. They're just rocks in the backyard, 1034 00:55:17.039 --> 00:55:18.920 but once they get the idea that the jars are 1035 00:55:18.960 --> 00:55:22.000 really important, they start talking about quote unquote new jars. 1036 00:55:22.400 --> 00:55:24.559 They had always been there, but no one realized that 1037 00:55:24.599 --> 00:55:29.199 they mattered. We attended one of those meetings in Nazetong 1038 00:55:29.519 --> 00:55:34.679 village and hours drive from Fon Savan Shan Mooti, and 1039 00:55:34.840 --> 00:55:38.039 elder says, the villagers here attribute healing qualities to the jars, 1040 00:55:38.119 --> 00:55:40.639 and they poured jar water over their heads of the 1041 00:55:40.760 --> 00:55:44.960 ill children. Many years ago, he says, village monks rolled 1042 00:55:45.000 --> 00:55:48.880 a jar into the temple for use as a water basin, 1043 00:55:49.079 --> 00:55:52.280 but many people quickly quickly grew sick, so the monks 1044 00:55:52.320 --> 00:55:54.079 returned the jars to the original site. 1045 00:55:54.559 --> 00:55:56.760 Oh okay, hold on real quick. 1046 00:55:57.239 --> 00:56:01.079 So depending on who you ask, some villagers pour water 1047 00:56:01.199 --> 00:56:04.119 from the jars on six children to heal them because 1048 00:56:04.159 --> 00:56:07.639 these jars have healing properties according to them. Then monks 1049 00:56:07.639 --> 00:56:10.199 bring it into a monastery and they all get sick. 1050 00:56:10.800 --> 00:56:13.000 You see what I'm saying. There's no one set answer 1051 00:56:13.039 --> 00:56:13.840 for any of this shit. 1052 00:56:15.320 --> 00:56:18.119 Very wild, I mean, and I'm this is the thing 1053 00:56:18.159 --> 00:56:20.800 about jars is too. It's like, you know, you don't 1054 00:56:20.840 --> 00:56:25.639 know what the original purpose was. Like imagine, for example, somebody, 1055 00:56:26.440 --> 00:56:30.000 uh a thousand years from now finds a fucking wigi board, 1056 00:56:30.599 --> 00:56:33.159 and it would say like, this is a this is 1057 00:56:33.199 --> 00:56:35.440 a board game to contact spirits on the other side. 1058 00:56:35.440 --> 00:56:38.159 But they don't know that. Most of the time, evil 1059 00:56:38.199 --> 00:56:40.639 shit was coming through whenever you called upon it. But 1060 00:56:40.679 --> 00:56:42.920 they didn't know that. So, hey, we're just gonna play around. 1061 00:56:42.960 --> 00:56:45.679 Maybe I can talk to my great aunt Kimberly or whatever. 1062 00:56:45.800 --> 00:56:49.440 Right next thing, you know, you got fucking Beel's above 1063 00:56:49.559 --> 00:56:52.519 trying to reach his dirty hand and choke you through 1064 00:56:52.519 --> 00:56:54.119 the board or something like that. I don't know. 1065 00:56:54.599 --> 00:56:56.440 I feel like that's what happens with most people that 1066 00:56:56.480 --> 00:56:59.400 fuck with Wuigi boards, that like don't know what they're doing. 1067 00:57:00.079 --> 00:57:02.360 I think they think it's like that and then they realize, 1068 00:57:02.400 --> 00:57:04.880 oh shit, that's not the case. It's I mean, it's 1069 00:57:04.960 --> 00:57:07.239 very similar. Who knows what these jars are actually used for. 1070 00:57:07.320 --> 00:57:10.679 Were these used for some sort of occult rituals. Were 1071 00:57:10.679 --> 00:57:13.480 they actually carved by a race of giants that have 1072 00:57:13.639 --> 00:57:16.519 gone like just lost into the sands of history. 1073 00:57:17.000 --> 00:57:17.639 We don't know. 1074 00:57:17.960 --> 00:57:21.000 So in one sense, the jars have healing properties. On 1075 00:57:21.039 --> 00:57:23.199 the other sense, they make people get sick. Now to 1076 00:57:23.239 --> 00:57:26.039 my knowledge, themby died from drinking the water from these jars. 1077 00:57:26.880 --> 00:57:29.760 But that doesn't negate, what the hell just happened? 1078 00:57:29.760 --> 00:57:32.320 But also keep that in mind because a lot of 1079 00:57:32.320 --> 00:57:35.880 people these days use them as water cisterns in the 1080 00:57:35.880 --> 00:57:39.639 field right now, So it's like, Okay, did the jars? 1081 00:57:39.719 --> 00:57:40.119 Are they not? 1082 00:57:40.599 --> 00:57:42.360 They don't make people sick if they're left in their 1083 00:57:42.800 --> 00:57:45.559 correct location. When you bring them away from the plane 1084 00:57:45.599 --> 00:57:47.239 of jars, is that when they become cursed? 1085 00:57:47.639 --> 00:57:50.719 Like I don't know, I actually found just while you 1086 00:57:50.760 --> 00:57:53.039 were talking a little bit earlier about like some of 1087 00:57:53.039 --> 00:57:56.519 the possible theories, and some of it does involve certain 1088 00:57:56.639 --> 00:58:01.679 lay lines and certain like like, uh, there's this one 1089 00:58:01.719 --> 00:58:05.039 thing called the Southeast Asia dragon lines. Have you ever 1090 00:58:05.079 --> 00:58:08.880 heard of that I have? That that could be involved here. 1091 00:58:08.920 --> 00:58:11.880 So we're gonna get through this first. Yeah, So it 1092 00:58:11.960 --> 00:58:14.800 says we attend one of these meetings and NASO already 1093 00:58:14.800 --> 00:58:18.000 read that, Uh, they grew sick, and so they returned 1094 00:58:18.000 --> 00:58:20.760 the jar to the original site. When all stories have 1095 00:58:20.840 --> 00:58:23.079 been told, we gather for a feast of cabbage soup, 1096 00:58:23.199 --> 00:58:26.800 boiled chicken, green papaya salad, and a tray of fried 1097 00:58:26.960 --> 00:58:33.039 enterds in congield duck blo congealed duck blood. Yeah, dude, 1098 00:58:33.079 --> 00:58:37.239 like blood sausage, which we forego, but what comes next? 1099 00:58:37.280 --> 00:58:40.039 No one can avoid the lao lao, round and round 1100 00:58:40.079 --> 00:58:43.480 the room. It goes several sherry glasses of fiery water 1101 00:58:43.920 --> 00:58:47.760 or firewater, offered in an ancient tradition of hospitality and celebration. 1102 00:58:48.119 --> 00:58:51.440 The meeting is a prelude to a long height, a 1103 00:58:51.440 --> 00:58:54.960 long hike to a survey site near Hamong Village called 1104 00:58:55.519 --> 00:59:00.280 ban Faco fu Keo fuck Koh. There we go. I 1105 00:59:00.400 --> 00:59:04.400 like that word. Fuck Kio. A place with many jars 1106 00:59:04.440 --> 00:59:08.039 but little in the way of tourism development. It's a 1107 00:59:08.039 --> 00:59:11.440 half hour trudge downhill until the trail crosses a rickety 1108 00:59:11.440 --> 00:59:14.559 bamboo bridge and makes a sharp upward turn. We see 1109 00:59:14.559 --> 00:59:17.360 miles of blue green mountains and a hot haze. I'm 1110 00:59:17.400 --> 00:59:20.719 not tired, Vanderberg pants. After another ninety minutes hiking through 1111 00:59:20.719 --> 00:59:25.199 the sweltering jungle, I'm just dead. Ban Fakio is a 1112 00:59:25.239 --> 00:59:29.320 collection of wooden homes, most with earthen floors, thatched roofs, 1113 00:59:29.320 --> 00:59:32.920 and cluster bomb casings for planters and feed troughs. The 1114 00:59:32.960 --> 00:59:36.480 one room schoolhouse has a bell made from bomb scrap, 1115 00:59:36.679 --> 00:59:39.920 and the walls are decked with postering, with posters showing 1116 00:59:40.000 --> 00:59:44.679 kids proper behavior around UXO. Don't shake your buffalo to 1117 00:59:44.760 --> 00:59:47.239 the ground, tie it to a tree instead. Never touch 1118 00:59:47.280 --> 00:59:49.880 you XO. Tell an adult if you'd see something suspicious. 1119 00:59:50.239 --> 00:59:53.800 Farther upheal. About another half an hour away, there are 1120 00:59:53.880 --> 00:59:56.800 nearly four hundred jars toppled in the forest, covered in 1121 00:59:56.880 --> 00:59:59.360 mosaics of green and white lichens. 1122 00:59:59.039 --> 01:00:01.599 Lichens, lichens. I think, I don't know. 1123 01:00:02.119 --> 01:00:05.000 The team quickly gets to business, stretching a tape measure 1124 01:00:05.039 --> 01:00:08.280 from jar to jar, numbering, measuring, and photographing details. We 1125 01:00:08.320 --> 01:00:11.519 spend two days among these ancient vessels, and the team 1126 01:00:11.559 --> 01:00:16.480 works diligently amid scrub brush and trees, avoiding thoughts of UXO. 1127 01:00:16.679 --> 01:00:19.960 Nothing here has been cleared. It's amazing, these jars sitting 1128 01:00:20.000 --> 01:00:22.639 in the woods on a windy hill. I catch Vandenberg 1129 01:00:22.840 --> 01:00:25.960 in a moment of reflection, and she offers a pensive sigh. 1130 01:00:26.159 --> 01:00:30.440 They're beautiful, aren't they? It is really the only imaginal comment. 1131 01:00:30.599 --> 01:00:34.679 The beauty of these magnificent jars is indisputiful, indisputable. Their 1132 01:00:34.760 --> 01:00:37.480 value of archaeology is certain. These things are known, but 1133 01:00:37.519 --> 01:00:41.639 for now little else about the jar is okay. 1134 01:00:41.719 --> 01:00:45.639 So that was from this is from two thousand and 1135 01:00:45.639 --> 01:00:48.760 five that that article was published, and this video as 1136 01:00:48.760 --> 01:00:51.639 a matter of fact, we are going to play right here. 1137 01:00:52.159 --> 01:00:55.239 So this is from Archaeology TV, and if I'm not mistaken, 1138 01:00:55.280 --> 01:00:57.679 this is the YouTube channel associated with the article that 1139 01:00:57.719 --> 01:01:01.440 we just read. And it's just gonna give another kind 1140 01:01:01.440 --> 01:01:03.800 of overview. It might reiterate some of the points we 1141 01:01:03.880 --> 01:01:05.679 already made, and some of the articles are gonna bring 1142 01:01:05.760 --> 01:01:07.960 up some of those same points as well, but we're 1143 01:01:07.960 --> 01:01:10.360 gonna go a little bit deeper into why they're so 1144 01:01:11.039 --> 01:01:13.880 so much unexploded ordinance, some of the legends and the 1145 01:01:13.920 --> 01:01:17.559 lore surrounding these jars, possible uses, and where they may 1146 01:01:17.599 --> 01:01:20.760 have actually came from. But it all ties together to 1147 01:01:21.519 --> 01:01:25.280 why would the government? Why would the US government bomb 1148 01:01:25.360 --> 01:01:28.519 this area so heavily? Was it, in fact, because they 1149 01:01:28.519 --> 01:01:31.000 were trying to, you know, get to the huci Min 1150 01:01:31.079 --> 01:01:33.719 trail and blow up the guys that were trying to 1151 01:01:33.760 --> 01:01:36.719 attack us? I see the string of events, it's possible, 1152 01:01:37.719 --> 01:01:41.039 or were they trying to erase some of the ancient 1153 01:01:41.199 --> 01:01:43.880 past that would have spit in the face of what 1154 01:01:44.000 --> 01:01:47.719 we know to be history. I don't know there's enough 1155 01:01:47.719 --> 01:01:49.920 to stand a reason on either side of this conversation 1156 01:01:50.000 --> 01:01:51.480 but without further ado. 1157 01:01:51.559 --> 01:01:53.559 Here's the video from Archaeology TV. 1158 01:01:56.440 --> 01:01:58.760 So the project's title is Unraveling the Mysteries of the 1159 01:01:58.760 --> 01:02:00.719 Plane of the Jars and it's funded by the Australian 1160 01:02:00.760 --> 01:02:07.559 Research Council. This project is a joint project, a cooperative 1161 01:02:07.559 --> 01:02:11.440 project between the LAO Ministry of Information, Culture and Tourism, 1162 01:02:11.719 --> 01:02:18.159 the Australian National University and Monash University. So we've had 1163 01:02:18.519 --> 01:02:23.519 basically a really successful season identifying a whole range of 1164 01:02:24.000 --> 01:02:27.039 different kinds of mortuary practices and mortuary practices that haven't 1165 01:02:27.079 --> 01:02:32.320 been identified previously here. So it's been very very robust 1166 01:02:32.320 --> 01:02:38.280 in terms of the data that we've gathered. Today we're 1167 01:02:38.280 --> 01:02:40.400 at Site one, which is one of the larger sites 1168 01:02:40.440 --> 01:02:43.320 with over three hundred very large stone jars. 1169 01:02:43.719 --> 01:02:45.599 All right, so you see this is Site one, as 1170 01:02:45.599 --> 01:02:47.599 there's all about Sites one, two and three and all 1171 01:02:47.599 --> 01:02:51.719 of these there's more sites. Site one has three hundred jars, 1172 01:02:52.000 --> 01:02:55.599 but there is as of this moment two thousand known. 1173 01:02:56.199 --> 01:02:59.280 I wonder, who knows why is it so cleared in 1174 01:02:59.320 --> 01:03:01.519 that area? They clear that out themselves or is it 1175 01:03:01.599 --> 01:03:02.559 naturally like that way? 1176 01:03:03.079 --> 01:03:05.320 So they cleared it out themselves to be able to 1177 01:03:05.400 --> 01:03:07.800 get in and get out and do the archaeological dig 1178 01:03:07.800 --> 01:03:10.320 site and all these things. But understand everything in this 1179 01:03:10.400 --> 01:03:12.559 brush has not been cleared for mines. 1180 01:03:13.239 --> 01:03:15.320 Oh all of this. 1181 01:03:15.559 --> 01:03:19.400 There's bombs everywhere, some of them right on the surface, 1182 01:03:19.440 --> 01:03:21.679 some of them an inch below the dirt that you. 1183 01:03:21.639 --> 01:03:23.360 Won't know about until you step on them. 1184 01:03:23.719 --> 01:03:26.360 All this cleared area has been mind swept and is 1185 01:03:26.559 --> 01:03:29.039 like considered safe. They've done all the testing and they 1186 01:03:29.079 --> 01:03:32.519 know they could walk freely in this area and along 1187 01:03:32.559 --> 01:03:35.800 the same thing. This trail over here. Either side of 1188 01:03:35.800 --> 01:03:38.239 this trail has not been cleared. You have to stay 1189 01:03:38.280 --> 01:03:40.760 on the walkway or else you're in danger of losing 1190 01:03:40.760 --> 01:03:41.880 a leg, if not your life. 1191 01:03:42.239 --> 01:03:43.360 It's crazy, you know what. 1192 01:03:43.599 --> 01:03:46.559 Like from this view, it almost looks like little crawfish mountains. 1193 01:03:47.400 --> 01:03:49.480 You would think, so, yeah, yeah, yeah, it does look 1194 01:03:49.519 --> 01:03:51.400 like that, and then you see the people standing right 1195 01:03:51.440 --> 01:03:52.280 next to it, and it's like. 1196 01:03:52.280 --> 01:03:57.679 Whoa, yeah, all right, let's keep on. So these things 1197 01:03:57.719 --> 01:03:59.559 are quite impressive. 1198 01:03:59.760 --> 01:04:03.000 Some are, you know, two meters tall and you can't 1199 01:04:03.039 --> 01:04:08.719 get your arms around them. We found what looks like 1200 01:04:08.800 --> 01:04:12.119 now a primary burial with a very large limestone slab 1201 01:04:12.440 --> 01:04:17.079 with a hole in it, and the skull positioned basically 1202 01:04:17.119 --> 01:04:20.239 looking out of the hall. Whether that was the original positioning, 1203 01:04:20.559 --> 01:04:23.719 you know, you've got various kinds of turbation, so it's 1204 01:04:23.760 --> 01:04:27.599 possible that it wasn't originally like that, but that's how 1205 01:04:27.599 --> 01:04:28.079 we found it. 1206 01:04:28.840 --> 01:04:29.159 Okay. 1207 01:04:29.199 --> 01:04:32.760 Also keep in mind, this is a burial site next 1208 01:04:32.800 --> 01:04:35.719 to the jars. They're not inside one of these jars 1209 01:04:35.760 --> 01:04:40.400 doing this digging right now. So that's what I'm saying. 1210 01:04:40.519 --> 01:04:43.199 If this was all burial, then you would see tons 1211 01:04:43.239 --> 01:04:45.920 of remains. You would see at least tons of DNA 1212 01:04:46.239 --> 01:04:48.400 or something to show that these were all some sort 1213 01:04:48.440 --> 01:04:51.280 of a tomb structure, to say that this place was 1214 01:04:52.039 --> 01:04:55.519 important right to the people of this region, and that's 1215 01:04:55.559 --> 01:04:58.239 why they use the surrounding area as a burial site. 1216 01:04:58.320 --> 01:04:59.559 I completely understand that. 1217 01:04:59.719 --> 01:05:02.840 But this dude was buried in a specific way with 1218 01:05:02.880 --> 01:05:05.639 that hole cut through a rock that he was looking 1219 01:05:05.719 --> 01:05:09.320 through in his burial position. But he wasn't inside of 1220 01:05:09.320 --> 01:05:12.199 a jar. So you see what I'm saying. None of 1221 01:05:12.199 --> 01:05:14.480 it actually lines up and makes sense out loud. 1222 01:05:15.559 --> 01:05:19.000 Yeah, yeah, that's uh. All of this is just so 1223 01:05:19.159 --> 01:05:23.760 fucking confusing, it is it is, let's keep going hello. 1224 01:05:25.039 --> 01:05:29.119 In Unit two, we selected that because there was another 1225 01:05:29.199 --> 01:05:32.840 interesting disc shape object on the ground, and it was 1226 01:05:32.880 --> 01:05:35.199 a disc that had a knob on it, and actually 1227 01:05:35.199 --> 01:05:38.360 had knobs on both sides. So we excavated there and 1228 01:05:38.519 --> 01:05:41.760 lo and behold we found a number of jar burials 1229 01:05:41.760 --> 01:05:45.239 and also another burial that was apparently not marked except 1230 01:05:45.320 --> 01:05:48.039 for in the pit they placed a limestone block on 1231 01:05:48.079 --> 01:05:53.320 top of the human bones. So the jars also their 1232 01:05:53.360 --> 01:05:57.519 clay jars also contain human remains. There yet to be 1233 01:05:57.559 --> 01:06:00.559 excavated out of the jars, but that will be in 1234 01:06:00.599 --> 01:06:07.199 the future. Madeline Klani of the coll Francist Extremoial worked 1235 01:06:07.239 --> 01:06:10.480 here in the thirties and did excavate around many of 1236 01:06:10.559 --> 01:06:15.159 the jars. Kolani's idea was more that this was the 1237 01:06:15.239 --> 01:06:20.320 jars were not necessarily used for interment. Julie Vandenberg also 1238 01:06:20.440 --> 01:06:22.559 is of the opinion that they perhaps were used to 1239 01:06:23.079 --> 01:06:25.679 rot the flesh from the bones, and then the bones 1240 01:06:25.679 --> 01:06:30.119 were extracted and secondary burial was used around the jars. 1241 01:06:31.440 --> 01:06:33.280 Okay, another fine point to make. 1242 01:06:34.760 --> 01:06:38.000 There is a working theory by the lady in question here, 1243 01:06:38.039 --> 01:06:40.039 the one we just read about in that whole article. 1244 01:06:40.679 --> 01:06:46.559 She believes that the jars were used to deflesh the 1245 01:06:46.599 --> 01:06:50.199 bodies the corpses, if you will, and then the bones 1246 01:06:50.199 --> 01:06:55.079 were extracted later for a secondary burial. And okay, there 1247 01:06:55.079 --> 01:06:58.320 are certain cultures around the world that will bury bones 1248 01:06:58.360 --> 01:07:01.679 but not the meat associated. And I understand where that 1249 01:07:01.679 --> 01:07:06.280 thought's from, except that no culture in this area of 1250 01:07:06.320 --> 01:07:09.880 the world did anything of that type of a practice. 1251 01:07:11.000 --> 01:07:14.639 That there's no record of that being a real possible 1252 01:07:14.679 --> 01:07:17.960 candidate to what these jars were used for. She is speculating, 1253 01:07:18.000 --> 01:07:20.679 and at this point, really there's nothing there. No theory 1254 01:07:20.719 --> 01:07:23.400 is too crazy because there is no rhyme or reason 1255 01:07:23.440 --> 01:07:26.199 to any of this shit. But that being said, bro, 1256 01:07:26.880 --> 01:07:28.480 no one in this region has done that. And if 1257 01:07:28.519 --> 01:07:32.199 they did, why wouldn't they use the insects that are 1258 01:07:32.280 --> 01:07:35.320 all over the jungle to eat away at the flesh. 1259 01:07:35.360 --> 01:07:37.119 You've seen how they'll take like a bull's head and 1260 01:07:37.159 --> 01:07:38.960 they'll put it in like an ant pile or something 1261 01:07:39.000 --> 01:07:42.039 like that, and they'll slowly right and they'll. 1262 01:07:41.760 --> 01:07:43.840 Do it like that. Then they'll bleach the skull and 1263 01:07:43.840 --> 01:07:46.519 they'll do stuff with it. They would have done that. 1264 01:07:46.639 --> 01:07:51.280 Why would you enclose it in a stone jar and 1265 01:07:51.320 --> 01:07:53.119 then put a lid on top of it where no 1266 01:07:53.280 --> 01:07:56.840 insects can get to it? Nothing can decompose from it. 1267 01:07:56.840 --> 01:08:00.000 It's just gonna sit there and slowly wrought off. Yeah, 1268 01:08:00.159 --> 01:08:01.760 I would hate to be the guy that lifts the 1269 01:08:01.800 --> 01:08:03.719 lid on in that thing to take the bones out 1270 01:08:03.719 --> 01:08:06.480 of it six months to a year after the fact. 1271 01:08:06.519 --> 01:08:09.920 I mean what, Yeah, it's pretty strange too, Like I 1272 01:08:10.000 --> 01:08:13.440 feel like because they talk about what is it like 1273 01:08:13.519 --> 01:08:15.760 certain jars and pots that you can go back and 1274 01:08:15.800 --> 01:08:18.279 you can find or God and stuff like that from 1275 01:08:18.399 --> 01:08:21.439 two thousand years ago in some areas of the world, right, 1276 01:08:21.680 --> 01:08:23.800 and you'd be able to tell if these people were 1277 01:08:24.560 --> 01:08:28.000 triven on psychedelics or whatever the fuck? Right is there 1278 01:08:28.119 --> 01:08:31.960 no remains of anything inside the jar outside of just 1279 01:08:32.039 --> 01:08:35.000 like the physical like bones and teeth and stuff like 1280 01:08:35.000 --> 01:08:37.479 that I'm talking about, like lined up against the walls. 1281 01:08:37.520 --> 01:08:38.359 There's nothing there. 1282 01:08:39.199 --> 01:08:41.520 So there are a few of them that have like 1283 01:08:41.680 --> 01:08:44.520 charring to show that maybe there was a fire inside 1284 01:08:44.560 --> 01:08:47.319 of them and maybe somebody used it as a burn 1285 01:08:47.359 --> 01:08:52.239 pit for cremations, which okay, that's fine, but that's my point. 1286 01:08:52.319 --> 01:08:54.520 There is only a few, and by a few, I 1287 01:08:54.560 --> 01:08:57.520 mean like under ten jars that have any kind of 1288 01:08:57.600 --> 01:09:01.600 charring at all associate with them out two thousand, So 1289 01:09:01.760 --> 01:09:04.920 like that's not what these jars were originally intended for. 1290 01:09:05.560 --> 01:09:07.600 People may have used it as that at some point, 1291 01:09:07.640 --> 01:09:08.760 but that wasn't the point. 1292 01:09:09.319 --> 01:09:10.039 That's what I'm saying. 1293 01:09:10.039 --> 01:09:12.800 None of it like out loud, this theory, Oh that 1294 01:09:12.880 --> 01:09:15.520 totally makes sense. This theory, Oh no, No, that one 1295 01:09:15.600 --> 01:09:17.880 makes sense when you look at all of them next 1296 01:09:17.920 --> 01:09:21.239 to each other and you also align that with what 1297 01:09:21.279 --> 01:09:25.399 they have found. Archaeologically speaking, none of it actually checks out. 1298 01:09:25.680 --> 01:09:30.079 It's basically like a hodgepodge of burial practices and they're like, oh, well, 1299 01:09:30.159 --> 01:09:33.359 this was used as vessels to hold goods for trade routes, 1300 01:09:33.479 --> 01:09:36.560 then why are their bodies inside what? That goes against 1301 01:09:36.560 --> 01:09:40.800 the whole cremation conversation and against the funeral conversation. It 1302 01:09:41.279 --> 01:09:44.199 None of it absolutely makes sense. But that's the point. 1303 01:09:44.359 --> 01:09:47.680 Nothing about this place is like, oh so easily woven 1304 01:09:47.760 --> 01:09:48.319 into a. 1305 01:09:48.279 --> 01:09:51.279 Great tapestry of anything. We don't know. Bro. 1306 01:09:51.720 --> 01:09:55.079 Sometimes it's just like, you know, because you can only 1307 01:09:55.159 --> 01:09:57.880 really go on speculation, and you can say, well, maybe 1308 01:09:57.920 --> 01:09:59.640 it's this, or maybe it makes the most sense that 1309 01:09:59.680 --> 01:10:02.319 it's or whatever. But I feel like a lot of 1310 01:10:02.319 --> 01:10:05.720 this extremely historical shit that goes back thousands of years 1311 01:10:05.800 --> 01:10:09.720 is almost just poetic because it keeps us like wondering 1312 01:10:10.279 --> 01:10:13.359 about the people before, you know, like, well, were they 1313 01:10:13.359 --> 01:10:16.159 capable of? What were they into? What I mean was 1314 01:10:16.159 --> 01:10:19.520 it were these spiritual relics where they where they work relics? 1315 01:10:19.520 --> 01:10:22.319 Were they you know, burial relics or whatever. And there's 1316 01:10:22.479 --> 01:10:25.680 nobody to really know for sure exactly what they're all 1317 01:10:25.760 --> 01:10:28.319 used for. And it keeps us kind of on our 1318 01:10:28.359 --> 01:10:30.960 toes in a sense of like, all right, well, maybe 1319 01:10:31.000 --> 01:10:33.600 the people way back then weren't just dumb. Maybe they 1320 01:10:33.640 --> 01:10:38.079 weren't you know, extremely technologically, you know, electronically advanced as 1321 01:10:38.119 --> 01:10:41.720 we are today, because that's what we associate advancement with 1322 01:10:41.920 --> 01:10:45.239 is with technology, right, and usually that's with wires and 1323 01:10:45.279 --> 01:10:49.039 the you know, motherboards and whatever else, touch screens or whatever. 1324 01:10:49.119 --> 01:10:52.199 But I mean back then, they I dude, I really 1325 01:10:52.199 --> 01:10:55.760 believe that they had their own type of advancement back then, 1326 01:10:55.800 --> 01:10:57.960 and maybe that's what these things were used for. There's 1327 01:10:57.960 --> 01:10:58.640 no way of knowing. 1328 01:10:59.039 --> 01:11:01.640 Well, so like iron, for instance, to say that you 1329 01:11:01.920 --> 01:11:07.159 find evidence of metallurgy of iron working dating back to 1330 01:11:07.239 --> 01:11:11.279 three thousand BC, that was essentially space age technology to 1331 01:11:11.359 --> 01:11:14.560 the people of three thousand BC. Iron, dude, the best 1332 01:11:14.600 --> 01:11:18.279 they could hope for was bronze at best, which is 1333 01:11:18.319 --> 01:11:19.720 a combination of copper and tin. 1334 01:11:20.399 --> 01:11:22.880 Right, So that was crazy in of itself. 1335 01:11:23.159 --> 01:11:25.920 So to find certain types of metallurgy, like I said, 1336 01:11:25.920 --> 01:11:28.520 the granite that was carved out, which would show signs 1337 01:11:28.520 --> 01:11:31.319 of iron, they didn't have that at the time when 1338 01:11:31.319 --> 01:11:33.199 these were being carved, So like, what the hell did 1339 01:11:33.199 --> 01:11:38.199 they use? But even to your point, there's other instances, 1340 01:11:38.199 --> 01:11:40.439 like in Egypt, for instance, where they kept a really 1341 01:11:40.479 --> 01:11:43.119 good written history and they kept it etched. 1342 01:11:42.880 --> 01:11:43.520 On the walls. 1343 01:11:43.800 --> 01:11:46.239 And so when they say this happened, this happened, this happened, 1344 01:11:46.239 --> 01:11:49.319 and then we do archaeological digs and find this happened, 1345 01:11:49.359 --> 01:11:51.239 this happened, this happened, It all lines up and it 1346 01:11:51.359 --> 01:11:55.399 just it goes together perfectly and neatly. There is no 1347 01:11:56.119 --> 01:12:00.720 written record on anything associated with these jars. Now granted, 1348 01:12:00.840 --> 01:12:03.720 I'm sure somebody somewhere wrote down some things, but you're 1349 01:12:03.760 --> 01:12:07.079 in the jungle, right, Water and erosion will. 1350 01:12:06.880 --> 01:12:08.520 Make all of these things fall apart. 1351 01:12:08.600 --> 01:12:11.760 The Egypt is it's an isolate because it's a desert 1352 01:12:12.000 --> 01:12:17.079 and because the dry, arid environment makes for the preservation 1353 01:12:17.279 --> 01:12:18.199 of artifacts. 1354 01:12:18.319 --> 01:12:21.439 Right like that, it's perfect for that purpose. The jungle 1355 01:12:21.520 --> 01:12:21.720 is not. 1356 01:12:22.039 --> 01:12:25.920 The jungle is the most inhospitable place to preserve things. 1357 01:12:26.359 --> 01:12:28.319 Maybe that's what these jars are for. Maybe it was 1358 01:12:28.399 --> 01:12:32.119 for preservation of certain things, but something went awry, because 1359 01:12:32.359 --> 01:12:34.800 nothing that we can find, aside from some burial remains, 1360 01:12:34.840 --> 01:12:35.560 makes any sense. 1361 01:12:35.720 --> 01:12:38.439 And like, so that's how I look at this. I'm like, 1362 01:12:38.680 --> 01:12:42.000 you know, I'm less concerned with how they were created, 1363 01:12:42.319 --> 01:12:45.159 and I'm more excited about what were they used for, 1364 01:12:45.560 --> 01:12:47.279 you know what I'm saying, Like, that's what I want 1365 01:12:47.319 --> 01:12:50.840 to know, because I mean, we don't know. Like, for example, 1366 01:12:50.920 --> 01:12:53.159 if you took somebody from three thousand years ago and 1367 01:12:53.199 --> 01:12:55.079 you placed them in today, and you just gave them 1368 01:12:55.079 --> 01:12:56.960 a cell phone and just put them in a padded 1369 01:12:57.039 --> 01:12:59.760 room or whatever, put them in a cave, they would 1370 01:12:59.760 --> 01:13:01.800 just at it. Maybe they'd touch it and it would 1371 01:13:01.840 --> 01:13:03.920 light up or something like that. Maybe it would start 1372 01:13:03.960 --> 01:13:05.600 vibrating and probably freak them the fuck out, and they 1373 01:13:05.600 --> 01:13:07.680 would say, what kind of sorcery is going on here? 1374 01:13:08.000 --> 01:13:10.199 And I think equally, if you put us back in 1375 01:13:10.279 --> 01:13:12.720 this time with this kind of pottery, we wouldn't know 1376 01:13:12.760 --> 01:13:14.720 what the fuck to do with it. But those people 1377 01:13:14.720 --> 01:13:17.800 back then, they probably maybe they used it with astrology, 1378 01:13:17.880 --> 01:13:21.039 or they used it for like some kind of frequency, 1379 01:13:21.079 --> 01:13:23.319 healing water, or you know what I'm saying. It could 1380 01:13:23.319 --> 01:13:24.039 be anything. 1381 01:13:24.560 --> 01:13:27.960 And that's the other part, right, So to the knowledge 1382 01:13:28.000 --> 01:13:31.920 that we have right now, these aren't like glorified sound bowls, 1383 01:13:32.640 --> 01:13:34.640 Like they don't make a noise whenever you strike them 1384 01:13:34.680 --> 01:13:36.720 or anything like that. And the way that they are 1385 01:13:36.800 --> 01:13:40.439 placed doesn't line up with any kind of astrology. It 1386 01:13:40.520 --> 01:13:43.279 wasn't like placing certain specific spots for the stars. 1387 01:13:43.880 --> 01:13:46.840 They seem to be fucking strewn about now. 1388 01:13:47.039 --> 01:13:49.479 But I almost had her. But in accordance with what 1389 01:13:49.520 --> 01:13:51.880 were you saying, though, I almost wonder that if you 1390 01:13:52.039 --> 01:13:56.600 strike one, would you get some kind of resonant that 1391 01:13:56.720 --> 01:13:59.920 would ring with the other pots and some kind of 1392 01:14:00.079 --> 01:14:02.479 almost like a tuning fork. Maybe they all match up, 1393 01:14:02.560 --> 01:14:04.479 and you know, whenever you strike all of them at 1394 01:14:04.520 --> 01:14:06.720 the same time, they create some kind of frequency. I 1395 01:14:06.720 --> 01:14:08.880 don't know, I'm just trying to get you know, a 1396 01:14:08.880 --> 01:14:09.800 little wild here, But. 1397 01:14:10.359 --> 01:14:12.880 I thought of that exact same thing whenever I first 1398 01:14:12.880 --> 01:14:17.399 found these. I'm thinking, like, all right, Southeast Asia, giant 1399 01:14:17.399 --> 01:14:23.119 stone vessels, What are the chances that these were sound 1400 01:14:23.199 --> 01:14:27.680 bowls or something? Akin to that. I wish I would 1401 01:14:27.680 --> 01:14:30.039 have pulled up the article to sew it. But basically, 1402 01:14:30.159 --> 01:14:31.680 when you hit this thing, it sounds like you're just 1403 01:14:31.720 --> 01:14:35.800 hitting rock. Like there's no ding, there's no sound wave energy, 1404 01:14:35.840 --> 01:14:38.399 there's nothing that's coming off of this. It's their car 1405 01:14:38.520 --> 01:14:42.760 from coral from quartz from or not quarts, I'm sorry, coral, 1406 01:14:43.720 --> 01:14:47.319 granite and sandstone, right, so like there's there's no real 1407 01:14:47.399 --> 01:14:48.920 resonant frequency that comes off of them. 1408 01:14:48.960 --> 01:14:51.560 I thought the exact same thing, dude, I don't know. 1409 01:14:51.640 --> 01:14:52.079 That's the thing. 1410 01:14:52.520 --> 01:14:55.760 No idea or theory is too crazy about these because 1411 01:14:55.760 --> 01:14:57.560 no one has a fucking clue. 1412 01:14:57.439 --> 01:15:00.560 And they're not lined up in some weird astrologic like 1413 01:15:00.720 --> 01:15:02.399 type of way like the pyramids are. 1414 01:15:03.079 --> 01:15:05.479 No, dude, they literally seem like they were thrown. 1415 01:15:05.800 --> 01:15:09.159 Kind of the theory about the whole giants, it seems 1416 01:15:09.159 --> 01:15:12.039 like these giants were using these like drinking cups and 1417 01:15:12.119 --> 01:15:13.960 just kind of threw them around at the end of 1418 01:15:13.960 --> 01:15:17.119 the party and walked away. That makes the most sense 1419 01:15:17.159 --> 01:15:20.760 as far as how random it is basically, and it's 1420 01:15:20.800 --> 01:15:22.439 not even like if you look at the sites one, two, 1421 01:15:22.520 --> 01:15:24.600 and three, and how do they align with this other 1422 01:15:24.640 --> 01:15:26.600 site they found in the forest and all this when 1423 01:15:26.640 --> 01:15:29.760 you triangulate, it makes this pat no, it is. 1424 01:15:29.800 --> 01:15:31.880 It is as random as you could fucking think. 1425 01:15:31.920 --> 01:15:35.000 Now, maybe as more research is done on these things, 1426 01:15:35.039 --> 01:15:37.159 maybe some new information will come out that will make 1427 01:15:37.159 --> 01:15:40.279 a lot more sense to us. But as of this moment, again, 1428 01:15:40.560 --> 01:15:43.840 Western scientists and quote unquote experts only found these things 1429 01:15:43.880 --> 01:15:47.680 in the nineteen thirties. They only really started digging into 1430 01:15:47.760 --> 01:15:51.079 them in the nineteen nineties, so we don't know there's 1431 01:15:51.119 --> 01:15:54.760 so much Again, there might be a thousand more six 1432 01:15:54.800 --> 01:15:55.560 inches below the. 1433 01:15:55.520 --> 01:15:57.159 Surface, we don't know well. 1434 01:15:57.199 --> 01:15:59.560 And the thing even about the giants though, which makes 1435 01:15:59.600 --> 01:16:01.600 even that story. I mean, I know that it's just 1436 01:16:01.680 --> 01:16:05.600 a postulating theory, but like even the giants, like dude, 1437 01:16:05.600 --> 01:16:08.439 giants weren't fucking one hundred feet tall, you know what 1438 01:16:08.439 --> 01:16:10.640 I'm saying, at least not according to some records, like 1439 01:16:10.680 --> 01:16:13.039 most of them have them at you know, ten twelve 1440 01:16:13.079 --> 01:16:15.840 maybe getting a little crazy at thirteen feet tall. And 1441 01:16:15.880 --> 01:16:18.039 I don't know how many pounds, but you think about 1442 01:16:18.039 --> 01:16:19.640 the size of these fucking things. They said that they 1443 01:16:19.680 --> 01:16:21.920 weigh up to fourteen tons. 1444 01:16:21.840 --> 01:16:24.840 That's twenty eight thousand pounds, though there's no twelve foot 1445 01:16:24.840 --> 01:16:26.800 tall human that's going to lift that up? 1446 01:16:27.359 --> 01:16:29.560 No, No, like. 1447 01:16:29.880 --> 01:16:31.960 I don't care if you know, we got a David 1448 01:16:31.960 --> 01:16:34.479 and Goliath situation. This is too big for Goliath. 1449 01:16:35.399 --> 01:16:37.600 Agreed. You see what I'm saying. 1450 01:16:37.640 --> 01:16:40.199 Bro It none of it checks out out loud like 1451 01:16:40.239 --> 01:16:43.319 a theory being proposed. You could possibly put the piece 1452 01:16:43.359 --> 01:16:45.319 together in your head to say, oh, sure, maybe that 1453 01:16:45.439 --> 01:16:47.840 was the case, maybe this maybe, and then when you 1454 01:16:47.880 --> 01:16:50.520 look at that lined up next to everything else, it's no, 1455 01:16:50.680 --> 01:16:54.119 that couldn't be because of xyz. What about theory B? 1456 01:16:54.600 --> 01:16:58.439 Well that can't be because of xyz? What about theory C? Well, no, 1457 01:16:58.520 --> 01:17:00.279 because xyz. You see what I'm saying. 1458 01:17:00.399 --> 01:17:04.600 It's wild brinkle. All right, let's get back to the video. 1459 01:17:06.520 --> 01:17:09.760 And of course there's also local legends about these being 1460 01:17:10.000 --> 01:17:15.119 drinking cups for giants or you know, former Lao kings 1461 01:17:15.199 --> 01:17:20.399 using them to make the local liquor Lao Cow. 1462 01:17:19.880 --> 01:17:24.359 The bomb Okay, So they're going to get into the 1463 01:17:24.439 --> 01:17:27.600 bombings that took place in the quote unquote Secret War 1464 01:17:28.119 --> 01:17:31.039 with Operation Barrel Roll at this time. Some of this 1465 01:17:31.079 --> 01:17:34.079 is actual footage from the events that took place. 1466 01:17:34.199 --> 01:17:35.319 This is wild bro. 1467 01:17:36.359 --> 01:17:42.000 Bombing of Laos in the nineteen seventies is a massive tragedy. 1468 01:17:42.000 --> 01:17:45.039 It's hard to even comprehend the scale of the of 1469 01:17:45.079 --> 01:17:48.840 the destruction that was wrought here. And unfortunately, some of 1470 01:17:48.880 --> 01:17:53.439 the targets, like this site, Site one, was heavily impacted 1471 01:17:53.439 --> 01:17:58.039 by bombing. So there's there was cluster bombs and very 1472 01:17:58.119 --> 01:18:03.359 large of two hundred pound bombs dropped on this site, 1473 01:18:05.840 --> 01:18:08.359 and of course the there's clear impact here. You can 1474 01:18:08.399 --> 01:18:10.119 still see the bomb craters in the ground. 1475 01:18:11.359 --> 01:18:11.560 Bro. 1476 01:18:12.479 --> 01:18:15.640 This is around them doing the archaeological site. This is 1477 01:18:15.680 --> 01:18:20.760 a bomb crater from one of the bombs that were dropped. Okay, 1478 01:18:20.840 --> 01:18:23.720 so you gotta understand, it's not like it was over 1479 01:18:23.760 --> 01:18:26.800 in this area. But they left the clay pots alone. 1480 01:18:26.800 --> 01:18:29.920 And that's the claypots, I'm sorry, the stone jars alone. 1481 01:18:30.720 --> 01:18:35.119 They were specifically targeting the plane of jars. 1482 01:18:35.520 --> 01:18:37.479 I mean, were people hiding in them? 1483 01:18:37.600 --> 01:18:38.119 Possibly? 1484 01:18:39.159 --> 01:18:42.840 I mean mayighty maybe, But I mean, how many people 1485 01:18:42.880 --> 01:18:44.279 are you hiding inside of a jar? 1486 01:18:44.399 --> 01:18:44.640 Dude? 1487 01:18:45.359 --> 01:18:49.520 And this is Site one, So there's three hundred jars here, Okay, 1488 01:18:49.560 --> 01:18:51.800 so three hundred dudes are hiding here. 1489 01:18:52.720 --> 01:18:55.119 Are you gonna bomb the hell out of that alone? 1490 01:18:55.720 --> 01:18:58.119 I mean, but could you possibly, like I don't know, 1491 01:18:58.199 --> 01:19:00.600 throw down a turret in there or something. 1492 01:19:01.640 --> 01:19:03.760 Well, I mean no, because we weren't supposed to be 1493 01:19:03.760 --> 01:19:08.000 in Laos, right, That's the thing. We allegedly, quote unquote 1494 01:19:08.039 --> 01:19:11.560 had no troops in Laos or Cambodia, even though we 1495 01:19:11.600 --> 01:19:15.560 absolutely did look up anything involving mac VSAG, which was 1496 01:19:15.600 --> 01:19:19.560 the predecessor for Delta and the SOCOM in general, the 1497 01:19:19.560 --> 01:19:24.239 special forces community. But my point is, Okay, I could 1498 01:19:24.279 --> 01:19:27.640 understand it, but like, dude, this wasn't some sort of 1499 01:19:27.640 --> 01:19:31.359 a crazy strategic target. And even if you had three 1500 01:19:31.439 --> 01:19:35.960 dudes per jar, they are miles away from Vietnam. It 1501 01:19:36.359 --> 01:19:39.399 doesn't make sense to bombit that heavily with this one 1502 01:19:39.520 --> 01:19:42.079 spot when you know there's other areas where you could 1503 01:19:42.119 --> 01:19:45.760 hit your target. If anything, this would be a fortified position. 1504 01:19:46.319 --> 01:19:49.159 These dudes are pretty safe from explosion unless one hits 1505 01:19:49.239 --> 01:19:51.840 on top of them, like the dudes that were If 1506 01:19:51.880 --> 01:19:54.760 there was dudes inside this jar, this bomb did not 1507 01:19:54.880 --> 01:19:58.319 kill them, right, Like, they're fine. Yeah, their ears are 1508 01:19:58.399 --> 01:20:00.520 ringing and they probably have a concussion or puken all 1509 01:20:00.560 --> 01:20:02.960 over each other, but they lived through the experience. 1510 01:20:03.000 --> 01:20:03.560 If that's the. 1511 01:20:03.520 --> 01:20:06.720 Case, I'm telling you it makes a lot more sense 1512 01:20:06.760 --> 01:20:11.039 to me that the government was bombing this area specifically 1513 01:20:11.800 --> 01:20:13.239 for some other reasons. 1514 01:20:13.359 --> 01:20:15.359 But we're going to get to all of it. Let's go. 1515 01:20:16.359 --> 01:20:19.159 And many of the jars have been blown over and 1516 01:20:19.199 --> 01:20:23.279 smashed in half by the bombing. But fortunately the majority 1517 01:20:23.279 --> 01:20:27.640 of the jars were not destroyed. But there's massive damage here. 1518 01:20:27.720 --> 01:20:28.760 There's no doubt about it. 1519 01:20:32.880 --> 01:20:37.319 We did all the gis all right, So we're actually 1520 01:20:37.359 --> 01:20:41.039 gonna stop this video at this time and let's go 1521 01:20:41.279 --> 01:20:43.279 into the next article here. 1522 01:20:43.359 --> 01:20:46.239 So this is from laosh Travel. As a matter of fact, 1523 01:20:47.319 --> 01:20:50.640 this is from the Laosian government themselves. They are trying 1524 01:20:50.640 --> 01:20:53.840 to show the case this as the tourist attraction itself. 1525 01:20:54.319 --> 01:20:56.399 So let's let's do a little reading here. 1526 01:20:58.840 --> 01:21:02.960 Scattered along the the muang Fun plateau, the Plane of 1527 01:21:03.039 --> 01:21:05.560 Jars is one of the most important prehistoric sites in 1528 01:21:05.560 --> 01:21:09.159 Southeast Asia, located near Fonsavan Commune in the province of 1529 01:21:09.239 --> 01:21:12.880 xeng Chong and Laos. This destination has been a challenge 1530 01:21:12.920 --> 01:21:16.319 to laos An international archaeologists, with many myths, and its 1531 01:21:16.359 --> 01:21:21.239 origins are still unknown until now. Until now they think 1532 01:21:21.279 --> 01:21:23.439 that they know the origins as what they're saying. 1533 01:21:23.640 --> 01:21:26.119 At least more now than they did thirty years ago. 1534 01:21:26.359 --> 01:21:29.319 There are about two thousand jars dating from the Iron Age, 1535 01:21:29.319 --> 01:21:32.520 which is five hundred BC to five hundred AD and 1536 01:21:32.720 --> 01:21:36.239 possibly up to as late as eight hundred eighty scattered 1537 01:21:36.279 --> 01:21:39.479 in many locations of the province due to unexploded bombs, 1538 01:21:39.640 --> 01:21:42.279 mines and ammunition. Not all sites have been put in 1539 01:21:42.319 --> 01:21:46.039 operation yet. At present, seven jar sites that are open 1540 01:21:46.119 --> 01:21:48.680 for tourists include Site one, which is the most visited, 1541 01:21:48.960 --> 01:21:52.039 Site two and three, Site sixteen near the old capital 1542 01:21:53.039 --> 01:21:57.159 xing Chuang, Site twenty three near the hot spring in 1543 01:21:57.359 --> 01:22:01.960 muang Kom, Site twenty five in the largely unvisited Fu 1544 01:22:02.239 --> 01:22:07.119 Coast district I'm guessing, and Site fifty two near Hamong 1545 01:22:07.239 --> 01:22:10.439 Village where is only accessible by foot. 1546 01:22:11.199 --> 01:22:12.960 So you see what I'm saying here, Dude, they keep 1547 01:22:13.000 --> 01:22:16.640 talking about sites one, two and three. They've got more 1548 01:22:16.720 --> 01:22:19.600 than just Site fifty two. But that's my point. There's 1549 01:22:19.640 --> 01:22:23.520 so many sites where these things exist, scattered around the country, 1550 01:22:23.880 --> 01:22:26.359 and they don't even make sense as to why and. 1551 01:22:26.279 --> 01:22:28.720 How they're lined up. But again, we're gonna learn more 1552 01:22:28.760 --> 01:22:29.279 about it. 1553 01:22:29.479 --> 01:22:31.960 From a distance. The plane of jars is like a chessboard, 1554 01:22:32.000 --> 01:22:36.199 while the jars are like amazing plump chess pieces. Coming closer, 1555 01:22:36.359 --> 01:22:39.760 visitors can see the fantastic mixture without any fixed arrangement. 1556 01:22:40.000 --> 01:22:43.640 Many jars are completely protruded on the ground, while others 1557 01:22:43.720 --> 01:22:47.439 can be partially sunk on the ground. The shapes are 1558 01:22:47.479 --> 01:22:50.960 also different, including the not the straight mouth, the square, 1559 01:22:51.119 --> 01:22:53.600 same as their various sizes up to three meters high 1560 01:22:53.600 --> 01:22:57.840 and wait up to several tons. On July sixth, twenty nineteen, 1561 01:22:57.960 --> 01:23:01.279 megalithic jar sites in jang Shuang Plane of Jars officially 1562 01:23:01.319 --> 01:23:05.039 became a World Heritage Site after twenty years of waiting 1563 01:23:05.079 --> 01:23:07.960 for approval, which is the third World Cultural Heritage of 1564 01:23:08.039 --> 01:23:12.720 Laos recognized by UNESCO, after town of Long pro Bang 1565 01:23:13.000 --> 01:23:17.359 in nineteen ninety five and that Fu and associated ancient 1566 01:23:17.359 --> 01:23:22.039 settlements within the Campascic cultural landscape in two thousand and one. 1567 01:23:22.039 --> 01:23:25.920 Touching the rough time green milestones lying quietly on the ground, 1568 01:23:25.920 --> 01:23:29.479 people vaguely feel the great history worical mysteries behind. Let's 1569 01:23:29.520 --> 01:23:32.920 discover all the values of the destination through this post. 1570 01:23:33.880 --> 01:23:35.880 I mean, look at this dude as a spot to 1571 01:23:35.920 --> 01:23:38.520 just go and check out, and no one has any 1572 01:23:38.560 --> 01:23:39.359 answers for it. 1573 01:23:39.399 --> 01:23:42.199 I mean, that is a wild thing. So far. 1574 01:23:42.279 --> 01:23:46.039 The history of the stone jars has been still put 1575 01:23:46.079 --> 01:23:49.079 in mystery and their certain purpose has also been unknown, 1576 01:23:49.119 --> 01:23:51.239 but are believed to be about fifteen hundred to two 1577 01:23:51.239 --> 01:23:55.479 thousand years old. According to the Laosian legend, it claimed 1578 01:23:55.479 --> 01:23:57.640 that there were giants who once settled in this area 1579 01:23:57.720 --> 01:24:00.800 and created jars to store rice wine, which was brought 1580 01:24:00.800 --> 01:24:04.960 to commemorate the victor of their king kun Cheng against 1581 01:24:04.960 --> 01:24:07.600 the enemy. Another idea is that these jars were used 1582 01:24:07.600 --> 01:24:11.680 to store monsoon rainwater, which could be provided for caravan 1583 01:24:11.720 --> 01:24:14.560 travelers along their journey, as the water was not readily 1584 01:24:14.600 --> 01:24:18.479 available for or on the easiest footpaths when it occurred seasonal. 1585 01:24:18.920 --> 01:24:21.920 Following the theory from most archaeologists, they believe them to 1586 01:24:22.000 --> 01:24:26.560 be earns. In nineteen thirty, French archaeologists Kolani began surveying 1587 01:24:26.640 --> 01:24:29.039 the area and concluded that the stone jars were related 1588 01:24:29.079 --> 01:24:32.399 to prehistoric burial rights when she discovered a cave housing 1589 01:24:32.520 --> 01:24:36.159 human remains such as burned bones and ash. Excavations by 1590 01:24:36.239 --> 01:24:39.319 Lousian and Japanese archaeologists over the years also helped support 1591 01:24:39.399 --> 01:24:43.439 this hypothesis when many remains, burial objects, and ceramics were 1592 01:24:43.439 --> 01:24:46.239 found around the stone jars. Even The materials that make 1593 01:24:46.279 --> 01:24:49.520 these jars are controversial. Some say that they're made of limestone. 1594 01:24:49.520 --> 01:24:52.960 Others say that they're made of laterite and marble mixed 1595 01:24:53.000 --> 01:24:56.479 with some special ancient and now lost materials. At present, 1596 01:24:56.560 --> 01:25:00.399 all jars are empty, with only with d the only 1597 01:25:00.560 --> 01:25:03.920 single jar with lib okay. 1598 01:25:04.199 --> 01:25:06.319 I think that means it's a lid like a jar. 1599 01:25:06.239 --> 01:25:09.479 And lid, gotcha. Some other lids have been found between 1600 01:25:09.520 --> 01:25:14.039 the jars, which were made of stone and wood. Archaeologists 1601 01:25:14.079 --> 01:25:16.960 have yet to come to a conclusion. However, research is 1602 01:25:17.079 --> 01:25:19.039 still struggling as the jars are one of the most 1603 01:25:19.119 --> 01:25:21.560 dangerous archaeological sites in the world and no matter how 1604 01:25:21.560 --> 01:25:24.560 many theories are put forward, all have contributed to the 1605 01:25:24.600 --> 01:25:28.479 weaving of a field of legendary jars, attracting visitors from 1606 01:25:28.479 --> 01:25:29.880 all over the world to come and. 1607 01:25:29.800 --> 01:25:37.039 Discover absolutely so now outstanding values of the Plane of Jars. 1608 01:25:37.359 --> 01:25:39.960 The Plane of Jars is located at a historical crossroads 1609 01:25:40.000 --> 01:25:43.560 the facilitated movement through the region, enabling trade and cultural exchange. 1610 01:25:43.640 --> 01:25:47.560 The location is between two major cultural systems of Southeast 1611 01:25:48.319 --> 01:25:51.319 Asia in Iron Age, including the Red River Gulf of 1612 01:25:51.399 --> 01:25:55.760 Tonkin system and mun mccong system. So the distribution of 1613 01:25:55.800 --> 01:25:59.880 the jar site seems associated with overland routes. The various size, 1614 01:26:00.039 --> 01:26:03.880 ape and quantity of the megalithic jars, which are well crafted, 1615 01:26:03.960 --> 01:26:08.439 require technological skill to produce. Their wide distribution within jeng 1616 01:26:08.560 --> 01:26:12.359 Schuan Province is remarkable. The jars and the cereal property 1617 01:26:12.199 --> 01:26:16.760 that can attest to the quarrying, manufacturing, transportation and use 1618 01:26:16.960 --> 01:26:19.640 are the most prominent evidence of the Iron Age civilization. 1619 01:26:20.159 --> 01:26:24.279 The form, design, uh and mostly original materials and locations 1620 01:26:24.319 --> 01:26:28.920 of the megalithic jars, lids, secondary burials and archaeological deposits, 1621 01:26:28.960 --> 01:26:32.119 as well as their abundance, antiquity and condition create the 1622 01:26:32.159 --> 01:26:34.119 authenticity of the serial property. 1623 01:26:34.760 --> 01:26:37.880 So they talk about how to get there by by 1624 01:26:38.000 --> 01:26:39.800 air and by road and by. 1625 01:26:39.640 --> 01:26:40.479 All these things. 1626 01:26:40.520 --> 01:26:44.000 So let's let's go down here to what's to see 1627 01:26:44.159 --> 01:26:45.319 in the plane of jars. 1628 01:26:45.600 --> 01:26:47.960 So one of the most uh as one of the 1629 01:26:47.960 --> 01:26:52.600 most attractions of Fonsavan and jang Jipong province. 1630 01:26:52.760 --> 01:26:56.920 Felt in the English translation one of the most attractions 1631 01:26:57.039 --> 01:26:58.039 of the province. 1632 01:26:58.319 --> 01:27:01.680 Yeah, one of the most plane of jars attracts many 1633 01:27:01.760 --> 01:27:04.520 visitors to come among hundreds of jars at various sites. 1634 01:27:04.560 --> 01:27:06.760 There are three main sites that are the most investigated 1635 01:27:06.800 --> 01:27:09.680 and visited in this area. The Plane of Jar Site one, 1636 01:27:10.000 --> 01:27:13.079 so Jar Site one is the closest to Fontsevan, just 1637 01:27:13.119 --> 01:27:16.319 about ten minutes of a drive. This is also the biggest, easiest, 1638 01:27:16.720 --> 01:27:19.439 the biggest and easiest to access and most visited of 1639 01:27:19.479 --> 01:27:22.479 all the plane of jars. There is a visitor center 1640 01:27:22.520 --> 01:27:25.520 at the entrance which provides information and history about the 1641 01:27:25.520 --> 01:27:27.720 plane of jars as well as its importance during the 1642 01:27:27.760 --> 01:27:33.680 Second Indo China War and community handicraft shop. Jar Site 1643 01:27:33.720 --> 01:27:35.960 one has a number of unique elements to make it 1644 01:27:36.079 --> 01:27:40.279 a make it a kind of one stop shop of 1645 01:27:40.319 --> 01:27:43.199 all interesting parts of the plane of jars, including the 1646 01:27:43.199 --> 01:27:46.800 biggest jar which is over ten tons of weights ten 1647 01:27:46.840 --> 01:27:52.039 tons of weights and nearly three meters high, the jar 1648 01:27:52.199 --> 01:27:55.079 with lid, carved jars, and a large cave which is 1649 01:27:55.079 --> 01:27:58.399 thought to be an ancient crematorium. At this site you're 1650 01:27:58.600 --> 01:28:01.720 also reminded of the Grim War in the sixties through trenches, 1651 01:28:01.800 --> 01:28:03.199 foxholes and bomb craters. 1652 01:28:03.920 --> 01:28:07.680 So this is the lid in question here again, bro, 1653 01:28:07.920 --> 01:28:11.479 how many Lautian men do you think it would take 1654 01:28:11.840 --> 01:28:15.079 to lift this thing off? To get in here and 1655 01:28:15.119 --> 01:28:18.520 place things or to store things and then put it 1656 01:28:18.640 --> 01:28:19.520 back up here. 1657 01:28:19.880 --> 01:28:21.119 I'd say probably about a dozen. 1658 01:28:21.720 --> 01:28:24.720 That's all I'm saying, dude, the whole giants conversation. I'm 1659 01:28:24.720 --> 01:28:28.239 not saying that giants use these as drinking cups. But 1660 01:28:30.199 --> 01:28:33.279 you see what I'm saying here, that's that's a big 1661 01:28:33.319 --> 01:28:38.760 claim to say that ten Southeast Asian gentlemen just got 1662 01:28:38.840 --> 01:28:41.600 down and squat pressed that bitch off of a two 1663 01:28:41.760 --> 01:28:44.520 meter tall clay jar or stone jar. 1664 01:28:45.119 --> 01:28:46.239 That that's kind of wild. 1665 01:28:46.720 --> 01:28:49.800 I have a I have an idea what they could be. 1666 01:28:51.000 --> 01:28:54.479 On on the jars in totality or this one jars 1667 01:28:54.520 --> 01:28:55.119 in totality. 1668 01:28:55.520 --> 01:28:57.960 Okay, okay, hold on, Let's wait for theories to the end. 1669 01:28:58.680 --> 01:29:02.239 All right. So then we get to the plane of 1670 01:29:02.319 --> 01:29:05.800 Jar Site two. It says further to Fonsavan is Jar 1671 01:29:05.880 --> 01:29:08.840 Sit two without good path, which is bumpy, unpaved, dusty 1672 01:29:08.840 --> 01:29:12.439 and properly muddy too. Jar Sit two is split into 1673 01:29:12.479 --> 01:29:14.920 two by the road, with the difference from each side. 1674 01:29:15.159 --> 01:29:18.760 For one side there are jars on the top of 1675 01:29:18.800 --> 01:29:21.079 a small hill with dramatic views of the plains, while 1676 01:29:21.159 --> 01:29:23.920 jars secluded in a small corpse of trees which bring 1677 01:29:24.000 --> 01:29:27.079 more intimate and secretive On the other side here are 1678 01:29:27.760 --> 01:29:30.680 here Many of the jars show the damage from roots 1679 01:29:30.720 --> 01:29:34.640 by effective time and nature, while others are completely split 1680 01:29:34.720 --> 01:29:38.680 in two by their forest neighbors. This site is less touristy, 1681 01:29:38.760 --> 01:29:42.199 so visitors can feel closer to such an incredible historical 1682 01:29:42.279 --> 01:29:46.159 landmarks and more quote unquote green with more scenic hilltop 1683 01:29:46.239 --> 01:29:48.319 view of rice paddy fields and the plains below. 1684 01:29:49.279 --> 01:29:51.800 Okay, now we get in two Site three and look 1685 01:29:51.840 --> 01:29:53.199 how tall this jar is? 1686 01:29:53.279 --> 01:29:56.600 Dude, so big, it says jar. Site three is pretty 1687 01:29:56.600 --> 01:29:58.680 similar to jar Sit two and also surrounded by a 1688 01:29:58.680 --> 01:30:01.159 small cluster of trees. From Site two, you can take 1689 01:30:01.199 --> 01:30:04.119 an easy thirty minute walk to Site three via ban 1690 01:30:05.000 --> 01:30:11.000 Shin Jengoi village. This walk between sites can make the 1691 01:30:11.239 --> 01:30:14.039 feel of the most authentic way when you uh when 1692 01:30:14.119 --> 01:30:16.159 you can see the farming activity and away from the 1693 01:30:16.199 --> 01:30:19.159 roads and houses. Here the jars are less uniform and 1694 01:30:19.199 --> 01:30:21.880 more rectangular than those at Site one, and some jars 1695 01:30:21.880 --> 01:30:26.159 are so tall for visitors to see inside. For safety, 1696 01:30:26.239 --> 01:30:29.319 visitors should carefully follow the small stone marker's place by 1697 01:30:29.479 --> 01:30:33.000 Mind's Advisory Group mag which are designed to show walk safe. 1698 01:30:34.359 --> 01:30:40.159 As this such area has been cleared of unexploded ordinance absolutely. 1699 01:30:40.520 --> 01:30:42.279 Now ban Napia. 1700 01:30:42.920 --> 01:30:45.600 Okay, this is the Warspoon village, and that doesn't really 1701 01:30:45.640 --> 01:30:47.840 play into the whole Jar situation. But like I said, 1702 01:30:47.840 --> 01:30:51.680 this is a this is a tourist website for LAOS, 1703 01:30:51.920 --> 01:30:54.279 so it makes sense that they would go that way 1704 01:30:54.319 --> 01:30:59.159 with it. Now, real quick, let's read a little bit 1705 01:30:59.279 --> 01:31:03.840 about the whole operation. Here Air and Space Forces Magazine 1706 01:31:04.199 --> 01:31:06.359 because it used to be Air Force Magazine but now 1707 01:31:06.359 --> 01:31:10.840 it's Air and Space Forces Magazine. An article written in 1708 01:31:10.920 --> 01:31:14.119 nineteen ninety nine about the Plane of Jars. Dude, and 1709 01:31:14.159 --> 01:31:16.600 this will go a little more in detail about the operation. 1710 01:31:16.680 --> 01:31:17.680 We're not gonna read all of it. 1711 01:31:17.680 --> 01:31:20.840 It is a rather long article, and we really don't 1712 01:31:20.880 --> 01:31:22.680 because it gets into the types of planes that we 1713 01:31:22.880 --> 01:31:24.600 used and the types of ordnance that we're dropped in 1714 01:31:24.600 --> 01:31:25.359 all these things. 1715 01:31:25.680 --> 01:31:26.920 We only need to get into all of that. 1716 01:31:27.800 --> 01:31:30.199 I'm gonna I got a Wikipedia article right here about 1717 01:31:30.239 --> 01:31:32.600 operation Barrel Role. We're gonna read like the excerpt from 1718 01:31:32.600 --> 01:31:34.159 that one to kind of get the veel for that. 1719 01:31:34.800 --> 01:31:37.840 But I thought it was interesting that the United States 1720 01:31:37.840 --> 01:31:41.319 military that bombed the fuck out of the Plane of 1721 01:31:41.439 --> 01:31:44.119 Jars wrote an article about it in ninety nine. 1722 01:31:44.159 --> 01:31:45.359 I figured to be worth a read. 1723 01:31:45.760 --> 01:31:48.000 The Plane of Jars is a five hundred square mile 1724 01:31:48.119 --> 01:31:51.159 diamond shape region in northern Laos, covered with rolling hills, 1725 01:31:51.199 --> 01:31:54.520 high ridges, and grassy flatlands. Its average altitude is about 1726 01:31:54.520 --> 01:31:57.159 three thousand feet. It derives its name from the hundreds 1727 01:31:57.199 --> 01:32:00.960 of graystone jars that dot the landscape, five feet high 1728 01:32:00.960 --> 01:32:03.960 and half again as broad. These containers were created by 1729 01:32:04.039 --> 01:32:07.600 a people of a megalithic Iron Age culture and probably 1730 01:32:07.680 --> 01:32:10.840 served as burial earns. Exactly who created them and why 1731 01:32:10.840 --> 01:32:14.359 their culture disappeared is not known. During the Long Southeast 1732 01:32:14.399 --> 01:32:16.960 Asian War, all sides found the Plane of Charge to 1733 01:32:17.039 --> 01:32:21.319 be situated in a highly strategic location. The area was 1734 01:32:21.319 --> 01:32:25.119 a home to several airfields and contaminated and contained a 1735 01:32:25.359 --> 01:32:29.119 limited road complex that connected various sectors of Laos to 1736 01:32:29.239 --> 01:32:32.359 themselves and to the outside world. This crossroads has been 1737 01:32:32.359 --> 01:32:35.680 a battleground for centuries, but never so but never so 1738 01:32:35.920 --> 01:32:41.720 intensively as this centuries many overlapping conflicts and into China. 1739 01:32:42.079 --> 01:32:44.000 The struggle for the Plane of Jars and Laos in 1740 01:32:44.039 --> 01:32:47.520 the nineteen sixties and seventies was a mysterious and tragic affair, 1741 01:32:47.880 --> 01:32:51.399 Wrapped in the confusion and obscured by years of falsehoods 1742 01:32:51.439 --> 01:32:54.079 and half truths. It was a side show to the 1743 01:32:54.119 --> 01:32:57.800 main war in Vietnam, but it was ennobled by some 1744 01:32:57.880 --> 01:33:00.000 of the finest and most heroic flying in the history 1745 01:33:00.159 --> 01:33:03.760 the United States Air Force. These valiant efforts were designed 1746 01:33:03.800 --> 01:33:07.159 to support US back forces and destroy Communists North Vietnamese 1747 01:33:07.239 --> 01:33:10.239 units that opposed them. The Many campaigns and the Plane 1748 01:33:10.239 --> 01:33:12.800 of Jars were fought in parallel with a continuing bombing 1749 01:33:12.840 --> 01:33:18.359 effort against the Ho Chi Minh Trial Trail. Rather, the 1750 01:33:18.840 --> 01:33:22.000 latter campaign would prove to be futile for enemy vict 1751 01:33:22.319 --> 01:33:25.640 for enemy activities in South Vietnam could be sustained on 1752 01:33:25.720 --> 01:33:29.159 as little as sixty tons of supplies a day, the 1753 01:33:29.199 --> 01:33:32.880 equivalent the equivalent of about thirty trucks worth of material. 1754 01:33:33.640 --> 01:33:36.279 So then we get into the secret war. So the 1755 01:33:36.399 --> 01:33:40.000 Laosian War was a quote unquote secret war by tacit 1756 01:33:40.119 --> 01:33:44.359 agreement on both sides. It was nominally a civil war, 1757 01:33:44.439 --> 01:33:48.199 purportedly reflecting the divided interest and political loyalties of members 1758 01:33:48.239 --> 01:33:51.560 of the Laosian royal family. In fact, the war was 1759 01:33:51.560 --> 01:33:54.960 fought largely by surrogates of their own aims. The Laosians 1760 01:33:55.520 --> 01:33:59.439 are proving generally to be peace loving even when, especially 1761 01:33:59.600 --> 01:34:04.119 when in uniform. The communist force comprised tough, regular North 1762 01:34:04.159 --> 01:34:08.279 Vietnamese Army units and supplementary and generally not very effective 1763 01:34:08.319 --> 01:34:12.319 local path at Lao units. They were opposed by the 1764 01:34:12.439 --> 01:34:17.239 very ineffective Royal Laosian Armed Forces, whose leaders preferred to 1765 01:34:17.359 --> 01:34:23.000 let the despised Laosian hill people, the Mung chamong do 1766 01:34:23.079 --> 01:34:23.640 the real fight. 1767 01:34:23.680 --> 01:34:25.880 It's pronounced mung, but yeah. 1768 01:34:25.920 --> 01:34:28.760 Okay, they just said, fuck that a trait there they 1769 01:34:28.840 --> 01:34:31.439 do that. It's Southeast Asia. They'd be throwing letters in 1770 01:34:31.520 --> 01:34:34.720 for the fuck of it. The US supplied airpower on 1771 01:34:34.760 --> 01:34:37.720 a very limited scale, initially in greater and greater amounts 1772 01:34:37.760 --> 01:34:41.720 as the war progressed. As the Mung casualties rose, the 1773 01:34:41.840 --> 01:34:45.960 US sponsored fighting forces were increasingly augmented by Thai volunteers 1774 01:34:45.960 --> 01:34:49.880 in quotes, whose numbers eventually reached seventeen thousand. Highly doubt 1775 01:34:49.880 --> 01:34:51.640 you're gonna have that many volunteers. I like how they 1776 01:34:51.680 --> 01:34:52.800 put it in quotes there like that. 1777 01:34:53.520 --> 01:34:55.239 Yeah, and I should also make a mention of this. 1778 01:34:55.359 --> 01:34:59.960 The Mung were some of the most insane fighters period, 1779 01:35:00.239 --> 01:35:01.439 and they were hated. 1780 01:35:01.800 --> 01:35:03.760 They were like, how could I put this? 1781 01:35:04.239 --> 01:35:06.800 They were known as the hill people, right, And so 1782 01:35:07.000 --> 01:35:09.840 a lot of MACV saw guys in US Special Forces 1783 01:35:09.880 --> 01:35:11.800 guys that were operating in this area, and I've even 1784 01:35:11.840 --> 01:35:14.640 talked to a few former French Foreign Legion guys that 1785 01:35:14.640 --> 01:35:17.760 were operating in this area too. The Mong were looking 1786 01:35:17.800 --> 01:35:20.199 for any kind of ally that could just help them 1787 01:35:20.319 --> 01:35:23.840 defend themselves against the outside invaders, whether it was the 1788 01:35:23.880 --> 01:35:26.560 communists from the north, the Royal Guards from the south, 1789 01:35:26.640 --> 01:35:30.159 whatever the case was. They pretty much all unanimously hated 1790 01:35:30.159 --> 01:35:34.079 the Mung. So when it came time to get some 1791 01:35:34.199 --> 01:35:37.640 local assets, people who knew the jungle, people who knew 1792 01:35:37.680 --> 01:35:40.119 the hill country, people that could tell you when something 1793 01:35:40.199 --> 01:35:43.199 is out of place, the Mong were the people to 1794 01:35:43.520 --> 01:35:46.319 be like. They were the guys, right, they were the 1795 01:35:46.520 --> 01:35:49.960 dude that was in the clutch situation. But it depended 1796 01:35:50.000 --> 01:35:53.479 on situation, right. There was tons of times when the 1797 01:35:53.560 --> 01:35:56.880 Mung would straight up abandon their post and just lead 1798 01:35:56.920 --> 01:36:00.079 the US service members to fend for themselves when they 1799 01:36:00.079 --> 01:36:03.600 basically accidentally walk them into an ambush. And there were 1800 01:36:03.600 --> 01:36:05.880 other times where they would like fight tooth and nail 1801 01:36:05.920 --> 01:36:08.439 to the last man to defend what they considered their 1802 01:36:08.479 --> 01:36:12.319 home turf, their hill or whatever. The case was so yeah, 1803 01:36:12.119 --> 01:36:15.279 the monk casualties definitely rose because they were kind of 1804 01:36:15.279 --> 01:36:16.960 thrown into the mix for the fuck of it. 1805 01:36:18.399 --> 01:36:21.560 As the mon casualties rose, the US sponsored fighting forces 1806 01:36:21.600 --> 01:36:26.399 were increasingly augmented by Thai volunteers, which eventually reached seventeen thousand. 1807 01:36:26.399 --> 01:36:29.920 As they said, these mostly were mercenaries paid with US 1808 01:36:30.000 --> 01:36:32.960 funds and led by the Thai Armies regular officers and 1809 01:36:33.039 --> 01:36:36.840 non commissioned officers. The situation suited the US, which was 1810 01:36:37.239 --> 01:36:41.439 loath to introduce American ground forces. The Mong were supported 1811 01:36:41.439 --> 01:36:46.279 by airpower and supplied by the CIA. Shocker there Coincidentally, 1812 01:36:46.319 --> 01:36:50.359 the Vietnamese were also were content to let the war 1813 01:36:50.399 --> 01:36:53.600 simmer as long as they could protect traffic along the 1814 01:36:53.640 --> 01:36:58.119 ever growing Ho Chi Minh trail. Air sorties against the 1815 01:36:58.159 --> 01:37:01.600 Plane of Jars tied up US military assets that otherwise 1816 01:37:01.640 --> 01:37:04.640 would be used to bomb the trail. North Vietnam was 1817 01:37:04.640 --> 01:37:08.479 confident that when South Vietnam fell Laos Woodfall, the worst 1818 01:37:08.479 --> 01:37:10.359 result of the fourteen year struggle of the Planet of 1819 01:37:10.399 --> 01:37:12.960 Jars was the destruction of a noble ally, the Monk. 1820 01:37:13.359 --> 01:37:16.439 They fought in countless battles against North Vietnamese forces and 1821 01:37:16.479 --> 01:37:20.119 were in the end, left to their fates. Originally numbering 1822 01:37:20.239 --> 01:37:23.279 about three hundred thousand people living high on mountain ranged 1823 01:37:23.520 --> 01:37:28.000 ridges and subsisting by means of slash and burn agricultural techniques, 1824 01:37:28.239 --> 01:37:32.039 the monk suffered some thirty thousand casualties, mostly young fighting men. 1825 01:37:32.920 --> 01:37:36.640 The Mung families were driven from their homes to CIA 1826 01:37:36.680 --> 01:37:40.760 supported hilltop encampments where they were fed by in quotes, 1827 01:37:41.000 --> 01:37:45.199 soft rice drops and armed by in quotes hard rice drops. 1828 01:37:46.319 --> 01:37:49.880 So what that means is essentially so the CIA they're 1829 01:37:49.880 --> 01:37:52.920 not a war fighting force. They do intelligence work right, 1830 01:37:52.960 --> 01:37:56.800 and sometimes that means you have to get your allies 1831 01:37:56.840 --> 01:37:57.159 on the. 1832 01:37:57.079 --> 01:37:58.079 Ground the hook up. 1833 01:37:58.600 --> 01:38:01.760 And so if the people in the Mung, if they 1834 01:38:01.800 --> 01:38:05.840 needed food, they would be getting boxes lace labeled as 1835 01:38:06.039 --> 01:38:09.520 soft rice drops, and if they needed more AMMO, they 1836 01:38:09.560 --> 01:38:12.439 would be getting boxes labeled hard rice drops. 1837 01:38:12.720 --> 01:38:16.239 You with me very well, Okay? So when the end came, 1838 01:38:16.399 --> 01:38:19.760 those who those who could do so, fled to camps 1839 01:38:19.760 --> 01:38:22.479 in Thailand. Those who chose to remain in Laos were 1840 01:38:22.520 --> 01:38:25.920 for years hunted down and killed by Laoshan communists. A 1841 01:38:26.079 --> 01:38:29.560 few mon relocated to the US. The war was fought 1842 01:38:29.600 --> 01:38:32.119 through the years on a seasonal basis, with US sponsored 1843 01:38:32.119 --> 01:38:35.239 forces advancing from April through September in the monsoon season, 1844 01:38:35.319 --> 01:38:38.720 and the North Vietnamese and its allies responding during the 1845 01:38:38.800 --> 01:38:41.600 dry season of October through March. Perhaps unique to this 1846 01:38:41.640 --> 01:38:46.680 Ebb and Flow war was as unusual vertical separation of territory, 1847 01:38:46.960 --> 01:38:50.000 for the Mung often dominated mountains and ridges, even when 1848 01:38:50.640 --> 01:38:54.439 the path At Lao or North Vietnamese owned the valleys below. 1849 01:38:54.840 --> 01:38:59.039 It should be noted that the lowland Laosians discriminated against 1850 01:38:59.199 --> 01:39:04.680 the hill people. Indeed, indeed, Laos is a landlocked country 1851 01:39:04.680 --> 01:39:08.800 that shares a border with Cambodia, China, Thailand, Vietnam or Vietnam, 1852 01:39:08.920 --> 01:39:12.720 and Burma now called Myanmar. It's recorded history starts with 1853 01:39:12.760 --> 01:39:19.399 the Lao Kingdom of lang janlang Jan, founded in the 1854 01:39:19.439 --> 01:39:22.760 thirteen hundreds. It has since suffered through six centuries of 1855 01:39:23.039 --> 01:39:26.119 more or less unbroken warfare, and in nineteen oh seven 1856 01:39:26.159 --> 01:39:29.039 France established the modern borders of Laos, primarily to serve 1857 01:39:29.119 --> 01:39:33.279 as a bulwark against the Thai and Chinese expansion into 1858 01:39:33.359 --> 01:39:36.720 what was then French into China. It was granted independence 1859 01:39:36.720 --> 01:39:38.119 in nineteen fifty three. 1860 01:39:39.079 --> 01:39:40.800 So that's another big thing too. 1861 01:39:40.840 --> 01:39:43.680 When you hear a lot of people that will compare 1862 01:39:43.920 --> 01:39:47.880 the war in Afghanistan against the war in Vietnam. There 1863 01:39:47.920 --> 01:39:51.359 are some similarities that come to fruition. Okay, For one, 1864 01:39:51.800 --> 01:39:55.239 it was guerrilla fighting. It was dudes that would shoot 1865 01:39:55.279 --> 01:39:58.239 at you, go behind a wall, change their clothes real quick, 1866 01:39:58.239 --> 01:40:00.039 and walk out, and you couldn't tell one from the 1867 01:40:00.039 --> 01:40:02.680 the other, right for one. For two, it was in 1868 01:40:02.720 --> 01:40:06.319 an environment that we as Americans are very much not 1869 01:40:06.520 --> 01:40:11.319 used to. We're talking jungles and mountains and flat lowlands and. 1870 01:40:11.319 --> 01:40:13.439 Rice patty and then more jungle. 1871 01:40:13.800 --> 01:40:17.319 Then we had the monsoon season that rains for months 1872 01:40:17.359 --> 01:40:19.479 and months at a time, and they wouldn't fight in 1873 01:40:19.520 --> 01:40:20.520 the monsoon season. 1874 01:40:20.600 --> 01:40:21.479 And as soon as. 1875 01:40:21.479 --> 01:40:23.359 Because we would do that, we would fight through the 1876 01:40:23.439 --> 01:40:26.319 rain because fuck them. Then when we would go back 1877 01:40:26.319 --> 01:40:28.720 and kind of regroup, it'd be the dry season and 1878 01:40:28.760 --> 01:40:30.720 that's when they would fight. And it was it was 1879 01:40:30.760 --> 01:40:35.279 a crazy, crazy situation, saying kind of situation in the Afghanistan. 1880 01:40:35.359 --> 01:40:38.199 You had the harvest season where there would be almost 1881 01:40:38.279 --> 01:40:40.560 no fighting that took place, and as soon as all 1882 01:40:40.600 --> 01:40:44.039 the crops were harvested, mostly poppy for the opium, then 1883 01:40:44.840 --> 01:40:48.279 all the quote unquote farmers would down their flags and 1884 01:40:48.319 --> 01:40:50.560 now they're the bad guys again. And it was a 1885 01:40:50.600 --> 01:40:54.000 crazy thing not to mention they pretty much have been 1886 01:40:54.039 --> 01:40:59.840 in open conflict since their beginning, since the thirteen hundreds. Essentially, 1887 01:40:59.840 --> 01:41:04.319 this area has just had warfare, warfare, warfare, same with Afghanistan, 1888 01:41:04.399 --> 01:41:08.039 and these people have never been defeated on their home 1889 01:41:08.159 --> 01:41:12.560 turf to this day. Period' That's the way this goes. 1890 01:41:12.920 --> 01:41:14.720 So there's a lot of things to say that the 1891 01:41:14.840 --> 01:41:18.159 Vietnam War and the war in Afghanistan kind of had 1892 01:41:18.159 --> 01:41:19.079 some similarities. 1893 01:41:19.159 --> 01:41:23.079 Dude. All right, now moving on to this next one. 1894 01:41:23.279 --> 01:41:26.680 Let's see rescue. 1895 01:41:27.600 --> 01:41:30.319 Uh now, we could pretty much be done with this 1896 01:41:30.399 --> 01:41:34.720 off with this article because I was hoping that, you know, 1897 01:41:34.800 --> 01:41:37.199 we get a kind of a feel for the situation 1898 01:41:37.359 --> 01:41:40.159 as to the why the bombings took place in the 1899 01:41:40.199 --> 01:41:44.680 plane of Jars, which leads us to Operation Barrel Role. 1900 01:41:45.079 --> 01:41:46.760 All right, now, I'm gonna read this one here. So 1901 01:41:47.000 --> 01:41:51.039 Operation Barrel Role was a covert interdiction and close air 1902 01:41:51.079 --> 01:41:54.239 support campaign conducted in the Kingdom of Laos by the 1903 01:41:54.399 --> 01:41:57.319 US Air Force Second Air Division in the US Navy 1904 01:41:57.359 --> 01:42:01.520 Task for seventy seven between March fifth, nineteen sixty four 1905 01:42:02.279 --> 01:42:09.199 and March twenty ninth, nineteen seventy three, So for about 1906 01:42:10.439 --> 01:42:15.000 nine years they bombed the ever loving shit out of 1907 01:42:15.039 --> 01:42:18.760 this area. The operation was launched to persuade North Vietnam 1908 01:42:18.800 --> 01:42:22.800 to stop supporting the insurgency in South Vietnam. It became 1909 01:42:22.880 --> 01:42:26.520 an interdiction campaign against the ho Chi Mintrail, North Vietnam's 1910 01:42:26.600 --> 01:42:32.239 main logistical corridor, which ran from southwestern North Vietnam through 1911 01:42:32.640 --> 01:42:37.720 southeastern Laos and into South Vietnam. The operation also increasingly 1912 01:42:37.760 --> 01:42:42.680 provided close air support for Royal Lao Armed Forces, CIA 1913 01:42:42.760 --> 01:42:46.159 backed tribal allies and the Tai Volunteer Defense Corps in a. 1914 01:42:46.119 --> 01:42:48.760 Covert group I'm sorry, covert. 1915 01:42:48.439 --> 01:42:52.279 Ground war in northern and northeastern Laos barrel roll and 1916 01:42:52.319 --> 01:42:54.000 the quote unquote Secret. 1917 01:42:53.800 --> 01:42:57.840 Army, which would be all the groups that we just listed. 1918 01:42:57.560 --> 01:43:01.279 Here, attempted to stem an increasing hide of People's Army 1919 01:43:01.319 --> 01:43:06.239 of Vietnam and the Pathet Lao offensive. So the background 1920 01:43:06.319 --> 01:43:08.000 of it a little bit here. After a series of 1921 01:43:08.000 --> 01:43:11.600 political and military mechanizations conducted by the US and the 1922 01:43:11.640 --> 01:43:16.680 Palate Pathet Lao, the North Vietnamese in Laos that were 1923 01:43:16.720 --> 01:43:19.239 described in the History of Laos since nineteen forty five, 1924 01:43:19.560 --> 01:43:23.520 the Declaration of the Neutrality of Laos was signed in Geneva, Switzerland, 1925 01:43:23.680 --> 01:43:26.960 on the twenty third of July nineteen sixty two. The agreement, 1926 01:43:27.439 --> 01:43:30.000 which was an attempt to end a civil war between 1927 01:43:30.039 --> 01:43:35.079 the communist dominated Pathet Lao neutralists and American backed rightists, 1928 01:43:35.640 --> 01:43:39.479 included provisions that required the removal of all foreign military 1929 01:43:39.520 --> 01:43:43.399 forces and precluded the use of Lao territory for interfering 1930 01:43:43.520 --> 01:43:47.119 in the international affairs of another country. A blatant effort 1931 01:43:47.159 --> 01:43:51.000 to shut down North Vietnam's growing logistical corridor through southeastern 1932 01:43:51.039 --> 01:43:55.000 Laos that would become known as the Uchimen Trail. So 1933 01:43:55.159 --> 01:43:58.439 the entire thing was basically to break this up. You 1934 01:43:58.479 --> 01:44:02.560 see this right here, red section of this map. So 1935 01:44:02.600 --> 01:44:05.359 this is North Vietnam. This is the Gulf of Tonkin. 1936 01:44:05.520 --> 01:44:07.880 You might recognize it from the Gulf of Tonkin incident. 1937 01:44:08.399 --> 01:44:11.720 Over here is Thailand. This white section is Laos. It's 1938 01:44:11.760 --> 01:44:15.399 a very small country in Southeast Asia. Operation Barrel Roll 1939 01:44:15.479 --> 01:44:19.039 pretty much strafed and bombed the absolute fuck out of 1940 01:44:19.079 --> 01:44:23.960 this entire eastern area of the country. The Plane of 1941 01:44:24.079 --> 01:44:29.399 Jars happens to be in this region, and specifically it 1942 01:44:29.520 --> 01:44:32.000 was bombed more than the rest of the area. To 1943 01:44:32.000 --> 01:44:35.119 be completely honest with you, But yeah, it was. 1944 01:44:35.880 --> 01:44:37.880 It was crazy and it still is. 1945 01:44:37.920 --> 01:44:40.720 They are still dealing with the remnants of this war 1946 01:44:41.239 --> 01:44:44.199 and the bombs that were dropped to this day. So 1947 01:44:45.239 --> 01:44:48.640 all this being said, let's hear a couple of theories 1948 01:44:49.319 --> 01:44:52.239 as to where they came from and how they came from, 1949 01:44:52.279 --> 01:44:55.199 and a couple of other let's just call it historic 1950 01:44:55.319 --> 01:44:59.439 precedents for what these jars might have been meant to 1951 01:44:59.560 --> 01:45:01.279 symboliz or be akin to. 1952 01:45:02.079 --> 01:45:02.960 So real quick, do you. 1953 01:45:02.960 --> 01:45:05.520 Want to give your theory as of this moment? Do 1954 01:45:05.520 --> 01:45:06.600 you want to hear this video out? 1955 01:45:06.640 --> 01:45:07.640 First? What are you thinking? 1956 01:45:07.840 --> 01:45:09.720 I kind of just had a silly theory I was 1957 01:45:09.720 --> 01:45:13.399 gonna throw out there just being for it. Basically, Uh, 1958 01:45:13.479 --> 01:45:17.800 if dinosaurs are in fact not fake and gay, could 1959 01:45:17.800 --> 01:45:22.039 this have been ancient dinosaur shit? And somehow the people 1960 01:45:22.279 --> 01:45:25.479 knew how to find some kind of housing. So I 1961 01:45:25.479 --> 01:45:28.239 would imagine that maybe this was some kind of pterodactyl 1962 01:45:28.359 --> 01:45:33.319 dropping that just so happened to be huge dong not dong, 1963 01:45:33.439 --> 01:45:35.960 but uh dung dung rather. 1964 01:45:36.039 --> 01:45:38.359 Terodacts are They're huge pedong. 1965 01:45:38.039 --> 01:45:42.119 Dude, huge p doongs and uh and and and somehow 1966 01:45:42.159 --> 01:45:46.119 people found ways to make it spiritual. I mean, who's 1967 01:45:46.159 --> 01:45:48.800 to say because they are scattered, you know what I mean, 1968 01:45:48.880 --> 01:45:50.880 like all over the place. It's not like, you know, 1969 01:45:51.039 --> 01:45:53.439 my dog, for example, whenever he takes a ship, he 1970 01:45:53.520 --> 01:45:55.399 has to walk and ship. He can't just sit in 1971 01:45:55.439 --> 01:45:57.199 one spot and take a ship. You know what I'm saying. 1972 01:45:57.720 --> 01:45:59.319 What it looks like, Yeah. 1973 01:45:59.479 --> 01:46:03.199 Oh dude, that's hilarious my dog. Well, I mean, granted, 1974 01:46:03.319 --> 01:46:05.960 might I have English Masters. So she shits the size 1975 01:46:06.000 --> 01:46:07.560 of like she's a shit. 1976 01:46:07.960 --> 01:46:08.159 Yeah. 1977 01:46:08.199 --> 01:46:11.359 Yeah, So yeah, she gets in one spot and you 1978 01:46:11.359 --> 01:46:13.560 see that hip go like down. 1979 01:46:13.640 --> 01:46:15.159 It's like, oh, yeah, here we go. And you could 1980 01:46:15.199 --> 01:46:17.920 hear that bitch drop and hit the earth when she shits. 1981 01:46:17.600 --> 01:46:19.720 It just shakes the fucking terror. 1982 01:46:20.399 --> 01:46:23.000 Oh my god. You know you can hear it legitimately. 1983 01:46:23.079 --> 01:46:24.399 If I'm out there and I'm just playing on my 1984 01:46:24.399 --> 01:46:27.000 phone whatever waiting for her, you hear it's like, yeah, 1985 01:46:27.079 --> 01:46:29.439 there there she goes. It's all good gone. 1986 01:46:30.560 --> 01:46:33.600 But yeah, that was. I don't know, just because there's 1987 01:46:33.600 --> 01:46:36.039 not really any good explanation for any of this. I 1988 01:46:36.079 --> 01:46:39.319 did want to after we, you know, go through this video, 1989 01:46:39.479 --> 01:46:40.960 I do want to kind of go into the whole 1990 01:46:41.039 --> 01:46:44.960 dragon line possible thing. Yes, because people say that there 1991 01:46:45.079 --> 01:46:48.439 is some kind of correlation amongst all these like weird 1992 01:46:48.479 --> 01:46:52.119 wonders of the world, then nobody has any explanation about. 1993 01:46:51.760 --> 01:46:53.920 Okay, all right, so let's listen in This is from 1994 01:46:54.000 --> 01:46:57.560 Dark five Ancient Mysteries, and uh, the dude's going through 1995 01:46:57.560 --> 01:46:59.560 a couple of examples of. 1996 01:46:59.640 --> 01:47:01.000 Passable working theories. 1997 01:47:01.039 --> 01:47:02.920 Now we've already heard the one about it being some 1998 01:47:02.960 --> 01:47:05.319 sort of a burial site or something like that. I 1999 01:47:05.319 --> 01:47:07.920 didn't even I didn't even go that route, because that's 2000 01:47:08.159 --> 01:47:09.800 that's just ridiculous to me. 2001 01:47:10.600 --> 01:47:13.199 Whatever, But yeah, let's listen. 2002 01:47:13.199 --> 01:47:22.800 In the Giants, the locals of Laos tell of a 2003 01:47:22.880 --> 01:47:26.079 legend passed down by the elders from generation to generation 2004 01:47:26.520 --> 01:47:28.640 and still believed by many of the Lao people to 2005 01:47:28.680 --> 01:47:32.560 this day. The legend says that Laos was once home 2006 01:47:32.600 --> 01:47:35.359 to a race of giants led by their king Quin Chung, 2007 01:47:35.720 --> 01:47:38.520 who waged a long and hard war against an evil enemy, 2008 01:47:38.840 --> 01:47:45.359 ultimately emerging victorious. To celebrate and toast his victory, vast 2009 01:47:45.439 --> 01:47:48.600 quantities of a rice wine known as Laohai would be required. 2010 01:47:49.279 --> 01:47:51.359 To brew and store the wine, the king of the 2011 01:47:51.359 --> 01:47:54.560 giants created the huge jars from which they could also drink. 2012 01:47:56.920 --> 01:47:59.560 One of the greatest mysteries from modern researchers is in 2013 01:47:59.600 --> 01:48:02.520 the legios of how an early civilization could have managed 2014 01:48:02.560 --> 01:48:05.600 to transport such immnts and heavy objects from the quarry 2015 01:48:05.640 --> 01:48:07.960 to the resting place, a journey of up to ten 2016 01:48:08.039 --> 01:48:12.239 kilometers largely uphill. Some might say this supports the theory 2017 01:48:12.560 --> 01:48:15.119 that the jars were once hewn by thirsty giants. 2018 01:48:17.920 --> 01:48:21.000 Now that's also an interesting point to make. They were 2019 01:48:21.079 --> 01:48:25.199 carried uphill to their resting place. Right now, it would 2020 01:48:25.199 --> 01:48:27.760 make more sense to me if they were quarried from 2021 01:48:27.960 --> 01:48:30.640 up on top of the mountain and then rolled down 2022 01:48:30.680 --> 01:48:34.119 to where they are currently. Bro, you're talking about carrying 2023 01:48:34.279 --> 01:48:39.680 or dragging or rolling or something. These massive fourteen ton 2024 01:48:39.880 --> 01:48:45.920 twelve ton eight ton jars up mountains. And it's not 2025 01:48:45.960 --> 01:48:49.239 like these are just clearcut mountains either. It's like jungleist mountains. 2026 01:48:50.039 --> 01:48:54.119 It is insane to really, like logistically think about how 2027 01:48:54.119 --> 01:48:57.159 they moved them. First off, how they carved them. Second, 2028 01:48:57.159 --> 01:48:59.560 how do they move them from point A to point B. Now, 2029 01:48:59.560 --> 01:49:01.199 I'm not saying and this leads more credence to the 2030 01:49:01.199 --> 01:49:04.800 giants theory. I understand that's a wild one, But Bro, 2031 01:49:05.039 --> 01:49:05.800 what the hell. 2032 01:49:05.920 --> 01:49:07.920 I mean, were they created on the spot or were 2033 01:49:07.960 --> 01:49:10.720 they created I mean I know that they probably at 2034 01:49:10.840 --> 01:49:14.600 least got some of the material from far away, but 2035 01:49:14.800 --> 01:49:17.960 were they crafted and molded into these pots on the 2036 01:49:18.000 --> 01:49:21.279 spot where they where they lay or were they rolled uphill? 2037 01:49:21.319 --> 01:49:22.880 Like what are they suggesting? Or they don't know. 2038 01:49:23.479 --> 01:49:25.880 So, as of this moment, there has been with all 2039 01:49:25.920 --> 01:49:29.640 the archaeological archaeological digs that they've done, they don't find 2040 01:49:30.359 --> 01:49:33.000 fragments of Like let's say you bring up like a 2041 01:49:33.079 --> 01:49:36.399 cube of this stone that you're like carving out. Whenever 2042 01:49:36.439 --> 01:49:39.039 you get to your location, you would find chunks of 2043 01:49:39.079 --> 01:49:42.479 the rock. They're not finding chunks of any of the rocks. 2044 01:49:42.560 --> 01:49:45.239 So it stands to reason, as of this moment that 2045 01:49:45.319 --> 01:49:49.319 they were carved at the quarry and then brought to 2046 01:49:49.439 --> 01:49:52.479 their location, which even if they were to be carved 2047 01:49:53.359 --> 01:49:57.279 where they're at currently, that's still crazy. You're bringing a 2048 01:49:57.319 --> 01:50:00.600 fourteen ton jar. Before you carved it was probably a 2049 01:50:00.680 --> 01:50:04.119 twenty ton cube. How are you moving a twenty ton 2050 01:50:04.159 --> 01:50:09.119 cube up mountains, jungleist mountains from the quarry to the location. 2051 01:50:09.279 --> 01:50:10.199 That's also wild. 2052 01:50:11.199 --> 01:50:13.359 Yeah, that is kind of strange. 2053 01:50:13.399 --> 01:50:16.479 And there's no evidence that these people were doing horseback 2054 01:50:16.520 --> 01:50:18.920 activities at that time, either I should make a mention 2055 01:50:19.000 --> 01:50:22.319 of that. So there's no takeaway all theories of horse 2056 01:50:22.399 --> 01:50:25.560 drawn wagons and carriages and any of that that is 2057 01:50:25.720 --> 01:50:27.600 not in the conversation as of this moment. 2058 01:50:29.000 --> 01:50:30.720 Just strong motherfuckers. That's all. 2059 01:50:32.319 --> 01:50:34.119 These cockstrong Southeast Asia. 2060 01:50:34.199 --> 01:50:34.399 Man. 2061 01:50:34.479 --> 01:50:34.720 You know. 2062 01:50:35.239 --> 01:50:38.560 I guess at Rice got a little extra protein to 2063 01:50:38.640 --> 01:50:42.079 what we've been thinking. I guess anyway. All right, So 2064 01:50:42.119 --> 01:50:45.520 now we're gonna get to the Indian jars. And this 2065 01:50:45.920 --> 01:50:50.800 isn't necessarily connected, but it is a working theory that 2066 01:50:50.880 --> 01:50:53.760 some are saying might be what these jars were actually 2067 01:50:53.840 --> 01:50:58.560 used for, based off of historic precedents of another quote 2068 01:50:58.640 --> 01:51:01.840 unquote similar city situation. I don't think they're similar, but 2069 01:51:02.039 --> 01:51:03.000 they're worth mentioning. 2070 01:51:03.039 --> 01:51:03.640 So let's go. 2071 01:51:06.000 --> 01:51:13.079 The Indian jars. Approximately five hundred miles from the planet 2072 01:51:13.119 --> 01:51:16.960 of Jars in India is the Assam Forest. In twenty twenty, 2073 01:51:17.199 --> 01:51:19.600 a survey of the region found that the forest contained 2074 01:51:19.600 --> 01:51:28.840 a number of large stone jars similar to those in Laos. Mysteriously, 2075 01:51:29.119 --> 01:51:31.600 the jars being excavated in a Sam are made from 2076 01:51:31.600 --> 01:51:34.279 a sandstone not known to be found near the site. 2077 01:51:36.880 --> 01:51:39.680 Researchers speculate that the jars may have been dragged great 2078 01:51:39.680 --> 01:51:42.560 distances and note that doing so would require a team 2079 01:51:42.600 --> 01:51:47.560 of hundreds. With the Indian jars being such a recent discovery, 2080 01:51:47.920 --> 01:51:51.279 archaeologists have barely scratched the surface in their understanding, and 2081 01:51:51.319 --> 01:51:53.760 they continue to discover more and more of these sites 2082 01:51:53.800 --> 01:51:58.000 in Islam. They've also found inside the jars the impressions 2083 01:51:58.000 --> 01:52:00.720 of the iron tools once used to carve them from boulders. 2084 01:52:02.079 --> 01:52:04.439 It is unclear just how much the Indian jars have 2085 01:52:04.479 --> 01:52:06.760 in common with those found on the Plane of Jars, 2086 01:52:07.159 --> 01:52:09.640 but it has been noted by some researchers that they 2087 01:52:09.680 --> 01:52:14.680 too contain cremated bone fragments. The secrets of the Assam 2088 01:52:14.760 --> 01:52:17.920 region and its monolithic stone jars are yet to be revealed, 2089 01:52:18.520 --> 01:52:21.039 as are the details regarding how they relate to their 2090 01:52:21.119 --> 01:52:22.039 low counterparts. 2091 01:52:23.439 --> 01:52:28.199 Okay, real quick, dude, these I don't think that they're comparative. 2092 01:52:28.840 --> 01:52:32.079 These are way smaller than the ones that we have. 2093 01:52:32.119 --> 01:52:33.840 In the Plane of Jars and Laos. 2094 01:52:34.560 --> 01:52:36.600 Yeah, I mean they're smaller even compared to the trees 2095 01:52:36.640 --> 01:52:38.079 there exactly. 2096 01:52:38.199 --> 01:52:40.479 And then not to mention, yes, so they're from sandstone 2097 01:52:40.520 --> 01:52:43.920 not found in this region. They don't have any evidence 2098 01:52:43.920 --> 01:52:45.840 to say that these are from like the same quarry 2099 01:52:45.880 --> 01:52:48.439 as Laos or anything like that. But that's what I'm saying. 2100 01:52:48.479 --> 01:52:53.199 It's another idea that they are saying kind of look similar. 2101 01:52:53.359 --> 01:52:56.479 I feel like they're trying to compare apples to apples here. 2102 01:52:57.319 --> 01:52:59.760 I don't think that it's so easy. I don't think 2103 01:52:59.760 --> 01:53:02.319 that this is an actual apples to apples comparison. 2104 01:53:03.159 --> 01:53:07.359 Dude. All right, So is it possible because uh, Loos 2105 01:53:07.439 --> 01:53:09.199 is kind of right up against the ocean right there 2106 01:53:09.279 --> 01:53:13.119 right you know, it's a landlocked country. Oh I thought that, 2107 01:53:13.359 --> 01:53:16.760 Uh what what is the Indian Ocean on that side? 2108 01:53:17.399 --> 01:53:20.000 Oh, the Gulf of Tonkin. But that's what that. You 2109 01:53:20.000 --> 01:53:21.920 have to go through Vietnam to get to them. 2110 01:53:22.560 --> 01:53:25.159 So you got Golf of Tonkin, then you got Vietnam, 2111 01:53:25.199 --> 01:53:26.760 then you got Laos going inland. 2112 01:53:27.359 --> 01:53:28.520 Yeah, hmmm. 2113 01:53:29.520 --> 01:53:31.479 I mean, is it possible that maybe there was some 2114 01:53:31.560 --> 01:53:34.720 kind of flood or crazy storm, or maybe the the 2115 01:53:34.760 --> 01:53:37.319 water started to recede and this this used to be 2116 01:53:37.399 --> 01:53:40.720 underwater just getting weird because it did have coral in it, 2117 01:53:40.720 --> 01:53:43.079 it did have sand sandstone in it. I don't know 2118 01:53:43.119 --> 01:53:45.159 if that's you know, from the ocean or whatever. But 2119 01:53:46.439 --> 01:53:48.680 I don't know, just trying to think, like could it, 2120 01:53:48.840 --> 01:53:51.640 could these be like oceanic remnants of sorts. 2121 01:53:51.960 --> 01:53:54.640 If I'm not mistake, in this area is underwater somewhere 2122 01:53:54.640 --> 01:53:57.520 around one of the ice ages, like it was way 2123 01:53:57.560 --> 01:53:59.560 longer ago, way longer. 2124 01:53:59.720 --> 01:54:01.439 Yeah, yeah, yeah yeah. 2125 01:54:01.520 --> 01:54:05.039 Interesting, Okay, never mind, then I'll keep on the own speculating. 2126 01:54:09.920 --> 01:54:10.920 The Secret War. 2127 01:54:15.840 --> 01:54:18.199 Study of the Jars and Laos has been hindered by 2128 01:54:18.199 --> 01:54:20.760 the terrible remnants of a little known conflict known as 2129 01:54:20.760 --> 01:54:25.600 the Secret War or the Laosian Civil War. Between nineteen 2130 01:54:25.640 --> 01:54:28.359 sixty four and nineteen sixty nine, the plane was the 2131 01:54:28.359 --> 01:54:31.399 subject of extended explosive bombardment by the United States Air 2132 01:54:31.439 --> 01:54:35.319 Force targeting North Vietnamese and Pucket Lao communist armies in 2133 01:54:35.319 --> 01:54:38.520 the area. During this period, more than two hundred and 2134 01:54:38.520 --> 01:54:44.520 sixty two million anti personnel cluster bombs were dropped. The 2135 01:54:44.600 --> 01:54:48.000 damage to the Jars was substantial. Many now lay broken 2136 01:54:48.119 --> 01:54:51.560 or overturned in craters created by the explosives, and the 2137 01:54:51.600 --> 01:54:54.760 consequences of this bombardment still loom over the land and 2138 01:54:54.800 --> 01:54:59.479 its local population today. Of those two hundred and sixty 2139 01:54:59.520 --> 01:55:02.840 two million cluster bombs dropped, an estimated eighty million did 2140 01:55:02.880 --> 01:55:05.760 not explode, and many lay on and around the Plane 2141 01:55:05.760 --> 01:55:08.960 of jars, posing a fatal threat to anyone who strays 2142 01:55:08.960 --> 01:55:12.960 off the paths known to be safe. Movement in the 2143 01:55:13.000 --> 01:55:16.840 area is heavily restricted by the unexploded bombs. Efforts to 2144 01:55:16.880 --> 01:55:20.640 clear bombs are slow but ongoing. Seven jar sites have 2145 01:55:20.720 --> 01:55:23.920 now been cleared, but estimates suggest that fewer than ten 2146 01:55:23.920 --> 01:55:28.000 percent of the jars have been formally investigated. Despite the 2147 01:55:28.039 --> 01:55:31.680 ongoing efforts to rid the plane of unexploded munitions, dozens 2148 01:55:31.680 --> 01:55:35.560 of Lausians tragically perish each year. Interest in the Plane 2149 01:55:35.560 --> 01:55:38.000 of Jars has never waned and it remains one of 2150 01:55:38.000 --> 01:55:42.159 the most important sites for archaeological research on the planet. Consequently, 2151 01:55:42.199 --> 01:55:44.960 in twenty nineteen, it was named a World Heritage Site 2152 01:55:45.000 --> 01:55:51.439 by UNESCO. With advanced methods such as radiocarbon dating, geochemistry 2153 01:55:51.479 --> 01:55:55.239 and ground penetrating radar, modern research continues to reveal more 2154 01:55:55.239 --> 01:56:00.880 about the jars, their purpose, and their creators. This contemporary 2155 01:56:00.920 --> 01:56:03.560 research finds that human burials took place on the Plane 2156 01:56:03.560 --> 01:56:07.359 of Jars, with bodies being buried alongside the jars sometime 2157 01:56:07.399 --> 01:56:09.720 between seven hundred and twelve hundred years ago. 2158 01:56:11.520 --> 01:56:14.199 So you see what I'm saying here like this was 2159 01:56:14.239 --> 01:56:17.600 what was above ground, and then they dug and found 2160 01:56:17.640 --> 01:56:21.960 another two feet into this jar. So it's not like there's, 2161 01:56:22.199 --> 01:56:25.279 you know, something way more underneath this thing. But yeah, 2162 01:56:25.319 --> 01:56:28.399 some of them have been They're sinking into the ground 2163 01:56:28.439 --> 01:56:29.079 for sure. 2164 01:56:29.039 --> 01:56:32.279 With dust and rain and dirt, and yeah, I get 2165 01:56:32.319 --> 01:56:33.600 that exactly. 2166 01:56:33.720 --> 01:56:36.560 But again, dude, look that's just one of them. This 2167 01:56:36.680 --> 01:56:38.640 jar over here, This jar over here, This looks like 2168 01:56:38.640 --> 01:56:40.960 a lid of some type. This one's broken up. It's 2169 01:56:41.640 --> 01:56:43.840 there's no rhyme or reason as to why some of 2170 01:56:43.840 --> 01:56:47.359 them are larger than others, why some of them are 2171 01:56:47.439 --> 01:56:50.960 located here and some are located there. It's all over 2172 01:56:51.000 --> 01:56:53.800 the place, dude. But anyway, let's keep going. 2173 01:56:56.960 --> 01:56:59.279 This suggests that the plane of jars has held ritual 2174 01:56:59.319 --> 01:57:04.119 significance multiple cultures over an extended period. It has also 2175 01:57:04.159 --> 01:57:06.479 been found in recent years that while most of the 2176 01:57:06.560 --> 01:57:09.479 jars are carved from sandstone, others are made from much 2177 01:57:09.520 --> 01:57:14.960 harder stone, including limestone and granite. One working theory, supported 2178 01:57:15.000 --> 01:57:17.000 by some evidence, is that the jar has had a 2179 01:57:17.000 --> 01:57:19.840 practical use. They may have been designed to catch rain 2180 01:57:19.880 --> 01:57:21.199 water during monsoon season. 2181 01:57:22.119 --> 01:57:25.920 Okay, real quick rain water during monsoon season. Big dog. 2182 01:57:26.239 --> 01:57:28.319 That is the water that is inside of one of 2183 01:57:28.319 --> 01:57:33.199 these jars. I seriously doubt that somebody is going to 2184 01:57:33.199 --> 01:57:34.199 be drinking. 2185 01:57:33.840 --> 01:57:34.159 Out of that. 2186 01:57:36.399 --> 01:57:38.680 Yeah, that looks kind of gross. 2187 01:57:39.279 --> 01:57:42.079 I don't see it, especially seeing as how monsoon season 2188 01:57:42.159 --> 01:57:43.119 is like half the year. 2189 01:57:44.800 --> 01:57:48.199 You have water regardless, it's falling from the sky, regardless 2190 01:57:48.199 --> 01:57:49.119 if you wanted to or not. 2191 01:57:49.760 --> 01:57:52.640 I don't know. Anyway, let's keep going for use. 2192 01:57:52.520 --> 01:57:56.319 By travelers passing through later in the year. A more 2193 01:57:56.359 --> 01:57:58.920 macab explanation is that the jars were part of a 2194 01:57:59.000 --> 01:58:02.720 unique burial tradition. It was customary in certain cultures for 2195 01:58:02.800 --> 01:58:05.680 dead bodies to be placed above ground to decompose and 2196 01:58:05.800 --> 01:58:08.720 dry out, allowing the soul to make its transition to 2197 01:58:08.720 --> 01:58:13.560 the spiritual world before a final cremation or burial. This 2198 01:58:13.680 --> 01:58:16.520 theory has been lent weight by another recent study which 2199 01:58:16.520 --> 01:58:19.720 found eighteen more examples of human burial amongst the jars, 2200 01:58:20.119 --> 01:58:24.920 sixty percent of which were infants or babies. Undoubtedly, as 2201 01:58:24.960 --> 01:58:28.520 technology in the field of archaeological study progresses and as 2202 01:58:28.520 --> 01:58:32.199 the remaining munitions are cleared, more information will continue to 2203 01:58:32.239 --> 01:58:33.000 present itself. 2204 01:58:34.119 --> 01:58:40.760 Okay, so eighteen burial remains were found out of two 2205 01:58:40.800 --> 01:58:47.199 thousand jars, eighteen, So that's less than one percent of 2206 01:58:47.239 --> 01:58:50.680 the jars we can confirm or used in some. 2207 01:58:50.560 --> 01:58:52.000 Sort of a burial practice. 2208 01:58:52.600 --> 01:58:55.520 That's just to me personally, I'm speaking on behalf of 2209 01:58:55.600 --> 01:58:58.760 Jacob here. If a glass is one percent full, would 2210 01:58:58.760 --> 01:58:59.920 you call it full? 2211 01:59:00.920 --> 01:59:01.079 No? 2212 01:59:01.439 --> 01:59:01.960 I wouldn't. 2213 01:59:02.159 --> 01:59:05.119 So if one percent of the jars were used in 2214 01:59:05.199 --> 01:59:10.199 burial practices, would you say that these were obviously burial sites? 2215 01:59:11.720 --> 01:59:15.000 I mean, I'm I don't know. I mean, how long 2216 01:59:15.039 --> 01:59:17.720 does it take for bone to like disintegrate? 2217 01:59:19.640 --> 01:59:22.880 It depends on the environment, right, So, I mean the 2218 01:59:22.960 --> 01:59:26.039 mummies in Egypt, there are still bones that are wrapped 2219 01:59:26.119 --> 01:59:28.600 up and skin that are wrapped up in the mumification 2220 01:59:28.720 --> 01:59:32.079 garbs in our sarcophagus, and they have been untouched and 2221 01:59:32.119 --> 01:59:33.880 so we can see those. That's how he did an 2222 01:59:33.960 --> 01:59:36.159 X ray of King Tut and we know he had 2223 01:59:36.199 --> 01:59:37.920 a cleft f lip and a club foot and hip 2224 01:59:37.920 --> 01:59:39.920 displasia and all of these things because of the massive 2225 01:59:39.920 --> 01:59:44.119 inbreeding that Egypt is so well known for. But you 2226 01:59:44.600 --> 01:59:48.039 in the jungles, not much, not much at all. I mean, 2227 01:59:48.079 --> 01:59:50.520 hell I you remember I was telling you about the 2228 01:59:50.920 --> 01:59:55.199 body farm that the three letter agencies use so in 2229 01:59:55.560 --> 01:59:59.319 Louisiana Bayu environment. If you take a body and you 2230 01:59:59.399 --> 02:00:03.880 bury it eighteen inches below the surface, in a matter 2231 02:00:03.920 --> 02:00:08.720 of two weeks, it's gone, bone, teeth, everything. And again 2232 02:00:08.760 --> 02:00:10.479 y'all could disagree with that. If you want do your 2233 02:00:10.560 --> 02:00:12.720 research into the body farm and the findings, look at 2234 02:00:12.720 --> 02:00:18.560 corner reports. It's because of the level if you combined heat, humidity, 2235 02:00:18.760 --> 02:00:20.920 the type of insects that live at that depth, the 2236 02:00:20.960 --> 02:00:23.079 type of rodents that dig down to that deep, or 2237 02:00:23.079 --> 02:00:23.680 anything else. 2238 02:00:24.520 --> 02:00:26.800 That's all you need to go. Certain places, you. 2239 02:00:26.800 --> 02:00:28.720 Need to go deeper, certain places you can leave it 2240 02:00:28.760 --> 02:00:30.680 on the surface and they'll decompose on its own. 2241 02:00:30.880 --> 02:00:34.800 It depends on the location inside of. 2242 02:00:34.760 --> 02:00:39.119 A stone jar with a lid, which most of I 2243 02:00:39.159 --> 02:00:41.039 would say that most of these probably had a lid 2244 02:00:41.039 --> 02:00:43.000 at one point in time, but they have been lost 2245 02:00:43.079 --> 02:00:46.760 or destroyed or whatever the case is. I feel like 2246 02:00:46.840 --> 02:00:52.279 bone wouldn't disintegrate in an enclosed stone jar in that manner. 2247 02:00:52.279 --> 02:00:55.279 It just the whole thing about these being used for 2248 02:00:55.359 --> 02:00:57.880 burials makes no sense to me. 2249 02:00:58.479 --> 02:01:02.279 Well, what fascinated me a little bit is the lids, 2250 02:01:02.960 --> 02:01:05.920 you know, because there seemed to be some kind of 2251 02:01:06.840 --> 02:01:10.760 geometric or some kind of weird like concentric lines on 2252 02:01:10.840 --> 02:01:14.880 top of them. From what you showed earlier and just 2253 02:01:15.039 --> 02:01:18.000 from you know, my short amount of research, just in 2254 02:01:18.039 --> 02:01:20.760 my interest in this while we've been talking about it. 2255 02:01:20.760 --> 02:01:26.680 It's there's something called a triscillian line. So it had 2256 02:01:26.760 --> 02:01:30.239 three concentric lines on it, and then there seemed to 2257 02:01:30.239 --> 02:01:32.680 be some kind of symbol in the center of it. 2258 02:01:33.279 --> 02:01:37.560 And so a triscillion is a figure consisting of three 2259 02:01:37.680 --> 02:01:41.439 curved lines or branches or three stylized human arms or 2260 02:01:41.520 --> 02:01:45.720 legs radiating from a common center. So I was like, 2261 02:01:45.840 --> 02:01:49.479 that's pretty interesting. But it's even more interesting because and 2262 02:01:49.560 --> 02:01:51.640 I know that this isn't Celtic by any means, but 2263 02:01:51.640 --> 02:01:54.279 we'll get to the Hinduism and Buddhism type stuff. But 2264 02:01:54.359 --> 02:01:59.000 in Celtic tradition, the triskelion symbolizes life, death and rebirth 2265 02:01:59.439 --> 02:02:02.279 or past as in future or the three realms, which 2266 02:02:02.319 --> 02:02:05.680 would be earth, sea, and sky. So I don't know, 2267 02:02:05.720 --> 02:02:09.319 maybe there was something there. In Hinduism and Buddhism, you 2268 02:02:09.399 --> 02:02:12.239 have the triple spirals, which I mean they said that 2269 02:02:12.239 --> 02:02:15.640 they found Buddhists little figurines in there, right, So you 2270 02:02:15.680 --> 02:02:20.680 have triple spirals or rotating shapes that symbolize motion, energy, 2271 02:02:20.720 --> 02:02:25.960 and reincarnation. So maybe the reason why you only find 2272 02:02:26.159 --> 02:02:28.800 a couple of bodies in there, maybe those are the 2273 02:02:28.840 --> 02:02:32.159 ones that couldn't reincarnate. I don't know, I mean, just 2274 02:02:32.239 --> 02:02:34.479 getting weird here, throwing shit at the wall sea what sticks. 2275 02:02:34.800 --> 02:02:38.239 But like, but if reincarnation is real, then the bodies remain. 2276 02:02:38.359 --> 02:02:40.640 The spirit is what reincarnates. 2277 02:02:40.000 --> 02:02:42.600 Right, Yeah, and that's what makes it weird. I mean, 2278 02:02:42.680 --> 02:02:45.880 but that's where I go, like, could this be kind 2279 02:02:45.920 --> 02:02:49.840 of a death and rebirth kind of thing, not necessarily 2280 02:02:49.880 --> 02:02:52.680 a reincarnation, but a death and rebirth kind of ritual 2281 02:02:52.800 --> 02:02:58.479 of sorts similar to I mean they have them, you know, 2282 02:02:58.680 --> 02:03:00.560 Like that's what they used to do back in those 2283 02:03:00.640 --> 02:03:04.000 kind of ritualistic days, where you'd go through the death 2284 02:03:04.079 --> 02:03:09.000 ceremony to be reborn, so to say, Right, And I 2285 02:03:09.000 --> 02:03:11.640 don't know, maybe that's maybe that's what it was. I mean, 2286 02:03:11.680 --> 02:03:14.239 I have no idea. This is fucking mind boggling to me. 2287 02:03:15.079 --> 02:03:17.920 I'm with you, dude. So what's on screen right now? 2288 02:03:17.960 --> 02:03:20.039 Again, for anybody who's just listening, they would like to 2289 02:03:20.039 --> 02:03:23.239 see this Patreon, that is where you'll go. I'm telling you, 2290 02:03:23.239 --> 02:03:25.279 you're gonna want to see these things. This is the 2291 02:03:25.399 --> 02:03:28.680 catalog of all of the artifacts that were found. This 2292 02:03:28.720 --> 02:03:31.279 is just site one, Okay, so they have each site 2293 02:03:31.319 --> 02:03:33.560 and it's all categorized and you can see the pictures 2294 02:03:33.560 --> 02:03:37.239 of it. These circles are called bone circles. Those are 2295 02:03:37.279 --> 02:03:40.319 carved out of human bone. We have a bunch of 2296 02:03:40.359 --> 02:03:44.960 pottery shards, you know, little tools, a little smaller vessels 2297 02:03:45.000 --> 02:03:45.880 that are inside of it. 2298 02:03:46.920 --> 02:03:47.279 Let's see. 2299 02:03:47.319 --> 02:03:48.840 Let's go to the next page and see what they 2300 02:03:48.840 --> 02:03:54.079 got here, more broken shards of things. It looks like 2301 02:03:54.640 --> 02:03:57.000 I'm not sure if that's a jawbone or if that 2302 02:03:57.359 --> 02:03:59.720 is some sort of a tool of some type. It's 2303 02:03:59.800 --> 02:04:01.720 kind of dirty looking, so you know, I don't know. 2304 02:04:03.199 --> 02:04:07.319 We got little pendants looks like a shark tooth again 2305 02:04:07.479 --> 02:04:09.439 this I mean they were close enough to the coast 2306 02:04:09.520 --> 02:04:10.119 where they would go. 2307 02:04:10.199 --> 02:04:12.560 There a lot of beads that were found. 2308 02:04:13.520 --> 02:04:18.720 It's it's pretty incredible the the painstaking amount of research 2309 02:04:18.760 --> 02:04:21.680 that has been done into this area for us to 2310 02:04:21.840 --> 02:04:24.880 know nothing about it like that is crazy. We got 2311 02:04:24.880 --> 02:04:28.800 some arrowheads over here, looks like bronze arrowheads that that 2312 02:04:29.760 --> 02:04:33.960 looks like a necklace or some sort of a relic 2313 02:04:34.119 --> 02:04:37.920 of some type. To be worn clay cups and jars 2314 02:04:38.960 --> 02:04:42.359 more broken. You know, remains of vessels of some type. 2315 02:04:42.479 --> 02:04:43.079 Here we go. 2316 02:04:43.520 --> 02:04:46.600 I think that's a type of bracelet of some type, 2317 02:04:47.399 --> 02:04:49.039 some little trinket over here. 2318 02:04:49.840 --> 02:04:52.039 It's it is incredible to me, dude. So but that's 2319 02:04:52.039 --> 02:04:52.600 what I'm saying. 2320 02:04:52.720 --> 02:04:55.520 So to say that some of them were used in 2321 02:04:55.560 --> 02:05:00.000 burial practices, Okay, I can believe that they have found bodies. 2322 02:05:00.000 --> 02:05:02.800 They have found urns of burial remains. 2323 02:05:02.840 --> 02:05:05.359 These two over here, these are urns where they believe 2324 02:05:05.359 --> 02:05:07.560 they have bodily remains inside of it. 2325 02:05:07.840 --> 02:05:11.560 And that was found near the jars. But this wasn't 2326 02:05:11.560 --> 02:05:13.239 found inside the jars. 2327 02:05:14.560 --> 02:05:15.239 Interesting. 2328 02:05:16.239 --> 02:05:19.159 So with all of that, let's go into some of 2329 02:05:19.199 --> 02:05:21.640 the theories about the plane of jars. We've covered some 2330 02:05:21.680 --> 02:05:23.159 of them and some of them we have not. This 2331 02:05:23.239 --> 02:05:27.760 is from DISCOVERYUK dot com. So Planes of Jars theories. 2332 02:05:28.479 --> 02:05:32.079 The field of jars in Laws's archaeological marvel has posed 2333 02:05:32.159 --> 02:05:35.720 numerous questions that remain largely unanswered. While several theories have 2334 02:05:35.760 --> 02:05:39.760 been proposed, none have been definitively proven. Storage for food 2335 02:05:39.960 --> 02:05:42.439 or wine. One of the most common theories is that 2336 02:05:42.479 --> 02:05:45.159 the jars were used for storing food or wine. This 2337 02:05:45.279 --> 02:05:47.960 theory is grounded in the idea that such large containers 2338 02:05:48.000 --> 02:05:52.039 would have been ideal for storing surplus grains or for 2339 02:05:52.159 --> 02:05:56.800 fermenting and storing rice wine. Again, I see where they're 2340 02:05:56.840 --> 02:06:00.039 going with this, But you would have some sort of 2341 02:06:00.039 --> 02:06:03.359 of uh, some sort of a sign that that was 2342 02:06:03.359 --> 02:06:04.560 what these were used for. 2343 02:06:04.720 --> 02:06:07.600 Some also that would state that, yeah, I mean some 2344 02:06:07.680 --> 02:06:10.159 kind of scraping along the walls or at the bottom, 2345 02:06:10.239 --> 02:06:11.119 but there isn't that. 2346 02:06:11.840 --> 02:06:13.439 Not to mention the archaeology. 2347 02:06:13.600 --> 02:06:16.279 The archaeologist who's like leading this study heard the theory 2348 02:06:16.279 --> 02:06:18.960 and is like, you know, this is not a good 2349 02:06:19.079 --> 02:06:23.079 vessel for fermentation, like that if for fermentation you need 2350 02:06:23.119 --> 02:06:24.039 an airtight seal. 2351 02:06:24.119 --> 02:06:27.079 It seems very porous, very porous. 2352 02:06:27.159 --> 02:06:31.960 Yes, But also unless these jar lids were so perfectly 2353 02:06:32.039 --> 02:06:34.319 formed that they could fit with an air tight seal, 2354 02:06:34.399 --> 02:06:36.960 that is that's not you see what I'm saying. 2355 02:06:36.960 --> 02:06:38.119 It just doesn't make a lot of. 2356 02:06:38.039 --> 02:06:41.479 Sense, right. I imagine if it rained, water was still 2357 02:06:41.520 --> 02:06:44.199 finding its way in there, even exactly. 2358 02:06:46.039 --> 02:06:47.720 Burial or funeral use. 2359 02:06:48.119 --> 02:06:51.520 Another widely supported theory is that these megalithic stone jars 2360 02:06:51.520 --> 02:06:55.680 were used for funerary practices. Archaeological evidence including the discovery 2361 02:06:55.680 --> 02:06:58.680 of human remains and burial goods in and around some 2362 02:06:58.720 --> 02:07:01.399 of the jars, support this theory. It's believed by some 2363 02:07:01.479 --> 02:07:03.479 that the jars might have been used to expose the 2364 02:07:03.520 --> 02:07:06.960 dead temporarily before their final burial, a practice known in 2365 02:07:07.039 --> 02:07:11.840 archaeology as second burial. And again, okay, I could at 2366 02:07:11.920 --> 02:07:14.720 least understand the chain of events on that one, but 2367 02:07:14.800 --> 02:07:19.600 you've only found evidence at eighteen jars that that might 2368 02:07:19.680 --> 02:07:21.880 be what they were used for out of two thousand 2369 02:07:21.960 --> 02:07:25.880 confirmed jars. I got a hard time putting those pieces 2370 02:07:25.920 --> 02:07:26.680 together in my head. 2371 02:07:27.399 --> 02:07:30.079 Yeah, I have a problem with that one too. I mean, 2372 02:07:30.119 --> 02:07:31.880 it's cool, you know, that would be cool if that 2373 02:07:31.960 --> 02:07:36.600 was the case. I mean, maybe this was the Eastern 2374 02:07:36.680 --> 02:07:39.920 way of you know, of what the Egyptians were doing. 2375 02:07:41.159 --> 02:07:45.279 I mean maybe, But again, there'd be some other remains, 2376 02:07:45.359 --> 02:07:47.960 and most of these remains weren't found inside the jar. 2377 02:07:48.680 --> 02:07:50.680 Some of the jars had the charring inside to show 2378 02:07:50.680 --> 02:07:53.439 that they were trying to use it for like a crematorium. 2379 02:07:53.800 --> 02:07:56.880 But most of the conversation about cremator remains and stuff 2380 02:07:56.920 --> 02:07:59.880 come from a cave a little ways away. 2381 02:07:59.600 --> 02:08:00.640 From the jars. 2382 02:08:01.399 --> 02:08:06.000 So it's like, if one then the other doesn't necessarily 2383 02:08:06.079 --> 02:08:09.119 line up here. Maybe it's possible that they were burning 2384 02:08:09.159 --> 02:08:11.439 them in the cave and then bringing the burn remains 2385 02:08:11.479 --> 02:08:13.680 back to the jars for final resting or whatever the 2386 02:08:13.680 --> 02:08:17.920 case was, but that's not as clear cut as what 2387 02:08:17.960 --> 02:08:19.039 they're making it out to be. 2388 02:08:20.560 --> 02:08:26.479 Yeah. Then, of course collection of rainwater, which again forests 2389 02:08:26.720 --> 02:08:30.319 not not really something that would work. 2390 02:08:31.079 --> 02:08:34.159 Some scholars process or sorry, some scholars propose that the 2391 02:08:34.199 --> 02:08:37.000 jars were used to collect and store rainwater for caravan 2392 02:08:37.079 --> 02:08:40.520 travelers moving along the ancient and long forgotten trade routes. 2393 02:08:40.840 --> 02:08:43.880 This theory aligns with the strategic locations of the plans 2394 02:08:43.880 --> 02:08:47.479 of jar sites, often found on elevated areas or along 2395 02:08:47.520 --> 02:08:52.199 potential travel routes throughout the region. Again, elevated, dude, they're 2396 02:08:52.199 --> 02:08:55.199 on top of hills and on top of mountains. This 2397 02:08:55.279 --> 02:08:58.520 took hundreds, if not thousands of dudes to move from 2398 02:08:58.520 --> 02:09:01.039 point A to point B. Who had I mean, they 2399 02:09:01.079 --> 02:09:03.199 have beasts of burden, right, They have like oxen and 2400 02:09:03.279 --> 02:09:06.159 yacks and not Yacks's more than the mountains of Lake Tibet. 2401 02:09:06.199 --> 02:09:07.520 But you know what I'm saying, They have like their 2402 02:09:07.600 --> 02:09:09.880 version of animals that they could use for this purpose. 2403 02:09:10.680 --> 02:09:13.479 But even still, that is a tall order to say 2404 02:09:13.479 --> 02:09:17.560 that they did that two thousand times for water collection. 2405 02:09:18.039 --> 02:09:19.840 So you're telling me that the people that have lived 2406 02:09:19.840 --> 02:09:22.479 in this area since the beginning of time have found 2407 02:09:22.520 --> 02:09:26.800 no better way to collect rainwater other than carving stone jars. 2408 02:09:28.159 --> 02:09:30.880 What And if that's the case, you would find like 2409 02:09:31.760 --> 02:09:37.520 much older remnants of maybe housing utensils or some people 2410 02:09:37.640 --> 02:09:40.319 like living in that specific area around here. And I 2411 02:09:40.359 --> 02:09:41.840 know that they can't really get to a lot of 2412 02:09:41.840 --> 02:09:44.800 that because of all the undetonated bombs and whatnot. But 2413 02:09:45.359 --> 02:09:47.279 even still, that's not what they're finding, you. 2414 02:09:47.159 --> 02:09:49.560 Know, exactly. It doesn't make sense to me. 2415 02:09:49.880 --> 02:09:53.119 Then there's another one, trade route markers, building on the 2416 02:09:53.159 --> 02:09:56.000 idea of caravan travelers. Another theory suggests that the plane 2417 02:09:56.039 --> 02:09:59.760 of jars was a part of a more extensive trade network, specifically, 2418 02:10:00.000 --> 02:10:05.720 according to Madeleine Kolani, the trade of salt in the 2419 02:10:05.760 --> 02:10:11.000 region Salt. This is supported by the discovery of items 2420 02:10:11.000 --> 02:10:14.199 such as beads and ornaments from different regions, possibly indicating 2421 02:10:14.199 --> 02:10:17.800 some level of trade and cultural exchange. The jars themselves, 2422 02:10:17.880 --> 02:10:20.399 under this theory, could have been central to the trade network, 2423 02:10:20.439 --> 02:10:24.119 perhaps being the Macong River basin and Gulf of Tonkin. 2424 02:10:25.079 --> 02:10:29.640 I could understand this being a portion of the trade route, 2425 02:10:30.319 --> 02:10:33.319 for sure. I get this. You're still going uphill to 2426 02:10:33.359 --> 02:10:35.840 get to these things. It would make way more sense 2427 02:10:35.840 --> 02:10:38.399 that you would have trade along river banks, not on 2428 02:10:38.479 --> 02:10:40.079 top of mountains. 2429 02:10:40.640 --> 02:10:43.199 Yeah, because you think about it, I mean, and I 2430 02:10:43.239 --> 02:10:45.600 don't know what you know. I mean, I know that 2431 02:10:45.640 --> 02:10:48.399 there was like spiritual little Buddhist figurines in there, but 2432 02:10:48.680 --> 02:10:52.720 that even like you said earlier, like the Buddhism wasn't 2433 02:10:52.760 --> 02:10:56.800 even like it wasn't even around four thousand years ago, right, 2434 02:10:56.960 --> 02:10:59.239 you know, or thirty five hundred or three thousand years 2435 02:10:59.279 --> 02:11:01.760 ago or whatever like that only started back in like 2436 02:11:02.560 --> 02:11:05.439 pretty much around the time that Jesus died, right or 2437 02:11:05.520 --> 02:11:06.520 around thereabouts. 2438 02:11:07.039 --> 02:11:08.880 I'm trying to remember. I looked that up once upon 2439 02:11:08.920 --> 02:11:11.760 a time. When did Buddhism really begin? When did the 2440 02:11:11.760 --> 02:11:14.800 Buddha like break off from the Vedics? Because he was 2441 02:11:14.840 --> 02:11:17.439 a if I'm not mistaken, he was a guru in 2442 02:11:17.560 --> 02:11:20.920 Hinduism or at least some type of the Vedic philosophy, 2443 02:11:21.359 --> 02:11:24.439 and then he broke off, went more north and more east, 2444 02:11:24.640 --> 02:11:27.680 and then founded what we would now call Buddhism. 2445 02:11:27.720 --> 02:11:29.800 I'm trying to remember the year in which that took place. 2446 02:11:29.880 --> 02:11:34.000 So Buddha, also known as Siddhartha Gautama, is believed to 2447 02:11:34.039 --> 02:11:38.880 have lived around the sixth to fourth century BC. Interesting, 2448 02:11:39.000 --> 02:11:40.439 but when was Buddhism. 2449 02:11:42.079 --> 02:11:42.560 Well, I mean. 2450 02:11:42.560 --> 02:11:46.199 Buddhism in practice came from his followers, So I mean 2451 02:11:46.239 --> 02:11:48.960 I'm assuming as he went he taught and he like 2452 02:11:49.079 --> 02:11:52.359 developed his own following and disciples and all of these things. 2453 02:11:52.399 --> 02:11:55.640 But so that's my point. So fifth and sixth century BC, 2454 02:11:56.000 --> 02:11:59.560 it's old. I'm not denying that at all. But also 2455 02:12:00.720 --> 02:12:04.800 the jars were carved a thousand to two thousand years 2456 02:12:04.800 --> 02:12:05.920 before he was alive. 2457 02:12:06.319 --> 02:12:09.960 Yeah, I thought that. I thought that Buddha Buddhism started 2458 02:12:10.000 --> 02:12:14.399 around like the turn of the century, you know, around 2459 02:12:14.439 --> 02:12:16.920 you know, year zero or whatever. But yeah, it says 2460 02:12:16.960 --> 02:12:21.000 Buddhism was founded in late sixth century BC, So that 2461 02:12:21.119 --> 02:12:24.079 was whenever Buddha was around, or the original Buddha, because 2462 02:12:24.079 --> 02:12:26.439 I think there was actually several Buddhas, but he's like 2463 02:12:26.479 --> 02:12:26.960 the first. 2464 02:12:27.680 --> 02:12:32.640 Technically, according to their beliefs, anybody can become a Buddha. Right, 2465 02:12:32.680 --> 02:12:35.119 it just like a level of enlightenment and all of that. 2466 02:12:35.239 --> 02:12:37.840 But right, and I knew that it was older than 2467 02:12:38.119 --> 02:12:40.279 like Jesus, for instance, which is why whenever I hear 2468 02:12:40.279 --> 02:12:43.359 people say like, oh, Buddha had christ consciousness, it's like, bro, 2469 02:12:43.760 --> 02:12:47.399 that's that's not even in the same conversations. 2470 02:12:46.720 --> 02:12:48.159 Buddha consciousness is more likely. 2471 02:12:48.600 --> 02:12:49.520 Oh shut up. 2472 02:12:50.359 --> 02:12:53.840 But anyway, my point is that doesn't make sense. Buddhism 2473 02:12:53.920 --> 02:12:59.279 started centuries, uh a millennia after these jars were carved, 2474 02:12:59.640 --> 02:13:02.800 so say that they had something in that regard also, 2475 02:13:02.840 --> 02:13:05.000 that makes no sense. And like the bootest figurines that 2476 02:13:05.039 --> 02:13:07.840 you see, like, sure they've been used by people since 2477 02:13:07.880 --> 02:13:11.560 they were carved, but I don't see a direct connection 2478 02:13:11.760 --> 02:13:15.399 to the trade network. I don't see a direct connection 2479 02:13:15.479 --> 02:13:18.520 to water cisterns. I don't see a direct connection to 2480 02:13:19.239 --> 02:13:23.039 burial sites of some type, you know, not really. 2481 02:13:24.520 --> 02:13:30.560 Yeah, I'm trying to look up when dn Buddhism. When 2482 02:13:30.720 --> 02:13:34.119 was Buddhism h startopular in Laos? 2483 02:13:34.199 --> 02:13:39.000 Maybe okay, you can look into that. 2484 02:13:39.039 --> 02:13:41.840 When did Buddhism make its way more south as far 2485 02:13:41.880 --> 02:13:43.680 as the Asian continent is concerned. 2486 02:13:46.000 --> 02:13:46.960 I mean, but even. 2487 02:13:46.800 --> 02:13:49.880 Still, it would be well, after these stone jars were 2488 02:13:49.920 --> 02:13:51.520 carved and put in place. 2489 02:13:53.520 --> 02:13:57.039 Well, what I thought it was like, uh, wasn't it 2490 02:13:57.079 --> 02:14:00.640 four thousand BC? That whenever they suggest that these things were. 2491 02:14:00.560 --> 02:14:05.079 Created the early assessments as of this moment, some of 2492 02:14:05.119 --> 02:14:08.840 them three thousand BC, some of them like one thousand BC, 2493 02:14:09.439 --> 02:14:10.800 so to that point, but. 2494 02:14:11.000 --> 02:14:13.680 It was alive and four fucking thousand. 2495 02:14:13.319 --> 02:14:17.279 BC before five hundred BC. 2496 02:14:18.039 --> 02:14:19.479 No, it wasn't five hundred BC. 2497 02:14:19.960 --> 02:14:24.920 That's so what you just said six to fifth century BC, six. 2498 02:14:24.880 --> 02:14:29.199 To fifth century BC. So what sixth century BC is 2499 02:14:29.439 --> 02:14:30.520 six thousand BC? 2500 02:14:30.800 --> 02:14:32.920 Right? A century is one hundred years? My boy? 2501 02:14:33.039 --> 02:14:34.199 Oh, I am tripping. 2502 02:14:35.039 --> 02:14:37.319 Yeah, So when you say six thousand years, it's like 2503 02:14:37.439 --> 02:14:38.279 you mean six. 2504 02:14:38.159 --> 02:14:40.520 Oh, I am all the way fucked right now, you're right, 2505 02:14:40.560 --> 02:14:44.159 you're right, yeah. But even still, Buddhism became popular in 2506 02:14:44.239 --> 02:14:49.000 Laos starting from the seventh to eighth centuries AD, so after, 2507 02:14:49.119 --> 02:14:52.640 way after, So that would be that would just point 2508 02:14:52.640 --> 02:14:55.680 to the people of that time, not necessarily the people 2509 02:14:55.680 --> 02:14:57.800 that created them exactly. 2510 02:14:57.840 --> 02:14:58.640 And that's my point. 2511 02:14:58.920 --> 02:15:02.560 These stone jars were carved and moved at the same time, 2512 02:15:02.760 --> 02:15:04.920 or at least around the same When I say at 2513 02:15:04.920 --> 02:15:07.800 the same time, I don't mean the exact year thereof, 2514 02:15:07.920 --> 02:15:11.640 but I mean around the same time frame, the same 2515 02:15:11.840 --> 02:15:14.960 thousand year stint where the pyramids that Egypt were being. 2516 02:15:14.760 --> 02:15:18.439 Built right right, which is making so strange about like 2517 02:15:18.560 --> 02:15:21.520 these are all I mean, yeah, probably a couple hundred 2518 02:15:21.560 --> 02:15:23.680 years away from each other, but right around the same 2519 02:15:23.760 --> 02:15:26.560 time zone that people are speculating that these things were 2520 02:15:26.560 --> 02:15:29.920 created with, you know, the pyramids and and this like 2521 02:15:29.960 --> 02:15:33.560 and amongst other things. But it's weird, just like you know, 2522 02:15:33.600 --> 02:15:35.680 we just just we just supposed that they were stupid 2523 02:15:35.720 --> 02:15:37.079 and they didn't know what the fuck they were doing 2524 02:15:37.119 --> 02:15:40.039 because they weren't advanced, but they had a rhyme or reason. 2525 02:15:40.079 --> 02:15:44.079 You wouldn't just pull or push you know, four ton 2526 02:15:44.239 --> 02:15:49.960 or fourteen ton fucking uh bowls or pots or cups 2527 02:15:50.079 --> 02:15:52.239 or whatever uphill for no damn reason. 2528 02:15:52.960 --> 02:15:56.000 So also, while you're looking, look up, when did iron 2529 02:15:56.079 --> 02:16:00.479 working become a thing in this region Because for some 2530 02:16:00.520 --> 02:16:03.119 of the sandstone, again some of them that are made 2531 02:16:03.159 --> 02:16:05.880 of a sandstone, I could absolutely understand why they were 2532 02:16:05.880 --> 02:16:09.439 able to do that with stone chisels or even bronze chisels. 2533 02:16:09.479 --> 02:16:10.399 This makes sense to me. 2534 02:16:11.319 --> 02:16:15.880 The granite dude, you couldn't do that by in that 2535 02:16:16.039 --> 02:16:20.840 timeframe of two thousand, three thousand BC because you would 2536 02:16:20.920 --> 02:16:24.079 need iron for this, and how in the actual hell 2537 02:16:24.520 --> 02:16:26.359 did it And it's not like cutting a stone, right, 2538 02:16:26.399 --> 02:16:28.159 We've talked about how they did it in Egypt with 2539 02:16:28.199 --> 02:16:32.399 the bricks and how there's excuse me, bronze saws they 2540 02:16:32.399 --> 02:16:34.280 would use and they pour some sand into the cut 2541 02:16:34.280 --> 02:16:35.959 and they'd scrape it and pour some more sand and 2542 02:16:36.000 --> 02:16:39.479 scrape it in very long, arduous process to make a 2543 02:16:39.920 --> 02:16:43.559 cube out of a stone. I understand this. We're talking 2544 02:16:43.600 --> 02:16:46.200 about getting inside of it and carving out the walls. 2545 02:16:46.520 --> 02:16:48.879 No, dude, you're gonna need You're gonna need iron for. 2546 02:16:48.840 --> 02:16:52.559 This, says iron working in Laos began around seven hundred BC, 2547 02:16:52.840 --> 02:16:56.479 following the earlier use of bronze, which started around fifteen 2548 02:16:56.559 --> 02:16:57.159 hundred BC. 2549 02:16:58.159 --> 02:17:02.600 Okay, seven hundred BC, and the last jar was made 2550 02:17:02.799 --> 02:17:03.799 a thousand BC. 2551 02:17:04.559 --> 02:17:06.719 A you see what I'm saying. Fucking aliens, that's the answer. 2552 02:17:06.760 --> 02:17:08.719 I'm sorry, that's just what we're gonna say with this one. 2553 02:17:09.159 --> 02:17:10.000 Who knows, dude. 2554 02:17:10.000 --> 02:17:12.799 We get to the next theory. A mythical race of giants. 2555 02:17:13.319 --> 02:17:16.239 Some legends add a mythological dimension to the various planes 2556 02:17:16.280 --> 02:17:19.159 of jars. Theories suggest seeing they were created by a 2557 02:17:19.239 --> 02:17:22.360 race of giants and their king kun Chung. The story 2558 02:17:22.399 --> 02:17:24.399 goes that these giants use the jars to brew and 2559 02:17:24.399 --> 02:17:27.479 store huge quantities of rice wine, known locally as Lao hi, 2560 02:17:28.000 --> 02:17:29.959 although we also saw the Lao lao, which is like 2561 02:17:30.000 --> 02:17:32.159 the rice whiskey that they make. Look, who's to say 2562 02:17:32.159 --> 02:17:33.959 if they're giants and their party, and who knows what 2563 02:17:34.000 --> 02:17:34.520 they were making. 2564 02:17:34.559 --> 02:17:36.680 Anyway, they probably just s if they were giants, they 2565 02:17:36.719 --> 02:17:37.559 probably just called. 2566 02:17:37.360 --> 02:17:44.239 It right to be drunken celebration of a great victory. 2567 02:17:44.280 --> 02:17:48.479 While this theory isn't supported by archaeological evidence, it's a 2568 02:17:48.520 --> 02:17:52.280 significant part of the cultural and historical narratives surrounding the jars. 2569 02:17:52.680 --> 02:17:56.159 There are other less prominent and more speculative theories as 2570 02:17:56.200 --> 02:17:58.079 to the purpose of the huge number of vessels in 2571 02:17:58.120 --> 02:18:01.239 the field of jars, including some sort of ceremonial or 2572 02:18:01.319 --> 02:18:06.079 ritualistic use, or as a status symbol or representations of 2573 02:18:06.200 --> 02:18:09.600 social ranking. There's also speculation that they were used in 2574 02:18:09.639 --> 02:18:13.319 relation to astronomy or calendar type devices used to mark 2575 02:18:13.360 --> 02:18:16.840 certain celestial events or seasons. They could also be territorial 2576 02:18:16.879 --> 02:18:21.760 markers or boundary stones delineating specific areas, or, given the 2577 02:18:21.799 --> 02:18:24.319 age of the ministry surrounding the jars, they might have 2578 02:18:24.399 --> 02:18:27.639 held religious or spiritual significance that is not yet understood, 2579 02:18:27.680 --> 02:18:31.479 possibly related to the ancient belief systems or practices which 2580 02:18:31.520 --> 02:18:35.600 have been lost to history. See this is my problem. This, 2581 02:18:35.600 --> 02:18:38.600 this is my problem, dude. Anytime there is something that 2582 02:18:38.639 --> 02:18:42.719 we can't easily explain, oh, we believe it had verious significant, 2583 02:18:42.760 --> 02:18:44.719 ceremonial and religious principles. 2584 02:18:44.479 --> 02:18:46.639 That's that's what it was for. It's like, Okay, I. 2585 02:18:46.639 --> 02:18:49.239 Mean, it's possible. It's not impossible. 2586 02:18:50.120 --> 02:18:55.120 It's possible, yes, but these were obviously vessels meant to 2587 02:18:55.280 --> 02:18:59.760 hold something, carry something, store something like, they had a 2588 02:18:59.760 --> 02:19:03.280 pretic use, and maybe there was a spiritual or religious 2589 02:19:03.360 --> 02:19:06.719 or ceremonial use for them holding something. 2590 02:19:08.040 --> 02:19:11.239 But it's just, oh, dude, it's such a cop out 2591 02:19:11.319 --> 02:19:11.520 to me. 2592 02:19:12.120 --> 02:19:16.040 Every time we find anything that we just can't easily 2593 02:19:16.399 --> 02:19:19.680 identify clearly it was a religious significant thing. 2594 02:19:19.719 --> 02:19:22.399 It's like, I mean, is it possible though, Like, because 2595 02:19:23.319 --> 02:19:26.879 it wasn't that long ago that people were really into 2596 02:19:27.000 --> 02:19:30.239 like the weird spiritual shit. It wasn't until organized religion 2597 02:19:30.680 --> 02:19:35.239 came and started making everything the way that we know it. 2598 02:19:35.319 --> 02:19:38.559 But back then there wasn't really organized religion. You had 2599 02:19:38.600 --> 02:19:42.680 certain pagan deities and maybe there was a certain community 2600 02:19:42.760 --> 02:19:46.440 that offered up offerings to certain spirits or ancestors or 2601 02:19:46.440 --> 02:19:47.239 something like that. 2602 02:19:47.680 --> 02:19:49.319 I didn't call it organized religion. 2603 02:19:50.079 --> 02:19:52.920 Well, I mean within each community. I mean organized for 2604 02:19:53.000 --> 02:19:55.680 a community, I guess, but not for like a large 2605 02:19:55.959 --> 02:19:59.920 not for like the whole world or a specific country. 2606 02:19:59.799 --> 02:19:59.840 Ma. 2607 02:20:00.280 --> 02:20:00.719 I don't know. 2608 02:20:01.479 --> 02:20:04.319 Romans had a very organized religion. The Greeks had a 2609 02:20:04.399 --> 02:20:11.200 very organized religion. Egypt had a very organized religion. Yeah, dude, 2610 02:20:11.200 --> 02:20:13.799 when they built the pyramids, they had a very organized 2611 02:20:13.799 --> 02:20:14.840 and structure religion. 2612 02:20:14.959 --> 02:20:15.399 Yeah. 2613 02:20:16.000 --> 02:20:17.639 No, but I'm talking about the Romans. 2614 02:20:18.479 --> 02:20:20.680 Oh yeah, when the Romans is like, yeah, they they 2615 02:20:20.760 --> 02:20:26.479 had granted, it was basically the exact same Hellenistic vibe. 2616 02:20:26.520 --> 02:20:28.959 They just renamed things to make it Roman, even though 2617 02:20:28.959 --> 02:20:31.120 they took all of their notes from the Greeks. And 2618 02:20:31.120 --> 02:20:33.000 then there's an argument to say that the Greeks took 2619 02:20:33.040 --> 02:20:34.600 all of their notes from the Egyptians. 2620 02:20:34.680 --> 02:20:35.239 I get it. 2621 02:20:35.639 --> 02:20:38.600 But yeah, they had very specific practices that had to 2622 02:20:38.600 --> 02:20:40.760 be uphild. It wasn't just kind of a fly by night, 2623 02:20:40.840 --> 02:20:41.600 do it feels right? 2624 02:20:41.719 --> 02:20:41.879 Yeah? 2625 02:20:41.879 --> 02:20:44.920 But it was ever changing though, at least from my research, 2626 02:20:45.000 --> 02:20:48.719 as far as at least within the Roman times, because 2627 02:20:48.879 --> 02:20:52.840 before Christianity made its way over into that region of 2628 02:20:52.879 --> 02:20:56.760 the world, they were legit like they had fucking cults 2629 02:20:57.000 --> 02:21:00.719 where they were worshiping the emperor's genius or which was 2630 02:21:01.000 --> 02:21:05.000 another way of just saying that the emperor's guardian angel 2631 02:21:05.200 --> 02:21:05.719 or whatever. 2632 02:21:06.639 --> 02:21:07.040 I mean. 2633 02:21:07.639 --> 02:21:11.040 They had, yeah, military cults that would worship the emperor 2634 02:21:11.200 --> 02:21:13.760 as a deity himself, which is why he was put 2635 02:21:14.079 --> 02:21:16.479 a statue of him was usually put into either a 2636 02:21:16.600 --> 02:21:18.639 his own temple or be the temple of Zeus for 2637 02:21:18.760 --> 02:21:21.920 that or I should say Jupiter as you do. 2638 02:21:21.920 --> 02:21:23.280 With the mad dog matters. 2639 02:21:23.760 --> 02:21:26.440 It's some Yeah, I've seen people Bill trying some mad dog. 2640 02:21:26.520 --> 02:21:28.200 I had to take mine down, but that's besides the point. 2641 02:21:28.200 --> 02:21:30.799 But didn't neither here there, Okay, but yeah, there is 2642 02:21:30.840 --> 02:21:32.879 people that would do that, But that's my point. You 2643 02:21:32.920 --> 02:21:36.719 would have organized cults to a specific deity, but I 2644 02:21:36.760 --> 02:21:38.239 wouldn't call that unorganized. 2645 02:21:38.600 --> 02:21:42.000 If anything, I would call that extremely structured. It was. Yeah, 2646 02:21:42.040 --> 02:21:43.559 there was a pantheon, and there was. 2647 02:21:43.559 --> 02:21:45.399 More than one way or more than one way to 2648 02:21:45.479 --> 02:21:49.159 worship in totality. But like you knew that this God 2649 02:21:49.360 --> 02:21:52.879 expected this type of sacrifice, This God expected this type 2650 02:21:52.920 --> 02:21:55.120 of sacrifice this, God did this thing, and it's like, 2651 02:21:55.159 --> 02:21:57.559 if you wanted this, you sacrifice this in order to 2652 02:21:57.639 --> 02:22:00.239 get this, so like it to us in now, our 2653 02:22:00.360 --> 02:22:02.959 modern day, we might see that as kind of all 2654 02:22:02.959 --> 02:22:05.879 over the place and unorganized. I would argue that that's 2655 02:22:06.479 --> 02:22:07.959 very organized as a matter of fact. 2656 02:22:08.239 --> 02:22:10.520 But I mean, there's that's the thing. 2657 02:22:10.520 --> 02:22:12.840 We're talking about, a religion in this area of Southeast 2658 02:22:12.879 --> 02:22:15.799 Asia that we probably will never know about because it's 2659 02:22:15.799 --> 02:22:18.680 been lost to the sands of time. Buddhism took over, 2660 02:22:18.760 --> 02:22:21.520 like you said, in the eighth century a d. So 2661 02:22:21.680 --> 02:22:25.760 whatever the people were worshiping before that point, who fucking. 2662 02:22:25.520 --> 02:22:27.000 Knows, man, who knows? 2663 02:22:27.360 --> 02:22:32.639 Yeah, So anyway, so yeah, the plane of jars, it's 2664 02:22:32.680 --> 02:22:35.079 a wild it's a wild conversation, dude. 2665 02:22:35.159 --> 02:22:37.239 I actually did want to pull up a couple of 2666 02:22:37.319 --> 02:22:41.520 the other possible speculative kind of things here, and so 2667 02:22:41.840 --> 02:22:43.319 I'm not gonna lie. Some of it's gonna get a 2668 02:22:43.319 --> 02:22:46.319 little wooy loo woo woo wie if you will, Okay, 2669 02:22:46.879 --> 02:22:49.360 But I mean, hey, you can't really throw anything out 2670 02:22:49.399 --> 02:22:52.559 because there is no answer, so you can only speculate. So, 2671 02:22:52.680 --> 02:22:55.559 first of all, you had the the whole giants and 2672 02:22:56.159 --> 02:22:58.479 that whole conversation, which we're not going to go back into, 2673 02:22:58.520 --> 02:23:01.079 but if you think about it as far as that 2674 02:23:01.120 --> 02:23:06.520 whole giant situation, So that's what they believe. As far 2675 02:23:06.520 --> 02:23:10.239 as the local Lautian legend that there was a race, 2676 02:23:10.520 --> 02:23:13.680 a race of giants that roam the land. The jars 2677 02:23:13.719 --> 02:23:18.520 created by are created for Kun Chung, who had just 2678 02:23:18.559 --> 02:23:20.840 won a great battle. To celebrate, he commissioned the creation 2679 02:23:20.920 --> 02:23:23.959 of massive jars to brew and store huge quantities of 2680 02:23:24.000 --> 02:23:26.719 rice wine for the victory feast. It says that this 2681 02:23:27.000 --> 02:23:30.600 theory fits into broader Indo Asian mythology of giants and 2682 02:23:30.639 --> 02:23:34.319 sky beings who built massive structures around the world, much 2683 02:23:34.520 --> 02:23:37.159 like the Nephelum lore in the Bible. So I thought 2684 02:23:37.200 --> 02:23:41.840 that was kind of strange. Then we we can't not 2685 02:23:42.159 --> 02:23:45.399 mention aliens like it's gotta get thrown out there. 2686 02:23:45.760 --> 02:23:47.440 Why the fuck not at this point? 2687 02:23:47.920 --> 02:23:54.000 Not so it says alien landing markers or stargates. All right, 2688 02:23:54.040 --> 02:23:56.319 you got your ship like this, you gotta get a 2689 02:23:56.319 --> 02:23:57.959 little stargatey up in here, dude. 2690 02:23:58.079 --> 02:23:58.399 Okay. 2691 02:23:58.879 --> 02:24:01.680 So some French theory believe that the plane of jars 2692 02:24:01.719 --> 02:24:05.000 aligns with the ancient global energy grids much like the 2693 02:24:05.719 --> 02:24:09.200 Nasca lines or Stonehenge. According to this idea, the jars 2694 02:24:09.239 --> 02:24:13.840 are not just containers but markers or amplifiers of electromagnetic energy, 2695 02:24:14.079 --> 02:24:18.879 placed deliberately by either extraterrestrial visitors or ancient civilizations guided 2696 02:24:18.920 --> 02:24:22.639 by them. So the jar's durable material. There's strange distribution 2697 02:24:22.719 --> 02:24:26.000 across wide areas and lack of clear quarrying records, all 2698 02:24:26.000 --> 02:24:30.399 fueled the alien theory. Of course, maybe why not? Then 2699 02:24:30.399 --> 02:24:35.879 you get into the interdimensional anchors. Possibly so in esoteric circles, 2700 02:24:36.079 --> 02:24:39.760 it speculated that the jars were used in soul transference 2701 02:24:39.920 --> 02:24:43.120 or anchoring rituals. The theory posits that they could have 2702 02:24:43.200 --> 02:24:47.360 held relics or remains during astral or shamanic ceremonies where 2703 02:24:47.399 --> 02:24:51.319 the goal was to preserve or transfer consciousness, essentially acting 2704 02:24:51.399 --> 02:24:58.639 like primitive soul jars or horcuxes. All right, throw a 2705 02:24:58.639 --> 02:25:02.319 little Harry Potter in there. So the jar's hollow interiors 2706 02:25:02.319 --> 02:25:05.159 in alignment with certain lay lines give this idea some 2707 02:25:05.239 --> 02:25:09.520 mystical appeal. Then there's obviously the last civilization technology, one 2708 02:25:09.559 --> 02:25:12.879 of my favorites if we're going here, similar to the 2709 02:25:13.120 --> 02:25:16.840 Atlantis of the East idea, Some believe that the jars 2710 02:25:16.840 --> 02:25:20.120 were created by a now lost advanced civilization with stone 2711 02:25:20.159 --> 02:25:23.559 shaping technology unknown to us. Some of the jars were 2712 02:25:23.600 --> 02:25:26.600 made of solid granite, which would have required extreme tools 2713 02:25:26.680 --> 02:25:30.600 or methods to carve precisely, methods that supposedly didn't exist 2714 02:25:30.600 --> 02:25:34.000 in the region at that time. This parallels other anomalies 2715 02:25:34.159 --> 02:25:37.799 like the Ballbeck stones in Lebanon or the megaliths of 2716 02:25:38.719 --> 02:25:42.280 Saska Jueman in Peru. I don't know how to say. 2717 02:25:42.319 --> 02:25:45.000 That's a long ass word. Then you got the ancient 2718 02:25:45.040 --> 02:25:48.120 refrigeration and food storage, which, man, I'm not big on 2719 02:25:48.159 --> 02:25:51.120 that one. This is the one that I thought was 2720 02:25:51.159 --> 02:25:55.360 really interesting, which is the dragon or naga symbolism. So 2721 02:25:55.639 --> 02:26:00.000 in Southeastern Asian mythology, it's filled with tales of the naga, 2722 02:26:00.120 --> 02:26:03.239 which are the serpent and deities. Right Yeah, And some 2723 02:26:03.319 --> 02:26:06.319 believe that the jars mark important lay points or dragon 2724 02:26:06.399 --> 02:26:08.760 lines across the land. They may have been used in 2725 02:26:08.840 --> 02:26:12.479 rituals to appease earth spirits or channel energy along these 2726 02:26:12.520 --> 02:26:15.680 invisible lines, much like the Chinese funk Shue grid or 2727 02:26:15.840 --> 02:26:20.200 Indian vast iwo. So this theory blends animism, geomancy, and 2728 02:26:20.399 --> 02:26:26.760 ancient serpent worship traditions. And then of course, and then 2729 02:26:26.799 --> 02:26:28.799 I was like, all right, well, let's get into this 2730 02:26:28.879 --> 02:26:32.079 whole Asian dragon grid theory, right. 2731 02:26:33.520 --> 02:26:34.959 So talked about that in an episode. 2732 02:26:35.040 --> 02:26:37.840 Do there certain buildings that are built with dragon holes 2733 02:26:37.920 --> 02:26:40.200 cut into them for funk shue purposes? 2734 02:26:40.239 --> 02:26:41.840 Even architecturally speaking in. 2735 02:26:41.760 --> 02:26:45.520 Our modern day, they build buildings so that the spirit 2736 02:26:45.559 --> 02:26:47.719 of dragons can pass through unimpeded. 2737 02:26:48.000 --> 02:26:50.200 Some mean, okay, yeah. 2738 02:26:50.239 --> 02:26:53.600 So In Eastern geomancy, such as funk Shui and vastu 2739 02:26:53.799 --> 02:26:57.000 et cetera, lay lines are referred to as dragon lines, 2740 02:26:57.239 --> 02:27:00.879 currents of chi or life or life force that flows 2741 02:27:00.920 --> 02:27:04.680 across the land these lines. These lines often aligned with 2742 02:27:04.799 --> 02:27:08.680 mountain ranges, sacred temples, rivers, and megalithic sites. So the 2743 02:27:08.719 --> 02:27:11.799 Plane of Jars is located in northern Laos near the 2744 02:27:11.920 --> 02:27:17.639 Anamite Mountains. The entire Mikong River basin, which includes Laos, Cambodia, 2745 02:27:17.639 --> 02:27:20.799 and Vietnam, is said to host an energetic vortex that 2746 02:27:20.879 --> 02:27:23.760 feeds into the Himalayas and spread southeast into the South 2747 02:27:23.879 --> 02:27:27.520 China Sea. Some researchers place the Plane of Jars along 2748 02:27:27.559 --> 02:27:31.920 a secondary or tertiary lay grid that aligns with the 2749 02:27:31.959 --> 02:27:35.920 Ankor Watt and Cambodia, Bagan and Myanmar and watt Fu 2750 02:27:36.120 --> 02:27:39.200 in southern Laos, and possibly even the Nasca lines when 2751 02:27:39.280 --> 02:27:43.520 viewed through certain Great Circle Earth grid models. And this 2752 02:27:43.600 --> 02:27:47.959 suggestion or this suggests a sacred geometric connection nodes of 2753 02:27:48.000 --> 02:27:51.559 consciousness or energy where ancient people's placed temples, monuments, or 2754 02:27:51.639 --> 02:27:55.040 ritual sites to tap into this subtle force. And then 2755 02:27:55.079 --> 02:27:58.200 there's a bunch of like I was just looking into 2756 02:27:58.239 --> 02:28:01.319 all the different grids and lay line and whatever we 2757 02:28:01.360 --> 02:28:06.920 could speculate. Right, there's something called the becker Hagen's grid connection, 2758 02:28:08.120 --> 02:28:14.000 which is really interesting because this theory proposes a dodecahedron 2759 02:28:14.680 --> 02:28:19.760 icosahedron planetary energy structure with sixty two major nodal points. 2760 02:28:19.799 --> 02:28:23.239 These are based on mathematical divisions of the Earth, similar 2761 02:28:23.280 --> 02:28:26.959 to how meridians and parallels divide geography. So if you 2762 02:28:27.040 --> 02:28:29.239 really want to get real weird, that's really where you go. 2763 02:28:29.319 --> 02:28:31.840 I'm not even gonna go there. But then there's of 2764 02:28:31.879 --> 02:28:36.360 course the sound vibrational lay line points such as like 2765 02:28:36.440 --> 02:28:41.360 acoustic resonance and harmonic or natural harmonic amplification that would 2766 02:28:41.680 --> 02:28:48.399 allegedly reverberate through the land subsonic vibrational pathways, hypothesized sound corridors, 2767 02:28:48.600 --> 02:28:51.360 and you can really just get fucking wild. But I 2768 02:28:51.399 --> 02:28:54.120 thought that it was interesting the most with the Southeast 2769 02:28:54.159 --> 02:28:57.920 Asian dragon lines, which you know, you got the certain 2770 02:28:58.639 --> 02:29:00.959 nature chi that just flows through the land. I don't 2771 02:29:00.959 --> 02:29:02.479 know what the fucking pots would have to do with that, 2772 02:29:03.040 --> 02:29:07.360 but it's like it always seems like anytime there's like 2773 02:29:07.440 --> 02:29:11.639 these megalithic structures, they're always, for one reason or another, 2774 02:29:11.760 --> 02:29:16.600 perfectly in line on certain grids or lay lines like that. Right, 2775 02:29:16.959 --> 02:29:20.680 Like we bring up our boy that likes to talk 2776 02:29:20.680 --> 02:29:24.120 about the the energetic grid and the lay lines and 2777 02:29:24.159 --> 02:29:27.000 the thirty third pel parallels and shit like that. I 2778 02:29:27.040 --> 02:29:29.959 just believe that the people way back then were much 2779 02:29:29.959 --> 02:29:32.159 more connected to the land than what we are now. 2780 02:29:32.520 --> 02:29:34.440 You know, they respected the land. They looked at the 2781 02:29:34.520 --> 02:29:38.760 land as if it was that it wasn't, you know, 2782 02:29:38.920 --> 02:29:43.120 just some animate object or inanimate object. Rather that they 2783 02:29:43.159 --> 02:29:47.040 they like had built like some weird connection to the land. 2784 02:29:47.680 --> 02:29:50.520 And maybe that maybe that's why we don't know, because 2785 02:29:50.559 --> 02:29:53.159 we don't understand the way that they were thinking back then. 2786 02:29:53.520 --> 02:29:56.440 And I think that that's really the the the mystery 2787 02:29:56.479 --> 02:29:59.879 here for the most part, it's that we don't understand 2788 02:30:00.079 --> 02:30:04.639 their mind and their connection to the whatever their spiritual 2789 02:30:05.040 --> 02:30:07.520 essence was, or what were they connected to to the 2790 02:30:07.600 --> 02:30:10.159 land or the spirits of the ancestors, to the gods. 2791 02:30:10.799 --> 02:30:13.319 And maybe it's not spiritual at all, Maybe it literally 2792 02:30:13.479 --> 02:30:16.559 is just a burial ground. That's also possible too. But 2793 02:30:16.959 --> 02:30:19.639 even with the burial ground, I find it very interesting 2794 02:30:19.959 --> 02:30:21.559 that they would bring it all the way up to 2795 02:30:21.600 --> 02:30:24.079 the top of the hill, maybe the closest you can 2796 02:30:24.120 --> 02:30:26.120 get to Heaven symbolically. 2797 02:30:26.680 --> 02:30:29.319 Maybe, But even with that, there's higher mountains that they 2798 02:30:29.319 --> 02:30:30.000 could have chose. 2799 02:30:30.879 --> 02:30:33.280 So like, what was the purpose to this? But I 2800 02:30:33.280 --> 02:30:34.639 think you might be onto something here. 2801 02:30:34.920 --> 02:30:37.520 And this is currently a working theory that I have 2802 02:30:37.719 --> 02:30:40.479 not about who created the jars or for what purpose? 2803 02:30:41.040 --> 02:30:42.920 Who knows? And I hope that as. 2804 02:30:43.120 --> 02:30:46.559 More archaeological discovery is done, once they can clear out 2805 02:30:46.559 --> 02:30:48.559 more of the minds and things, that maybe we'll find 2806 02:30:48.559 --> 02:30:52.200 out more answers to these questions. Right that being said, 2807 02:30:53.000 --> 02:30:56.520 why are there so many minds? Yeah, the Hucci Min 2808 02:30:56.559 --> 02:30:58.799 trail went through this area. Don't get me wrong, I 2809 02:30:58.840 --> 02:31:04.040 get this. There is murals depicting bombings that took place 2810 02:31:04.200 --> 02:31:08.840 at the plane of jars specifically, it's kind of crazy 2811 02:31:08.879 --> 02:31:13.479 to me that we dropped two hundred and sixty two 2812 02:31:14.239 --> 02:31:19.799 million cluster bombs on the plane of jars, not the entirety, 2813 02:31:20.280 --> 02:31:22.200 not the entirety of the huci Man trail and all that. 2814 02:31:22.239 --> 02:31:24.760 We dropped a lot more, don't get me wrong, just 2815 02:31:24.920 --> 02:31:29.760 on these jars themselves. We dropped this much, ordinance, more 2816 02:31:29.799 --> 02:31:31.920 than we dropped on the entirety of Europe in World 2817 02:31:31.959 --> 02:31:36.120 War Two. So here's my theory. I think that you're 2818 02:31:36.280 --> 02:31:42.440 right that these jars were or they are, some kind 2819 02:31:42.520 --> 02:31:48.120 of a connection now to what, to whom, to what dimension? Look, 2820 02:31:48.159 --> 02:31:51.879 who knows, who fucking knows. But I think it's very 2821 02:31:51.959 --> 02:31:56.920 interesting that during this operation Operation Rollback so. 2822 02:31:56.920 --> 02:31:58.559 On the wait, wait, I don't want to misquote, I 2823 02:31:58.600 --> 02:31:59.159 don't want. 2824 02:31:59.000 --> 02:32:03.559 To know roll Operation Barrel role. I find it very 2825 02:32:03.799 --> 02:32:06.319 very interesting that the United States government, while I have 2826 02:32:06.360 --> 02:32:09.520 a whole war going on in Vietnam, and yes they're 2827 02:32:09.520 --> 02:32:12.239 trying to break up the logistical pathway for the North 2828 02:32:12.559 --> 02:32:15.760 Namese and viet Cong and all, that they go out 2829 02:32:15.760 --> 02:32:20.799 of their way to try to destroy these jars that 2830 02:32:20.879 --> 02:32:23.000 weren't doing things. 2831 02:32:22.920 --> 02:32:25.120 Which kind of do resemble barrels? 2832 02:32:25.600 --> 02:32:26.799 They do? They do? 2833 02:32:26.920 --> 02:32:29.639 You know, you call it barrel roll in that area 2834 02:32:30.200 --> 02:32:33.520 from our government and we're bombing that land on top 2835 02:32:33.600 --> 02:32:36.319 of these fucking seemingly barrel type structures. 2836 02:32:36.920 --> 02:32:40.879 Then look at more modern days, when we invaded Iraq, 2837 02:32:41.520 --> 02:32:43.040 where was the first place we went to? 2838 02:32:44.159 --> 02:32:44.719 Oh? 2839 02:32:44.879 --> 02:32:46.280 I know this, I forget though. 2840 02:32:47.360 --> 02:32:49.680 It was It was Nebuknezer's palace. 2841 02:32:49.879 --> 02:32:50.520 That's right. 2842 02:32:50.719 --> 02:32:54.200 Yes, Now there's people that will speculate as to the 2843 02:32:54.200 --> 02:32:57.079 why on that? Was it for the stargate? Was it 2844 02:32:57.120 --> 02:33:00.520 for the artifacts? Was it just to take out the 2845 02:33:01.000 --> 02:33:04.280 heart and soul of the Iraqi army by taking their 2846 02:33:04.280 --> 02:33:08.280 most prized possessions i e. Their historical possessions to where 2847 02:33:08.280 --> 02:33:10.120 they would have no will to fight. Look, I don't 2848 02:33:10.159 --> 02:33:14.680 know their speculation on this, but that being said, if 2849 02:33:14.680 --> 02:33:19.360 we're trying to disrupt Vietnam, why are we bombing a 2850 02:33:19.600 --> 02:33:21.159 what is now a UNESCO. 2851 02:33:20.840 --> 02:33:24.719 World Heritage Site for Laos. 2852 02:33:25.079 --> 02:33:28.040 It's very similar to when Napoleon went to Egypt and 2853 02:33:28.040 --> 02:33:33.559 he fired canons at the pyramids. But why you're not 2854 02:33:33.559 --> 02:33:36.920 going to destroy them with canons? You already won the battle, 2855 02:33:37.360 --> 02:33:40.159 or you're just trying to stomp on the heart and 2856 02:33:40.239 --> 02:33:41.440 soul of Egypt. 2857 02:33:41.840 --> 02:33:43.879 Yeah, or is it or. 2858 02:33:43.719 --> 02:33:46.879 Or is it desecrating that there were gods before you 2859 02:33:46.959 --> 02:33:48.399 if you wanted to be seen as a god. 2860 02:33:49.079 --> 02:33:50.920 You see where I'm going with that. Now. 2861 02:33:50.959 --> 02:33:54.200 I'm not saying that the American president at the time 2862 02:33:54.280 --> 02:33:56.920 of Operation Barrel role, which was I mean nine years. 2863 02:33:57.159 --> 02:34:00.399 I'm not saying that Johnson and or Nixon and or 2864 02:34:00.440 --> 02:34:03.920 whoever was trying well no, no, no, Nixon was after that 2865 02:34:04.440 --> 02:34:06.479 or before that. I should say it was Kennedy than Johnson. 2866 02:34:06.479 --> 02:34:09.799 But either way, I am not saying that they were 2867 02:34:09.840 --> 02:34:13.159 trying to be seen as gods to the people of Laos. 2868 02:34:13.680 --> 02:34:18.520 But if you were trying to disrupt those people's spiritual 2869 02:34:18.559 --> 02:34:22.680 connection in some way, shape or form, and or prevent 2870 02:34:23.079 --> 02:34:27.680 any archaeologist to ever discover what they were actually used for, 2871 02:34:28.040 --> 02:34:30.879 because that might get in the way of the historical 2872 02:34:30.959 --> 02:34:32.600 narrative that we've come to know and love. 2873 02:34:33.879 --> 02:34:35.399 Perhaps there was more of. 2874 02:34:35.360 --> 02:34:40.440 A h more of a a Malfesians to it, right, 2875 02:34:40.520 --> 02:34:44.479 Maybe there was a bit more evil intent behind the 2876 02:34:44.520 --> 02:34:47.440 bombings of the Plane of Jars. I don't know that 2877 02:34:47.520 --> 02:34:50.000 for a fact, but that is a whole hell of 2878 02:34:50.040 --> 02:34:52.319 a lot of ordinance to be bombing the shit out 2879 02:34:52.319 --> 02:34:53.879 of two thousand stone jars. 2880 02:34:53.719 --> 02:34:57.360 Dude, I mean, yeah, maybe you don't point necessarily to 2881 02:34:57.440 --> 02:35:01.079 a president as him wanting to become a god or 2882 02:35:01.120 --> 02:35:04.239 anything like that, but if you look at it grand scale, 2883 02:35:04.559 --> 02:35:07.959 are you trying to make America God? Are you trying 2884 02:35:08.000 --> 02:35:14.719 to make you know, the literal world's leader in basically 2885 02:35:14.760 --> 02:35:17.840 fucking everything? Like we pretty much lay down, dick whatever 2886 02:35:17.879 --> 02:35:20.959 we do, right and compared to I mean not as 2887 02:35:20.959 --> 02:35:23.799 far as manufacturing, but as far as consuming goes, we 2888 02:35:23.879 --> 02:35:24.760 got that down. 2889 02:35:25.319 --> 02:35:27.319 H It's like the same conversation is why can't we 2890 02:35:27.360 --> 02:35:30.239 go to every area of the Grand Canyon, Like, yeah, 2891 02:35:30.319 --> 02:35:32.280 certain areas are dangerous and they don't want people to 2892 02:35:32.280 --> 02:35:34.719 get hurt, and I get that, But there are other 2893 02:35:34.760 --> 02:35:36.520 areas they don't want us to go to because it 2894 02:35:36.639 --> 02:35:39.040 would expose a little bit of the prehistory that they 2895 02:35:39.079 --> 02:35:39.680 don't want us. 2896 02:35:39.559 --> 02:35:41.280 To know about. Right, We've talked about that. 2897 02:35:41.239 --> 02:35:42.600 And get to the giant doorways. 2898 02:35:43.879 --> 02:35:45.920 So why would they bomb the shit out of these 2899 02:35:45.959 --> 02:35:49.520 stone jars that they allegedly no one knows where they 2900 02:35:49.559 --> 02:35:54.000 came from, carved somewhere around three thousand BC. What difference 2901 02:35:54.000 --> 02:35:57.760 does it make that's not gonna hurt anybody unless the 2902 02:35:57.760 --> 02:36:00.159 more we find out about these things, the more it 2903 02:36:00.239 --> 02:36:02.719 kind of unravels the fabric of what we thought. Again, 2904 02:36:02.799 --> 02:36:07.479 those granite stone carvings, nobody knew how to do that 2905 02:36:07.520 --> 02:36:11.040 in one thousand BC. How the fuck did they accomplish 2906 02:36:11.079 --> 02:36:15.239 that unless and again now we get into the speculation. 2907 02:36:15.479 --> 02:36:18.319 Was it giants? Was it aliens? Was it air dimensional beings? 2908 02:36:18.360 --> 02:36:21.479 Were these people operating at a level of technology that 2909 02:36:21.520 --> 02:36:24.440 we seriously have never considered that they could even have 2910 02:36:24.639 --> 02:36:26.520 before that point, but they were fucking with it? 2911 02:36:26.559 --> 02:36:28.319 How do they get that technology? How do they get 2912 02:36:28.319 --> 02:36:28.760 that knowledge? 2913 02:36:28.760 --> 02:36:30.760 And you see what I'm saying, It starts the churning, 2914 02:36:30.799 --> 02:36:33.920 It starts the wheels spinning. I don't know, but it 2915 02:36:33.959 --> 02:36:36.760 stands to reason that the American government really did not 2916 02:36:36.840 --> 02:36:39.239 want those jars to survive the war. They bombed the 2917 02:36:39.239 --> 02:36:41.040 fuck out of them for nine straight years. 2918 02:36:42.319 --> 02:36:44.879 Good cult members, let us know what you think. We 2919 02:36:44.920 --> 02:36:47.600 tried to cover as many possible angles that we could 2920 02:36:47.639 --> 02:36:50.079 on this one, and we are still puzzled at the end. 2921 02:36:50.120 --> 02:36:54.840 I don't have even one like leading theory with this 2922 02:36:54.959 --> 02:36:57.840 whole thing. It is just so mind boggling. I mean, 2923 02:36:57.879 --> 02:37:03.479 why would you have these giant fucking structures. I mean, 2924 02:37:03.520 --> 02:37:05.840 are you you're just gonna be using as burial grounds 2925 02:37:05.879 --> 02:37:08.360 in Loos? I mean, what were they up to back then? 2926 02:37:08.600 --> 02:37:10.639 What were they doing? What did they do it for? 2927 02:37:11.040 --> 02:37:11.559 Was it just. 2928 02:37:11.559 --> 02:37:15.040 To collect rain water? Was it just to store wine? 2929 02:37:15.239 --> 02:37:17.840 Was it just to maybe they were storing grain or 2930 02:37:17.959 --> 02:37:21.319 rice or whatever. Or was it used in some kind 2931 02:37:21.319 --> 02:37:24.360 of magical ceremony. Was it to call on the sky gods? 2932 02:37:24.479 --> 02:37:27.799 Was it to line up astrologically, was it to like 2933 02:37:28.120 --> 02:37:30.680 line up perfectly with the grids of the lay lines 2934 02:37:30.680 --> 02:37:33.559 of the earth, or maybe something even entirely more different, 2935 02:37:33.840 --> 02:37:37.000 like the fucking giants using them for whiskey glasses. Let 2936 02:37:37.079 --> 02:37:37.399 us know. 2937 02:37:38.280 --> 02:37:41.280 Indeed at this time, good call members. If you would 2938 02:37:41.319 --> 02:37:43.239 like to get your start in the buying and selling 2939 02:37:43.280 --> 02:37:46.399 and trading of gold and silver bullion, the best place 2940 02:37:46.399 --> 02:37:48.159 to get started would be go to the link description 2941 02:37:48.280 --> 02:37:51.719 below cocsilver dot com. 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Ask 2951 02:38:14.879 --> 02:38:17.639 them what they think about investing in precious metals. 2952 02:38:17.680 --> 02:38:19.479 I promise you they're gonna tell you it's wise. 2953 02:38:20.200 --> 02:38:22.399 Right now, gold is over three thousand dollars an ounce, 2954 02:38:22.399 --> 02:38:24.520 silver is a little bit over thirty five dollars an ounce. 2955 02:38:24.520 --> 02:38:27.200 It's still affordable to get your hands on some yourself 2956 02:38:27.239 --> 02:38:31.040 and get some of these gorgeous coins minted MS seventy 2957 02:38:31.159 --> 02:38:34.600 minted silver coins, which is the highest grade minted coin, 2958 02:38:34.639 --> 02:38:38.000 I should say cocsilver dot Com. Again, that link is 2959 02:38:38.000 --> 02:38:40.360 in the description below. And there's not just these kinds 2960 02:38:40.399 --> 02:38:42.319 of minted coins. There's all kinds of coins that they 2961 02:38:42.319 --> 02:38:42.840 have out there. 2962 02:38:42.879 --> 02:38:43.799 There's whole bricks. 2963 02:38:44.040 --> 02:38:47.559 I've hailed in my hand a ten thousand ounce bar 2964 02:38:48.040 --> 02:38:50.799 of pure silver that was insane. I never held that 2965 02:38:50.920 --> 02:38:52.840 kind of real weight of silver before. 2966 02:38:52.879 --> 02:38:53.319 If you want to. 2967 02:38:53.319 --> 02:38:56.239 Buy it coocsilver dot com. You want to buy that 2968 02:38:56.280 --> 02:38:56.920 same amount of. 2969 02:38:56.920 --> 02:38:59.479 Gold First of all, what do you do for work 2970 02:38:59.479 --> 02:39:00.360 if you're a four and that? 2971 02:39:00.399 --> 02:39:02.520 But secondly, if you can get it now would be 2972 02:39:02.559 --> 02:39:05.280 the time to buy before it even goes up more again, 2973 02:39:05.639 --> 02:39:08.680 cocsilver dot com link is in the description below, but 2974 02:39:08.799 --> 02:39:10.719 another way that you could support the show and also 2975 02:39:10.840 --> 02:39:13.520 let us know what you think about these jars? Are 2976 02:39:13.520 --> 02:39:16.520 we out of our minds? Are the archaeologists rights? Tell 2977 02:39:16.600 --> 02:39:18.879 us what you think in the comments. What you could 2978 02:39:18.879 --> 02:39:22.000 do is please at this time hit the five stars, 2979 02:39:22.079 --> 02:39:23.879 hit the shares of licens christs comments. They well post 2980 02:39:23.879 --> 02:39:25.760 a review of shares the defensive family shares. If we're 2981 02:39:25.760 --> 02:39:28.239 here's the deal. The more activity the algorithm sees across 2982 02:39:28.319 --> 02:39:30.559 all of our listening platforms, the more we get promoted 2983 02:39:30.559 --> 02:39:32.799 to more potential listeners. Who can that become potential cult 2984 02:39:32.840 --> 02:39:35.000 members like theres you final, ladies and gentlemen, why are 2985 02:39:35.000 --> 02:39:36.920 you ready to go check out metamistery Jonathan's other show and 2986 02:39:36.959 --> 02:39:38.280 getting the same level of respect over there with the 2987 02:39:38.319 --> 02:39:40.440 five star reviews and the positivity in the comments. Come 2988 02:39:40.520 --> 02:39:42.360 check out the Cage to Night and come join each 2989 02:39:42.360 --> 02:39:44.520 of us for our individual patroons and we host every 2990 02:39:44.520 --> 02:39:45.799 Wednesday night at nine pm. 2991 02:39:45.600 --> 02:39:47.719 Central, and we thank you for everybody's already gone and 2992 02:39:47.760 --> 02:39:48.000 done so. 2993 02:39:48.200 --> 02:39:51.319 And with that being said, this was another beautiful episode 2994 02:39:51.360 --> 02:39:55.360 of the Cult of Conspiracy. And my name's Jonathan, I'm Jacob. 2995 02:39:55.399 --> 02:39:57.799 And there's one very important, extremely vital piece of information 2996 02:39:57.799 --> 02:40:00.639 we need you to learn just as soon as humanly possible. 2997 02:40:00.879 --> 02:40:35.479 Fish that's. 2998 02:41:08.280 --> 02:41:16.920 No better off that fire lie, so 2999 02:41:26.479 --> 02:41:45.079 To speak,